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Seg 1 - WBB Show w Geno Feb 6 · Coaches Corner

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  Anythink everyone welcome the cafe. Are in Manchester for our second of three live
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  Coach of Shows with the Hall of Fame head coach of the Huskies Gino ori
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  Ima. A full house here enjoying dinner as we get set for We're just
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  the opening act by the way, for tonight coming up at eight, we've
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  got the pregame, and then a little after eight thirty, probably more towards
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  quarter to nine, the top ranked men take on Butler at a sold out
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  Excel Center. But Gino is here with us, and last time we visited
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  it was just before the Huskies took on the Irish. So two and one
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  since we last visited. But a good week last week. You got a
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  couple of testers on the road at Villanova. And for some reason, Saint
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  John's always seems to play a better whether it's Hartford or stores in Connecticut than
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  they do in New York. It just seems that way. Yeah, I
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  don't know what it is, or we play lousy at home. Sometimes it's
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  you know, some teams they have to see you once before they get it
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  kind of a feel for you, and they have to get feel for your
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  players. I don't necessarily like a lot of times when we beat somebody by
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  a lot at their at their place, or we beat them by a lot
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  at home and then we have to go to their place. You know,
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  no matter what you say, everybody thinks it's going to be an easy game.
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  You know. So, but Saint John's is they're what six and four
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  in the conference or something like that for twelve games already. Yeah, what
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  are we? I don't know these things? You lead the league? Yeah,
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  yeah, so you know they want a games in the league. They
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  don't give up a lot of points. They try to keep the game really
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  close, you know, they use up the whole shock lock. And we
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  don't have the kind of team where we can just go out and make them
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  play fast all the time. Sometimes we can, sometimes we can't. So
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  it ended up being like a well we only took seven three point shots.
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  Yeah, season low two mate. You know that's well when Elea's like,
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  that's like bunting in baseball today, you know, like we brought back old
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  school basketball. Yeah, Leah was just so good. You know, that's
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  a great matchup for her, you know, especially if she's making those mid
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  range jump shots. You know, that's been the only the only thing that
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  the defense can say, okay, well let's give her that fifteen foot jump
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  shot and if she makes them, then they they they just resigned themselves like
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  we're gonna lose because they can't guard her in the lane. And then they
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  have the double teamer in the lane and then you know Page, that's her
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  thing, and so it causes all kinds of problems for them. And you
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  know, if we can get those two playing like that every game. I'm
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  not saying that they take thirty five shots or whatever it is that they took.
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  I think they scored with thirty three points and twenty six points. Yeah,
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  not that I would mind if it was like that every game, But
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  you know, I think that we have some other guys that need to get
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  more involved. And maybe tomorrow night's the night. Who knows. Yeah,
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  they went, let's see. Aliah went twelve of twenty, Page went nine
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  of sixteen. Alia was on a roll and then she missed a couple of
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  mid ranges in the fourth early the game was a twenty point game with about
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  two and a half to go on the third and then Unique Drake, who
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  again had struggled, I mean she hadn't made a field goal. She banks
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  in a three. I mean we've seen that a lot lately, opponents banking
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  in threes. But that got the ball rolling all of a sudden, everything
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  well for them, Yeah, and then we just kind of I think when
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  the one thing when you don't have a lot of people to put in,
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  like you know, you if you normally play seven, eight, nine guys,
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  let's say all those guys that would be playing in the fourth quarter would
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  be fresh, yeah, because everybody would have played a lot. And then
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  you know, you don't have to worry about somebody coming back on you and
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  getting you tired or whatever. You don't have to worry about that stuff.
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  I think what happens is we get up twenty, and we've played so hard
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  to get up twenty that I think our guys go, all right, can
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  you guys just go away? All right, you're up to twenty, Go
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  get on the bus and go home. And they want to keep playing,
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  so you have to keep playing. And sometimes it gets to be kind of
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  funky like that, and it's you're not supposed to you know, you're not
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  supposed to win easy. We've made it look easy for all these years.
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  I know that, but it's not supposed to be easy. It's supposed to
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  be really hard. Factially a minute one thing. I complimented her on the
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  post game, and we've seen this all season and pretty much a good chunk
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  of the time she's been here. We know she's quick. I don't think
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  there's a post player in the league that's as quick as Aliah. But I
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  like when she comes out defensively to the top of the key to help the
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  guards out to get double teams or just hedge out somebody coming off a screen
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  and she pops out and it paid off on Sunday with four steals. Yeah,
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  I mean, she she can do that at anytime. Sometimes she just
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  is in a perfect position because they you know, they don't think she can
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  get to a spot that she gets to. So, you know, when
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  you're active as she is, and we're not the only bad passing team in
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  the country, you know, people just throw bad passes. I don't understand
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  it. You know, like there's somebody right there, like there's nobody near
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  them, just throw it to them and unfortunately always you know, so you
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  should think about you know, I'm trying to tell our team guys that you
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  should be thinking. You know, these guys are not just I'm not talking
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  about saying Johnson particularly, I'm just talking about people in general. A lot
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  of lazy passers out there. You've seen us do it, and you know,
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  get your get your hands in the passing lane. You'd be surprised how
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  many times they throw it right to you. Yeah, happened a couple of
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  seconds. It's like yesterday with offensive rebounding. It was yesterday, what's today?
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  Tuesday? Sunday? You know, we talked about like how come we
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  never offensive evun? And I asked them that. I said, how come
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  you guys doing on offensive evoun? You think every shot we take is going
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  in? I said, well, I hate to brush your bubble, but
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  we shoot fifty percent from the floor. That means half of them don't go
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  in. So why don't you run in there and see if you can't get
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  a piece of the other half that don't go in? You know, like
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  we had one guy when I was coaching the Olympic team. They complained like
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  I don't ever get the ball. I go, oh, yeah, you
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  do. We shoot it and we missed. That's a pass to you go
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  get it. You know, you had nine offensive rebound Sunday. Page had
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  three and two big ones early fourth, two big offensive rebounds, A couple
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  one you know, like perimeter, like right around the elbows off missus.
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  The big one was off when Aleah missed the two free throws, and Nick
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  add a couple and one was a putback. That's right, and that's what's
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  going to happen. It's so easy because if you ever watched like a replay,
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  every time somebody shoots the ball, the other team, including our team,
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  if you watch this play against Villanova, especially, every time the offense
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  shoots the ball, everybody on defense goes, I guess to look and see
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  like like there's a like the moon landing. They're all looking up there,
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  going and nobody worries about the guys that are flying in there from all over
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  the place to get to get a piece of the ball. So I said,
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  that's so easy. It's so easy. It's so easy to score points.
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  But it takes work. It's a mindset, it's a mind it takes
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  work. And he goes, oh, do you do drills. I don't
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  care how many drills you're going to do. The kids are either a rebounder
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  or they're not. They're either a kid that wants the ball all the time,
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  or they're not. You know, it's like when you play football,
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  you're like, we're gonna do hitting drills, Well, some kids are going
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  to hit you like eh, and other kids are going to knock your head
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  off, so we didn't. We got to get more rebounders more with GINO.
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  Hope you're enjoying your dinner out here, folks, And if you're listening
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  to U Sound the way to the Excel Center, appreciate you tuning in.
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