UCLA head coach Mick Cronin before practice 8/17

Before the team takes off for Spain, UCLA men’s basketball head coach Mick Cronin met with reporters Thursday prior to practice to discuss the new additions to the roster, the heavy international presence, the status of Adem Bona, and more. Video by Tracy McDannald/BruinBlitz.com.

[@TonyTmoney]

Coach wants the whole squad THERE!!!ASAP! CRONIN WE LA TRUST, GET E. COACH NEEDS A FEW GAMES HIT STRIDE WHEN IMPORTANT IN MARCH...

[@arianprofit]

He looks like Ron Thomas the preacher from Cobra Kai

[@TonyTmoney]

Coach stressed missing 3 IMPORTANT PLAYERS, it's coaching refreshment which is difficult had this trip set up so the team could build chemistry and be ready to roll when the season starts you just made it clear we still waiting for two of our top recruits from Europe to show up in a couple of weeks and then we got Bona who's hurt coaches a little bit upset set up his big trip and it's a long trip for really nothing we need team bonding and this trip would be a great asset if we had our 2 Euro stars Mara and Buyuktuncel with Bona in it but we don't so coach just playing it out in his mind how about a month until they're here about month-and-a-half 2 months until everyone healthy and everyone can be on the court get Cronin up in ur face and we c then that Talent built toughness added skill most important how and what to win but,Boy! that's a late start so everyone don't freak out I'm telling you right now we might start slow but no way are we going to finish slow cuz we got way too much talent I'm telling you right now I'm hoping we get it together by game 4 or game 5 and I see us either being three wins and one loss or four wins and one loss and then soon the guys have the chemistry at playing together down which only could happen in real games you can't built that through practice what the amount of talent we have I c us literally winning games double digits by even game 1 just too much talent and that Talent will get you by not having enough chemistry and practice before the season but the good thing is with all that Talent the team will get a feel for each other really fast I'm telling you as soon as the first game with all that Talent we're just blowing teams away people think that USC Oregon and Arizona are better than UCLA and I would tend to agree when you got basically seven freshmen coming in but we in Los Angeles or fans of UCLA know that this is a special freshman class I suggest if not a UCLA fan and are not too familiar with the European recruits please do your due diligence by doing a simple Google research easily make a point that they could all basically be first-rounders and I'm not even talking about this with the Williams and Sebastian Mack and then we transfer we got from Utah Lazar so I feel bad for coach and I feel bad for making you guys read this because this is no longer a comment it's a paragraph but I just am blown away how no one nationally is talking about UCLA and how people have us not winning the Pac-12 when they were celebrating Bona who are legit first-rounder and do they know that we got another legit first-rounder I'm sorry these are the so-called professional analyst of college basketball Aday Mara is a top-five pick and I'm not even talkin about Buyuktuncel who they also got going 1st round and Jan Vide was FIBA U19 MVP & THOSE 3 AREN'T EVEN WHO IM HIGH ON FRENCH KID ILLANE FEBLEUIL you know what I got to stop cuz I haven't even begun to speak about our 3 domestic recruits the two Williams and Sebastian Mack so I take this as disrespect all I got to say look at the talent and coach again look at all that talent and more important who the head coach is?IF I CAN SAY TRUST ME AND TAKE THESE WORDS TO THE BANK,"NEVER DOUBT OR QUESTION IN CRONIN WE TRUST" again coach has probably the best talent ever coming in and you think we going to be a sub-par team, COACH IS TIRED NOT FROM LACK OF SLEEP OF NOT HAVING WHOLE SQUAD THERE AS ALL COLLEGE TEAMS STARTED THERE WHERE EVER THEY GOING TO GAMES, SO COACH AS GAMES COMING WITHOUT BIG 3 EVEN TO PRACTICE ONCE , HELL UCLA PLAYERS HAVENT EVEN MEET ALL TOGETHER YET BEFORE WE CAN SAY WE HAD A FULL ROSTER PRACTICE BUT CRONIN BABY! WE STRAIGHT, NOVEL 4 U MIK CANT TALK I GET MESSAGE TO U TOLD U