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
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.
advantage came second somewhat start took
We came out somewhat lethargic at the start of the second half, and they took advantage.
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.
ball five four gave good guard hit second shooting shots sudden
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.
conference game means second slice tournament whatever whether
I want to make this clear. Whether it's for the Pac-10 Conference tournament championship, Pac-10 championship or second place, whatever it is, this is a big game to us. It means a lot to us, whatever way you slice it.
inside left small team
We were left with a very small team without an inside presence,
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.
listed tough
It was tough for Jamaal. Jeffers was in there. He's a 6-11 (Jeffers is listed at 6-9) with long arms.
approaches game knack led plays surprise team
It wouldn't surprise us at all if he led our team in rebounding as a freshman. He just has a knack for making big plays but he approaches the game as if he doesn't have a scholarship. He's old school.
beauty cal found gives leading nation played positive shooting team win
There was a beauty to it. We're leading the nation in scoring, and we played a team that went to Cal and won, and that gives us problems. Yet we found a way to win (while) shooting 33 percent. I think that's a very positive thing.
parity pick
There's so much parity in this league. There's no way you can pick who is going to be the winner.
basketball biggest intense minutes monkey
Right now we need to put 40 minutes of intense basketball together. Right now that's the biggest monkey on our back.
best energy good level
Our energy level wasn't what it should have been for 40 minutes. We are at our best when we play with energy. We are not very good when we don't play with energy.
few hit lost
People, for some reason, just because Arizona's lost a few games, think that they're down. They're crazy. They've kind of hit a stride. They're very good.