Latest / Coaches Corner / Segment 4 - WBB Show w Geno Nov 15

Transcript

Segment 4 - WBB Show w Geno Nov 15 · Coaches Corner

• 0:00
  Final segment with Gino, and we've got Dead Antonelli coming on and talk national
• 0:03
  women's college basketball, you know, rather than basketball. I want to talk
• 0:07
  about the European trip because we didn't really talk about it on the first show.
• 0:11
  And you've done a number of these yourself with the various teams. How
• 0:17
  did this compare to some of the other trips that you took me you went
• 0:20
  to some different places, but you also went to Italy as well. Yeah,
• 0:25
  we were in places that you know we've been, we've not been to
• 0:30
  previously. We we took maybe one of the youngest teams we've ever had,
• 0:39
  you know going over there, I should say young, and you know,
• 0:43
  inexperienced players that had not played college basketball. The other difference the competition this
• 0:52
  time may have been except for the one game we played in Venice, I'm
• 0:59
  sorry, in Bologne, maybe the last game that we played. I believe
• 1:03
  except for that game, it might have been the least competitive teams that we
• 1:07
  played. So that's going to have to be addressed on our next trip if
• 1:11
  that's where we go, or no matter where we go. But the overriding
• 1:17
  thing is that every trip succeeds in what we're trying to accomplish, you know,
• 1:23
  we we want to get our players in a different environment. We want
• 1:26
  to get them exposed to a variety of things they wouldn't expose themselves to.
• 1:33
  We want to get our freshmen acclimated to this is what it's like to play
• 1:38
  an actual game, you know. This is the time when you can find
• 1:44
  out as much as you can about other other players on your team, spend
• 1:49
  more time with your teammates. So there's there's a there's a similarity to every
• 1:57
  trip because the main objective, and especially like the last night that we were
• 2:04
  there, you know, there's a big get together and the kids had a
• 2:07
  phenomenal time, you know, so that was their last memory of coming home.
• 2:13
  And I don't know how many times you do that, you know,
• 2:15
  during the season here. So the trip accomplished its goals. We learned a
• 2:23
  lot, We learned a lot about each other, We learned a lot about
• 2:25
  our team, and I think the kids may have had an opportunity to grow
• 2:32
  up a little bit. You know, I don't know, appreciate different cultures.
• 2:38
  Me Every time I go over there, you know, I have a
• 2:40
  hard time coming back, So maybe I should stop going over there. What
• 2:46
  were your thoughts on just just for you personally going to Croatia to get to
• 2:51
  see Nika's hometown and her where she grew up. You know, I had
• 2:55
  been there during the recruiting process, but I had never spent any time there
• 2:59
  or I never sport the city. And it is a it is a you
• 3:05
  know, fantastic city, a lot of history, a lot of culture,
• 3:09
  great great people. Just the warmth and the reception, and you could tell
• 3:16
  the love that they have for for Nika, and her mom and dad are
• 3:23
  just the absolute most fantastic people ever. You know, you can if you
• 3:28
  met her dad, you would see where Nica gets it from, you know.
• 3:32
  And Nika's mom is just very quiet, very reserved. So obviously Nica
• 3:39
  has none of her qualities. And I think the players when you see how
• 3:50
  Nika grew up and what she what, what her experience was, how to
• 3:58
  get to school every day and morning, how to get home every every night,
• 4:02
  not like every afternoon, I mean like every night, nine thirty ten
• 4:05
  o'clock at night. You know, for them to see that gives them a
• 4:12
  better sense of the sacrifices that those kids make for school and to play,
• 4:21
  you know, to play basketball. You didn't zipline, did you? I
• 4:27
  did not. When I heard that there was like stops, I thought,
• 4:30
  you know, what I'm used to do is, you know, you get
• 4:32
  on the thing he goes, and then you get off. This was like
• 4:36
  you go for a long time, then you get off, then you trek.
• 4:42
  You get on the same thing but further down, and you go and
• 4:46
  then you get off, and then you trek. And then I just thought,
• 4:49
  you know, there's a lot of nice cafes and all these other places.
• 4:56
  I don't. I don't think I want to do that. Right,
• 4:59
  you go to the Ferrari Museum with a Ferrari factory though I saw red Ferrari.
• 5:03
  Did they actually let you drive it? I know they let you get
• 5:05
  in it, but they did actually let you drive a little bit. Ye.
• 5:10
  Yeah, they don't let you. You pay to do it. You
• 5:13
  know, the Tians might give you an espresso for free, but they don't
• 5:16
  give you anything else. So yeah, I've always wanted to go there.
• 5:23
  It's unbelievably amazing the situation that they have there. You know, they've got
• 5:28
  to you know, they've got the Ferrari Museum, They've got you know,
• 5:32
  the Ferrari where they're building the cars, and they've got the Ferrari separate building
• 5:39
  just for their Formula One program, you know. You know, you go
• 5:44
  through their museum and you see all the past drivers that have driven for and
• 5:47
  those are Hall of Fame names. You know. I didn't know, ever,
• 5:55
  know that Mario Andretti drove for Ferrari. I mean, it makes sense
• 5:58
  he's Italian, but didn't realize that that that he was one of their drivers,
• 6:01
  because you know, majority of their drivers obviously are European, and so
• 6:08
  you know, there's they have a couple of cars there and you telling which
• 6:14
  one and Dave Benedict and I did it, and they had two. So
• 6:19
  the first part of our tour, I drove one. Then we stopped and
• 6:24
  we switched cars, and there was a person next to you, obviously from
• 6:30
  Ferrari, and yeah, they go fast, and the guy I was driving
• 6:40
  with encouraged me. Now we weren't on the track. I wish next time
• 6:44
  I go, I would like to take one of those cars on their track,
• 6:46
  on their test track. This time, we were going through some backcountry
• 6:51
  roads, you know, and and there were actually other cars on the road,
• 6:57
  and the guy I was with, he was very adamant. You know
• 7:02
  when I would go you think there's enough room between it, and he would
• 7:06
  look at me incredulous, like and he would say take it. And you're
• 7:13
  like scared because and you trust them. And then you get over there and
• 7:18
  you think you're going really fast and he's telling you do you do you want
• 7:23
  do you want to feel the car? Or do you just want to drive
• 7:25
  like this? And I'm already going one hundred miles an hour. It's like,
• 7:28
  yo, dude, it sounds like you coaching your basketball players, right.
• 7:34
  Believe me, it was amazing. I want to go back, and
• 7:39
  I want to go back and do it again. I say, you know
• 7:42
  when I get back home, So I'm going to look into buying one of
• 7:45
  these. The biggest problem is they're their cheapest model of something is like two
• 7:53
  hundred and twenty five thousand, and the one I drove, I think was
• 7:58
  maybe two million. I'm like, on, there you go, I said,
• 8:05
  And you live here in the United States, you know here, Like,
• 8:07
  even if you have one of those, where the hell are you going
• 8:09
  to drive it? That's right, I mean, larm rocks on the other
• 8:13
  side of the state. You could do that. But yeah, all right,
• 8:16
  you pay two million dollars for a car that once a month you can
• 8:20
  take it up there for the weekend, exactly exactly. I'd rather go up
• 8:24
  there and rent one of theirs. There you go. It was always is
• 8:26
  listening. Yeah, I want to come up there and and race one of
• 8:31
  the cars. All right, Well, Ben, my boss has in there,
• 8:33
  so maybe we'll hook you up. All right. I like that,
• 8:37
  you know. It's always a pleasure. We'll talk to you tomorrow night before
• 8:39
  the game. Thanks man, all right, that's you, don't Re'm a
• 8:43
  stay tuned, debbiean Toonelli's next is the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show from Wells
• 8:46
  Fargo. Continues here on Learfield