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
ball catch concerned good guys inside job produce
We're very concerned about them on the glass. But not only that, they do a very good job of getting the ball inside to those guys. Those guys catch it, they do something with it, they produce down there.
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He's a stellar defender and a really good athlete and probably passes the ball as well as anyone in our program.
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To be candid, when he went through his turnover slump in mid-year, that was a surprise because what we noticed in high school was that he never turned the ball over. He's playing more now like we thought he would.
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When something like that happens out of the clear blue and has not been a pattern, you just have to believe it's just one of those nights when the ball didn't go down.
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Their first four or five shots were uncontested in the second half. If someone is not shooting the ball well, you can't say, 'Let's not guard him,' because they hit one or two, all of a sudden they get on a streak. We gave them too many good looks.
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It was huge because we have players, especially like Brandon, that can put the ball on the floor and drive. And if there was any contact it was a foul so it helped us tremendously.
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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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I don't remember the last time we shot this poorly.
hear
You hear that and think, 'Oh brother, not another one of those,' ... But he can really shoot.
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Before Justin could be freed to score ... he had to learn how to run a team better. If he just scores, and now teams take his scoring away and he doesn't know how to run a team, we are up a creek. Now that he's done a better job of that and understanding what we are doing better, he's freed up.
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Every time in the three years that we have been here that we played Arizona State, it has been a physical war. A couple of times there were some stand-offs, some hard fouls, a little bit of jawing. They haven't backed down and we won't back down. They're going to play with a lot of intensity.
coached player versatile
But, I've never coached a player as versatile as Brandon.
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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.