Andy Landers
Andy Landers
Andrew G. Landerswas the longtime head coach of the University of Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball team. He married the former Pam McClellan in 1981 and has two children, Andrea Lauren and Drew Joseph...
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We're a basketball team that understands it limitations. We understand that we don't have all the cards to play that many of the other teams have. At the same time, we're a basketball team that has some very good cards to play. Shuffling those cards and dealing them in the right manner - playing with each other and playing with each others' strengths - has in fact become our team's strength.
home
Let's be honest. It will be very much like a home game.
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I think it was the kind of game we expected - without that last shot.
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I hadn't thought of that. I guess the only reaction I have to that is I wish it was one less (today), and he was at home in the bed with the flu.
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I have no problems with that. That is something that I've felt would occur over a period of time as more players who played at the highest level and went through the entire process (began entering the candidate pool).
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Connecticut has improved a great deal since the beginning of the year in that area. They've improved in a lot of areas, but their schemes are such offensively that they're not at a nature where you take a lot of risk with the basketball. So it's going to be hard to turn them over.
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We had great respect for them coming into the game and we leave the game with even greater respect. They gave us all we wanted. It was at times the game I feared.
second
We had to give some things up in the second half.
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We didn't lose. You lose when you go out and don't apply the talent that you have to the challenge that you have. When you do the best that you can do with what you have to do it with, you don't lose, you get beat. There's no shame in getting beat. The shame is not fighting the fight. We fought the fight.
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We did a good job with our press, not so much forcing turnovers but controlling the tempo.
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We?re just excited to still be standing. We very much look forward to playing a very good Connecticut basketball team in the next round and have some sense of understanding about what?s involved in that task and what a challenge it?s going to be.
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We're right where we need to be. I'm not just saying that. Obviously, at any point in time you were watching practice, you would say, 'He's not happy.' When you look at the big picture, I couldn't ask more of them.
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There are areas where I would like for us to be better or stronger. But we are a solid team with no glaring weaknesses.