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
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.
sam
We will not be overconfident. Sam and I will not let that happen.
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.
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.
hitting last sam side year
Sam was out there on their side last year hitting big shots, and now he's on ours.
easy gets hits hot sam shots
Sam really got hot and it's easy to find him when he is like that, he gets unconscious and hits big shots for us.
close deny door knew
We knew that play was coming. We were going to close the door and deny all options.
corey exactly talking
To have Corey back ? that's exactly what I'm talking about,
decided good stops
We got some good stops once we decided to play defense,
sloppy
We got sloppy at the end, but we accomplished what we wanted to.
dearly moral paid rather rotation trying victories
We got out of rotation and we paid dearly for it. We're not trying to take any moral victories ... we wanted to win. It's encouraging but we'd rather have that 'W'.
deal road
Being at .500 on the road is a big deal for us.
knock matter shooting shot
At that time, it doesn't matter what he's shooting - 0-for-10, 0-for-20 - he's going to knock down a big shot for us.
forward hurting looking
We're hurting all around, offensively and defensively. We're looking forward to getting him back.