Harry Perretta
Harry Perretta
Harry Perretta is the head coach of the women's basketball team at Villanova University. When he was hired in 1978 at the age of 22, he became the youngest coach to ever head a women's varsity program at Villanova...
coaching dame offensive team teams
I've been coaching 28 years, and with this team I never know what's going to happen. When we were up 21, I was sweating. Notre Dame is like us, inconsistent offensively. Teams get into offensive funks.
affect coming conference fifth finish finished fourth league middle positive teams tied
The teams coming into this league are really good, and that is a positive and a negative. They are going to affect the middle of the league. You will see a team finish fifth that will be 8-8 or 9-7 in the conference where before we finished tied for fourth and we were 10-6. That's a big difference.
feeling fun league ncaa people
This league is nuts. It makes for a fun league, but it doesn't make for people feeling comfortable making the NCAA Tournament.
beat move teams
They don't have a lot of size, but they are quick. With their quickness, they are going to be able to beat a lot of teams and move up in the conference.
dark eight felt horses improved league middle powerful seven teams
In this league, this year, you have seven or eight dark horses. I felt the new teams would make the middle of our league much more powerful than ever before, and I think that's been proven. That's where it has improved our league. It's not top-heavy.
anybody beginning coming league middle powerful proven quality since teams terms three year
The new teams coming in, I felt, would make the middle of our league much more powerful than it ever was before. And I think that's been proven this year. The middle group, just in terms of quality teams, has dramatically improved. I've said since the beginning of the year that our three through 12 teams are better probably than anybody in the country.
plays though
It?s a big deal. Even though he plays it down, it?s a big deal.
bad good league middle
The middle part of the league now is going to be so competitive. It is a bad thing record-wise, but it is a good thing for RPI.
changes forced game press push rush second tempo
Their press forced us to rush in the second half. It changes the whole game when they are able to press and push the tempo on offense.
ball caught coming difficult dribble fast game hard high lead lose rock score shot tried trouble zone
I thought coming into the game that we would have trouble guarding them off the dribble because they were just too fast for us. And we did, so we tried to play some zone and they shot the ball well from the perimeter, so we got caught between a rock and a hard place. Once we lose the lead and have to play fast it is very difficult for us to win. We don?t score the ball at a high level.
bit style together
We play a little bit of a different style than most teams. If we can get things together at the end, I think we can do pretty well.