Shane Battier
Shane Battier
Shane Courtney Battieris an American retired professional basketball player who played for various teams of the National Basketball Association. He has also been a member of the U.S. national basketball team...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth9 September 1978
CityBirmingham, MI
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I don't think anyone has the answer to guarding him. You've just got to play hard and expect a lot of outside help from your team.
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I think people really didn't know what to think of me. A couple of kids stood about 5 feet from me and looked at me like I was some kind of statue. A lot of people took pictures with their cell phones. I'm like, 'I'm just hanging with you guys.' It was a mellow scene.
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It didn't seem like either team wanted to take control of the game. We made a few shots and got a few stops in the second quarter, and that was the key for us.
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Mike has consistently been our second best player behind Pau. He has been fun to watch and fun to play with. He put together a complete season, and I?m glad he got rewarded for it.
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We haven't won that way all year long. They're scoring way too many points in the first half. We've done a much better job in the second half but we're tired of saying that. We need to come out and play with more intensity from the start.
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We haven't been a very good team this year when major guys are missing from the other team. They don't keep statistics for that but I know we haven't been very good.
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We just didn't have it tonight. To beat Dallas you have to bring your 'A' game and we obviously didn't.
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I'm happy for him. He's a good dude. He's a hard worker and he has a great basketball mind. He took his last school to the dance. I think it's a good hire for Oklahoma.
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We need Pau to be our focal point. Everyone knows that.
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Last time I looked in the dictionary for 'evacuate' it doesn't mean sitting in bus under the arena. So I left. I went outside. I wasn't going to hang around and wait. I got in a little trouble. I'm sorry for any breach of protocol with security.
mind playing
We're playing to win. I've always been of the mind-frame that you've got to play.
good playing
We feel good about where we are right now. We feel we're playing good basketball.
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We feel good about ourselves. We feel that we have played well in April, which has not been the case the last two years.
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We played a team (Tuesday) that really wasn't sharp in their execution, and if we can do that against the playoff teams, then we'll be a lot more excited.