Bill Laimbeer Quotes

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.

I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.

The job of the offense is not to score points. The job of the defense is not to stop the other team from scoring points.

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.

We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

If you have a game where you're under pressure, obviously there are going to be a lot of shots on target, and you're going to make saves, but you can't say you played well in a game where you concede five goals. It's ridiculous.

You're a pick-and-pop guy sometimes. You can get rolling with what the defense gives you.

My stats speak for themselves; I've got a good touch for a big man, I know I can find the back of the net.

Every kid thinks about scoring rather than not conceding.

Everyone sees me as a defensive-minded guy, but both sides of the court are important. If you want to win, you have to be good on both sides.

When you play a great team like the Patriots, you can only kick so many field goals and stay in the game.

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

I think when you're a very good defensive team - it's very rare a team wins a championship when you're not a very good defensive team.

I don't think there's ever been a team that ever scored more layups than that Blazers team.

Defense doesn't matter enough.

You don't need only your strikers. You need your defenders to be on top of their game. You need a midfield to work hard and track back, and I suppose you need a goalkeeper who makes saves once in a while.

When I get in there, I'm not really worried about scoring. I'm just worried about playing as hard defense as I can play, making my opponent work, and then I know the offensive end will open up for me. I've been a scorer all my life, so that's what I try to pride myself on. It feels good.

We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.

The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions

How are they defensively, attacking-wise?

Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

When we've got the puck, they can't score.

Some days, you don't score, but then you have to make sure you don't concede.

The game changes when you play good defense and don't come up with the ball.