WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:07.200 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez. Sound Fox 2 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:14.080 Sports fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services and Sure Your most Prized Possessions kt 3 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:19.199 z R two sag at iHeartRadio Station Goo. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome 4 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:22.600 to RI on the Ball here in Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, 5 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:26.719 he's Jagansaus. Got our guy Adam for his second day of experimenting with 6 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:31.640 us, the Adam Experiment. Exactly. Welcome to Friday. Let me tell 7 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:38.560 you something, Jay, you suck at You suck at evaluating teams. If 8 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:42.479 you suck, I sucked because we both suck. Yesterday and thinking about Juve 9 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:49.119 and UCLA. You know, as I posted on our on our Twitter Twitter 10 00:00:49.159 --> 00:00:52.679 thread last night, first of all, you know who had Washington State losing 11 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:56.719 on their Bengo card and then it didn't have that, and I certainly didn't 12 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:00.240 have Arizona blowing out Ucla at UCLA. Yeah, but they did a great 13 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:03.640 job. Let me say this, and I tweeted it right away. The 14 00:01:03.760 --> 00:01:07.760 fans at UCLA, whoever they are, two of them showed up. It 15 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:11.760 was bad. What there was no atmosphere park. We were hearing that it 16 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.920 was raining, and first of all, traffic's just bad no matter what over 17 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:18.599 there. And then if it's raining and stuff, you know who? You 18 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:21.120 know who's coming, right, Mildred, you want to go to your show 19 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:23.599 game it's raining, I don't think. I don't think so. I don't 20 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:25.879 want to get wet from here to the car, right right, No, 21 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:29.719 it was it was bad at tennis. What a way to go for Ucla 22 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:36.280 in this PAC twelve history or lengthy you know, it was just I didn't 23 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:38.599 see that coming, honestly. You know what, when I said yesterday that 24 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:42.040 I thought Arizona would cover, I had no conviction behind it. You could 25 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:45.680 tell, right, I told you. By the time I get home, 26 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:51.640 I could think Ucla is gonna win. There was no strong belief that Arizona 27 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:53.200 would cover. And then they beat the hell out of them. Yeah, 28 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:57.319 it was not even fun to watch. I mean watch, well do you 29 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:00.319 see Ben Boltch, who was our guess, said they didn't put up a 30 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:04.760 fight. Yeah, And well they didn't put up a fight, and the 31 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:07.799 coach admitted that, Yeah, I don't know if you want to go there 32 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:13.240 right away. But Cronin, in his candidness, was pretty funny. Yeah, 33 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:15.039 in his candid Yeah, without trying to be funny, right, well 34 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:17.960 he was. He explained that I think way better than Tommy did. But 35 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:23.080 here's what Mike Cronin had to say. We can't guard Arizona. They're just 36 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:29.560 better than us. They're better than us on the backboard, they're better than 37 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:35.120 us on offense, they're better than us on defense. They're much better than 38 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:42.759 they were last year at all five starting positions and the bench. So if 39 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:46.319 Adam doesn't have a really good game, we have no chance. That's a 40 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:49.319 lot. That's a lot to put on one guy. It's unfair, but 41 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:53.960 that's just our reality. So we went on a stretch of bad shots and 42 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:59.680 turnovers that ended the game for us the last ten minutes of the first half. 43 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:04.199 The we just can't guard them. They didn't run anything, just like 44 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:09.039 USC they just beat us, just beat us right off the dribble, a 45 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:16.960 couple of picking rolls. They just beat us. Or or as the Zulus 46 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:23.560 would say, that's all you had to say, give it to us one 47 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:30.840 more time. Adam the pretty much the one thing that was interesting to me. 48 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:35.560 Well, there's a lot of things in that statement by Cronin. Uh 49 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.560 they're much better than last year, and people have been saying that, and 50 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:43.840 I would agree depth wise. And they have better guard play, which is 51 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:46.479 obviously important for this month and this week, this next couple of weeks. 52 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:50.560 Uh. And then he said something at the end. What did he say? 53 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:53.680 I just lost it. They're better than last year. And what was 54 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.199 just said? They couldn't guard him? No at the end? What do 55 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:59.280 you say at the end? Holy crap, I just lost it. They 56 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.639 didn't run any Oh, they which guess what they don't do. They don't 57 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:06.759 run anything. They just don't. Come on. Did you actually what he 58 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:11.520 meant by that is they only did what we expected him to do, which 59 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:14.639 which, of course did you and I and I've employed you to do this 60 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:18.000 because Bradley hasn't really done what I've said the previous time. But they how 61 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.519 many times did they go down and take a one shot possession? It happens 62 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:24.959 a lot. Yeah, No, go ahead, give the ball to the 63 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:29.839 tileb get out of the way. Yeah, but you know they made key 64 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:32.240 shots. I mean they just pulled away, you know, in a hurry 65 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:35.120 in the tail end of the second half. And that was that. And 66 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:40.360 also in that conversation, in that eight minute conversation for his press conversion. 67 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:45.399 He talked about kJ Lewis that he doesn't hit shots and if everyone is getting 68 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:47.160 that from him, these guys are going to be tough to beat. I 69 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:51.560 don't disagree with that because because that's another dude that brings offense to the table. 70 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:56.600 Well, see, think about the guys coming off the bench last season, 71 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:59.959 yeah, exactly, versus the guy's coming off the bench this season. 72 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:02.959 Right. Well, well you had Kerr who was in the starting lineup right 73 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:06.639 offered you something, but then now we see, well not that much. 74 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:12.040 Kyer replaced him, and then what is he out for you? Something but 75 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:15.439 not that much? And now you have Bradley and you have kJ, and 76 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:17.160 you have other people coming in. Did you have the other did you have 77 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:20.079 the another crona or just technologist? I just I just pulled that, which 78 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:25.040 was very striking that he says KG, I followed kJ for three years and 79 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:29.680 he's not a shooter or he was last night last night shooting eighteen points And 80 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:32.600 and I agree, And and Jay, he's probably the best NBA prospect on 81 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:38.040 that team. That's what I thought he could be because he's got so much 82 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:42.800 talent and if right, I mean he can rebound, he can defend, 83 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:46.759 he can defend like he's today's NBA guy, athletic, can shoot it. 84 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:50.839 He's tall enough, you can play different positions. Uh so, I think 85 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:54.319 he just has a good build. So you know that's going to tran right, 86 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:57.439 right, right, right? No, absolutely, So let's well, 87 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:00.240 let's go right into it. Well, first of let's see where guests are. 88 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:04.600 Yeah, yeah, guess Brian Peterson, who covers the team as well, 89 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:08.839 does a great job covering the team from Afar and near. He'll be 90 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:14.120 my uber going to Utah. Gotta be nice to him. Uh so, 91 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:16.079 Brian Peterson in the first hour, right, and then the second hour we 92 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:19.959 have Jak again, who always has something to say. Yeah, that's right 93 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:24.160 into Tommy's comments. We'll just play play a stretch of his and I haven't 94 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.199 heard this, show him on the radio stretch of his his initial comments. 95 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:30.839 It's about an eight minute press conference after the game, and this is about 96 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:32.560 the first three minutes before he started getting some real details of the game. 97 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:38.000 You'll hear Bruce Pasco just basically ask him, you know where you're celebrating, 98 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:42.399 Because if you saw the video, Tommy either got a gatorade bath or they 99 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:44.920 scored him with bottles. He was soaking wet in the locker room. But 100 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:48.800 that's here's what Tommy had to say celebrating the title from there. I mean, 101 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:50.399 yeah, I mean, hey, you know, hey, go on 102 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:54.639 players, you know, a players coach. I guess you know, so 103 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:58.759 I didn't expect that, and you know, I was assuming that we were 104 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:00.759 gonna have to win on Saturday too, But you know, hey, if 105 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:02.959 the guys want to celebrate it, they earned it, you know, I 106 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:08.120 mean we will definitely, you know, it'll test our maturity for Saturday. 107 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:10.839 But you know, I think we got a mature group with some winners, 108 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:14.639 so you know, I expect them to come out and respond on Saturday. 109 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:16.120 Did you tell them the Washington State score? Or did? There's so many 110 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:20.399 mess up nobody told me until the literal y where the buzzer went off. 111 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:25.160 I think my ho staff is probably looking on their Apple watches or whatever they 112 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:27.560 do now, and I'll do you guys know, I'm how to watch guys. 113 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:30.680 So I have no idea you didn't want it or did you didn't want 114 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:31.079 to know? Probably? Did you? Or I mean, I mean, 115 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:34.279 listen, it's not going to impact Tom coaching, But I mean I was 116 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:39.839 I was here to win today. I wasn't worried about Washington State. Well, 117 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:42.160 how about the way it went for you guys, just putting them away 118 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:44.040 like you did, especially after it's good. I mean, it was good. 119 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:45.480 It was it was a good effort. I mean, I you know, 120 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:46.959 they came out and you know, it was an even game for a 121 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:50.399 while, and our guys settled in and played good team basketball, and I 122 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:53.319 thought we were able to make a really good run at the end of the 123 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:56.600 at the end of the first halt there to kind of get some separation. 124 00:07:56.720 --> 00:08:00.040 And that's crucial. That's something we talk about. That's something we work on. 125 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:01.759 And you know, when you get that six to eight point le, 126 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:05.959 can you make that next run and our guy and you can't always it doesn't 127 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:09.199 always happen, but they did they did today, So you know that that 128 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:11.240 gave us a nice lead going into halftime. And then we came out and 129 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:15.399 we started the second half pretty good. Yeah, you guys didn't miss a 130 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:18.160 be come out on a half time. In terms of week, we talked 131 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.079 about that. You know, I think early in the year, and I 132 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:22.240 mean, I don't have all the analytics or stats in front of me are 133 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:24.959 burning my head. But I think, you know, in some of our 134 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:28.319 higher level games, I think we were oh and eight in the first four 135 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:31.639 minutes of the second half, you know. And I'm not a coach that 136 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:35.720 I don't break it down into rounds like some people do, which is smart, 137 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:37.799 but you know, I'm always trying to get the whole picture and then 138 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:41.840 possession, my possession underneath that. But but yeah, we need to start 139 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:46.559 out halfs good. It's really important. And and our guys did that today. 140 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.159 I remember you said the first game that you let them you kind of 141 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:52.919 tweak the defense to such where they were able to get some really good looks 142 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:58.200 from three and then you change things. Was it differently or we played normal 143 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:01.120 defense today? I mean, I think we're a good defensive team, you 144 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:03.440 know, and and maybe you know there are some points of the year we're 145 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:07.559 trying to get too tricky here too skoway heavy, and you know, I 146 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:11.159 think we we literally did our normal defense today. We didn't do anything no 147 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:16.960 different, So what uh you know, and this the way you did it 148 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.440 too, just again with a lot of balance kJ coming off the Ben's just 149 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:24.679 uh, you know, was that any of that kind of well, you 150 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:26.399 know, we're getting deeper into the season and so we have vets. We 151 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:28.639 have you know, we have our four vets, and you know it's it's 152 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:33.039 obvious who they are. And those guys have been through the wars and and 153 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:35.759 they're winners. And we have this group of young guys that are really talented. 154 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:39.759 So you know, we've really tried to be you know, conscientious this 155 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:43.799 last you know, two weeks of building up these younger guys and getting them 156 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:48.759 ready for you know, the experiences coming and and they're awesome, high character 157 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:52.639 guys. And you know, sometimes when you're players six, seven and an 158 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:54.639 eight on a program like this, it's hard because you think next year what 159 00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:58.120 we might turn. But but we we don't need next year. We need 160 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:01.559 now. And those guys are really good players and are really talented, and 161 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:05.360 they've been through a whole season, a bunch of high level games. They 162 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:07.840 know what we want to do, what we don't want to do. So 163 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:11.240 I asked them all to step it up a little bit and and luckily they 164 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:16.679 responded, yeah, and they have let me. I'll ask you. I'll 165 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:20.240 lost both of you guys when Brian comes on, But do you like their 166 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:26.399 defense last night. It was different because you Saily can't shoot anyway. Yeah, 167 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:28.519 I mean, I don't have any problems with their defense. I don't 168 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:31.759 know enough to not like it right in terms of what they do. I 169 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:35.320 did met, you know, I was watching a game with my son Adam, 170 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:41.360 and we both commented at one point that Arizona's playing great defense. That 171 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:43.879 I mean they were, and I don't mean just because UCLA was missing shots. 172 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:48.120 I mean they were making it hard for UCLA to get shots, and 173 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:50.200 then they were they were doing a great job on the defensive boards. Us 174 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:54.000 LA was getting one shot at a time. But I thought, you know, 175 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:58.480 they harassed them into a lot of stuff and shots that looked that I 176 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:03.120 thought that they had open when they were here. Those shots weren't there for 177 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:07.240 them last night. The one thing that struck me up watching the game, 178 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:11.919 they said that they were the eleventh best defensive team I think in the country. 179 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:13.840 I may be misstating this, but I said that's well, hell, 180 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:18.080 I didn't realize that, but which of course means, uh, I still 181 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:22.600 think they can get better. Yeah, I didn't even notice that. And 182 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:24.840 if I didn't notice that, you could tell that they're one of the top 183 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:28.320 ten teams or total eleven teams. And if you don't notice that, they 184 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:31.279 could be better with it, and all it is is on the perimeter right 185 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:33.279 right, don't don't let them, don't those shots, don't let them hit 186 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:37.240 open threes. So what's gonna you know, what's gonna win the title for 187 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:41.840 them? Exactly that? Because they can score, because because you know they're 188 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:45.240 they're they're you know, with with with key Shot and and Umar. Say 189 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:48.600 what you want about Umar offensively or whatever, he's you know, he's in 190 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:52.919 the way defensively, big dude, it's hard to get shots up in the 191 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:56.559 lane. And key Shot is also very you know, very aggressive too, 192 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:00.639 and Pella is kind of like the quiet cornerstone, right, So yeah, 193 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:03.759 I mean that again, what the issues that they've had defensively have been in 194 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:09.000 guarding the perimeter, right And if that wraps up, because I've seen Houston 195 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:11.919 a number of times, they're not Houston offensive defensive nobody yet. But but 196 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:18.039 Houston's not Arizona offensively. So if Arizona can just ratchet that up a little 197 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:22.320 bit more, they're gonna be unbelievably Talk to me, But you know, 198 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:28.120 Josh, Josh was in the studio and he says what I say forever since 199 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:31.840 even before John's got here. If you play a team in the half court 200 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:35.200 that's going to give you fits. Look at all the teams that have given 201 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:39.480 Arizona fits to second player. Keep it in the sixties, Wisconsin, keep 202 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:43.559 him in the sixties into that. You know what I'm saying, bring the 203 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:46.679 air out of the ball. And Arizona doesn't know what to do because they're 204 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:48.360 used to pulling back and forth. Yeah. No, yeah, no, 205 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:52.559 I hear you. No, I again, And look, we do have 206 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:56.159 to take into account that while it's UCLA, this is a bad UCLA. 207 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:58.279 Yeah, it's not the usual lady. We know you can't say, well 208 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.120 they play that great defense, are gonna win the national championship? No, 209 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:05.759 but you know we saw who you said they did to him down here, 210 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:09.120 and and so certainly you know they're on you know, they're on an on 211 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:13.360 an upward trajectory defensively. Uh, nobody's done that against them, even the 212 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:16.320 Washington stay Gium that they lost. It wasn't Washington, Washing State just came 213 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:20.480 in here and beat them, play better than them. And you don't point, 214 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:24.000 well, they did it from the outside they just overall played a better 215 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:26.360 game than Arizona to win that game. Every other game Arizona's played, their 216 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:30.480 defense has been you know, it has been really good, you know, 217 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:35.519 and so I think that you know, it certainly is something that gives them 218 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:45.399 a little, I don't know, momentum. You know who? You sound 219 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:48.759 like the guy who be Ben. Did you see the part when Ben try 220 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:50.840 to ask up Conin and he didn't know what to ask him. You sound 221 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:58.600 a lot like me. You don't even know what to ask anymore because no 222 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:01.879 momentum, Well, they've won eleven out of twelve, so they're not a 223 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:07.279 nice little run here. Will will the momentum ever stop or maybe not? 224 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.200 And will they continue playing well? Again? You know, I don't know 225 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:16.399 the Caleb Kylon Boswa had a great game. We didn't have a bad game, 226 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:18.960 right, And guess what, that's all you that's all you need, 227 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:22.720 that's all you Don't play bad, just don't. It's just you're very much 228 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:26.559 great great stuff. Yeah, don't play bad and we're gonna be very good. 229 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:28.720 You know. But again, and you look at all the guys that 230 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:33.120 just you know, they put all the pieces together. You don't have to, 231 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:37.440 I mean who do you pick out right for say that had they won 232 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:39.440 because of this guy? Yeah, you don't. Nobody, nobody. Although 233 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:43.679 it's great to see kJ Lewis do what he does, I didn't realize he 234 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:46.559 was. It must have been a quite good at eighteen. Yeah, I 235 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:50.279 had no idea. Yeah, but the one thing that I saw and I 236 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:52.879 didn't don't really like. I still don't like it is is Keisha taking the 237 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:56.840 three pointers at anytime. That's not who he is. He hits them sometimes. 238 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:01.639 Well, sometimes you're a good guy and sometimes I want the good guy 239 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:07.399 all the time. What you say to that? Okay, I want to 240 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:09.120 say something to that, but I don't know what it should be. Just 241 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:13.080 be a good guy, and I won't. So do we have another clip? 242 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:15.559 We have a idea's team. Now we can go to de Yeah, 243 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:18.440 well we run, We've run to our bank. Yeah, all right, 244 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:20.600 we'll talk. Yeah, we will take it. On the other side, 245 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:24.519 we've got Brian Peterson coming in. Get his thoughts on what we all saw 246 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:28.919 last night, because again all unexpected as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, 247 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:30.879 I know about you too, all right, Well, were at back with 248 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:33.759 Brian Peterson. Make the right choice for your home when it comes to windows 249 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:37.399 and doors. For more than twenty years, the Window Depot has provided the 250 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:41.720 best price and biggest inventory on in stock windows and doors. 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We have Brian Peterson 322 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:59.440 from easydisertswarm dot com Bryan Hawait, I'm great, thanks for having me back. 323 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:03.720 Sure, let me say this before we started with you, we were 324 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:07.079 talking about the game last actually a little by surprise Jay and I inasmuch as 325 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:12.119 we didn't think it'd be that big of a victory. Did it maybe surprise 326 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:18.400 you at all a little bit, just because partly because of how UCLA played 327 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:23.319 the last time and that, you know, Arizona had this pressure that they 328 00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:27.839 needed to win the game and then at least to stay alive, not knowing 329 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:32.160 that Washington State was going to lose to Washington. But I mean, this 330 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:34.880 might just be like an example of if they really put their mind to it, 331 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:40.039 they can just dominate everyone, which we've seen this year that they just 332 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:41.519 had a couple of games there in the middle where it looked like they really 333 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:45.359 didn't give their full effort and it came back to bite them. But that 334 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:48.519 really hasn't been the case in the past. I don't know, five weeks. 335 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:52.240 Yeah, you know, well, Richard Jefferson I think talked about that 336 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:55.279 during the you know, during the telecast. By the way, he did 337 00:21:55.319 --> 00:21:56.400 such a great job. He was fun to I don't know if you guys 338 00:21:56.440 --> 00:22:00.519 thought he was really fun to watch and listen to. You knew the other 339 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:03.880 schools or you show you guys, shut up, yeah, get away from 340 00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:07.480 me. But you know, I think he talked about the fact that, 341 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:10.880 look, every team is going to go through periods in a season where they're 342 00:22:10.920 --> 00:22:14.680 just you know, it just doesn't go well. And and you know, 343 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:17.359 maybe that's what Arizona did and they're out of it, and who knows. 344 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:19.559 I mean, you know, we sit here and still say we don't trust 345 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:23.319 them to do this game in and game out, but there are eleven games 346 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:26.319 into a street. Well that'll be with that question. Because I've asked this 347 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:30.960 of a many people. I haven't asked this of Brian. Okay, do 348 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:33.599 you trust this team more now than you did? Or did you not lose 349 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:38.759 trust in them? I trust them more now. When they had that lull 350 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:42.000 in the middle, I was wondering, is this just like a thing with 351 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:48.400 this program that you know, they they don't really look at every game the 352 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:52.920 same, and that some of them they allow the players to kind of have 353 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:56.960 this mindset. But it hasn't been that case since then because there have been 354 00:22:57.039 --> 00:23:02.400 some opponents in this run that aren't really of the highest quality and it really 355 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:06.079 hasn't mattered. But getting back to the you know, the low kind of 356 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:11.400 situation. Yukon last year started fourteen and oh looked like world beaters won their 357 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:15.759 last six games to win the title. They were ten and eight in between 358 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:19.799 that in the middle of the season and looked very, very vulnerable. It 359 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:23.119 was the exact same team the whole way through. I mean, we do 360 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:27.480 also have to remember these are eighteen to twenty two year old kids. Weird 361 00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:30.039 things happen and all that. I mean, you see it in the NBA. 362 00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:33.960 When these guys are making millions, there's going to be lulls during it. 363 00:23:33.799 --> 00:23:37.640 As long as they put it together when it matters most, and that 364 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:42.039 those setbacks during the season don't cost them. It may end up costing them 365 00:23:42.079 --> 00:23:45.000 a number one seed, but the difference between a one and the two if 366 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:49.160 they get to stay out West, is negligible. I just think they're putting 367 00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:52.880 it all together right now. It sure looks like that. And again, 368 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:57.480 you know, for Arizona fans who want every game to be perfect or they 369 00:23:57.559 --> 00:24:03.440 lose their minds. You know, I thought I was going to suggest the 370 00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:06.440 same thing. Equate this to what Yukon did last year, you know, 371 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:07.880 and they came out, you know, got into the tournament and they were 372 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:11.440 unbeatable. I mean, you know, we saw him at the at the 373 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:14.759 West Regional in Vegas, or at least I did, and I'm like, 374 00:24:14.839 --> 00:24:18.000 who's going to beat these guys? And nobody did, right, you know, 375 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:19.079 all the way to the end, and they I mean, there was 376 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:22.039 no doubt in my mind they were going to win it once they got to 377 00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:26.519 the final four. Yeah. Yeah, So, I mean, there there 378 00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:32.160 aren't any major flaws on this team, and the defensive issues that popped up 379 00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:37.240 in those losses in that stretch mostly were related to the three point defense, 380 00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:42.839 particularly against big guys, and the struggling of the defense on the switching point 381 00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:47.599 that really hasn't been there. Since then, They've they've faced a lot of 382 00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:49.960 decent three point shooting teams and no one has kind of gone wild like Oregon 383 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:55.440 State and Stanford did. Yeah, no questions. What were the the What 384 00:24:55.519 --> 00:25:00.559 was the brightest side from last night? Probably the fact that they didn't start 385 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:06.359 to play any starter more than twenty nine minutes and that they can just kind 386 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:11.000 of rely on those bench guys and rotate in and that they don't have to 387 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:17.799 have three or four of the starters out there minimum at all times that they 388 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:22.880 can that they found the right rotations. Even the worst lineup, if you 389 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:26.200 will, from of the combinations of the eight is still a pretty strong one. 390 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:32.680 And they they don't seem to have a lineup that they really struggle with. 391 00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:36.640 You know, my, my, my best thing that I saw from 392 00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:41.559 them last night was the fact that they did not come out of lolligag at 393 00:25:41.559 --> 00:25:45.920 the start of the second half. You know, they came out and stepped 394 00:25:45.960 --> 00:25:51.519 on them, you know, stretch the lead and just put it away rather 395 00:25:51.559 --> 00:25:53.880 than sit ronie because even against Oregon, right they you know, they they 396 00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:57.039 never did extend the lead. In fact, I think Oregon scored them in 397 00:25:57.039 --> 00:26:00.000 the second half of that game, but you know, it was never in 398 00:26:00.039 --> 00:26:03.440 doubt. But I thought, you know that that they came out in the 399 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:07.160 second half and as they said, won the start of the second half. 400 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:11.960 Yeah, and Tommy had mentioned that after the game that in their most high 401 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:15.480 level games, uh, that they were winless to speak, in the first 402 00:26:15.559 --> 00:26:18.480 four minutes of the second half. If you break it into those quadronts with 403 00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:22.680 the TV timeouts, and that is well, it won't. You can't necessarily 404 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:27.480 lose the game during those four minutes. You can help win the game during 405 00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:33.319 those four minutes. And they did that because yeah, Ucla got the first 406 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:37.160 basket and then Arizona next thing, you know, is up over twenty and 407 00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:41.079 kept it over twenty for like the last I don't know, like seventeen minutes. 408 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:44.519 Yeah, yeah, they went up. They went up by uh, 409 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:47.200 they got it. They they well, they were up by nineteen and hit 410 00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:49.960 a three pointer at the sixteen to thirty mark of the second half. They 411 00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:53.880 were up by twenty two and that was about it right there. So yeah, 412 00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:57.400 that that's and those are the things Steve that you know, I think, 413 00:26:57.480 --> 00:27:00.920 you know, if you're gonna win a championship, you have to do 414 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:04.200 that. You can't get you can't let a team breathe coming out of the 415 00:27:04.279 --> 00:27:07.519 locker room. There's almost done that. Well, this is exactly what Tommy 416 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:11.319 was talking about. And maybe Brian remembers what he said maybe the first month 417 00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:15.799 or even before the season started. He wanted a lot of wiggle room. 418 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:19.160 He didn't use the word wiggle room, but to kind of like get out 419 00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:22.440 early. So there's a lot of comfort zone. I don't know, do 420 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:26.119 you remember this sque from back in the day. I don't, but it 421 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:30.240 does sound familiar. And they've had a lot of those games. I mean, 422 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:33.640 heck, the Utah triple overtime game, they were up by seventeen eighteen 423 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:37.799 points in the first half because and he said after that game that you know 424 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:41.480 these certain games, especially on the road, that the team is going to 425 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:42.880 make a run. So if you can get up early on them, then 426 00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:48.400 the run just means that that it gets closer rather than falling behind. Sure, 427 00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:52.160 and that was That's probably very direct to the Princeton game. I think 428 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:56.160 they had a twelve point lead somewhere in the second fourteen in the first half, 429 00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:57.920 and you're thinking they're not losing this, and then all of a sudden, 430 00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:03.839 we know what happened. He wants more of the wiggle room just in 431 00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:08.119 case they get cold or just because something might happen. But we talked about 432 00:28:08.119 --> 00:28:11.759 this before you too. You came on defensively. We all like this team 433 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:15.640 offensively, and I didn't realize and you probably your numbers, guy. Are 434 00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:23.240 they eleventh nationally defensively? They're in the top fifteen in Ken Palm in adjusted 435 00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:27.279 defensive efficiency and they've been top twenty the whole year, and for a while 436 00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:30.720 they were top ten before a couple of those those three point games. But 437 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:34.839 as bad as they were in some of those early conference games against the three, 438 00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:38.960 they're now. I think the last six or seven opponents are shooting less 439 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:45.279 than thirty percent total, and the only times that teams are hitting ten threes 440 00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:48.559 is because they're taking like thirty five of them. And Tommy has mentioned that 441 00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:52.799 sometimes you just have to live with those that if they're going to jack up 442 00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:55.720 a bunch, they're going to make some of them. It's just a matter 443 00:28:55.759 --> 00:29:00.160 of making sure. It's not that the good guys are wide open. They 444 00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:03.079 hit contested threes. They hit contested three. So we're talking to Brian Peterson 445 00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:07.960 from Azy Desert Swarm dot com. Brian again, now you know we're we're 446 00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:11.440 you. Arizona plays a game like that, the fans can't help but start 447 00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:15.240 projecting, right, Oh, we're gonna you know, we got this and 448 00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:18.359 you know what do they have to be careful of? Uh? You know 449 00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:22.400 the guy uh uh Tommy mentioned last night in his postgame press conference. You 450 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.160 know, we've got to be mature enough to come out on Saturday and take 451 00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:30.079 care of business on Saturday. Well, yeah, I mean this is this 452 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:33.759 is USC super Bowl. They're they're gonna be the eleven seed in the Pac 453 00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:37.640 twelve tournament, and you know, as as talented as they are, they're 454 00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:42.599 just they've shown they're not good enough to go on a run to win that 455 00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:48.039 tournament and make it into the postseason. So this is their thing. Uh, 456 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:51.640 it's their senior day. I don't know. So for Boogie Ellis, 457 00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:53.759 I'm imagining Lebron's going to be there. He was there last night. They're 458 00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:59.279 home this weekend in LA. The Lakers are, so it's gonna be this 459 00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:03.119 big environ and Arizona is like they are in a lot of cases. They're 460 00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:07.960 going to be the team with this giant target on their back, knowing that 461 00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:11.000 they've won the title. It doesn't affect where they are in the PAC twelve 462 00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:14.920 tournament. They could easily just be like, yeah, whatever. But I 463 00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:18.400 don't really see that from this group. I don't think they want to have 464 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:25.200 a subpar game and and have it have anyone questioned, right, their their 465 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:30.640 devotion and their their motivation. Not to mention the fact that I think it's 466 00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:37.720 not it's Arizona would have to win out and have Tennessee lose to Kentucky and 467 00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:41.119 maybe lose in the first round of the SEC tournament for Arizona to get the 468 00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:45.920 one seed. But you so it's that it's tough for them to get it, 469 00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:48.759 but you still got to make sure that you're doing your part. Yeah, 470 00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:52.559 yeah, no question. Things just fell into place last night. The 471 00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:56.759 basketball gods for Arizona opened up and said, okay, we'll let you have 472 00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:02.400 it. Well, last time we had about three or four minutes. I 473 00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:04.079 know you keep your eyes on the women's team. I think you had Kim 474 00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:07.319 over there in La or in Vegas. What's up with them? What do 475 00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:12.559 you think? I really think that it's well, for one, it's going 476 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:18.000 to come down to if there's any big Steelers from any of the other conference 477 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:22.920 tournaments to take away an at large spot for if Arizona can get it. 478 00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:29.160 But it could really go either way. Seventeen and fifteen doesn't look like a 479 00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:33.440 very good record, But when you counter the fact that I believe they played 480 00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:37.440 eleven games against the top fourteen in the NET, they've played nineteen quad one 481 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:41.400 games, which is two more than any other team in the country, and 482 00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:45.480 one many of them, but they've played a lot of them close. If 483 00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:48.799 they hadn't played the kind of non conference schedule they did this year, which 484 00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:53.599 was abnormal for them, it was tougher they played Gonzaga and Texas and UNLV 485 00:31:55.359 --> 00:31:59.720 if they had not, and there was someone else in there that was really 486 00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:04.039 good, if they had not played those four teams and just played garbage teams, 487 00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:07.480 they'd be sitting here right now at twenty one and eleven and there wouldn't 488 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:13.279 really be any question of them getting in. It wouldn't shock me either way. 489 00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:16.799 It almost might be better for them to not make it and to get 490 00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:22.160 into one of the secondary tournaments where they get to play at home and their 491 00:32:22.519 --> 00:32:25.599 fairly young team and small team can play in front of a home crowd and 492 00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:29.960 maybe get a couple of wins and get some confidence for next year for the 493 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.599 players returning. But they've also shown that they can hang with pretty much anyone, 494 00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:37.640 So if they do get in, they could pull off an upset. 495 00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:42.720 But I'd say maybe a forty percent chance that they get in. Rate the 496 00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:45.200 coaching job she's done, you know, some have said this has been the 497 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:47.960 best coaching job she's done with what she's had to deal with, But you 498 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:52.160 know how much of what she's had to deal with has been because of a 499 00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:54.880 dea Barnes. You know, we don't know that rak the job you think 500 00:32:54.920 --> 00:32:59.079 she's done this year with this team, Yeah, I mean, there's no 501 00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:02.880 doubt that there's been a lot of turmoil within her program. Whether that was 502 00:33:04.440 --> 00:33:08.880 circumstantial or a byproduct of how things are run there. I don't know. 503 00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:13.079 I'm not on the inside of the locker room and all that, but since 504 00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:19.880 it's gone down to this seven core players here, it seems like there's just 505 00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:23.480 such a like a same page mentality of all of them that there isn't any 506 00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:32.039 sort of disagreements that you're surprised when you hear that this team only has seven 507 00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:36.720 players if you didn't know it from the outside with as well as they're playing, 508 00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:39.599 and it thinks that it had to get to that point, like if 509 00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:43.720 this could have been happening when there was still ten players on the team, 510 00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:46.720 what would have happened? But you know, you kind of have to make 511 00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:51.960 the bed you lay in the bed that you've made, and I think it's 512 00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:57.960 been a strong job, but there does need to be some internal introspection of 513 00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:01.039 why did we get to this point. Yeah, no question beyond the injury 514 00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:06.240 right. No. Lastly, I know you covered baseball. It's your heart 515 00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:12.480 chip. How good is this team or isn't it? This was going to 516 00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:16.800 be the season that was going to be the most uncertain because all the veterans 517 00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:22.440 that he inherited are gone. This is all his players for the most part, 518 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:24.639 that he's recruited out of high school or junior college or brought in from 519 00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:29.840 the portal. And it was probably going to take the longest to figure out 520 00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:34.719 what you had there because so many new position players and whatnot. And you 521 00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:37.719 throw in the fact that their first eleven games, ten of them ended up 522 00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:42.679 being against Quad one opponents. They've already played seven ranked teams, so they're 523 00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:45.920 sitting at five and six and they opened the Pac twelve tonight at USC. 524 00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:52.079 They're better than five and six, and I think they're better than the ninth 525 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:54.199 place team, which is where they were picked to be in the Pac twelve. 526 00:34:54.920 --> 00:34:59.280 But they're going to have to show that they you know, they've hung 527 00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:00.960 with some of these really good teams and haven't been able to beat many of 528 00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:06.960 them. It's now a matter of can they beat teams that aren't highly ranked 529 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:10.920 and highly rated to be able to build that confidence for later in the season. 530 00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:15.920 Okay, as usual, Thank you, Brian, We'll see you soon. 531 00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:19.280 Enjoy tomorrow's game, and we'll see you next week in Vegas. All 532 00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:23.320 right, see then, Thank you Brian Peterson from easydisitchwarm dot com. Go 533 00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:29.480 see him and his staff. Yep, a good job Kim Kim Doss Kim 534 00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:32.039 Dos covering women's basketball for them. She does a really good job as well. 535 00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:37.840 So yeah, check out our former intern Devin. Okay, so, 536 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:42.199 Devin's following the women's softball game. I shouldn't call it the women's game, 537 00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:45.000 the softball game. Cats are down two nothing in the bottom of the six 538 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.440 against Oregon. Stage just had a bases loaded, two out situation and didn't. 539 00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:52.280 Is that at State? Oh okay, let's go come back and talk, 540 00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:54.800 maybe take some calls. All right, we'll take a break. If 541 00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:59.239 you're an Arizona men's basketball fan, you know it's been successful for nearly forty 542 00:35:59.320 --> 00:36:01.760 years. I'll take a look back at the Loudolsen era in my new book, 543 00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:05.199 Lessons from Loot. It was a labor of love through the eyes of 544 00:36:05.239 --> 00:36:08.079 twenty five former players, coaches, and friends to give insight to the coach 545 00:36:08.159 --> 00:36:12.280 and the man who led them, competed against them, and inspired them. 546 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:15.920 Twenty five chapters for his twenty five years as Arizona's beloved coach. 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I'm sure you were flipping back 582 00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:53.400 and forth or were you? That was that women's games. I started watching 583 00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:55.960 that game rather than the men's game because it was a good game. Yeah, 584 00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:00.920 they almost deal with came back in one day, were getting blown out, 585 00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:02.639 you know, I mean thirteen to nothing, and I'm like, okay, 586 00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:06.239 you know the again, the clock is struck twelve on this team, 587 00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:07.719 and we did. We turned we were having dinner, we turned away from 588 00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:09.639 it and turned it back on and was like, wait a minute. You 589 00:39:09.719 --> 00:39:13.880 know, they're down three, you know, but they were down three at 590 00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:15.880 the half or five at a half or something like that, and I'm like, 591 00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:17.360 okay, they're you know, they're in it. And I mean they 592 00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:22.199 never got there, but you know, hey, you give a lot of 593 00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:24.119 credit to that. In fact, we do have a clip from a DA 594 00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:29.639 from her post game press coffee, just a real quick introductory comment that she 595 00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:34.719 had right after the game. As far as our team was seven, we 596 00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:38.639 battled, and we've had seven and haven't had a lot of bodies to practice, 597 00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:43.719 and but we go out and we fight. I told our players today, 598 00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:45.760 we won every quarter but the first quarter, the first five minutes we 599 00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:50.239 got punched, and that was the difference in the game, because that's one 600 00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:52.320 of the reason why we lost. We won all the other three quarters, 601 00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:54.840 so we had chances to winness like we did last time against them, but 602 00:39:55.360 --> 00:40:01.239 we just came up too short. So I'm proud of us, as she 603 00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:05.159 should be. As she should be. I mean, well, let's say 604 00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:08.639 this, and we talk about all the times teams win championship, right and 605 00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:13.079 and and she said this maybe two or three weeks ago, when some turmoil 606 00:40:13.159 --> 00:40:16.639 happened. Audition by subtraction right, and and you've dealt with it in your 607 00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:20.559 real life. I've I've dealt with it in terms of being a part of 608 00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:23.639 a team where sometimes you just have to cut the people that are bothering the 609 00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:29.480 team. And we you were talking about when we were here originally, you 610 00:40:29.480 --> 00:40:31.239 know, we've been together now three a little more than three years. Uh. 611 00:40:31.559 --> 00:40:37.280 You don't want to sign guys that are can't you know, that are 612 00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:40.079 pain and the asses because they affect the way the team chemistry is. And 613 00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:45.719 and I've seen this more times than not that you see it's there. They're 614 00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:49.320 great players, but their chemistry is hot. Well, I think about how 615 00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:53.960 good a couple of Sean Miller's teams were very much all right, and then 616 00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:59.079 and then that that that that team that lost Toffalo. You know, that 617 00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:02.119 all talent in the world, but if you don't have all the other pieces, 618 00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:07.039 including the teamwork and the mental piece of that, you can be You 619 00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:10.360 can have the best talent, you know, sure every game and still lose 620 00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:14.440 a bunch of games, will get blown out or flame out in the NCAA 621 00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:17.039 tournament or whoever. And anybody who's been in a corporate situation or whatever, 622 00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:21.320 I know, and people who are listening are kind of are shaking the saying 623 00:41:21.800 --> 00:41:24.800 yeah, yeah, he's right, because you can't play with people who don't 624 00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:30.360 want to play right right, And that's more important than anything, it really 625 00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:35.320 is. I mean, whether it's a team situation or you know, two 626 00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:37.360 or three people or whatever, you all got to be on the same page 627 00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:40.960 or it doesn't work. Well, it may work to a certain level, 628 00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:45.000 but you're not going to get to the Promised Land if you're not all together 629 00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:46.840 on it. And how many times and you don't you hate this because I 630 00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:51.320 know I hate this. It's recruiting. Everyone says, well, what about 631 00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:53.239 recruiting, and recruiting, Well, we've got these guys coming in well cold, 632 00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:57.639 great. Recruiting doesn't mean anything unless you're one. You show up and 633 00:41:57.639 --> 00:42:00.360 you're good, right, and show up and you can play together with the 634 00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:07.960 other guys. Remember those first couple of uh top you know uh recruits that 635 00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:14.039 Sean Millerbard and Sadiki Johnson and then the guard yeah yeah, Josia Turner, 636 00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:17.400 And how terrible they were for you. You could see on the court that 637 00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:22.559 they absolutely did not want to be be there with all those other guys that 638 00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:25.519 they wanted theirs and then maybe that was you know, Sean realized, you 639 00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:29.400 know, he went for these guys because they were you know, the big, 640 00:42:29.880 --> 00:42:31.159 big time recruits, you know, highly ranked in the whole bit, 641 00:42:31.719 --> 00:42:37.199 and he went after that and clearly didn't measure the rest of it to see, 642 00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:38.400 are these guys good character, guys that are gonna help me? And 643 00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:42.280 they didn't, and they were both gone. Sadika Johnson didn't even make it 644 00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:45.599 a full season, and Josiah Turner was gone after the first year. And 645 00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:47.119 he probably needed him just to beet on the team, yeah, because he 646 00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:52.280 needed someone to run and he was troubled. Both of them actually were. 647 00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:58.519 So that's crucial, that chemistry totally and and so yeah, so look, 648 00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:02.000 and I'm sure whatever happened, I thought Brian Peterson made a good, uh 649 00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:06.519 made a good observation that it might be better for them. I know they 650 00:43:06.519 --> 00:43:09.440 want to be in the NCAA tournament, but from uh, maybe with seven 651 00:43:09.480 --> 00:43:14.079 players, you'd rather just go take your shot at the n CUAA tournament and 652 00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:17.360 you know, rather than run four or five more games in the n I 653 00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:22.440 t or whatever. But they want to get in the n CUAA tournament, 654 00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:23.480 they wouldn't be the worst thing in the world for them to go get a 655 00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:25.599 couple. Let me tell you this year they get to play a game at 656 00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:30.199 home. Well, let me tell you the n C A no. But 657 00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:32.000 let me say this to you, Jayle. Assume they sneak in as a 658 00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:37.480 twelve or whatever seat they would be just having seen them play the last two 659 00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:39.800 weeks, I wouldn't want to play them. Yeah, because there is that 660 00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:44.800 they've competed against the best in this conference, and we know that this conference 661 00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:49.800 has a lot of good teams are almost again, So so let's assume for 662 00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:52.800 a second that this conference has some of the better teams in the country. 663 00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:55.079 That means that they're gonna play the teams that aren't as good, that wouldn't 664 00:43:55.159 --> 00:43:59.760 be good in this conference, right, that they would be capable of beating 665 00:43:59.840 --> 00:44:02.400 those those teams. I would This story is it's a it's a it's a 666 00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:06.880 fun story. I know how yours covering it for us and blah blah blah, 667 00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:09.559 But it's a fun story now because all the other stuff is behind them, 668 00:44:09.639 --> 00:44:14.119 right, and they're playing out of their minds and you rook for them, 669 00:44:14.360 --> 00:44:15.639 right, yeah, don't you? I mean you you were you know 670 00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:23.039 yesterday I still Hey, I'm apologating too. Yeah, she's a fantastic player, 671 00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:29.679 like a multi dimensional place. Although although there was one ball she had 672 00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:34.599 she got a she had an open lane all the way to the basket, 673 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:37.840 and she passed the ball. She passed the ball to an open for an 674 00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:40.800 open three. But they didn't make. But if she just takes the lay 675 00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:44.280 up, you know, they would cut I think they were at that point, 676 00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:45.920 would have cut the lead to one. Instead, they you know it 677 00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:49.960 with an empty possession. And then USC went down and scored and it was 678 00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:55.159 like she just she's unfortunately been a pass first player when she's one of the 679 00:44:55.159 --> 00:44:59.639 more talented shooters that they have, and that's been kind of an unfortunate thing 680 00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:00.800 for her. But she's been really good. She's been one of my favorite 681 00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:04.239 players that I've seen them. I mean, she's up in the you know, 682 00:45:04.639 --> 00:45:08.000 not quite the Sam Thomas territory for me, but you know, up 683 00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:12.599 there in terms of she's been a she's been somebody that I've really liked the 684 00:45:12.639 --> 00:45:15.280 whole time she's been sure, of course, I said, wow, she 685 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:17.719 could do a lot of things. Yeah, she had a shot yesterday, 686 00:45:17.800 --> 00:45:21.559 I think they were down by seven or whatever from the top of the key. 687 00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:23.440 They were they were watched, they were following her, and she finally 688 00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:27.039 found her open and she shot it and she nailed it. They're down by 689 00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:30.119 three or whatever. These girls could wait. Yeah, yeah, they gave 690 00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:32.280 it their shot. Yeah, they gave it their shot. It was great. 691 00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:35.760 It was great to see him you have a shot at it, because 692 00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:37.800 again, when I watched the first coupleans, I thought, oh God, 693 00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:40.639 this is gonna be so bad. And they just never never gave up fighting. 694 00:45:40.679 --> 00:45:45.559 And you could tell from it from Ada's press conference that she was sad 695 00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:49.000 that they didn't win the game, but she was very proud about the way 696 00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:51.719 they just, you know, they battled, and they continue to battle, 697 00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:55.079 and for the whole second half of the year they battled with that. Yeah, 698 00:45:55.079 --> 00:46:00.039 I think we've got to call some I on there on the ball. 699 00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:05.719 Hey, I'm Hector. How you guys doing, Hey Hector, thanks for 700 00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:10.760 calling listening to UH. I'm listening to the You know that some of the 701 00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:15.199 players from a DS team that got either left or cut off or whatever. 702 00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:21.519 But remember my first year of being a head coach up in UH Bullet City 703 00:46:21.559 --> 00:46:27.079 Marby High School and UH and I remember UH we had some good players. 704 00:46:27.119 --> 00:46:31.000 But I remember a fellow coach, a friend of mine, telling me, 705 00:46:32.039 --> 00:46:35.800 you're going to have some players that are good enough to help you win, 706 00:46:35.960 --> 00:46:40.079 but they're also going to get your ass beats. Yeah right, but uh 707 00:46:40.400 --> 00:46:45.039 we ended up we ended up going like one in eighteen that year. But 708 00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:50.000 I tell you what, these kids would work their ass off, steal the 709 00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:53.440 ball and then break the break the backboard, the glass, trying to make 710 00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:58.519 a layoup of what the hell? Yeah, but uh, it really does 711 00:46:58.559 --> 00:47:00.599 set the tone. And that took a little guts, but it's true. 712 00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:06.639 And aren't those teams the most fun to coach? Right when you know every 713 00:47:06.679 --> 00:47:09.239 every practice, every game that they're giving them what they had. They maybe 714 00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:14.119 they're not great, but they give it all they have. But I'll tell 715 00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:19.039 you what I back then, you know, maybe seven years older than those 716 00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:22.920 kids. Wow, they're all close of eyets now and they're great. They're 717 00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:29.480 great families of dads, grandfathers. That makes me feel real good. But 718 00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:34.480 I used to come up basketball was everything. At the pe teacher I used 719 00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:37.119 to have the gym, So I had the gym in the morning at Lawrence 720 00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:40.719 and just worked the ass off of basketball. But then I started working lude 721 00:47:40.719 --> 00:47:45.800 Olson's camps, and uh, it was great. I remember I remember Wednesdays 722 00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:52.559 it would be burgers and beers night that his place or does place or whatever. 723 00:47:52.639 --> 00:47:58.079 But Ricky bird Song was Uh, I mean, but I loved it. 724 00:47:58.199 --> 00:48:00.920 Those out and Ludeawson. You know it looks great. Yeah, Hector, 725 00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:04.480 we appreciate the call. Man. Thank you. Please keep listening, 726 00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:07.519 keep calling. Thank you, thank you. That's a good call. Yeah. 727 00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:10.760 When you're a coach, you have to the balance balance. Well, 728 00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:14.440 think about it, Jay, And I've said this a number of times on 729 00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:17.760 this one. Some of the biggest egos are coaches and they think, I 730 00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:21.760 can, I got this, I can take care of that ego. I 731 00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:24.400 can. I can tell him, you know, you not so much because 732 00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:27.840 if you are who you are, if you're a painting, yeah, it's 733 00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:30.360 guess what you're gonna be yes, And then a coach is gonna say, 734 00:48:30.599 --> 00:48:35.119 what the hell did I do? You know? My last year at Saint 735 00:48:35.119 --> 00:48:37.920 Gregory as the baseball coach, and I left not because we were bad, 736 00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:42.519 but because my son graduated. But we were bad. We were not very 737 00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:45.760 good, but we had a blast. Our road trips were great. We 738 00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:49.000 had fun, Our practices were fun, and then we made the practice is 739 00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:51.599 fun because we knew we weren't. You know, we could practice all the 740 00:48:51.639 --> 00:48:54.159 fundamentals we wanted to could practice, and you know, we just you know, 741 00:48:54.199 --> 00:48:58.119 and we were. We had like ten or eleven guys in every game. 742 00:48:58.119 --> 00:49:00.039 We were checking the parking lot to see who was coming and all that 743 00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:04.360 stuff. But we had a great time and and it made it fun. 744 00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:06.880 And that's it. That's an important piece of all of this. If you're 745 00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:08.519 not having fun, you're not You're not. You know, it's hard to 746 00:49:08.559 --> 00:49:13.639 win. You got to be having fun for sure. Yeah, yeah, 747 00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:15.440 okay, okay, we got about three minutes. Anybody want to give us 748 00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:21.440 a quick call, you can five two o four one forty after this route. 749 00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:22.920 Adam has his breaking news, right, A lot of stuff going on 750 00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:27.320 just during the last hour, A lot of things going on watching Arizona. 751 00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:30.239 And they got the bases loaded, two outs, top of the seventh. 752 00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:35.760 They're down to zip. So let's see what what happens here. But you 753 00:49:35.800 --> 00:49:37.480 know, they don't thin giving them sums of shot. I don't know. 754 00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:40.559 Got one last call coming in, all right, let's take this. Hi 755 00:49:40.639 --> 00:49:45.719 are on the air and I on the ball. Hey, this is Frank, 756 00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:50.599 I'm just wondering, like last night, when Arizona has a big lady 757 00:49:50.639 --> 00:49:54.440 that's at UCLA, or even at other times, or even in football, 758 00:49:55.400 --> 00:50:01.920 when the Wildcats have a kind of a pretty much inserm fable lead, I 759 00:50:02.079 --> 00:50:07.320 wonder why the coaches wait until maybe two minutes or sometimes even one minute or 760 00:50:07.360 --> 00:50:12.199 even thirty seconds to put in their subs. I would think that they want 761 00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:15.440 to see some of those some of those players that they're good to rest on. 762 00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:20.360 They sure see what they have, but can you can you explain why 763 00:50:20.400 --> 00:50:23.239 they they might not want to do that or what's going on? They want 764 00:50:23.239 --> 00:50:27.519 to feel comfortable the rest of the year. Well, you know, Frank 765 00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:30.880 thought I felt the same way. Yeah, because they were twenty something right 766 00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:32.719 there, what tim minutes left? And I think this is the perfect time 767 00:50:32.760 --> 00:50:39.039 to put in Philip and the other right, morescuos, Moriscus and those guys 768 00:50:39.079 --> 00:50:43.880 know, Frank, I firmly believe what you believe. But these guys know 769 00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:46.039 there's there's no big lead being nick. Yeah, and the coaches mind, 770 00:50:46.039 --> 00:50:51.519 no lead is safe. You know, they've I mean, look with with 771 00:50:51.760 --> 00:50:54.920 with three minutes left against Illinois in two thousand and five by fifty and they 772 00:50:54.920 --> 00:50:59.400 got and they got beat. So coaches are just nervous about that. And 773 00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:00.599 Frank, you would understand this, you know, yep, I can't. 774 00:51:00.599 --> 00:51:05.519 It's already too late for them to get some seasoning for what's ahead because they're 775 00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:10.199 not going to play in the tournament. Yeah. So yeah, No, 776 00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:15.119 coaches are just nervous. I think that that's all. It's as simple as 777 00:51:15.119 --> 00:51:19.280 that. And the other guys, the reserves played more, I mean didn't 778 00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:22.840 play him. Yeah, they spread the playing time around quite a bit yesterday, 779 00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:28.719 Frank, thanks for calling. Oh one last day, go back to 780 00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:32.280 football, I mean casino. They just give him a cancer until they find 781 00:51:32.280 --> 00:51:38.400 he had to going down an injury. Oh yeah, cancel. And for 782 00:51:38.519 --> 00:51:42.760 the time he couldn't show what he had. That was a whole That was 783 00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:45.960 a whole different deal that that Jed just had a thing for. I'll give 784 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:49.360 you, Laura, I'll give you another one. How did we find him? 785 00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:52.800 I get an injury, got hurt, and this guy showed up. 786 00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:55.679 Thanks Frank for Collin. We got to go all right, thank you, 787 00:51:55.679 --> 00:51:59.920 thank you. Isn't that how it happened? Ali? The dude fell on 788 00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:05.559 he wasn't playing Dawkins got hurt. Same thing with with uh A Nick Foles. 789 00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:09.519 Remember, finally Matt Scott had such a bad game, they had to 790 00:52:09.599 --> 00:52:14.719 they had to play Nick Foles and he never gave up the job again. 791 00:52:14.760 --> 00:52:16.920 And both Nick Foles and Close Tate what they said about those two guys weren't 792 00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:21.119 great practice players. Yeah, and then they get him in the game and 793 00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:23.719 they blow the doors of All right, let's take our break. We're here 794 00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:25.320 at the top of the hour. We're going to be back. There's all 795 00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:30.760 kinds of breaking news, including some cool stuff going on at the Arizona Oregon 796 00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:31.679 State softball game, so we'll be right back.