Steve Blake
Steve Blake
Steven Hanson Blakeis an American professional basketball player who last played for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth26 February 1980
CityHollywood, FL
CountryUnited States of America
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I was born and brought up in Suffolk and was one of the final intake of my generation to benefit from a grammar school education in Ipswich.
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We just wanted to win this game, it didn't matter who it was. We needed to get three in a row. It's so much better when you win, so much better.
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We're competing really hard. At the beginning of the year it seems we were getting blown out a lot. Now we're in every game. We know that we can win every game. It's just a matter of finishing off strong.
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I think we're learning that's what you have to do to win games. You've got to work extremely hard to win games, be competitive and have that energy and that drive to want to win the game. And you can tell, you can see it out there, that we really want it.
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He was making shots in the first half. We were getting hands up when he was shooting the ball and he was making them. We stepped up and (Jarrett) Jack and I really played the best we could to keep him in front of us, and he was missing shots.
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We played for 48 minutes. We executed the game plan.
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We can smile now. It was impressive. It was fun to be out there. It was fun playing in a game like that.
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Yeah, we definitely missed him. But it happens sometimes. I'm sure he'll step up the next game.