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Seg 3 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Dec 20 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back with Gino as we get sent for Yukon and
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  Speaker 1: USC and we're doing this today in person in his office.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I remember the show that HBO did,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it was some of the early segments,
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  Speaker 1: like the intros where you're sitting at your desk drawing
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  Speaker 1: up plays. Well, I'm looking at Geno's off desk here
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  Speaker 1: and he's got papers full of half court diagrams with
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  Speaker 1: certain plays movements that players have. I'm sure you probably
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  Speaker 1: have somewhere hundreds of these somewhere stashed the way, in
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  Speaker 1: all the forty years that you've done this here at Yukon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they certainly pile up. Some are just concepts,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some are just ideas, and some are actual,
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  Speaker 2: you know, plays that you want, you know, you want
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  Speaker 2: to incorporate at some point some years. The more plays
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  Speaker 2: you have, the worse your team is. You know. I'll
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  Speaker 2: give you a quick for instance. I remember when we
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  Speaker 2: went to the Final four with Megan's team back in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety one. I think we had like four or
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  Speaker 2: five things that we did. That's it. We never did
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  Speaker 2: anything else. Stewey's teams, generally speaking, we did four or
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  Speaker 2: five things, nothing else. You know. So if you can
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  Speaker 2: find four or five things that you can execute really really,
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  Speaker 2: really well, that's really all you need. But a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times, if you've got fifteen things, twenty things, it's
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  Speaker 2: because you're searching. And whenever you're searching, that's not a
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  Speaker 2: good thing. But there's a couple favorites that we've had
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  Speaker 2: over there's still some things that we do that we
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  Speaker 2: did twenty five years ago, and people might say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's not modern day basketball. Well, modern day basketball is
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  Speaker 2: put the ball in the basket. That's why it's called basketball,
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  Speaker 2: basket ball. Put the ball in the basket. So whether
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, nineteen ninety four, or whether it's two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and four or it's twenty twenty four, right, there's
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of ways to get the ball in
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  Speaker 2: the basket, and some of them haven't gone away. And
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  Speaker 2: I enjoy coming up with new ideas, but I also
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  Speaker 2: enjoy bringing back the old stuff because people are forgotten
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  Speaker 2: about it and all these young coaches didn't even know
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  Speaker 2: it existed, you know, so it's kind of fun fun
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  Speaker 2: to tinker with that stuff. Do you do it?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you probably do all this stuff based
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  Speaker 1: on what your personnel is too. I would think.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And for instance, my ideas generally don't work very
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  Speaker 2: well unless we have a four man that can really, really,
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  Speaker 2: really play. I think that's why some of the stuff
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  Speaker 2: that we do now our offense can look so good
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  Speaker 2: is because you know somebody like Sarah. To me, the
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  Speaker 2: big thing is your guards are going to have the
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  Speaker 2: ball a lot, right, But here's where the defense goes
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  Speaker 2: to die when you throw your ball. When you throw
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  Speaker 2: the ball to one of your big guys, and if
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  Speaker 2: all they can do is shoot it, then you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have a bad team. But if they can handle the
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  Speaker 2: ball like a guard, you know, you can use them
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  Speaker 2: as an inbounder. You put him in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: you know, against the press, you you can put him
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  Speaker 2: in the middle and run four people around them. You
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  Speaker 2: can create spacing for your if you have you can
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  Speaker 2: post anybody you want up because that guy's dragging the
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  Speaker 2: other team's big guy out of the lane. So I
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  Speaker 2: think even those years when you don't have a great guard,
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  Speaker 2: if you have a great foreman. Let's go back to
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  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty five, eighty six, eighty seven, eighty eight, right,
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  Speaker 2: Megan Patterson, Rebecca Lobo to Carol Walters, you know, megan
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  Speaker 2: to carry mayoed Tina Tuck to Stewie Stewie to Stephanie Dolson.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you just keep going down the line and
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  Speaker 2: you start to realize that when you do have somebody
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  Speaker 2: like that, you've got somebody special and the other Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: the other people don't realize it because the other guy
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  Speaker 2: gets more attention. But it's actually that guy that makes
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  Speaker 2: everything work. And I remember one time when somebody said
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  Speaker 2: your team is unbeatable, and I said, well, I would
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  Speaker 2: think so. I said, we have the best guard in
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  Speaker 2: America renamed Montgomery. We have the best center in the
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  Speaker 2: country in Tina Charles, and oh yeah, we have the
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  Speaker 2: best player in the country in my war. So when
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  Speaker 2: you can fill three spots, then you have a super
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  Speaker 2: natural team two, you have a chance to win almost
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  Speaker 2: a lot. The whole thing. You had a third guy
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  Speaker 2: in there, man, and you become almost invincible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, reason why they won seventy eight in a row
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  Speaker 1: back to back underfeet a national championship. Speaking of Maya
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  Speaker 1: and Sue, you're potentially going to have two of your
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  Speaker 1: all time top five players in the Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 1: this fall. That's a good problem to have.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, when I found out at first, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, Sue can't get in. She hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: down five years. And you know, I was I was
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  Speaker 2: told that they changed the criteria. It was really like
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  Speaker 2: a moment for me of wow that you know, when
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  Speaker 2: they were seventeen and they decided to come to Yukon.
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  Speaker 2: Who could ever predict this, Who could ever imagine this,
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  Speaker 2: you know, who could say, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is
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  Speaker 2: this is automatic. It's actually it's funny. It's actually a
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  Speaker 2: better feeling than when I got a phone call saying
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  Speaker 2: I was in, because it's like it's like when you're
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  Speaker 2: a parent and something great happens to you, doesn't quite
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  Speaker 2: feel as good as when something great happens to your kids.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like when your kids are born, Yeah that's
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  Speaker 2: a big deal, but when your kids have kids, that's
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  Speaker 2: a huge deal. You know. So that's kind of how
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  Speaker 2: I felt today.
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  Speaker 1: All right, final segment with Gino. Oh yeah, there's a
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  Speaker 1: big game tomorrow night. We'll preview that and we'll go
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  Speaker 1: through the injuries. Because it's still a problem with the Huskies.
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  Speaker 1: As you're listening to you kind of women's basketball coaches
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  Speaker 1: show on Learfield to stay with us.