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I just love the guy; great coach and funny too!
He spent 30 minutes with the CT media this morning. John A wrote a nice piece on Gary's comments about Kelsey Bone, her recruitment and her decision to transfer.
http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn...ir-talks-kelsey-bone-20111202,0,4491300.story
Rich Elliott wrote about Gary's thoughts on KML and "The Law Firm."
http://blog.ctnews.com/elliott/
But some of his best stuff came when he was asked about stopping UConn’s star freshman Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis Tuesday.
“We’re not going to let her sub in the game,’’ Blair said. “We’re going to play our first five. (Auriemma’s) going to play his first five and nobody’s allowed to come in and sub in. That’s the way the game should be played. That’s in the contract. No, I’m just kidding. You can’t stop her.’’
Blair said he spent a couple of minutes prior to today’s conference call compiling a list of UConn’s greatest players. He put Mosqueda was right there at the top.
“ Here’s my list and I know I’ve missed some … This was done two minutes before the call,’’ Blair said. “(Sue) Bird, (Maya Moore), (Diana) Taurasi, (Tina) Charles, Lewis. How about the second team? (Renee) Montgomery, (Rebecca) Lobo and The Law Firm (Swin Cash, Asjha Jones, Tamika Williams). (Kalana) Greene on the third team. And I know I’m missing about five more, but this was done right before the call. I’ve even got Lewis all the way up there because that’s how good I think she’s going to be. I know I’m anointing her before she’s earned it and Geno will be mad at me because there’s too many great players that have earned their stripes at Connecticut. But I think she’s going to be that good.’’
Blair said he gave Cash, Jones and Williams the nickname “The Law Firm’’ when he faced UConn while he was the head coach at Arkansas at the Four In The Fall in San Jose, Calif. Nov. 14, 1998. The Huskies rolled to a 100-64 win.
“I came up with that name watching those three play because they were such great players and you could see how good they were going to be over the next few years,’’ Blair said.
He spent 30 minutes with the CT media this morning. John A wrote a nice piece on Gary's comments about Kelsey Bone, her recruitment and her decision to transfer.
http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn...ir-talks-kelsey-bone-20111202,0,4491300.story
Rich Elliott wrote about Gary's thoughts on KML and "The Law Firm."
http://blog.ctnews.com/elliott/
But some of his best stuff came when he was asked about stopping UConn’s star freshman Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis Tuesday.
“We’re not going to let her sub in the game,’’ Blair said. “We’re going to play our first five. (Auriemma’s) going to play his first five and nobody’s allowed to come in and sub in. That’s the way the game should be played. That’s in the contract. No, I’m just kidding. You can’t stop her.’’
Blair said he spent a couple of minutes prior to today’s conference call compiling a list of UConn’s greatest players. He put Mosqueda was right there at the top.
“ Here’s my list and I know I’ve missed some … This was done two minutes before the call,’’ Blair said. “(Sue) Bird, (Maya Moore), (Diana) Taurasi, (Tina) Charles, Lewis. How about the second team? (Renee) Montgomery, (Rebecca) Lobo and The Law Firm (Swin Cash, Asjha Jones, Tamika Williams). (Kalana) Greene on the third team. And I know I’m missing about five more, but this was done right before the call. I’ve even got Lewis all the way up there because that’s how good I think she’s going to be. I know I’m anointing her before she’s earned it and Geno will be mad at me because there’s too many great players that have earned their stripes at Connecticut. But I think she’s going to be that good.’’
Blair said he gave Cash, Jones and Williams the nickname “The Law Firm’’ when he faced UConn while he was the head coach at Arkansas at the Four In The Fall in San Jose, Calif. Nov. 14, 1998. The Huskies rolled to a 100-64 win.
“I came up with that name watching those three play because they were such great players and you could see how good they were going to be over the next few years,’’ Blair said.
