Vince Carter
Vince Carter
Vincent Lamar Carteris an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association. He is 6'6" and can play both shooting guard and small forward...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth26 January 1977
CityDaytona Beach, FL
CountryUnited States of America
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We feel we can compete against the best teams in the league. But against the better teams, you can't have the mental mistakes late in the game, because that's when the better team will prevail. They hit some big shots and we left them wide open to hit some big shots.
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Everybody kind of has their chests poked out now. That's what we want. We want to feel like we can compete with anybody, whether it's the best teams or worst teams, and still get the job done executing.
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I don't care who is on the other team. If they only have five guys to play with we're trying to win. It's unfortunate for them and fortunate for us. Sometimes when your best player isn't in the lineup that's usually when a team can be very dangerous because they play together and they play real loose.
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When you come out to play a rival you never know. Regardless of the up-and-downs, you are going to get the best effort. It was important for us to come out focused. You want to jump on them early and stay up. If you give the team life at any point in time they can come back and beat you.
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We've just committed to this team and turned things around. We've gotten results. It feels good. It looks good and everybody kind of has their chests poked out now. We want to feel like we can compete with anybody, whether it's the best teams or worst teams, and still get the job done executing.
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We consider Miami one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference so we see it as a test each and every time. They beat on us last year in the playoffs so we wanted to come out and see how we could fix it and just compete with them. We competed with them before but we just weren't on their level.
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We consider Miami one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference and we see it as a test each and every time. We felt we could really give them a run.
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We're trying to protect home, continue our streak. I think getting caught up in the whole rivalry thing, it can hurt us as far as not coming out and playing our best basketball.
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It's 16 games to accomplish a goal we all want. And letting one go hurts. I want to play the best game I can possibly play for my team every night, so when you let one slip away, it's a tough pill to swallow.
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It's all sore right now. It seemed like that fall took forever. I've been in a position like that when I broke my wrist. I was just trying to hold on for dear life and trying not to hurt myself. That was the best I could do.
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This is the best time to be playing our best basketball. I'm hoping it can only be better.
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Just be yourself and do what you can do, ... Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
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He might be one of the best now. And he's going to get that all-star vote and he deserves it.
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We weren't pleased with our first half last game. We felt if we played better in the first half we could win tonight. It was all about effort and energy.