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Seg 4 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma 3-7 · Coaches Corner

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  Final segment with coach Orriama here on the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show, And
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  I thought we might spend this time to delve into the future a little bit
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  as to the two young ladies that are coming in next season. Morgan Shelley
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  and Ali Zaibel both named the Nasmith's All Americans today. Morgan on the first
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  team, Ali and Aunible mentioned both McDonald's All Americans. Haven't asked you much
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  about these two young ladies are there. What are their capabilities and what are
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  your hopes for them when they come in here to the stores next fall.
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  Well, first of all, it's it's you know, quite a quite a
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  feat, you know, for Morgan, she's on the number one rated team
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  in the country, high school team and they're playing for the state championship in
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  California. And she kinda doesn't I should say she she defines that player that
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  doesn't have a position, you know, and and plays the game of basketball.
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  She just plays basketball and it doesn't matter. She's a little bit like
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  Page in that regard. You know, you don't know whether she's a point
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  guard, a two guard, a small forward, six to two rebounder.
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  You don't know. You know, you just watch her play and she impacts
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  the game in so many different ways, and so it's like recruiting a couple
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  of players. When you recruit somebody like Morgan, you know, because you
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  can slaughter in so many different spots. And and Ali is the typical kid
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  who doesn't think they will ever miss a shot in their whole life and is
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  a sneaky, phenomenally good one on one player with the ball in her hands
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  that she can figure out how to get a layup or an open three about
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  as good as anybody that I've seen. It's fun to watch when she's playing
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  because you look at her and you go, no, she can't do that,
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  And after the game you go, well, she just did, you
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  know. And so it's really really fun to watch. And I think the
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  two of them are are going to fit in great, and they're going to
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  bring a lot of versatility and a lot of shooting to a team that I
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  think next year could be pretty special. G know, I know, conference
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  tournament time. I think right after it is when when the portal opens,
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  do you have like a wish list or a list of what things that you
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  may or may not need out of the portal, not knowing yet what a
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  Leah and Niker are going to do. Yeah, I think we do.
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  I mean, regardless of you know, any decisions anybody makes, and I
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  don't anticipate either of them, you know, being here next year. You
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  know, I think Aliyah probably going to go in the top five or six
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  in the draft, you know, certainly not lower than seventh, and Nika
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  is going to get drafted, and so they both I think are looking forward
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  to to the future. The portal, though, is an interesting thing because
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  you never know who's going to be in it. You think, hey,
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  you know, really great, really great to get another six or three kid.
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  You know, that would be really really really good given circumstances that have
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  happened the last couple of years. You know, it's like you can never
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  have you never have too many. But that would probably be the one area
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  where I think we could possibly, you know, go into the portal and
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  and and do that. You know, so maybe you end up with nobody
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  out of the portal, or maybe you end up with someone to fill the
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  Aliah Nika shoes, and you know, somewhere in between, who knows.
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  You know, We're not one of those schools that's on the phone every day
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  talking to people say hey, do you want you want to transfer? You
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  know, so we're like in the dark a little bit about who's in,
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  who's you know, who might be in and so. But once the season
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  ends, and once everybody's season is over, once the conference tournaments are over,
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  and then it starts to starts to pick up steam pretty quickly. Right,
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  what's a schedule look like next year for non conference? I mean,
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  I know some series come to an end. I would think Notre Dame in
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  South Carolina still on the schedule. As he drinks out of his water bottle.
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  Yeah, yeah, we're at South Carolina at Notre Dame, the Barkley
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  Center. The four teams that are in US Louisville, Iowa, Tennessee,
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  and Tennessee. Sounds like Louisville, though from what Jeff Toney in December,
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  it's probably going to be Louisville for us. We know that we're at those
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  three places. We're at North Carolina. We're playing them in Greensboro next year
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  at the Coliseum, I believe so nice well, because we play them at
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  Mohigan. Right so, right now, from what I understand, that's what
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  I can remember, you know, Neil Askin, who's does ninety nine point
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  nine percent of the work on that is in here every week, you know,
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  trying to update. You know, we think we have this team lined
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  up now, you know, all of a sudden they don't want to the
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  other team's really interested though, So keep your eyes peeled on. Gino.
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  Is always a pleasure. Thanks for doing this this year. Thanks to Sarah
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  for setting this up. But it's always fun. I know you prefer the
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  live stuff, but appreciate your time and best of luck this weekend. Yeah,
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  no, it's been great. You know, our fans have been great,
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  Our student athletes have you know, been great. The student body has
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  been great. I mean the home games have been just absolutely phenomenal. And
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  you know, hopefully we have two more here and try to you know,
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  end this thing the right way. Indeed, Geno Ramma with us on the
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  U kind of Women's Basketball Coaches Show. We'll have more of it after this
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  on Learfield to stay with us,