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The Dailey Recap - USF · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Entertaining game today. But defense, though, let's start, Their defense
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  Speaker 1: was spectacular day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought, you know, I thought we did a
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  Speaker 2: good job understanding who we needed to really defend and
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  Speaker 2: how we wanted to defend them. Kept you know, we
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  Speaker 2: needed to try to keep their big eyes off the backboard.
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  Speaker 2: They're down. I mean, they've got a bunch of kids
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  Speaker 2: that are injured. Their leading scorer just hurt her knee,
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  Speaker 2: I guess the other day. So going to the book
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  Speaker 2: and crossing out people, I felt like it was us
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  Speaker 2: two or three years ago when I would just cross
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  Speaker 2: out all the ones that weren't going to play that day.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, they play hard and they have a
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  Speaker 2: style that's their own, and I thought we handled all
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  Speaker 2: that really well.
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  Speaker 1: Multiple sets too. Boy, Blankie gave you a really good
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  Speaker 1: minutes off the bench today in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: Shed She is, you know, in many microwave at times,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and she actually has no unlike maybe some
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  Speaker 2: of our American players, she has no conscience when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to if she misses, it doesn't matter. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: FaZe her in a bad way, Like she is a
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  Speaker 2: conscious to chuck up everything, but it doesn't impact whether
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  Speaker 2: she takes the next one or whether she thinks she's
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  Speaker 2: going to make the next one. So her first shot
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  Speaker 2: was an airball, and then she goes on that role.
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  Speaker 2: So just very aggressive on the offensive end, and she's
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  Speaker 2: we challenged her to be a better offensive rebounder and
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  Speaker 2: I think she's trying to do that, trying to hit
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  Speaker 2: the glass and give us more multiple opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: How big of a concern was that today rebounding It
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  Speaker 1: turned out to be even both overall in offensive boards
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  Speaker 1: do well.
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  Speaker 2: I think for me personally, I think rebounding overall is
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  Speaker 2: a concern just because I think we need to do
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  Speaker 2: a better job on the back where we don't box
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  Speaker 2: out enough and we have not played teams with the
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  Speaker 2: same size that we have, and when that happens, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be an issue. And you can't turn that
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  Speaker 2: on and turn that off, so you have to really
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  Speaker 2: concentrate on that. So it's something we've been focusing on,
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  Speaker 2: just the you know, the basics, boxing out and go
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  Speaker 2: get the ball.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's been good offensive rebounding from a guard
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  Speaker 1: spot Ashland, She's had at least one offensive rebound in
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  Speaker 1: every game as well.
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  Speaker 2: Well. I will say the challenge went up to the
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  Speaker 2: guards as well to hit the offensive boards, and Ash
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  Speaker 2: and Blanca both have taken that to heart and have
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  Speaker 2: both given us more opportunities. It's kind of like a
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  Speaker 2: double edged sword. So we've gotten into this. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we shoot fifty percent, so everyone thinks every shots going in,
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  Speaker 2: so they tend not to go into rebound. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's a good you know process, you know, good thinking.
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  Speaker 2: But we miss opportunities. So that's where the challenge was put,
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  Speaker 2: you know, put out to them that, hey, we have
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  Speaker 2: to get more opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: When your best player, Sarah Strong is diving for loose balls,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter what the score is, that's a good sign.
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  Speaker 1: She is relentless. And we've talked about this. How active
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  Speaker 1: her hands are.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, she just you know, and I say it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, she's got great hands and great feet. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's from the soccer early on. But she's got
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  Speaker 2: a quickness about her that you don't look at her
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  Speaker 2: and think wow, that she's quick just by when she's
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  Speaker 2: standing still. But when you watch her play, she just
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  Speaker 2: and she doesn't foul and she doesn't make a lot
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  Speaker 2: of mistakes in that way. And then the must part.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I think that she saves balls and just really,
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  Speaker 2: you know, again, helps us create more opportunities because you figure,
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  Speaker 2: if we shoot fifty percent and we get more, we
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  Speaker 2: create more opportunities and obviously we're gonna score more points
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  Speaker 2: than the other team. So just the more, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the more we can do that. I think that we
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  Speaker 2: want that to be part of our our identity.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Finally, did you get to Jersey for Thanksgiving?
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  Speaker 2: Or no? We only we had we had Thursday off,
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  Speaker 2: but it would have been hard to drive down and okay,
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  Speaker 2: drive back. I've done it where I've driven down one
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  Speaker 2: day back, but I did not do it this year.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but it was a good Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 2: It was very thankful, very good.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, thank you for a few minutes of your time.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see on the plane.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Chris,