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Seg 1 - WBB Show w Geno Jan 9 · Coaches Corner

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  Hi, everyone, and welcome to our latest edition of the Yukon Women's Basketball
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  Coaches Show for show viere with head coach Gino oriam As. The Husky's coming
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  off a really good start to counter twenty twenty four, and we'll throw in
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  New Year's Eve as well with wins over Marquette, Creighton, and Georgetown.
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  And yes, we'll talk about Aubert Griffin's injury as well with Gino in a
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  little bit. But r boy, your team is in a really good spot.
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  And I know we just met with the media as we're recording this.
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  It seems like this team has found its identity. Yeah. Yeah, that's
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  what we talked about as a team, that we needed to find who we
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  are and play to that identity every night if we can. And my feeling
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  right now is if we can keep playing to that, play fast, take
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  advantage of our quickness, minimize the lack of height that we have a lot
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  of times in our lineup. Whatever teams do to us that's difficult for us,
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  we can do to them that's difficult for them. So our defensive identity
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  has started to establish itself. You know, this is how we play,
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  this is our game plan. How you know ball pressure. I like it.
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  I like where we are, and I like the fact that the team
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  has embraced it for the most part. Yeah, and you also mentioned too
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  early in the season you get behind or shoot the ball well, and suddenly
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  it doesn't start going to the hoop and they get down to themselves. Well,
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  two of the last three games, the opposition's gotten off to a good
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  start, but it hasn't changed a thing. And then you get rolling and
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  it's it's all over on both ends of the floor. Yeah, the mark
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  That game and the Georgetown game, you know, then start off obviously ideally,
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  you know, we love to start every game like we started the Creating
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  game, right, But unfortunately that's not always the case. So you've got
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  to be able to you know, again, just like our team, you
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  got to be able to take advantage and maximize when you're on a roll and
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  be able to hang in there and which stand when the other team's on a
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  little bit of a run. And I think we're getting really really good at
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  that for sure. Yeah, and the Craning game, I mean, you
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  know, it's funny we were talking about the numbers of their core four in
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  the previous games against you Kun not very good. Well, that trend continued,
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  and I think it's because a the quickness of the defense, but they
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  also you force. Your hope is to force teams to take bad shots or
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  the shots they don't want to take, and it seemed like Creighton got into
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  that rut quite a bit, and they have been in the past against you
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  Cunn. You know, the big thing about Creighton is you need them to
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  miss open shots. All right, you can do whatever you want pressure,
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  force them to take rush shots, but the bottom line is they're really good
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  and they're going to get X number of open shots. You have to hope
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  that by making things a little bit quicker for them, making them rush just
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  a little bit, that not only does it effect the contested shots that they
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  take because of your pressure, but it has a residual effect on some of
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  the open shots don't go in sure, And that to me is you know,
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  has been the key with with Creighton. You know, we played them
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  here at Gample when they made all those open shots, and it was really
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  hard, really hard. So they're you know, hey, we could play
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  them here at our place and be completely the other way around. Who the
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  heck knows, But I thought I thought the Marquette. The Louisville Marquette Creaton
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  games were three of our best efforts both ends of the year, for sure,
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  and probably the most physical game was probably sunning. It always is,
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  always is every time we played Georgetown. There is a physicality to the game.
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  There's a lot of misshots. They're traditionally a very very very good defensive
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  team. They make it they try to make it up a game that turns
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  a little bit ugly from you know, it's not going to be pretty basketball,
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  and it serves them well. You know, they're twelve and three,
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  so again overcoming that and you know, we got up twenty in the second
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  half and go, oh we're up twenty. Now it's going to be just
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  all the other games. Now we're going to get up thirty and then it's
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  going to be forty. Yeah yah yeah dah yeah. And then it went
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  from twenty to twelve. And that's the way they play, you know.
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  And I was really proud of the we came out in the third quarter because
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  we played We made them play the way we wanted them to play. That
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  was the biggest thing. Yeah. And the other thing too, you made
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  them pay for every turnover team like and you only turn the ball over eight
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  times. Yeah, yeah, no, I thought we capitalized on their turnover.
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  There's a couple of things that we've talked about. Right. We have
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  to win the three point battle, so we have to score more points from
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  the three point line than you do. We have to shoot more free throws
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  than you do and score more free throws than you do. And we have
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  to win the rebounding battle if we can't, or at least break even.
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  And two out of the three we got those things done three out of three
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  against Marquette and three out of three against Creighton and two out of three against
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  Georgetown. We didn't have a really good day on the backboard. But if
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  we can keep striving for those three things, you know, we're not always
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  going to come out on top. But I like our chances. Yeah.
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  And you know, yes, you have broken the ten made threes three times
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  this season. But right now, now, during this stretch, you're making
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  seven to ten threes a game. That's not exactly a bad number, No
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  it's not. And this day you tell me we're gonna take twenty five every
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  game where we're gonna go ten for twenty five? Okay, where I like
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  it to be you know, twelve or thirteen for twenty five. Sure every
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  coach would, but it's ten for twenty five. It's still thirty points on
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  twenty five shots. The key, I also think is the fifteen that we
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  miss. Those are long rebounds, So how many of those can we recover
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  and get another shot at it? And if we're quicker to the ball,
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  you know we might be able to do that. Right more Gito is the
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