US Women's Basketball Team Retains Assistants For 2016 Olympics

[JavaMan]

STORRS, CONN. — The U.S. women's national basketball team will retain its assistant coaches for the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

[LINK] to full article

 

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Excerpted - fair use:

The U.S. women's national basketball team will retain its assistant coaches for the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

South Carolina's Dawn Staley, DePaul's Doug Bruno and Minnesota's Cheryl Reeve will join head coach Geno Auriemma of UConn again as the Americans try to win a sixth consecutive Olympic gold medal.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2015/...sketball-team-retains.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

That'll give'em something to talk about tonight. Plus, it must have come out of the pregame presser because I noticed a Storrs timeline.

 

[JavaMan]

Business as usual ...or is it?

Instagram [LINK]

 

[JavaMan]

Geno on his 2016 Olympics staff:

"There is certainly a comfort level that we have," Auriemma said in a release. "We know a little bit about each other now and have been able to work together in the FIBA World Championship and I'm very comfortable with them and confident in them."

"bviously I've known Doug the longest but I've had coaching relationships with Dawn and Cheryl too and we've worked really well together. The more time we spend together, the relationships are going to grow and we are going to be even more effective than they were in the World Championships."

Staley excelled on the court as a player, winning three Olympic gold medals, and also was an assistant coach for the 2008 Olympics.

Bruno worked with Auriemma in the 2012 London Games, guiding the Americans to their fifth straight gold. Reeve is getting her first chance to coach at an Olympics.

The announcement was made Monday, hours before Staley's top-ranked Gamecocks face Auriemma's No. 2 Huskies.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. [LINK]

 

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[meyers7]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

[j66kicker]

2 USA Basketball articles on the coaching staff. Interesting comments from the players in the second article, re. which coaches they learned from, etc. Odyssey's favorite was Geno. Stewie mentioned all of them ecxept Geno - heh heh.

http://www.usab.com/search/site.aspx?q=2016+coaches

 

[Blakeon18]

IMO...it is a near-lock that Dawn will be head coach of the Olympic team in 2020.

 

[j66kicker]

IMO...it is a near-lock that Dawn will be head coach of the Olympic team in 2020.

Unless Jerry Colangelo puts the arm on Geno to do a 3rd term with USA Basketball. He was very persuasive with Coach K, who is 7-8 years older than Geno.