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
Every day it seems like it's changing. Everybody seems to be checking the standings a little closer. The next day, we're playing a totally different team. But it's a race and we want to make sure that we're taking care of business on our side.
We've played well on the road all year. We've been playing really well on the road all year. I don't think we're going to panic.
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 got back to playing on the power play, and playing on the penalty kill, playing on the first line, and things like that will help me,
I don't know if I'm 100 percent comfortable yet playing with these guys, ... But each game, I just try to get better.
I know I'm going to get a good opportunity to get some minutes, get some playing time, so I just want to do what I can to get as much ice time as I can. I don't think it's going to be any easier or anything like that. I know if I don't do my job, I know someone else will be in my spot to do that. I don't want to give that up.
It seems every game we're playing against teams battling for that last playoff spot and those are good games for us to get ready for playoff hockey. We want to get it into their heads that they're not going to beat us in the playoffs.
We've got to come out and play hard and get wins where we can.
We're glad we have another chance to play. We think we should have gotten a little higher seed. We didn't. We just have to go out and enjoy it and have fun. Maybe this is finally a chance for us to get a little respect.
We feel like we can not just get there to the finals. We feel like we can get there and win it.
You cannot fix the problem of families fleeing the city by taxing them more.
UAB came out pressing us, and we spent a lot of time in practice on our press breaker. The first time we took care of the basketball. That's what we have to do this time.
We don't want to go to the NIT. But if we do, we'll go and try to win that, too. We will try to win every game, get to play more games and have fun.
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.