UCLA's Second Half Collapse Hands Win to Minnesota

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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

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