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Our team really picked up the defense. We played a lot better defense and got some easy hoops.

Our strength is our defense. Our defense is our offense.

Our starting pitchers did an excellent job and we played pretty good defense today, so it's a good way to start.

Our run defense played very well tonight. I've been waiting for it all year and tonight they put it together.

Our focus in this game was to execute our offense and defense and to play our type of game.

Our focus has been defense from day one. And the girls were motivated. They remembered that loss.

Avery Johnson

Our first quarter defensively really set the tone. We worked on a lot of stuff this morning. They (Atlanta) missed a lot of shots but the defense was better than it was in that last game (against Golden State). We just threw out that last game.

Our game plan was to put pressure on Ramirez, and our kids did that well. I thought our whole defense played well.

Our game plan was to put a lot of pressure on them. We needed to show them the type of defense that Queen Anne's hadn't seen all year. I think that was the difference right there.

Our full-court pressure defense was the key. And we were much more physical tonight than we have been in a while.

Overall, I'm very pleased with how we played tonight. Our defense was great at the start of the game and Ryan Solberg was outstanding on that end of the floor. But then we lost some of that intensity and West got back into the game. We weathered the West storm in the second half and got back on track. This was a very nice W for the kids.

Overall, the kids are starting to work with each other. We had some nice team defense and kept the pressure on Glendale.

Overall, our pitching is doing well and our defense is doing well. Our hitting will come along. It's early in the season. We just need a few more timely hits and we'll be fine.

Ben Howland

Our transition defense was so good. It had to be because Memphis is so good at pushing it.

Our transition defense wasn't good. Our rotations were wrong and they got some rebounds on the offensive end and that hurt us.

Our work style of defense should pose a problem for them. They shouldn't be able to get the looks that they are use to getting.

Our zone defense was pretty effective tonight - just being able to point their shooters up. And it was also easy to play because we had the big lead.

Our zone defense did a good job of limiting their penetration in the second half.

I might have seen Opelika with a better offense and a better defense in previous years. But I've never seen them with a combination of the two. They're doing great in all facets of the game.

We need really to focus on our defense and blocking.

We never really gave them a good shot on goal. Our defense -- our young guys -- kind of stymied them all day.

I think they responded well and now we are looking forward to playing two more games. Any time you can get kids on the floor it's good. Things didn't really go our way early, but they found a way to pick up their defense and did a good job. It was a great day for our program.

I think they definitely played a different style than we're used to. I don't think we were ready to play such a physical game. And how the refs called it, we weren't ready. We'd planned to provide more help-side defense down low, but we didn't execute.

I think the reason we scored so many goals is that the defense played great the past two games. They set up the offense for us.

Steve Spurrier

Jasper made a heck of a play, then Jerod June stepped in there and made a play. So the defense made a nice rally after getting way behind.

Jasmine Payne is offense or defense and when we need a big point, we give it to her. She's a team player and she's not worried all about herself.

Peja Stojakovic

Jeff played great defense on Mike James on the last shot. It was a tough shot to make and it won the game.

Jeff hasn't scored yet, but for his side, just Jeff being on the field keeps their defense honest.

Jamie is all about defense. I think Maggie is starting to develop that same feeling because you can see her team play tougher, hard-nosed defense every game.

Jay had some good games on defense this year when he really had to guard somebody.

Kristina did great and our defense was good, but our hitting was just disappointing. We had eight hits but they were scattered through seven innings. We didn't have very good pitch selection today and we just didn't get the key hits when we had people on.

Pat Rice

Kris Canto is to our defense what Nick Clemens is to the offense.

Eddie Jordan

Larry has been playing pretty good defense on Gil and taking away some of the things we like to do.