Sylvia Hatchell
Sylvia Hatchell
Sylvia Rhyne Hatchellis the head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently has the third most career wins in NCAA women's basketball history, behind only former Tennessee coach Pat Summitt and Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer. She competed with USA Basketball as the head coach of the 1994 Jones Cup Team that won the gold in Taipei...
ball create floor offense push run running tempo
We need to push the ball down the floor and run the floor. The tempo of running the floor has a lot to do with it. We need to try to create some offense off of our defense.
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I am very confident with Alex and the rest of them out there. Alex has played a lot this year. She plays with Ivory, and I know when Ivory picked up her second foul and I took her out, we were behind at that time. Alex did a nice job running the team, and we got the lead back.
ball normally push run
We didn't run and a lot of that had to do with Ivory. We didn't push the ball like we normally do, get it out and go. Some of that was not getting the rebounds.
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A little sloppy at times, but we knew it was going to be a tough game. We're a team, with the tempo we play, lots of times we play in runs. We felt like we eventually could go on a run and get a pretty good lead.
love run teams
Some teams have run with us and we love that.
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All the teams, they go up and down the floor, run the ball well, they have a strong inside-outside game. Just good balance, good flow. All four teams here are a lot of fun to watch play.
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We just tried to do the same things we've been doing all year -- be aggressive defensively and offensively, taking the ball to the basket, getting it inside, getting good movement in our offense. Defensively we threw some different things at them. I thought our kids played really hard.
asked bigger chemistry good great locker room special talked
We just talked in the locker room that this is great. I congratulated them and asked if this is good enough. And they said, 'No.' They want to do bigger and better things. They're special kids, they have great chemistry and they have fun.
fast supposed
We're very organized. Really. (The players) know what they're supposed to do. They just do it at a fast pace.
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We're very familiar with each other. We could be playing each other in another week. We just want to stay focused and try to keep doing what we've been doing but rebound the ball a little better.
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I've watched some (television) games this season at my house. Some of these games, it's like watching paint dry. And I don't like that. I want the game to be fun and exciting. I want people to want to watch women's basketball.
coach good great trust
I've been doing this a long time, and I've had a lot of great teams. Trust me, I know, any coach is only as good as their players. I've got great players, and I've got a great staff. They make me look good.
game happened last sweeter time
I've been doing it 31 years, this is nice. I'd like to have it the last game of the season. It happened to me one time before, and there's nothing sweeter than that.
above heads league year
I've been in this league 20 years and every year we say it can't get any better, but this year we're just heads above all the other conferences.