December 22, 2024 • 19 mins
Thanks to Ian Bethune, The UConn Blog - Coach Auriemma meets the media after the Huskies rally from 18 down, but lose late to USC 72-70
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Charlie, you said yesterday you'd like to see the game
close to the last couple of minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It was two, right, So it kind of came down
to that, right, was so fun? Was the disappointed? What
where the leading with? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
The second half? Yeah, the second half was more fun.
I am mm hmm. I'm really I'm really proud of
the the team that they came out of the locker
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room to play in the second half. Kind of disappointed
and I'm not at all happy with that team that
came out to start the game. So we gotta we
gotta figure out what the difference is between those two teams,
and yeah, we can hold them to less points in
(01:01):
the second half than they scored in the first quarter.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
So you know, mm hmmm, a lot of.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
A lot of great things to be proud of that
second half that we can that we can build on.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You know, obviously, we played at a really good.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Team that shopped the ball really really well in the
first half and gave themselves that big cushion.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So I you know, obviously they're.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
They got a little bit of everything that that that
they can throw at you, and we just have to
get better, you know, we have to get better at
some of the things that that we need to get
better because we don't look like them, so we can't.
We can't necessarily just do things, you know, we gotta
(02:04):
do them right, and we gotta we gotta execute better.
I thought the execution part in the first half was
just as bad as I've seen in a few years
here at Connecticut. So it's not that we can't because
we spend twenty minutes doing it. You know, if you
(02:27):
look at the stats, you can't really pick anything apart,
you know, but I don't know that the stats tell
the whole story. But again, and we retired with two
forty or something that got left in the game, and
you know, we had a chance and.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Well to have your two modified stars up a gage
and jusually going out in a game where it's sold
out arena, it's on branch signe. I mean, this kind
of shows the growth of women's basketball. What what is
it like to watching it? I mean we all watched it,
but to.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
See it, it's it's obviously, ah a moment that.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
M has happened a lot in this building.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It's just not as many people were paying attention, you know,
outside the building.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So I'm happy that we can.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Put uh two players like that on the floor and
that the whole country is UH familiar with and.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Wants to see, you know, play well.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And they both have their unique styles of of playing.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And and as.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I was driving in today to the game, it brought
back to me the very first game we played here
might have been eighty six or eighty seven, and I
don't even know, Uh, I don't it was a doubleheader.
We played like at five pm, and the man we're
going to play at maybe seven, seven thirty eight o'clock,
(04:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Maybe we've been played at four thirty. I don't know.
And I don't think there were one hundred people in
the building. I don't And to drive up here and.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Know that there's gonna be sixteen thousand people here, plus
the game on national television, it doesn't seem like.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
That, you know, we're talking about the same same universe.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
But this is what's happened, this is where we are today,
and I'm proud to be.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
A part of the past.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Stage to you the second half, it seems like you
guys did a lot better job double a judrew which
is all on the floor, But you like about the
defense then, and how.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Did you was it?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I think anytime you know, you have somebody that you're
trying to limit, trying to minimize how many how many
opportunities they get, you're going to have to give up
something else, you know, And the decisions that we made
(05:20):
sometimes backfire.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
But the other team has to make it make it.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Back far, which means that all the people that were
helping off of they're going to get opportunities and they
have to they have.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
To make shots.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
But you can't get upset of your team for that
because that's what you wanted to do. The dilemma comes
when they start making shots and the guy you're trying
to mint, uh limit, is.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Still getting getting shots off.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
You know, So credit to them because they took advantage
of you know, what we wanted to do. We changed
it up a little bit in the second half, and
obviously it worked much better.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You know, you're Roger after the learning said one of
the biggest creases, there was a lot of contributions from
everyone else. How did you feel everybody socially regards to
contributed and.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Who weren't the starters?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Well, it's funny because I said the same thing and
you know, you look at there there there two best
players at twenty five and sixteen hours had twenty two
and twenty two, and then their guys had six nine, five,
six five and our guys had nine five five five two.
(06:35):
Not that not that big a difference, right, But in
order for us to win, generally speaking, you know, we
it's when do you make them? And it's also how
many ways do you have to score? They could score
inside on us today, which we understand that, but they
(07:00):
made threes they don't make, so that that ends up
being the margin in the end because we sho have
more free throw We made more free throws in them.
But in these games, if we don't make more threes
than the other team, it's going to be really hard
for us to really hard.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Ochay, do you know two things you said? First of all,
you saw a lot of great things in the second half.
What were those great things? And then Sarah, a lot
of people look at this game and remember that she
missed free throws at the end, but the overall performer,
she yet and I really seemed like she matured.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Well, she's always been mature, she's always had that game,
and I think.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
She's devastated at the second free throw.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
The third one she missed on purpose, so I've done that,
but the second one is the one that bothers her.
But just the fact that that's where she was at
that moment in a game like this, and how she
plays and how she performs, and the fact that we
go to her in big moments, that says a lot
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of what I think of her. What we did in
the second half, the second half, we ran some stuff
that we actually practiced, like we didn't make up an
offense and then run out there and try to run it.
Like in the second half, the ball moved, people moved,
We got the shots we wanted, We got shots from
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where we wanted to get them, by who we wanted
to get them. And as I said, the entire first
half there was none of that. Zero when I say
you're exaggerating, no, I mean there's zero of that.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
The first half was just a mishmash.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And the average person said, well, why is that? Well,
I'm an average person too, and I would say, yeah,
why is that?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Emily thin Daniel, it seemed like KP really epowered that
back for you guys. In the third port Pole to
her acted pasically and then what led you to move
away work?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
If if you're if you're struggling on on the defensive
end like we were, I do think you got to
change up the way the game is being played. And
we talked to KK a lot about that, that one
of her biggest roles should be to come in and
(09:35):
disrupt the game and change the way the game is played.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And I thought she did that, and.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Uh, we did it as a team, but she has
the physical ability to do a lot more and today
she did.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
That leads to or getting some opportunities, and obviously it
led to us getting a lot of opportunities.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
You've been saying to this point in the season that
once you get through this stretch to get to Christmas,
here have.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
A much better idea for your team. So now over here,
where do you feel your teams? Well, if you look
at our first half team, we're nowhere.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
If you look at our second half team, we're a really,
really good basketball team that can probably beat anybody in
the country. So I lied, I don't know any more
now than I did when I told you that I
would know before Christmas. But obviously certain things are evident, right,
(10:44):
you know, we have to get more contributions from our bigs.
We have to continue to work on, you know, our
younger guys not getting like this, you know when it
gets like when shots on falling right away, to stay patient.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
But all I know, all in all, it's it's if
I just focus on the first.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Half, then I would be really disappointed going going into
the holidays.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
But if I take it as half.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Of that and then the other half, I really really
think can help us win any game that we play, well,
we just can't put ourselves in holes like that. So
I know we're going to fight, and I just don't
want to wait until we're bloodied and half beaten up
before we start fighting.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Fam all, I self bad teeth Chris Copland, Washington, ghost
of what was your impression of Tiki or and the
challenges that she presented today?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Same as very similar to when she was at Stanford,
you know, and similar to when she was in high school.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
There's a.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
There's a limit on what you can do because she's
so quick and so powerful.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
So if we can keep her.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
We thought, if we could keep her outside the lane
and make her take shots without getting two feet in
the lane, that would be to our advantage. And she
made a bunch of those, So now all of a sudden,
you have to come out a little bit, and now
her quickness starts to become a factor.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And uh and then.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
She's matched up a lot in the second half against
one of you know, Sarah as a freshman, and I
think she showed her experience and how to you know,
how to get positioned and how to get the shots
you want. And there's nothing that she did today that
surprised me because I've always had so much respect for
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her as a player, but her strength and her quickness
and if she starts making that opened fifteen sixteen foot,
then it's it's lights out.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Awesome, Gina.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Two kind of maybe related questions.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
First, another game where you guys just could really hit
any shots from three? It's kind of happened in some
of these bigger games too, So I mean, is that
just a matter if you guys are cooking easy?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Can help with that? She's fully back? Or how can you?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah, that that's that's the million dollar question, right, how
do you how do you learn to make these in
these games? And as I said, how many we get tonight?
(13:47):
Twenty twenty four? Yeah, twenty three six for twenty three.
That's on sixty two shots. That's about the ratio.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
That we want. But I don't know that.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I don't want to see how many of them were like
great and how many of them.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Were like mediocre.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So if we continue to get great ones, I mean,
I think we're a good three point shooting team, but
I can't keep saying that we have to prove it
and not just one night. You know, we got to
do it more than one night.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
So then what else you went to the Chili Sarah
line up? Yeah, second half?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You've also that you're also saying that your bigs the
other base and could be horseboy, get a balance, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah, that's another one. Yeah, I uh.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I always believe in people that I think that they
can do what what we need them to do. And
we've said that we're we're going to be the team
that we want to be. If we're getting contributions from
those guys, what does that mean, Well, they have to
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be able to make a fifteen footer.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
They've got to be able to keep the ball out
of the length.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
So if we're playing five against four because we can't
get any offense out of them, and we need offense,
so it's tough to play that, you know, So I
hope that we can continue. I mean, I know they're
both young, and I know Jenna's a freshman. But if
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we can find a way to get some consistency where
we feel comfortable throwing the ball in the lane and
we think you can get a basket, then that takes
a lot of pressure off of regards right now, there's
too much pressure. So I got to figure that one.
That's all me and the coaching staff.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
So going back to zero, what was your message to
it was important you just kind of told us a
few minutes ago, or if you wait to kind of
discuss the kind of make gain.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Moment how to move toward.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, I mean when I when I see these things,
I I see a kid that you know, some people
run from the flame, you know, and other kids run
to it. She she wants to be in that situation.
She she she relishes that situation. Nobody's more uh disappointed
(16:31):
than she is right now in that moment. But I
would put her in that moment every single game for
the rest of the season and have confidence that you know,
she's going to come through. So, yeah, this is not
this is not something that that is going to sit
(16:53):
well with Sarah, but hopefully only for a day or two.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
What's TV girl here?
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Can you just talk about Juju and kind of how
she stacks up against you know, other elite players in
the country now, but also just kind of in the
all of your career where she stands and sit intern
of like top tap that you see.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Uh, you know, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I don't. Obviously I don't see her enough. You know.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Now we played them twice now, but every scouting port
that you put together or every film that you watch,
it's it's.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Very evident that one player can't guard her. You know,
you have to hope she helps you. You have to
hope she misses.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
And when she gets a little bit of a rhythm
like she got in that first half, it's it's really
really difficult too, like any good player, and she's certainly,
you know, a tremendous, tremendous guard.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
So yeah, there's qualities that she has that are just unique.
You know, there haven't been many, you know, at a
young age that but you know, you will probably have
to ask somebody that's younger than me.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I've probably seen too many more than a care to.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
You know, she put a few minutes. But just what
did easy break through night go for? She progressed, me,
hope can be after Christmas. I don't know. I think
As is.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Obviously a high level elite player, and uh, I do
believe that when we get her one hundred percent healthy
and ready to go, that that certainly enhances our team tremendously.
Uh not having played and maybe one a couple of practices, Yeah, I'd.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Love to have her out there.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I just.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Mhm, I just didn't. I just choose not to today
for whatever reason.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Mm hm.
Charlie, you said yesterday you'd like to see the game
close to the last couple of minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It was two, right, So it kind of came down
to that, right, was so fun? Was the disappointed? What
where the leading with? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
The second half? Yeah, the second half was more fun.
I am mm hmm. I'm really I'm really proud of
the the team that they came out of the locker
(00:38):
room to play in the second half. Kind of disappointed
and I'm not at all happy with that team that
came out to start the game. So we gotta we
gotta figure out what the difference is between those two teams,
and yeah, we can hold them to less points in
(01:01):
the second half than they scored in the first quarter.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
So you know, mm hmmm, a lot of.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
A lot of great things to be proud of that
second half that we can that we can build on.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You know, obviously, we played at a really good.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Team that shopped the ball really really well in the
first half and gave themselves that big cushion.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So I you know, obviously they're.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
They got a little bit of everything that that that
they can throw at you, and we just have to
get better, you know, we have to get better at
some of the things that that we need to get
better because we don't look like them, so we can't.
We can't necessarily just do things, you know, we gotta
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do them right, and we gotta we gotta execute better.
I thought the execution part in the first half was
just as bad as I've seen in a few years
here at Connecticut. So it's not that we can't because
we spend twenty minutes doing it. You know, if you
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look at the stats, you can't really pick anything apart,
you know, but I don't know that the stats tell
the whole story. But again, and we retired with two
forty or something that got left in the game, and
you know, we had a chance and.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Well to have your two modified stars up a gage
and jusually going out in a game where it's sold
out arena, it's on branch signe. I mean, this kind
of shows the growth of women's basketball. What what is
it like to watching it? I mean we all watched it,
but to.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
See it, it's it's obviously, ah a moment that.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
M has happened a lot in this building.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It's just not as many people were paying attention, you know,
outside the building.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So I'm happy that we can.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Put uh two players like that on the floor and
that the whole country is UH familiar with and.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Wants to see, you know, play well.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And they both have their unique styles of of playing.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And and as.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I was driving in today to the game, it brought
back to me the very first game we played here
might have been eighty six or eighty seven, and I
don't even know, Uh, I don't it was a doubleheader.
We played like at five pm, and the man we're
going to play at maybe seven, seven thirty eight o'clock,
(04:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Maybe we've been played at four thirty. I don't know.
And I don't think there were one hundred people in
the building. I don't And to drive up here and.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Know that there's gonna be sixteen thousand people here, plus
the game on national television, it doesn't seem like.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
That, you know, we're talking about the same same universe.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
But this is what's happened, this is where we are today,
and I'm proud to be.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
A part of the past.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Stage to you the second half, it seems like you
guys did a lot better job double a judrew which
is all on the floor, But you like about the
defense then, and how.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Did you was it?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I think anytime you know, you have somebody that you're
trying to limit, trying to minimize how many how many
opportunities they get, you're going to have to give up
something else, you know, And the decisions that we made
(05:20):
sometimes backfire.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
But the other team has to make it make it.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Back far, which means that all the people that were
helping off of they're going to get opportunities and they
have to they have.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
To make shots.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
But you can't get upset of your team for that
because that's what you wanted to do. The dilemma comes
when they start making shots and the guy you're trying
to mint, uh limit, is.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Still getting getting shots off.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
You know, So credit to them because they took advantage
of you know, what we wanted to do. We changed
it up a little bit in the second half, and
obviously it worked much better.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You know, you're Roger after the learning said one of
the biggest creases, there was a lot of contributions from
everyone else. How did you feel everybody socially regards to
contributed and.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Who weren't the starters?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Well, it's funny because I said the same thing and
you know, you look at there there there two best
players at twenty five and sixteen hours had twenty two
and twenty two, and then their guys had six nine, five,
six five and our guys had nine five five five two.
(06:35):
Not that not that big a difference, right, But in
order for us to win, generally speaking, you know, we
it's when do you make them? And it's also how
many ways do you have to score? They could score
inside on us today, which we understand that, but they
(07:00):
made threes they don't make, so that that ends up
being the margin in the end because we sho have
more free throw We made more free throws in them.
But in these games, if we don't make more threes
than the other team, it's going to be really hard
for us to really hard.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Ochay, do you know two things you said? First of all,
you saw a lot of great things in the second half.
What were those great things? And then Sarah, a lot
of people look at this game and remember that she
missed free throws at the end, but the overall performer,
she yet and I really seemed like she matured.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Well, she's always been mature, she's always had that game,
and I think.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
She's devastated at the second free throw.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
The third one she missed on purpose, so I've done that,
but the second one is the one that bothers her.
But just the fact that that's where she was at
that moment in a game like this, and how she
plays and how she performs, and the fact that we
go to her in big moments, that says a lot
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of what I think of her. What we did in
the second half, the second half, we ran some stuff
that we actually practiced, like we didn't make up an
offense and then run out there and try to run it.
Like in the second half, the ball moved, people moved,
We got the shots we wanted, We got shots from
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where we wanted to get them, by who we wanted
to get them. And as I said, the entire first
half there was none of that. Zero when I say
you're exaggerating, no, I mean there's zero of that.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
The first half was just a mishmash.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And the average person said, well, why is that? Well,
I'm an average person too, and I would say, yeah,
why is that?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Emily thin Daniel, it seemed like KP really epowered that
back for you guys. In the third port Pole to
her acted pasically and then what led you to move
away work?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
If if you're if you're struggling on on the defensive
end like we were, I do think you got to
change up the way the game is being played. And
we talked to KK a lot about that, that one
of her biggest roles should be to come in and
(09:35):
disrupt the game and change the way the game is played.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And I thought she did that, and.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Uh, we did it as a team, but she has
the physical ability to do a lot more and today
she did.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
That leads to or getting some opportunities, and obviously it
led to us getting a lot of opportunities.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
You've been saying to this point in the season that
once you get through this stretch to get to Christmas,
here have.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
A much better idea for your team. So now over here,
where do you feel your teams? Well, if you look
at our first half team, we're nowhere.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
If you look at our second half team, we're a really,
really good basketball team that can probably beat anybody in
the country. So I lied, I don't know any more
now than I did when I told you that I
would know before Christmas. But obviously certain things are evident, right,
(10:44):
you know, we have to get more contributions from our bigs.
We have to continue to work on, you know, our
younger guys not getting like this, you know when it
gets like when shots on falling right away, to stay patient.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
But all I know, all in all, it's it's if
I just focus on the first.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Half, then I would be really disappointed going going into
the holidays.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
But if I take it as half.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Of that and then the other half, I really really
think can help us win any game that we play, well,
we just can't put ourselves in holes like that. So
I know we're going to fight, and I just don't
want to wait until we're bloodied and half beaten up
before we start fighting.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Fam all, I self bad teeth Chris Copland, Washington, ghost
of what was your impression of Tiki or and the
challenges that she presented today?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Same as very similar to when she was at Stanford,
you know, and similar to when she was in high school.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
There's a.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
There's a limit on what you can do because she's
so quick and so powerful.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
So if we can keep her.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
We thought, if we could keep her outside the lane
and make her take shots without getting two feet in
the lane, that would be to our advantage. And she
made a bunch of those, So now all of a sudden,
you have to come out a little bit, and now
her quickness starts to become a factor.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And uh and then.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
She's matched up a lot in the second half against
one of you know, Sarah as a freshman, and I
think she showed her experience and how to you know,
how to get positioned and how to get the shots
you want. And there's nothing that she did today that
surprised me because I've always had so much respect for
(12:55):
her as a player, but her strength and her quickness
and if she starts making that opened fifteen sixteen foot,
then it's it's lights out.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Awesome, Gina.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Two kind of maybe related questions.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
First, another game where you guys just could really hit
any shots from three? It's kind of happened in some
of these bigger games too, So I mean, is that
just a matter if you guys are cooking easy?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Can help with that? She's fully back? Or how can you?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah, that that's that's the million dollar question, right, how
do you how do you learn to make these in
these games? And as I said, how many we get tonight?
(13:47):
Twenty twenty four? Yeah, twenty three six for twenty three.
That's on sixty two shots. That's about the ratio.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
That we want. But I don't know that.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I don't want to see how many of them were like
great and how many of them.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Were like mediocre.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So if we continue to get great ones, I mean,
I think we're a good three point shooting team, but
I can't keep saying that we have to prove it
and not just one night. You know, we got to
do it more than one night.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
So then what else you went to the Chili Sarah
line up? Yeah, second half?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You've also that you're also saying that your bigs the
other base and could be horseboy, get a balance, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah, that's another one. Yeah, I uh.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I always believe in people that I think that they
can do what what we need them to do. And
we've said that we're we're going to be the team
that we want to be. If we're getting contributions from
those guys, what does that mean, Well, they have to
(15:10):
be able to make a fifteen footer.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
They've got to be able to keep the ball out
of the length.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
So if we're playing five against four because we can't
get any offense out of them, and we need offense,
so it's tough to play that, you know, So I
hope that we can continue. I mean, I know they're
both young, and I know Jenna's a freshman. But if
(15:37):
we can find a way to get some consistency where
we feel comfortable throwing the ball in the lane and
we think you can get a basket, then that takes
a lot of pressure off of regards right now, there's
too much pressure. So I got to figure that one.
That's all me and the coaching staff.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
So going back to zero, what was your message to
it was important you just kind of told us a
few minutes ago, or if you wait to kind of
discuss the kind of make gain.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Moment how to move toward.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, I mean when I when I see these things,
I I see a kid that you know, some people
run from the flame, you know, and other kids run
to it. She she wants to be in that situation.
She she she relishes that situation. Nobody's more uh disappointed
(16:31):
than she is right now in that moment. But I
would put her in that moment every single game for
the rest of the season and have confidence that you know,
she's going to come through. So, yeah, this is not
this is not something that that is going to sit
(16:53):
well with Sarah, but hopefully only for a day or two.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
What's TV girl here?
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Can you just talk about Juju and kind of how
she stacks up against you know, other elite players in
the country now, but also just kind of in the
all of your career where she stands and sit intern
of like top tap that you see.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Uh, you know, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I don't. Obviously I don't see her enough. You know.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Now we played them twice now, but every scouting port
that you put together or every film that you watch,
it's it's.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Very evident that one player can't guard her. You know,
you have to hope she helps you. You have to
hope she misses.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
And when she gets a little bit of a rhythm
like she got in that first half, it's it's really
really difficult too, like any good player, and she's certainly,
you know, a tremendous, tremendous guard.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
So yeah, there's qualities that she has that are just unique.
You know, there haven't been many, you know, at a
young age that but you know, you will probably have
to ask somebody that's younger than me.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I've probably seen too many more than a care to.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
You know, she put a few minutes. But just what
did easy break through night go for? She progressed, me,
hope can be after Christmas. I don't know. I think
As is.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Obviously a high level elite player, and uh, I do
believe that when we get her one hundred percent healthy
and ready to go, that that certainly enhances our team tremendously.
Uh not having played and maybe one a couple of practices, Yeah, I'd.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Love to have her out there.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I just.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Mhm, I just didn't. I just choose not to today
for whatever reason.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Mm hm.
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