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"It was easy to be like, 'Yeah, of course, who wouldn't want to work with the players and staff at UConn?' But I really liked everything at DePaul. I liked learning from Doug. It's special at DePaul. It was difficult leaving the players and people in the program. But I knew leaving was the best thing for me and the right thing for me to do. I was at UConn for two years and I knew what an opportunity it was."
"I'm just about settled in, just a few more things for my office," Lister said with a laugh. "But thinking about being a coach here that feeling is surreal sometimes."
"It's America so any of my assistants are free to do what they want," Bruno told the Waterbury Republican-American. "But I request of my assistants that they never leave my program for a lateral move to any assistant coaches job. And any assistant job in the country I consider lateral, except in this instance. Before Jas took the job, we talked about how I didn't consider UConn's assistant job as lateral. I told her, 'You started there. If something opens at UConn, obviously I am going to understand that you will need to go take it.'
"I want my assistants at DePaul to get head coaching jobs and not other assistant coaching jobs, but the exception here is Jas Lister and UConn. So it was a no brainer to me when Geno called me to sit down with Jas. If she was my daughter I would tell her to go."
Jasmine Lister excited to be back with Auriemma, Huskies
Doug and Geno are great friends eh.
A bonus report on Christyn too:
"Only two players -- seniors Napheesa Collier and Katie Lou Samuelson -- were at UConn when Lister was a graduate assistant. Lister is expected to work primarily with the guards here, and that includes freshman Christyn Williams, the 2018 consensus high school Player of the Year.
"I am super-excited for that," Lister said. "Christyn is doing well. The big thing this summer is we want her to get accustomed to the things that we do and how hard the players work at this level and for her to embrace her role. I've only had a few weeks with her and there are no guarantees, but I expect her to do really well."
"I'm just about settled in, just a few more things for my office," Lister said with a laugh. "But thinking about being a coach here that feeling is surreal sometimes."
"It's America so any of my assistants are free to do what they want," Bruno told the Waterbury Republican-American. "But I request of my assistants that they never leave my program for a lateral move to any assistant coaches job. And any assistant job in the country I consider lateral, except in this instance. Before Jas took the job, we talked about how I didn't consider UConn's assistant job as lateral. I told her, 'You started there. If something opens at UConn, obviously I am going to understand that you will need to go take it.'
"I want my assistants at DePaul to get head coaching jobs and not other assistant coaching jobs, but the exception here is Jas Lister and UConn. So it was a no brainer to me when Geno called me to sit down with Jas. If she was my daughter I would tell her to go."
Jasmine Lister excited to be back with Auriemma, Huskies
Doug and Geno are great friends eh.
A bonus report on Christyn too:
"Only two players -- seniors Napheesa Collier and Katie Lou Samuelson -- were at UConn when Lister was a graduate assistant. Lister is expected to work primarily with the guards here, and that includes freshman Christyn Williams, the 2018 consensus high school Player of the Year.
"I am super-excited for that," Lister said. "Christyn is doing well. The big thing this summer is we want her to get accustomed to the things that we do and how hard the players work at this level and for her to embrace her role. I've only had a few weeks with her and there are no guarantees, but I expect her to do really well."
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