Jalen Rose
Jalen Rose
Jalen Anthony Roseis an American retired professional basketball player and current sports analyst with ESPN. In college, he was a member of the University of Michigan Wolverines' "Fab Five"that reached the 1992 and 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship games as both freshmen and sophomores. Rose played in the NBA for six teams, most notably alongside Reggie Miller on the Indiana Pacers teams that made three consecutive Eastern Conference finals, including the 2000 NBA Finals. Rose was primarily a...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth30 January 1973
CityDetroit, MI
For us to add him (Francis) to our team is only going to be a plus. Then it's just about us getting that continuity and then going out and playing and getting some wins.
Fortunately the good Lord was looking down on me because I had missed my X number of previous shots. It was a total team win.
I'd be lying to say it doesn't add to it to be going to New York. Every player, when they step into the Garden, there's a different bounce to that arena, a different atmosphere, a different feeling being in New York ... I'm definitely going to be a little bit nervous and excited about playing my first game there.
I would have been totally surprised had it not been a team that had been speculated practically since the Vince Carter trade. Everybody understands Toronto's actively in a rebuilding mode.
Obviously you want to come back and play well. Guys that say they don't like playing against their former teams are definitely lying. So many guys on that bench did so much for my career.
Obviously, with my age and my salary I didn't fit long term.
I give all the credit to the coaching staff and my teammates, because they always encourage me to do well, whether it's in practice or in a game. They believe I can get out there and make plays, and when I get going, everybody is pumping me up, trying to have me continue to attack and play well.
I feel like the team needs me to produce. I just felt like if I had been on the floor, I hopefully would have made a play, at least grabbed a rebound, an assist, something. I guess you can't do nothing with all zeros.
When you look up at the schedule, all you look at is the win total. When you really break it down, you're going to say two of their seven wins are against the Hawks.
What can you say about the Raptors' all-time guy in games played? We joke with him about: 'Perseverance. Persistence. Passion. Pride . . . ' and Peterson.
When you have a young team like we do, the No. 1 thing they have to learn is how to compete.
We've got a lot of guys in here that are learning how to win. And when you're learning that on the fly over an 82-game schedule, you're going to have some tough times.
Winning is the cure all. Sometimes when you're losing things aren't as bad as they seem. Sometimes when you're winning things are not as good. It's only one game but hopefully it's something we can build on.
The reality of it is, 14 seconds to go, a seven-foot guy falling like he's been shot by a gun, normally that doesn't warrant a call,