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Seg 1 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemmna 3-7 · Coaches Corner

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  However, you one and welcome to our final edition of the Women's Basketball Coaches
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  Show, presented by Wells Fargo Bank. I'm with June Orema in his office.
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  Is Huskies get set for Biggie's tournament play. I know on Saturday after
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  the win over Providence, you know you were very proud of the of the
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  thought that the fact that despite all these injuries that you've had, it's not
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  easy to run the table and conference play no matter what you have or don't
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  have, and this for this group a massive accomplishment, and I know you're
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  you're very proud of that. Yeah, for sure. I mean if you
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  know, you think if we'd have had our whole compliment of players, you
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  know, I think you would say, well, you know, of course,
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  you know you're supposed to be able to do that. But the fact
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  of the matter is at Connecticut, whether you have your compliment of players or
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  whether you're just playing four four against five, you know, you're Yukon and
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  you're supposed to, you know, you're supposed to figure out how when this
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  thing every year, and I think the circumscis this year we're probably more challenging
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  than at any year that we've been here so far when it comes to you
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  know, what we had to deal with. So this one I think meant
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  meant an awful lot. I know it meant a lot to our seniors,
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  and I know it certainly means a lot to our coaching staff. Yeah,
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  for sure, in a way that you went around doing it. It's no
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  secret that Paige and Alia have carried this team lately. You've gotten some big
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  contributions from Nika as well. But to see what Page and Aaliyah have continued
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  to do, and hopefully, as you know, we get to Thursday and
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  the awards start coming out, you would think one of them, if not
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  both of them, will be Biggiest Player of the Year. There'll certainly be
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  unanimous first team choices, you would think. Yeah, I mean, when
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  you finish undefeated, you know in the regular season, somebodies on your team
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  are going to are going to get rewarded with awards, whether it's you know,
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  Nika and Page, Aliyah. You know, the kind of years that
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  Aliyah and and and Paige have had are you know, all American type years.
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  When you look at their numbers and you look at the you know,
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  the contributions that they made to winning have we won two or three of those
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  five games that we lost, there would probably be no a no brainer that
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  both of them would make All Americans. But didn't work out that way.
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  And but certainly, you know, within the conference, when you look at
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  the numbers and you look at the impact and the way we dominated, you
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  know, yeah, sometimes other guys stepped up and had have big games,
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  but those two were the constants. You know, they were you know,
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  they were the air for us every night, and you know they should be
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  rewarded for for their great years. We've talked about Page in her defense and
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  how she reached things is amazing. Over the last I think five or six
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  games, Alia's had at least four steals, and maybe all but one of
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  those games. She's been on a tear on the perimeter lately. Yeah,
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  yeah, I think her aggressiveness picks up, you know, and it seems
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  like they come exactly when we need it. You know, we need a
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  we need a big play, and Alida makes a big play. She she
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  certainly has the ability to do that. There's you know, there's an advantage
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  that she has over other post players. You know, she may not be
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  as big as some of the other ones, but she's quicker than them,
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  and she's bigger and stronger than the other ones, so she single handlely can
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  change a game with two or three d's at the right time. And the
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  way she's rebounded, I mean those double figure rebound marks. You know,
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  when I asked Paige, why don't you rebound more? She because I'm always
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  in there rebound. It's just that Eleah steels them all for me, you
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  know. So and KK gave you seven, and KK gave us seven,
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  So she's getting a little bit of help, but she's doing most of the
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  grunt work for sure. You know how much stronger is e Leah say?
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  From freshman year, I imagine the weight room has been really kind of her,
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  sure. I mean, when you have the kind of body to start
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  with that you can do that, and you know you come here with you
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  know, a certain amount of you know, physical mentality that that's how you
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  like to play, then I think you probably attack you know, the weight
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  room different than somebody who's afraid of it. You know, So the work
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  in the weight room, to work on the court, you know, all
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  these things have contributed to from freshman year being a contributor to this year being
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  dominant and the fact that she's been the most durable one of everyone during this
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  four year stretch. She's missed one game in her career and that was her
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  refreshman year. Now. Granted, if the Depaull game wasn't postponed, she
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  would have missed too because of the injury at Xavier when she ran into the
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  chair. But her durability has been amazing. It sure has, you know,
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  knock on wood, you know everything, everything's been. It's been really
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  really good for us obviously that Aliah has been so consistently durable and we can
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  count on her every day and every game. Hopefully you know that can continue.
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  There is no way to prevent or predict those things, so you just
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  keep your fingers crossed and hope for the best. More with you know,
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  in just a moment. It is the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show, presented
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  by Wells Fargo here on the Yukon Sports Network from Larfield