Raja Bell
Raja Bell
Raja Bellis an American retired professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association. He was twice named to the NBA All-Defensive Team in his career...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth19 September 1976
CitySaint Croix, VI
guys pick understand week
We're not doing anything different. Guys understand that if it's going to be a week or a month, we're going to have to pick it up without him.
expected
I'm a little surprised, yeah. I don't know that I would've expected us to be in first with that record.
ahead defense positions step system
This system is (tailored) to him. He's getting us into positions where he's stringing the defense out. He's always one step ahead of the defense.
guard high people percentage reason shot tough
The reason we shot a high percentage is what I think is important. We were able to space. We were very unselfish, and we were out in transition. When we do that, it's tough for people to guard us.
kids marketing nba people sell wrong
We sell to kids and people who are into the NBA hip-hop world. They may be marketing to the wrong people with this.
against early easy establish guard night ourselves
We wanted to establish ourselves early and let them know we were here to play. It is easy to have a letdown the night before you go on the All-Star break, but we wanted to guard against that.
everybody good translated
We've pitched in by committee, and it's translated into everybody having a good year.
dallas emotions teams
Dallas and us are two of the better teams in the West. There's always some emotion.
ball bottom dropped everybody line second speculate
Everybody can speculate why we dropped the ball there in the second half, but the bottom line is we did.
face feels felt lets life personal sure team
That's personal right there. That's how a person feels when a team lets him go. I'm sure he felt unappreciated. I know he's got something to prove. Film is one thing, but actually getting to do it to your face in real life is different.
ball challenge goes good jump ready seeing team
That's a good question. It's been a challenge for us to be ready to play every night. What you're seeing (now) is a team that's not necessarily ready to go when the jump ball goes up.
ball incredible movement open transition wide
It was one of those nights. We were able to get out on transition and the ball movement was incredible so everyone got wide open looks.
best felt reinvent weather
The best thing is we never felt down about anything. We just weather it and reinvent ourselves.
floor good high knocked nice percentage playing running shoot understand
Its always nice to shoot a high percentage but I think we have to understand why we were able to shoot a high percentage - our floor spacing was awesome, we were running the floor and really playing unselfish. You're not going to shoot that well every night, we got to understand why we knocked them down, and that's a good thing to take away from the game.