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Seg 1 - WBB Coach's Show Dec 15 · Coaches Corner

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  And for the first time this year, we're doing it live downtown Hartford at
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  the studios of iHeartRadio. We're in the Duncan Music Lounge, which of course
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  is the home of our flagship ninety seven to nine WUCS. We have a
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  live studio audience here. We have Gino Oriema here as well. First of
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  four live shows that will do this season. The other three will be a
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  Cafe Aura in the new year. Well, do you know exams are over
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  here? We go three games in five days. We're going to rock and
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  roll and play some hoops. Uh yeah, I practice go this week with
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  the exam, with the exam break. That's always a challenge. Well,
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  you know, my first couple of years here, you almost couldn't even practice
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  during exams. Kids. The kids were so into school because they weren't very
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  good at basketball, but they were so into school that they were just obsessed
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  with, you know, getting getting ready for their exams. So getting them
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  to concentrate a practice was torture. You couldn't do it. Uh. Matter
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  of fact, one year after you know, a couple of Big East tournaments,
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  finally I told them, I said, any anybody that brings their books
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  to the Big East Tournament. I said, I'm not playing you like,
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  let's keep our priorities straight here, all right. So needless to say,
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  it's still important, and it's still a hectic time and still a stressful time
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  for for the kids. But they've spread them out now and you know,
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  some some changes have been made so it's not as not as intense as as
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  it used to be. But uh, it's still a time when you know
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  you're fighting for their attention obviously, and throwing in three games in three days
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  or however many days. You know, we're going Saturday, Monday, Wednesday,
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  right, something like that. Yeah, that I was saying earlier.
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  What seems like a bad thing though for the players that might be, Like
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  I wish it could be like this all year. You know, we play,
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  we can hardly practice because we have a game the next day. So
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  then we have a game. We can hardly practice because we have a game
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  the next day. I think they wish it was like that all year.
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  We play. We go fifteen minutes to practice, we play, we go
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  half an hour of practice. This idea where we have four or five days
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  between practice between games. Rather not too crazy about that. They're not too
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  crazy about that, Well, you're coming off on a two game win streak.
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  Nice went against North Carolina Sunday, saw a lot of good things.
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  I still some inconsistencies in the team and some your own worst enemy issues that
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  we'll talk about later on, but that for out one in lineup, I
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  think they're starting to find a little bit of an inches, particularly that early
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  third quarter. Was it eleven to nothing run where the defense started the offense
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  and that's where everything begins. Yeah, the the maddening part is what happened
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  to the first twenty minutes? Right, yeah, you know, like with
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  like we had to go play twenty minutes, stumble around a little bit,
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  and then come out in the second half and all right, let's let's play
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  the way you know we we think we can play on a regular basis.
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  So the trick now is to how do we take that third quarter and make
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  it you know, two great quarters? Well the first was good, Yeah,
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  the first one was over second. Yet there's there's for us. It's
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  it's always is this year, and I'm not used to it. You know
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  where you know it's going to change. So if it's not going so great,
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  you know we're going to have an upswing and then you can't celebrate too
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  much because you know it's going the other way. And right now, you
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  know, we've got to figure out a way to keep it like right here
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  a little bit longer. That's the that's the goal right now. You know,
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  the changing lineups all the time didn't help, you know, Yeah,
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  six different lineups and nine games and we're still not one hundred percent sure this
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  is the way to go, but this is the way to go for right
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  now, and you know, we'll see where it takes us. Gino.
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  Listening to your presser earlier today. With the media up in stores, a
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  lot of talk about Aubrey, imagine there's gonna be article articles written. But
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  Aubrey has been well, at least from an offensive standpoint, checkleing, Hyde,
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  defensively, rebounding, she's been pretty consistent between the last five games,
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  I think was it one twenty or one eleven, twenty zero, fourteen five.
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  That's just crazy what you get offensively from her. But you know you're
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  going to get energy from her more times than that, And how can she
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  can impact the game. Yeah, and that's the frustrating thing. It's kind
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  of indicative of our team that we were just talking about, Like, if
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  you told me we were going to get the Aubrey that's going to get zero
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  every night, I could plan for that or the twenty. You know.
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  Now, if you told me we're going to get the Aubrey that's going to
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  get twenty every night, then I can plan for that as well, and
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  we would have a completely different look about our team. So the fact that
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  we never know which is which is a real It's a struggle for her,
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  I'm sure, and it's a struggle for our team for me, because you
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  don't know what makes it go to twenty and what makes it go to zero.
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  It's not like your radio, you know, like iHeart radio. It's
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  not like your radio where when you turn the dial to the right, the
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  volume goes up, and when you turn the volume to the left, I
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  mean the dial to the left, that goes down. I need to put
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  a knob on auvery that I can turn up when I need to turn it
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  up. So that's the frustrating thing right now. And you just, you
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  know, you just keep throwing her out there and you hope that when she
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  gets it going, she gets it going, and you hope that defensively she
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  creates some things, you know, and certainly you know the best part of
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  her game where she can help us the most right now is to rebound the
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  best wall right you know, both at the defensive end, limit them to
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  one possession, help us get an extra possession on the offensive end. So
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  if we can do that, then I think that'll start to, you know,
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  start to help us be come a little more consistent. And you'll need
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  that tomorrow against Louisville. We'll get into the Cardinals. Later, we'll come
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  back with Geno. We're live at iHeartRadio. The Dunkin Music Lounge is the
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  Yukon of women's basketball Coaches. Show continues in a moment on their feeling