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Chris Dailey - Postgame Seton Hall · Coaches Corner

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  Back on the Hardgo postgame show, you kind of Associate coach Chris Daley has
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  joined us along with Gene Orama tonight career in number twelve hundred. Congratulations,
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  Thank you. Doesn't feel like when I don't know it. It doesn't.
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  It's not I don't know. You're just like yesterday when you had number one
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  hundred with a lovely group of wonderful you know, we, Gina and I
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  are not like big celebrators of that kind of stuff. I mean for other
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  people, sure, and we're excited and obviously appreciative, and it's a it's
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  a big number. But as Gino said, I thought that was good.
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  The kids made a sign in the locker room that said I'm number three.
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  So I mean, it's when you think about it again, it's like a
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  lot of the things. I think at some point you'll look back and go,
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  wow, I don't think it's going to be tonight. We've got another
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  game coming up. But we appreciate everyone's good wishes, and you know,
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  I don't believe there's well I shouldn't say I don't believe. I know there's
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  not gonna be twelve hundred more. I can tell you that I can tell
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  you that definitely not twelve hundred. Chris. You had a lot open looks
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  tonight. Yeah, shots didn't fall, but it was a game that you're
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  tough down and the defense was good. Yeah, it was ugly. It
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  was an ugly game, and I think, you know, Seaton Hall has
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  a way of making you play that way. Although we did get open looks,
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  we just didn't make them and we thought eventually we would and we did,
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  and when we did, we got on a little run. Even when
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  we were up seventeen at half, it didn't feel like seventeen. And it
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  was the same way at their place. I mean, we were up,
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  but no lead felt comfortable. I think partially because of the way they play,
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  and you know, they they run their stuff again like Saint John's can
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  try and control the tempo by running their stuff all the way to the end.
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  But our defense was good. You know, when we stopped fouling,
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  it was a lot better. We just have, you know, we really
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  have to do a better job with that. That's not something that you know,
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  we can go into games and I think they were shooting the bonus with
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  two minutes in the second quarter. Yeah, so you know, that's just
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  dumb, you know. Some of it's dumb, you know, and you
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  have to be able to play the way the game is being officiated and be
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  smarter so that you don't you know, we had three guys with two fouls
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  and then kate K got her third, So we just have to be a
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  little smarter than that. When you went on that run. It obviously the
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  game's easier when the shots stopped stopped dropped, But Page was a big factor
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  in that, not just making the baskets but some good defensive place but also
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  how we were getting the shots. And you know, sometimes I think we
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  shoot such a high percentage. Our guys are in shock when they don't go
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  in. But I thought Aliyah was great on the backboard. I mean,
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  I thought she was terrific. I think she had ten rebounds in the first
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  today half, right, Yeah, so that was giving us second and third
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  opportunities. We've been doing a better job, I think on the offensive rebounding
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  and the last two games, you know, Gino challenged our guys, and
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  I think we have. We've had more players go to the offensive less than
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  we've had and we're certainly going to need that Sunday. Now, your starters
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  gave your fourteen offensive rebounds, and I know player more than three, but
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  it was by committee. Alle is in a really good place right now,
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  is she. Yeah, she's playing really well, you know, and I
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  think she's making good decisions. They're doubling and tripling team, triple teaming her,
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  and she's doing a really good job of knowing when to score before the
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  double team can come, or kick it out when they do double team.
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  So she's just in a good place, knocking in shots, doing a little
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  bit of everything, and certainly hitting the boards. She does a pretty good
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  job of not letting things phase her because it's four shirts around her anytime,
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  you know, if the ball goes up or rebounding. But still amazes me,
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  how can she outruns people down the floor, Like she can be down
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  here getting the rebound, but she's the first one down there. Yeah,
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  you know, you have to try to take advantage because we don't have a
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  lot of size. So if we can outrun them, that lessons it and
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  we don't have to run a half court offense. We're able to get out
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  in transition. So I think her doing that is obviously a big factor.
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  Chris, what was a defensive game plan? Coming in. This is a
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  team that was coming off a tough second half against villanoven for the second straight
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  game. They score seas and loan points. Well, you know, in
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  the league, they're scoring less than what they were scoring sixty four and they're
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  scoring I think less than next year in the league. But we really concentrated
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  on their two top scorers, so Baines, she had only four points today
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  and the kid Gray, the point guard, had only two, so we
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  concentrated on them. When we played them at their place. They made eleven
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  brees and of course they yes, and of course they banked some in,
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  but they averaged like five makes and today the ones that made it were not
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  kids that are their usual shooters. So you know, from a standpoint of
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  understanding who we were trying to and how we were trying to defend people,
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  I thought we did a good job with that. And in all honesty,
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  I thought the last group that was in did a really good job on both
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  ends and the floor. So that finished the game on a good note.
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  All right, Sunday, it's South Carolina. They're very good offensively this year,
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  far better than they have been in any year that we've seen them in
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  the past. Because they can shoot from the perimeter. Now in the they're
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  a dangerous inside out team. They're a really good team, you know,
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  and at their place, it's going to be a big challenge. But we'll
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  go in and we'll have a game plan and we'll we'll play the way,
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  you know, hopefully execute that game plan and give ourselves a chance to win
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  the game. That's the goal, you know. It was wild on the
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  Coaches Show last night. Brought up the fact that you know it's three the
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  rotation is seven, three seniors, four freshmen, and we were thinking about
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  the last time this happened. It's when really a little point guard was a
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  freshman, when it was like four. Oh right, yes, that's right,
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  we had seven new players. I think that you're right, Yes,
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  we have two sophomores, two juniors, and then you had all of us
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  lovelies. Yeah, it was good old days. Coach than to just in
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  case you're wondering, I have it now, I had it then. Yeah,
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  it's it's it's an odd mix because you don't have any gap and any
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  you don't have anyone that could fill the gap with some experience. So there's
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  nothing we can do to change that. Hopefully as our freshmen, certainly KK
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  and Ash have played a lot of minutes, Hopefully they don't feel like freshman
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  anymore, you know, hopefully they start to feel like at this point in
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  the season their past being freshman. Right. You know, it's good to
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  see in Sunday. I'll include this because I know Carolina wasn't here today,
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  but just to see everybody on the bench, that's a nice pick. A
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  lot of people the company over there. Well, you know what it's good
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  and bad is when you don't see them, you don't realize that we're missing
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  them. Then when you see all five of them there, you're like,
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  oh man, that's a pretty good start in five right, Yeah, there's
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  a lot of points sitting there, but everyone's doing well. So that's a
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  good thing and good when everybody can be around because you know they're part of
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  the team, and that's the thing that you don't want to lose when you're
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  injured. That's the hardest thing, you know, not having to be separate,
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  but because you have to do your rehab and do the things you have
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  to do, but also still being connected. So they're doing a really good
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  job with that new outfit. I like, yes, it is new.
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  Thank you. You're very nice. Thank you as always sharp and fist.
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  I'll throw a little plug for Kimberly's boutique in West Harford. That's where I
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  got it, really, Kimberly's fautigue. Allright, tell her I sent you.
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  Maybe i'll get a discount, Chris, thank you, all right. Thanks