Famous Quotes & Sayings

We didn't play defense very well tonight. That's one thing we've relied on, one thing we've keyed on and we didn't do a good job.

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.

Aaron Gray

We're going to try to have as good a game as last time. We take pride in our defense here. It's going to be a battle, but I'm looking forward to it.

Avery Johnson

We're disappointed with the way we finished the game. Our defense wasn't very good tonight. We gave up 65 points in the second half. We had a lot of things go wrong defensively.

We see every trick defense you can throw at us. So that doesn't throw us off.

We score so quickly that our defense has been on the field a lot this year.

We're trying to get better defensively. About the only thing I was a little disappointed in today was our individual defense on the ball. We let people drive around us.

We feel like we have very strong pitching and our defense looks really good, too.

We feel like the guys we have out there all can play, so we can rotate them in and out, keep them fresh line our defense does,

Karl Hobbs

We feel like right around the seven- or eight-minute mark is when the other team should be getting a little tired. That's when our depth, our fresh legs and our pressure defense really starts to come into effect.

You got to a point when you're forced to pass, the defense gets to tee off. They know what's coming, and it's not a secret.

You have to score the first goal in that situation so they have to come out and play you straight up. We got lazy on defense and gave them a freebie.

You'd prefer to play that defense a little further down the road,