Offensive Plays Quotes

Just hearing somebody's voice in center field, it helps our guards out to know where they need to go, when the screen is coming, when the back door is coming, when the flare is coming. When different things like that happen and we're talking, it helps us all out in the long run.

I think in Toronto my job was to score just based on the system that we had. We played a lot of iso basketball - a lot of one-on-one basketball.

It's easy to draw up isolation basketball - it's not easy to draw up great motion offense with passing and cutting.

One-on-one is different than actually going through picks, hitting the floor, playing 5-on-5, getting back in transition, making quick moves without thinking about it.

I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.

Do passing drills that come from your offense.

Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness.

To win those big games you're going to have to complete some third-down passes, you're going to have to be able to get some explosive games in the passing game.

The triangle offense is more for slashers and people who like to take the ball to the basket.

You're never trying to have three-and-outs; I don't care what offense you're playing.

I don't have a lot of experience running basketball teams.I'm just trying to get smart enough even to understand everything going on. As much of a fan as I am, I haven't played the game since ninth-grade. If you told me when I bought the team that there were 12 kinds of pick and rolls, I would've told you I have no frickin' clue about that.

I'm just going to continue to make good plays. Making the right decisions, good decisions with the ball so my team can play with a great flow.

We will not build our offensive game plans around our punter... We hope we don’t major in punting.

Anytime that anyone can create some explosive plays, get first downs, we're going to have more plays on offense.

I can't tell you the difference between the triangle offense and the Princeton offense.

I think you always try to put the offense in the best position to make good plays, which usually requires us to move multiple people around and give them an opportunity to impact a game in a lot of different ways.

When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

I think the fans want to see offense.

I came from a high school where I didn't have a playbook or anything like that. Coach would draw it up and get the headset on, and we'd go after it.

There is not some secret formula, it comes down to completing passes, being efficient on first and second down and making plays when the ball is in your hands.

I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something more than a five to two score. You know as well as I do that the excitement, temperature and decibels of any big game today rise instantly when there is someone on base. It reaches ecstasy when somebody makes a run.

Sometimes, it's the little plays that I make that can change the outcome of the game - whether it's blocking a shot or blitzing a guard or getting an offensive rebound.

I have to make sure that we're in the right plays and I can get the ball out quickly and get into our playmakers' hands.

I want to learn more about the game as a whole and about the finer points of technique across the line of scrimmage. I want to learn more about coverages and blitzes so I can kind of see the game before it happens.

It's pretty much those little hustle plays that make a team good.