Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're trying to get him more involved in the offense and get him moving better. He's so much better on the move than he is just sitting down there in the post. We also worked hard on some defensive assignments and playing help defense.

Variety is what the 3-4 can give you. You can play the 3-4 without having superstars, so to speak, in the defensive line.

Paul Pierce

We feel like we're real close, it's just the little things. Our problem is a sense of urgency in the last three or four minutes of the game. We've got to get loose balls, get defensive rebounds, get quality shots and that's what we've got to learn to do as a team.

You either give energy to the team or take it away. A guy can hit a home run and give energy to the team. But a good defensive play can give just as much energy.

Every time they got it within six or eight points, somebody would step up. They really made us work hard, but our defensive effort eventually got us the win.

Tommy Bowden

There's still some defensive positions open, for sure.

There's no way we could have had as smooth of a transition at defensive line.

The tougher team won. Right now, the defensive part of the game is not important to our kids.

I spoke with our girls about our defensive intensity before the game. I think we surprised them with that today, but we lost that in the second half.

Arron Afflalo

What was tough for (Belmont) is that we generally don't let up. Our defensive pressure started to take a toll, and we fought for every bucket.

We've really got to work on our defensive game. We have to be tighter.

We were on our defensive side as much as we were on their defensive side.

We simply could not get enough defensive stops. They have a lot of offensive weapons.

Through the years we've been a pretty good defensive team when we've had our guys healthy and playing. I guess we surprised UCLA too, then. Maybe we just had a lucky weekend, I don't know.

Mitchell Davis

We try and preach defensive intensity, and we accomplished that during the big run.

We just played hard for 32 minutes. It was a great defensive effort.

We just picked up our defensive play and that gave us momentum on offense.

Rick Carlisle

We just made some terrible errors down the stretch. They got going and then we compounded it with some defensive mistakes. We'll kick ourselves -- again.

Rick Pitino

We just wanted to lock down defensively. We made great defensive plays down the stretch. Inexperienced teams find a way to lose, tonight we found a way to win.

Eddie Jordan

We just wanted to establish a defensive mind-set. We're showing each other that we're willing to do anything it takes to get better and to win.

We just had to keep pushing the ball. We improved our defensive rebounding, and that helped us get out on the break.

Byron Scott

We just had no resistance on the defensive end tonight. You can't trade baskets or think that you are going to outscore a team like the Wizards.

Mike Fratello

We just had a continuation of defensive breakdowns. We had nine assists in the game, and that's not good. They really dominated the series.

Mike Fratello

We just had a continuation of defensive breakdowns.

We weren't playing hard defense. We do defensive drills every day in practice. I don't know why we didn't come together as a team and stop them.

We weren't helping, weren't contesting and weren't moving our feet. Too many defensive breakdowns. We have to be able to go toe-to-toe and be tougher than the other team.

Todd Duncan

We were really focused knowing all the things Gorman had going for it tonight. We just set our minds on playing hard and it showed, especially on the defensive end.

We were pleased with our defensive effort and rebounding tonight.

Nick Saban

We lost two great players who were part of a dominating front, ... Young players are going to determine the depth and quality of the kind of defensive team we're going to have.

Trey Johnson

We missed too many free throws and we had defensive breakdowns at the wrong times.

We missed a lot of easy shots early that might have kept us in it longer. But it was their defensive pressure, they just took us out of everything we wanted to do.

We have to eliminate mental errors. We need a good defensive effort and a good strong defense.

Jim Boeheim

We had the worst defensive effort in the 30 years I've been coaching.