John Salmons
John Salmons
John Rashall Salmonsis an American professional basketball player who last played for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the University of Miami...
aggressive ball jump missed ours settled stopped taking
We stopped being aggressive and taking the ball to the basket. We settled for a lot of jump shots. We missed ours and they made theirs.
hats kept
When we went up early, I think we kind of thought that was it, that they were going to give up. You've got to take your hats off to them. They kept on fighting.
blame small supposed switch
We were supposed to switch everything. We went small so that we could switch. I'll take the blame on this one; it was on me.
human nature stop
When you're up like that it's human nature just to be like, 'We've got this game. But we've got to stop doing that.
good seven stay
We?re 5-2 after the break. If we could go 5-2 every seven games, we?d have a good record. We just have to stay up and not get down.
felt games move supposed
It felt different this time. All the other games were emotional. This game felt like we were supposed to win. We did that and we move on.
good growing happening keeps learning shows
When it keeps happening that shows you're not learning and you're not growing from your mistakes. That's not a good sign. We keep doing the same things over and over that's the frustrating part.
good growing keeps learning shows staying
When it keeps happening, that shows you?re not learning and you?re not growing from your mistakes. You?re just staying in the same place -- and that?s not a good sign. You always want to grow. You always want to get better.
keeps learning shows
When it keeps happening, it shows that we're not learning from our mistakes. We keep doing the same things, and that's the frustrating part.
heard
It wasn't anything we hadn't heard before ? just a little more emphatically.
crowd function guy hard involved tough worrying
It's tough for me because you want to feel like you can play this game. If I'm in the crowd and I see somebody's not involved and not doing much, I'm going to think that guy can't play. The other team's not worrying about you. It's hard for me to function that way.
kept moving passing
They weren't on fire. They kept moving and passing the ball, just getting wide-open shots. If you have wide-open shots, that's what happens.
defend hit shots stay together tough
They hit some tough shots and we just didn't defend for 48 minutes. It's been like that for a while. We just got to stay together and just don't give up. You just got to keep trying.
crunch
It's crunch time. We don't really have a choice. If we want to make the playoffs, that's what we have to do.