Quotes About Strategy

Joe Prunty will take over, and he will run the team. But nobody gets out of their lane. Joe will still be offense, and Sweeney will still be defense.

My greatest defense was my offense. Very few guys did that.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

We need to play tough defense and have a sound offense. But mostly, we have to outrebound the other team.

People watch the points, they watch the highlights. But the defense I think helps the offense.

I just love Coach Koetter's offense.

I've been on some really good teams, but we weren't able to get over the hump. It's offense, defense and special teams, and then the ball has to go your way.

All the projects that coaches go through in the offseason are based on the success other teams had in every area whether it's offense, defense or special teams. What they do is see if they can incorporate anything they see with the people they have.

I think there's a lot that goes into an offense, obviously.

I think that my offense comes from what I do with my defense.

Defense doesn't sell as much as offense.

We have to let our defense dictate our offense.

It's difficult when you step out there with somebody like me and my offense.

I'm not worried about offense. I've always had that, but I can get better defensively and that in turn will make my offense better.

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.

I'm never going to sub-contract out jobs for offense and defense. I'm always going to hire people I believe in - and are going to do things our way, that are going to believe in process, that are going to be part of a program.

A lot of teams get a lot of offense off the rush.

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.

It's a much easier job when you know what to expect on offense.

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.

This game is not designed for the defense to have it easy, so if I am gonna favor one side, I'll favor the offense because I want the defense being put under as much stress as possible.

At the three, you can kind of float around. At the four, it's not as much freedom on offense.