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Seg 2 - WBB Show w Geno Nov 3 · Coaches Corner

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  Don't forget tomorrow. It all starts on the radio, the first basketball broadcast
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  of the season. The women will take on Southern Connecticut. A gamble or
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  radio coverage on the River one oh five nine Tomorrow begins at twelve thirty dead
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  Fiscus back with me full pre game. We'll hear from coach Orima, we'll
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  hear from the Southern folks, and we'll get ready for a broadcast tip off
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  shortly after one here on the Yukon Sports Network and the Varsity Network. Gap
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  with Coach Orima here for a couple more segments before we deferred to Tanya and
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  Ben, and we'll get Gino's thoughts on those editions later. You mentioned Caroline
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  one of those that had a really good game against Syracuse and the scrimmage.
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  Still dealing obviously with the concussion issues, Gino, but it sounds like she's
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  got a little more better understanding and a little more under control of what she
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  needs to do on and off the court to take care of herself. Yeah,
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  and the concussion issue is gone. I mean right now, there's no
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  there's no concussion issues that we're dealing with with Carol. I think it's more
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  of this tightness that she has in her in her neck and in her upper
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  upper shoulder muscles, and and that kind of goes into the back of her
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  back of her head and it causes a lot of you know, a lot
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  of headaches and a lot of pain. But the concussion issue has been taken
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  care of. You know that she hasn't had any concussion issues since last year.
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  But she's the best I've seen her since freshman year. She's at a
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  really, really high level right now. And I couldn't be happier with with
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  her play and just everything that she's that she's doing. So I wanted to
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  enjoy it. I want her to be happy. I want her to feel
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  really good being out on the floor and do what she's good at and it
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  you know, and it looks that way right now. So I'm thrilled for
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  her, and I know how much she means to our team now. It's
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  amazing. I've gone almost ten minutes of the Coaching Show without mentioning number five
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  page Beckers, who's back this season. She's going to play some tomorrow.
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  Fifteen pounds of muscle over the past two years rehabbing knee injuries, the whole
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  sort and from everything that I've seen. I went to practice Monday, and
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  it's being reported she looks pretty good obviously, though it's going to take a
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  little time to get that rust off. I would think, you know,
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  yeah, playing standpoint game standpoint, yeah, I think all the practices and
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  everything that you know you can do, all the rehab doesn't really prepare you
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  for an actual game game situation and being you know, caught up in the
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  moment and the adrenaline and everything going on and having to make plays and these
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  things are you know, things that you have to do all the time in
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  order to stay sharp. And you know, she hasn't played in a game
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  in a long long time. And I think that's one reason why she wants
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  to play tomorrow is she wants to get she wants to get her feet wet,
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  she wants to get back into it. And I'm encouraging her too,
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  and we'll we'll see, you know how long it takes her to get back
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  to one hundred percent, But I don't know the vision. It's going to
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  take her real long. From the practices that you've had, the inner squad
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  scrimmages that sort of, I know she didn't take part in the scrimmage against
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  Syracuse, maybe partly because of the thumb. What have it seemed different about
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  Page, say from a healthy page freshman year to now the fact that she
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  is stronger, Yeah, more confident. Maybe it's stronger and more confident about
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  her body and where she can go on the court, a little more mature
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  as a as a player, as a person. I think when you watch
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  basketball for an entire year from the bench, you really do see the game
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  in a different different through a different lens, And that's helped her be more
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  be more aware, be more conscious of what's going on, What risk can
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  I take, which ones can't? What opportunities can I take advantage of?
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  You know, she's shooting the ball exactly the same, She's you know,
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  been pretty consistent in just about every area. I think she just looks and
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  feels much much, much much better than at any time since her freshmanyear,
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  even including her freshman year. Yeah, then the compliment Asy Fudd, Now
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  we obviously talked about this last year. They've only played fifteen games together.
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  I mean in two years. That's that's even that's to think about, what
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  did you seem different about Asy? What? What is she doing better?
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  Both on and off the floor, as far as taking care of herself,
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  taking care of those knees, that sort of thing. They all have.
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  They all have issues that they have to stay on top of, you know,
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  whether it's before practice, after practice, before games, after games,
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  there's a lot that goes into, you know, getting on the court and
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  feeling like you're ready to play. And no one, no one takes care
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  of themselves better than Easy does. And I believe that she is the healthiest
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  she's been since we started here. She had some incredible games in the beginning
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  of the season last year before before she got hurt, she played great in
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  the scrimmage. So I think the the thing with Aisy is the comfort level
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  that she has knowing I'm good to go, and I've played bits and pieces
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  here and now I want to play a full season and I want to contribute
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  and take advantage of the tremendous talents that I have. And we're putting her
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  in different situations and saying we want to use you in a lot of different
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  ways. She's so versatile, so I couldn't ask for anything more. I
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  mean, I wanted to make every shot, so she's not obliging. She
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  misses one once in a while, so, well, you know, you
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  do have a few other young ladies that can shoot the ball. Price Yes,
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  yeah, there's a couple of them that are not allowed to miss,
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  and she's one of them. So we're constantly trying to get more and more
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  out of them, and uncannily they always give you more. Funny how that
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  works more with Ginel on the U kind of women's basketball coaches showing a moment
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  here on Learfield