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
add bit capitalize coach draw grew happen jon seen staff teams together
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.
hypnosis jon snapped
He was kind of in a daze in the first half. Someone snapped a finger, the hypnosis was over, and he was back to Jon Brockman.
basketball confines dominated handle jon played playing positions spent time within
Jon is playing a different kind of basketball than he's ever played in his life. He's guarding out on the perimeter, he's put in positions to handle the ball on the perimeter. He's not just within the confines of the paint, where he's spent a lot of his time and has dominated by doing so.
finger hypnosis jon snapped
It was like someone snapped their finger and the hypnosis was over, and he went back to being Jon Brockman.
against basketball deliberate force played teams
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.
last remember shot time
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.
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.
freed job justin learn run score scoring team teams understanding
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.
arizona backed bit couple hard physical played three time
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.
five guys kinds philosophy program tried
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.
inside left small team
We were left with a very small team without an inside presence,
guys mention win
We didn't mention that, but we know because of those things when we say, 'We can win this game,' the guys know we can do it. When you've been there before, there's no better teacher.