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The Dailey Recap - Notre Dame · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Great second half by your team got off to a
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  Speaker 1: fantastic start in the ball game and then second got
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  Speaker 1: a little wiggy, but nice one for your team against
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I thought we got open looks again
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  Speaker 2: and we just didn't knock them in the second. In
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  Speaker 2: the first half and then the second half, we we
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  Speaker 2: really just looked really good. Our defense was good. Our
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  Speaker 2: defense could not have been better today, So that wasn't
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  Speaker 2: the issue, was just knocking in some shots and once
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  Speaker 2: we saw it. I thought we did a really good
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  Speaker 2: job putting the ball on the floor. I thought Asy
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  Speaker 2: was terrific. I know she didn't shoot the ball well
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  Speaker 2: from three, but I thought everything else that she did
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  Speaker 2: on the defensive end and just being able to put
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  Speaker 2: the ball on the floor go by people she had
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  Speaker 2: her pull up. So I thought kk Arnold was tremendous.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think coach even just told the team
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  Speaker 2: that was her best game in a Connecticut uniform.
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  Speaker 3: Speak a little bit about the defense, because it was tremendous.
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  Speaker 3: And the job that KK and your team as a
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  Speaker 3: unit did with Hidalgo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, she's a really good player and has
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  Speaker 2: had her you know, has had three, you know, two
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  Speaker 2: big games against us for the last two years, so
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  Speaker 2: we really, I thought, did a great job of limiting
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  Speaker 2: The first job is to try to limit our touches,
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  Speaker 2: which is not easy, and then you're trying to shater
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  Speaker 2: one direction or the other where we're going to have
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  Speaker 2: help and be able to make, you know, more than
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  Speaker 2: one play. And KK kept the pressure on her even
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  Speaker 2: when she had the ball. When she didn't have the ball,
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  Speaker 2: I thought we wore out a little bit, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's it's it's tough work because her surrounding you know,
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  Speaker 2: this surrounding team is not the same as what it
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  Speaker 2: was last year, so there's even more pressure on her
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do some things. And I thought
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  Speaker 2: we did a really good job of making her after
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  Speaker 2: work when she did score, have to work really hard.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought we were able to limit what she
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  Speaker 2: was able to do.
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  Speaker 1: And Chris of rebound wise, you did a fabulous job
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  Speaker 1: on them seize a little twenty four rebounds for Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 1: Not a whole lot in the second chance department today
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  Speaker 1: for either team, but a job on the glass today,
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  Speaker 1: particularly in the second half. And Sarah Williams finally got
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  Speaker 1: going in the second half both offensively.
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  Speaker 2: And Sarah Williams finally rebounded the ball two hands, So
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  Speaker 2: I am extremely happy about that.
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  Speaker 1: I am always about that and then she did it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's you know, it's something. It it's a habit,
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  Speaker 2: and I think sometimes you can get a false sense
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  Speaker 2: of security when you rebound the ball with that one.
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  Speaker 2: But when you're in big games, and even even games
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  Speaker 2: were you know where the other team is ever match,
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  Speaker 2: you still have to grab the ball. It's physical in there.
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  Speaker 2: It was physical and the lane. But I thought Sarah
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  Speaker 2: did a really nice job.
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  Speaker 3: And it looks like I talk about Sarah william or
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  Speaker 3: Sarah Strong and she seems to get a double double
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  Speaker 3: and you're like, looks so casual for her. Is there
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  Speaker 3: more things you want from her? Is there anything you
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  Speaker 3: can ask?
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  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: Almost thought she had more than eleven rebounds. It felt
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  Speaker 2: like she is because there was a stretch where in
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  Speaker 2: the second half where I thought she got every defensive
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  Speaker 2: rebound and she didn't any offensive, which was unusual. But
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  Speaker 2: we didn't miss a whole lot in the second half,
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  Speaker 2: so that probably played a role in it. But she
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  Speaker 2: she just commands so much attention from the other team
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  Speaker 2: that that really opens up things for our other players.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought Ash did a really good job. She
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  Speaker 2: knocked in some threes, she got her pull up, but
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  Speaker 2: defensively and she's really taking it to heart trying to
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  Speaker 2: be an offensive rebounder for us and really has tried to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, give us some second and third chances. And
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  Speaker 2: I just thought she played really well as well.
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  Speaker 1: Was Kaylee as big as spark in the second half
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  Speaker 1: as Sarah seemed to be today off the bench?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Kaylee, I thought did a really good
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  Speaker 2: job just doing a little bit of everything. There was
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  Speaker 2: not one thing that I thought she did, you know, great,
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  Speaker 2: But I thought she did a lot. You know. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: she had a defensive assignment that was tough, but I
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  Speaker 2: thought she ran our offense well and knocked in a
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  Speaker 2: shot put some You know, again, it's all about keeping
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  Speaker 2: pressure on them, both with your defense and your offense.
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  Speaker 2: So defensively you try to put the pressure and try
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  Speaker 2: to keep them from running what they want to run.
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  Speaker 2: But on top of that, when you can put the
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  Speaker 2: pressure on them on the offensive end, that really creates
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  Speaker 2: the differential that we had today. All right, but that
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  Speaker 2: we're differential, get it.
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  Speaker 3: That's very good speaking of that is a routine change.
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  Speaker 3: Now that everybody's going to be back to school, are
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  Speaker 3: they glad that they're doing that or is it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: for you to get them back.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I can't say that, you know, I think the
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  Speaker 2: routine and I think they our kids get a little
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  Speaker 2: bored after a few weeks. I'm not going to say
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  Speaker 2: that they're loving or going to love having to go
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  Speaker 2: to class and all that fun stuff, but I think
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  Speaker 2: they do enjoy the routine where you have stuff. We
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  Speaker 2: start tomorrow, so that'll be the start of it, and
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  Speaker 2: we actually go on a road trip starting Wednesday, so
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  Speaker 2: it's it's one day and then we'll get into some
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  Speaker 2: class and then we'll do our stuff and head down
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  Speaker 2: to Georgetown.
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  Speaker 1: Right Georgetown Thursday, and then Seaton Hall Sunday. CD is always.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you and we'll see in DC.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for you, all right, thank you,