Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

The kids just played an exceptional game. Defense right now is playing very strong with five shutouts in 10 games. I'm excited for the guys that they were able to have a good offensive output tonight, and I hope we can that into the next two games this week.

Orlando Cabrera

Stoneman knows what it takes. He's been doing it for the last few years, so, of course, I think we got what we needed. We do have a good offense, a good defense and pitching staff.

Avery Johnson

That first-quarter defense probably was as good as I've seen in a long time. No matter who you do it to, when you hold a team to 10 points in a quarter, that's pretty special.

That hurt us on defense and on the boards.

Mike Holmgren

Talk about a no-name group. I know that phrase has been coined before, but we are kind of that group on defense right now.

It's just about all 11 people getting on the same page in the same book. It comes with time. The defense can be very good.

It's definitely a whole different world than playing without two starters. After the first four minutes of the first half, we had a really good run there until the third quarter. We used our pressure defense and got some easy baskets.

It's been hard for us taking pride in our defense, and hopefully we were able to take a step in the right direction today.

It's been hard for me because I still believe, if you're going to win the big games, you have to rush the football. They scored so fast tonight, it seemed like we were playing defense all the time.

It's pretty uncharacteristic of the players who were doing it and the way they were doing it. It was not the defense we saw but us.

It's my job to open up the defense. If I'm shooting from outside, things will open up underneath.

Chris Duhon

It's tough when our defense is struggling, and we're also not making shots like that.

It's up to if our defense can meet the challenge.

(Davis) threw strikes. Our defense is good and if we get people throwing strikes we're going to get people out.

Considering I've only faced really one defense so far for a full game, yeah it's going to be a step up.

Dan Hawkins

The nice thing for our defense is they have to face the same thing every day in practice.

The offense put it on the ground twice and we can't have that, but the defense did a great job of scooping and scoring when they did, which is big for us. That's something we've emphasized in practice every day.

Tom Hall

The offense has not helped the defense much at all. Our special teams has fumbled several kickoffs giving the other team easy scoring chances. I think our defense has done about as well as could be expected under those conditions,

The offense didn't play as well Friday as it had been. That's a night when you want the defense to come through, and it did.

Elvis Dumervil

The offense did a great job, the defense did a great job. It was an overall great team effort.

Everybody has their strong points, and that's an important one for him. He's done everything. He's gotten big hits, he's played defense well, he has run the bases.

Mike Holmgren

That's right. Our offense leans further left than Rolling Stone magazine. We know that defense is the Redskins' strength. And they know our offense is our strength. We'll have to strap our helmets on extra tight, and I guess we should wear our face shields since Sean Taylor will be playing.

John Gay

That's part of our defense. We picked up our effort and rebounding is the final part of defense and (the players) understood that.

That's our story all year long. We come out and we play good defense in the first half. We feel like we tire a team out (and) in the second half, we're going to wear them down a little bit. I think their legs were a little tired in the second half. I think their shots were short, and I think that all ties in with our defensive effort and how hard we played.

That's something that can't happen. Basically, our defense has been slipping.

That's taking the pressure off the pitching. If the defense makes plays, the pitchers are rarely in a situation where they need to strike people out, but it's a tandem.

Brian Giles

It's all about pitching and defense in the playoffs,

I told the kids at halftime that it's get after it on defense or our season is ending.

I told them before the game, defense and foul shots were going to win the game, and they proved me right. They made the key foul shots when we needed them.

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DeMeco Ryans

It's nothing special. Everyone keeps saying that it's a special offense. They're a five-wide spread offense. We've just got to come up with a defense to stop it.