Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drake does a great job with its defensive system. But we were only 5-for-19 on three-pointers and I don't remember many of those being tough shots. Basically, they hit shots and we didn't.

Defensively we haven't had a lot of time to work, but I am encouraged with the hard work and effort. When we work on defensive skills, they have worked hard. We have better team chemistry; they all get along. Last year it was an individual thing.

Defensively, our kids played their hearts out. We had three defensive stands in our own territory. If they go in (for a score) on any of those, who knows what happens?

Defensive line-wise, we realize we struggled to stop the run the first game. The next two games, we did a pretty good job stopping the run. And all we have to do is turn that into some sacks and we'll be good to go.

Defensive linemen are hard to find. Paul runs well and plays hard. If he's got the work-ethic the little guys have, he's a can't miss.

Defensive letdowns and turnovers, our main problems all year, hurt us in the second half. We have to put together two good halves of basketball.

Mark Richt

Defensive guys can be, 'What the heck,' ... There was none of that. (From) coaches, there was none of that.

Gerry Fleming

Defensive breakdowns, turnovers, no intensity, not playing physical, not shooting the puck, not driving to the net, not skating, not working hard.

Della has been a huge presence for us on the defensive end. She's done a great job on the opposing team's point guard and has had some big scoring games.

Decision-making. And we had defensive lapses that gave them shots to get back in it.

Mike Vrabel

Are we a better 4-3 team? I think when we went to the 4-3 we gave them some problems. Those are four good defensive linemen up there. . . . It helped us.

The second half, we started making our shots and picked up the defensive intensity.

The team played very well. They played good as a team and played great defense. Our defensive play has set the tone for our team all year.

The team played great. Everyone stepped up, everyone hit big shots, everyone made defensive plays. It was just a great, great team win.

Larry Brown

The thing that is difficult is that a lot of things that we have been working on, you don't see it getting better on the court: transition defense, defensive rebounding, dribble penetration,

Vince Young

I usually go up to our offensive and defensive lines right before the game and say, 'It starts up front with you guys.' Let's send them a message.

Michael Carrick

I wanted a striker and not a defensive midfielder. Carrick is a good player but we already had four good defensive midfielders.

Daniel Morgan

A defensive war I think a righteousness war and justifiable in the sight of God.

After a tough loss Tuesday I was happy with our defensive intensity.

Actually, this was one of my better defensive games of the season.

Actually, that works out better for Curtis. He's a defensive guy. I had to make Curtis play offense. Curtis is a real physical kid. He wants to hit people. That's what he loves to do.

Something we're going to have to look at is the defensive system we run. We take a lot of risks on offense, and sometimes we don't get back on time.

One has speed and size, while the other one hits hard. Either one will find a place and be on the defensive unit.

Geno Auriemma

Sometimes you get it right and you have to kind of enjoy the moment. That last five minutes, the defensive stops that we made, the things that we accomplished, that's what good teams have to do.

Byron Scott

Terrible. I thought we started off terrible, no sense of urgency, no resistance on the defensive end. We played like the game didn't mean a thing. It's not everybody obviously, but as a team, collectively, we were awful. We looked more like we were scared than anything.

Ten minutes and we didn't get anything. That hurt. They did a good job of taking us out of our offense, and we did a good job of taking them out of theirs. It was an old-fashioned defensive struggle.

Ryan and Randy are very important pieces in our defensive scheme, any time you lose key starters, you have to hope that their replacements can come in and fill the void.

Rick Adelman

Ron has been terrific for us. He plays hard and he does everything you need him to do. Tonight he stepped up huge down the stretch on the offensive and defensive end when we needed him.

Sam is our defensive stopper, and fans may not see all the little things she does to help the team succeed. She hustles all the time and she knocks away or deflects so many passes that end up steals for her teammates. She's the epitome of a team player, always does her role and hits the open shot when it's there.

The sad part for us is that we felt we played good. Our Achilles' heel is defensive rebounding.

Dave Wannstedt

The run game struggled but I hope that's because our defensive line is playing better. We have a ways to go running the ball. We definitely have to get a lot better at that.

Mike Fratello

I've tried to keep practice to 40 or 45 minutes and work on one or two things. It's showing in our defensive effort. I'd just like for us to go into the playoffs executing well.

It was the tale of two halves. I was disappointed in how we played in the first half. We talked about having great defensive intensity and we didn't have it. I'm glad about how we (fixed it).