Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Pierce

This is a poor defensive team. This is not a very good team. They have very good talent, but not a very good team.

Drew is a huge surprise. He's got the toughest defensive position on the field and has done very well back there.

Eric is probably one of the most dominating defensive players we've ever had at Palma. He hustles all over the field all the time, and he's usually the one making the tackle. There are a lot of teams out there that are going to regret not offering Eric a scholarship.

Eric has natural instincts and we think he can be a top defensive back in the conference.

(Erskine) put up a good defensive effort. They made us work for everything we got. They are probably the hardest-working team we play. They're a good team, and we'll probably see them again.

Errors killed us today. In our first two games we didn't have that. It was a lack of focus. We had eight errors in four defensive innings.

Every time they got it within six or eight points, somebody would step up. They really made us work hard, but our defensive effort eventually got us the win.

Lindsey Hunter

As the season winds down, we have to establish that as our identity, because, going into the playoffs, that's the way games are going to be played. It's a defensive struggle every game, and every possession means a lot. We have to get back into the habit of stopping guys every night.

At the time we didn't put another linebacker in. We took one of the defensive linemen off the line, stood him up and went into the three-man front that way. We did it in obvious passing situations, long-yardage situations or at the end of the game when we were protecting a lead.

Dan McCarney

Dobbins can be much better than last year. At this time last year, we didn't know where Dobbins would play - whether it would be as a starter or a backup. We didn't desert him; we worked with him, and he ended up being defensive newcomer of year.

Dick's a whale of a guy. He's a great coach, a great defensive coach, and he's a better guy than he is a coach.

Devon really picked it up on the offensive end for us. It was a great defensive effort, holding a good team like that to 40 points.

Cornell is a very disciplined and strong defensive team. They're a team and a program that knows how to win.

We should have scored many more goals. If you can't score, you can't win. I was also disappointed with the defensive work of my side. We need to be better in the next matches.

Jason Terry

We're disappointed in our defensive effort. We gave up 50-some percent (53.2) shooting. I guess that's first-game jitters.

Ron Zook

Vince has done everything I thought he would do in learning our package. He's spent time with the defensive line and linebackers, and I help a lot in the secondary. We've made great improvement on defense, which we should.

Pete Wilson

Washington picked up their defensive intensity in the fourth quarter. They forced us into some turnovers and we missed a few free throws and that helped them get back into the game.

We did a good job contesting all their shots. And we did a good job reading their tendencies. When they scored, we had defensive mistakes.

We didn't play as well as we have in the last few games. We didn't get a very good defensive effort tonight.

We had some defensive mix-ups, and they scored goals on us. We played a much better game than the last time we played them.

We had some defensive breakdowns. We had some guys that were loose in front of the net, and you can't have that.

We had some defensive breakdowns. Our point guard didn't get back defensively after we missed a shot a few times. I don't have an explanation for that. We're young right now and we make mistakes.

We had pitching and defensive breakdowns, but I?m proud of the way we battled back.

We went over our defensive schemes from last game and we'll try to take away some things.

We wanted a defensive focus and wanted to get back and stop the ball. They like to penetrate into the lane, and I was just trying to get something going on defense.

We limited SIUE to just one shot on the defensive end for the most part, and I thought we did a very good job of keeping them off the boards. I told our players we needed to keep SIUE from getting offensive rebounds, and we did that.

We like to think of ourselves as a pretty good defensive team. But there was a premium put on a every possession in a game like this and we had too many ineffective possessions when each one means so much.

Brittany (Strohmeyer) hit some big free throws for us in overtime, and she made a big play on the defensive end as well. We played with a sense of urgency in the second half that we lacked in the first, and Heather (Harper) was really solid for us in the second half.

We're going to try to speed the game up, limit their defensive substitutions.

We're trying to get him more involved in the offense and get him moving better. He's so much better on the move than he is just sitting down there in the post. We also worked hard on some defensive assignments and playing help defense.

Variety is what the 3-4 can give you. You can play the 3-4 without having superstars, so to speak, in the defensive line.

Paul Pierce

We feel like we're real close, it's just the little things. Our problem is a sense of urgency in the last three or four minutes of the game. We've got to get loose balls, get defensive rebounds, get quality shots and that's what we've got to learn to do as a team.

You either give energy to the team or take it away. A guy can hit a home run and give energy to the team. But a good defensive play can give just as much energy.