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Segment 2 - WBB Show w Geno Nov 15 · Coaches Corner

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  Back on the Yukon of Women's Basketball Coaches Show. This is show number two
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  of three tonight, Dan Hurley, Mike Crispino, and I believe Sansom Johnson
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  will be on the show later. That'll be eight o'clock tonight for the Men's
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  Basketball Coaches Show here on the Yukon Sports Network and online via the Varsity Network
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  app in the Varsity network dot com. More with Gino as we talk you
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  kind of women's basketball. The defense you mentioned that was it as a communications
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  issue with your defense on Sunday because it seemed like some people gravitated to two
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  players and let one get free on a couple of occasions. Yeah, yeah,
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  I guess you could say, you know, the closing staff has not
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  done a very good job of explaining to our players the things that we need
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  done, because we spent a month and a half and I bet you sixty
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  percent of all our bright practices we're on defense, right and yet the the
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  defensive part was I think, given how we normally play defense at this place,
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  about as bad as I've ever seen it. We haven't given up ninety
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  two points in thirteen years. That's not because all of a sudden we played
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  a team that's really really good at scoring. No, it's it's because when
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  you have a team of players who the majority of them have trouble communicating,
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  Like, what do you mean they don't speak English? No, yeah,
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  they speak English, Like they don't know what to say. Oh no,
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  they know what to say. They just have trouble communicating. They just choose
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  not to And it's it's confounding to the coaching staff because I've not experienced that
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  in a long long time. I've not experienced this in a long long time.
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  We just have a team of bad communicators. Bad not just you know,
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  struggle with it, there's just bad at it. And h I think
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  it's it's difficult when one or two of them have to be the voice for
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  all of them. Yeah, you know. Yeah, so you just have
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  a lot of very very very quiet you know, and and then when you
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  get on the court and it's loud and the environment is heavy, the only
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  way you can get through it is by communicating. And if you don't,
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  you saw what happens right. There were twenty two files by your team.
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  Now, granted some of them came late, but the one area of the
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  game that it turned out to be a pretty kill. Big killer was those
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  first five files of the first two minutes of the third quarter. And that
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  was example of what you've talked about with me before. Yeah, I mean
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  that started in our exhibition game against Syracuse. And again that goes back to
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  when there's no when there is a lack of communication, you're late, and
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  when you're late, you foul. Okay, So that's number one on the
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  on the defensive end. Two, when you give up second shots, the
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  second one is usually a foul. And thirdly, to put a capra on
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  it, the umbrella on top of that is we've been working really, really
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  really hard to make our players more disciplined. You know that. It's it's
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  a it's a difficult concept right now for how we want to play, for
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  players to buy in that you need to be more disciplined and that we're we're
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  not disciplined enough, and those things. Those things were evident on Saturday,
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  So Sunday someday. Yeah, part of it and part of it too.
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  I think you mentioned some of the mental toughness aspect of the discipline. Mental
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  toughness they kind of go hand in hand. Well, Yeah, mental toughness
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  comes from when you know, you know that you're prepared. You know that
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  you're kind of going in you know exactly what you're gonna do, what your
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  teammates are gonna do. You know, the average person out there might think
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  you got this player or this player, this player and this players. You
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  know, so they should be able to do this, this, this and
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  this. Well, yeah, if you put them all out there individually,
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  yes they probably could. But when you put them out there together and there
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  has to be a sense of, you know, everybody's gotta gel and everybody's
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  got to cooperate, and everything's gotta fit. Yep, that's a whole different
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  story. And sometimes it comes early, and it happens quickly, and sometimes
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  it takes time. Indeed, uh Easy is off to a tough start,
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  not only shooting the basketball, but it just seems like there's something missing with
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  Aasies game right now. I don't know if it's a lack of confidence.
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  She talks about it. She's a own worst end me at times. What
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  have you seen from her on a day to day basis? You know,
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  the same thing that you've seen the first two games, you know, and
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  it just comes and goes, and you don't know why it comes, and
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  you don't know why it goes. So you just know that when it's there,
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  it's really really really really hard for anybody to control her, if anybody
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  contain her. And when it's not there as much, and there's you know,
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  there's a different there's a different Easy on the floor because now you know,
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  sometimes there's a overthinking avolved instead of just playing. And I'm not saying
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  that I want players who don't think, period because I've coached some of them
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  and they're just as bad, if not worse. But I don't I don't
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  know that anybody on our team works to the level that Aisy works, that
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  prepares herself, to the level that Easy prepares herself. Whereas that's consistent every
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  single day, and their effort, their execution of everything that you want executed,
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  everything that you want from player effort wise, nobody you cannot pick one
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  player who does it better than her. So it's not a matter of I'm
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  not prepared, I don't work hard, I don't put the time in,
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  and and it's a mystery. Everybody has a shooting slump. It happens.
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  Hey, I'm I'm not ready to I'm not ready to trade her for anybody
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  else in the country right more with Gito on the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show
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