Seg 1 - WBB Show w Geno Dec 4

Bob & Geno look back at the wins over Xavier & USF, and of course Sarah Strong 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi everyone, and welcome to another edition of the Women's
Basketball Coaches Show. Bob Joyce your host with coach Oriema
as he's on the phone today. Next couple of shows
we'll be recorded, but we'll be back at Cafe or
in early January. Husky's coming off well an NCAA type
of weekend with a little travel involved Cincinnati and Tampa,
but two games in three days, which is.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Something you know that we haven't really had yet this season.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
It's been a very i don't know, fractured schedule where
you got a lot of time off between games. But
this weekend, I think you got everything accomplished that you
hope that you would get out of your basketball team
with two impressive wins this weekend.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah, we did. And you never know, you know what's
going to happen on these road trips. You know, you
you kind of.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
You know, you pray for good weather.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's wintertime, and so we got pretty good weather except
for you know, the trip home was a little.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Bit dicey because of the weather here.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
But you know, you hope that it goes pretty smoothly.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
But you prepare for anything, and on a basketball on
a basketball level, you know, you have one day between games,
which is great because it's like an NCAA tournament as
as you said, and you hope for mature enough to handle.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
You know, the first trip like this of the season.
So everything went about as well as you can expect.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
You know, we we we played.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
You know, we played well. We we got some things
accomplished that we set out to accomplish. And the players
that you that you look for to continue playing well
did and the ones you want to see make progress did.
So all in all, it was it.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Was a great trip. Gill.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
You have depth this year, which is something that's well,
you had some of it last season, but in previous years,
all the injuries, it's something you just didn't have that luxury.
Is that something that you're still adjusting to the challenge
of making sure players get enough minutes?

Speaker 5 (02:10):
Uh, it does take a little bit of work.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
You've got to plan ahead.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
You can't.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Get caught up in.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Either side of it.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
You know, I want to play my I want I
want to keep this lineup out there a long time
because they they're playing great. They can't get caught up
in that. And you also be careful that, hey, I've
got to get all these guys in no matter what.
So you're trying to balance that as best you can. Again,

(02:49):
still working on trying different combinations, Which ones work best,
which ones you gotta avoid, you know, who has to
be on the floor at which time. Like you said,
when we when we were down to six players, seven
players max, not even seven, a lot of times we

(03:13):
didn't we didn't have to worry about that. We just,
uh we knew who was going to be out there.
And there's a there's a there's a lot of upside
to that as well. You know, players get to be
really familiar with each other, They great chemistry. Yeah, so
there's there's a there's a plus to having uh some depth,

(03:37):
and you you hope that they earn it. You know,
you can't just throw them out there just because hey,
we have to throw them out there. You hope that
they that they earn it and they value it and.

Speaker 5 (03:48):
That they are productive.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
So so far we've gotten a lot of that, and
you know, we'll keep doing it as long as that happened, right.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Sarah Strong fourth double double of the season on Tuesday Night,
fourteen ten.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
She had four assists. She leads a team in that department.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
I think she's number one and assist to turnover ratio
nationally a block couple of steals. But the signature, one
of the signatures of this program is loose balls. You're
going after it, You're diving when your best player is
doing that geno that that pretty much sums up what
this program is about.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
It is and it's it's kind of mind boggling through
sometimes that I look back and when we put highlight
films together. You know, we have clips that we show
our players. You know, there's you know, there's Superb diving

(04:46):
on a loose ball. You know, you know, sliding into
the scores table. There's Diana Tarassi on the floor. You know,
there's Renee Montgomery. There's maya more, you know, players that
you would think, you know.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
They're really really good. They don't necessarily do that.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
That's left for like the role players. But for us,
it's it's it's.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Been kind of a culture thing in our program that
it doesn't matter if you're a kid trying to make
the team, hoping to get in the rotation or you know,
your first team all market. You know, if there's a
loose ball, then we're getting it. And and I think

(05:34):
that's that's a great example for the entire team.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
I know this may be unfair for Sarah strong, but boy.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
There's a lot of Maya at least when I watch
Sarah play. But I know some of their skill sets
are different. How similar are those two from when Maya
played at you kind of what Sarah does now?

Speaker 5 (06:00):
Mhm?

Speaker 3 (06:00):
I think similar in that they can single handle and
carry a game in a lot of different ways. Maya
was not as much in the ball handling and assist world,

(06:23):
but she was more uh of a shop blocker even than.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Uh than than than there is and and.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
More. I think, uh from a you know, just thinking
score all the time. You know, uh, there is a
little bit different than that. She does get into those modes,
but that you know why she probably leads the country.
You know, she loves to pass the ball. So there

(06:58):
are similarities in that they can carry a team, they
can get fifteen, twenty rebounds, they can score thirty, impact
the game so many different ways, but they each have
their own signature styles and again I love it that
the results are the same but they go about in

(07:20):
a different way.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, more work, do you know? In a minute?

Speaker 1 (07:23):
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