Udonis Haslem
Udonis Haslem
Udonis Johneal Haslemis an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the University of Florida, where he was a key member of four Florida Gators NCAA tournament teams. He played professional basketball in France for a year, and then signed with the Miami Heat in 2003. He has won three NBA championships while playing for the Heat...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth9 June 1980
CityMiami, FL
CountryUnited States of America
Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.
I think we understand what we're going up against when we go on the road. When we go on the road, it takes two times the concentration, two times more effort to win.
There's not a time we're in that building that we're not doing some type of conditioning. We never really have a day off.
I would never approach an official in a physical manner or throw anything at them. I could see how it looked that way.
We can beat anybody. We just haven't been doing it.
We haven't been beating top-10 teams. We felt kind of desperate to get a win. We can beat anybody; we just haven't been doing it.
We came out and took care of business and that's the sign of a good team, coming out and making adjustments.
He's a great player. The guy made shots tonight. We wanted to take away his penetration and keep him out of the paint. He was hitting his jumpers.
I don't think it will take long. We understand what the game plan is every game going out. The transition more than anything will probably be defensively, because everybody played different defensive schemes, and our scheme is probably one of the toughest schemes in the NBA because we work a lot harder.
I don't know why we're losing. We'll get it right. We've just got to keep working.
Since I've been here, they've made great decisions. And I'm sure they'll make the right decision here.
We just kept pounding it and pounding it inside. We took advantage of their size and took it to the basket. Everything was just clicking.
We wanted to take away his penetration and keep him out of the paint, and he hit his jumper.
We're two different players and we can bring two different things to the table. If we put that together, we should have a pretty good tandem.