Tyrus Thomas
Tyrus Thomas
Tyrus Wayne Thomasis an American professional basketball player who last played for Eisbären Bremerhaven of the Basketball Bundesliga. He played college basketball for Louisiana State University before being drafted fourth overall by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2006 NBA draft. He was then traded to the Chicago Bulls where he went on to play three and a half seasons when in February 2010, he was traded to the Charlotte Bobcats...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth17 August 1986
CityBaton Rouge, LA
seems shock
It's not a shock to us at all. We've been doing this for so long that it all seems natural.
blocked frustrated happen kept motivating picking shot team
Everybody's going to play bad. I was a little frustrated and aggravated. My first shot got blocked and I hadn't had that happen all year. The team kept motivating me and picking me up.
hard hurts sit
It was hard to sit out. It just hurts to sit out. There is no way to get used to it.
cling people
It was just my nature. I never cling to people at first.
basketball displaced orleans people traveled
It's just basketball. But as we traveled around this season, we had a lot of people come up to us ? displaced people who are from New Orleans ? and they tell us that we make them happy.
flame lost national program ready supposed
They used to be a powerhouse program. I know they have 11 national championships. They lost their flame for a little bit, but now it's back burning. We've got to be ready to play because they're going to try to put their program back where it's supposed to be.
buster douglas gave hard knocked mike punches swing swung texas
Texas gave us some hard punches and we had to be Buster Douglas and swing back. And we swung back at them. We knocked out Mike Tyson.
call leave man soldiers
Sometimes we call each other soldiers. And soldiers never leave a man behind.
coaches knew
You said I was on nobody's radar. That's other people's fault. I knew what I could do. Coaches knew what I could do.
woke
It kind of woke us up. It could have been any of us.
fans love thank
All of these fans have been here with us from Day 1, and I wanted to thank them and show our love to them.
mentality
You've got to have the mentality it's like a battle. He wins, you die.