Richard Roby
Richard Roby
Richard Robyis an American professional basketball player for the Akita Northern Happinets of the Japanese bj league. He attended high school at Lawrence Academy at Groton, Massachusetts. Roby attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and played for the Buffaloes from 2004 to 2008. He averaged 17 points and 5.5 rebounds during his career for the Buffaloes. He graduated as Colorado's all-time leading scorer, doing so in his final collegiate game...
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There's always a prize if you win something. But just being a basketball player should be motivation enough. Every time you play the game should be enough.
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I know everybody was looking forward to the (NCAA) tournament . . . Now, it's kind of like when you don't meet your goal, it's the other one (NIT). But how many basketball games do you get to play in your life? You got to play every game like it's your last one.
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I just couldn't get in a rhythm. I didn't really want to force anything. I was trying to have the game come to me, but at the end, I had to find a way to put the ball in the basket because I knew my team needed me to score.
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We haven't been playing our best basketball lately. We hit our peak, I think, in the middle of the season, and that's not good.
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I know we had our goal set on the NCAA Tournament and I know we were still hurt by the fact we didn't make it. . . . It kind of showed (Wednesday).
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I'm fully confident in my abilities and what I can do. If I have to come back here I wouldn't be sad. I would come back to a program where the coaches love me and the students love me. So it wouldn't hurt at all.
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I've just got to go back to the drawing board. Me and coach have to sit down, talk about it and see what it takes to get me open. Teams are just playing me harder.
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It's definitely an emotional win. We wanted to come in here and do something a lot of teams haven't been able to do.
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It will be a shootout. I know we like to play an up-and-down game. I think there will be a lot of points put on the board.
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We're supposed to be the home team. We're supposed to get the majority of the crowd, but they were the home team today.
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We feel pretty good. We've got to take it one game at a time. That first game is definitely going to be huge. Everybody has a new life. Everybody has that hope of going to the NCAA Tournament. We got to go out there and fight like we always do and come up with some wins.
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There's no target for me. Whenever I'm ready, I'll go.
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A win is a win. When you can scratch and claw and pull out a win like that in an ugly game, it's a plus.
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I'd love to play A&M. We had a tough game (a controversial 61-58 loss) down there, one we probably should have won. We'd love to get them on a neutral court and battle it out.