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Michigan beats UConn to win the National Championship! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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So a lot to get into tonight. We have the championship game,
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NCAA tournament, UConn versus Michigan for all the marbles.
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Is it UConn? And I'll say this again, what
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Danny Hurley has done has been remarkable.
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If he wins another national championship, that'll be 3 and
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four years. The last person we've seen this
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is who? Speedy.
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Who do we remind? John Wooden.
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John Wooden, one of the greatest NCAA coaches, if not the
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greatest NCAA coach of all time, not even Coach K Roy Williams.
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Any of these guys is none of them have done it like Danny
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Hurley has. It's it's a remarkable,
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remarkable story. If you think about what Danny
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Hurley was as a college player, as a basketball player, He
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wasn't Bobby Hurley, who won two national championships.
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He failed over there in Providence and, and it's slowly
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but surely he was unsure where he was going with his career,
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became an assistant assistant coach in college and slowly
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moved up in the rankings and eventually took over UConn.
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And he's just really done an unbelievable job.
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Almost took the LA Lakers job a year ago.
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And it's been a remarkable, A remarkable story for the UConn
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Huskies. It's it's unbelievable.
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I love it. Final Four Recap of the national
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championship and the national championship preview In the
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first game of the Final Four, UConn beat Illinois 71 to 62,
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advancing to their third national championship game in
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the last four years. Taris Reid had another double
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double with 17 points and 11 rebounds, and both solo Ball and
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Braylon Mullins shot very well with from three.
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In the second game of the Final Four, Michigan dominated Arizona
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91 to 73 like I predicted to advance to their first national
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championship since 2018. A day.
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Mara LED Michigan with 26 points, 9 rebounds, while five
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other Michigan players scored double figures.
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Michigan guard Yaxel Lenenburg will play in tonight's national
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championship through an MCL strain, a sprain he suffered in
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the first half versus Arizona. Michigan is favored by 7.5
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points in tonight's national championship game.
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Now, I will say this, OU Ucon fans should be very, very
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excited and there's a lot of reasons why you should be very,
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very excited for this Game 1. Danny Hurley to me, out of both
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coaches, I'm not taking shots at anything that we've seen so far.
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May has been sensational and there are a lot of people that
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were predicting that May was going to take if if he won the
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national championship of Michigan, take that North
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Carolina job and run. But stories coming out over the
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last 24 hours is he's not taking the job, He's not even
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interviewing for the job. He's staying with Michigan
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unless somebody else offers him a job.
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Hey, maybe one of these NBA teams, because it seems like the
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Lakers might be looking for a new coach at the end of the
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season. But nevertheless, what Danny
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Hurley has done over the last couple of years has been
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absolutely remarkable. And I'm, and I'm not a UConn
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fan. I, I do root for St.
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John's and Hofstra, all these New York teams.
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There's nobody here in Long Island that really stands out a
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Stony Brook. Stony Brook's made the, the, the
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tournament how many times over the last 10 years?
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2 So Stony Brook is not a great program, but Hofstra, Speedy
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Claxton, I was rooting for them. They get knocked out by Alabama
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and now you look at Saint John's.
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We were rooting for Saint John's even though they got knocked out
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by Duke in the second-half when they had a one point lead going
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into the first half. Yukon is the only thing that
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really stands up for the tri-state.
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Now I'll say this about Long Island.
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There's a lot of non Yukon fans here in Long Island.
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Even if they're the Big East. They root for Villanova over
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Yukon and the Big East has been very, very good.
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If you think about the teams that we have seen over the last
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couple of years, Villanova has won multiple national
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championships, Yukon that's won multiple championships, St.
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John's has gotten better with Pitino, and over the last couple
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of years the Big East has really been good.
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If you want to look at divisions or conferences, I would say the
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Big East in the last 10 years has been as good as anybody.
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That says a lot about how they're transitioning
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conferences and what is the SEC, what is the Big 12 or the PAC 12
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or the Big 10, whatever, whatever you call these
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conferences now. We used to think that they were
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going to move these conferences into two conferences, but Danny
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Hurley has been remarkable. He has been sensational and
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anybody that takes shots at him because of his personality, what
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he does on and off the basketball court, who he points
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at, what he did to Zach Edie, what he does in the game, head
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butting at referees, yelling at coaches on the other side of the
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the court. We've seen it all with Danny
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Hurley. He's the the Bobby Knight of
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these days of basketball. You love it.
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You love that enthusiasm. You love the purpose of who he
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is, what he sticks up for. And he he really does believe he
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is the best coach in college basketball, maybe the best coach
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in all of basketball. But when we watch that game, and
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I'll say this, I did not believe Illinois at any point.
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I know I'm not sure what Vegas had, what was the point or what
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what was the. 1 1/2 but it was fluctuating.
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It was Illinois, right? They had Illinois winning the
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game. I did not think Illinois had any
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chance in this game. One, Illinois has never been
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here before and and the last time they were here was years
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and years ago. If they were, they were never in
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this position as Danny Hurley has done it so gracefully over
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the last couple of years and done it at such a high level
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with different teams. These aren't the same players.
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It's not the same portal players that he's brought in, the same
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recruiting class that he brought in.
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These are different players. They're running the same
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offense, the same defense. And that's what's remarkable.
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And you look at college basketball, usually they're one
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and done. It's not like that anymore with
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the NIL deals, the money that's being brought in.
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These players rather stay in college basketball than flee to
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the NBA and fail to be great players there.
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UConn has been fun to watch. And I said it when I looked at
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the the way the bracket was set up that UConn was destined to
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get to the Final Four, the way it was really set up with Duke.
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Duke was the only team that really stuck out to me that
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could have beaten UConn, that could have beaten the and it was
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the number one seed and it was as good as anybody throughout
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the season. What worried me about Duke was
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the injuries and consistency. I don't, I don't trust John
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Shire. I do trust Danny Hurley.
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Danny Hurley has done it enough. He's proven it time and time
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again that he could take any team to a national championship
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if he's put in the right position.
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If the bracket fell right, it doesn't always fall right with
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these teams. Look at them last year.
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The bracket didn't fall right for him.
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Who knocked him out? The national champion, right.
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It was Florida that knocked him out, so they lost against
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eventually the national champion Florida Gators.
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If they beat the Florida Gators, maybe they win four in a row.
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And I really do believe and we'll get into what Michigan
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did. A completely dominating against
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Arizona. It wasn't even close.
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I know Fish and I know Q loved Arizona throughout the
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tournament. Everybody had Arizona winning a
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national championship this year, even if had Arizona winning the
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national championship, because when you look at the talent, the
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talent stands, the offense and and and the great point guard
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play everything. They stood out throughout the
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tournament, throughout the season where they were as
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dominant as any team. But it's UConn Terrace Reed who
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has been as good as any player on this UConn Huskies team
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throughout this this tournament, Braille and Mullins who has been
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the Mr. I would say Mr. Luck because I'm not saying he was
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luck shooting, but this guy made one of the greatest shots we've
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ever seen. Not just the UConn Husky shoot,
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but in national championship or national bracket history we've
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never seen anything like that. With 0.4 seconds left he shoots
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almost a half court 3 and sinks it with a swish and ends the
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Duke Blue Devils run again. But what UConn stands for is
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they play team defense. They rebound very, very well.
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They play team basketball throughout every single game.
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And even when they're down, they were down against Duke.
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They were down in a lot of these games in the first half.
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They found a way to scrap back. They're scrappy and champions
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find a way to win no matter how bad they're down.
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All you got to do is scrap 7654 points, play defense and and
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they've been sensational. There's really nothing to say
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about the UConn Huskies and I congratulations to Illinois.
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They had a great year. Their run was sensational.
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But when you have Caravan playing 35 minutes, he has not.
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He's one of their best players, if not their best player,
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overall player. He has not had a good
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tournament. 35 minutes, 9 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists,
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one block. You expect more from Caravan
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Solo Ball. He's been back and forth
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throughout the tournament. Braille and Mullins, who could
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be a first round talent this year.
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Jaden Ross. But when you spread out your
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team offense and you're getting from all different parts of your
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team, including your bench, you're going to be very hard to
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beat. And they're a very good
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defensive team, very underrated. Very underrated because when you
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get into the tournament, you play a different style of
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defense. You play more prevent you, you,
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you, you smother teams, great offensive teams.
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That's what they did to Duke in the second-half of that game.
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Duke had their way in the first half.
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And what did Danny Hurley do in the going into the first half?
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He changed up the defense. He played a different style of
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defense. And that's the thing about a lot
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of these coaches. If you're a great coach, you if
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it doesn't work, if you play his own, you play man to man, you
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find ways that is going to defeat your opponent no matter
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if you played that defense all season long or you're
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transitioning that way in that particular game.
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That's what stands for a good team.
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Say whatever you want about UCOD and and everybody challenges
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Danny Hurley. Throughout the year, Danny
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Hurley has been very highly spoken.
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He doesn't like anybody he knows or he believes he's the greatest
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of all time. It doesn't matter what he says.
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All he has to do is put up and shut up.
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But he puts up and he never shuts up.
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And that's something that's to me, what I love about Danny
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Hurley. Bobby Knight wasn't a guy that I
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loved. I couldn't stand Bobby Knight
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when he when he coached the Indiana Hoosiers couldn't stand
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him. He was throwing chairs on the
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court, dancing around, yelling at referees, kicking the ball
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out in the fan to the fans. We've seen so many things Bobby
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Knight do. Danny Hurley's worse.
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Standing early. If he could, he'd smack the hell
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out of everybody. He'd smack the hell out of his
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own team and smack, smack the hell out of the coach or the
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coaching staff on the other team.
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He doesn't give a crap. He goes out there.
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He he teaches and he trains these guys to be killers and
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that's what they are. Taris Reid has been, and I'll
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say this for right now, if, if Taris Reid decides to go into
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this year's draft, I don't know if he's a first round talent, he
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might be a late first round talent, but I would look at
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Tarus Reid if I'm a team at the tail end of the first round and
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pick him up because he's the type of guy that you can use as
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a three or four in the NBA. He's mean.
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He's tough on the boards, really tough on the boards and he plays
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fundamental basketball. That's what you want a good
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teammate to play and an NBA player to play might be a good a
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really good NBA basketball player.
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We'll see what happens. They said speed.
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I don't know what he's saying over here.
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What is he saying? Go.
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What's fishing late? 1st to early to mid second
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round. All right, so that's what I'm
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saying. Terrace Reed could be a late,
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maybe an early first round draft pick if somebody takes a chance
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with him, if they like his style.
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Kawhi Leonard wasn't expected to be a mid first round talent.
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His defense and what he did for San Diego State, that's what
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really stood out, stood out to to San Antonio when they drafted
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him. But he slowly but surely created
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an offensive style of game. He became a better shooter in
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the NBA. So did Donovan Mitchell when he
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came into the NBA, the Spyder, He was a defensive player.
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He averaged 11 points a game in college.
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He developed a shot in the NBA. He got better when he stepped to
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that next level. And I'll say this, I don't know
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what Taris Reid's going to be in the NBA, but what I see is he
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finds a way to help his team win.
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He's a winner. And if they win the national
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championship tonight against Michigan, I I mean, there's
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nothing bad. There's nothing really to say.
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Michigan to me is the better team.
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They're the better team. There's no argument to that.
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He they beat a good Arizona team and Michigan can spread out
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their offense as good as anybody.
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If you think about what they bring to the table, it's
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remarkable. Lindenborg is, is a great
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player. Play 15 minutes, 11 points, 3
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rebounds, couple of couple of steals, one steal.
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This guy is a great player. Marez Johnson 10 points, 24
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minutes, 7 rebounds a day. Mara 26 points, 9 rebounds.
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Burnett 21 minutes, 6 points, 4 rebounds.
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They spread out their off and so very well.
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Everyone of this team can score, even on their bench.
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Trey McKinney, he played 27 minutes off the bench, gave you
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16 points and three rebounds. They're so good offensively they
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can. Every one of these guys can
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shoot. And that, ladies and gentlemen,
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is something Yukon didn't see in this tournament.
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That's what makes Michigan so very dangerous.
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They only lost three games this year.
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There were 36 and three. They played a a Wildcat team
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that was just as good as them. And what they did to the
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Wildcats early in the game is they smother them offensively.
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The Wildcats cannot shoot. That has been their problem all
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season long and what Arizona couldn't do, what they did to
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everybody, including Purdue and especially in the second-half of
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the game, it's a completely dominated the paint.
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They got into the paint and they dominated.
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Pete was good. He played 31 minutes.
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He gave you 16 points and 11 rebounds.
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But everybody else buries, Braden buries who everybody
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thinks it's a top five, maybe a top ten pick this year.
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In this year's draft, he played 38 minutes, only gave you 13
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points. Bradley, who's hot and cold, you
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don't know what Bradley is going to come up and show up in a
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game. Jaden Bradley, who could be an
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early first round draft pick, gave you 13 points and only one
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rebound. Every one of these guys, they
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couldn't do enough against a Michigan team that was just
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absolutely dominant. And it wasn't just the first
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half, it was the second-half. They smothered them in the
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second-half and Michigan's defense quietly showed you why
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they're the best overall team in this tournament.
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It took them a while to figure things out.
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Throughout the year, even though they were 36 and three, there
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were games that you wonder what Michigan was going to show up,
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if they were going to be the Michigan Wolverine team that
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some people thought was going to be a national championship
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dynasty this year, a team that was going to win a championship
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since 2018, which they didn't do.
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And now you look at where Michigan is and what Michigan
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has compared to UConn. They're by far the better team.
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I don't think you can argue that they're they're definitely
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better than UConn, but the better team doesn't always win.
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We've seen this before in professional sports, college
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sports, the better team doesn't always win.
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And that's why I think Dan Hurley has the advantage because
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he's been in this situation before.
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He's played great teams. Look at Zach Edie and Purdue.
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The Boilermakers, I wouldn't say were their favorite to be in
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UConn because they weren't. But to me, throughout that year,
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they were the best team in a tournament.
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And they're really, at the last two weeks of the season, they
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were better than UConn and the bracket fell right for Purdue
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and that's why they went all the way to the national
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championship. And I really thought it was
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going to be Purdue and U Conn again this year, but Arizona
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choked, Michigan played at a high level, and Michigan is as
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dangerous as any team UConn has played throughout this
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tournament. UConn, pretty much besides the
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Duke game made, especially the second-half, they dominated
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every second-half. And that's the thing about Danny
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Hurley that I think is so impressive.
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This man, down or up, he always finds a way to get his team to
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believe his energy, his charisma, his craziness on the
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sidelines, dancing around, taking off his coat.
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I mean, there's nobody like this guy.
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If I was an NBA team right now, and if he wins a national
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champion, he has nothing else to prove.
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Nothing else to prove in college at all.
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Three and four years. Wooden's the only person, the
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only coach has ever done this before.
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Yeah, you got to break that one. I'm I'm reaching out to his
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agent. I'm reaching out to Danny Hurley
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and finding whatever I have to do to get this guy to coach my
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team because there's nothing else he needs to do.
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Now we can stay with UConn and win another national
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championship, win multiple more championships and, and consider
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everybody can consider him better than John Wood, maybe the
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greatest college coach of all time.
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Could you imagine this guy winning 5 or 6 championships in
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nine years? I mean, you're talking about
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something that we've never seen before at this level when when
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the game is completely different.
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College basketball is different. Now it's much harder because you
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have a portal, you have NIL, there's, there's just so many
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things that you can do now as a program that John that wouldn't,
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couldn't do in those days. And that's what's so important
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with UCLA&UNUNLV, you know, So it, it's, it's incredible what
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Danny Hurley has done. There's no argument to even
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argue that. But this tonight is going to be
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a hard, hard. How can I say this?
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Not even a hard battle. It's.
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Definitely going to be a hard battle.
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I'm not saying, I'm not saying it's not going to be a hard
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battle, but that's not even the word that I'm trying to use.
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Oh, OK, yeah. I'm not even using.
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It's it's. Going to be a hard hold to dig
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up for U Conn to come out a winner against a Michigan team
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that to me all around from top to bottom are way better than
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UConn. Yeah, first two tournaments for
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U Conn that they won the championship and they won every
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game by double digits, and you're not seeing that the same
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level this year just because I think the inconsistencies with
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the backcourt have been showing. Reid's been playing great in
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every game, but Caravan was off in some games.
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Solo ball finally got it going in this game after he was
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struggling much of the tournament.
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And Braylon Mullins has had some big shots, but he's also taken
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some bad shots as well. And that's where the adversity
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aspect for Dan has has come in and he's been able to still
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rally his team through all of that.
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That being said, you do have to also account for the adversity
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aspect with Michigan, where Yaxel Lindenberg, who's been who
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was a big 10 player of the year, he was hurt 15 played 15 minutes
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in that game. Now, granted, I thought he came
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back a little too quickly. I thought they should have let
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him rest a little more. And apparently the report was
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saying that he made that decision to come in the game
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when his agent and his and his family were telling him don't go
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back in the game. So we'll see how that impacts
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Michigan in this game. But they were able to get the
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combined production for the forward position.
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You saw that with McKinney. You saw that by Maurice Johnson,
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who Qi know you mentioned last week in King of the Hill.
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Maurice Johnson had a very good game in that and got that
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combined production even with somebody like Kudo not scoring
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at a high clip. Somebody like Rodney Gale not
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scoring at a high clip was one of their better scores in the
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backcourt. But they were able to get all
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that combined production amidst all that.
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And they had two double digit runs with Lindenberg out of the
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game too. Like that just doesn't come
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against the team as talented as Arizona is.
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And Michigan, you saw them really try to take Arizona out
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of their own game and play transition when they are not
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normally known for that. They they can play fast if they
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have to, but they want to score with their big guys.
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They have so much size. They want to be able to shoot
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the three with their big guys and win mismatches that way.
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And they were still able to do that even with Lindenberg out of
24:13
the game, which says a lot about the the way that they can just
24:16
play different styles in a different way.
24:18
Now Terrace Reed is going to create a big presence against
24:20
tomorrow. That's going to be a really good
24:22
battle inside. And the key is going to be for
24:24
them is not allowing the offensive rebounds against
24:26
Yukon. If you, that's another big game.
24:28
Does he move up in the draft? Is he considered?
24:31
Yeah, he's already moved. Up is he considered maybe a top
24:35
12, top 13 type of prospect? Because everybody thinks that
24:39
Braylon Mullins is a guy that's going to be drafted ahead of
24:42
Terrace Reed and any of these guys.
24:44
Caravan, he's coming out, maybe going into this year's draft.
24:48
It it's crazy because Mullins is a freshman and Mullins to me has
24:52
not been the best player for U Conn.
24:54
The best player for U Conn throughout this tournament is
24:57
easily Terrace Reed on the boards defensively and
25:00
offensively, putting up the points he was eating.
25:02
He hit a couple of three pointers too.
25:05
So Terrace Reed has been really, really good and I think he's
25:09
slowly but surely developing into a high profile player in
25:12
this year's draft. Yeah, it's one of those terrace
25:15
Reed matchups that you look at with Mara and you also look at
25:17
with the other forward depth of Michigan has.
25:19
And that's where I'm curious how much he'll try to be more of a
25:23
spacing guy. You mentioned he made a three or
25:24
two in this tournament, which is not his strength.
25:26
He's made, he's been better than expected from the free throw
25:28
line and that's where I'm curious if Dan Hurley's going to
25:30
try to expose that match but try to space them out a little more
25:33
rather than just trying to play a power game.
25:34
Because Yukon again, they have a disadvantage with the size.
25:36
They're going to have to play faster than they usually do.
25:39
They haven't had to really push the pace as much.
25:41
Maybe against Michigan State they did a little bit, but
25:43
throughout this tournament they didn't really do that as a main
25:45
force of their strength. But if they're going to get
25:47
Michigan back trying to play faster than they want to, that's
25:50
going to be a big key. And I think him spacing out a
25:52
lot more is going to be that solo ball I think is another big
25:55
X Factor because last game was his first real big game of the
25:58
tournament. But he was like, he was arguably
25:59
their best player at the beginning of the season.
26:01
So if you can find another group for that game, that'll be a
26:03
definitely big thing for U Conn to be able to overcome.
26:05
But this is not only for a Michigan team that's the most
26:08
talented team. This is a Michigan team that's
26:09
now overcoming the adversity. If they manage Lindenberg like
26:12
they did last game and get these combined production somewhere
26:14
else, Michigan will definitely. Win Harris Reid is averaging a
26:17
double AA game almost. He's averaging 14 and 8:00
26:19
throughout the season. I don't think he's Andre
26:22
Drummond. I'm not going to try to compare
26:24
him to any of those guys cuz we don't know what he's going to
26:26
develop during Look at the Knicks, the Knicks drafted
26:29
during they traded him over there to Detroit.
26:31
And look at the development. He's he's really turned in.
26:34
He's he's transformed into one of the best big man in the
26:36
league who can shoot 1819 foot jumpers, very good free throw
26:40
shooter, great defender. He's built like a rock.
26:43
You can't even run that guy. He looks like, you know, Mr. O
26:46
from that working weightlifting contest and all that other stuff
26:50
those those competitions, He's unbelievable.
26:53
So, and I'm not Saint Terrace Reed looks like him either, but
26:56
his ability to do what he has done so well throughout the
26:59
tournament, beating guys to the boards, offensively,
27:02
defensively, and he's done everything for UConn.
27:05
He has been the best player every single week, every single
27:09
game throughout this tournament. He has been the best player on
27:13
the court and that says a lot about him in the big game.
27:16
Are you going to trust, And I'm not saying Braylon Mons is not
27:18
going to be a great player in the NBA.
27:20
He very much could be. He's a freshman.
27:22
Tara Street is not a freshman. He's been in.
27:24
How long has he been in college basketball?
27:26
What is he transferred from Michigan last year.
27:27
I think this is year 3. For all right, so he's been
27:29
three years. I'm going to trust a junior over
27:33
a freshman and, and his time and, and so many programs he's
27:37
been on, he's been in a Michigan program that's been very, very
27:39
good over the years. And now he's playing for a UConn
27:42
team with one of arguably the greatest coach right now in
27:45
college basketball and maybe the greatest coach in all of
27:49
basketball, including the NBA right now.
27:51
Yeah, last thing before you go queue, I wanted to mention the
27:54
Dusty May versus Terrace Reed, His former player aspect.
27:56
I've always said on usually more with football, but usually that
27:59
advantage goes to the coach because the coach will know not
28:01
a game plan for you. So it'll be up to Reid himself
28:04
making the decisions as an especially if he gets a lot of
28:07
offensive rebounds in this game. And like I said, Dan Hurley is
28:09
facing the floor to be able to counter that because May will
28:11
know his strengths and weaknesses knowing a player.
28:13
And Q, you say no, but think about it.
28:15
Look how many different teams he's coached over the years.
28:18
It's not the same bunch of guys. He was bringing different guys
28:21
through the portal. Some of his guys left and played
28:24
for other teams, Caravans. So Caravans, the only one out of
28:28
all these teams, all these players that he's coached over
28:31
the years, that's still a part of that program.
28:33
So it's pretty incredible how many NBA coaches year in and
28:37
year out change rosters and are successful as Danny Early, as
28:41
with the UConn Husky. I know it's college basketball.
28:43
That makes it even more impressive what he's done.
28:46
Yeah, but I also think that like, you know, you can trade
28:49
out players and still be a good coach.
28:51
So I don't I don't determine the fact that isn't can you retain
28:55
players. I think it's the ball about the
28:57
answers, his nose and how you execute.
28:58
Now, I don't take nothing away from him.
29:00
I just think it's a hard statement to say that he's the
29:02
best coach and whatnot. But in regards to that Brandon
29:05
Mueller situation, I I tell you all the time that the NBA, they
29:08
draft off potential. So I think that, you know, even
29:12
though he's the name, I do think Terence Reed has made himself
29:15
some money. I think if he go to a system
29:17
more like Golden State, more like maybe they're going to blow
29:21
up everything over there in Milwaukee, I think that'll be
29:23
good. And if he come to Boston or
29:24
whatever, I think we can use them and help them out, you
29:27
know, get him into a system and get him into a group and things
29:30
of that nature. But I don't think he's
29:32
structure. I don't think he's that.
29:33
Yeah, I don't think he's that raw athlete where he can
29:36
actually create his own side in at the next level.
29:40
I think he's a system, run them off the screen, do a little high
29:43
pick, high pick and roll with him and and allow him to develop
29:48
a game. But yeah, I think I don't, I
29:50
don't think he, I think he earned himself some money a lot
29:53
just in this postseason. I first of all, Fish keeps
29:56
saying it sounds like Drummond. I I don't think he's first of
29:59
all, he could shoot free throws. He can actually hit free throws.
30:02
What is he a 7475% free throw shooter?
30:06
Drummond couldn't. I think he coming into from
30:08
college to the NBAI think he was a career. 50 he was in the
30:12
Fifties 50% Reed is in 65 or something like.
30:15
That he's like a 70% career free throw shooter that's way better
30:19
than Drummond. I can think about it.
30:22
All I'm saying is like couldn't compel us with a great comp
30:24
queue. It's a guy that's like limited
30:27
in today's NBA because they need the space to floor because
30:30
everyone's playing five out. The got the guys that are the
30:33
old school centers. Like if Drummond was was playing
30:36
15 years ago as opposed or came to the league 10 years earlier,
30:40
he would have been a twice as valuable player than he is
30:42
today. Today he's a double, double.
30:45
Look, he's still a double, double drum.
30:47
He's 12 and 12. Basically they're 12 and 11.
30:49
At his height he could he could give you 18 to 20 and 12 to 13
30:54
rebounds. He was that good at it.
30:55
That matters, but it also he was on losing team after losing team
31:01
after losing team because offensively they never spaced
31:04
it. I just were.
31:04
I think Reed's got definitely a better shooter than Drummond,
31:07
but he's going to have to shoot more than he currently does.
31:09
He's a senior. I would be surprised if he makes
31:12
sense to the lottery, but I would say he's he's probably
31:15
made the first round with this crazy performance he's had.
31:17
He's been unbelievable. He really?
31:19
Has the playoff run? Yeah, deep playoff run, Jeff not
31:21
going to always go away. I give it, yeah.
31:24
Always. And we again, he could develop
31:26
more skills in the NBA that he didn't develop in college
31:28
basketball. There are players that have done
31:31
that before. I mentioned a couple of them.
31:33
Donovan Mitchell was not a great offensive player.
31:35
That's why Phil Jackson, the Knicks, decided to draft
31:38
Nilikina, a French player who had failed in the NBA.
31:41
He went, he jumped from the Knicks, then he went to the
31:43
Spurs or Atlanta. He jumped it like 5-6 different
31:46
teams. But Donovan Mitchell, he was
31:49
pretty much a Utah Jazz and then a Cavalier.
31:52
We could see the development of what Donovan Mitchell became as
31:54
an athletically gifted kid. The kid from Houston who
31:57
everybody likes Kingston, they said that his his offense is not
32:02
NBA light, but guess what? His skill and his ability, his
32:06
athletic ability and his gifts. He can transition into a great
32:10
offensive player in the NBA if he figures out a shot.
32:13
And that's, that's just a lot about these players.
32:15
When you're athletically gifted and a lot of these guys, all
32:18
these NBA players are so gifted. When you watch the combine in
32:21
the NBA, they jump very high. They could go up and down the
32:25
court in like 7 or 8 steps. It's unbelievable.
32:28
Their strides and, and, and all of them could dunk.
32:31
Practically every single one of them can dunk, do all these
32:34
unbelievable athletically athletic things on a basketball
32:38
court. I'm going to tell you this right
32:39
now, what I've watched Redo throughout this tournament has
32:43
been incredible. And he wasn't even the
32:45
headlining guy going in this tournament where that's the guy
32:48
Yukon's pointing out Reed's the guy.
32:50
He's the go to man Terrace Reed has become the go to man for the
32:55
UConn Huskies. It's not Braylin Mullins, it's
32:59
not Caravan. Caravan going to this tournament
33:02
a lot of people believe was the best player on this team all
33:05
around. He was the best player on his
33:06
team. Caravan throughout this
33:08
tournament has not been good. What is he averaging 9 points,
33:11
eight points a game right now in this tournament?
33:15
Reed's averaging the double, double in the tournament.
33:17
He's doing better in the tournament than he was doing in
33:19
the regular season. So when you look at when you're
33:24
trying to draft players and the way you look at players is you
33:27
want to see what they can do in the big game.
33:29
How are they going to show up and how are they going to
33:32
respond against top and talent? Because if you think about it,
33:36
how many games you play in a regular season when it comes to
33:38
college basketball, what is it, 30 games?
33:39
It's 30 and then a couple of conference championship games.
33:42
Depending how many games, speedy 3330 games, something around
33:45
there. They're not playing high talent
33:48
throughout the weeks. Some weeks they're playing
33:51
decent talent, some of them are not even great.
33:53
The every single team that makes it in a tournament are great top
33:58
end conference talent. Not all of them, I mean those 16
34:02
rights they sneaking in, but most of them after the once you
34:05
get into the round of 32, all of them are good.
34:08
They're all talented team. They have elite players, top end
34:12
talent and what Taris Reid has done week in and week out in
34:16
this tournament has been incredible To say that he hasn't
34:20
proven himself to be possibly 13th or 14th in this year's
34:25
draft. I, if I'm a team and I'm
34:28
looking, I'm trying to build my roster, teams that are looking
34:31
for guys that you can build around and become leaders and
34:35
big rebounders and, and a guy that's going to give you a
34:37
double, double look at Mitchell Robinson, Mitchell Robertson on
34:40
the Knicks. He should have been a lottery
34:43
pick and remember what he did, he was going to go to SMU.
34:47
He didn't. I don't think he liked.
34:48
Florida State. Florida State, whatever.
34:50
I think it was SMU. It was Larry Brown, wasn't
34:53
Larry. Brown, they were in a scandal,
34:54
yeah. I think it was SMU.
34:56
He didn't go. It was it was similar to the
34:58
Randy Moss story where he's supposed to go to one of those
35:00
was in fact Florida State in that story too, and it just
35:03
neither 1 materialized for Mitch and he got screwed.
35:08
Errol, if he makes it into the lottery Terrace Reed.
35:11
He would be the first senior drafted in the lottery since the
35:15
2013 draft when CJ McCollum, Cody Zeller and Trey Burke.
35:19
McCollum had a good career of the three of them.
35:21
Trey Burke was in and out of like, not really.
35:24
Cody Zeller, you know, was a rotation player for the for I
35:27
guess the Hornets for a little bit, right?
35:29
Yeah. It's just been 1213 years now
35:32
since a senior in in NCAA has been taken in the lottery.
35:37
I think he might get in maybe top 25, top 20.
35:41
Yeah, he ain't seen that lottery.
35:42
But that lottery, they're not going to take a senior man.
35:45
I think they're just showing that like, maybe I can get a
35:47
young kid down the road and he can get himself physically built
35:50
right, like Reed by the time he's 22.
35:53
And that's how I think some of these guys think.
35:54
I absolutely draft Harris Reid. He's a guy that can absolutely
35:58
give that fundamental type of player off the bench.
36:01
I'll tell you right now and we before we get out of this
36:03
segment, Errol tonight, he's going to make a lot of money or
36:07
lose a lot of money. I'll tell.
36:09
You I, I I'm a little worried because I saw what Harry Mara
36:13
did to that big Lithuanian on Arizona Crevash.
36:18
This guy Mara, he was at UCLA last week, 7377 wingspan.
36:24
He was completely unstoppable. They didn't even need Yaxel in
36:30
that game. They didn't need him.
36:32
He this guy, they couldn't stop him on the inside.
36:35
It didn't matter. And everything that Arizona did,
36:38
it was just like throw your hands up.
36:40
They have perfect transition, 3 point offense.
36:42
Well, UConn has perfect transition defense and I am and
36:47
that's what Hurley's known for, right?
36:48
And the in the NBA, you're not getting pros to run half full
36:52
court traps for an entire half. You know what I mean?
36:56
But he he did that against Duke and guess what happened?
36:59
They are freaking fantastic with the college defense and this is
37:03
an excellent matchup. But I think it's going to be
37:05
decided if Reed can take it to Mara and really to get rid of
37:10
their biggest advantage, which is controlling the pain.
37:13
You're going to need some help and that's the problem.
37:14
Read other help is averaging 6 or 9 points so and I don't think
37:18
you're going to be able to come through.
37:19
Caravan, right? He better show.
37:21
Up Caravan. Solo solo ball too is another
37:23
one because he was the one that had more of the hype.
37:25
That's what Errol was describing.
37:26
Like Caravan was the smart. He's the smart player.
37:28
He'll know to be a pass first guy.
37:29
Will solo ball do that? Don't count out Danny Hurley and
37:33
how he pushes these guys to that whole, you know, championship
37:37
form. I there's nobody I've seen
37:40
that's pushed his team to the and push the right buttons
37:42
better than Danny Hurley has. There really is.
37:44
It can only go so far though. I got it.
37:46
They're in the national championship.
37:48
Yeah, but that's all saying like tired.
37:50
You know, being cussed out ain't going to make shots and you know
37:54
he's good at it. He's good at motivating the
37:56
guys. I won't take that away from him.
37:57
But 69610 in that middle waiting for you and waiting to do
38:01
something. It's just going to be difficult
38:03
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