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00:00So UCLA had a double-digit lead at the half. They completely blew up in the second half. In fact, they went
00:075 for 15
00:09From the free throw line. They missed 10 free throws in the second half
00:14Including this one at the end of the game which allowed the Gophers to go to the other end and get the win on
00:20FS1
00:23This has been an inexplicable
00:27Second half for UCLA shooting free throws and Minnesota's got a chance to win. They're gonna take this all the way down
00:32They should Patterson goes right at the rack and the Golden Gophers lead
00:38All right
00:41Now let's go to the to the postgame and Cronin I got two for you from Mick first
00:47Let's talk about what he felt with the kids and how his team did at the end of that game against, Minnesota
00:53You're up 29 to 12. Do you feel like guys just kind of took it for granted at that point?
00:58Did you have to ask him that I feel like gosh, but I feel like we didn't play well
01:04And if I say anything
01:08Then I throw players under the bus so here's what we didn't play well, we're poorly coached that's why we don't play well
01:16So
01:18Yeah, poorly who's so poorly coached we didn't know Garson Dawson Garcia was gonna spin back to his left hand
01:24We had two guys on him and let him lay it in
01:26So I guess we didn't go over that. I guess we didn't go over. Don't let him just stand there and shoot it
01:31I guess we didn't go over converge on him like everybody else in our league does I
01:37Guess we didn't go. We just guess we didn't go over it. So it's all on me
01:41You let the other team's leading scorer get 32
01:44Deserve to lose
01:46so, you know, I
01:49To me's just obviously he got in trouble for bashing his players three weeks ago
01:55and now he's mocking he's literally mocking the authority and the
02:01administration and the athletic director by saying
02:05You know, I remember that I can't talk about my soft ass players anymore
02:10So I have to take the fall on the sword every time myself
02:13So what I think is happening here in my view what I'm watching is the beginning of the end of Mick Cronin in Los Angeles
02:19I think he's just inviting them to fire him. He's like, I'm not gonna listen to you
02:25I'll just blame myself and I know my guys are soft and I and then he's blaming the fans
02:30He's got one foot out the door
02:33He wasn't done. Why don't we finish off a little bit more for Mick? It happens worried, but again
02:40Because all we're worried about is our shooting instead of playing defense and it's
02:45I've been doing this a long time. I know when my team's mind is on the wrong stuff
02:51Our crowds mind is on the wrong stuff
02:53our crowd makes they make it worse when a guy misses a free throw you I mean
02:57Distressing and Pauly's crazy when a guy I mean the guy's not trying. How about help the guy? How about cheer for the guy?
03:04I mean there is not like he's trying to miss the free throw that just makes it worse
03:09Everybody's worried about the wrong stuff
03:13Coach do you think there's an element of exhaustion at this point? No, absolutely not exhausted from what?
03:20I mean, I appreciate the question my friend, but no exhausted from what from what we're all Sunday
03:27And we were all Saturday. We had two days. I mean, what are we exhausted? Were they exhausted?
03:33Were they exhausted? No
03:35toughness wins
03:37Toughness wins and they were tougher than us
03:40listen
03:42You know what? Like so Bob Knight used to say as long as you
03:47Do what you're supposed to and you're tough enough and you're smart enough
03:55To run the play. You don't have to be an athlete
03:59You can be a slow white dude. You could be a fat dude. You could be
04:04Out of shape it doesn't matter but if you do it smart you do it right and you do it tough I
04:11Can work with that? I can work with that. He would teach the same stuff that Cronin is talking about
04:19Tired of what?
04:21He's like
04:23Exhausted what he's like just can you be tough?
04:26Because it's obvious that he has been for a month calling his team soft and that they're a bunch of peeps
04:33And that they're prima donnas who are worried about their stats
04:37is there anything worse than a guy that plays basketball that all he's worried about is his numbers and
04:44There's guys league wide in the NBA do it every night
04:47All they want is there they gotta hit their number and then they're done for the night
04:50And then they're ready to sit down and let somebody else try. They're the worst kind of players
04:55I like guys that want to win
04:58That'll run through a wall for you die for loose balls, which I never do
05:04I'm never diving for anything on the ground with my old body and ankles and knees and and and I'm just not having it break
05:11It I've already broken in my hands. I've broken my shoulders. I've had labor. I'm sorry
05:17I'm not doing but when you're young and you're a kid and you're like
05:2118 to 22 years old and you should be diving for everything and playing your ass off and being tough and
05:27Cronin, I think he's sick and tired of UCLA
05:31I have never in my life once ever heard anyone actually mock Pauly Pavilion
05:37My he literally just said the fans are the worst. I
05:41Mean, he's dying to get out of there, Indiana. Are you not noticing this go get him get him?
05:47He wants out that's all I'm seeing I don't care what anybody says that guy's miserable out there