Joanne Boyle
Joanne Boyle
Joanne Boyleis the current head coach of the University of Virginia women's basketball team. Prior to joining the Cavaliers, Boyle served as the head coach of the California Golden Bears women's basketball team. Boyle played her collegiate basketball for the Duke Blue Devils basketball program...
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I think how those kids have reacted to that is the best lesson. It's tournament time and they've got to step it up. When the ball is in the air, they've got to bring everything they can bring and they can't wait five minutes to settle in. I think us going through it, seeing it and understanding it is very valuable.
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(Free throws) is where our youth is showing. It's stepping up and understanding that these are free points. We work on them on practice. Kids typically are confident.
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We all saw the board, but it took a few seconds to register. You get down that far and you don't believe at that point that it's going to happen. I don't think the kids knew what to do. It was out of control.
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A lot of people have said, 'You're laying a great foundation,' but why shouldn't we be working toward this now? I want the kids believing that we don't have to wait until next year.
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Our offense has been struggling. I'm going to challenge the kids and get our defense to create offense for us. We have to have the ball to have a chance to score.
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We talked about that. There are certain kids who take over the game and she's a gamer. She hit that three and they got the momentum back. That was the key right there.
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Some of these kids are just gamers. They have found this chemistry between them and hopefully, we can keep it going.
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The kids really felt like they could have won this game. We came in with a game plan and we felt like we were ready to go.
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I just want them to realize that half the people in the country aren't playing for anything and we have an opportunity to play for something. This is a great chance and I know my kids will get up for it. We'll be there. Where the game will go, who knows? But we will be there.
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The less said the better right now. I don't have to tell the kids the importance of this. They just seem to do better with less pressure. Maybe it's their youth. They want to play and have fun and keep it at that level, and I'm just going to go with that.
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There's so much on my plate right now, I just take it a day at a time. If I didn't approach it that way, I think I'd lose my mind.
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You have to stop their transition game and you have to make them take tough shots. We gave up 20 points in transition in the first half in that (loss). You just can't do that.
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We end up running a lot of two-man game stuff for them down the stretch and in certain situations and they really feed off each other. It's a comfort zone that you've been playing with somebody for four, five, six years. It makes you a better team because of that.
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I think I was the first one out of the seat. I started jumping. It was out of control in the locker room. I think it took us all a couple of seconds to process it because there were only a couple of seeds left. When we all registered it was us, it was mayhem.