Mike DeFries Quotations

Mike is a tenacious defender. He's just lightning quick. And when he makes plays, that makes everybody else turn up their D.

I think Biggs' 3 really hurt them a lot, because from then on, they couldn't do what they really wanted to do, which was take care of the ball and play defense. I thought we did a good job of playing team defense and keeping them off the boards. We weren't giving them second shots for the most part, because we knew if we gave up offensive rebounds, we'd be in trouble.

We knew if we gave them a lead early, they'd just sit on it and play their game. We wanted to jump on them early and get them down.

It's a drastic change. He did box jumps, ran with weights and did a lot of footwork.