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
You can look at it on film, but I'm not going to speak on it. We played hard. We played real hard.
Everybody is happy with each other, everybody is passing the ball, there's a lot of good vibes and it shows on the court.
Everybody is going to the hole, trying to create stuff. Once we get it in Grant or Steve's hands, they pretty much open the floor and Dwight's down there doing what he's supposed to do on the boards. You can't ask for more.
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.
Everybody's happy, we're passing the ball to each other and there are a lot of good vibes right now. It's sad because we could have done this at the beginning of the season.
That's Coach Sloan; he'll tell you what he thinks.
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.
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.
We weren't taking care of the ball. When we don't take care of the ball, we make it hard for ourselves.
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.
So we've got to go out there and play every game like it's a playoff game and play together like we're doing. We're doing a good job.
Once you get one - and when you're told you can't get them growing up - it just makes you want them even more. Once you get one, they're pretty much addictive from that point.
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.