Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was two good teams and one possession difference in the game. We could have used one more possession. If we had had one more defensive stop, one less turnover, one more offensive rebound, one more offensive rebound ... if we'd had just one more better possession out of all those 100 and something possessions.

It was very much a defensive game. Each team got two hits in that game ... we had no errors on our side, not one.

It was an exciting game. There was a lot of good defensive fielding.

It was an excellent defensive effort. To hold a team to seven points in the first half, that's playing good defense.

It was an overall team (defensive) effort. The defensive line played great like always, the backers filled, and the secondary stayed on their coverage.

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

As of right now, I'm more worried about the defensive end. Offense comes when you play good defense, so my main goal is just not let her score as much as she usually does, not let her get her 25.

As patient as we were early, we got into a streak when we were playing like we were behind. Then you toss in a few defensive breakdowns, and all of the sudden, we have ourselves a ballgame.

That was a big-time shot. If we come up with a defensive stop, you never know what might have happened.

That's where we lost the game, on the defensive end.

That's where toughness shows, on the defensive side of things. And I think that's exactly what happened tonight. I was real pleased with the defense, and the intensity level.

Jay Johnson

That's where I think we're much improved over last year is the defensive end of the court. Last year in a lot of games we relied on outscoring the other team. We won a lot of games in the 80s and even in the 90s.

That's not an excuse because we're going to see the same type of speed and defensive pressure every night in this district.

That's going to help them out a lot, with his defensive intensity. He gives them a lift.

That one surprised me, Every defensive lineman wants to run pass routes. I think it went very well.

You're prepared for defensive pressure and being pressed, and that's a big part of the game. It's really two different styles of play, but our district prepares you well for the postseason.

You've just got to make the play. Whether it's a rebound, a defensive play, a field goal, you've to got make it. There's no magic wand, you've just got to make it.

Brian Nelson

This group ranks up there with the top defensive teams I've had here.

They're such a good defensive team, they took us out of our game plan. I don't' know if the pressure got to us. Lucas Johnson kept us in it for a while, but we just didn't have enough people step up in the first half.

Muffet McGraw

They're still a very, very fundamentally sound, great defensive team. They're very well coached. They run good offense. They do a lot of good things. I think it's the same team they've had over the years, just great competitors and very, very intense.

Larry Bowa

They've been working really hard since the start of spring training. They're very into our defensive meetings.

They took us out of the game with some nice defensive plays. No doubt about it.

W. S. Gilbert

They (the Lady Red Devils) stayed with our defensive rules.

They said many inexperienced teenage drivers overcorrect. I paid the $200 for driver's education. They need to have defensive driving taught more than how to parallel park.

They're very quick and long. They picked up their defensive intensity, and we really didn't find a way to match that on offense.

Trent Johnson

They're very defensive minded. They're going to be well prepared and very physical.

They turned up the defensive pressure and it revealed a lack of skill on our part.

They struggled to score tonight, and part of that's us. We're a pretty good defensive team. Another part of it's that they struggle to score many nights.

They still felt they were skating well and could win games. We just had too many defensive lapses. We were giving up goals in bunches.

They put a lot of defensive pressure on you. They're up in your face and really get after you.

A lot of it is mystique. We're just playing on our reputation a lot of times. Everybody sees us as a defensive monster. They think we're lightning quick. But then they stand next to us and see we're not that way. It's perception. We probably get 8-10 in perception every time we step on the floor.

All of our guys can make those scrappy plays. We've come to expect the defensive effort because those guys just scrap. If you just watch the game you can gloss over Trey's hustling plays.

A lot of things went our way in that game. There was a short span where we had two defensive touchdowns. The momentum we gained from that was a huge part of the game.