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WBB Head Coach Geno Auriemma Oct 3 2024 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: She got hurt, but I don't know what the the
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  Speaker 1: team said that I've not I've not heard that.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody just told me.
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  Speaker 1: That that she that she had gotten hurt, but nobody
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  Speaker 1: knew what the.
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  Speaker 2: Because it was right before practice.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a lot of basketball man to go from,
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  Speaker 1: you know, playing a college season, playing the w n
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  Speaker 1: B a season, then going right into it's like non NonStop.
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  Speaker 2: Never ending. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even imagine how how they do it and
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  Speaker 1: how she feels right now. And I don't for somebody
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  Speaker 1: who loves the game as much as she does to
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  Speaker 1: be away from it. So that's really obviously it's sad.
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  Speaker 1: It's sad.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll try to catch up with it tonight if
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  Speaker 2: I get back. Mmmm.
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  Speaker 3: What were your impressions of day one?
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  Speaker 1: Uh Uh? I think sometimes, you know, we put too
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  Speaker 1: much emphasis on on what I I think maybe the
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  Speaker 1: expectations sometimes are are a little bit out of out
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  Speaker 1: of whack. I think we as coaches, you know, envision
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  Speaker 1: everybody at at their at their best of what they
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  Speaker 1: can be, and the only thing we remember is what
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  Speaker 1: we look like in March. You know, So when you
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  Speaker 1: look like that in March, you think that there's carryover
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  Speaker 1: and it's gonna look like that the first the first day,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I practice in October. That's always a
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  Speaker 1: reminder to know it's not you know, like you have
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  Speaker 1: to start all over again. So my impressions first day,
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  Speaker 1: it's like we got to start all over again. And
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  Speaker 1: you really start to see the level of difference in
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  Speaker 1: in the the way the older guys carry themselves and
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  Speaker 1: execute and lost some of the younger guys look. So
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be it's going to be a work.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's going to be a work. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: take some time. But you know, their energy was good.
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  Speaker 1: They they were anxious to get going. They were you know,
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  Speaker 1: a beat and so all the things you want them
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  Speaker 1: to be. But it's just gonna take it's gonna take
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  Speaker 1: us some time.
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  Speaker 3: Sarah, Sarah looks pretty good. Is that because she's been
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  Speaker 3: playing USA basketball?
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  Speaker 1: Or it may just be she's a good player, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so sometimes you know what you see is what really is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think the whole month of September there
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  Speaker 1: there hasn't been anybody that's that's separated themselves from you
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  Speaker 1: know that any of the young players, either last year's
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  Speaker 1: freshmen or this year's incoming freshmen. No one has really
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  Speaker 1: separated themselves, and maybe they were just waiting for practice
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  Speaker 1: to start where it's a little more structured, a little
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  Speaker 1: more organized and all that. But you know, she's been
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  Speaker 1: pretty tentative and feeling her way. And you know today,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you start playing, you start playing for
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  Speaker 1: Rio at practice, you know, your instincts just stick over.
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  Speaker 1: And some people have really good instincts and some people
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  Speaker 1: have not so great instincts. So yeah, she's she's got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of she's got a lot of skills that
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  Speaker 1: she can take advantage of them.
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  Speaker 2: I saw a couple of them today, obviously.
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  Speaker 4: Any early impressions on Caitlin, and it's her adjustment and
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  Speaker 4: easier because of you and Princeton a kind of sort.
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  Speaker 1: Of so on, Uh not really, I mean her adjustment
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  Speaker 1: is it's okay because she she's aggressive, she plays hard,
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  Speaker 1: she attacks with the ball, So just by nature of
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  Speaker 1: her personality, the transition will be not easy, but it'll
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  Speaker 1: be easier than if she was passive and coming from
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  Speaker 1: a program where you know, they're not used to winning
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  Speaker 1: or any of that, any of that stuff, or I
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  Speaker 1: don't know the fact that she's played four years of basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously it shows. But I I more than anything, I
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  Speaker 1: like her approach. I like her attitude or I like
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  Speaker 1: how aggressive she wants to play basketball, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: she's finishes around the basket like she gets the ball
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  Speaker 1: from one place to another and the bowl goes in
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  Speaker 1: a lot when she gets in the lean. So we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to just play through her strengths more than anything.
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  Speaker 1: So Jenna and Yanna out there, just how are they
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  Speaker 1: doing a production of getting back the.
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're they're a little bit over anxious at
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  Speaker 1: times because they they haven't played in so long. So
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  Speaker 1: conditioning wise, pretty good. Yana more so than than than Jenna.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Yanna's you know, she looks great physically. She's
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  Speaker 1: had a pretty good September, and Jenna's been off and on,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but both of them, obviously it gives us
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  Speaker 1: a different look than we had. But yeah, no, I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy where both of them are, you know at
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  Speaker 1: this point. And the rest of that group Aubrey, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing going on with that group. They're in various
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  Speaker 1: stages of disrepair, let's put it that way. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Morgan's had some lingering stuff from last year in high school,
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  Speaker 1: and she's doing more and more every day, so hopefully
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  Speaker 1: soon easy's on her regular schedule, you know, and that's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna you know, we're not going to see her
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  Speaker 1: actually playing five on five for a little bit. And
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  Speaker 1: Aubrey hasn't hardly done anything, so she's probably the one
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, uh, and then.
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  Speaker 2: Carol's still Carols.
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  Speaker 1: She's trying to do as much as she can and
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  Speaker 1: then we try to see how it feels.
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  Speaker 2: But for her it's all.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of guesswork still, you know, and we'll see where
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  Speaker 1: that takes us. But you know, we have ten players
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  Speaker 1: on the floor most of the time, so that's a
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  Speaker 1: that's a huge bonus, you know, relative to.
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  Speaker 2: Where we were. Is it too far out?
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  Speaker 4: You play your first exhibition game in a month, But
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  Speaker 4: is it too far out to know if any of
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  Speaker 4: that latter group will be ready for the start of
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  Speaker 4: the season.
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  Speaker 1: The ones we just talked about, No, no, they won't
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  Speaker 1: be ready. No that none of them will be ready.
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  Speaker 2: Asy Aubrey, Carol.
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  Speaker 1: Who Morgan Morgan? I would expect Morgan to be Yes.
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  Speaker 1: The other guys now now they're they're they're not going
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  Speaker 1: to be ready.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. Bigs.
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  Speaker 3: Look, they can pass the ball and move pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it looks sluggish out there at times, but
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  Speaker 3: it look like they're pretty fluid.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It it can look really good and it can look
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  Speaker 1: like you don't want to look at it, but there's
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  Speaker 1: it's there.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: That. Other than Yana, I think they all feel comfortable
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  Speaker 1: with the ball in their hands, passing it, shooting it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Yana's role is more play the go rebounded,
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  Speaker 1: finish around the basket, not as much of a playmaker.
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  Speaker 2: But the other guys feel pretty comfortable doing that.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a matter of, you know, getting the chemistry
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  Speaker 1: right with with everybody else. Doing it in drills there's
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  Speaker 1: one thing, but doing it when it's live five on
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  Speaker 1: five is a little bit different. But they'll be they'll
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  Speaker 1: be there eventually.
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  Speaker 4: An ideal world, who's the point guard?
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  Speaker 2: Do you?
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  Speaker 4: And do you want to keep Page off the ball
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  Speaker 4: as much as possible?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Not necessarily, Not necessarily. I don't think anything's this is
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  Speaker 1: definitely that. I think it's all, you know, let's just
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  Speaker 1: see what happens, you know. I thought I think there's
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  Speaker 1: benefits to both things. You know, we had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of success last year playing with four guards. I don't
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  Speaker 1: envision us doing that as many as many games this
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  Speaker 1: year as much, but it seems like the more ball
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  Speaker 1: handling guards we have out there, the better. And having
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  Speaker 1: Page on the ball is always a good thing. Having
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  Speaker 1: the ball in Page's hands is always a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: I was probably guilty of not having the ball in
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  Speaker 1: her hands more often last year at times, So I
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  Speaker 1: would be happy if the ball was in her hands
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  Speaker 1: a lot more than it was last year. Whether that means,
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  Speaker 1: you know, she's playing position A, B, C or D,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter.
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  Speaker 2: That's just the way it's going to be. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Do you see her trying to be more aggressive you
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  Speaker 2: the offseason?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's She's living up to what she said,
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  Speaker 5: you know, to the point where I'm okay actually with
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  Speaker 5: her forcing some things because I I'd rather her do
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  Speaker 5: that than be passing things up.
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  Speaker 1: So there have been a lot of times this fall,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in our workouts where we're having to say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's get somebody else, Let's have somebody else get a bucket, let.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody else try to score rather than Page, because.
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  Speaker 1: She's just doing she wants to do it every time
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  Speaker 1: down the floor now, so finding some middle ground there
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  Speaker 1: is going to be. But yeah, this is the most
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  Speaker 1: aggressive I've seen her since she's been here.
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  Speaker 4: You talk about the new shot tracking system that you
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  Speaker 4: have on the Best Guard. I saw that the Men's
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  Speaker 4: last week, but it wasn't active yet, and now I'm
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  Speaker 4: here today, you guys are active.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about what the benefits are for you.
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  Speaker 1: Used properly, the benefits can help you get real time
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  Speaker 1: information accurately predicting, not predicting, but telling you exactly what
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  Speaker 1: it is that you're doing, as opposed to the original
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  Speaker 1: the the shooting stuff that they've that everybody's used in
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  Speaker 1: the past. It tells you how many you made, how
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  Speaker 1: many of you took, how many you made, and how
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  Speaker 1: many you missed. Well that's great information, except it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: tell you how to get better. So technology is such
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  Speaker 1: that when you make them, this is why you make them.
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  Speaker 1: This is what your shot looks like. When you miss,
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  Speaker 1: this is what it looks like. Here's what your misses
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  Speaker 1: look like, and here's what your makes look like. So
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  Speaker 1: now you can actually address you know why I'm missing
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  Speaker 1: and how can I how can I fix it. Whether
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, it's secure role for everybody, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but I think the information that it gives back to
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  Speaker 1: you is stuff that you can actually work on.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's not on paper, it's right there, you
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  Speaker 2: can see it. I like it. I like it. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's going to help some of our players a lot.
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  Speaker 2: What are your expectations of Kyk and Ashland team?
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  Speaker 5: They played so much, what's the next level for them?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you would hope that all that playing last
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  Speaker 1: year gives them a lot of experience right to go
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  Speaker 1: to go to another step for them. You would think
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  Speaker 1: that last year everything was a surprise for them. Everything
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  Speaker 1: that happened was new, and you would like to think
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  Speaker 1: that this year it's going to be a little more
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  Speaker 1: comfortable for them, know.
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  Speaker 2: What to expect.
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  Speaker 1: I think both of them have improved, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: the areas that I was hoping that they would improve,
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  Speaker 1: you know, ask more defensively than anything else, and KK,
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  Speaker 1: I think, understanding more of how to run a team.
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  Speaker 1: So I think they've gotten better at the things that
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  Speaker 1: I wanted them to get better at.
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  Speaker 2: You know, but they've played a lot of basketball, so
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  Speaker 2: you would expect that to be true with your envision.
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  Speaker 3: Serious rule to be. I mean, what does she do
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  Speaker 3: best for you guys?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: She hasn't done anything yet, So I would think that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, each game that we play, it'll tell us
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more. People kind of tend to define
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  Speaker 1: their own role, you know, a role that you you
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  Speaker 1: may want for a player in a role that they
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  Speaker 1: feel comfortable and maybe two different things. So I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of freshmen want to come in and not
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  Speaker 1: have a big role, and you know, I think I
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  Speaker 1: think we need her to have it a role that
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  Speaker 1: impacts winning for us, whatever that means. And there's an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity in our the way we play, in our style
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  Speaker 1: of play, where she can make her role as big
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  Speaker 1: as she wants to make it, because there's no limits
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  Speaker 1: that I'm going to put on her in terms of
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is your role, you can't do this,
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  Speaker 1: you can only do that, and that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: determined by what she does every day in practice.
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  Speaker 2: That's the way we like to identify roles, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So I like, I have an idea what it could be,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to see what she thinks it is,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully we agree.
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  Speaker 2: Just thee a while.
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  Speaker 1: What you said, Mmmm, yeah, I mean uh uh yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We had a lot of size last year too, they
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  Speaker 1: just didn't they were all sitting on the bench. So
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  Speaker 1: hopefully the size that we do have will actually be
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  Speaker 1: out on the floor.
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  Speaker 2: But I always go back to.
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  Speaker 1: It's pointless if we don't if we don't take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of it, because you might as well not have it then,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And that's one conversation that I have all
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  Speaker 1: the time with our with our players. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: went to we went to the we were one bucket
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  Speaker 1: away from playing in the national championship, and we play
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  Speaker 1: with four guards almost the entire season.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: But if it's the right company sit out there now
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  Speaker 1: fits the right combination and we're bigger, then I obviously
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  Speaker 1: I think that's better. But the people that we're counting
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  Speaker 1: on ices are a veteran. So that's all you need
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  Speaker 1: to know. So let's see what exactly the size means.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, last year, you had a lot of challenges.
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  Speaker 4: When you reflect on that is just something that you
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  Speaker 4: you've learned as a coach that you can bring to
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  Speaker 4: this year.
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  Speaker 1: The university that you went through from last year, you know,
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  Speaker 1: last year was.
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  Speaker 2: It was just a struggle to keep it, keep it afloat.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the uh the entire season was about, uh,
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  Speaker 1: let's make it to the NCAA tournament and see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Whereas this year so far, knock on wood, we we don't.
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  Speaker 1: We're not We're not thinking let's just keep it afloat.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think our approach can be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different. We can be more aggressive, we can experiment
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  Speaker 1: with more things.
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  Speaker 2: Last year we were very cautious.
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  Speaker 1: And very defensive and everything that we did. So I
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  Speaker 1: think what we learned from last year is that we're
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  Speaker 1: good enough to be as good as we need to
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  Speaker 1: be to put ourselves in a position to win a championship.
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  Speaker 1: It's just gonna you know, it's just gonna mean that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of young players who haven't played a lot
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  Speaker 1: of basketball. You know, Nick I played a lot of basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Leah Edwards have played a lot of basketball. You're replacing
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  Speaker 1: those two now with people that haven't played that kind
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  Speaker 1: of basketball for that long, So you just got to
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  Speaker 1: kind of wait for them to catch up a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But it'll be more aggressive rather than more defensive like
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  Speaker 2: it was last year.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have a hope or expectation for when the
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  Speaker 5: players who won't be with you to start the season
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  Speaker 5: might be.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, if I had the guests, I think
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  Speaker 1: As would probably.
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  Speaker 2: Be back.
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  Speaker 1: Sooner than anybody else. Carol, I don't know, that's guess work.
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  Speaker 1: Aubrey for sure would be after As. I'm thinking certainly
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  Speaker 1: she won't be ready, you know, the first week in
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  Speaker 1: November or the second week of November.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe. I don't know. We'll know more once she starts
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  Speaker 2: getting out there, but.
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  Speaker 1: I would say before we get into the biggest, most
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  Speaker 1: important parts of our our schedule, keeping my fingers crossed
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  Speaker 1: that you know she can be with us. You know,
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  Speaker 1: during that time she looks great. I mean, she's she
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  Speaker 1: feels great, she's confident. It's just, you know, the world
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  Speaker 1: that we live in today, there's more of a let's
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  Speaker 1: be cautious rather than let's be you know, we've been
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  Speaker 1: through that so you know that that scenario. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think Easy will be back before anybody else.
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  Speaker 4: Cait Win's history at Princeton was playing well in the postseason,
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  Speaker 4: playing well in big games against say, Power Conference teams.
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  Speaker 4: Was that something you liked about her when you notice
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  Speaker 4: her play and What is it about her personality that
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  Speaker 4: you think brings that out and will continue what you hope.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean if we all had a crystal ball
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  Speaker 1: and knew exactly what we were getting and exactly what
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  Speaker 1: they were going to do, you know, it certainly would
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  Speaker 1: make it boring and pull one.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, But.
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  Speaker 1: What I liked about what I liked about Caitlin is again,
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  Speaker 1: she has a she's she's a practice every day.
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  Speaker 2: She's an incredibly hard worker, she's incredibly.
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  Speaker 1: Aggressive, she's smart, she picks things up very quickly, and
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  Speaker 1: she comes from a from a winning program where they
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  Speaker 1: challenged themselves against the better teams in the country and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't back down from anybody. And I watch her
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  Speaker 1: obviously I think that what she's doing on the court
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  Speaker 1: since she got here in June, with some of the
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  Speaker 1: some of our practice players that she competes against, that's
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  Speaker 1: different for her. They didn't they didn't necessarily do that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at Princeton, So it's it's taken some time
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  Speaker 1: to get adjusted to the you know, the physicality and
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  Speaker 1: the quickness and the speed of the game. But I
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  Speaker 1: think she has all the qualities that you know, if
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  Speaker 1: she had been here since freshman year, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: would be talking about her as you know, an All American,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and a really high draft pick. So
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  Speaker 1: there was there were so many things to like about her.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that she did that I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure drove Carla nuts too. I can see what they
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: are already, but I don't have I don't have her
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: for four years. I'm rending her.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: How is Phoenix with Diana's possible?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: How was it? Who knows anymore? You know? Uh, they
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: were lousy, She was lousy. The game didn't mean anything.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: It was just fun to you know, see her parents
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: and you know, hang out with them for a little bit.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: But what what it meant? I have no idea, you know,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody knows. I think these Yeah, you
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: know how the is. But I'm glad I went out there.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed it.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Is there any question in your mind that she's the
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: greatest women's basketball player up to this point?
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Well, the problem with the problem with.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Today's world is people have such short attention spans and
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: such short memories.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: So if you did something last year, they have to
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: google it because.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Nobody remembers anything beyond two days ago. And if you
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: did something great twice, then you're the greatest of all
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: time because somebody that was really great only did it once.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: So having somebody that's done what she's done for twenty years.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: To the people that are influencers today or whatever they
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: do today, they have no idea how good she was
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: or how good you know she was for the game
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: and the impact that she had. It just her impact
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: happened at a time when nobody gave a shit. That's
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the unfortunate part that if d was twenty one years
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: old or twenty.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Two years old today, there'd be.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: There'll be no telling what and no one would have
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: been better prepared to have the time of her life
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: enjoying all that stuff then she would have. It's just
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: unfortunate that she was twenty years ahead of her time.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: But nobody's done more than she's done. I don't think
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: when you talk about if you were to line up
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: all her championships from times she walked in into Gamble
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Pavilion till today, I don't know that anybody comes even
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: close you think about it, counting everywhere your America, WNBA, college,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: you name it, for that long m hm. So selfishly,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I hope she keeps playing, and selfishly, I hope she retires,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Like you.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Know, I know she doesn't want to. She's she loves
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: the game.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I think this will probably this will probably be the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: hardest decision of her entire life.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: If she she calls it quits. So selfishly, I would
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: like for.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Her to keep playing because I like, I love watching
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: her play. But I also know she wants to be
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: at a certain level and if she can't be at
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: that level, she's not gonna play.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: And it's gonna kill her to have to admit that.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: So h