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GENO DEFENDS TAURASI: While choosing to keep his exact words to his former prize pupil between himself and Diana Taurasi, UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma does believe that the Huskies' three-time All-American will become a better, more in control person as a result of her recent arrest for extreme driving under the influence in Phoenix. Auriemma took a break from his busy recruiting schedule to make sure he was at Mohegan Sun Arena for Saturday's WNBA All-Star Game. While many of the questions he faced centered around the accomplishments of the five former Huskies playing in Saturday's game and Rebecca Lobo becoming to the first of his former UConn players to be headed into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, predictably Auriemma was asked about Taurasi's brush with the law.
"I spent a lot of time alone talking about a lot of things," Auriemma said. "Diana's not much different. When Diana was in high school, the reason why everybody wanted her was that she was this carefree, free spirit who lived life to the fullest and had a great time on and off the court. That is why people loved her and that's why she is the player that she is. This time it got the best of her. Going forward she understands some of the changes that she has to make. She is at the stage right now where we talked about this is the best she ever played, this is the best she has ever looked and an incident like this can make you even better. It forces you to make some changes. We have all been in that situation where something bad could have happened to us. Some of us got caught and some of us didn't. This is going to turn out to be a good thing for her, I really believe that."See the full content of this document
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