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everybody. Welcome to I on the
Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

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I'm Steve Rivera, he's Jagon's as. We had our guy Jason in as

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well today. Fifteen minutes of the
first segment. Good show. Actually impact

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today. We actually had to work
today. I'm not too keen on that's

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on a Friday, Steve, no
good, I'd put clothes on. This

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is not a zoom naked meeting.
And then okay, so no, a

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lot of things today. We had
a great Tommy Lloyd thing. He spent

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thirty minutes with us today, cracking
a little wise on some things. What

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he was h just talk about some
issues and then talk about some individual players

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and kind of not just status,
but how some of these guys ended up

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here, Caleb Love, Keisha Johnson, um Uh Bradley, the international guys.

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So we've got a whole bunch of
stuff from his press conference. You

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know, it's one of those things
where when you break down a press conference,

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there's like, you know, maybe
you know twenty minutes, but ten

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minutes is usable. Yeah, the
whole press conner, every answer was something

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important. In fact, I'm putting
my story together for all sports Tucson,

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and I'm trying to eliminate which is
not that big, and they're all kind

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of big, but I gotta quittle
it down. Yeah, that's what you

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did from that's that's what I did
for us. What we're gonna do is

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here in this first segment, we'll
just talk about some of the stuff that

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he talked about, general issues,
transfer portal, uh you know, getting

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international players, very stuff like that. And then on the backside, after

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our first guest and the last segment
of the hour, we'll say we'll play

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some of the stuff that where he
talked specifically about some of the guys,

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and then there's some breaking news with
Kurt Kressa, who's thatst Zulast to ballast

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will play that stuff during breaking news. But uh, you know, he

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just uh you know, he opened
the press conference and we you know,

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we asked, we talked to him
about about things like um what uh what

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uh you know, the thing we
talked to add Barnes about changing rosters,

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the way they're turning over. Uh, you know so much in the uh,

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you know, after a season,
and is that the way it's always

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going to be. And that was
kind of the first question that I got

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a chance to ask him, that
let's go ahead and play numbers. I'm

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not great at speaking in definitives or
superlatives on this stuff, because I mean,

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obviously there's been a lot of changes
and and and changes can be a

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good thing, and you just have
to figure out how to you know,

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how they're gonna work for you and
your program, how they're gonna work for

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your players, and you know,
I mean, but I'm gonna double down

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more than ever on you know,
recruiting great guys and building great relationships with

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them and really invested in the players
in our program and and and doing the

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best job we can to build a
great culture that's sustainable. I mean,

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I'm I'm not gonna be Nothing's veer
me off that path. Yeah, I

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I that was early in the press
count you asked him that, Uh,

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to coincide with Adia's press press our
question. I agree with him. I

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agree with him a lot of things
today, especially with that, I did

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you have my follow up? You're
not a follow up follow up, but

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yeah, do you have it?
Yeah? Yes, And Tommy was typically

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Tommy. Yeah. You know,
it's just like I'm going with whatever,

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with with whatever we're doing, right, but you you uh, there's a

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one he talked about, um,
uh, we're talking about guys transferring,

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and is that the one or the
one to talk about pieces? I know,

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moral he said he's a pieces guy. Yeah, he's a pieces guy.

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No, it was the other one
kind of related to you where now

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I don't even remember my questions,
but the piece guy, you have the

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pieces up there? Uh, okay, if you want to talk about that.

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Even though we talked about other things. Uh no, no, No,

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it was more and I have this
question here. It was about um

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players, players, um other transferring
for reasons other than and yeah, that's

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that's what that's you know, what's
the reason why are guys leaving? Right?

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Is that? Yeah? Unhappy whatever? Right. I think what you're

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seeing in college basketball right now is
just a really interesting window. And and

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I think everybody's focused on the nil
and the transfer portal. But but but

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I think one of the most interesting
aspects is you're in this COVID window still

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where guys are getting an extra year
of eligibility, so you literally are having

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you know, twenty percent potentially more
players in your pool, you know,

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And so I think that just creates
roster movement. And and I think,

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you know, some guys are getting
you know, longer in the tooth in

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their careers and getting deeper, so
you know, maybe they want to explore

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other opportunities, you know, and
and you know, maybe you know,

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certain schools, the the ni l's
situations not great, and others it's you

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know, it's it's doing better.
So guys want to see kind of where

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they fall and what advantages they can
take, you know, what opportunities they

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can take advantage of. I guess
you know, to me that would be

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But but I honestly think that there
is going to be uh cooling down and

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uh and and and then and the
waters won't be so choppy here in their

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new fear chewing college basketball. Well, I agree with them there. I

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think today's you have kids, I
have kids, and and and Jason's a

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kid. Still, um, everyone's
in the in the world of media gratification.

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I think we are too to a
certain degree. You know you can

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play roulette. You hope to hit
it, you win big um and Jason

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may want to speak to this,
but uh, if you don't get what

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you get right right right away,
you're gonna go. I gotta go see

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if we're to go, because I
know it's over there. Yeah. And

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if it's not, it's over there, over there, well wait, maybe

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it's not there. Now that's over
there. I mean, Jason, you

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I mean, you know you've got
friends and you know people want Steve said,

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I feel like the the generation now
we're doing to get off. My

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long thing is those that is,
you know, the stuff that I'm shooting

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for. I want to get it
right away. Yeah, for sure.

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Like with social media and like the
technology we have nowadays, there's just so

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many, so much access to everything. So if you're not happy with the

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current situation, it's not easy to
find opportunities. I think two though,

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that the n I l and we'll
talk about this stern break, is that,

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Okay, I went to school with
this dude, dude X, and

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the dude X is reportedly making two
hundred thousand dollars at school. X.

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I'm better than the dude. How
come I'm not getting them. I'm not

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getting two X. I'm gonna find
a place where I can go. I'm

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gonna go get my bag as you
guys call it or whatever. And you

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say, oh, what happened to
me? And how come I'm not worthy?

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Isn't that part of it? Yeah? Definitely absolutely. And then obviously

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then Tommy was asked about fan reaction
to all this stuff is a great answer,

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So it's uh, you know,
it's uh. It was a thing

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where you know, we all talked
about how and we talked about it for

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weeks, right, and we just
kept saying, guys, relax, relax.

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He's gonna get guys relax. And
now everybody, Yeah, they're moving

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up into the top ten and some
preseason rankings. But he was basically asked,

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did you pay attention to what fans
were how fans were losing their minds

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over the raw to turnover? And
here's what he had just happened. I

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was unaware. I I just had
my head down and was working. And

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you know, I got a trust
and myself and in our program and in

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our staff that things are always going
to turn out. And you know,

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we we just worked day to day
and and and kept the faith and and

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I think we ended up in a
great spot. And and certainly you know

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you got you just got people.
I saw one today that said, you

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know the Tommy love, you know, with with with Caleb Love, Jaden

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Bradley, uh Keisha Johnson, then
the international guys. Suddenly Arizona is the

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national championship contender again. When people
thought Tommy Tommy couldn't coach anymore? What

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fool wrote that? I haven't?
Okay, that explains it. Come on,

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let's champion. He's got it.
You know, he moved him away

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up in his in his preseason rankings, and it's like, guys, we

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just knew, you know, he's
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Why are you doubting that he can
do this? And Phil On who still

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yesterday's still not sold on it.
Yeah yeah, yeah, well Phil from

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New Mexico, I give him no
credit. I know those beasts. I

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saw one today and I'll try to
find it on Facebook. That just kind

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of what made me go, what
this? Thank you Zuckerberg for llowing this

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to happen, because you guys made
no sense. And he just people who

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are just mean to begin with,
who just love this because they can be

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mean. Yeah, you know what
I'm saying. You've dated one or two

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back in the day. Yeah,
but I just find it really interesting.

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And again, as a coach,
that's how you've got to handle that.

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You've just got to say, I'm
gonna keep my head down, I'm gonna

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do what I what I know I
can do, and just keep cranking.

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That's what he did. And you
know that's the best perspective, whether he's

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truthful or not, because I know
that he spoke to the guys in March

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or April for a basketball, big
basketball thing and Bruce got a hold of

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him and the other guys did too, and he was well aware of what

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was going on with the crowd.
I don't but he said, you know,

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let that happen up. I don't
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which, which you know a lot
of coaches they lose their minds over that

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stuff. Yeah, we covered a
couple of people, and I'm thinking,

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you guys make millions, Why the
hell care? Why are you worried about

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it? All? Right? Then, Steve, you got some the great

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question about you're you're a guy who
like likes having the pieces come together.

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You've got a new roster, a
lot of new guys. How is this

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all going to come together? This
is this seems easier than two years ago.

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So I'd never worked with any of
the guys, so I you know,

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I mean, like I said,
I think you deal with what's in front

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of you, and you know you
and you and you know, there's there's

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never any reason to panic. We
we got great guys. We've got good

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players, and you know, I
think we've had a really good offseason so

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far. And you know, we're
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couple of weeks and kind of everybody
get away from each other, get a

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little bit of rest and back and
see if we can make a next push,

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you know, kind of mid July. Well, I mean, I

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think we got a lot of pieces, and I think they fit well together,

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you know. I mean, I
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guys with jaked edges, you know, I mean, so, um,

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you know, I think we got
guys that that you know, compliment each

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other. And UM, I think
we have a team that's gonna have the

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ability to play incredibly hard. Um, you know, as always, we're

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gonna We're gonna strive to play incredibly
unselfish and and and very aggressive. So

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you know, I feel really good
when I when I look at our roster

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and and and how certain individuals compliment
each other. And then uh, finally,

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this will be the last one we'll
play before we break for our guests.

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By the way, you mentioned where
guests are we um, um to

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our guest, our our soccer guests, Oh uh tell me, uh,

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Temmy Silva, Tommy Silva, and
then Jake Fisher will come on. Hopefully

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he's listening in hearing some of Tommy's
a call. Um, we can't take

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that right Well, if you're if
you're calling, can you call after the

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guest and we'll take your call about
about all this stuff. We've got a

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couple more one more clip that we
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talking about Tommy Lloyd and how much
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piece of what he does, not
just in Arizone, he did this at

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Gonzaga and kind of where these guys
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guys uh fit in uh, you
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go ahead and play that one.
There's lots of probably data points you know,

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you could you could go to,
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international guys a little bit of grace, a little bit of time to adjust.

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It might take a year and and
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it, you recruit a kid internationally, you know you're not getting to watch

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them play as much. You're not
getting to you know, probably deep,

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deep, deeper into the relationship just
because of the proximity. Um so you

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use, you don't know everything about
him when you get them, and you

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have you have to kind of get
him and get him in your program and

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get your hands on him to figure
out exactly where they're at. I mean,

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I think Henry is a good example
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still incredibly talented, and he had
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offseason, and I think he's primed
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our team. It just took him
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you know, I mean, I
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Henry was probably hoping too, that
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it didn't. But that doesn't knock
us off our path. I mean,

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you stay on your path and you're
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feel like he's in a good way. You know, we're excited about all

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those I think all those guys are
winners. You know. The two Lithuanian

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guys are are really talented and have
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kid Martinez, I mean, I
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love him. He's a he's a
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uh, you know, I'm sure
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figure it out a little bit,
but I think it's gonna be really cool.

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And Tucsa on to have a native
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gonna you know, any any plays
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I well ahead, No, I'm
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I saw Philip and and I think
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first saw him play this this team
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right and how good this team is
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question, but they're gonna be loaded
because we have as yet to see some

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of the guys that didn't play right. And that's the thing, you know,

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the thing he said in there about
Henry Vassar, Yes, right,

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everybody was like, you know,
he doesn't have enough guys. Henry Vasar

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is no good guys. You know, he had a freshman he's a freshman

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who came in from out of the
country, has an adjustment period. Okay,

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he didn't so he didn't light it
up as a freshman. That doesn't

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mean he's not any good, shutter
Rooks any good? He was good?

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Was he good as a freshman?
No, because he didn't play it.

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I didn't even dress exact. Guy, it wasn't even good enough to dress

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that exactly, red shirted exactly.
That's what gets me about what was going

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on is that people just and now
everything's good. We're all good, ready

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to go, got a good team, gonna win some games this year.

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Uh, you know, should be
should be fun. So anyways, all

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right, Uh, Tommy Silva's gonna
come on FC two son a player.

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We're gonna talk a little bit about
some FC two songs. Then we'll come

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back after the break. We've got
some comments from from Tommy Lloyd about specifically

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some of his players that just he'll
give a rundown or just what he thinks

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of some of these guys and what
uh what you kind can kind of expect

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from him, from Kylin Boswell to
Caleb Love you know new guys, So

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stick around for that, but Tommy
Silva coming right up. Stick around.

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This is I on the Ball with
Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports

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fourteen fifteen. Subscribe now to the
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I'm the Ball, Hey, welcome
back to win in the vaul hear Fox

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Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve.
He's Jagon's Osten. Now on the phone,

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we have FC two songs. Tommy
Silma, how are you Tommy?

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Hey? Guys, I'm good.
How you doing. We're doing well,

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Thank you very much. You have
a big weekend ahead of you with the

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guys, an FC two song we
do tomorrow night. We play Vinta County,

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who were the national champions last year, and it's also military and first

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responder night, so we're excited to
celebrate all those and all the fans tomorrow

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night. Let me ask you real
quick, you're on this team. Is

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this your second year? I think
it's your second year, right, So

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I played with this team back in
twenty twenty during COVID when they were a

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professional team at the time, and
then yeah, I'm back with them this

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summer. How is it coming back
home and playing in front of some fans

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that you've played in front of high
school and beyond and all that. There's

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probably no pressure, maybe more fun
for you. It's definitely fun. So

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the last time I played with FC
two song, like I mentioned, it

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was during COVID, so there's no
fans allowed him to stand, not even

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my parents. And so now to
play in front of coaches, friends,

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old teammates, us, it's been
so much fun. So I'm really grateful

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for that and excited for these upcoming
games. So Tommy, this is jakins

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Aus. Hadn't had a chance to
meet you, so thanks for being here

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with us, But just talk us
a little bit about it. How things

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have been going for you guys,
or for you personally, you know this

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this season, what it's been like
to be out there, the way the

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team is doing. You know,
just what are you getting out of this

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for both for yourself and for the
team. Definitely, Um, this is

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kind of a weird league. It's
it's a difficult league because it's really a

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summer team. Most of the players
are guys who are in college who want

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to stay fit, get games in
and prepare for the upcoming season which starts

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in August. So you know,
I only know one other guy on the

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team who plays with me at UCLA, And the first time I met the

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guys, I met that on a
four PM and we played a game together

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at seven pm. So it's definitely
difficult with a bunch of new players,

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new personalities, and new coaches.
But it's a great way to to stay

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fit and to challenge myself against a
good level of players and just keep them

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triguing and keep getting more experience.
Yea, no having talked to you off

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the year just about your background.
I know your family, but we'll get

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to that in a second. You
play at UCLA, What how's the level

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UCLA compared to this, um,
I think I think UCLA is a little

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bit better, to be honest.
But UCLA is one of the top division

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on programs in men's soccer, so
uh yeah, I'd say it's a little

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bit better. But the FC two
song, it's a great experience because you

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get to play against older players,
guys you've never played against a lot of

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international players as well, so it's
fun. Well, we'll tell us a

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little bit about that, because we
talk about the difference between for instance,

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you know, the you know,
the one and done basketball player who comes

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out and he's nineteen years old and
he's out there playing against you know,

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Kevin Durant or some of these guys
who were in their mid to late thirties,

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and the physical aspect of that.
How does that show up on the

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soccer field? Definitely? I think
I think college soccer is a great time

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for players to have a space to
compete against guys who are at the same

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physical level and prepare them to play
against professionals. I mean when I was

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eighteen years old, There's no way
I was ready to compete against guys who

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are in their thirties. But having
had the three four years at UCLA,

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I've grown a lot and matured a
lot, especially physically, and I think

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that's giving me a great opportunity to
be ready to compete with pros and older

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guys. And you get the same
that same with working at FC two Song

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as well as exactly Yeah, a
lot of my teammates on SC two song

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are twenty five twenty six, so
they have a lot of experience and they

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teach me a lot of things as
well. Well. Tell me you're no

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slouch given. And I just realized
this that you were here for in the

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high school for a couple of years, decided to go somewhere else, to

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Utah, And that's not an easy
decision either for you and for your family

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to go play and get prepared at
Royal Salt Lake. Tell us about that

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and your decisions and your maybe your
family's decisions, definitely. So my sophomore

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year, I moved to Utah to
play for Raal Salt Lake Academy. So

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I lived in Dorns there, we
went to a high school on campus and

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we trained twice a day. It
was it was pretty much soccer became my

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life. And you know, my
freshman year I was I was really into

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track and field and cross country as
well, and when the opportunity came up,

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I just had to choose between the
two sports. But the opportunity at

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RSL was so good that I couldn't
pass it up. And that's what really

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helped me get great coaching, get
so much chaining great experience with older players

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and professionals and completely changed my career
and that's what helped me get to UCLA

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as well. So, so Jay, let me just to give some perspective.

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So my son, my oldest son, and his older brother who his

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older brother was a fantastic runner.
He was a world class runner, went

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to Stanford and competed there and now
he's doing well professionally. They were one

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of the better young teams and two
sons over a long period of time.

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And there's very few people that get
invited to this real cell linking. And

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I didn't know this was this Thomma's
case because a couple of other kids left

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and they played in cuss of Grant
and they did all this stuff and those

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guys are not are not slouches.
Man. They go there for a reason

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because they're very good, which is
very great opportunity. Your parents wants to

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gone to visit you a lot because
it's it's you're you're a young kid.

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Yeah, it's funny. At the
time when I moved, I was only

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fifteen, and so my mom my
mom didn't want to let her baby go,

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so she she actually moved out.
You taught to be with me and

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get me a place to go on
the weekends and take care of me.

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So yeah, he is a Hispanic
kid. Look at you. Yeah.

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Yeah, she make the freeholdays and
stuff with you right there. Okay,

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we're making fun of you, Tommy, don't let us. We would have

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done the same thing, right A
lot of them. My mom would have

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come, she said, go over
there. Yeah man, yeah, man,

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So Tommy, you know, at
some point, um, and we

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asked this pretty much of everybody who's
kind of making a cur At some point,

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soccer became more than just a game. It became a path for you.

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Um, when did you realize that? How young were you when you

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when you felt like, I mean, was it right when you went to

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rial Salt Lake. Sometime before that, we thought this is gonna be a

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path for me. It's gonna a
path for me, you know, to

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go to college and maybe play professionally
or something like that. When did that

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happen for you? I think at
the beginning, when I chose to go

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to RSL, I just did it
because I love to play soccer. I

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wasn't really thinking of it as a
career or anything more. I just love

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to play and I wanted to play
at the highest level. And as I

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reached my junior and senior year,
it just became clear that the next best

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step was college. And fortunately I
got to a great place. And I

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00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:52.359
think, really my my freshman and
sophomore year at UCLA, when I'm taking

408
00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:59.079
classes trying to choose my major,
I realized, like, okay, I

409
00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:03.640
have two more year of college and
then then what what am I gonna do?

410
00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:07.720
I either have to get a real
job or I can keep playing soccer.

411
00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:12.920
And that's that's when I became a
lot more dedicated and and focused on

412
00:28:14.119 --> 00:28:18.720
making this the reality is as playing
as a professional. Let me tell you

413
00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:22.759
right, Uh, Tommy, I'm
sorry, Um, the real world sucks.

414
00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:29.559
Play soccers. Love, Yeah,
Otherwise you're gonna look like Steve and

415
00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:33.279
I you don't. You don't what
you're doing. His dad's a running,

416
00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:36.759
he'll be running, he'll be running
it. So Tommy, you're you're you

417
00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:41.519
just finished your junior year UCLA.
Correct, correct? So you're not going

418
00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:45.920
to the Big ten, are you? No? Yeah, that's happening in

419
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:52.119
Are you happy you're getting out of
there before all that stuff starts or would

420
00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:56.920
you have been excited to go go
be a part of all that? Honestly,

421
00:28:56.039 --> 00:29:00.559
I'm a little happy. I know
that the Big Town contract is worth

422
00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:06.359
a lot of money, and that's
really exciting. But I think what a

423
00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:11.359
lot of people don't think about is
the travel. And it's going to be

424
00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:15.680
pretty hard on the student athletes trying
to manage, you know, performing at

425
00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:19.599
their best and doing classes and traveling
all the way across the country. It's

426
00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:22.000
going to be difficult. I think
it's going to take a few years to

427
00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:26.519
transition to that. Yeah. Yeah, So you have a teammate here from

428
00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:30.160
UCLA. How is that being at
least you know, somebody here in Tucson.

429
00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:33.160
You're probably at your families now and
enjoying, you know, one hundred

430
00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:37.799
and ten degrees. This weekend of
just you know, how is it being

431
00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:44.160
back just as the regular dude?
Yeah, I mean it's funny. My

432
00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:48.000
coaches were joking with me today saying
that I can't complain about the heat because

433
00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:52.440
I'm from tou Soon. But trust
me, I can complain about it.

434
00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:57.440
Yeah no, but it's great to
be home and with my family. And

435
00:29:57.720 --> 00:30:03.079
yeah, like you mentioned, one
of my teammates, his name is He's

436
00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:07.000
from Valencia, Spain, and he
came down here with me, so he's

437
00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:11.880
a good friend of mine and that
helps a lot having a friend and a

438
00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:15.160
training partner for sure. Very cool, a lot of fun. Again,

439
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:19.319
if you want to speak. You
have a big match this weekend with the

440
00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:26.079
former former champs, right, Yes, it's one night, seven pm at

441
00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:30.440
Kino Stadium. We're playing Winter County, which should be a great game,

442
00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:37.839
and we're celebrating military and first responders
night. So I appreciate any support from

443
00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:41.079
the two Song community. You said
Kino, Are you sure or is it

444
00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:45.119
at Mica Mountain to night? Is
that ko? Okay? Are you playing

445
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:51.079
something at Mica Mountain? Um,
there's there's one game in a couple of

446
00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:52.519
weeks out at Michael Mountain. Okay, that might be for the fourth of

447
00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:56.359
July. Okay, no, great, great, no perfect, everyone knows

448
00:30:56.400 --> 00:31:00.319
where to go to Keino. Should
be fun with with you guys. Two

449
00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:03.000
sons, a lot of a lot
of good soccer. Yeah, absolutely,

450
00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:07.279
absolutely no, Tommy, I hope
you I hope you guys are having fun

451
00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:08.960
because in the end that that you
know, that's what this is supposed to

452
00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:14.720
be. Right. Absolutely, We'll
tell your family hello, uh, say

453
00:31:14.799 --> 00:31:17.599
hello to Ryan if you if you
do see him or talk to him and

454
00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:22.200
appreciate you, maybe we'll get out
to see you guys tomorrow. Sounds good.

455
00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:23.160
Thanks for having me, guys.
All right, Tommy, good luck,

456
00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:27.240
Okay, take care. So Tommy, was this little kid, I

457
00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:30.839
didn't really just ten years or about
ten seven years younger than this brother.

458
00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:33.880
This little kid just running around,
you know, running around yea and his

459
00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:37.160
son, his brother was older.
Brother was a fantastic runner, very good

460
00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:41.839
soccer player. Uh. And here
we are, I'm getting old. I'm

461
00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:45.880
getting old or I'm not. And
these little kids, you know, those

462
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:49.319
kids were running around, you know. Now they're doing these great things,

463
00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:53.839
you know, and have a grandkid
and then coming down I I can imagine,

464
00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:56.720
like you know, you know,
I have a grandkid and you know,

465
00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:00.880
still have still have your son's mab
pictures like in your phone, and

466
00:32:01.599 --> 00:32:05.359
all of a sudden, he's got
a kid. Okay, you want to

467
00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:07.400
talk about something that makes you go, WHOA, what the hell is going

468
00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:09.799
on over here? But it's great. You know, I love I love

469
00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:14.079
these local kids. That one I
keep calling him a kid. He's you

470
00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:16.240
know, he's going to be a
senior in college. But um, you

471
00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:20.559
know that that uh Carver path like
this Steve, you know, I mean

472
00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:22.240
we played little league baseball. Yeah, it's true as the time you and

473
00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:25.160
I thought we were going to be
a professional baseball player dreams. You know,

474
00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:28.720
when then when I didn't break ninety
pounds when I was going into high

475
00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:30.599
school, Okay, I'm not going
to be a professional baseball player, but

476
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:34.119
we all have those dreams. And
you know then when you see, you

477
00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:37.039
know, a kid out of Tucson
who who's kind of living that dream and

478
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:40.960
he's at UCLA, that's that's not
a place to be both as a as

479
00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:45.119
a as a soccer program and as
a school student. Right as a school

480
00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:50.039
you go to UCLA, you you
know you're you're you're getting pretty well prepared

481
00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:52.400
for for everything out there's a good
you know, good for Tommy Silva,

482
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:55.880
good for his family. He sounds
like a great kid. Yeah, they

483
00:32:55.960 --> 00:33:00.079
are a great family, a great
friend. Ryan's now uh a, he's

484
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:05.480
like in the stuff doing he's at
uh John Hopkins, where did you go

485
00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:08.720
to high schoolhere? You Ringkong University? The Yeah, yeah he was.

486
00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:15.960
If you just google Hanson was at
the university high school. Yeah, smart

487
00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:20.359
Google's name, um um. Hanson
did a bunch of stuff on him because

488
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:23.039
he was breaking twelve year old records
generally running all over the place. You

489
00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:25.319
know, I stuff would take me
a week to run. He does it

490
00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:29.440
in twelve minutes. Yeah. Now
I'm going I'm looking at his at his

491
00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:32.559
UCLA bio, and it doesn't mention
his high school. So that's oh yeah,

492
00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:36.359
I think yeah he went to Yeah
he went to Rincon. Well look

493
00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:40.119
at him. Twenty twenty twenty two
first Team Academic All American uh twenty twenty

494
00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:45.400
one, twenty two UCLA All Academic
Games. So director's honor roll. Not

495
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:49.920
only is the good athlete a smart
kid, but honor is that H O

496
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:55.920
R and E R. So very
cool. All right, let's take our

497
00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:59.559
second break. We got a lot
more stuff Tommy, A lot more stuff

498
00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:01.839
from Tommy. Lloyd coming up in
the next segment, talking about specifically about

499
00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:05.880
some of his guys, what we
can expect about from some of these players,

500
00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:07.280
and a trip. Do you have
the trip stuff? I didn't.

501
00:34:07.320 --> 00:34:10.159
I didn't. I didn't. But
we'll talk about the trip they got tripped

502
00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:14.480
to an international trip coming up.
So let's take our break. We'll be

503
00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:16.599
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was calling in the first Uh, Sammy,

504
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551
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Gazows Jason at the board. We
have some other clips. We still have

552
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a lot to talk about with breaking
news last night, Draft all that stuff.

553
00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:15.679
So we let's continue with Tommy Lloyds. Okay, so to uh as

554
00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:19.920
we're going through the press conference,
you know Tommy will get asked specific questions

555
00:38:19.960 --> 00:38:22.559
about specific guys and you know,
just kind of how all this fits.

556
00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:24.400
We played a clip that he just
said, look, you know, we

557
00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:28.519
we got all the pieces I like
how what he said about we don't have

558
00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:30.280
any guys with jagget edges. I
like that too. It was a really

559
00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:34.320
good, really good way to put
that. But uh, you know,

560
00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:37.320
but there's all these guys, right, and it's kind of like people warning,

561
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:39.079
how how were these guys gonna fit? But you know, Colin Boswell

562
00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:45.320
playing in the in this international competition, Um, to me, that's kind

563
00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:46.559
of where it all starts. I
don't know what you think, a little

564
00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:51.760
ball but him Philippi, Philippi,
right. But but Boswell is kind of

565
00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:54.079
the guy that I think, you
know, coming out of last year,

566
00:38:54.719 --> 00:38:58.800
you feel like he's started going to
be have to be the stabilizer on all

567
00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:01.000
of this. But um, he
was just asked about Kylan and how how

568
00:39:01.039 --> 00:39:06.559
this summer competence is going to benefit
him, among some other issues. I

569
00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:09.559
think it allowed Kyland to go through
something that that I think as a coach,

570
00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:13.559
you know, I knew it was
coming, but maybe he wasn't deciding

571
00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:16.760
me a little bit of struggle and
and and struggle as part of the development

572
00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:22.039
process, and and he went through
it early, and he got through it

573
00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:23.519
well, you know, and part
of his struggle too was recovering from the

574
00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:28.159
injury and uh, and you know, but but he really, you know,

575
00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:31.800
obviously took off towards you know,
the second half of the season,

576
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:36.320
and and he continued to make that
Progres progress in the off season. And

577
00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:39.440
I think, you know, even
with the US team, he continues to

578
00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:43.400
show that. So, you know, I just think having that struggle in

579
00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:45.199
your back pocket, you know,
it puts him, you know, a

580
00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:47.559
step or two ahead, you know, of most other kids his age coming

581
00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:52.239
into college. Yeah, I don't
think people realized that this foot injury that

582
00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:54.880
he had really did slow him down, right, No, it did.

583
00:39:54.960 --> 00:40:00.360
But he also said this um in
the Fall. In the Fall about Boswell,

584
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:04.039
he says, it's gonna be until
January one when we'll be able to

585
00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:07.960
see him play. And exactly that's
what happened. And I don't remember,

586
00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:10.800
and correct me if I'm wrong,
Jay or Callers. I didn't remember him

587
00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:15.360
having a bad game when he said
that he struggled. I'm thinking at one

588
00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:20.480
point maybe he was before before the
struggles that he was talking about was at

589
00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:23.119
the very beginning. He's a young
kid, he's barely seventeen years been in

590
00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:25.800
high school, right, he had
that he had the foot injury, said

591
00:40:25.800 --> 00:40:29.039
it was going to be a struggle
for a while, and then when he

592
00:40:29.159 --> 00:40:32.159
came out after the after the first
of the year, he was just solid.

593
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:35.960
He was There were times when I
thought he needs to be in the

594
00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:38.920
game instead of Kirk cress. Times. You're not alone with that. Yeah,

595
00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:42.280
no, and I'm not alone,
but people more than others. But

596
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:45.639
there were times that you thought he's
he's a really good stabilizer because he didn't

597
00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:49.480
You never saw him get too high, too low. He just went out

598
00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:52.159
there and played, and I think
I think that's gonna make a big difference.

599
00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:54.639
He's already being tabbed as as a
as A as an NBA draft pick.

600
00:40:55.440 --> 00:41:00.159
Sure, I we'll see what happens
with that, because he's so so

601
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:02.079
nondescriptive. He's good, right,
Does that make sense? Yeah? And

602
00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:07.679
I don't know. I guess.
I guess m McConnell was a guy like

603
00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:09.159
that who just did his job.
He's like one of those guys that at

604
00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:12.760
the end of the game you realize
what a good game here when you didn't

605
00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:15.760
see it as it was happening.
No, No, I'll mentioned this right

606
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:17.840
now. He was not that he
plays like this guy. But Amari,

607
00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:23.559
Amari um from Us Bailey who who
was that guy too? He just went

608
00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:28.079
about his business, score points and
you're thinking, this dude's good. Yeah,

609
00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:30.800
you know, a palm for the
review. Yeah right, No.

610
00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:36.239
Absolutely. Another key piece, obviously
is Pella Larson, who who initially declared

611
00:41:36.280 --> 00:41:38.760
for the NBA. Wasn't It didn't
seem like it was a real serious thing,

612
00:41:38.840 --> 00:41:43.480
more of an information gathering thing.
But he had Tommy talked about how

613
00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:46.400
important role Peali Larson's gonna play.
Pella really didn't, you know, he

614
00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:51.480
didn't get too far into the draft
process, and uh, you know what

615
00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:53.239
I mean. I you know Pala. You know, we've had a lot

616
00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:55.840
of conversations on where he's at as
a player, and you know, we

617
00:41:57.039 --> 00:42:00.119
really really valued Pali. He's a
really good player, and you know,

618
00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:02.360
the exciting thing about him is there's
there's still steps to be taken and just

619
00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:06.199
you know, everyone kind of comes
into their own at their own time.

620
00:42:06.519 --> 00:42:10.159
And and I think Pela is primed
to have an amazing uh you know,

621
00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:15.280
fourth year in college here next year. The other thing is I think sometimes

622
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:19.639
these guys need a trial run at
you know, envisioning, envisioning themselves as

623
00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:22.639
NBA players and and so you know, you you have to. You know,

624
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:25.800
there's no doubt in my mind that
Pella is an NBA level player.

625
00:42:27.239 --> 00:42:30.519
And I mean I've always thought that
and you know, but but now you

626
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:34.440
know, you know, they gotta
believe it. And I think sometimes putting

627
00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:37.880
your name in you know less,
you know that you're you're you're maybe closer

628
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:42.039
than you think. You know.
For some of these guys and um and

629
00:42:42.199 --> 00:42:44.599
maybe other guys, that makes them
think that, you know, realize they

630
00:42:44.639 --> 00:42:45.880
realize they're not as close as they
think. But but for Pela, I

631
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:50.079
think he realizes he's closer than he
thinks. And I know he's primed and

632
00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:53.119
ready to come back and have a
great year. Um that's ah, well,

633
00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:54.760
I'm fine. I think he's gonna
have a good year. But you

634
00:42:54.840 --> 00:42:58.039
watch a little of the draft,
some of the draft, none of the

635
00:42:58.119 --> 00:43:00.760
draft, so a little bit okay. So so as I watched all of

636
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:06.119
it, uh uh, and I'm
thinking imagine, especially the second round,

637
00:43:06.280 --> 00:43:09.360
we saw how good um Zulus was, right and we'll talk about that during

638
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:13.039
breaking news. We saw how good
he was and he was the first team

639
00:43:13.119 --> 00:43:16.480
all All Packed twelve, an All
American, and we saw how good he

640
00:43:16.599 --> 00:43:22.440
was right right, I'm thinking he's
not getting drafted. How good are these

641
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:27.559
other dudes? Timmy didn't get drafted. Well, we'll talk, we'll talk

642
00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:31.000
about we'll talk all about that.
Yeah. Yeah, it's just a it's

643
00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:36.000
amazing and we know about projection and
stuff, but you're thinking how good you

644
00:43:36.119 --> 00:43:39.119
have to be and if you're not
good And I'll bring this up because of

645
00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:42.920
smiles. Remember we talked, We
had this discussion. And I say this

646
00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:45.920
all time. In ninety seven he
was the MVP, blah blah blah,

647
00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:49.039
and everyone said, oh, he
should come out. But if you're not

648
00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:52.239
good enough, Jay, you're not
good enough. Whether it's ninety eight,

649
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:54.880
ninety nine, thousand, I don't
care whether people are talking about you,

650
00:43:55.239 --> 00:43:59.719
that's fine. But if you're still
not good enough, they're gonna they're gonna

651
00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:02.239
go that out exactly exactly. Okay. Well, one of the guys that

652
00:44:02.400 --> 00:44:06.119
one of the guys that Arizona got
that I think was a head scratch a

653
00:44:06.199 --> 00:44:08.280
little bit, was going so hard
after Caleb Blove because it's like, doesen'

654
00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:12.840
Arizona have a point guard? Klin
Boswell, here's what Tommy had to say

655
00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:16.039
about Caleb Blood. I mean obviously
Caleb had made a decision to go somewhere

656
00:44:16.079 --> 00:44:20.000
else, and we were kind of
involved with him early. And um,

657
00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:22.760
you know, not nothing wrong happened
the first time around. It just you

658
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:25.639
know, I think he had a
previous relationship with Michigan and they had recruited

659
00:44:25.719 --> 00:44:29.280
him out of high school and and
he went there, and you know,

660
00:44:29.599 --> 00:44:31.800
uh, they weren't able to work
it out academically for whatever reason. And

661
00:44:32.360 --> 00:44:36.000
and you know, and and and
we got his stuff, and he's a

662
00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:38.599
solid student, and you know,
the University of Arizona had no problem putting

663
00:44:38.599 --> 00:44:43.880
it together a plan for him.
And so you know, we were fortunate.

664
00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:47.159
I mean, he Caleb's obviously a
proven player and and uh, you

665
00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:52.280
know, and and he's been great. I mean he's been a real joy

666
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:54.639
to be around, and and and
and and been a great teammate and fun

667
00:44:54.719 --> 00:44:58.840
to work with. And you know, and we're going to operate on that

668
00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:00.719
plane. I mean, you haven't
seen anything different. Well, he's just

669
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:02.679
a really good player. I mean, I don't know how many guys you

670
00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:07.159
could say that have scored you know, thirteen an Elite eight game, and

671
00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:09.360
you know, and then in the
final four game, twenty eight points I

672
00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:14.039
mean, I mean, you know, he's obviously you got to be a

673
00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:16.719
good player to do that. So
he's accomplished. You know, he's been

674
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:20.679
there, done that, and you
know, but also he's been on the

675
00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:22.360
other side of it where things have
gotten tough, and you know, and

676
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:25.920
and you know, maybe you know, fairly or unfairly, you know,

677
00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:30.280
he's been in the crosshairs of criticism
in the media. And you know,

678
00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:34.719
we look forward, you know,
to integrating him into our program and and

679
00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.079
and making him a part of our
culture and and you know, and helping

680
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:39.199
him have a great experience. I
mean, that's all we're focused on.

681
00:45:42.199 --> 00:45:45.639
So, Jake, what was that
guy saying about Caleb got a garden there

682
00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:46.559
to have a guard? Yeah,
well, just you say, you know,

683
00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:49.960
I mean, there's just a lot
of thought that they've already got a

684
00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:52.280
point guard. Why are you Why
are you going so hard after Caleb Love?

685
00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:53.400
Plus, as he said he was
in he seemed to be in the

686
00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:57.199
crosshairs of the media, you know, as a as a as a kind

687
00:45:57.239 --> 00:45:59.800
of a bad guy. And you
know Tommy saying no, he's not.

688
00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:04.760
So So if you get twelve angry
jurors in a room and I'm going somewhere

689
00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:07.559
with us. How are you gonna
make everyone happy? You're not right?

690
00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:12.400
So so people will bitch about depth
they don't have depth. Well, now

691
00:46:12.440 --> 00:46:15.320
they have a few good guards,
right, we can't bitch about depth.

692
00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:17.960
Now you want some good guys are
bad guys? You had a bunch of

693
00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:21.679
good guys, right, you can't. We can't bitch about nine you want?

694
00:46:21.880 --> 00:46:23.360
You want one good guy and one
bad guy so that when the bad

695
00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:25.519
guy has to come in and play, he's bad. Or do you want

696
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:29.519
to have a couple of good guys
exactly? So you have a good group

697
00:46:29.639 --> 00:46:34.800
of depth, right, good group
of of guards. Right, So what

698
00:46:34.920 --> 00:46:37.320
do they have to bitch about?
I just gonna text from one of our

699
00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:39.559
buddies here, who's gonna shoot and
make baskets? I think a lot of

700
00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:44.400
them are going to score. I
think, I think I think a lot

701
00:46:44.400 --> 00:46:46.519
of them are going to score.
And they've got another one in in uh

702
00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:53.079
In Jaden Bradley, the kid from
Alabama is here, Um and send here's

703
00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:57.679
what you had to say about Jade
Bradley, another guard. Yeah, No,

704
00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:00.679
Jade's awesome. I mean Jaden's uh. Jane's a really good player and

705
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:06.760
um, and he and he's a
crazy, you know, hard worker.

706
00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:09.800
He's a high character person. Um, you know, we we've recruited him

707
00:47:09.960 --> 00:47:14.119
the first time around really hard and
we're very familiar with them, and you

708
00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:15.880
know, we're fortunate it worked out
this time around. We're lucky to have

709
00:47:16.039 --> 00:47:20.079
him. And uh, you know, we had a great you know about

710
00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:22.719
you know, three three to four
weeks with him here recently, and UM,

711
00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:28.280
yeah, I'm just I'm just I'm
thankful he chose Arizona and hopefully we

712
00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:30.679
can you know, help him,
you know, get what he wants out

713
00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:38.920
of this experience. You know,
it's again, I think fans and going

714
00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:42.480
back to you know, the way
they lost their minds at the beginning of

715
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:46.519
the summer, you think that they've
got to at some point just believe that

716
00:47:46.599 --> 00:47:51.679
Tommy Tommy Lloyd knows what he's doing. If he thinks Jayan Bradley is a

717
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:53.559
bad guy, he's not gonna ask
Jayan Bradley to be in his program.

718
00:47:53.880 --> 00:47:57.800
If it thinks Caleb loves not a
really good player, he's not going to

719
00:47:57.880 --> 00:48:01.360
go get him either. And I
think, you know, I think he's

720
00:48:01.360 --> 00:48:06.119
been he's made it pretty clear that
you gotta fit into what he's doing.

721
00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:09.320
Yeah, that's why I asked him
about the pieces. He's got a lot

722
00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:15.000
of good players, probably ten or
soul that will fit in perfectly because he's

723
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:19.480
a pieces guy. We saw this, We saw this two three years I

724
00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:22.679
mean now two years now, where
he's got these guys and he has to

725
00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:24.320
kind of formulate, you know,
the mad scientists, I think, putting

726
00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:28.599
it all together and make sure that
they all go together right, right,

727
00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:30.679
And now finally the one more piece. And this is not you know,

728
00:48:30.679 --> 00:48:34.440
we've already talked a little bit about
the international guys who are such a big

729
00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:37.960
part of it. But Keisha Johnson, the guy from San Diego State.

730
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:42.960
Between Caleb Love A Keisha Johnson,
he's got two guys who've been in the

731
00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:45.119
Final four, right, who've been
in not just final four, a national

732
00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:51.880
championship game. Um, having that
in your locker room, you know,

733
00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:54.119
that's hard to get and to have
these two guys. But here's what he

734
00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:58.800
had to say about Keisha Johnson.
He's a he's a great guy. I

735
00:48:58.840 --> 00:49:00.559
mean, as of all the all
the guys are, but he just has

736
00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:07.079
a real, you know, special
ability to to make teams better and he's

737
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:12.039
just an amazing high character person.
And uh, you know, we were

738
00:49:12.119 --> 00:49:15.400
kind of going back and forth as
his recruitment, and you know, he

739
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:16.320
had asked us, you know,
hey, if if, if we do

740
00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:20.960
this, and you know, would
you guys be able to attend my graduation

741
00:49:21.039 --> 00:49:23.000
ceremony up in the Bay Area And
and you know, he told him the

742
00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:27.360
only way we could do it is
if he signed, and that's because that's

743
00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:30.559
true. And uh and so he
signed, and uh so you know,

744
00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:35.599
we we we we headed that way
and it was really cool. I mean,

745
00:49:35.679 --> 00:49:37.760
he's the first person in his family
to graduate from college and it was

746
00:49:38.199 --> 00:49:42.760
awesome to meet everybody. And you
know, his families, I mean,

747
00:49:43.039 --> 00:49:46.480
um, uh you know McHale and
and and and Tucson are gonna love him.

748
00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:51.400
I mean they're awesome people and they
come with great energy and and positive

749
00:49:51.440 --> 00:49:53.079
spirit. So um, you know, and then you know, then we

750
00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:58.039
were in the neighborhood and you know, Andre, you know, decided to

751
00:49:58.119 --> 00:50:01.719
pop in and I and and I
think that it was really cool. Yeah.

752
00:50:02.280 --> 00:50:07.559
Yeah, Temmy just seems at peace
with what he's got going. Oh

753
00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:10.440
yeah, he's just not worried about
anybody's saying no, no, And they've

754
00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:14.880
stopped except for you know what about
this I have, I have this.

755
00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:19.199
I hope I saved it on my
phone because it was just just kind of

756
00:50:19.239 --> 00:50:22.199
annoyed me in a weird way.
And you read Twitter, I read Oh

757
00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:25.480
no, it was just I lost
it. But it was this guy.

758
00:50:25.760 --> 00:50:29.440
It's this guy. I'd never seen
him on Facebook before. He had doesn't

759
00:50:29.440 --> 00:50:30.719
have a lot of posts because I'd
go back and see who they are.

760
00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:34.639
He said, you know, he
was just another clown, a guy who

761
00:50:34.719 --> 00:50:37.199
leaves early and thinks that the world's
gonna be great, just kind of clowning

762
00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:40.840
a Zulus. I want a clown
another evening. We're not gonna win a

763
00:50:40.880 --> 00:50:45.039
title. Another clown. I think, who is this dude? Either he's

764
00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:51.679
got he's the CEO of Sears or
something, because who's this dude? Well,

765
00:50:51.679 --> 00:50:52.920
here's this dude from the Gallus And
thought, okay, that's well and

766
00:50:53.000 --> 00:50:55.480
fine, but who's this dude?
I mean, come on, this dude

767
00:50:55.559 --> 00:50:59.880
out in the parking not yelling at
you for parking wrong or whatever. Who

768
00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:01.360
are you? You know, what
are your credentials for being doing this?

769
00:51:01.840 --> 00:51:06.480
And I'm thinking this clown and he
was ripped. He was ripped Zulus.

770
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:08.599
We live in a time where Jay, I can spend your money probably better

771
00:51:08.599 --> 00:51:12.400
than I can spend money exactly I
have. I have better answers for your

772
00:51:12.440 --> 00:51:15.000
money than I do for mine.
Um, shut up. Zoom made the

773
00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:19.159
decision he always knew he was gonna
make, and guess what. He turned

774
00:51:19.199 --> 00:51:22.239
out okay, and he's got a
job turned out okay, and he's done

775
00:51:22.280 --> 00:51:24.440
with college and he's got a job. I don't I don't understand this.

776
00:51:24.559 --> 00:51:30.719
People just ripping people for no reason. Who is just because well, it's

777
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:34.800
it's allowed now, Steve, Twitter, it's allowed now, Facebook all that,

778
00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:37.760
it's it's just allowed. There's so
many, so so many things go

779
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:39.920
into that. Is this is everybody, everybody feels that they've got a platform

780
00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:44.239
and you know, look and fans
get to do that. I mean that

781
00:51:44.440 --> 00:51:47.679
that that's that's the bottom line.
But you know, it's like quit telling

782
00:51:47.800 --> 00:51:51.480
us that you're smarter than the guy
whose job it is to do that,

783
00:51:51.960 --> 00:51:53.800
right. That part, that's that's
where I kind of draw a line.

784
00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:57.280
Is if you've got an opinion,
great, but don't tell me you know

785
00:51:57.480 --> 00:52:00.760
more than Tommy Lloyd about what what's
good for his team, or that you

786
00:52:00.880 --> 00:52:04.519
know better than Zula's travelas what's good
for you? Yeah, yeah, right,

787
00:52:04.639 --> 00:52:07.239
it's whose decision, is it right, it's his right. It's I

788
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:10.039
mean, have we disagreed in the
past with guys who have you know,

789
00:52:10.159 --> 00:52:14.840
left school earlier. But it's their
decision and they get to do. I

790
00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:16.159
know we have no time, but
I mentioned this with Michael, right,

791
00:52:16.199 --> 00:52:20.400
it was the same type of deal. He's between her. He was gonna

792
00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:22.960
get better maybe, but he've been
drafted. Who knows right? Who knows

793
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:27.559
right? He went for the money
now and and his lifestyle will change right

794
00:52:27.599 --> 00:52:31.599
in a good way, right exactly. It's up to them. It's up

795
00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:35.039
to them. So we'll have somebody, we'll talk a little bit about a

796
00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:37.960
Zula's coming up. Also Kurt Kreas
and the news today and some of the

797
00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:40.639
breaking news from Jason. So I'll
stick around and we'll be right back