Famous Quotes & Sayings

At times, our defense was tremendous. We gave them eight easy points in the first half. I told the players at halftime, 'championship teams don't do that.' We played better defense in the second half. It dictated the outcome.

Pat Riley

That's a lot of shots. We key a lot of our defense to him. He didn't have an outrageous night. When you've got a guy that's rising on you and you've got your center, your power forward always out on him, it just wreaks havoc on the boards. James did a good job on him.

Pat Riley

That's a lot of shots. Obviously, we keyed our defense to him. James (Posey) did a good job on him.

With Gulf Coast, we always know every game we'll have to do a great job on the backboard, a great job on defense because they have so many weapons and we really have to stop their transition on offense.

This year our defense is more experienced, and they're playing really well together as a unit,

Lloyd Carr

When you look at what he did in the fourth quarter, there was not a lot of space in that defense on the last drive.

We've really done remarkable. We couldn't have scored as many goals (around 70 for season) or won as many games without the way the defense has supported us. They've played strong every game.

Lee Johnson

We've prided ourselves in that defense now for five games. We've got a lot of pride in that defense. We feel like we're playing real good defensive football and we have some room to get better.

Ken Green

We were only up four (32-28) at halftime. We really tightened up our defense and we got some baskets in transition and we didn't let up.

What can you say except Kurt was awesome? What their defense was giving us was the shot in the corner, and Kurt was shooting with confidence.

We spend a lot of time on defense (in practice). It was nice to watch a game where we did everything we had practiced.

We slowed down the offense and concentrated on defense for a while. This will either tire out the team on offense, or defense. Unfortunately, it wore us down a bit.

Thurston has some great shooters, but our defense just got in their face and shut them down.

Too many early errors. It wasn't nerves, that's for sure. It was just one of those nights. If anything, I think the defense was too relaxed. We just played five high-intensity games (against Washington), and it just wasn't there tonight.

We've been swinging it decent, but we haven't had good defense and pitching. We kind of reversed it today.

We've been stressing our defense for the whole season. It was there for a while, then it kind of went away. We needed to get back to it today.

We've been sort of a mystery because we can do all three well, but we can't do them together. We've had a hard time of doing them all together. Like last weekend, we pitched well and played defense, but lost two of three games (against Kentucky). The one game we hit well and played defense and pitched, we won.

We tried to mix up our defense and got out and tried to play a little more zone. We're just not a zone-principled team.

We tried to keep the defense up on them and that led to getting our offense started. I was as happy about our defense during that stretch as I was about our offense. We tried to drive in, penetrate and then kick it out.

We talked about having to pick up our intensity on defense in order to make a difference in that game. I don?t think we really did that until the 14-minute mark in that second half, and when we did, that?s when we were able to go on a big run.

We talked about getting out and setting the tempo early, and that's what we did. We executed early and got some good shots. Our defense was pretty good also.

We talked about defense at halftime. When we went man-to-man in the second quarter they really struggled.

We just pretty much took them out of transition by getting back on defense and just hunkering down and putting a lot of guys in the paint.

We just played harder defense and did a better job in transition.

We just picked it up and started playing good belly-to-belly defense. We picked up the intensity and started making things happen.

We just need to keep working on our rebounding and defense.

We just need to execute better, play defense and get the shots to fall and we'll be alright.

We just needed to pick up the defense and the rebounding, and we did that.

We just wanted to play on him tight. But the main thing was we played together. When he drove, my teammates stepped up and stopped the ball. We played team defense on him.

We just talked about Cassie's entire role; it's just not on offense or defense. She played one of her better defense positioning games.

We just stopped running any offense at all. It was just a lack of execution. We stood flat-footed instead of being on the attack. And our defense just wasn't doing the job.

Robert Johnson

We just had to tighten up on defense and we had to finish everything we had. We had to keep them off the boards.

All of our defense played well. Jenna Bowers, our sweeper, holds it together back there, but everyone played really well.