00:00fireworks yesterday. Coach James Young joins us now here. I love talking some college hoop as we
00:05go around talking on the college level and also on the big level there with the NBA, man. All
00:12right, Coach, what was your takeaway with Dawn Staley and Gina Auriemma yesterday with that
00:17sideline? I mean, that's all people are talking about now. And that's the sad part about it,
00:24Sills, is honestly, we're talking about that. And what we really should be talking about is the
00:30thorough domination that Dawn Staley and her Gamecocks had last night over Gina Auriemma.
00:36Besides maybe her, I haven't seen a team completely dismantle UConn that way when UConn can't score,
00:44maybe since the days of the last super big rivalry that Gina Auriemma had. And that's Pat
00:50Summit, him getting to the mountaintop. So, you know, it takes away from what I thought was a
00:56fantastic performance, but I want to take people back to what I think as a coach.
01:02As a, you have to play to your advantage. UConn versus South Carolina, skill work versus athleticism
01:09slash toughness, right, defensively. You tell your kid you got to play a certain way.
01:16We play our way and you adjust to the officials. It was obvious from the start that South Carolina
01:23was able to be aggressive on the ball, limit cuts, and really force UConn out of their rhythm.
01:31So, Dawn played to it. Dawn probably played it to the referees, played it to his kids. Her kids
01:37adjusted. Gino's kids didn't. And that's why you saw Gino at the end of the third quarter of
01:42Holly Rowe really go tee off when the officials, because he knows that his team was getting out
01:46muscle. And the only way to fix it is to try and find a way to turn it around. Well,
01:50if you know,
01:51early in the third, fourth quarter, there was a couple of quick bang, bang, bang whistles.
01:54So you thought, okay, well, the game's going to turn. The game was way too late and the referees
01:58settled it back down. So I credit Dawn Staley for what she did. Now about Gino. Gino's upset.
02:06There was no handshake. Traditionally, you come out two, three minutes before the game,
02:11shake hands with the other coach, whoever, and hold staff, whoever comes out first or second
02:15does it. And then after player introductions to the NCAA tournament, coaches need a half
02:19court shake hands. Gino's like a hugger. Dawn didn't come out. So Gino was mad. But I'll
02:25tell you this right now. You think Gino was doing this if they won? No, of course not.
02:31Gino was upset. And I think, and I think this is a thing that maybe I'm reading this a different
02:36way than others. I think what it did is also changed the narrative and it deflected off the
02:42fact that Gino's team got their tail kick last night and the narrative has shifted to what happened
02:48post game to what happened during the game. And sometimes when you're a coach, you do that
02:53to protect your kids.
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