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Seg 2 - WBB Show w Geno Auriema 3-7 · Coaches Corner

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  Don't forget. This is just the start of our busy night here on the
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  network. We've got hockey at the top of the hour as coach Cavin the
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  Boys wrap up the regular season against Vermont that has home iice implications for the
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  playoffs face off at seven oh five. Adam joins me here on the network
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  with Gino Oriema as the Huskies get set for the Big East Tournament. Now,
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  you rested Aliyah in Paige and a good chunk of the fourth Nika as
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  well. In the game against Providence. Other than the point production, seems
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  like they handle some things pretty well. I thought so. I mean,
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  at one point I did say, I don't think we're going to score,
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  you know, so thank god we have a big lead. You know,
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  we miss layup, we missed wide open shots, we did like, you
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  know, crazy crazy things. And yet it's the same group that I forget
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  what game it was. They looked terrific, you know, out there.
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  So the offensive part, yeah, that can be a struggle, but you
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  know, we played pretty good defense. You know, got a bunch of
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  had a bunch of really good things done on that end of the floor.
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  And the most important thing is we got the rest you know, Aliya and
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  Nica and Paige. You know, with three games coming up this week,
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  this weekend coming up, you probably need all the rest you can get.
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  Yeah, And it's kind of the same thing as of last season. But
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  the difference is that group as a whole was more of a veteran group,
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  whereas this year you have three seniors and four freshmen and a couple off the
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  bench. Maybe Amari comes back, she can give you a couple of minutes
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  an esh. But it's certainly a younger group than you had at this time
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  of year ago. Oh yeah, yeah, I don't remember when four freshmen
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  play such a prominent role in us having to win the Biggiest championship with hecket
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  was probably nineteen eighty eight eighty nine, when Megan and Debbie were freshmen.
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  It was probably the last time when that many freshmen had to play, you
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  know, that many minutes in that big a role. So you know,
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  it's all on the three seniors. You know, they've got to they've got
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  to carry the load, and those other four just have to have to do
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  their part, you know, make sure that they do what they have to
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  do, and then whatever we get, we get and what are you going
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  to do? You know, this is the this is the hand that we're
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  playing. We happen to be at Mohegan. You know, they deal the
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  cards over there, and sometimes they're in your favor and sometimes they're not.
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  Well, let's hope a joker doesn't pop up in your case. How do
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  you think Page is handled this season? I'm sure she wasn't expecting a log
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  the minutes that she had, but of course, given the hand that you've
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  been dealt as we talk cards here, it is what it is. But
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  how do you think she's handled her first year back? Oh? I thought
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  she's done amazingly well when you look at missing a whole year and then coming
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  back and uh after the rocky start, you know, trying to blend in
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  and trying to get her legs back. There's been games where she's just been
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  totally dominant, and there's been moments where you would think she never missed any
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  time at all. And she's held up great physically, and now it's just
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  a matter of can we you know, can we give her enough help?
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  But other than that, I think it's gone even better than I that I
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  anticipated. Did you and now if this team had been fully healthy. Would
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  you have envisioned her as a four where she is now basically, I mean,
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  I know it's mostly on the defensive end where she's that four. But
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  we've seen her post up a lot this season, maybe more than than maybe
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  you would have envisioned. I don't I don't envision that happened. There may
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  have been some isolated instances, but with you know, with Jenna being available,
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  Yana being available, Caroline being available, Aubrey being available, Asy being
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  available, I don't see that happening, you know, but there may have
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  been times when you know, we went really small, but for playing out
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  a position and for having to battle those guys defensive on the defensive end down
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  air, she you know, like I said earlier this year, I don't
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  know that any player in the country has been asked to do as much as
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  she's asked as we've asked her to do. So it's a lot, but
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  she thrives on that. Yeah, and the work that she puts in the
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  gym is noticeable. Her creativity around the room has been really fun to watch.
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  Yeah, that's the thing about you know about Page is that there isn't
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  a shot that she can't make because there isn't a shot. She hasn't practiced
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  in the gym a lot, And to me, I think that's that is
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  what separates her from a lot of other players around the country, is that
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  she is a real student of the game and she doesn't just want to be
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  good or talk about being good. She actually goes in the gym every day
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  and tries to perfect it. And you have to admire that because you were
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  national player to hear as a freshman and would have been very easy to just
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  you know, keep the status quo. But she's you know, she's never
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  satisfied with with where she is. Is there a player in the past that
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  has that same kind of work ethic? Now, grant, you've had a
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  lot of all Americans and they spend a lot of time in the gym,
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  But can you equate her to anyone or maybe a couple of players that you've
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  had in the past. You know, there there have been, and it's
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  different now, it's different today. But you know they're when we couldn't work
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  with our players in April and in May and June, they had to find
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  there on their own September, you know, so you know when Dee and
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  Sue and Shay and you know, Keish and Rita and all those guys.
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  When they were here, they were in the gym all the time, you
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  know, because one because we weren't there, so they loved being in the
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  gym. You know, they were just playing and having fun. Go to
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  guy er gym and play pick up with all the guys. You know.
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  So today's different, you know, I get it. That's why it's I
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  think remarkable that we have kids that are gym rats that want to be in
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  there. I think that's that's a throwback. That that that I really,
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  you know, I find, you know, really rewarding. Speaking say,
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  she's done a hell of a job at Vandy this year, six seed for
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  the SEC and that's that's not too shabby in your two No, No,
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  I think she's done a tremendous job. And I don't know when they play,
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  I'm gonna have to find out. But yeah, no, because the
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  situation she walked into was obviously in need of a lot of work, and
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  for it to happen this quickly, and to you, she said, go
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  from that to being the sixth seed, I wouldn't be surprised if they have
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  a pretty good run in the tournament. Maybe the NCAA's too. Could you
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  imagine Vanderbilt coming to stores, you know, knowing the NCAA committee, they
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  would probably love to do that, you know. So it is, It
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  is a great story, and can't say that I'm surprised more with Gino as
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  the Wells Fargo you kind of women's basketball coaches show continues at a moment here on Learfield