Jason Williams
Jason Williams
Jason Chandler Williamsis an American retired professional basketball player who was a point guard in the National Basketball Associationfor twelve seasons during the late 1990s and 2000s. A native of West Virginia, Williams played college basketball for Marshall University and the University of Florida. The Sacramento Kings selected him in the first round of the 1998 NBA Draft. Williams also played for the Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat, and Orlando Magic throughout his career. Due to his flashy style of play...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth18 November 1975
CountryUnited States of America
They've just gotten better and better every year. They've drafted real well, and those young guys are developing into good players.
Obviously, you remember what happen because this was the makeup game. Everybody knows Jiri is all right now, and we're glad he's OK. Everybody tries to put it in the back of their minds, but I'm sure some guys though about it.
It just made me feel so good, knowing that these guys down here wanted me to come here and Shaq wanted me to play with him.
We let those guys get back in the game a little bit. We have to play together for 48 minutes.
I have to be ready to take them (jumpers) when I'm open and when those guys double Shaq, he kicks it out and I take the shot.
Playing with Stevie, he might not be able to do as much as he could back in the day when he could skate a lot better, but there's a reason he's one of the greatest. He's so smart and he makes those right plays and it makes it easy for a guy like me to play with him.
He puts the puck into areas where he knows guys are going to fish at it, and then when they go to fish at it, he brings it around and sneaks by guys. He uses his body well to protect the puck and then he rolls off of guys very well, makes tight turns, and takes it to the net. That creates a lot of room for other guys on his line, because if you beat a guy towards the net, sometimes another guy is going to challenge, and once that guy challenges, something else opens up.
I know they have a great secondary player. He's a pretty good player. He can play Division I anywhere.
Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game.
That is what great players do. When they see their team struggle, they try to pick it up anyway they can. He did a great job.
Not many people expected us to be No. 1, especially cutting our salary right in half.
After watching (Ross) last year and seeing all the great things he did, it was in the back of my mind, 'I can either be as good as him, or try to be better than him,'
I'm going to approach it as I did every other year,
I'm going to do my best and let the chips fall, ... I can only control what I can do on the ice.