Jim Calhoun
Jim Calhoun
James A. Calhoun is the former head coach of the University of Connecticut men's basketball team. His teams won three NCAA national championships, played in four Final Fours, won the 1988 NIT title, and seven Big East tournament championships. With his team's 2011 NCAA title win, the 68-year-old Calhoun became the oldest coach to win a Division I men's basketball title. He won his 800th game in 2009 and finished his career with 873 victories, ranking 12th all-time as of...
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Sometimes you're blessed with teams that are incredibly talented, but there's chaos. But sometimes you're blessed, as I have been this year, to have kids who think the same way you do.
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We feel that the 2-2-1 press is a very effective means of controlling tempo and providing us with opportunities to capitalize on the mistakes of our opponents. At the same time we feel it is a very safe press because we work very hard at the necessary rotations.
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We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.
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My best advice to you — shut up.
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Get some facts and come back and see me!
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The game asks that you work to improve, that you put something into it, and that you also give something back to it. The game is universal. It is a language that unites all of us.
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...Basketball doesn't care what color your skin is. It doesn't care what language you speak or what religion you practice. It doesn't care if you're big or small, fast or slow. It just asks you to play, to complete, to lose with dignity, to win humility.
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I'm incredibly sad to have to face this group because I've told everybody how much I love them and how much I'm going to miss them. I miss them right now. I don't want them to leave. They are great kids.
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I'm incredibly saddened to have to face this group because I told them how much I love them and how much I'm going to miss them.
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I?m going home feeling good. I think we?re getting a little better. And we can get a lot better, by the way.
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I'm going home feeling good because I think we're getting a little better. And I think we'll get a lot better.
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I'm not complaining, but that takes a toll. The league is just so difficult.
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I keep saying he's the best passer I've ever coached. I think he took an affront to that. Now he's scoring.
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I never would have expected that coming into the game.