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Seg 4 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Jan 7 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Last segment with Gino Oriama. As we're here on the
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  Speaker 1: Women's Basketball Coaches Show, and we are in the well
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  Speaker 1: we used to be the conference room. It's a smaller
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  Speaker 1: conference room. What's upon a time we did this show
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  Speaker 1: live from here, many many moons ago here. But last
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  Speaker 1: night your kids got to experience something that some of
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  Speaker 1: them had never experienced before an NBA game, as they
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  Speaker 1: went to the garden to see the next play. And
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  Speaker 1: I guess Paige hooked them up pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she has so many great opportunities come her way,
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  Speaker 2: and she's so good about sharing those opportunities and experiences
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  Speaker 2: that she's fortunate enough to have. You know, apparently I
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  Speaker 2: saw the right up. It was the worst offensive game
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  Speaker 2: that the Knicks have played, I think this year. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not sure they're anxious to have that
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  Speaker 2: group back. But how many chances do you get to
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  Speaker 2: go to the garden to watch the next game playing
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  Speaker 2: NBA and all the hooplah and everything that goes with
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  Speaker 2: it and all the celebrities that are there, blah blah blah,
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  Speaker 2: and so page does a lot for for our basketball
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  Speaker 2: team on the court and off the court, And last
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  Speaker 2: night was just another example of that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's go on the injury front here, Aubury
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  Speaker 1: coming along.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, she does. She does a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more every day. You know, her timetable is again up
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  Speaker 2: to her when she feels it. There's glimpses, you know,
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  Speaker 2: of the old Aubrey. It's not enough of them right now,
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  Speaker 2: but hopefully little by little, and that'll be another adjustment
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  Speaker 2: we'll have to make, you know. So that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: one that I'm looking forward to as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be nice to have a full compliment. And
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  Speaker 1: then I've been kind of reluctant to ask about Caroline,
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  Speaker 1: just knowing the situation that that she's going through, but
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  Speaker 1: you brought somebody brought her up in the in the
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  Speaker 1: media session, and you mentioned that she has been one
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  Speaker 1: heck of a teammates during this whole this whole tenure
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  Speaker 1: for her, particularly this season, just getting back with her teammates,
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  Speaker 1: being there dealing with everything that she's gone through, and
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  Speaker 1: it just sounds like she has been done a phenomenal
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  Speaker 1: job for your for your team. She has.
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  Speaker 2: I've been, you know, unbelievably impressed by her one her
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  Speaker 2: work ethic to try to get herself back to her
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  Speaker 2: just just commitment to her teammates and being a part
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  Speaker 2: of it and pulling them aside one at a time,
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  Speaker 2: or gathering them up, the advice, the encouragement. Her voice
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  Speaker 2: is the one voice you hear in our gym constantly, NonStop,
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  Speaker 2: and for someone who's not playing, that's especially gratifying to see.
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  Speaker 2: That makes her a unique individual, and it sets a
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  Speaker 2: tone and it makes our other players start to understand,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is what I'm supposed to be like,
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  Speaker 2: this is the way it's supposed to be. So I
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  Speaker 2: couldn't be happier for And I hope it works out,
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  Speaker 2: you know, cross my fingers, and because I don't think
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  Speaker 2: anybody deserves it more than.
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  Speaker 1: She does now, because you get to witness this every day.
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  Speaker 1: And let's say things don't work out where she doesn't
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  Speaker 1: play again, could you see her coaching down the road
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  Speaker 1: with what she's been doing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, kids are weird, you know, you don't know,
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  Speaker 2: you don't know. It's certainly something that staying in the game,
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  Speaker 2: I know is something that she's talked about a lot.
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  Speaker 2: From a playing standpoint. You know, I'm going to play
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  Speaker 2: someplace when I graduate from from college, if that's not
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  Speaker 2: available to her, I think there'll be opportunities for her
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  Speaker 2: to stay in the game in some way, shape or form,
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  Speaker 2: And certainly I'm gonna I'm want to help her with that.
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  Speaker 1: Ye xavior tomorrow night young team a very foreign They
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of foreign players on the team, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of it's because of the portal and and
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  Speaker 1: it just seems like that's a direction that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of places are going to now even I mean, you've
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  Speaker 1: got more international players in recent years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, the world's small, you know, you can you
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  Speaker 2: can understand that a kid being in Connecticut and going, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I love you've got women's basketball. Then you know, we
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  Speaker 2: go to Cuahia and go, hey, what's your favorite? Oh man,
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  Speaker 2: I've been following you u CON for forever and you're thinking, wow,
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  Speaker 2: So the world has become so interconnected. Everybody knows everything,
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  Speaker 2: everybody sees every clip, you know, And and I believe
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  Speaker 2: that those players have a tremendous desire to come here
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  Speaker 2: and play. They're they're there, their work ethic and their maturity,
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  Speaker 2: how much they have to grow up while they're over there,
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  Speaker 2: and how much they how much independence they have. It's
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  Speaker 2: done like the culture here in this country, and then
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  Speaker 2: to be able to say I want to go three thousand,
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  Speaker 2: five thousand, whatever the case, it is away from home
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  Speaker 2: and my mommy's not coming with me, you know. And
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  Speaker 2: they're not going to come and help me fix up
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  Speaker 2: my room, you know. Uh, And they're not going to
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  Speaker 2: come up every weekend and make my you know, make
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  Speaker 2: soup for me. You know. They they truly are independent,
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  Speaker 2: and they really are mature, and I think they they
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  Speaker 2: appreciate the opportunity so much, and I love coaching them.
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  Speaker 2: I just think they're fantastic. And I was self spot
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  Speaker 2: in my heart for immigrants.
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  Speaker 1: Help the case in point right here, Gino. Thanks as always,
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  Speaker 1: we'll do it again tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it, all right, Thanks Bob, all right.
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