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P.J. Carlesimo: 'They're Going To Be a Very Good Team'

Early expectations placed on UW were too great, ex-coach turned broadcaster says
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P.J. Carlesimo: 'They're Going To Be a Very Good Team'
P.J. Carlesimo: 'They're Going To Be a Very Good Team'

P.J. Carlesimo coached his 1989 Seton Hall basketball team to a Seattle Final Four and he liked the town so much he became the Sonics coach. The NBA is gone, but he still lives here.

Carlesimo is at Alaska Airlines Arena to call the Oregon-Washington game for Westwood Radio -- in fact, he's sitting next to me.

He's seen a UW team that was sorely lacking in experience and had too many expectations placed on it early. He acknowledges losing Quade Green was a setback. But they can regroup.

"They're going to be a very good team," he said. "Everyone just put too much pressure on them early."

Check out our minute with P.J. in the video.

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DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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