Anne Donovan
Anne Donovan
Anne Theresa Donovanis an American women's basketball player and coach. From 2013 to 2015, she was the head coach of the Connecticut Sun...
decision
She's going to have a decision she's going to have to make at some point.
brand cool defense including keeping patience returning standing
There's no standing around in this camp. The defense is brand new, including to the returning players, so keeping my patience and cool now is important.
came clock crowd cut felt good minutes second
The second half, we came out and cut it to 10, and felt real good about the momentum. The crowd was in it, with just two minutes off the clock and already we had done that damage.
game impacts last several
Saturday's game is important for several reasons. It is the last regular-season game, and it not only has implications for us but it impacts other teams.
higher seed wnba
The way of the WNBA playoffs, it does not put the higher seed at an advantage, ... You have to go in there and make the most of it.
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Texas Tech had a very disappointing season, and Erin didn't have a lot of people around her. I think people looked at that team as underachieving and maybe labeled Erin the same way. But she had a tremendous pre-draft camp. When you put her with better players, she's able to rise to the occasion. I expect that she is really going to compete for that backup spot.
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To be drilled on your home court is not how any of us envisioned this. Coming in here with two home games and home-court advantage, we thought we had a great chance to move onto the Western Conference finals. ... I have to give Van Chancellor and Houston a ton of credit.
expecting game good home last regular
You want momentum. It is our last home game of the regular season, and we're expecting a good crowd.
composure free lose point saw throw
The most important things was the free throw line, no question. The other thing was, down the stretch, I saw us lose our composure much more than I would have thought at this point of the season.
hard
Awesome. She's been working hard on the sideline, obviously, because her conditioning was good, too.
add compete field good marvelous obviously parker players september team veteran younger
Parker obviously had a marvelous tournament, and we got good contributions from the other ones as well. We're in good shape; you add our veteran players with our younger players, and we'll field a good team in September that will really compete hard.
bird night nine shot sue ten week
I'll give Sue Bird that shot every night of the week and she will make it nine out of ten times.
continue deserve given good male men success talk women
I think all I can do is to continue to talk about it, and I'm not male bashing. Good men deserve opportunities, but good women also deserve opportunities, and they can have success given the right situation.
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In the second half we encouraged (Lennox) because we know they would focus in Lauren Jackson. Most impressive on her play was her ability to to knock down open shots and get to the free throw line.