Quotes About Defense

I've been in the frame of mind in Charlotte that, O.K., I'm going to play defense. But I've never been in a frame of mind that my defense is going to generate my offense.

If I can defend, I find that my offense just comes to me.

A lot of the better offenses sacrifice defense to be a good offense and I'm not interested in doing that.

Sometimes I feel like my defense is so elite that sometimes my offense gets put on the backburner.

There's a sports saying, if you aren't playing offense, you're playing defense, so if you are coming back for a sequel not be better but you have to aim higher and bring something else back in to the mix.

I was letting the lack of touches on offense really affect my defense.

I just think I've got to be more aggressive at both ends of the floor. When I'm aggressive on the defensive end it really helps me on offense.

Jay Cutler is a first-round pick, had a great arm, etc. It's just - he's offense, I'm defense. We didn't get a chance to interact as much as we should have, maybe.

I do whatever the team needs to do on offense or defense, whatever it is to win. And I'm a competitor.

I always try to go in there and stick to my base, which is the defensive end, and then just let the offense come to me.

When you're desperate, it's good on defense because your hair should be on fire, but it's bad on offense.

For me, it's about making the winning plays, making the right plays, making the basketball plays and being aggressive whether it's on defense or offense.

I can shoot the 3. I can play off the catch. I get offensive rebounds. And I still have a lot of energy left to defend.

When I do defensive work well it always helps my offensive game.

LeBron is more of a facilitator. Kawhi is probably more an attacking offensive dissecting the defense type of player... They're both very good defenders when they turn it on. They can impact the game on both ends of the floor.

I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.

It's an offensive league.

Until that moment comes when the ball comes to me every time, I have to find a way to be effective with offensive rebounds, play hard defense, blocking shots.

I think I'm a good offensive player, good defensive player. I do it on both ends of the floor.

It's one of those things: we've got guys that are very offensive and can take down anyone, and we've got guys that don't shoot at all but are very hard to take down. It's one of those things. You've got to decide what you're good at.

People talk about offensive chemistry all the time, but defensive chemistry is something you have to build, too, and there's a lot of that work to be done with just communications and the feel of who certain guys play.

If the offensive player starts losing confidence, that gets the defender's confidence up - and I think the team can feel it.

It's something that I have to learn to do: affect the game in a different way. If I don't get it on the offensive end, try to get it on the defensive end.

It's an offensive foul if you go into the defender's body, but if I fade and a guy runs into my leg, it's a foul.