Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Barnes

Our big guys will have to guard their smaller players, so it?s a matter of defense. I?m not worried about us offensively.

Other than Carlos, our guards just got tentative in the second half.

Jon Cooper

Riley really played well. We did what we had to do to win. There were times when we let our guard down, but Riley kept us in it.

Ozzie Guillen

I will guard him real well. I won't say, 'Get McCarthy up, we need him next inning.' We are going to use him the same way we used El Duque last year when he was in the bullpen. ... If we need someone quick, I'll get someone else up before I get McCarthy up.

I think they have the size to match up with us. I thought their guard play was very aggressive. They match up with us well.

Jim Boeheim

I think it's too much a part of our game. We're taking too many threes. I've never been a big fan. But it's just something you have to use. And it's something you really have to defend; guard out to the perimeter a lot more than before.

I think it was a physical let down. We had a strong inside presence, but our guards were all sick.

Last year I was just primarily a 3-point shooter, so I've been working on making it harder for people to guard me.

Playing with her in practice, you know what she can do. You know she can rebound. You know she can guard some of those smaller post players, and obviously, she can knock down that three.

I was disappointed we didn't guard a little better.

Eric Schmidt

I thought their guards played a lot better than I thought they could. I thought we would be able to turn them over a little more than we did. I thought we were a step slow.

I think we played very much as a team. It wasn't a post game, it wasn't a guard game. We just played, played with heart.

Juwan Howard

That's totally awful. It should not happen. Every guy in this locker room is responsible. We didn't secure rebounds. We didn't guard the pick-and-roll the right way. It's unacceptable.

That's the one thing he's tried to work on. . . . He always wants to guard the key players.

We need to push it ourselves and make them guard us. We have a lot of different guys stepping up and contributing, and we need that to continue.

Jon Scheyer

I think it wore him down a little having to guard me. I was trying to run off screens a lot in the second half and just make him tired.

I thought (Marshall) was tired and I thought it would be hard for them to guard an individual. I don't think it worked too well.

I'm impressed with their guard play. And their decision-making and their unselfish offensive style.

(Matthews) is an outstanding true point guard. He'll be the only true point guard we'll have in the program. He's just a smart player. He can push the ball; he makes the right decisions. He can do everything.

Larry Brown

Marbury was great. I was watching the film - you can't guard better than he guarded.

Martin's just too good. They couldn't guard him.

I was treated by the prison guards as a guilty man. I don't want to go back again.

We're very versatile, we have guys who can do a lot of different things. When you don't have the size, you've got to have guys who can do that. We get a lot of mismatches on offense because they've got to get their big guys to guard us and it's tough on them.

We just can't guard him (White). He's just too quick and too long. He just makes plays.

You can guard them for so long. But sooner or later she'll pop out. And we lost track of her.

Bill Laimbeer

We were looking for a guard who can play the 1 or 2.

We played awesome. We let our guard down in the sixth.

Billy Donovan

Those guys, being seniors, they know how to rest during a game. We had to make them guard to make them uncomfortable on the offensive end.

Pat Summitt

We really wanted them to try to make a lot of outside shots. I thought we did a nice job of limited Humphrey's touches. ... We thought we had to guard her with a guard and a half.

That was Natalie's call. It pulls them out man-to-man and our guards are really quick. Teresa was incredible tonight. Everyone just played so well.

She scores well, rebounds well, passes well and guards well. She's a total all-around player and she makes others better.

John Jay

Shoot, he plays every position on the court. He's just a guy who hurts you in whatever position he plays no matter who guards him.

Steve Alford

When Wilt played, there weren't a lot of guys his size. Now you've got guards that are 6-7 or 6-8. For (Bryant) to do that is a phenomenal feat.