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Geno Auriemma Interview Room Ark St · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Most of the time, things are dictated by the style
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  Speaker 1: of play that the other team, uh kind of makes
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  Speaker 1: you play, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So the the pressure, the pressure that they like to
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  Speaker 2: put that's who they are, that's how they like to play.
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  Speaker 2: So they're not going to change just because it's the
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  Speaker 2: NCAA tournament. So you go into the game knowing that
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  Speaker 2: this is how it's going to be and that if
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  Speaker 2: you complete a couple of passes early in the possession,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get a lot of opportunities on the
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  Speaker 2: back end. And that's pretty much what happened. It's like
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  Speaker 2: every time we broke their pressure, there was a wide
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  Speaker 2: open there was wide open opportunity down the other end.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought our guards shot the ball exceptionally well.
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  Speaker 2: And when you play a team that's willing to.
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  Speaker 1: Give you a out of those because they they.
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  Speaker 2: Think they're going to take more of them and make
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  Speaker 2: more of them.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's easy.
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  Speaker 2: If you go out there and miss them all, then
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  Speaker 2: it plays right into the way they want to play.
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  Speaker 2: But if you make a bunch like we did today,
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  Speaker 2: and you're not gonna be able to do that if
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  Speaker 2: people aren't unselfish, you know, And that's the way you
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  Speaker 2: have to play. If you play at Connecticut, it's not
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  Speaker 2: about you all the time. Some nights it is, some
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  Speaker 2: nights it's not. So what do we have twenty nine
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  Speaker 2: assists on forty baskets? I mean, that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Little Maggie third row on the right, magive.
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  Speaker 3: Non ect insider, kind of an easy said. You know,
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  Speaker 3: she's worked hard all around on her game, all on
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  Speaker 3: all aspects. You know, this is the Ferston back in
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  Speaker 3: the tournament in two years, But do you feel like
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  Speaker 3: this is the strongest and kind of the most well
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  Speaker 3: rounded she stills since return this year.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a while for sure that that we've been
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  Speaker 2: able to.
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  Speaker 1: Have some lot of a full.
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  Speaker 2: Complement of players, and especially when you're missing really key pieces.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of times when kids.
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  Speaker 2: Haven't played and then you throw them out there, they
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  Speaker 2: put a lot of pressure on themselves to make up
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  Speaker 2: for you know, two years of missing NC tournaments and
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  Speaker 2: try to get it all back in one night.
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  Speaker 1: For me, it's.
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  Speaker 2: You know, putting as in a position where she likes
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  Speaker 2: being in and letting her do what she does best.
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  Speaker 1: You know, again, play a team that plays like they
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  Speaker 1: played today, those.
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  Speaker 2: Opportunities come more frequently, so maybe it was the best
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  Speaker 2: way to start her come back in the NC tournament.
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  Speaker 2: I think it'll be drastically different Monday night. You know,
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  Speaker 2: those opportunities won't come as easy. It doesn't mean they
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  Speaker 2: won't be there, but they won't come as easy. So
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  Speaker 2: it's it's great that she's been able to experience that
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  Speaker 2: kind of confidence this early in the tournament, which was
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  Speaker 2: hopefully carries over to the next game.
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  Speaker 1: We'll stay right there.
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  Speaker 4: Third row, Alexa kind of off that note, Gino, where
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  Speaker 4: have you seen kind of easy develop more on that
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  Speaker 4: kind of the mental side of things throughout the season,
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  Speaker 4: just given everything that she went through, even having to
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  Speaker 4: set out a few games with the knee tweak and
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  Speaker 4: coming back, have you seen that confidence really start to
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  Speaker 4: build and blossom, especially after a game today?
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  Speaker 2: That's the that's always the biggest the biggest question with
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  Speaker 2: not just Asy but a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of players, is they are.
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  Speaker 2: They're so they're so married to their last couple possessions
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  Speaker 2: and they can't shake them. Sometimes. So somebody makes two
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  Speaker 2: straight threes, basket looks as big as a swimming pool, right,
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  Speaker 2: they missed her first two, and they start to question
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  Speaker 2: whatever they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: And I think as you get older and you have
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  Speaker 1: to grow up a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: And you have to mature, and I think that's been
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  Speaker 2: part of the process for a z And I think
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  Speaker 2: she did the same thing earlier this season. I think
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  Speaker 2: she started two for ten and then came out and
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  Speaker 2: made all of them. So that's a sign of growth,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's a sign of taking each possession as
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  Speaker 2: it comes and not letting it be tied into the
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  Speaker 2: previous one. And I also think that the more you
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  Speaker 2: do other than shoot the ball, the better success you
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  Speaker 2: have shooting it. Because when all you do is just
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  Speaker 2: shoot and you don't do anything else, that's always on
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  Speaker 2: your mind and you're obsessed with it, and if it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't go your way, you make things worse. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: you get a couple of blocks, you get seven steals.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think she tied her career high in rebounds.
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  Speaker 1: That makes you have one. Yeah, that's a real eye
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  Speaker 1: for her. I think.
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  Speaker 2: So we're not quite ready to put the you know,
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  Speaker 2: most all around player in the history of you kind
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  Speaker 2: of next to her name, just quite yet, but we're
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  Speaker 2: working on it.
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  Speaker 1: We're working on it.