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Geno Auriemma - Postgame So. Carolina · Coaches Corner

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  And not as those statements when you look sort did you say them? Uh?
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  I guess in do you know it look like uh things started to get
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  away from you guys at the end of the first quarter into the second quarter.
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  What did you see there, uh out of your team that uh,
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  well, you know, going going into the game and when when you're playing,
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  you know, with sort of the limitations that we have with our roster
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  right now, you're gonna need a little bit of help obviously, uh,
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  and you're gonna have to play exceptionally well. I thought that I thought our
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  transition to defense kind of fell apart for s for long stretches, and they
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  took advantage of every mistake that we made. I thought some of our defensive
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  stuff again was I again? I I just keep going back to if you're
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  gonna win a game like this, you you either have to have more more
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  players, better talent, or you're gonna have to play a much smarter game
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  and get some help from the other two. And we did not play a
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  very smart game in the first half, and we certainly didn't get any help
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  from them cause they took advantage of every mistake that we That would mean second
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  half, you know, we fixed a bunch of things, you know,
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  and I think it was like a four point difference in the second half.
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  We we kind of got a bunch of things squared away, but by the
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  end it might have been a little too little too late. Uh yeah,
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  coach in South Carolina's death, What what does that do to in office?
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  Already pretty good in terms of any of their their ceiling. What does that
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  depth being of a brand, you know for whor girls off the bench to
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  be able to produce like that do from that program. Yeah, there are
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  much different, you know, much different team than uh some of the previous
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  teams obviously that we played down here, and their the their style of play
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  is different, not just their depth is different, but their style of play
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  is different. You know. They're they're able to, you know, keep
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  the pressure on because they can bring uh bring more bodies off the bench,
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  but they they have the ability to put pressure on you from the premmeter as
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  well as inside way more so than any other time that I remember, right,
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  you said earlier this week that you know, if at things along with
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  when nothing really changes for you guys, all to the backet still a month
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  away. One of your virgin takes away from this knowing the only a few
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  weeks left in the regular season, I mean, ever since all the stuff
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  that happened when our roster, that's the furthest thing from my mind. I
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  mean, I could c I could care less about that. You know.
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  We we have a bunch of young guys playing college basketball for the first time,
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  and they've gotten better and better, you know, each and every week,
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  and we need to make sure that they keep getting better every week.
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  We we have to, we have to do more things right than ever before
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  because of the situation that we're in. And we're not gonna get any bigger.
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  We're not gonna add any more players, and we're not gonna get any
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  you know, taller. But we need to get a little smarter if we
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  wanna be if we wanna be able to win some of these games. Games
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  you know, come marks. So we got we got some work to do.
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  I thought we competed, you know, like hell, there were just
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  times when we were just worn down. Today, you know, we we
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  we just don't there's not much that we could have. You know that those
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  guys did play their brains out, you know, but when you get as
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  many open looks as we got, you need to make most of those in
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  a game like this. You know, I I sh probably miss more shots
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  tonight than she has in the last month, a month and a half.
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  You know, we just didn't get an out again. You you you don't.
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  You're not gonna get unlimited opportunities. So the ones you do get you
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  have to take advantage of, and and and then they're just kind of a
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  tough night for Nika, just two assists. So did you feel like they
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  did something to take her away and take away some of that passing game that
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  has helped you guys out recently. No, I don't think it was anything
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  that they did, and I just think that you could have a lousy game.
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  I don't think it had anything to do with anything else, you know,
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  do you know, Agnes you mentioned you know you can't add players,
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  You can't get any quicker, you can't get any bigger between now and and
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  next month. But it is the are the players who who are not playing
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  a lot, are they making progress in in practice? Is that something that
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  that you would consider or at this point is it just too late to experiment
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  the people more how playing? No, the guys that are playing are gonna
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  keep playing and the guys that aren't playing aren't gonna play at this late stage.
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  Nobody's getting miraculously better that all of a sudden they I can put'em
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  in a game like this and think they're gonna help us. That's not gonna
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  happen. But Ice has to be better, and that's you know, KK
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  has to be a little a little more understanding of there's so many things that
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  she can do, but there's some things you're not gonna be able to do,
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  and went to and went not to. It's the biggest learning curve for
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  the for the younger guys. But no, the the this the you know,
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  Q has her moments and and we're gonna keep working on her because we
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  need her into rotation as these next couple weeks unfold. So the seven that
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  we have right now that are playing in the most minutes, that's it the
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  way it's gonna be. It's gonna be on those seven. And hopefully it
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  was a great learning experience for those young guys cause it's the first time that
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  they really had to play big roles in a in a game like this.
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  But we got a lot out of page and page and shoot the ball particularly
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  well. We got a lot out of a lah, But if we don't
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  get more out of Ice than that's just gonna be even more difficult for a
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  leader to do what she does. So bottom line is our starting five has
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  to play really really well every night for us to to be able to win
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  these games. Anything else can coach that's good? Oh really sorry, I
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  just I mean, what did you think of Page's performance today? She kind
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  of you know, came out hot and had that little sum in the middle.
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  Who just kind of how did you think she handled everything? Again,
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  the the scenario to winning and to really good players being really good is you
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  need you need other good players around you to play well, but you also
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  need time on the bench to rec to re re charge yourself. And unfortunately
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  she doesn't get enough of that. So she's out there for thirty nine minutes
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  every night and there's a lot of pressure on her to have to make big
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  shots, make big plays, play defense, bang around down and we just
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  can't give her enough, uh enough help, So it unfortunately Page doesn't wanna
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  play the way she's gonna need to play down the stretch. She's gonna have
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  to force the issue every time down the floor, and that's not how she
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  likes to play, which is gonna take even more out of her going forward.
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  So yeah, she uh, she's got a lot of her shoulders right
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  now. Alright, thanks coach, Aliah Edward said, teas backers and the
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  available as any pubber pros.