Expecting to fail is the secret to life
It's actually the secret to life. Expect, expect to fail. And then if you don't totally fail, that's like a huge victory.
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View episodeThe next Syracuse head coach should be forced to run the 2-3 zone in perpetuity
I hope whoever the next coach is at Syracuse, they should just have to run the zone forever. That should be Boeheim's legacy. Like I will retire, but you have to run my zone in, in perpetuity for the next hundred years.
I am officially starting a #FireMikeHopkins campaign for the Washington Huskies
I gave Spencer Hawes our good friend my word that I would start a fire Mike Hopkins hashtag. So if anyone wants to join me on that, the Huskies, I think have not been to the tournament in like three or four years. So we'll do, maybe I'll do that for him. Mike Hopkins, you suck.
It is Rick Pitino or bust for the St. John's head coaching job
Rick Pitino better be at a major school next year because it's time. And there's some openings that perfectly fit Rick Pitino... The choice for St. John's now really is a simple one: Rick Pitino or bust.
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View profileThe Knicks won the title because they have the most 'grit'
I said, Charlie, that's her name. I said, they have grit. They have grit. It's like in that game four, when when, when Brunson went into the huddle, he said, Hey guys, smart basketball. This is, we can do this... They don't [give up]. That's when they say, alright, we can win this thing.
Former sports agents are the best choice to run professional teams
I don't know much about the business side of like basketball, but I know that the, the GM or the president [of the Knicks] is a former agent [Leon Rose]. And I know that that Golden State run was run by a former agent too [Bob Myers]... I think this is gonna be the, the beginning of, we're gonna start to see sports agents start to run teams a little bit. I think they know things that about money and about all that stuff.
Winning a championship feels better than the 'emptiness' Joe Mazzulla describes
Coach Mazzulla in his press conference said something about feeling empty when he won and feeling empty when he lost. ... I'm not a psychiatrist, but winning feels better. It's just my take.