Pokey Chatman
Pokey Chatman
Dana "Pokey" Chatman is the current general manager and head coach of the Chicago Sky of the WNBA. She is the former head coach of the LSU Lady Tigers basketball team and the Spartak Moscow women's basketball team...
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Today was a strong indication of us getting better as a team. Several key players got some rest and some reserves got some playing time before getting into the SEC.
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I thought in several areas we got better today from the standpoint of players that don't play a lot of minutes got a lot of minutes and different combinations with some starters getting to rest and there not being a drop off. All of that is good stuff.
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Watching that tape last night, it's amazing the mentality (of Washington) going after the basketball and not just the kids that are five, six, seven feet away from it. It boils down to your base defense, and being able to lock in on it. Being able to play people head up and contesting shots and getting the block-out scheme.
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She's the child that Baton Rouge raised. To see her on this stage is a compliment to her.
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She was an administrator. She probably taught a class. She drove the bus. She coached the team. I remember she told me when she became head coach at Stephen F. Austin she was making $6,500 a year and she thought she'd hit the lottery.
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She's so active without the ball. She knows she's drawing the most attention, that she's going to be held, bumped, pushed and challenged. But it's not going to change her game. It's not going to make her stop cutting and screening and staying active.
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She said, 'Great game, unbelievable to be going back,' ... That call was the most important to me at that moment.
available served suspension
She has served her three-game suspension and she is available to play at coach's discretion.
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She had that gleam in her soft blue eyes and that smirk in the corner of her mouth. That said more to me than any words.
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She had that Coach Gunter gleam in her eye and that smirk in the right corner of her mouth. That wink said more to me than anything. This is, in my opinion, the pinnacle. This represents that national championship that so eluded her as a coach.
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She had eight shots. She's posting up and not getting a touch because we're not doing the things we've done in the past and I credit Connecticut with that. It was a battle of wills.
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She finishes in traffic better than anyone. She can alter her shot, but still gives herself a high percentage shot.
brought game left
She left the game, but so much of what she brought to the game is there. For me, that's what makes her so unique.
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She knows she's drawing the most attention ... But it's not going to change her game.