Marcus Ginyard
Marcus Ginyard
Marcus Darrel Ginyardis an American professional basketball player who plays for Hermine de Nantes Atlantique of the LNB Pro B. He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels after a high school career at Bishop Denis J. O'Connell High School in Arlington, Virginia. Ginyard’s role as a defensive stopper became his forte for the Tar Heels after his arrival. He has also previously played in Germany, Israel, Poland and Ukraine...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth8 May 1987
correct defensive mistake sit talking team totally watching
Watching with buddies, you're talking about look at that dunk, look at that 3. You sit down with a coach, and he's talking about look at this defensive mistake that team made and how to correct it. So you're getting a totally different look from him.
dangerous game lose points team three
You lose the game by three points, there's three points right there. It's dangerous to give a team like that the momentum. It was a big-time shot.
bench coming crazy defense drop head shot tough
It was tough to play defense for that long and have them down by that much, and for him to make that crazy shot like that, that just really got them going. From then on, they started coming back into the game. You could see everybody's head drop on the bench when the shot went it. It just started the story of the game.
coach continued great hit hitting locker push room though turned
Coach said in the locker room that it wasn't perfect, but we made something out of it. We continued to push through, even though we hit a little adversity. We weren't hitting shots, and we were a little sloppy, but we turned something great out of it.
anybody basketball college dreams playing
Anybody who dreams of playing college basketball dreams of playing in this game.
coach reason sent time
Any time a coach does that, you've got to know it's for one reason and one reason only. I think he sent a message.
harder kids
Not many kids would have wanted to have been in there. But he's just getting through to us that we've got to play a lot harder than we did.
kids
Not many kids would have wanted to be in there.
definitely gotten possession taking
Taking each possession more importantly is definitely something we've gotten a lot better at.
dangerous team
It's dangerous to give a team like that momentum.
couple effort excited learn ncaa needed next people prove tournament understand
As long as we understand we didn't give the effort we needed to give tonight, we can learn from it going into the tournament. We're still excited about the NCAA tournament and what we'll be able to prove to some people in the next couple of weeks.
capable ourselves outside people
That's why they're outside and we're inside. We think more of ourselves than a lot of other people do, but that doesn't matter. We know what we're capable of.
crowd electric fed feed great using
It was just as electric as I expected. We just used it to feed us. We've been great using the crowd to feed us, and it fed us the whole game.
basketball lucky mistakes realize rest room smarter throughout
This made us realize there's no room for all the mistakes we made tonight. We were lucky to get away with it. We have to play better basketball, smarter basketball throughout the rest of the tournament.