Famous Quotes & Sayings

We played good defense and got four key hits tonight.

We played good defense all game. But they were able to get timely hits.

We played good defense (all game) and ran our offense (in the second half). When we do that, we can win.

We played extremely tough at first, before they figured out what we were doing. We had to play a totally different style of defense with only three tackles.

We played even with them until the third quarter. Down the stretch we didn't play smart basketball, we got lazy on defense and were forced to foul.

We played enough defense to get the win. That was the difference in the game.

We played defense as well as we could. They (Marcus) just stalled in the fourth period with a three-point lead and forced us to foul.

We played better. We couldn't keep people in front of us in the first half. We had better defense the second half. We got off to a good start but we just couldn't keep it going.

We played better on offense and better on defense tonight. It was nice to have a better balance.

James Jones

We played better defense in the second half. We really shut them down and they got no easy baskets. We made them work for everything they got.

We have to take what the defense gives us. We're looking for what we have.

Brian Urlacher

We have to stop thinking we're a good defense and start stepping up and do it. Two plays killed us. No excuses.

We have to start playing more consistently with our offense and tighten up our defense more. We're keeping the scores down to where we're in the game, but offensively, we're not scoring enough.

We have to shut down their motion offense. They have a wide-spread offense, but if we get our defense playing like they did tonight, we're going to win the game.

We went two series of game situations and that was a pretty good test for our defense. We forced two turnovers and capitalized on both. It's good to come out on the end when you get into game situations.

Whichever defense gets more stops is probably going to win this game.

We rebounded well and we played good defense.

Yolanda is relentless in anything she does. We knew that she wasn't going to let us lose. We needed to go through her. Every time we were in a tight situation, she was always going to pull us out, whether it was defense or offense. She has been there, and she's done it.

Yolanda is relentless in anything she does, ... We knew that she wasn't going to let us lose. We needed to go through her. Every time we were in a tight situation, she was always going to pull us out, whether it was defense or offense. She has been there, and she's done it.

We don't talk about the struggles of the offense or the quarterback problems and all those things. What we talk about on defense is making sure that they don't score. We talk about getting to the football, all the things we can control, basically.

We executed well on offense, and our defense played fairly well. Our special teams were excellent.

We executed our game plan in the second half and stood our ground. Tesch played excellent defense which kept us in the game. All around it was a well-played game.

We dug ourselves a hole again, but started hitting some shots and playing defense and got ourselves within three points. Hope's just a very talented team.

We really wanted to focus on defense right out of the locker room and the girls stepped it up in the third. We stayed on pace and the free throws were big for us, too.

We really turned up the defense in the second quarter and got after them. That was the turning point.

We really stress defense in practice. It means more to us to hold a team to 17 points than if we scored 60 or 70 points.

We really stepped up our defense in the second half. We were able to get some transition baskets which triggered our scoring and we maintained our intensity on defense.

We really started to play in the second quarter. Our pressure defense really started to work.

We really played well, but I think we can play better. We shot well, hitting 58 percent of our shots, and our defense held them to 27 percent shooting.

We really played pretty good defense. They got hot their at the end. They hit some tough shots.

We really need to play defense and be disciplined and we aren't doing either of those things right now.

We got going in the second quarter with our defense, and they turned it over six times in the first three minutes.

We got complacent. We struggled playing defense. It's not something that they would normally do.