Dribble Quotations

I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm not an athlete. But my experience as a kid was, I was made fun of so much that what I did then, is, I wouldn't participate. And I think I cheated myself out of a lot of fun.

I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.

Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.

We are over 60 percent water by weight. We're just a big ball of... blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don't dribble away on the floor.

We stopped a lot of their easy baskets. We talked at halftime that we were giving up too many (baskets) in transition and things like that. We gave up a lot of steals in the first half and a lot of easy baskets. We tried to focus on cutting off their dribble penetration. That was really hurting us. We wanted to make them shoot over the top. I think it worked to an extent in the second half.

We started off kind of sloppy, but improved dramatically. We have a tendency to dribble the ball too much.

We didn't control the paint. Everything they did was because of their dribble penetration and their ability to rebound.

We knew they were going to play us zone because they didn't want Corey to dribble penetrate.

We really got up on him and kind of took him out of his rhythm early. We wanted him to have to dribble to his shot and get in the paint. He's a jump shooter. That's how he makes his living -- making threes.

We had a feel for when they were going to go backdoor. We knew that when they start to dribble at you, it's possible for a backdoor. We were always aware of it.

We made a lot of changes this year and thought we'd gotten much more athletic. I didn't know we were going to have the same problems on the defensive end. Guys are getting beaten off the dribble like drums, and then when the help comes, the other guys aren't coming in.

She was just one of those all-around great players. She could dribble down the floor if you needed her to or shoot from the outside or inside. Whatever you needed her to do, she was there to do it.

She was great. She has the ability to dribble like she does and either take the ball to the basket, or when someone is in her way, still find the open person under the basket.

Short term I think (the euro) will dribble back to below the $1.20 handle and ... we're kind of in a probably $1.17 to $1.22 range for the next couple of months.

She can break people down off the dribble and can handle anything pressure-wise. She likes having the ball in her hands.

She believes she can beat anybody off the dribble any time. So there were times when she didn't entirely enjoy offensive sets or things we were doing.

She's a great player. She's tough off the dribble and she knows how to finish. She did a great job with time running out on us.

(Mitchell) shouldn't be able to dribble that far that fast. (But) we got her to take a bad shot. She made it.

Matt's friends with all the basketball players, so I guess he just wanted to dribble the ball a little bit on that run,

Maybe we should have come out with a zone in the second half to stop their dribble penetration. Our guards were not responsible for that, coach Turco was. I'll take the blame for that.

I wouldn't mind wagering there will be, at best, a tiny dribble of sales.

I got the ball and tried to dribble down as far as I could. The dude tripped me a little bit, so I didn't have any control and I just threw the ball up.

I don't keep an ongoing dribble of updates of my day, but I tell little compartmentalized stories every day on Snapchat. I use it much more like making a movie than maintaining a diary. When people watch my 60-second clips, there's a beginning, middle, and end.

Because they go pick-and-roll we wanted to go man-to-man on them and force them to beat us off the dribble or make a shot with a hand in their face. I didn't want them to go to the bucket, cause contact (from a helping big man), and put it in someone else's hands to let them do it at the foul line.

Chris has the ability to break players down with the dribble or with the pass. He's also a good goal-scorer.

Chris gave us a consistent outside threat and was always willing to take that big shot. He really improved his game off the dribble as the season went on, and did what the team needed for success.

For us, we have to remember what they did to us last time. They came out and just railroaded us with shot-making and dribble penetration. You name it. We're going to have to dig our heels in defensively.

He transitions from dribble to jump shot really well. I mean really well.

He is a very good player. And I thought we did well to guard him. He got some of those points off loose balls that we collapsed on and didn't get and he got passes in situations where he could score, but that's just how basketball works. But I thought we did well guarding him. We didn't allow him to penetrate too much and we kept him from hurting us off the dribble like he is capable of doing.

He is a true competitor who wants to win and leaves everything on the court both offensively and defensively. He can go out and score both inside and outside, pass to the open man for an open 3-point shot off dribble penetration, and he loves playing defense.

He made the game easier for the entire team. He really got everyone else involved. Some guys had some really big nights because of his dribble penetration.

We've got to stop Prescott, dribble penetration. And we can't give them three or four opportunities.

We tightened up a bit. We needed to get our own energy up. It was a matter of passing the ball and not getting beat off the dribble as much as we had.

He's a great player. There's not much you can do. He shoots it really pure and he can take you off the dribble ... He's just a great player and a great guy.

He's a shooter. They set the screens. Every kid that plays basketball can learn from him. He keeps his dribble alive. If he doesn't have anything he backs away and attacks again. ... The kid is just a great player.

He's got such great bounce and elevation, he shot it on some 6-5 guys and you'd think he was the biggest guy out there. He transitions from dribble into jump shot really well, I mean really well. That kid's going to have a fine career in front of him.

He's a talented athlete. He can handle the basketball. He can pass. He can shoot. He can defend. He's a total-package player. On a couple of those shots, he was at NBA range. There's some things you've got to give up. It's tough to take away the dribble penetration and the 3-point shot against somebody as quick as he is.

We may have been a little bit tired. But certainly we didn't do a very good job of stopping dribble penetration.

He likes to dribble a lot, ... so I told our defenders to just stay on his back, don't let him turn. Make him play the drop ball, and they did a good job of doing that.

He is very good at playing the passing lanes, stopping dribble penetration and boxing out.

(Hall) did a great job leading the team. He was breaking people down off the dribble and creating for his teammates.

Jai is an unusual athlete. You look at his size and you think that he?s slow, but Jai is the total opposite. He is quick with his hands and feet and he can do a lot of things that big guys his size can?t do. He shoots the ball well, he can dribble the ball and also he can use his body down low.

I thought coming into the game that we would have trouble guarding them off the dribble because they were just too fast for us. And we did, so we tried to play some zone and they shot the ball well from the perimeter, so we got caught between a rock and a hard place. Once we lose the lead and have to play fast it is very difficult for us to win. We don?t score the ball at a high level.

I thought there were times (against South Carolina) when guys created off the dribble and didn't find him. I thought he should have gotten up 10 or 11 shots. There was three or four or five times when our guys missed him. Our team has got to do a better job of recognizing when he's open and getting him the basketball.

I think we did a much better job of controlling the game in the second half. We were able to make some things happen with dribble penetration and get some nice shots.

I thought once we got it to 32-30, we were OK. We switched to a little bit of a zone to try to take away some of their dribble penetration. To their credit they stepped up and hit those outside jumpers, which put us into a position where we had to foul. They converted their free throws.

I think what hurt us tonight was our defense. They really exploited us with the dribble and our turnovers. You're not going to beat anyone with turnovers.

I think a repeat performance of Saturday would be good. Our 1-2-2 zone held them for most of the game. We need to do a better job of stopping (Laura) Mount on the dribble drive. Offensively, we need to keep the tempo up. It needs to be a transition game.

I think we came out in the third quarter and got away from our game plan. Three of our first four shots were 3-pointers. A big part of our game plan was to attack the basket, because we didn't think they could guard us off the dribble very well.

Jerry Reynolds was trying to dribble the clock out because he didn't know Scott was closing in on the record. But then Reynolds ended up scoring the goal to give Scott the record.

I saw when I got the ball there were four seconds left, so I had time to dribble a couple of times. I fell backwards after I shot and I actually was on the floor looking through the back of the backboard from out of bounds when it went through.

Our press was passive early on. They were splitting us with the dribble real easy.

Our plan was to push him away from the basket and make him use a dribble if he was going to make it to the basket and we didn't want the ball to come to him and have him be able to fan it out to the guards.

Our attackers are finally catching on that they don't need to dribble all the way to the box before taking a shot. Once we get that little detail dialed in, we should see lots more scoring.

Rodney scored a bunch of points, but let me tell you what Rodney did -- he defended. Late in the game, he did not get beat on the dribble one time.

Rocky has three posts that are good. They can take you off the dribble and get to the basket. We just want to play well and get in a rhythm and get our timing down.

Looking at tape, we felt a zone would be effective against them. They're so athletic and we had a hard time controlling them off the dribble the last time. What we wanted to do was get a fast tempo to start, get them a little tired and switch to a zone. I think that was really effective tonight.

Look at it this way. If a guy can dribble, I say he's better than me. I can't dribble that well. If a guy can shoot, I think he's better than me because I'm not a good shooter. I'm just a big body, so until I can do those things, I won't be the best player.

I think I have the same concerns that every center has, that you're going to wind up on 'NFL Follies,' that you'll dribble one back or throw one over his head, ... I don't think it'll be difficult. Now that's probably the kiss of death right there.

It has opened more avenues to the basket for dribble penetration. We have been more efficient in our transition offense.

I thought his defensive effort locking up on dribble penetration was the key to getting us going and getting us easy baskets. He had a great week of practice. He practiced harder this last week than he has all year and he really worked hard on his defense.

I wasn't happy with the last four minutes of the game (for us). Give St. Charles North credit. They did a terrific job of putting their heads down and getting to the basket. We need to do a better job of taking away dribble drive penetration.

We just couldn't stop dribble penetration. We're not getting rotation... This is our ninth game and we've gotta be able to put it together for more than just a minute spurt.

We just couldn't let him in the paint. I was impressed with his effort to get the ball inside when I thought he would stay outside because he likes to dribble and be a guard. He kept fighting for rebounding position.

We were up five and I had the rebound. I don't know what I was thinking. I tried to dribble the ball out of the pack. Then they got a three-point play. Everything kind of went wrong, that could have gone wrong in that last minute.

We were able to capitalize on their defensive breakdowns. We were able to dribble in and take some shots.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

We put him situations to score off screens. But he also has the ability now to dribble penetrate and do other things, go to the basket or give it up. If he does both, that's tough to shut down.

We got beat on dribble penetration and that was huge. They have a bunch of guys that can shoot and pass the ball. When you have Jason (Kidd), it becomes contagious.

We couldn't stop him and couldn't stop the dribble penetration.

We couldn't pass the ball, couldn't dribble the ball, and it resulted in a lot of easy opportunities and more possessions for the opponents. We tried everything we had, but hell it was awful.

We played up the line like we're supposed to do on defense. Our point guards did a good job of stopping dribble penetration and we turned them over quite a bit.

We had girls that could dribble with both hands. That's both hands dribbling the ball at the same time.

We had to throw out our offense. They trap and press, so we had Kelvin attack when he beat the press. He did a great job against the press with the dribble and the pass.

We're not a team that can score off the dribble and break you down. We need to find other ways if we're not running. If we're going to score in a half-court set, Hilton has to step up. We look to him now.

We know that we're not going to be able to dribble the ball now. So now we have to move the ball with the pass. There are plenty of teams that play without natural point guards. We have to become one of them.

We came out focused, with good energy to start the game. Guys were talking, rotating, stopping dribble penetration and getting out on the shooters.

We were handling the press real well then we started making silly mistakes. You can't dribble through the press.

We were just letting (Montoya) dribble through the middle, which was bad. He was a good player.

We play up tempo. The only drawback to it was that we didn't do a very good job of looking into the post. We settled too much off the dribble tonight.

We didn't do a good enough job of defending them in the first half. They were beating us off the dribble and creating opportunities to knock down the threes. In the second half, we did such a better job of keeping the ball out of the paint (for Kentucky).

We're a team that likes to move, and I think the tight 2-3 was like a fence out there. They had everything jammed up inside and our dribble penetration wasn't working. We like to be able to get up and down the court and we weren't able to do that.

Von is a special kind of athlete who has a great feel for scoring points. He can pass, shoot and dribble and do them all well. He is also able to utilize his size to his advantage, which makes him even more dangerous.

You don't need to be a genius when you're 6-2. They've got the green light for a reason. They're exactly what we thought they'd be. We gave them too many opportunities to do what they do best -- turn to the basket and create with a dribble or two.

We knew we needed to keep her under control and keep her in front of us. She brings a lot to the table, and her ball speed with the dribble creates challenges as far as getting back on defense -- and even in the half court where we're helping out -- and she's a challenging player.

We let him dribble all over the place and get where he wanted to get to.

We were working hard to move the ball around against the zone. Their defense took away the post. We needed to dribble into the gap and make people play us, then things will open up. We will learn to move with a purpose against that zone.

We were working all week on helping with dribble penetration, jumping off our man to the help side defense.

We have good enough players, but there are very few guys in this league who can draw a second defender to them. Those are the guys who make your offense good, whether it's a post-up guy, a dribble penetration guy or a pick-and-roll guy.

We do have a very balanced team. Our players are pretty versatile. Our post players can dribble the ball and come out and shoot the three.

We did a real good job on him (Bogan) the first half, collapsing on him. The second half they were more in transition, opened the floor up a little bit, so we couldn't do as much with him the second half. He didn't dribble it as much and was able to get it a little deeper in the paint.

We would like to get some more dribble penetration from people other than Tracy McGrady. It would be nice to get McGrady a spot-up shot that wasn't under duress, where he didn't have to create a shot for himself but where a shot was created for him. Particularly when McGrady is out, we'll try to do more pick-and-roll stuff for Rafer.

We're not really a great 3-point shooting team, but we do better when we get dribble penetration and then kick it back out.

We got kind of stagnant offensively. We didn't get any dribble penetration. When they went into that zone we got stagnant. And it was too much Dion Sims.

When you get beat on dribble penetration, it's going to open up a lot of things. You can't defend on the road like this and expect to win.

We've played some very good, very athletic teams and no one's broken us down on the dribble like he did. So, I was just very impressed. I noticed him. He got 21 on us. So, I noticed him.

We see zone from time to time, but we certainly don?t see it for a whole quarter. If you make shots, if you make some dribble penetration against the zone, they come out of it. We never did. We never made a shot and they had no reason to come out of it.

The grass is a big problem for an attack-minded team. It is difficult to dribble with the ball at pace and cross.

To me, he's involved in every aspect of their offense. He can score off the dribble and he's gotten better at finding his own shot. And he's probably as good as any point guard in this league in terms of knowing when to shoot, when not to shoot, when to go inside and when to pull it out.

We focused on keeping Parker away from the rim, but we couldn't stop his dribble penetration. He did the same stuff, and he was very good.