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Seg 2 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Dec 8 · Coaches Corner

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  Back with Hall of Fame head coach Gino Oriama. We've got basketball on the
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  schedule this weekend. Tomorrow the men take on Arkansas Pine Bluff in stores eleven
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  thirty for Mike and Wayne, and then the women take on North Carolina as
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  part of the Hall of Fame Women's Showcase at Mohegan Sun for thirty for that
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  one for Deb Fisk and myself here on the Yukon Sports Network, the Varsity
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  Network app and the Varsitynetwork dot com. G know, with all the injuries,
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  it changes the pieces of the puzzle. Maybe players are in positions that
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  they're not used to playing in. What's that been like trying to reconfigure everything
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  that you hoped would go well when the season began, when you had all
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  those healthy bodies that are significantly down now and key pieces of that too.
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  Yeah, it's it's been obviously incredibly frustrating because it's not the first time.
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  You know, I think everybody can can rationalize, Okay, this is a
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  you know, this is once in a blue moon occurrence, and let's deal
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  with it. But when you know, our seniors, that's all they've known.
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  They came here and we're in the bubble and then every year they've been
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  playing shorthanded, it seems like and after a while, I think it just
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  really becomes a heavy burden to carry around. And I'm sure they feel it.
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  I'm sure the players feel it, because I know the coaches feel it.
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  Yeah, And there's nothing you can do about it, you know,
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  you just have to deal with it, and you have to try to make
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  it work the best that you can. And you're right, players are in
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  difficult situations. But you know, anytime it's difficult, it's also an opportunity
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  to learn and get better and and it may not look so great right now,
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  but you have to hope that it's it's paying off somewhere down the road.
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  How's Page handling all this, because I know she's been putting some tough,
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  tough spots too, and still trying to deal with this. And I
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  mean even openly you said she didn't play well in Texas. Yeah, I
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  think the the thing that is evident is that, uh, you know,
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  not playing for a year obviously has an effect. Number two. You know,
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  if you take a look at Pages, the only year she's been healthy
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  was her freshman year, and you know, it was a magical year for
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  her and and and all the things that she accomplished, and then ever since
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  then, it's been one thing after another. So when you add up all
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  the games that Page has played, she's probably somewhere in her sophomore year,
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  you know, towards the end of her sophomore year, you know, if
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  you think about it, given how many games she missed as a sophomore and
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  missed the whole season as a junior. So yeah, she's not in an
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  ideal situation, and she's I'm sure frustrated. I'm sure wants to wants to
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  play better and wants to do more, and that's not usually the right recipe
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  when you're forcing the issue and you try to do everything. So we've got
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  to figure that one out too. So there's a lot of figuring out that
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  we have to do. Is there any trepidation at all from the injury with
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  all Page? Still? I mean, I mean, look, it's been
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  what year and a half now, but still you come back from an ACL
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  injury and you're only eight games back into your college career resuming it, Is
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  there any that you notice or is Page maybe just I don't know what the
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  what the what the word I'm trying to figure out here trying to say is
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  but do you notice anything different? I guess from page pre injury to to
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  now not necessarily. I think there's sometimes a hesitancy or or unsure of you
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  know, should I, should I not? You know, And and when
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  you think about it, you look back, you know, she had thirty
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  two against somebody and we lost, and she had seven. Then it's she
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  had twenty seven and we lost. So you look around and you say,
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  well, you know, what more do I have to do? Well,
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  you can't try to do more, you know, we just need to figure
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  out a way to make it all work with everybody that we have and not
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  I feel like, you know, it's all on one person shoulder right,
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  And that's part of the inconsistencies that you talked about after the game on Wednesday.
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  And it's not just game the game. It sounds like it's practice to
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  practice. That's usually why it happens, you know, Yeah, that that's
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  usually that's usually why it occurs when you're trying to figure it out and practice
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  every day and trying to put the right pieces together. And last year we
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  were we were able to handle it better because there was a sense of other
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  than we know, you know, we knew Page wasn't coming wasn't coming back,
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  but we we knew, you know, so when Dork goes out,
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  we knew Dork was coming back, you know, and then when he was
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  out for a while, we knew as he was coming back, and you
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  know, whoever it was, you know, when Carolyn was out, we
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  knew she was coming back. But I think the inconsistency is four seniors in
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  our rotation and for and no in between. So there's a lot of experience
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  and no experience, and it's it's a little bit jumbled up right now,
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  and we have to you know, we have to get Eventually, we'll find
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  that it's just taken longer than I would hope, and our schedule hasn't helped
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  us. You know, that's not exactly the ideal situation you want to be
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  in when you're when you're going through this, right and again, when we
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  open the broadcast on Wednesday, you know, we put this in a perspective.
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  Yes, Okay, the team was four and three going into ball State.
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  The losses were the current two three and five teams, so it's not
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  like you're playing losing a bad team's gino. Yeah, yeah, I mean
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  I get that, but that doesn't make it any better. I mean I
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  get that, and you know, ifre's anybody else anywhere else and say,
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  well, of course that's understandable, but that doesn't really go over too well
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  or in here. So the sun did come up though the next day.
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  Yeah, it always does. It always does. I mean I've I've always
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  known that. It's always you know, it's always another day and always another
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  opportunity to try to get a little bit better, right, more than wells
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  Fargo, you kind of women's basketball Coaches show with Gino in a moment here
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  on lear Field