A Quote by Avery Bradley
Defense not only wins games; it's what gets you on the floor at every level you play at. Once you get to high school and get to college, if you don't play defense, you won't play.
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We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.
In high school, you don't play much defense. It's mostly offense. In college, it's vice versa, and that's what I tried to do.
My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.
There's a lot of times I'll just play too passive and since I'm not going to play defense as well as most guys can, I can't get away with passive play.
It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.
It's not always fun. It burns inside to play defense. But you have to keep working and eventually defense is something you get used to.
Get your education. The number of guys who are blessed to be in the league is so small compared to the number of high school players [who want to play in the league]. But one thing you can do is get your college education. If you are blessed enough to get a scholarship to play college basketball, make sure you get your college degree, too, then move on from there.
Sometimes we think videogames are just games for kids, and then once they get out of grammar school or high school, they never play again, but that's when they really start playing.
I can do the little things, play defense, dive on the floor to get loose balls, things like that.
I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level
I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.
I couldn't shoot and I couldn't score in high school. All I could do is dunk and play defense.
You have more control of things if you play defense. And you can control how you play defense, too, with effort and preparation.
The key to guarding Kevin Durant is to play really good team defense. One on one, it's just tough. So you try to get all five guys to play against him.
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it!
With every look I can get and every defense I play against I get more experience.
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