Jason Richardson
Jason Richardson
Jason Anthoney Richardsonis an American retired professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association. Richardson was taken by the Golden State Warriors as the fifth overall pick in the 2001 NBA draft after playing college basketball for Michigan State University. He won the NBA Dunk Contest in both 2002 and 2003, becoming the second of four players, after Michael Jordan, to win the competition back-to-back. Other back-to-back winners include Nate Robinson, and Zach LaVine...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth20 January 1981
CitySaginaw, MI
It's just great to go out there and play, especially when we don't have Baron with us right now. We knew we had to pick it up individually. Everybody had to pick up a level, whether it was talking, passing the ball, whatever it was. We knew we had to pick up the slack because Baron has big shoes to fill. Guys stepped up their game.
It's emotionally draining. It hurts. It really hurts. I wish I could have done a little more. I wish I could have hit a free throw at the end that would have sealed it. I didn't do enough.
It was our defense that lost the game, ... We gave up too many easy baskets, too many free throws and position in the post.
It wasn't too much to overcome. We were right there, cut it to six. I think we just had to get a couple of more stops. I don't think we were tired or anything like that but you can't get down by 20 (points). The league is too tough to do that.
It was definitely a block. The two refs didn't agree on the call and that was the best they could do. How much I scored doesn't matter because we lost the game.
It was a very important (game). They've got the eighth spot that we want. They came in here, played hard and they won the game.
It was a desperation win. We really needed this win and we went out there and played like that.
They want to sway away from the hip-hop generation, ... You think of hip-hop right now and think of things that happen like gangs having shootouts in front of radio stations.
We know if we are beat, somebody's going to be back there. In the past, it wasn't like that. If you pressured up on somebody and you got beat, you were getting dunked on. This year, we're helping each other out.
We're still hoping. The Kings have got the playoff spot we want. We know we've pretty much got to run the table from here on out.
I thought we were having a contest on who could get to 50 first.
We're learning how to play when the other team knows you're good. You have to find ways to win games. It's all part of the process, but we have to find ways. That's part of the adjustment when you become a good team.
We're not taking care of the lead. We have to be a lot smarter with the ball. When you have a team down by 10 or 15 points, have them on the ropes, you have to put them away.
We play good defensively for 14 seconds, and that other 10 seconds, we slip. The shot clock comes down, we don't get a rebound or we don't get help. Just little things we're not doing that we need to get back to if we want to be a good team and we want to win games.