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Seg 2 - WBB Coach's Show Dec 15 · Coaches Corner

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Live of the Dunkin Music Lounge here andt iHeartRadio and Hartford. We're just a
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warm up back though. There's another top ten men's matchup for Dan Hurley's guys.
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It's in Seattle at Climate Pledge Arena. They'll take on Gonzaga. They're
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ranked tenth. Mike and Wayne are out there. I don't know if you
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follow awayn on Facebook, but he took a lot of pictures from the Space
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Needle today nine to thirty, So get an appen ten o'clock tip here on
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the Yukon Sports Network, the Varsity Network app, and the Varsitynetwork dot com
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with GINO. As we get set for Yukon and Louisville, a Lee Edwards
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back to back double doubles in two games, including North Carolina being more aggressive
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to the basket. What have you thought of her game last couple of weeks
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since the Cayman trip. Well, there are certain things that have to happen
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for us to have a chance to win against the better teams on our schedule,
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and it might be for any teams on our schedule. So if you
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look at Aliyah's numbers, you look at her stats. Say in the Nancy
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State game, or the Texas game. The Texas game, she was really
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really, really really good. She was really engaged, and she was you
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know, being you know, I think she knew what the challenge was and
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really rose to the occasion. And unfortunately, you know, we we got
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off to it. Well, they got off to such a great start that
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I mean, I think they made their first eight or nine shots, I
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don't know, six, eight, nine and fourteen. That makes five threes
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a game. They made their first three. Yeah, So I mean,
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like stuff like that happens and you just can't you know. But she she
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was able to get a lot done and give us an opportunity. And then
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you know, the second half we outscored them, and she was a constant
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out there even though we were mixing and matching and changing. So we need
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her, We need her to win, We need her to play well.
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She didn't have a good game against UCLA, right, and you know,
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we need her to have great games against those people. So with Alaliah,
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without Page having their A games, it's hard for us to beat these top
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ten teams in the country. It's just the fact of life. I mean,
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we need those two to play great every night. Well that's a lot
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to ask. Well, yeah, that's just the world that we're living in
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right now. And you know, it's not like we've not been in a
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situation where you know, Diana had to get thirty some nights for us to
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win. I mean, it just is what it is, you know,
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It's got to be that way. So I think the more Leah pushes the
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envelope and the more she tries to do, and the more she can knock
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down that fifteen foot her and keep attacking the basket and you know, offensive
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rebound. It's one of the things I've been really harping on with her is,
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God knows, we certainly miss enough shots. There's a lot of offensive
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rebounds. There's a lot of offensive rebounds available, you know. So that's
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that's the that's the the blueprint for for for Leah is she's got to do
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all that for us, you know Ice. You know, she's young,
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so she might you know, contribute a lot something so maybe not at all
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some days. And it goes the same way with the other with the other
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freshmen. You know, you don't know, it might be great, might
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be not so great. But certainly for Leah and for Paige, that those
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two have to be constance. We cannot ever have a game against the top
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a top ten team, top twenty team maybe without those two players playing their
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best. And you've got big contributions in the second half from everybody. Against
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North Carolina, Nika knocked down three threes in the second half, Ashroen and
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Cadence with a couple of big hoops. Even KK got to the free throw
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line a lot. The page four locks really for blocks, three steels,
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I mean that takes away seven possessions. I mean that's that's important. Yeah,
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Well, she's longer than you think, Like she doesn't look at but
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she's longer than you think. And two she has a pretty good feel for
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you know, there's an old adage really that in order to be a really
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really effective offensive player, you really have to understand defense, and you have
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to understand what makes defenses work. So you'll find that a really good offensive
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player, if they want to, can be really good defenders because right,
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the reason they're so good on offense is they read the playing field and they
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know what's coming next, because that's what makes them so able to do things
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on the offensive. So because they know that they know what you're going to
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do, before you know what you're gonna do, so she can anticipate all
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this. That's why she gets steals, that's why she gets blocked, that's
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why she gets rebounds. She just has a feel for all that. And
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I think she's starting to get her her legs under her, you know,
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from not having played and so long. But yeah, we did, and
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that's the only way that we can win. We have to have big games
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from Aliyah, big game from Page and then little contributions from everybody, you
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know, not doesn't have to be a lot from everybody else, but everybody's
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got to do it. Everybody's got to do a little bit. And Nika
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making three threes, you know, I told Nico all the time, I
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said, you notice as well as I do. If they're going to pick
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somebody not the guard, you're going to be it. Yeah, her and
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Aubrey on the perimeter too. Yeah. So if you guys make open shots,
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you know that that changes everything. And now I'll say it to them.
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I said, look, right now, you have to understand what the
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defense is trying to do, Like they're not going to guard you, and
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they're not going to guard you. Why they don't think you can shoot it.
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Well, if you don't shoot the ball, then they're right. If
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you keep shooting and missing, then they're right. So the only way you
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can change their strategy is you got to knock in a couple and then that's
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going to have to change the way they defend us and the way they defend
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you. You know. So sometimes you leave a kid open. That's the
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worst thing you can do in the world. They know, like, I'm
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open for a reason. They don't think I can shoot. Maybe I can't,
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you know. So it's the real ahead game with these guys, you
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know, don't think about it. Yeah, I like dumb players. Participation
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a little later. I like guys. I like guys who can't think.
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I don't think, just shoot, just playing. They don't worry. Ever.
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You think there's ever been a men's basketball coach it's ever had to tell
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one of their players, I think you should shoot more. Those are words
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that you would never hear come out of a coach's mouth in men's basketball.
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I think you should shoot more. I say that every day though. I
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think you should shoot that shot. Well, it's like Ashlyn Shade, you
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know, she scores what eighteen hundred points in high school and she's passing the
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ball. But she must have listened to you, especially against ball steak,
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because give I like a house of fire. Well, I asked her,
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in what universe do you think you'll ever lead our team and assists? So
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stop passing the goddamn ball, right right, I said, you averaged one
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assist year in high school. Now you came here to be the next siuper
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Bird. What the hell you're doing here? Right? You're open, you
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shoot it when you're not, drive it and take your pull up, all
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right? Morewitchto in a moment as the Wells farg who you kind of women's
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basketball coaches show continues on lead for that, for this