Josh Pastner
Josh Pastner
Joshua Paul Pastner is an American college basketball coach and the head coach of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Pastner was a player on the 1997 Arizona Wildcats men's basketball national championship team, an assistant coach at the University of Arizona under Lute Olson and at the University of Memphis under John Calipari...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth26 September 1977
area great recruiting tool
It's a great recruiting tool for us. So it's a win-win in every which area you look at it.
coach determined determines practice production
It's something that coach Olson determines and it's determined by production at practice and production in the games.
handed kicked last lucky toward year
They kicked our butt last year (in Tucson), and we got lucky toward the end (in Pullman). They handed it to us last year.
gets home mother scary taken
It's a scary situation. It's mother nature. You've got to be respectful. Sometimes a home gets taken for granted.
great guys maybe opportunity people tickets
It's a great thing for people who maybe don't have the opportunity to get (season) tickets to see the guys up close. Plus, they get autographs. It's important that we get a great atmosphere.
extremely good run runs similar stuff
They run a lot of similar stuff, and (John) runs a lot of really good stuff too, to try to get mismatch situations. They're extremely well-coached.
experience game practice
This is all new to him. He had lot of practice experience but he didn't have a lot of game experience, but he's getting more comfortable and confident.