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Seg 4 - WBB Show w Geno Auriemma 10-29 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: That's me.
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  Speaker 2: Gentleman to my right is Gino Auriemma. We start for
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  Speaker 2: real Monday. Doubleheader in Hartford. The women in Cornell. 4.30.
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  Speaker 2: Deb Fisk is here. Sitting in the back row over there.
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  Speaker 2: Can't have a bad day with Deb. And then the
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  Speaker 2: men and Gardner Webb. So 4.30 and 8.30 are the
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  Speaker 2: pregame times on the network. Varsity Network app. VarsityNetwork.com. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you can listen on the iHeart app as well. Lots
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  Speaker 2: of places you can listen. The UConn Plus channel. If
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  Speaker 2: you go on a computer... They have the audio-only feed
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  Speaker 2: that you get here, so lots of places that you
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  Speaker 2: can listen to us, and we appreciate you doing that.
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  Speaker 3: How many people in this room know where Gardner-Webb is?
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  Speaker 3: Raise your hand.
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  Speaker 2: Debbie, do you know where Gardner-Webb is?
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  Speaker 1: Ohio, no. Anybody know?
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  Speaker 2: Carolinas, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's North Carolina. Yeah, okay. Gardner-Webb.
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  Speaker 2: So we mentioned... What do you refer to as Giovanna?
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  Speaker 2: Is it Yo or is it Pop?
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  Speaker 1: What's your nickname? It depends what day it is, what
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  Speaker 1: she just did. Okay. Hey, Yo, that makes sense. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Great for me because, you know, I'm from Philly, so
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  Speaker 3: Yo is easy. But Morgan, I mean, Tanya for sure.
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  Speaker 3: calls her pop.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So she's whatever, whatever you call her, she listens.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Olivia Vukosi. We've got another live on this team.
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  Speaker 2: Young lady who is from Croatia, Croatian descent, went to
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  Speaker 2: Christ the King down in New York. A few good
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  Speaker 2: players have come out of there that have played for
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  Speaker 2: you and that didn't play for you. You know, Shamika Holdslaw,
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  Speaker 2: Sue Bird, Tina Charles.
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  Speaker 1: They turned out okay.
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  Speaker 2: And it seems like she got herself in a really
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  Speaker 2: good shape getting ready for this season. Obviously, post players
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  Speaker 2: tend to take a little longer to develop for whatever
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  Speaker 2: reason in college, get adjusted to it. Are you finding
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  Speaker 2: that out here in the early part of the season?
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  Speaker 2: And probably playing teams like you played in the first
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  Speaker 2: three exhibitions certainly probably helps.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does.
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  Speaker 3: Those kids that come out of high school that have
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  Speaker 3: dominated their their competition.
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  Speaker 1: For, you know, three or four years.
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  Speaker 3: Um, it's a real eye opener when they get to college, uh,
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  Speaker 3: how physical you need to be, how, uh, how strong
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  Speaker 3: the players are that you're playing against, how fast the
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  Speaker 3: game is. Um, so it takes a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: time to get adjusted to that. But, um, live is
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  Speaker 3: really scared. I mean, really skilled, um, really skilled.
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  Speaker 1: She's good.
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  Speaker 3: She's got really good hands. She's a really good passer.
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  Speaker 3: She's a good shooter. She's not as good a shooter
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  Speaker 3: as she thinks she is. You know, she comes in
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  Speaker 3: the game the other night. First time she touches the
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  Speaker 3: ball in the corner.
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  Speaker 1: Left corner, yep. She shoots up a brick.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, but she's a good shooter, and she's– she
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  Speaker 3: can get up and down the floor. She's, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's just now being more competitive every day, you know,
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  Speaker 3: compete for everything every day. And that's the biggest hurdle. Um,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, when she gets mad, she's a different
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  Speaker 3: kind of player.
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  Speaker 1: I just, in a good way. Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 3: She, she, she gets really, really good when she gets mad. And, uh,
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  Speaker 3: And I'm pretty good at making players mad.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: What about Maureen Durses? I mean, we obviously haven't seen
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  Speaker 2: her play yet. Young lady out of France.
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  Speaker 1: Maureen hasn't played much all summer. Like, that's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: Maureen and Blanca didn't play all summer. Maureen had an
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  Speaker 3: issue in her foot. She had a screw placed in
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  Speaker 3: her foot over in France. Something happened. Our people had
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  Speaker 3: to go back in and put a different kind of
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  Speaker 3: screw in. So she didn't get to play all summer.
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  Speaker 3: Blanca didn't get to play all summer. But she scores points.
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  Speaker 1: She's a scorer.
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  Speaker 3: And I think she knows the game. I might go
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  Speaker 3: out with a lineup. You know, Jenna, Blanca, Maureen, Giovanna.
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  Speaker 3: Am I missing anybody? Sarah, she was born in Spain.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll go with those guys.
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  Speaker 2: The international lineup.
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  Speaker 1: See what that looks like. All right.
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  Speaker 2: I know I think after the first exhibition, you kind
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  Speaker 2: of chatted and had fun with Olivia, saying that's the
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  Speaker 2: best she has played considering practice. And we've had this
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  Speaker 2: discussion before. the practice habits of the incoming freshmen. How
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  Speaker 2: different is it from the kids coming from the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: high school system, AAU ball, all that, versus the European,
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  Speaker 2: the international system? Who gets acclimated quicker?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that there's a hard and fast rule.
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  Speaker 3: I just know that the kids over there are coached harder.
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  Speaker 1: Do they practice more?
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  Speaker 3: They practice more. They play less games, but they practice more.
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  Speaker 3: And so their skill level, their fundamentals are always really good.
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  Speaker 3: And again, that's not all of them all the time,
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  Speaker 3: but over there, the system is practice... Five days a week,
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  Speaker 3: and you play a game. Sometimes you practice twice a day,
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  Speaker 3: and you play a game on Saturday. Here, they practice
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  Speaker 3: once a week, and they play five games on Saturday
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  Speaker 3: and Sunday. Just totally opposite. You know, what are you
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  Speaker 3: going to do? But, no, and they're coached hard. And
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  Speaker 3: especially if you're a young kid that's played, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you're 18, 19, and you're playing against 28, 29-year-olds. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you see the game a little bit differently. and you
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  Speaker 3: know you have to be good or you're not going
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  Speaker 3: to play.
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  Speaker 1: Right. That's all there is to it. All right, we'll
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  Speaker 1: take a break.
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  Speaker 2: We'll come back, and we will get into said schedule.
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  Speaker 2: It's a doozy. All non-conference games before Christmas on the
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  Speaker 2: UConn Women's Basketball Coaches Show live in Hartford on Learfield.