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Seg 1 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Jan 25 · Coaches Corner

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  And we are live at Cafe Are in Manchester for the first of three live
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  shows with Hall of Fame head coach Gino Oriema. As we welcome you to
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  the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show. We don't have an applause light here because
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  Gina likes to do that get all the folks riled up here at Cafe.
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  Are first of all, welcome aboard. That's just when they all clap for
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  us, well they could for you. They're clapping for you. It's great
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  to have you all here. Hope you're enjoying your dinner. You get a
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  live show here with Gino, and of course we'll probably do a great after
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  show afterwards after eight o'clock here, but for the next hour on the radio,
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  we're here talking Yukon women's basketball. That's your cough button there if you
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  need it there young man. Okay, okay, yes, your CALV tonight.
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  That's from that's from CALV show at Bears. So we're here at Cafe
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  or talking Yukon women's basketball. Thirteen wins in a row for your basketball team
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  and Tuesday night, yeah, first place in the Big East by two and
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  a half on Creighton three on the rest of the field. That's crazy.
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  But but Tuesday night at Marquette, boy, that game changed real fast.
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  I mean mid second quarter, we're talking like five ties, ten lead changes,
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  and then all of a sudden. I think what Adam told me was
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  like nineteen of your next twenty three shots went in over an eleven minute span,
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  and off you went, and you couldn't miss from three after going one
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  for five at the start. That was that was just fun to see how
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  that game escalated. Yeah, you know, you never know how games are
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  gonna are gonna go, and sometimes sometimes the worst thing that could happen.
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  And you saw what happen to Marquette when they played it at the Excel Center
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  when we played them there. You get off to such a great start,
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  you know, they were up ten to nothing, and you start to get
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  like a little false sense of security, you know, and and when you
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  start by shooting the ball poorly, you got to make sure you don't kind
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  of get into well was me, today is not my day? And some
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  kids are like that. You know, they make their first two shots and
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  they are going to make the next twelve, and they missed their first two
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  shots and all over their face. Today is going to be a lousy night
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  for me. Meanwhile, there's like thirty seven minutes left in the game,
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  you know, so you you always obviously like to get it out to a
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  good start, but it doesn't always work out that way. And I think
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  there's so much confidence on our team that we're going to there's going to be
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  a point in time. We just don't know when during the course of the
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  game where we're going to go on a good run, because that's what we've
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  been doing. So there's tremendous belief on our team that that's just a matter
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  of time before it comes. And right now, you know, the way
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  we're shooting the ball, I think we're leading the country in field goal percent
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  pretty close. You in South Carolina, Yeah yeah, And that as long
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  as you can make shots, that takes care of a lot of different things
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  that can go wrong. You know, you can do everything right and the
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  ball doesn't go in the basket, you're gonna lose anyway. So you'd rather
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  do most things wrong and the ball goes in the basket and you win.
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  It's called basketball, right, You got to put the ball in the basket,
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  but you also have to defend, and your team's done that well.
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  And the thing that really we saw differently from the first Marquette game, and
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  this is a Marquette team that's only been out rebounded by one team and that's
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  your team in two games. But the way they did it, they changed
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  their style because your team was so dominant on the glass the first time.
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  Yes, you didn't have Aubrey for game two like you did in game one,
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  but they were sending four players back as soon as the ball went up
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  on the perimeter. And that's how you change their game. And again you
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  were able to out rebound them. Well, that's that's one way too.
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  That's one way to combat a team that wants to get out and play fast
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  is you just send everybody back. I think if you see that in the
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  NBA today, those of you that watch NBA games, you know that's what's
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  happening. People shoot and everybody runs back because everybody's so conscious of if we
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  don't run back, they're going to get an open three over here and open
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  three over here. So people are very conscious about get back on defense because
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  that's where all the open threes come from. They come and transition team.
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  When kids are trying to figure out who's my man, who's man is that?
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  Well, it's too late, that guy already shot it. So that's
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  that was their game plan. Let's run back on D and try not to
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  let Connecticut get too many transition baskets. But we got them anyway, you
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  know, we got them anyway. And and you know, if teams,
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  if teams that are really really good rebounding teams, if we can get them
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  to kind of do that less, then obviously, given the size of our
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  lineup, that's obviously a big plus for us. You know, we're not
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  the biggest team in the country anymore. No, no, that's for sure,
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  but you're certainly making the most of it with what you've got pretty good
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  defensively, getting a lot of steels too. Well, there's it's like,
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  because we're a little bit undersized, we have a huge disadvantage when we're on
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  defense. So the less time that we can be on defense, the better
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  for us. So some teams do it this way. They block a lot
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  of shots, so that's like a turnover, right, A block shot is
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  like a turnover. Well, we don't have shot blockers, so if we
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  steal the ball, that means you have one less opportunity to come down and
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  run your offense against our defense. Now what happens is when we get a
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  couple zala nude guys that do some dumb stuff and then commit early dumbs,
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  then all of a sudden, our pressure is gone because we can't get out
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  there and do what we want to do because we're in foul trouble. And
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  that was the other thing that happened in the game. The game was refereed
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  one way in the first half and it was refereed a different way in the
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  second half. Does not drive your nuts, Well, yeah, it drives
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  me nuts, except when the way it was refereed in the second half benefited
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  us. So I liked it okay, because there was a bunch of players
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  where I went, man, that's a foul, and there was no call,
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  And then there was another player I said, that's a foul. No
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  call. But it made up for it in the first half when I go,
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  what kind of call is that? That's not a foul? And then
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  you sew the play where a Leah Aliah's guarding a kid at the top of
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  the key and the kid just goes I guess boom, lowers her shoulder knocks
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  a Leah down and the ref standing there. You know, I didn't see
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  anything. She's doing her best Sergeant Schultz impression there. I seen nothing.
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  I didn't see it, nothing, not seeing nothing, nothing aging ourselves.
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  Great show, though, well everybody here is they saw the show. Yeah,
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  my brother has every show on DVD. That was one of his favorites
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  growing up. There you go, we're with Gino, we're live at Cafe,
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  or we'll get into some of the nooks and crannies of his team,
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  the freshman particularly Ashlyan and the KK they've been tremendous and Q's coming. It's
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  the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show, Live from Cafe right here on Learfield.
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  Stay with us.