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Seg 4 - WBB Show Oct 29 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back with Gino Oriama. You conwomen's basketball coaches show. We've
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  Speaker 1: got a men's basketball coach a show for your Friday
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  Speaker 1: ahead of Yukon Hockey taking on Harvard six to seven
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  Speaker 1: for the Coaches Show for Dan and Mike, and then
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  Speaker 1: Adam joins me for the broadcast for hockey on the
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  Speaker 1: Yukon Sports Network Friday night here on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: So Gino's with us here. We have not even gotten
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  Speaker 2: Do you do to early shows? No? Well, I record them,
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  Speaker 2: Mike Costos.
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  Speaker 3: I would like to. I would like to listen to
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  Speaker 3: some of those I've not I got. I gotta believe
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  Speaker 3: they're entertaining.
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  Speaker 1: He Dan gave you major props on this coaches show
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  Speaker 1: last week about how you helped him get through last season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, did you see him last night?
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  Speaker 2: A little bit? Yeah, a little bit in tom Izzoh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure I helped them that much.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we haven't even talked about your newbies yet.
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  Speaker 1: You bring in Sarah Williams from Wisconsin, You're bringing Kaylee
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  Speaker 1: Heckel from us See, and then you bring in a
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  Speaker 1: good group of freshmen led by Blocks. You've got more
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  Speaker 1: height on this team than you've had in a while.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good luxury to have.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think the most this is the most
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  Speaker 1: you've had probably since Stewie Steph and Kia Stokes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we do. We have more.
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  Speaker 4: We have more height, and that's always important in basketball.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody talks about, you know, anytime you see a tall
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  Speaker 4: person out there, Hey, you must play basketball, you know, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we do. I do think though, that that height has
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  Speaker 4: to come with certain skills that you need to be
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  Speaker 4: able to use your height as a as an advantage.
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  Speaker 4: And Sarah Williams, to her credit, you know, she played
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  Speaker 4: at Wisconsin and she was first team All Big Ten
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  Speaker 4: and she averaged nineteen points and nine rebounds. And I
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  Speaker 4: watched her around the basket, and I.
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  Speaker 3: Can see why. I can see why.
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  Speaker 4: So, you know, we have an experienced player that we
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  Speaker 4: can throw the ball to in the post that kind
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  Speaker 4: of sort of knows what to do with it, you know.
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  Speaker 4: So that's something we haven't had in a while. You know,
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  Speaker 4: an experienced postwarer throw it to him and we think
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  Speaker 4: can get a bucket. And she's a good free throw shot.
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  Speaker 4: So that's different. No disrespect to anybody else who's played
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  Speaker 4: that position, but this is different.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little bit different.
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  Speaker 4: And Blanca, born in Ecuador, played in Italy from the
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  Speaker 4: time she was fourteen thirteen fourteen, went to high school
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  Speaker 4: there and then played on a club team over there
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  Speaker 4: with college graduates from Yukon that go play in Europe
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  Speaker 4: and Europeans that are older. So she's a much older,
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  Speaker 4: more mature player than most freshmen coming in, you know.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, right now, I think she leads the
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  Speaker 4: free world in turnovers. I don't know about the non
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  Speaker 4: free world. So she's the Ecuador leader in turnovers, the
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  Speaker 4: Compobasso Italy leader in turnovers, and the most turnovers ever
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  Speaker 4: by a freshman in October in Stor's history. Yes, and
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  Speaker 4: she missed so many shots yesterday that I didn't know
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  Speaker 4: which language to.
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  Speaker 3: Say, stop shooting.
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  Speaker 4: So I said it in English, I sat it in
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  Speaker 4: Italian and I told her it flat out stop shooting.
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  Speaker 4: She shot it the next three times she touched it,
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  Speaker 4: so we got a Spanish Italians felt on my hands
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  Speaker 4: right now, And then she made like the next three.
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  Speaker 4: Then she made like the next three three pointers and
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  Speaker 4: kind of looked at me and said, yeah, get ready
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  Speaker 4: for four more years of this. I mean, not that
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to be here for all those four years.
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  Speaker 1: You know, somebody asked me after you won the national championship,
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  Speaker 1: you's he going to retire?
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  Speaker 3: Go kick?
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  Speaker 2: No, you got Sarah Strong for three years.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, there's always somebody. Yeah, I understand, there's
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  Speaker 4: always somebody.
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  Speaker 1: One young lady who has stood out in the preseason,
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  Speaker 1: particularly on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Ali Isabelle has really turned the corner.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, we didn't get a chance to topat the other
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  Speaker 4: freshman that played a lot that's new not freshmen, but
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  Speaker 4: Kayleie Heckle. Right, Okay, she's transferred from USC. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: we played against them at home at the building formerly
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  Speaker 4: known as the Excel Center, right, People's Bank Arena now,
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  Speaker 4: you know, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I still call it. I still call it.
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  Speaker 4: I still call it the Civic Center, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: now it's People's Bank Arena. So we played USC there
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  Speaker 4: and we lost, and she made a couple, she made
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  Speaker 4: a couple of really good plays. Then we played them
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  Speaker 4: in the final a game, and you know, and she's
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  Speaker 4: she's quick, she's athletic, she's got a lot of guts,
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  Speaker 4: and I think she's gonna she's gonna help us a
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  Speaker 4: lot she's going to help us a lot. But tell
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  Speaker 4: you a funny story, Page was it? You know, we
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  Speaker 4: had this championship dinner last Thursday, right, So Paige was
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  Speaker 4: at practice Friday and Saturday. So she came to practice,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, she's doing her things. She's doing Paige stuff,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and and you know it's she's just going
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  Speaker 4: through the motions a little bit, and she's getting madder
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  Speaker 4: and madder because she's not being paide And and next thing,
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  Speaker 4: you know, she gets a going. She makes a shot,
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  Speaker 4: and she makes another one and Kaylee's trying to guard her.
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  Speaker 4: And then she makes another one and then another one,
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  Speaker 4: and now Page is really getting into you know, she
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  Speaker 4: makes a thirty footer, she banks one in at the buzzer.
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  Speaker 4: She's doing this and finally I just had to stop
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  Speaker 4: and I go, Kayley, didn't you get enough for that
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  Speaker 4: last year when you played at USC, Like why are
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  Speaker 4: you leaving it? Why are you even letting her touch
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  Speaker 4: the ball. So she got a sense of Okay, this
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  Speaker 4: is this is how we play at Connecticut. You know,
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  Speaker 4: the way you keep a really good player from scoring
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  Speaker 4: is you don't let them catch the ball, because once
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  Speaker 4: they catch it, you can't guard them, and you should
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  Speaker 4: have learned that last year.
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  Speaker 3: But the kid is the kid is tough. She's really
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  Speaker 3: really tough.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I think we've got a pretty good, you know,
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  Speaker 4: pretty good group. Added some new new things make us
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  Speaker 4: look a little bit different, and you know, we'll see, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, we'll get to Ali studt on our gino stut
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  Speaker 1: on Ali in a minute.
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  Speaker 3: And Ali can really shoot.
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  Speaker 4: As you saw, Ali can really shoot, and she's really
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  Speaker 4: smart and she's quicker than she looks fun which is
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  Speaker 4: unlike some other kids who are slower than they look.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take a break.
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  Speaker 1: This is the ukon Weobit's basketball coaches show on their field.
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  Speaker 2: Back in a minute.