Lorenzo Romar
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"Lorenzo Romar" is the current head men's college basketball/basketball coach (sports)/coach at the University of Washington. Romar also played basketball for the University of Washington from 1978 to 1980. After college, Romar was drafted by the Golden State Warriors and spent five years in the NBA.

After the NBA, Romar played and coached for Athletes in Action. Romar was then hired as an assistant coach at UCLA under coach Jim Harrick from 1992 to 1996, and was credited with recruiting many of the players on the 1994-95 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team/1995 national championship team. Romar became the head coach at Pepperdine University and then at Saint Louis University before taking the job at the University of Washington in 2002.

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He's talented, but he approaches every drill as it if was his last, ... Add to that he is an unbelievable teammate. You will not find one guy, as long as he is here, who will ever be upset with him except the guy who is trying to box him out in practice.

I thought our guys were mentally tough tonight. I thought our guys hung in there pretty good.

They are probably the biggest challenge for us since we've been here at Washington. It's difficult to play against them because they are so hard to guard.

Ryan [Appleby] hit the big shot going into halftime and we are up 13, and we have all the respect for Arizona and we know how good they are, and I think our mindset going out was that we've got to play well. But somehow, we didn't get after it like we should have the first few minutes.

When you are as athletic as Bobby is and you depend on that so much to do what you do on the floor and when that's taken away from you a little bit, it makes things a little more difficult.

I am sure Martell has probably thought that going down to the D-League, people are going to start questioning whether he should have gone out. I'm sure that's in his mind. But I'm also pretty sure that in his mind, it's given him more motivation to make it happen.

Sometimes a loss, when it's over, you can go back and draw from it and improve in some areas. Whereas in a win it might not have gotten your attention.

This group probably has to concentrate a little harder.

There's so much parity in this league. There's no way you can pick who is going to be the winner.