Quotes about dribbling (16 Quotes)


    Garrett has improved tremendously the past two years. He's a totally different player than when he was a freshman. He still needs to work on his dribbling, but his offensive game has come around. He's always been a pretty good defender.

    We just didn't get easy baskets on the other end. That played a very big part in our first two wins. Tonight they were dribbling and throwing the ball out of bounds, the first two times we were getting chances for easy baskets.


    Unfortunately for us, we allowed what little measure of success we've had in the season and we've become like most teams -- they lost their focus for whatever reason. Sometimes growing mentally is just as much of a skill as it is dribbling and passing. And for whatever reason, Clemson demonstrated that they had grown a little bit better in those areas than we have.

    It's been a crazy year. Last Friday was a real tough one against Briggs. Right now I'm happy with the effort, but it comes down to fundamentals. One thing we're working on is team unity, and we've been working on dribbling skills and just basketball awareness. We're also going to be bringing up some (junior varsity) kids. The next couple weeks are important in terms of the teaching we do.


    At the same time, there is a growing pile of tidbits, in Roberts' opinions and in the Reagan-era documents dribbling out of the White House, that indicates he has strongly held and far-right views on major frontsabortion, religion, and executive power. There's ammunition for principled opposition to be mined here. But the key attribute Roberts lacks from the point of view of the legal liberals, at least on the record, is an overarching, burn-the-house-down judicial philosophy. As a result, proponents of judicial restraintan approach to the law that's become as fashionable among liberals as conservativesare eager to embrace him as one of their own. Leftish advocates of restraint celebrate justices who don't reach out beyond the facts of a case to decide more than they need to and who respect existing Supreme Court precedent. They wrinkle their noses at justices who overtly seek to impose a rightward agenda (Antonin Scalia) and are willing to jettison past decisions to do it (Clarence Thomas). Roberts has never declared himself one of the bad guys, Sunstein pointed out hopefully in a recent piece in the New Republic . Instead he has styled himself as deliberate, lawyerly, process-oriented. His opinions on the D. C. Circuit court of appeals avoid broad pronouncements, ... They do not try to reorient the law.




    It's a tough style to play against. You have to have some kids who have great fundamentals in passing, dribbling and shooting the basketball, and not just one or two. ... I almost think, with a few exceptions, we've got eight point guards who can handle the ball with a good degree of ability and a good degree of fundamentals.

    We didn't take care of the ball, and we didn't execute against the zone and there was a lid on the basket. I thought early on we were dribbling right into them and trying to shoot over them, and that makes it a little bit easier to block.

    That was a huge play. He ends up dribbling to the deep corner and knocking down the shot. We had some opportunities to shoot 3s at the end but instead we shot twos.


    NFA is a very quick team. Instead of trying to make short passes, we did too much dribbling and turned the ball over. I was very happy with our defense, though. We held a good NFA team to 40 points until we ran out of gas late. We're primarily playing six guys, and Browning is just coming back off the flu.

    When I was dribbling the ball at the end of Sunday's win, I just thought about a lot of hard work, a lot of little bruises and injuries we had. But we just kept fighting through it.

    We've been hitting our shooting, passing and dribbling since Christmas break and it's coming around. It was an all around good team effort. I knew we matched up well against them and we knew we'd have a chance if we shot the ball.



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