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Geno Auriemma - Postgame UCLA · Coaches Corner

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  Basically, UCLA defended one player and they were content to let everybody else have
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  any shot that they wanted, and we just didn't. We didn't make any
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  and you know, you know, and Page, you know, and you
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  can't can't beat a really good team, you know, with with one player.
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  So yeah, it was disappointing that we didn't get more contributions for more
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  people. We're you know, our combinations are all screwed up right now,
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  you know, so that's got to get sorted out. But you know,
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  we struggled. We had our runs, and there was just not enough.
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  We just did not have enough. Row a disappointment. Yeah, everything that
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  they for you guys, just her energy. I mean, this isn't the
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  first time she's done this in a big moment. How helpful was how much
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  leads. My problem is Aubrey did it when we were down fifteen. See,
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  so Aubrey needs to do it before we get down fifteen. And that's
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  the that's been the issue with some of our players, is that they just
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  take a long time to get going. So the way ob played for long
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  stretches in that game, that's how she's got to start the game. And
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  if you noticed her man was standing underneath the rim the entire game. So
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  it makes it hard to play like that. You brought it a mari early.
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  I mean, you guys are obviously the limited in the front court,
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  but how how are you just how old there's balancing those minutes in the terms
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  of that rotation in that in in the front court. Well, this is
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  probably one of the games where I think, you know, Mark can have
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  a little bit of an impact, you know, just trying to to get
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  away from the basket, and and and I thought I thought she did a
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  good job with that the time she was in there. Again, as bad
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  as it looks, sometimes the defense wasn't necessarily the problem. You know,
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  Kiki Rice had a great game, and but there was never a time when
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  we felt like we've got some rhythm going on our offense. And so in
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  every combination that we tried, we couldn't find that that rhythm. And we
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  found it for small stretches, but not enough, not enough. And you
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  know that's going to be the issue, you know, whenever we don't have
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  those two guys that are shooters. But it is what it is. You
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  know, other people are gonna have to step up, and they're gonna have
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  to make shots. And you mentioned Paige. Are you concerned all that she's
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  you know, having to have such a big role again after just coming off
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  this course of course. Yeah, yeah, it's a huge concern, and
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  that's why it's important that we get other people to to to contribute more and
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  to feel more more confident doing what they're good at. You know, it's
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  it's it's noticeable on the road out, you know how how difficult it is
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  for some of these guys. And again there's no substitute. If you look
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  at the statute, which sometimes stat sheets are are bullshit, but if you
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  look at the statue points off turnovers, we had seventeen. They had ten.
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  Points in the paint they had twenty four. We had twenty. Second
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  chance points they had fourteen. We had twelve fast break points they had ten.
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  We had ten. Bench scoring they have fifteen. We had three and
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  not even just a benchmark, you know, start scoring. So you know,
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  they made twelve for twelve three's we made nine. So you look at
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  we shot more free throws. It's it's not possible. It's it's not possible
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  to be to be good teams less we give more contributions from other people.
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  Do you think that might want be back for tomorrow? Who Caroline? I
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  don't know. Carolyn's always day to day. You know, we show up,
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  they tell us that she's going, she's going, she goes, she
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  can't, she can't. So we'll see no more tomorrow morning. I guess
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  until you watch the end of that Virginia Tech in Kantus game, Just what
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  what is Virginia just possess that you want to take care of tomorrow? Kansas?
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  Yeah, I mean Kansas probably had every every right to win that game.
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  Maybe you know, they played really really well. Obviously they don't present
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  the same problems that that UCLA does, but you know, it's it's still
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  it's still they're playing Connecticut and everybody's gonna you know, you take kids from
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  UCLA. They had made, you know, two or three three pointers the
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  entire season, and everything they throw up today goes in. It's just it's
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  just the way it is, you know. So we got to be ready
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  and this was a tough This was a tough one, and I hope we're
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  going to need other people to make contributions tomorrow. Man, it's over as
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  to it, because we can't you know, we can't afford to, you
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  know, to wear some of these guys down like that, and it's just
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  said, we needed more, you know, we needed more contributions. You
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  know, we need more from our starters and more from our bench. That's
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  unfortunately, was there any point they clawed back before the half and that belief
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  come into lothe room really thinking we have our legs under us, and then
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  and then we get blown out in the third quarter. It's hard to explain
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  in the Yeah, it's uh, it's yeah, it's hard to explain.
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  It's hard to explain how we oh, you know, ten points in a
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  quarter, twenty eight points in a quarter, eight points in a quarter,
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  twenty four points in a quarter. So yeah, we've got to find again,
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  We've got to find We've got to find in some sort of cohesiveness on
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  our fence. We looked disjointed a lot of times and I got I gotta
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  fix that. I gotta fix that. What is the answer less than twenty
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  four hours? You're playing a good team and for them, I always feel
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  waiting till seven thirty at night, Yeah, is a well, you know,
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  maybe this is good because we need to rest now. And so if
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  its nudible, it may be a big problem. But I think the the
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  fact that you have to you have to perform. You know, when you
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  play a year, you have to you have to know that you're getting other
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  people's best shots. And when you play in these tournaments, you know it's
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  gonna be two tough games back to back, and we set that up for
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  a reason. Unfortunately, this isn't the team I thought we were gonna come
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  down here with. You know, I thought we'd have Jenna and Carol and
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  I uh Asy and Yanna, you know, guys that can contribute whatever it
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  is that they could contribute. So it puts a lot of pressure on the
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  other guys and they're gonna have to figure out a way to do it.
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  Oh, thank you, Thanks coming you very much. Thanks guys,