Quotes about defense
defense physical pressure tonight
Our full-court pressure defense was the key. And we were much more physical tonight than we have been in a while.
defense game great half intensity lost nice played pleased ryan second start storm weathered west
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.
defense kept kids nice pressure starting team work
Overall, the kids are starting to work with each other. We had some nice team defense and kept the pressure on Glendale.
defense early few hits hitting pitching timely
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.
defense good memphis pushing transition
Our transition defense was so good. It had to be because Memphis is so good at pushing it. Ben Howland
defense hurt offensive rebounds transition wrong
Our transition defense wasn't good. Our rotations were wrong and they got some rebounds on the offensive end and that hurt us.
defense looks pose problem style work
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.
defense easy effective point tonight zone
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.
defense good job limiting second zone
Our zone defense did a good job of limiting their penetration in the second half.
defense defensive glass good great job kids knew ok played shoot solid stepped
Our big kids did a great job controlling the glass on the defensive end especially. We really stepped up defensively. We knew if we played good solid man-to-man defense and make (Central) shoot over us that we would be OK and the kids really responded.
defense ton work
Other than those two, our defense is really young. We're got a ton of work to do.
defense games goal hopefully offense perfect wins
Our #1 goal is to perfect our defense because defense wins games - hopefully our offense will follow.
defense games ourselves reminding run team time won
Our 1-3-1 defense has won a lot of games for us, so we just keep reminding ourselves of that every time a team makes a run on us.
defense due game good hard heart holding kept liked overcome played robert runs type
Robert runs so hard and that fumble liked to tore his heart out. That type of thing is what has been holding us back, but we were able to overcome it tonight. Every game we've played this year, our defense had kept us in it. We were due for some good luck. Dan Davis
defense national stop win
Right there I told the defense, 'You stop this play and we're going to win the national championship. Mack Brown
defense kept offense pitching until win
Pitching and defense won't win it for you, but it will keep you from losing. It kept us in there until our offense got going.
defense few hopefully pitching timely tonight year
Pitching and defense have been there all year for us. And tonight we got some timely hits. Hopefully we'll keep it going and hopefully put up a few more runs.
defense key playing tough
Playing tough defense is always the key in the tournament.
defense hopefully mentally physically ready run spell
Physically he's ready to play, but mentally he's not, ... Patrick Willis is going to have to play most of the snaps. Hopefully we can spell him once in a while, but Robert's not ready to run our whole defense yet. Ed Orgeron
defense good overall pleased pressure team throughout
Really pleased with the overall team effort. Our pressure defense was good throughout the whole game.
defense last upset
Man, I was so upset with my defense from last week, Allen Johnson
defense game girls opportunity played says win
Man, we had some opportunities there. We battled back and we never quit. To be down by that much and have an opportunity to win the game with under 10 seconds, that says a lot for the girls and how well we played defense at the end.
defense definitely picked straight
Man-to-man straight up, nothing special. We definitely picked it up. Defense was the key. It's what did it for us.
defense facets great might offense previous seen
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.
defense focus
We need really to focus on our defense and blocking.
defense gave good guys shot
We never really gave them a good shot on goal. Our defense -- our young guys -- kind of stymied them all day.
defense guys scale
I was a little more comfortable with the defense and what the guys are doing. On a scale of one to 10 I'd say it was an eight. Demarcus Ware
defense finding giving good second space taking
I was just taking what the defense was giving me. In the second half, I was finding some space and getting up good shots. Brooke Smith
defense gives shots
I was just getting a lot of shots tonight. You take what the defense gives you. Matt Harpring
defense guy supposed targeting
I was just doing what you're supposed to do when you get a turnover, and that's go from defense to offense. I won't say I was targeting him. He was just the guy in the way. David Thornton
defense ended game good guys job late match matter mentally stepped until wanting
I think they just stepped up their defense and we didn't match it. I think we have to be tougher. I told our guys before the game that it was going to be a matter of toughness, mentally and physically. I thought we did a pretty good job until late in the game, but I think they ended up just wanting it more than we did.
defense floor forward found games good great kids looking pick playing time
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.
defense definitely physical planned played provide ready style
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.