WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:08.000 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports 2 00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:14.759 fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services and Sure Your Most Prized Possessions kat z 3 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:19.839 R two side in iHeartRadio station BED. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to 4 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:23.000 Eye on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Seve Roberta. 5 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:26.719 He's Jagins. Also got a guy Kevin in today. Got fifteen minutes here 6 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:30.160 in the first segment with a nice show today. Yeah, you know, 7 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:35.119 uh, I don't know that. We're introducing her to the you know, 8 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:39.359 the radio airways, but Jenna Fink is gonna join us. She's the sports 9 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:44.359 anchor now at KVOA. That now after Pascala headed to Our Passo and Dave 10 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:48.560 Dave Kelly moved to the radio side on the on the other station. So 11 00:00:49.159 --> 00:00:52.399 Jenna's around and been very very busy, as you can imagine when you're a 12 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:56.240 one person show covering sports for They got the new guy. I think it's 13 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:58.960 the new guy. Oh, I don't know they got he was probably with 14 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:00.960 the back with you asking questions. He's been here but like a week or 15 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:04.120 two. Oh, okay, well anyway, so but Jenna has been there 16 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:08.879 for since since June June, so she'll be joining us today to talk about 17 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:12.560 the job and what she thinks uh of Tucson so far and what she say 18 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:18.200 and why she decided to come to Tucson. Because you're so good looking, 19 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:23.359 Steve, let me shave Brian who somebody says yesterday, well, you said 20 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:26.439 you're getting better looking, and we said, no, you're not. You 21 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:30.799 know how I'll be really good looking to hit the lottery? Well, yeah, 22 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:33.719 good, you know, some dollar bills sticking out of your mile. 23 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:36.640 Garrett said that today the Pat McAfee show. He said, you know, 24 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:38.879 I had no fashion before I got to the NFL, and they were like, 25 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.040 yeah, because I you have money, you have four to look good. 26 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:44.879 Yeah, you can look a little bit better anyways, and then la 27 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:48.519 Mott Huntley will join us in the second hour. We'll just pick his brain 28 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:51.719 on and what he's seeing. I'm sure he's pretty happy to see, you 29 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:55.400 know, as a defensive guy, pretty happy to see what the defense is 30 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:59.959 doing this year. Guessing he leans towards towards that and wants to see you 31 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:01.799 know they're doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that'd be good. Should 32 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:05.959 be a fun show. Today. What else is going on? Nice? 33 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:07.759 Last night's game got home late, as you did, probably, Yeah, 34 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:13.080 I hate these late games because it was a seven thirty game. It was 35 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:15.599 an awful Yeah, but you get home, I have to write. I 36 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:16.759 know, I get home about twelve. I know, I leave and I 37 00:02:16.759 --> 00:02:20.280 peek in the window and I see you guys are all just getting started, 38 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:22.240 you know, start because they take a while to you know, we sit 39 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:25.319 down, question and the players come in. Then I mean, he's he 40 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:29.439 was good last night. We were not concerned about last night' s came. 41 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:31.680 We're more concerned about what's coming up on Friday. So we had to ask, 42 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:34.960 you know, because we don't get them until we see him again. 43 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:37.599 Well, I was. I was so busy today I didn't get to any 44 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:38.560 of that, so I didn't see anything. So just tell him, tell 45 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:42.199 us how Yeah, you know what he talked about. What he sounded like. 46 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:45.960 He was happy with the effort and the and the intensity. A lot 47 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:50.599 less uh turnovers, fewer turnovers. They only had seven seven and that team 48 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:53.120 was like, I think second in yeah the nation last year. Turnover rate. 49 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:57.000 Yeah, but you know when you look at these teams, they have 50 00:02:57.159 --> 00:03:00.240 zero chance, I mean zero chance. They had one hundred and twent two 51 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:07.240 points. They were a good airport team fifty what airport you watching at airportjunction? 52 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:10.199 Yeah, I know, I just I you know, but when they 53 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:14.960 walked on the court, I was expecting a sixty point blow. At one 54 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:19.199 time they had the little dude guarding crevas well there. Well, yeah, 55 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:21.840 there were a couple of times when they there was a switch off and like 56 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:24.319 just throw him the ball. Yeah they did, and it was like you 57 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:29.680 know, he'll me, he'll me. Yeah. But well again, as 58 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:31.599 you said, you know that the effort, you know, from from the 59 00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:35.479 get go was you know, was pretty good. I mean they were just 60 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:38.319 hauling. But and and uh then you know there was that there was a 61 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:44.120 period where they had were crevious and four guards, you know, the four 62 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:46.919 guards were in the game. Yeah, and it was it was interesting to 63 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:51.080 just it was interesting to see the lineup combinations that he threw out there to 64 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:53.680 see what they looked like. And I asked him last night, so tonight's 65 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:58.800 game will not afford you the luxury of going deep, but you do you 66 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:01.360 have a sense of what you're gonna go with on Friday, And I obviously 67 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:04.719 knew that was not. It was a softball answer just to get a question 68 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:09.680 or answer. And he doesn't he wouldn't say obviously. But it ain't gonna 69 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:12.719 be fourteen players there, yea. If he goes eight deep, that'll be 70 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:15.840 about a deep. Yeah, you know, I was listening to to Brian 71 00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:19.199 Jefferies and and Ryan Hansen. Uh, you know, having the same conversation 72 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:24.639 thing. You know, you can see them going eight maybe nine, but 73 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:28.199 probably not ten right any game like that. I think they'll they'll play with 74 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:30.839 that a lot because at some point he's gonna need it for certain games. 75 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.240 Yeah, but what do you call load management in terms of you know whatever? 76 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:38.360 But Pelly's back, Yeah, that helps. Okay, So you see 77 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:41.639 the five starters that we saw last night, so you got you got, 78 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:47.639 you got Love Boswell, Larson, Keisha Johnson and and Bob those five good 79 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:51.480 Yeah, which is which is a good lineup? You'll see creevious because I 80 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:57.839 guess Dylan Anderson is read is that official? Yeah? Okay? And and 81 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:01.800 and I don't know when we're gonna see U they sar so so you so 82 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:06.240 the so you know inside it's gonna be creevious and ballot and then you'll see 83 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:11.959 you know, you'll see Kate so Creavas is six, Creavs is six, 84 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:17.240 You'll see j Lewis seven. Uh, I don't have the I don't have 85 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:21.759 my box scroll with the other guard Jaylen James Bradley eight. Yeah, and 86 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:26.079 there could be like you said, nine, it's gonna be the couple of 87 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:31.480 the international guys, Phelipe or the other guy Brovich and or or yeah, 88 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:36.240 Morasco. One of those two might come in get a get a quick blow 89 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:40.920 if they need some some help inside or you know, in the you know 90 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:43.720 kind. I like that. I like that team. I really that's not 91 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:46.199 that's not a bad group of guys to roll out those eight guys. Yeah, 92 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:50.680 nine guys. You know, but let's say those eight before you get 93 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:55.480 to Morascas and and or Okay, you're not are gonna you know, are 94 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:58.399 gonna get you. That's a really good there's no job. You know the 95 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:03.240 guy I really like, uh, but he's not even starting just kJ Lewis. 96 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:06.240 Yeah, he's got some dog in him. He's got some dog. 97 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:10.639 He's green, you know, as much basketball as you can tell. He's 98 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:14.560 a little green. You know, you mean, you see you see Tommy 99 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:18.199 calling him over and telling him some stuff, and so he'll be I think 100 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:23.360 he'll be the eighth guy off the bench. Yeah, well, because he'll 101 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:27.439 come in after Bradley, Okay, because Bradley's experience and he's you know, 102 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:30.639 he's but but but kJ can fill it up. He can get to the 103 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:32.480 rim, he could do a lot of athletics, and you can you can 104 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:35.399 put kJ at the three, you know, because he you know, any 105 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:39.160 of those guys can play, because they're all pretty good, pretty tall guys. 106 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:45.160 And I think I think that they did answer a question that a Rhino 107 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:53.199 yesterday shooters. Yeah, bos is a shooter, loves and loves Love is 108 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:56.839 going to shoot a bunch, whether he's good at it, whether we want 109 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:00.199 him to. Yeah, well, Kevin, you were talking about that one 110 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:03.480 sequence where they, you know, a three pointer clangs out to get a 111 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:06.079 rebound, another three pointer clangs out to get a rebound, another three, 112 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:10.319 and then and then get then it was exactly what you were talking about earlier. 113 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:13.800 But in the preseason discussion about like, actually, I think we're gonna 114 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:15.720 expect it to be Caleb Love shooting the threes, but in reality, it's 115 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:19.600 gonna be Boswell making the three ship right and you don't want you want the 116 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:25.000 guy making the three right. I thought it's it's irrelevant because Morgan state. 117 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:28.959 But I thought Hella had a wild three point shot last night. The guy 118 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:31.680 flew right past him and he didn't even care on face. But you know, 119 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:35.240 looking at the stat sheet, Boswell was four six from three last night, 120 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:39.160 seven of ten overall. Caleb Love was three of eight overall, and 121 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:42.560 he was two of six from three, and he didn't shoot well in the 122 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:47.160 exhibitions either. You know he's going to be a streaky Yeah, that's not 123 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:53.120 he's like that, like the dude from a rainy court. It's a same 124 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:58.439 Lewis point guard thing. Yeah, yeah, remember remember I remember I declared 125 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:03.040 that Ramie was the guy, and yeah, Rammy Dunk, don't declare. 126 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:09.920 I'll tell I'll tell Tommy, tell me. This is not his fault. 127 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:13.120 There's an old dude on Prince and whatever, and we and we continue to 128 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:20.000 stay at the table that Conrad Martinez looks like teen wolves. He's Michael J. 129 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:24.120 Fox out on the court. So it's pretty fair. A little bite 130 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:26.639 to him too. Yeah, yeah, you know he's uh, you know, 131 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:28.879 he'll be a guy that'll come in. He's not gonna play a bunch, 132 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:33.519 but you know he'll get some minute like that. He looks like he 133 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:35.879 could be a pretty good point guard in terms of the way he handed the 134 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:39.960 ball. He almost never looks for his shot, but if it's there, 135 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.279 he'll take it. He was one of two we're twenty years or so removed 136 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:46.720 from a guy like him coming on the scene, biting his time and becomes 137 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:50.960 a good player his junior senior year, right, because now we judge on 138 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:54.120 what you can do right now, right, and he's got he's got a 139 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:58.000 future, just not right away, not not today, yeah, not today. 140 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:00.720 And but those guys, as we say, moroscs is, you know, 141 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:03.559 he'll have some work to do. But if each and and I'm he's 142 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:07.559 not where I thought he was going to be, tucked him up on and 143 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:09.600 we got we got some crap about it. I got some crap last night 144 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:13.200 because I still defended him. I'm gonna start to start losing my rings on 145 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.799 it. Yeah, I might have made a mistake, but but I look 146 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:18.399 at the I look at this group. But you know again the top eight 147 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:24.799 players, uh, you know in the box score, and you know it's 148 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:26.399 a good team. It's a good team. And they run them, They 149 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:31.159 run them, They run really well. I mean they see each other. 150 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:33.600 And again it was against Morgan State. We'll see if they see each other 151 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:37.399 as that's gonna be a thing with all Tommy teams, right, That's how 152 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:39.559 Tommy wants to play. He wants to play fast, he wants to play 153 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:43.080 yeah connected, you know, And I love his philosophy. It's more of 154 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.840 it gives you more room to screw up. Where if you have a ten 155 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:50.960 point lead, it didn't do any good last year in March, but you 156 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:54.159 don't get a good lead and it gives you some wiggle room. Well, 157 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:56.159 and again, you know, we talked about well, you know, you 158 00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:58.559 know there's only one ball, you know, how how is that gonn get 159 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:01.919 spared on? Well? When you have as many possessions as these guys are 160 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:09.000 gonna have, uh you know, uh, there's plenty. You know, 161 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:13.480 everybody's gonna get their shots. Was the assistant coach from Pima who said that 162 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:16.879 anytime you run with more pace, you're gonna have more turnovers because there more 163 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:20.360 possessions and that kind of just opens you up to more failure. Yeah, 164 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:24.200 I think the funny thing is we need to ask you Tommy and maybe at 165 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:28.720 a press counrach or something about that. You know, you know last year 166 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:31.399 it was more of a a a year before, it was more wherever the 167 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:35.080 ball finds its twice, that's where the shot is. Let's see how it 168 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:41.320 goes this year. If Kevin if Love, Kevin Love, if it finds 169 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:43.840 the ball, will anybody else get it? Yeah? You know, because 170 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:48.639 I mean, look at the shots last night. Kisha Johnson eight, Ballow 171 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:54.799 eight, Caleb Love eight, Boswell ten, Bradley six, Palla Larson five, 172 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:56.600 how much you love? Eight? Love took a shot well, and 173 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:01.200 you would think that he took more. Maybe he took me three pointers. 174 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.679 Look like he missed some shots and it looked like, damn, what shooting. 175 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:09.440 But you know, every everybody in the starting line up between five and 176 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:13.840 ten shots, that's all those guys want, you know. And then you 177 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:18.279 know you had, you know, the five starters, and three other guys 178 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:24.480 were in double figures, so you know there's gonna be plenty of plenty of 179 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:28.080 possessions, plenty of chances for these guys to get theirs, and that's all 180 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:30.440 they want, you know. And again the minutes were spread out quite a 181 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:33.039 bit, and it'll be different when they're playing Duke. But you know, 182 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:37.480 they all got their shots, and I think they'll all be happy with that. 183 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:39.360 You know, when you're when you're running up and down the floor like 184 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:43.600 like that, you know you're gonna get your shots. So that's something that 185 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:46.480 Steve mentioned it. I was. I was impressed last night with how they 186 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:50.840 were flying around. I mean, considering they were playing the Morning State Bears. 187 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:52.480 I thought, you know, it would just be a lesser of an 188 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:56.399 effort, but I was pretty pleased with like how in transition they were still 189 00:11:56.440 --> 00:11:58.600 trying to work steals, still trying to put the ball, still trying to 190 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:01.360 harass. Yeah, and it's the first game. You want to have a 191 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:05.360 fun time and and impressed. I was disappointed in the crowd. Maybe I 192 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:09.279 shouldn't be, but I was. I was. I was pleasantly surprised. 193 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:13.799 I thought I was going to be emptier and you were up in the rafters 194 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:20.240 or wherever I was moving around mounds. I had a nice little pretzel. 195 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:24.080 It was a good night. Okay, you're selling towels on the corner, 196 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:30.360 not selling there for my own use. I you know, I only noticed 197 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:33.799 that during the national anthem, the the upper deck behind as it was empty. 198 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:37.039 Yeah, where the flag was. Yeah, that's the only time I 199 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:39.679 really looked up to see. Yeah. There were other places as well, 200 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:43.720 and we were busy at the table all night long. He's not just no, 201 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:46.799 there these guys running up and down the floor. Man, you could, 202 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:52.000 I mean, you couldn't look away. And stuff was so much, 203 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:54.240 there was so much happy. I mean, I asked you this last time 204 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:58.320 we saw the guys last week. Crevios looks like a monster. He's so 205 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:05.159 big. He's huge, like big. Now now he's clearly got some work 206 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:09.240 to do because he got he got blocked like three or four times from behind 207 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:11.399 right too. He's got to realize there's tall guys behind him. Yeah, 208 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:13.960 you know, you know, you know, he makes the movie and he 209 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:16.440 knows he can go over to the top of somebody. But there's still some 210 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:20.120 guys behind him who are quick enough to get to him and get and get 211 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:24.120 up there, even even though he's holding the ball, you know, twelve 212 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:26.240 feet high. He's got that he can that they can block him. You 213 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:31.879 can just sense it. He's got some great upside does and it's different than 214 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:35.799 Caleb Tarzuski and and those guys because those guys were stiffish. Yeah, he's 215 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.600 not as stiff. He's not. No, he's not. He's fluid. 216 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:43.600 You can just tell when he shoots a free throw because he makes them, 217 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:46.120 right. But it's a it's a it's an it's not a force. I 218 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:50.759 mean, it's a it's an easy stroke. And he makes the free throws. 219 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:52.559 Yeah. He looks good doing it. Yeah, and so he doesn't 220 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:56.519 look awkward awkward at all. He was eight of nine last night from the 221 00:13:56.519 --> 00:14:00.519 free throw line. You're if your big men are making freak, you're in 222 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:03.600 business. O're just gonna say that because usually for the big man, it's 223 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:07.000 it's the wasted points on the table, right. He was two for seven 224 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:11.120 from the field though, Yeah, but the touch around that he was promising, 225 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:13.919 he was two for seven. I think four of those he got blocked 226 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:16.399 from behind. Yeah, because he was going up. I thought he was 227 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:18.799 you know, you know, he made a move on the guy. He's 228 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:22.759 going to the basket, and then somebody came up from behind him and blocked 229 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:24.120 him. I think three or four, at least three, and there may 230 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:26.559 have been the dude. The dude I really gonna like to see. Besides, 231 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:31.840 kJ is gonna be is uh Is Johnson. He's just I like him. 232 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.360 He's just a lot of fun over the place, and it looks good 233 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:37.200 doing it. I like you the time. All Right, we're gonna take 234 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:41.080 our break. We're gonna have jennaf Fink from KVOA shall be on our show 235 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:43.279 for the first time. We'll talk to her about how it's going over at 236 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:48.639 kVA and how she's going the job. So stick around me the time. 237 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:58.559 Have a good sampling that. 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Serving Tucson and Southern Arizona since nineteen forty 311 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:18.119 seven. Go to azpest dot com to schedule your free evaluation today. Extreamy 312 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:22.480 Live, Honey, iHeartRadio Act. This is I on the Ball with Steve 313 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:29.119 Bravera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to 314 00:20:29.160 --> 00:20:32.440 Eye on the Ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. He's Steve Ververa, He's 315 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:37.000 jagin zaus. Now on the phone, we have jennefink Oh KVOA Sports. 316 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:40.079 How are you, Jenna? Hey, thanks so much for having me on. 317 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:44.640 Are you a Tucson and now officially yes, I think so. I've 318 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:47.599 been here. I've been here going on five months now, so I think 319 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:52.119 I'll soon earn that title. If you survived one hundred and twelve to one 320 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:53.920 hundred and fifteen, you are a to say you count. You're in there. 321 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:56.119 You go, well, this is the part that everyone told me about. 322 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:59.880 Now that we're getting well, not today, but we're still getting in 323 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:07.279 seventy degrees in November. Can't complain about that, exactly exactly. So you 324 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:11.960 came in here, and you know, obviously a great a great time for 325 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:14.880 us covering sports, and here in town the football team is good, the 326 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:18.920 basketball team is good. Just tell us kind of your approach when you got 327 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:21.359 here, you know, how you kind of picked up what was going on 328 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:23.920 around here, and what do you think of the place so far? Well, 329 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:29.519 as you said, I really came a great time. It's been. 330 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:33.279 It's been a lot of fun. I was doing a lot of research before 331 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:36.720 I got here. My sister goes to the u of A. Actually, 332 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:41.039 so I've been through her for a couple of years now, been following just 333 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:44.039 you know, from a distance. So when I got here it was kind 334 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:47.240 of okay, Now I have a basis. Now it's time to dive a 335 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:52.240 little bit more in. But I think the best way that I've been learning 336 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:55.319 is just by being there, being out in the community, which has been 337 00:21:55.359 --> 00:21:59.599 so welcoming and so fun to be a part of, whether that high school 338 00:21:59.599 --> 00:22:03.559 football all or of course college and all of that good stuff. It's been 339 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:07.079 a lot of a lot of fun and a lot of talking to people. 340 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:10.599 And that's kind of one of the biggest ways to learn. So let me 341 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:15.319 I heard you went to Syracuse University. Tell us if that's true. Tell 342 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:19.640 us about Jay's favorite guy, Jim Beeheim and then and how you dealt with 343 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:29.480 him. Yes, I did go to Syracuse. Covered Jim Beheim for four 344 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:33.640 years, which was never at Omon and I will say I did cover as 345 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:37.920 a senior, which was cool. Uh, his final Sweet sixteen run. 346 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:41.039 That was the year that March Madness was in the bubble in Indianapolis if you 347 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:47.799 remember that years ago. So it was really fun to cover that run because 348 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:51.680 you didn't think they would get that far. I mean that just them making 349 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:56.480 the tournament that year was like, was you know, unlikely. We didn't 350 00:22:56.519 --> 00:22:57.359 think it was gonna happen, And then for them to make it all the 351 00:22:57.400 --> 00:23:00.599 way to Sweet sixteen was pretty special. And then it ended up being his 352 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:04.599 final Sweet sixteen run. He as I'm sure you know, he kind of 353 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:11.599 became known for his questions, you know, he would just however, he 354 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:15.480 felt that I always had a good experience with him. I remember freshman year, 355 00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:19.839 I was doing a documentary for one of our journalism classes and I ended 356 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:25.519 up doing a documentary on him and his son, Buddy, who at the 357 00:23:25.559 --> 00:23:30.519 time was going to be an incoming freshman. And I remember that he gave 358 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:33.680 us, you know, ten fifteen minute interview just talking about him, and 359 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:38.200 we went to his house and got a bunch of video of like he had 360 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:41.519 a half you know, half court down in the basement of his house, 361 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:45.400 and it was really cool. Okay, so at some point you fell in 362 00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:51.279 love with journalism because you decided to do that in school and then sports journalism. 363 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:53.519 It was one before the other. I mean, was that your intent 364 00:23:53.559 --> 00:23:57.559 when you got into journalism to go into sports or how did all this happen 365 00:23:57.599 --> 00:24:00.759 for you? Yeah? Well, I grew up with two parents in the 366 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:04.079 business, both on the news side of things, one in radio, one 367 00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:08.400 in television. So I was exposed to journalism, you know, as long 368 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:14.720 as I can remember, and so that was kind of the first, you 369 00:24:14.759 --> 00:24:18.880 know, just knowing that this was a career possibility. Sports I always was 370 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:22.799 passionate about. I was a figure skater growing up. And the way I 371 00:24:22.839 --> 00:24:26.599 was first kind of exposed to sports journalism was when I was ten years old. 372 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:30.440 I went on my mom's radio show and I used to predict all the 373 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:34.960 Dallas Cowboys games. I'm from Dallas originally, so I would predict, you 374 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:37.720 know, who was gonna win and why I did my research. You know, 375 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:42.279 I read the newspaper every morning before I did it. So that was 376 00:24:42.359 --> 00:24:45.440 kind of where I was like, oh, you know, this would be 377 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:48.000 a really good career, and it kind of just stuck after that. So 378 00:24:48.039 --> 00:24:52.000 anyway, So did you you grew up in Dallas? Were your parents on 379 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:56.759 TV and radio in Dallas? Yeah? My mom was on five seventy KLIF 380 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:03.759 which is that morning news drive type of show, and my dad is a 381 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:07.759 reporter at the CBS affiliate in Dallas. Well, okay, because that's where 382 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:10.599 I came from many years ago. Wow, many years ago? Yeah, 383 00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:15.359 okay, cool. So, So what did you know about Arizona sports before 384 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:18.039 you got here? With your with your background and stuff. What did you 385 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:22.359 find out before you got here? Well? I knew just from years of 386 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:26.359 watching March madness. How good Arizona basketball was, both men's and women's. 387 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:33.119 I remember watching the women in the National championship back in twenty twenty one, 388 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:36.599 and so I knew the basketball. I knew that was going to be something 389 00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:38.599 that I was kind of going to. From Syracuse, you know, that 390 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:42.400 was a big basketball town. I was excited to be going to another basketball 391 00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:47.480 town. Football, I know, had been through its trouble, had had 392 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:52.319 some down years also similar to Syracuse, So I was kind of pre prepared 393 00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:56.720 for that. But I think what what we've been watching this year with Arizona 394 00:25:56.759 --> 00:26:02.039 football has been has been incredible. Well, well let's go to that because 395 00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:04.680 you know, again you're you're new Beta Tucson, so you didn't suffer through 396 00:26:04.680 --> 00:26:10.079 that stuff like we did. But but but nonetheless, you know, when 397 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:12.400 you see I mean, it's not hard to see or look back and say, 398 00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:17.000 Okay, this program was really in the dumper, and then to see 399 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:19.880 where they are today. You know, what have been your impressions about Jed 400 00:26:19.960 --> 00:26:25.039 Fish and why do you think in your mind from what you see, why 401 00:26:25.079 --> 00:26:29.359 do you think they are where they are? Yeah, I think it's very 402 00:26:29.400 --> 00:26:33.960 clear that Jed had them, you know, came in saying this is not 403 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:38.559 going to get better overnight. From what I've seen, was very committed to 404 00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:45.039 the rebuild and embracing everything that comes with a rebuild in terms of, you 405 00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:48.920 know, going out and focusing on the offense last season and then this season 406 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:53.880 really focusing on defence and taking up people with size and versatility and players that 407 00:26:53.960 --> 00:27:00.559 have experience. I think for him, just embracing that and having players that 408 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:03.960 embraced that, I think has been one of the key things. And everyone 409 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:07.720 in the program you can see how highly they speak of coach Fish and just 410 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:10.759 everything that he's done. I think that's one of the biggest things that has 411 00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:15.000 been stood out to me. So as you are well aware because you're in 412 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:19.240 the business now, but it's changing. The journalism world is changing. Don't 413 00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:25.160 give me any stories about you the involved involvement. So what's your best story 414 00:27:25.160 --> 00:27:30.599 to this point, not in Jova, best story that I've covered that you've 415 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:37.000 created or ye covered non u of a. There was a story I was 416 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:42.319 in Chico, California before I was here, and that that market was pretty 417 00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:48.519 much mostly high school and there was Division two college and stuff like that. 418 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:53.880 But there was one young woman who I did a story on who did horse 419 00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:57.359 racing. So I don't know if you've heard of the Tevis Cup, but 420 00:27:57.400 --> 00:28:03.160 it's like a big race in Tahoe that goes up through northern California, and 421 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:06.960 she was writing in that and it's a big it's a whole big thing, 422 00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:11.240 takes months of preparation. But I did a story on her and she had 423 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:15.920 donated her kidneys to one of her kidneys to her younger sister who had kidney 424 00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:22.039 failure, and then also survived the campfire, which was the deadliest flags fire 425 00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:26.440 in California back in twenty eighteen. The five year anniversary of that is actually 426 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:30.720 tomorrow. So that was one of the most impactful stories that has stuck with 427 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:36.000 me to this day. You know, I thought about her and just the 428 00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:38.039 incredible story that she had and what about here? What about here that you're 429 00:28:38.079 --> 00:28:42.759 kind of just did this year? Oh? Sorry, this year, I'm 430 00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:48.440 kind of think. Oh, there was a young woman from Pema College who 431 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:52.880 races on the cross country team, who had suffered burns when she was really 432 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:56.920 young, and she's running, which is so unlikely, you know, to 433 00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:00.720 have severe burns on her feet and for her to be run and competing at 434 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:03.759 a college level, which was that was a really cool story. There's so 435 00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:07.839 many there's so many great stories, sure in Tucson that are not you know, 436 00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:11.279 there's a lot of great stories with you, of a, but there's 437 00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:15.319 a lot of sure also great stories throughout our community that I've had the privilege 438 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:18.640 of telling so far and then looking forward to continuing to telling in the future. 439 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:19.960 Well, well, how tough is that? Because you know, as 440 00:29:21.799 --> 00:29:23.960 you know, there are never enough people to cover all that you got to 441 00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:26.240 cover. When you're covering theo A, you're coming high schools, you're doing 442 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:30.599 all that stuff. You know, how do you not how are you able 443 00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:33.519 to go out and find that story when other stories like that with all the 444 00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:37.720 other stuff you got to do And Jay, you only have two minutes, 445 00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:41.119 right, Yeah, yeah, you don't. We never have enough as much 446 00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:44.880 time as we hope we have. But no, I mean a lot of 447 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:48.319 it is is like I went, like I mentioned earlier, just getting in 448 00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:52.880 touch with the community and talking to people in the community and having them say, 449 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:56.559 oh, hey, I heard about this athlete who's doing this incredible X 450 00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:00.519 y Z thing. You should reach out to them. And that's you know, 451 00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:03.559 how I've been privileged to find a lot of stories, and then there's 452 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:07.279 some other stories that you kind of enterprise on your own. Uh. You 453 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:10.799 know, you notice a trend or you notice an athlete doing really well, 454 00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:12.880 and you say, well, what's what's the deeper story here? What's there? 455 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:18.440 What's their story beyond the stats that they're doing. And unfortunately, you 456 00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:22.160 know, we can't get to everything. It's just you try to do as 457 00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:23.440 much as you can. But at the end of the day, we're you 458 00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:29.039 know, one person, we're two people trying to just tell the stories that 459 00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:32.640 we can tell. Yeah, so we're talking to Jenna think from kvoa A 460 00:30:32.759 --> 00:30:34.720 Jenna. You know when you when you come into a job like that, 461 00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:38.640 I mean, it's is it is it kind of intimidating to try and figure 462 00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:42.000 stuff out really fast? Or do you just want to kind of take your 463 00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:45.119 time and kind of you know, ease in to kind of get it or 464 00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:48.200 you know, I you know, I think of the proverbial, you know, 465 00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:52.480 you know, fire hose down the throat. You know, it's like 466 00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:55.359 there just has to be had to be so much going on when you got 467 00:30:55.400 --> 00:31:00.839 here. Uh, how did you manage all that? Yeah? I joke 468 00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:03.839 about that too. They get and kind of thrown thrown right into it, 469 00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:07.160 I think because within a month of me being here, I think the PAC 470 00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:12.119 twelve Date twelve news broke right, and so you were kind of just right 471 00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:15.599 in the middle of that, which was which was fun. I wasn't intimidated 472 00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:18.519 by it. I was excited, you know. I was excited to be 473 00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:23.079 covering you of a and all the great sports here in Tucson, so where 474 00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:26.559 it wasn't so much of a I got to cover all of this more so 475 00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:30.079 like, oh, I get to cover all of this, right, So 476 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.359 that's kind of but like, yeah, trial by fire or whatever the whatever 477 00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:36.720 the phrase is, where you kind of just get thrown right into it. 478 00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:40.279 That was That was certainly what happened here. But I'm grateful for it because 479 00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:42.279 it makes you learn faster. And now I feel like, you know, 480 00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:48.480 I know kind of what's going on around Tucson. And now you've become another 481 00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.240 a good one in the long line of females who are behind the mic. 482 00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:55.720 Right. Yeah, on TV. I'm sure you've kind of did some research 483 00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:59.319 about some of the women who have come through here and have had your job 484 00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:02.480 as well, not just at your station but other places. Yeah, and 485 00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:07.599 we had you know, we recently celebrated seventieth anniversary of KVOA this past September, 486 00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:12.480 which was a really great way to do research another way I was able 487 00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:15.920 to It was fun. I got to do a project that was seventy years 488 00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:19.000 of Sports. I talked with Lacey Collins, who was one of the right 489 00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:22.160 whomen I was able to get in touch with that worked at kVA So it 490 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:25.599 was great hearing her experience and just all the all the greats that have come 491 00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:30.160 through KVOA. I know, you know, there's a long, a long 492 00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:34.519 list of talented sports reporters and sports anchors that have come through here. So 493 00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:38.559 I'm very privileged and excited to be, you know, following in their footsteps. 494 00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:40.599 Okay, so this is the time, you know, we're getting the 495 00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:44.920 last couple of minutes where I want to pick your brain about places you've been, 496 00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:49.480 restaurants you've been to. Well, first of all, Steve, and 497 00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:53.079 I want to what, what's your favorite Mexican restaurant so far? Oh that's 498 00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:58.279 fry, I mean there, I forget what it's call. Oh my gosh, 499 00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:00.720 I gotta remember what it's called. There's one not too far from our 500 00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:07.640 station that that's really good. It's at Oracle and Grant. I believe I'm 501 00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:14.000 blanking on the name of you. Yeah yeah, little hole in the wall 502 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:15.960 place down there in the corner. Yeah yeah, that one's really good. 503 00:33:16.039 --> 00:33:20.519 I like face, I've been there. There's a lot of good place, 504 00:33:20.559 --> 00:33:22.319 there's no shortage. I'm looking forward to trying a lot more of them. 505 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:25.039 But there's there's also a lot of good food here, which I was told 506 00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:29.680 about before I got here, and it's definitely lived up to that. What 507 00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:32.599 what are the ways besides the work? Have you have you? What have 508 00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:37.119 you done? You're trying to learn more about you know what we're about here? 509 00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:39.240 And I say we because I'm a native, so you know, you 510 00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:43.440 know, aside from the the you know, the job, the sports that 511 00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:45.039 you're covering and stuff like that. You know what, what have you tried 512 00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:51.839 to learn about the community? Yeah? I was. I think that's kind 513 00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:53.759 of the nature of our job allows us to learn a lot about the community. 514 00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:58.680 But I've been trying to go to some more community events, trying to 515 00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:01.680 get involved in the two community. I'm Jewish, so trying to get more 516 00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:07.239 involved in that community as well. But I'm going on on hikes, which 517 00:34:07.239 --> 00:34:09.599 is fine. No, that's a big part of culture here. Hike culture 518 00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:14.840 was a little too hot before, but now it's rolling down, starting to 519 00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:16.480 go out on some you know, Sabino Canyon and all that kind of stuff. 520 00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:20.719 Yeah, Steve and I don't hike you. That's the case. It's 521 00:34:20.760 --> 00:34:24.840 always hot for us. It's hot until you know, last week or so 522 00:34:25.559 --> 00:34:29.840 sixty, it is too hot for us to go hiking. Hike. A 523 00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:32.320 hike to me is throwing my clubs in a golf cart and hiking from the 524 00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:37.400 car pass through the green. But if I did golf, I would be 525 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:39.760 really excited to live here. Hikes for hikers for me is going to seventy 526 00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:45.119 eleven to get a slurp. Okay, Hey, Jedna, thanks so much, 527 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:46.960 Thanks a bunch, and good luck with the job. And I know 528 00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:50.840 we'll see you around. So appreciate you doing this. Yes, thank you 529 00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:54.119 so much again for having me on. That was good. That's fus. 530 00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:58.239 Yeah, you know, I mean we see these guys. We see these 531 00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:00.480 people and sometimes you get to know them. Sometimes we don't, but you 532 00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:02.559 know, most of we do. Like you know, the David Kelly's, 533 00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:08.199 you know, Damien Alameda, Yeah, you know Bar all those you know, 534 00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:12.199 call all those people. Over the years, we see them enough that 535 00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:14.960 you know, say hi, you might you know, you might run into 536 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:16.000 him at a restaurant or something like that. So that's very cool. So 537 00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:21.559 brings a tear to my eye remembering how I was young and so enthusiastic. 538 00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:25.039 Now I don't even cry for anything or care for anything, because you're a 539 00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:30.159 big I'm just a big grumb all right. That was great, jennifink kVA. 540 00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:35.079 You can watch her on their sportscast, so you know, follow her 541 00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:37.039 a little bit and see. But some of the stuff she covers it, 542 00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:39.800 she's she does good stuff already. So all right, we'll be right back 543 00:35:40.119 --> 00:35:43.840 lamon Honley coming up in the second hour, but we'll take your calls in 544 00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:45.159 this next segment. Five two zero four, one, six, seventy four 545 00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:53.000 forty tell us what you thought about the Walcats last night. 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This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen 588 00:38:57.360 --> 00:39:00.280 fifty. Hey, welcome back to I on the Mall Fox Sports fourteen fifty. 589 00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:05.000 I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jacobs as got our guy Kevin at the helm 590 00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:07.719 here with thirteen fourteen minutes left. Do you want to call? Please? 591 00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:10.480 Do we'd like to hear from you? Five two oh four one, six 592 00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:15.599 seventy four forty Give us your grief, give us whatever, Yeah, give 593 00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:21.840 us your give us your Stevie grumpiness, gruppy, gruppy. He's mad at 594 00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:24.719 me because I didn't read his story. Kevin. It's tough, it's it's 595 00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:30.079 it's hard. It's not it's not in my hands anymore. It's their hands. 596 00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:32.239 I again, I really, I mean I oh no, no, 597 00:39:32.679 --> 00:39:37.280 no, no, I'm talking about the golf story. The golf story. 598 00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:40.519 Yeah, the Gulf story. Oh that story. No, I'm talking about 599 00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:44.960 Oh yeah, stuff. You right, you're sport, You're not too much. 600 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:46.639 That's nice. Game was just like get me in, get me out. 601 00:39:49.159 --> 00:39:50.960 No, I mean, what can you say? It like a fifty 602 00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:52.880 point game. He just can't really say much. Also got to point out 603 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:57.840 that the Barnes, the women one when they're opener, Yeah, yeah, 604 00:39:58.199 --> 00:40:00.400 did they did you see the box? I wonder how many they played? 605 00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:04.599 I'm gonna I'm gonna look it up right now because I'm that kind of a 606 00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:09.519 guys. But you know they were New Mexico State, right right. So 607 00:40:10.440 --> 00:40:13.960 but you know which is you know, they won, which is way more 608 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:17.880 than you can say for LSU defend. That was amazing. They defending national 609 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:21.519 champs. That was amazing. And then I you know, I don't follow 610 00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:24.199 it that closely except you know who they are. Uh, and what they've 611 00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:29.440 done. And then then Colorado beats them. They're in the Pac twelve. 612 00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:30.840 I think they're picked to finish one to fourth. Where were they picked the 613 00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:35.679 finish? Colorado up high up. They're one of the better teams. Yeah, 614 00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:37.920 and then they then I find out during the game that one of Arizona's 615 00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:40.519 former players is on that team. Yeah, and she scores twenty four. 616 00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:45.000 Yep. And then I then someone else tells me that there's a girl Conor, 617 00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:47.719 Maddie Connor goes to TCU, right, she doesn't play much here, 618 00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:53.239 she scores thirty. Who knows? Who knows what a change in scenery does 619 00:40:53.239 --> 00:41:00.119 for somebody? Oh yeah, right, speculating? No, no, no, 620 00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:04.639 no, no, you know why because I gotta I gotta be at 621 00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:07.880 the table at those women's games, and if I say something bad, she'll 622 00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:12.119 kick my ass right in front of everybody. Right, it's called the agenda 623 00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:15.079 journalism. No, you know, I'll get it like a I'll get like 624 00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:17.000 a stiletto heel in the eye or something. So I'm just not going there. 625 00:41:17.079 --> 00:41:20.960 Yeah, just my friend. Yeah, we'll see what she does. 626 00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:25.360 Yeah. Looking at the box score, nine nine nine players played, so 627 00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:30.719 you know, almost the whole bitch and maybe somebody's still up with an injury. 628 00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:37.079 Player had thirty six minutes, she only scored uh, she scored uh 629 00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:39.639 two points. He was one for eight from the field, well for four 630 00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:43.599 from three, so she had a bad shooting night. And they still want 631 00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:49.000 Kaylen Gilbert uh sixteen points, Mayonaji fifteen points and then off the bench Bray 632 00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:52.199 of Cunningham at twelve, so three players. They won sixty eight to fifty 633 00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:58.519 seven at the at the New Mexico State. A lot of minutes though, 634 00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:04.280 thirty six almost thirty seven minutes, Kaitlyn Gilbert thirty three minutes, as Mary 635 00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:07.920 Martinez only played fourteen minutes. I'm not sure what happened there, but that's 636 00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:10.840 where Bray Cunningham and Scotler Jones came in. They at seventeen and nineteen minutes. 637 00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:16.079 But uh, you don't now again, better than losing, right, 638 00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:20.280 Yeah, it's better, way better than losing, Better than a stick in 639 00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:22.920 your eye. Yeah. They shot forty nine percent from the field, but 640 00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:27.760 only five of twenty from a two point point. We'll see what happens. 641 00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:30.800 Yeah, what's next to come back here? So they got to They got 642 00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:36.559 two home games this weekend they are. They've got Friday night, they've got 643 00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:42.360 uh, I'm trying to call this up. They've got anau Friday night at 644 00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:45.679 six thirty at McHale, and then on Sunday they've got Loyola Marymount at two 645 00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:50.119 o'clock in the afternoon. Well, as we mentioned, and everybody knows the 646 00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:54.360 manor at Duke at five o'clock on yeah, Friday, and then the men 647 00:42:54.400 --> 00:43:01.920 play at home six o'clock on Monday, and they've got Southern and that's the 648 00:43:01.960 --> 00:43:07.119 game that that had been scheduled to be at Southern over this weekend. But 649 00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:09.159 when they they wanted to schedule the Duke game, they asked, Southern, 650 00:43:09.159 --> 00:43:12.760 would you come and play us here again? We'll pay you, you know, 651 00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:15.199 instead of us going over there, and can you play it on Monday? 652 00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:20.840 And they did. Then we've got a nine o'clock game next Friday against 653 00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:28.239 Friday Belmont. Man, okay, we're busy. Yeah, that's that's nineteenth, 654 00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:30.199 that's say seventh seventeen. Oh man, I'm not coming up. The 655 00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:35.559 women have five three games in five days because then after Sunday on Tuesday, 656 00:43:35.599 --> 00:43:37.559 they've got San Diego here, so they got you know, that's gonna be 657 00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:40.039 that's a tough stretch for a team because they have a ton of players. 658 00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:45.159 I probably missed that Belmont game, you big wienie. Well, I gotta 659 00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:47.599 get up at four in the morning to go to Bill Tour the next day, 660 00:43:47.639 --> 00:43:51.440 oh afterwards, the next day. Let me tell you that's gonna be 661 00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:57.159 trouble here. Trouble trouble here because uh, there's very few windows left for 662 00:43:57.199 --> 00:44:01.960 the Utah game. It's gonna pall afternoon game. If it's an afternoon game, 663 00:44:04.079 --> 00:44:06.760 watch out for traffic, watch out for traffic. Get there early. 664 00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:09.800 We will know. We won't know till Sunday, right because they they made 665 00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:15.039 it a six day window, sixth day window, which is a bad break 666 00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:19.280 for you guys as well. We we bet you're unhappy when we were. 667 00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:22.920 We've been waiting for this for months, hoping that please making an eight o'clock 668 00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:27.599 and it doesn't look like it's gonna happen. Yeah, And it's not so 669 00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:30.079 much a conservative traffic because it is, obviously, but it's it's safe. 670 00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:35.639 It's a traffic safety because there's cops everywhere and it's not enough of them. 671 00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:38.320 Right. Well, yeah, it's like the last two weeks the last two 672 00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:43.119 you of a games because they've charged, they've rushed the field. When we've 673 00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:46.719 left the stadium. You know that intersection at the Cherry Cherry garage right there 674 00:44:46.719 --> 00:44:51.400 by Michale, there's always cops striking, you know, traffic. They're not 675 00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:54.480 even there, not even there, they're inside with a free for Holy moly. 676 00:44:54.599 --> 00:44:57.840 So do you how long does it take you to get out? Not 677 00:44:57.960 --> 00:45:01.119 very long because because I park in the tailgate area, so I just get 678 00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:05.119 hop out on the campbell. It's just hot. You're smart. I didn't 679 00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:07.320 realize that we're in the tailgate. Yeah, yeah, okay, that makes 680 00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:08.840 sense. No, we're We're out easy. See. By the time we 681 00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:12.079 get out, it's like nobody's wrong, which is thankful. I go back, 682 00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:15.239 I go back to our eyes est, grab myself a chicken thigh and 683 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:19.199 a coke and drive home. Yeah. Makes sense. By the time I 684 00:45:19.239 --> 00:45:22.360 get home, I got grease all over my shirt and my face and all 685 00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:24.119 that kind of stuff. But it's fun. Been fun the last few games 686 00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:30.199 you go home to that have you? Have you? Uh, given the 687 00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:37.920 circumstances with these rank teams, how has your your group and yourself been giddy? 688 00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:40.400 Wise? Because it hasn't been like this a long time. But can 689 00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:44.760 you compare it to any other time? The giddy meter is very high. 690 00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:49.280 We're like, you know, a hundreds, it's bouncing on one hundred, 691 00:45:49.719 --> 00:45:52.519 you know, one hundred out of one hundred. The getty meter is very 692 00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:58.840 because you're playing well, yeah, well because it's none of these wins, 693 00:45:59.719 --> 00:46:02.880 none of these wins have been seen as oh, we got lucky and won 694 00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:07.920 a game. All three of those wins, everybody felt that they were the 695 00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:13.920 better teampressive, that not only not only the better team that day, but 696 00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:17.880 just these guys think Arizona is better than Oregon State, and that they're better 697 00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:21.360 than u C. L A. And that they're better than Washington State, 698 00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:23.599 so that that they weren't. They weren't wins that you think, uh, 699 00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:28.440 you know on that day we won. These guys, you know, my 700 00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:32.119 my my crew is thinking that Arizona's you know, the best has been the 701 00:46:32.119 --> 00:46:38.440 best team actually four of the last five games County USC and he mentioned that 702 00:46:38.440 --> 00:46:42.320 that's where they got their confidence. Right. Well, you know, this 703 00:46:42.360 --> 00:46:44.280 was something I wanted to bring up yesterday because I was thinking about this. 704 00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:49.039 And again, if you're I'm me, so I can go so far back, 705 00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:52.760 right when when Jed I listened to Jed's press conference on the way home 706 00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:59.320 from the game on Saturday from from inside the car yea his postgame pressent, 707 00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:04.440 and when he said that about usc being a turning point, even though let's 708 00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:06.800 put them on hold because I want to say that, just go let's answer 709 00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:10.480 the call. Answer the call, goa Hi, this is on the ball. 710 00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:14.400 Can you hold for just a second? Yep, Okay, we're very 711 00:47:14.519 --> 00:47:21.519 back. So my mind immediately went back to nineteen ninety two when they lost 712 00:47:21.559 --> 00:47:28.079 to Miami and that was their turning point. They became desert swarm. They 713 00:47:28.119 --> 00:47:31.559 won all those games, and you can take them off hold of it. 714 00:47:31.639 --> 00:47:36.199 Not that you can take them off hold there so you can hear this. 715 00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:40.599 No, no, not there on the phone line right there. Just hit 716 00:47:40.599 --> 00:47:50.079 the hit the red button, hit the phone line. Just that. Yeah, 717 00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:52.599 okay, now that our caller can hear is that's why one did that? 718 00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:55.719 Okay. So, but what struck me was that that Miami game. 719 00:47:55.760 --> 00:48:00.360 It was a loss, but that turned everything. They won a bunch of 720 00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:04.840 games in a row, including three ranked teams. Okay, they got to 721 00:48:04.880 --> 00:48:07.719 the end of the year, but then that season didn't finish. They lost 722 00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:12.679 the last three games. They lost to usc they lost to a SU and 723 00:48:12.840 --> 00:48:17.239 they lost to Baylor in the sun Bolt. I remember so to me, 724 00:48:19.119 --> 00:48:21.920 I said, I sit here and think about Okay, they've gotten to hear. 725 00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:25.800 They've got these three games, two of them which they should win and 726 00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:30.960 one of them which they very much can win. And you think, if 727 00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:32.880 you're an Arizona fan and you're thinking back to that, you're thinking how that 728 00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:37.920 season ended, and it wasn't it wasn't very nice. But this team doesn't 729 00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:40.639 look like that team in that regard. Because those games at Arizona won, 730 00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:44.360 you didn't necessarily think they were the better team. You didn't think they were 731 00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:46.239 better than Washington when they beat him as the number one team in the country, 732 00:48:46.760 --> 00:48:51.239 but they were good enough that day. Whereas the difference here is you 733 00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:54.159 think all these games that they've won, you feel like they're better. They've 734 00:48:54.199 --> 00:48:59.119 been the better team each time. Let's take this call. Hi, you're 735 00:48:59.159 --> 00:49:01.000 on the aaron I and the Ball. Hey, this is Bill. Hey, 736 00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:05.000 Bill, I hate that I'm agreeing with you so much, Jake, 737 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:07.719 because you're absolutely right. This is so much fun to watch this year, 738 00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:10.480 and it's so much fun when you're in every game and you're right, we 739 00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:15.320 dominated that game this Saturday, and it's it's just so, it's such a 740 00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:19.320 different life when your football team is better in Tucson than it is when you're 741 00:49:19.679 --> 00:49:22.960 when you have no hope. Well, are you so giddy like I gave 742 00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:28.280 the word to Jay? Did you listen to yesterday's podcast or yesterday's show? 743 00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:30.639 I couldn't listen to yesterday show, but I did listen to the podcast. 744 00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:36.599 Yeah, And will you giddy like Jay that they're gonna win ten? I 745 00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:38.280 don't. I don't. I don't see us winning ten right, kind of 746 00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:40.960 like he is, Like if you'd have asked me before the game of we 747 00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:43.960 were going to beat Easlly out, I probably said I don't think so, 748 00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:47.119 but I hope so. So I think we're gonna be Colorado, and I 749 00:49:47.119 --> 00:49:50.920 think we're gonna beat as U, and I think we match up well with 750 00:49:51.079 --> 00:49:54.440 Utah. But it's not gonna be easy. But I'm an Arizona Wildcat fan, 751 00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:59.960 so I expect doom and gloom every minute. Come on, this is 752 00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:04.920 a turnaround, maybe twenty twenty three. It feels like, you know, 753 00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:07.039 it feels like when Luke got here and and said, you know, better 754 00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:09.519 get your seats now because you may not be able to get him in a 755 00:50:09.559 --> 00:50:13.679 while. And he was absolutely right. If it feels like we're building something 756 00:50:13.719 --> 00:50:15.360 like that, but this is Arizona. You know, Jed will have another 757 00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:19.400 great year and someone will pull them away or something, right, you know, 758 00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:22.360 that's what that's what we're used to. But I've had so much fun 759 00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:25.559 the last the last two or three home games, you know, because it's 760 00:50:25.639 --> 00:50:30.760 it's like watching real good football. It is, it is, it is. 761 00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:32.480 And that's the thing, you know what walking into the stadium now, 762 00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:37.119 it's such a much better feeling, you know, thinking you can win this 763 00:50:37.159 --> 00:50:37.960 game. But even like I said, I told you guys, I you 764 00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:39.960 know, I didn't think they were gonna they were gonna be UCLA. But 765 00:50:39.960 --> 00:50:44.599 I still walked in that steat thinking they could and then this could be a 766 00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:46.880 really really good game. And then they want to we handle them and they're 767 00:50:46.880 --> 00:50:51.360 a good teams. Yeah, you know, our defense, our defense took 768 00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:54.920 them out of their out of their their comfort zone, and our offense was 769 00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:58.400 our offense, you know, And it was fun. It's fun to watch, 770 00:50:58.440 --> 00:51:00.559 it's fun to go to I you know, I know, it's basketball 771 00:51:00.599 --> 00:51:02.960 season starting, But I don't even want to talk about basketball yet. I 772 00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:06.880 want to keep talking about what we're going to do to d on this weekend. 773 00:51:07.159 --> 00:51:08.719 I can't wait for that. Oh see what happens Friday and how much 774 00:51:08.760 --> 00:51:13.599 the conversation moves to basketball if they if they beat Duke, or what happens 775 00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:16.199 if they don't beat Sure? Right? Right, because I know Arizona fan 776 00:51:16.280 --> 00:51:20.039 thinks, oh, we should beat Duke. Well no you shouldn't. No, 777 00:51:19.840 --> 00:51:23.119 no you might and you can, but not, Oh we should. 778 00:51:24.159 --> 00:51:27.559 You're right, you're right. Day when we beat Washington it was like, 779 00:51:27.599 --> 00:51:29.880 you know, we knew we weren't better than Washington. We knew we were 780 00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:32.239 better than them that day like that, that's exactly the truth. But we 781 00:51:32.239 --> 00:51:36.519 were better than UCLA, and we were better than Oregon State, and we 782 00:51:36.519 --> 00:51:39.519 were better than Washington State. Yeah, completely agree. Hey Bill, thanks 783 00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:42.599 a much, man, We got to run. Appreciate the call you. 784 00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:46.480 Thanks. I was going to ask you to forgot something forgot, but they'll 785 00:51:46.480 --> 00:51:52.400 come back to me. No, it'll just come back to me. Okay. 786 00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:54.880 Well anyway, so I again, I and that's a throwback for a 787 00:51:54.960 --> 00:51:58.599 lot of people that probably you know, I mean, we're talking thirty years 788 00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:00.320 ago, that ninety two season. That's how it was, and it was 789 00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:04.880 so disappointing the way it finished. That's what it was. Sat down next 790 00:52:04.920 --> 00:52:07.719 to Anthony at the game. He talked about ninety two all the time. 791 00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:09.960 I guess he did a big column about it, and he referenced all the 792 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:13.880 things you were talking about. And I remember it because it was my second 793 00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:15.880 year in basketball, so it's it's all news to me. But I mean, 794 00:52:16.119 --> 00:52:20.719 again, the gety meter at that time it was very d because they 795 00:52:20.760 --> 00:52:23.880 had tied Orgon State the tide Oregon State, a battery state team lost to 796 00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:28.639 Miami but should have beat him, and then they went on this run and 797 00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:32.159 ended up beating number one Washington here but then it fell start. Does it 798 00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:36.880 feel like thirty some years ago? Yeah, you did, Like that was 799 00:52:36.880 --> 00:52:39.280 a long time ago. I was a young man. No kids. Yeah, 800 00:52:39.559 --> 00:52:44.360 the smile on your face with kid, All right, let's take our 801 00:52:44.360 --> 00:52:50.199 break. When we come back, Kevin's got breaking news.