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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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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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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They had to rotate to David West because he is such a good shooter from 17 feet. But once they rotated, he saw me and swung it to me in rhythm and luckily for us, I was ... able to make the shot.
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You play for a good team like that, everybody has a specific job, ... If you're a guy who shoots well, that's all you do. If you're a guy who passes the ball well, that's what you do. But I saw this opportunity with the Hornets as something different, not just to be a shooting specialist, but having a chance to expand my game.
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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.
defend players
I want be someone that they know will defend them, ... They're all one-on-one players who come at you every night.
crowd definitely great support
We had great crowd support. I think that it definitely had something to do with it.
felt help left team
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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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 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 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.
people places
It's much different than being in Miami. There's not too many places you can go where people don't know who you are.
ball both character playoff toughness trying
It showed a lot of resilience, we showed toughness tonight. We showed a lot of character. Both our ball handlers were out tonight. ... I think it showed we have a lot of character on this team. We're trying to make a playoff push.