Gail Goestenkors
Gail Goestenkors
Gail Ann Goestenkors, is an American basketball coach who was most recently an assistant coach with the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association. Previously, she was an assistant coach of the Los Angeles Sparks. Indiana Fever,...
carolina fortunate home job last site year
I think we all need to do a better job of bidding to have sites. Carolina was fortunate to have a home site last year, as was Maryland. I think every year, year in and year out, we need to be bidding.
beautiful history ugly war win work
I think that was the probably the most beautiful ugly win we've ever had in the history of our program. It was not pretty by any means. It was a war out there. It was a battle. They made us work and we did the same to them, as well.
almost coming exciting great harder require teams work
I think we're going to have work a lot harder for it. It's going to require us making the very most of all our abilities, because there are so many great teams coming back almost intact. So we'll be different. To me, that's very exciting because we're going to have to be different offensively, different defensively.
fatigue game hit nice playing proud took worried
I was just a little worried about fatigue and playing this 11 a.m. game. I was really proud of the team. I thought it took us a little while to get going, but once we hit our stride, I thought we had a nice inside-outside game going.
easy mentally
I wouldn't say it's an easy fix. I think it's a mentality. Once again, I feel like we have to become mentally tougher.
coming drained energy euphoria feeling gives good
It can be good or bad. Sometimes you're emotionally drained because you had such a feeling of euphoria coming off a big win. But sometimes it gives you more energy or more confidence.
call difficult happy immediate players
I think it's much more difficult to keep players happy nowadays. We live in what I call a fast-food society, where we all want immediate gratification. We want what we want and we want it now.
best defensive
This was one of our best defensive efforts, really of the year.
both came occasions quick sails shots took wind
We took two real quick shots in a row, and on both occasions they came down and scored. They took the wind out of our sails a little bit.
conference cut matter players tournament win
Players want to win championships. They want to win conference championships, they want to win a tournament championship. .. Players want to be able to cut down nets -- it doesn't matter what the nets are, they want to cut down nets.
bit change consider desirable early great happening parity reaching
Parity is a great thing for the sport, but I think we?re still 5-10 years away from reaching the same level. There are more upsets, but only in the early rounds, if you consider those upsets. There?s still a lot we have to do to get to a desirable level, and there are so many things to consider. It?s happening a little bit now, but you?re not going to see everything change all in one tournament.
biggest difference five forces ivory looks shot stretch takes
I think Ivory really stretches out defenses. She takes over five 3-pointers a game. Lindsey takes a little over one. I think that's probably the biggest difference is that Ivory looks for that 3-point shot and forces the defenses to really stretch when she does that.
bench game guess surprised wear
I thought it would go down to the wire, so I guess that's what I was most surprised about. We were able to wear them down a little bit. Every game we go into we think our bench is going to be a difference.
half second
We have spurts of greatness. The way we started the second half is the way I'd like to see us play for 40 minutes.