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
head lack man options point
We don't have any options on Saturday. We have to do it for 40 minutes. Obviously, it's frustrating. But I've got to point back at myself as the head man to get it done. Tonight, it wasn't a lack of effort. It was a lack of focus.
game lead point
We could not let up at any point of the game, because they would come back and take the lead on us.
amount conscious effort energy lose playing point second
We didn't play with the same amount of energy in the second half, and they made a conscious effort to go inside. When we lose leads, you can always point to us not playing with enough intensity.
point recover seen teams
It's important at this point that we don't take a nosedive. I've seen teams not recover from it.
fine grieve lose point recover seconds seen situation teams unheard
There's no way you think you're going to lose that with 2.1 seconds to go. You think the game's over. The unheard of situation happened. ... What's important at this point is we don't take a nosedive. I've seen teams in this situation not recover from it. It's fine to grieve tonight. I'm going to grieve.
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.
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.