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Seg 2 - WBB Show w Geno Jan 9 · Coaches Corner

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  We continue with Gino Oriama here on the Wells Fargo u KUN women's basketball coach,
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  you show don't forget the Huskies take on Providence tomorrow night at the Excel
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  Center. Will be over on the River one o five to nine for that
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  one six o'clock for the broadcast, So if you're coming to the game,
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  it's a six thirty start tomorrow night for the Huskies and the Friars. Here
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  with coach Oriama, you mentioned more free throw attempts than the opposition, where
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  you're certainly taking more than the opposition during this stretch here, almost twenty attempts
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  per game. That's a number we haven't seen in a while on consistent basis.
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  Yeah. Yeah, and I think a lot of that is because we're
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  being we're being more aggressive attacking the basket. You know, we've got an
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  element now KK Paige, trying to get asked to do it more, trying
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  to get Q to do it more, to get to the basket more,
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  ALIAS being really really aggressive, and that always brings more free throws to us.
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  So that aggressiveness one defense has filtered down to the offense, and that's
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  probably why it's caused it, Right, Paige, a la you'd expect,
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  but KK has certainly added that attack mode style of her game. We knew
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  that was her game coming in and she hasn't disappointed in that department. No,
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  KK, Kk's game is quickness and speed, and the more that we
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  can get her in the open floor, the more that we can encourage her
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  to anytime there's you know the term, I use it, anytime there's space.
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  Anytime you see space, you should take it. And you could say
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  that to some people and they can't, but that's what KK likes to do.
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  So the fact that we have three three guards, three point guards in
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  the lineup, any one of them that has it, whoever the other two
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  are that are running the floor, we've done a pretty good job of getting
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  it to them and then getting in the open floor. And that's You're not
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  going to win games just by walking the ball up the floor and attacking people
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  half court and that's not going to happen. So right now, KKs driving
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  it and that's that's made it. And all those drives also lead to more
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  three attempts. So if you see that those two things go together, the
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  more we drive it, the more we attack it, the more free throws
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  we get, and the more threes we get right teams and just under forty
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  percent from three and that a comedy attacking the rim. You know, we're
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  sitting up top in section one oh six behind the scores table on Sunday and
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  you can get a better view of the whole court. There. You see
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  KK going at a high speed. Page goes at her own speed. She's
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  very controlled. The game has certainly slowed down for her, but still she
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  gets the same thing accomplished. Yeah, aw's a kid growing up. There's
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  two ways to do it. You can do it like a football. You
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  can do it Gail Sayah style, the way KK does it. You just
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  find the open field and go. You can do it the way Page does
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  it, the Frank Ohire style. He's just kind of mosey along a little
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  bit at a time, picked this little spot here, that little spot here,
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  and slither through here and next thing you know it. You know,
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  they both have exactly the same thing. If KK tried to do it Page's
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  way, it wouldn't work. If Page tries to do it Kk's way,
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  it wouldn't work. How do you like Page's game? And I'm not just
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  talking on the court. We're talking off the court. I know there was
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  a lot of talk about her leadership off the floor and on the floor for
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  that matter, during the media session today. Oh well, I think she's
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  been everything we need her to be. You know, I think she probably
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  could take way more shots. She probably could try to score way more points.
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  You know, if she had her own personal agenda, maybe she'd be
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  more you know, more selfish, and that's not who she is, you
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  know. So I think she's doing exactly what our team needs her to do
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  and being exactly what our team needs her to be. And that's the beauty
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  of Page. I think, you know, she's you know, I keep
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  using Diana tendencies. You know, I say, well, if I play
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  Page at the point guard spot, she's the best point guard. If I
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  play at the two guards, she's the best two guard. And if I
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  play her at the small forward spot, she's the best small forward. If
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  I play at the four spot, she's the best force pot. So she's
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  being exactly what she needs to be wherever I put her. And that's you
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  can't ask anymore in that, you know, one thing that blows away.
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  I mean, Page is a very popular person. The kids love her.
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  I mean we were in Omaha and you see so many Yukon jerseys and number
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  five jerseys, kids wanting to be like pagebackers, and she just embraces it.
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  But she's very humble about it too, And that's that's that's a good
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  sign for a young lady. She just embraces the whole world. It doesn't
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  really go to her head, or at least it seems like it doesn't.
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  No, No, she is one of those humble superstars that cares about other
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  people. She genuinely cares what you think of her, and she will always
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  try to do the right thing, whether it's in her best interest or not.
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  She will try to do the right thing. And you can't always say
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  that about the best players, you know, but that's what makes her unique.
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  And I think that's what makes people gravitate to her so much. And
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  you mentioned that at least from her teammates standpoint, she's become a pretty good
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  leader. Yeah. You know, her high school coach and I used to
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  talk about this all the time when we're recruiting her, that she's not very
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  vocal. That's she's very quiet, very much introverted. That's what's crazy about
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  you know, all this crazy attention and adulation that she gets everywhere she goes.
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  She's a very very quiet, private person, and she's had to come
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  out of her show a little bit. She's had to come out and be
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  more you know, engaged with with her team and not just in a way
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  where you know, let's have fun and let's you know, do trick shots
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  and who can make the most of these? And you know, it's more.
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  Now I've got to say some things and they may not like what I
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  say, but you have to be you have to say and then you have
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  to do exactly what you say you're going to do, which has made her,
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  which is hard, made her way more disciplined when it comes to that
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  stuff. More Gino, we continue on the Wells Fargo you kind of women's
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  basketball Coaches show in just a minute. Here on Learfield