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Seg 1 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Dec 20 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Happy Friday night. We welcome you to another
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  Speaker 1: edition of the Women's Basketball Coaches Show ahead of another
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  Speaker 1: big game for the Huskies. It'll be you kind of
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  Speaker 1: usc tomorrow night, and Gino is here with us, says,
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  Speaker 1: we talk about the Notre Dame game a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll also start with what happened Tuesday night. It's
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  Speaker 1: not often that a team shoots the way your team did,
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  Speaker 1: particularly in the first quarter. I'm not sure you saw
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  Speaker 1: that coming, because I know we've talked about during the
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  Speaker 1: course of the season, there have been stretches that this
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  Speaker 1: team has not been a great shooting team so far.
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  Speaker 1: That certainly was not the case the other night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been very much on record as saying that
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  Speaker 2: I don't worry about how many we don't make that
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  Speaker 2: I worry about whether or not we get enough attempts
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  Speaker 2: and we get quality attempts. I figured the percentages will
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  Speaker 2: catch up to us, just like the percentages will catch
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  Speaker 2: up to us. That we made twenty the other night.
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  Speaker 2: You know that's not that's not normal, and that's not sustainable.
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  Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean that if you keep getting those
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  Speaker 2: quality looks that we got the other night, that you
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  Speaker 2: can't significantly, you know, improve your chances of winning. You
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  Speaker 2: look at the notre end game, one of the big
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  Speaker 2: glaring things you look at is the lack of you know,
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  Speaker 2: the low number of attempts relative to what we've been
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  Speaker 2: doing over the course of the season. So that's something
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  Speaker 2: that we that we have obviously address all the time.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, you know, scoring thirty six points in the
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  Speaker 2: first quarter against a pretty good team, that's not it's
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  Speaker 2: not that's not how you walk into a game. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that's a pleasant surprise.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the first fourteen from Ash certainly you probably
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  Speaker 1: weren't expecting. But in a lot of games, whether it
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  Speaker 1: be a home or on the road, it seems like
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  Speaker 1: when Ash makes the first couple of shots, your team's
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  Speaker 1: in good shape. When she doesn't, it becomes a little
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  Speaker 1: more of a struggle. And it was just good to
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  Speaker 1: see her get off to a good start, and not
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  Speaker 1: just the three ball, but that mid range game that
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  Speaker 1: she's so good at.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when when you think about uh players that are scorers,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you want them to not have a conscience
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to did it go in or did
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  Speaker 2: it not go in? You just want them to have
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  Speaker 2: a shooter's mentality, your confidence level, your success rate can't
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  Speaker 2: depend on if the first two go in or not. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: because if the first two don't go in, that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean the next eight can't. But a lot of kids,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a lot of players, you know, the basket
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  Speaker 2: starts to look bigger and bigger if they make the
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  Speaker 2: first two or three, and then if they missed, they
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  Speaker 2: think the basket gets smaller. But the best it stays
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  Speaker 2: the same size the whole time. And so you know, luckily,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we have somebody like Paige who doesn't care,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and she's going to shoot open shots. Whether
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  Speaker 2: she missed the first ten, she thinks she's making the
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  Speaker 2: next ten. So yeah, if we can get asked to
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  Speaker 2: operate the same way as Page does, I think that
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  Speaker 2: would go a long way towards having her have more
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  Speaker 2: nights where where she's just unconscious. That's why I would
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  Speaker 2: like for her to play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, is that something you still have to convince her of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being just early in her second season.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I think that that might end up
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  Speaker 2: being you know, like a whole four year thing where
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  Speaker 2: you know, let's focus on was at a good shot
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  Speaker 2: or not? A good shot, and if it was a
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  Speaker 2: good shot and it didn't go in, well, get ten
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  Speaker 2: more of those and I think everything will be fine.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, that's a that's a teaching point, that's
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  Speaker 2: a growing up point that you have to have. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, Ashes such a conscientious kid that and I
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  Speaker 2: know she wants to do well, so she's open. I
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  Speaker 2: expect her to shoot it and I think it's going in.
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  Speaker 2: I hope she does too.
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  Speaker 1: One thing we've talked about is trying to get a
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  Speaker 1: killer mentality on this team. Built a big lead. Iowa
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  Speaker 1: State scored eleven straight, you got the next seven, but
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  Speaker 1: then foot to gas to start the third quarter with
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  Speaker 1: a couple of eight and nine nothing runs in that
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  Speaker 1: third quarter. That had to feel really good and good
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  Speaker 1: to see for your team.
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  Speaker 2: I do think that's a big part of your success.
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  Speaker 2: I think you have to be able to capitalize on
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  Speaker 2: when when you're on a run and you just keep
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  Speaker 2: adding to it, adding to it and adding to it,
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  Speaker 2: and let your defense give you opportunities to add to it.
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  Speaker 2: The other secret is that when you miss four or
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  Speaker 2: five shots in a row, your defense has to get
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  Speaker 2: even better. And then when the other team scores five straight.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be able to answer and how do
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  Speaker 2: you answer, Well, it's a learning thing that now we
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  Speaker 2: need our best shooter taking the best shot. They just
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  Speaker 2: scored seven straight. Well, we can't have just anybody chucking
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  Speaker 2: something up, right, If we're on an eighteen to nothing row,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead, knock yourself out. But that's you know, that's
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  Speaker 2: not the way the world works. And again that becomes
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  Speaker 2: a learning thing and it makes your team better. How
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  Speaker 2: do we maximize our runs and then how we put
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  Speaker 2: an end to someone else's run quickly?
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  Speaker 1: Was that why you call the time out? I think
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  Speaker 1: it was in that second quarter during that run, more
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  Speaker 1: defensively than offensively.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought there were there were lapses defensively, and
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  Speaker 2: I think when that happens too, and you're making so
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  Speaker 2: many shots and now they stop going in for a
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  Speaker 2: short period of time, it looked like we were just
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  Speaker 2: standing around, passing the ball to each other, going okay,
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  Speaker 2: who's turn is it to shoot? We lost all the
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  Speaker 2: movement that we had that got us those great shots.
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  Speaker 2: And because we were standing around, now our transition defense
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  Speaker 2: isn't as good and our half court defense isn't as good.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, the timeout was more about you know what
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  Speaker 2: we have to do, as opposed to, hey, this is
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  Speaker 2: what they're doing to us, which is usually the case.
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  Speaker 1: More of Gino as we continue on the U kind
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  Speaker 1: of Women's basketball Coaches show here in just a moment
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  Speaker 1: here on Learfield