It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To score points, you need a lot of consistent effort over the course of the game. If you're throwing it or running it in, it's not a big difference in terms of the score at all, obviously. But turnovers limit your scoring. That's the problem with turnovers.
It's important for us, if we're going to be a good team, to be a good defensive team in the fourth quarter.
We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.
I think you always try to put the offense in the best position to make good plays, which usually requires us to move multiple people around and give them an opportunity to impact a game in a lot of different ways.
Look at Baltimore back in 2000. They had an outstanding defense. They could run the ball, and they had a quarterback that didn't turn it over that much. I think that is a plan that can bring you great success.
When our assists lead to baskets, that's us playing our best, and we begin knocking down shots.
The bottom line is we need to score points, and we need to score a lot of them.
Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone's goal is to score points.
We have to back each other up no matter what. Defense, you have to do your job, and offense has to do theirs.
They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.