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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks for joining us on the Women's Basketball Coaches Show.
Our last two segments feature Maggie Veoni, who has seen
every Ukon game like I have this seasonct insider dot
Com basically most of the newspapers across the state, including
the Journal Inquirer in the in the greater Hartford area. Maggie,
first of all, thanks for doing this. Now you're in
Cincinnati with us. You went to the Montgomery in I
(00:23):
guess for the first time. Now, that wasn't on my
radar of this trip. I just felt like I saw
McCormick and Schmid's downtown. So that's where dem and I went.
But what was your first experience to Montgomery in the
boathouse right along the river. What was that like for you?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
She went to the original one in Montgomery. Okay, that's
the one that Vicky told me to go to, so
I did. But it was delicious, new walk in and
it's just like Ohio Sports Membobilia everywhere, like every walls
covered in it and it was huge. I had the
pork rooms and they were delicious. Bart off the bone,
(00:57):
super meati, super flavorful, had a sweet potato, which is
my fait. It was really good.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It was. It made Ohio beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Maggie Veoni food critic. We got Dan Connelly, the ice
cream critic. Now you're the food critic, so we're good
on it. I mean you can be.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I will take that title. All right.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Eight games into the season, what are you some of
your overall thoughts on what this team's done so far?
Because outside of the fourth quarter against Louisville and the
second half against Michigan, they have not really been challenged.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, they look really good.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I think it was yesterday or twodays ago at the
the South Florida coach Michelle Woods Baxter, so that they
look even better than they did last year in terms
of Yukon and I think they the combination of Sarah
and Asy is just so lethal itself. But then you
add in Blanca, you add in Sarah Williams.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You're adding in now you know, Kayley, Heckel and KK.
You're adding all these pieces that are such.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Good additions that the mesh so well with Easy and
Sarah and doesn't have to be just Asy and Sarah
every night like we've seen the past two games, right,
I think Azy had ten points, Sarah had fourteen. You know,
they don't have to go out and shoot light out
every single day. And they have these shooters now that
can they can like that jump in with their numbers
called They don't miss it beat, even though maybe their
(02:14):
roster is young and a lot of the new pieces,
they just they act like they they perform. I said,
they've been to this whole team together for a long
long time, if that makes sense. I've been really impressed.
I think everyone looks better than they did last year.
KK looks way improved, Asy looks way improved. Sarah looks
crazily even better. And we didn't think that it was possible.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
What she does?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You know, I think of Sarah and I think of
the closest thing to Maya Moore since Maya Moore in
a Yukon uniform and in a game against USF Tuesday night,
she's diving on the floor going for loose balls. Your
best player's doing that, that's a great sign.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
She did that twice, I think in the first quarter. Yeah,
just threw her body at it.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I was just like, oh, what can't does girl do
like she is just she's clearly the front runner for
National Player of the Year, and rightfully so.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
And this is just near two.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I as a viewer of basketball and fan of basketball,
I am just excited to see what year three in
your four brings.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, it's scary what Sarah can do. The thing about
this Yukon team is the depth that they have. I
know that this has been talked about. I think you
wrote about this this week, is the depth. The second
team can be as productive with the right combinations. But
certainly when you're going eight maybe nine deep, with the
talent they have coming off the bench and the constant
pressure that they bring, which Gino likes to do, that's
(03:36):
usually a pretty good sign. And they've shown that so
far absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I mean, look at Ali'sabelle, right, She's come off the
bench and just thrived and this role as an energy starter,
as a spark plug. I think having her, having Kaylee,
having all these pieces that have some experience another built right,
Ali played last year, but a lot of ton same
with Kaylee at USC. It just helps that their depth
is quality depth, not just quantity death and you Gino's
(04:03):
mentioned that a lot of having actual eeasable pieces that
can fit in anywhere. Right, he can plug them in
with Sarah and easy, he can plug them in alone.
Maybe Caroline who has experience, so that death I think
is probably arguably their most important piece this season.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
You know, I told Gino I think opening night that
Sarah will probably lead this team and assists by the
time the season's over, and so far that's the case.
But even with Paige and Caitlin Shed and God, they're
still averaging close to twenty four assists per game. That's impressive.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, I think it's I think South Florida was seven
straight games with twenty or more assists, right, which is
just like mind boggling. They're moving the ball so well.
I asked Sarah about it after South Florida and she said,
you know, this team, they're smart teams. They make the
right reads. They have a lot of chemistry. They're able
to know where each other wants the ball, where each
(04:51):
other is going to be to get the ball. And
I think that's kind of rare of a team that
has this many new pieces and as many young pieces.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You're right here, twenty assists plus and seven straight games
I might get for Sunday.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Look at that, I read.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, that's my cheat sheet. Maybe you should take a
picture and share it with the folks for a news
story someday, or at least on social media, like I do.
What are your thoughts at asy so far? Finally healthy.
You've seen the benefits of her being in the gym,
not rehabbing per se, but just getting herself in the
best shape of her life. I mean, this girl's got guns.
(05:27):
If you haven't noticed, I like that.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, she looks you can just feel the confidence excluding
that Kim knaws that word off of her like it's
just like it's so like infascuating and just what's the
word I'm looking for, Like just contagious? Right Like, you
can see that when she walks around, her shoulders are back.
She doesn't have any doubt in her game, any doubt
in her knee Like. She looks like she's walking and
(05:53):
talking as if she is a fifth year senior, right Like,
she looks like she knows what she's doing.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
She's happy to wear the.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Responsibility of being the leader, of being a Phisier senior,
of having all these eyes on her.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You know, she's expected to go one, two, three, four
in the in the in the lottery draft in April,
So I feel like she has a lock this new
part of her game.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I think winning final foremost outstanding.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Player have really helped booster confidence and proving her look
like you are better and you are back right like you.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
This is the easy.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Fund that we all thought was coming to Yukon, that
did come to Yukon for a brief minute and then
obviously got sidelined with the injuries, but has really come
back from those injuries even better than what we thought.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Maggie will wrap up the show with me in our
next next segment when we come back and is the
Ukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show here on Learfield Back in
a minute
Thanks for joining us on the Women's Basketball Coaches Show.
Our last two segments feature Maggie Veoni, who has seen
every Ukon game like I have this seasonct insider dot
Com basically most of the newspapers across the state, including
the Journal Inquirer in the in the greater Hartford area. Maggie,
first of all, thanks for doing this. Now you're in
Cincinnati with us. You went to the Montgomery in I
(00:23):
guess for the first time. Now, that wasn't on my
radar of this trip. I just felt like I saw
McCormick and Schmid's downtown. So that's where dem and I went.
But what was your first experience to Montgomery in the
boathouse right along the river. What was that like for you?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
She went to the original one in Montgomery. Okay, that's
the one that Vicky told me to go to, so
I did. But it was delicious, new walk in and
it's just like Ohio Sports Membobilia everywhere, like every walls
covered in it and it was huge. I had the
pork rooms and they were delicious. Bart off the bone,
(00:57):
super meati, super flavorful, had a sweet potato, which is
my fait. It was really good.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It was. It made Ohio beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Maggie Veoni food critic. We got Dan Connelly, the ice
cream critic. Now you're the food critic, so we're good
on it. I mean you can be.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I will take that title. All right.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Eight games into the season, what are you some of
your overall thoughts on what this team's done so far?
Because outside of the fourth quarter against Louisville and the
second half against Michigan, they have not really been challenged.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, they look really good.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I think it was yesterday or twodays ago at the
the South Florida coach Michelle Woods Baxter, so that they
look even better than they did last year in terms
of Yukon and I think they the combination of Sarah
and Asy is just so lethal itself. But then you
add in Blanca, you add in Sarah Williams.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You're adding in now you know, Kayley, Heckel and KK.
You're adding all these pieces that are such.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Good additions that the mesh so well with Easy and
Sarah and doesn't have to be just Asy and Sarah
every night like we've seen the past two games, right,
I think Azy had ten points, Sarah had fourteen. You know,
they don't have to go out and shoot light out
every single day. And they have these shooters now that
can they can like that jump in with their numbers
called They don't miss it beat, even though maybe their
(02:14):
roster is young and a lot of the new pieces,
they just they act like they they perform. I said,
they've been to this whole team together for a long
long time, if that makes sense. I've been really impressed.
I think everyone looks better than they did last year.
KK looks way improved, Asy looks way improved. Sarah looks
crazily even better. And we didn't think that it was possible.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
What she does?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You know, I think of Sarah and I think of
the closest thing to Maya Moore since Maya Moore in
a Yukon uniform and in a game against USF Tuesday night,
she's diving on the floor going for loose balls. Your
best player's doing that, that's a great sign.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
She did that twice, I think in the first quarter. Yeah,
just threw her body at it.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I was just like, oh, what can't does girl do
like she is just she's clearly the front runner for
National Player of the Year, and rightfully so.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
And this is just near two.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I as a viewer of basketball and fan of basketball,
I am just excited to see what year three in
your four brings.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, it's scary what Sarah can do. The thing about
this Yukon team is the depth that they have. I
know that this has been talked about. I think you
wrote about this this week, is the depth. The second
team can be as productive with the right combinations. But
certainly when you're going eight maybe nine deep, with the
talent they have coming off the bench and the constant
pressure that they bring, which Gino likes to do, that's
(03:36):
usually a pretty good sign. And they've shown that so
far absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I mean, look at Ali'sabelle, right, She's come off the
bench and just thrived and this role as an energy starter,
as a spark plug. I think having her, having Kaylee,
having all these pieces that have some experience another built right,
Ali played last year, but a lot of ton same
with Kaylee at USC. It just helps that their depth
is quality depth, not just quantity death and you Gino's
(04:03):
mentioned that a lot of having actual eeasable pieces that
can fit in anywhere. Right, he can plug them in
with Sarah and easy, he can plug them in alone.
Maybe Caroline who has experience, so that death I think
is probably arguably their most important piece this season.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
You know, I told Gino I think opening night that
Sarah will probably lead this team and assists by the
time the season's over, and so far that's the case.
But even with Paige and Caitlin Shed and God, they're
still averaging close to twenty four assists per game. That's impressive.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, I think it's I think South Florida was seven
straight games with twenty or more assists, right, which is
just like mind boggling. They're moving the ball so well.
I asked Sarah about it after South Florida and she said,
you know, this team, they're smart teams. They make the
right reads. They have a lot of chemistry. They're able
to know where each other wants the ball, where each
(04:51):
other is going to be to get the ball. And
I think that's kind of rare of a team that
has this many new pieces and as many young pieces.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You're right here, twenty assists plus and seven straight games
I might get for Sunday.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Look at that, I read.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, that's my cheat sheet. Maybe you should take a
picture and share it with the folks for a news
story someday, or at least on social media, like I do.
What are your thoughts at asy so far? Finally healthy.
You've seen the benefits of her being in the gym,
not rehabbing per se, but just getting herself in the
best shape of her life. I mean, this girl's got guns.
(05:27):
If you haven't noticed, I like that.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, she looks you can just feel the confidence excluding
that Kim knaws that word off of her like it's
just like it's so like infascuating and just what's the
word I'm looking for, Like just contagious? Right Like, you
can see that when she walks around, her shoulders are back.
She doesn't have any doubt in her game, any doubt
in her knee Like. She looks like she's walking and
(05:53):
talking as if she is a fifth year senior, right Like,
she looks like she knows what she's doing.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
She's happy to wear the.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Responsibility of being the leader, of being a Phisier senior,
of having all these eyes on her.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You know, she's expected to go one, two, three, four
in the in the in the lottery draft in April,
So I feel like she has a lock this new
part of her game.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I think winning final foremost outstanding.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Player have really helped booster confidence and proving her look
like you are better and you are back right like you.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
This is the easy.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Fund that we all thought was coming to Yukon, that
did come to Yukon for a brief minute and then
obviously got sidelined with the injuries, but has really come
back from those injuries even better than what we thought.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Maggie will wrap up the show with me in our
next next segment when we come back and is the
Ukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show here on Learfield Back in
a minute
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