Famous Quotes & Sayings

We didn't play defense very well. They just hit every shot. That was the difference.

We didn't play defense as well as we usually do. I thought we let No. 22 (Thompson) get too many good looks.

We didn't play as well as we should have but we won, and that's what counts. The big layoff slowed us down a little. We still played pretty good defense with just a few mistakes.

We didn't play as good on defense as we wanted. But sometimes we were just right in their face and they made tough shots, so you've got to give them credit.

Jake Plummer

We didn't make the most out of the opportunities we had. When you play a defense like that, you can't miss opportunities.

Jamont Gordon

We didn't make their defense work. We stood around too much on the perimeter.

We didn't lose because the effort wasn't there. We just didn't execute on the offensive end; their half-court defense was tremendous.

Steven Hill

We didn't hit many shots. But we played defense the whole game.

Tim Duncan

We didn't have the edge we needed tonight. They shot 50 percent from the floor. We need to shore up our defense right now going into the final few games of the season.

We didn't have that five-minute lapse of making mistakes to give the other team the opportunity to win. With the exception of the second half of the South Plains game (a 71-62 loss on March 2), I thought we've been playing hard. We just had those possessions on offense and defense where we hurt ourselves and we didn't do that (on Monday).

We had several guys step up and hit the ball. Sixteen hits and we played great defense and earned some respect.

We had several breakdowns where the players didn't execute the defense that was called.

We had scores of sources throughout the Indian government ? in intelligence, counterintelligence, the defense and foreign ministries and police,

Charles Williams

We had poor shot selection, turnovers, no rebounding and just poor defense all the way around.

We went smaller at the end. For years, we've said that defense wins championships, and we played pretty good defense in the last minute and a half.

We went into the game knowing it would be our team game that was going to stop him and not one individual. It was a great team defense that was the key.

We have experience at several positions, but truly lack depth. We must stay healthy in order to compete. The defense will have to mature in a hurry to be ready for NLL play.

We have experience and leadership up the middle. Braden directs the defense plus he hits in the middle of the lineup. He is a big part of why were successful this fall. He does a lot of little things that you don't see him do that makes everybody better.

We have enough talent within this five- or six-player rotation to pull off a lot of upsets. We can come in with a sense of confidence, knowing if we play defense as well as we can, we can do that.

We like to play full-court defense, but we can play half-court, too. I don't think Hughes Springs has faced a team that can play defense like we do.

We could use some more goals. We like the way the defense has played, and the goaltending has been good. We think we have some young players who can score for us. We'll see what the second half brings.

Everything has been real positive so far. The defense played well and the offense made some big plays.

Everything has been defense, defense, defense. However, I agree. We have got to improve our defense.

Everything they put up, it was on the money. They were solid all the way around. From the defense to the blocking, their setting improved greatly, and everything they put up worked.

DeSagana Diop

Every time I got in the game, I played good help-defense and rebounded. They never put me in the game.

Even though they only scored 43 points, our defense was not very good.

Even tired, our defense did the job on them. They (the Lady Cherokees) didn't rest on defense.

Even though we scored 10 points in the first half, we were playing tough defense. We told the guys to pick up the offensive intensity.

Drew has to be the offensive leader for us. But what I was happiest about was how strong he was on defense and how well he killed penalties.

E. B. White

D-Y has great skill-position people, which means our defense is going to have to come up big for the second week in a row.

During this part of an investigation, all the defense can do is wait to see what develops with final charges.

Tommy Bowden

Duane is too good of a player to sit on the bench, ... He practices extremely hard. We want to move him to defense in an effort to get him on the field.

Early in the half we did a good job of holding them off. We did enough on defense to keep them from scoring.