Landon Ferraro

That alone says a lot about someone.

He knows who's in his corner.

He knows who has made the sacrifices to help him get to the point where he is, not only as a player before, but now as a head coach.

To recognize that and really make a point of it, you can say what you want, but at the same time, if I'm a player seeing that, I don't know if it's just me older again looking back, but I see a guy that tears.

right from the start, you're like, if I can get in and I do what he wants, that's the type of respect that I'm going to get.

Because anyone that you talk to, that's what you hear about Manny Malotra is, yeah, he wants things done his way.

He's not a pushover, but at the same time, you can have a discussion.

You might not like how the discussion ends because he's going to tell you what he feels and what he thinks is best, but

You know, it's the same thing of when you respect someone, you want to hear the criticism because it's not criticizing you to put you down.

It's, you know, I know you have more.

I know you can take your game to another level.

And when you're dealing with a bunch of young kids, you have to have that type of attitude.

You feel that within seconds of a guy coming in and holding a meeting, like the first one.

There's the guys that come out and it's almost too much because they're trying to show they're in power.

That's not how it works, really.

Yeah, there's a couple coaches through the history that are those known real hard coaches and confrontational, all that.

But for the vast majority...

like you don't need to raise your voice.

You don't need to come in and light the room on fire, come in and be yourself and be confident in what you're saying.

People, people resonate with that.