Karl-Anthony Towns Quotes

My goal is to protect the basket. Most of the time, I won't block the shot but I'm going to affect the shot or I'm going to affect the way they think.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.

You don't want your opponent to score. You don't want your guy to score and once you get better at it, you get used to it, it becomes a mindset. You just try to do it every game.

Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

You have to make the strikers fear you. Make it difficult for them to get on the ball and go into different areas. That makes my job easier.

To be a great player and a great scorer, you have to find ways to get yourself open and get shots off. It's a dog fight.

Playing an ultra-defensive side is very difficult.

To be useful in defence, to win back the ball, you don't always have to go sliding into the tackle. It's also about your positioning; sometimes all you have to do is take a step back.

Blocking a shot can really demoralize a person and defer them from coming to the rim the rest of the game. So being able to do that and change the landscape of the game by one play is pretty amazing.

It doesn't matter who's under the basket, I'm going to try to slam or block the shot.

My shot-blocking ability, it's really second to none.

I've always loved blocking shots.

I block shots and stay out the way.

Especially going from an attacking player to a defensive player, your whole mindset has to change. You have to work on one-v-one defending versus one-v-one attacking.

When you're running next to a guy who's about to lay it up in transition, you just get out of the way because you know Giannis is coming to block it.

Of course the defenders are trying to be physical with me. They look at me, 7-3, skinny, they try to be physical.

I like to score when I can, but if I can't do that, I like to do the other things - defense, blocking, rebounding.

Just understand that I'm trying to get to the quarterback by any means necessary. And if I have to throw somebody out of the way to do it, it is what it is.

I have the mind-set that a guard can't stick me. So I watch the bigs and see how they like to play. If you're a shot blocker, then I jump into you. If you take charges, then I pull up for the midrange.

I think, as a midfielder, you need to have that aggression as part of your game.

Whoever I'm playing against, I go in and try to stop their best scorer and try to get myself going on the offensive end.

I've played against Aguero a couple of times. He starts behind you so he's always offside, but you don't know where he is. You look behind to the right and he'll go to your left. He's so tough to find. You've got to learn and work out how to stop them.

I think my one-on-one defense is pretty good.