Ball Quotes
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He's been pretty consistent. He's very active away from the ball, and very aggressive to the glass.
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When you rebound the ball we're able to move the ball, and we want to get out and run, try to get guys some easy baskets. We don't want to come out and play a half-court game all the time.
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One of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective.
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When Stephen got hurt...it was either a motivating force for the Pacers to get their run, but at the same time he was turning the ball over a lot, so he may have been an asset by default.
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I was just praying to get the ball up court and get a shot off.
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The center picked the ball up a little bit and we felt like we got it off right when he picked it up, ... We probably looked at it 30 times in there with Danny and I'd say we kind of got right off on it. That could have won it for us.
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We have to be a team that's going to be a little bit grimy, we're going to have to go after every loose ball that we can, we're going to have to be the team that dives on the floor.
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One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second.
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They had a game plan against Kobe that was effective, getting the ball out of his hands.
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I started by hitting balls against walls with an apple crate board.
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I didn't try to hit him. I just tried to make my pitch and the ball went out of my hand.
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Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.
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Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball...
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Last year was really tough having a bye the first week because everybody else had played a game and you kind of get a good idea of really what you've got after probably the first three ball games. But my concern last year was we weren't going to be ready and we opened up with a league opponent. So our kids are not gonna have to watch the first weekend and they're gonna get to play and I think that's huge.
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This is the right way. This is good because on a national team you can't have 12 star players. You need role players. Can't play with 12 star players. Too many want the ball, too many want to play.
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You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.
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The ball is entirely in his court. We really have no knowledge of where he is with the project, other than what we read in the papers.
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And I started it all. I threw the home-run ball.
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We're not playing defense, ... We're not defending or rebounding the ball. That's taking away a lot of baskets because we can't run and we can't stop anybody.
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Most of it's about the quickness involved. Just the activity to the ball. Loose balls, tip-ins, all those little things make such a difference in a game. And that's a matter of seconds, and I think a lot of that is about energy.
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When you're a little kid, you want the ball. You don't want to play defense. When you get the ball, basically you can do whatever you want.
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The ball was literally glued to the back of his foot - into the back of the net.
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You don't know how many times I look back and see the ball skipping on the ground because the quarterback is on his back. That makes a huge difference.
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We don't have an identity as far as how we play on the defensive end. We might play well one night and on another night we won't play well. We always score the ball and average 100 points, so obviously our problem is in other areas. Until we take care of those problems, we're going to continue to struggle.
