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...
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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.
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I know the final score, the margin up there, was probably 16 or 18, but it was a closer basketball game than that. They played us very well at their place a year ago. They were young. They have those players back.
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The NCAA is a simple ordeal. Not easy, but simple. If you can win two straight games three times, you are the national champions. You want to get to the Final Four; you want to win the national championship. That is the motivation that is spoken, but the process is to win this game.
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I have no problems with that. That is something that I've felt would occur over a period of time as more players who played at the highest level and went through the entire process (began entering the candidate pool).
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I hadn't thought of that. I guess the only reaction I have to that is I wish it was one less (today), and he was at home in the bed with the flu.
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I'm very happy for Alexis because it was a definite goal of hers. She's worked very hard and played well and deserves an opportunity at the next level.
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At times, it was the game we feared and, at times, it was the game we hoped for. They're very good inside and very good off the dribble and in the first half they got too much of both of those. But we settled down in the second half.
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They defend very, very well. I was impressed with the way they defended us.
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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.
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We had to give some things up in the second half.
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We did a good job with our press, not so much forcing turnovers but controlling the tempo.
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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.
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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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It was the type of game we envisioned. They're very good defensively and make you work extremely hard on offense to get what you want.