Chris Paul
Chris Paul
Christopher Emmanuel Paulis an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association. The point guard has won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, two Olympic gold medals, and led the NBA in assists four times and steals six times. He has also been selected to nine NBA All-Star teams, eight All-NBA teams, and eight All-Defensive teams...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth6 May 1985
CountryUnited States of America
We missed (21) straight shots. You can't win games if you go through stretches like that. I don't know what the cause of it was. We had a lot of open shots but they just wouldn't go in. I guess that is how it is sometimes in the NBA. We just couldn't hit a thing. We were even going to the free-throw line and missed shots from there.
I've been saying all along that eventually it will happen (the triple-double) and thankfully, we got a win tonight to go along with it.
It was a big win for us. We have Miami coming in on Wednesday, and we lost two in a row.
We are really trying to make a run to the playoffs right now. I feel like if we just win and take care of that stuff, those accolades will come.
Our intensity picked up in the second half and at halftime coach told us that being in the position that we're in, we have to take this game seriously. I thought we buckled down defensively in the second half. We talked more. We got deflections. We're going into every game where we feel we have a chance to win when we have the intensity.
I've been a winner my whole life.
Whatever I have to do to help us win, I'll do.
I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And thats what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.
I hate losing more than I like winning
The third quarter did us in once again. We gave up 33 points in the third, and we couldn't get a rebound late in the game. Seventy-nine games into the season, we should have learned to adjust by now. It's a tough loss, but we have to keep playing hard because you don't what is going to happen.
Every game from here on out is a must-win. One loss could really be big for us.
We scored 31 points in the first quarter tonight, then 28 in the second half. The zone bothered us like it has throughout the season -- we couldn't make shots.
We told our kids that anything's possible. I'd be lying to you if I looked you in the eye and said we were going to come out here and beat Purdue. That's a great basketball team we just played.
We were here a couple of days early, so I went over to a gym with him and we took shots and he didn't miss many. If you leave him open, you're in trouble. So the best bet is not to leave him open.