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,...
depends great playing tremendous
That's the great thing about our team. We have tremendous depth. It depends on the day who is playing well for us.
came effort factor happy loss week
That loss was a week ago, and did not really play a factor at all. I'm a little disappointed with our effort overall, but I'm happy that we came away with a win.
available bench definitely impact major minutes players playing possible sit start willing work
Years ago, players were willing to come in and sit on the bench for one or two years and work their way into the lineup. And now so many players come in and they want to start right away. They definitely want to make an impact right away. When you have 15 available scholarships it's not possible to have 15 players playing major minutes right away.
floor hustle matter night score throughout
Throughout the game, we had a lot of hustle plays, no matter what the score was. We got on the floor all night long, and that's what need to do.
change good knew opportunity win
We knew win or lose, it was just one game. It doesn't change anything. It was an opportunity to find out how good we were. Today, we were pretty good.
against coming defense extremely felt great knew pleased second strong team
We knew we were coming up against a strong team with a great tradition. I'm extremely pleased with our effort, especially with our defense in the second half, which I felt was the difference.
against ball convert decisions easy good half pay teams turn turning
When you turn the ball over, they're going to make you pay for it. Let me put it that way. Against some teams you can get away with turning the ball over 23 times. Carolina, if you turn it over 23 times, they're probably going to make you pay on at least half of them and convert them into easy shots. We just didn't make good decisions with the basketball.
basically depth ended experience five game great last luxury shows starting
When you think about it, we ended the game basically with our starting five from last year. So that's a great luxury to have. That just shows the depth of the team, the experience of the team.
recognize tapes watched
We've watched enough tapes of them to recognize they are scrappy.
ali ball beat both changes ends floor game guards help passing pressure waiting
I think Ali changes the game at both ends of the floor but specifically on defense. It allows our guards to really pressure the ball and get up in the passing lanes, because they know if they get beat they've got Ali back there waiting to help them out.
players utter
I just feel utter disappointment right now for my players and specifically for my seniors. It's killing me right now. Not for myself, but for my players.
players utter
I just feel utter disappointment for my players and my seniors.
bit defense half knew lock needed pay screens second trapped
In the first half we trapped their screens a little bit and they made us pay for it. We knew we needed to lock down on defense in the second half and we did. That was really the difference.
good job missed rust second talked
In the first half, we had good energy, but we missed a little focus. I think part of that was us getting a little rust off us. In the second half, we talked about being focused, and we did a much better job with that.