HuskyNan
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I keep seeing on the Boneyard that Geno wants the team to play without mistakes, so why is it unreasonable for fans to want it too? Well, with age comes wisdom, and Geno’s learning to enjoy ugly wins. Is there any chance fans could learn that too?
From the postgame presser, the last question:
Q. You talked a few months ago about learning to kind of relinquish what you can't control and focus on what you can. I guess from a coaching perspective how has that journey been the last few months? And is it easier said than done? Or how would you describe where you are on that?
COACH AURIEMMA: It comes and goes. Somebody said you should lean on your staff a little bit more. And I go, they already do everything. I have the easiest job probably of any head coach in the country because my staff is just unbelievably good.
What I have to constantly be on the lookout for is wanting every game and every possession and every day to be like yesterday, or like the first three quarters today. And that's just not possible.
So you start to learn to take that -- they were brilliant yesterday, and for three quarters, we're up 25, with 3:25 in the quarter, we were magnificent. So if you're going to enjoy that, then you've got to take the fourth quarter, too, and just laugh it off. And back in the day I had a hard time doing that, back in the day meaning last week. (Laughter)
After we lost the Xavier game. Did we lose the Xavier game? Actually we won, but it felt like a loss. It felt like a loss.
And Jamelle's always reminding me of that. C.D. is always reminding me of that. You win a game but you play lousy, you're unhappy because you keep projecting, like this is unacceptable, we can't go on like this, la, la, la, la, la.
Don't go in the locker room and make this feel like a loss. Save that for tomorrow. And I've gotten much, much better
From the postgame presser, the last question:
Q. You talked a few months ago about learning to kind of relinquish what you can't control and focus on what you can. I guess from a coaching perspective how has that journey been the last few months? And is it easier said than done? Or how would you describe where you are on that?
COACH AURIEMMA: It comes and goes. Somebody said you should lean on your staff a little bit more. And I go, they already do everything. I have the easiest job probably of any head coach in the country because my staff is just unbelievably good.
What I have to constantly be on the lookout for is wanting every game and every possession and every day to be like yesterday, or like the first three quarters today. And that's just not possible.
So you start to learn to take that -- they were brilliant yesterday, and for three quarters, we're up 25, with 3:25 in the quarter, we were magnificent. So if you're going to enjoy that, then you've got to take the fourth quarter, too, and just laugh it off. And back in the day I had a hard time doing that, back in the day meaning last week. (Laughter)
After we lost the Xavier game. Did we lose the Xavier game? Actually we won, but it felt like a loss. It felt like a loss.
And Jamelle's always reminding me of that. C.D. is always reminding me of that. You win a game but you play lousy, you're unhappy because you keep projecting, like this is unacceptable, we can't go on like this, la, la, la, la, la.
Don't go in the locker room and make this feel like a loss. Save that for tomorrow. And I've gotten much, much better
