Famous Quotes & Sayings

She's just the player that does whatever the team needs. If we're not scoring, she'll step up and hit a three. Or if we're not getting any defensive stops she'll get a steal.

Old reliable, our defensive effort is what sustained us. I thought we made great stops down the stretch. They have two outstanding players and a nice supporting cast, and I thought we did a good job in the fourth quarter, particularly the last four minutes, of making huge defensive stops.

She had to do a lot for us. Most of the time she was guarding a player on the defensive end who was three or four inches taller than her. Her endurance was nothing but incredible. There weren't many games when she sat out for very long. She played a lot of minutes for us.

Daniel Gibson

Sixteen and oh is definitely a possibility. But our focus is on the next game. We've picked up our intensity on the defensive end.

She's a good setter. And we have more than one weapon, so she has a variety of hitters to go to. That helps. And we've had good defensive players, so she usually gets good passes. It all works together.

She may not look like the type of person who's going to come out and score for us. They just think of her as a defensive player. But without her scoring in the first half, it would have been a different game.

She is a total player. She does it on the defensive end, she does it on the offensive end. She has grown so much as a player throughout the years. She just keeps on growing.

Mike Scott has been giving us great defensive presence all year. The rebounds he got down the stretch were very key.

John Whisenant

Mistakes, turnovers, that's part of our defensive intention. We hope to get more shots than them (64-52), limit their shots, make their shots harder and limit their assists.

We've been hitting a lot better than last year, but we had four errors (Tuesday) and that is what I can't stand. We'll make great defensive plays, then make a mistake. We just have to be consistent.

Jay Wright

We're a defensive team. We take pride in that. And we just couldn't stop them. ...I've never had that feeling, where you just couldn't stop somebody.

We're a defensive team. We're not gonna score a lot of points.

Eddie Jones

We're a defensive team. We have to be a defensive teams. The other teams that win games are teams that are in the top, defensively.

We're a defensive team. I think we can stop anybody.

Kevin Garnett

We're a big question mark. We have no real identity at this point. We show glimpses of being very, very good defensively. ... But I don't think you can stamp us as a defensive team or stamp us as a team with an identity right now.

We're a better defensive team when we play full-court pressure defense.

Graeme Smith

We?re 1-0 up in the series. We were forced into being defensive and getting through this game and that?s what we did.

Jimmy Smith

We ran the same offensive and defensive plays in the first six minutes as the rest of the game. We just started to play South Lenoir basketball. Tonight was just a good team effort. We showed a lot of heart tonight.

Arron Afflalo

We're a pretty dominant defensive team right now. It's not just one guy. It's a total team effort on defense.

Arron Afflalo

We're a pretty dominant defensive team right now.

We hit the mid-line a lot with Jared Kimmel up the middle and then we started hitting the rocket on the outside. We took advantage; the defensive ends were playing a little tight. We tried to get outside on them. We ran our rocket play - our quick sweep - and that really got us back into the game.

We had a few defensive lapses, but the kids found a way to hang in there and battle.

When we started the season, I said we needed two more offensive linemen and two more defensive lineman. When we ended the season, we still needed the exact same thing.

Jim Schwartz

Let's say a prayer the injury isn't too severe. He was dominating inside. I don't know if I've seen a defensive tackle inside dominate the way he did today.

Losing two defensive starters (to graduation), Nicole has really stepped up and helped us.

Leadership isn't phenomenal and now you're entering pre-announcement season, so people are worried. Volume hasn't been great, but trends are definitely in place ? technology is for sale and defensive issues are to buy.

Mark Brunell

Let's face it, those guys hold if they can get away with it and it's hard to hold a defensive end when you can't grab onto him.

She stepped it up not only on the offensive end, but also on the defensive end and passing.

She was aggressive. I wish she could have been more of a defensive force this season for us. But she scored down low for us.

She's very clutch. She hits the shot you need, gets the defensive stop you need, gets the rebound you need.

Al Stewart

She's got the whole game. She usually drew the main offensive threat on the other team, and that defensive intensity was her trademark. She's not a flashy player, but she does a lot of good things.

She's got great abilities to distribute the ball, and it's like a lost talent having her play stopper for us, but we now have her defensive capabilities and offensive capabilities, and I think it'll show.

She's one of those kids who's good on the ball, and she's really good off the ball, too. She's willing to take a charge, and she does a lot of the little things that go into making a great defensive player.