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Seg 2 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Jan 25 · Coaches Corner

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  Once again live here at Cafe Aura here in Manchester. Busy weekend on the
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  network. Next Yukon Women's game will be Saturday night, sold out Gamble Pavilion,
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  Notre Dames in town to wipe out. So if you're coming to game
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  Saturday, make sure you wear white. Seven thirty for the pregame on the
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  radio. Dep fist back with me after taking the game at Marquette off right
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  here on the Yukon Sports Network, and you can listen so many ways online
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  the Varsity Network at the varsitynetwork dot com, check out social media where you
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  can listen to it elsewhere. Also, Gino is with me here till eight
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  o'clock live on the radio. It's our first of three shows here at Cafe
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  Aura in Manchester. The Halib it's really good. Well, what's your go
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  to here? I don't really have one particular thing. I like to try
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  a little bit of everything. But what did I have last time I was
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  here? I had the short rib, which is really really good. I
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  had I had the pasta in the vodka sauce last time I was here.
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  When I was at lunch today, I have no idea what I had.
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  That's okay, that's where my memory is right now. Well, your freshmen
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  have been really good Ashland and KK who are in the rotation. Cadence is
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  starting to get going here. But ash I mean, this is a young
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  lady who's fearless thirty seven minutes on Tuesday, had seven and six boards in
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  the last two games, adding to her offense. She just seems to be
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  so confident and knock on wood. The two games against Indiana School, she's
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  really been good. You'd love to see a third game like she's done the
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  first two come Saturday night against the other Indiana team that you're playing. Yeah.
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  Yeah, I spend all of November and December not to do anything wrong
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  and screwed up every single thing every day. And you know, we had
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  a little conversation and I said, do you remember why I recruited you?
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  And it wasn't because of what you're doing right now, because if this is
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  what you were doing right now, what you're doing right now is what you
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  were doing when you were in high school and during the summer, I said,
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  I wouldn't have recruited you. So why did I recruit you? Do
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  you remember what did you do? I said, because you're passing the ball
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  you're trying to pass the ball. Say you used to get one assist a
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  month, maybe if you were lucky. That's not who you are. So
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  what were you? She said, I'm a scorer? I said exactly.
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  So every time you touch the ball you should think about what got you here
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  and trying to score. And you know, I forget when it was the
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  other night she tied her career high for assists. I think at Yukon,
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  I think maybe one. And it was a good thing, you know,
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  because the more she stays true to who she is, the better she's going
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  to be. And kids are funny, you know, when when things are
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  going well for them on the offensive end, they really really really play well
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  in every other area of their game. When they're not scoring points, it's
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  like you took their phone away from them. They can't function. What about
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  k K? Were you a little leary about her first homecoming game? It's
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  always that way. She was a little, you know, a little bit
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  ahead of herself at the beginning of the game, trying to do too much.
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  Leiah was like that when we were in Toronto. You know, they
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  just they want to do so well for the home crowd, you know,
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  they just you know they're trying so hard, but once they settled in,
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  you know, we we we try to make it as simple as we can
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  for our players and say this is this is what you can get done tonight,
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  based on who we're playing tonight. This is what you can accomplish tonight,
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  and this is what I want you to be thinking about. And right
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  off the bat, the first player of the game, I think KK went
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  right by somebody and we got a lamp. Yes, all right, I
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  think that went So that was a great sign for me that she knows exactly
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  who she can take off the dribble and who she can't. And the minute
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  she got that matchup, she was gone. So they're starting to learn,
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  this is what makes me good, So just stick with what makes me good
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  and don't try to do things that they get me in trouble. They're both
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  giving you a better three point percentage than you thought. I didn't. I've
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  said this before. I didn't think Ash was this good at three point shooter
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  because she didn't really show that a lot. She was just a great mid
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  range player. Yeah yeah, and you know, well you encourage her to
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  do that more. But she's been a really really really really impressive three point
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  shooter. So add Nika to that list. Yeah, and so you know,
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  if you got and this has happened before, obviously you kind of and
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  this is what you need to be a really good team. You need to
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  have one, two, three three point shooters on the floor, and you
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  need to space them out so that you keep the defense spread out. Because
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  the one thing that would kill your team is what happened last year when everybody
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  got hurt and the only person that could make an outside shot was Lou.
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  Right, Okay, so everybody knew when anybody else touches the ball except Lou,
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  everybody just stood in the lane and we couldn't get anything done. Now
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  they've got to be everywhere guarding those three page Nika ash kk. That's four
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  of them, you know that are going to make their share. And you
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  know, and then Q coumbs in and you know what I like about you.
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  The only time she shoots is when she has the ball. Uh huh.
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  I love the kid, man, I love the kid. She This
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  is what I do. Coach, I shoot. I didn't say I was
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  going to make them all, coach, I just said I was gonna shoot
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  them all. She's fearless too. Apparently she put out a request if she
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  hits a three on Saturday night, she wants the student section of your boom.
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  She played on an AAU team with some characters, Angel reesp being one
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  of them back in the day, and they had a lot of really,
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  really really good players and they were fun to watch because they just played Lucy
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  Goosey, free and clear and they would boom. Now they got Paige and
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  all those guys boom. You know, they got the whole thing going on,
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  and it's I think it's pretty funny. CD is highly irritated by the
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  whole thing, but that makes it even more rewarding for all of us.
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  We'll take a break, we'll come back. You know, we have gone
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  two segments of this show and we haven't mentioned Page Beckers, but we will
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  in the next segment. It's the Yukon women's basketball Why. Well, you
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  know, she's only averaging what twenty five in her last four games. I'm
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  shooting the ball really well and doing a lot of other things, So we'll
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  bring her name up. The amount of money she makes. She should be
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  gaverging thirty five. Back with Ornaments Basketball Coaches show on lear Field