Maurice Ager
Maurice Ager
Maurice Darnell Ageris an American former professional basketball player. He played collegiately for the Michigan State Spartans from 2002 until 2006. The 6' 5"guard was best known for being salary filler in the 2008 trade between the Dallas Mavericks and New Jersey Nets, which centered on all-stars Jason Kidd and Devin Harris. An accomplished music producer, Ager was considered for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards for his song "Far From Home." Ager released his debut album, Moe Town Vol. 1...
appreciate home road rough
It's rough on the road in the Big Ten. We can appreciate being home a lot more.
control gonna happened point swallow tough
It's tough because it happened so fast. At one point we were up there, and now we're at the bottom. It's tough to swallow right now. ... Things aren't always gonna go your way. That's the only way I can really look at it. Some things we can control and some we can't.
gonna point takes whatever
I want it real bad. And I'm gonna do whatever it takes for us to get it this year. Nothing else is more important at this point of the year.
close coach eight felt game sat seven shots time
I told coach I had to make up for the time I missed. I sat out for seven or eight minutes. The game was on the line. ... I just felt I had to take some shots for us to close the game out.
continue move ripe start trying week
It's a new season. We're just trying to start off ripe this week and continue to move forward.
happened men swallow tough
It's happened so fast. It's tough to swallow right now. We've got to be a team, be men, keep going. Things aren't always going to go your way.
continue good rest
We did some good things defensively. But we got to continue to fine-tune the rest of our game.
ball good hurt job paul
We didn't do a good enough job getting the ball into Paul in the post. That hurt us. We never really got into anything offensively.
behind coming earn guys job ncaa older senior tournament understand win year
When I got here, it was up to the older guys to make me understand how important it was here to win championships and go to the NCAA tournament every year. And that's my job now as a senior to make the guys coming up behind understand that going to the tournament every year just doesn't happen. You've got to earn it.
decent halfway played
A lot of times we played right into their hands. I feel if I would have played halfway decent we would have come out with the victory.
scrappy small
They're a small team. But they're scrappy and they play hard.
directly hurt led
They really hurt us, especially because they led directly to baskets.
athletic players playing rebound wings
They rebound pretty well offensively. They have some athletic players and are playing better. They're athletic at the wings and like to run.
blaming honest open sure
There's always opportunities to get someone the ball. But I'm not blaming anybody. We have to look at the film and see where I was open and I'm not really sure to be honest with you.