Don Flanagan
Don Flanagan
Donald Elliott Flanagan is an American retired basketball coach. From 1995 to 2011, Flanagan was head coach of the University of New Mexico women's basketball team...
ability basket catch drives people remarkable unorthodox
She's very unorthodox on offense. She drives to the basket and has this remarkable ability to catch a lot of people off balance.
close good low possible quickly
It's a very good idea to close in quickly because she (Young) is so good in the low post. She's a mismatch and she will score, but you want to do anything possible to frustrate her.
choice hand happy
My hand was forced, and I had no choice (but) to play more people. But I'm happy with the way everyone has responded.
coach great hungry
They've got some talent, a great coach and they're hungry for a win. They've got nothing to lose.
beat bigger good normally proved
Normally we just beat up on each other and no one has a real sense of how good we are. This year, we went out and proved we could beat some bigger schools.
contact player
Dionne's kind of a tepid player who doesn't really go for that contact right away. But once you get her mad, she'll make you pay.
anyone darn defense good offense run tough
They're tough to defend. They run their offense as well as anyone in the conference. That was some pretty darn good defense - sometimes they didn't even get a shot.
bad block higher hurt level quicker
They hurt us real bad on the boards. We could not block them out. They were quicker and jumped at a higher level than we did.
basketball deserving fact good ourselves separate stand teams
I like the fact that we separate ourselves from the men's (Sunday announcement). The teams are deserving of that. Women's basketball can stand on its own, and that's a good way to get started.
fully held injury last recovered restricted
I don't think she was fully recovered last year. She was very tentative, and that restricted her play more than anything else. The injury really held her back and didn't let her play her game.
treatment
It swelled up pretty good. But we'll let her get treatment on it and see how it goes.
create defense defensive good great hard screens work
That was a great defensive effort, because Wyoming is a very good team. They set so many screens and work really hard to create good shots. For a while there, our defense was really, really good.
nobody talked
Nobody that I talked to wanted to be part of this program.
grateful group says
That's phenomenal. I'm grateful we're part of that group and think it says a lot about our conference.