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The Dailey Recap - Villanova · Coaches Corner

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  How about that defense tonight? It was great. Let's start with that.
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  It was awesome. It was really uh, it was really good, really
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  good. To make a lot of mistakes and we've rebounded the ball pretty well.
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  You know, we lost our momentum a little bit, I think on
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  both ends of the court in this in the third quarter, because they outscored
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  us. Did that change when Page got her fourth file? No, it
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  was before that. Okay, No, it was before that. Yeah,
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  loose not smart. Here's not smart bout here's the number Lucy Elson, two
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  of sixteen. What was the defensive game plan on her tonight? Well,
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  you know, she's a really good scorer and she takes a lot of shots.
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  She's taken three hundred and fifteen more shots than her next teammate before tonight's
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  game, so we knew she's going to get the ball. And she's unselfish
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  too though, because she leads their team and assists too, So she's a
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  tough person I have to guard. But I just thought we did a really
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  really good job on her, and we also did a good job on the
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  kid that scored the most points fifteen at number four averages five points. So
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  we took away their leading scorers, which were alsoon Runyon and Weber. So
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  we did a really good job defensively and I think it shows because they only
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  got ended up with forty six. It was on the offensive end that we
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  struggled a little bit more. We couldn't get into any kind of flow,
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  and then we took some quick shots, missed some layups, probably miss layups
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  more. In the first half, Aliyah had some that you know, were
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  makeable, but then we got some shots that you know, we ran our
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  stuff and Page made some pull ups and you know, I thought Aliyah in
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  the first half rebounded everything. In the second half we were a little bit.
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  I think we were a little bit just slow to the ball until the
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  fourth quarter. We'll talk about Alia Wards the impact she has, even if
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  she's not scoring points, she has, but she drew so much attention.
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  She had got quite a few players in foul trouble early that in the first
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  two minutes he Dulcie had two and then they brought in fourteen off the bench
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  and she had two. Then they went to their third post, which was
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  number four, and then they actually played twenty three a guard at the post
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  too, so we got deep into their bench and that was helpful because it's
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  a size difference when when Dulcie's and she's a shot blocker, show block shots
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  inside outside and to take her to neutralize her with vowels. That's the best
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  way to guard, you know, to neutralize people, to get them in
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  bouchub and get them on the bench. Yeah. See, she had our
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  way with them. Chris, this was a grind into the early stages of
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  the fourth quarter. Than you score sixteen of the last eighteen. What change?
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  What did you see that was different down the stretch? Well, I
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  thought we were changing sides of the floor and making them have to defend us.
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  We were taking quick shots earlier in the quarter, probably more so in
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  the third quarter, but we were taking quick shots and they didn't have to
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  guard us. And when you make them go aside to side, we have
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  a better opportunity to score and get the shot that we want talk about.
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  Is that your entire team I saw at half at halftime pretty much eleven out
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  of fourteen. That's pretty not impressive. When you said and one was we
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  had one that was like at two nine to nine, so goodness, it
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  would have been twelve out of tie. How impressive is that, Yeah,
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  it was very I mean for our team personally, it's very impressive, and
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  you know, our players work hard, but I think as a whole,
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  as a department, when you see all the teams, the number of student
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  athletes here that get a three point hour better, it's just really impressive.
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  It says a lot about the kids that we recruit here and the kind of
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  kids that we can recruit. But certainly it reflects Ellen Tripp and the student
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  athletes success program too, because they have a lot of support here. Chris
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  one to go Providence on Saturday, and it never seems to be easy,
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  and you know, every time we play them, their men have a game
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  at noon and it pushes our game late and it's just annoying to have to
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  sit. You know, Like on a data, like going to school day,
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  it's a little different because they have class and it's full, but on
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  a Saturday, wait until seven o'clock is just really it's not fun. So
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  I would rather have played a little bit earlier. But their men have a
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  game at twelve and they didn't feel like they could handle both until seven.
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  So and we're expecting a great crowd. I'm thinking that I heard that it
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  was sold out, but I don't that's true, Chris. Speaking of sellouts,
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  this place has not has been sold out pretty much every game since New
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  Year's Eve, I mean both here in the Excel. The crowds have been
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  spectacular. And he had Dan Orlovsky in the house today, yes, and
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  his daughter Lennon and his wife Tiffany. He's got three boys, I know,
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  and he was blessed with the girl finally, and so Lennon is a
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  little basketball player and Dan wanted to come up, so we got him up
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  here and she enjoyed the game and got to meet Page and so they're very
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  happy. So we're happy to have them. All right, So we pretty
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  much know what the top five is for the Big East Tournament. Saint John's
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  with the Villanova losses. Now the three show's done a phenomenal job once again,
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  without considering what he lost. Has a three seed. So it's either
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  going to be the four to five game, will be Villanova and Marquette.
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  So what is the eight and nine game? Don't know yet. Carl has
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  tweeted out it could be locked in tonight, is DePaul because it's something Paul
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  and Butler. Okay, oh wow, Okay, So it could be a
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  Providence, right, Providence or Butler could be one of the one of the
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  eight nine game too. Yeah, I think I heard that it was Butler
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  or Providence, but I'm not positive about that. Well, how about another
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  regular season Big East title? Yeah, I mean I get, I know,
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  it's it seems to be a normal hat for everybody. But to say,
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  how again getting that title, it's, you know, I think it
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  reflects it's it's tougher to win the regular season because you have to do it
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  over a long period of time. A lot of teams can get hot during
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  the Big East tournament and then they end up winning the championship, but to
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  do it over the course of the year and to do and right now we
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  have one more game, and to do it the way we've done it.
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  Hopefully we can finish it off in a league that's you know, the style
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  of play of the teams in our league, and they're all well coached,
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  it's not easy so for us to have to grind out some of the games.
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  Some games, I mean today we won by twenty, but it really
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  felt a lot closer, right, So it's it says a lot about the
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  kind of players that we get their their willingness to do that, to play
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  on a team that a program that has a a bulls eye on their back,
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  but to win this is one of the goals, you know. You
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  you play to win the regular season championship, and we did that and we
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  want to finish it off on Saturday on a good note and then head into
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  the conference championship feeling good about everything. I said, I think you have
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  the trophy in front of the home crowd too, right, Yeah, you
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  know that I loved I loved the and the streamer Charlie Horse, Yeah,
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  she got need or elbowed. I don't know. She probably elbowed first,
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  to be honest that she said it was an elbow or any If I watched
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  the film, I'm guessing she instigated it. But that's what I think.
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  Okay, Chris, is always a pleasure. We will see you on Saturday.
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  Thank you. All right. That's the Daily, yes, Chris Daily
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  and the Daily Recap.