Guard Quotes

Zack's been playing very well. He's accepted the challenge of guarding the other team's post player, and he's done a good job. He's going to be a good one. - Mike Delaney

Zack is our best defender, our best point guard. It would have been a different game with him in there. - Matt Mahar

Zach played outstanding. We didn't know if they had guys who could guard us inside. Zach was a huge difference. Thank God for Zach. Other than him, we didn't shoot the ball well. - Scott Trost

You've got to set a tone early. We didn't set that tone early last year and it lasted the whole year. - Eddie Guardado

You've got to make a choice: Do you come out and have him go by you or do you back off and watch him hit a jumper? He's got that versatility where he can do both. Same thing with Eric Gordon; just tough to guard. - Mark Galloway

You've got to guard him with kid gloves. We did that the first time and felt good. - Brad Arnsberg

You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think. - Howard H. Baker, Jr.

You've got to be smart and your team has got to talk and you've got to adjust. We can make excuses about that but we have not improved that area. We have not kept people in front of us very well. It's something we've just got to keep working on and working on, because if we don't, you'll never be able to guard in this league. - Larry Brown

You've got three guys on the perimeter who change positions. You don't know who's going to have the ball at what time. Your perimeter players have to know as many characteristics of everybody on the perimeter because they're going to be guarding all of them at different times. - Roy Williams