Ike Diogu
Ike Diogu
Ikechukwu Somtochukwu "Ike" Dioguis a Nigerian American professional basketball player for the Shenzhen Leopards of the Chinese Basketball Association...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth11 September 1983
hard playing
I've been getting more time, playing hard and playing like I know I can play.
approaches best matter whatever
You just got to make the best of the situation. (Starting) doesn't really matter to me. Whatever is best for the team, that's the way that Montgomery approaches it and that's the way me and Adonal approach it.
finishes reason won works
I think it works perfectly. He finishes off the games. He's the big reason we won today.
bit excited training
Here we are about to play, and I'm not going to be able to play, so I'm a little bit disappointed. All the training -- I don't want to say it was for nothing -- but I was really excited to play in a game. It's a little bit frustrating now.
against court good time work
We always work out together, play against each other, make each other better. We have a good time on and off the court with each other, so it's a good relationship.
guys injuries time using
We've got a lot of injuries and the young guys are using this time to get better. We're not just going through the motions.
again gets guess practice prove
It's disappointing, but I guess it could have been worse. I've just got to prove myself all over again in practice. Practice is where it gets done.
call coach figure goes ready tough
It's just one of those things that's tough to figure out -- same thing with me. That just goes to show you've got to be ready because you never know when coach is going to call on you.
above against crucial everybody game goal good order stay tomorrow win
It's a must-win game. Our goal is to stay above .500, so in order to do that, we have a crucial game tomorrow against a good team. We have to win it. That has to be the mind-set of everybody on this team, and I think it is.
beginning deficit half second turned
We didn't come out to play very well in the beginning and we turned it up in the second half but you know, the deficit was just too big for us to take the game.
last lost win
They stole a win from us last game. There was no way we should have lost that game.
days decent normally percent shoot shooting team today
That's how it is sometimes, you're going to have off-shooting days where we're not always going to be able to shoot 60 percent from the 3-point line. Today it was just one of those days. Normally we're a decent shooting team so it was one of our off nights.
mess
Now if you mess up, you mess the whole play up.
believe game hard
This is a game that's hard to believe you lost. It was a must-win for us and we didn't get it done.