University of Miami Men's Basketball Clips 2012-13
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University of Miami Men’s Basketball Clips 2012-13 Senior Spotlight: Durand Scott HurricaneSports.com right direction.” place I could go where I would be very focused on basketball so that is why I decided to come. The Canes wrap up their regular season this What is your relationship like with the coaches I also definitely wanted to build a basketball week with a pair of home games against Geor- and the rest of the team? tradition and legacy here. The first three gia Tech (3/6) and Clemson (3/9). With five “Our team bond is great, we are like a family. years, I really didn’t get that opportunity, but seniors on the roster, HurricaneSports.com Our motto is doing everything together and this year has been exactly what I envisioned. is honoring a different one each day this week that is exactly what we have been doing this This is something I will remember for the rest leading up to Senior Day on Saturday against year.” of my life. Now we can continue to build on our Clemson. Today we chat with senior guard success.” Durand Scott. What is the highlight of your career? “Committing to The U was the greatest ac- How have you developed under this coaching Durand Scott complishment of my career. If I didn’t come staff? The Bronx, N.Y. here, I wouldn’t be in the position I am in now, “I have developed a lot. I have become a bet- 13.0 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 2.7 apg, 1.7 spg with the team and coaches we have now. I am ter basketball player, both physically and very happy I chose to come to this school.” mentally. Our strength coach has done a What is your favorite memory or moment as great job helping me physically and all our a Hurricane? What has it been like to help take this program other coaches have done a great job develop- “This season we are having now, it is one of all the way to No. 2 in the rankings? ing me, too.” the biggest moments I have ever had. It has “It’s been great. You just have to be patient. been the most that my team has ever accom- Anything can happen if you put in the work and Beyond basketball, what do you think of your plished. It has been one of my greatest mo- you are dedicated. Hopefully this is a lesson to time at Miami? ments of being a Hurricane.” athletes to always work hard because this is “It has been a great experience. Freshman an experience people can really learn from.” year was one of my best years because I got What do you think of how your career has to meet so many new people and there was a turned out? What’s your favorite Coach L story? lot of excitement and fun on campus.” “I have had no set backs or anything to regret. “One time when we had a photo shoot at the You have to go through some bumps to get to beginning of the year, we took a team photo What was it like to see the students camp out the point that you want to be. I am at the point around the time the Dougie song was popular. and line up before the Duke game? I want to be right now and I have to continue I was trying to get him to do the Dougie and “It was great seeing all the fans camping out to strive for more.” I was showing him how to do it, but he didn’t and lined up to get into our games. They want really get it so it was funny. There are some to see us win just as much as we do. It means Are you happy with your legacy at Miami? pictures on my instagram of him trying to do a lot for this program and to see how excited “Yes, I have had great seasons here. There it, it was very funny and we all enjoyed that the fans are about us and Canes basketball.” are great people, students and fans here in moment.” Miami. I am very happy. I wouldn’t want to go What is something you know now that you anywhere else.” What do you think of the opportunities you’ve wish you would have known as a freshman? had at Miami? “How to be a good defender. I want to become What do you think of the future for Miami Bas- “It has created a lot of opportunities. I am a lockdown defender. That is something I have ketball? getting to meet a lot of other people. I have worked on and definitely made improvements “Hopefully a season like this will help out been able to create relationships with people at. I wish I would have known some of those our recruiting and raise fan interest. I know and built connections for possible intern- things when I was younger.” Coach L can continue to take this program in ships or jobs in the future. As far as places the right direction.” I’ve gone and things I’ve seen, there are very Do you think Miami basketball will ever win a few people that get to go to Hawaii. That was National Championship? What do you hope to do in your future? a great experience, even though we didn’t do “I really do believe this program will win a Na- “I just want to become a better person. Ob- that well basketball wise. But we made a huge tional Championship, whether it is this year or viously playing in the NBA is everyone’s goal, turn around after that tournament and we in the future. You have to believe it to achieve but not very many people make it there.” might not be in the position that we are in now it and we believe we can.” if that hadn’t happened.” What do you think of the emergence of the What does being a Miami Hurricane mean to basketball program? Does this feel more like What as your recruitment like and how did you you? a basketball school now that it did when you decide to attend Miami? “It means a lot to play for this program, to be got here? “It was a very difficult decision. There were able to throw up The U and represent this pro- “From our school’s history, it will forever be many other schools that were ranked higher gram in a positive way. Being a Cane means a a football school. But we are making some big and had a better basketball history and tradi- lot to me.” strides, especially with Coach L here. We just tion, but I wanted to go somewhere I would be have to hope we keep moving forward in the comfortable in. I thought The U was the best Senior Spotlight: Trey McKinney Jones HurricaneSports.com What do you think of the emergence of the basketball sure to tell me was that nobody had a spot and that he program? Does this feel more like a basketball school was going to give everyone a fair chance.” The Canes wrap up their regular season this week with now that it did when you got here? a pair of home games against Georgia Tech (3/6) and “I think it is good for us. Now we are being looked at as What as your recruitment like and how did you decide Clemson (3/9). With five seniors on the roster, Hur- a well-rounded school and not just a football school, to attend Miami? ricaneSports.com is honoring a different one each day but a basketball school too. “ “I did not really play AAU and that is big in recruiting, so this week leading up to Senior Day on Saturday against I was not highly recruited. I knew l was better than mid Clemson. Today we chat with senior swingman Trey What was it like to see LeBron James, Dwyane Wade major, not that anything is wrong with people playing McKinney Jones and James Jones sitting courtside at the North Caro- at mid majors. I just wanted to play at a major confer- lina game? ence school. My last two schools were Wisconsin and Trey McKinney Jones “It was great. It means a lot to me that they came and I here and it was tough for me to turn down Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin know my teammates mentioned it a lot after the game. because that is where I am from and Madison is like an 9.1 ppg, .373 3-pt%, 3.5 rpg We look up to them, and for them to come and show hour and 15 minutes from where I live. It would have support was big.” been a perfect situation, I thought. But I prayed about it What is your favorite memory or moment as a Hur- and I felt like playing in the ACC was the best thing for ricane? What is something that few people know about this me. It is the conference most NBA players come from “My favorite memory is beating Duke earlier this year. team? and it is more of a high-speed conference, so I felt like I think we were ranked No. 25 and they were No. 1. Beat- “Last year, we had to a run a mile in order to practice it had a lot to do with it.