Famous Quotes & Sayings

Spencer Hawes

This year we've come together as a team and we've emphasized family. Our defense is 10 times better than last year. I'm so excited about what we can do in the district championship and at state.

This year's success reminded me why I wanted to come here. I like to play physical defense.

We just have to play defense. Our defense has to get better.

Brad Boyes

We didn't give up a lot. Our defense played well, limited their chances. They didn't get a lot and it was a key part to our victory.

We didn't give Ravenna many good looks at the basket. We've been working hard on our defense in practice.

We've been down in previous games, we just battled back and knew our defense would get us back in the game.

We've been doing a better job these last few games of keeping our defense up the whole game. That's the key for us.

We've been disruptive on defense when people come through the lane.

We've been scoring points; that's not our problem. Our defense has left us. The way you play defense is with hustle and heart, and I hope we get that back.

Jason Terry

We've been relying on the defense a lot more. That's starting to be the new motto for our team; starting to be our reputation now.

We were really good for three quarters and five minutes. The last seven minutes we weren't very good on defense or offense.

We weren't as sharp as we have been, but the defense was great today, especially on the line.

We were not emotional enough early, and then we could never get it back going. I thought the game was more important to them than it was us. We just seemed in slow motion early. Our defense was good, but our offense was really bad.

Scott Skiles

We waited too long to start playing. We kind of sleep-walked through 2-1/2 quarters. Then near the end of the third quarter, we finally started getting aggressive. We started driving the ball, and our defense picked up. We clawed ourselves back into the game.

Lloyd Carr

We've worked hard on it, but the key to the Nebraska defense is up-front four. That'll be a real test for us.

We were worried about them. We just kept our feet moving and packed it in on defense to (slow) the penetration.

We don't play defense like that, we never have and never will again. That 16 minutes was the ugliest thing I've seen on defense.

We can't say (the defense is ahead), but I think we had a good game today. All-around the defense has had a good spring.

We have gotten off to slow starts in a lot of our games and you can't keep doing that and expect to win so we tried to pressure up on them and play good defense to get out of here with a win.

We have given up more points, 68 and 71 in back-to-back games, than we had all year. We have to play better defense and make a few more hustle plays, plays that we had been getting throughout the season.

We really didn't do anything different defensively in the second quarter. We just went out and started playing much harder man to man defense and weren't giving them the open looks that they were getting in the first quarter and I thought that was the key.

Mark Richt

We put the onus on the defense one more time and they made the plays again, thankfully. Running game, field position, defense. It isn't pretty sometimes.

We put some new things in, just to give them new looks. We had some plays where, as soon as we called a play, they switched their defense so that where he ended up, they'd have two guys already there. We're going to keep giving it to him. We're not going to go away from that at all.

We didn't play good defense and they didn't miss. That's what happened when we played them at our place.

We did a pretty good job on offense, but we didn't think we played defense as well as we should. Some of that is adjustments we have to make, and some of it is kids who need to do a better job.

When our pitching and defense are on, we can find a way to score. Our players were fired up and were intense throughout, from inning one to seven. It was like night and day from yesterday's game.

We would go there and we would shoot around, but we listened to everything he was saying. You learned how much that defense meant to him and how he really made sure that guys were in the right spots on the floor.

This will be a different team than we had last year. It takes time for a defense to gel, especially with the loss of four seniors.