Defense Quotes

"We shot the ball well, played good defense and we felt good about ourselves."

"Their defense is incredible. It just beats down on your ego when balls keep on coming back over and over. I give props to them."

"When you shoot like that you aren't going to have success. All season long we have relied on our defense to get us going, but in the first half we weren't making shots so we couldn't get into our press."

"I thought their defense was very disruptive. That zone does a good job of taking you out of what you're comfortable with."

"He does allow me the freedom to do a few things, as long as I don't hurt the defense and I make sure I'm on the right page."

"Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon."

"Everything has been defense, defense, defense. However, I agree. We have got to improve our defense."

"Our defense was really good. Andrea hit a three to get us going early in the game, and from there we just kept playing pretty solid."

"In the second half, La Conner tightened their defense. They packed defenders into the box ... the ball kept deflecting off people."

"Our pitching is getting better and our defense is getting better and, hopefully, our offense is making strides. We're managing to score runs when we need to. I still think potentially we can be a pretty good club offensively. We've just got to get some guys going at the same time."

"We hit the ball and we played defense. But you can't do anything about walks."

"We are not getting the results I would like from our defense. We have to do a better job of guarding the basketball on the perimeter."

"The sky isn't falling, just new non-defense aircraft orders."

"We had some inconsistency in our starting pitching, in our offense, and even in our defense. We needed to play better. We needed to win some more games."

"I just hope it doesn't make us lax on defense."

"They played better defense, and they blocked better than we did. We didn't get into our offense enough, but it was a good match, and I knew it would be tough when they played us well at our tournament."

"They had only two field goals (a pair of three-pointers out of East's zone defense from Pat Cummings) in the fourth quarter. They had 21 free throws. That's what beat us. That's where we got beat. Our team knows it."

"National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people."

"You've got to make the read correctly, ... You've got to be able to see the defense and recognize what's going on and know where to go with the ball. But you don't have to throw the ball as hard as Brett Favre."

"We didn't know what they were going to play on defense, and we had trouble in the first half. We made some adjustments, and we were able to keep our backs running in and out so they stayed fresh."