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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Iron Eagle or Ian Eigel. He is the play by play voice for the National Title game, and he joins us, now, what did you think of the Chain Smokers?

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Speaker 3: What an opening question?

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Speaker 4: Do I stay in my lane or do I just give you my genuine thoughts? The shocker for me in all of it, Bill Raftery was in the mosh pit.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't believe that. But where's Bill?

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Speaker 2: I didn't see that, Dan, But you knew the Chain Smokers were going to be performing. You had to be ready for that moment.

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Speaker 4: Correct the crazy part, This is not shocking considering just the timing of everything. We have a green room in between games. So I go to the green room.

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Speaker 3: You know, you.

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Speaker 4: Freshen up, you grab a slider. It's it's a little bit of food, have a bite.

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Speaker 2: Move on.

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Speaker 4: I now walk out of the green room and the area in which to get back to our seats is roped off, and I know I have to get back there because we have to do our stuff immediately after the Chain Smokers. So I get around the roped off area and I start walking and someone is freaking out, running towards me and I look up and the chain smokers are standing there with a camera facing them. I was this close to being the third chain smoker walking out onto the floor. I was so discombobulated and disoriented and man, that that would have been.

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Speaker 2: A career highlight. Uh, well, you already had it. You had the call in the Yukon game, like, have you had anything that compared to that moment?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was wild.

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Speaker 4: I think the fact that it was such a frenzy makes it different than you know, a normal buzzer beater or last second clutch shot, because when they're triggering the inbound you just assume foul game. It's going to be two or three more possessions. And for it to turn as quickly as it did, and for Mullins, for it to end up in his hands, to get it done, to advance to Indianapolis and his hometown, to come back from nineteen down, to do it against Duke, to have Raf and Grant in a state of shock next to me. I know that seemed to get a lot of attention the next day, and that's cool that you get this behind the scenes look. Grant said it might be the first time in his life that he's a meme, and Raff said, what's a meme?

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Speaker 2: He had no, but are you watching the monitor or the game in a moment like that.

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Speaker 4: I was watching the game, and then what I tend to do is the second play ends, I go to the monitor to try to match whatever pictures are being shown. So that's just muscle memory. And I was lifted out of my chair when the ball went in Grant if you look very closely, because the way the camera was set up, a ball hit the camera late in the second half and shifted it over, so it made it a two shot, which is normally a three shot with all three of us in there. So I was right on the periphery. As the steel takes place, Grant digs his arm into my rib cage and I think unknowingly lifted me a bit. And as it all developed, I went up and made the call and then sat back down. And it really is one of those slow motion type of situations where you're processing in real time that this is going to go down as an all timer. But here's the crazy thing we talking about this, Dan. There have been buzzer beaters and incredible ones prior to the Championship round I think they're only really remembered, truly remembered in history and to live on forever if you win the title, their highlights and their moments, and he'll always be remembered in stores, remembered in his home state. But to resonate and get to that other level, I think you got to win it, and then that thing just lives on in perpetuity.

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Speaker 2: An Eagle will be on the call with grand Hill, Bill Raftery, Tracy Wolfson and tip off his eight p fifty Eastern yeap. When did it change from nine to twenty to eight fifty?

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Speaker 4: This is a college basketball history that I can't answer. I'd like to phone a friend. When did it change? Okay, it needs to know, Okay, yeah, get on it a few years ago.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, great research staff there that you have. Oh good, Just have them calling a game in a dome or in a arena or at a school university. Biggest difference, huge, huge, uh.

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Speaker 4: Sight lines completely different. You're not at your normal level of watching the game, so the action is actually above you and certain things that you just know based on where your eyes go from doing game after game after game. You've got to retrain your brain in the first five minutes. Site lines in the corners, I can tell you, and it'll probably happen again. Anything in the far corners, I can't tell if it's a three pointer or not. I have to wait, I have to pause. I have to be patient and not commit normally, you know right away, so that it's a little disconcerting because it's the biggest game of the year and you can't go through the normal mode of your brain. And then everything is far away. The fans are far away. You can't see the fans' faces. Normally in college basketball setup, they're really close. Regular NBA arenas, they're close enough. So everything's just a little bit detached, and it feels like it's on a bit of a one second delay. I can't hear the crowd burst through like I would in an intimate setting. You know, there were seventy thousand plus people there, and it's cavernous, and I do think it's real. I know we say it every year. I do think they have a problem. The players do in the first few minutes of getting adjusted, making shots, feeling comfortable, getting acclimated. But it's the same for both teams, and it's part of the deal. It's the biggest stage possible in college basketball, and it's obviously working.

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Speaker 2: How much will you hear Danny Hurley tonight zero zero?

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Speaker 4: We are so far away it is impossible to hear what's happening on the other side of the court. So interesting, NBA local broadcast, you are normally Normally they've changed this a bit, but in the good old days, you were courtside, on the benches side National you were on the other side, which was an adjustment for me that first couple of years of doing it, because there were things you would pick up, small little nuances, facial expressions, body language between coach player between coach official that you just don't see on the other side, and now, obviously with this broadcast setup, you are on the other side. There's also a roving camera that looks like one of those robots that would deliver your food for door Dash, which I don't know if you've had that yet. I had a game in Dallas this year and I ended up ordering out, and then they inform you that the robot is coming to deliver your food. So I go downstairs to meet the robot and I see it from two blocks away, and now I'm concerned for the robot because I don't know how he's going to negotiate the sidewalk, and I think, now should I should I go meet him?

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Speaker 3: Do I? Wait? Do I do?

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Speaker 4: I stop and get there a little earlier and knock on the door. I don't know what to do. So finally it comes up and two people that just happened to be walking by as I'm now perfumfering with my phone, They're like, what's.

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Speaker 3: Going on here?

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Speaker 4: It's it's a delivery robot and I hit the button on my phone and opens the hatch. Yeah, And it was as if I was walking on the moon. They were astounded at what took place, and not my chicken sandwich like rises up so that that's also happening. It's it's going back and forth in front of me during game actions and you could hear like shush sh sh shush sh.

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Speaker 3: That I hear.

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Speaker 2: I won't hear Dan Hurley, Uh, the Michigan story, what Dusty May has done and this run like they're blowing people out. People were, you know, ranting and raving that Arizona, Michigan should be for the national title. Yes, well heard that. I don't know if Dusty Mayo get the credit. He probably deserves the turnaround at Michigan. Now what they've done in the tournament and blowing people out, and of course you got to win this. But how do you encapsulate what he's done at Michigan.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think his a bill to build the program so quickly, to identify talent, to figure out which pieces would work together. Look, there's a financial aspect of this, you can't ignore it. It's there.

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Speaker 3: But they've done it correctly.

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Speaker 4: They've really had an architect in Dusty may that knew what to do and how to do it quickly. And that is one thing now in the way the college basketball is set up for these major programs because of the money. If you evaluate talent well, identify it, and then develop it in one season, you can be right here playing for a championship. There are other teams that have the same money, if not more money, and they identified the wrong talent, or they didn't evaluate correctly, or they didn't develop correctly, and they're not here. So credit has to be given to Dusty may basically now as a head coach. In my mind, in college basketball, you are a GM, you are a scout, You are a coach, you are a dad, you are a teacher, you are a mentor. You're all of those things rolled into one. And when ads are looking for someone to be the face of their program, they have to take that into account. You have to check a lot of boxes. But what he's done here is really incredible. And you're right. They want eight games. Two seasons ago they want eight games, and now they're they're playing for a.

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Speaker 2: Chip college athletics. If we look at nil transfer portal, I think this has been a great year for college athletics. I agree, maybe that's not a popular opinion, but you know, you have Indiana winning the football championship, you get transfers. Now, I would like for them to sign contracts, you know, have it a little more uniform a little more uniformity here. But the nil transfer portal, the you know, the president with an executive order kind of wants to limit this stuff. But I think if you sign a contract you want to transfer, why can't there be a buyout to that, you know, make it transactional. Everything's above board.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it is transactional right now. It does feel that way. I do agree that it's been a banner year. You're getting highly competitive games. You're getting a deeper pool of talent because players are staying longer based on the fact that they can make money and they don't just take their chances to go to the NBA and start the clock. That's a term I heard quite a bit for a number of years for players that were certainly going to be NBA stars. If you're Cooper Flag, yes you're going to the pros, you're starting the clock for your next contract. It makes perfect sense from a financial standpoint, But for someone that was a borderline first round pick or a second round pick, I don't know if the logic was there for that same approach. Now, you stay, you develop your skills, you maybe have a shining moment or two in your college career, you get paid for it, and maybe, just maybe you come out on the other side a better player. Yakxel Lendeborg is a more complete player now than he would have been a year ago if he came out of UAV right to the NBA and instead he gets this incredible experience and maybe he caps it off with a championship. Look, it's not perfect. I recognize that. I think a lot of us, though jumped the gun and thought, man, this is going to be rough. This is going to be a really chaotic time in college athletics. It's worked out from a competitive point of view, and yes, I'm saying this, I recognize that the mid major is still left out a bit, but the reality was the mid majors were outliers in this to begin with. Now, at the very least, you hope that you're getting a higher quality of play when you get to the biggest stages of the season.

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Speaker 2: Well, I look at Braylan Mullins and he's going to be, you know, projected to be a first round draft pick.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 2: Now he's not ready, but teams are going to say, hey, we'll take him and let him develop for two years. And like read Shepherd with Houston, Yes, took him high, and then we're like, all right, we'll bring him along. Now, all of a sudden, you see you know, read with some highlights there, and that might be the case for Braylan Mullins. That do I stay and make a little bit of money or do I go and get started on that first contract in the NBA. And it feels like that you're either ready to go, you jump in or maybe you're not even ready to go, but you go because you're going to be a long time NBA player, or you stay because you might not be that long term player.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a stretch of time Dan obviously, working both in college hoops and NBA, I was privy to a lot of conversations and got to ask questions to people that do this for a living, that evaluate talent and make these decisions that teams have to live by. When you use a first round big those are serious pieces of valuable merchandise because you're trying to change the whole culture of your team. There were players that I look back on and it's just how it is. They stayed in college because they thought they were doing the right thing. They may have been a first round draft pick after their freshman or sophomore year, it was not a guarantee. And because they stayed their junior and senior year before they were getting paid, their flaws came out and they dropped in the draft because it actually gave scouts more time to see some of the faults that they had. So there's no right answer here. I've never ever said emphatically to any kid that has to make a decision to come out and be available for the draft. Hey, that's a bad call on your part. I don't know their financial situation. I don't know their family situation. I just have never been in that corner that it does occur, where people have very strong opinions about it. You got to do what's best for you. I just think now there are at least some options for kids out there to make a more prudent decision.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I'm going to give you credit if you're watching on Peacock or NBC Sports Network, you did give almost a presidential backdrop. I mean great lighting here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Dan, I didn't want to tell you, but I am in a vestibule of a Vegas hotel. I flew there last night to do the interview and then I bored in fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 2: So you know, every this would be.

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Speaker 4: Fine, but I just want I'm going to make sure the the backdrop look good. I'm a big earth Tones guy.

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Speaker 3: I like it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very very much, very very very earthy. Yes you are. Yeah. Thanks, all right, We're counting on you tonight.

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Speaker 3: Thanks. Thanks.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna go through my normal routine game day and have some Nutter butters and watch some Maripovich.

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Speaker 2: You are the father.

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Speaker 3: Uh you are not the fun Every time it gets me. Every time, the intrigue.

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Speaker 4: It's like March madness.

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Speaker 3: It's so unpredictable.

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Speaker 2: Save your voice, Save your voice. Okay, thank you, Ian, See you Dad. That's Iron Eagle.

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Speaker 2: Former Yukon Great Hall of Famer Ray Allen joining us from Indianapolis. How nervous are you?

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Speaker 5: My nervousness existed when we played in Michigan State. Because you're playing an Izzo squad that always come prepared. So back then I was nervous, I guess because Duke was not the best team in the country. I started that game thinking, you know, we play our best and we have a chance. And so I wasn't nervous then. And it's those those games that get through slip through the cracks, like we lost to Creighton and Marquette during the year and I was like, okay, we we dropped the bomb there in those two games. So it's really always been about how Yukon plays for me, and if they come playing in full cylinder, it's hard for anybody to beat them.

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Speaker 2: But also I mentioned Michigan wants this game in the eighties. Connecticut probably needs this game to be in the sixties. How does Connecticut do that?

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Speaker 5: Well, it's interesting because there's a there's a if you watch Michigan, they get the ball out of net and they run. That has typically been historically how Yukon has always played. We've been up tempo, fastbreak type of team. If you watch the game against Illinois, whenever we have those scoring droughts, the three balls not falling, and say Terrace Reid hasn't really scorn but What you also notice is when we do get stopped, because defensively we've been solid. We never pushed the ball up the floor. We're playing against the five man set defense every single time, and it makes it more difficult, especially when at this time of the year in the tournament, when you got really good defensive teams. They're gonna take what Terris Reed is doing away from us. They're gonna trail caravan and make sure they get a hand in his face. So we in a sense, we have to be able to kind of engage in that fast, break up tempo game with Michigan in the same token, beat them at their own game.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Because I remember Indiana did that against UNLV when Steve Alford was playing, and everybody said, oh, Indiana can't run with UNLV, but Indiana ran with UNLV ended up winning the title. Does yukond of have the talent to run this and play a game in the eighties go toe to toe that way with Michigan.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And remember we don't have to be a better team to Michigan. We just have to be better than them tonight. So it's really about kind of meeting them toe for to So when they get the ball in it and they run. Don't then slow the game down and then come up and set up a set because I do think we have such an interesting offensive movement where the ball is you figure the way it's transferring from one side to the next side to the next side, and you know, you can make the case that you know so much movement that you know you're how many guys can shoot in that quick of motion from three point line and be so consistent so to be able to get that scoring opportunity and transition off a rebound, that's some of the best times to get three pointers, you know, on transition where somebody drives it to the hole and then kicks it out to a standstill shooter.

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Speaker 2: If I said there was an alumni game prior to the national title.

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Speaker 5: I know where this is going.

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Speaker 2: So I got Michigan versus Yukon all the alumn who are at the game tonight. So I got fab five's there? Who wins an alumni game?

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Speaker 5: Are we talking about just the guys that are somewhat in intendans? Are we talking about historical so the best we produced?

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Speaker 2: Just those who are there?

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Speaker 5: Oh, now we're talking about East player in their prime?

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Speaker 2: No, No, right now, oh, right now, right now, we'll get them because uh well, I mean you have to say, you know, all the five five.

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Speaker 5: Are older than me, so so now I would I would be a sacrificial lamb because you know, we'll negate ourselves because we're older, we're in our fifties. But then you you got a Mecca Oka four there, you got Shabbaz Nap you're there. You got Rope Ryan Boat right there, you got uh Kimba Walker there. So you're talking about guys that could still play potentially really in the NBA right now?

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, uh what do you see? Now? Let me take you back to you stayed three years at Connecticut. Yeah okay, but given today's NBA, you probably would leave after a year. Like Braylen Mullins to me, I don't know if he stays because he'll be projected to be a first round pick in today's NBA. You know, you got these guys who want to get into that second contract and like you know, Reed Shepherd with Houston, he wasn't ready, but then they give you a couple of years to develop. So do you see that kind of as the scenario with Mullins that you're one and done, even though you may not be ready for the NBA.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, because college, there's so much instability on that team the next year. That's why when the Caravan came back, I was excited for him. And you know, one would say, I don't know where his draft stock is, but the fact that he's playing in another national championship, you know, good on him and congratulations because he's one of now the winningest players all time in college. I don't know where he ranks, but he's up there with some of the best. So it's hard to make that discernment from who was actually going to be on your team next year because the transport portal opens up I think tomorrow, So what's going to be available, Who's going to leave teams? And so now Brayland has to make that decision based on what his squad may look like next year. And obviously we always say now with these head coaches, you got to recruit your own team back, you know, figure out what you're going to be building for next year. So Bragland definitely has to take that into consideration. I do, personally, I think that you know, after my sophomore year was you know, I'd scored thirty six in the turn against UCLA the eventual national championship in ninety six or ninety five, and everybody there with Blurbs and me be leaving, and it was a different time then, and I was like, no, I need to come back to really kind of poke my chest out a little bit and kind of prove that, you know, I wanted the better, if not the best player in college, which I was able to do so after my junior year. Is no way I was making it to my senior year. So I think Braylan depending on the circle that's around him and and his ability to kind of think through this process and bet on himself. It does depend on that tremendously. It does depend on the family life. It depends on his relationship with with coach Hurley, how strong that is, and you know his ability to come back and say, hey, I think I could be even better player and get drafted top five if not number one next year.

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Speaker 2: Talking to Ray Owen, Hall of Famer, you Conna Lum played three seasons for the Huskies. How would you have done with Danny Hurley's style of coaching?

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Speaker 5: I love his style of coaching. He's similar to Calhoun. You know, he he rides hard for his players. He stays on him, He coaches you hard. We're in a We're in an era of basketball that I've seen, you know, I coached in high school. If you say anything negative to the players, and the kids assume that you don't like them, and then the parents are sending you emails and they're having conversations with the athletic director and trying to find a way to you know, put their thumb on you. And you know, with with with Hurley, coaches come to him and the parents say, and I heard this with Braylan's dad. I needed somebody to coach Braylan hard because he's going to get the best out of him. And guys that want that they come to Yukon. I wanted it, you know Calhoun. I saw Calhoun the first couple of practices and his coaching staff, and I saw how hard he went and how ferocious he was as a coach of practice, and I said, remind me not to do that thing that that player did, you know. And it's it's very easy to pay attention. If you hold yourself accountable and you just work as hard you can't you have nothing to worry about.

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Speaker 2: Help me understand the T shirt that you got roughed up on social media for.

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Speaker 3: The T shirt?

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Speaker 5: Yeah what t shirt?

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Speaker 2: They said that you were wearing a tight T shirt.

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Speaker 3: Me.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Oh, that's just my muscles, my muscles, you know, you know, I'm I'm putting on packing on the muscles I've been lifting. So if somebody has im gonna say about my T shirt, they were.

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Speaker 2: Just oh wow, okay, yeah, yeah, I mean, what are you fifty?

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Speaker 5: I'm fifty. Yeah, I'm fifty, and uh.

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Speaker 2: I think it's time to get rid of the tight T shirts. I mean, I'm just.

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Speaker 5: I don't wear tight T shirts. I just wear shirts that I know that I like feeling comfortable in. So if somebody else deems them tight, that's those people's securities.

00:27:22
Speaker 2: Oh okay, that's my insecurity then.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:27:25
Speaker 5: See, because you're right now, that hoodie you got on looks like it's a double to a triple lection large. We can get you in something little smaller.

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Speaker 2: Are you wearing that Yukon sweatshirt tonight?

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Speaker 1: Not this?

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Speaker 5: When I have something else something tight. See, when you come to the Final four, here's the thing about Final four. You needed a hoodie that says gdp on it the great damn passay. But when you come to the Final four, first of all, a week before nobody knows who's going to be here, you know, it just kind of happens. So you pack, you know, with the optimism of I'm going to be here for four days, and they get you in hotels because you have to get a hotel for four they you can't just buy it from one or two. So I either if we lose on Saturday, I overpacked, and then being here still today you had to figure out, Okay, did I pack enough? So you kind of have to kind of run it back a little bit here and there.

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Speaker 2: What was tough for facing Iverson in college or in the NBA.

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Speaker 5: Both, You know, there wasn't really a difference. And John Thompson, you know, let Iverson go. He let him play his game. And you know all those guys, you know, Bubakar, al Othella, the different supporting cast he had going to the Sixers with Aaron McKee and Eric Snow Like, all those guys knew who Alan Iverson was and they catered their offense to him. So it was hard on both levels to stop him because he knew exactly who he was, and he played his game similar at both levels, and obviously when he got to the NBA, you know, they built teams around him again and we were trying to figure out. I think I got really adept at understanding who he was, you know, his moves, because I played a lot against him in playout Basket Bustle. Statistically, I knew where scoring zones were, you know, the moves he wanted to make. But it's still was hard to stay in front of him because he was so small that he get in gaps and you know, he moved up and down the floor and there wasn't a shot that he didn't like an or for that matter, that he couldn't.

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Speaker 2: Make it that, or that he couldn't take. You're right, Yeah, I keep seeing these stories now about how dirty John Stockton was. Like guys are reminiscing about facing Stockton and whether it's Gary Payton or Baron Davis, and was Stockton dirty to you?

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Speaker 5: Well, he Stockton was. Is always my example to the young people when I say, if you look at John Stockton, you asked what physical attributes did he possess that you would look at and say this guy is a beast. The thing that I learned from Stockton is he did the simple thing over and over again. Out of ten passes, one might be behind the back pass. He set the hardest screens, and I think to what people would be alluding to with him is he would when he set the cross screen on for Carl Malone and that he would pass the ball and he cut across the lane. He set the screen, and he did two things really well. One obviously he set the screen really well, but occasionally he would grab your jersey then hold you, or if you try to run him over, then he'd fall and then you would get the foul. So he was really a depth at playing the game. And because he was small, nobody expected him or thought that he could overpower you or athletically beat you. But he played the game smartly. And so he's a great example of a lesson for young people that you don't have to have this highly skilled physical ability to be an all star, be one of the all time greats, and he's certainly example of that.

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Speaker 2: How does it play out tonight, Ray, Well.

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Speaker 5: I mean there's a couple of different scenarios for you kind of think that we have to make sure that we have a good start, and we can't have those little scoring droughts throughout the game because Michigan is not going to give us any reprieve. So if you see Caravan score early, get to the free throw line, get to the whole same thing with solo ball, then it's going to be a close game and it's gonna be a tough night for Michigan. But if we start early and it's like a seven zero nine zero game where we're not scoring their attacking, then we're gonna be on our heels all night, which we still are capable of staying with the game, as we've seen against.

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Speaker 2: Do Will you run out on the floor a few kind wins?

00:31:53
Speaker 5: I walk. I think in those moments I tried my best stay out of the way because this is obviously is not about me, but in those times when history tells the story, to be able to say that I was there, to other players that passed played at Yukon, at won championships, to be on that floor, it speaks to the legacy of the program, and so from that aspect, it's important for me to be out there just to show the future generation kids that come to Yukon like this is a brotherhood that you want to be a part of. So if you work hard, this is the place that you want to be.

00:32:31
Speaker 2: Have fun tonight. Thanks for joining us, Will GDP. Yeah, GDP, the Great Dan Patry, Thank you very Ray all right, thank you Ray Allen.

00:32:38
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00:32:49
Speaker 2: Live is Guy Fieri with us, Tom Diners, Drive Engine Dives Mister Michigan Wolverine, Guy Fieri joining us on the program. How did you come about picking Michigan there, Guy?

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Speaker 3: Well, not only am I you know, great cook and a curator of fantastic tequila, but uh, I really have a fantastic profile and awareness of everything that goes on in the NCAA men's basketball. That's not true. Actually I have a ringer. I have my son writer. Actually I've got I've got writer that I just woke up and shit, get up early. But writer, Writer goes to San Diego State and works for San Diego State basketball and heart broke in that they didn't make the tournament, but uh, you know an amazing team. So I went to Rider. I gotta be honest with you and writer, that's my favorite thing about watching basketball is watching it with him because he can break it all down for me. As soon as he told me that, you know, he wasn't doing good and something with school, I'm like, look at it like you look at basketball, and you're going to do great.

00:33:52
Speaker 2: So he helped me.

00:33:53
Speaker 3: With my bracket. But uh, after that Yukon game, after that Duke Yukon game, I'm like, wow, this is getting out of control. And then that Michigan stopping that happened with az I turned. I mean, I'll always watch games all the way through because you never know. But yeah, that's all right, buddy. I'd love to take.

00:34:12
Speaker 2: The credit for this. Okay. Marvin, who's one of the dan Ets, went to Connecticut. If Connecticut wins, he wins the Celebrity Bracket Challenge. If Michigan wins, you win. Now, I don't know if there's anything we can really give you, but we can ask for something if Connecticut wins. If you're in the area, the Tri State area, Marvin could be in an episode where he's seated at a table where you go, oh, Marvin from the dan Patrick show. So what do you think about that? And then if there's something that we could give to you if Michigan wins.

00:34:49
Speaker 3: Oh, I think that this has to happen. Regardless, we will make this come to a reality. Okay, Where and when we do this, I'm not sure, but there will have to be a a passing of the gauntlet of who wins and and who has to pay the price. I mean, I'm not getting into that crazy uh. You know that that fantasy football stuff where someone's got to dress up and go to the mall. I'm not quite ready for that, but I am ready for if I which I don't believe that I'm going to get knocked out. I believe that Michigan, after what we've seen Michigan do uh this season and especially through this tournament. I'm saying the right things, right, writer, right, all right? So if this goes the way that uh I have read the stars, I will be prepared to deliver a beautiful signed bottle of Santo tequila UH and present it to him and and take my beating. If he loses. I don't know, Dan, you tell me what he gets? What does he get to pluck off of his desk? That he has to give me.

00:35:55
Speaker 2: I will have your son on the show as a guest. How about that.

00:36:02
Speaker 3: There you go, Rider, if we win, if your pick wins, you go on the show. That sounds good. All right, that's it. I think that's a fair trade. Yeah, we're all fired up for this, right and I and Rider one, Hunters, Laurie and I went to the finals down in uh where we go, Arizona. That was the coolest. I mean, I've been to a ton of sporting events, but to see them take a stadium and then fill in that whole stadium with all those floor seats and then put that basketball court in the center of it, and to watch the game. I'm so bummed that we're not there to go see it, but it is. It was one of the best sporting events I've ever seen.

00:36:40
Speaker 2: But you went to UNLV when the running Rebels were at UNLV, correct, that was another That.

00:36:46
Speaker 3: Was another level. You get to take little UNLV in nineteen ninety is actually the year I graduated, and you know, we got great tickets. That was you know, there was this team that was just coming out of nowhere. I mean not really, I mean Tarcanian had been building it, but We used to get awesome seats, like, you know, sitting right on the floor, just spending what the lottery was of what's your fraternity or you know how you picked it. But then all of a sudden, here we are ranked number one. I remember that morning of going and seeing the gigantic number one that they built in the you know, in the front driveway of the school. And yeah, it was for a little school like UNLV at that time to be going as big it was. It was an amazing time. And I remember when we won, it was chaos. So it's it's something I appreciate. I didn't appreciate the next year, but I appreciate it so and I wouldn't say that I'm you know, Duke losing.

00:37:36
Speaker 2: You know, okay, you didn't mind that.

00:37:41
Speaker 3: Rider used to terrorize me when when he was a kid and told me all through his elementary school and because you've been a basketball fan forever, played great competitive basketball through high school in that but he always used to tell me that he wanted to go to do Hunter. I went to UNLV, my oldest son, Hunter went to UNLV, and Riders now taunting me with he's going to go to Duke. So San Diego State was a happy medium.

00:38:05
Speaker 2: How are you feeling like a million bucks?

00:38:08
Speaker 3: I'm up and rolling. Oh from my from my leg injury. Yeah, oh yeah, that was a that was not good. I had this crazy explosion of my quad muscle in the center of my leg, right in the center, not down at the knee, not up to hit, but right the center exploded. And they came and sewed it back together. And you know, me, being sequestered to a wheelchair and crutches for in a cast for eight weeks was horrible. But I survived it and I'm back. But what doing an injury?

00:38:39
Speaker 2: What did your quad look like? Food wise?

00:38:44
Speaker 3: As the as the surgeon said, Guy, I haven't seen this in twenty years, and I'm going to be trying to sew together ground beef and ground beef. He said, you have blown this muscle up in the center of your leg. He says, So we're going to put this back together. He goes, you really have to stay off. I mean, he put the fear in me. He goes, unless you want to be back here going through this again, don't move that muscle. And I'm like, oh so really? And I had I was filming a show in the middle of this, and if I didn't finish the show, all my crew was going to go away with no Christmas money. And so we figured out a way to put me in the wheelchair. And then when it was time for my scene this new show that we're doing called Flavortown Food Fight, and so I would get out of the wheelchair, stand there next to a park bench or something, or hold a street sign and try to bump. Well, we made it crew, and after I got down with the shoot, and that was two weeks of that, and I was fresh out of surgery, only two days out of surgery, and the doctor was just pissed.

00:39:41
Speaker 2: He's like, I do.

00:39:42
Speaker 3: All this work and you're gonna go back to what's got to do? You know that play hurt?

00:39:47
Speaker 2: But were you skiing?

00:39:49
Speaker 3: No, I was listen. I was fighting DP, I was fighting ninjas. I tried to make up like really good stories about what happened. Now, now I was walking out of my tree going to the set o.

00:40:02
Speaker 2: My god, it just started to rain.

00:40:05
Speaker 3: At brand new lu CAZy boots on that I hadn't scuffed up. The bottom hit that first step. One leg went all the way down the stairs. The other leg got caught behind me on the threshold and it popped. I mean, I've broken a lot of things and had injuries, but this went off like a gun and I was shot. And the nurse came over. The EMT came over and looked at my leg and she goes, I got I'm fine, I'm fine. Just you know, I'm fine. I just pulled my muscle. She goes, No, you have a huge divot in your leg where your muscle used to be, because you need to go to the hospital. I went to the hospital and the doctors like, yeah, we have to do surgery now. He said, like, now, can I go back to work?

00:40:44
Speaker 5: No?

00:40:44
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was. It was interesting. So I have tons of appreciation and understanding for all these athletes to go through these horrific injuries and then they have a timeline to get themselves back. PT is no fun. Pet's worse than the injury.

00:41:01
Speaker 2: All right, big night tonight. So any parting words for Marvin and as U Kona Huskies.

00:41:06
Speaker 3: Marvin, I think that you have watched every game, probably more diligently than I have. I mean, and I don't know that you get writers, crib notes, writers always delivering. Did you see the game last night and then he gives me that rundown of what happened. I got to say, after that Arizona game and we saw it, we saw it, take it away from and you look at how they crushed Tennessee. You look at just how I mean they had these gigantic sixteen point leads throughout the tournament. There's just so many things that are showing this. And I don't know what the Vegas line is right now. I should as a Vegas guy, but I'm going to look forward to writer being a guest on to Dan Patrick. So this could be fantastic And I'll send DP when I win. I'll send you the bottle of.

00:41:50
Speaker 2: Tequila Repisoto if you can, without question.

00:41:54
Speaker 3: Matt, maybe I'll just send the whole portfolio. That'd be nice to the Jaho. You know. Yeah, we'll make sure because I just need a spot on the desk somewhere, but just for Writer's day. But now it's gonna be hopefully it's going to be a great I want to see a great game. I think everybody does. But now and I'm glad that is there gonna be a wall of fame anything that when the celebrity listed because I filled that out my hand. By the way, do you see that?

00:42:17
Speaker 2: No, I got it, I got it, I got you. I got it here and you're asking for an awful lot.

00:42:23
Speaker 3: This is a big win at the Fietti House.

00:42:26
Speaker 2: What I don't know has a what Marvin, but dp I'm taking a bottle of tequila and I'm bringing it to the show wherever he's at. Oh, I'm crashing it. Oh my, yukon't get on and all that Diners Driving and Domination for Ukon. Whoa, whoa. He just renamed my shows Diners, Driving and Domination.

00:42:49
Speaker 3: I love it.

00:42:51
Speaker 2: All right, Well we're on, all right. Uh, we'll talk to you soon. Good guys, Thank you, Guy Fieri. Diner's driving some dimes.