Ruben Patterson
Ruben Patterson
Ruben Nathaniel Pattersonis a former American professional basketball player. During his career, he played as a small forward and shooting guard. During his college career at the University of Cincinnati, Patterson earned third-team All-American honors and helped lead the Bearcats to Conference USA titles in both of his seasons there. Drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers in 1998, Patterson began his career with the Greek team AEK Athens BC before joining the Lakers in his rookie season. Later, he played...
against challenge player
He's a (heck) of a player but I just got in him. Like I've said before, if I was a starter, all the All-Stars would have a challenge against me every night.
himself
(Anthony) can't do it all by himself each and every night.
george talking trash worried
Once again, they've been talking a lot of trash in the papers. George told us we've got to go out there and do what we've got to do. We're not worried about what they say.
bit might
That might have a little bit to do with it.
gave protecting technical
I'm just protecting my teammates. I'm just protecting Carmelo. I didn't really say anything. They gave me a technical foul.
fans love nobody
It has to be (Kennedy). The fans love him, and everyone appreciates what he's done for the team, so it's got to be him. It can't be nobody else but him.
money win
That's what we get the big money for. We'll get away from here and win some games. We'll be fine.
millions players
That's why he got all those millions -- he just has to be consistent. That's what big-time players do.
coach effort guys kept team total win
It was a total team effort and the guys kept fighting. Like the coach said, if you go out there and play defense, we win games.
acting gotta karl start
I told Karl you just gotta let me loose, and if I start acting up you can put me back in my cage.
good kicked loose motivated playing second
It really got me motivated when Nate got kicked out. Because we was getting cheated, man. I ain't going to get into it with the refs, they were good to me in the second half, but that kind of got us loose and started us playing well.
hard hill night
It's hard when you try to gout out there and play well every night and your season's just went down a hill from the beginning.
fourth game hit offense shots
They executed their offense real well. We were in the game into the fourth quarter, but they hit some big shots at the end of the game.
call foul tough whistles
There were a lot of whistles and every foul they were calling. It was tough to get going because they would call stuff.