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...
fortunate guys stepped
Those guys stepped up. I feel fortunate to have them as teammates.
best davis guys inside lead neither open paul playing
We've got to get Paul Davis going. Once we get him going, that's going to open up a lot of things on the outside. That's the best way to play, inside out. Right now, neither of us is playing to our capabilities. We're the seniors. We've got to lead this team. The young guys look to us. If we're not playing well, we're not going to win.
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.
four guys meant minutes miss realize split three
You never realize how much that meant when we had three or four guys on the wing. We all kind of split minutes up and we were still happy. We really miss those guys a lot.
game guys looks open saved stepped
I had more open looks than I've had all season. Those other two guys stepped up and saved me, no question. After the game I thanked them big-time.
beating confidence race ranked road team ten win
Beating a ranked team at their crib, that's huge. For this Big Ten race, that's something that we need. As a team, we have confidence we can win on the road now. It's huge. That's all I can say.
helped job
We did a better job not fouling, not hand-checking. I think it helped a lot.
fight hard huge offense portion stagnant took
That was a huge portion of it. It was hard to get into a rhythm. But they took the fight to us early. Our offense was very stagnant today.
felt good nobody root
It felt good to come back and play at the crib. We ain't had nobody root for us in a long time, so it felt great.
celebrate feels finish good job team time tough
It feels pretty good right now. They're a tough team and we can celebrate right now but at the same time we still have a job to do and finish it off this weekend.
body care matter tired
I tell him he's got to do what he's got to do to take care of his body and play hard. Right now, it really don't matter how tired he is. This is it right now.
allow band ourselves
We just can't allow ourselves to get down. This is when we have to band together.
national top winning within
Winning a national championship. You really can't top that. ... I feel like I'll be kind of underachieving within myself if I don't win a championship before I leave.
stuff
We couldn't get into the stuff we wanted to do.