Contested Shots Quotes

When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

We guard the shooter. A lot of guys shoot way behind the 3-point line. We guard where the shooter is, not where the line is.

Whether I'm starting or coming off the bench, bigs have to protect the rim and can't give nothing easy to nobody.

I like to always be able to contest shots. If you play against a player like Al Jefferson - he likes to pump-fake, so you need to be alert and quick. If he pump-fakes you and you go up, when you come back you need to go right back up to contest his shot.

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

It's been a part of my game for life. It's tougher to finish in the lane so you've got to find different areas to score efficiently and the mid-range contested shot is a shot a lot of teams will live with. And it's a shot I'm willing to live with as well just because I've gotten so many shots at it and I'm comfortable with it.

Most of the time when you're open that's when it's tough to make shots because you try to get some different focus than normally when some guys try to contest your shots.

If a guy hits seven contested threes, tip your hat off to him. Good game. But in most of the cases, that won't happen.

Kyle Korver - got to treat him like J.J. Redick and not let him get good looks.

On any longball, people try to outjump each other. I don't mind a big jump, but to be honest, the only thing you have to do is fight for the spot where the ball is going to land.

Four-men aren't used to picking up guys pushing the ball in transition. Let alone, somebody getting the rebound and just busting.

I'd rather take a contested shot than an open shot any day ... It's kind of boring when you take open shots

My goal is simple - try and make sure my guy doesn't score. And if he does, make sure it's a contested two, or a tough shot.

I look at like this: Any player I guard, long twos or shots like that, if they make them I still think that's good defense. You can't make those shots at a high percentage the whole game. It's just hard to make long two-pointers, step-backs, fadeaways, off-the-dribble crossovers.

You don't contest shots without expending energy. You don't get deflections - unless you walk into one every now and then - without expending energy. These are the things in basketball you have to really want to do.