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UConn beats Duke in March Madness THRILLER! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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But anyways, First things first, we got to get into the UConn and
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Duke game because that game was incredible.
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Yukon defeated Duke in the Elite 8 thriller 7372 to advance to
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their third Final Four appearance in four years.
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Freshman Braylon Mullins who was zero for four from three until
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that moment where he hit that 35 foot jumper just 0.4 seconds
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left to win the game for the Huskies.
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With under 10 seconds left and Duke leading by two, Kaden
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Boozer committed a bad turnover directly leading to Mullins game
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winner. UConn started the game a
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miserable one for 18 from three, but were four for their last
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five including Mullins Game winner entering the game #1
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Seeds were a perfect 134 and 0 in the NCAA tournament when
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leading by 15 plus points at halftime.
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Duke LED 44 to 29. This also marks the second
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straight season Duke has been knocked out after holding a
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massive lead following last year's Final Four collapse
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against Houston. With the win, Yukon advances to
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face the number three seed Illinois in the Final Four,
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looking to become the first team since 1970s UCLA dynasty to win
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three titles in four years. For all the Yukon fans, you
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should be excited. You should be very excited, and
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there's a lot of reasons why you should be excited, but not
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because of the three-point shot and what Mullins did at the end
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of the game. Because this is a freshman kid
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from Indiana didn't play very well in the elite Lead 8 game
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against Duke. As a matter of fact, he started
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off very, very slow. He didn't hit a three until the
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final shot of the game. I'm not going to blame Kaden
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Boozer because I know everybody all over social media, all the
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Duke fans are attacking him. He cried when he was interviewed
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by the media after the game. And you feel for the kid.
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You really do. You feel for the kid.
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And Kaden could go back and play one more year with Duke and
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maybe next year wins the national title.
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Who does? The fact here is this is the
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final time we're going to see Cam Boozer in a Duke uniform.
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And Cam Booster did not hideaway from how he felt after the game.
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He believed there were championship team Proctor might
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be going into this year's draft. This is a kid that had a very
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good Final Four, very good tournament last year, came back
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to win a national championship with this team, fell short
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again. And Duke to me was built to win
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this year. They had enough to win a
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national championship even with the injuries they had.
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They belonged. They belong in the Elite 8 and
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the Final Four. But there were a lot of
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questions going into this game and really was the battle of the
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coaches, John Shire versus Danny Hurley.
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And if I'm going to bet on a coach, I'm going to bet on Danny
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Hurley because he's done it twice in the last five years.
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John Shire last year fell short in the Final four against
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Houston, bombed it with two minutes left up by almost 12 or
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13 points, choked the team choked, they couldn't get the
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ball in. And Houston, who's not an
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offensive team, was shooting threes all over the court.
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Just absolutely, I'll play them the last 5-6 minutes of the
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second-half. And Duke lost and regulation
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going into this game, could this team keep an early lead and up
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by 15 after the first half, you would have thought Duke was
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going to run away with this game.
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Duke learned, Shire learned from the mistakes that they made last
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year against a Houston team that everybody believed they were
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better than Cooper. Flag was on his way to be the
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number one pick and everybody thought that team last year was
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good enough to win a championship, to win a national
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championship. And what did Duke do at the end
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of the season? They extended John Shire to a
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five year deal. He's one of the highest paid
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coaches right now in college basketball.
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Now, I'm not taking shots at John Shire.
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This isn't all John Shire's fault, but you call it time out.
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You know you're up by two, you know you're up by two, and you
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know the only way that Yukon can win the game is by three.
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There's there's no way Yukon wins the game unless you throw
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the ball away. And what I would say to my team
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when I'm on the sidelines because you called your final
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time out is boys, hold on to the ball, get the ball, get it
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across the court, hold on to the ball, let them foul you.
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You win the game. There is no way UConn wins the
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game because then you're putting somebody on the line.
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He's shooting 2. He's probably hit one of them
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and that's a four. That's that's more than enough
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in my eyes that they're going to be chucking up at 3:00.
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There's no way they're getting the ball in with 0.3 seconds and
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scoring a three-point. I just, I can't see it.
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But you gave Mullins and UConn 4 1/2 seconds to set up and get
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that shot off. And that in college basketball
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is an eternity. It's an eternity.
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And I don't know if I believe Danny Hurley believed that that
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was, it was even possible for UConn to come back after what we
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have seen throughout this game. But UConn fought and they fought
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and they fought and they fought right back into the game.
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And there wasn't like when, when you look at the team and you
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look at the comparable pieces that UConn had going into this
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game, nothing really stuck out. Nobody besides Reed had a good
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game for UConn. Ball didn't have a good game.
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Demari didn't have a good game. Caravan didn't have a good game.
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None of them had good games except Reed.
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Reed had 26 points and 9 rebounds, so they even their
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bench. If you look at Uconn's bench,
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nobody. Besides, how do you pronounce
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his name? Rebe?
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He's the only one that scored two points.
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Oh, I'm sorry, Smith did too. Smith had nine points, so they
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had two guys on their whole bench that scored.
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That's it. And it when you usually see
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something like this and Yukon's known to use their bench, Danny
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Hurley is known to use everybody on his bench, but he stuck with
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his his top five and he believed in these guys, obviously
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believed in these guys. And when you look at it, and
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Pitino said it best, when you trust a player, it doesn't
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matter if they're O for 9, O for 10, you're going to trust the
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ball in that guy's hands. And I don't know if it was drawn
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up or it was even thought of when the time out came around.
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If they steal, if we steal the ball, put it in Mullins hands.
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I don't know if Danny Hurley planned that, but boy, oh boy,
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did he look smart. And Danny Hurley was jumping on
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the sidelines when Mullins hit that three and as as well as he
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should, because I don't know if he really believed that it was
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possible for them to come back the way they were playing in the
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first half. They played horribly.
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There was nothing that stood out to me when it came to the Duke
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Blue Devils that they were going to lose that game.
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Nothing. And Boozer had a sensational
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game. Boozer played 38 minutes, 27
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points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists. He had two blocks.
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He had his best game on the tournament.
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You want your superstar to stand out in the biggest games.
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Cooper flag in the final four-game besides the elite, the
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elite Gay 8 game, he looked the best.
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But even in the final four-game, he played well.
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You want your superstar player to stand out and Katie Booster
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had the second best game for the Duke Blue Devils.
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He had 15 points. He probably had his best game in
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the tournament, but I believe he was too confident and he rushed
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the pass. He wasn't looking around.
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There were other guys around him that he could have gotten the
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ball to. All he had to, honestly, all he
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had to do was move the ball across the half court line and
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they win the game and he was right there.
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He's like 5 feet away from that. Why are you throwing the ball
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away? Why are you forcing the ball in
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places that you aren't comfortable doing?
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And that has something to do with coaching.
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If you want to blame some things on Shire, that was the thing you
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blame. Because when you call a time
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out, you had your final time out, you're telling your point
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guard who's on the court, make sure, make sure you get the ball
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across the line. Don't force the ball.
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Don't put yourself in harm's way where you're giving them 4 to 5
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seconds to get that ball off. Because at any given day, one of
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those guys shoot at three, he can go in.
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We've seen it. March Madness is the craziest
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thing. We've seen how many crazy
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things. Illinois did it, Iowa did it.
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There are other teams throughout the tournament that hit
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unbelievable shots at the tail in the game, either to take it
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overtime or win the game. This always happens.
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That's what's so fantastic to watch.
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When you watch March Madness, you're excited because you don't
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know what to expect. A one could beat a 16.
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A2 can lose against a 13. We've seen this before, and it's
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not like Uconn's a bad team. They were number two seed.
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Duke had to know that. Danny Hurley.
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For all the mysterious, crazy things that we've seen Danny
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Hurley do on and off the court, he had his team ready for this
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game. He had his team ready to commit
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if they fell behind in this game to push forward.
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And that's, that's to me, the value of a champion.
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The one thing you could say about a champion is you never
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say die. Everybody attacks the New
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England Patriots years and years ago against Atlanta.
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They were down by what was it, 25?
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28 to 3, Yep, 25 points. It was, I think halfway through
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the third quarter. 25 points going into practically the
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fourth quarter they were up the Atlanta was up 3 touchdowns.
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The chances of the Patriots coming back in that game was
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like 99.1%. There was no chance in hell for
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the Patriots to come back in that game and a lot of crazy
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things happened. Atlanta's defense was not
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playing up the par like they were doing in the 1st 3/4.
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Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and New England's defense and
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running game never said die. And even though I believe that
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game was rigged, I've said that many, many times.
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That's what you think and that's what you see as a fan of sports,
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the value of a champion. Champions find a way to win
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those games. Even if you're down by 20,
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you're down by 15, down by 5 with one minute left, you are
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not going to quit. And Danny Hurley is not one of
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those guys that quits. I know all about Danny Hurley.
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Hurley, in his career, even as a basketball player, he played for
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Providence. He was not a good college
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basketball player. As a matter of fact, his brother
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Bobby was a sensational 1. Danny was never going to play
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NBA basketball. Bobby was drafted, got into a
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car accident, never flourished as an NBA player.
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I know because I'm a Bobby Hurley fan.
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But I knew the family and their father, who was an elite high
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school coach in New Jersey, found a way to keep a basketball
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program open because they had no money.
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A private school that couldn't keep it open.
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The only thing that kept that school open was their basketball
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program. That says a lot about the Hurley
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family. All three of these guys found a
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way. Bobby Hurley won two national
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championships with the Duke Blue Devils.
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Danny Hurley has already won two national championships with
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UConn and their father won 2829 state championships.
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They're from a winning family. And when you go against a family
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of talented, smart athletes or professional coaches, and I'm
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not, I don't know what Bobby Hurley is as a as a NCAA coach.
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I don't know what he is because he never went to a good program.
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And until he gets to a program that can recruit the right
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players, we'll never know what Bobby Hurley is as a head coach.
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But we know what Danny Hurley is.
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Danny Hurley is a winner, a born winner.
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Nobody's going to take that away from him anymore.
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This guy took three teams to the Final Four in four years.
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How many coaches in NCAA history has done that?
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I'm going to tell you, probably not more than a handful, maybe
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not even that much. I don't even know what the
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statistic is, but it's it's it's not easy to do something like
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that. And it says a lot about their
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coach. It says a lot about what that
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regime has done for U Conn basketball.
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Remember, he took over for a coach that won a national
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championship. And then again, when you talk
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about all the different things that Yukon and the trials and
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tribulations that Yukon had to go through after last year, if
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we remember what happened to last year and Yukon, Yukon,
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Yukon lost early in the tournament, I think it was the
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Sweet 16. Round of 32 against Florida and
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Hurley came out. We talked about it.
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He was venting at the refs. So it was the round of 32 after
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that Danny Hurley after the game, I remember what he said.
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He blamed the refs and he said we'll be back next year.
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And then 60 minutes after the tournament interviewed Danny
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Hurley in his basement, his his little man cave.
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And I remember it. And they asked him what is what
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is the value of success? And Danny Hurley said, wait,
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that's the only word of success. If you don't win, there is no
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success and this man has found a way.
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John Shire, who has had some of the best recruiting classes in
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the last three years, has not bought a win.
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He hasn't even played in the national championship.
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Think about it. He has two guys right now in the
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NBA fighting for rookie of the year.
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One that's broke the rookie 3 point shot, 3 point field goal
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percentage in his first year as a rookie.
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And the other one who's a superstar on the Dallas
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Mavericks, who's going to be the face of United States
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basketball. Think about that.
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Let that, let that clear your, your whole thought on what John
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Shire is as a head coach. And I went back and forth with
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the JJ Redick thing. And I again, I'm not blaming
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this all on John Shire, but guess somebody's got to take
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responsibility. Somebody's got to because Cam
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Boozer is heading off to the NBA draft.
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You're going to get another top end or not top 2 recruits next
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year. When is it going to be enough
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for Duke? When is it going to be enough
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for the program to understand this?
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Like, this guy's not a winner. He's not a born winner.
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Look, it took North Carolina a couple of years to realize that
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Hubert Davis is not the guy. We all knew that he wasn't the
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guy. I don't think anybody's
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blindsided. Didn't understand what the Duke
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blood of a stand for college basketball coach K the Dookies.
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I know that Tommy is a Duke fan. I'm a Duke fan.
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I didn't expect Duke to win this game.
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But going up 15 points and a half, there was no way UConn
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comes back in this game. Not the way Cambusa was playing,
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not the way the team was playing defensively.
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Not not the way UConn couldn't put a bucket in the net for 5
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minutes in the at the tail end of the the first half.
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They looked horrible. Forster came back with a what
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was it, a broken foot? Foot fracture?
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Yeah, He was never supposed to come back at all.
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And he played for 14 minutes in this game, no points.
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He played a big part of them in the Sweet 16, moving on to the
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Elite 8. Why wasn't he used as much as he
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should have been used in this game?
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And I'm not taking shots at Kaden, but you saw throughout
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this tournament when Kaden had too much of the ball, commanded
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too much of the ball. He made mistakes.
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Forster is your veteran. This might be his final year
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playing college ball. I think it is his final year
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playing college ball. I would trust more in my veteran
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than a rookie who has not had enough time on the basketball
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court or season because of the Dukes depth.
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The Dukies. I was about to say the Dukies,
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but the fact here is U Conn is going to move on and a lot of
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people looking at Mullins and they're giving him a lot of
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credit. And Mullins, he's got a nice
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smile. He's a nice kid.
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I know I we were talking to Mike V, our manager throughout our
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our meetings yesterday and he says, oh, he's a prominent first
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round draft pick. I don't know about that.
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I think he plays another year in college basketball, gives
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himself a little bit more time under Danny Hurley before he
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decides to go into an NBA draft. But he didn't stand out in this
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tournament. Mullins did not.
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He's a freshman. He's not.
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He's nice to watch. He he's got a great shot.
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He's an Indiana alum. He's a high school champion,
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state champion in Indiana. You know, there's great
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basketball to be played in Indiana.
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Everybody knows that's Indiana basketball is everything.
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But he didn't have a great game. Nobody on this UConn team had a
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great game. Nobody except Reed.
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So what does it tell me about the Duke Blue Devils going into
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the offseason now? Well, it tells me two things. 1
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John Shire has one more year to prove himself to win a national
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championship, or at least get this team in a national
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championship. That's one, and he's got 2
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recruits, one that's I think #2 in the world #2 in the country,
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coming out of college, coming out of high school, he's heading
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into to play for Duke. And I think they have the number
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4 for prospect that's going to Duke next year.
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So you have two and four coming to this roster.
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And this team that's still fully loaded, still has a loaded team.
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So if Shire doesn't get this team into the finals next year,
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he has to be fired. You can't put talent after
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talent after talent and fall short.
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Look at Kentucky. John Calipari for years had the
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best recruiting classes and he won a national championship or
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two in Kentucky, and he found a way to get these guys to come
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and play in Kentucky. I don't know.
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At the time there was no NIL deal, so who knows if they were
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paying them under the table. We all know what happened in
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Memphis. We know the whole Derrick Rose
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thing after the fact that he was drafted by Chicago.
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Everybody knows that story. Who do you think was behind
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that? John Calipari.
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Why do you think John Calipari parted ways with Kentucky and
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Kentucky parted ways with him? Because the time was ready.
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It was ready to move on. There was no there was no more
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Calipari in Kentucky. Calipari realized that it was
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time to move on. That's why he went to Arkansas,
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that's why he took that contract, and that's why he
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moved on. And I'm not saying John Shire is
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at that level yet because John Calipari won national
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championships before that and he did it with different teams.
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My thought here is John Shire has one more year.
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The director over there at Duke for Duke basketball has one more
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year. If this team cannot get in to a
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national championship, there's no way this team keeps this
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coaching staff, this director and move forward in the future
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with this team. I, I just, there's nothing here
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that tells me that I'm excited about the Duke Blue Devils next
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year. I don't trust John Shire.
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I told everybody about John Shire.
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I never respected the fact that Coach Gay, out of all the guys
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he could have picked, all the guys he picked John Shire.
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Why? Because John Shire has been
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licking his ass for the last five years on the sidelines,
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kissing his rear end, going to practices and calling the
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offense. What is it?
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Because John Shire's face is going to be a meme for the rest
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of the year. Did anybody see his face?
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When Mullins hit that three pointer, it was more than
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shocked. It was like, oh man, I got to go
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and take a dump. I, I'm, I probably crap myself.
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I'm I better? I better be wearing my diaper
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tonight. Flabbergasted.
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He was absolutely shocked that that went in.
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That was almost a half court shot.
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It was 5 feet away from it. It was unbelievable.
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And it wasn't just like it banged off a rim and it tapped
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in. Remember the Halliburton shot
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when he beat the Knicks when it jumped off the rim up and it
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fell right in and everybody was like shocked and it went to
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overtime. Remember that it wasn't.
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Like that? It was a swish that went right
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in. Mullins look like he was.
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He was shocked himself. It was like I don't know what he
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was thinking. I I don't know what to say after
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that shot went in, but I can tell you what Kaden Boozer was
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thinking. Why did I do that?
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I just cost my brother and my team a national championship
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because they were on their way. There's no way they lose against
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Illinois. There's no way Duke loses
27:29
against Illinois. No way.
27:31
There's no way. Now they go to a national
27:34
championship. John Shire looks like he's a
27:36
genius. Maybe they lose if they lose
27:38
against Arizona or they lose against Michigan.
27:41
Who knows, But at least they get to that national championship,
27:44
what John Shire has been fighting for for the last couple
27:46
of years now. There's no national
27:50
championship. John Shire is going to be back
27:52
to the drawing board. Duke is going to be back to the
27:55
drawing board. They're going to be wondering
27:56
what do we need to do? What did we do wrong?
27:59
Why did this happen? It's always why, why, why, why,
28:02
why and what John Shire said at the end of the game makes no
28:06
sense. It doesn't.
28:09
None of it does. I know there's a lot of people
28:13
that stand for what they believe.
28:16
And he says, well, you know, we practice this every single
28:19
practice. We practice this every single
28:22
time we're out there and we're practicing these particular
28:26
situations. Well, if you practice it, the
28:29
first thing you're telling the player is don't throw the ball
28:33
away. Hold on to the ball, let them
28:35
foul you. There's 4 seconds or five at
28:39
the, I don't remember how much, 5 seconds left of the game.
28:42
Don't throw the ball away, get it across.
28:45
They had a chance. Kaden had one guy to beat.
28:48
All he had to do is walk right past that line 5 feet away from
28:52
him. The game's over.
28:54
They foul him. He it's one of those free
28:56
throws. There's no way they shoot a
28:58
three. There's no way they're going to
28:59
be able to shoot a half court. They would have to force the
29:01
ball like Kate, like Duke had to do at the end of the game.
29:04
There was no way that was going to happen.
29:08
Stats and statistical tell you there's no chance.
29:11
But when you see 4.6 seconds left and they have a chance to
29:15
set up, there's a very good chance if you get the ball in
29:18
the right guy's hand and in the position to get that ball off,
29:22
there's a good chance that ball can go in.
29:25
And it did. And boy, oh boy, that shot is
29:28
going to be a remembered not just in UConn history, in Elite
29:32
8 history for many, many years to come.
29:35
Yep, you mentioned it. Like you, Dan Hurley is one of
29:37
those coaches that are never going to have a guy quit
29:39
whatsoever and they trusted in starting lineup.
29:42
You mentioned the very lack of bench points outside of Malachi
29:44
Smith that is kind of considered a six man.
29:46
He's kind of a French starter anyway.
29:47
But they trusted those guys to just play tight, play smart and
29:52
still trust in their identity. They didn't shoot threes all
29:54
game. They still tried to shoot threes
29:56
and hope they got back into it. They kept missing free throws.
29:58
They were beating themselves in a lot of ways for a while, but
30:00
they stayed resilient on defense.
30:02
They stayed resilient in terms of getting to the foul line and
30:04
it allowed them to get back into this game.
30:06
And obviously they know that they've been vulnerable to
30:09
press. I was even saying because I
30:10
watched the Duke St. Johns with you, I was saying for
30:12
a while that the way Rick Pitino was pressing was a lot of the
30:16
same issues that they had against Houston and Calvin
30:18
Sampson and that defense and Tino was doing it throughout the
30:21
game a lot of the time there. And I was saying Hurley should
30:23
adopt that same identity At the start of the second-half.
30:25
You're down by 15 points. You're not getting anything from
30:28
threes. Try to get some transition
30:29
baskets off steals with the defense.
30:31
I was saying they should have pressed for a while, played a
30:33
Bob Huggins West Virginia type identity where he would press
30:35
the whole game because John Shire, as evident though last
30:38
year does not know how to have his team set up good inbound
30:41
plays. And obviously Kaden Boozer throw
30:43
the ball away. Now Boozer could have done two
30:45
different things. I think one of which is just
30:46
threw it a little earlier when he had more space.
30:48
I thought maybe if he threw it a second earlier I think he would
30:51
have gotten it off fine Either way.
30:52
The other thing you can do is just dribble back further and
30:55
then try to push it to a teammate.
30:57
Is it me, and I want to say this to all the fans out there, is it
31:01
me that watching this tournament, every single one of
31:04
these teams had problems shooting free throws throughout
31:06
the tournament. Every game that I watched, every
31:09
game I watched that some of these elite teams had problems
31:12
shooting free throws. St.
31:13
John's against Duke had problems at the tail end of the game
31:17
shooting free throws. And that's the problem.
31:19
It's the easiest shot that could cost you.
31:22
And remember with these games are so close, it's 1234 points,
31:27
whatever it is. And I don't know what Vegas had
31:30
the what was it? What was the over on this game?
31:33
What was that 160? 51156 I believe .5 because I
31:37
know Paulo said he had a friend that was betting on it.
31:40
So 156.5 or whatever it was, I mean, think about it, there's
31:45
something to be said about what Vegas knows before going into
31:49
this game and I and most of the time they're 68% right.
31:54
So you're betting on it. You're probably throwing the
31:56
money away if you're betting against it.
31:58
If you bet for it, you're not making much money on it.
32:01
And that's the thing about college sports.
32:04
And everybody says when you watch college football and you
32:07
compare college, college basketball is probably the
32:09
hardest sport to bet on because you don't know what's going to
32:12
happen with the last two minutes, 3 minutes of the game.
32:15
Because we've seen crazier things, especially against Duke,
32:19
especially against the Duke Blue Devils.
32:22
They just can't buy a win when they're up big money.
32:26
And I say big money because usually when you're up 15
32:29
points, that's that's pretty much everything.
32:31
You could believe that this team is going to the Final Four.
32:34
You can bet all the money going in.
32:36
I thought after the half there is no way UConn comes back in
32:40
this game. No way.
32:42
There's no way can I? Not the way Duke was.
32:43
Playing can I present you this one with I with two coaches that
32:46
I know you don't like? Is John Shire the anti Kyle
32:49
Shanahan? Is Duke get too conservative
32:52
late in the game? Because a lot of the Duke fans
32:54
when I posted your article on Reddit was saying that I don't
32:57
think that Duke keeps their foot on the gas a lot of the time
32:59
either trying to get more foul shots because it's not like they
33:01
were shooting the free throws badly like they were in the
33:04
first game with St. John's.
33:05
I just don't think they were getting enough opportunities and
33:07
they were trusting too much of that secondary scoring that just
33:10
wasn't there. Forcing too much on Caleb Foster
33:12
where he's still kind of playing her.
33:14
Kaden Booze is like you were saying, maybe was making some
33:16
bad decisions with the ball. I just think they were trying to
33:19
like think they were just too content with a 10 point lead or
33:21
A7 point lead all the time. John Shire over the last couple
33:26
of years and especially in the tournament, even against North
33:29
Carolina this year in the regular season, we have seen
33:33
John Shire play it safe. Coach K has never played it
33:37
safe. If you ever watch Coach K coach,
33:40
especially in the tournament, he made sure he ride or died with
33:44
his his defense. He's going to put pressure, he's
33:47
going to press on you. He's going to get the ball and
33:49
he's going to get the ball in the in his best players hands.
33:51
He did that with Christian Leitner in the 90s.
33:54
He did that moving forward with all the different guys, Jason
33:57
Williams, all the guys that we've seen in the past, JJ
34:00
Redick, all these guys that were great players playing college
34:04
basketball. He made sure that he put them in
34:06
the right position and got the ball to them as quick as he
34:09
possibly can so they can get a good shot off.
34:12
With John Shire, I just think he just plays everything safe.
34:15
Everything that he does, even when he speaks to the media,
34:19
it's like he doesn't know what to say and when he says it, it's
34:22
awkward. Everything that he says, it's
34:24
just awkward. Did anybody watch the press
34:26
conference after the game? I mean, I feel bad for Cam
34:30
Booster because there was a lot of memes and a lot of different
34:32
things that were posting up on TikTok of him beating up Shire.
34:35
I mean, something people made some jokes about it.
34:38
He punched out Shire and that was that was a little.
34:42
A little crazy for you? Too extreme.
34:44
Yeah, but Cam Boozer, he his eye, he has a black, black and
34:48
blue eye. His eye was practically shut.
34:50
He got, I think it was in the first half when he got hit in
34:53
the face and and he he played hard all game.
34:58
After that, there was nothing. You can't blame Cam Boozer for
35:01
not showing up. Everybody said that Cam Boozer
35:03
throughout this tournament has hurt himself in this draft.
35:07
I don't think so because after that game Cam Boozer showed why
35:11
he's a top three draft pick. Cam Boozer showed why you can
35:15
rely on him in a big game when you need him to score big shots.
35:18
10 for 21/1 for 4/3 point line, 8 rebounds, 2 blocks.
35:26
He played as well as you possibly can in an Elite 8 game
35:30
to get your team in the Final Four.
35:31
Yeah, and you mentioned the secondary scoring being an issue
35:34
for Duke. It was also an issue for UConn,
35:36
and they never adjusted to try to take away Reed at any point
35:40
to extend the offensive rebounds as well.
35:42
UConn was getting a lot of extra possessions that way as well,
35:45
where that still will add up overtime.
35:47
As much as they were missing threes, they were still able to
35:49
nod back. It wasn't like a natural.
35:51
All right, One huge run got UConn back in the game.
35:53
It went from 15 to pretty steadily 10 for a while and
35:56
pretty steadily 7. And it was like for a while
35:58
UConn was not able to get past seven.
36:00
But eventually it was going to break if they just made either
36:03
one stupid mistake, which there were a couple bad turnovers
36:05
before that too, or they were missing the free throws.
36:07
Duke had a couple of times I missed the second-half of the
36:09
one on ones with the free throws.
36:10
But again, I don't think that was as big of an issue as it
36:13
was, was just the inbounding plays, which if you're John
36:16
Shire, that's gonna be the first thing in in next year's camp to
36:19
start a just practice inbounding plays, for the love of God.
36:21
So, Quinton. Couples.
36:23
Thank you. Bring me in.
36:24
Quinton Couples was sending me text messages.
36:28
I was in the hospital when this all was going on.
36:31
I was in the hospital, I was not doing very well.
36:34
I I'm dealing with kidney stones and all Quentin Colpo's can tell
36:37
me is there goes your bracket, there goes your bracket.
36:43
And I said, well, I still got UConn moving on, he said.
36:46
And it went back and forth. Quentin likes the competition.
36:49
I like the competition too. And I don't care who wins this
36:53
bracket because it's all luck, but.
36:56
He personally. He personally.
36:58
It is locked. Are you going to tell me?
37:00
Are you going to tell me that the bracket is in luck?
37:03
No. Get out of.
37:04
Here you got to have a mindset beggars to get a 68% right, but
37:08
we don't have no idea. Make it make sense.
37:10
Quentin, how far is U of UNC going?
37:13
No I didn't. That's that's what I'm saying
37:15
mindset wise. I knew they weren't going to go
37:17
very far. I told y'all that was like they
37:20
put. Out in the first round.
37:22
Yeah. So it's just, you know, winners
37:23
understand, certainly. Winners Winners Duke was.
37:28
That's what it is. Duke was what, like 4 seconds
37:31
away from winning and winning? And you ready to fire the coach
37:34
and at least 8. That's what I'm not
37:35
understanding so. They should, but they're not
37:38
going to for. What they just gave him ext 5
37:40
years. I know that's what makes me
37:42
even. More survive in my 3.
37:45
Do you think I want to see Duke go on next year with John Shire
37:49
after what I've seen the last two seasons?
37:51
It doesn't matter. It's going to be the same
37:53
result. You got a #1 recruiting class
37:55
coming in again. Because I still won't learn how
37:57
to practice their inbound place. Guess what's going to happen
37:59
again next year? The same thing.
38:01
No matter what coach is on the side.
38:02
That's just what's going to happen.
38:04
They're not. They're not they they're only
38:05
good for regular season success and high draft picks.
38:11
That's what they do. Hold on one second.
38:13
Wait a second, Duke wins national championships?
38:17
What do you, what do you speak? What is it?
38:19
Wait, wait a second. Years, first of all.
38:21
It doesn't matter. They win national.
38:22
Championship How many does? North Carolina win.
38:25
I mean, N yeah, they. Just won, yeah.
38:28
They won two years. Two years more recently than
38:30
Duke. Yes, they won one.
38:32
They won one. Yeah, that's a lot.
38:34
And after that, before that, what did they win?
38:37
Who? Your North Carolina Tar Heels,
38:39
what did they win after that? That was Roy Williams leading
38:42
and that was like 10. Years for that history, Lane
38:44
Who's Who's leading in national titles?
38:47
What are you talking about? Hey.
38:48
They're both the same. They're both the same.
38:50
Five, I'm pretty sure. Y'all got five?
38:51
Yes, I think we got SIS. Yeah, well, I think you.
38:54
Need to OK, all right, some of that wine and champagne, are we,
38:58
are we losing that too or are we winning that?
39:00
What are you win and go? Losing what?
39:01
Are you talking about Yeah, we winning?
39:03
What do you? Want.
39:03
What are you talking about? Head to head venture.
39:06
Head to head matchup. That rival, we've been so even
39:09
forever, it's, it's crazy how statistically even it is.
39:11
I think you might be ahead now, but it's not not by much.
39:14
It's not by much. Listen, listen, I just want you
39:17
to just tell me what it is. I don't want to know if it's
39:20
even if it's close. Microscopic.
39:22
Sample wait a. Second, wait a second, wait a
39:24
second. Wait.
39:25
A second, wait a second, wait a second.
39:28
So I am going to help you out. So you're telling me because
39:31
North Carolina has what, two or three more wins against Duke in
39:36
a lifetime of basketball that makes North Carolina a better
39:40
program? Is that what you're?
39:41
That's what you're talking about is.
39:43
That what you're thinking, how many it takes to win?
39:45
What do you mean? How many does it take to win?
39:46
What are you What are you talking about?
39:48
Win anything, Bets anything, Games anything.
39:52
What are you talking? How many?
39:53
How many does it take? Does it take 1-2 or three?
39:56
How many does it take? What?
39:57
What are you trying to get to? I don't what are you getting?
40:00
At you're better if you're ahead.
40:02
So if you're winning, the more. If you win it the most you're
40:05
hit, you're better, you're better program.
40:07
Oh, you're better. That's what it is.
40:08
That's what. It is.
40:09
That's what it is. That's why we have ratings.
40:10
All right, So the Yankees won 27 World Series, all right?
40:14
But the Red Sox have won more championships in the last past
40:18
15 years than the Yankees. Does that make the Yankees a
40:20
better organization in the last 15 years?
40:23
Yes or no? No, it doesn't.
40:25
No, it doesn't. No it doesn't.
40:29
OK, historically better franchise?
40:30
Maybe. I would say the Yankees are
40:32
probably better than the Red Sox right now.
40:35
That's not what I'm saying. It's not what I'm.
40:37
Speaking, it's a more respected franchise historically.
40:39
It's not even. Close.
40:40
That's not what I'm speaking about.
40:42
I'm talking about success. In the last 15 years, who's more
40:45
successful, the Yankees or the Red Sox?
40:47
All right, the Red Sox. So to me, in the last 15 years,
40:51
who's been a better franchise? The Red Sox.
40:53
The Red Sox. That's I'm a Yankee fan, I'm not
40:56
going to hide behind. It and the college basketball
40:58
analogy to this is comparing UCLA is the most championships
41:02
of all time but they haven't won one I think since the 80s and
41:05
UConn is won 6 championships on their the chance for seven and
41:10
they've all done it since 99. It's the same logic.
41:12
No, what I'm saying is you can't refer to history and then ignore
41:16
a part of history. That's my thing.
41:18
I'm not You can't to defend your argument.
41:20
You can't slide it to 15 years versus the overall.
41:24
So overall, says one team. And then you go to, Oh no, let's
41:27
go to the last 10 years, the last 15 years, and let's use
41:30
that history instead of the last 100 years.
41:32
So let's go back. So let's go back.
41:35
Let's go back to history because you like to look at history, all
41:38
right? How many teams were in the major
41:40
leagues in the 50s? You're history, buddy, you know
41:43
how to tell me. How many teams were there
41:45
Speedy? It was most of the National
41:47
League, not a lot of the. Americans How many teams?
41:49
Speedy, I believe. I want to say it was 20.
41:52
It was less than that, OK, less than that in the 40s and the
41:56
50s. So, well, now we're looking. 16
41:59
Errol 16 in the 1950s. 16 all right, so 60, so there, so real.
42:04
And there was no wild card. There was none of that.
42:07
It was if you get you're the best team in the American
42:09
League, you're the best in the National League, you're playing
42:11
in the World Series. That's how it worked.
42:13
There was no rounds, there was no divisional, there's no the
42:16
LALCSNLCS, there was none of that.
42:19
OK, now let's come to now. Now what do you have to do to
42:22
win a Major League championship? What do you have to do to to get
42:27
to a World Series? You got to go through three
42:29
rounds to get to a World Series and then play in A7 game Series
42:33
A a brutal 7 game series. That's what I'm saying.
42:36
And that's what you can't compare errors, but you can
42:39
compare the last 15 to 20 years. You can.
42:43
You can. And if you would ask me right
42:45
now who has been more successful in the last 20 years, the Duke
42:50
Blue Devils or North Carolina Tar Heels, I'm going to say
42:53
Duke. I am going to say the Duke Blue
42:55
Devils. That's my argument.
42:57
Based on success wins, the lost totals, talent.
43:02
You laugh, but it's true. I looked it up.
43:06
UNC's won one more title, six to five over Duke, and they've won
43:11
three titles more recently than Dukes won three titles, but it's
43:16
close. A small win because national
43:20
champion, but you when you're not getting this.
43:22
But that's the argument here. When you're going to a
43:25
tournament, it's all about luck. You know you don't get it.
43:28
It is. It is you.
43:30
Can't just one off skiing? It's luck Errol, don't you think
43:34
though? Like a good a well coached team,
43:37
they would know that if there's only 10 seconds left on the
43:40
clock, it's a 10 second. I am not saying I'm not.
43:43
You know what I mean. I'm not saying John Shire is a
43:46
good coach. I have taken shots at John Shire
43:49
on the show a million times. I can't stand him.
43:52
He's a terrible head coach. So if that's what you're trying
43:54
to throw at me, he's at the, I'm talking about when you look at
43:58
when you're watching the tournament, you're watching the
44:00
bracket and you're betting on the bracket.
44:02
The I wrote a story about it, the chances that your bracket is
44:06
100% flawless. It is very slim.
44:11
It's it's, it's your guess against mine.
44:13
That's what it is. There's not a chance in hell.
44:16
And, and usually there might be one or two guys in the whole
44:19
world that has the perfect bracket.
44:21
And when you look at these teams, they're so evenly
44:24
matched, even when you look at yes, they are.
44:27
Yes, they are. When you look at them, they are,
44:30
man, there's a lot of them. Yes, a three seed is very much
44:35
you can match up against an 8 seed.
44:36
Well, no one matches up with Arizona, I mean.
44:40
Yeah, you keep saying. Even even match.
44:43
Well, I mean, we got a few of those games to talk about,
44:45
Errol. There's other guys going to face
44:47
UConn in this Final Four. My here's the facts, guys, and
44:50
we will get into that in just one second.
44:52
I, I want to finish, finish what I have to say here because this
44:54
is what really bust my bubble. And I, I understand what Q likes
44:58
to do. He likes to get onto my skin.
45:00
He likes to argue and I like to do.
45:03
Is it really because when you're watching, when you're watching
45:06
the national championship, like when you watch hockey, watch the
45:09
NHL playoffs, you could predict who the best teams are.
45:13
You can predict right now going into the playoffs who are the
45:16
best teams right now in hockey. Three best teams in the Central
45:19
Colorado, Dallas, Minnesota. OK, and who's the best in East
45:22
Tampa? Who's the best in East?
45:24
The three teams, the best team Carolina, Buffalo, Buffalo.
45:27
OK, I'm going to predict here that one of those three teams in
45:31
the West and one of those three teams in the East is going to be
45:34
in the finals. Predict it.
45:35
You want to put it on. I will put whatever you want on
45:39
it. I will put whatever you want on
45:41
it. But here's the.
45:42
Thing. Here's the thing, I I'm just
45:44
saying I'm, I'm giving you, I don't know.
45:47
I got to, I got to look at it. I got to see how who's healthy.
45:50
I mean, the playoffs haven't started yet, so I'm not going to
45:52
sit here and tell you who's going to win.
45:54
My argument here is when you put two and two together and you
45:57
understand how it it works, you will understand why I'm saying
46:01
that the NCAA Tournament, March Madness, it's all about luck.
46:05
It's all about luck. It really is.
46:08
It's all about luck. Because anybody would have
46:12
thought watching Pitino go against John Shire and they were
46:17
up by 1 going into the second-half, especially they
46:20
were up at 1.9 points against Duke in the second-half that
46:25
they were going to pull away because Pitino's just that much
46:27
better of a coach than John Shire.
46:29
But what happened who came back made their shots.
46:33
Campers are hit important free throws and they beat the
46:37
Johnnies at the end of the game. So what I'm trying to say here
46:42
is if you're going to predict things and you're going to point
46:44
things out, the one thing you cannot predict, you cannot point
46:47
out and I'll say it again is predicting what's going to go on
46:51
in this in the in March Madness and what's going to happen when
46:55
it comes to Arizona and Michigan and now Illinois.
46:59
And even though Illinois is not matched up very well against
47:03
UConn, I wouldn't be surprised if Illinois beats UConn if they
47:07
come out strong and they shoot the ball the way they've been
47:09
shooting in this tournament. I'm just saying here that's all
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my argument. Because you said everybody's
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evenly matched, so that would only make sense.
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I would say right now, yeah. Utah State is just as good as
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Arizona. I would say right now when you
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look at what these teams have done so far in this tournament
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and you can see that you can credit these teams on what
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they've done, that I believe that all these teams are evenly
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matched, all of them. Even what we've seen berries is
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done in the tournament and Arizona is done and, and, and
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what they did against Purdue in the second-half, which was
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shocking. I would say that because Purdue
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looked like they were running away with the game.
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They were up by 7 or 6 going into the second-half.
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They had a great game plan and they choked.
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They couldn't hit a lick in the 1st 5 minutes of the second-half
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and then Arizona took over and, and they started scoring and
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then they played catch up. And when you play catch up
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against Arizona, you don't have a lead against them and you
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can't defend against their top two players.
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And they've had and and Purdue had problems doing that and
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hitting shots in the second-half, especially last 10
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minutes of the game. There was no way they were
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winning that game. Thank you to all the fans,
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will be back on Thursday. Speedy, who do we have all?
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Right, nothing. Got another draft prospect.
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This one is a safety slash outside linebacker from Navy
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football. 8:20 PM. Joining us, he is Jackson at
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Campbell is his name. Spread his sheets.
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Do you want to do that? No.
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Do you know a rooster is a cock? Did you know that?
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Whoa, mind blowing. It it is mind blowing.
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