Donovan Mitchell reflects on playing for Rick Pitino at Louisville

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00:00What was Rick Pitino like in your life, man?

00:02What was those two years with him like?

00:03I tell people all the time, like, those were,

00:06and be careful when I say this, they were the

00:08worst two years,

00:10but the best two years of my life.

00:11I was always a dog, I was always hungry,

00:13but there's like a level, like another level,

00:16like another button to be pushed. That man

00:17is the master of finding whatever

00:20that is and pushing it, and pushing

00:22it. Before I got in there, he had a lot of guys

00:23transfer, because some guys just weren't

00:26like, I wasn't gonna stop.

00:28Like, you know what I mean? And he was crazy.

00:30I told everybody, I told my

00:32guy Ian Jackson, who committed there, and I

00:34was like, and Bryce, who committed there, they called

00:36me, I was like, yo, what's he like? I said, y'all better be ready.

00:38Like, I know you're a McDonald's Old American, but he's not.

00:40He ain't gonna care. He ain't gonna care. Yeah. Like, you know what I mean?

00:42Like, you gotta be ready on the day-to-day, and

00:44I have no doubt they'll succeed and do well, but for me,

00:46when I was there, like, I was still trying to prove.

00:48I was top 50, but like, I'm like, I'm trying to be top

00:5025, trying to be top 10. The NBA wasn't

00:52even a thought. It was just, how can I get there and make

00:54the rotation and play, and

00:55then my second year, it just took off.

01:00shoot my first year. That's crazy. Him and

01:02you know Ralph Willard? Yeah. Yeah,

01:03they helped me, you know, change my jump shot, get

01:05Arkham my jump shot, and yeah, but that was

01:08it was amazing. It really helped grow, like, the

01:10dog out of you.