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The Dailey Recap - PC · Coaches Corner

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  Bob and Deb back court side here with associate coach Chris Dalley for the daily
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  recap as the regular season is over. Well took care of business tonight.
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  Yes, we forngratulations on an undefeated big season. Thank you, thank you.
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  I think sometimes, you know, it's sometimes just expected, and I
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  think when you really need to look back at and appreciate what we've done,
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  and especially our older guys because the bulk of the responsibilities on them with so
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  many young players after all the injuries we've had. So really happy and proud
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  of Aliyah, Paige and Nika and the young guys have had to step up
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  in a situation where they really weren't expecting to do that at the beginning.
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  So this one probably is is was a little bit. They're all difficult,
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  but this one was probably a little bit more well earned just because of the
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  situation and the scenario. So happy, really happy, especially proud of our
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  older players. Well, the older players exactly what you said, understand that,
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  because I think, as you said, they just feel like this always
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  expected of them. And then will they young one understand Hey, accomplish it
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  because they're following the lead of the older ones, saying we're supposed to do
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  this. Well, you know, it's interesting. It's not easy to do,
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  to go through any We've just made it look really easy over a long
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  period of time. So whether it's illness, Leah is not feeling well the
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  last couple of days. You know, there's all this stuff that happens during
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  the during the season. You can have a sprain, ankle, You don't
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  you guys don't know everything that occurs. So it's just I think it's it's
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  a good way to end the season. I would rather at the game been
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  at too, but you know, you know, but we'll get a chance
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  to get a couple of days off and regroup and then practice and prepare for
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  the weekend. What can you say that we haven't already said about your two
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  well, your three seniors, Niko with seven more assists tonight, Page and
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  leg getting it done offensively, and I mean Aliah draws so much attention,
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  Paige getting a little more assertive offensively. Defense, what they did. Yeah,
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  the defense just continues to be good. Yeah, it was. It
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  was a really physical game. I thought our I don't know that our defense
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  could have been any better than it was in the first half. They had
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  sixteen points at halftime, and our offense we were moving the ball, we
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  were getting shots. Uh, they're really really physical, so for us to
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  be able to just to you know, they hold and grab and for us
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  just be able to get some movement and get some flow. Got out in
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  transition, which helps. But it was just a you know, it's a
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  typical game here. You know, it's not it's never really been an easy
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  place to play. Never not easy. You know, it's just one of
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  those games. A lot of they seem to respond to it. In the
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  third quarter. It was, you know, we had the lead or whatever,
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  but third quarter, I don't know, KK seemed to really explode and
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  do her role would say, okay, I'm going to give you more,
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  right, And that's what we need. You know, at this point in
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  the season that people are giving us wide open shots and we really need to
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  be able to start knocking those in. We did during the third team game
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  win streak. So we need to start to get on a roll and hopefully
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  we'll be able to do that this week in practice and heading into the Big
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  East Tournament. Chris, how about the steals? I mean, Debbie touched
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  on KK a little bit in the third How about Aleah getting four steals early
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  again. I mean, she's racking those up over the last She's really done
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  a great job because she's you know, she's so athletic and she can use
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  her quickness. She's really started to see those openings and to take advantage of
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  it. I'm still a little hesitant when she goes into not exactly knowing what's
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  going to happen down the other end, but she had a great drive today
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  and she's getting better handling and you know, the ball handling full court and
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  finishing around the room at that At that point, what's her next step in
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  her development? Aliyah? Well, I think a more consistent seventeen foot and
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  then eventually I think she's going to need to add the three point shot.
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  You know, she works on it, but I think a consistency where she
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  feels confident in the in game situations to step up and knock them in and
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  be consistent even with your message. You know, you can't you can't make
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  every every shot and then miss the next five. Like. There has to
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  be a consistency so when you miss, it's like, oh she missed,
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  Like so I think that would be the next step. You see a lot
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  of your former players coaching staff. How do you know you see another with
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  Kylie McLaren down there. How does that feel like no matter where you go
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  around the country, you seem to have that coaching tree coming into play feel
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  old? You're right? Well, yeah, it's always great. You know,
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  Kylie really loves the game and really is a gym rat, follows pros,
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  she knows, you know. She she's will talk to us about recruits
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  or you recruiting this kiddo. She's really you know, that kind of stuff.
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  So she just really loves the game. And I think it's great that
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  she has the opportunity to share that passion with with young players, especially in
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  this program, because they're trying to build it up again, you know that
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  having a first year head coach. Uh. And they won some games this
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  year that they probably weren't expected to win and and certainly Aaron has done a
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  good job and her staff. Can you might see them again next weekend?
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  Oh? Really? Yeah? I didn't look at that Providence or Butler.
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  Oh wow, well, Butler seems because we played them so early, it's
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  almost like we haven't we haven't seen them in a long time. Yeah,
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  they're playing a lot better. I thought they'd be. They lost today,
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  didn't they lose? Yeah, they lost Marquette I think at home. Yeah,
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  yeah, they got it. They got I shouldn't speak. That's a
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  professional term. Case. Well tomorrow, profession Well on the on the topic
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  of conference championships, the guys go for the double tomorrow, first time in
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  a long time if they close it out tomorrow, so I wish them all
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  the best, yeah, Chris, all right, Well, see you next
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  weekend. Thanks you as always,