Lorenzo Romar
Lorenzo Romar
Lorenzo Romaris the current head men's basketball coach at the University of Washington. Romar also played basketball for the University of Washington from 1978 to 1980. After college, Romar was drafted by the Golden State Warriors and spent five years in the NBA...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth13 November 1958
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I don't know the people in Los Angeles understand the job UCLA is doing winning games with all those guys banged up. That's hard to do.
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I am so proud of our guys to win a game like this. To continue to just chip away, chip away and not lose your composure, that's what you love to see. We are a team. That's the only way you win games like this.
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I am sure Martell has probably thought that going down to the D-League, people are going to start questioning whether he should have gone out. I'm sure that's in his mind. But I'm also pretty sure that in his mind, it's given him more motivation to make it happen.
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If we didn't get him, I'm glad UA got him because Lute does a great job. When you get to know someone like Marcus, you pull for him. He's in good hands.
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Phenomenal player, phenomenal person. We knew that about Marcus.
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Mike is the kind of guy, if he hits his first couple shots then he doesn't think he's going to miss, ever, for the rest of his life. It seems to uplift his entire game. Because of that, I think it helped him concentrate even more on the defensive end.
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No one can ever duplicate that. It's the first group that you spent four years with at the place where you like being at and the place you hope to coach at for a long time. You never forget that group.
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You hear that and think, 'Oh brother, not another one of those,' ... But he can really shoot.
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What those five guys have is a lot of versatility, ... When you look at our program and our philosophy, I think those are the kinds of guys we've tried to recruit, guys who have a lot of versatility about them.
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What didn't come with it were wins, ... If those teams could have won, we'd have seen this happen earlier. So Coach Bender and his staff got this going a little bit and we were able to come in and capitalize on what was already here and add a little bit to it. The team grew together and we were able to win. And that's when we were able to draw a Jon Brockman and Martell Webster.
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When other teams have played deliberate basketball against us, we have been able to force our will upon them. We weren't able to do that tonight.
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But, I've never coached a player as versatile as Brandon.
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Then in the upper class, it was Aaron Brooks and the Stewart twins and Marvin Williams and C.J. Giles. Wow, that's a lot to work with. If you get your fair share of guys, you're going to wind up pretty good.