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
fear leave physical
It is a physical game. I am not going to say anything about that right now for fear of being fined. I'll just leave that all alone.
clicking dangerous everybody firing flying lock slow
When we are clicking and we have everybody firing we are a more dangerous team. When they can lock down on one guy, we kind of slow down, but when we are flying and everyone is contributing, that is when we are at our best.
across board deal tough
When we get productivity across the board like that, we're pretty tough to deal with.
best came defense eddie locked quarters second seen team third
We are a team of spurts. Eddie really came in and got us going in the second quarter. We really locked down on defense in the third quarter. I thought that was one of the best quarters of defense I've seen this team play all year.
beat contain game hope plan whatever wound
Our game plan was to try to contain everyone else and hope that Kobe's whatever he wound up with wasn't going to be enough to beat all 12 of us.
earlier excited feeling fit game opened
I was excited that the game kind of opened up, and I was able to see where I fit in. I wasn't necessarily feeling that earlier in the week. We were really spaced, and the game kind of flowed (Saturday) night.
everybody four game involved knows seen win year
I think everybody knows who's going to show up. I think he's going to come out and be more aggressive. There's no guesswork involved with that. We've seen that four times this year and every other game he's played. So we game-planned it. We'll do what we need to do to get another win at home.
against game involved seen
I think he's going to come out and be more aggressive. There's no guesswork involved there. We've seen it in every other game against him this season.
I think he's going to come out and be more aggressive.
finish knock quality rush shoot
My philosophy's going to be if I can make them quality, I don't have to finish the racks. I don't like to rush my shot, so I'm going to try to knock down the ones that I can shoot in 60 seconds.
atmosphere basketball commitment excited major played reason style
That was a major reason why I wanted to come to Phoenix. I'm so excited about the style of basketball that's played here and the atmosphere and commitment to winning.
aggressive assume certain expect guys involved kobe last looking sure trying
I would assume the more aggressive Kobe will be out. I'm sure he'll be trying to still get other guys involved to a certain degree, but I expect him to be looking for his more than last game.
crashing offensive pace run
We can play the same pace we want, but some of that has to do with them (the Wizards) just crashing the offensive glass. You can't run if you can't get a rebound.
build momentum
We're all professional enough to know we need to build some momentum going into the playoffs, because we've been struggling.