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
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.
I got into a role of being their first-line guy, on the power play, penalty kill, so I think it really prepared me for coming into this year, knowing that my role might be a little different. I think it's going to help me a lot.
They are really a good team. They always play us tough. I talked to Bryan Hopkins after the game, wished him good luck the rest of the season. We might see them again at the conference tournament. Who knows?
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.
I know they have a great secondary player. He's a pretty good player. He can play Division I anywhere.
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.
They've just gotten better and better every year. They've drafted real well, and those young guys are developing into good players.
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.
I'm not even thinking about suing anybody right now. That's the last thing on my mind.
I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen.
I'm a 100 percent behind his decision; I take responsibility for that. My main focus is that (Jackson) gets over this.