Hedo Turkoglu
Hedo Turkoglu
Hidayet "Hedo" Türkoğluis a Turkish former professional basketball player who played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association. The 6'10" forward played for six teams throughout his NBA career...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth19 March 1979
CityGaziosmanpasa, Turkey
game taking tonight
We're just taking it game by game. We're not thinking, you know, tonight if you do this you make the playoffs, if you do that you make the playoffs.
build games helping next team winning wins
Wins like this are just what we need. Winning big games is helping us build confidence, and it's going to help us build a better team for next year.
building confidence gaining games next team winning year
Winning these kind of big games is really gaining us a lot of confidence and building a team for next year that's going to be huge.
deciding games time
Those games are going to be playoff-caliber games. By the time that comes it's going to be really deciding - who's going to make it and who's not.
few games realistic shot weeks
We didn't have a realistic shot a few weeks ago. But if you look at it now, we're a few games behind.
effort everybody hit pat streak team winning
We hit really big shots, I did, Pat did, everybody did. We have to take the winning streak further. It's really big for us to have a team effort like we did tonight.
following lying
We'd be lying if we said we're not following this stuff.
bell eddie gonna house teammates
My teammates know if they are going to use Raja Bell and Eddie House on me, it's a mismatch and they are gonna get me the ball.
feeling happen helped knew teamwork
I was feeling good, but it was teamwork that made it happen tonight. We helped each other all night. We executed well, we knew who was hot, we just put it all together.
against ball coach confidence dwight francis giving good happy job kept steve teammates
Steve Francis was out and they were doing a good job against Dwight Howard , so I had to take over and do something to help. My teammates and coach kept giving me the ball at the end and had confidence in me and it's really nice. I'm just happy to be in that role.
ball passing seems sharing supposed
We're just out there sharing the ball the way we're supposed to and having fun. It's working for us right now, and we're going to try and keep doing the same thing. We're passing the ball extra, and that seems to be the key.
blew chance eliminated free good great memory next nine played though throw until year
We really played great during our streak, and it's a good memory. I'd like to make it up next year from the beginning. Even though we were eliminated from the playoffs, we didn't give up. We battled until the end and had a chance in the end, but I blew it. I should've made the free throw and we would've had nine in a row.
bit blessing came close run sluggish
We were sluggish a bit at the end. They had a run and we came back. The important thing is that we know how to close a game. We got the 'W', that's a blessing for us, especially with this kind of game.
maybe thinking
It was tough. I couldn't really find my rhythm. Maybe I was thinking about my ankle.