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Seg 2 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Dec 10 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back here in the Dunkin Music Lounge at iHeart Radio
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  Speaker 1: Bob Joyce, Genoriama and a live studio audience mix, some sponsors,
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  Speaker 1: guests and our staff here at iHeartRadio hard for Thursday Night,
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  Speaker 1: Yukon Notre Dame six point thirty on the radio from
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  Speaker 1: Percell Pavilion. We joined us for all the action spread
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  Speaker 1: here in the Yukon Sports Network, the Varsity Network App,
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  Speaker 1: in the Varsity Network dot Com. You're trying to sign
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  Speaker 1: football's right, we have ninety seven to nine Fox Sports.
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  Speaker 2: You do it, you know when you're a basketball coach, right, footballs.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, and you're well there they're nerve footballs.
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  Speaker 1: Like you used to have as kids. Their footballs are
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  Speaker 1: in the seventies, right yeah. Us you played with their footballs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, with the basket you hang in the
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  Speaker 2: back of your on the door.
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  Speaker 3: Oh nerf basketball? Oh yeah, oh for sure. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Every parent's nightmare.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, because you know something's gonna get broken. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: that's right. Well. Sarah Strong's off to a fabulous start.
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  Speaker 1: Eight games in back to back twenty point games, Biggiest
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  Speaker 1: Player and Rookie of the Week, third time she's been
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  Speaker 1: Rookie of the week. But all that aside, I saw
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  Speaker 1: something that we have yet to see, and that was
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  Speaker 1: the last play of the first half. Sarah had the
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  Speaker 1: ball top of the key between the circles. You two
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  Speaker 1: are going back and forth when to go, and then
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  Speaker 1: she goes and she puts up a three ball. Now
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  Speaker 1: the end result ball goes out of bounds then as
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  Speaker 1: he hit the three to and in the half. But
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  Speaker 1: that's something different. Usually it's Page with the ball in
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  Speaker 1: her hands making the play. This time it was Sarah,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure that's not the last time we're going
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  Speaker 1: to see that happen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think Page was on the bench at the time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I don't know whether I had taken
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  Speaker 2: her out, okay, but any either way, the best defender
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  Speaker 2: on the team was on Page, and so that means
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  Speaker 2: Sarah had someone other than the best defender. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: the guys that are you know, Jason's a practice player
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  Speaker 2: over there, and they know she's really a handful of
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  Speaker 2: trying to guard her one one. It's not easy. So
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  Speaker 2: I wanted her to just take her man in the
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  Speaker 2: lane and they're either going to have to foul her
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  Speaker 2: or they're gonna let her score one or the other.
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  Speaker 2: And she looked at me like what And I never understood,
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  Speaker 2: you know, why a good player would ask her coach
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  Speaker 2: what should I do with the ball? You know, Sveta
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  Speaker 2: would have gotten three shots up in those thirteen seconds,
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  Speaker 2: so Maya would have gotten five shots up in those
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  Speaker 2: fifteen seconds. But she's just a young kid who just
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  Speaker 2: wants to do the right thing. And that's what's so
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  Speaker 2: beautiful about her. She's just an innocent kid who just
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  Speaker 2: is trying to fit in and in the meantime, she
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  Speaker 2: just you know, there isn't a facet of the game
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  Speaker 2: that she isn't pretty good at. And her best gill
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  Speaker 2: might be her past sing ability.
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  Speaker 3: She's got sneaky quick hands too.
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  Speaker 2: And she's got great hands. She reminds me of Nikisha
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  Speaker 2: Sales in that respect, Nikeisha might be. We've had a
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  Speaker 2: couple of players that had great, great, great, great great
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  Speaker 2: hands when it came to that, Nakeisha, Rita Williams, Renae Montgomery,
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  Speaker 2: Sarah Strol. They were the ones that you know, really
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  Speaker 2: stood out for me.
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  Speaker 1: Gin know what about her basketball IQ. You haven't had
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  Speaker 1: many freshmen that have had the IQ that she has
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  Speaker 1: at such a young age.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's been a couple, but it's it's rare where
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  Speaker 2: they see the whole floor and they know where all
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  Speaker 2: their teammates are and more importantly, they know where the
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  Speaker 2: defense is. So growing up in the basketball family, I
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  Speaker 2: think she was around basketball a lot and she had
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  Speaker 2: a chance to see it live firsthand from the time
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  Speaker 2: she was born. And you know, she's got the great
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  Speaker 2: DNA and she's got the right skill set, so she
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  Speaker 2: knows the game and she can do things that you
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  Speaker 2: know a lot of kids can't do. So put all
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  Speaker 2: that together and that's pretty it's pretty good combination.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, as she had a nice game coming off the bench,
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  Speaker 1: right off the bat seven points in the first quarter
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  Speaker 1: of the twenty eight you had in the first quarter,
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  Speaker 1: and she seems very comfortable. But when she's get that,
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  Speaker 1: when she has that pull up, that elbow, that mid range,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a lost art in this day and age.
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  Speaker 3: She's she's been able to master it pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of a lot of coaches, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the analytics, it's just I guess the you know, the
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  Speaker 2: new way of coaching is you just look at the
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  Speaker 2: analytics and you do it, you know, like in baseball,
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  Speaker 2: how many pitches is that guy thrown? Or I get
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  Speaker 2: him out? Why? Well, because the numbers say you have
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  Speaker 2: to get him out. I meanwhile, the guy's throwing a
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  Speaker 2: no hitter, Well, you got to take him out. That's
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  Speaker 2: what it says, you know. And the same thing in basketball,
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  Speaker 2: that's a bad shot and I never understood why. And
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  Speaker 2: wide open by a really good shooter from fifteen feet
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  Speaker 2: is a bad shot. So I don't believe in it.
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  Speaker 2: And Ash That's that's why we recruited her because she's
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  Speaker 2: got a fabulous mid range game, and you know, I
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  Speaker 2: encourage her to do it even more often. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think she does it often enough. And it is a
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  Speaker 2: lost art people don't, you know, people don't value it
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  Speaker 2: anymore as much as before.
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  Speaker 3: But we do.
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  Speaker 2: And she's terrific at it. And you know.
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  Speaker 3: We're lucky.
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  Speaker 2: We've got two kids coming off the bench that started
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  Speaker 2: thirty five games or something like that for us last year.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I think when we sub and the
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  Speaker 2: other team subs, I think we have a huge advantage.
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  Speaker 2: I like to think.
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  Speaker 3: G know, do you get involved in analytics much? Do I? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: With your team.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I like to know what they are. I
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  Speaker 2: like to know what the data says. Even in the
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  Speaker 2: weight room, you know who I mean, there's charts and
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  Speaker 2: graphs and all this stuff. Yeah, I want to know
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  Speaker 2: what it is. But you know, we go by the constitution.
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  Speaker 2: You know, one man, one vote. I'm the only man.
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  Speaker 2: My vote counts.
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  Speaker 1: What about stuff that you're running this year, is it
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  Speaker 1: any different than last year based on the personnel that
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  Speaker 1: you have, in the depth that you have.
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  Speaker 2: M I don't know that anything's way different. I think
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  Speaker 2: we have the ball in the middle of the floor
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  Speaker 2: more with Sarah and Ice because I think they're pretty
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  Speaker 2: good ball handlers. We added Asy, which is another good
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  Speaker 2: ball handler and another good offensive player. Caitlyn chan is
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  Speaker 2: another good ball handler and another you know, aggressive offensive player.
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  Speaker 2: So the pieces are a little bit different. And we
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  Speaker 2: haven't changed that much as to what the scheme is
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  Speaker 2: the overall big picture, but there's been a slight adjustment
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  Speaker 2: as to you know, where we want the ball to
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  Speaker 2: go more times than not, let's put it that way,
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  Speaker 2: and how we're gonna how we're going to be able
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  Speaker 2: to play space the floor and take advantage of that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we have players that are pretty good with
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  Speaker 2: the ball and can get to the basket, and so far,
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  Speaker 2: so good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the crazy thing is getting to the free
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  Speaker 1: throw line is still a task, is what it's getting
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  Speaker 1: to the free throw line. We talked about this on
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  Speaker 1: the Coach on the Show last week about I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're only making seven free throws a game, and I
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  Speaker 1: think maybe ten opportunities a game.
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  Speaker 2: I know, you know, they're they're all doing these photo shoots,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so they all got makeup on and nails
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  Speaker 2: and lip gloss and all this other crap. So none
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  Speaker 2: of them want to get hit, so they avoid contact
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  Speaker 2: at all costs. As matter of fact, I think I
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  Speaker 2: think some of them have it in their contract. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sweating. So yeah, we're we're not going to the
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  Speaker 2: free throw line very much.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, that's for sure. No, but the team
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  Speaker 1: that you're playing Thursday does. And we'll preview the Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame game when we come back. You don't really. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a head coach of the Huskies with this live at
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