Drew Gooden
Drew Gooden
Andrew Melvin "Drew" Gooden IIIis an American professional basketball player who last played for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association. The 6'10", 250 lb power forward played college basketball for the University of Kansas...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth24 September 1981
CityOakland, CA
adapt awkward coming job positions
I've been coming doing my job and going home. That's what this has become for me. I've been in so many different awkward positions every year. I can adapt to my surroundings.
games last step three
We really wanted this one. The last three games were a step backwards.
gave great tonight towards
(Marshall) was great for us tonight off the bench. He gave us that spurt. And he was making some backbreakers towards the end of the game.
pick
I think he's excited. I think he'll pick up his play, if that's possible.
break feeling happen wins
We know the feeling of having 30 wins at the All-Star break and not making the playoffs. We don't want that to happen again.
life plays
Those are the kind of plays that take the life out of the other team.
continue edge playoffs start stop thinking trying
If we continue to play like this, we've got to stop thinking about playoffs and start thinking about trying to edge our way into the playoffs, and we don't want to do that.
felt knew touches
Me and Zach are friends and he was going at me, so I felt I had to go at him. I knew he was going to get a lot more touches than me, so when I got them, I made them count.
came cushion second stretched turned wind
We came out a little sluggish, but we turned it on and got our second wind and executed when we had a little cushion and stretched the lead.
best team
That's the best team in the league. They have a (championship) ring. We see them as the measuring stick.
both feeling hurt yesterday
They both hurt. The feeling I had yesterday was the same one I have today.
level mindset pick time
It's a new time and a whole different mindset in the playoffs. We will pick our level of play up, and I know they will also. We will see what happens.
allen ball chris creating hands possession seemed
It seemed like every possession the ball was in Allen Iverson's hands and they were just creating with Chris Webber. It was a two-man game.
wind needs hard
You keep working hard and the wind will carry you where it needs to carry you, in the direction you need to be.