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Seg 2 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma 10-29 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Coach Shorium is about to open a bottle of champagne.
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  Speaker 1: The Brewers won the World Series. What do you think
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  Speaker 1: of that? The Brewers won the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: It's called Vapo Lechella.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. My mother gave me a bottle of it when
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  Speaker 3: I went to the prom. She figured at least she
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  Speaker 3: knew what I would be drinking.
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  Speaker 1: Right. We're previewing the season for the Huskies. It's hard
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  Speaker 1: to believe that KK Arnold and Ashlyn Shade are now seniors.
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  Speaker 1: They played over 100 games in their career. KK is
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  Speaker 1: your point guard coming off a marvelous season. She's had
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  Speaker 1: 35 career five assist games, three and a half assists
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  Speaker 1: for her career per game. And then you've got Ash,
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  Speaker 1: who's had quite a road. She did everything for.
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  Speaker 2: You last season.
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  Speaker 1: And these are two seniors that have seen a lot
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  Speaker 1: in their time at UConn. Injuries, starting, coming off the bench.
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  Speaker 1: They've had just about every role here. What are your
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  Speaker 1: expectations for these two young ladies this year to lead
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  Speaker 1: this team?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that they're much different expectations than they
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  Speaker 3: have been. I think when you've played as many games
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  Speaker 3: as they've played, I think their own expectations is that
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  Speaker 3: this is going to be their best year. They have
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  Speaker 3: had starting roles when they started. as freshmen, they came
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  Speaker 3: off the bench as sophomores. They were in the starting
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  Speaker 3: lineup as, as juniors. Um, so they've seen it all
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  Speaker 3: and they've done it all. And they play when we
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  Speaker 3: only had six players or seven players, something like that. Um,
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  Speaker 3: so I, I think they're, they're going to be, you know,
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  Speaker 3: what we need them to be, what that is and
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  Speaker 3: what that means in like points and rebounds, assists and
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  Speaker 3: three pointers.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. But, um, you're going to rely on
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  Speaker 2: them a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Um, again, because they, they've played so much basketball and, uh,
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  Speaker 3: and they both compete, you know, so hard and, um,
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  Speaker 3: they're both very passionate about the game. So I would,
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  Speaker 3: I would think we would lean on them quite a bit, um,
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  Speaker 3: to kind of bring the energy every day, which, you know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously is infectious.
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  Speaker 2: So, um, That's the beginning point for both of them.
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  Speaker 1: Gina, where have you seen KK improve offensively?
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  Speaker 3: She's shooting it better. These practices that we've had, she's
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  Speaker 3: more comfortable now shooting the ball, even more so than
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  Speaker 3: last year where I think she shot it the best
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  Speaker 3: since she's been here. And that's, you know, a result
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  Speaker 3: of her putting a lot of time in during the summer.
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  Speaker 3: I think she's also more under control of the offense,
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  Speaker 3: what we're doing. So I expect there to be a
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  Speaker 3: little bit smoother a lot of times. She would come
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  Speaker 3: down and Find AZ.
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  Speaker 2: Find AZ. Find AZ. And I think this year it's
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  Speaker 2: going to have to be a little bit different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there were times last season there wasn't flow in
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  Speaker 1: the offense that you would have liked from the conversations
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  Speaker 1: that we had either pregame or on the coaches' show.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see a little more of that, a better
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  Speaker 1: look at that so far? I know it's early, but
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  Speaker 1: do you see some improvement in that?
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  Speaker 2: In which part?
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  Speaker 1: In the flow of the offense, in the half-court offense,
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  Speaker 1: because you scored a lot of points last year. off
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  Speaker 1: turnovers and in transition last season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we did. We did. And that's how you have
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  Speaker 2: to score.
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  Speaker 3: You have to get out and you have to be
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  Speaker 3: able to get into your offense before the other team
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  Speaker 3: sets up. It's hard to bring the ball up the
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  Speaker 3: floor and try to beat a defense that's already set
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  Speaker 3: there for you. What teams have been doing, They've stopped
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  Speaker 3: trying offensive rebound against us, and they just run back
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  Speaker 3: on defense after they shoot.
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  Speaker 2: So I think our transition game will be pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: You know, AZ could break the game open with, you know,
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  Speaker 3: two or three threes right in a row. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we'll find somebody that will be able to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And we have to play fast. We have to play fast.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll be a little bit bigger, you know, I think.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be a little bit bigger.
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  Speaker 3: Blanca will play more minutes. So we'll be a different,
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  Speaker 3: our team will look different.
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  Speaker 1: How's Blanca doing in her rehab?
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  Speaker 2: Good, good.
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  Speaker 3: Every day she's doing more and more. Today she did
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  Speaker 3: a little more, and I could tell that she was
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  Speaker 3: back to getting close to back to normal.
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  Speaker 2: She threw the ball all over the place.
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  Speaker 3: Missed almost every shot she took. And looked at me like,
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  Speaker 3: what's your problem? You should just be happy I'm practicing.
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  Speaker 2: That's a start.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've got the National Player of the Year back
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  Speaker 1: in Sarah Strong.
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  Speaker 2: Numbers speak for themselves.
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  Speaker 1: What about the leadership? It seems like she's more vocal
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  Speaker 1: and more assertive of herself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think there's this perception.
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  Speaker 3: that because you're a senior, you're supposed to be a
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  Speaker 3: team leader, which is, you know, understandable. But a lot
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  Speaker 3: of times, you know, your best player ends up most
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  Speaker 3: of the time, not all the time, your best player ends.
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  Speaker 2: Up having.
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  Speaker 3: The biggest voice because if they say something, everybody listens. Now,
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  Speaker 3: if your best player is very quiet and doesn't say much,
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  Speaker 3: That's a different issue. But the only reason Sarah was
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  Speaker 3: quiet her first two years is because we had Paige, AZ,
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  Speaker 3: and she.
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  Speaker 2: Felt like it's not my turn yet.
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  Speaker 3: But this year in practice, her voice is the loudest,
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  Speaker 3: and she's adamant about some of the things that she
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  Speaker 3: wants out there, and she's very specific. Some players on
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  Speaker 3: your team, When they don't like something, they go, let's
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  Speaker 3: go blue. We have to rebound blue. I'm like, who's
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  Speaker 3: players named blue on our team? They don't want to
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  Speaker 3: point anybody out. They don't want to go, hey, you
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  Speaker 3: got to rebound. Players don't do that anymore. But I'm
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  Speaker 3: teaching her how to do that.
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  Speaker 1: From a leadership standpoint, is she, I mean, she's got
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  Speaker 1: to be vastly different from what you've seen from, or
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  Speaker 1: maybe I should redo the question. Does she compare to
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  Speaker 1: any other past players that you've had from a leadership
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  Speaker 1: standpoint the way she has? Because everybody's different.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody's different. You know, everybody just has to be
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  Speaker 3: true to their personality. And her personality is she's a
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  Speaker 3: fun-loving kid. I mean, she has a great relationship with
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  Speaker 3: all the players on the team. She likes to kid around.
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  Speaker 3: She loves being around her teammates. But when she gets...
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  Speaker 3: When she gets upset at something, it's very, very, very noticeable.
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  Speaker 3: And she's doing more. So we have a really hard schedule,
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  Speaker 3: but we have the best player. So anytime you have
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  Speaker 3: the best player, you have a pretty good chance of winning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for instance, a week from tonight, we'll be at Michigan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a week from tonight we'll be at Michigan. They're like, what,
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  Speaker 3: fifth in.
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  Speaker 2: The conference or something? Yeah, it's a doozy.
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  Speaker 1: It's a doozy of a non-conference.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All before Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: And then we come back and we have who, Iowa? Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: What are they?
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  Speaker 1: Ten preseason AP. We'll stop there for now. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that schedule later. It doesn't get any easier after
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  Speaker 1: Monday night. Ohio State, Louisville, and then Thanksgiving week.
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  Speaker 2: What's Ohio State?
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  Speaker 1: 18, Louisville, 7.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Then he gets Seton Hall open, and then Thanksgiving week,
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  Speaker 1: it's only South Carolina and Duke. Piece of cake.
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  Speaker 2: Piece of cake. Wow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We'll take a break, come back with more. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: more involved in the post players as you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: the UConn Women's Basketball Coaches Show. Yes, take a drink, Gino,
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  Speaker 1: here on Learfield.