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
against beat character crowd either feels good next ready team tonight wants
Duke's a team that everyone either wants to play for or against. And tonight we showed good character against a crowd that really wasn't with us, and we won. And it feels good to beat Duke. But we have to get ready for the next game.
besides challenge feels fight mental physical
Besides the physical pain, it's also going to be a mental challenge for me to come out and fight through how it feels every day.
determined knew screaming season start tough
I knew this was a tough place to play with 18,000 screaming fans, but we were determined to start the new season undefeated. We were relentless.
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.
woke
It kind of woke us up. It could have been any of us.
best
We weren't going to let them get the best of us.
awesome best continue country despite execute teams
We feel we are one of the best teams in the country despite our youth. If we continue to execute right we will have an awesome season.
against character coming crowd duke either good team tonight wants
Duke is a team everyone either wants to play for or play against. And tonight we showed good character by going down and then coming back against a crowd that really wasn't with us.
Big Baby. Y'all have to do your part. We've done our part.
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.