Jae Crowder Quotes

When you've got guys touching the ball on the offensive end, they're really into the defensive end.

To be a great player and a great scorer, you have to find ways to get yourself open and get shots off. It's a dog fight.

Defense, in the game, is something that I just really enjoy. Some people enjoy assisting the ball. Some people like to score, score, score, but to me the first thing that comes up is defense.

All the coaches preach about defense. Every day they talk about defense, they talk about how important it is to get stops in order to win basketball games.

I just try to make the right play, stay aggressive and defensively just do what I do. I make sure I talk to everyone and control the paint.

Any good defensive team has a strong anchor, because he cleans up mistakes.

When you're in the playoffs, you have to get easy baskets and you have to limit their easy baskets.

You can't just score more points than last year without playing defense.

If you commit to the defensive end of the floor, you're going to have a chance to win every night. And if you're a great defensive team, you're going to go to the playoffs.

I like the uniqueness and creativity you can have on a basketball court; there's always a different way to score. Obviously, you have teammates, so it's easier to draw up plays, and tennis, you have your patterns and where you should hit based on percentage.

I try to take whatever the defense gives me, have a sense of urgency, know who's guarding me and pick my spots, get my teammates involved and also attack the rim.

I've worked on my game to the point where anything they've asked of me, I try to come through and do it for them, whether that's defending, making plays, being a decoy, or knocking down shots and being a scorer.

I just play hard on the defensive end. For me, being a good defender is someone who plays very hard on defense and just tries hard.

I still have a lot of confidence in my offensive game. I try to get guys involved and get in the lane, but defense is my backbone.

I think defending is more of, like, a science, and it's fun to learn that. And then I see attacking as an art.

I just try to play hard defensively.

It doesn't matter who's under the basket, I'm going to try to slam or block the shot.

I just try to set good screens and get my teammates open.

I don't like isolation play, unless you're in the low post.

Coach K tried to implement a style where we passing, moving the ball, the open guy gets the open shot, running in transition.

It starts on the defensive end, but it's also just the ball movement and holding everyone accountable.

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.

I'm a defender first and foremost - blocks, headers, vital tackles, or even just the communication side of it, which is massive but doesn't really get recognised.

The game changes when you play good defense and don't come up with the ball.

My focus is to start my game with my defense every night.