LaVonda Wagner
LaVonda Wagner
LaVonda Wagneris the former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers women's basketball team and is an FSN television analyst for WNBA games. She was fired from Oregon State on June 1, 2010 in the wake of a turbulent offseason that saw multiple player and assistant coach departures...
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They're a very good basketball team and we've got them on their home floor. They're fresh and they don't have to travel a day. I mean, I could get to the East Coast as fast as I could get to Wyoming.
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They've given everything they could to this program, they really battled, and tonight we just came out on the short end of the stick. But I'm very proud of them and the legacy that they've left at Oregon State.
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We knew they had several (options). We did a really nice job of getting out on (Murphy) and closing her out. She was off-balance.
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How do you defend Candice Wiggins? She does so many things with the ball.
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We are a better team today than we were yesterday or even a month ago, and I think we will be a better team Friday than today.
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I sat beside Mandy at the Pac-10 Media Day (in November) and we left early because no one was asking us any questions. On the cab back to the airport we made a promise to each other that we wouldn't finish last. We took that to the rest of the team and that's been a tribute to them.
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Our fans did a great job. I was so excited to see more orange than green. We had a real home-court advantage.
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I think we lost our legs a little bit toward the end.
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I think we have a really good shot at playing. We finished with a 15-14 record and had wins over Cal and a very good USC team. And we won seven Pac-10 games.
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I think we did a great job of taking care of the ball, working the possession.
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I think that we were tired, there's no question about that. It took us a whole day to get here, and we played a game two days ago. And they haven't played since their conference tournament, so they are fresh.
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Players make plays and that was a big play. We really wanted to win this game tonight.
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(Future players) know what I expect the moment I start recruiting them. I recruit women who I watch play and who I know can fit.
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We don't have a lot of depth, and we've got a new system we're trying to learn. They're doing the best they can with the numbers we have and the talent we have.