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Seg 1 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Feb 22 · Coaches Corner

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  Well, it is a lively crowd. Tonight's at kaffe Or in Manchester for
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  the final edition of the live edition of the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show with
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  Gino Oriema and a dinner crowd. You get, you get dinner and a
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  show tonight. How about that? And the folks are enjoying your dinner here,
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  Gina. What's what's one of the more popular meals you have here at
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  cafe or is there one one or two that stand out? I think it
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  depends during during the season, you know what, summertime it might be a
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  little bit different than than wintertime. But I think the veal dishes are are
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  really popular. We we have a chicken parm that everybody's in love with.
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  I know that. You know. Our chef tells us he can't believe how
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  many and those people order, maybe because it's the size of the plate.
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  And all right, who's got chicken parm tonight? You know see, there
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  you go, the size of a plate. They come here on Thursday,
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  they would have dinner and eat Thursday, Friday, Saturday. There you go.
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  It's not big. It's not a big go no, no, no,
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  it's not. Well, Gino, first time in a while, your
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  team's had a break, played the last Sunday at South Carolina, then it
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  was Wednesday at Xavier, Friday against Georgetown on Senior Night, which went exceptionally
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  well, we'll talk about that later, and then Monday against Creighton, and
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  then you don't play again till Sunday. The Monday game, though, you
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  mentioned afterwards one of your more gratifying wins, just because of the fact that
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  it was the end of the line and you could sense that there was some
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  a lot of tired legs and maybe tired minds. Yeah, that happens this
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  time of the year, especially, you know, I think it was four
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  games in eight days, Yeah, something like that, you know, especially
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  since you've been going since you've been going since sometime in September, October whenever
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  it was, So it catches up to you right about now. So this
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  break is really really good. These last couple of days have been good for
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  them, and it's a favorite, best part of the show right there.
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  Then then we have another week right where we have three games this week,
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  say, Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday, and then you know, three or
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  four or five days before we play in the tournament. So it's funny the
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  way to schedule works. You know that you pack in a whole bunch of
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  games in a short period of time and then it gets spread out, so
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  the breaks come at the perfect time, right when you need them, you
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  know, especially when you're dealing with a short rotation like we are right now.
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  Yeah. And then after the Big East tournament's almost two weeks, yeah,
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  yeah, then it's then it becomes it's too much time off. I
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  mean, if you're playing well, you want to keep playing right away.
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  You don't want all that time off. And if you're struggling in the tournament,
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  in the biggest tournament then or you know, if you've got a lot
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  of aches and pains, then you don't mind. But it's two weeks is
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  a long time because there's never another time during the season where you have two
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  weeks off, right, So yeah, but you know, if you win
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  the tournament and you don't play until whenever that Saturday is or Sunday, whenever
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  it is, you know, it doesn't really matter. The adrenaline because it's
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  the NCAA tournament. It's what gets everybody gets everybody going. Anyway, back
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  to the cranking game for a minute, you knew they would play much better
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  than they did on January third. They certainly showed that with a lot of
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  grit, a lot of fight. Moley Mogensen was getting a lot of hands
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  doubling, Aliyah was doubling, tripled in the post, Nika got knocked around
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  a bit, and once again though the third quarter, which has been pretty
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  darn good even in a few of the losses during this stretch, your team's
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  been really good coming out of the locker room. And they responded again after
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  crate and scored the first five points and it was a thirteen oer run.
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  When you conclude the first half, the end of the first half to the
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  start of the third and then off you guys went, yeah, yeah,
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  it's it's like we should start the second half first, you know that,
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  then then we'd be then we'd be able, right, right, but we
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  have we have it feels like we have two different teams, right. We
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  have one team that looks like we've never practiced and never played, you know,
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  we like the first half of the Seaton Hall game, right one in
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  one Hartford, yeah, or the one there it's like eight to six at
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  halftime or something like that. I forget what it was. It was god
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  awful, it's a little better than that. So you've got you've got that.
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  And then you had the first half of the Creating game where we just
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  kind of stood around watched, you know, somebody play one on one or
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  something, and then that third quarter where we played exceptionally well. It's just
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  been really hard for for this team to be consistently one way, and that
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  might be because the combination of that many young guys, for for freshmen and
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  for seniors, sometimes it just doesn't mix very well, you know, like
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  their mixed. Their signals get crossed, and they you know, they run
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  into each other, they go to they run to different spots. They just
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  this triple team, you know, So stuff happens that you can't really explain,
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  and sometimes it takes half time for us to kind of regroup and go
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  over everything that we that we need to do. But uh, when we're
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  good, we're really really good, you know, as we've shown a lot
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  of times. And when we struggle, we're our own worst enemy. You
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  know that the Crank game, the first five minutes of the game, we
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  threw the ball in the lane five times, and we didn't score, we
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  didn't get foul, we didn't do anything right, and we probably turned it
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  over more times than we got buckets in the first half. And it wasn't
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  anything in particular that anybody was doing. It was just self inflicted stuff,
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  which has really kind of been the story of this team throughout the season is
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  just, you know, too many young people are touching the ball. So
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  if you look at our team, sometimes when we just take everybody out of
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  the game and only let Page in the leap play two on two, that's
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  when we play our best basketball because those other guys they don't have to make
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  a lot of decisions. Now we'll get Nika involved, obviously, but those
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  other guys they need a breather like some like that. One of them.
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  I think it was cute. I don't know what it was. In the
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  third quarter or fourth quarter, I don't know. We came out at the
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  time out. I said, listen, here's what you're gonna do. You're
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  gonna go to this corner and you're just going to stand there. I've never
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  seen a kid so happy in my life because she knew. She knew I
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  don't have to do anything, and if the ball comes to me, I'm
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  going to shoot it right. I have to dribble it. I don't have
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  to pass it. I don't have to think. So sometimes you know,
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  those young guys, they need that. It's que to a tea, right,
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  that's queue to a tea. That's exactly right. That's who she is,
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  and God bless her, you know. But she only shoots the ball
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  when she has it, so other than that, she's okay, okay,
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  more with Gino. We're here till eight o'clock tonight. There are no other
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  games like we had the last time we were here. We had the men's
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  game and Butler, but nothing tonight. It is just Gino and myself start
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  of a busy weekend here on the network. We'll continue with Gino on the
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  Wells Fargo you kind of women's basketball Coaches show in a minute here on Learfield