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Seg 3 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Jan 25 · Coaches Corner

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  Becker's inbounds, quickly gets it back from Brady Becker's at mid court of heat
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  made it. She made it, and tells Jordan King take that. Wow,
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  you know. Sooner or later Paige was gonna make one of those.
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  She buries one from mid court at the horn and UKN with a forty nine
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  thirty eight lead at the break. Yeah, that was the call of halftime.
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  The shot the Page hit on Tuesday night, I thought, I thought
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  Jordan King shot was really really tough. Yeah, there was a player right
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  in her face, like we had her, really, we had her guarden.
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  She made a tough, tough shot, and I was like, damn.
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  I was looking over like, what the hell just happened? And then
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  Page throws up that prayer, you know, and then acts like and and
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  she came over to me and questioned me today. She goes, you said
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  it was luck. I said, people said it was luck. She goes,
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  no, I heard you said it was luck. I said, you
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  know, And then CD comes over and goes, yeah, it was luck.
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  Page. That's all there is to it. And you you would be
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  surprised how many of those shots Page makes every day in practice where she's just
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  falling around at the end of practice. It's uncanny how many she makes.
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  It really is. Yeah, well she's she's a special player geno. So
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  you know, yeah, things things, just things just happened for her.
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  And and it was great because we went into halftime, you know, with
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  a great momentum boost because it could have gone the other way with with Jordan
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  Jordan's shot. Yep, but yeah, that sent us into the locker room.
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  Want to you know, pretty good, pretty good? Wave was good.
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  I liked you. I liked your comment post game when you're referring to
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  page somebody must have asked you about her. I mean, you look at
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  the stat sheet. She had two rebounds, okay, she said more,
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  five assists, two blocks, two steals, and you were mentioning about the
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  fact that she wants to be good at everything that she does on both sides
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  of the basketball. I mean, this is a young lady that has an
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  enormous basketball like you. Yeah, yeah, just ask her. We have
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  a lot of fun because there's there's nothing that she thinks she doesn't know.
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  And if you catch her on something that she doesn't know, she will tell
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  you the reason she doesn't know it is because you don't know it and she's
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  actually right and you're wrong, which really doesn't make any sense, but she
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  tries to, you know, get convoluted with that, you know. I
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  jokingly asked her, what was it to the Paul game? We had her
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  court side? Who files less her Nika? She said to me, of
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  course Less. Yes, Well, there's a lot. There's a lot that
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  goes on in Page's mind and the people that that are like that, and
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  I've certainly had a few obviously with the teams that we've had. The players
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  that are like that, they just you know, people say, well,
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  if I practiced, or if I got coaching, or if I had this,
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  if I had that, I could be like that. No, you
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  couldn't know, you couldn't. Players like that are born with a sense like
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  they're It's like why are certain cars different than other cars? Probably because they're
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  wired different. There's why are some computer systems better than others? You know,
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  they're just put together different. She's just put together different than everybody else.
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  And there's other players that obviously have come along that have been at that
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  level, but the average player never gets to where she gets. And that
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  allows her to have so much confidence in herself now that confidence also comes from
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  how much time she spends in the gym when nobody's watching. And people don't
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  understand that part of it. You know, they think she's just Paige the
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  social media star. People would people would be shocked at the amount of time
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  the Page spends in the gym by herself just inventing shots. How about the
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  shot? The best shot I've seen Page make since she's been at Yukon was
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  the drive against had the Marquette at the Excel Center, where she would pass
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  the basket and turn back this way and spun the ball a certain way to
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  get and made a layup. That's a shot that you could go in the
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  gym and try to make for the next six months and you won't make one
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  of them. But she practices those things. She's like a pull shark,
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  you know, people that shoot pool, those of you that are pretty good
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  pool players. She knows how to put a certain spin on the ball that
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  allows her to have a chance to make that shot every single time. Some
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  kids go in there and I go fifty. When we get a kid with
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  a breakaway lap, We're always like, chase it, chase it, chase
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  it. Because people miss a lot of laps. That's just how much money
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  these guys are getting paid. And they can't make a lab anyway. That's
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  another story. But Page practices making layups ninety seven different ways, so when
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  she gets in the lane, there's never a time when she's at a loss
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  for like, how do I get the ball on the rim to spin the
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  right way? Kyrie Irving has that he's the only one I've seen that's got
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  the kind of imagination and repertoire that that Page has. So she's a unique
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  she's a unique kid. And you know, you say, what's the biggest
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  the biggest difference between our team right now than two months ago, I would
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  say, we've adapted and she's adapted to playing together. Which in the beginning
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  the season, everybody was just so glad that Page was back. Everybody was
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  so excited that Page was back, that we just stood there in admired Page
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  playing. You know, we admire Page getting thirty two points against NC State
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  or something and us getting our ass beat by a lot, Like what was
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  the point? You might as well have two instead of thirty two. But
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  after a while, you know, we started to you know, and she's
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  a big part of that. She's just so, I wish she was,
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  you know, I wish she was a little more physical, like bigger.
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  I wish she could handle getting hit better because people just you know, she's
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  the worst officiated player, great player in America today. Every other kid like
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  her. Every time somebody comes near them, boom, they go to the
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  free throw line. They let people beat the crap out of page. And
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  that's going to stop sooner rather than later. I might miss a couple of
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  games, but that's going to stop, all right now. On that note,
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  we'll take another break. Notre names coming up on Saturday nights. We'll
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  talk of the Irish. We'll even talk a little. Leah Edwards says,
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  The Wells Fargo you kind of women's basketball Coaches show continues here on Learfield