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Seg 5 - WBB Show w Geno Feb 6 · Coaches Corner

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  Back with Gino and then Top of the Arts the Men and Butler at the
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  Excel Center, the kind of sports network Seaton Hall tomorrow night you played them,
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  they played your tough first time around, physical and they've got they've got
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  some decent size that you don't normally see. They've got some people that will
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  push you around on the lane. And it was a physical game down in
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  South Orange. It was very much so very physically. It was like an
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  ugly kind of game. And uh, I don't even know what their record
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  is. They have a losing record in the league, don't they see five
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  and six? But they play, they play crazy like they'll they'll play great
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  one game and then you think that they're going and then those those those struggle
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  the next game. Then they'll play great and win, then they'll struggle the
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  next one. So they you know, they've had a hard time putting three
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  or four games together. But HM, the big thing about Seaton Halls,
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  just like playing Saint John's, those teams are almost mirror images of each other.
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  So it's going to be very very similar to what we just saw on
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  on Sunday. Yeah, and they're coming off a lost to Nova where they
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  didn't do much in the second half. The in fact, they didn't even
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  make a three for the first time in forever. Villanova just did that not
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  too long ago before they played US. Last week they went they went over
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  from long distance. Yeah, it's tough to win when you go five for
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  twenty four in the second half. That's what happened against Villanova. Yeah,
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  yeah, that's why. You know, like my friend Doug Bruno says,
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  it's called basketball. Yes, put the ball in the basket, right,
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  you know, if you can't do that, then you can't. Like page
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  one time, you know this, a kid tekes, you goes, she
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  goes, coach that K can't shoot. Who's I go, Yeah, she
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  struggles shooting. He goes, I don't understand. How can you play basketball
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  that long and you can't shoot? Isn't that the point of playing basketball?
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  That's like saying, what's your favorite sport? Have any weaknesses? I can't
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  hit? Then why are you playing baseball? I loved it, but then
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  I finally gave it up after Iceland. I was a good bunner though.
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  I just love that. Yeah, well then you got out at the right
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  time. Yes, yes, indeed, so I broadcast instead once in a
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  while there you go. We were talking about this on the pregame at Villanova.
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  That's the one city in all the years that you have coached that has
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  been a stop every year, whether it's been Villanova or the short time we
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  were in the American and you went to Temple. And that's always a tough
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  trip for you. I mean, because there's a lot of distractions because of
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  family, does that make it tougher for you? I mean, I know
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  you enjoy seeing your family. Don't get me wrong there. I'm not trying
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  to say that, but there's a lot of distractions for you when you go.
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  Yeah, I remember the first year's eighty five, eighty six, eighty
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  seven. Well, we would go down to Villanova and I knew we had
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  no chance to win. They were the best team in the league, and
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  so it was kind of difficult. Was Harry there, Yeah, Okay,
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  Harry was there before mister mister Nova. I'll tell you when I'll tell you
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  when Harry was coaching at Villanova, I was an assistant at Joseph Saint Joseph's
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  University, which is seven miles from Villanoke. I was an assistant there when
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  Harry was the head coach. At Villanover. That's how long ago that was.
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  So yeah, going going back there in the early in the mid eighties,
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  I knew we weren't going to win. So it was a really tough
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  trip back because you know you're going down there and you know you're going to
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  lose. And and that's okay because you know they're the best team in the
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  league and you're not as good. That's all there is to it. That's
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  fine. Then when we started winning and we won the biggest championship when you
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  know, as he talked about, when Meg was a freshman, we won
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  the biggest championship, and then we wanted again as a sophomore when she was
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  a sophomore, and those guys, and then we started beating their beating their
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  brains in every single game. Then we beat them all the time. Then
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  it was fun to go home, and you know fun meaning to a point
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  you knew you're going to win, but it's not going to be easy and
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  it's not going to be fun while you're doing it. So even going home,
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  I would see a lot of my friends the night before the game.
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  You know, they come over to the hotel, we grab something, you
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  know, go to a bar, and talk about the old days, you
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  know, blah blah blah blah, and and now I don't even do that
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  anymore. Now, I just you know, kind of hang out with the
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  old people that I travel with. And and your bus down last week we
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  had to and we bust down. That was like old school. Yeah yeah,
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  so you can imagine back in the mid eighties, we're going down to
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  Villanova. It's a four and a half hour bus ride, and then you
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  play and you get your butt beat and now you're four hours and a half
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  back all the way back. So yeah, this was like, uh yeah,
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  this was like the old school. Hey, you don't have a plane
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  today, all right, well we'll bust down, but we got a plane
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  for tomorrow night. Right after the game, during the game, there's a
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  phone call. I'm not sure your plane is going to happen, you know,
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  so uh blah blah blah blah blah blah. So you know, you
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  just roll with it. But it's like we we have it so good now.
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  You know, before we'd be sitting in an airport. You have to
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  stay over after the game. You know, we play at Pittsburgh. You
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  know, you you had to win those games because if you lose, you
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  guys stay there all night till the next morning. So you need to win
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  those road games, you know. Now, you know, you go,
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  you play, come home. So we're we're kind of spoiled. We're kind
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  of spoiled. Back then, you had to. It's like Diana said when
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  she came here. She goes, you know, I remember, like,
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  like I was poor in college and I couldn't wait to be a pro and
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  I couldn't wait to go to Europe. And my goal was to be the
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  highest paid player in the history of European basketball, and I was She goes,
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  Now, you know, like I feel sorry for these kids. They
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  don't know what it's like to be poor in high school, I mean in
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  college, I said them, I don't think they feel the same way,
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  dude, But back then we were poor. We would stop on nine ninety
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  five and everybody got like fifteen dollars meal money, So we stopped at that
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  nice restaurant. Everybody put their fifteen dollars in CD would count it, add
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  it all up, and then tell everybody what they could order. All right,
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  how many apps were getting? One? Two, three? All right?
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  U six? You share those three apps? Can I get another?
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  Coke. See these like, uh, can they get water please for them?
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  That was back in It was a different time, man, It was
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  a different time. And now the only reason we exist is to eat.
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  We finished practice, we get on the bus, there's food on the bus,
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  We drive to the airport, there's food on the plane. Then we
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  get to the hotel and there's food at the hotel, and then later there's
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  a snack. So remember when Shabbaz said we starved. He's unbelievable. All
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  right, we'll come back with the final live radio segments. Well, we
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  do have to take a break. I'm keep an eye on that because we
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  do have to be out the final segment on the radio with coaching. Just
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  the moment on Learfield, stay with us.