Sentence examples for a commitment to defense from inspiring English sources

Thanks to a commitment to defense and the weakness of the Pacific Division after the first-place Kings, the Ducks have turned things around.

A truly great team also has a vocal commitment to defense, and a bench — a real bench — that plays 15 to 20 minutes a night and leaves welts on opponents.

These post-trade records are bound to even out some, but the Nuggets wasted little time in crowing about "playing the right way" and being rid of "sticky fingers" and making a full-blown "commitment to defense".

O'Brien met with Walker and Pierce before the season and told them that nothing short of an all-out commitment to defense would improve the team.

Republicans, he said, "tend to focus on spending as a metric of their commitment to defense, sometimes as the only metric".

That would be competing with the energy and commitment to defense befitting a Riley team, including the versions that once enthralled the loyalists at Madison Square Garden.

Yet Dunga, Brazil's pragmatic coach, saw something in him, some extra commitment to defense from a midfield combatant, that makes both the coach and the player a lightning rod in Brazil.

What hasn't changed is Varejao's commitment to defense.

Today, Scott reflects Riley's discipline, conditioning drills and commitment to defense.

Wilkens said Crawford's most pressing areas of improvement were shot selection and his commitment to defense.

Chandler and Smith both sounded the same alarm, questioning the Knicks' commitment to defense and their lack of ball movement on offense.