Leon Powe
Leon Powe
Leon Powe, Jr.is an American former professional basketball power forward. Drafted in 2006 by the Denver Nuggets, Powe grew up in Oakland, California, and played college basketball at the University of California, Berkeley. He played his first three years in the NBA with the Boston Celtics and won a championship with the team in 2008. From 2009 to 2011, Powe played for the Cleveland Cavaliers. He also had a stint with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2011. After a stint in...
knew lost playing teammates
If we lost this, we knew we were out. My teammates don't get nervous. I'm just playing basketball.
best defense goes good rules
That's a good team. What we have to do is play our defense and our rules and may the best team. That's just how it goes in the tournament.
bunch good jack looked rather win
I looked at the score, and said I'd rather win than jack up a bunch of shots. We've got some good players. It ain't just me on this team.
blow everybody match saying team
I know our team can match up with any team in the conference. I ain't saying we're going to blow out (any) team. We've got to play hard, but if everybody does their part we'll be all right.
correct free shooting throws
I had to correct that. I get too many free throws to be shooting like that.
difficult past tried weave
I like their young, big guys. They made it difficult for me. When I got the ball, I went past one. There was another one. Then I tried to weave through another one, and they were just right there.
game good playing team
After that game we were down on ourselves. We let a team come in and get wide-open looks. That's not playing good defense.
closed half second wide
In the first half it was a little more wide open. I could get to the rim. In the second half, they closed it off real quick.
couple fairly games good lost rank row shot stretch tournament win wins
I don't know if they go by if you rank in your league, or the games you win and lost, or our RPI. I think we still have a fairly good chance. We still have the (conference) tournament to go. I still think we have a good shot to win, but we have to get some wins now. We've lost a couple in a row down the stretch here, and they look at that, too.
aggressive feels games score second slow ugliest ugly
If I hadn't been aggressive (in the second half), I don't know what score we would have had up there. It was just an ugly game. It was one of the ugliest games I've been in. It just feels like everything is in slow motion.
score
If I hadn't been aggressive, I don't know what the score would have been.
anymore ask exactly man
I couldn't ask anymore of that man tonight. I told him to come out and play his game, and that's exactly what he did.
felt games gives motion playing slow type ugliest
I don't like playing in this type of game. It gives me a headache. It was one of the ugliest games I've ever been in. It felt like everything was in slow motion. I don't like slow motion too much.
allow
I'm not panicking anymore. Sometimes I even allow the double-team to happen.