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 was one of those games. Neither team played defense tonight.... It was one of those games where guys were scoring. If we would have made a couple of stops, we would have won the game.
They had good defense on me. Four seconds, you've got to get a shot up. I couldn't get the ball out of my hands and I couldn't get a good shot off.
It was our defense that lost the game, ... We gave up too many easy baskets, too many free throws and position in the post.
The team depends on me every night, (and) the coaches depend on me to come out and give something. That's what I'm learning as a player. ... I was really pleased with our defense. It was better than when we played them last week. Our defense hasn't been the problem, and we're finally putting the offense together.
He played good defense on me but that wasn't the reason I couldn't shoot. I'm not discrediting that he played good defense, but I had a bad shooting night.
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.
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.
It felt good to finally get up and get the dunk in. That's the most I've done since I got injured. I hope I don't feel it tomorrow.
I was always getting the short end of the stick.
It is do or die. The season is coming to an end. We still have an opportunity. It has to be a big trip for us.
Our guard play is a big key. It's huge, especially when you're on the road.
I think we're too focused on the stars. When you focus on the stars, role players get off. Guys that usually don't have big nights are getting 20, 25 points. Once they get their points, the starters come in and kick our butts.
We've got a lot of winnable games coming up, but teams aren't going to come in and bow down to us. The season is coming to an end, we still have an opportunity. It has to be a big trip for us.
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.