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Seg 3 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma Feb 22 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome back to Cafe or it is our last live coaches show of the season
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  with Gino. Our last year will be March the seventh. That will be
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  recorded ahead of the final hockey game of the season for the men. They
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  take on Vermont on the seventh, and in fact they're taking on bu tomorrow.
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  Will be on the air six to forty five. Adam Jerdino joins me
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  for that, and then we've got the men on Saturday, men's basketball at
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  Villanova. Perhaps you heard game Days coming to stores on Saturday between what is
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  it ten and noon on Saturday, and then they play Saturday night and then
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  we're in Chicago on Sunday. By the way, today is a big anniversary
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  in sports history. Where were you forty four years ago when you heard that
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  the Soviet when the US hockey team beat the Soviets in the Olympics in nineteen
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  eighty Wow, probably forty four to see fifty four or sixty four, I
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  like a help a bunch of other people probably watching the game on TV in
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  the Olympics because we were watching the Olympics. You were in a uva nineteen
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  eighty were you? Where were you a year eighty? Nineteen eighty Where were
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  you? No, I was. I was strolling in Narstown. I was
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  still I got to University of Virginia in May of eighty one. Okay,
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  May of eighty one. Yep. And you might remember that game was take
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  the lead too. That was a five o'clock Eastern start. It's crazy.
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  Yeah, well the Soviets didn't want to push back to eight o'clock. They're
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  lost, right right, you're freshmen. You mentioned this, This was a
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  time period to get a significant time off, and your freshmen need it.
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  KK has been a bit of a rut. I mean, Ashland's played through
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  it well, but can you see the wear and tear on them on those
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  two in particularly because they're loged a ton of minutes, actually played forty on
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  Monday. Oh yeah, yeah, you can see it in practice. They
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  run into each other like they're both delirious, you know, they just put
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  their like it's time to cut, they just go, you know, and
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  it's natural. You know, by now their season will be almost over.
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  Actually for a lot of kids you know that started early enough. This is
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  the most games they would have played, yeah, in high school, and
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  so the pressure of playing you know, college basketball and playing at Yukon And
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  and then imagine this. You know, you're you're let's say you're kk Arnold
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  and we're playing somebody and they've got one person guarding page really hard. They
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  got somebody guarding uh Nika, they got somebody guarding ash, and they got
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  somebody guarding a Leah, And the guy that's supposed to be guarding you is
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  just running around helping all those other guys. And every time you catch it,
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  you're wide open. So that one game she made what for I think
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  that's the most she's made this year. She made four threes something like that.
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  Yeah, you know. And so when they're going in, you like
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  you can't wait to get the ball, and you're like, yeah, give
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  it to me, I'm wide open. And then these kids are a little
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  bit you know, skiddish. Sometimes when the ball doesn't go in, they
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  get all whacked out and then they start doing crazy things instead of just shoot
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  it. She's in right now, so right now, yeah, right now.
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  And it's never like all of a sudden, you know, what's wrong
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  with my shot. There's nothing wrong with the shot. It's mentally, you
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  know, you're in a different place, you know, it's it's like a
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  guy who you know makes every put on Saturday or Sunday playing weekend golf and
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  then goes back the next Saturday and Sunday and misses all of them. It
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  just it's not like anything's changed. It's just you know, some days you're
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  in or some weeks, you know, you you were in a slump.
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  Yep, you know, and you just got to work your way out of
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  it. That's it. You got to work work your way out of it.
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  Jada's first. Some of the injured players go. I mean, Jenna
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  tore her achilles back in the summertime. What is she doing though? Is
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  far his rehab, she's right now. She's at the point where she does
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  warm ups with our team in practice, she does individual workouts, she can
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  do certain things. She can run, she can shoot, she can do
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  some cutting drills. So far, there's not been any contact, you know,
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  anybody that's had those. It's it's about ten months, you know,
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  almost a year that those achilles take. It's been a Wilson's Ukon's had an
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  achilles. Oh. Nikisha said, she's the only one we ever the only
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  other one we ever had. Yeah, so it's about a year, you
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  know, it's it's it takes about, you know, about a year,
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  unless you're a wacko like Aaron Rodgers and you think you've been do it,
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  you know, in four months. But most normal people it takes a year.
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  But she's exactly where she needs to be right now. She looks great.
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  You know, she's she's getting a lot of shots up and just does
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  her rehab every day. Yeah, the same thing. You know, she
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  gets her rehab done, you know, gets a lot of shots up.
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  It's you know, it's it's it's really difficult watching them, you know,
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  on the sideline or in practice when they can't contribute, they can't perform.
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  The look on their faces they're so it's almost like they're sad. It's like
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  Page last year to an extent. No, they're not annoying. They don't
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  say much with her. You had to put up with whatever, whatever came
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  out of her mouth. You had to put up with that. No,
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  it's just this, you know, like they all they all walk around like
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  they lost her puppy. You know, they watch practice and that's the one
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  thing they want to be doing and they can't do it. She does personality,
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  Like, what can you tell us about her? Jenna Yeah, there's
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  just not a lot of kids like her, you know when you come.
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  I mean, how many kids have played in Division one college basketball from Egypt?
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  Right? Not many, if any in women's basketball. Uh. So
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  she's courageous, she's strong, she's confident, she's got a great personality.
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  Every kid on the team loves her. She's always got a smile on her
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  face. She her dad's a national team coach, and she's built like you
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  know her dad. It's a big dude. And she's big and she loves
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  And that's why we don't let her have any contact right now, because she
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  loves the contact. She loves that kind of stuff. She loves playing like
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  that. And you were telling me at some point, was it during the
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  season when she got hurt? That was big obviously the program, But you're
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  also telling me that the coaches that you had heard from at the World's at
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  World championshipeah, she played really well. Yeah. At the World Championship twenty
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  and under she had just turned what she had just turned eighteen maybe, and
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  she was the best player out there by far, by far. And these
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  are the best eight twenty and under players in the world, including the US
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  and every coach that came back said she was the best player there. So
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  does she have some range too? Yeah? Yeah, and that's kind of
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  what's been missing, you know since weasts graduated. A big hit that can
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  make threes consistently, consistently. Yeah, dork was decent at it. Dorca
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  was, Yeah, Dorca was. That's not really what she wanted to do,
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  but yeah, we had We haven't had that in a while. And
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  the physicality that she has, that's why I thought her getting injured this year
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  was was really difficult because the physicalness that we would have had with her and
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  Alida together would have helped us in those matchups with those big teams. Yeah,
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  you know that we played before we get to break. What did you
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  learn about your team, if anything different when you went down to Columbia a
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  couple of weeks ago when we said we we talked about this pregame too the
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  day game after they fought and claude as you would expect, Yeah, we're
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  dumb. Yeah, yeah, I learned that. It reiterated to me that
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  we're dumb. Did they speed you up at all offensively or do or was
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  it that the effect of your team took too Because you mentioned and some of
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  the breaks, I think, yeah, but we sped. We wanted to
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  speed it up. Okay, we wanted to play fast, and there were
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  times when I think us playing fast caught them by surprise how fast the pace
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  of the game was. We just you know, we just it's it's bad
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  bad coaching, bad direction, because we just do dumb stuff, you know,
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  Like that game we had, it was like an eleven point game or
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  something like that, a thirteen point game, and Page had a wide open
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  three that probably she makes her her eyes closed. Probably, well you charge,
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  so probably second or third quarter you're talking right, ye, third quarter?
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  Yeah, third quarter? I think I remember this. Yeah, she's
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  wide open and she makes that it's eleven? Was it kind of transition to
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  yeah, okay, yeah, all right, yeah, all right, if
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  she makes that it's eleven, we come down, we get a stop.
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  Then we come down and Nika looks like she's scrambling in the pocket, like
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  she's dribbling the ball in the flour. Three guys are chasing her, and
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  she tries to throw a pass that God knows who, they get it,
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  they go down, they make a three, and just like that, the
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  game changed. So sometimes that's how quickly things get away from you. Page
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  makes the three. It's eleven, we have the ball. Now we come
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  down, we get another three. Now it's eight. Now, all of
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  a sudden, you know, the whole complexion of how they want to play,
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  how we want to play changes instead. It goes back to sixteen or
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  whatever it was. And so it's de moralizing and deflating. But you have
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  to be good enough to make those plays. And we weren't. We weren't.
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  That's alders to it, all right, we weren't. We're not good
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  enough to beat them right now more Gino. The ukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show,
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  presented by Wells Fargo will continue from Cafe Or after this on Learfield.
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