Deflection Quotes

When you're intense you're intense. It's hard to be intense in one area and not have it carry over and affect other areas. I think the more intense she's become about deflections and steals, the greater her intensity level has risen on everything, offense, running the floor, rebounding. - Andy Landers

We've been getting some excellent hockey by all four lines, and I think that's why we're having success right now because we're not just relying on our big dogs to score the goals. I just tried to get the puck on net and Murray, getting his nose dirty once again, made a great deflection. - Craig Rivet

We picked it up defensively, created a lot of good things for ourselves and you could see their eyes widening with a few deflections here and there. They just got hungrier and hungrier. - Tracey Hammel

We made mistakes that we don't ordinarily make. The last few weeks, turnovers have not been much of a problem. Tonight, it was a factor. You can also credit their tenacious defense. They're very quick with their hands and they get a lot of deflections. - Jim O'Brien

We just came out with a little more energy in the second half and we were more aggressive. We started getting deflections and we get more active in the passing lanes and that opened the game for us in the third quarter. - Shawn Marion

We got off to a dreadful start with the wicked deflection for their first goal. - Tony Mowbray

We did the little things tonight. Deflections, shot clock violations, those kinds of things. This is the conference tournament championship. This is what we play for. - Chris Gaynor

We can't guard (Pleasant leading scorer) Brad Martin on the block and they've got a couple of good shooters, so we could not allow them to get the ball to the quarter court. We got into passing lanes and we got deflections. - Don Worstell

We can go very deep and a lot of kids come in and do a good job for us. He came in, played his position perfect and took a nice deflection from Bryan Canty and just buried it home. I could go on and on about the people coming off of the bench, but he is doing great for us. - Jim Tobin

We are having a little trouble scoring against the top teams. We've got to get screens, tips and deflections and make some pretty plays. Hopefully we will take advantage of our opportunities. - Brian Durocher