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UConn WBB - Big East Semi Postgame Presser · Coaches Corner

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  We can start without then we don't need them. We can definitely get it
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  going. Opening standment from coach Ori Emma. Uh. You know sometimes you
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  sometimes you put together, uh an idea, you know, you put together
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  a plan with your team, and you think that if we can execute some
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  of this plan will be we'll be in pretty good shape. We'll give ourselves
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  a chance to win. And every once in a while, you know,
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  it kind of comes out exactly how how you imagined that it could come out.
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  You know, we knew, we knew that defensively we needed to play
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  really really well, and it was even better than I imagined. And obviously,
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  you know, when when a score is like that, you need help
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  from the other team. And I think they missed a lot of shots that
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  they normally make, which that's what happens sometimes, you know. But the
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  way we you know, the way we carried each other was probably the most
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  impressive thing for me is that we we relied on on on each other so
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  much. Obviously, Paige, you know, did page things, but everybody
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  today was really a team a team triumph, It really really was. It
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  was. It was pretty special to be a part of that. I wish
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  this was tomorrow, which today was Monday. Unfortunately it's not. Let's start
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  with questions for Page or Ice. Wait for the microphone. Please state your
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  name and affiliation. Roger Grad Roger Cleveland from the whatever, Republican American.
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  First of all, was it your decision to jump and you turned to the
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  team and flexed? I mean, was that what was going on there?
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  It was sort of a discussion. It wasn't long I was gonna win that
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  discussion, but I was. Once we found out Alla wasn't playing. It
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  was either me or Ice, and I was like, yeah, I got
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  it. But because she jumped against was one of her teammates and she let
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  her do it. Nah, she didn't let me do that. But anyway,
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  Uh, yeah, I don't know if they had the most confidence in
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  me, like the comments that I had to myself to win the jump ball.
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  So I just let him know a little bit. I wanted to put
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  Nash in there and do our best Eddie Goodell, but they don't know who
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  he is, so it would have fallen on deaf years. Question from Pat
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  in the front left Patty and rubbed with the associated press. Paige with Lea.
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  You obviously knew going into the game that you were going to need to
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  do a little bit more. What did What was your mindset going into the
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  game and getting your teammates confidence up? Uh, my mindset really was I
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  was focused on rebounding with Aliah out. That's a huge piece that we're missing.
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  Alia grabs every single rebound that comes off the rim. I mean,
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  just leading the communication with our group. I thought me and I did a
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  really good job of talking on the switches on winder guard who in the post.
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  Try to keep her inside as much try to keep me outside, But
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  just communicating, leading by example, leading by passion, leading, buy the
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  energy that I played with, and just leave it all on the floor.
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  We know what we don't have, but we didn't want to focus on that.
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  We wanted to focus who was on the floor, and we were confident
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  in anybody that we put out there. So just rebounding and communicating was the
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  focus. Question the middle here from Maggie maggievenny cc in center. I used
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  to know you knew that you'd be stepping in today and likely playing the whole
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  game, which you did. How do you prepare for that mentally knowing that
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  there is no one else to come in for you. I mean, I
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  feel like in practice, you know, coach, coaches, teammates me do
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  a great job of trying to simulate that going as hard as we can.
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  He talks about the more you run the floor, the better you'll get at
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  that. So just that week leading up, I tried to push myself as
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  much, and obviously we didn't expect to not have a leah, but I
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  feel like just preparing definitely paid off, and I felt I felt good out
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  there too. Front Row brad High Page Bradley w NBA twish your team had
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  a lot of success in the paint this afternoon. Did do you see Marquette
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  do anything differently on defense or did you have to adjust any offense for you
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  to really get under the room today? It was a focus before the game.
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  We're undersized starting lineup, which has sort of weaknesses on the defensive end,
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  but it makes them, if they go big, have to one of
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  their biggs has to guard one of our guards. So it was a huge
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  emphasis to get in the paint, create, try to attack mismatches whoever had
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  the big guy on them, and then create from there. So a huge
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  emphasis going into the game was getting into the pain and creating from there.
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  Question up from from dom Dom Memory hart Ford Current page. The way you
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  guys came out very aggressive, very disruptive, even though you couldn't afford to
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  get in foul trouble. It seems like you put them back on their heels
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  right away and that they never really recovered from that. Is that what you
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  guys, You guys were trying to do, knowing your position to to try
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  to get that kind of jump them a little bit. Yeah, we wanted
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  to start the game aggressive, sort of set the tone of what the rest
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  of the game looked like. But we talked about it in the huddle leading
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  up to the game in the locker room of just how focused and locked in
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  we were gonna have to be, especially like you said, defensively not getting
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  into foul trouble, but also wanting to disrupt their offense and what they do
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  on their flow. So I thought just starting a game out like that sort
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  of setting the tone. I thought we did a great job of that,
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  balancing being aggressive and being smart at the same time. Question in the middle
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  from Emily Emily Adams hark for current Ice Markeutz coach just talked a little bit
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  about your defense today. Just how much do you feel like you've grown in
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  that aspect of your game and how did you kind of navigate the matchup with
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  Carlin today? I feel like that was, yeah, definitely an emphasis leading
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  up to the game with them having two post players, trying to, like
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  we said, trying to navigate that, lots of film watching, how to
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  you know, read the duck in. Definitely struggle with that, and he
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  gave me a hard time about that, so I made sure that I was
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  locked in he who's he? Yeah? Yeah, So I just I would
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  say, definitely an emphasis from the coaches, but done a great job of
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  like watching that film and going over a lot in practice making sure that they
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  don't get that position, because again, once you know, they get it
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  over. So question the back right corner. Hi, Kristen prec market wire.
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  This is for either of you. So at the beginning of the third
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  quart yesterday, Providence made a little bit of run to kind of get back
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  in the game, But today Marquette just really have any response. So how
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  did you kind of use the energy coming out of the second half and you
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  know, just like really blow them out of the park, especially after you
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  hit the buzzer beat at the end of the third quarter. Page Yeah,
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  learning from yesterday, we wanted to come out and be aggressive the same way
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  that we started the game. We wanted to start the half that way and
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  again said the tone for what the rest of the half I was gonna look
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  like. No game is won in the first twenty minutes, so we really
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  emphasized that in the locker room that we needed to finish the last twenty minutes
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  and play and leave it all in the court and start that third quarter strong.
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  Maggie again for as and this is only your first postseason still your second
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  post season game, what was the best of advice, either Aliyah or what
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  in the upperclassman gave you about what it takes to play in this time of
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  the year. Just being locked in everything matters at this point, and I
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  would say not wanting to have this be, you know, our last game
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  go home, And I felt like that really stuck with me. So whatever
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  I was feeling like mentally, if I was frustrated, whatever, there was
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  no time for feelings or anything like that, and just making sure that I
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  needed to do whatever I needed to do to make sure, you know,
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  our team was locked in and we won, and I feel like we did
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  that teamates did a good job of keeping us like all focused on the same
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  goal and so yeah, just knowing that we have one goal in comment,
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  I feel like really helped us just lock in and whatever mistakes happened happened,
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  and we just moved on and you know, focused on what the task was.
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  Good time for two more right up front, we'll go Pat and then
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  Roger Paige ub. You held them to no points in the fourth quarter,
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  twelve baskets on fifty four shots. Can we just talk about the defensive effort
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  in this game and the intensity and what did you think you guys did better
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  in this game than you have like all season. I think the biggest thing
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  was the communication, the way we talked, the way we prepared in our
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  shoot around. Marquet's a really disciplined team and the offense that they run,
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  so for us, it was trying to disrupt what they're comfortable with and try
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  to get in passing lanes, deny their shooters, Me and Ice holding the
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  paint down, holding the paint down. But nah, I think the communication
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  was the biggest piece. We knew we didn't have Allyah in the paint to
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  get the rebounds to protect us. So we definitely had to lock in the
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  extra, communicate extra, and just pay attention to the scout and their tendencies.
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  Paige, can you describe what it was like to be out there playing
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  that hard for so long? I mean, did you feel momentum, did
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  you feel the energy? You guys just look so locked in. What did
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  it feel like? Yeah? From the opening tip, when we went on
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  that seven our run to start the game, you just felt the hunger and
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  the passion and the energy that we had. But it helped to get a
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  strong start like that, but it continued throughout the whole entire game because we
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  knew coming in that we had to play a full forty minutes. Market's a
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  great team and they could go on a run at any point. So just
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  to have that energy and the passion that we were playing with, it becomes
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  contagious within each other. And anytime or can't went on a run or we
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  went through a drought, we stayed composed, stayed confident, and just kept
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  playing our game. Page Ice, thank you to let you guys get back
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  to the locker room. Thank you appreciate it. Good luck tomorrow. Questions
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  for coach Ficky go ahead. You know, Page talks about leaving it all
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  on on the court. Can you just speak to how like I mean she
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  does that. You know, you said like how competitive she is, but
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  just she was like crawling on the floor for rebounds and hitting that shot at
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  the end of the third quarter. Just how much she did today. It's
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  it's remarkable. I think the way players like Page can sum it up exactly
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  what's needed in any given oh Man, any given game, and to then
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  be able to execute it. And she's one of those unique superstars that wants
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  to be that at both ends of the floor. You know, not every
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  not everyone values those same things. She she gets a lot of enjoyment out
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  of you know, the rebounding that she can do, you know, the
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  block shots, the steals, stealing the inbounds pass, you know, on
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  out of bounds play. She she just has a great sense of the game
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  and what's happening next. And I think that's probably why she's never surprised,
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  because I think she always knows what's happening next. And obviously, you know,
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  our players feed off of that, and they feed off of her.
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  You don't. You don't come across players like that very often. You know,
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  we've been fortunate here at Connecticut. But she's she's different. That's it.
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  She's different, and that's evident every time you see her play, and
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  the bigger the game, the more different she becomes. It's hard to explain
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  sometimes. Question up front from Brad Hi, you know, Brad from w
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  NBA Swish. You mentioned in your opening statement about it being a team triumph.
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  Can you speak of how and why everyone just communicates so well together on
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  the floor that they seem to always be in the right place at the right
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  time. It's been a it's been a real struggle trying to try and incorporate
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  our veterans where our young players they're on two different wavelengths a lot of times.
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  Now you've got three of them out there, so they had the majority
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  today. You know, there was three of them and even if they got
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  it wrong, they were all wrong, so in the sense they were right.
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  The communication was really good today. You know, we talked about when
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  we left shoot around this morning and we said the guys that there's always guys
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  on the Florida know exactly what's going on the dangers when they don't say anything.
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  So there's always people on the Florida that will never know what's going on.
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  But today the emphasis was the players that actually know what's going on need
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  to talk, and I mean talk NonStop the entire game. And you other
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  guys that don't know anything, you need to listen and just do what they
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  tell you. And today was about as good an example of that as you
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  can imagine. Question in the back from Joe Gino Joe's own channel three in
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  the back when you drew it up pregame for your team and for Ice,
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  was this about as close as what you expected to get from her today?
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  Yeah? Yeah, I would say the presence that she has in the lane
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  was going to be a huge factor for us. As long as she stayed
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  out of out trouble and could be that presence in the lane, then we
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  just had to play around her. You know, there were a couple of
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  times when what happens is, you know, the way Marquette plays, you
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  know, there's a lot of movement in their offense, and what we didn't
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  want to happen was Ice wandering out on the perimeter to go guard people,
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  which we would let Alia do. But you know, that needed to change
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  today. So we just needed to make sure that the other players were like,
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  she was kind of like hopefully, you know, like a bicycle,
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  you know, She's kind of like the hub there, you know, and
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  everybody tried to play around her and keep her in the spot where she could
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  be most successful, and it worked out about there were parts and shoot around
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  this morning when I thought, we can't do this, We can't, this
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  is not going to be possible, because they were all looking at each other
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  like what are we doing here? And we stayed with it and we didn't
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  have to deviate from it, which you know doesn't always work that way.
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  You got to have a plan B. We did have a plan B.
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  It wasn't very good, but we didn't have to go to it. Roger
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  front left, Roger Cleveland from the Waterbury Republican American. You know, what's
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  the last time you remembered playing with this effort? I mean, you guys
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  have played tremendous games for the last thirty years, but the effort just seemed
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  at another level today where guys were just constantly harassing the ball or hustling back
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  or cutting through people. There have been times there have been teams that we've
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  had here. Those of you that have followed us for a long time that
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  it wasn't that big a deal we held somebody to five points and a half
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  because we just overwhelmed people with our numbers too, not just with our talent,
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  but with our numbers that we were able to keep the pressure on for
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  an entire game. Today was different in that it had to be that way
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  without the ability to replace you if fatigue set in or foul issues. So
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  to play that that hard for that long a period of time without getting a
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  chance to get get a breather, to me, was about as impressive as
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  anything that we've done, you know, not just in this tournament, but
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  it's been a long time since I've seen anything like this when there was that
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  much asked of you know, so few players. Second rule in the rate
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  coachsa Johnson from NBM line on the scaler one attend to pay you back off
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  that statement, how impressed were you? Everybody's going to see about ice and
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  page and about the points they scored, But defensive wise, you guys were
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  very impressive. How impressed on the scaler one to ten were you with their
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  defense today? I don't know that it could have been any better. It
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  was. It was very It was it was difficult for for them to get
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  the looks that they wanted, and when those looks did materialize, it was
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  a rush for them. And you know, you're in a conference tournament,
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  you're trying to win the tournament. You're playing a team that's a little bit
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  wounded, and we get off to the start that we got. It makes
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  it difficult to make shots, and that's what youuation, because every shot becomes
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  huge. When you're winning, you know, it's easy to make shots.
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  But I think the fact that we came out the way we did and we
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  kept the pressure on it made every jump shot, every shot that they took
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  crucial for them. And it's hard to go through a whole game like that,
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  and our defense was you know, we sustained it for the entire forty
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  minutes. Question from Mike in the back left Gino Mikey Anthony from Hurst,
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  can you share your version of how the discussions went about who would take the
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  jump ball? And more importantly, Gino, she she wins the tip and
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  then has like a little muscle flex and you guys all seem to get a
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  chuckle out of it, and then of course she goes and scores right away.
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  What did that sequence her adding some personality and of course two points right
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  away due to just kind of set everyone at ease. Yeah, it's getting
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  kind of old because she did it down at the other end when she blocked
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  the shot late in the game. So, you know, spending time in
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  the weight room all of a sudden, I guess, gives you the you
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  know, the feeling that that's you know that you're maya more now all of
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  a sudden. But she takes a lot of pride in doing things that people
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  maybe think that she can't do, and she says so much, like you're
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  not even privy to any of this, but she says so much. She
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  she talks about herself so much in a positive way. This is what I'm
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  going to do, Like she actually tells them this is what I'm going to
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  do, not in a bad way. It's just NonStop that when she does
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  it, it's almost like I told you I was going to do it,
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  and it's it's fun. It's fun to be around that. But at the
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  same time, we're all rooting for her not to get it done so we
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  can make fun of her. But there's just something in her that is I
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  can't describe. Could you never know whether it's real or she's putting on a
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  happy face. But there is nothing, literally nothing that she thinks that if
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  she sets her mind to it, that she can't do. Like she ran
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  around the court after that buzzer beater her at the end of the third quarter,
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  whoever it was, she knew what was going in, and you know,
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  that's how she is. She knew it was going in, but then
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  she likes to celebrate, like I told you, So that's you don't find
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  kids like that anymore. First they're they don't have the gusts to say it
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  before they're going to do it. And then if they do, you know,
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  which it's hard to do. But she's yeah, she's different. She's
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  different. And every kid on the team without her, they're not as good.
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  Without her, they're not as good. And they're good, don't get
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  me wrong, But without her, the pressure on them would be so immense
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  that I'm not sure they'd be able to handle. Tom. Go ahead,
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  Tom a morey hurt for current. You know, I guess we're kind of
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  dancing around the same topics here, But the way you guys started the game
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  kind of almost as I mentioned, put them in back on their heels.
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  It almost looked like this was the program that was trying to win something for
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  the first time. Yeah, and they were the ones that maybe had won
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  a lot of different Like, you guys are playing like the underdogs. How
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  do you coach that? How do you bring that out? Is that all
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  page is that response to the circumstances. How do you get that attitude from
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  the program that's that's done with this? What you guys have done? Well?
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  A couple of things happened. One, we did not necessarily plan to
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  play the first five minutes. The way we ended up playing, the strategy
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  was a little bit different. And then right before introductions, we said,
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  how about if we just stick to the way we've been playing, don't change
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  anything, and just be very, very disruptive as disruptive as we can.
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  Because the initial game plan was we can't be like that because we can't risk
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  the foul problems. But when I said, I knew it. This is
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  what they wanted. So when I said it, there collectively, yes,
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  that's how we want to play. So we went and just went with our
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  regular routine. But the thing that was that was talked about a lot in
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  the locker room how often does a Connecticut team go into a game where you
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  actually kind of are the underdog that they go, how can you possibly win
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  with five players and missing an All American? I said, you know,
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  how fortunate of you guys are the Connecticut players are never in that situation.
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  I said. But at the same time, so we're not the underdog because
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  we're we're better than that. So I don't want you to think that we're
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  the underdog, but that's the perception that's going to be out there. But
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  we're better than them, and if we play our a game, we're going
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  to win. And Nika said to me at pregame this morning, she goes,
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  I feel really good about today, Like I'm really confident and I'm not
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  faking either. She says, I really, I really feel really good about
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  it. And I think that was the kind of that permeated the entire team.
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  You know, can you can you give an update on Aaliyah? Uh?
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  You know, the swelling and the being able to you know, people
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  think you just slap a mask on and you're good to go, but you
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  have to be able to breathe, you know, and you have to you
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  know, not have headaches and no concussions. Which was great. So now
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  it's just a matter when are you comfortable? Is it tomorrow? I don't
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  know. I doubt it, but who knows. But I would say by
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  two weeks from yesterday, we'll be good to go. We'll be right right
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  right back to normal. Yes, way broken, it's way broken. We
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  have time for two more. We'll go to Doug and the left coach,
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  Doug Farnberg Gape. Over the last three years, you've had a lot of
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  one name stars and Diana Sue maya page. It seems now there's so many
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  spread across the country of Paige, Caitlin, Angel Juju keep on going.
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  Yeah, can you remember a time that their star power is what it is
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  now spread out across the country and potentially there's probably more on the women's side
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  for the first time than there's the men's side. Uh. Yeah. I've
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  always said that that it's good and bad that the guys get to like,
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  spend one year in college and then leave the best ones. But they also
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  don't become household names, you know, and they don't get a chance to
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  create that stardom for themselves. They're like here and they're gone, which you
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  know, most of those guys would trade a little bit of stardom for the
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  money that they're going to make. When all those players that you mentioned were
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  playing, there were a lot of really good players. They happen a lot
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  of times to be on the same team. So now they are spread out
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  more. There were a lot of really good players back then that became WNBA
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  greats, became Hall of famers, Olympians from across the country. There's just
• 26:48
  never been this much attention paid to women's basketball. So now it's really really
• 26:53
  evident who that they're stars out there in this game, whereas before I think
• 27:02
  they were there, but nobody wanted to acknowledge it and appreciate it as much.
• 27:07
  And finally, to your point, they're just really good and everybody's going
• 27:15
  around telling everybody how good they are, and they're all visible. It's not
• 27:22
  just yukon Tennessee on TV, you know, And that's the one game to
• 27:25
  everybody in America watches. Those kids are on TV a lot, they're in
• 27:29
  the limelight a lot, and they know how to handle it because they're used
• 27:33
  to it. Now it's going to get even better. So many kids coming
• 27:38
  out of high school are just unbelievably good and they're not all going to the
• 27:44
  same schools unfortunately for me. Last question, Emily, just a little bit
• 27:53
  off topic. What we've seen Jana warm up the last couple of days and
• 27:56
  all that. Just how is she progressing and what are you guys kind of
• 28:00
  hoping to accomplish getting her out there. Yeah, you know, obviously there's
• 28:03
  a routine to that timetable, and our doctors and our athletic trainers, you
• 28:11
  know, they've got them, they've got the menu. Every day, this
• 28:15
  is where and then at this time, how many months, this is what
• 28:21
  we're gonna do a little by little. Obviously she's been dying to get out
• 28:25
  there and do some things. The more we see her out there, the
• 28:33
  more we see her running around, the more we see some of the things
• 28:34
  she does, the more with the more we miss her, you know,
• 28:38
  because we realize what she could bring to our team. The only unfortunate thing
• 28:48
  for her is, you know, round the down starts this week, so
• 28:53
  she's you know, she's walking around with bags of food getting ready stock up.
• 29:00
  That's the you know, that's the only right now, that's the only
• 29:03
  thing that's on her schedule that you know, everything everything else on her schedule
• 29:11
  is what times my rehab, What am I allowed to do? What time
• 29:15
  are my class? Like, she has no life other than rehab because she
• 29:18
  wants to play so bad. I can't wait for people to see her play.
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  She just has a real unique personality that I think people are going to
• 29:33
  really fall in love with. Coach. Thank you, thank you.