Jae Crowder Quotes

We need to play tough defense and have a sound offense. But mostly, we have to outrebound the other team.

I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

In football, things change quickly.

In football, whatever can happen can happen when the team performs well and sometimes when the team does not perform as well.

I built my career in the league playing defense and making shots, and also making plays when I needed to.

You have to defend the perimeter guys otherwise you're going to struggle getting playing time or staying on the court.

You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.

I know I have to be good on pick-and-rolls.

NBA teams like to see guys who can help a team win a game in a lot of fashions.

What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.

The Knicks left me open a lot of times the last time we played them, and I was just making sure I took the shots that were there.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

You want to keep the defense guessing.

There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

You can't try a man-to-man if you don't practice it.

Football's football, it can change very quickly. I know that, I've experienced that many times.

Strikers can't score every week, much as they would like to.

'The Memphis Grizzlies' are always a great defensive team and defense is one of my strengths, so I think that's one thing that I can bring to this team.

Anytime I can get in there, playing every now and then, and contribute some way, whether it's throwing out a guy or calling a good game or getting a hit and RBI, it's big.

You can't play Around the World in the NBA, you've gotta go to the basket.

I always felt defense was a big part of my game.

That's how I grew up. Just play defense - and make a basket.

If we play defense the way we're supposed to and we play defense the way we do here in practice, we should have no problems against most of the teams in the league, and other teams, it'll be a great fight.

Mike D'Antoni is a great offensive mind. He's a great coach.

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