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Seg 5 - WBB Show Nov 3 - Tonya Cardoza · Coaches Corner

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  Back on the Women's Basketball Coaches Show. Time to get to know some old
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  friends like Tandy Cardoza, who's back on the Yukon staff. And lucky you
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  you started two weeks before you went to Europe. You poor thing. You
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  had a chance to go, and it's great to see it. It was
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  an awesome trip and it definitely started at the right time. I feel like
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  the last time I was here, the same thing happened. We had gone
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  on our first European trip like two weeks after I had started, So definitely
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  a fun way to start. What was the most fun part of your trip
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  would you like most? I think I liked the ziplining. That was a
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  lot of fun the ziplining. Obviously going to Venice and doing that, but
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  I think we just did a lot of fun things that that trip. But
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  the ziplining definitely was my favorite. How is your role change now from first
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  time to second time here in stories? What are you doing differently if anything?
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  Well, obviously this position is not allowed to go on the road and
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  recruit, so still working with Morgan with the guards, but everything else is,
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  you know, pretty much the same, you know, other than going
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  out recruiting, just trying to do my best to help in any way I
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  possibly can. Tinny what you learn about yourself in your time as a head
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  coach in Philly that I had a lot of the same qualities as Gino.
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  I felt like, you know, one thing that I noticed that I became
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  more sarcastic as a coach, but definitely grew, you know, just being
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  there as long as I was there, maturing as a coach in different aspects.
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  Got to see a lot of different things and a lot of different things
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  thrown at me. But I definitely think I grew over the last fourteen years
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  there. You got a really good guard group and a very deep guard group
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  to deal with this time around. And it's not gonna work. It's hope
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  they stay healthy. I mean, you know what they've been through. What's
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  it like coach in this group? Oh, it's a lot of fun.
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  I mean, the talent is unbelievable right from the from Paige John down.
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  You know, we have so many guys that are capable of helping on any
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  giving night and can put points on the board or you know, defend whatever
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  it is that we need. We have someone that can do that. But
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  definitely have a lot of great shooters. Yeah, that's for sure. What
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  about pages basketball, IQ, it seems like it's pretty it's pretty durn good.
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  Yeah, she's definitely a coach on the floor, you know, as
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  talented as she is, and she can score the basketball, she's also really
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  good at making sure her teammates are in the right positions and just being that
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  vocal person. You know, she's an extension of Gino and that's always a
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  great quality to have when you have, you know, one of your best
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  players that you know is an extension of you. You mentioned the good shooters,
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  but also you get an outstanding freshman guarding kk Arnold. Seems like she
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  goes she has a pretty good motor. Is this work case now as a
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  freshman maybe like with Maria or even back in your day when you coached Renee,
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  She's got to slow them down a little bit. You know, her
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  speed is definitely an advantage. She definitely comes in and changes the game for
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  us and gets us easy buckets. But just making sure that she knows when
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  to go fast and when to slow it down. And I think she's learning
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  that right now. But she has a good pace to her and her teammates,
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  you know, finding ways to get open and and being available for and
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  when she does dribble penetrate. What are some of the big things you're trying
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  to impress upon these young ladies this season differently that maybe. I mean,
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  I know you weren't around last year, but you know the personnel. It's
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  kind of goals this year to try to pick up the pace full court,
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  try to push transition a little more. Yeah, I think I think what
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  all of us, we're focused more on the defensive side. We know that
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  we can put points on the board of I think what's gonna change is our
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  defensive effort. I mean, we've always been a great defensive team, but
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  just picking up that intensity so that if we do struggle shooting the ball some
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  days, that we know that we can rely on our defense to help us.
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  Tanya, has Gino changed much since you were here first time? No,
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  he's still the same. He might have mellowed out, mellowed out a
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  little bit, but he's still very much the same Geno. What's up with
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  our Boston teams, Tanya, I know you're a Massachusetts girl. We root
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  for the Red Sacks. We well, you root for the Patriots. I
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  root for the Giants, So we won't go there. I mean, but
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  things have changed a little bit from all the success we've had most definitely,
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  and it's been so frustrating. You know, I watched the game. Oh
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  my goodness, these Patriots they're they're killing me. You know, our defense
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  is doing a great job, but after a while they just get tired and
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  the offense has to find ways to put points on the board. The Celtics,
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  they're looking good. I got off to a good start. I like
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  the the addition of Holiday. I think our experience at the guard position is
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  really good with Holiday and White. I think this year is going to be
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  the year for us. The game of women's college basketball TINYA has really grown
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  by leaps and bounds. Of course, this program really set the bar very
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  high. And you know, you got your friend Don in South Carolina raising
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  the bar. LSU's raised the bar a lot of a lot more good teams.
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  Boy, It's really it's it's hard to win now, Yes, it
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  definitely is, and it's good for women's basketball. I feel like last year,
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  especially the hype around it is definitely built going into this season. So
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  we just got to continue to grow the game and put quality teams out there
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  that people really want to come out and watch. Who's the of all the
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  players that you've ever coached here, who doesn't get enough credit for what they
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  did? Here? Is their player or two doesn't get enough credit? Hmmm.
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  I think they all get what they deserve. But someone that might stand
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  out a little bit, maybe Svetlana. You don't hear about her as much
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  as Svetlana. I mean, look, she's a three time All American first
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  one. Yeah, so I would probably say Spatlana. But again, I
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  don't know. There's a lot of them that deserve everything that they have gotten.
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  But just looking at the wall, I'm sure if I don't look at
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  the wall and I actually thought about it, probably be someone else. To
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  see what a lot of these young ladies have done after basketball, You've got
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  to be really proud, oh, super proud of all the success that they've
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  had. You know a lot of them coaching on the NBA side or in
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  NBA offices. That's awesome. You know, Sue just be in the face
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  of almost everything right now, but really proud. Shade the head coach at
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  Vandy. Yeah, it's awesome to see the success that so many of them
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  have. Ready to go for another season. I'm sure these young ladies are
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  sick of practicing against one another. Yeah, I think we're all excited to
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  get started next week and play against somebody else. Indeed, Tony, good
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  to see you, welcome home, thank you. All right. That's Sunny
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  Cardoza, the new assistance one of the new old assistants at Yukon Bank Cancer
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  is next on the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show from Learfield