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,...
came deep everybody game gets lead mentally opportunity physically quick ready
We feel like we have a really deep team. Every game everybody that can play usually gets an opportunity to play. I think we came ready mentally and physically to and getting out to that quick lead (17-2) kind of set the tone.
bring dates game hopefully later michigan team tried
We really tried to get a game with Michigan State. We wanted to have a home-and-away (series), but the dates would just not work. Hopefully we'll get a home-and-away scheduled later on because I really want to get back to Michigan and bring my team with me.
aggressive became score
We really started to get after them. Once we became more aggressive and intense, that's when we started to score more points.
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.
beautiful elated final ugly win
That was the most beautiful ugly win we've ever had. We're just elated to be going back to the Final Four.
beautiful fantastic history ugly war win work
That was probably the most beautiful ugly win we've had in the history of our program. Connecticut did a fantastic job. It was a war out there. They made us work for everything.
good runs situation
That was not a good situation for us. Lindsey runs the show for us.
difficult gets good happen kidding prepare start
That was a really good start for us. Now we know it gets much more difficult from here on out. We'll prepare for that. ... We're not kidding ourselves; we know that's not going to happen again.
fortunate four helping learn love maybe particular rest retirement special spend team time
I would love to have Alana for the rest of my life. I think I was just very fortunate to have her for four years. When you have someone that special to get to spend four years with, while helping them learn and grow, it is special. It was her time to go and it's someone else's time to shine. I don't think it's one person in particular but maybe just this team in general.
against run since sooner success
Most definitely. They run it every game, and since they had success against us at the end of the game, we'll probably see it a little sooner in this game.
focused game next picture talked worry
We haven't talked about being undefeated. We can't really worry about the big picture now. We're so focused on the next game at hand.
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.
almost game good hopefully
I think this was probably really good for us. They say almost every tournament, there's always one game where you don't play well and you've got to find a way to win. Hopefully this was our one game.