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Seg 3 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma 3-7 · Coaches Corner

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  Back with Gino as the Huskies get set to play in the Big East tournaments.
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  Stuff to play either Providence for the second straight time, or team we
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  haven't seen since December, the Butler Bulldogs. And that'll be an eleven thirty
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  broadcast to Fisk and myself from Ohegan Sun Arena. Boy, you talk about
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  the dichotomy of that. You know, you just saw Providence Saturday and you
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  haven't played Butler since December. I thought Austin's team, after what they did
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  against Yukon back in December, I thought they might be pretty good in league
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  play. It took them a while to get going. But here they are
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  with a chance to get a win in the biggest tournament. Play guys on
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  Saturday. I know, it seems like forever ago that we played them,
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  and I thought, wow, these guys are much improved. You know,
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  they certainly look like a completely different team. They shoot the ball great,
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  obviously, and you know, but changing the culture and you know, adding
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  your own culture, it takes time, you know, And here too,
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  I wouldn't be surprised if they if they win, I wouldn't be surprised if
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  Providence wins. I mean, it's it's a game that's winnable by either team,
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  and yeah one we just saw one. We have to go into the
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  archives and find those find those videos. But that time of the year,
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  you know, you really can't predict right, right, and and it's been
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  a while since you've played a team in the last game of the season,
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  and then your first opponent is the same team you played. I think Saint
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  John's in the early nineties is the last time you did that. But I
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  imagine it's a lot easier though, to prepare for an opponent. Let's say
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  it is providence to prepare so you just saw them. Yeah, yeah,
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  obviously that would be that would be the easiest thing for us. The fact
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  that it was just last week weekend, but you know, the whole week
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  leading up, you don't know who you're going to get, and then you
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  don't know. You have an idea your bracket. You try to predict,
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  but you really can't. So you know, Friday will be the first time
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  that we'll practice where we actually know our opponent and have a pretty good idea.
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  You know how this is all going to start? Yeah, I know.
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  I think it was two days off, two days of practice, one
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  day off, and then practice. Again, what's practice been like this week?
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  Getting ready knowing that you had a few days at least kind of relax
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  and get ready for the postseason. Yeah, it's been good. I mean,
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  obviously rest is a premium right around now, but at the same time,
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  you know, you have to get your work done. So the Tuesday
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  and Wednesday we were able to let get our legs back, you know,
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  get up and down the floor, get going, and and then Friday will
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  start with the scouting reports, but just try to touch on a bunch of
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  things that we think we're going to need, things that maybe we saw towards
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  the end that there was some slippage, you know, But mostly it's let's
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  get our legs back and let's fine tunes some things and things just want to
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  play, you know, nobody wants to really spend a lot of time at
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  practice this time of the year. Well, they're gonna have twelve days to
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  do that after Monday. Let's hope to get to Monday. What about defensively,
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  Gino down the stretch here a couple of games Villanova for good stretches.
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  It was really there. Obviously, the first three quarters of the Providence game
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  was really good, where do you think it is right now going into postseason
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  play defensively with this group, you know, you look at the stats,
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  you look at the numbers. I think it's been really really good, pretty
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  consistent all year long. In the league. We're kind of limited as to
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  what we can do, how much we can do. We have to play
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  a certay. Yeah, you can't press much anymore. No, there's no
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  there's no such thing as pressing. You know. We we have to play
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  in a way that keeps us out of fout trouble, conserve some energy.
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  And yet at the same time, you know, we've got to we got
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  to get stops. And I think of all the teams that we played this
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  year in a league with maybe very few exceptions, I don't think anybody's gotten
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  their average, you know, whatever their average. And you know, I
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  don't think anybody's you know, like gotten to that or wait or more than
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  that. So I think the defense has probably been the most consistent part of
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  our you know, of our team general. The third senior, of course,
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  is Nika, who currently is tied with Renee for fourth in the old
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  time assist list Saturday. I mean, she could pass not only Renee,
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  but pass Gen to get in the top three. What is Nika's legacy going
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  to be here at Yukon if she decides not to come back. I would
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  say her her biggest you know impact, the image that people are gonna the
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  lasting image that people are going to have, Amnika's passionate approach to the game,
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  her her fiery leadership, her ability to inspire her teammates, the crowd.
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  I I think she became a fan favorite really quickly because I think our
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  fans can relate to that. You know that chen Risotti Jamel leads Shay rev
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  kind of toughness, in your face kind of mentality, you know, And
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  and that's been you know, that's been consistent all four years. And and
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  each year she's gotten better as an offensive player. But the driving, the
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  driving force, you know, on our team, I think that's how she'll
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  be. She'll be remembered for sure. And of course the diving place she
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  made in the fourth quarter going for the loose ball when she didn't have to.
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  I mean that's a trademark here at Ukon. But that's Nika to a
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  tea. Oh yeah, that's Nika to a tea. She doesn't give up
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  on any place. She she loves conflict, you know, she loves the
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  the challenge out there. Pretty good example that I think she took an elbow
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  to the side of the head Saturday and came out. I mean during the
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  you know, they were looking at it, the officials, and I asked
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  her, you know everything all right, you know you're gonna be good,
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  and she looked at me like why are you even asking? You know,
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  like for some people that's like you're out a week. For her like this
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  is how I play, so leave me alone. And you you just can't.
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  You can't put a value, you know, on something like that final
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  second with Gino. As we continue on the Wells Fargo, you kind of
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  women's basketball coaches show in a minute here on Learfield