24 Quotes by Mustafa Shakur

If it's Carolina, it's always been one of the powers, especially with (Michael) Jordan and James Worthy coming from there and guys like that. It's always been one of the big time schools.

We survived. It's just day to day now.

I think we have to have better help defense. It's getting a little too easy for guys to get easy lay-ups and easy baskets, period. There isn't a lot of team defense down there.

We have to play our brand of basketball, no matter what they are going to do. They will slow it down, but we have to take control of the game so they can play our way.

We really came together and played as a team. Everybody had energy from one on down to 13. Sometimes it takes adversity for you to get in the right frame of mind.

Two or three hours later, guys were laughing and joking like nothing happened. I just wanted to get some key points across, say what I felt, and if anybody had anything else to say, speak now or forever hold your peace.

We all want to play for 40 minutes but can't get it done. Nobody wants to go out there and not play the right way. We don't like losing. But we have to go back and play like we left off.

We had to come back home on a good note. It was so important to get back in a rhythm again.

We had three pros in the last two years and I had a role to play, ... It was frustrating to be in the position I was in because I've always been a scorer. I was just trying to do what's best for the team. A lot of people didn't see that; they just assumed I couldn't score. This year, I'm going to have the opportunity to be more of an option offensively. I'll be more aggressive on the offensive end and hopefully I'll be able to show what I can do.