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WBB Associate Coach Chris Dailey - Postgame Dayton · Coaches Corner

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  Has the associate coach of the Huskies. Chris Daily makes your twenty three,
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  twenty four debut on the radio with the Daily Recap. Good evening, Miss
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  Dailey, how are you? I'm great? Thanks good. What do you
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  think of opening night? Oh? A lot of good things. You know,
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  it's the first game, so a lot of it's getting some of the
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  kinks out. But you know, we did some good things, things we've
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  worked on. We did some dumb things and that's part of that's part of
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  it game one. But you got a lot of depth. That's a good
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  thing. Well, you know we've been able to it's so different even just
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  waiting in line to come out on to warm up. There's so many more
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  people online than remember last year, so it's kind of like whoa like there's
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  a lot of them. So yeah, it definitely helps, gives us different
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  different looks. We can do a lot of different things, so it's definitely
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  going to be to our advantage. And some of that different looks to seem
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  that the two two to one press that you're doing and did you had different
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  options and it didn't seem whoever's in the front or the second row where there
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  was the trapping and picking off was working pretty good together. Yeah, we
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  we have a bunch of interchangeable parts. We don't have as much you know,
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  size as you would like, but we've been able to mix up with
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  Caroline and Aliyah and Aubrey trying to mix all that stuff up. So it's
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  it's still a work in progress for sure. You know, we really have
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  to concentrate on our rebounding. That's something that's going to be a concern for
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  us all year and certainly going into NC State. They're a good team on
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  the road. It's going to be a battle. It's going to be a
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  battle. You have a nice mix of point guards between Nika, Page and
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  KK and how the pace of the game just changes with all three of them
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  and the way things get done. Yeah, the pace that we want it
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  we don't really want. We've gotten into a habit maybe from last year,
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  I don't know, of going back to get the ball instead of just pushing
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  the pace all the time. And we have to do a better job with
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  that. You know, we can't wait for it. Nika, KK and
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  Page need to be on the move so that we can get into transition offense
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  a little bit quicker. You don't want to we don't want to walk the
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  ball up, so but each of them provide something different. And I don't
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  think KK had her best night tonight. I think the second half she played
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  better than the first half. But she's really got to be that energy that
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  we get off the bench. Or she can change the game because she can
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  defensively and offensively and not just from a scoring perspective, but more just pushing
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  the pace and getting other people open. And you know, we need her
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  to do that. Your second wave. I'm calling it that because I don't
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  know, you know, you as you said, interchangeable pieces, didn't seem
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  to skip a beat. Sometimes when the game gets out of hand, you
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  see that the play falls off, but they seem to be just as hungry
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  and you know, doing what you're looking for. Yes, make mistakes,
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  but still seeming to execute what you're hoping to have. Yeah, I mean,
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  I think we had a couple of you know, bad turnovers in the
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  last two or three minutes, but overall our turnovers were low. I think
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  we had what eight or eight game we had a four. We had four
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  at halftime, I think, right, and I think three of them came
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  late in the game, So we're taking doing a good job, but taking
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  care of the basketball and getting good and getting shots. So, you know,
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  we just want to make sure that I think that you know, every
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  day I come here or every night or every after every game, it's going
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  to be a rebounding issue. You know, are we keeping people off the
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  glass? And whether it's Dayton, whether it's NC State, whether it's Southern
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  Connecticut, we have to do a really good job. And then we've got
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  to be really purposeful in that and intentional to it. It can't be just
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  oh, I didn't get it, you know, because we're going to battle
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  a lot of teams bigger than we are, So it's got to start here.
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  Yeah, what's what's the identity of this team going to be? Like,
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  I know you mentioned the sizes is an issue, but where do you
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  think the identity of this team? We don't know. Maybe you know that
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  that's one of the things that coach said before the game. Like last year,
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  we knew what the identity of that team became and what it was that
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  was a resilient See with all the things that we had gone through. This
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  year, we don't know yet. The jury is still out and this every
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  day they're going to make tell their own story and what that identity is going
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  to be. I think it needs to be aggressive. I think it needs
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  to be full out, you know, not one hundred miles an hour where
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  you're going crazy, but push the pace constantly, an aggressive mentality. I
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  think we're a good shooting team, you know. I think we're a really
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  good shooting team. So getting open shots, I think we're willing. We're
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  willing to make the extra pass. We had a bunch of possessions that started
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  the game today with that one extra pass and knocking shots in. So those
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  are right now what I think we can do well. We just have to
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  keep improving. Got anything else? I don't know. I did such a
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  great job. You are speechless? Is that it? Oh my? It's
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  nice that you got a road heavy early schedule too, A lot of tests
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  on the road is well start. Let's just say that it's nice that I
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  don't do scheduling because there'll be a point during that road trip, like do
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  you remember a couple of years ago when we played the USA team, Yes,
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  and it was like I was in January, it was like sixteen nothing
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  before we scored, and I did not schedule that coach did, and I
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  remember sitting next him going, who thought this was? No? He said
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  to me, who thought this was going to be a good idea? I
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  said, you did, because I didn't say I didn't schedule it, And
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  then we end up almost winning. But you know, scheduling is an important
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  part, and we're going to be tested early and on the road. You
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  only get you only find out where you are at that point. You don't
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  mean to lose a championship then, but you find out a lot about yourself.
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  So that's what we're going to do. There's a lot of good fresh
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  but the goal is to win. Yes, there are a lot of good
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  freshmen in the women's game. There are a lot of good players. So
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  it'll be game to see. Yep, it'll be interesting to see. Always
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  a pleasure to visit with you, coach, right, thanks for your time
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  Sunday yep. Okay, Well, indeed, Chris Daly, the associate coach
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  of the Huskies with us. We'll