Rasual Butler
Rasual Butler
Rasual Butleris an American professional basketball player who last played for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association. He has previously played for the Miami Heat, New Orleans Hornets, Los Angeles Clippers, Chicago Bulls, Toronto Raptors, Indiana Pacers, Washington Wizards and San Antonio Spurs. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in the Point Breeze area of South Philadelphia...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth23 May 1979
CityPhiladelphia, PA
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We were riding high and then the thing crashed on us a little bit. We've been fighting ever since and because we were working so hard to get these wins and coming up short, it was devastating. But ... we've still got a lot of fight left in us and we scratched and clawed our way to a victory tonight.
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We understand we have to scratch and claw our way to every one of these victories down the stretch. It feels real good to know that we're still in the hunt. We feel we're absolutely a playoff-caliber team, even though we're a young team. And we know we have to go out there and prove that.
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With that loud crowd out there, I think we're going to have one of the loudest crowds in the NBA, if not the loudest.
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We have great fans here in Oklahoma. It's unfortunate that Louisiana had such a tragedy that people don't really have the time to come out and support entertainment.
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I didn't do a good job against Denver. So the last two days I worked on my stroke. Coach (Byron Scott) told me to continue to take my shots. I had a lot of open 3-pointers and some open drives to the basket.
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It felt really good. It's something that I'll think about - that I was able to help this team get one (victory) before we left this city.
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I was a little surprised. But I understand my role on this team. I extend the defense and allow guys like David West room to operate down low and Chris Paul and Speedy Claxton to penetrate. When they get you open looks, it's up to me to knock shots down, and tonight I hit them.
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When we are at home and the crowd is going, we run just a little bit faster, jump a little bit higher. This crowd was so electrifying, it gives you goose bumps at times and as a young team, we feed off that.
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We had great crowd support. I think that it definitely had something to do with it.
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We definitely wanted to the win for this city. But we also needed to end this streak. We really believe we can make the playoffs.
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Once I made a couple of shots, guys started looking for me. When it was my opportunity to run off some screens, I think I did a pretty good job of reading where the defense was going and gave myself some time to get off some shots.
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I'm going out and trying to play the way I've been taught to play basketball, take good shots, try to play solid defense, rebound and just try to play the right way, that's all I'm really trying to do.
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I knew that Ray is very capable of hitting that shot. So I just gave it the best effort I could to try to bother his shot, and luckily, I got a piece of it.
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I'm just playing basketball. I've been blessed right now to step into a role with ( Desmond Mason ) being out and the coaching staff having great confidence in me to fill that role until he returns to this team. I'm just trying to take full advantage of it.