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Seg 3 - WBB Show w Geno Feb 6 · Coaches Corner

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  With Gino. Yeah here, but your head said on your cheap yeah,
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  agreed. Agreed with Gino. Where you'ming the head coach of the Huskies is
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  a busy week, big week, come, big stretch coming up here.
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  You got Seaton Hall Wednesday, South Carolina coming up Sunday, then Xavier,
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  Georgetown, Craton, all pretty much bunched together in a two week span.
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  I know, I know. It's that time of the year and the stretch
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  run to use. Do you see the light at the end of the tunnel
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  or do you see the freshman hitting the wall at this point, especially Ashlean
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  and KK because they've logged a lot of minutes. Yeah, I mean this
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  is late for them to be hitting the wall. If they're hitting the wall
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  now, it's late. Usually that would have come earlier, and it did.
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  It did come for for you just didn't see it, maybe as as
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  much as you know we see it every day in practice. But you know,
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  Ashes played too many minutes. Nika could play that many minutes because she's
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  had three four years of building up that stamina to be able to play those
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  forty minutes. When you're a freshman, you don't know how to put you
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  you don't know how to get You don't know how to play forty minutes.
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  You just don't. And plus you waste a lot of energy running around going
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  where's my man? You know. So there's just a there's just nothing you
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  can do about it. It is what it is, and they have to
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  get through it. And it's not it's not easy, it's not I was
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  just telling Bob, you know, we're going down. We're going down this
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  weekend, you know, to play at South Carolina. And it made me
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  think that the last time we had a team that wasn't missing a starter or
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  two was when we were in the bubble. That's four years ago, and
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  pages Paige and Alia have only played with some semblance of a whole team in
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  the bubble when there was nobody around. And you know, we went to
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  the NC Tournament, you know, we went to the final four, and
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  I would I would like to even the year we played in the National Championship
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  Game, which is only two years ago, right right, It sounds like
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  it feels like it was a hundred years ago. But we were in the
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  National Championship Game two years ago, and we didn't have Dorka because she broke
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  her wrist in the NC State game, right, and as I don't know
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  what what she had. I don't I don't know whether it was COVID or
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  something that they hadn't invented yet. I don't know what she had, but
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  she had something, and I was sick as a dog on the sideline,
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  and I was not one hundred percent. Everybody, you know, you know
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  you when you've been doing this long enough. It's funny. When we were
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  talking before we went out to the game, I said to the coaches,
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  now only you guys would know this, well except all the people listening on
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  TV. I mean I get it or on the radio red. But I
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  remember saying to the to the to the other coaches, I said, you
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  know, we're so beat up, we're so sick. Everybody's got something.
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  I said, we're either going to get blown out, or you know what,
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  maybe we might win a game, like in double overtime or something like
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  that. And they started the game off like twenty to two, oh the
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  championship camp, and you got it down to like was it like six?
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  Yeah, we got it down third. Yeah, we got it down to
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  six. But you know, you just know that it's it's it's it's so
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  frustrating to, you know, play with like one hand tied behind your back
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  and Walls is funny, you know, typical walls Walls goes. Yeah.
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  I feel so sorry for Gino. It's just so sad. You know,
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  he's missing all these guys. Now he has to play Page and Aaliyah forty
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  minutes. I feel so bad for him, you know, But the reality
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  of the situation is nobody should be playing as many minutes as they're playing.
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  Last year, Hoody did our strength and conditioning coach, Andrea Hoody, she
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  did an analysis and she figured out that Nika played the equivalent of nine more
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  games than any other player in college basketball. That's a lot. Yeah,
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  that's a grind. That's a grind. And you're in an unusual spot this
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  year too, because of the rotation that you have. It's mainly seven,
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  it's three seniors and four freshmen. You've never had that. No, Well,
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  I shouldn't say that. I shouldn't say that. In nineteen ninety one
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  when we went to No. No. In nineteen eighty eight eighty nine,
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  we won the national the biggest championship for the first time, we had seven
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  freshmen. Yeah. Meg Pattison, Hi, Meg we had seven freshmen and
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  four returning players. Wow, and we won the biggest championship. That was
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  the last time we counted on freshmen that much. And Carrie was so that
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  was Carrie was a sophomore. Carrie was a software Carry was a sophomore.
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  Lauristis was a sophomore. And those seven freshmen came in and they just kind
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  of infused the program with like a lot of like really cool stuff. And
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  we ran a kind of offense where you know, only slow kids can run
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  Megan them and we shot a lot of threes and and we won a lot
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  of games. Well, it's funny because you were and I were talking about
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  this off air. I mean, you were doing a lot of what Villanova
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  used to do, a slow pace. Debbie was on last week with Wayne.
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  Debbie got a new job. She's now in the Windom now is the
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  director of Parks the Wreck and Wayne. She was on Wayne Norman show.
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  Wayne works at Wyline Willemantick. He's the morning show host there has been forever.
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  And she talked about those early days where you know, getting recruited by
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  you. It was I guess between the Yukon and Syracuse for Debbie that's what
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  she tells us. Told Wayne anyways, I didn't I didn't even know that.
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  Yeah, a lot of these guys, you know, Debbie, Meg,
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  Wendy Davis, we didn't. We we didn't have to beat out Stanford
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  and Virginia and do for those guys, trust me on that. It was.
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  You know, we were recruiting at a whole different level back then.
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  We were recruiting kids that, you know, we thought they were good and
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  we thought they could make us better. But they weren't the kind of kids
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  that the absolute best teams in America were recruiting. No, but I thought
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  they were good, and eventually, you know, when they all got to
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  be juniors and seniors, we went to the Final four. And we're the
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  first team north of the Mason Dixon line to ever go to the Final Four
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  with not a single player in the top one hundred in the country coming out
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  of high school. So for all those knuckleheads out there, I think the
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  only people I can coach are great players. Trust me, I've coached other
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  players. Yeah, And I think to them from that team were broadcasting.
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  Now, Meg's been doing it for forever and ever there you go, they
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  found something they were great at there you go. You can hear RAG tomorrow
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  night on S and Y too. They got it, They got that game
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  tomorrow night. All right, more with Gino on the Wells Fargo you kind
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  of women's basketball Coaches Show ahead of the men and Butler coming up at the
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  top of the hour. Here Onlearfield,