A Quote by Bear Bryant
When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.
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Basketball has turned into an offensive-minded situation. They don't play on both ends. They don't play defense.
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.
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.
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.
You have more control of things if you play defense. And you can control how you play defense, too, with effort and preparation.
A lot of people say you can't make the league if you can't play defense, so I really play really good defense. That's something I really pride myself on.
Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and structures. "Oh, we're gonna build a fort out of clothes, and now that we're in the fort we're going to pretend that we're prisoners," or whatever.
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.
If we play defense the way we're supposed to and we play defense the way we do here in practice, we should have no problems against most of the teams in the league, and other teams, it'll be a great fight.
If you play angry, you lose what you're supposed to do. On defense we just read our keys and play fast.
When i play in Las Vegas I play for money, when I play in Miami I play for holidays but when I play in #India I play for Love
When I play a cover-drive, I play it to score runs.
As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match -- the Gospel, together.
With Jorginho it depends what type of football you want to play. If you want to play possession where you have the ball all the time and you play a lot of passes, there are not many as good as him around. If you ask Jorginho to cover 50 metres of pitch in width and get all the balls back, it's going to be difficult.
Whenever you play with better competition or play against better players, it raises your level of play on both ends of the court.
To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.
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