I came up with that one day during the summer. I was in the gym and this guy told me I couldn't touch one side of the backboard and come to the other side and dunk the ball, and I did it. It came from that, and I'm glad I got a chance to show it to the crowd.
Quotes about backboard (15 Quotes)
Actually, our adjustment at halftime was to go work the baseline. And Joe got himself free down there so he was more the recipient of all of that. Joe's a very hard worker on the backboard so he gets a lot of shots that look like that he's not doing much, but he's done a lot of the work to get them.
Pittsburgh is as good as it gets. It would not be a surprise to see them go on and have a great NCAA Tournament run. They have all the attributes, all the things you look for in a great basketball team. They've got great upperclassmen, talented freshmen that blend in terrific, depth. They can withstand foul trouble. They're extremely well coached. They attack inside-to-out. They're big on the backboard. They're tough.
It will be a nightmare game for us if we don't take care of the backboard and don't take care of transition.
With Gulf Coast, we always know every game we'll have to do a great job on the backboard, a great job on defense because they have so many weapons and we really have to stop their transition on offense.
Hendrix today was a big key on the backboard.
We don't have the luxury of making a mistake on the backboard, and we make mistake after mistake. For every time one of our guys gets praise for blocking a shot, when they don't, they give up position by leaving the floor too early.
That was just emotion coming out. I don't know what to say. I was just trying to take the contact and get it off the backboard. The crowd was going crazy. They got me going.
As a lot of times, you go up to dunk and you feel like you want to break that backboard, break that rim.
I saw when I got the ball there were four seconds left, so I had time to dribble a couple of times. I fell backwards after I shot and I actually was on the floor looking through the back of the backboard from out of bounds when it went through.
I knew it had to hit the rim before it could be in play. I was trying to let it hit the backboard first and then the rim so we could get a high bounce and we could have a chance to get it.
They are a legit team. They played better, ran better and got the ball inside in the second half. We didn't make enough stops and didn't control our backboard. But we are a much more battle-tested team for the Division 3 tournament, which was the point of this tournament.
I was trying to hit it off the backboard and make it go off the rim so we could have a chance to get the rebound.
I'll never forget, the guy we were there to watch took the ball baseline and was getting ready to dunk it. Out of nowhere Shane Timmons comes from the foul line and pinned the ball up against the backboard.
Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it.