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
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.
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.
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.
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 was trying to make him shoot over the top and take away any easy baskets.
We just came out with a little more energy in the second half. We were more aggressive.
We just came out with a little more energy in the second half and we were more aggressive. We started getting deflections and we get more active in the passing lanes and that opened the game for us in the third quarter.
We came too far to give up now. We've got to go out and come together as a team. We know what it is, and everybody's got a challenge to play better defensively.
Man, it was a rough finish but we came out and pulled out the win in the end. We made a couple of adjustments in the second half and we played well enough throughout the entire game to come out with a win.
Man, it was a rough finish, but we came out and pulled out the win in the end. It's a tight race with us and the Clippers right now and we're just trying to get better each game.
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.
That's what happens. We didn't give up shots, we gave up rebounds tonight. Teams are trying to go big on us, crash the boards on us. That's our biggest weakness. Our defense has got to pick us up.
These are games we are supposed to come in there and take care of business and get out of the way.