WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.759 --> 00:00:08.240 This is I on the Ball Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez sound Fox Sports fourteen 2 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:14.919 fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services and Sure your most Prized Possessions kat z R 3 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:19.760 two SA and iHeartRadio Station. Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to 4 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:23.000 I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. 5 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:27.600 Jay Gonzalez is out again today. That's why we have Matt Reynoldson former the 6 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:31.960 FKVOA, and we have our guy Ryan. Don't screw up, Brian. 7 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:36.560 We need you. I will your job. Your job is dependent on it. 8 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:40.359 Welcome everybody. Hey, we hope you get some calls from you, 9 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:44.039 guys, first time callers. We'd love to hear from you if you've listened 10 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:47.200 to us a while now. I know Jay is out, so we can't 11 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:50.479 fight with you, but I'm here, and i'm Matt here as well. 12 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:52.960 I think Steve's more likely to fight with you than I am. But yeah, 13 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:55.600 yeah, yeah, you're the nice guy in this room. Jay's the 14 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:58.600 bad guy. I'm the goody in this room. When he's here. I 15 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:00.799 want to ask you, so you're gonna go to game tomorrow? Right? 16 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:03.679 Are you going to get tomorrow the baseball game. Yeah, absolutely, regional 17 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:07.480 opener between Arizona and Grand Canyon leading off that regional. I think you're gonna 18 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:12.359 be one of the fifth five thousand, maybe probably so now that you're not 19 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:17.799 working temporarily, right, you're gonna give me a fan. Do you look 20 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:21.920 at the games differently? You know what? I don't think I do necessarily. 21 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:26.000 Obviously, you'll you know, you'll enjoy things with your friends a little 22 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:30.359 bit differently than you wouldn't press spot, but what do you mean, You'll 23 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:33.400 have a drink? Yeah, pound, you know, pound the pound, 24 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:36.000 the bleachers a little bit, maybe chirp some batters from the other team. 25 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:38.400 I kind of like doing that here and there. But it's all in good 26 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:41.719 fun. Mostly just because I cover college athletics. I know what, I 27 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:45.000 know what guys on both sides are going through. So I carry a little 28 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.079 slanted objectivity. But you know, do I do? Uh? You know, 29 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:51.519 get out there and just enjoy sitting in the stands because you hear all 30 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:53.959 that sort of stuff. You hear the chatter, and it just makes it 31 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:57.200 more of that baseball atmosphere as fun as the press box with like Brian Peterson 32 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:00.879 and Michael Levis Yeah, and I was talking to as Brian Is in the 33 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:05.640 locker or in the press box. So so you look at it a little 34 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:08.479 bit differently, enjoy yourself more. Do you think about the questions? If 35 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:13.400 you were now this would be a first your first event? Were you not 36 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:15.680 working? Oh? No, I've been. I've been to several baseball games 37 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:17.159 this year, even when I wasn't when I was working, I went to 38 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:21.360 I went to baseball games just as fans on the weekend. But you know 39 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:23.919 the capacity you're in now, kind of just a casual observer. Yeah, 40 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:27.199 So do you kind well you kind of think maybe I want to ask this 41 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:30.000 question. Maybe I want to ask this question because I'm always thinking on a 42 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:31.360 question basis, Steve, aren't you you know, I mean, you've been 43 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:36.199 to games as fans before professional teams that you don't necessarily cover. What would 44 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:38.639 I ask about this? How would I approach this? Okay, here's what 45 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:42.919 they need to do with this inning for this inning that happened three innings later. 46 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:45.400 You know, why didn't they do this and why didn't they do that? 47 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:49.479 Exactly? We're all analysts in in our basis forum, and that's what 48 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:52.879 comes with the character. So let me go here even though we had nothing 49 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:57.840 planned. Right, So so we had Chip yesterday, good good baseball. 50 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:01.879 I'm asking you, you're you're you're you're young. So a good baseball strategist 51 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:06.319 in what you've seen? Yeah, is that what makes him good at this? 52 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:07.840 I think so. And I think he communicates with this player as well. 53 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:12.080 I think one other thing is that he's not afraid to move off things 54 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:15.080 that aren't working. I think you saw that with the addition of Kevin Vance 55 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:20.080 this year as pitching coach and his very unique philosophy that he brings to attacking 56 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:22.520 every pitch. And when you hear him talk about it, when you hear 57 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:24.360 Advance talk about it, when you hear Chip Hale talk about it, it's 58 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:28.639 like, why isn't everybody else doing this? Why isn't every other pitching staff 59 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:30.520 in the country employing this philosophy? Well, and one of the things he 60 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:36.680 said yesterday was that Ken Diatty's going to start. I mean, he's he's 61 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:38.120 a change guy. Yep. If one thing is not working, and he 62 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:43.120 said the former number one is not playing or pitching, well let's change it 63 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:45.560 up a little bit. Yeah. And he said in his press conference today 64 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:49.919 before the before the first game of the regional that actually cam Walty will be 65 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:53.680 starting on Saturday, depending on It doesn't even matter who they played, They're 66 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:57.800 just they're sticking with cam Walty starting on Saturday, moving Jackson Kent down to 67 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:00.199 Sunday after he's struggled in his last few out of is the Friday night starter, 68 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:02.599 and I think that's okay, And I think that gives Jackson Kent, 69 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:06.319 you know, a couple other days to if you work out of the maybe 70 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:11.479 work on some different things, refocus and dial in for that Sunday game. 71 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:15.160 You hope it's a Sunday game to advance and not a Sunday elimination game. 72 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:19.519 But regional this loaded like it is with Dallas Baptist, West Virginia and Grand 73 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:23.519 Canyon, Arizona's going to have their hands full, and I think it'll be 74 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:26.800 a really interesting weekend of baseball at High Corbett. Yeah, no question. 75 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:30.000 And the number two on Saturday again, is the number two on Saturday is 76 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:30.759 Dallas Baptists. No, no, no, no, no, I'm sure 77 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:33.480 the picture a picture. Yeah, the number of number two Saturday is cam 78 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:38.959 Walty and he had a fantastic game against USC. There was a couple of 79 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:43.439 miss misplays, and that that's what got him under the three, got him 80 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:47.000 down three zero. What really stuck out to me in his start against USC 81 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:54.000 is it is really tough to continue to go out there and deal when you're 82 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:58.439 going up against a pitcher as hot as USC's starting pitcher was in that game. 83 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:02.519 Ioki was throwing flames in that game and really confounding Arizona batters. We've 84 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:05.720 seen it happen at several points this season where they're prone to the strikeout a 85 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:10.720 little bit. That was certainly the case against USC. And Walt's sitting there 86 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:15.120 in the top half of every inning watching that and watching that and watching that 87 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:18.920 and watching him work and doing an exceptional job from the USC side of things. 88 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:21.439 But he just went out there. You know, he knew there he 89 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:25.079 had left some runs on the board. He knew there were some defensive areas 90 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:29.000 that caused that. But he went out there, held things down, ate 91 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:31.319 up those innings and so Arizona could eventually come back, chip away and win 92 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:35.120 games like they have all season. Right, he held them close and eventually 93 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:39.279 he broke that. Well, we talked about that with Chip yesterday, which 94 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:43.279 which was a great move. They finally got to him a base hit of 95 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:45.839 here, base hit there, and Cam's the only one who hold the held 96 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:47.680 down that Oregon State offense, which was by far the best in the back 97 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:50.759 twelve this year. Yeah, they were unbelievable, and you know they looked 98 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:54.639 to make a deep postseason run, hosting their own regional up in Corvallis. 99 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:57.560 Yep. So if you want to call, please do five to two four 100 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:00.639 one six seven four four zero if you were in just did in the podcast 101 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:05.879 from yesterday, it hasn't been posted yet. I guess Jay is enjoying the 102 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:09.720 beach a little bit too much over there. I would be in Rocky Point 103 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:14.399 too, I guess we So we'll try. We'll track him down and see 104 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:17.879 what's up with that. He did post Today's guests, who are Matt Modenial 105 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:21.040 go asy cats will be with us today. I wanted to talk to him 106 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:26.160 about a few things we spoke about yesterday. The movement with the Caleb Love 107 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:30.399 incident, but the he's returning yep, yep. And then the kind of 108 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:32.399 like not fileout, but the domino effect. There were there were a lot 109 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:35.319 of dominoes that fell from that, especially from the recruiting standpoint, right, 110 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:40.600 and then the new guy coming in from USC different alignment. Uh, So 111 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:44.639 we'll get Matt's thoughts on that and anything else he has to say. And 112 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:47.079 then in the second hour, we have your guy, Dwayne Rankin from Arizona 113 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:50.920 Sport, Arizona Central, the Arizona Republic. He's the Sun's beat writer up 114 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:55.199 there, has been for a number of years and he's seen the ups and 115 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:58.519 downs of the last half decade for the Phoenix Suns, which have been an 116 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:01.160 absolute roller coaster as a supporter myself, and he's been doing that for a 117 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:04.399 while. So we'll talk about the past, we'll talk about the future. 118 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:11.480 We've had some discussions about the Suns from other guys up there, and they 119 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:15.720 said it was probably the worst, the least fun year they've ever had in 120 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.120 covering a team, right, given the circumstances of the events, right, 121 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:23.199 you have a good team, supposed to good team, and they didn't live 122 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:26.000 up to expectations. Now and Steve I went up there for they supposed the 123 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:29.040 debut of the Big three, you know, back in November, and that 124 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:32.040 didn't happen because Bradley Beal was a late scratch because of back issues he had 125 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:36.079 a terrible luck injury year. He fell bad for him because he's a competitor. 126 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:40.040 But you know, they didn't have enough games together to really make it 127 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:43.560 work. And there were a lot more reasons why it didn't work than that, 128 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:46.000 But the bottom line is when it came to the playoffs and going up 129 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.360 against the defensive team like Minnesota, there was a lot that didn't work and 130 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:54.000 it showed. So you've been in this business maybe five six years tops or 131 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:57.839 whatever. I'm sure you're well aware and you don't need me to hear this 132 00:07:57.879 --> 00:08:01.279 from me, But there's always more to the story then yesterday. Then what's 133 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:05.120 out there? And I think with the Suns and we'll ask Duane. I 134 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:09.199 mean, I'll even use the same phrase. There's always more to the story. 135 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:13.079 And when we were up there in for the Final four in April, 136 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:16.560 and I was there a week after that and talk videos like this were saying 137 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:20.759 this team just didn't mesh. It just didn't mesh. But but they were 138 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:26.240 all hopeful in that in that positive way that they can be it's gonna change 139 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:28.519 Minnesota. They had kind of Minnesota's number, right, blah blah blah, 140 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:31.399 Well they had no Minnesota number. It was the wrong number if they had, 141 00:08:31.559 --> 00:08:35.720 but they had the number in the regular season, they I mean swept 142 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:37.120 them in the regular season and then got swept in the playoffs. Yeah, 143 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:41.799 and and that means pretty much nothing exactly. So we'll talk to him about 144 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:45.360 that and just how his enjoyment because this is a this is a fun job 145 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:48.159 for many people, but it's also work for those who do the job it 146 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:52.559 is and you get invested in kind of the day to day of the ebbs 147 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:56.360 and flows of you know, am I being a conduit to the fans? 148 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:00.960 Am I being a true conduit to the fans and conveying their frust will also 149 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:03.919 being fair in an objective way because I'm a reporter as well. Right, 150 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:07.039 let me ask you, so six years in the business, you came from 151 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:13.799 Green Bay, had some big games to cover. And this may be not 152 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:18.879 a couch question, but a few days that you just said, I wish 153 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:20.759 I didn't have to go to the work to the job today. Oh, 154 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:24.559 I don't know if there was a lot of those even at all. Really, 155 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:28.159 I you know what I would say, just the just the weather part 156 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:31.919 of it, you know, up in Green Bay. That would get me, 157 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:35.360 That would get me. I will never ever complain about triple digit temperatures 158 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:39.519 here, because I'm of the philosophy that you can only complain about one temperature. 159 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:43.080 The only days I didn't want to wake up and go to work and 160 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:46.320 do this incredible job that I'm so lucky to do were the days that it 161 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:50.159 was sub zero and the wind was blown in your face and I had to 162 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:52.519 get to my car and then maybe go outside to get out and go to 163 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:56.519 the station, or get out and go cover something that was a little bit 164 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:58.159 missed. Well, you grew up in Nebraska, right, I did what 165 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.960 you used to it. I was, but the winters last quite a bit 166 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:07.200 longer in Green Bay. You're you're getting some winter stuff from October to late 167 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:11.080 May a lot of years. So it's a bit of a bear. So 168 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:15.200 you're telling me that if you get a call from somewhere in Michigan, upstate 169 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:18.279 Michigan saying, hey, uh, Matt, we're looking for a sports guy, 170 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:22.720 you want to come up here, I don't know. I don't know 171 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:26.159 if I'm in really a position to turn too much down, but uh that, 172 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:28.919 uh, that would be a harder, harder thing to say yes to 173 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:33.159 than somewhere here in Arizona somewhere will Paul be saying exactly, you ready to 174 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:37.480 come here and start your career again, or you know, restart your career 175 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:39.120 and get it. Yeah, so, no, I get it. I 176 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:41.519 totally get it. It's I like golfing year round. I mean, I'm 177 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:45.679 not I'm not that good, but uh, you know it's consistent upper eighties. 178 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:48.879 Well you're in the right seat because Jay isn't either, you know. 179 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:50.840 I just uh, I just enjoy getting out there and hacking the ball around. 180 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:54.559 And you play for the rare birdie. You really do. Oh that's 181 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:56.600 the reason why I don't play, because I suck at it and I don't 182 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:00.799 want to be four hours of sucking at it. That would be horrible. 183 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:03.759 Yeah. I feel you there. But we've got great golf weather, great 184 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:05.360 golf courses down here, don't we. Yeah, there's no question. Well, 185 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:09.519 so we're gonna have some great guests. Like I said, the big 186 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:13.720 Games this weekend. If you're hoping to get out there. I think the 187 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:16.159 tickets are fourteen dollars each. Did you did you get some? I'm gonna 188 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:18.399 look tomorrow morning, Okay, because you asked the question, right, how 189 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:22.399 much I think they're like fifty dollars for the special seats. I think it 190 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:28.399 was thirty six all session all session regular general mission. Yeah, and fourteen 191 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:31.080 dollars per ticket for a game, and the single session tickets, so they're 192 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:35.200 per game, right, but it'll single session tickets will get you into the 193 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:37.080 games of that day. Oh really, Okay, so fourteen dollars a day. 194 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:41.200 So if you want to go check out the Dallas Baptists in West Virginia 195 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:45.480 game and come back, yeah, I'm fairly certain that it'll get you into 196 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:48.039 bothams. Okay, no, great, Yeah, so that's twelve right noon 197 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:52.519 and then six ye noon and six hopey marow. Yeah, that West Virginia 198 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:54.480 Dallas Baptist game should be really good. I actually saw, you know, 199 00:11:54.720 --> 00:12:00.919 just a casual observation from Michael lev who's over there watching and it's scouting, 200 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:03.159 you know, both the workout day for all these teams. He said, 201 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:07.000 West Virginia looks pretty loose, so maybe we could see a three to two 202 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:11.120 upset coming up tomorrow in that noon game, maybe they catch Dallas Baptist by 203 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.840 surprise, and then West Virginia will be waiting the winner of Arizona and Grand 204 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:18.799 Canyon on Saturday yeah, reach the base. Let me excuse this too because 205 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:22.559 I get a kick and maybe it's me having done that in the past. 206 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:26.799 So you go see a team, all they look really loose. What what 207 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:30.240 does that mean? And you're not playing that day anyway? It means if 208 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:35.440 you have the glove on your head or you're touring water on people and messing 209 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:37.879 around, then you're pretty loose, then you'll say. And then when you 210 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:41.519 get your ass beat by ten points ten runs in a a ten run rule, 211 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:43.799 you're thinking, do you mean not? It should not have been so 212 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:46.279 loose the day before? You know who else looked really loose Arizona before the 213 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:50.879 Sweet sixteen loss against Clemson. Good, great point. That's thank I was 214 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:54.039 at that practice day. I watched it the entire time. They looked loose. 215 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:56.279 Yeah, they didn't play loose. What didn't matter, not a damn 216 00:12:56.360 --> 00:13:00.200 thing, No, not at all thing. Well, I'm sure Killed Love 217 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:03.159 hit some shots. He did then in that in the day before. R. 218 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:07.679 J. Davis did too for North Carolina. The weirdest stat that I've 219 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:11.120 heard this year, or the weirdest statistical occurrence I think I've seen in sports 220 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:16.519 this calendar year, were shooting two shooters of the caliber of Caleb Love and 221 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:18.240 R. J. Davis, and back to back games on that court in 222 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:22.879 La going a combined zero for eighteen for seventeen yea but over eighteen yea and 223 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:28.399 back to back games, and two guys who have a definite connection with each 224 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:31.679 other. Yep, yep for former teammates at UNC. Right, No, 225 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:37.159 it was that was not unnoticed for that day because once it was over, 226 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:39.720 we were thinking we got to get back on the road and come back to 227 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:43.440 Tucsa. Yeah, we were all stunned. Well and both won. It 228 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.440 would have been the story lines would have been incredible. I mean, that's 229 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:50.279 and that's what we do this for. We do this for those incredible storylines. 230 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:52.919 I think when we saw the draw, the field of sixty four or 231 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:56.799 the field of sixty eight draw, and we saw number one seed North Carolina 232 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:01.639 with number two seed Arizona, we were looking our jobs for the possibility of 233 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:05.000 just highlighting that story in the return and it was true to form until that 234 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:07.720 Thursday afternoon, of course, it was so we'll see. But the good 235 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:11.960 catch they both missed shots all day and both teams went home. 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How are 323 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:30.559 you the great defense for having back? Yes? Are you are? You 324 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:36.000 very busy or is it busy yesterday with that Caleb Love announcement and then everything 325 00:20:36.039 --> 00:20:38.559 else that came with it. Yeah, I mean it's always a busy time, 326 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:41.480 and you know, right now it's kind of crunch time for a lot 327 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:44.720 of rosters coming together. Obviously, the NBA deadline are just passed, and 328 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:47.359 you're trying to there's a lot of players trying to figure out, Okay, 329 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:48.960 I staying in the draft? Am I not going to draft? If I'm 330 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:52.319 not going to draft, I'm not staying in the draft. Rather, what 331 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:53.279 am I gonna do? Am I gonna stay at my current school? Am 332 00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:56.720 I going to complete my transfer and go to where I was going? All 333 00:20:56.759 --> 00:20:59.880 that kind of stuff. So it's just kind of fitting all the pieces together. 334 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:03.319 Obviously, Arizona yesterday really kind of started to make some real headway with 335 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:07.640 its roster and its future roster and everything kind of taking shape. And obviously 336 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:11.079 Caleb Love is the pivotal key piece to that, and so I felt like 337 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:14.400 everything else was kind of centered around what Caleb was going to do, and 338 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:17.759 uh, you know, where Arizona kind of went next and what happened with 339 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:22.240 the roster, you know, and what it was looking like and what it 340 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:23.759 will look like. It was based on what Caleb Blove decided to do. 341 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:26.000 It always felt like he was going to end up returning. There just wasn't 342 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:33.359 that overwhelming NBA draft buzz for him for various reasons and obviously not getting you 343 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:38.119 know, the big combined invite was was kind of a pretty significant tell about 344 00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:41.920 kind of the NBA NBA thoughts on where he stands and how he sits into 345 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:45.000 the picture. But you know, it kind of always felt like that, 346 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:48.440 and obviously, you know, just talking to different people and getting a sense 347 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:51.119 for it and what even when you kind of thought play out, it's like, 348 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:52.799 do you want to be you know, big man on campus? Obviously 349 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:56.720 there's going to be significant and I owe money and play when you in your 350 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:00.279 players' caliber is coming back to college and do you want that or do you 351 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:03.119 want to go you know, being in the G League and have to work 352 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:07.200 your way up and kind of quad to get into the into the main kind 353 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:10.599 of league and get into the NBA and kind of being the spotlight there. 354 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:12.960 So you know, he can continue to work on things he you know, 355 00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:17.000 go in next year and try it again and see if he helps himself and 356 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:19.599 is able to kind of move into that the first round and get drafted and 357 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:23.720 have a spot in the league. But I don't think it's uh, you 358 00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:27.079 know, a bad thing for cable Up to return to school and obviously for 359 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:30.680 Arizona gives them, you know, a very very key piece to what they 360 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:33.240 want to do this second season, Matt. Obviously, for a number of 361 00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:37.359 years, players have been able to enter the NBA draft process and then withdraw 362 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:41.039 and put their name, you know, get their name back in their school 363 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:44.839 and back and rolled for another year of college ball. But it feels like 364 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:49.240 this falls into hyper drive from the recruiting standpoint when it comes to unlimited transfers 365 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:55.000 as well. Yesterday we saw the Domino's fall with Joe snson On decommitting and 366 00:22:55.160 --> 00:23:00.559 Jamari Phillips decommitting as well. How often and how commonplace are these sort of 367 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:04.160 days going to be with this the portal being so many part of the Dominoes 368 00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:07.759 as well as the NBA draft process as well. Now, yeah, I 369 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:11.000 mean I think it only gets ramped up that much more just because again there's 370 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:14.720 that nil element, and that wasn't there before. Yes, there was decisions 371 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:17.559 like this before, and there's players who are kind of deciding what they were 372 00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:19.400 going to do, and that's not new, but the nil element where it's 373 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:22.720 like, well, now you have that money spoken for and you got to 374 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:26.119 figure out how all those pieces kind of fit. And so I think throwing 375 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:27.640 that into the mix really is going to make this part of the norm. 376 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:32.559 And you're going to see players who are committed one place or even signed you 377 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:36.039 know, at one school figuring out Okay, well, you know a month 378 00:23:36.079 --> 00:23:38.359 ago, this wasn't the scenario. Now it is, and so you know, 379 00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:41.759 I think that's going to be commonplace and we're kind of seeing that, 380 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:44.759 you know, play out right now. And I think for Arizona it's going 381 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:48.039 to continue to be part of the picture because Arizona the Spaces is going to 382 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:49.519 have players who are going to be in this position every year. It's a 383 00:23:49.559 --> 00:23:53.200 place where there's NBA caliber talent every year. And you know, it's really 384 00:23:53.240 --> 00:23:56.279 difficult to get it to the NBA, and so you can be a player 385 00:23:56.319 --> 00:24:00.079 like Caleb b Love and have a difficult kind of path and road to try 386 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:03.319 and get in there. Not everybody, you know, a clear first round 387 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:07.119 pick, and that league is looking for different things and what makes players successful 388 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:11.079 at the college level, and so I think you're going to continue to see 389 00:24:11.079 --> 00:24:12.720 that. I think it's going to be even more so the case of the 390 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:17.079 team's move forward here and as a college game moves forward, and you know, 391 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:18.839 puts everyone kind of in an in a strange spot and in limbo for 392 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:23.519 some of those high school recruits. And that's not something that necessarily had been 393 00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:26.559 the case, you know, five ten years ago, obviously, and you 394 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:30.319 know, the high school guys were the premier guys and you're trying to you 395 00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:33.480 know, battle for this top group of premier talented players because you had the 396 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:37.920 rest of your roster set and now it's kind of you know, figuring it 397 00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:41.000 out every year and every off season. And uh, you know, Arizona 398 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:42.200 fans know that's that's the case, and it hasn't been the case for a 399 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:45.640 while now that he's kind of making the match in the roster and then setting 400 00:24:45.640 --> 00:24:48.039 all the pieces together the best you can and sometimes that runs e ntil the 401 00:24:48.039 --> 00:24:55.400 summer. So do you think that that Arizona's I know that the teams coaches 402 00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:59.279 haven't chased high school players as often now because it's all about the transfer portal, 403 00:24:59.640 --> 00:25:02.240 But how do you think the kids coming in from the high school level, 404 00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:04.680 very good recruiting class are going to be able to fit in with the 405 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:08.319 transfers coming in. Now, Yeah, it's gonna be really interesting. I 406 00:25:08.440 --> 00:25:12.680 know there's a lot of kind of a mix reaction, maybe more negative to 407 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:18.759 Joe thompson Non's decision to flip to ASU about well, you know, Arizona's 408 00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:22.640 bringing back these players, and I think Arizona chancel like what they've made their 409 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:26.279 decision about, at least themselves about what cale Glove is and who he is. 410 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:30.160 And obviously you know that exit from the tournament doesn't sit well with the 411 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:33.440 fan base, and so at least on our message boards and an rs our 412 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:36.000 subscribers, there is a lot of like, well look what they did. 413 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:37.480 They ran off these other young guys that are going to be compted players. 414 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:41.319 And Joe Snson is a very very compent player. But I think if you 415 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:45.279 have any college coach in the country, they're going to take experience over youth. 416 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:49.279 It doesn't matter the talent in many cases, and Johnson Ons can be 417 00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:52.920 very very good at the college level, but you cannot replicate the experience that 418 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:56.200 you know some of these players have, especially someone like Caleb Glove, who 419 00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:59.599 has been through the NCAA terms played at a high level. Coaches really really 420 00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:02.920 value that. They've always have really really valued that, and I think a 421 00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:07.880 lot of the top tier, kind of premiere programs really value that experience on 422 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:10.480 their rosters and know that's what's going to take them far in the end. 423 00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:14.799 But I really like this this class that Arizona is bringing in, and what 424 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:17.880 all this does is lets them kind of bring them in a little bit slow. 425 00:26:17.960 --> 00:26:19.839 You don't have to rely on so much youth, and that's difficult. 426 00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:22.359 I mean the early part of the season, that's that's a struggle for a 427 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:26.160 lot of those young players as they kind of figure it out. And you 428 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:29.440 know, when you've done it as long as DFCS and you know, all 429 00:26:29.480 --> 00:26:33.119 of us there're seeing kind of all these seasons play out. You know, 430 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:36.039 you've seen it before with those young players. They're just not the same you 431 00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:40.279 know, you know in November as they are in February, and so there 432 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:44.039 has to be that time for growth and development, and you can kind of 433 00:26:44.119 --> 00:26:47.799 let that happen a little bit more slowly and kind of allow it to kind 434 00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:49.880 of happen organically. When you know that you have a core group of veterans 435 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:52.880 and experienced players you can lean on more so than the freshmen. And so 436 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:56.319 I think it's going to be beneficial for a lot of those guys that really 437 00:26:56.440 --> 00:27:00.559 like this group still, and I think there's going to be a well bounced 438 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:03.319 roster in Tucson next season. That's I think it's a really big deal. 439 00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:06.240 And you know, if you're Arizona, you don't want any drop offs, 440 00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:07.559 and I think that's that's key, And especially in today's game, you really 441 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:11.759 want to have kind of a seamless transition from one season to the next, 442 00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:15.000 and it's difficult with how much movement there is, but I think Arizona has 443 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:17.160 been a really good spot with that. Man, I want to follow up 444 00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:18.480 on a point you made a couple of minutes ago about these kids, these 445 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:22.559 high school recruits making business decisions for them, and I want you to put 446 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:26.480 yourself in the mindset of a high school recruit, which because you talked to 447 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:30.359 so many is probably a little bit easier for you to do than maybe some 448 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:34.119 others. But when these kids are going through this process and they commit to 449 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:40.160 a school, is in a scenario almost at this point when it comes to 450 00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:44.000 the nil game when it comes to the portal that even if you're committed to 451 00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:47.720 a school, you have to keep other options in your back pocket. Or 452 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:51.880 are these guys truly just starting over when it's become a parent that it's not 453 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:55.119 going to work for them at the school they committed to. Yeah, no 454 00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:57.079 doubt. I mean it really feels more now than ever that it's just kind 455 00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:00.519 of a placeholder. The commitment is just kind of a place holder, like 456 00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:03.480 if anything, you know, if it all kind of came crashing down and 457 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:07.359 I don't get what I want and I all wise, or the situations elsewhere 458 00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:10.559 doesn't you know, isn't to my liking. I know I would belong here. 459 00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:12.039 I know I would sit into this program. So it really is like 460 00:28:12.119 --> 00:28:15.759 a placeholder in a lot of cases. And you see that on both the 461 00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:18.160 football and the basketball side. But you know, it really is kind of 462 00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:22.400 a situation like that where recruits will tell you outright like I just want my 463 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:23.680 spot. I want on my spot locked up. There's too much going on 464 00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:26.400 with the transfer portal. I don't want my spot to get taken. I 465 00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:30.759 like the school enough that I would feel comfortable playing there one day, so 466 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:33.440 I'm going to commit it happens a lot more, I think on the football 467 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:36.359 side in terms of early commitments and then a lot of deconmitments later on. 468 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:38.200 And I've had those words told to me where recruits are like, yeah, 469 00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:41.279 I just want to make sure I have my spot, and so it definitely 470 00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:45.440 means something different than what it used to in terms of commitment, and that 471 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:48.680 kind of goes for both sides, because you know, college coaches kind of 472 00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:51.680 change the situations themselves, and you know, a player comes into the portal, 473 00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:52.599 they go, hey, we like him a lot more than you know 474 00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:56.799 what we have committed, and maybe the words that to get back to those 475 00:28:56.839 --> 00:28:59.799 recruits like hey, you're not as high on our board as you want to 476 00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:03.480 work and so it kind of goes both ways. But yeah, I think 477 00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:06.559 it's it's kind of becoming pretty complex. I think it's less secretive than it 478 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:10.960 was before. Before it was like you have recruits taking secret visits and nobody 479 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:14.240 would know about those until after they happen. It's it's a lot it's happening 480 00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:17.400 a lot less now where that's the case and a lot of the recruits are 481 00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:19.519 open and they hey, I'm visiting no. Five more schools and I'm committed, 482 00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:22.400 and if you don't like it, I guess, you know, to 483 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:25.599 deal with it because I need to keep my options open. I think everyone's 484 00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:27.480 a little bit more kind of transparent about that now. And yeah, these 485 00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:32.279 recruits in a lot of cases are continuing those conversations with other programs, whether 486 00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:34.200 they're initiating those or not. A lot of times it is other college programs 487 00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:37.559 just reaching out and being like, hey, what's your situation. Are you 488 00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:40.039 open to you know, coming to visit? Are you open to listen to 489 00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:42.000 our pitch? And in a lot of cases that is that is the scenario. 490 00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:45.920 And so I think there is a lot more of that where the recruits 491 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:49.799 are definitely keeping their eyes open and trying to find what fits them best because 492 00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:53.079 I think they've seen everything kind of play out with programs, you know, 493 00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:56.400 where the programs are trying to figure out what's best for them as well. 494 00:29:56.480 --> 00:30:00.079 So it's kind of a two way street. And then yeah, they're but 495 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:02.519 there's a lot more of that where a lot of these recruits are kind of 496 00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:04.799 keeping it You're open, and keeping those conversations open and looking at all their 497 00:30:04.839 --> 00:30:07.720 options before they really settle in on the final final decision. So we've been 498 00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:11.400 going through this rented player stuff for about I don't know, ten twelve years, 499 00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:15.039 whatever it has been, it's been. It's been about that because I 500 00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:18.559 know Wisconsin, the coach back then when Arizona played him, talked about the 501 00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:22.359 one and done's as the rental players. But let me give you the scenario 502 00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:25.640 to both of you, guys. Okay, so Sonan goes to Issue, 503 00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.000 Uh, Boswell goes where he goes, and I don't want to connect to 504 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:36.880 Boswell to love all that much, wink wink. But but okay, so 505 00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:41.440 Love comes back, he plays the year. Would it be a surprise, 506 00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:47.920 guys if Sondan decided to leave a Issue and come here, if he chooses 507 00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:52.599 to stay another year in the college level, I'll start with that. I 508 00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.920 think from what I've heard on Joe sonson On and Matt you can definitely speak 509 00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:00.640 to this is that he was someone that was interested in being a one and 510 00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:03.160 done type player, and I think that was part of the reason why he 511 00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:06.279 reclassified to twenty twenty four in the first place. Right, So if he 512 00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:10.640 has you know, if he even shows good flashes at ASU where he will 513 00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:14.279 play a hot and he probably will start if he shows the flashes there. 514 00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:17.640 I mean, this guy could enter the draft and be be maybe an impact 515 00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:19.640 player right away. I know this year was a real is a really you 516 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:25.480 know, is regarded as maybe a lower end NBA draft class. I don't 517 00:31:25.559 --> 00:31:29.000 know if people are really expecting next year to like bounce back in a huge 518 00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:32.759 way and be this generational NBA draft class. So if he shows out at 519 00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:37.079 ASU, maybe NBA is in his future. So he must be seventeen I 520 00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:40.480 think so, yeah, seventeen b eighteen when he plays here next year. 521 00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:45.640 So he'll have to have a fantastic here because his name's not Browny. What 522 00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:48.000 about you? What do you want to think thinking about that modern Yeah, 523 00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:51.880 I mean I think a lot of why you go to a place like Arizona 524 00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:55.759 State is because you know, you want to have that ability to shine. 525 00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:57.680 And I think if you look at Arizona roster, it's much more difficult to 526 00:31:57.759 --> 00:32:00.240 do that at a place like air Zone. And yes, as you've started 527 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:04.279 to build some things there and it has some real talent come into to tempty, 528 00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:07.240 but uh, you know, you have a I think the greater opportunity 529 00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:08.680 to do those things. And yeah, I agree that that that has been 530 00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:13.279 the conversations like one and done has kind of been the topic and you reclassify 531 00:32:13.400 --> 00:32:15.119 for that reason, you look at the options you do for that reason and 532 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:20.200 to put yourself in a position to do that. But there have been moments 533 00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:22.839 where that hasn't happened, and you, you know, guys seem like sure 534 00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:25.279 things to be one and done, and they've gone in with the mindset of 535 00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:29.200 like, no matter what happens, I'm going to be out of this place 536 00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:30.440 and on to the next level within you know, nine months or whatever it 537 00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:35.480 is. And it just hasn't happened, and so and so, so we'll 538 00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:38.039 see kind of how it all plays out. But again to your point, 539 00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:43.079 Steve, that's why a lot of coaches don't try and burn bridges during the 540 00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:46.200 high school recruiting process because they know it can come back around. They know 541 00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:50.240 what happens and if if you can be in play that second time around today 542 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:52.000 eight we're still the same, You still like this, you committed to this 543 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:54.559 one, just do it again, and you're in a different position. You're 544 00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:58.960 in a different position. And so I think a lot of coaches are doing 545 00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:01.640 their due dude dealing and making sure that they don't burn those bridges kind of 546 00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:06.279 across the board because they know there could be a second recruitment coming in the 547 00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:07.799 not too distant future and they want to be in a good position to land 548 00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:09.880 that recruit one. Sure, yeah, so mad that you're saying. It 549 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:13.400 means a little bit more now to be the second or third hat on the 550 00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:17.839 table. Absolutely. I think I think you can't be overly discouraged if you 551 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:21.759 come come in second. In a lot of these retreatments before that was hey 552 00:33:21.799 --> 00:33:23.200 it's over and we got to move on and figure something else out. And 553 00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:25.680 yeah, that's the case still where you have to kind of uh, you 554 00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:30.640 know, uh look at you know, uh, situations and solutions in the 555 00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:32.400 interim, but you know, moving forward, it's like, well, if 556 00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:35.480 you don't get it. There's been that conversation. I've heard these words from 557 00:33:35.480 --> 00:33:37.359 coaches where it's like, if you don't get them, you can get them 558 00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:39.240 next year, and there's kind of maybe half joking, but I think there 559 00:33:39.319 --> 00:33:42.880 is a lot of seriousness to what they're saying, and they believe that, 560 00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:44.880 hey, if you don't get them this year, you do to get next 561 00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:46.279 year, and you know you'll be in the same position and hey, you 562 00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:50.279 came in second you'll be one of the favorites to land them again. And 563 00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:53.640 so you know it's definitely the case. And if you're one of those top 564 00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:55.359 two or three, you're going to be in a great position. You've seen 565 00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:59.200 it a lot to play out with those schools that were you know, second 566 00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:01.359 and third, the original recruitments, uh, you know, come back and 567 00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:05.039 you know there's green guys who have transferred a couple of times where that third 568 00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:07.920 school dur in the high school trewment comes back and now they're you know where 569 00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:10.000 he's playing and finishing his career and so, uh yeah, you definitely can't 570 00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:14.320 rule that out. And it's it's not a terrible position to being if you're 571 00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:15.719 if you're a cool right now. So I need a quick answer, Matt, 572 00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:20.760 So make this quick. Uh. I know this is gonna be difficult 573 00:34:20.760 --> 00:34:25.519 for you. Uh. Football, the defensive lineman from USC coming here, 574 00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:30.119 What does that mean? It means good things. An experienced player, somebody 575 00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:34.559 that I think they're missing, helps them replace, you know, some key 576 00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:37.559 departures. And I think a very very good thing for Arizona. And it 577 00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:39.960 could be a sneaky, sneaky, uh, really good pick up for Arizona. 578 00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:44.360 Okay, so now I like we have I like this would be my 579 00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:50.039 next question, another quick one on we didn't even talk about Phillips. Yeah, 580 00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:52.079 I mean, we'll we'll see what happens. I mean, uh, 581 00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:53.719 you know, this is just part of the whole process, Steve, and 582 00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:59.599 obviously, uh you know it's there's one ball and when you have some ball 583 00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:04.639 dominant players coming back and some guys are going to carry that workload, it'll 584 00:35:04.679 --> 00:35:07.880 be interesting to see kind of how it all plays out exactly. Okay, 585 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:10.480 thanks, Matt, appreciate you go back to thanks Matt crunching those numbers. 586 00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:15.719 Absolutely, thank you, Matt. I appreciate it. Yeah, it's about 587 00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:17.679 playing. What I asked you yesterday, why do athletes come here, come 588 00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:20.880 go to school. They come to go to school for the money and the 589 00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:22.400 plane money played the school. What do you mean, what's that? What's 590 00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:27.119 the school? What's the academic side of it? Okay, well, let's 591 00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:30.559 take a break and discuss more about all this, maybe take a call or 592 00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:32.360 two on the other side. If you're an Arizona men's basketball fan, you 593 00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:36.840 know it's been successful for nearly forty years. Now, take a look back 594 00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:38.800 at the Loudolsen era in my new book, Lessons from Loot, It was 595 00:35:38.840 --> 00:35:42.840 a labor of love through the eyes of twenty five former players, coaches and 596 00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:45.760 friends to give insight to the coach and the man who led them, competed 597 00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:50.199 against them, and inspired them. Twenty five chapters for his twenty five years 598 00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:53.480 as Arizona's beloved coach. Lessons from Lut is an insight to how he built 599 00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:59.800 the program into a national powerhouse. 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Make sure your home 616 00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:15.760 is cool and comfortable all summer long throuteine maintenance can often prevent major breakdowns. 617 00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:20.199 All us before the first sign of problem All today five two zero four nine 618 00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:29.000 two zero seven four eight or Picture Rockschooling dot com kes rocks, Cooing, 619 00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:37.400 Cheating and Plumbing streaming Live Honey, iHeartRadio WAP. This is I on the 620 00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:43.199 Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, 621 00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:45.840 welcome back to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm 622 00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:50.079 Steve Rivera. I've got Matt Reynoldson in with me today. My guy Ryan 623 00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:52.519 here manning the board and checking the phones. If you gonna want to call 624 00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:57.599 five to two zero for one six seven four four zero, I'd love to 625 00:37:57.639 --> 00:37:59.920 hear from you, just maybe on anything you want to talk about me, 626 00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:07.119 the Love situation and the new team as you see it today, and you've 627 00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:12.840 seen what we saw last year last season. Do you like what's left and 628 00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:15.599 what he has because it's not gonna change now, right. I do like 629 00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:19.440 what's left, and it was when I was looking at the offseason, you 630 00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:22.199 know, back in March, when the season ended so abruptly in Los Angeles, 631 00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:24.800 as we've talked about, it looked like, okay, this is gonna 632 00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:30.880 be a reset year. We'll see how the young team progresses by the time 633 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:34.159 you get to March, and they'll take their lumps in conference play and maybe 634 00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:37.719 lose a home game to Duke or something to that effect. But now you 635 00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:42.559 have a team that's loaded with veterans and loaded with guys, assuming Jayden Bradley 636 00:38:42.599 --> 00:38:47.840 comes back, loaded with guys that are going to be guys that have seen 637 00:38:49.079 --> 00:38:52.559 March basketball. kJ lewis taking another step. Caleb Love obviously has seen his 638 00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:58.360 well worthy share of March moments. Tray Townsend went to the tournament with Oakland 639 00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:02.000 this past year, and who played really good minutes for the Cats in March 640 00:39:02.119 --> 00:39:06.039 this year. Yeah, I'm assuming, I'm assuming you played ball at some 641 00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:10.119 level baseball I did. Yeah, I played tennis, basketball at Socceray, 642 00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:14.840 basketball was kind of what I obsessed over even more so you played You played 643 00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:17.400 sports obviously, So you have a pretty good team. You have a pretty 644 00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:20.920 good sense of this. And I say this with Jay all the time. 645 00:39:21.239 --> 00:39:24.360 You could be very good, You can be very good, but guess what 646 00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:28.840 you have to do. You have to play against other people who are just 647 00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:31.880 as good, if not better. Uh, Arizona's now as we stand, 648 00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:35.719 it's probably the third or fourth best team in the Big Twelve. Maybe in 649 00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:39.679 Houston brings back a lot Kansas, Baylor loaded next year Baylor Iowa State is 650 00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:44.079 going to be good. So I think that, uh, we kind of 651 00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:46.440 we can wax poetic here on the show because we were in Tucson, but 652 00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:52.119 realistically, other teams are doing what Arizona's doing too, right, and we 653 00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:55.559 don't know that. You know, who would have thought Clemson this team that 654 00:39:55.679 --> 00:39:59.880 nobody knew knew anything about would be that good, right, you know, 655 00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:01.960 know, until you know and then by that time you're down ten exactly. 656 00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:06.760 And if they had a really hot march run and played really strong defense and 657 00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:09.159 you know, I mean, uh, now that we're removed from it, 658 00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:13.880 right now that we're removed from the what in the world happened of it all? 659 00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:17.159 I think we can say that what Tommy Lloyd said after the game is 660 00:40:17.559 --> 00:40:22.599 somewhat of a fair assessment because he said, bad shooting nights happened, just 661 00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:25.079 happened at the wrong time. Let's take a call real quick. Hello, 662 00:40:25.239 --> 00:40:30.960 you're on the air and eye on the ball. Hey, wherever this is 663 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:31.880 Mike Quinn. How are you bou Mike? How why are you good to 664 00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:37.119 hear from you? What's on your mind? Yeah? So, you know, 665 00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:40.320 I was, I was, I was listening to what guest Matt was 666 00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:45.519 staying, uh and about luck coming back. You know, I'm not sure 667 00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:52.800 if it's it's additioned by subtraction, the subtraction by addition, but you know, 668 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:57.159 he one thing he said was that, uh, you know, oh, 669 00:40:57.400 --> 00:41:00.639 we get these guys that are young guys playing in over They're going to 670 00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:05.840 benefit from the fans man, I tell you you used to beat in my 671 00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:10.679 head about November doesn't matter, March matters. Are we better in March. 672 00:41:12.280 --> 00:41:15.079 I wouldn't want to be better in November. I'd rather be better in March. 673 00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:19.159 Yeah, no question. And I also thought Matt and both you guys 674 00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:25.639 that Arizona whatever, no faults of their own unless it is mortgage the future 675 00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:29.880 for the present. I think at some extent they did. But also you 676 00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:31.639 have to consider that a lot of these guys can jump to the NBA Draft 677 00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:35.159 whenever they want, and so if they have a good year, it might 678 00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:37.039 not be your thinking about the future. It might not be you're developing guys 679 00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:40.159 right now. You're developing guys to lead. So it's not like it is 680 00:41:40.199 --> 00:41:45.480 in football necessarily, where if you are taking a senior transfer, you're potentially 681 00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:49.519 mortgaging a roster spot on the eighty five for a freshman. So in basketball, 682 00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:52.280 I think you have to look at what your needs are of this team 683 00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:54.559 and the investment that they've already made in Caleb Love. And yeah, he 684 00:41:54.599 --> 00:41:59.000 didn't have a very good March, but he was the closer all year long, 685 00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:01.280 and I don't see another closer on this roster as of right now as 686 00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:10.639 we sit here on my thirty So you qu uh did you did you want 687 00:42:10.760 --> 00:42:15.440 him back? Did it matter your auditioned by subtraction or subtraction by audition? 688 00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:21.239 What are your thoughts? Yeah, I don't I don't know. I mean 689 00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:24.239 I think that you know, certainly he's he's a hell of a talent. 690 00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:27.519 I mean, he's a hell of a basketball player. I mean he's shown 691 00:42:27.599 --> 00:42:30.760 that, uh pactoral player of the Year is to have to argue with that. 692 00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:36.800 I just wonder if they're a better team with somebody else. And I 693 00:42:36.840 --> 00:42:40.280 don't really know. I'm not very familiar with the folks that decided not to 694 00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:47.440 return or sure or not to be committed, which is why I'm really why 695 00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:52.559 to call him. But it's uh, I'm not sure if I would say 696 00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:55.079 that I wanted him back. I wanted to turn the page and see if 697 00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:59.800 we could get better as a team. Mike, that's an interesting point too. 698 00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:02.320 And you know, but I think what you're doing is with any high 699 00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:06.400 school recruit, and with any high level recruit and even a transfer coming in, 700 00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:08.440 you're taking a dice roll on how they fit with the culture of your 701 00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:13.199 team and the culture that you're trying to establish in this program, and Tommy 702 00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:15.800 Lloyd going into year four, has really come into his own on how he 703 00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:21.039 wants to establish the mindset of a program. And he had a lot of 704 00:43:21.079 --> 00:43:23.679 hard conversations I believe, with Caleb Love last offseason to say, hey, 705 00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:25.880 you're going to come in and be a part of this. These are the 706 00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:29.800 things I want you to do. This is what I want you to represent 707 00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:32.159 as a person and a locker room guy, not just a basketball player. 708 00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:36.559 And I think by all accounts all year from you know, the press conferences 709 00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:39.320 and the games that we went to Steve, is that we saw a Caleb 710 00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:43.719 Love who was coming in to be a teammate, be humble, and be 711 00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:46.000 that guy that was going to fit into Tommy Lloyd's culture. Yeah. He 712 00:43:46.079 --> 00:43:52.679 did a pretty good job of that in most of those instances, but not 713 00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:57.760 all of them. Sure. So okay, thanks Mike for calling. Appreciate 714 00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:00.719 it. You appreciate it, Mike. How do you given his reputation rate, 715 00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:05.440 he was this star in North Carolina, had up his ups and downs, 716 00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:07.519 led him to the Final four, and then had a bad game in 717 00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:10.840 one of those games. Last year was what it was. The previous year 718 00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:15.199 was was what it was. That's why he left, right in fact, 719 00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:20.559 so well here we got another call. Hold that thought. I can remember 720 00:44:20.599 --> 00:44:22.280 it. Hey, welcome to Eye of the Ball. You're on the air. 721 00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:24.679 How's it going today? Good? How are you? What's going on? 722 00:44:25.119 --> 00:44:30.239 Good about that Caleb Love thing? You know? I you know, 723 00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:32.840 to me, I think it's you know, it's fine. He's coming back. 724 00:44:34.199 --> 00:44:37.360 There's no guarantee that these two kids that were coming in we're going to 725 00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:43.199 be here, whether they transferred nil money somewhere else or decided to go pro. 726 00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:46.679 I mean, today's roster is built on one year and one year only, 727 00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:51.800 not Okay, what can this guy do for us two three years down 728 00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:54.519 the road? Right right? That's not the way basketball is anymore. And 729 00:44:54.639 --> 00:44:58.800 I think people have to realize that. Yeah, no question. I think 730 00:44:58.840 --> 00:45:00.920 you're definitely on the ball with that one, because you know, I looked 731 00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:06.159 at last year's team as almost a perfect mix of the five and then they 732 00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:09.639 eight that were in the rotation and what everybody brought to the floor, and 733 00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:14.679 one bad night causes you to sort of question everything, and you know what, 734 00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:15.760 maybe they would have lost in the Elite eight and we would have had 735 00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:20.440 these questions on a you know, on a broader level as well of okay, 736 00:45:20.519 --> 00:45:22.440 what were the cracks in the foundation throughout the season, But because they 737 00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:27.519 played their worst game of the season, perhaps against the last team they played 738 00:45:27.800 --> 00:45:30.960 and really laiden egg shooting wise against Clemson, we had those conversations a little 739 00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:35.039 bit earlier, you know. So let me ask you real quick. The 740 00:45:35.159 --> 00:45:37.599 expectations are here, always big, right, always big? What would be 741 00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:42.719 really what would be the realistic expectations? And you know, you know, 742 00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:45.880 you listening and you call all the time and the time of my realistic view, 743 00:45:46.280 --> 00:45:52.840 what would be next year's realistic view? I don't think there really is 744 00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:57.840 a realistic view. I think there's a hope, maybe a realistic hope, 745 00:45:57.840 --> 00:46:00.639 and not a view in the sense that, okay, we all expect to 746 00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:05.119 get to the final four. Okay, that's Arizona basketball. I mean, 747 00:46:05.159 --> 00:46:08.920 we haven't been there in about three hundred years, it seems. But you 748 00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:12.880 know, I think you know, we all looked, you know, with 749 00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:15.079 the team, the players we have that we would like. We know, 750 00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:19.519 we assume we're going to try and get to the final four. But unfortunately, 751 00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:23.280 there's forty other teams in basketball now right they're just as talented who they 752 00:46:23.320 --> 00:46:28.320 have the same feelings that we do. Yep. And you know, I 753 00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:35.719 mean if we didn't have Caleb Loved last year planned, yep, there's probably 754 00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:40.320 six seven more losses on that on that resume, easily true. And on 755 00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:44.360 the topic of expectations, I want to I want to float this to you 756 00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:49.800 and to all of our listeners. Are we okay with looking at this Arizona 757 00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:52.760 basketball team in twenty twenty four to twenty five and seeing a team that plays 758 00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:55.719 their way into a five seat or a six seat in the NCAA turn right, 759 00:46:55.800 --> 00:47:00.320 because I think we've become so used to the one in two seeds team 760 00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:02.199 at the top of the bracket and then you know, maybe being disappointed in 761 00:47:02.239 --> 00:47:07.239 the second weekend? Uh, you know, are are we okay with seeing 762 00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:10.719 Arizona struggle throughout the regular season in a rugged Big twelve conference and then maybe 763 00:47:10.800 --> 00:47:14.920 being more battles test to come? Mark, go ahead and answer that realistically, 764 00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:17.360 because you know, and I know that's not good enough. No, 765 00:47:17.599 --> 00:47:22.480 it's not, you know, but I mean, we we've done our best 766 00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:24.320 basically well, well, I don't know what we remember if we were a 767 00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:29.280 four or five seed where we won the national championship. But it's just you 768 00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:31.360 know, at that time of year, whoever gets hot gets hot. Yep, 769 00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:34.840 And that's basically all it is, right. You know, all the 770 00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:37.760 talent in the world, there are a lot there are a lot more teams, 771 00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:42.679 more talented us than us last year who didn't do that? Well yeah, 772 00:47:42.920 --> 00:47:45.639 right, well, thanks for the call as usual. I just don't 773 00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:49.599 know if people are going to sit there and go, oh, Kayla's coming 774 00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:52.079 back. I'll bet when we lost these two guys. We don't even know 775 00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:53.599 what these two guys are going to be like. They may not even have 776 00:47:53.679 --> 00:47:57.360 been in the top seven rotation, right, you know, you're right, 777 00:47:57.559 --> 00:48:00.639 yeah, and you know what you know because you've seen it already with love. 778 00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:02.960 Yeah yeah, okay, Well, thanks for the call as always, 779 00:48:04.039 --> 00:48:07.840 Thanks so much, appreciate it. Yeah you well, yeah, you know 780 00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:13.239 what you know, and you know, sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, 781 00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:15.519 right, right, And we could look at the potential of Joe sonsen 782 00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:19.840 On or Jamori Phillips coming in and being that closer, but that's tough to 783 00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:22.880 take over in November, and you've got a lot of veterans on this roster 784 00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:24.440 that it played a lot of minutes I mean, look at the guy who 785 00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:28.440 was the five star that came in last year. kJ Lewis came off the 786 00:48:28.480 --> 00:48:31.039 bench real quick, another call. Hey, welcome to eye the ball. 787 00:48:31.039 --> 00:48:36.280 You're on the air. Hey Steve, this is done? Hey done? 788 00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:39.199 How are you? I'm good man? Happy to be late at birthday, 789 00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:42.760 I had a chance to call in. Yeah, thank you, don what's 790 00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:46.400 on your mind? With love? I assume no, no, enough for 791 00:48:46.519 --> 00:48:53.760 the basketball discuss how disappointing the basketball team is at the end of November, 792 00:48:57.840 --> 00:49:02.840 because we're gonna be doing it then or the third week of March next year 793 00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:13.039 anyway, So okay, I mean, well, well, the thing is 794 00:49:13.239 --> 00:49:17.199 trying to talk about the roster. It's like the previous caller said, everybody's 795 00:49:17.239 --> 00:49:20.760 got to get used to like, hey, we don't know what the roster 796 00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:24.000 is going to be between now and that they start the season and so. 797 00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:30.199 And it's been it's been years since I've even worried about recruiting or trying to 798 00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:35.480 even get to know the rock with the picture of a player, and I 799 00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:40.719 have no idea who it is, right, who is by picture with you? 800 00:49:44.920 --> 00:49:46.719 Yeah? What I what I did want to talk about was I did 801 00:49:46.840 --> 00:49:55.039 want to command ship hail on adjusting the rotation for this weekend. Not you 802 00:49:55.119 --> 00:50:00.400 know, nothing against Kent, but you know he might need a cup extra 803 00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:04.440 days hopefully to not think about it. I don't know, it's not there's 804 00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:07.920 not going to be any taking the pressure off, because if he's when he's 805 00:50:07.960 --> 00:50:13.079 pitching on Sunday, you know there's certainly going to be pressure. I'm in 806 00:50:13.159 --> 00:50:16.679 lockstep with you, Hope, I'm sorry, I'm in lockstep with you on 807 00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:19.320 that. I think it was a great move. I think it was a 808 00:50:19.400 --> 00:50:22.079 savvy move, and I think it just goes to show a coach that you 809 00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:25.840 know has played at a high level and coached at a high level at many 810 00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:30.280 levels of baseball, and he's not afraid to adjust on the fly in the 811 00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:34.079 most crucial time of the year. And this is coming off a regular season 812 00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:37.880 championship, a postseason championship, and earning a regional host that he's still willing 813 00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:40.840 to switch things up. It shows someone I think, who's willing to adapt, 814 00:50:40.880 --> 00:50:45.840 which you don't only see at every level of baseball. Well, he's 815 00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:49.519 also done it with the batting order as well. And if and if you've 816 00:50:49.519 --> 00:50:52.639 been paying and if you've been paying attention, in the last few weeks, 817 00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:57.599 guys have been moving up and down. Summer Hill was hitting fourth, then 818 00:50:57.719 --> 00:51:01.920 now he's leading off and and he does that, you know, and usually 819 00:51:02.360 --> 00:51:07.719 baseball guys don't do that. The batting order is usually written in ink. 820 00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:13.400 I think injury. I think injuries part of that too. You know, 821 00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:16.239 Emilio Corona had his spot in the top three of the order pretty well locked 822 00:51:16.280 --> 00:51:20.559 down, and then injuries hit him a little bit. Chip said today that 823 00:51:20.599 --> 00:51:23.119 he's still working his way back for this weekend. But I think you do 824 00:51:23.360 --> 00:51:28.440 have those chess pieces that you use to your point in guys like Brendan summer 825 00:51:28.519 --> 00:51:31.599 Hill, and guys like even Blake McDonald who's a lot of times playing behind 826 00:51:31.639 --> 00:51:36.679 a Donnis Guzman there Mason White obviously with his power and what he can do 827 00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:38.039 with the plate, and you know, change a game in one swing. 828 00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:43.519 I think they used the ability to move that around really well and be able 829 00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:47.119 to manufacture some runs in a lot of situations. And I think that really 830 00:51:47.199 --> 00:51:53.360 helped at the end of the season, because even with the injuries, there 831 00:51:53.519 --> 00:51:59.840 was like Saturday night, that guy from usc was dealing Holy we went up 832 00:51:59.880 --> 00:52:04.639 for the game, we saw it and in the fifth inning, I said, 833 00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:06.960 hey, somebody, I'll tell that guy he's throwing a no hitter, 834 00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:09.960 you know, because we need to end this thing quick, right But as 835 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:17.199 soon as as soon as Mason White scored that first run, for me, 836 00:52:17.480 --> 00:52:20.840 I didn't say it out loud, but for me, the game was over. 837 00:52:20.920 --> 00:52:25.159 Arizona was going to come back and win that game. That's the confidence 838 00:52:25.199 --> 00:52:30.840 I have in watching this team. And these guys have the experience because they've 839 00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:36.079 moved up and they've moved down, so they've they've been in the pressure spots. 840 00:52:36.159 --> 00:52:40.000 They've gotten the chance to move down to work on that and everything else. 841 00:52:40.079 --> 00:52:43.800 And just and Chip Hale just pushing the buttons. You know, even 842 00:52:43.880 --> 00:52:45.719 with the injuries we have, they you know, we should be able to 843 00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:49.199 get out of this region. I think, thank you, Don we got 844 00:52:49.239 --> 00:52:52.679 about ten seconds. Thanks for colling. Appreciate have a good one guys, 845 00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:53.320 right we've got to get a break right now. Thanks