Elton Brand
Elton Brand
Elton Tyron Brandis an American professional basketball player who last played for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association. After playing college basketball for Duke, he was selected with the first overall pick in the 1999 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls, and later played for the 76ers, the Los Angeles Clippers, Dallas Mavericks and Atlanta Hawks...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth11 March 1979
CityCortlandt Manor, NY
definitely game great qualify win
We need to win one more game to qualify but it is great for our mindset. It is definitely a statement.
absolutely forward goals hard looking next ourselves proud worked
We can be proud of ourselves but we still have goals. We have to be looking forward to the next round. This is absolutely satisfying. It's like vindication because we worked hard and this organization didn't give up.
belts boxing defense ourselves pride record says
Having an all-time record under our belts says a lot about this team. We pride ourselves on defense and boxing out.
expect felt matched series tough
I expect a hard-fought series from Denver. We got home-court advantage, and that should help. The Nuggets are a tough club, and so is Dallas. I felt that we matched up well with either.
box gather
But we just didn't gather up the ball. We didn't box out.
deal great last led seemed steal three
If we had led all the way and let them steal it at the end, it would have seemed like some of last year's woes, ... You don't want to make a big deal out of three games, but it is a great start.
confidence gave great guys helps ok plays score spark
If they want to double-team, that's OK because we've got guys who can score all over the place. Wilcox gave us a great spark off the bench, and that's what we look for him to do every night. We have a lot of confidence in him because of what he does in practice. And when he plays like this, it really helps us out a lot.
brings coming memphis mike miller rebound shoot
Mike Miller brings a lot. He can shoot the ball, rebound well. The intangibles are there for Memphis with him coming off the bench.
best definitely teams
My '99 squad, that was one of the best teams we had in a while over there. We could definitely take this year's team. We'd get after those guys.
changing minds position sam
We've never been in this position before; we're changing a lot of people's minds about what the Clippers are about, and no doubt, Sam is a big, big part of that.
corey exactly talking
To have Corey back ? that's exactly what I'm talking about,
bandwagon came confident doubt goes jump left level sam somebody soon swagger talking trash
Without a doubt, the swagger level goes up, ... Sam Cassell has been talking trash as soon as he came here. That's what we need. We need somebody that's confident like that, saying, hey, jump on our bandwagon or get left behind. We haven't had that.
against good great job plan
We had a good plan against a great player. We did a good job against him.
close deny door knew
We knew that play was coming. We were going to close the door and deny all options.