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Seg 4 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Dec 10 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. She knows you're alive in the
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  Speaker 1: dunkin music lines. We have a live studio audience places packed.
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  Speaker 1: Want to thank all of our sponsors for taking the
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  Speaker 1: time out to come here, and a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: guests too that won tickets with Robin Ben on our
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  Speaker 1: flagship last week. Before we get to the questions from
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  Speaker 1: the audience, one one more question here. The Notre Dame
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  Speaker 1: game Thursday. It's a rarity that you have a game
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  Speaker 1: during the exam break. This doesn't happen very often. How
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  Speaker 1: does that change the dynamic of school and putting basketball
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  Speaker 1: together with a game actually going on as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: just practice.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody goes to school anymore.
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  Speaker 3: They just calm practice, you know, get their money, and
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  Speaker 3: then they leave.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's just they like factory workers, you know, just punch
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  Speaker 2: you in.
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  Speaker 3: Like my mother and father go home and I'm just
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  Speaker 3: worrying about class and stuff like that. I'm surprised. I'm
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  Speaker 3: as surprised as anybody that used to be Back in
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  Speaker 3: the day. It was taboo. I mean, like, I forbid
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  Speaker 3: you would have a a game during an exam period.
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  Speaker 3: But everything's changed, you know, so there's so many new
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  Speaker 3: ways now, I think COVID changed a lot of things.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to be present, you know, you don't
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  Speaker 3: have to you know, be physically present. I should say
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  Speaker 3: you have to be present if you're on zoom. But
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  Speaker 3: there's so many different ways, and and you know, they
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  Speaker 3: they I think they raised a number of games you
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  Speaker 3: can have a few years ago, but they didn't extend
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  Speaker 3: the length of the season. So you have to cram
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  Speaker 3: a lot of games in in a short period of
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  Speaker 3: time because we have to finish a week before the
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  Speaker 3: men finish, right, right, so that our Big East Tournament
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  Speaker 3: is over, and then the men's Big East Tournament starts,
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  Speaker 3: so we have less time to do everything.
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  Speaker 2: And it just you know, it just worked out that way.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to the audience questions. Ben Darnell,
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  Speaker 1: my boss. Fox Sports ninety seven nine was filleding on
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  Speaker 1: both football and men's basketball broadcast with me is in
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  Speaker 1: the audience roaming around.
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  Speaker 4: With my coach. We have a loyal fan, Roxanne's been
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  Speaker 4: a fan since nineteen eighty nine of the women's basketball program.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, when Debbie and Megan showed up, Wow, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Are you gonna play Vanderbilt in the next couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: Only if Shaye wants to.
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  Speaker 3: You know, whenever one of my assistants gets a job,
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  Speaker 3: I tell them all the time, I said, listen, you know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously you have my number. So whenever you feel like
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  Speaker 3: it would be good for you to have us come
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  Speaker 3: down there, just let me know and I'll be happy
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  Speaker 3: to do it.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: You know, every time we've played you know, and somebody's
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  Speaker 3: you know, every time we've played away and one of
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  Speaker 3: these is where some of our players are from or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: it's generally.
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  Speaker 2: The biggest crowd that they've had.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, whenever she's ready, you know, I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: i'll get a phone call, which'll mean she thinks she
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  Speaker 3: can beat used. They've done an unbelievable job yet her
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  Speaker 3: and Tom are just killing it down there, they really are.
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  Speaker 1: And year old manager Kevin de Mill's doing it and.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin, yeah, they all are, and Marissa is having a
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  Speaker 3: good year. You know, at Wisconsin. It's not easy coaching today.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Caroline's that with her anymore? Is she? No? No,
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  Speaker 2: Caroline's not there anymore. Nope.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Ben, what do you got, coach?
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  Speaker 4: I've been wanting to ask you this personally for a
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  Speaker 4: long time now. First of all, congratulations on the new record.
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  Speaker 4: I know you don't care about it, but we're very
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  Speaker 4: proud of you to thank you most winning as coach
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  Speaker 4: in basketball history.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 4: I think a lot of us agree. I know Bob
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  Speaker 4: said this, Rob said this in our studios. Last year
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  Speaker 4: may have been your best job that you have done,
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  Speaker 4: with dealing with all the injuries in just the talent
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  Speaker 4: desperation that you had, especially getting back to the final four.
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  Speaker 4: The final four game to me top five basketball game
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  Speaker 4: of my year last year. I'm sorry how it finished.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to talk about the foul or the
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  Speaker 4: no foul. I've been meaning to ask you the game
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  Speaker 4: prep going into that playing Caitlin Clark and Iowa. Nikamile
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  Speaker 4: I thought had a Swan song game or final game
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  Speaker 4: of her collegiate career. What was the motivation you gave
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  Speaker 4: her for that assignment? What was the assignment? Take me
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  Speaker 4: through the preparation of that week taking Iowa in the
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  Speaker 4: final four?
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  Speaker 3: All right, so you have to understand this before I
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  Speaker 3: go any deeper into this. Paige and Nica came in
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  Speaker 3: together and Aliyah, all three of them came in together
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  Speaker 3: as freshmen. Okay and So Paige and Nika really established
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  Speaker 3: a really close bond. So you have to understand something
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  Speaker 3: about Page and Nica. They will do exactly what I
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  Speaker 3: tell them after they've exhausted all other possibilities.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so when we.
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  Speaker 3: Rob you know there's players you play with, right, this
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  Speaker 3: is how we want to pitch to a guy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'll pitch to him like that after I try to
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  Speaker 3: get him out with every other pitch. You know, that's
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  Speaker 3: how people think when they're that good, when they think
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  Speaker 3: they're that good. So the scattering report or the game
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  Speaker 3: plan that we had work perfectly. In the first half.
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  Speaker 3: We had a team that's averaged ninety points a game,
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  Speaker 3: and they scored twenty eight points. Yeah, can you go
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  Speaker 3: wrong with that? We lost? We lost the moment in
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  Speaker 3: that first half. We should have been up fifteen to
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  Speaker 3: twenty points in that first alf. The defense that we
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  Speaker 3: played was spectacular, and our offense we just it was
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  Speaker 3: a nightmare sometimes. So we should have been up like
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  Speaker 3: fifteen or twenty points. Anyway, we weren't. We came out
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  Speaker 3: in the second half. I don't know who they talked
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  Speaker 3: to after I talked to them at halftime, but whoever
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  Speaker 3: they talked to when they got to the court, changed
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  Speaker 3: the defense of mentality and it went completely the other way.
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  Speaker 3: And you go, well, why what would why would that happen?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know any of you have daughters. Any of
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  Speaker 3: you have twelve daughters. So yes, going into the game,
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  Speaker 3: we knew exactly how we wanted to defend it. We
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  Speaker 3: knew exactly how we wanted to defend Caitlin. We knew,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what her strengths were, where she wanted to
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  Speaker 3: go with the ball, what she wanted to do. And
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  Speaker 3: to be honest with you, the other kid, the big
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  Speaker 3: kid running the floor catching it.
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  Speaker 2: She killed us, really, Hannah was she was, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: she killed us? Yeah, that was that was.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They made it.
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  Speaker 3: They made some big shots and we you know, so
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  Speaker 3: you know, I thought we had a great game plan.
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  Speaker 3: I thought we had everything figured out, you know, but
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  Speaker 3: we couldn't sustain it. We couldn't sustain the game plan.
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  Speaker 3: Who couldn't sustain it? And that's uh and and and
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  Speaker 3: it's crazy because that game probably got Nika drafted as
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  Speaker 3: high as she got drafted because she was shocked, she
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  Speaker 3: was she invited to the draft. But that game really
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  Speaker 3: made everybody think, oh, I think this kick? Can you
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  Speaker 3: know can play it at this high level?
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  Speaker 1: All right, final segment with Gino live here on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: Then we'll have a little bit of an after show
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  Speaker 1: here in studio, but we'll continue last segment coming up
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  Speaker 1: here on the UKON Women's Basketball Coaches Show from Learfield.
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  Speaker 2: To stay with us,