Shannon Brown
Shannon Brown
Shannon Brownis an American professional basketball player who last played for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. He attended Proviso East High School in Maywood, Illinois, was named Illinois Mr. Basketball in 2003, and played college basketball for Michigan State University. The Cleveland Cavaliers drafted Brown in 2006; Brown played his rookie season with Cleveland and has played for three teams in the NBA Development League...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth29 November 1985
CityMaywood, IL
bring schedule special talking ten toughest
We're always talking about the Big Ten title. We're going to try to bring it back. It would be very special to do that with what I think is the toughest schedule in history.
feels
It feels great. I don't know what else to say.
chance feels honest screaming
It feels good. But to be honest with you, we get a chance to play for a championship. That's all we were screaming about.
matter
It don't matter how you get it. Take it and go.
front great
That would be great to do it in front of my hometown, in front of my family.
coming contact crowd emotion emotions trying
That was just emotion coming out. I don't know what to say. I was just trying to take the contact and get it off the backboard. The crowd was going crazy. They got me going.
bounce fights-and-fighting good knows
Who knows what happened? But it happened, and now you've just got to come back and keep fighting. They're good players, they're going to bounce back out of it; all they've got to do is keep being aggressive. If you stop, you'll never get out of it.
call coaching gotta listen
When it comes to basketball, it's not that hard. You gotta go out and play like you gotta play and listen to the coaching staff. You just have to go out and play hard, and we call that Spartan basketball.
crowd dunk energizing great missed shots teammates
Whew, that was close. We missed a lot of great shots and a lot of rebounds. We had to do something. And that dunk I had was an energizing thing. When the crowd went crazy, my teammates went crazy.
bring chase good guys intensity job match runs
We wanted to match his intensity and bring a little more intensity. As much as we chase him when he runs the offense, he has to run. And our big guys did a good job of bumping him.
accomplish aggressive bring came game nobody physical ready safe
We came out with the 'W' in a very physical game. Nobody is safe in this league. You've got to bring your 'A' game every night. You've got to be ready to fight. When you're aggressive and unselfish, you can accomplish a lot.
job
We didn't do what we had to do to get the job done. They did.
regular slate
We didn't do the things we wanted to do in the regular season. So the slate is clean.
adversity coming executing fighting football guys played proud team tonight
We didn't come out here tonight like a football team on the upswing. We should be executing better on offense. I'm disappointed in the way we played but I am proud of these guys for fighting through adversity and coming back to get the win.