00:00It's easy to blame the coach or anybody else
00:03for why you're not getting to where you're going.
00:06But if you follow the person who's not reaching their full potential,
00:08I promise you, they're not working on their craft.
00:11They're not doing the extra stuff.
00:13They're BSing around all damn day
00:15while the coach is trying to get you to do the best.
00:18But if you find that owner who's going to side with you,
00:20then you can mess over that coach.
00:22You know?
00:23And listen, man, some coaches might be better leaving
00:25some of those areas like that.
00:27Because that's why I never wanted to coach.
00:29Because I know I wouldn't put up with a player's BS.
00:32And I damn sure don't want to talk to your parents.
00:35So I never wanted to be a coach
00:36because I have seen while I was playing
00:39the guy who does the least,
00:42who not the best,
00:44caused the most damn problems.
00:46And if his parent or anybody around me
00:49had any influence, the coach was screwed.
00:51And I hated that.
00:52So I never wanted to be a coach.
00:54Never.
00:55Yeah.
00:55I mean, that's a tough spot to be in.
00:57A couple other examples I can think of
00:59you've got to give credit to Arch Manning
01:01and his dad, Cooper,
01:03and obviously his grandfather, Arch, Archie.
01:05Like, this dude could have left Texas.
01:08Understanding the situation.
01:09He's willing to wait it out.
01:11And Sark's a tough coach.
01:12And now he's going to get an opportunity there.
01:14I respect Cooper more.
01:17I think Cooper wanted to do it.
01:18But Archie was like that at first.
01:20It was catering.
01:22But he's changed some as well.
01:24Yeah.
01:24Where he didn't go into like he did with Peyton,
01:26who's not playing here.
01:27No, I don't with Eli.
01:30Because let's be real.
01:32That, right there,
01:32that family normally wouldn't have put up with that.
01:34No.
01:35Maybe that player had to say, look,
01:36or either Peyton or Eli said something like that.
01:41Let him go through it.
01:42Yeah.
01:43You know, because a lot of times
01:44when you are putting your kids somewhere,
01:47you're doing them a disservice.
01:50Yeah.
01:50Because if they just get put there,
01:52they're going to have a lot of people on the team
01:54that don't like them.
01:55Well,
01:55they may not reach their full potential
01:56because of that.
01:57Another example of a coach going hard at his players,
02:00he won coach of the year this year,
02:02Rick Pitino.
02:04You got to give credit to the St. John's kids
02:06that went there understanding
02:07that Pitino's going to get on them.
02:08Yeah.
02:09But they won a heck of a lot more games
02:10than they were expected to win
02:12because they were able to take the coaching
02:13and turn it into something.
02:14When I saw him with that thing on TV,
02:17I was so happy to see it
02:20because in this day and age,
02:22when you see something like that,
02:23immediately everybody,
02:25and let's be real,
02:26a bunch of parents have become soft asses too.
02:29Oh, big time.
02:30Because as soon as they see it,
02:30they want to complain about everything.
02:32Well, my kid,
02:33and then when your kid goes somewhere else
02:35and end up getting in trouble later in life
02:36because they never corrected him the first time,
02:38you blame everybody else
02:39instead of blaming yourself.
02:40And the crazy part about it, B-Mitch,
02:42is, look, I'm not a parent.
02:43I'm not even that old,
02:45so I can't talk for a lot of stuff.
02:48But the crazy part is seeing former athletes
02:51at whatever level that are notable,
02:53and then their kids are in something,
02:56and they're getting coached hard,
02:57and then they complain about
02:58their kid getting coached hard
03:00when if they were in the same situation,
03:01they'd come back five years later and say,
03:03I'm glad that coach coached me hard.
03:05Then let the coach coach.
03:07Yeah.
03:07Let the dude do his job.
03:09A lot of those people came in the same era,
03:11or they came in a time where,
03:14you know,
03:14parents started trying to be their kids' friends.
03:18I got enough damn friends.
03:20My kids don't need to be my friends.
03:21You know how we can fix college basketball, B-Mitch?
03:24Give everybody participation trophies, right?
03:26No, we're not.
03:27That's how we fix all this.
03:28I just don't understand some of this stuff.
03:30Like, if that's truly the case,
03:32I don't know if that's really the case
03:34as to why Michael Malone's let go.
03:36I don't know if that's what happens
03:36with Taylor Jenkins.
03:37I kind of doubt that's exactly what it is.
03:40It may not be just the only reason,
03:42but it's part of it.
03:43Yeah.
03:43If that plays into it,
03:44then miss me with that.
03:46Like, you can't handle hard coaching
03:48and you're at the NBA.
03:49The goal is to win a championship.
03:51Like Paul Pierce said,
03:52you're making a lot of money
03:54and you can't get on the line
03:55to do what your coach asks.
03:56I understand if it's too far across the line.
03:59Last I checked,
04:00Michael Malone isn't doing all that, right?
04:01He won an NBA championship.
04:03He's got credentials
04:04that he can ask you to do some things
04:06on the basketball court.
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