Seg 3 -WBB Show w Geno Feb 7

Geno and Bob on Tennessee's subbing patterns and the play in the post

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Back here with Gino Rima on the women's basketball coaches shown. Later,
we'll visit with Rebecca Lobo. We'll talk about last night's
game a bit and also get into her thoughts on
the national picture. All right, you mentioned substitution patterns by
Tennessee in this one. ESPN showed a graphic mid early
fourth quarter. Somewhere in there they had seventy five substitutions

(00:22):
to that point, as opposed to fifteen for the Huskies.
And I mean, I remember Doug doing this at the Paul,
particularly in the first half of a game. I think
it was Stewie's senior year at the old place back
on campus. But I've never seen anything like what Tennessee does,
and Kim Caldwell's made it work. It's fun to watch
from from a fans standpoint, but man, I imagine it's

(00:43):
it's got to be tough on the coaches to figure
out and the players what the matchups are like. And
I know you harped about that in practice leading up
to this game.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Certainly the matchups are tough, you know, And again that's
why you know you have to be you have to
be aged, you know, and you have to know how
this gatty import reads. You know, you got to know
who we're guarding. You know, now all of a sudden,
it's a new kid coming in. But at the same time,
you know, it's not that complicated because everybody that comes
in does the exact same thing, you know, So there's

(01:16):
going to be you know, if you'd have told me
we you know, we were going to force more turnovers
than they forced on us, I would tell you you're crazy.
But we did no, And so the substitution pattern CAUs
there's a lot of herky jerky and you've got to
be able to manage that, you know, And for about

(01:38):
thirty five thirty seven minutes we did, and for a
couple of minutes we didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, I mean the points off turnovers is amazing. Twenty
four to nineteen twenty six fast break points, which is
a season high for your team. Let's shift gears. Now,
we haven't talked about Page's performance. She did have eight
assists in the game, and she was a big factor
in helping break the press and get in some easy hoops.
But you know, look, when you play a big name opponent,
she's the number one player on the list to defend,

(02:04):
and the Tennessee in a lot of ways made it
out for her, But it sounds like from your postgame presser,
at times it seems like maybe she was her own
worst enemy at times.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Last night, Well, I mean that usually happens. You know,
it takes two to create, you know, that kind of scenario.
And I would say that Page's Page's performance was you know,
when you think about it's a two point game, and
I thought she had a horrible game. I don't care
about how many assists she had. There was a lack

(02:34):
of aggressiveness in her part in hunting down shots and
taking you know, taking the shots that were available, you know,
passing up a three to take a twelve footter that
she missed, you know, things that she doesn't. You know,
you would think, why, you know a while all of
a sudden, would you do that, you know, not getting
to the free throw line enough, or I think a

(02:55):
game of that magnitude you know you need and that
goes crazy too. I mean, you need your best players
to really be aggressive and hungry and hunting down opportunities
instead of just taking what comes. And yeah, you know
it's hard to win at that level, you know, unless

(03:15):
you have contributions from your best players.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Is that hard to do, Geno? To change that moment,
that the mentality that you have. I mean, it seems
like you've always harped on it page at least in
some games, tries to go hunting for shots early. But
then it seems like things change a little bit against
the tougher opponents. Where is it should be tougher to
be able to create?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, I mean it's going to be harder, and it's
got to be you know, it's got to be a
point of emphasis that you have to know this. You
know we're coming after you and and you've got to
be able to handle it. As you said, you know,
there's just too many times when when it's not and
there's no sugarcoating it, there's no getting around it. You know,

(03:58):
they're going to be really physical with you and you
have to use that against them. And there's no other
way to get around that either. You know, the physicality
of the game is going to be what it is,
and you know, we've got to figure out a way
to get past that rather than letting it affect how

(04:19):
we approach it, how we play the game.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
You know.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
So, yeah, how do you change that. How do you
figure that one out? I don't know, you know, I'm
used to my best players hunting down shots and big
games and wanting to touch the ball every possession and
wanting to attack every possession. So it's it's just hard
right now to figure this one out.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Defensively, briefly, second half of the Butler game, you played
a lot of two three zone, and I think and
you haven't played much of it this year. I think
maybe a little bit last night. Not much, though. Is
that just something you're trying to tinker with as you
get later in the season, just trying some different things defensively?

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, I mean it works better when we have a
big lineup out there, you know, when we have our
small lineup, it's hard right to go and play that zone.
You know, you really open yourself up to a lot
of different things. So I would like to do it more,
whether you know, especially with our starting lineup, the size,
you know, having having Sarah on a wing instead of

(05:23):
having her in the middle obviously changes a lot of things.
But there's a time and place for it, and I
want to do it more. And I think we are
going to do it more. We are going to work
on it more, you know, especially when we you know,
try to figure out how to keep people out of
found trouble, how to keep people from you know, attacking
us one on one. But the same things are going

(05:44):
to show themselves, you know, and in our in our defense.
You know, you've got to be able to keep people
in front of you, you know, and we've got to
do a better job of I guess teaching them how
to do that, but I mean I don't. I don't
know any other way. So whether it's man or zone,
you still have to be able to guard your man,
you know, and people think it's a zone, you guard

(06:06):
an area, You don't. You guard a man in your area.
So you still got to be able to you know,
force them where you want to force them, and stick
with the scattering import So changing things up is a
little is good, you know. I think we almost got
to turn over a couple of times, and I think
we changed some things for them, But we've got to

(06:27):
be bigger in order for that for that zone to
really work right.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Final segment with Gino ahead of Yukon Hockey and Rebecca
Lobo here in just a minute here on Learfield, stay
with us