Durant on Gibson and USC
``He's a great player,'' Kevin Durant said of Taj Gibson. ``He's an inside/outside type of player. He's a very long player, athletic, and it's going to be a tough matchup for us.''
On how USC will try to defend him: ``From what coach has said, they might double when I get in the post, and they might face guard. But I've been through so much this year, I don't think it will be anything I haven't seen before.''
Matthew Kredell broke into the Daily News in 1998, working part time
at the paper while going to USC. The basketball team’s Elite Eight
run in 2000-01 was USC’s athletic highlight in his time at the
school, when the football team was stuck in the Paul Hackett-era.
After graduating in 2001, he started writing for the Daily News full
time. He’s in his second year covering USC, which coincides with the
rise of the program. He’ll take credit for the success, though Tim
Floyd may have more to do with it. A third-generation Los Angelean,
he grew up reading the Daily News while at El Camino Real High School
in Woodland Hills.