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Seg 4 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Jan 25 · Coaches Corner

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  Juno and I are just perusing the staff broadcast here of Notre Dame in Syracuse.
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  The Orange actually lead the ACC this year so far, and they beat
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  Notre Dame earlier this season. Right now twenty one twenty Irish eh close midway
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  point, second quarter. It's probably in the ACC the Orange Orange do what
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  what'd you say? They won? They're down twenty one twenty No, no
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  about the ACC. They lead the a CEC. I think, yeah,
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  I think their first I think I saw that right now. We scrimmaged them
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  in a close scrimmage in October. And yeah, they're good. They're good.
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  Good coach too. Came home from Buffalo. She's great. I recruited
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  her out of high school when I was at UVA, and that's she coached
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  that Buffalo team that gave you guys a heck of a time a gamble with
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  the second round. Yeah yeah, and she brought a kid back. She
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  brought a kid with her to Syracuse. She's from Syracuse. Played the high
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  school at Syracuse in Syracuse. Noddingham High School went to Syracuse, played there.
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  It's in the Syracuse Hall of Fame. They ever Jersey up in the
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  rafters and they had to go through like five different interviews with five other people
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  before they hired her. Well, they got it right. It sounds like,
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  all right, let's before we get into your next opponent here and ask
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  you about Aleah. I mean, she's shooting fifty eight percent from the field,
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  which is about her norm. I don't know if you keep track of
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  this, but is she hitting that mid range shot as much as she has
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  in the past. It seems like it's not the case. I think it
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  comes and goes, and that's something that I think we have to continually,
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  you know, urge Aliah to do because when we play those bigger teams,
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  that's how they play her, right, you know, so whether I put
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  her at the high post, whether I put her at the wing, or
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  no matter where I put her, that's how they're going to guard her.
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  They're going to give her that. So the more times that she can make
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  those open fifteen seventeen footers, that just changes our team completely. You know,
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  if all of a sudden those are going in, then it's really really
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  really tough from other teams. Right, But you know, she she has
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  to work really really hard. The other night, you saw Leah battling four
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  other players for rebounds, and none of them were Yukon players, right,
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  Well, there were a few that, you know, you had multiple Yukon
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  players in the same spot and the ball goes out of bounds. But that's
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  yeah, yeah, that's that's yeah, that's the case. That's the case
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  a lot of nights where it's one on three, one on four. Yeah,
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  our guys, you know that when we shoot the ball, they think,
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  yeah, that's in and they all run back on d and and then
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  some of the big guys and some of the other guys would go, how
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  come out, don't get to shoot more? I said, I don't know,
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  Like, what do you mean, like you you guys don't pass the
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  ball to me. I said, well, you know, we took seventy
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  shots yesterday and we missed half of them, so that means thirty five of
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  those times we passed it to you, you just didn't get the rebound.
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  You know. Before we get into Notre Dame, Nika is averaging I think
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  close to eight assists over her last five She's in the top ten now career.
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  Bria Hartley's next, then super Bert on the all time list. But
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  not only that, I mean you mentioned earlier she's really worked on our shot
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  and she's become somebody you can't lay off of now no longer. I mean
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  she might be of the four probably option three or four when it comes to
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  shooting that three, but she's close to forty five percent. Yeah. Well
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  when she catches it, she doesn't look like she's the fourth option. She
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  catches it like it's about time you throw it to me, and she just
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  can't wait to shoot it. That's how much confidence she has right now,
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  and it comes from working at it. She's put a lot of time when
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  when she came here. I remember we were talking in the gym one day
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  and I said, what are you doing here? Like, why do you
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  shoot so many ill advised three pointers in practice? I said, well,
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  do you think you are Paige? And she said, no, I think
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  I can beat Paige. I said, at what she goes, I think
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  I can make as many threes as Page can. I said, you're delusional
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  right now. But what was interesting was as you get deeper into it and
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  you say, okay, like when you were playing over in Croatia, what
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  was the best part of your game defense? As we know, the energy
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  level, Yeah, getting get the ball up the floor, fast assists.
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  I said, yeah, I said, you haven't mentioned being a gred three
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  point shooter yet, so that wasn't one of your strengths coming. She goes,
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  yeah, I'm not a really confident three point shooter. Oh, but
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  you think you can be Paige in a three point shooting contest? I said,
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  how about you do what you're good at and Page will do what she's
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  good at. And so she decided, Okay, well, if I want
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  to be more than what I am right now, I just got to put
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  a lot of time into it and start working at it. And she did,
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  and a lot of kids, you know, they would just delude themselves
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  and then thinking, yeah I am. But if you want to get good
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  at something, you have to put the time into it. And God bless
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  her like that kid has put a lot of time because there was a time
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  when, you know, anytime Nika shot the ball, I thought, man,
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  that's not going in Now. I'm surprised when it doesn't do it right,
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  you know, I was looking in Thanks to Anna Lebonte for this too.
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  We'll mention some of it on the broadcast Saturday. But first seven games
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  four and three teams still trying to figure itself out over the last thirteen since
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  that time, almost ten points a game more. Your assists have gone up
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  over twenty, which is the norm. It was like around fifteen. But
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  here's the number that really has been really impressive. The you might have free
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  throws you've taken. You've always talked that you want to make more free throws
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  than the opposition takes. Where you're close to that, you're almost there.
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  Two forty four makes your opponent's taken two sixty nine, and that's been a
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  lot during that stretch too. Yeah, well, there's a couple of things
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  we have to win. At one, we have to make more threes than
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  the other team, and you've been doing that fairly consistently with the exception of
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  Saturday. So we have to make more threes in the other team. Next,
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  we have to make more free throws in the other team, and you
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  lead the league in attempts. Okay, if we can do those two things,
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  make more threes, make more free throws, then I think that could
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  also be just the little bit of an edge that you need to win games,
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  doesn't it. You don't have to win by thirty, but if we
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  make ten threes and you make five that's fifteen points for us. Right if
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  we go to the free throw line and make what were twenty three for twenty
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  four recently Saturday, Okay, Alia win ten for ten, Yeah, and
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  the other team goes eight for nine, whatever the case may be. Yep,
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  that's a huge disparity. And you don't have to now make as many
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  twos because if you're trying to win games on winning twos, you're not going
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  to be able to win enough games winning twos. You got to make threes
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  and free throws. That's all there is to it. And there weren't many
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  free throws on Tuesday. No, You team had eight made four and they
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  ad three and that's the one. Then when McKenzie hair got followed a three
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  point at ten, that's it. Yeah, there's a reason why they came.
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  Only took an hour and forty minutes. I like those games. I
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  like games that take an hour and forty minutes. Gets it home, Quicker,
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  gets this home, quicker, all right? Big. Not only is
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  it notre Day am on Saturday, but it's a big night for the program
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  and we'll discuss the Irish and the Pro and the big thing going on this
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  weekend, the Reunion and when we continue on the Wells Fargo, Yukon Women's
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  Basketball Coaches Show here Onlearfield