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Seg 4 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Dec 20 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Final segment with Gino, then we'll visit with one of
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  Speaker 1: his players around the Yukon of Women's Basketball Coaches show.
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  Speaker 1: Before we preview USC, let's go through the injuries. Yanna
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  Speaker 1: had her surgery on Tuesday. Seems like everything went well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Bob arsierro Or you know, one of our
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  Speaker 2: team team surgeons found everything exactly the way he predicted,
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  Speaker 2: and Yanna came out of it in great shape. And
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  Speaker 2: his thought is, you know that in six months she'll
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  Speaker 2: be playing basketball at a real high level. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty exciting for us because that means she'll have
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  Speaker 2: all of our time together in June that we usually
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  Speaker 2: have and then at least I'm hoping, is that right December, December, January, February, March, April, May. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's a great thing. And she's
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  Speaker 2: a difference maker in her athletic ability or toughness or aggressiveness,
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  Speaker 2: and I think putting her out there on the floor
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  Speaker 2: gives us something we can't reproduce with what we have
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  Speaker 2: on our roster right now. So I'm thrilled for her,
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited for her, and I can't wait.
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  Speaker 3: It almost sounds like Gino.
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  Speaker 1: From what you're saying about Yanna, she took a massive
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  Speaker 1: jump when she from the time that she was here
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  Speaker 1: early on pre injuries and stuff to now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think she's learning every day, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: what she's capable of doing.
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  Speaker 4: Again, when kids get here.
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  Speaker 2: They a lot of them anyway, they focus on this
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  Speaker 2: is what I used to do in high school.
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  Speaker 4: I was just you know, I was a score or
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  Speaker 4: this or that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, sometimes you can hold on to that, sometimes you've
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  Speaker 2: got to become something other than that. And I think Yanna,
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  Speaker 2: I think she's going to be a huge, huge impact,
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  Speaker 2: you know, next year.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of impact players, Aubury on target still for possibly
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  Speaker 1: New Year's Day.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, she told me.
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  Speaker 2: That hopefully mid January, which would give her about another month.
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  Speaker 2: And again, every day I see her, she looks, you know,
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  Speaker 2: she looks better.
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  Speaker 4: Every day she feels better. So, yeah, wouldn't that be great?
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  Speaker 3: And then as sounds like fifty to fifty tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, asy's uh, I guess what's we're probable.
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  Speaker 1: We'll just leave it at that, all right, USC tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: night another Top ten matchup Juju Watkins. Obviously they're a
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  Speaker 1: different team than the one we saw in March, just
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  Speaker 1: as Yukon is. They're briting a couple of kids from
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  Speaker 1: the now defunct PAC twelve.
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  Speaker 3: What have you seen from them so far as a whole.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, they you know, they've added a bunch like we have.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they've added an impact player at the post.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the Kiki from from Stanford adds an awful lot.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she's athletic, she's physical, she's strong, she's experienced,
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  Speaker 2: and as you said, uh, you know, I think the
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  Speaker 2: PAC twelve, you know, going away opened up a lot
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  Speaker 2: of a lot of players. Talia from Oregon State, you know,
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  Speaker 2: came out of high school.
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  Speaker 4: Is great reputation as a shooter scorer.
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  Speaker 2: Was on team uh Oregon State that got to finally eight.
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  Speaker 2: You know, so they've added.
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  Speaker 4: Quite a quite a.
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  Speaker 2: Bit and they lost a bit. Don't get me wrong,
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  Speaker 2: They lost a bit as do we. You know, they
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  Speaker 2: lost a lot of experience and they've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of freshmen. So they're a little bit like us in
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  Speaker 2: that respect. But as you said, you know, having someone
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  Speaker 2: like Juju allows you to be better than you're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be while you're going through these growing pains. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's not just let's go out and make sure Juju
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  Speaker 2: doesn't kill us and then you get silently killed by
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  Speaker 2: the other guys. So it's it's a it's a tough,
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  Speaker 2: tough decision to make.
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  Speaker 1: Or vice versus for Lindsay's team, I'm gonna ask a question.
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  Speaker 3: I'm pretty no I sure what the answer is going
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  Speaker 3: to be.
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  Speaker 1: This might be the last ranked team you play for
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  Speaker 1: a while, but it doesn't sound like if there's any
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  Speaker 1: more weight to.
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  Speaker 3: This game on basically what you told the media earlier today.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if you.
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  Speaker 2: If you start to play differently because it's a ranked
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  Speaker 2: team versus an unranked team, that's how you lose to
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  Speaker 2: unranked teams, you know, so you want to try to build, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some sort of consistency there where you try
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  Speaker 2: to approach every game the same way. Obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of excitement around this game, which is great,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, Sunday morning, nobody lost the national championship
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  Speaker 2: and nobody won a national championship. But somebody got better
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  Speaker 2: and somebody needs more work to do. So I'm anxious
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  Speaker 2: to see that, you know, see how we do. I'm
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  Speaker 2: anxious for our players to play in that game, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm I'm excited for for the fans because they're
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  Speaker 2: going to see, you know, some terrific players on the floor.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm yeah, I'm glad it's here, and I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: the crowd is going to be crazy. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: eight o'clock instead of early afternoon, so I think our
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  Speaker 2: fans have plenty of time to get game ready. Let's
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  Speaker 2: put it that way, so it should be a great environment.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, let's move to Christmas a little bit. What's your
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  Speaker 1: go to on Christmas Day? As far as food goes.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, we never really had growing up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was pretty much a traditional Italian meal.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it wasn't wasn't anything different than what you
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  Speaker 2: know we would normally have.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I do know that there were.
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  Speaker 2: A lot more a lot more pastries, there were a
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  Speaker 2: lot more a lot more meat than we normally had.
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  Speaker 2: But for the most part, you know, it was very
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  Speaker 2: very traditional Italian stuff. And but you know, it gives
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  Speaker 2: me a chance to rye up some smelts, you know,
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  Speaker 2: cook some cook some fish, and.
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  Speaker 4: Other than that, you know, there's no like.
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  Speaker 2: You know, late late in life, my mother started making
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  Speaker 2: a hand which I don't know that she became a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of marchanized. I think that wasn't something we
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  Speaker 2: ever had, you know, growing up for in Italy.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Geno, thank you as always.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do it again tomorrow night. I appreciate it. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: Bob all right, head coach. You know, rama with us
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  Speaker 1: on the Coaches Show. More of it coming up here
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  Speaker 1: in just a minute here on Larfield.
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  Speaker 3: Stay with us,