I really like good defense. You carry confidence (on defense), and when you go to the plate, it carries over.

Alex was fabulous. We know we've got a great goalie; Alex gives our defense confidence.

We have a lot of confidence in our defense and when you're scoring offensively, they both feed off of each other.

We needed one stop, and we had confidence we could get that stop. It's what we preach all year, defense and rebounding.

The offense did OK against a solid defense. There is a gain of confidence.

It's great that the coaches have confidence with me on defense, ... It's great going in on defense because everybody else on there are old guys and they keep me up to speed, and they tell me what I gotta do every play.