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
Our guard play is a big key. It's huge, especially when you're on the road.
No disrespect to the point guards who were here in the past, but Baron's the type of point guard that makes everybody better. He gets in the lane and just finds guys. I been waiting for a guy like him to come and he took my game to another level.
He is the top guard in the league, and he won the game. He knew they needed buckets, and he took the game over.
Guys really pulled together. Fish came in and stepped up huge. He pretty much played point guard the whole game.
I mean, he's been in the league nine years and he's never had it before where a point guard can pass the ball like that.
The guard positions, those guys got off. We didn't step up. Of course we scored, but that's not what it's about. It's about stopping the other guy.
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.
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.