Alando Tucker
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"Alando Forest Tucker" is an American professional basketball player for SOMB Boulogne-sur-Mer of the LNB Pro A. Tucker played five seasons at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and wore the number 42.

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We're young. Mistakes come early in practice but it seems like the young guys are getting better and better at understanding things.

(When) you're making your run (and) momentum is swinging your way, you just have to finish it off. It seems like we didn't cap it off because we couldn't knock down any shots.

I still have to knock down some shots, period. I shot 2-for-18. I can't be happy with that. If we're going to be top of the Big Ten (Conference), that can't happen. Especially from a guy like me with a lot of experience.

We need everybody in the lanes, getting a body on somebody. When you're playing guys who are long and athletic like Pitt, coach (Bo) Ryan says you can still stop them by putting a body on guys.

Those are crucial minutes. We wanted to get a good start because we didn't want this game to resemble the Milwaukee game.

I know after the game our guys were limping. They were a physical team and their principles are still the same. They still get a lot of second- and third-chance opportunities. We can't let that happen.

They never stopped. Every time it seemed like I made a cut or touched (the ball), I was seeing two or more guys coming.

That has to be the worst shooting performance that I've ever seen.

Stay poised. We knew they were going to get up. We just figured if we stick together, keep running our offense and don't get rattled, we could still come out with a win.