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Seg 2 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Jan 7 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back with the Hall of Fame head coach of the
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  Speaker 1: Huskies Yukon and Xavier tomorrow night at the Excel Center,
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  Speaker 1: and that'll be a seven o'clock pregame for a seven
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  Speaker 1: thirty tip and that's over on the River one O
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  Speaker 1: five nine if you want to catch that, and it's
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  Speaker 1: also available as always on the Varsity Network app and
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  Speaker 1: the Varsitynetwork dot Com. Here with Gino as we talk
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  Speaker 1: Yukon women's basketball. And one of the topics that came
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  Speaker 1: up today during the media session with page out Obviously
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  Speaker 1: other people the chance to step up, and Caitlin Chen
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  Speaker 1: is one of them, because you know, when she played
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  Speaker 1: for Carlott Princeton, she was the number one option on offense.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly that is not the case here at Yukon, and
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  Speaker 1: she has shown that, particularly in her assist numbers that
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  Speaker 1: have gone significantly up at seven on Sunday for example.
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  Speaker 1: But now she's probably gonna look to score a little more.
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  Speaker 2: I think, so, you know, and that's something we've discussed
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  Speaker 2: that seemed to be kind of her comfort level at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of training camp and at the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the season and the little bit at a time, you know,
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  Speaker 2: her focus started to become more working to get other
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  Speaker 2: people involved, and I admire that, but I think you
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  Speaker 2: can accomplish that much better by.
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  Speaker 3: Being such a threat to score yourself.
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  Speaker 2: And she's really good at finishing around the basket. You know,
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  Speaker 2: she has a good mid range pull up, and she's
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  Speaker 2: a better three point shooter than I think she was
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  Speaker 2: at Princeton, So there's a lot of things that she
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  Speaker 2: can do off and.
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  Speaker 3: She's a really good free throw shooter.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot that she can bring and I
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  Speaker 2: don't want her to sacrifice all that just to try
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  Speaker 2: to get us threes. I think the more she tries
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  Speaker 2: to score, the more she will score, and actually the
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  Speaker 2: more threes will get because the people will know that
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  Speaker 2: they have to collapse, that they can't just fan out
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  Speaker 2: waiting for the past.
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  Speaker 1: She better defensively than you thought she would be.
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  Speaker 3: She can be. Yeah, I think she.
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  Speaker 2: I think she's adjusting because I don't I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that Princeton picked up full court a lot, so what
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  Speaker 2: we're asking her to do maybe a tad different than
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  Speaker 2: what she's used to.
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  Speaker 3: But I feel like.
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  Speaker 2: I feel comfortable, uh that if we have her and
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  Speaker 2: KK out on the floor together, that we can, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we can do some things, and and we did it
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  Speaker 2: in a Notre Dame game in the second half. We
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  Speaker 2: did it in the USC game in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: So it's you know, we prove that we can do
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  Speaker 2: it and and that does actually help the two of them,
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  Speaker 2: and especially Kate and Caitlin find ways to score that
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  Speaker 2: aren't necessarily scripted in the half court, you know, which
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  Speaker 2: I think helps players like her.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's part of your figure it out thing
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  Speaker 1: that still exists. Is it Is it as relevant now?
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  Speaker 1: Is it ever has been? Or because the way the
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  Speaker 1: kids don't practice nearly as much coming in coming into
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  Speaker 1: ukon prior.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's yeah, it's it's a tough thing because.
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  Speaker 2: You you want to be able to figure things out,
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  Speaker 2: but you also have to have thick skin.
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  Speaker 3: And you have to have a mentality of.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just let me go and let me do my thing,
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  Speaker 2: and if I screw it up, I don't care. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think too many times, you know, players want to
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  Speaker 2: be directed, you know, they want to be sure.
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  Speaker 3: It's like.
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  Speaker 2: If you're talking to a second baseman and he says, okay,
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  Speaker 2: so if the balls hit to me here, who do
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  Speaker 2: I throw it to Well, it depends. Well, what if
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  Speaker 2: it's it to me here? Well, it depends.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can't make these decisions ahead of time.
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  Speaker 2: You have to read the play and you have to
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  Speaker 2: make a play too many times. These kids want to
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  Speaker 2: know what's my next step. Well, we don't know what
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  Speaker 2: that is. So you're going to have to figure that out.
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  Speaker 2: And it's okay if you make a mistake, provided you
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  Speaker 2: don't make the same one over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: And the biggest difference, I think that is the fear
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  Speaker 2: of making mistakes. That's probably inherent in a lot of
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  Speaker 2: kids today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Asy's back, getting herself in a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: of a rhythm. But I've got to imagine with this
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  Speaker 1: stop and go, with the little knix that she has
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  Speaker 1: injury wise, that does not help for me. For me,
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  Speaker 1: not only just a playing standpoint, but from a shooting standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: because you're not in there game after game after game
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  Speaker 1: getting the reps that you need.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's been it's been a tough go for
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  Speaker 2: her the last couple of years. You know, there's been
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  Speaker 2: so many, as you said, starts and stops, so many
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  Speaker 2: missed opportunities that it's got to affect your rhythm, it's
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  Speaker 2: got to affect your.
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  Speaker 3: Your view of you know, self.
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  Speaker 2: Confidence even because any kind of doubt in an athlete
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  Speaker 2: is not good. And as he is a thinker, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as he is a perfectionist. So it's it's it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: take a little bit of time for her to get
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  Speaker 2: back into as they say, back into the flow of things.
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  Speaker 2: But as we watch and practice, you know, she's getting
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  Speaker 2: closer and closer and.
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  Speaker 3: Without Page, now we're really gonna need her.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she's got to be that that threat.
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  Speaker 3: That we have to have.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm hopeful that that that this lapse where we
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  Speaker 2: don't have Page helps Hazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, the Louisville game, it certainly looked like she
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  Speaker 1: was getting back to herself. And the one play that
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  Speaker 1: stands out for me is the post a place she's
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  Speaker 1: on the right side of the floor, backs or defender down,
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  Speaker 1: does a spin, does a reverse. That's the asy that
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  Speaker 1: you know, we got to see when she was in
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  Speaker 1: her in good.
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  Speaker 3: Shape and confident. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the biggest thing, you know, feeling confident
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  Speaker 2: that regardless of what what the scenario, that that that
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  Speaker 2: I find myself in I got something for that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: if I need a reverse layup, I got it. If
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  Speaker 2: I need to pull up, I got it. If I
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  Speaker 2: need a open three, I got it.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: That that kind of mentality is what gives you confidence
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  Speaker 2: and it allows you to play more aggressively. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but it's you know, it's it's January. If this was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the first week in March, I wouldn't feel
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  Speaker 2: as good. But we got a long way to go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure do.
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  Speaker 1: And it starts tomorrow night with Xavier back with Gino
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  Speaker 1: with more on the Yukon women's basketball coaches, showing a
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  Speaker 1: minute here on Learfield