John Whisenant
John Whisenant
John Whisenantis an American former head coach for the New York Liberty in the Women's National Basketball Association. He graduated in 1966 with a B.S. degree in physical education from New Mexico State University and earned an M.A. in history from Pittsburg State University...
hired throwing
There's nothing like throwing it in the basket, ... I mean, that's why she's our hired gun.
degree stanford
I told her (Powell) she didn't need that Stanford degree to do that,
afraid beat foul happened shooting worse
I was afraid we'd foul them shooting and we'd get beat that way. (In) hindsight, it couldn't be any worse than what happened to us.
adding explained waste
At 35, Yolanda did not want to waste a year, ... But I explained that we were reloading, not rebuilding. We were just adding some young shooters around her. Eventually, she didn't want to be traded.
glad listen somewhere sure trade
I'm sure glad that when she thought we were going to rebuild, she didn't go somewhere else. She thought she was too old to (stay while the Monarchs) rebuild, but I didn't listen to her and trade her.
lead league offensive pick teams tempo tonight wants
Muggsy wants to pick up the tempo and I told him tonight I think he'll get it done. We lead the league in turnovers created. That's why we are where we are. We're not that much different from a lot of teams on the offensive end.
came players saw strong
When she came to our preseason, she saw our (new) players and has been going strong ever since.
beating finals next quite series straight win won
We've only won what we've won before, we have to win the next series to get into the finals for the first time. But beating them two straight is quite an accomplishment.
amiable best both direction henry regarded situation understand
We will regroup, ... This, in no way, will be regarded by us as a firing. We both understand that a different direction would be best for both Henry and the Sparks. It is an amiable situation for us both.
knows
With Yo, this is her team, and she knows what we want to do.
achieve against challenge chance franchise great
We have a chance to achieve something that hasn't been done in franchise history. This will be a great challenge to see what we can do against the Connecticut Sun.
encouraged holding instead last minutes tight
We encouraged them to come back instead of getting them down and holding them down like you would like. I'd like to have the last 3 or 4 minutes over. We got a little tight with the ball, and I was encouraging them to attack.
changes good knew needed replace trade
Yolanda's only thing when I started making all the changes was she requested that I trade her because she thought that I was rebuilding, ... We had an old team; she knew we needed to rebuild, get younger. I told her, 'I'm not going to trade you. You're too good and I can't replace you, and I'm not rebuilding, we're just reloading.'
best efficient tough
We didn't have our best first half. We weren't as efficient as we like to be. They are tough here.