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Geno Auriemma - Postgame Texas · Coaches Corner

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  Uh, the coach Tyler, the LUCU went the Committee sports group. I
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  thought in the fourth quarter, you brought three of your freshmen in playing ex
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  sediments in that quarter, but they provided some great energy for you. What
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  did you see out of that group? Uh? In that foot forward?
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  Well mm mm, we knew going into the season. Well, let's put
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  it this way, going all the way back to June when they showed up
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  on campus. They were energetic, They're enthusiastic, they compete really really hard,
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  okay, and they were excited to have a role, you know,
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  coming off the bench, cause we had such a solid starting line up in
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  June, and fast forward and we're scrambling to put together a line up and
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  there'd be put in situations that are way more difficult than they should be for
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  them. And I thought they were. I thought they were amazing. I
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  thought they were the difference in in in in the game that they gave us
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  a chance to win the game. Uh. I thought of Leah was brilliant.
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  I thought she just was exhausted out there and she didn't get any help
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  from anywhere other any of our other bigs whatever pigs, and they played and
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  I think that those freshmen really earned the opportunity going forward to get even more
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  minutes. And I'm gonna give it to him. And whatever that means,
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  that's what it means. And Uh, our goal is to be much better
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  team and in March than we are in November. And and I think they
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  can. They can go a long way towards doing that. You could wat
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  Se, you know, you were concerned for Paige playing so much. How
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  was she just handling that, you know, say it was the first They
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  shouldn't have that thumb that thumb rap Paige. I don't know. Maybe she's
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  still rusty, you know, maybe she's just not in game mode, cause
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  she hasn't played in so long. Uh. I thought she was lousy today.
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  Quite honestly, I thought she was bad. And uh and I I
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  I told her that, you know, Uh, Page isn't good when she
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  needs seven dribbles to get a shout off. Page isn't good when she's gotta,
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  you know, take on guys one against two, one against three,
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  going in the lane and you know, forcing things hoping to get to the
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  free throw line. That's not that, that's not th that's not her game,
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  that's not who she is. So yeah, I'm I'm chalking it up
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  to she's she's still rusty. But yeah, no today today she was not
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  good. Go to do high school? Yeah a j you know the one
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  thing that uh kind of jumped out and be looking at the score. Shoot,
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  I think they got twenty four more shots than you did. Yeah,
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  of course is a game. From what you saw, how did how did
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  that unfold? How'd that happen? Well, the sixteen offensive rebounds, the
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  twenty one turnovers that we had, So you put those two things together,
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  Uh, that's twenty one times we didn't get a shot, and that's twenty
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  times that they got a shot that they shouldn't have got a shot, and
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  then the opportunities that they got on second and third shots. Do we have
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  an answer for that? I don't know yet. The turnovers, certainly they
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  were just and they're in defensive pressures. Really, you know, was really
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  exceptional today. And their size and their length probably gave us, gave us
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  some problems. And I think when we went smaller, I think we gave
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  them problems. So I probably should have gone smaller earlier in the game.
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  And I mean, if you're gonna give up twenty one off or if you're
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  gonna give up sixteen offensive rebounds is you know, we got two second chance
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  points. So if we're not gonna get any second chance points anyway, you
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  know, I might as well just play small. That's probably gonna be the
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  the solution going forward. And that's an opportunity to get more threes right now.
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  You know, the lineup that we have out there doesn't have enough three
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  point shooters in it, So I gotta figure out a way to get get
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  more people more minutes that can make those the GENA lill for your overall impressions
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  of what Marie Harmon was able to do for this text of Team M to
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  say, I I I think she's the best player we've played against so far
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  this year by far, at both ends. You know, Defensively, I
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  think I thought she was really instrumental in keeping uh Page from getting in any
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  kind of rhythm. And you know, offensively, I think she just takes
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  the ball and goes to to her spot. You know, uh, I
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  was really impressed with the control that she as of herself and the game.
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  There was very rarely a time when she's m trying to make a play that
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  isn't the right play at that time, and she takes shots that she knows
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  she can make. I I, I was really really impressed. I I
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  thought she's the best player we've played against. You know, they're they're a
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  team that has very very few, if any weaknesses that I can see that
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  I can see anything else or coach alright, thank god, thanks guys.
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  Let her know. How do you