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Seg 1 - WBB Show w Geno Nov 3 · Coaches Corner

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  And welcome to the start of a new women's college basketball season here on the
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  Yukon Sports Network, our first women's basketball coaches show of the season, and
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  the head coach of the Huskies beginning his thirty ninth season as well. It's
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  Gino Oriama. It's hard to believe, Gino, You've spent more than half
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  of your life in stores Connecticut doing the same thing. Does it get old?
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  I don't know if it gets old, but I certainly got got much
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  older. And I was just thinking about that walking down. I was in
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  the training room, actually, I was in the weight room with some of
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  the players are in there, and I thought, you know, that's kind
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  of the fun part about coaching, is the interactions that you have with your
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  players. You know, some of the some of the other stuff. Yeah,
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  that's probably gotten old, but you try to minimize how much you do
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  with that stuff and try to do more of the stuff that's still fun.
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  Yeah, keeps you young. It's like your grandkids, right, yeah,
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  always, And how are your grand grandsons doing great? Doing great? I
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  can't believe that one of them is going to be in high school next year
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  at this time, and I just have no idea you know how fast it
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  went. Yeah, you're going to try to enjoy it as much as you
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  can. Yep, that's for sure, and I'm understanding that completely. All
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  right, let's get to your basketball team here. Other than Jenna l Alfree's
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  achilles rupture over the summer, you've got thirteen healthy bodies. Knock on wood.
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  All right, It's gonna take Ayana a little bit to get back at
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  it. But what have you liked about your team over the first month of
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  full practices? And I know you have them over the summer too, but
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  once you got going from October third sense, what if you liked about your
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  team getting ready for the new season. I do think that our energy is
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  really good. I think we compete really really hard. We have pretty good
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  leadership in the court. There's you know, there's a sense of excitement because
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  pages around too kind of clean up whatever messes occur. We're a little bit
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  older, even though we have a lot of players that that haven't played any
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  basketball yet. There just seems to be a different different mindset, a different
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  attitude, you know. And we'll see about that during when once the games
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  begin. But we shoot the ball really really well. I think we get
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  out and transition really well. So we've got we've got some strengths that we
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  can build on, and now it's just a matter of, like you said,
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  get everybody healthy, get it Yana back, and you know, let's
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  hope it stays that way. Yeah, you had a media avail yesterday and
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  you mentioned some of the things of the Syracuse scrimmage that you had at Gamble
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  last Saturday, and it sounds like from from the from what you said,
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  Caroline, Asi and Aliyah did an awful lot really well. Yeah, they
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  did. The three of them kind of carried the scoring load. We were
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  able to you know, we scored ninety points and we were able to get
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  the shots that we worked on in practice, which is great. And defensively,
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  there were times where we were really really good. I think we need
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  to clean up some mental things that we struggled with, become more disciplined on
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  the defensive end. I thought Ash gave us some great minutes off the bench.
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  I think overall, it was a really really successful scrimmage. Yeah,
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  you mentioned there were a lot of files called. Is that part of the
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  maybe points of emphasis that the officials are trying to encourage this season or is
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  that just playing sloppiness on the part of the young ladies. Well, it's
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  a little bit of both. I think early on in the season, the
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  officials are overly anxious to prove their point of what the points of emphasis are
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  going to be. So we've had the officials that practice a lot, and
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  our players are starting to get a sentence for what is and what isn't a
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  foul. But it's just comes down to each player being disciplined enough to play
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  really, really, really hard and have the energy level and the intensity level
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  without it becoming counterproductive by failing people. G know, what are some of
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  the subtle changes that the officials are going to be enforcing this year, or
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  at least the start of the season. I think the fans will probably notice
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  that there's no arc on the court. You know, there is last year
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  if you remember, there were two arcs, there was one and one for
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  the women. They've eliminated the women's arc, so it's not like we're using
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  the men's arc. You know, there just isn't going to be one.
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  So that's going to be a big, big difference difference. And I don't
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  know that there's going to be anything else that are going to make a big
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  impact. Other than that, really, I think the point of emphasis always
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  is freedom of movement. Let the players go from point A to point B.
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  I've always said that one of the problems that women's basketball has is how
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  much fouling goes on off the ball, which limits player mobility, which limits
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  how the game looks. So those are going to stay. Those are going
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  to stay the same, And I believe there's going to be more emphasis on
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  the offense creating an offensive foul situation rather than penalizing the defense. A lot
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  of times, if there's any kind of you know, contact, it automatically
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  goes against the defense, when really the offensive player initiated that contact, right,
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  you know nothing, I don't think anything big. Okay, more of
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  Gino later. We'll visit with Tiny Cardoza and then canter to officially new members
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  of the Yukon coaching staff, as our Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show continues in
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  a moment here on Learfield