If we can stop that phase (passing) of their offense, they'll have to run the ball. We can make them do what they don't like to do.

Dan Kratzer

We were able to get into the bonus pretty early and were able to take advantage of that. In the second half we got the ball inside and that was pretty much our offense.

Jon Nedelcoff

We got away with a lot of sloppy play on defense. But we had a lot of clutch plays on offense.

Brett Brooks

He has been the centerpiece of the offense so far. We will see how he comes out of it.

Paul Bauer

They're a great defensive team. That's evident. They haven't done a lot offensively at times, but they don't give up much to their opponent's offense.

Mike Whitaker

I thought our offense would do more, and we didn't. They shocked us with their offense, and once we got behind, we weren't ready to come from behind.

Tom Grippa

If you asked us about our strengths on offense, you could look at our quarterback, fullback and halfback. With Brewer I think it's the same thing. We've just got to stop the fullback and try to control the quarterback.

Frank Knight

We made the No. [5] rushing offense in the country go to the shotgun [the second half]. What does that say?

Travis Johnson

We are having a lot of trouble scoring in our half-court offense in three of our four games. I'm not sure what we are going to need to do.

Cheryl Buffo

The defense came up big. It is nice to see when you are going through some things on the offense. They have kept up in it.

Bryan Kramer

Columbus East has a lot of very good players, and it will be a challenge (to keep) them down in scoring. They do a nice job of mixing the defense, and that will present a challenge for our offense.

Scott Bowen

Some of the girls were a little frustrated in the first half after dominating play, but it was still 0-0. The best defense is offense. I felt if we kept the pressure up, and kept plugging away, a few would eventually fall in.

Mike Ortner

We understood what we wanted to do in the first half. Especially on offense. We found our pace, worked the ball around and got some really clean looks.

John Pelphrey

We still are very inconsistent on offense, but one thing I can say -- defensively, we're very good right now.

Dave Greenberg

They came in and missed a lot of early shots, ... We got it going and set our offense. We kept running and attacking.

Mike Bibby

It gives Corey an excellent chance to learn the offense.

Doug Adkins

We have the personnel to run the new offense well. This definitely will be an asset for our team. We're learning it slowly, but were getting a grasp of it. It can only get better.

Nate Longshore

We'll bounce back. We're No. 1 in the league in defense and we scored 100 points on offense. There's a long way to go but I think it will come down to us and Port Huron.

Dave Mccarthy

We need to get a little better consistency on offense, but our defense is there every night, and I think we're about ready for the tournament.

Mark Sinnwell

At halftime I challenged them a little bit. We came out flat with a low energy level, but we were able to generate offense from our defense in the second half.

Sean Organ

We feel like we can get a few yards of offense on any play. We just felt the smart play was the field goal. That put us up more than one score. We needed that.

Mike Settles

Offense-wise, we were not in a scheme. We told the girls they had to play at a higher defensive level.

Cassandra Wilson

I think we did a better job of executing our offense. We felt they were going to make a run; all good teams do that. Our job was to be sure we did not lose the lead totally.

Marvin Neals

It was impressive that their team had all the momentum and we kept our composure and executed our offense pretty well. Boyd did a great job at the point handling the pressure.

Vic Kintz

They had a great player make a two great plays. Then our offense responded right then.

Todd Dodge

We had several opportunities to score in the game, but we couldn't make the big play on offense.

Chuck Wright

Overall, I was pleased. We created our offense from our defense.

Wendy Clark

She can add depth to the team. I can't guarantee she won't get hit and I told her that. I'm not playing her on offense or defense.

Gordon Sadler Sr

Aaron really helped spread the defense and opened our offense up more. Cory controlled the tempo and kept us focused.

Jon Clark

Defensively, we did what we needed to do to stay in the game. We held a very potent offense to 46 points and really neutralized their ability to knock down 3s.

Bob Curtis

Coming into the game, Coach (Six) told me to stop her. We denied the wings really hard, because that's where their offense starts.

Ladona Pierce

We got back on defense and actually ran set plays correctly, ran our motion offense better and shot better.

Jason Scanlan

We were lining up wrong on offense ... and lining up wrong on defense, and that hurt us a couple of times. They are very familiar with [the formations], they just forgot what they are supposed to do.

Lance Martin

Mark and I have been clicking the last couple of games, ... To lose a guy like that, my go-to guy, made it pretty hard on offense, especially for coach Harris calling plays.

Trent Edwards

Our offense against the man-to-man is not as good as our zone offense. We could not get anything to fall. We had a lot of opportunities inside the paint and, if you can't capitalize on those, they don't come easier than that.

Janet Smith

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

Hayden Fry

We weren't running an offense, not moving enough and that isn't going to win games.

Dynelle Tadlock

The weather conditions really limited our offense tremendously, to basically the run game.

Jimmy Teague

There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make a mistake but are going hard, you can still be in the play. On offense, there is more structure every down. On defense, you can play more on instinct and athleticism.

Bryan Mccann

Katie Kane has really played well for us in all areas of her game. She has played so much better on offense, defense and in her rebounding.

Mike Urban

He's going to be the main catalyst on offense if we are going to succeed, ... He's doing things I haven't seen him two in the past two years.

Jay Robinson

This spring will be unbelievably helpful for McKay. By coming in early, he'll learn the offense and he'll know what to expect. He has a tremendous head start. He really won't be a freshman coming into fall camp.

Patrick Higgins

With Rex coming back in, they opened the offense up a lot more. That helped me out because that's what I do -- I stretch the field. I'm real happy with what has been going on.

Bernard Berrian

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

Ahmed Akkari

We did pretty much what we wanted to on offense. Their goalie did a real nice job though, we must have had about 50 shots against them.

Rod Schwarz

We have some great face-off men. These battles will be important because time of possession allows the offense to control the ball and get their goals.

Zac Jungers

Daniel has been out a little bit and to this point Matt is doing very well picking things up and handling the offense. We want to give him more opportunities and see how much he can handle.

Darrell Dickey

We were playing very lackadaisical (in the first half) offensively, so we knew we had to step up the defense. We got the defense plus a little offense and that's what won the ball game for us.

Pat Hewitt

We're not as disciplined on either offense or defense as I think we should be. In key spots against good teams, that hurts us.

Dave Bosso

I kept waiting for our offense to get going. Finally in the second quarter we started to click.

Jim Nazos

Defense has been a strong point thus far. But that offense slowly but surely, it's coming.

Cornelius Bonner

You have to give Stagg all the credit. They run the best offense in the conference. They use back screens and chips screens that free up their outside shooters.

Bob Koskosky

We had said that if we could get up, they don't have a fast offense. We let them run their deliberate offense, and they ran down the clock which was to our advantage.

Mike Predmore

This is a very serious offense, ... He'll be dealt with appropriately.

Keith Henderson

Nothing was clicking on offense. We couldn't get anything going at all. I don't know what it was.

Nichole Kluk

Our defense was tenacious. We had the energy which we didn't have at Connecticut. The defense initiated a lot of our offense.

Seimone Augustus

The intensity was there on defense. That was good for (the offense). That's how it has to be for us to get prepared, because there's going to be no mercy from USC. They're the best team in the country.

Tyler Graunke

To that point, we were playing focused defense and got much better pitching. The offense just wasn't aggressive.

Dave Heise

I thought we played great in the first half. We moved the ball on offense and attacked the basket and played pretty good defense. We were playing with a lot of confidence.

Wendee Warg

We knew we could jump right back in this thing in a heartbeat the way our offense has been going this series.

Andrew Johnson

We couldn't buy a bucket. We weren't doing anything strong. We were playing kind of timid. We got what we wanted on defense, but the offense wasn't there.

Rulon Washington

We have a pretty balanced attack on offense. What I like about this team is that these guys don't get intimidated and they go into each game with the same expectations.

Nic Henderson

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George Eliot

I thought we did everything possible to generate offense.

Greg Hirsch

We had played some tough games lately and this one, where our offense just exploded when we really needed, was way overdue.

John Porto

I'd definitely like to be part of that offense. That's one of the main reasons I'd like to stay.

Jonathan Wells

They run a lot on offense so we've got to play hard on transition defense.

Alan Wiggins

This group really shares the ball on offense and plays well together on defense. It's a wonderful group of kids with great character.

Garth Adams

I wanted to be as balanced as possible on offense tonight. But we weren't clicking on the pass, and we were able to run the ball.

Tim Rimpfel

We are getting to the point where we are depending on Nate way too much. We need to generate more offense.

Frank Rear

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.

Brian Gouin

We're effective on the ground. We're hoping that (offense) is going to be the strength of our team. We need to get better defensively if we want to win football games.

John Beary

It helps our confidence to know that we can move the ball when we need to and we can stop somebody when we need to. Adams is very much improved, their offense is very good, and we knew that coming in.

Ron Metcalfe

They got some easy ones in transition and they played some good defense during that stretch. Our offense was a little bit stagnant.

Sean Foster

We just couldn't get into our offense. We just did a poor job of executing.

Shan Foster

I knew there was no way we were going to lose that game, ... You sort of get that feeling out there, of invincibility, with the way the offense was playing late and the way the defense really stepped up.

Ryan Fitzpatrick

I've got the learning curve because I've got the offense I've been using all year. If anyone else needs help, they're coming to me, so I kind of help coach Phillips, too.

Scott Mitchell

The defense did a great job. They kept us in there until the offense could get going.

Francis Reishus

We had enough offense to win this basketball game. We just didn't have enough defense.

Dan Monson

Truancy is an equal opportunity offense. It's equal exactly with males and females. The demographics are pretty much the demographics of the district, so it hasn't targeted one ethnic group or one gender group.

Dennis Thompson

Unfortunately, that key injury (hurt our chances). That took my offense off their game plan.

Fernando Segovia

I think we're all starting to come together and we're starting to learn the defense. And our offense is just clicking.

Kyle Pease

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.

Al Gooden

The challenge this week is we have an offense that can do both now — they can run it and they can throw it very, very well.

Jeff Fisher

I like to bring Kristen off the bench because she is just instant offense. But if you had to pick an MVP tonight, it would be Kristen.

Dan Trease

Let the punishment match the offense.

Cicero

That's a decision I can't make, but I'm always for that. Right now we're doing some pretty good things on offense. As long as we're winning, that's all that matters, to be honest with you.

Terrelle Smith

Someone's got to put it in the hole. When you're struggling on offense, putting the ball in the hole is the name of the game.

Ralph Schuetzle

Heather will set an aggressive tone on offense, swing the bat and make things happen as the lead hitter.

Tracy Bunge

We feel confident about moving our offense on a lot of the defenses we play. We need to establish ourselves ... for us to put a lot of points on the board.

Jared Zabransky

We do focus on the offense, because we know ourselves that's where we need to get better, and the better we can get there the better we will be as a group.

Joe Minucci

I give La Plata a lot of credit. They came out and out-played us early on. We looked a tad fatigued, but we convinced them we had to turn it up a notch. By doing that on defense, we were able to create some offense.

Mike Schmidli

Our offense has been clicking, but we didn't make shots or make stops when we needed to against them. They're an experienced team. They deserved to win.

Sean Foster

Our offense helped out our defense today. We need to play more consistently in the field.

Paul Raspolich

We can't get any offense going. I thought we did a decent job of getting some good shots, but you have to be able to finish.

Dan Andria

We came out flat and were one-dimensional. We've got to get more balance on our offense.

Trevor Howard

I like these kind of games because they're a lot like our offense. Our kids can play faster and play with more speed and not have any hesitation or confusion like we did a week ago.

John Palermo

I'd like to think we have a pretty explosive offense.

Cory Sullivan

Mickey is one of the brightest young coaches out there. I'm glad to have him on the coaching staff with the knowledge he has of our offense.

Matt Griffin

We just couldn't get into a rhythm. Everything was so new for us. I guess you just gotta understand what the offense was trying to do and how the offense is set up. I just didn't feel real comfortable, especially after the first interception.

Perry Patterson

That's how we're made this year. We're a team, like an NFL team, that's going to utilize our personnel, that's going to use all the characters in our offense.

Shawn Watson

In the third quarter we executed in the half court offense and got better looks.

Will Harbison

It was obviously good we won the game, and I was able to play a part in it. It definitely helped me as far as knowing that I could do some things right and be involved in the offense.

Benjamin Watson

We played our game in the second half and didn't let them get into their offense. We played the way that we know we can, and that helped.

Ashley Williams

We got some execution on offense for a change, and our defense was good again.

Maurice Freeman

We're certainly playing better. Our pitching is better and that gives you a chance to win any game. When your pitching is better, it gives your offense a chance to just go and play offense.

Tom Slater

It was a little of everything for us. It was good defense and getting out and running. That makes offense easy. In the first half, they were driving and scoring on us. We focused on containing that in the second half.

Jodie Runner

We were a tight-knit group. We had an exceptional offense. We had a lot of extraordinary athletes.

Forrest Wiegand

We feel like when we get a turnover everybody on this team starts to play better. We know if we get the ball back, the offense is going to do its thing.

Tory James

Taylor and Danica did a nice job handling the ball and running the offense.

Kevin Edwards

We've got seven returning starters on offense and seven returning on defense.

Andrew Pearson

We executed in the first half, on offense and defense. Ultimately, that's why it went the way it did.

Daniel Willis

It's so much easier to get back on the field after a touchdown than it is after a turnover or something. When you have that momentum with you, it's so much easier to go on the field when your offense is rolling.

Tim Shaw

We got some hits at the bottom of the lineup today. We know that our first couple of girls are good hitters but when you can do that, it really gives your offense a boost.

Steve Pollard

We were a little intimidated in the first 4-5 minutes. But after that, we never had any rhythm on offense. Tonight, our young kids learned the difference between non-conference and AAAAA-West basketball.

Tim Mccutchen

They played pressure defense on us. We had some difficulty getting into our offense and taking care of the ball. A lot was due to their defensive pressure which took us out of what we liked to do.

Brad Fuhrer

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Ambrose Bierce

I could've played a lot better. The defense played well, the offense came together and didn't have many penalties. As for myself, I just have to work hard every day and try to get better.

Glen Coffee

Today was a good day. I was happy with our offense, defense and special teams. It was our most complete game of the season.

Dale Lennon

That definitely served as some incentive for our offense.

Dale Lennon

We played really well and we played with a lot of emotion. Sierra had a lot of frustration running its offense against us.

Gina Johnson

Alamo wasn't playing too much defense, and we put ourselves in situations where our defense can create offense.

Walt Sanchez

(Jones) threw a lot of strikes. This being our first game of the year, our offense is not where it should be. And he took advantage of that.

Troy Thompson

We still need to show more patience on offense and we need to do a better job of competing on every possession.

Mike Glick

I think I've improved in some ways, but I haven't had the best year of my career. My offense isn't how it's been in the past.

Phil Kessel

Our offense was not good enough tonight. It was plain poor.

Travis Johnson

I'm going to say it early. I think we've got a dynasty. The offense is just getting going, and they're only going to get better.

Simeon Rice

We were out of sync on offense. We didn't do a real good job of taking care of the basketball.

Wendee Warg

Coach told us to play our game and don't change our offense or defense. This is our game to win.

Jennifer Martinez

It was hard. We make no excuses but we had no offense, we got into foul trouble and we did not get a lot of second shots.

Jennifer Hartshorn

I think they wore us down. We were struggling getting into our half-court offense.

Tim Barrett

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Mike Brady

When you get into the conference tournament you can't rely so much on your offense. There are too many talented teams that defend well.

Jim Wiedie

They're trying to push, trying to get that early offense.

Steve Joyner

Late in the first half, this was a one-goal game, but we really dug down and showed the toughness that we've been talking about. We maximized our chances on offense, controlled the ball well, and defensively I thought we made things very difficult for them.

Cindy Timchal

That kind of offense always helps the pitcher settle down and do a good job.

Kate Mccluskey

He's got great composure. He's always cool and calm. He's been a great leader for this offense. That's a big part of the success he's had so far.

Grant Preston

She anchors our defense and our offense. She runs the show. We've held it down while she's gone, but that would be a huge boost.

Candace Parker

[The difference was] just the pace of the game. Florida did a good job of taking us out of our offense.

Demarre Carroll

That's only one-third of the game. I'm pretty sure their offense and our defense are pretty important, too.

Tom Zbikowski

They're adding some new touches to their offense and defense because of the experience they do have.

Rick Vernon

Our offense was pretty good. We did look rusty at times but credit Lead-Deadwood's defense for some of that, ... We did add some new offense so it is expected.

Kent Anderson

We have to get more people involved on offense. They really took away what Britney's game is.

John Mraule

I can't really envision much more of a hostile environment, ... It's on national TV. Monday night football. Everybody's going to watch it. But you've got to put that aside. Bottom line is, it's still a game. It's still going to be 11 guys on offense, 11 guys on defense.

Kyle Wright

I don't know what kind of defense you can play against a team that spreads their offense out so much. They spread so far that all you can do is line up and hope for the best.

Bernard Brant

We made some shots up high on her this time and so our offense was effective in the win.

Jack Canny

You can go from one extreme to another in a week, but I don't expect a letdown with this offense.

Dick Geyer

By far, our strength is the offensive line and the quarterback. The offense is much further ahead than the defense right now.

Jim Miranda

They double-covered him a couple of times, actually, so it was the right choice not to throw it to him. But he's a guy we need to have involved in the offense.

Nick Saban

They out-hit us. We had no offense. They played with just that desire. They played aggressively. They didn't play scared. They played like champions. They out-hit and they out-played us.

Irick Gardner

We had some guys who made plays on offense. But we had 15 or so negative plays. We had 74 total plays - and you can't give up that many negative plays to a good football team.

Larry Blakeney

The Dominican team is very good and has a lot of offense, and so does Puerto Rico. So do we. It all depends on the pitching. As long as we keep pitching, we will do well. So far, it's been good.

Carlos Subero

That's what it was, 75 percent of the offense?

James Thrash

He has a good command of the offense.

Tom Swittel

We were very solid on defense, especially in the first half. Cary is a well-coached team that is very patient on offense, but we did a good job defending them.

Rob Salter

It was just back and forth and nobody could ever get the upper hand. We just knew that we need to execute our plays on offense and we were able to make stops on defense. We knew that they were going to be making plays down the stretch.

Dustin Maguire

Hats off to the offense. They got better. They whipped our fanny. Our tackling was very poor.

Reggie Herring

That hurt us, too, because she's our little engine. She runs the offense really well so that was just part of a lot of little things that threw us off in the game. It was frustrating.

Lori Drumtra

We maintained our poise and continued to run through our offense. (Allen's) a really good player, and sometimes there's a letdown after someone like him leaves the game.

Cal Cochran

He's the catalyst of our offense.

Chris Faidley

We play great for a half, with a lot of energy, [and] we play calm in the offense. In the second half, we lost energy on defense, we lost concentration on the game. These things happen a lot this year. We should be more keen on getting to the playoffs.

Andres Nocioni

I'd like to give my heartfelt apologies to the victims in the offense and to all the lives that my actions have caused suffering.

Wilbert Rideau

We work it out like that so we both have more involvement in it. He knows the aspect of the defense and I know the offense he does. We get along perfectly.

Al Lewis

Since we've made the changes, the offense hasn't looked bad, ... We should be able to do it even better this week having another week to get everything set.

Joe Hart

With the second year beginning, the team has come together. The defense looks to improve with a much-improved offense.

Matthew Lewis

We had to take something different and do something with it. It was a gamble, but I thought it was a natural offense for the academy's players. I wasn't an idiot. I knew the key to beating Army and Navy was to out-recruit them. The best way to do that was to do something different.

Ken Hatfield

The kids just came out focused and played hard. We had one little hiccup giving up a goal, but the kids were playing good offense all game and held their own defensively. I was pleased with what they did.

Ron Ahart

We drove it all the way down the field. We had a turnover, but it was a really good day for the offense.

Greg Knox

We knew Bardstown would come out (during the second half) with more energy and they did. I was pleased with our defense and we did a decent job executing the offense.

Steve Hart

He's improved, ... He understands the offense better and where he needs to go on the field.

Brandon Kirsch

It all seems to be coming together at the right time for us. We've been able to play well in back-to-back games and we were able to do some good things on both offense and defense and be able to create chances off of both very well.

Joe Hillock

I don't think we were communicating in the first half. (Norwalk) did a nice job running their offense, and we didn't do a good job identifying what they were trying to do.

Merle Olberding

Andrew has great stick skills. We expect him to be a great asset to our offense this year.

Andy Zantow

They both had outstanding games on offense and defense. In order to share the conference championship with Charleroi, we had to beat them that night.

Bob Jacoby

We came out flat, but we warmed up and started playing good defense. A lot of our offense comes from our defense.

Darris Olson

All of the guys who are here seem to be picking up the offense really good. They're all in pretty good shape.

Jamie Christian

I've just got to be more consistent and be reliable for the offense.

Dallas Clark

We wanted to go out there and tell everybody that we have this great offense, but the defense can play, too. We went into the game looking for a 'W.' We'll leave the gauging to you guys.

Larry Tripplett

We still have a key area we need to address on offense. For various reasons that hasn't come around, and we're going to keep addressing it.

Pat Bloom

We're executing on offense right now. We kept putting the pressure on them today.

Mike Sewak

It's tough to explain. We know we have a better offense than that.

Albert Young

We had a decent stretch of offense and defense. But we didn't maintain it.

Michael Uhl

It was great to go out and execute the way we did, and have fun. We were just trying to play hard, to get into the passing lanes and let our defense create our offense.

Kristen O'neill

We had tried to scale back our offense and just keep things really simple, but we were so thin.

Greg Brochetti

She is kinda on a roll. Last game she had eight assists and two turnovers, and to run our offense as a freshman is phenomenal.

Cathy Nixon

I'm really not satisfied with our offense. They got tired too fast.

Mike Rivera

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.

Chris Kirkby

It's a dangerous offense. They force a defense to be assignment oriented. You can't slide off and help because then you will get hurt.

Rocky Hager

The best part is all of the mistakes on offense are correctable.

Byron Leftwich

I am very excited with the addition of Ray, who is a skilled forward who will add more speed and offense to our team.

Jim Rutherford

She's (De La Torre) added another weapon to our offense. She kind of came in and took the job.

Javier Ramirez

Give them all the credit. We didn't execute on offense, especially in the first half.

Gene Allen

We just had to keep playing hard. We started trapping the ball and they just threw it away. Our defense really helped our offense.

Mike Gordon

We played well on offense, and I was very pleased with how we defended.

Joel Heesch

It's not all about scoring. Obviously, when you play a system well and play good defense, you can create some offense.

Tomas Surovy

He's playing extremely well. His confidence has come full circle. It does help our team offense now that we have another scorer.

Charles Ramsey

It lends instant credibility to the Lions. I think he can do a number of good things for their offense and I hope he does it. I love coach Martz. He'll do great things for Detroit.

Grant Wistrom

I thought we played well on offense for the first 4 minutes of the second half. The next four, however, we didn't have it. And that's where they made their run.

Rob Judson

We were very patient on our half-court offense.

Rodney Vigil

Tylor wrestled aggressively the entire tournament. He was focused on offense for every second of his matches.

Jeff Courtright