Seg 2 - WBB Show Dec 10 w Geno

Bob & Geno on some of the bench players making and impact

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Back with Gino Oriama on the Women's Basketball Coaches show
him your host Bob Joyce. Women will take on USC Saturday.
We'll be at the Galen Center in Los Angeles. Pregame
at five with Dead Fisk and myself. That's five Eastern,
tip off shortly after five thirty on the Yukon Sports Network,
the Varsity Network app, and the Varsitynetwork dot Com. Gino
Sarah Williams seventeen minutes was four for five, eight points,

(00:22):
four boards, three assists in the game. Where's her confidence
level at right now? Because I know at the beginning
of the year it seemed like she was very rushed
and you know, still trying to figure things out as
a husky. Where have you seen her progress?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
It kind of a you know, it flows even within
the even within the same quarter. I think you'll see
first where she's able to get the ball, where she
wants to get a bucket, where ever she wants it, uh,

(01:03):
you know, and defensively, she'll you know, she'll be in
the right place at the right time. And uh, I
think our big thing with with Sarah is her ability
two Uh, stay in the moment, stay consistent, don't dribble

(01:27):
yourself out of a really good possession. Don't rush yourself
out of something, am h. Don't commit silly foules so
you can stay in the game. I think little by little,
you know, she's chipping away at all the things that
I believe she has the ability to chip away at

(01:51):
and and become more reliable score inside, become more reliable
rebounder and defense to pressure or presence. I should say so,
I see it, but it's not on an ongoing basis yet.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, you know, having played one system for three years
and the responsibilities that she had on her shoulders from
a scoring and rebounding standpoint, then to come here where
you're playing with a lot of really good players on
your team. I mean imagine it's got to be a
big adjustment for her just to adjust to what the
I mean, the expectations are high, but at least the

(02:30):
style and what you have around you. It's got to
be a big adjustment for her.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
It is, I think it is. I think it's a
big adjustment for anyone who comes into this program after
they've been used to a different style of play at
the pace of the game. And yeah, the expectation level,
the amount of scrutiny on the game. All those things

(02:58):
take takes. I'm getting used to. But she's a talented
kid who has a lot of skills to work with.
And uh, she's a she's a thinker, unfortunately, and she
has a tendency to overthink things. You know. I like
kids who are really smart in school and don't think

(03:21):
much on the basketball court. I like those guys. Is
that a little bit much of a thinker?

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Is that more of an issue you have to deal
with this stay and age with the players that you
have as opposed to previous years or or even like say,
ten years ago. Is it different now?

Speaker 2 (03:39):
I don't I don't know. I think we always have.
You always have your share of players who just play
and players who have to think things through all the time.
And we've had some great players who were thinkers. And
we asked a lot of really good players who just play,
you know, who don't get you know, who don't get

(04:02):
into too much of it, but you know, should I
do this or that or this? Well? What if this?
What if that? Just let it be comm instinctive, you know.
And and I think we had a long talk the
other day, and she understands it. I think she she

(04:23):
understands it, and I would expect that with each practice,
in each game that we play, it'll get it'll get
better and better.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah. Well, one thing that you know, in the years
that I've done this with you, one of the phrases
I always hear is figure it out because there are
so many options, Like particularly in the offensive vent, it's
not just run a particular play and has to run
this way. You could do X Y and z off
certain movements. And that's obviously something that takes time to

(04:52):
figure out, not just here at Ukon, but I'm sure
it's other places. But that's part of the challenge though,
because you really it's that f in line between thinking
about it and not thinking about it. Once you get comfortable.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
It is, it is, and and the freedom that we
give and we give our players, uh that comes that
comes out of that comes out a price that comes
out of costs, you know. So Uh, sometimes it's easier
to play when everything is really structured for you, and

(05:30):
you know, you go from a to be to seed
to be and that's that. And I've never aspired to
that because I think the it limits your ability to
grow as a player. Now you just become really good
at running a play. So giving you a lot of

(05:53):
you know, a lot of options, are a lot of
freedom to just play within you know, the concept of
our offense. It takes, uh, it takes some time because
sometimes you know, young, your first here with us. No,
I have three options on this. Yeah, well, while I'm
thinking about the first first one, second one, and third one,

(06:16):
all three are going. Now you waste the five seconds
thinking about it.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, it's like a freshman quarterback looking at his past patterns, right.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Exactly, that's right. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
That's pretty absolutely yea more Gino. The U kind of
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