One of the qualities Geno respects about his girls is that they realize “there are a lot of things on the court they’d love to do, but they aren’t physically able.” So they circumvent their physical limitations. “Women are naturally pleasers,” he says, “Which makes them more open to listen and do things not from their background. They try to do what you want them to do (even if it’s foreign to them).” Geno respects that in a way he doesn’t respect the attitudes of the men who play big-time basketball. “With men,” he says, “you constantly have to battle to keep them focused on what’s important, winning, being a good teammate, versus individual temptations, going to another level. Women naturally take to playing together as an ensemble. They help each other as teammates to get open, with a screen, a cut to the hoop, a bounce pass. Listen, guys think they’re doing you a favor going to your place. The girls come here to go to college, to study their asses off, and get to play basketball. We get to keep them four years and watch them grow.”