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,...
best wants
Everyone wants parity. They want what?s best for women?s basketball. But everyone still wants what?s best for their program.
crank defense entire felt great hoping lights maryland needed playing shooting
At that point, I felt that Maryland was shooting lights out. They were playing great basketball. So I felt like - I was hoping - they wouldn't be able to shoot that way for the entire game. We just needed to crank our defense up a notch.
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.
both dates game hard home ironic ncaa playing schedule season tried trying work year
I've been trying to get back home with my team. It's kind of ironic that we both tried hard to schedule a game this year during the season and unfortunately the dates did not work out and we're now playing each other in the NCAA Tournament.
athletic team
They're the most athletic team in the country.
pay teams
Some teams don't make you pay. Carolina, they make you pay for your mistakes.
bit sails took wind
Once we got the lead, we were still anxious. I think it took the wind out of our sails a little bit and we were a little fatigued at that point.
anxious came lead quick run shots took
Once we got the lead we were anxious and we took two quick shots and then they came down the scored. We made our run and they withstood it.
badly force found pressure team tried win
I've let that pressure go. I feel like we're going to win it at some point. I know we're going to win it at some point. I think in the past, I wanted it so badly for the team that I tried to force it to happen, and I found out that's not really possible.
bounce class duke easy foremost hope miss players
You would hope there's a better balance. First and foremost for us are academics. Duke is not an easy school. It's not like we can miss so much class and have the players just bounce right back from it.
final focus four headline paper regional task time tough trip winning
This is a time for celebration for our team. But there are a lot of tough things going on campus. We don't know much about it. We've been out of town. But when you come back from winning your regional and getting a trip to the Final Four and the headline in the paper is about (the lacrosse team), it's kind of tough. But we just have to focus on our task at hand.
exciting great
It was an exciting game. It was a great game. But it was just one game.
basketball bit people tune
People that aren't typically women's basketball fans, if they just tune in for a little bit and see them play, they'll come back for more.
basketball grow people
I didn't want them to just grow as basketball players. I wanted them to grow as people as well.