All Ball - Arizona + UVA Day 1 Upsets, Kennesaw State HC Amir Abdur-Rahim on Xavier Matchup, Coaching Alex Caruso, Anthony Edwards Recruiting
The Dan Patrick Show
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🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
First, Doug reacts to Day 1 tourney action, including Arizona and Virginia suffering first round upsets. Then, he’s joined by Kennesaw State Head Coach Amir Abdur-Rahim on the eve of his 14-seed Lions first round matchup against Xavier.
They discuss his playing career following his NBA all-star brother Shareef, playing for Billy Kennedy at Southeastern Louisiana, his transition coaching under Kennedy at Murray State, how he helped Alex Caruso develop into an NBA player at A&M, Tom Crean’s focus on player development at Georgia, and his unique relationship with Anthony Edwards that got him to UGA, how he got the Kennesaw Job, how he changed the culture of a 1 win team into an NCAA Tournament team, why he was happy for Damon Stoudamire getting the Georgia Tech job, and why Kennesaw has a shot against Xavier.
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| 0:23.0 | Listen to Every Day Better on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey what I'm up welcome in. I'm Doug Gottley. This is all ball. You're gonna love this. We're dropping it the day of day day to the NCAA tournament. So this we recorded this during day one |
| 0:46.8 | Amir Abdul Rahim the head coach of Tennessee State. We spent about hour and a half |
| 0:52.0 | chatting again this is night before his first NCA term again and |
| 0:55.8 | If you don't find yourself rooting for Amir and Kennesaw State at the end of this interview, then he actually didn't pay enough attention. |
| 1:06.7 | Wigier's answer when I asked him how he felt about not getting the Georgia Tech job. Remember he's from Atlanta, |
| 1:15.8 | coached the Georgia Tech, coached it as an administrative guy with Brian Gregory, |
| 1:21.1 | coached at Georgia, has built this Kenesaw program from one win to an |
| 1:27.0 | NCAA tournament team with, what do they got, 23 wins? |
| 1:30.0 | I mean, it's crazy, excuse see me 26 wins but wait to hear his answer and and you'll find |
| 1:40.0 | out what coach the reaction means. You're gonna this is amazing. I do want to offer a quick |
| 1:46.2 | thought and I'm a huge Kihei Clark fan. You go back to the National Championship year and he was a guy who was seen as |
| 1:54.6 | too small can't shoot and yet they won a national championship but didn't have Kihei Clark. |
| 1:59.1 | And of course he made that incredible heady play from the back court, |
| 2:04.0 | throwing to the front court to, |
| 2:05.7 | I think that forced overtime against Purdue |
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