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
best committed compete everybody feels good gotten job looks poked team teams turned whether worst
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.
best compete everybody job poked teams whether worst
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.
good protect road team
We feel we're a good team and we always want to protect home, but we have to do it on the road as well.
against best compete hit late left mental mistakes open shots teams wide
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.
beat best compete conference consider eastern fix last miami playoffs teams test year
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.
basketball best conference consider eastern felt miami teams test
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.
best care dangerous five fortunate guys player team together trying
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.
ball good guys jump key pick teams three wonderful
My goal, especially this year, has been from the jump ball to attack. Be aggressive, make teams key on me. If you want to put three guys on me, then it's R.J.'s turn. You have to pick your poison. It's wonderful to have. We have off-nights when it's not going, but more times than not, if one of us isn't going, then (the other) two of us are going to have a good game.
beat best early jump life point regardless rival stay team time
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.
last looked team
Our last two (games), we looked like a team that wanted to go home.
good hitting likes run team traded transition
We traded baskets with a team that likes to run up and down. They are a very good transition team. ... They were hitting everything.
conference finals good guy missed shot team took
We thought we were a pretty good team and we could go far. We were one shot away from going to the conference finals that year, but unfortunately the guy who took the shot missed it.
brings intangible nobody talks teammate
He's a bulldog. He's one of the unsung heroes. Nobody talks about the intangible things that he brings on the floor. He's an unbelievable teammate and he's just hard-nosed.
playing team
He was playing with a lot of confidence. He can do it all. He does a lot for this team and he showed it tonight.