{"id":170636,"date":"2020-09-05T22:09:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=170636"},"modified":"2020-09-05T22:09:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T20:09:10","slug":"pj-tucker-yeah-im-short-but-im-strong-and-i-can-move-my-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/pj-tucker-yeah-im-short-but-im-strong-and-i-can-move-my-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"PJ Tucker: Yeah, I\u2019m short. But I\u2019m strong and I can move my feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Rockets forward PJ Tucker talks after the Rockets&#8217; victory in game 1 of the second round series against the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYeah, I\u2019m short. But I\u2019m strong and I can move my feet,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-09-05\/pj-tucker-gives-undersized-rockets-fighting-chance-to-win\">he said with defiance<\/a>. \u201cAnd I can stay in front of anybody. I\u2019m not going to quit. I\u2019m going to fight every play. They\u2019re going to score. Those guys are two of the best players of our generation \u2014 they\u2019re going to score the ball. They\u2019re going to score a lot of times. But we\u2019re going to try and make it tough, try and make them work hard, and try to wear them down throughout the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s all you can do \u2014 fight. We\u2019re fighters. I\u2019m going to fight to the end no matter what.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The veteran forward out of Texas ended game 1 with 6 points, 9 boards, 2 steals and a game-best +19 of plus\/minus.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kirk Goldsberry, Anthony Davis scored 0 points when Tucker was his primary defender.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">PJ Vs AD | Game 1<\/p>\n<p>26 matchups | 0 Points <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bk4uCl38xg\">pic.twitter.com\/Bk4uCl38xg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kirkgoldsberry\/status\/1302245876555972609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker ended game 1 with 6 points, 9 boards, 2 steals and a game-best +19 of plus\/minus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[435,787,2130],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-170636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-houston-rockets","tag-los-angeles-lakers-en","tag-pj-tucker-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170636"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=170636"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=170636"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=170636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}