Kyle Korver
Kyle Korver
Kyle Elliot Korveris an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for Creighton and was drafted with the 51st overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft by the New Jersey Nets. Korver became an NBA All-Star for the first time in 2015, and holds the NBA record for the highest three-point field goal percentage in a season. He held the NBA record for most consecutive games with a made three-pointer...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth17 March 1981
CityLakewood, CA
This was a huge boost for us. Now we feel like we can do some things. We've just played together. We talked all year about doing that.
We just didn't play well in the first half. That second, we played harder, played a lot better, a lot more energy.
I?ve played in thousands of pickup games and maybe sprained an ankle here and there, but you can?t be that worried about it,
The second half is how we have to play. That half was played with a sense of urgency.
We've got to do something. There's not really a lot of options, so we'll try this.
We've just been playing harder. I don't know why this has all of a sudden clicked like it has. We've said all along we have tools, we have talent. For a while, our effort just wasn't there, but I can't put a finger on why it was that way.
We kept saying in the huddle that we're not going to lose to this team four times.
We've been looking for something to get us going for a while. We had some long practices, we had some long meetings. But we got back to having fun out there. When you're having fun, you're going to player harder. When you're playing harder, you're playing better defense.
We all feel bad for him. We don't know the whole story. We're just going to wait and see what happens with that. Obviously, we're thinking of him a lot. He's a great guy and a great teammate.
Shooting threes is always what I do best. If it's not what I do best, something is wrong with my game.
We didn't turn the ball over and we got good shots. We didn't just rely on isolation plays and that was something that was different tonight. We just finished it off really well.
Maybe it'll be a good thing. Maybe we just need to get out of here and just say it's us or nothing.
We've talked more about defense in practice. When we watch film, that's all we watch is defense -- we don't even watch our offense right now. (Defense) has just been our focus. We're playing a different style of basketball right now in terms of slowing it down. We're playing well.
It changes everything. They're two guys with the same athletic makeup. They're blocking shots and getting rebounds. Second-chance points are something that's really hurt us this year. And when those guys are both playing like that, (the opponent) isn't getting any of that. It really does change a lot of things for us. This is really what we had envisioned at the beginning of the season.