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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.

They played really hard. We played hard in spurts. It's the first time in a long time we got outplayed. We're not a great scoring team. When we don't have a defensive mind-set, we're in trouble.

Michael Vick

They played a great defensive scheme. They did some things that threw us off balance.

Michael Vick

They played a great defensive scheme, ... They did some things that threw us off-balance.

They got a lot of easy buckets in transition, either getting rebounds or steals. They just got a lot of run-outs, and we didn't get back and we didn't play Duke defense. We didn't play like our normal selves on the defensive end. That made a big difference in this game.

They go hand-in-hand... we haven't put up a good defensive and offensive game together.

They had great speed and quickness. I felt at times our defensive played well. The defensive line had a good run and shut them down in the third quarter.

They had as many offensive rebounds as we did defensive rebounds. Matt Wayne was the difference. We couldn't keep him off the boards.

Joe Horn

They had a pretty good game plan, ... Their defensive coordinator game-planned us pretty good.

They had a good defensive game plan. But we had a good defensive game plan, too.

This defensive line is supposed to run free, and just swarm everybody.

They sent a lot of defensive looks at her. In the first half, she panicked. We just told her to be patient, to pass or fake and go in to score. That forces other teams to make decisions.

They were getting everything. We couldn't get any defensive stops. We couldn't finish them.

They were faster than us but we had good combination passing. I am very proud of our defensive effort.

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Hugh Johnson

This is a market that's become very, very defensive, ... One thing I noticed is a move back to the defensive side.

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.

Cadillac Williams

It's very complicated, especially when you have some of these defensive gurus who come with all kinds of blitzes and stunts. It's very confusing. You really have to be on your technique and know what you're doing.

Fontainebleau is a tough defensive team, and they played hard throughout.

For about 24, 25 minutes we played real hard. They just have so many good players. That's the difference between their team and our team. They have seniors who are real athletic, real experienced. Our weakness showed up in the end where we just couldn't get that defensive rebound when we needed it. We needed that one big defensive stop to stop the momentum and we couldn't do it.