Steve Alford Best Quotations

Jabari Parker is one of the best, if not the best, I've seen on tape. He's so hard to guard. You've got to guard from 23 feet. He can shoot it, or he can go one-on-one from there. He can post. He's so fast and long.

Jeff played all 40 minutes plus guarded their best player. He got going, and it was hard for them to stop him just like it was hard for us to stop Vincent. I don't think there was any kind of secret on either side.

Our guys were just so much more active. We have played awfully good defense all year, but this may have been our best 40-minute effort.

That was the best he's cut all year and against a very tough defense, too. That was a complete effort out of Adam tonight.

We've been in first place for almost six weeks. That's a heck of a stretch. We're 20-8 and 9-5 in the best conference in the country and we have two big home games left.

We're at our best when we do things as a team defensively. They fully understand that if we're going to win, we're going to have to win it at that end.

Until somebody proves otherwise, they are the class of our league. They're getting everybody's best shot. We gave them our best shot tonight.

We've been awfully good defensively all year, but this might have been our best 40-minute effort. We've been really good defensively in this building all year.

They're probably the best defensive team in the league. They put a lot of pressure on you. We had some key stretches where we took ill-advised shots and that translated into bad defense (on the other end).