Offense Quotations | Page 2

We're not an offense that can get everything back in one chunk. When you have an offense like that, you are relying on patience. Sometimes maturity is something that allows patience to happen. They weren't forcing us into doing anything we didn't want to do, but regardless the penalties and the mistakes we were making were negating any flow of momentum we had.

We're balanced and deep. We don't have great size, but I think we will be all right on the boards if we really hustle and work on position. We're going to change our style somewhat, but we will still be a running team. We'll look to create opportunities and run when we can, but our season will depend on how well we can defend. If we can do that, our offense will be more effective.

We're aware of Chad's past penalties. Is it a topic of conversation as we meet about the penalty? Yeah, briefly, but it's a lot easier for us to address each penalty situation on its own, with its own merits, but along with that, it's not that much different in the world we live in: A first-time offense for somebody is a lot of the times treated a little softer than somebody that has a history.

Through 14 practices, he's probably the MVP of the offense right now. He's a guy we've been waiting on, and he's finally there.

Three weeks ago, I finally became comfortable with a rotation of eight guys, who could play on both offense and defense. Right now we don't have that on offense and we don't have it on defense.

We're really focused on rebounding and forcing turnovers. We know our defense is there; we need to work on our offense a little more.

We're really coming into our own. But that's what happens when you've been together four or five years. The entire offense is trying to take our game to the next level.

With the parity in this league, we could see either of these teams again this season. We happened to get the best of them this weekend, but we'll have to continue playing at this level. The key for us is to break the puck out, so we can generate offense from the back.

With the offense we have, all you have to worry about is (making) your pitches. We know the offense is going to score.

With the offense this team has and the defense behind me, I don't worry about too much. I just have to pitch the way I'm capable of, and everything will work out well.

We knew Zillah would come to play and we knew we had the weather the storm. In the third quarter we were a little more patient on offense and we got some better looks. We also did a lot better job with offensive rebounds.

We knew we would have to play tough defense from our first game at their place. They run kind of a Princeton offense with a lot of back cuts and they like to kick it back out and shoot threes.

We knew we would be undersized tonight. We thought we could disrupt their offense if we could force the tempo and get some turnovers. The ladies executed tremendously.

We knew we were the underdog coming in here. We tried to tell ourselves we could win, but we got off to a bad start; couldn't get our offense going.

We knew we were going to have to run the offense more and move the ball quickly around the perimeter to create shots. We were patient and took good shots.

We knew they were going to have great defensive pressure. I think they got us out of our offense a little bit. So I think in those situations we need to stay poised and execute our offense a little bit better. I think that's what we are going to work on as we continue Pac-10s.

We knew they were going to be an inside-out team. When you start 7-1, 6-10 and 6-9 players and have a 6-7 guy on the wing, we knew their offense would be predicated on going to the inside. We tried to push them outside and when we got them out there, we were like a bunch of little gnats on a carcass.

We knew they were going to be a good team that was going to shoot the ball a lot. We had a good game plan, our defense played better than it did a week before (in a 16-3 loss to then No. 6 Cornell) and our offense moved the ball.

We lack a clear statement where the newspaper apologizes for the offense and stand by it.

We know with our speed we can do a lot of things that other teams can't do. If our offense is not driving in many runs, we can get things done on the bases. We have the ability to manufacture a lot of runs.

We know what to do against the zone. We just didn't execute. We were standing around and didn't run the offense very well.

We know how to play offense and play to win. Our plan will deliver more products - from small cars to our largest trucks - that are unmistakably Fords.

Ultimately, our defense let us down the entire week, and we were unable to generate a lot of offense or come up with clutch hits.

With Tom, we can look to control the puck and set our forwards up more quickly. His ability to score gives the rest of our offense more open looks.

We're still tinkering with the lineup. We're pretty much set on Nos. 1-4, but 5-9 is still unsettled. We need to figure that out and see where our offense goes from there.

We're still learning about him every day. Learning how much of the offense he can handle, how much he can process in a short amount of time. He's got some tremendous talent.

We're starting with much better position defensively which gives our offense more opportunity.

We're running the West Coast offense whatever that means. We're going to focus on the intermediate passing game. We'll throw it every down if we have to or we'll run it every down if we have to.

We're right near the bottom of the league in offense and as forwards, we take it personally. If you look around the room, every single one of us has more to give and wants to be better.

We're looking forward to getting out on the field and putting some new things into the offense and work on the defense. We have a lot to do.

We're looking for Kate to create and maintain the offense and to distribute the ball.

We're looking for him to make good decisions and run our offense like he did last season.

We're looking for a little more offense at the top of the lineup now. We're trying to find a way to score some runs on a consistent basis.

We're looking for a guy who can do the job defensively, first of all. Offense would be a plus.

We're not good enough to rely on playing good offense or good defense. We need all three phases.

We've got guys picking each other up when we make mistakes instead of getting down on each other. In year's past, you had too many situations of offense versus defense.

We want to score more points, ... If the profile of the game dictates that we play good defense, special teams, run the ball and throw the ball effectively enough to keep a game under control, that's exactly what we'll do. Yes, we'd like to score more points. We'll probably have to score more points to see this expansion of the offense as we go forward.

We have to get people on base. That's what we have to do. We have to get people on base and we have to get the big base hit. We're not doing any of that right now. We also have to start driving the ball to the gaps -- doubles. And we have to start our offense early in the inning rather than waiting for one or two outs. Those are the things we have to do and then things will fall into place. We will score runs. We will have the opportunity to score runs. We will have the opportunity to drive runs in.

We have to get our offense on track. We have to get some more points on the board. We knew the first three games were going to be tough for us.

We have to get help for McAllister. We need more offense from someone else on the floor. It can't be McAllister carrying us on his shoulders. We need all the other players to get more consistent.

We have to find out what happened between the first four weeks and the past four weeks. This offense isn't as productive. We have the same people, but we're not clicking.

We have never been 5-0. One thing I can say about this team is we have been in some close games, but find a way to win. I am real proud of the kids tonight because we played without (senior running back Nate) Robinson for most of the fourth quarter. A lot of our offense centers around him, but the kids stepped up.

When you see a guy break as many tackles as he does, it gets the whole offense going, and we all feed on that.

When your offense scores early, you don't have to be afraid to make one mistake. We got some early runs for Alex, a couple of insurance runs late, and played good defense.

When he first came to the team, he caught on to our offense real quick. It usually takes a couple of months, but it only took him a couple of weeks. I knew he was going to be a good player right there.

We wanted to try and hold them under 15 points in the first half. We got out in the passing lanes, got some steals and were able to get our offense going off that.

We wanted to throw it around a little more because we have to open up this offense some. And in order to run the ball like we want you have to throw it. We want to get a balance where we can move the ball either running it or passing it.

We were trying some different things on offense and trying to share the basketball a little more in the first half. In the second, we just tried to be a little bit more aggressive and we got going a little bit in the fourth.

Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.

We want to test ourselves, see the progress we've made against bodies other than the UB offense and get a feel for where we are, what we need to do, and take it into the season.

We want to tailor our offense to our personnel. We have good running backs, and we want to feature those guys, as you saw today. I thought those guys stood out. The running backs did a nice job.

We were definitely shocked. We want to keep them to no points, and I don't care if it's the best offense in the league. We can't give up 17 points in the first quarter. We have to go back and look at what we did wrong.

We were in a kind of turbulent time when he came here. Tony set standards for controlling the ball, for what we needed to do on offense and defense, and how we should play every game.

We were impatient. Rushing things offensively and that hurt our defense. We had some foul problems early and that hurt us. We just didn't play well. Our offense has a lot to do with our defense. They go hand in hand.

We were hustling on offense as well as on defense. Everybody did their part.

The red zone has just been horrible for us. It's been terrible. It's unacceptable as an offense because we have too many weapons and we're too talented not to get in the end zone.

[Donald Trump] will be the one on offense. He will be the one serving volleys, and it may be some weird stuff about the Russians, but he will be controlling things a little more than he probably did over the last two weeks.

We always feel like we can beat (anybody). We have the talent. It's just the chemistry. We need to play together and play well on defense and then the offense is gonna come.

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

We are going to look a lot different on offense than in the past. We are going to throw the ball a lot more.

This was a super win for us. We knew Tampa Catholic's game was to run and gun and shoot the 3s. We knew we had to attack on offense and keep the pressure on.

We did not know it at the time, but that was a crucial kick. From that point on the game was a stalemate. Neither offense could move the ball all night.

We did not do a good job rebounding on offense and did not play good defense. We turned the ball over early and they took advantage of our mistakes.

We did not do a good job on the offensive end tonight. We need to really tighten up our offense and make sure we're running our stuff if we want to go to the finals.

We did not complete the mission and it's frustrating. They deserved to win. They came out and totally dominated every facet of the game. They got some turnovers and were able to move the ball on offense. Their defense shut our offense down.

We did get the three runs (in the third) and come back, but this is a tough ballpark to nickel and dime and get runs that way. It boils down to offense and four runs here (in Albuquerque) normally isn't going to cut it and it didn't today.

There are some things in our offense that have started to come together. We have some of the guys that we will need to be productive this season starting to swing the bat.

The only way you change the subject is to get on the offense. It also may be time to get on the serious offense in Iraq in a military way.

The only way to get respect is to win the whole thing. Everybody talks about our offense, but defense wins championships and that's what we came here to do. We face a great offense in practice every day. We're ready. I think we're as physical and fast as any defense in the league.

The only way to evaluate your short-yardage offense is to work on it and see it in a game. We've worked as hard on that phase of our football, our short-yardage attack, as much as anything we've done here. With that said, we feel good about it.

There are four or five plays every game that will determine the outcome, and those plays are (usually) special teams. There's nothing worse than your offense going eight or nine plays for a touchdown, and then you kick off and see the other team go all the way with one play. That's demoralizing. We've come to understand the importance of special teams.

We decided to go man, hoping our offense would pick up.

We're playing Pittsburgh, it's not rocket science. Our offense is going to have to execute and we're going to have to do what we do. Throw it all over the place.

We're playing good defense, but our offense is struggling. They hit some big shots at the end, and that's what it boils down to.

We tried the 6-2 offense in the second game and it just wasn't working. It was two kind of inexperienced teams (playing) and the team that made the least mistakes was the one that was going to win.

We've been in this offense now for four years,

We've been inconsistent with our offense and pitching. But the effort is there. Guys are busting their tails. And certainly, relative to previous starts, we're on fire.

We really have picked up the offense in our last three conference wins. You have to like the momentum that we carried going in to spring break.

We really felt the matchups their defense against our offense was going to be a big challenge. We got exposed in a couple of areas.

We really executed. We got some easy baskets. We played with high energy. Our defense was great and our offense was better.

We're a different team since then but I think we're just as good. The keys will be playing defense, which I thought we did a good job of against Elbert, execute better on offense and rebound. If we do those things we have a good chance of winning.

We reacted exactly like we should. We had to put a stop to the bad stuff happening before it got too deep and we did that. The defense stopped them for 40 straight minutes and the offense scored seven of the final eight times we had the ball.

We're able to create offense with our athleticism and speed. We're faster than we have been.

We ran the ball really well. Our quarterback was running our offense to a 'T.' He has to read people and he's going to give it to the running back or he can keep it. He did a great job of doing that last night.

We ran that spread offense pretty well, I thought. We got some good shots out of that and it is designed to take time off the clock and to get good shots.

We ran our spread offense to Adam. He can do what he wants with the ball. We had Zach (Weismann) and Kevin (Brush) on the perimeter. He can also take the shot if he's open.

We ran our offense to get open shots and it finally paid off. I wanted the girls to recover from those two losses as a team, and I think we showed we can play team basketball.

We ran our motion offense and were patient. (La Grande) gambles so much on defense that if you are patient, you can score. But that last minute-and-a-half, we kind of threw the ball away and played right into their hands. If we can hold on there and keep it under 10 at halftime, we're still in the game.

We ran a hurry up offense and we had to get a TD but we left it on the 10-yard line, ... It was 7-0 at halftime so it was anybody's game at that time. We just needed to do the things we were capable of. We need to do some growing up on the field. We are a young team and I challenged them to grow up on the field. We did some things better.

We're a team and we go out there and we battle together, but when it comes down to it, the three games we lost, the defense let up at the end; we let them score. It felt great to go out there and really get them stopped. The offense gave us a great cushion and we locked them down.

We held their offense to one touchdown in the first half. Things were looking good. In the second half, we lost our focus. We knew what we had to do to stop them and we would have stuck with them if we were focused in the second half.

We held a highly potent offensive team to 16 points in the first half. The defense was getting it done. It was the offense we were lacking.

We heard they were going to come out as a fast-paced offense. They came out and beat us on all aspects of the game and their offense was clicking on all cylinders.

Yesterday, I told the girls we needed to score nine goals to win. That's exactly what we did. We knew we were going to need a little more offense in the playoffs.

We didn't want to play bad because the first time we do, we'll get beat. We were pretty sharp in the third quarter, which was the best part of our game. I wasn't real pleased with how we executed our offense or defense in the first half.

We didn't want our wings dropping down and allowing them to kick it out for the three, because that's basically their offense -- to penetrate and kick for the three.

We have plenty of guys on offense who can play, we just need to find 11 who can do it together. I'm not sure they were on the field enough last week to know how they fit together. James Johnson ran 65 yards on a counter for the first play of the drive, so what can I say? I can't get mad at my offense for scoring too quickly.

We've shot well the last three of four weeks. We've been talking and preaching patience on offense and getting good shots. Our shooting percentage has steadily gone up.

We've seen this offense before with Northwestern, Indiana and Bowling Green, so it's not totally new to us. They'll watch tapes on what we struggled with, and they'll attack us the same way. We have to prepare for what has hurt us in the past.

We've won three games here by playing great defense. Honestly, our offense has kind of disappeared in the last week and a half and we told the kids, 'Bring your hard hat and go out and win with defense.' We've been able to do that.