Shawn Marion
Shawn Marion
Shawn Dwayne Marionis an American retired professional basketball player who played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association. Born in Waukegan, Illinois, Marion attended high school in Clarksville, Tennessee. Before transferring to the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Marion attended the junior college Vincennes University for two years. In 1999, the Phoenix Suns drafted Marion, who was the ninth overall pick and would remain with the Suns until midway through the 2007–08 season. The Suns traded Marion to the Miami Heat,...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth7 May 1978
CityWaukegan, IL
It says a lot about this team, especially getting in so late. To come out here and play the game we played tonight, it says a lot.
A couple of them were fouls. The referees called the game to their momentum. They had the momentum, so they gave them the calls they liked. But more power to him.
Lately I have been getting into a rhythm and feeling it. My teammates have been looking for me and making the extra pass and I have been the beneficiary of getting a lot of late passes after teams commit and I have been able to knock them down.
I was just trying to win. I think I got all my shots and opportunities from extra passes made by my teammates and that's how we won the game. It's a great win for us.
He's always been known as a scorer. And that's what he's coming in here and doing.
Really, it's pretty simple. When you don't rebound, you don't win.
I got all my points on passes from my teammates or on great opportunities. My teammates looked for me early. Everybody was making the extra pass. I was the beneficiary of getting open shots in the corner.
I just did what I could do. I had it going.
That's a lot of scoring. We're doing it as a team, too. That's the best thing about it.
Not many teams can match up with us. With Steve, Boris and Tim, we got guys that nobody else in the league have.
In the first half, they were knocking down some good shots. We were missing our shots but we were right there. We focused in the second half and buckled down and got some good stops when we needed to.
In the first quarter, they were hitting shots. Sometimes, you can't play any better defense then we did. They were hitting shots with hands in their faces. In the second quarter, we opened up a little more and got a rhythm going.
In the second half, we started putting the clamp down on defense. Teams can hang with us for two or three quarters, but when that fourth quarter kicks in, we run away with it.
These are games we are supposed to come in there and take care of business and get out of the way.