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Message: [QUOTE="BRS24, post: 4925829, member: 197"] So yesterday's eye sweating episode was from Paige's Gatorade commercial. Today, it's a snippet of this article about Geno, but more important, a Nika appearance. Tells me everything I knew about her, her fierce loyalty and honesty, and most of all, her caring. One tough european telling another exactly what to do. This is right after his mom Marsiella passed away: [INDENT][I]In a coaches meeting, he said it felt like he was on a plane, and no matter how many times the flight attendants told him to put on his oxygen mask before helping others, he just kept trying to find everyone else’s masks. He ignored his own mask until he couldn’t find it anymore.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I][/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]And on the team’s road trip to Butler, he hit his breaking point. He couldn’t hide the weight of what he was carrying anymore.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I][/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I][B]During the pregame walkthrough, point guard Nika Mühl looked at him and said, “Coach, what are you doing here? Go home.”[/B][/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I][/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]He knew she was right. Auriemma pulled the coaches together and told them he needed to go home. He’d be back, but he wasn’t sure when.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I][/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]“I think he finally realized if he wasn’t in a better place, then there was no way he’d be able to help the players,” Dailey said. “He wasn’t able to give them what he thought they would need from him. … It was hard to see him like that.”[/I][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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