This is Eye on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jagon Zalaz on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services. I'm sure your most prized possessions katz
R two SA at iHeartRadio Station. Good afternoon, everybody, Welcome to I
on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's
Jagin Zawa Scudder guy Kevin in today. What in the world is going on
in the college basketball world, Actually not in the college basketball world, but
in Arizona basketball. Well, it's it's it's it's it's it's it's ugly.
It Ugly's a good word. It's ugly man man man. So, uh,
they could come back from nineteen against usually, but they can't hold a
twelve point lead against Oregon State. I you know, I was trying to
think of a word or words last night and I couldn't come up with one,
right, I mean, I'm at a loss, uh, as as
probably Tommy Lloyd is. Yeah, Yeah, it's kind of like there there
there's nothing. It's just it's bad, but you're not sure why why it's
bad. Well, that's the whole thing. And they're not gonna disclose what
it is, because one, I don't think nor should they. But Tommy
doesn't know what it is. He does or he knows, but he can't
fix it. And I'm siding with that more than anything. Yeah, I
think he knows. I mean he made he you know, he made some
comments last night about their perimeter defense, which he has made before, and
then he specifically said, you know, the big guys aren't obviously don't think
other big guys can can make threes and they're not guarding. So so Jay,
Uh, what shoulday? January twenty sixth or whatever it is? Yeah?
Uh, five six weeks ago. Uh, we were talking just I
don't know about any flaws with his team. Yeah, any flaws with his
team? The good of Perdue. Play at Perdue. Oh, there's the
flaw there. Yeah, but Purdue is really good, so they expose that.
Okay, Jay, So they play another team and and well there's another
flaw. It's the same flaw. It's just bigger than there's other issues.
Though. That I threw the ballou free throws. Everybody was all, oh,
he learned how as you free throws? Jay? Jay? If I'm
if I'm buried and I my wife tells me to bring the bread ten times,
and I forget nine times. But I bring you that once. It's
more likely, But I forget the level of time. He did well one
day. You can't you are who you are. You can't fix what you
do overnight. Now you're you're right, But the problem goes way way way
down. No, no, no, there's there's about five or six.
The big problem is that Tommy said their perimeter defense, and then what the
hell has happened to Colin Boswell? There's there's three, there's three. So
so Jay, all of a sudden, six weeks ago we talked about this
team not being flawed. Right now they have more flaws than happiness or good
yeah, yeah, no there and then and the things that they were doing
well before they're not doing well. Well. Here's the thing. Look,
there there's still I mean, there's still strong under the basket. You know,
they're they're scoring points in the paint. But it things they're just again
as we said, yes, there's there seems to be no flow to their
offense anymore, pretty much. So and and maybe the flow is because you
know, there's a very squeaky wheel in there, and and I don't I
don't want to put all the blame on Kylin Boswell because it's not on his
fault, but it's a fact he's not playing like Kylin Boswell had been playing
up until a few weeks ago. He's not playing very And I don't know
what it is is. You know, it's something in his head. He's
being asked to do something that he's not prepared to do or can't do.
Uh. Is he just lost all the all of his confidence and can't and
and and and can't get it back. He could be putting too much pressure
on himself, right, Well, yeah, did you see his body language
in terms of him struggling with himself? Well, couple of games. I
saw when he got called for his fourth foul and he's walking off the course
and cussing up, and you know, he led a couple of big ones
out. Have you seen him more emotional before this time? He's just playing
very steady, very steady, very stoic. It didn't look like anything got
to him there last night. You saw that it's getting to him. Correct
And again you know, we're we're throwing his name out there, and and
I you know, I don't want to you know, it's not all his
fault because this team is not playing very well. No. In fact,
Kevin, Kevin, uh, Brian, you didn't listen to a post game,
So, Brian, I listened to Tommy. Okay, you listen.
Okay, So the questions, Brian's very nice to Tommy, very nice.
He couches the questions very simple, so he won't get he he hasked.
I mean, that's that's part of his but that's I'm kind of setting up.
So he's nice. But but even Tommy has kind of interjected his well
bribbly and you know this this or that, and he's he's gotten on Boswell
a couple of times, right, you know he's not. He better not
mention he's eighteen anymore, because he's not eighteen. He's gone through forty some
almost fifty games. And if you're not good by now, or you're not
playing well, that's on you. And then he talked about ball the big
men, well he said the big men didn't guard right. But that's not
only the thing from Ballow. He plays small. He's played and you talked
about one in the women and I won't mention your name because I forgot it
right now falling down and doing all these things bollows. A big dude,
a big strong dude. He plays on the floor a lot. He doesn't
go to the basket hard enough, and he has to get up and down
the court as well. Like it's a it's a physicality thing with him at
times, and it's also just a general physical effort thing at times as well,
because he has a big frame that could do a lot more of it.
I he's he doesn't he doesn't go to the basket hard enough. You
know. He he's got to get some of those dunks. He's got to
get some of those layups, and so that if he gets filed, that's
an end one, not two free throws where he's gonna get one of two,
sure, right, or he was not good. There's so many things
that you know, we're picking here and what do we know, but but
that's what we do here. And they're just not playing well. And the
guy who needs to fix it, and I don't know if it's fixable,
it's Tommy, Tommy lay you know, he's uh no, it's it's a
and he says, he says, it's on me. I gotta fix this,
But I don't know I don't know how what buttons to push there,
but there are right, and you could tell from interviews to we talked about
this at least I have with you where he's become shorter. He's definitely shorter
with Bruce and even any simple questions just like you know, no, no,
no, no, no, you're not gonna go there. We're not
gonna do this. Uh. In the toughest times we face as people,
you kind of find out who you really are, right, you know?
Man? I mean you wonder you know because like like last year when it
was clear that Pally Larson just wasn't, you know, as a starter,
just wasn't you know, doing what he needed to do as a starter,
wasn't bringing to the table. He saturn, nice, Okay, you're gonna
come off the bench, and and then and then he and he uh and
and he and he took him out of the starting lineup. You feel like
if that that, if Tommy feels like if he does that, that he
just wrecks Kylin Boswell. I was gonna okay, I was gonna go there.
So if you're the coach, and what do we know because we don't
want to practice, would you change it? I would and take Boswell out.
Yeah, just you know again, if Boswell is who we think he
is, you know, a good player, a confident player, somebody who
believes in himself. Was obviously got you know, the talent and the skills.
You know it might be good. Like sometimes you sit down a quarterback
to see the field right, to see how things and maybe you sit him
down like I've seen that this. I think this was the third straight game
that Boswell has not started the second half. He didn't start the second half
of the two games last week. You start the second half last night.
You know, maybe you set him down at the start and says, okay,
I want you to see you know, and if you couch it that
way, you say, okay, look, this is to help you get
your whatever back. Sure, sure, but you know you're the coach.
You make decisions. This I totally agree with you. You're playing with a
psyche now, right, and he's already out psyched because he's thinking about it
too much. He's probably has a thinking problem. But remember back in ninety
seven ninety eight and Miles got out kind of equating apples and orangers. But
he was out. He came back right Luke didn't want lut didn't know how
to get him. Mesh him in there, mesh him in there. But
he was a starter. He was a starter, starter starter. And then
Jason Terry says, if you mess with Miles, Miles would have tanked or
Miles it would affected Miles. Jason said, put me out, take me
off to put me on the bench, keep Miles at the start, I'll
come off the bench. And it worked perfectly. But I'm with you there
because you're messing with a person's psyche. But also, if you're an athlete,
don't you know, if you're not playing bad, guess where you go?
The bed bench most of the time, most of the time. So
yeah, I mean, save you know there, There's there's no way of
knowing, you know, unless you're in the locker room, on the you
know, on the practice floor. And it doesn't And it's not like he
doesn't have dudes waiting kJ Lewis and j and Bradley, right, So I
don't know. I don't know what he's going to do. Another part of
the sorry to cut you off, but another part of the issue that kind
of complicates the decision for Tommy, I'm sure is how long do you let
him struggle it out and try to fight through it and also further bring down
his confidence. You could tank him by putting him on the bench. You
could also let him tank himself by just shooting his way out of At what
point do you do that? Well, he's in three games a good semple
size, yeah, or four. It's been more than three games since several
game. Yeah, it's been almost like a month and a half. It's
been almost the entire conference season. Yeah, right, right, and he
was so good, so good, like you couldn't miss he was playing so
well. Yeah, And I don't know what, you know, there's more
things go out. What's changed? We have a coller Hi, you're on
the R and I and the ball? How you doing today? Disappointing?
Yeah? So did you stay up? Brian? Oh yeah, yeah,
I'm a glutton for punishment. Well you you got it last night for sure.
They punished you. They punished everybody. Well, you know, you
know one thing too, you know, Boswell did not have a good game,
but a lot of people did not have a good game. The defense
was terrible. Ballow. They got to figure something out, you know,
I, I know we're not going to put Vasar in there because they're going
to red shirt him. But I'm sitting there, going, we got to
figure out something in the middle, you know. I mean, we can't
make a dunk. I mean, how many dunks do we miss last night?
I think four? I think four? Yeah, just that was just
in the first half. Yeah, you know, you know it's eight points
we thought away and not not making any free throws, and you know,
and they shot the lights out on the threes and I understand that. And
you know that last one was a great shot. You can't take it away
from the kid. He was guarded and everything the guy made the shot.
Yeah, even before that shot, I was saying, God that the basketball
guys are really screwing with Arizona right now because everything they threw up and one
thing two people better look at. We may wind up being way we're playing
a four or five season. We're talking about that as we came to the
studio, that that could possibly. But right now there are two in the
bracketology. But but I think that the narrative nationally hasn't met a two because
what they've seen, what they and who's staying up in the East, who's
staying up in the East watching this game. Well yeah, but not well.
And also one thing that's happening. A lot of teams, a lot
of big name teams are losing on the road. Mm hmmmm, so too.
All right, man, we'll see what do you think this could be
the first time that Tommy Lloyd has lost two game? Right? Steve doesn't
think so Steve thinks they win. I think they win tomorrow. Well,
you know that's shocking from Steve. This is mister mister positive. No.
I I have my theories. I have my theory. I have to take
that. I have my theories. Okay, you think they can do that,
then we'll be happy again. But right, right, right, right,
yeah, but Bobow has to start doing something. You know, he's
I mean, he's just gone downhill from last year, right. I totally
agree with you, totally agree with you, and he had a great game
last week. But but uh, you know, uh, all right,
Brian, thanks a much, man. Okay. I was gonna say something
to you, Jay, uh, but I forgot uh oh oh, okay.
So I've covered the scene a long time. You've watched and witnessed a
lot of games over the time, and no time and maybe it's recently biased.
I don't remember a team doing what this team has done from start to
now where they played out of their minds good and then all of a sudden
things happened and they went to crap. They were number one in the country,
and that's kind of the thing. They were twelve, they went to
one, and you're thinking, okay, great, but no loots team.
They kind of struggled game or two and then find it again. Shawn's teams,
I don't think they really either they were really good or they were just
mediocre. But no team in thirty five years Jay that I can remember would
gang gang and then now as a mystery, can you. I'm I can't
think of one, and I don't know if there was one, But no,
I mean I I don't. They don't have that. And it's not
like they'd have bad players. I mean, Sewn have bad players at the
end of his ten it's the same players they had they went through that,
that went through through November and December exactly. They're just not as fluid.
It's I said last night, it was uneven just a lot of words that
I can remember right now. It's it just doesn't and teams are using the
zone and slowing them down, and that's always worked against Arizona. But at
some point, you you have a two point eight, you pound him INTI
you can't right in his bad shot selection at times to count count how many
one shot one shot or two one shot possessions? Yeah, all right,
hey, uh, well, we didn't get a guest for three fifteen,
so our thrones are going to be open for you to give us a call.
Five two zero four one six seventy four forty. We've got lots more
to say about you know, what what happened last night and where this team
is headed. But it's not in a very good direction. I want to
ask you at least maybe have the kid asked you the question he asked you
before the show started. How frustrated are you? Yeah, okay, we'll
get into that. So but give us call this uh this, uh,
next segment coming up five two zero four one six seventy four forty. Where
at that make the right choice for your home when it comes to windows and
doors. For more than twenty years, the Window Depot has provided the best
price and biggest inventory on in stock windows and doors. The window Depots open
to the public. So whether you're a homeowner or a contractor, you can
shop the enormous warehouse. Browse the shelves with over one thousand vinyl windows,
interior and patio doors, and skylights and several varieties and sizes available To go
home today shop the window Deepot dot com or find a location near you the
Window Depot Best price, biggest inventory. Steve Rivera here to talk about Dorato
Rock Materials. I needed a lot of gravel for my driveway, so I
called Eric at Dorato Rock. He found out the amount and color I needed
and boom, it was taken care of and at a great price. How
do I know radio commercials work. I heard one of his on the radio.
Dorato Rock Materials provides a wide range of landscaping materials, including decorative rock,
boulders, gravel, soil, and sand for residential and commercial use in
the Tucson area. They are locally owned and have been around for more than
fifteen years. Give them a call at five two zero four zero zero for
two three three. Where do you buy exercise equipment? Arizona Health Arizona Health,
Arizona Health. Of course, to feel better and look better, it
makes sense to buy your fitness equipment from the people who know it better than
anyone else. At Arizona Health, our goal is to help you choose the
equipment you need to reach your goals. Your health and fitness deserve the best
you deserve. Arizona Health the leading man in exercise equipment on twenty second,
just west of Wilmot. It's twenty twenty four, a new year, and
it's time to think of recognizing your employees, salespeople, managers, team members
and agents with a Creative Award for the great job they did in twenty twenty
three. Come visit Creative Awards beautiful showroom with over one thousand items to choose
from. Creative Awards is located at two to twenty eight West Rackman Street and
Tucson. Or visit Creative Awards website at Creative awardsaz dot com. At Nova
home Loans, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to enjoy the independence that comes
with home ownership. Paul Volpi is ready to help you find an option that
best fits your needs. Whether you're a first time or veteran home buyer,
or want to get cash out with the refinance. Nova has a variety of
home loan programs To meet your unique situation, visit voltpeteam dot com that's Volpe
team dot com or called five two oh six eight five six two six today
in MLS three oh eight seven Arizona BKO Ninez two nine four two equal Housing
Opportunity now a commitment to Lendrix syn credit rates and available loan programs or subject
to change with numbers. Did you know? Sports cards at Memorabilia are setting
records sales last month of nineteen fifty two tops Mickey Mantle SO for twelve point
six million, Lebron James Rookie SO for five point six Also, collecting cards
is a family fun hobby that can be very profitable. If you want to
start a collection or expand your collection, check out Showtime Cards. They are
one of the leading card shops in the country and have served our local community
for twenty five years. They are located on e Speedway That's Showed Time Cards.
The Secret Savings Account from Pyramid Federal Credit Union is an account you pay
yourself and save oh right. It's set up as an automatic transfer for any
amount and the transfers add up over time. You can save for a down
payment on a dream vacation or an emergency fund and the best part for withdrawals.
Your Secret Savings account can only be accessed in branch or over the phone.
Visit Pyramid FCU dot com slash Secret Saving to learn more. Federally insured
by NCUA. It's that time of year, Summer in Tucson. Time to
take control with temperature control for all your air conditioning needs. Will keep you
cool during all the hot streaks. All you have to do is stay in
control with Temperature Control where we handle everything you need with prompt response, affordable
pricing, and sound solutions. We also excel in plumbing and electrical work.
We handle everything you need. Give us a call at five two oh eight
one five five six sixty five or visit our website at tempdash con dot com
and remember, stay in control with temperature control. Need concrete hard works,
Concrete has it. We have more than twenty five years of experience with all
things concrete. Installing sidewalks and patio floors are our specialty, and handle masonry
work and retaining walls. We're locally and family owned. Just let us know
what you need, how you want it, and we'll take care of it.
Leave the hard work up to us. We're hard Works Concrete. Call
us at five one two nine six' two five six six zero or visit
our website Hardworksconcrete dot com. We'll put the work in for you. Gut
bugs, termites, bees, or rodents, Arizona Pest Control will hunt them
down. Arizona Pest Control is your complete desert pest management specialist. That's can't
run or hide from Arizona Pest Control. They use only the latest and most
technologically advanced methods of pest elimination available, which minimizes the effects on the environment.
Let Arizona Pest Control get rid of your bad bugs, termites, bees,
or rodents. Serving Tucson and Southern Arizona since nineteen forty seven. Go
to azy pass dot com to schedule your free evaluation Today. Streaming live on
the iHeartRadio WIF. This is I on the Ball with Steve Ravera and Jay
Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen to fifty. Hey, welcome back to I in
the Ball hero Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve, He's Jay. We
have Kevin with us. You want to call, please do. We'd appreciate
your call to let us know what you're thinking about this team five two oho
four one six seven four four zero. Uh, this will go ahead,
kid. Ask you a question of Jay that you asked before we started.
Yeah. So I walked into the studio today with to Jay and I said,
oh, yeah, so, how how depressed are you with the state
of the basketball team? After I ask that was the question? Yeah,
I'm not. I don't. I think I've explained this before. I don't.
I don't follow I don't follow basketball the way I do football. You
know, football is like football is life, right, I you know,
you know when Arizona loses to Asu, I hate my life a year until
they beat him again. That's not that's an exaggeration, but uh, you
know I'm a football Football losses hurt. You know those football seasons that with
someone and Mackovic, those were terrible times. Why is this? Why?
Why? What's why is this? I don't know, Steve, And because
you know, because there's more games you've heard all. I've just never been
that way with basketball. I never. I mean from from the get go,
I've I've I get I have more fun with basketball because I don't.
You live and live and die with the basketball team, do you understand what
my life? Not feeling a hurd not feeling hurt. Yeah, but I
mean, am I am? I? Am? I frustrated? Do I
get mad at the team when they play like they're playing right now? Does
it bother me? It doesn't bother me from the standpoint I'm walking around,
you know, like there's this big cloud over me right and I'm like,
what the hell are you guys doing? I get more angry than anything,
angry and frustrated. I don't, you know, I'm not depressed by them,
by them losing those even all those first round losses, you know,
under loot and whatever. I mean, it was. It wasn't like,
you know, the end of the you know, it wasn't like I went
into a depression for weeks because the basketball team didn't get to where it got
to. Now. Am I excited when they went? Hell? Yeah?
But I'm not. I'm not depressed by what I'm saying. I'm just I'm
wondering what the hell is going on. I'm frustrated that I know that this
team is better than it's been playing. You know, I just went to
the sky. They're six and five in their last eleven games. Yes,
yeah, they're very average. They're six and five after after opening, what
were they nine? And oh they're six and five cincent, It's like,
what the hell are you doing? So, no, I'm not depressed.
I know there's a lot of people who are. I'm not panicked because I
don't care enough to be panicked. But I'm also thinking, you guys,
you know you got to get better than this, because this is not fun
to watch. No, No, there could be I agree with Brian,
there could be a four. See, the national media doesn't have a clue
what this team is. Uh, they just don't because theyn't see him enough.
They just know what. They beat Duke, they beat Michigan State,
they beat right. They look at their schedules, schedule looks like, oh,
they beat a bunch of teams, right, but look at their last
eleven games. Well, in my story, now that you asked, it's
just all the magic they had earned, all the credit they had earned,
gone gone. Baby. It is spent, and they're about they're about to
go on the other side, on the other side, to go into the
red. You know, if they come back, if they're five and four
in the conference after after Oregon tomorrow, they're in the middle of the pack
of a bad league, Jay A few months of weeks ago. Are they
gonna lose a game in the pack to I know, Steve, I know
they've lost this and they've lost five games with a chance of almost losing last
weekend juice. The thing is they've lost too bad teams. Yes, yes,
yes, I'm picking them to win. The bad team. You know,
Washington State. There's a mediocre Oregon State. Oh my god, Hi,
you're on the air and eye on the ball. Hey, how you
guys doing, Howard, They're gonna be more depressed. No, no,
I was trying to be Nico, of course. Nono. Yeah, I
didn't. I didn't. I didn't stay up because I don't watch it.
I just followed on my phone. Remember I told you that that one person
they had the name of like a girl, just like Bradley. They have
his name on what I listened to off the internet. It says Bradler Way.
Yeah. And and he's gonna have to get more of a bench.
He's gonna have that slip guy. He's gonna have to be in there.
And I told you guys, they got to switch out Lewis with they got
I think Lewis will do better starting and uh Boswell will do better coming off
the bench. Well, I think they go to Bradley, did They probably
go to Bradley first and see how it goes. But I don't think he's
a point guard because he loves to shoot the ball. It shoots them bout
to the detriment of the team because he doesn't pass for you. No,
no, no, Bradley, I'm just saying I mean Lewis. Oh yeah,
yeah, no, no, no, I agree with I understand what
you said, but I'm thinking before they do that, they try Bradley first.
Okay, And of course you guys are mentioning too. I'm gonna give
you credit. Crevious Crevious needs to start for Battle too, because he's a
better free friend. He's just he scores more and he's better. Well,
you know, in the last few minutes, guys, they went small.
They had no choice but to go small because you didn't know him and they
need to catch up. It was a miracle that they actually tied the game.
It was a miracle that they tied the game. That four point play
helped tremendously, and then the steal and the pellet shot when they hit that
three that put him up nine. I took a couple of minutes, last
two minutes and change left and my wife sitting next I said, they just
lost the game. Now, yes, they did tie it, but they
still lost the game. You know, it was too far. It was
too far to come back. Well, I'm gonna course have to give the
Phoenix Report for his breaking news. We won seven in a row, and
we're playing again to night, and we're playing in Miami, the Florida Swing
Sunday Monday. And they go to that small, small offense with with Durant
playing the five. Yeah, and that's like their killer catch up offense.
Yeah, they're pretty good. Right now, they're playing spect and I just
got my tickets. But when they come off the road trip to see the
Greek Freak, I can't wait because I've never seen the Slim Reaper either.
Nice. Okay, well, good luck with that. It's gonna be great.
Good guys, have a nice weekend. Right by bye. Sorry,
still coughing up along, Steve. You know, getting back to the conversation
we were having here, And here's the thing. I think they're more fans.
Wait when when you talk about a percentage of fans. I think I
think fans in Tucson take basketball way more personal than they take football because of
the success. Because of the success, they're used to winning, the expectations,
the expectations, you know when when you know, when Arizona loses in
football's kind like, well, you know, sometimes they're not very good,
so you know, I'm not I'm not gonna lose my mind over it,
right, whereas basketball, it's like, wait a minute, what the hell's
going on. Let's let's figure this. Because you're sixty four, and we
say in age is pretty easy, year sixty four, So sixty four minus
twenty seven. You were thirty seven years old when they won the title,
and they were pretty good before in your twenties to the thirty seventh. Oh
so so, and then the internet came. So it's twenty seven years,
twenty three since the last final four. So today's kids who grew up,
they know Arizona basketball most recent, right, And you could just read it.
It's Twitter, and you can just read them just being really pissed,
really bitter and blah blah blah. Guys like you and me, Oh you
know whatever, I remember when they were no good? Yeah, exactly,
so you're not going on Twitter and all this to pissing off people and saying
this team sucks. But it's more, it's more the crowd that seen them
success or grow up with them being successful, are the ones that are all.
These guys are trash. Yeah, yeah they yeah, they take it
personal like they're losing to piss them off. I just this is about you.
We're gonna lose this game because I want to make you mad. Fred
Or Tucson. Hell with you, I'll show you. You ship. Oh
you just know God didn't know you did, Hey, so I was going
to show you. So they've been the second or third favorite most of the
year to get to the final four, right, right? Or to win
it? I'm sorry twin. The last time I checked, it was eleven
hundred, eleven hundred behind Purdue. Well now they're they're in sixth. They're
drunk to six. So if you still like your Cats, no, now
go get them right, go get them in fourteen hundred, So fourteen to
one to win it all. And they were eleven before they were eleven second
favorite? Another sixth history is what? God? Dang, I don't know
that. I yeah, I would touch it, of course, not.
I don't know, Yeah, I know, you know what what you know?
What is this team made of? Right? Are they? That's it?
Are they a bunch of guys? That's it? We are going to
get pissed off and there's you know, get themselves together, get pissed off
and just make themselves go out and play better. And and that's it.
Tell everybody get the hell out of the way and and and turn this thing
around. Or is going to be well, okay, this is where we
are, So I'm gonna get mine. So I can, you know,
get in the draft or you know whatever? Who who do? Who?
Do? Who do they? You know? Who are they? I think
both both could be true. Both could be true. We were talking about
when you went to the restroom exactly that right that that was one of my
concerns that maybe that they're starting to think about me, me me. We
talked about this with Reggie and I say this to you back in ninety six.
They have five seniors. There's only one ball, right, I gotta
get mine. Yeah, I gotta get mine. So the eventually figure that
out, and they did better after that. But this team has got to
figure it out. But I also think that because tomorrow is a big game,
a big game and not so much a must win, but it's a
big game and people are telling them you're gonna get your butt beat that that's
that's when they show up. Hey, I've seen it a lot. You
go, I have the media guide here and you go back. You'll see
that's just how it happens. It just happens. Well again that you know
the stat that that you keep hearing, Tommy has not lost two games in
a row since he's been here. Here's the other stat though I was telling
the kid here, they haven't. They haven't beaten the Oregon six straight times
in Oregon. In Oregon, they've lot there's two trends fighting each other exactly
exactly which one you're going to take exactly exactly? I don't know. I
don't know. I again at a loss. I don't know what to think
about this, about this team and where it is today. And because as
I just said, you know, I don't know if this team is going
to fight back or this team is going to say, well, hell,
you know, let's get into the tournament. You know, we've seen that.
Get a couple of things. What happened and you and you mentioned that
question of are they going to lay down or are they going to fight back?
And are we sure that they know what the team is made of within
their own locker? Are we sure about like if they are on the same
page about what they're going to And I guess one of the questions is when
when you know you got you've got uh Conan Boswell playing not very well?
Can he lead this team? Because we thought he we we thought early on
in the season this was his team and he and he was leading this team.
Can you lead when you're playing like and not not contributing the way you
be contributing? Right right, We'll see, We'll see Oregon. Since our
last show, at least since Monday, Oregon has improved to ten and oh
at home. By the way, well, that's well, that was the
other stat we heard that that they've got Oregon, Utah, and Colorado.
I think are all thirty something whatever it is, some thirty something in zero
at home. Yes, here Oregon ten and oh, Colorado twelve and oh
uh Utah eleven and oh and we we're ten and o at home. Yeah.
So so that's what Brian had asked Tommy yesterday on the show. It's
just really so you were saying what were you saying right before? You can't
you can't figure this team out right or whatever, I don't know who they
are? Okay, So so in your last ten years, have you ever
asked that question of a team from you A because you knew who they were?
They were? Well, come on, last year, you knew they
were pretty darn good. Yeah. I think I think was that there was
a Sean Miller team where they were just none of us knew who they were.
Sean didn't know they were either weren't any good. They weren't good because
in his final three four years right, there weren't any good, you know,
and they see and I guess Steve part of this comes from and I
hate to you know, beat the get off my lawn kind of guy,
but of you know, every year there's new guys and you don't know who
they are. You maybe are just now starting to find out who they are.
Point and and and maybe Tommy didn't know this about some of these guys,
you know. And I'm talking about the new guys right, I'm talking
about Caleb Love, Jade and Bradley, uhj Lewis you know, uh you
know, creevious. You know you're you're only now finding out who these guys
are. You thought you knew who they were because the way they played.
But they, you know, they've run into some adversity, and that adversity
apparently is killing them right now. The honeymoon phase is certainly that was my
next a long time. This time, I gage it's over. It's over.
It's it's perfect analogy for this. These things need plenty. Hey,
hey, you didn't bring the bread home. What's up with that? Yeah,
I'm mad at you. You forgot about weekly date night. Yeah,
it's up with that. You're not watching the flowers anymore? Football, that's
be the remote, all right, More discussion coming up after the break,
and then we've got dam Minucci's a he's a quarterback coach and mentor, also
has a radio show up in Phoenix of our guests in the second hour and
by and Kenn Kevin will have breaking news at the top, but we're taking
more calls five to two, zero, four, one, six, seventy
four forty after the break, stick around, don't believe, don't believe,
la. If you're an Arizona men's basketball fan, you know it's been successful
for newly forty years. Now take a look back at the Ludolsen era in
my new book, Lessons from Loot. It was a labor of love through
the eyes of twenty five former players, coaches and friends to give insight to
the coach and the man who led them, competed against them, and inspire
them. Twenty five chapters for his twenty five years as Arizona's beloved coach.
Lessons from Loot is an insight to how he built the program into a national
powerhouse. What one email me at Steve dot RIVERA ninety five at gmail dot
com. Hi, this is formal while get leman huntly with Arizona Health.
Imagine how home GM can change your health, your comfort, and your time.
Arizona Health is everything you need to transform your personal space and your life.
We off a complete line of cardio machines, multi gms and freeway equipment.
I'll certify fitness experts and technicians will set you up with the right equipment
and training to get you started to keep you going. Visit our shureroom today
at twenty second in Wilmot. Arizona Health the lead edge and exercise equipment.
What's your goal? A new career or career advancement. How about transferring to
a four year college. PEMA Community College can help you make Someday today and
reach your goals affordably on your schedule. With over one hundred programs to choose
from in financial late available, It's time to earn the degree or certificate you
need to prepare for the career you want. PEMA offers free career exploration classes
so you can choose the field that's right for you. Learn how at PEMA
dot edu. Slash someday heat compare a state of care With the new year,
we usually make resolutions to be healthier. Water quality in your home can
help you achieve healthy living goals. I'm round aenas with Picture Rocks, Cooling,
heating and plumbing. We offer solutions to filter the water in your house
that you drink, shower and quick with every day for clean and healthy water.
Hall five two, zero four to four zero or zero six nine takes
your obsteting and clubbing. Do you want to be part of a winning team?
A team? Security is looking for friendly, outgoing event security guards and
event staff to be a part of our team. We've been providing our outstanding
services to some of Arizona's biggest sporting events and concerts for over twenty years.
We want you, you who to join the Action. A Team offers a
fun and exciting opportunity to work in the sports and entertainment industry with flexible schedules
that are perfect for those looking for a part time job or a second income.
Come be a part of a winning team The A Team apply online today
at a team security dot net. This is I on the Ball with Steve
Rivera and Jay Gonzalez sound Fox Sports fourteen to fifty. Subscribe now to the
podcast on the iHeartRadio app just Surgery. I on the Ball. Hey,
welcome back to IV the Ball Hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve,
You're Jay, Get Kevin with us. I thought this is breaking news segment.
I think that's right, and Got, I said, Got. This
hour has gone by so fast, but it hasn't so. Hey, we
have fourteen minutes. You guys want to call. We'd like to hear from
you, get your insights, your theories on what's going on, and then
as we speak in a call, let's take this call. Hi are on
the air and I on the Ball. You guys, this is Gabe,
Hey, Kelly, have time to talk about what happened last night. Absolutely,
that's why we thought you were calling. Gabe. Let me ask you
a question before you because we were talking about are you frustrated? Are you
mad? Are you depressed? Are you you know? Pistol? What?
What's the what's one word to describe your emotion about this basketball team? Right
now? Give you words? Keep it clean and piss off? Okay,
let's do okay, go go. So anyway, this is a pattern,
you guys. We lost to Stanford, Washington State, and Origin State.
I don't know what, I don't know what is going on, but something
needs to change this Arizona is not playing Arizona men's basketball. We should be
dominating these horrible teams, but for some for some other reason, we're not.
So I think two players need to be right in the bench, Colin
Bosswell and bollow Or trying to figure out what what is going on with them?
And and if I was Tommy Lloyd, I would be pissed off too.
And here's the thing. I'm more frustrated with Tommy Lloyd with this laisy
fare attitude, all calm, cold, collected. This is not Gazaga men's
basketball. This is Arizona men's basketball. Come on, you gotta coach these
players. You gotta skee wort, you gotta hold them accountable. And also
in this seam, there is no TJ McConnell. There's no a general general,
a general little manager. Okay, I don't know, you guys.
I'm just really frustrated. Everything you say, gave. Everything you say is
spot on because when I was watching the game and people communicate with me and
don't let me right and blah blah blah. They don't have a t J.
There's only been a couple of tjs in the last twenty years, right,
So you're it's very rare. But you're you're right, they don't have
a guy. Uh. And you know I was going to bring this up
to you, Jay, Tommy, we don't know. We don't know if
he gets into that yeah, or at halftime or whatever, because he doesn't
on the court. Well and he doesn't. He's not you know, you're
asking for Tommy to sound more angry or whatever, Gabe, and he I
he's not that. But I feel I know about tom The little I know
about Tommy Lloyd is he's not going to do that to his name publicly.
I'm guessing he's on there you know what, uh, you know, at
practice and in games. Because Tommy's a competitor. We've seen him from time
to time, you know, on the sideline stuff like that. He's not
going to be you know, Sean Miller, you know, firing off f
bombs, you know that where you can read his lips in a game.
He's not that guy, and he's not going to do that to his team
publicly. I'm guessing today was a very hard day for the Arizona men's basketball
team at their practice. Also can listen. I know you guys and all
the Arizona minio are working your assets off, and I really love and appreciate
you guys covering Arizona media. And I think us fans, we're just frustrated.
Arizona's just not playing Arizona men's basketball. And I think Tommy, I
know, Tommy Loy is winning a lot of games, but if you can't
hold your players accountable, then what what are you doing as a coach?
You are being paid millions and millions of dollars, but you can't hold players
accountable. I just what what's that? What is going on? Come on
at the head guy at the University of Arizona for man's basketball. As a
coach, you need to be a leader, You need to be Hey,
you guys, what's going on? You're right, Gabe, Everything you say
is exactly right. But we got to go gab real quick, all right?
I hear wait, wait, hear you, Gabe, And you sound
like probably a lot of Arizona fans field right. He thanks about for the
call, man, have you no? He said, all those fields?
The only the only thing that that we don't know, you know, he
talks about is Tommy holding the players accountable. I don't think we know that
he's not right. You know, he's managing this team the way he thinks
is the best way to manage the team, you know. I mean,
and look, he did call out you know. He said, Connor,
Buzzo's got to play better. You just got to play better. Said our
BIG's got to defend better out on the perimeter. He did. He said
some things that he normally doesn't say. So that tells me if he's saying
things like that publicly, that in the locker room, I'm guessing he's not
pleasant to be around. With his basketball team right now and this and then
you know, whatever they're doing to practice today, which they might have been
practicing around now up at Oregon. I'm guessing it's you know, he's got
their attention. You know, it's just what does that translate into. And
if it's so painfully obvious to the to the viewer for watching from home and
Tucson all the way out in Corvallis, you know, Tommy Lloyd is understanding
what the problem is on the court, at least in terms of ex's and
o's. I have more on the Kylin Boswell slumping thing. Yeah, there
was a graphic going around X today on from the field of sixty eight.
Kylon Boswell in Arizona's victories is averaging eleven point three points per game, four
point three assists on forty seven percent from the field and forty seven percent from
the three. In the losses, he's just averaging four point six points per
game, two point six assists on twenty percent from the field. That got
a lot of play on Facebook, got a lot of play on Facebook today.
He's one of the he's one of the few problems. Yeah, they
have a few. They they have a few so let me let me say
this because he brought up Gonzaga, you know who the last team out of
the tournament was. So so. I remember two months ago people and I
even said this that Tommy was the secret weapon for Mark. Few up there
say the secret sauce, secret sauce, secret sauce. Yeah, one of
those. Yeah, another separated, another kind of both struggling without each other.
Right, Hey, yeah, it happens. It happens. Happens,
you know, and and and again, let's let's not forget. This is
Tommy's third year. You know where we're uh influenced by what he did those
first two years. If he was you know, if those first two years
had been you know, kind of so so, and then this is where
he was this year. Yeah, a game out of a game out of
first place in the PAC twelve whatever. Arizona fans look at it differently,
very much. So the problem is it's not that, not that way.
The reality is, you know, people believe that he's the final four quality
coach with a final four quality team. Yeah, and they're playing like a
bubble team. You should not have sold ten cars that month, Jay,
because you have to say nineteen the next month and twenty the next Yeah,
you set yourself up for failure. Man. Yeah, no, uh boy,
this is I mean, stee. We've been kicking this around for almost
an hour now. Yeah, and there's no answers. There's no answers,
no exactly. I still think they're gonna win win tomorrow. I do too,
and so does my Draft Kings account. I am not going to touch
it. No, please don't, please don't, I will say. Don't
you know if after I left, I went and had daughter. I went
and had dinner with my daughters and we were talking about the game, and
my daughter, Rachel, who's the bigger fan of the two of them,
like, what do you think? And I said, you know, the
line is nineteen and if I had to bet it taking those points, oh
yeah, yeah, they're on they're on the road. They've been playing like
crap in Oregon State. What was the money? I don't know, that
had to be huge. But I'm taking those points if I if i'm if
I'm betting the game, I didn't, and you know, but I would
have taken the point because you know, and even when they when they went
up twelve in the first half, I thought they're still not going to cover
this. So so this was the equivalent of a one foot put, if
not more, yeah or less, I should say yeah, and it didn't
happen. And it did that. But you're breaking news about the kids we
talked about from Alabama golf. Yeah, we want to do some searching in
that thing. That's for breaking news. I just remember that as we talked
about that. But you know, I, I you know, I didn't
think they were gonna lose, right right. I just told I just told
my daughter, I said, you know what, I don't want to be
rooting for the game to stay close, right. I want Arizona the ball
mount That's what I was thinking too. J I looked at the line.
I was like, man, that line stinks. That line is there's so
many points if I would love for to cover that, and I'm going to
stay away from it. I took the over they over ended up hitting,
but that nineteen points. I was like, looking at this Arizona team,
I was like, how is they? How is how are they favored tomorrow
at Oregon? How are they favored Oregon? Still believe Oregon's undefeated at home?
People still in the first place. Arizona just got beat Oregon State.
They're playing like crap. They're six and five in their last eleven and their
favorite I'm going to give you this media guy that you need to study.
You're betting on a bounce back, right right. That's why that line is
the way right and historically that's what they've done, what they've done, because
look what they did. They dropped it by fifteen points just based on the
Oregon State laws. Yeah, I mean, look, they never get swept
on the road. I mean, let's go all the way back to forever.
Yeah, no, I witness it. Yeah, they always go win
one out of two on the road at least. Yeah, very few,
very few road sweeps. Again, I remember the road sweeping at Oregon the
year that Luke kicked the basketball. They never It's just what they do.
It's just what it is. They always play up for big games and played
down for games. It's always been the case. So we'll see, we'll
see what happens with Tommy. You asked, you asked Jay this earlier what
he would do if he was in Tommy's shoes. As far as the rotation,
what would you do if I would take Boswell out? I don't know.
He's already taking him out in the same half. Give him, give
him a six seven first time out TV timeout, maybe more. Who knows,
because if kJ is the guy, I would put KG and I wouldn't
put Bradley in. But who's handling the ball that it has to be Bradley's
the Bradley's brought the point. That's the problem. But but but you know,
if the reason you're taking Kyle of Boswell lot is because he doesn't he's
not scoring enough enough. Bradley's not a score. He's not gonna he's not
gonna start throwing in threes from somewhere. But he thinks he can get He
goes to the hoop, he goes to the basket right and too much j
But that's that's another thing. That's another thing that Boswell has stopped doing as
well. Right, he's tentative. He's played very passive, very tentative.
It's like he's afraid to make a mistake. And I don't know why he's
if that's the case, I don't know why he's got that mentality, because
you know Tommy's never Tommy's not been to coach you, and that you're looking
over your shoulder at right. Jade Bradley is currently averaging two assists a game,
which is in how many minutes? Probably fifteen. Yeah he's averaging No,
he's averaging twenty minutes a game. Okay, So so so you'd think
that, you know, if he's playing, if he starts and plays twenty
five or thirty minutes, that there's probably another assistant. Yeah, yeah,
no, it doesn't know. But I mean if your point guard has you
know, three, four or five assists in a game, you know that's
not horrible. It's not horrible. But he's not that. But Boswell was
doing more than Yeah, he was doing way more than that. It's very
bizarre. Yeah, it's very bizarre. Yeah, it's this team is I'm
I'm gonna use the word fluoxed. I'm flxed by this team. Sat right,
hold on Google. I don't know I get the root of the world.
I'm just I'm confused. Couple you got thanks for the call. You're
on the air. You got about thirty seconds, all right, Robert,
I would ben to follow and Bogo right now. You can't have Ballow missing
fifteen football shot the game, missing three throws like crazy. I'm sorry.
Give a chance. He's gonna be here next year anyway, and Boswo needs
every game. Tommy Light says, well, he's not playing very well,
then why the hell is starting in every game? Yeah? J lewis in
there or Bradley, but they gotta do something. Yeah, all right,
thank you for the call. Appreciated. Like that move too, Yeah,
I like that. I would be I'd be surprised if you would do both
of them, but I could see him doing one of them both at one
time. Does seem a little drastic chemistry of the lock and also puts the
team on notice. Get your stuff straight. Yeah, you almost said it
again. Get your straight. It's a loosen past Friday I got I've got
some breaking news for you. I wouldn't get to the other side, So
Kevin will be right back. We'll be back with breaking news. Stick around.