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Seg 3 - WBB Show w Geno Dec 4 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back with Hall of Fame head coach Gino Oriema as
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  Speaker 1: the Huskies will take on to Paul Sunday, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not just the Big East home opener at Gample, but
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  Speaker 1: the number ten is going to be retired pregame, and
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  Speaker 1: then of course that would be Sue Byrd. Ironically, I
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  Speaker 1: got a text today from our friend Carl Adamick, and
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  Speaker 1: he was picking my brain about some of the top
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  Speaker 1: five Sue Byrd moments. He mentioned two thousand at Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: the Big East Final of course in O one, the
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  Speaker 1: Elite Eight in two thousand and two against Old Dominion,
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  Speaker 1: which if you've never seen video of that fans, the
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  Speaker 1: first half is basically about as good as a Yukon
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  Speaker 1: basketball team has ever played, and then the National Championship
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  Speaker 1: game against Oklahoma. But Sue obviously just embraces everything what
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  Speaker 1: Yukon women's basketball is about. And she's not the last
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  Speaker 1: person that's going to have a number retired anytime soon,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got a few of them coming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, one of the best things that happened in
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  Speaker 2: the NCAA is that you can wear any number you
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  Speaker 2: feel like now, because we're gonna run out of numbers
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  Speaker 2: for such you know, so you know, you can wear
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  Speaker 2: ninety nine if you want. And uh, you know, people,
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  Speaker 2: it's like the Celtics, you know, it's a it's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a privilege and an honor to to look up
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  Speaker 2: in the you know, in the rafters and and be
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  Speaker 2: able to see so many, ah, so many great players
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  Speaker 2: that have played, you know, in your program. And if
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  Speaker 2: you and if you think back, you know of Sue's career,
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  Speaker 2: the the incredible impact that she had on and off
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  Speaker 2: the court. Uh, the tremendous talent that she played with
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  Speaker 2: that you know, Uh, it certainly wasn't easy to be
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  Speaker 2: out on the floor with that many Olympic future Olympians
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  Speaker 2: and future you know, superstars and Hall of famers, uh,
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  Speaker 2: and and be able to direct traffic and be able
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  Speaker 2: to keep everybody happy and and Sue uh, both as
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  Speaker 2: a playmaker, as a defender, as a shooter, as a tourer,
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  Speaker 2: as a leader. You know, when you think about it,
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  Speaker 2: there there isn't a h a facet of the game
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  Speaker 2: that you would say, you know, she was a little
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  Speaker 2: bit lacking in that area. You could you could arguably
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  Speaker 2: say that no one has ever been better, had as
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  Speaker 2: many things on the court as uh as Sue was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think of that O two regional
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  Speaker 1: final against Old Dominion. I mean, the first half was
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  Speaker 1: a clinic. You don't get to see that very often.
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  Speaker 1: The precision, the execution, how everything went. I'm hard pressed
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  Speaker 1: to find a half of basketball, and I'm sure there
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  Speaker 1: might be a few of them in your time, in
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  Speaker 1: your forty years. But given the time, the circumstances, that's
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  Speaker 1: about as good as it gets, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: I think so I have going back and watched some
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  Speaker 2: of that game, and now that we're talking about it,
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  Speaker 2: I might go back and watch some of it again.
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  Speaker 2: But as I was watching it, I was absolutely mesmerized
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  Speaker 2: by what was happening. The only thing that comes close
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  Speaker 2: is the game against Mississippi State wherever that was. Was
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  Speaker 2: it Bridgeport?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Or was it Bridgeport? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen game?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay. The only thing that comes close was that
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  Speaker 2: game where we beat a really, really, really good team
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  Speaker 2: by a number that it never happened at that level.
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  Speaker 2: But it had nothing to do with, you know, Mississippi
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  Speaker 2: State not being good. It had everything to do with
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  Speaker 2: just how incredibly well we played as a group. But
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  Speaker 2: certainly you know that two thousand and two teams. Again,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some of the things that were done had
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  Speaker 2: never been done before. You had never seen a team,
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  Speaker 2: you know, play that well together again in a in
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  Speaker 2: a time of the year where only good teams are left, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, only great teams left. So if anybody hasn't
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  Speaker 2: seen that game, I'm sure it's on YouTube. Yeh, go
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  Speaker 2: find it, and you know, before you go to the
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  Speaker 2: game on Sunday, you'll you'll get a pretty good appreciation
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  Speaker 2: of what what that kid was doing at time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of parallels now that you bring
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  Speaker 1: it up from that two game in the in the
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  Speaker 1: sixteen game against Mississippi State, and I mean you had
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  Speaker 1: four seniors in O two. You had three seniors on
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  Speaker 1: the sixteen team. The death was there, the talent was there.
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  Speaker 1: Just so many similarities. Now, obviously the two team you know,
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  Speaker 1: had Diana Tarazi, that certainly helps, but but yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: just scary to think the parallels between those two games
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  Speaker 1: and those two teams at that particular time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't it something that uh, that twenty sixteen team,
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  Speaker 2: I think they had the number one, two, three picks
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  Speaker 2: in the draft yep, and that two thousand and two team.
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  Speaker 2: I think they went one two four maybe I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was one two four six something like that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Sue went first, Win went second, and I think
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  Speaker 2: Tamika Williams went fourth and Asia Jones went sixth, which
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's pretty incredible. Uh, you're right, the similarities
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  Speaker 2: between those two starting five Uh was poof. Uh that's
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  Speaker 2: uh uh it's good and bad because now I want
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  Speaker 2: every game to be like that. So I'm I'm the
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  Speaker 2: biggest culprit of like, why can't we play like that
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  Speaker 2: all the time? And and you know, so here I
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  Speaker 2: am telling everybody don't expect that. Meanwhile, I went to
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  Speaker 2: every game and I get pissed when we're not like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, final type with Gino when we come back
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  Speaker 1: in just a minute on the UKN Women's Basketball Coaches
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  Speaker 1: Show here Onlearfield