Andy Landers
Andy Landers
Andrew G. Landerswas the longtime head coach of the University of Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball team. He married the former Pam McClellan in 1981 and has two children, Andrea Lauren and Drew Joseph...
afford execution leading second sharp stay suffer team weeks
The first thing you do is try to keep your team in condition. You can't afford with two weeks off to suffer from a conditioning aspect. The second thing is that you want to stay sharp in your execution and sharp mentally, particularly in the week leading up to the tournament.
forcing good job
We did a good job with our press, not so much forcing turnovers but controlling the tempo.
apply best challenge fighting fought lose shame talent
We didn't lose. You lose when you go out and don't apply the talent that you have to the challenge that you have. When you do the best that you can do with what you have to do it with, you don't lose, you get beat. There's no shame in getting beat. The shame is not fighting the fight. We fought the fight.
ability apply challenge faces lose talent
We didn't lose. You lose when you don't go out and apply the ability and talent that you have to the challenge that faces you. When you apply yourself like we did, you don't lose. You get beat.
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We've never had this few players playing this many minutes for this long. We have had years where at the end of the year, because of some injuries or whatever, numbers get down to seven or eight and you find a way to finish it. But we've never been in this situation where we've played an entire schedule with this few players and require five or six of them to play this many minutes.
second
We had to give some things up in the second half.
beat damage far guess lose proves win
If they beat us again, then I guess you say they're better than we are. That kind of proves it. I don't see where the damage is going to be done there. So we got everything to win and nothing to lose as far as I'm concerned.
basketball challenge excited forward good involved next playing round task team understanding
We?re just excited to still be standing. We very much look forward to playing a very good Connecticut basketball team in the next round and have some sense of understanding about what?s involved in that task and what a challenge it?s going to be.
home
Let's be honest. It will be very much like a home game.
basketball cards dealing fact good manner playing strengths team teams understand
We're a basketball team that understands it limitations. We understand that we don't have all the cards to play that many of the other teams have. At the same time, we're a basketball team that has some very good cards to play. Shuffling those cards and dealing them in the right manner - playing with each other and playing with each others' strengths - has in fact become our team's strength.
expected game last
I think it was the kind of game we expected - without that last shot.
ability basketball block exposed team
It isn't anything we haven't been exposed to before, but it will be a challenge. We'll just have to block it out. This basketball team has the ability to block it out and play.
floor neutral regardless regular season surprise surprises teams
I think there will be a surprise or two in the tournament. There were surprises in the regular season and some upsets. Regardless of records, the teams are tough. You play on a neutral floor and there will be a surprise or two.
ask point saying time watching
We're right where we need to be. I'm not just saying that. Obviously, at any point in time you were watching practice, you would say, 'He's not happy.' When you look at the big picture, I couldn't ask more of them.