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Seg 1 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Jan 30 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Yes, let's talk to you god women's basketball. On this
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  Speaker 1: Friday night, after three weeks of hockey on the radio,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna talk women's college basketball and a rare Friday
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  Speaker 1: night live show. I don't know if we've ever done
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  Speaker 1: a live Friday show before with coach gin Oriama. We're
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  Speaker 1: live at Cafe or here in Manchester. Great to have
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  Speaker 1: you with us as we get set for Yukon Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: this weekend and coming off just a fun game the
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  Speaker 1: other night against Xavier.
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  Speaker 2: Good to see you, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in.
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  Speaker 2: Happy to be here.
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  Speaker 1: How's you got a guest here? You guys see, Jim
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  Speaker 1: Foster's down the other end there, right, coach, how you doing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jim Foster's here.
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  Speaker 1: He was at the game the other night, right.
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  Speaker 3: He was at the game the other night. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and his wife Donna, they're sitting up there. He just
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  Speaker 3: moved to Pennsylvania, so it's an easy drive up here
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  Speaker 3: now instead of flying in from Colorado or Utah where
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  Speaker 3: he was living.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's good to have him around. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fun game the other night, you know, it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: Talked about Ali and her development in the pregame show.
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  Speaker 1: Not knowing that she was going to make five threes
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  Speaker 1: in the first half. I think four of those came
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  Speaker 1: in the second quarter. She made Yukon's first three and
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  Speaker 1: then her own little personal run on the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: to tie the school record for most threes in a
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  Speaker 1: game ten, most threes every gample ten and off you went.
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  Speaker 1: But that just topped the bottom. And it wasn't just Dali.
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  Speaker 1: Ashland shaded nine steals, Kaylee Heckle off the bench with
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  Speaker 1: eight boards and eight eight assists. Just a good, solid
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  Speaker 1: all around effort by your team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it didn't start particularly well. You know, you come
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  Speaker 3: out and uh, you know, like when you see when
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  Speaker 3: you see a shoot the ball, you think, wow, they're
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  Speaker 3: you know, they're a pretty good shooting team. They're leading
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  Speaker 3: the country in three point field goal percentage. You know
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  Speaker 3: that's pretty good. And you start the game, oh for nine.
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  Speaker 3: You know it. It's weird because you're not used to
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  Speaker 3: seeing that. So you needed somebody to just come in
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  Speaker 3: and make one. I think once you make one, then
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  Speaker 3: you can make a couple. But you know, we didn't
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  Speaker 3: make any. I don't know that defensively.
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  Speaker 2: We were we were really good either.
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  Speaker 3: So there's there was a lot to be desired in that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, most of that first quarter.
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  Speaker 2: But like you said, you know.
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  Speaker 3: You you know, you go to the band, you bring
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  Speaker 3: a couple of people in, they shake things up a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. You know, we knew it would be a
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  Speaker 3: little bit different not being able to bring Blanca in
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  Speaker 3: to kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Start stir upot a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: So, uh, Ali's been playing great and and she had
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  Speaker 3: a great she had a great night, and the kids
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  Speaker 3: all had a fun time watching her do what she did.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, you know, and they all chipped in, you know,
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  Speaker 3: as you said, you know, Hecko had a great game.
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  Speaker 3: I thought a great game, and the Ash had a
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  Speaker 3: great game. You know, those guys they do they do
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  Speaker 3: what they do best, and they do it pretty much
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  Speaker 3: every night. But you know, it's you know, it's crazy,
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  Speaker 3: is we don't even like we don't even talk about
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  Speaker 3: Sarah Strong anymore. That's like we're all excited about what
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  Speaker 3: everybody's doing. You mentioned everybody, but the kid will led
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  Speaker 3: to you know, I was there, you know, because we
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  Speaker 3: just come to expect her to be that that good
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  Speaker 3: every night. You know, so she rarely has it off night, No,
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  Speaker 3: she does not, She does not she doesn't have an
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  Speaker 3: off night. Generally speaking, she doesn't have off days at practice.
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  Speaker 3: She's pretty pretty consistent when it comes to and if
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  Speaker 3: we can't get a bucket, then we're going to go
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  Speaker 3: to her. I think we went over nine we started.
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  Speaker 3: I think she took like the next four or five shots.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know exactly how many.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she had twelve over twenty five for the first time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we had a time out and said nobody's allowed
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  Speaker 3: to shoot the ball until Sarah says you can, So
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  Speaker 3: you know, we got back on track.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you Mailkay, you mentioned the defense. How different was
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  Speaker 1: the defensive effort early versus what you saw Saturday where
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  Speaker 1: you had to get on your team a little bit?
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  Speaker 3: No, it was okay, it was different. We're a little
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  Speaker 3: bit confused right now on something, so we needed to
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  Speaker 3: clear that up today and again tomorrow and next week.
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  Speaker 3: There are some things that we do really really well
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  Speaker 3: when we're with our defensive pressure. There's some things that
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  Speaker 3: we still struggle with at times. And when it's good,
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  Speaker 3: it's really good, and when it's not, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: give up some easy bucket and but you know we're
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  Speaker 3: playing hard. They compete really hard, you know, so as
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  Speaker 3: long as we do that, you know, we can fix
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  Speaker 3: the other stuff. You know, you can't fix if you're
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  Speaker 3: not competing, if you're not playing hard.
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  Speaker 2: That's the you know, that's the killer of most teams, right.
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  Speaker 1: And the two things, and you've harped on this forever,
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  Speaker 1: the two things that stand out about what Sarah did
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  Speaker 1: and what Ali did, they're both efficient. Sarah was tenle fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Ali was tenle fourteen from three eleven to fifteen. For
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  Speaker 1: the game, that's what you want, that's what you're always
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  Speaker 1: looking for.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're talking to somebody today about this that if
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  Speaker 3: you come to Connecticut, you know a couple of things. One,
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  Speaker 3: you're never going to lead the country and scoring because
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  Speaker 3: you're never going to get enough shots. Now, if Ali
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  Speaker 3: did this every night, she would lead the country and scoring.
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  Speaker 3: But you're not going to get enough shots. And two,
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  Speaker 3: you learn that the shots you do get, you better
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  Speaker 3: make them because you know we have you know, let's
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  Speaker 3: say we have three or four really good offensive players
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  Speaker 3: out on the floor, and the guys that are making
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  Speaker 3: shots are going to get the most shots for the
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  Speaker 3: most part.
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  Speaker 2: So you learn to be efficient.
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  Speaker 3: You learn how to score twenty points on ten shots
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  Speaker 3: twelve shots, And I said before, like on other schools,
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  Speaker 3: kids need twenty shots to score twelve points. So you're
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  Speaker 3: not going to get twenty shots at Connecticut. So kids
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  Speaker 3: work really hard, like I got to make the shots
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  Speaker 3: I get, and we pride ourselves in them. Page especially
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  Speaker 3: last year, was adamant about that. You know, she was
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  Speaker 3: really upset that there were kids around the country were
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  Speaker 3: getting so much attention when the volume of shots that
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  Speaker 3: they took was off the charts, and you know, she
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  Speaker 3: felt like, my efficiency.
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  Speaker 2: It's like people don't value that anymore. I said, well,
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  Speaker 2: we do. Know that's all that matters.
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  Speaker 3: And even now, you you you look at our team
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  Speaker 3: and you look back to last year, you Page just
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  Speaker 3: doesn't miss open shots. You know, she's not going to
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  Speaker 3: go in a game and miss five in a row.
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  Speaker 3: That's just not going to happen. So when you have that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and now Sarah's like that for the most part,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you feel like that's you know, the drought's
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  Speaker 3: not going to last a long time, right.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, we're lucky, you know, we're lucky in that respect.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, all right, we'll take our first break.
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  Speaker 1: We're here with Gito to the top of the hour,
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  Speaker 1: and of course we'll do the after show with the
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  Speaker 1: folks here at Cafe Era. Thanks for joining us on
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  Speaker 1: the radio. This is the you kind of women's basketball
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  Speaker 1: coaches show on their field. Back in a minute.