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Seg 3 - WBB Show w Geno Jan 9 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome back to the kind of women's basketball Coaches show. Now we have a
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  women's game, of course tomorrow, but we also also have a men's game
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  tomorrow night. The guys take on Xavier at the Centas Center. That's an
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  eight o'clock pregame along the network. Mike will be solo Whene has COVID unfortunately,
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  so Mike will be solo tomorrow night, eight o'clock on the radio for
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  that one, on the Varsity Network app and the Varsitynetwork dot com where you
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  can hear Gino as well as we're doing the coach a show from his office
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  as well. We'll talk to Kaykernold in just a bit, Gino, you're
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  freshman. Speaking of which kk ash Cadence, I like the fact that during
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  this stretch it's don't think, just play, and they've lived up to the
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  billing and Ashton's really seemingly coming out of her shell. Yeah. You know,
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  you ask these kids a lot of times, what was it about you
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  that made me want to recruit you? Because the food was nothing, then
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  I wouldn't have recruited you. If it was you're afraid to play, then
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  I wouldn't have recruited you. So what was it about you and you the
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  way you play? What did you do that made me want to recruit you?
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  So whatever when they answer that question, when they say, coach it
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  was this, then do that? Then be that person, be that player.
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  And sometimes you know, when you put it like that, they go,
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  Okay, that I don't have to be any different. I don't have
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  to No, I just need you to be exactly what you were. So
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  they've embraced that. I'm going to be what what I've always been. Then
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  whatever I don't know, I'll learn later. I'll learn as I go.
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  Now, I'm not going to worry about what if. I think that's the
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  biggest thing that gets players in trouble is worrying about what if? Well,
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  what if I do this and coach gets man? Yeah, well what about
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  it? What if I say something and you get me? You think I
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  worry about that? No, and you shouldn't either. Okay, So you
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  know, Ash, why did I recruit you? Well? Because I can
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  score, you know, I find ways to score, and I play really
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  hard and I compete and on that. Okay, then do it? And
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  KK, why did I recruit you? Well, you know, put pressure
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  on the ball, you know, attack people, Okay, then do it.
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  One thing surprised me about KK and Ash. Be honest with you,
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  they're a little bit better three point shooting shooters than I thought they'd be.
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  Q I thought was the best three point shooter coming out of the three of
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  them. But KK surprised me and Ash even more so her willingness to shoot
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  those threes and the fact that she shot She has shot such a high percentage.
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  Yeah, and now, of course their rules are changed. I thought,
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  you know, coming out, KK would probably have the biggest impact had
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  this team been completely healthy, which obviously is in the case. But Ashland
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  twenty threes on the season. But I like her mid range game. She's
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  got a pretty good pull up around the around the elbows, starts, backs
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  it up with the right hand ribble. The Indiana native goes to the right,
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  spins left in the lane. The pull up is good, the same
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  thing, and that's a you know, spread the floor. Let her go
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  one on one and look as she's hit on the arm too. The future
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  is so bright. She's got to wear shades. Ashlett was sixteen, Well,
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  that was her. That was her thing in high school. Her thing
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  wasn't shooting threes. It was the mid range game. You know, you
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  talk to anybody in the country that recruited her or saw her play, and
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  they would say, you know, who's got the best mid range game in
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  the country, Ashton shape not even close. Nobody else is even second.
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  And that's what I expected, and she she has that. I didn't expect
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  her to be as confident a three point shooter as as she is and as
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  good at it. But at the same time, and I think Nika said
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  this yesterday, and Nika said, I'm making a lot of them because I
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  have confidence in it, because I know the work I put in. She's
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  put a lot of time into it. You olways sly Ashat here, you
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  know, working on her game. And I don't know if you saw when
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  we're coming through the building, KK was out there. So these kids put
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  a lot of time into the game, and they should feel confident, no
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  question, right. And they have a lot of time now because there's no
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  class going on right now, and I imagine the freshman this is all new
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  for them. Of course, we spent a week on the road, so
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  they were able to keep busy with doing some events that we'll talk about in
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  the next segment here, But now they get a lot of gym time.
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  Now they can really work on their craft. Yeah, I mean to me,
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  there's two things about you know, if anybody's listening, there's two things
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  about going to college when you're on scholarship. One. Why are you here?
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  Well, you're here because school's important. Okay, so that's priority number
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  one. I have to do really well in school. Why also you here?
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  Well here it came here to play basketball. Okay, that's two.
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  What's the third reason you came here? Well, no, there is no
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  third reason why you came here. You came here for those two things.
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  So what else are you putting your time in if you're not spending the majority
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  of your time on those two things. Well, when they can't answer that
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  question, I go, well, then that's how this works. That's how
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  you become really, really good at what you want to be good at.
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  You came here to be a really good student, so you have to put
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  the time. You came here to be a really good basketball player. You
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  have to put the time. Whatever you think is third, fourth, or
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  fifth, that doesn't factor into it until way after those two things are taken
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  care of, and it seems he has worked well for them. By the
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  way, how much grief did you give Ashland for two blocks on Sunday.
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  I know CD had some fun with it on Sunday, but I mean the
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  second one, I mean pretty easy. She kept her hands up and the
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  shot just happened to be in a good butt to block the shot, and
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  like she didn't try to go out of her way to block, and it
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  was a decent block. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  yeah. I don't count that as a block. That's an accidental that's the
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  kid put the ball in your hands. You didn't block that shot. So
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  let's not get carried away about you got two block shots. Don't give her
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  any ideas, gotcha? Same thing with page one hundred percent with page all
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  right, you speak spoke of Nika. Her game has She's been in control
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  pretty good. She got a little away from her a little bit against creating
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  at times, but she's taking care of the ball better. And yes,
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  you can see the payoff with her working with that three point shot because you
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  mentioned it. The dribble drive has given her opportunities to shoot the three and
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  she managed to make four on Sunday. Yeah. Yeah, kids have to
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  know, how are they going to play me? That's the one thing I
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  keep stressing into our players. You have to know if we were if we
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  were playing against you, how will we play you? If we were playing
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  against our team, how would we guard our team? So if you know
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  there's gonna be pressure on you, then you got to get better at handling
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  pressure, what kind of pressure. Whatever the pressure is, pressure handling the
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  ball, pressure cutting, pressure, getting open, pressure posting out, whatever
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  the case may be. Pressure defending, you know, trying to defend really
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  good plarts. What about an offense. Well, they're not gonna guard me
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  because they think Paige and ash and easy they're gonna get. They're never gonna
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  be open. So I'm I'm gonna be wide open. Okay, Well then
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  that means they're either right or they're wrong. So if you stand there and
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  you keep missing, then they're right and they're never gonna guard you. And
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  if you start making them, they either have to change or you're gonna make
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  them pay. That's it not that complicated, really. No final segment with
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  Gino will preview Providence and talk about the DC trip a little bit. When
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  we continue on the Yukon Sports Network from Larfield