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SEG 5 - Wbb Show w Geno & Cav Mar 4 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back with Gino and Mike Kavanaugh were live at Kathery
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  Speaker 1: or we'll doing after show with the folks here coming
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  Speaker 1: up at seven on the radio, it's Dan Hurley with
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  Speaker 1: Mike Crispino and Alex Caraban. That's coming up at seven.
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  Speaker 1: You probably have more interaction or would with Alex than
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  Speaker 1: say Mike would. But you had a nice analogy today
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  Speaker 1: about Joey muld Downey Alex Caraban kind of in that
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  Speaker 1: same boat. But what kind of interactions have you had
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  Speaker 1: with ak in his time here at Yukon? Gino? Start
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  Speaker 1: with you.
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  Speaker 2: Now we see him a lot, obviously, we see him
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  Speaker 2: a lot in the in the building, in the weight room,
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  Speaker 2: in the food room. So he's he's been here forever.
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  Speaker 2: I mean like a lot of times.
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  Speaker 1: Now I didn't talk much got here.
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  Speaker 2: No, a lot of times. You if you get a
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  Speaker 2: really good player here that comes and plays man's basketball,
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  Speaker 2: they're not around here really really long. You know, Castle
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  Speaker 2: was here, what one you here? Donovan Klingon was here
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  Speaker 2: two years, I want to say, and then you get
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  Speaker 2: some you know, transfer guys that maybe come in for
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  Speaker 2: a year. But Alex, you know, he's been here the
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  Speaker 2: whole four years. So you kind of seen him grow
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  Speaker 2: from this gangly kid, you know that came in that
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  Speaker 2: everybody had high hopes for, and you know, two national
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  Speaker 2: championships and here he is now and he's the nicest
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  Speaker 2: kid in the world, really smart, great student, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But cav was talking about going to see a kid.
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  Speaker 2: I remember we were recruiting, and you had a certain
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  Speaker 2: period of time when you could recruit, and it was
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  Speaker 2: the month of August, so it was August. How many
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  Speaker 2: days in August thirty one, So it was August thirty first,
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  Speaker 2: and we were in Washington, d C. Was at a
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  Speaker 2: tournament and this guy that I knew said, Hey, you
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  Speaker 2: want to go get something neat And I said sure,
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  Speaker 2: and he said, well, let's stop at this playground because
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  Speaker 2: I want to see this kid play in this Summer
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  Speaker 2: League game. So we went down there and one of
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  Speaker 2: the kids that we were recruiting was playing in the game,
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  Speaker 2: and she was probably top five recruits in the country
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  Speaker 2: or whatever she was. So I'm watching the game and
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  Speaker 2: I see this kid run up and down the floor.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm being generous by saying she was running up
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  Speaker 2: and down the floor. She was just getting up and
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  Speaker 2: down the floor. You know. And and so I said
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  Speaker 2: to this little kid, I said, hey, who's really good
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  Speaker 2: out there? He points to this kid and I go, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's not the kid that everybody's looking at. That kid
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  Speaker 2: right there is everybody's looking at. It goes yeah, I said,
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  Speaker 2: but that kid. I said, who's that kid? And he says,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I've never seen her before. I said, well,
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  Speaker 2: you got five minutes to come back with her name,
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  Speaker 2: what school she goes to, and all the other stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Kid was like eleven or something, you know. So he
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  Speaker 2: comes back eleven year old. Nice. Yeah, yeah, I could
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  Speaker 2: have been a little brother. He comes back and he
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  Speaker 2: gives me all the information. And first time I saw
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  Speaker 2: her it was Jamelle Elliott, you know. And somebody said,
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  Speaker 2: what are you going to do with her? She's not
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  Speaker 2: a guard I said, I know she's not, because well
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  Speaker 2: she's not. She's not big and she's five ten, five eleven.
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  Speaker 2: She's not, you know, big enough. I said, I know,
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  Speaker 2: I know. He says, well, what are you going to
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  Speaker 2: do with her? I said, I'm sure I'll find something
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  Speaker 2: that I can do with her.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. A thousand points thousand rebounds later.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, other than Rebecca, she was the first kid to
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  Speaker 2: get a thousand points in a thousand rebounds, because you
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  Speaker 2: can't and I think you said this, you can't underestimate
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  Speaker 2: someone's toughness and will to win and competitive spirit, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And I think sometimes people get seduced by, you know,
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  Speaker 2: athletic ability and talent and oh my god, look at
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  Speaker 2: that kid. Look how quick, Look how fast, look how
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  Speaker 2: you know all these other things, and they forget to
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  Speaker 2: look past that and say, wow, you know what's underneath there? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because that's and at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: that's what's going to make you who you are, right,
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  Speaker 2: I think, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, we'll take one last break here, get towards the
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  Speaker 1: top of the hour, and we'll stay on time. It's
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  Speaker 1: the UKON Women's Basketball Coaches Show. GINO Mike Kavanaugh back
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  Speaker 1: in a minute here Onlearfield