DeShawn Stevenson
DeShawn Stevenson
DeShawn Stevensonis an American former professional basketball player who last played for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association. Before his NBA career, he originally committed to play at the University of Kansas, but decided to enter the NBA directly from Washington Union High School in his hometown of Fresno, California and was picked by the Utah Jazz with the 23rd selection of the 2000 NBA draft. He is well known for his defense and his athleticism...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth3 April 1981
CityFresno, CA
Our confidence level is up. If we keep playing like this, we'll be on a good roll.
We got a couple of wins going. We're playing good, passing the ball. If we keep playing like that we'll be on a good roll.
Everybody out there is playing hard and playing like a game. When you do that, sometimes you can get hurt.
Everybody's playing together. When we play together, everybody gets shots -- everybody. And we're knocking them down and feeling comfortable. We've just got to keep playing like we've been playing. It's exciting and fun to watch.
It's kind of sad because we could have done this at the start of the season. Right now everybody's playing as a team and working hard. We've got some firepower from the people who start and the people coming off the bench.
They're a good team. They've been playing with each other a long time and winning championships. And in the third quarter, you could see it out there.
Coach chewed us out because we weren't playing hard and we were lackadaisical in the first half. He fired us up and we finally started attacking the basket.
Steve Francis wasn't playing like the Steve Francis we all know. I think he'll show the real Steve in New York.
We're going through a tough stretch right now, but our heads are still up. We're missing Steve and Grant (Hill), but there are no excuses. We just have to go and play.
Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.
You get into a city at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning off a back-to-back, you don't want to have put all of that stuff on. I just think it's a little too excessive.
We're way more talented than our record. After the trades we made, you can see that in the long term we're going to be a good team down the line. We've got a lot of young guys who are 23, 24 and even 20 years old, and we're eventually going to be a playoff team even though we're struggling now.
That was the difference between having a scoring point guard and a passing point guard out there. Steve is a scoring point guard; Carlos is a passing point guard.
We do want to go to the playoffs, no doubt. But we've got to worry about each team that comes in here.