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The Dailey Recap - Arkansas State · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Chris Day has joined US courtside for the daily recapped.
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  Speaker 1: Nice outfit, Thank you that brand new, no this old thing.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you gotta love the energy that your team came
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  Speaker 1: out with today.
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  Speaker 2: It was amazing. You know, we haven't played for I
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  Speaker 2: don't know ten days or so they were excited. I
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  Speaker 2: think they'd rather play than practice. So it was a
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  Speaker 2: great environment for them. A lot of fans, students were
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  Speaker 2: back on campus, and so it was a great, great
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  Speaker 2: start to the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody got involved with thirteen blocks, a season high, season
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  Speaker 1: high in fast break points with forty one, thirty four
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  Speaker 1: points off turnovers pretty much. I guess what you would
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  Speaker 1: hope for today, right against a team like Arkansas State
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  Speaker 1: or did you expect a little or what did you
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  Speaker 1: expect coming in?
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  Speaker 2: Well, their style of play is different in having had
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  Speaker 2: played Tennessee, I think we were a little We knew
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  Speaker 2: we were more prepared were just because that's how Tennessee plays.
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  Speaker 2: They sub in two minutes in five five guys at
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  Speaker 2: a time. They shoot a lot of threes, so going
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  Speaker 2: in you know that, and and I think we did
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  Speaker 2: a really good job concentrating on the game plan and
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  Speaker 2: really limiting I mean, I say we limited their threes.
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  Speaker 2: They took forty of them, but I thought a lot
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  Speaker 2: of them were under duress, and I thought the ones
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  Speaker 2: that they did get there were a couple of ones
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  Speaker 2: that they just made tough shots and some that we
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  Speaker 2: gave just you know, not without communication. But overall it
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  Speaker 2: was a great start.
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  Speaker 1: What ad Aisy after breakfast? She had quite the day.
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  Speaker 1: And I just don't forget the points. The six steals
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  Speaker 1: in the career high seven is this?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were back to back steals, I said Aisy.
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  Speaker 2: I said, I don't mean to sound surprised, but I was,
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  Speaker 2: and she goes so was I. So you know, she's
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  Speaker 2: she's a cautious she's a good, solid defender, but she's cautious.
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  Speaker 2: And today I didn't think she was cautious. She made
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  Speaker 2: plays and tried to get steals, so that was good.
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  Speaker 1: Define cautious defender.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I think she's a position defender. So
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she's always in the right position, tries to
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  Speaker 2: you know, guard exactly the right way, but won't step
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  Speaker 2: out of that to to get a steal, get in
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  Speaker 2: the passing plane to make a defensive play that way.
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  Speaker 1: So hohum, Sarah Strong was nine to ten, another double double,
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  Speaker 1: five more blocks, five more assists. I mean, this is young, lady,
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  Speaker 1: and think about this today three players are twenty points
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  Speaker 1: and not of a named page.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that helped, and that I think coming into
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  Speaker 2: the game and after the practices that we've had, I
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  Speaker 2: think we came in with a lot of confidence and
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  Speaker 2: I thought we played with a lot of confidence. And
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  Speaker 2: if we can have this kind of output without having
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  Speaker 2: Paige to have one of her better games, then I
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  Speaker 2: think we're in we're good shape as we're heading forward.
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  Speaker 1: Chris, what is what was some of the things that
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  Speaker 1: you work on in the twelve days between Biggies Championship
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  Speaker 1: in this game today that kind of get improved for
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  Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament if you can improve on some things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, rebounding is one. I think that's something that
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  Speaker 2: we've spent a lot of time on the holes. You know,
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  Speaker 2: probably well the whole year, but more so even January on. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: You know, your defense or half court defense, you have
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  Speaker 2: to be able to work on keeping people in front
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  Speaker 2: of you and then and then not giving them second shots.
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  Speaker 2: That's the rebounding piece, and then your offense you have
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  Speaker 2: to be able to execute half court offense. Uh we
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  Speaker 2: threw in. We practiced our zone a little bit, which
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  Speaker 2: was pretty good because you want to be prepared for
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  Speaker 2: all different kinds of situations and that's what the NCA
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  Speaker 2: tournament is. You have to Anything can happen, and the
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  Speaker 2: matchups are interesting. So that matchup was was one matchup.
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  Speaker 2: So they're a team that likes to shoot a lot
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  Speaker 2: of threes undersides, they don't they only have one, you know,
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  Speaker 2: real tall post player, so we knew we were gonna
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  Speaker 2: have an advantage there and there's and they like to press,
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  Speaker 2: so we really needed to handle handle that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: this game could the next game on Monday could be
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  Speaker 2: totally different, and these two teams are are different in
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  Speaker 2: terms of their styles, so you just have to be ready.
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  Speaker 2: I think what we did in those off days in
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  Speaker 2: that off week, we really just spend time so that
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  Speaker 2: we feel prepared. Don't handle anything right.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the fun things about this particular weekend,
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  Speaker 1: with the three teams that are here along with yourselves,
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  Speaker 1: you've never played them before.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 1: It's in fact, you've met South Dakota State with the
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  Speaker 1: with the what you're out there.
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  Speaker 2: I know, good thing I wore today in case they
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  Speaker 2: win for Monday. But yeah, it's kind of interesting to
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  Speaker 2: have people from you know, South Dakota. State's are really
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  Speaker 2: good program. They've been good for a long time. They
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  Speaker 2: were Division two program and their Division one and they're
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  Speaker 2: really really good and they have been in Oklahoma State.
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  Speaker 2: I've known their coach for a while. She's an assistant
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  Speaker 2: with K State back when we play when Jeff Mittie
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  Speaker 2: was at k State earlier. I mean he's still there,
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  Speaker 2: but she was an assistant. So a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a connection with all the teams that have been here.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been nice.
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  Speaker 1: When Monday Night, I mean, Monday night's going to be
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  Speaker 1: special in this building, last chance for Paige and Aubrey
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  Speaker 1: and Caitlyn to play in this building.
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  Speaker 2: We don't talk about that, you know, because I think
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  Speaker 2: when you concentrate, oh it's the last, this the last,
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  Speaker 2: that it justice too much. I think this is the
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  Speaker 2: game that we need to win to get to the
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  Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen. So I think the emotion for them, you know,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully it'll be after the game and after, but if
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  Speaker 2: you go into things like that, I just think it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't add to your play, you know, because whether you
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  Speaker 2: win or lose, it's still going to end at some point,
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  Speaker 2: so you'd rather have it end while you win. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm not really one that I'm not going to discount
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  Speaker 2: that they don't think about that stuff. But it's not
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  Speaker 2: something that that we dwell on.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, did you have any downtime right after the Big
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  Speaker 1: East Tournament or were you recruiting somewhere?
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  Speaker 2: No, I was going to go recruiting the next day
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  Speaker 2: and that just didn't fall through. I was gonna go
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  Speaker 2: to California, but it wasn't going to be worth it.
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  Speaker 2: So but no, we did a little bit, a little recruiting,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a little get organized with our own stuff. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: laundry you know that laundry in your house?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that kind of stuff. I've heard of those things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got some laundry to do after two games
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  Speaker 1: of hockey in Boston and all this. So I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to a little choieter day tomorrow. Chris. As always,
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  Speaker 1: we thank you and we'll do this again Monday night.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Thanks Chris,