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Dan Patrick
Ian Eagle or Ian Igle. 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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What an opening question.
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Ian Eagle
Do I stay in my lane or do I just give you my my genuine thoughts? The shocker for me in all of it. Bill Raftery was in the mosh pit.
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Dan Patrick
Couldn't believe it.
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Ian Eagle
Where's Bill?
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Dan Patrick
I didn't see that you're smoking My chain, Dan. But you knew the chain smokers were going to be performing. Yeah. You had to be ready for that moment. Correct.
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Ian Eagle
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. You know, you freshen up, you grab a slider. It's a little bit of food, have a bite, move on. 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 a career highlight.
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Dan Patrick
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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Ian Eagle
Yeah, that was wild. I think the. 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 in his hometown, to come back from 19 down, to do it against Duke, to have Raf and Grant in a state of shock next to me, I know that 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 Raf said, what's a meme? He had no idea.
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Dan Patrick
But are you watching the monitor or the game in a moment like that?
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Ian Eagle
I was watching the game, and then what I tend to do is the second the 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 steal takes place, Grant digs his arm into my ribcage 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. 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 were 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. They're highlights and they're 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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Dan Patrick
Ian Eagle will be on the call with Grant Hill, Bill Raftery, Tracy Wolfson. And tipoff is 8:50 Eastern.
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Ian Eagle
Yep.
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Dan Patrick
When did it change from 920 to 850?
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Ian Eagle
This is, this is a college basketball history that I can't answer. I'd like to phone a friend. When did it change? Okay, Dan needs to know. Okay, yeah, get on it. A few years ago.
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Dan Patrick
Okay, thank you. Great research staff there that you have.
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Ian Eagle
Thank you. Thank you.
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Dan Patrick
I just have them calling a game in a dome or in a arena or at a school, university.
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Ian Eagle
Biggest difference, huge, huge 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. Sight 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 70,000 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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Dan Patrick
How much will you hear Danny Hurley tonight?
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Ian Eagle
0. 0. 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.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah.
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Ian Eagle
National, you are 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 Doordash, 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 do. Should I. Should I go meet him? Do I wait? Do I. Do 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 happen to be walking by as I'm now performing with my phone, they're like, what's going on here? It's a delivery robot. And I hit the button on my phone and it opens the hatch.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah.
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Ian Eagle
And it was as if I was walking on the moon. They were astounded at what took place and got. 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 action. And you could hear like that. I hear. I won't hear.
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Dan Patrick
Dan Hurley, 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.
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Ian Eagle
Yes. Well, I heard that.
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Dan Patrick
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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Ian Eagle
Well, I think his ability to build the program so quickly, to identify talent, to figure out which pieces would work together. Look, there's a financial aspect to this. You can't ignore it. It's there, but they've done it correctly. They've. They've really had an architect in Dusty May that. 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 won eight games. Two seasons ago, they won eight games, and now they're. They're playing for a chip.
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Dan Patrick
College athletics. If we look at NIL Transfer portal.
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Ian Eagle
Yep.
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Dan Patrick
I think this has been a great year for college athletics.
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Ian Eagle
I agree.
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Dan Patrick
Maybe that's not a popular opinion, but, you know, you have Indiana winning the football championship.
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Yeah.
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You get transfers now. I. I would like for them to sign contracts. I, you know, have it a little more uniform, a little more uniformity here. But, you know, 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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Ian Eagle
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 Flagg, 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. Yaxel Lindeborg is a more complete player now than he would have been a year ago if he came out of uab, 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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Dan Patrick
Well, I look at Braylon Mullins and he's going to be, you know, projected to be a first round draft pick.
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Ian Eagle
Yep.
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Dan Patrick
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 Reed 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, Reed with some highlights there. And that might be the case for Braylon Mullins. That do I, 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's 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 longtime NBA player or you stay because you might not Be that long term player.
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Ian Eagle
Yeah, there, there was a stretch of time, Dan, obviously working both 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 pick, 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 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, to make a more prudent decision.
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Dan Patrick
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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Ian Eagle
Yeah. Dan, I, 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 15 minutes.
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Dan Patrick
So, you know, at every.
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Fine.
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Ian Eagle
But I just wanted to make sure the, the backdrop look good. I, I'm a big earth tones guy.
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Dan Patrick
I like it. Yeah. Very, very much. Very, very earthy. Yes, you are.
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Ian Eagle
Yeah, thanks.
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Dan Patrick
All right. We're counting on you tonight.
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Ian Eagle
Thanks. Thanks. I'm gonna go through my normal routine game day and have some Nutter Butters and watch some Maury Povich.
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Dan Patrick
You are the father.
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Ian Eagle
You are not the father. Every time it gets me. Every time. The intrigue, it's like March Madness. It's so unpredictable.
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Dan Patrick
Save your voice. Save your voice. Okay. Thank you.
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Ian Eagle
I see you, dad.
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Dan Patrick
That's Iron Eagle.
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Dan Patrick
Find exclusions and details@t mobile.com Former Yukon great Hall of Famer Ray Allen joining us from Indianapolis. How nervous are you?
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Ray Allen
I My nervousness existed when we played Michigan State because you're playing an izzo squad that always comes prepared. So back then I was nervous, I guess because Duke was, if not the best team in the country. 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 Kraton in Marquette during the year and I was like, okay, we, we dropped a. A bomb there in those two games. So it's really always been about how Yukon plays for me and if they come playing a full cylinder, it's hard for anybody to beat them.
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Dan Patrick
But also I mentioned Michigan wants this game in the 80s. Connecticut probably needs this game to be in the 60s. How does Connecticut do That.
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Ray Allen
Well, it's interesting because there's a, there's a, if you watch Michigan, they get the ball out of the net and they run. That has typically been historically how Yukon has always played. We've been an uptempo, fast break type of team. If you watch the game against Illinois, whenever we, we have those scoring droughts, the three ball's not falling and say Teris Reed isn't really scoring. But what you also notice is when we do get stopped because defensively we've been solid. We never push the ball up the floor. We're playing against a 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 going to take what terrorist Reed is doing away from us. They're going to trail Caravan and make sure they get a hand in his face. So we in a, 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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Dan Patrick
Wow. Because I remember Indiana did that against the 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.
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Ray Allen
Yeah.
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Dan Patrick
Does Yukon have the talent to run this and play a game in the 80s, go toe to toe that way with Michigan?
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Ian Eagle
Yeah.
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Ray Allen
And remember we, we don't have to be a better team in Michigan. We just have to be better than them tonight. So it's, it's really about kind of meeting them toe for toe. So when they get the ball in the net 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, you, you figured the way it's transferring from one side to the next side to the next side and you know, you, you can make the case that you know so much movement that you know you're. How many guys can shoot in, in that quick of a motion at from three point line to be so consistent. So to be able to get that scoring opportunity in transition off a rebound, that's some of the best times.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah.
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Ray Allen
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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Dan Patrick
If I said there was an alumni game prior to the national title game,
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Ray Allen
I know where this is going.
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Dan Patrick
So I got Michigan versus Yukon. All the alum who are at the game tonight. So I got fab fives there. Who wins an alumni game?
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Ray Allen
Are we talking about just the guys that are somewhat in attendance? Are we talking about, historically, some of the best we produce?
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Dan Patrick
Just those who are there.
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Ian Eagle
Oh,
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Ray Allen
now we're talking about each player in their prime.
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Dan Patrick
No, no, right now.
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Ray Allen
Oh, right now. Right now we'll get them because, well, I mean, you, you have to say, you know, all the five. Five 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 50s. But then you, you got a Mecca Okafor there. You got Shabazz Napier, Ryan boat right there. You got Kimba Walker there. So you're talking about guys that could still play potentially really in the NBA right now.
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Dan Patrick
Okay. All right, what do you see now? Let me take you back to. You stayed three years at Connecticut.
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Ray Allen
Yeah.
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Dan Patrick
Okay. But given today's NBA, you probably would leave after a year. Like Braylon 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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Ray Allen
Yeah, because college, there's so much instability on that team the next year. That's why when 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 is actually going to be on your team next year, because the transfer portal opens up, I think, tomorrow. So what's going to be available? Who's going to lead teams? And so now Braylon 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 Braylon 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 36 in terms against UCLA, the eventual national championship in 96 or 95, and everybody there was blurbs of me 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'm one of the better, if not the best, player in college, which I was able to do. So after my junior year, there's no way I was making it to my senior year. So I think Braylon, depending on the circle that's around him 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 can be even better player and get drafted top five, if not number one, next year.
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Dan Patrick
Talking to Ray Allen, hall of Famer, UConn alum, played three seasons for the Huskies. How would you have done with Danny Hurley's style of coaching?
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Ray Allen
I love his style of coaching. He's similar to Calhoun. You know, he. He rides hard for his players. He stays on them. He coaches you hard. We're. We're in a. We're in a. 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.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah.
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Ray Allen
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 Hurley, coaches come to him and the parents say, and I heard this with Braylon's dad. I needed somebody to coach Braylon hard because he's going to get the best out of him. And guys that want that, they come to UConn. 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 in 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 as you can, you have nothing to worry about.
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Dan Patrick
Help me understand the T shirt that you got roughed up on social media
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Ray Allen
for the T shirt.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah.
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Ray Allen
What T shirt?
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Dan Patrick
They said that you're wearing a tight T shirt.
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Ray Allen
Me?
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Dan Patrick
Yeah.
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Ray Allen
Oh, that's just my muscles, My muscles
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Dan Patrick
are just kind of, you know, you
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Ray Allen
know, I'm, I'm putting on packing on the, the, the muscles I've been lifting. So if somebody had something to say about my T shirt, they.
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Dan Patrick
Wow. Wow. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, what are you, 50?
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Ray Allen
I'm 50. Yeah. I'm 50. And I think it's time to get
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Dan Patrick
rid of the tight T shirts. I mean, I'm just, I, I, I
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Ray Allen
don't wear tight T shirts. I just wear shirts that I know that, that, that I like feeling comfortable in. So if somebody else deems them tight, that's those people's insecurities.
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Dan Patrick
Wow. Okay. That's my insecurity then.
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Ray Allen
Yeah. See, because you're right. Now that hoodie you got on looks like it's a double to a triple extra large. We can get you in something a little smaller.
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Dan Patrick
Are you wearing that Yukon sweatshirt tonight?
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Ray Allen
Not this one. I have something else.
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Dan Patrick
Something tighter.
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Ray Allen
See, when you come to find a Ford, here's the thing about Final Four, you need a hoodie that says GDP on it. The great Dan Passer, by the way. But when you come to the Final Four, first of all, a week before, nobody knows who's going to be here. It just kind of happens. So you pack 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 days. You can't just buy it for one or two. So I either, if we lose on, on Saturday, I overpacked. And then being here still to the day, 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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Dan Patrick
What was tougher facing Iverson in college or in the NBA?
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Ray Allen
Both. You know, there, 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, Boubacar, Al Othella, the different supporting cast he had going to the Sixers with Aaron McKee and Eric Snow, like all those guys knew who Allen 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 playoff basketball. So statistically I knew where his scoring zones were. You know, the moves he wanted to make. But it still was hard to stay in front of him because he was so small and he'd get in gaps and you know, he moved up and down the floor and there wasn't a shot that he didn't like or for that matter that he couldn't make or,
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Dan Patrick
or that he couldn't take. You're right.
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Ray Allen
Yeah.
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Dan Patrick
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. Was Stockton dirty to you?
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Ray Allen
Well, he, Stockton was. Is always my example to, to the young people when I say if you look at John Stockton, you ask what physical attributes did he, that you would look at and say this guy is a, is a beast. The thing that I learned from Stockton is he did the simple thing over and over again. Out of 10 passes, one might be behind the back pass. He set the hardest screens and, and, and I think to what people will be alluding to with him is he would, when he set the cross screen on for car balloon and that was he would pass the ball and he cut across the lane. He'd set the screen and he did two things really well. One, obviously he set the screen really well, but occasionally he would grab your, your, your jersey and hold you or if you try to run him over then he'd fall and then you'd get the, the, the, the foul. So he was really adept at playing the game and, and because he was small, nobody expected him or thought that he could overpower you or, or athletically beat you. But he played the game smartly and so he's a great example. The 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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Dan Patrick
How does it play out tonight, Ray?
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Ray Allen
Well, I mean there's a couple different scenarios for UConn. I 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, if you see Caravan score early, get to the free throw line, get to the hole, same thing with solo ball, then it's going to be a close game and it's going to be a tough night for Michigan. But if we, we start early and it's like a 7090 game where we're not scoring and they're attacking. Then we're going to be on our heels all night, which we still are capable of staying with the game as we've seen against Duke.
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Dan Patrick
Will you run out on the floor if UConn wins?
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Ray Allen
I walk. I think in those moments I tried my best to stay out of the way because this is obviously it's 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 UConn at one 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 UConn 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.
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Dan Patrick
Have fun tonight. Thanks for joining us.
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Ray Allen
I will. Gdp.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah, gdp. The great Dan Patrick. Thank you, Ray Ray all right, that's Ray Allen.
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Find exclusions and details@t mobile.com is Guy Fieri with us? Tom, he's ready to roll. Diners drive ins and dives. Mr. Michigan Wolverine Guy Fieri joining us on the program. How did you come about picking Michigan there guy.
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Well, not only am I, you know, great cook, the curator of fantastic tequila, but you, I really have a fantastic profile and awareness of everything that goes on in NCAA men's basketball. That's not true. Actually, I have a ringer. I have my son Ryder. Actually, I've got, I've got Ryder that I just woke up and get up early. But Ryder, Ryder goes to San Diego State and works for San Diego State basketball and heartbroken that they didn't make the tournament, but you know, an amazing team. So I went to Ryder. I gotta be honest with you and Ryder, 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 in something with school, I'm like, look at it like you look at basketball and you're gonna do great. So he helped me with my bracket. But after that Yukon game, after that Duke Yukon game, I'm like, wow, this is getting out of control. And then that Michigan stomping that, that happened with, with az, I turned. I mean I always watch games all the way through because you never know. But yeah, that's all right everybody. I'd love to take the credit for this.
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Okay, Marvin, who's one of the Danets, 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.
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Oh, I think that this has to happen regardless. We will make this come to, to a reality. Okay. Where and when we do this, I'm not sure, but there will have to be a passing of the gauntlet of, of who wins and, and who has to pay the price. I mean, I'm not getting into that crazy, you know, 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 this season and especially through this tournament, I'm saying the right things, right Ryder? Right, Right. All right, so if this goes the way that I have read the stars, I will be prepared to deliver a beautiful signed bottle of Santo Tequila.
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Okay.
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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?
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I will have your son on the show as a guest. How about that?
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There you go. Ryder, 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. We? Writer and I and Ryder and Hunter and Lori and I went to the finals down in.
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Where'd we go?
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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. I. 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.
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But you went to UNLV when the Running Rebels were at unlv, correct?
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Oh, that was another. That was another level you get. Take little UNLV in 1990 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, Tarkanian 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 and what 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 so. And I. I wouldn't say that I'm, you know, Duke losing, you know.
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Okay, you didn't mind that
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Ryder used to terrorize me when we. When he was a kid and told me all through his elementary school and. Because he's been a basketball fan forever, played great competitive basketball through high school and that. But he always used to tell me that he wanted to go to Duke. Hunter. I went to unlv. My oldest son Hunter went to unlv. And Ryder's now taunting me with. He's going to go to Duke. So San Diego State was a happy medium.
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How are you feeling?
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Like a million bucks. I'm up and rolling. Oh, for my. For my leg injury.
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Yeah.
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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 hip, but right in the center. It 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 did an injury.
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What did your quad look like? Food wise.
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As the. As the surgeon said, guy, I haven't seen this in 20 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. I mean, he put the fear in me. Goes, unless you want to be back here going through this again, don't move that muscle. And. Oh, so really. And 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 bought. But we made it through. And after I got done 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. He's like, I do all this work and you're gonna go back to do what you gotta do.
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You know that play hurt, but were you skiing?
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No, listen, I was 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 trailer, going to the set.
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Oh, my God.
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I. It just started to rain at. Brand new lucchese 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. I've broken a lot of things and had injuries, but this went off like a gun. And I was in shock and the, 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 doctor's like, yeah, we have to do surgery now. He said, like, now can I go back to work? No. So, yeah, it was, it was, it was interesting. So I have tons of appreciation and understanding for all these athletes that go through these horrific injuries and then they have a timeline to get themselves back. PT is no fun. PT is worse than the injury.
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All right, big night tonight. So any parting words for Marvin and his Yukon Huskies?
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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, that rundown of what happened. I gotta 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 16 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 Ryder being a guest on the Dan Patrick show. This could be fantastic. And I'll send DP when, when I win, I'll send you the bottle of
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tequila reposado if you can.
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Without question. Maybe I'll just send the whole portfolio. That'd be nice, you know. Yeah, we'll make sure. Just. I just need a spot on the desk somewhere. But yeah, just for writer's day. But no, it's gonna be. Hopefully it's going to be a great. I want to see a great game, I think like everybody does, but now. And I'm glad that. Is there going to be a wall of fame? Anything that. When the celebrity listed. Because I filled that out by hand, by the way. Do you see that?
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No, I got it. I got it. I got you. I got it. Here, man. You're asking for an awful lot.
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This is a big win at the Fieri House, man.
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What?
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I don't know if Harvey has a ring.
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What? Marvin?
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Dan Patrick
He just renamed my show Diners Drive Ins and Domination. I love it. All right, we're on. All right, we'll talk to you soon.
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