Famous Quotes & Sayings

The big key for us, especially early, was to establish some easy baskets to get into our defensive pressure.

The big thing was we shot free throws. We had a little letdown with our defensive intensity (late in the game), but we hit free throws when we needed to to keep enough of a lead from them.

Not having to extend so much energy guarding (Carter) tonight gave us a little more energy to use on the offensive end. You have to set your defensive presence toward him.

It was a great team defensive effort the whole way through.

It was a great non-conference win for us. We found a way to win on the defensive end even when things were not going out way.

It was a good physical defensive game. It was kind of unfortunate that someone had to loose, but I'm glad it was them and not us.

It was a great win for us; we really needed this one. We had much better defensive intensity today; we've definitely grown there. It'll get us over the hump when we're not shooting well, and it definitely worked for us today.

It was a great two-game sweep. We got two tremendous defensive efforts from our guys.

It was a barn-burner right until the very end, and we managed to come out on top. That was the hardest defensive game that I have ever seen us play, and you could tell that we were really up to the challenge.

It was a combination of defensive lapses, and they made some plays down the stretch.

I try to pride myself on defense. Anything to give the team intensity on the defensive end.

It was a defensive catastrophe on our part. We didn't tackle all night.

It took us a while to find our defensive rhythm, but they stepped up in the second half.

It will be important for us to have our heads on a swivel and focus on our jobs in the defensive zone.

Frank Robinson

It was good to see him have a good offensive day and a good defensive day. That has to really make him feel good and get him up on his toes a little bit.

It was just a struggle. Our problems on offense transferred to the defensive end and our guys got pretty frustrated.

They did not kick a field goal. We spent a lot of time in the red zone. Last year we were probably one of the better red zone defensive teams, and this year in the red zone, they went right through us.

They were a very good defensive team. We played a great third quarter but we couldn't finish it off.

Tom Armstrong

They were a good defensive team. They had a lot of athletes. You could see that.

Bill Belichick

They've taken their other defensive ends and put them to outside linebacker. You're really looking at what amounts to a 6-1 (six defensive linemen and one middle linebacker).

They were trying to give them some offensive points. Our defensive is always going to stop them three-and-out, and if the fans look up at the scoreboard they can't see that the offense didn't put up any points?

Jesse Jackson

The governor does not stand to gain from this matter being delayed. I've met with governors who are hostile and defensive and demagogic. He was none of that.

We see ourselves as a good defensive team. We were getting after them for a while. We couldn't get any shots to fall or we would've expanded it even more. Defensively, we feel we can guard people.

We seemed to be missing a step all night. We didn't have the defensive intensity we needed (tonight).

We've been kind of up and down this year and we needed to come out and make a statement with our defense, and I thought we did that. (We) just didn't give them anything easy. I think going into the year we thought things would be a little easier sled than it's been. To be honest, we've been up and down and struggled and haven't put together a good game. I thought today we put together four good defensive quarters. This was a start for us.

We need to have a good defensive effort. I am hoping that we can keep it a real competitive game and play well defensively.

We need to focus on the things we can control. We know we're going to miss shots, but we have to rebound and we have to get defensive stops, and we just didn't do that tonight.

The defensive line was just flying, though they're making all the plays,

(The defensive line) was a strength for us going into the season, now it's a real question mark. Guys (like Padilla) are going to have to step up and play.

The defensive line and the linebackers are looking real good right now.

The defensive kids, they were smacking; they were just hitting. They all played with a lot of heart. They gave us great field position, and we couldn't do anything with it.

The defensive end wasn't very good and our offensive execution wasn't very good. This is the first time that we've had a team shoot more free throws than we have for a long time. That's terrible, when you give up 31 (free-throw attempts).

We were flying around on the defensive end, which gets us out in transition, where we excel.