Tony Skinn
Tony Skinn
Tony Oludewa Skinnis a Nigerian American professional basketball player, and a former college basketball player, who played starting guard for the George Mason University Patriots. Skinn was born in Lagos, Nigeria...
crowd playing worried
We weren't nervous. We were just out there having fun. We weren't worried about the crowd or anything. We were just playing basketball.
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We've kind of used that to our advantage a little bit because we're capable of playing with anybody in the country. The stage we're on now is our opportunity to show everybody we can play. We'll just stick to it and run with it.
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Man, it's been fun. Right now this team is playing great basketball and we just want to keep that rolling.
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That kind of hurt us a little bit. We've been playing behind for a while in this tournament. We didn't put our heads down. We wanted to go out there and keep fighting.
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Coach told us when we got into the tournament teams like Michigan State, North Carolina, they are supposed to beat us. Fortunately for us, we came out and played the way we have been playing all year and got the win.
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Going into that game we wanted to play the same basketball we'd been playing all year. The odds were against us, we were playing on the road, but fortunately for us we went out there and played a great game.
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We weren't supposed to beat Michigan State, and we beat them. We weren't supposed to beat North Carolina, and we sure weren't supposed to beat Connecticut. So I think we're going to just stick with the script. If folks want to call us a Cinderella, then that's OK.
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Even though we are far from home, I think we have just about everybody cheering for us. It's definitely to our advantage. Whenever we score or do something, we're going to hear the crowd roar.
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Seeing him be so happy kind of motivates us to know that basketball is a game of fun. You get too serious and get too tense, you might have jitters on the court, so we're trying to stick to that mode of having fun. It works for us.
march mind
March Madness. We don't mind being the Cinderella.
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I don't think I've cracked a smile that wide in a couple of weeks. It's been a hard two weeks. Then to be in that situation, it was like a fairy tale.
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I am very sorry and I deeply regret my actions on Sunday. In the heat of a tense game, I lost my head and made a bad decision. I'm not making excuses for my actions and I take full responsibility for what I did. I want to take this opportunity to apologize to Loren Stokes, who I have great respect for. I also want to say I'm sorry to Hofstra University's players, coaches and fans. They played a terrific game and that should not be overshadowed by what I did.
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I got in his jaw a little bit.
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Shaq wants to win, and he's a winner. It's one of those things where he sees how good this team can be, and if he steps his game up, it's going to make us better.