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Seg 4 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Feb 22 · Coaches Corner

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  Well, three games left for Gino's crew to Paul Sunday filling over next Wednesday,
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  Gamble that it's the home finale for the regular season and then that Providence
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  though sat this weekend is our last flight going anywhere for a while. January
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  and February just see, I mean you mentioned in the past, but it
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  just seemed to fly by this year because we were just so busy from one
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  week to the next. Well, and this is what I tell the kids
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  when they come back from Christmas break. I said, you know, once
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  January first comes and it's the season really kicks into gear. It's it's like
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  a downhill race in the snow, you know, it's like a ski race
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  to the bottom of the hill. It just flies so fast because the games
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  come on you so quickly, and before you know it. I said,
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  here it is January first or second. And I said, the next time,
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  you guys blink and you're going to look at it and it's going to
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  be March. And that's exactly how it goes. Yeah, And it's like
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  that. It's like that, you know, every year it just goes so
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  fast. And the freshmen, you know, they think they have forever.
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  They you know when they get here, you know, oh yeah, yeah,
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  we're you know, we have forever, you know. And then all
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  of a sudden they look up and it's March, and they finished their freshman
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  year already, and they realized, yeah, it's fast. And and they're
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  young. If they were our age, they realized it's really They don't realize
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  how fast it really is, right right, you know. When they were
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  when they were in grade school, summertime lasted three years, you know,
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  they never went We're never going back to school. Now summertime lasts a week,
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  you know. Here we're laughing out up there. Jack. We got
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  one of the greatest personal trainers in America. Jack Smith up there. He's
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  really really good. You can win and say, Jack, what do you
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  think? How do I look? He goes, you should eat better and
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  drink less. That'll be seventy five dollars. Thank you very much. I'm
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  having a bike delivered tomorrow day. Go there you go. I need it,
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  I know, I know. Oh Nica. Nica became the fifth player
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  in school history to get to six hundred assists, but her path almost very
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  different from any of the other five when you think about it, I mean,
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  I mean Sue and D alone racked up I think senior year team had
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  over eight hundred assists as a team, and I think they both had two
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  hundred that year. Nica basically in the last almost two seasons, has been
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  responsible for a big chunk of the team's assists. It's it's wild how that
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  all develops. But it's all based on what you have and what you don't
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  have. I mean Sue and d I mean they had they had each other
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  to get the ball to. They had swim, they had Tamika, they
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  had you know, that whole group there. But this is this is a
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  little different. Yeah, players were better passers back then because they realized that
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  I have to be a good passer. Ye now everybody thinks they can score
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  one on one. So we had all those assists back then. And then
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  here's the other thing. The reason you have a lot of assists, you
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  have a lot of scorers because just because I can pass you the ball doesn't
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  mean I get an assist. If you can't make that shot, if you
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  missed that layup, or you missed that jump shot, there goes my assist.
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  So those guys got a lot of assists because they played with a lot
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  of great players that could score. So who were the five, the top
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  five? Let's see, Well she just she's Rene, Rene's four. You
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  know what, I'm gonna go. Look who number one? Mariah Mariah's number
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  one. I think these two. Look who Mariah played with? You think
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  Stewie talk, Steph Bria. I mean, just you know, that was
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  plaina Miscatalo was like, yeah, if every time you passed the ball,
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  it's a bucket. Of course, you can get assists pretty much, you
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  know so much. Yeah, it's thanks. I didn't have to look.
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  Yes, it's Mariah d Jen and Renee Mariah d Jen and Renee. Yeah,
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  and he always and Susan not up there because she didn't play her freshman
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  year, right, that's it. And she also had d you know,
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  for a year and a half or so to you know, distribute the ball
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  to So that was she didn't she didn't play freshman. She played eight games,
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  right, and that was it, right. You know, it's funny.
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  We were talking to somebody. I saw a video of Kalina in It
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  was on one of the games. I think it was New Orleans, one
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  of the final fours. I don't know if she gets enough credit I'm thinking
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  of all the All Americans, Atlanta doesn't get talked enough about the first three
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  time All American. Kleina was very underrated. Yes, she could shoot the
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  heck out of the ball, we all know that. But every postseason game
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  she ever played in Big East Tournament, American Conference Tournament, NCAA tournament,
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  you always got double figures from her. And I think she was a very
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  underrated rebounder. Kleena Miss Katia Lewis was one of the best basketball players we've
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  ever had here, all around basketball players. She let the team in minutes
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  played as a freshman, she played thirty one minutes and as a sophomore,
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  and she was the MVP of the Big East Tournament I think freshman year because
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  she really really really became a terrific basketball player. She could pass, she
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  could shoot, she could screen, she could rebound. She just knew how
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  to play basketball. And that's you know, that's a lost art that know
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  how to play basketball. You know this kid, that kid's a shooter,
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  okay, great, or that kid's a great rebounder. Great. She is
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  just really, really, really a terrific basketball player. And when she shot
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  it, it was just and that's probably why she played so many minutes.
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  You knew that, like in a five minute span, maybe the game would
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  end, you know, games tied. Next five minutes, she makes three
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  or four threes, boom boom boom, boom boom, the game's over.
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  She'll get a big rebound, she'll get a you know, loose ball or
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  something. But yeah, no, she's yeah, she's way better than we
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  remember. Yeah, I think of that separation. I think of the Dayton
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  game, the Elite eight game in fifteen. She had seven in her row
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  in the championship game in Tampa. But also Mariah hit a couple of threes.
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  Tuck hit a three, hit a three. It seemed like every three
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  in the second half of that fifteen championship game against so her name was a
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  dagger time and they got like within six or seven, you hit a three
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  and just demoralized them. Yeah. You we were looking at our team the
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  other day and we thought, you know, you have to have scorers on
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  the team. You know, you have to have scores, not just shooters.
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  You have to have scorers because sometimes you know, the defense is like
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  really really good, like we're not the only team that plays pretty good defense,
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  and you have to be able to just say here, go get a
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  shot and get us a bucket. And we had a lot of scores back
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  then. You know, we put Maria in Bryo Hartley and claiming mis skated
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  Lewis and Stephanie and Stewie out on the floor. So everybody, who yeah,
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  I get it. Like when Diana was here and her team, we're
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  standing there and lined up, and then the other teams were lined up over
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  here. So I went over to her, I said, so, who
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  do you think would win you guys or that team? And she looked over
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  and went like this, man, they're good. They have like WNBA All
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  Stars they have and d was the only All American on that team. So
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  what d did those two years is off the charts, never to be replicated.
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  Right more with you know the Wells Fargo you kind of women's basketball coaches
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