Matt McMahon Previews New-Look Tigers
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🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On a pre-recorded episode of Tigers Win from the summer, LSU basketball head coach Matt McMahon talked his newly-assembled staff, what to expect from this year's re-tooled roster, how he went from zero-scholarship players to a highly-ranked recruiting class in a matter of weeks, and more.
For those counting at home, we're nine days until Coach McMahon and the Tigers tip-off the 2022-23 season at the PMAC against Kansas City.
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| 0:00.0 | The stretch by Mars in the pitch. |
| 0:01.6 | One on and hit their right. |
| 0:02.6 | People that's way back there. |
| 0:03.9 | Lay back there. |
| 0:05.1 | Oh, God. Talkers win. Hangers win. I know, you know, every coach comes to these press conferences and says, we're going to win national champ. We're going to win. Everyone wants to win. It's about the process as how you go about doing that on a daily basis. And so I'm going to have great people in our organization. |
| 0:23.0 | We're going to have great people in our organization |
| 0:22.4 | who are going to invest in our players |
| 0:25.1 | and help them maximize their opportunities here at LSU |
| 0:28.6 | to get a world-class education, |
| 0:31.1 | to play in the best league in America, |
| 0:33.3 | and to compete at the very highest level. |
| 0:36.5 | All right, good to sit down with LSU head basketball coach, Matt McMahon. Coach, appreciate your time today. Cody, great to be with you again. Yeah, last time we talked on camera was when you first got here. We're talking in the summer now. This won't come out until the fall, of course. Really appreciate you letting us take over your film room for the week, by the way, as is our little temporary studio. |
| 0:56.0 | We'll get all this stuff out of the way after the show so you can have your film room back and watch film with your guys. |
| 1:00.4 | Let's talk about the summer. |
| 1:01.5 | What's it been like? |
| 1:03.1 | Let's rewind it even a little bit before that. |
| 1:05.3 | Last time we talked, it's your first day. |
| 1:08.9 | You're doing the whole media rounds and the circus and the press conferences and the interviews and all that stuff. And then that day ends, and it's the next day. And it's like, all right, it's time to get to work. What were your thoughts at that time? You probably still had maybe one or two players on the roster at that point, they all go in the portal, we all know that |
| 1:28.0 | story, you end up building a staff, building a roster. But that first day, after you finish |
| 1:32.9 | the press conferences and you finish with the cameras in your face and it's time to get to work, |
| 1:38.0 | where did you start? It's a great question. Looking back now in hindsight, very overwhelming task at the time. |
| 1:47.1 | Everything happened so fast with our season ending, four minutes away from going to the Sweet 16 there at Murray State. |
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