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“We really feel like he was improving as the games went by for him individually, our team, our offense,” coach Matt Nagy said. “There are still places where we can certainly improve. As a staff, we felt like we were really getting a good feel for where he was, and then he gets injured. So then for him to come back against a big division opponent and rival, I know that he’s excited for it.”
“We’re better than that,” Donovan said. “And we need to be better than that. I don’t know when or who is coming back on what dates. My feeling is right now, we’re going into Miami with the same group, and if we don’t compete at a higher level, we’re going to get the same result we got here tonight. … It’s not to say we’re going to win, but we can do a better job than we did tonight.”
An unidentified youth displays the United States flag during the opening ceremony at the Summer Olympic Games on July 19, 1980, in Moscow, The United State did not attend the Olympics, leading a boycott in protest of Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. (Anonymous/AP)
“It was kind of hard at the beginning, but then I started realizing it was something out of my control,” Jenkins said. “Mentally, I got past that and said, ‘Look, if I can’t do this physically, I’m going to get better mentally in the playbook and schemes and games against people we’re playing with and just keep on doing that.’ And that’s how I got over it mentally.”
“It was a little bit of a struggle, just trying to adjust to everything,” Westbrook said. “But once we get into the swing of things we have no choice but to adapt. We have no other choice. Missing Azzi was hard, now missing Paige is going to be really difficult for us. But we’re going to be just fine, it’s something we have to do, we have no choice.”
“I think after that power play, just kind of took the wind out of our sails,” King said. “The way we were going, we just didn’t have that extra jam to maybe have a pushback. You know, empty-netter, they score another one. That’s how it happens.
According to an NFL source, the league determined after review that Quinn deserved a sack on the first play from scrimmage for the Cardinals when quarterback Kyler Murray fumbled the snap. Because Murray recovered and attempted a football play, the decision was made to give Quinn a sack for a tackle behind the line of scrimmage that resulted in a 3-yard loss.
“Just watch film and just try to see the game from a different perspective,” he said. “Seeing it from the sideline, I definitely think you do, so you can kind of just think of different scenarios and kind of see what the defense is doing. So it was kind of cool just seeing it from a different perspective for a long time.”
Vučević passed physical and cardiovascular tests almost immediately after his 11-day quarantine for COVID-19. The center struggled to regain fitness quickly after not being allowed to run, lift or shoot for nearly two weeks, but he hasn’t reported any lingering effects. In the weeks since his return, Vučević averaged 17.8 points in 32 minutes per game, recording a season-high 30-point performance against Charlotte 18 days after returning his first positive test.
Western governments, including the U.S., Australia and Britain, have increasingly criticized Beijing for human rights abuses against its Uyghur minority in the northwest Xinjiang province, which some have called genocide. They have also spoken out against Beijing’s suppression of democratic protests in Hong Kong. Rights groups have called for a full-blown boycott of the Beijing Winter Games.