Quotes About Awareness

Obviously, as defenders, we can see the game in front of us, so a lot of it is just communicating with people and just backing each other.

When you haven't got the ball, while we're defending, sometimes I am not always where I need to be.

Defending is mostly about focus.

Defense doesn't matter enough.

I want to know what coverage it is every single time. I want to line up and be able to read what the defense is trying to do to me so I can get open.

You've got to be the anchor of the defense at that five position. Call out pick-and-rolls, screens. The five is usually around the rim, so you see everything.

I feel like I've matured in that area too, taking what the defense gives you, not trying to make too much. If it's two, just stick your head in there, and drive to get the two.

The more carries you get, the better you see the field, see the way that the defense is playing you.

I pride myself on knowing the defense.

You got to know what the defense looks for and use that against them.

Defensive moments are for each and every player.

Defense comes with defensive concepts.

I prefer defensive midfielder because I know my job when I play there. More things are in front of you.

Anytime you're a defensive player and your eyes aren't on your key, you're going to have an issue.

I've been trying to figure out what mistakes I'm making defensively as far as help defensive stuff.

I feel like I know what defensive backs are going to do before they do it.

Positional awareness comes with experience, so getting game time helps, but we also work a lot in training as a back-line and also on defensive shape.

On the defensive end, I just have to be better.

I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.

I don't know enough about manliness to define it.

Today, I defined 'sentimental' to myself as a feeling about the idea of a feeling.

Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree I am there.

There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted way of defining black culture. I started to become too aware of 'How does this look?' instead of 'Who are these characters?'

Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.