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Seg 4 - WBB Show w Geno feb 7 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Final segment with coach Riama and then Rebecca Lobo will
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  Speaker 1: join us here on the Women's Basketball Coaches Show. Let's
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  Speaker 1: shift gears to Sunday. We had the Providence take on
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  Speaker 1: the Friars for the second straight year, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: two years ago we were supposed to play at the AMP,
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  Speaker 1: but a snowstorm took care of that. Playing at the
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  Speaker 1: Amp again on Sunday and old mother Nature is going
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  Speaker 1: to recap it again, but you're playing a Friar's team
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  Speaker 1: coming off went over to Paul after having lost what
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  Speaker 1: here seven of their previous eight games. But one player
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  Speaker 1: that has always been a constant for them is Olivia Oltson.
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  Speaker 1: I know she talking with Kylie pregame. Last time we
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  Speaker 1: played them in December, she was, you know, just coming
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  Speaker 1: back from injury rehab. I think she started playing essentially
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  Speaker 1: when the season began. But she's a force down low
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  Speaker 1: and she's been a handful and will continue to be.
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  Speaker 1: Along with Graycopos, it seems like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, Providence does a great job defensively.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they they they are in a lot of
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  Speaker 2: games with their defense. You know, they they they lose
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  Speaker 2: because they have trouble scoring a lot of times. But
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  Speaker 2: you look at all their scores, they're all very, very
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  Speaker 2: low scoring games. You know, they're in the sixties always.
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  Speaker 2: So you know what, you know what you're going to
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  Speaker 2: get defensively, and you have to, you know, you have
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  Speaker 2: to make it a fast paced game. You know, you've
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  Speaker 2: got to make it a transition game, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: we did when we played them at the Excel, because otherwise,
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  Speaker 2: if it becomes a walk it up game that plays
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  Speaker 2: to their strengths. And you know, playing against the Paul
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  Speaker 2: is not necessarily an easy thing to do, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: they they managed to handle them pretty easily. So we're gonna,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're gonna go out there and we're gonna,
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  Speaker 2: you know, do what we try to do every game.
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  Speaker 2: And and you're those two kids are are the two
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  Speaker 2: that you've got to worry about the most. And you've
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  Speaker 2: got to figure out a way to again, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, force turnovers get out in transition, and you
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  Speaker 2: know when the defensive, when the when the rebounding battle,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and it's a it's it's in the big arena,
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  Speaker 2: right from what I understand, you know, So hopefully the
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  Speaker 2: Snow won't keep a lot of people from coming, so
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  Speaker 2: it should be a great atmosphere and you know, look
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  Speaker 2: forward to getting back into conference way.
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  Speaker 1: You know, one of the good things defensively about your team,
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  Speaker 1: not only are you getting a lot of tips, you're
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  Speaker 1: getting a lot of steels. You're among the league leader
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  Speaker 1: and in steels, averaging almost eleven per game, and usually
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  Speaker 1: when you've been at your best specific statistically speaking, over
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  Speaker 1: the years, that's been a good number, but it seems
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  Speaker 1: like maybe a little more so this year than in
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  Speaker 1: recent years, and certainly between k K Sarah, even as
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  Speaker 1: he is pretty good along with Paige, it you know,
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  Speaker 1: just getting little tips and touches here, that's been a
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  Speaker 1: good thing for your team, and you've been able to
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think having having the ability to put more
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  Speaker 2: people in the game, you know, keeping people fresher allows
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  Speaker 2: us to you know, maintain the pressure. You know. I
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  Speaker 2: wish we could have done more of that last night,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you know, I think a couple more makes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, would have given us an opportunity to set
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  Speaker 2: up our pressure even more. You know, people think where
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  Speaker 2: that's crazy. Why would you press the team that likes
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  Speaker 2: to run and shoot thirty three is a game because
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  Speaker 2: that's the way you have to play against those teams.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you have to be on offense even when
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  Speaker 2: you're on defense. And you know, we've we've had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of success doing that, and uh, you know, playing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of players, generally speaking, playing eight or nine
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  Speaker 2: players helps you do that. So let's hope that we
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  Speaker 2: can get back there, you know, starting Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: All right, final question, now that Aubrey's back and you
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  Speaker 1: pretty much this is the rush you're going to have
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the season. Knock on wood. Has this
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  Speaker 1: team finits identity yet as we're in a February.
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  Speaker 2: No, not really. I mean, you know, so your you know,
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  Speaker 2: like what kind of ident if somebody said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what's your identity? You know, you say, well what is it?
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  Speaker 2: You know, how would you describe it? You know, and well,
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  Speaker 2: when we're at our best, we do abc D. Well.
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  Speaker 2: What about when you're at your worst, well, we don't
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  Speaker 2: do abc D. Well. If a team has an identity,
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  Speaker 2: then they are that all the time. So we're getting
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  Speaker 2: close to finding something. Yeah, but that means that players
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  Speaker 2: have to be consistent each and every game. You have
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  Speaker 2: to get the exact same things out of them every game,
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  Speaker 2: So as we get closer to that, you know, that's
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  Speaker 2: hard to do for an entire season. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, my thinking always is, let's try to
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  Speaker 2: do that. But the reality of the situation is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: from first part of March to the end of March,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you've got four weekends where you've got to
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  Speaker 2: be really, really good, and that's a little bit more manageable.
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  Speaker 2: Then you've got to be able to be consistent for
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  Speaker 2: four months. That's my that's my take.
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  Speaker 1: On all right, Gino, thank you. As always, We'll see
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  Speaker 1: a Sunday in Providence.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Bob, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That's at coach Gino Orimo of the Huskies. We transition
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  Speaker 1: to Rebecca Lobo in just a minute on the Yukon
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  Speaker 1: Women's Basketball Coaches Show on Learfield