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Seg 5 - WBB Show w Maggie Vanoni Dec 4 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the Women's Basketball Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 1: Our last two segments feature Maggie Veoni, who has seen
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  Speaker 1: every Ukon game like I have this seasonct insider dot
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  Speaker 1: Com basically most of the newspapers across the state, including
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  Speaker 1: the Journal Inquirer in the in the greater Hartford area. Maggie,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, thanks for doing this. Now you're in
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati with us. You went to the Montgomery in I
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  Speaker 1: guess for the first time. Now, that wasn't on my
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  Speaker 1: radar of this trip. I just felt like I saw
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  Speaker 1: McCormick and Schmid's downtown. So that's where dem and I went.
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  Speaker 1: But what was your first experience to Montgomery in the
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  Speaker 1: boathouse right along the river. What was that like for you?
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  Speaker 2: She went to the original one in Montgomery. Okay, that's
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  Speaker 2: the one that Vicky told me to go to, so
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  Speaker 2: I did. But it was delicious, new walk in and
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  Speaker 2: it's just like Ohio Sports Membobilia everywhere, like every walls
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  Speaker 2: covered in it and it was huge. I had the
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  Speaker 2: pork rooms and they were delicious. Bart off the bone,
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  Speaker 2: super meati, super flavorful, had a sweet potato, which is
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  Speaker 2: my fait. It was really good.
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  Speaker 3: It was. It made Ohio beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Maggie Veoni food critic. We got Dan Connelly, the ice
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  Speaker 1: cream critic. Now you're the food critic, so we're good
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  Speaker 1: on it. I mean you can be.
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  Speaker 3: I will take that title. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Eight games into the season, what are you some of
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  Speaker 1: your overall thoughts on what this team's done so far?
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  Speaker 1: Because outside of the fourth quarter against Louisville and the
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  Speaker 1: second half against Michigan, they have not really been challenged.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they look really good.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was yesterday or twodays ago at the
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  Speaker 2: the South Florida coach Michelle Woods Baxter, so that they
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  Speaker 2: look even better than they did last year in terms
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  Speaker 2: of Yukon and I think they the combination of Sarah
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  Speaker 2: and Asy is just so lethal itself. But then you
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  Speaker 2: add in Blanca, you add in Sarah Williams.
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  Speaker 3: You're adding in now you know, Kayley, Heckel and KK.
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  Speaker 3: You're adding all these pieces that are such.
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  Speaker 2: Good additions that the mesh so well with Easy and
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  Speaker 2: Sarah and doesn't have to be just Asy and Sarah
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  Speaker 2: every night like we've seen the past two games, right,
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  Speaker 2: I think Azy had ten points, Sarah had fourteen. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they don't have to go out and shoot light out
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  Speaker 2: every single day. And they have these shooters now that
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  Speaker 2: can they can like that jump in with their numbers
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  Speaker 2: called They don't miss it beat, even though maybe their
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  Speaker 2: roster is young and a lot of the new pieces,
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  Speaker 2: they just they act like they they perform. I said,
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  Speaker 2: they've been to this whole team together for a long
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  Speaker 2: long time, if that makes sense. I've been really impressed.
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  Speaker 2: I think everyone looks better than they did last year.
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  Speaker 2: KK looks way improved, Asy looks way improved. Sarah looks
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  Speaker 2: crazily even better. And we didn't think that it was possible.
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  Speaker 3: What she does?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think of Sarah and I think of
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  Speaker 1: the closest thing to Maya Moore since Maya Moore in
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  Speaker 1: a Yukon uniform and in a game against USF Tuesday night,
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  Speaker 1: she's diving on the floor going for loose balls. Your
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  Speaker 1: best player's doing that, that's a great sign.
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  Speaker 3: She did that twice, I think in the first quarter. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: just threw her body at it.
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  Speaker 2: I was just like, oh, what can't does girl do
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  Speaker 2: like she is just she's clearly the front runner for
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  Speaker 2: National Player of the Year, and rightfully so.
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  Speaker 3: And this is just near two.
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  Speaker 2: I as a viewer of basketball and fan of basketball,
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  Speaker 2: I am just excited to see what year three in
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  Speaker 2: your four brings.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's scary what Sarah can do. The thing about
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  Speaker 1: this Yukon team is the depth that they have. I
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  Speaker 1: know that this has been talked about. I think you
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  Speaker 1: wrote about this this week, is the depth. The second
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  Speaker 1: team can be as productive with the right combinations. But
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  Speaker 1: certainly when you're going eight maybe nine deep, with the
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  Speaker 1: talent they have coming off the bench and the constant
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  Speaker 1: pressure that they bring, which Gino likes to do, that's
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  Speaker 1: usually a pretty good sign. And they've shown that so
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  Speaker 1: far absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look at Ali'sabelle, right, She's come off the
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  Speaker 2: bench and just thrived and this role as an energy starter,
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  Speaker 2: as a spark plug. I think having her, having Kaylee,
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  Speaker 2: having all these pieces that have some experience another built right,
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  Speaker 2: Ali played last year, but a lot of ton same
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  Speaker 2: with Kaylee at USC. It just helps that their depth
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  Speaker 2: is quality depth, not just quantity death and you Gino's
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  Speaker 2: mentioned that a lot of having actual eeasable pieces that
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  Speaker 2: can fit in anywhere. Right, he can plug them in
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  Speaker 2: with Sarah and easy, he can plug them in alone.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe Caroline who has experience, so that death I think
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  Speaker 2: is probably arguably their most important piece this season.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I told Gino I think opening night that
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  Speaker 1: Sarah will probably lead this team and assists by the
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  Speaker 1: time the season's over, and so far that's the case.
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  Speaker 1: But even with Paige and Caitlin Shed and God, they're
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  Speaker 1: still averaging close to twenty four assists per game. That's impressive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's I think South Florida was seven
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  Speaker 2: straight games with twenty or more assists, right, which is
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  Speaker 2: just like mind boggling. They're moving the ball so well.
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  Speaker 2: I asked Sarah about it after South Florida and she said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this team, they're smart teams. They make the
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  Speaker 2: right reads. They have a lot of chemistry. They're able
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  Speaker 2: to know where each other wants the ball, where each
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  Speaker 2: other is going to be to get the ball. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that's kind of rare of a team that
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  Speaker 2: has this many new pieces and as many young pieces.
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  Speaker 1: You're right here, twenty assists plus and seven straight games
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  Speaker 1: I might get for Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Look at that, I read.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my cheat sheet. Maybe you should take a
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  Speaker 1: picture and share it with the folks for a news
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  Speaker 1: story someday, or at least on social media, like I do.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts at asy so far? Finally healthy.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen the benefits of her being in the gym,
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  Speaker 1: not rehabbing per se, but just getting herself in the
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  Speaker 1: best shape of her life. I mean, this girl's got guns.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't noticed, I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she looks you can just feel the confidence excluding
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  Speaker 2: that Kim knaws that word off of her like it's
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  Speaker 2: just like it's so like infascuating and just what's the
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  Speaker 2: word I'm looking for, Like just contagious? Right Like, you
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  Speaker 2: can see that when she walks around, her shoulders are back.
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't have any doubt in her game, any doubt
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  Speaker 2: in her knee Like. She looks like she's walking and
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  Speaker 2: talking as if she is a fifth year senior, right Like,
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  Speaker 2: she looks like she knows what she's doing.
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  Speaker 3: She's happy to wear the.
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  Speaker 2: Responsibility of being the leader, of being a Phisier senior,
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  Speaker 2: of having all these eyes on her.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she's expected to go one, two, three, four
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  Speaker 2: in the in the in the lottery draft in April,
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like she has a lock this new
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  Speaker 2: part of her game.
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  Speaker 3: I think winning final foremost outstanding.
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  Speaker 2: Player have really helped booster confidence and proving her look
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  Speaker 2: like you are better and you are back right like you.
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  Speaker 3: This is the easy.
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  Speaker 2: Fund that we all thought was coming to Yukon, that
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  Speaker 2: did come to Yukon for a brief minute and then
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  Speaker 2: obviously got sidelined with the injuries, but has really come
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  Speaker 2: back from those injuries even better than what we thought.
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  Speaker 1: Maggie will wrap up the show with me in our
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  Speaker 1: next next segment when we come back and is the
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  Speaker 1: Ukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show here on Learfield Back in
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  Speaker 1: a minute