Debbie Ryan
Debbie Ryan
Debbie Ryan is the former head coach for the women's basketball team at the University of Virginia. Ryan also coached the American women's basketball team at the 2003 Pan American Games. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2000 but is currently in remission. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008. Ryan was also inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 2012...
affected good great shots
I thought we started out with good intensity. We got great shots and they just didn't go down. Then that affected us defensively.
driving finishing great job nice score shots
I thought they did a great job in the first half, especially finishing, making shots and driving the score up. I thought they read things well and really did a nice job finishing the game.
maximize people talent trying
A lot of people think it is important about starting, but it really isn't. It is about trying to maximize the talent that you have on your team.
averages both ends execution good job per pleased points team
I thought defensively we did a really good job on a team that averages 83 points per game. I was very pleased with our execution at both ends of the court.
days sixteen time wait
Sixteen days is way too long. It's a long, long time to wait to play.
dance drive miles next son thinking
Just for activities, we drive between 60 to 90 miles a week. And now my daughter's thinking about dance next year, and my son 4-H.
adjust game good normally physical team tonight
The physicality of the game is something that you have to adjust to. You have to adjust to those things and this team usually adjusts to that. They're pretty good with the physical part of the game, but tonight I didn't feel like we were as physical as we normally are.
kept
We kept going to her and she kept delivering.
team whether
We started off like gangbusters and everything was going down. With us, it is all about whether or not we are making shots. We are a young team -- that is the way it happens.
ball shooting
We started out like gangbusters. We were shooting the ball well.
deep digging holes rule slump stop
We're mired in a slump right now and we're digging a pretty deep hole. And the first rule of holes is to stop digging. But that's all we keep doing right now is keep digging and digging and digging.
ability court difficult game high last level minutes people played separates seven stay
What makes them No. 1 and separates them from us right now is their ability to play 40 minutes and to put 11 people on the court that can stay at a very high level at all times, which makes it difficult for seven people who just played a game last night.
critical error four pull sign within
We would pull within two or four and then we would make a critical error and it would just deflate us. That is a sign of a young, inexperienced team.
ball bring extra understand
With these guys, they have to understand that you have to make it go your way. You have to put a little more into it. You have to bring the ball down. We just don't have that little extra spurt at times to make it happen.