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Seg 1 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Dec 10 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: With the Ambi Dexterist Genoreama throwing lefty and righty. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, welcome, thanks for coming down, appreciate you having
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  Speaker 1: me having some time to join us here tonight. Got
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  Speaker 1: a great crowd here. I want to ask you about
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  Speaker 1: Saturday Night and I want to talk big picture. I
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  Speaker 1: know you were talking about it with the media afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: because you had a big part in putting this whole
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  Speaker 1: event together at the Barclay section.
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  Speaker 2: How do you a piece of lint?
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  Speaker 1: How do you think it went for a first time out?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I thought it was great. You never know how
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  Speaker 2: these things are going to go, but it all depends
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  Speaker 2: on the people running the event. The Barclays, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they've got the w NBA champions there all right, and
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  Speaker 2: they they have the nets and they're used to having
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  Speaker 2: big events, so I knew they would do a great job.
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  Speaker 2: And the Fox people are used to showing big events,
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  Speaker 2: and the Horizon people are great at putting the whole
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  Speaker 2: thing together, so we knew we had all the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the main players in place. You know, you just hope
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  Speaker 2: that that everything goes well and that it's well received.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it was and the crowd was great.
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  Speaker 2: And it was loud and it looked great on TV.
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  Speaker 2: So that's basically you know what you want. And then
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  Speaker 2: the first game was you know, very competitive, went then
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  Speaker 2: you know, went down to a wire so to speak,
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  Speaker 2: and second game was more like it to my liking.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it went great. And and you know,
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  Speaker 2: next year it's the same in four teams, but it'll
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  Speaker 2: be a Madison Square Garden instead of the Barclays, and
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  Speaker 2: we will play Iowa and Louisville will play Tennessee. After that,
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  Speaker 2: we don't know who the other three teams will be,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll work on that between now and then. But
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  Speaker 2: you're the host school, we're the whole school. We'll be
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  Speaker 2: in it every year.
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  Speaker 1: Nice very good as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's my tournament, so I should be those.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed, And you just signed a five year deal,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, you should be there.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Sure as far as the game goes, I mean, fantastic
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  Speaker 1: defensive effort by your club, kept the turnovers down, particularly
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  Speaker 1: the first three quarters. We thought that was going to
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  Speaker 1: be a big key. And then you got contributions from
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people not named Paige Beckers. And although
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  Speaker 1: Page didn't shoot the ball well, she had ten rebound,
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  Speaker 1: six assists, so she played a big role there. But
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  Speaker 1: you got a lot of contributions in that game on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: We did. And generally speaking, I would say when two
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  Speaker 2: pretty good teams play, especially two pretty good defensive teams,
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  Speaker 2: it's really difficult for the other team's best player to
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  Speaker 2: have a big night. And that's because the entire defensive
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  Speaker 2: game plan is built around not letting that player get
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  Speaker 2: all the touches that they're used to. So you need
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  Speaker 2: contributions from other people. You need other people to uh
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  Speaker 2: take advantage of the fact that every time Page has
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  Speaker 2: the ball and we get ball screen, they were trapping her.
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  Speaker 2: Well that opens up a four on three situation and
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  Speaker 2: you have to capitalize on it. And they kept doing
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  Speaker 2: it and we kept capitalizing on it. So Page just
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  Speaker 2: being on the floor helps everybody else be a better player.
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  Speaker 2: And she's so unselfish. You know, she's not going to
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  Speaker 2: go out there and just start taking bad shots just
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  Speaker 2: to just to shoot the ball, and she's going to
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  Speaker 2: do other things. You know, ten rebounds and she's going
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  Speaker 2: to play good d and it's going to get her
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  Speaker 2: number of assists. So you know, the supporting cast so
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  Speaker 2: to speak. Uh. I thought had a great a great
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  Speaker 2: night all of them, and I think especially obviously Sarah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it is difficult matchup for any of those guys.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought without page Asy obviously did Asy stuff,
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  Speaker 2: you know what she does. And then Ash came off
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  Speaker 2: the bench, and you know, I told him before the
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  Speaker 2: game that they had to change the game. The guy's
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  Speaker 2: coming off the bench had to change the game, that
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  Speaker 2: whatever was happening in the game, they had to you know,
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  Speaker 2: stir things up a little bit. And she came in
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  Speaker 2: and immediately had a huge impact on the game. So
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  Speaker 2: those are those are all good things, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: they may not mean anything Thursday night, but it meant
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  Speaker 2: a lot Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: Right as far as Aisy goes, Yeah, she had four threes.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought the most impressive offensive play that she
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  Speaker 1: made was in the first half. She was i think
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  Speaker 1: in the right corner the post up move and then
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  Speaker 1: she got the reverse layup, and that I think that's
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  Speaker 1: indicative not only what she's done in the past, but
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  Speaker 1: I think it's also a payoff of what she's done
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  Speaker 1: in the weight room to rehab that injury. With the
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  Speaker 1: strength that she had and the ability to be able
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  Speaker 1: to do that.
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  Speaker 2: She's one of the best conditioned athletes we've had a Yukon.
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  Speaker 2: That's why it's crazy that all this stuff keeps happening
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  Speaker 2: to her. But she's just so incredibly uh well put
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  Speaker 2: together for a basketball player, Like if you're gonna go
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  Speaker 2: if you were going to build like the perfect basketball player,
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  Speaker 2: that's what it would look like, you know. So we
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  Speaker 2: encourage her every time she touches the ball to force
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  Speaker 2: the action, you know, make make a play, don't don't
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  Speaker 2: give the defense a break by passing it back. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when you take the ball being attack mode and they're
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  Speaker 2: either going to have to try to guard you one
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  Speaker 2: on one, which they can't, or they're gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: double team you, which same thing with Page then opens
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  Speaker 2: up something for somebody else. So you know, between the
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  Speaker 2: Page and Easy and Sarah, we've got three players that
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  Speaker 2: are really really hard to play against, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: all three of them made huge contributions the other night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and as far as Asy's injury, you talked about
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  Speaker 1: it earlier today, she'll miss Thursday, but day to day,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's I mean, see the best case scenario.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean, for sure, Thursday, and then you know, Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: who knows. But we're not gonna We're not going to
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  Speaker 2: rush back into anything. You know, when when she's ready,
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  Speaker 2: she's ready. You know, when when you've been through what
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  Speaker 2: she's been through, there's no you know, there's no sense
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  Speaker 2: in hurrying up and getting her back in. So I
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  Speaker 2: would expect that she will be out this week and
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  Speaker 2: then we'll see what happens after that.
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  Speaker 1: Just remind me, same knee or the other knee.
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  Speaker 2: All the knees look alike to me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the one that doesn't, the one that doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: the slices in it. I think it was her.
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  Speaker 2: I think she got hit. She got on the right,
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  Speaker 2: on the right side.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we'll get into Sarah Strong next because
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  Speaker 1: she had a marvelous night, but she also did something
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  Speaker 1: that we haven't seen from her yet in the first
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  Speaker 1: eight games of the season. It's you kind of women's
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