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Seg 3 - WBB Show w Geno Nov 3 · Coaches Corner

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  Don't forget. This is just the start of things here tonight we're recording this.
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  I'm in Burlington, Vermont as we record this during the day because we've
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  got yukon Hockey tonight at the top of the hour, as the ice bus
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  looks to get some offense generated after a struggle against Chee Mass Lowell seven o'clock
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  after Gito show here on the network. I mean, the two low goaltenders
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  who played so well last week are in the top ten nationally and save percentage
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  and goals against average, so that was not a fluke over the week.
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  It's crazy. You can help with the offense. Yeah, hockey's crazy.
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  I tell Calvo all the time. I said, how you get fifty shots
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  and the other guys get fifteen and you lose? I said, that's not
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  possible. And you got to have a little bit of luck, you know,
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  you puck luck, he calls it. You know, you got to
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  hope that you keep taking chances and you keep putting yourself out there and you
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  know you're going to get your share. But man, it's got to be
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  frustrating as hell to sometimes dominate a game. And it happened in the last
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  game of the year they had last year in the playoffs. Yep, they
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  played lowll same type of system, low scoring. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
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  you just got to find a way to sneak that thing in there and
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  hope for the best. Yep. Well, hopefully it gets going this weekend.
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  G know, you're a guard heavy oriented team, not only page Asy.
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  Caroline can be both afford and a guard. Nika's back, you got
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  K Karen on the lineup. I mean, the dynamic and the possibilities here
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  if everybody stays healthy seems to be endless with with your guard group and the
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  freshman too for that matter. Yeah, I hope, so, I hope.
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  I hope. It's a big strength of ours that we can use.
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  You know, I think they're they're versatile. There's a difference between all of
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  them. You know. KK is not like uh Nica and Nika's not like
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  KK, and Ashlands not like Page, and Pages not like Ashland, and
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  Q's not like Carol, and Carol's not like you. So we've got so
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  versatility there and it'll be interesting to see how it plays out, but certainly
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  it's one of the biggest strengths of our team. I think they handled the
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  ball pretty well. They passed it pretty well, they shoot it pretty well.
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  We just have to make sure we're good, really good and solid defensively,
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  and I think we will be, and I think it'll show out that
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  our guards are going to dictate a lot of times how the game goes.
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  Do you know, for a lot of reasons last year, particularly the injury
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  bug, you're playing five six players a game, and the turnovers mounted because
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  of fatigue a lot of playing time. I mean, the numbers were staggering
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  last season from a Yukon standpoint of how big the turnover numbers were, and
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  of course we saw that in the last game of the season against Ohio State.
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  Obviously that's going to be a big point of emphasis to clean up this
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  season, and it should, in theory happen because of what you've got back
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  and what you've got coming in. You would think you would think, Yes,
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  I think we were a little bit of challenged last year. We had
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  players that could do one thing really really, really well, and it was
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  maybe a struggle to add some things to their game. I think the the
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  turnover thing will be much much better, but I don't know, because you
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  know we're gonna play faster. There's gonna be more possessions, So I don't
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  know. I'm hoping that there'll be a big then in it, but I
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  think that remains to be seen. And as long as we're playing fast and
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  we're we're playing aggressive, there's some turnovers I can live with, and then
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  obviously there's something you can't live right, just general question from that Ohio State
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  game. It had to be a very helpless feeling watching that stretch late first,
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  early second, where possession after possession didn't go well. Just to see
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  that, regardless of what you try to implement, just didn't work, and
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  you felt awful for those young ladies to see that happen. Yeah, I
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  don't know what it was. I don't know whether we just we didn't prepare
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  them well enough for the magnitude of the injuries and the minutes played and Ohio
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  State all that combined to really deflate us mentally. And I think once you're
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  deflated mentally, it's very difficult to perform at a high level physically. So
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  that's something that I hope we can alleviate by having more bodies that can ply.
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  I felt bad as well. I thought we were better than that,
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  and I think we we didn't really show a great version of ourselves. That's
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  for sure. Go to the bigs now. I mean, we know we
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  get from Aaliyah Ice Brady's going to be counting on a lot this year,
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  even though she's never played a college game, but it sounds like she's got
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  game. Knock on wood. You hope Aubrey stays healthy. And then the
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  two X factors Omari and Yanna, what do you think from your front court
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  this season? Obviously people are gonna have to step up because of I don't
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  know, I don't if I call it lack of depth. But from the
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  really size factor, you don't have a whole ton of size that plays on
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  a regular basis, it seems like, yeah, I guess you could say
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  it is a lack of a lack of depth and certainly a lack of experienced
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  depth. So you know, you've got Aliyah that's played a lot of games,
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  Aubrey off know them because of her her injuries. You know, Yanna
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  has hardly played any basketball here. H Ice has played no basketball here up
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  to this point. Almari's played very little basketball here. So it's like we
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  don't have depth in numbers, and we don't necessarily have depth and experience.
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  So those are two things that we have to be careful with because they could
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  be a derailing factor. And we have to be really smart about how we
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  play with those guys, and they have to be really smart and making sure
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  that we make great decisions and don't commit silly fouls. It gets us on
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  the bench and puts the puts the team in a bad spot. So yeah,
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  it's going to be something that we're gonna have to manage all season.
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  But you know, we've We've had less and done a lot, So I'm
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  okay with it. I'm okay with it. What are fans going to see
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  when they see Ice Brady on the floor for the first time. What type
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  of game does she have? Well, I'm hoping that she you know,
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  she plays well for her you know that she enjoys playing in the lane and
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  outside the lane, that she gets herself in a position where she can get
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  some buckets easily. She's left handed, so sometimes that catches people by surprising.
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  She's a really good shooter, and I'm hoping that she adds another dimension.
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  You know, I know we had dorcall last year, but this this
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  is a little bit, a little bit different and I think her and Lee
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  are really going to compliment each other really well, and Ice has to get
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  experience. That's the only thing that's going to be missing. She just has
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  not played at this level before. And the learning curve is going to be
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  there for sure. All Right, Final segment with Gino coming up in a
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  moment here on the Yukon Sports Network from Learfield all Right, six three,
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