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Seg 6 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Jan 30 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: It was like the fifth rank player in the country.
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  Speaker 2: Final segment with you know, we're just talking story about
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  Speaker 2: Ali Zabelle at her recruitment. What was it like for
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  Speaker 2: you when the first time you met at Where did
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  Speaker 2: you meet Ali for the first time? Was it on
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  Speaker 2: the AAU circuit somewhere?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you don't meet him until way after the fact.
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  Speaker 1: But I was watching her play in a tournament in
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it was Chicago because that's the last
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  Speaker 1: tournament of the year. Whatever the one was before that,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, may have been Louisville, maybe something, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, But anyway, she's playing in the tournament for
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  Speaker 1: a team in Wisconsin, and I didn't know one kid
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  Speaker 1: on their team. Like, you know, they weren't they were
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  Speaker 1: not like one of the top elite teams. But the
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  Speaker 1: team they played against that night was an elite team
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  Speaker 1: from Dallas and sci Fair from Dallas or Houston. I
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  Speaker 1: think they're from Houston and they must have They probably
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  Speaker 1: had six Division one players on their team. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: watching the game and I'm just mesmerized, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: this kid single handedly beat that team. She she made
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  Speaker 1: every three she got to the basket anytime she wanted.
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  Speaker 1: She just and I thought, hmm, I think we can
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  Speaker 1: do something with that kid. And you know, I called
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  Speaker 1: her on the phone and we talked a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: and you know that was that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's just from the Green Bay area. She never
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  Speaker 2: played against Kkan High school, didn't you.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't think so. No, she's from some tiny
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  Speaker 1: little town.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, up near Green Bay, up in up there, Oskosh.
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  Speaker 2: You got to Run a Coach is one of the
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  Speaker 2: recorded coaches shows I think last year. Yeah, somewhere near Oshkosh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's way up there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, Yeah. She's just such a and
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  Speaker 1: she's like blends with everybody on the team. You know,
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  Speaker 1: like everybody on the team likes her. She likes everybody
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  Speaker 1: on the team. She knows how girls are.
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  Speaker 2: She was so deflective of taking any credit for what
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  Speaker 2: she did the other day and just and piled on
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  Speaker 2: our teammates how excited they were and how happy they were.
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  Speaker 2: She says, the chemistry of the team is really good.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, off the court.
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  Speaker 1: It is it is. This team is one of the
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  Speaker 1: more tightly knit teams that we've had, and we've had
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  Speaker 1: a bunch, but this this one is, for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: exceptionally tight knit. They all get along great, which is
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  Speaker 1: really good because we have a lot of players and
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  Speaker 1: not all of them get a lot of playing time.
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  Speaker 1: So for them to be like that, I think really
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  Speaker 1: adds to you know, being able to have the kind
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  Speaker 1: of success of her.
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  Speaker 2: Yeahs of Kk's of life of the Party. Yeah, does
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  Speaker 2: Sarah have Does Sarah have a very dry sense of
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  Speaker 2: human and she seems like a funny personally.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Shan Yeah. Yeah, she says things under her breath
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  Speaker 1: that you can't believe came out of her mouth. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she's not all sweet and honey and sugar like everybody thinks.
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  Speaker 2: You all right, that'll do it for the radio portion. Folks,
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  Speaker 2: you're Katri or you hang out here, we'll talk to
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  Speaker 2: you Sunday, eleven thirty o the radio. Kiloski's in the
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  Speaker 2: Lady Ball said, if you're going, don't be late. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for joining us, and you kind of went the basketball
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  Speaker 2: coach and Chip