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
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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,
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.
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.
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,