Lamar Odom Quotes (49 Quotes)


    The hip-hop culture is part of the NBA, ... It's not going to leave just because we change what we wear.

    Like teammate Caron Butler a year ago, he seems destined to finish third in Rookie of the Year voting despite impressive stats. Through Monday, he ranked third among rookies in scoring (16.2 points), third in field-goal percentage (45.3), third in steals (1.28) and fourth in assists (4.4). More impressive, he's done it while learning to play point guard. With a lighting-quick first step, Wade can get in the lane against anybody, and his jump shot has been solid so far. He's the best rookie I've every played with, ... He just makes plays. He's not getting a lot of hype right now, but people are going to find out about Mr. Wade.

    He was saying that I'm learning the role he was five or six years ago. So he understands. The triangle is different. You need four or five guys to understand what's really going on to be effective.

    We've got to make every game a defensive game. ... When you play the worst defensive game of the year, you get beat. Point blank.

    I'll take the blame for that. I should have let the clock run down more. It was a flop call on a team that was dead. I gave them life. He drew the charge, that's what Mr. Crawford saw. It gave them momentum.


    Inside presence, being physical, that's what we need from him. The guy's got the best body in the NBA he's got to throw it around a little bit.

    It's hard not to shoot the ball when you can make shots from everywhere.

    This group is a little bit closer because we've been together since training camp,

    The time off was good for the mind and body. I was just more aggressive tonight.

    He's very patient, ... He takes his time with us. He's what you call a team player right now.

    This is a big road trip for us. We want to go in there tonight, and it'd be a good time to play your best game of the year so we could keep it going a little bit.

    We didn't protect each other, ... I actually had to go to an enforcer style, and that's not my game. We were just really bad on team defense.

    We're not going to get caught up playing their game. We're going to execute offensively. We're going to make them beat us. We're not going to give them the game.

    I'll take the blame for that one. I got a little overzealous, I tried to get to the rack, and they got momentum from the charge.

    We had the opportunity to beat this team by 25-30 points. We didn't because they are well coached and they played hard. We kept doing the little things and got stops when we needed them.

    It's like God put Kobe here for us to watch him play basketball.

    We don't know how to win ugly yet. It's either we have good offensive games or we lose.

    He's extremely disrespectful. I'm just going to leave it at that. It's dudes like that why things happen off the court between players and their friends and things like that. ... He needs to watch how he talks to other men. There's a difference between competing and how you talk to another man.

    His ability is amazing, and his will is amazing.

    Some games you have to do the right thing basketball-wise to win and we can't seem to do that. We don't play a good offensive game and we can't win. That puts Kobe in a bind. He's got to get 35 or 40 points for us to win. We should be embarrassed. I know I am.

    I kept myself in the game by rebounding the ball. There's a lot of ways I can help this team. I just got to play good basketball, be smart with the basketball.

    That's going to be his place in history. Right now, he's really focused and feels like it's his league. Before the 81 points, Kobe should have been getting his due as far as the MVP.

    This is why you come out and work. You put your time out in the gym, and being a little kid from New York, shoveling snow, dreaming of one day playing in the NBA playoffs, give yourself a chance to win the NBA championship.

    We're over it. Everybody's over it in this organization. (Nuggets fans) should have been over it. (It) didn't happen to them. I don't know why they take it so personally.


    That's just my coach telling me to go, and don't worry about it.

    It's a blessing to be out on the court with him, and tonight he showed why, again. It's crazy. Eighty-one points, that's a lot of points. A lot of players couldn't do that because they would just let up. It's a testament to his will, really. It's so strong. He's a strong-minded dude.

    I'm pretty sure if I can be on the court the majority of the time, if Kobe can be on the court most of the time, if we can stay healthy, we can make the postseason,

    I put Kobe in a bind out there. He has to score 40 points just for us to win. I don't blame him for shooting 40 shots some nights. We should be embarrassed as a team. I know I am.

    Every game we play is going to be the biggest game of the year. ... It's in our hands. We can't really worry about what other teams are doing.

    I think that's the strength to my game, ... I'm not one-dimensional at all. I'm comfortable wherever he wants me to play on the court. I kind of pride myself being able to play any position. Anything to help us create mismatches, I'm willing to do. I always have guard in my game.

    I hope I can keep it going and take it into the playoffs. I'm staying focused throughout the game. I'm trying to do the little things I need to do to win games.

    That was a great move. He's real athletic, so you can just throw the ball by the rim and he'll go up and finish it. We're trying to find him. He's real aggressive underneath the basket. He's protecting our paint, and we love the job that he's doing.

    I take the blame for that (game). I should have ran the clock down more (with 30 seconds left). First time in a long time, my aggressiveness beat me. I was thinking get to the basket. A flop call on a team that is dead, I kind of gave them new life. It's a tough call but I guess it was the right call.

    It's too bad we let it get out of hand with what we wear on the bench. ... I don't think it's going to change much. On the bench, I definitely understand. We shouldn't wear a throwback jersey or a do-rag on the bench.

    He's one of the best small forwards ever. You could argue he's the best, although I'll bet you James Worthy would probably have a good argument about that. But he's an all-around player. And I consider myself to be an all-around player.

    I got home, and my son told me how much he loved watching Kobe. We're playing with somebody who's making history as he goes along. It's like traveling with a rock star.

    Different tricks of the trade, different ways to get open, different ways to play defense, different ways to play the game. He knows the triangle inside-out.

    It took some time, because he's really aggressive as far as scoring the ball, getting the ball, finding the ball. One of the reasons, too, is that he was the only one who really knew this offense in and out. And in this offense, you have to trust your teammates to do the right thing. Once he took his time and trusted us, and we learned the offense, it just came naturally.

    It could have been called a foul. But if it's not, I guess that means I just didn't go hard enough. I thought it was a tough move.

    I like Odom as a player, but I don't know if I'd trust him.

    This was not like having a cold or the flu, this was a complicated surgery. Some people lose their lives, not just their career. When you figure he's been able to play for us, and even to be effective for us, anybody has to be inspired. He's defeated some long odds to be here and now he's an emotional part of this team.

    Kirilenko must have thought he was in Salt Lake City tonight. A couple of times he made tough shots.

    Kobe, he has really strong will. When he's in the zone like that, he's definitely on an island by himself.

    It is just game-by-game now. You have to win. My concentration level was high tonight. I've just got an aggressive mind-set right now. I didn't really do anything differently tonight - still rebounded and drove to the hole.

    He raises the I. Q. of your basketball team - he helps us tremendously,

    I'm kind of lost for words. It was a pleasure just to watch him out here.

    We played a great defensive game against Detroit, a great defensive game against Oklahoma (New Orleans) and San Antonio, and we do the little things that it takes to win big games. Then we come back tonight and we just don't scrap enough. I don't know if that's youth. I don't know if it's a heart thing. I hope it's not a heart thing.

    two of the best players in basketball.


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