Geno Auriemma
Geno Auriemma
Luigi "Geno" Auriemma is an Italian-born American college basketball coach and the head coach of the University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team. He has led UConn to eleven NCAA Division I national championships, a feat matched by no one else in college basketball, and has won seven national Naismith College Coach of the Year awards. Auriemma has been the head coach of the United States women's national basketball team since 2009, during which time his teams won the 2010...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth23 March 1954
CityMontella, Italy
next situation year
I?m not going to put her in a situation where she?s going to play and then next year she?s going to need another (surgery) just to walk; I?m not going to do that.
case certainly close seen tournament year
I don't know that we ever go into a tournament that much under the radar. But if that's the case then this year would be certainly as close to that as I've seen in a while.
adversity beat court dame focus good handle last road sign year
I never know what to think anymore. Last year we go up to Notre Dame and spank them all over the court and then they come here and beat us. But I do think when you go on the road and play really well, that's a good sign. That's a sign that you can handle adversity and focus on what you need to focus on.
awful dangers early happened last late people run success tend whatever year
One of the dangers that you run into when you have success so early, people tend to forget. It?s better to have success late then early because an awful lot of people may end up remembering whatever happened last year or whatever is going to happen this year.
competition fairly last matter parity seems separating settled though tougher year
It seems like it's going to be settled fairly quickly, even though the competition is tougher this year than it was last year. There's just a lot more parity on our team. But yet, at the same time, you can seem them separating themselves. It's just a matter of time.
area georgia harder played team year
I don't know if have played a team this year that was harder to play than Georgia was in every area of the game.
dealing fingers fixed hopeful keeping problem root week weeks year
The alternative would be that you're dealing with this thing all year long. A week she's good, a week she's bad, and back and forth. I'm hopeful that by keeping her out those two weeks that we got to the root of the problem and fixed it. But, again, we'll never know. We'll just keep our fingers crossed.
fact game itself last maybe remember second seemed settled since starting time year
Last year I didn't like the fact that you never what the starting lineup was going to be. I'd like it settled by the time the first game comes around. I'd like to be settled. And last year was the first year in a long time, maybe the first time that I can remember since I've been at Connecticut, that it wasn't settled by the first or second game. It never seemed to get itself settled.
afraid becomes bit hesitant people playing plays ran run time worry year
I thought we ran so much that we got a little bit tired. We need more contributions from more people if we're going to keep playing like this. You worry this time of year that you get hesitant and tentative and it becomes a walk-it-up kind of game. I don't want it to be like that. I don't want to be afraid to run and afraid to lose. I just want to run up and down and make some plays and see what happens.
guys time whatever year
For whatever reason, this is the time of year when guys get banged up a little bit.
whatever
Her Achilles' is a little tight. She stretches it; she does whatever she has to do.
chalk lousy run
Chalk it up to lousy preparation. We can't run a play.
holding hope thinking work
I keep thinking that it's going to work out. I keep holding out hope that it's going to work out.
areas ball fact game help point road shot supposed thinking turn win
You don't go in thinking how many can we win by and that's not the point of the game. The point of the game is if we do what we're supposed to do, we're going to win. But as you look at the game, you try to find areas where you know down the road are going to help you. The fact that we didn't turn the ball over (is good). We, for long stretches, got the right shot at the right time. We executed some things pretty well.