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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That's what I was taught. You do the best you can.
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A wise man once said that the further you get away from the game, the easier the game becomes. That's probably the truest statement in professional sports.
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I thought we played good enough to win, but Elton willed them to victory.
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I think we just caught them on a flat night. When you play a team like that, you've got to recognize it, and you've got to kick concentration up just a notch and kick your energy level up a notch and win the game early.
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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.
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Hubie treats Brendan just like every other coach. He yells at him just as much.
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Pau is doing a great job. He's carrying the team and had a huge night.
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Pau played a man's game tonight. That's what a franchise player does.
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Our offensive and defensive execution was poor when it mattered. We couldn't get a stop when we needed it.
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He was a motor-boating son of a gun. He was really going, and it was fun for all of us to watch.
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We're playing to win. I've always been of the mind-frame that you've got to play.
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Once he's been around the block one time, he'll figure out how guys play. He's doing that in the second half of the season and that means you can put him in more situations.
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If you don't feel good about yourself, you're not going to play good basketball. I don't care who you are. We've accomplished what we wanted by playing solid basketball in April. At the end of the day, it's about what you do; if you execute.
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If you try to mess with the basketball gods, they punish you in the end. All the talk of massaging and losing games, that's not in our minds right now. We're trying to win every single game each time we step on the court. Wherever we are at the end of the year, hopefully we'll have some momentum and play well in the playoffs.