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

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  Hi, everybody, and welcome aboard. It is the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches
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  Show, first of three consecutive Friday nights with the Hall of Fame head coach
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  of the Huskies back from the Cayman Islands. And as we speak full disclosure,
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  it's about one o'clock and I'm sure we'll know a little more information shortly,
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  but you know, as he's had her surgery today and from everything it
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  sounds like things are going well with an eye repair, correct, Yeah,
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  yeah, you know, there were obviously previous injuries that you know, impact
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  the knee, and you know from the reports that preliminary reports I've gotten from
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  the doctors is that everything went great. Denia strong and stable and she should
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  make a complete, one full recover. So we'll know more once. You
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  know, obviously easy comes out of you know, out of the surgery completely.
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  Okay, good news there. Before we get into before we get into
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  hoops, you had some downtime in the Caymans. Did you and the missus
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  do anything fun other than just hang around the beach and deal with basketball while
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  you were there? Well, right or wrong, there wasn't a whole lot
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  of fun being had, you know, except for uh, some walks on
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  the beach and taking it, you know, just taking some time out to
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  just maybe get an hour or two away from from your normal routine and enjoy.
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  It's amazing. It's amazing place. I've never been there before, and
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  it's yeah, I mean, I'm glad we went, and I'm glad that
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  the players had a chance to spend some time down there. And other than
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  that, it was another business trip right where the Huskies did go one of
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  two, losing to a good UCLA team that made twelve threes, and three
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  of those twelve came from young ladies who hadn't made a three all season in
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  the early season for UCLA. But then you bounce back against Kansas, and
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  the thing that you talked about after the loss to UCLA, people needed a
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  step up. And even though Opbry had double figures against Ucla, it took
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  her a while to get going, it did not take her a long time
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  get going in the Kansas game. Established yourself right away and was a compliment
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  to Page. And then Alia gave you some good minutes too before getting knocked
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  in the head, so at least you were in that right direction of getting
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  some balance. Yeah, we need that. You know, we can't be
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  a one one mansional kind of team. We can we can't be where we're
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  so predictable, and we have to get more production from more people. And
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  I understand that we're throwing our freshmen into difficult situations. As I said,
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  if I'd have known it was going to be like this, maybe we did
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  schedule like everybody else, you know, our first nine games against teams that
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  you know we have no chance to lose to. But that's the situation we
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  find ourselves in now, and they're going to have to play well. And
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  sometimes that takes a little bit of getting used to, you know, So
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  we'll figure it out. It's you know, it hits you pretty hard,
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  you know, but all of a sudden, you know, you think you've
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  got something going, and then you look up and you know, asies out,
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  Carol's out, and you're really, you know, asking some players to
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  do more than what what they may be capable of this early, right,
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  how much tinkering have you had to do with the offense or can you do
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  in the span of three or four days where you don't play basically for a
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  week between the Kansas and Texas games. Well, sometimes you can sing more
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  than others. It depends on what kind of what kind of team you have
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  and do you have some versatile players that can fit into a lot of different
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  scenarios. You know, I don't know that we have that right now.
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  I don't know that we have the ability to to just mix and match players
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  and about what the lineup looks like. You know, we're gonna have to
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  be very specific with who we have on the floor with who and play,
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  you know, a different style than we had anticipated going into the season.
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  And you don't you don't fix that, and you know, you don't take
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  what we did all June, in all September for the most part, and
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  half of October and then all of a sudden changing in three days four days.
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  So you know, it'll take us some time, but we'll we'll figure
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  it out. You know. Speaking of which, the inconsistency of whether Caroline's
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  in the lineup or out, what are your expectations this weekend against Texas?
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  Will she be available or is it still a day to day thing? Yeah,
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  no, Caral won't be available and I factually won't to even be on
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  the trip. You know, we've got to you know, we got to
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  do what's what's what's right for for Caroline, uh, and make sure that
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  she's in a you know, she's in a position m hm to play well
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  and it's not to do and I think she this idea that I can just
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  go out there anytime and it'll be okay until it's not. It can't be
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  like that, you know. We have to try to get Carol to the
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  position, to a situation where I'm good to go all the time, not
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  you know, a day here or a day there, day here or day
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  there, that that that we can't sustain, that we can't more with Gino
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  on the U Kind of Women's Basketball Coach, a show coming up here in
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  a minute on Learfield, Stay with us