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The Dailey Recap - Louisville · Coaches Corner

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  From the free throw line. So that's three straight games of eight, eight
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  and seven free pointers made, which for this team, it's not too shabby.
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  As Chris Daily joined us here for the Daily Recap, would you say
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  that might be the most complete game your team has played through the first ten.
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  Yeah, well, I thought from an aggressive physical standpoint, I mean,
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  everything that we needed to do we did. We were more physical,
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  we out rebounded him, and we played Louisville as a team that is taking
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  like one hundred more free throws than their opponent. We got to the free
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  throw line more than they did, so a lot of really positive things.
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  I'll be honest. I was a little nervous at half because we shot sixty
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  six percent from the form. We were only up four, so you're like,
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  hmm, okay, But unlike some of the other games, we came
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  out in the third quarter and we just kept the art foot on the pedal
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  and really just I thought, battled for forty minutes. Yeah, I think
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  that's the biggest thing you had mentioned other times about consistency. Well for forty
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  minutes, they really they did do that. You know, here and there,
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  a couple turnovers, but overall that and then it looked like they even
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  picked it up a notch defensively in that third period to make that distance further.
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  They're a difficult team to scout and to prepare for because they run a
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  lot of stuff and they run, you know, you have to really guard
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  actions more than set plays. But I thought Jamal did a great job scouting,
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  and I thought the kids really concentrated on the things that we need.
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  We made a couple of mistakes, and when we did, they took advantage
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  of it. But you know, a lot of that's just battling. You
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  know, you have to figure things out and on the fly, I have
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  to make some decisions. So I thought we because we were scoring, it
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  was hard for them to set their pressure. So that was good. We
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  were able to, you know, keep them off balance a little bit with
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  that and just really it was a great win, really great crowd over thirteen
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  thousand people. I don't know, did you guys get the whole Taylor Swift
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  thing, the Eras T shirt and you get that? No, that's what
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  I did. So Eras was about the Eras that we've had here, and
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  then the T shirt had the air to was you didn't know that? And
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  I'm not even really as swifty per se. But you heard all the music
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  and I'm thinking Taylor Swift. Yeah, and so that's it. And they
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  did friend they did those bracelets up in the concourse before, so it's kind
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  of in me tie in. I didn't get a T shirt yet, but
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  you're working on that. Yeah, I will. But it was just a
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  really fun atmosphere. It was great to be at home, great to have
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  so many fans. Hopefully we'll have as many on on Monday because actually Monday
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  is a more important game because it's a conference game. So we want to,
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  you know, start the year with to be want to know. We're
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  playing Butler and they're a difficult team to play because they do you know,
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  back in our league, a lot of the teams do the five out and
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  you have to guard a lot of different things and they put pressure on you
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  because they draw your big eyes out. So it'll be a test. But
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  we're gonna enjoy this one today and then get ready for Butler tomorrow. Aubrey
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  was a lot of fun to watch today, wasn't she She really was.
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  You know when she plays like that, which she does it a lot.
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  But to be able to put together the offensive side and knock into three.
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  She just has to stay aggressive because all the other things she does she did
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  today is things she does all the time. She steals, rebounding, offensive
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  rebounding, so all of those things. You know, she's capable, and
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  it's great to see all her hard work come to light today, and we
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  need to build on that for sure. Here's the wild thing. When she
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  hit that three, she had the ball beforehand, not sure what to do
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  with it, started to dribble in and then ball got knocked around. Then
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  she gets the ball back top of the key. Didn't even think about it.
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  Well, that's the thing I think if she, if anyone, whether
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  it's Aubrey, anybody catches the ball and has to think about whether they should
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  shoot it, they probably shouldn't shoot it because they're not ready to shoot it.
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  So if you're not ready, then don't shoot it. But my thinking
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  is until we tell you not to shoot it, every time you catch it,
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  you need to be ready. And that's kind of a mindset. So
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  she has to get that mindset and be comfortable. It's usually when she takes
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  too long to make that decision that it looks uncomfortable, you know, looks
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  tentative and that you know when she's when she's very aggressive in all areas,
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  then that makes us a different team and to be able to bring that off
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  the bench that really helps. They looks fresh as I don't say that coming
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  off of finals and everything. You would think they'd be lead, you know,
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  like heavy, like oh, you know, we just battled through that,
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  But I don't know, like the practices and how you were able to
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  get the game accomplished and still have them out there hungry and fresh. It
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  looks pretty well. They're also eighteens twenty two. You know what, because
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  we talk about this all the time. You only get so many games in
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  your career, and we've unfortunately had a number of players experience not having the
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  opportunity to play for a year or whatever. So I think it even it
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  shows for the other players that nothing's a given, so you have to really
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  embrace each opportunity and really take advantage of it and play a game that you
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  love. And that's really what it is, that the outcome it's gonna happen
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  no matter what. You have to go after what you want. You have
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  to go after a win, go after a rebound, all of that,
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  and stay in that mode, and I think we did that today. Back
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  at it Monday, Yes we are. We'll see you that you have this
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  scout for Butler, I do not. Okay, I do not. I
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  had North Carolina. Okay, is your shopping done? Yeah? Well,
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  you know that's one advantage to have family in other states that I don't really
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  have time to procrastinate because I have to ship. So I shipped them last
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  week. All of them went one to Hawaii, one to California, and
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  one to Ohio. Well, I'm actually getting off easy because my niece lives
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  in Australia, but she's going to be in Hawaii with my sister and her
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  family, so I got to only I only had to ship that to Hawaii
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  and not all the way over to Australia. I'm impressed with it. I
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  think it's harder when they're a wait to get that organized. That. Yeah,
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  it's taken in that early. Did Yeah. Well my goal was the
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  tenth and I didn't make the goal, so it was a couple of days
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  late, but it was good. I'm looking forward to it. We get
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  actually we get five days this year, which is in the basketball world a
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  lot, so we're happy about that. After we and I'm glad I don't
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  be scheduling because when I told the people from Louisville we still had, you
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  know, three games today and two more before Christmas, it seemed like a
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  lot. So we'll get through it. Well, you know, we have
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  to attack Monday and be ready to win and then be ready to go up
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  to Canada and have a fun night for earlier. All right, thank you,
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  christ all right, thank you