Since being hired to coach at UCLA, Mick Cronin says other schools negative recruit against him by saying he's a defensive-oriented coach who won't let players shine offensively. He has a message for those schools: 'We'd like to lead the nation in offense, defense and rebounding.'
Mick Cronin is introduced as the UCLA's new head basketball coach at a news conference on the campus in Los Angeles Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Cronin was hired as UCLA's basketball coach Tuesday, ending a bumpy, months-long search to find a replacement for the fired Steve Alford. The university said Cronin agreed to a $24 million, six-year deal.
"I know they [negative recruit] because the assistant coaches that do that stuff, they don't realize, and kids tell you what other people say," Cronin said."It's comical. It's always going to go on in our business. Cincinnati's Jarron Cumberland drives past Iowa's Nicholas Baer in the first half during a first round men's college basketball game in the NCAA Tournament in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, March 22, 2019. "I've coached the last two players of the year in our conference, Jarron Cumberland and Gary Clark so we coach offense,"
Cronin just began summer workouts with his team on Tuesday and said it's too early to have any expectations of this group. "Tyger looks good. He's out on the court doing some stuff, moving, but we're going to be cautious with him. But there's no need to be in a hurry with him, it's summer. I don't believe you can win games in the summer, but I think you can lose them by pushing guys too hard. I think the summer's for improvement but I think you gotta be smart about what you're doing.
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