Welcome to the fight with Teddy Atlas presented by Dynamic Striking. I'm Ken Rideout joined as always by the voice of combat sports the legend Teddy Atlas.

Teddy, how you doing?

I'm doing good.

My Yukon team is, uh, listen, if you listen to this show a few months ago, all the way back in October before the college pass

post-season started right Ken I mean this is all facts go go like the great water wolf

used to say go to the videotape you know if you go back I

had spoken Danny Hurley brought me in to speak to the team the Yukon men's

basketball team and after I spoke to them I said they're

winning the they're going to the final four and then they're cutting the nets down

well they're in the final four by the way and I believe they're

cutting the nets down because we didn't come this far for nothing and the

reason I felt... We didn't come this far to just come this far. No and And after, and the reason I said it, I laid it out there.

After I met the players, I talked to them, they listened, they were respectful,

they were good kids, but obviously good athletes, Division I athletes.

They got a little bit of everything. They got this kid Hawkins, the best pure shooter in all of college basketball.

They got Sonogo, the big center who's unreal, one of the best

centers if not the best in the paint. They got a backup freshman who's 7 foot 4, 7 foot 3, that's incredible. They got Jackson who's a tremendous

leader and he does every, he could jump out of the arena, but he does a little bit of everything

But they have all these

Everyone knows their role every day have all the role players everyone and I one of the things I had talked to him about was getting an identity

For me that's the most important thing of trainer can do give a fighter an identity. Who am I? You can't be Mohammed Ali one round

and the next round you think you're Joe Frazier. You gotta know who you are every time you get in that

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