Eddie Jones
Eddie Jones
Three-time All-Star shooting guard who scored 14,155 points during his 15-year career.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth20 October 1971
CityPompano Beach, FL
CountryUnited States of America
blame detroit game happy leg loss shots taking tough trying
We got happy just taking the threes. After a tough game (a 95-89 loss at Detroit on Friday), you may not have the leg strength. That was key. We were trying to penetrate and kick. The shots didn't go down. Just don't blame it on shooting. You can never blame a loss on shooting. It's what you do defensively.
dreams enjoy game kid send shots win
You enjoy being put in that position. You want to be in that position. As a kid you always think about making big shots to win a game or send a game into overtime. Even to this day, I still have dreams like that.
came felt fourth half mind second shots though upset
I was pretty upset with myself in the first half because I felt as though I had so many wide-open looks, and the shots weren't going down for me. In the fourth quarter, shots came my way, and I had my mind made up they were going to go in in the second half.
block contest helping night shots time tough
When the time comes you've got to make stops. You've got to contest shots, block shots and make it tough for them. We're doing it as a team. Every night we get better at helping each other.
confidence feet open says shoot shots turn
It's the confidence that says if I'm open shoot the basketball. I've been making shots my whole career. I can't turn down an open shot. I'm sorry, I can't do it. If I'm open, and a guy's 30 feet away from me, I've got to let it go.
chance contested defense giving jump key protecting shoot shots skilled tough
The key was to play tough defense on them. We know they're a talented, offensively skilled team. It was all about protecting the paint, making them shoot contested jump shots and giving them one chance at the rim.
actual encouraged game laws moment negative negativity reward rewarding rugby side sort spiral tackle tries trying
There has to be some sort of officiating of the actual laws of the game. Rugby is in a really negative spiral at the moment where the game is rewarding negativity at the tackle contest. There is no reward at all for trying to play rugby. We're a side that actually tries to play rugby and we're not being encouraged to play.
nights
You have nights like that when you want it so bad.
focus heads keeping screwed understand
We understand who we are as a team. We just have to focus on keeping our heads screwed on right.
add cup enthusiasm five guys involved last players rugby talent year
We have 22 players who were involved in the Rugby World Cup last year and five new guys who will add talent and enthusiasm to the squad.
game good ourselves position win
We got ourselves into a position to win the game and we let ourselves down again. It's not good enough.
certainly form looked season tour
We certainly looked at George's form as you do with every player's form at the end of the season but he'll go on tour as captain.
born
You look at him and he's just a born footballer.
beat finish game last played points win
Every game we played them (Dallas) was close, other than the last game. Actually we were up 19 points in that game, and we let them come back and beat us, we know we can win a game there. I think for us, it's can we finish games?