Mike James
Mike James
Michael Lamont Jamesis an American retired professional basketball player who last played for the Texas Legends of the NBA Development League. He played college basketball for Duquesne...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth23 June 1975
CityCopiague, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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We gave ourselves a good chance to win tonight but you are going to lose games like that sometimes. That one hurt.
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We're going to wind up seeing a lot of pharmacies close. That's the second shoe. East of I-95 or west of Charlotte, there are a lot of counties that only have one pharmacy who gets 70 percent and 80 percent of his business from these federal plans.
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I got off to a slow start last night and I just wanted to put the game behind me. I woke up this morning with a new mindset, came in early and got up some extra shots and got my mind right early.
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I do not think that God arbitrarily causes hurricanes and tornadoes and tragedies like this. The Bible says it rains on the just and the unjust.
It doesn't matter what you do for 45 minutes, it's what you do the last three minutes.
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That was the main thing, to keep the streak alive. What hurt us was the month of November. We dug such a deep hole for ourselves in that month and now we are starting to gain some leeway and every game is valuable.
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I thrilled about the way this team played. Whenever they had a tough time out on the course or faced any adversity, they handled it perfectly. It was a real pleasure to watch them grind out this win.
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I was disappointed with my play (in Detroit), I wasn't aggressive. I came in early to get up some shots and just focus on playing well tonight.
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He couldn't be stopped tonight. He basically beat us by himself.
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He leaves a great impression because he's such a good person. He's tough on point guards because he demands so much, but at the end of the day, when you understand what he wants, it's easy to deal with.
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We have to get that feeling that we have when we're down 20 and take that into the start of the game. We can't be nonchalant.
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We dug ourselves a hole and we just kept fighting back. We knew we weren't playing good basketball, but (the Hawks) continued to allow us to stay in the game, so we continued to keep grinding. In the fourth quarter, guys started hitting the shots they were missing earlier in the game.
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