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Seg 2 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Dec 1 · Coaches Corner

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  Back with Gino. It is the start of a doubleheader night here on the
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  network. Perhaps you fur there's a big men's basketball game in Lawrence, Kansas
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  tonight between fourth ranked Dukon and fifth rank Kansas. Mike and Wayn are out
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  and Lawrence still have the pregame at eight thirty here around the network. We've
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  never been to Kansas for a women's game. I know the one time you
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  played them was in Kansas City. Have you ever been to Allen Field House
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  at all for any reason? No, okay, no, not at all,
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  And you know, everyone, everyone that's ever been there says it's a
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  unique, amazing environment. Obviously one of the most storied places in America.
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  So I'm sure it'll be it'll be an incredible atmosphere. Yeah, we don't
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  get to see enough of these in men's college basketball. Yes, it's a
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  Big East, Big twelve thing, but it's not like the women's game where
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  your schedule home at homes with a lot of good teams. You just don't
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  see that a nonconference play on the Yeah, as far as your team is
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  concerned. You know, Aliyah was six of nineteen in the Caymans, and
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  she struggled against UCLA. But the first three seasons she's been here, she's
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  had Lived. Year two it was Live and Dorka. Year three it was
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  Dorka. Does she missed that complimentary piece that you're trying to maybe get with
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  Ice affecting her play at all or is it just something that she has to
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  figure out, particularly against the big teams that you're going to play and have
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  played. I think there's there's part of that. But she also played great
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  when Dorka was out last year. You know there were stretches, you know,
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  Dorka was out about them, right, so that during that month and
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  I remember the the Marlin games specifically where she was just incredibly good. So
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  you know, every kid goes through these situations. You know, they go
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  through slumps, they go through shooting slumps, or they they struggle with their
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  game. It it happens to all all of the best players. And now
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  you know that's where you need some some people to help carry the lot time
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  to step up, you know, And like you said, when when when
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  the season started, we knew this was going to be an issue, and
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  we need Ice to play like a really good player, and we need Aubrey
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  to play the way she did every single minute of every night. But at
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  the same time, it's an awful lot of wide open shots that we missed
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  that can make life easier on everybody. You know. And you take all
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  the wide open shots that didn't go in and you you know, you say,
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  have half of those going that we normally would make. But again you
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  don't have Carol. And as in the lineup. Now you're asking kids who
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  have never really made a lot of shots in these situations to have to all
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  of a sudden step up and make them. And we're gonna have to get
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  that. That's all there is to it. Yeah, speaking of Ice,
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  it seems like, you know she missed the year. Is she feeling the
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  pressure of needing to produce just coming off an injury like she had? Well,
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  I mean our managers feel pressure, you know, everybody associated with the
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  program. Yeah, you know, then the many you decide to work here,
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  there's there's a certain kind of pressure. And if you're a player,
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  yes, you have to you have to embrace that. You have to use
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  it as a something that motivates you. It helps you play better, and
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  that takes time. I guess, you know, not everybody, not everybody
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  comes in and their freshman year, and is you know jenaz Adi or Maya
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  Moore. You know, people progress at their own rate. But yeah,
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  the pressure that you put on yourself to be good, Yeah, that's good
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  for you. It forces you to be good, and that's what we need.
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  We need that. You mentioned Paige having to shoulder the load early with
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  Maggie and Debbie on Friday postgame. What have you thought about pages play six
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  games into the season pretty much what you hoped better. I think it's been
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  okay. I think it's been I mean what she had twenty in the second
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  half of this game, you know, and she had thirty against somebody I
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  don't know. To me, they've been kind of not the way she wants
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  to get her points. That's not how she wants to play, you know.
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  I think she wants to have more assists and she's not getting enough because
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  we're missing a lot of the shots that she gets you open on. So
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  I think Page's best games or when she gets twenty and ten and right now,
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  you know, we're asking her to take too many shots for her to
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  play the way Page is most effective. But you know, between her and
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  Nica and KK, I think the three of them can you know, can
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  make enough shots and still find people. But no, Pages, Page is
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  not anywhere near where I expect her to be as as the season goes on.
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  What about this dynamic without Caroline? And as you mentioned KK and Nika
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  is Page playing a little more too? The two spot as a like,
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  when KK or Nika are out there, are they basically interchangeable or you don't
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  really have a number for her as far as her role goes, what's spot
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  on the floor. Well, her freshman year, you know, uh,
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  Nica played an awful lot the second half of the season and had the ball
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  in her hands a lot her sophomore year and I run to the national championship
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  game, Nica played a lot. So I think it works out pretty well.
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  The the Nika, KK, Page three, those three out there together
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  is really really good defensively at times. I don't know yet if KK can
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  navigate that she's too young to find her spots in that and Nico wants the
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  ball. KK wants the ball. And you know they're going to learn how
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  to coexist because we'll have that line up somes. It just takes time.
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  But you know, the biggest miss, you know, is the maturity of
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  lou and Dorka, right, you know, so if you say, if
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  you say, hey, listen, we we lost lou She she was a
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  twenty three year old, you know, we're replacing her with with Ashley Shade
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  who's seventeen, you know, eighteen, whatever the case may be. And
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  we missed Dorka's size and rebounding and everything else that she did. So we
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  could say, well, we put page in for Louke, all right,
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  but we didn't replace We thought Jenna was going to replace Dorka m And so
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  that's the issue right now. We don't have those two. So we became
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  a much much, much much younger team and it's going to take some time,
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  it is. Yep, yeah, for sure more with Gino as the
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