user: ### NOW ANSWER:
Question: Which United States player for Air21 Express had a pick smaller than 9?
Columns: ['Pick', 'Player', 'Country of origin*', 'PBA team', 'College']
Types: ['real', 'text', 'text', 'text', 'text']
Sample row: [1.0, 'Jay Washington *', 'United States', 'Air21 Express', 'Eckerd']
SQL:

assistant: SELECT "Player" FROM "Table" WHERE "Pick" < 9.0 AND "Country of origin*" = 'United States' AND "PBA team" = 'Air21 Express';