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Seg 1 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Dec 8 · Coaches Corner

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  Hi, everybody, Happy Friday. Welcome to another edition of the Yukon Women's
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  Basketball Coaches Show. Bob Joyce and Gino Oriama here for the first four segments,
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  and then lader Maggie Venoni of ct Insider dot com will join us as
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  we'll get some of her stories on the trip to the Caymans in the state
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  of Yukon women's basketball from her perspective. But obviously we start with the coach,
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  and no better person better to talk women's hoops with than Gino. And
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  as we mentioned on the pregame Wednesday night, it looked like you found something
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  in the fourth quarner of the Texas game and it carried over kk Arnold,
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  Ashland Shade get the starting boy. I guess Ashland took some advice to Hart.
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  I mean all she did was score what two thousand points in high school
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  instead of passing the ball, and what six minutes in she had eight points?
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  Matt, amazing How that works? Huh? Well, yeah, you
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  know, you try to get you try to get everyone to try to identify,
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  like what are you good at? And then try to keep it simple,
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  like this is what I'm good at. Okay, do the things that
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  you're good at and what are you not good at? All? This and
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  this? All right, well, don't do those things. So sometimes kids
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  need to be reminded, Uh, there's a reason why we recruited you.
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  You must be really really good at something. And and I think she did
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  finally take it to heart, and hopefully it's a start of something, you
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  know, that gets her in a right in a right frame of mind.
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  Do you know you see her every day. What are some of her strengths
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  that maybe we don't get to see on a regular basis. Uh, I
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  mean, she she's a scorer, you know, and that's what she does
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  when she's again when she's in the rape frame of mind, and she's not
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  overthinking it. You know, she's looking for opportunities to to get herself a
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  shot, and she's not afraid to attack the basket. I'd like to see
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  her get to the rim more often and shoot more free throws, because I
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  think she can do that. You know, she works exceptionally hard, you
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  know, at everything she does. You know, for those young guys,
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  defensively, it's a challenge to guard college players and you've got, you know,
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  enough of enough good players around her, so that hopefully you know,
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  she doesn't feel the pressure of having to be great. She puts so much
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  of it on herself already, so hopefully she doesn't feel any any eiet of
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  pressure. Right and not only was was at Ashland? I mean first quarter
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  season I thirty seven points for a quarter, it was like thirteen of seventeen.
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  You're freshmen, we're seven of ten. That's Ashland, KK and Cadence.
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  Those are some good numbers. Now the challenge is, I mean,
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  you're not gonna get thirty seven every quarter, you know, but you know,
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  if you can get in the twenties every quarter, that's doing something as
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  a team. Because we've talked about that inconsistency that the team just has right
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  now from one quarter to the next. Yeah, that's exactly right. I
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  think we we have to find that, we have to find the consistency.
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  We have to find that rhythm that for instance, like we started in that
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  first quarter, can it stay that way? Ken not necessarily to get thirty
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  seven or forteen every quarter, but it shouldn't go from thirty seven to fifteen.
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  You know, there's got to be more of a you know, a
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  smaller gap there. And yeah, and if you can get in the twenties
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  every single quarter. Then I think you're you're you're doing it the right way,
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  and you're you're getting the shots that you want. So it was a
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  start, and you know, we'll see where that takes us, do you
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  know? I was intrigued and and you know, look, not every coach
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  is perfect. And you've done this long enough to know that you tried a
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  big line up at Texas, and even you said yourself, it backfired on
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  the team. I'm fifteen three at the start. Give Texas all the credit,
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  but regardless what was what the starting lineup was. The two big factors
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  were second chance points. Okay, that as size and rebounding has something to
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  do with that. But the turnovers, I mean, Texas it seemed like
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  made you pay for just about every turnover your team committed. And it was
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  yeah, yeah, they were the worst kind of turnovers, you know,
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  they were the turnovers that led to easy buckets at the other end. And
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  again, when when you're playing against a team, a team like that you
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  saw in the fourth quarter when we did go smaller, we have more guards
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  on the floor, we have better movement, you know, we had more
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  more ball handlers that were comfortable attacking that pressure and three of them were freshmen,
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  you know, so I think that's a that's a positive sign going forward.
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  And yeah, you you as a coach, you know, you you
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  look at what you have, what the opponent is, and what are things
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  that can can work and sometimes it's sometimes it's successful and sometimes it's not.
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  And that particular experiment didn't didn't work right, gin know, is it simplistic
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  to say, I mean, just from basketball X as an O standpoint,
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  you always emphasize getting the ball moving side to side. But it also seemed
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  like in the Texas game that fourth quarter it was a lot of inside coming
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  back out open shots. Is it that simplistic to see things work that way
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  and be successful? Yeah, I mean that's the that's the that's what offense
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  is, you know, is getting getting the defense to move. You know,
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  you come down the floor and you attack the right side of the floor,
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  let's say, and you get the defense moving right and then before they
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  recover, you attack the left side, you know, and then if they
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  recover, then the ball gets back to the middle and the breakdowns start to
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  happen. Defense got to go from here to here to here to here to
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  hear if you keep the ball, if you're stuck with the ball on one
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  side of the floor, there's no breakdowns on the defense, and you've got
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  to create situations where the defense breaks down. And we did that in the
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  fourth quarter. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough. What'd you think of the meals?
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  Says there's and their performances on Wednesday. That was a lot of fun,
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  just to kind of see the whole thing come together, and Hot was
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  was pretty darn aggressive. She she had a good game against against Big Sis
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  and and Oskies. Yeah, I thought I thought it was a great night
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  all the way around, you know, the certainly you know, uh,
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  Nika's parents enjoyed it, and uh, how many opportunities do you get to
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  see, you know, your two kids playing against each other in such a
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  great environment. So I'm glad we were able to do it. I I
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  thought they all had a great time and kinda played really really well, and
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  and you know, I think Nico was proud of her, So I I
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  want to say that it was a successful night all the way around. More
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  with Gito on the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show in a minute here Onlearfield