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Dailey Recap - DePaul · Coaches Corner

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  Back with a heart. Ottle Group post game show. Chris Daley has joined
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  us for the daily recap down in the Hot Pink today. Nice look little
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  Papa color on a cold day. There you go. Good effort by your
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  team today. Welcome back to gamble. Yes, we haven't been here.
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  This is our first Big East game here, right, Yeah, first game
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  since December sixth. Yeah, you played ball State. It's great to be
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  home. Everybody showed up. I give the students a lot of credit to
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  wait in line. I would not do that personally, but you know,
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  they were at early and we just really appreciate everybody coming out. It's not
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  you know, this is one of those days you'd rather probably sit at home
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  and watch on TV. So it was great. It was a great environment,
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  and we're happy to be home. Solid effort by your starters today,
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  I mean the efficiency of Page Aliyah. By the way, congratulations on the
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  free throws twenty three of twenty four today. I know you take credit for
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  this, so I know that now I don't. But year two, yeah,
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  well, we're a good shooting team. So when we don't shoot free
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  throws, well, uh, that's a little frustrating, you know, because
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  those are free points. So having Page at times be a fifty percent free
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  throw shooter during the game is I let her hear about that on a regular
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  basis. But today I thought we shot the ball well. Didn't shoot the
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  ball great from the three point line on thing just three today. Yeah,
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  but you know, I think overall we played pretty well. I'm talking about
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  you mentioned it before with us Nica. Well, once again, she set
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  the tone early with her defense on people's and it just was I thought she
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  was tenacious. Yeah, she you know, and because she takes that assignment
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  personally, she does never she does not want to switch, and part of
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  our game plan we were supposed to switch, and she wouldn't. So I'm
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  sure the first thing she said when she went in the locker room was to
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  herself or to her teammates. The points she got were not on me.
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  I she got eight. I think she got finished with none. It wasn't
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  early on when it when it mattered, she she was. She takes great
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  pride in that, and she did a terrific job b locking. And she's
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  not you know, she's not a great shooter, but she certainly she does
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  everything well for them. She pushes the ball, she rebounds it. She's
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  physical, not a three points threat so much. But I thought Nica took
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  her out of her. It's a different technically, a different matchup for in
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  the sense not the point guard or where she does said she likes, she
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  likes to post up so that you know, she plays the four for them
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  and on the defensive end. So yeah, it was a good It was
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  a good challenge, and I thought she did a good job. Chris the
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  defense again, and you turn them over a lot, and you make them
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  pay thirty seven more points off turnovers. I think that's like three of the
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  last four games you've got at least thirty points off turnovers. Yeah, I
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  mean that's really Those are effort plays. Those are plays where you're reading the
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  passing lanes, you're anticipating things and making making just good basketball players. So
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  when we can do that, it were difficult because we want to get out
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  into transition. I was a little disappointed that they got out on us and
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  transition a couple of times, because you know, the next couple of teams
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  we play, you really want to get out, you know, and get
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  out and run. So we have to really concentrate on that, getting ready
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  for more cap the fact able to get everybody to play, and not at
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  the end of the game, but early on you were getting people in there
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  just you know, Brady more minutes, you know, Samuel's an opportunity to
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  get to get them a look if down the road you may need them for
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  minutes here and there. Well, and you know, I think trying to
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  balance out between giving the starters enough time to get into a rhythm with each
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  other, but also giving opportunities and being able to mix it up. So
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  we we I thought, did a pretty good job of mixing our bench players
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  with the starters and then giving them a chance to play as a unit.
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  So overall, you know, I think there was really balance balanced minutes wise.
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  And you know, heading into this is a long stretch and I think
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  you're going to see it with our freshman probably hitting that freshman wall soon and
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  uh well hopefully not, but it probably will happen. So we're trying to,
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  you know, manage that as best we can. Big stretch coming up.
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  You've got Marquette first thing on Tuesday in Milwaukee, the Notre Dame here,
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  then Villanova. Yeah, it'd be an easy stretch for this team.
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  No, it really isn't and uh, you know, and as you're getting
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  to this part this season, it's probably as much mental as it is physical.
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  So you have to really prepare mentally because there's not a whole lot that,
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  you know, with with nine players that we can do. I mean,
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  we do practice, and we practice hard, but in terms of duration
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  of how long we can practice and being ready to go, so we really
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  have to, you know, control what we can control and make sure we
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  have a solid game plan and then execute it. And certainly we we play
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  well against Marquette here and I'm sure they're going to remember that, so it's
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  going to be a battle on Tuesday. He's happened to see it allbreak.
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  It was great to see her. You may have seen it or for us
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  though. It was just fun to see her. So how everybody's doing great?
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  Yeah, yeah, she's doing great. She so it feels like I
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  started during the winter everything. It feels like she had surgery months ago and
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  it was just a week. It'll be a week maybe a week, but
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  she's doing well. Yeah, So I you know, I think it's good
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  for when injured players are able to be around the team. I think that
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  helps them, It helps the team, but it certainly helps them and they're
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  with their spirits and being able to, you know, keep doing the rehab
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  because it's not easy. It's a it can be a lonely a lonely time
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  to do rehab, but you know, as long as they stay connected,
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  it'll be a positive and they'll get through it. How's Caroline doing. She's
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  doing well good. It's good to see her around and you know, finally
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  be able to come to a game and hang out with her teammates and support
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  them. Ye been tough, right, We'll see it tuesday, Milwaukee First.
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  Thank you as always,