I want them back because it's good publicity, but also to be around our other guys. I know Luther will keep coming back I hope Deron will come back and then Dee and James down the road.
Quotes about deron (10 Quotes)
When his feet are squared up, he's a pretty good shooter. When he has to run and shoot, he's just not as consistent. We have to find ways to get him shots where he can get his feet squared up. That's a little different than last year when Luther could run and shoot, and Deron could do that, and Dee got better at it.
The only other team that has matched that feat is Illinois, whose two stars made animpression on Robinson over the summer. I observed the way Dee and Deron played at the Nike Camp in Indianapolis, ... They share the ball well I mean, they average about 13 points apiece and they could both score 20 -- they do what they have to do to help the team.
He kept apologizing, ... I said, 'Hey, I love that you're a villain, keep doing it.' Deron said one time, 'That's their job, to make predictions. That's what they do.' But at the same time deep down, it gets the juices flowing a little bit. . . . We need a little adrenaline tomorrow there's no doubt about it. If we don't have an edge, I don't know if we can win the game.
Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest of the guys are doing well now. It takes a lot of pressure off Dee and especially myself. Luther and Deron and all the assists and rebounds and all the points that were lost, somebody has to make them up. In reality, you can't do all that.
The last few years have been more of a guard-oriented league with guys like Devin Harris, Deron Williams and Dee Brown. But this season, you might see more of an inside presence than you have seen in years.
It was like Deron was part of me,'' Brown said.
Richard came in with a lot of notoriety - you had Dee (Brown), Luther (Head) and Deron (Williams) ahead of him. Two of them were first-round (draft) picks and Dee could be, so he did not get a whole bunch of time like he hoped.
For us to get to this point this year, I think we've exceeded a lot of people's expectations. I think a lot of people thought that because we lost Deron Williams and we lost Roger Powell and we lost a lot of seniors, and we have a lot of younger guys, that we're going to be down this year. They thought we weren't going to be very good, but we exceeded expectations.
Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.