Emeka Okafor
Emeka Okafor
Chukwuemeka Ndubuisi "Emeka" Okaforis an American professional basketball player who is currently a free agent. Prior to the National Basketball Association, Okafor attended Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas and the University of Connecticut...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth28 September 1982
CityHouston, TX
ball hard playing run
At times they were playing so long out there. Ostertag (7-foot and 280 pounds) is just hard to move. Once you run around him, he's already got the ball in his hands.
begin court point stepping
If you don't think you can make the playoffs, then what's the point of even stepping on the court to begin with? Will we make the playoffs? Who knows? But that's our mentality.
fill people team tendency
If you fill your team with people that are used to winning, the tendency is that they will get the team to win, somehow, someway, eventually,
believing far
As far as them believing in me, it makes me feel good.
warm
It made me feel real special, all warm inside,
eating final miss time
It was eating me up inside. My first time in the Final Four, I didn't want to miss a minute. I was going to miss 16.
difficult game mobile normally tough trying
It was a very difficult game to play in, ... I was hurting. I was trying to tough it out, but I was really limited. I wasn't as mobile as I normally was.
confidence fake felt game legitimate post work
I've never really had a solid, legitimate post game where I felt comfortable with my back to the basket. I could fake it, but my confidence wasn't that high. Now I'm getting it because I have something to work with.
athletic guards men steals
You think of guards getting steals and big men getting blocks. But Gerald is such an athletic creature, you see how he does both.
everybody good happy
This place is incredible. I'm just happy we have a place that everybody likes. The other place was not good at all.
arm hard might move pick problem spin tape taught teach time watch
The things Hakeem does, you can't just watch a tape and pick up the move. This was the first time he taught it, and it's hard to teach someone else something you did so naturally. The problem was, if you do something minutely off -- even the way you spin or the way your arm might come out -- he'd have to say, 'No, that's not the move. The move is this.' And you have to do it precisely.
almost envisioned million position seemed
It seemed almost surreal. I'd envisioned myself in this position a million times, and yet it didn't feel like it was really happening.
energy expecting
The energy was crazy, ... I wasn't expecting that at all.