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Seg 2 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Feb 22 · Coaches Corner

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  You kind of women off this week, they're back in. Actually, on
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  Sunday we had the Chicago, one of your favorite cities. It was beautiful
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  wind trust to Ritam Tusky's a depall for the second time this year. Five
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  thirty Sunday evening. Well, it's a five o'clock Central tip, but we
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  go on there for Demini at five thirty Eastern for the pregame. You're here,
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  Doug Bruno and you said you no pre game five o'clock tip. Well,
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  five o'clock Central time tip, six o'clock in the year, yes,
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  So if you're listening in the East, it's a five thirty radio pregame and
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  then six o'clock game broadcast. I asked Bruno, I said, what who
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  came up with that time? He said, not me? And he goes
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  and I'm sure it wasn't you. I said it wasn't me. So that's
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  when you realize that in order for games to be on TV, you have
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  to play when they want you to play. That's right. This is when
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  we want to show the game, not like, well we think it'd be
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  really good if we played it this time. No, this is when we
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  want to show the game. Yeah, be a Sports Network. I know
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  Sunday, I know on a Sunday, I'm like this, I don't know,
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  but so you get dinner at a game Sunday night for for the folks
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  back home watching in Connecticut. Yeah, yeah, there, he'll be good.
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  It'll be good. Geno Alee Edwards has been on fire. I mean,
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  she has really picked up her game. Uh could be an interesting vote
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  for Big East Player of the Year. I mean I think Page is the
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  favorite, and but Elie is certainly making a run for it the way she's
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  played lately. Yeah, I I don't quite know if, like on the
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  women's side, they're sophisticated enough to give it to both of them and name
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  the co players of the year. They did that once with Lewin Feet,
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  didn't they did they? Yeah? I think so, Yes, thanks Anna.
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  Yes, she's just gave thumbs up. I remember that surprise surprises the
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  hell out of me. Normally they get all that stuff wrong. But yeah,
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  I just think that you'd be hard pressed to go. You know,
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  one of them has had a way better year than the other one in the
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  conference in conference play, and they're both you know, spectacular in their own
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  right, and they've both carried us for long stretches of games, and when
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  both of them were on their game, we're a completely different team obviously,
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  But for as many double doubles as a Lee has had in a short span
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  too relatively, Yeah, I just think she's It kind of reminds me of
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  when when Sue and Swin were both seniors and they were both the two most
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  dominant players in the league. And it's kind of like that same scenario.
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  You know, you've got, you know, whenever you've got a real good
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  guard and a real good, you know, kid in the middle, that's
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  that's a great combination to start with. And you know, that's that that's
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  what's got to happen going forward. You know, we need both of them
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  to be on top of their game. Is there a part of her game
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  or something something intangible where she's really taken off this year. I just think
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  she's been more consistent. You know, there's there's been a a lack of
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  a huge drop off. Yeah, she had that February last year, but
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  there was a great good reason for it too, you know, because there
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  was even less playing less less players playing last season. Yeah, so there
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  hasn't been a drop off. It's been really, really consistent. I think
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  her her ability to get to get open, she's working harder. Uh.
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  We've given her the ball more in the middle of the floor for her to
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  be more creative and take advantage of certain things, and I think her jump
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  shot has been more consistent lately. Yes, you know, if you watch
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  our team, if you watch the way teams play us in our league.
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  And you mentioned it in the Creating game. The minute the balls in the
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  air and it goes to toutally three people run into the lane. Yeah,
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  Debbie mentioned that. Yes, Okay, so the balls in the air and
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  three people go in the lane. Yep. So the solution to that is
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  the ball has to move boom boom, boom, and then it has to
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  be move, move, move, and then passed into the post quickly.
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  There was one pass I don't know Nika threw it or somebody. It was
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  like from here to that table over there. She almost threw it from the
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  logo to the and the ball looked like a fly ball to center field and
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  by the time the ball landed, all five of Creighton's guys were in the
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  lane. Right, So you know, we've done a much better job I
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  think of getting her the ball before all the double teams come, and she's
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  done a better job of getting a ball up on the rim before the double
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  teams come. So I think, given that there isn't another big guy that
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  has been able to take a lot of pressure off of her, you know,
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  I still have a good game, and then to not have a good
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  game, and uh yeah, I think what Ali has done has been really
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  really really difficult and really impressive. Friday was a great atmosphere before the Senior
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  Night festivities and annot standing game against Georgetown, and then Senior Night came and
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  for the first time, program did it after the game takes a little less
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  pressure rough trying to squeeze everything in. I'm not surprised that Page is coming
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  back, just based on maybe about a month ago one of the pressers up
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  at stores, she mentioned something, you mentioned something to the given the thought
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  that she thought she might come back, But she didn't say anything else prior
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  to Senior Night. Huh. She just kept reiterating what she said at that
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  time that it's got nothing to do with where she's going to be drafted or
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  what number or how much you know, everybody wants her to go or who
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  wants her to stay. You know, she said, it's you know,
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  I enjoy my teammates, I enjoy being at school here, I enjoy playing
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  at Yukon. I enjoy the whole the whole experience. And I think that's
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  the case for obviously, if we didn't have COVID, these kids wouldn't have
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  the opportunity to do that. She would because she missed the whole season.
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  But for the underclassmen, like on the men's side that leave, they there
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  are going to be lottery picks and they're going to make a lot of money,
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  or they they just don't care about school anymore and just want to leave
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  and start making, you know, even a little bit of money. But
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  on the women's side, if you know, if you have a chance to
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  stay in college and play, unless you just had enough and say look I'm
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  done, I've done what I need to do, I'm going you know,
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  it's not going to the money is not going to be the deciding factor,
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  you know. So I think she had more reasons to stay than to go.
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  So I didn't know ahead of time, but the fact that she did
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  it the way she did it, I thought was perfect. Mark Gino as
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  the Wells Fargo, you got a women's basketball Coaches Show continues live from Cafe
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