Steve Rivera and Jakons Solens. They have their eye on the book on Tucson
Sports station Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Ay, welcome back to O the mark
here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jakins Olsener.
We got our guy, Jason with breaking news the breaking news on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty. All right, Jason, go Okay. So the walk Ats
earned number fifth seed at Railing Regional. The Arizona women's golf team has been
selected for the MC Double A post season play after being placed in the Rayleigh
Regional. UM announced Wednesday with the Double m z A UM. They began
play on Monday MAYA at the Lonnie Pool Golf Course. UM. They are
amongst twelve teams that will be playing in the tournament. All right. One
of them is a SU. So they're in a region with a SU three
in Hawaii. So it is no Raleigh Carolina. But I saw that A.
I think they're the number five seed in the region or five seed in
the region, and as US the number two seed in the region. So
they're up there with the Sun Devils. That that doesn't sound like fun?
Yeah. Uh. Next the Walkouts are led by Um Guyleie Bailey Starcut and
Carolyne um Well Grady yep um two of their players, and they are one
of twelve teams all be playing in the tournament. Like you guys mentioned already.
UM. Next up, the Arizona Walkouts baseball team just closed out under
underfeed a homestand with a victory over New Mexico Lobos yep tuesday night. UM
at home. Um. They've one went like six or seven in a row
the last eleven, nine of the last eleven, we've established that they could
be those teams. Well they're but they're on a winning streak in the Pac
twelve two. So there's mister positive. Yeah they are. They've they won
a whole bunch in a row. The cool thing about you know they had
New Mexico last night is Todd Brown. So being a high school kid,
I got to play baseball with him when he was at the U of A.
He's yeah, I gotta I saw that Greg Hanson wrote a columnbout him.
I gotta see head to go and read and see how he's doing.
There's a lot of those guys out there that ye. So after after Todd's
a freshman season at Arizona. He had to stay in town to go to
summer school, so he didn't go off to one of the baseball camps or
whatever. So Jerry kindall last if we would, if he could pitch for
us, We said, sure. He puddy won the game. Well,
he threw so much for us. He missed a good chunk of the next
season because we wore him out. He basically pitched every game because he was
the only real pitcher we had. We overuse the rules. But well,
no, we played twice a week, We played, you know, two
times a week, and so we just let him throw everybody. So you
loaded up in the front end, and the kid said, you know,
we and you know, if we could get through you know, four or
five innings, that's all we needed to do. So yeah, but no,
he you know, he he did great, and he's a good guy,
and so it's good to see that he's, uh, you know,
he's doing this, Like I'm gonna go read that, read that column and
see what what he's been up to. Next up, the Arizona women's tennis
team defeated Utah today um to an advance in the Patrol Tournaments. Oh all
right, okay, so is that uh? Is that the first first round
of the turn? Yeah? They play top seeded Stanford tomorrow in the second
round. All right, okay, well it was ten tennis, women's tennis.
Where's that A did? Did you know? Um? No, I
don't. Okay, all right, all right, good for them. Next
up some national news. The Washington Commanders are not going to exercise defensive and
Chase Young's fifth year option. They are not, They are not. Yea.
Isn't he pretty good? Yeah? Um, but he suffered some injuries.
Um, he had a torrent acl um two years ago, and he
also had a potiller tendent care as well, So a lot of injuries.
Yeah. I remember coming out he was really damn good though. Yeah,
all right, maybe he wants out of there anyways. Yeah, Aaron Rodgers
had his press conference today. Did you guys see that? No, but
I saw his entrance to the building. They played that and they were all
kinds of hugs and love going on the trumpets. No, no, no,
no, but he you know, he was bro hugging everybody and all
that kind of stuff. That'll change a few months. That'll change it a
few months. And the pictures will you see his face going what? Yeah,
he did say he wants to play for the foreseeable future, was the
comment. Yeah, he had a couple of quotes. What is he held?
Yeah, he had a couple quotes. He said, Um, I
really believe this is where I'm supposed to be. See why why do you
say crap like that? He said that to his previous five girlfriends. Yeah,
yeah, Olivia, Olivia, Olivia Mine Man. Yeah, he was
pulling the race our lady, Dannik Patrick. Yeah, he's not in the
Derek Jeter line, but yeah, yeah, well but see Derek Jeter had
nine position players. There's eleven in football, so he would have to do
two more. You ever saw that graph? No comment even for me,
of no comment. Kawhi Leonard was diagnosed with the tournament is because Terry his
right knee. Yeah, so that's why he missed, you know, the
remaining of his series. I just so now I feel bad, Well you
feel bad? Well, you saw you talked about it because I was listening
to the Stephen A. Smith commentary and saying that, you know, he
was the most disappointing superstar superstar every shut up. And then you saw JJ
Reddick's response to him, Oh he ripped him. He just ripped Stephen him,
and Russo says, you guys have no clue, Yeah he has.
Nope, Nope, you guys are zero. I feel bad now now because
he really was the photopologist. Well no, you know, like like like
you really care well a j Well yeah, you know what, if Kawhi
comes on the show, I'll apologize to him. Okay, so go get
him, get him here, and I'll apologize to Lucky. He's nuka.
Um So. The Nuggets and the Sons have both moved on to the second
round of the semi finals the NBA Playoffs. What do you guys think about
that? Well? Does it show what the odds are who's who's because I'm
sorry to say I got the Denver Nuggets movie past. Yeah, I think
the Sons are favorite. Fit makes sense, that makes sense. The Sons
are favored in the in the series, Yeah, I believe think yeah,
yeah, yeah, because they were they were, they were favored in the
What it was left in the shouldn't make sense. Let me let me look
for the futures. Yeah, don't think they should be. But I bet
I bet Denver to win the West, so it was like three to one
whatever it was. Yeah, okay, Um the Suns. Yeah, the
Sons are minus one forty over them to win to win the series. Nuggets
are plus one twenty. Yeah, I wouldn't touch that. That's to win,
that's to win the series. Yeah. At this point, Um,
the Sons are now the second favorite it to win the championships at the Celtics
at plus two hundred, the Suns at plus four hundred, then the Bucks
at plus six hundred. The Bucks might not even get out of there.
It might be done today. Your Golden State Warriors there plus nine hundred.
Yeah, that's a great number, but they're not gonna get there. They're
just nine. The Suns are plus one sixty to win the conference championship,
with the Nuggets second to plus three thirty. They have no bench, Like
I've been watching their games in its past series and they just have five players.
Are you talking about the Suns? Yeah right, yeah, right right,
that's gonna be their downfall. Yeah, that's why you could happen this
this time, right, Yeah, Like they just have no doubt against the
Nuggets, who have the whole bench unite. Like, I just don't see
how they can match up in the seven game series against Nuggets to keep up
with them the whole series. So I think that people just don't think that
Denver because they're cursed two are able to get past this. But they're the
best. They were the best team in the West all year. Yeah,
and now no one's talking about them. Did you see when when when he
was I think it was towards the end of the game when Kevin Durant fell
and like hit it, landed on his back and didn't get up right away.
I mean, how many Suns fans just held their breath for however long
it took him to get up off the floor. I mean, I'm I'm
looking like that's the kind of thing that he won't play tomorrow because of it
or whatever. But now he's got a break. So what do you guess
think of Devin Bookers play? He's been playing like I love watching Devin,
but he's been playing out of his my recently, last game, I got
a forty five point game. I believe a game before that, like a
thirty eight point game. Like he's been really carrying the Suns on his back.
Do the Lakers get out of theirs? I believe. So, yeah,
he'd beat Memphis. I mean they're up three one to play tonight.
I don't see the series going past six games. I think they ended tonight,
is it? What is it? Do you? Yeah? I thought
you said you like my Memphis peak. I like it. But at the
same time, I can see I'll see it either way. This game five
or six is five tonight? Yes? Nice? Okay, So yeah,
what happening? But then I see Lakers closing out his six. Ye.
Well, the Lakers are minus one thousand to win the aries my next one
thousand. Yeah that's a lot. Yeah yeah, I mean Mathis are missing
two guys out in jazz his handing right, he played through it, Ye,
did pretty well. Okay, so it makes sense. What else you
have said? That's okay? So I saw I went to our trusteel Sports
two sons. I guess South Points, tell Aya Anderson Yeah, is going
has been offered by Arizona to play there. Wow. Um so, and
that was obviously her dream school. We'll see if that goes through. Um
that was reported yesterday, so we'll see what that. And of course we've
talked about Pella going to test the waters. Yeah, you know here's the
problem with that. Okay, he hasn't until May thirty first to decide whether
he comes back. And this is another problem. You're kind of holding the
problem your right, you recruit position. It's another problem about and and Sean
Sean used to do this all the time, right, says, people said,
what are you gonna do? What you do? It's just don't worry.
I got something. And he always pulls some rabbits out of his butt
and he did. Okay, but well but still hold your hostage. Well,
yes and no. In Pella's case, I say no because he's not
going anywhere. No, he's not. He's not going anywhere. And you
know, and you know, maybe he had that conversation he said with Tommy
just said, look, I'm gonna go check it out because I want to
know what to expect next year when I really go in. What if he
too, says some of the things that Bruce said, goes home, gets
paid some money, and says, I'm not going to come back because that's
what you Then you'll leave your coach in a bad spot. But you know,
you know again, because that's a possibility. It's a possibility. But
you know, every man for himself as far as that, that's pretty much
because that's what it is. Coaches are like that too, So I don't
think you can uh yeah, yeah, that good word, thank you,
because you know, this has been a long time coming for players to have
the same freedom that coaches have. And so in that regard, you can't
root against him, can you. Or you can't criticize him for doing what
coaches have been doing for day one. So I don't know. I mean,
you don't like you kind of don't like it because you're an Arizona fan.
You want the best for Arizona and maybe this isn't the best thing for
Arizona basketball that guys are doing this, but it is what it is,
and so you just instead of complaining about, just freaking deal with it,
right. So I don't know, I don't I don't have any issues with
it. I know when I first thought it, my first reaction was what
the hell is Pella doing? Then my second thing was he's going on,
He's going on and getting information. Sure, sure, what You've seen a
number of people do that. You know, some didn't come back because they
just said they're going like the strangest one Grant and Jarrett. Yeah, I'm
Grant, well, Grant Jarrett and Marcus william Commenchi Williams, Yeah, Commentchi
Commenchi chance commanche No one guy, We hardly hear you hard you remember you?
Yeah, Marcus Williams was just debating a guy. So these Meatia guys
are doing a countdown now when carteron Bryan, I'm gonna we got four to
fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes either break your heart or not break Oh my gosh,
you know what's gonna happen. The sun will come up tomorrow either way.
Either way, you'll still be season either way. And you know when
they're gonna play basketball here in the fall, right right right, they're gonna
they're gonna play. And the people who are complaining still won't go to the
games because they don't have tickets. He saw Palak won the Rookie of the
Year. Yeah, did they have the voting on that because they said it
was a runaway. But you know that's fine. What the problem we had
was that it was that Ben Mathin didn't even get it, wasn't even a
finalist or anything like that, when all year long people were saying he was
the second best rookie in the league and then they don't even make him one
of the three. You got hurt, Yeah, you got hurt her.
He got a strong start and then he was pretty good for the whole season.
Yeah, and I think, No, I don't know. I'm I'm
not I'm not saying that ban Carro shouldn't have won Rookie of the Year.
But I'm just the fact that that uh Mathin didn't get any run when he
probably should have, so that that it's that's the deal. So I don't
know. Anthony Edwards has apparently been cited for a third degree UM assault for
allegedly striking two women with a folding chair. UM. Apparently after the game
yesterday against Denver, on his way out of the of the quart he picked
up a chair and swung it, striking the security guard UM and two women.
My source confirmed the incident and said UM that the both employees were injured
and asked if allow charges. Did he mean to hit him or did he
just swing in and accidentally at him? I am I really sure this is
you know, I reported from Denver Sports um calm um and then NBA Central
is also retreeting good Um as well, who was it Anthony Edwards? Okay,
yeah, so wow, well he's pretty good. He did you ever
watch the movie that he was in? Yeah, yeah, it's pretty good.
It was really good. It's pretty good. Yeah. So I enjoyed
that. But this is kind of crazy news because wow, I hadn't heard
anything anything. Yeah, I just saw it right now. This has just
come over. Yeah, so okay, whoa Okay, well that could have
an impact. Sure, okay, all right, were good. Yeah,
let's take a break. Oh wait wait no, no, I got one
for you. I go for you. It'll make you happy and you can
fin finish the next next eighty seconds. The Beheim situation has been solved or
finished. Remember he accidentally killed a guy. That's been settled and no terms
have been dismissed. Or he had him in the school in the and the
school the school because you both they both got sued, so they settled that.
But if he was just driving home from somewhere, why did the school
it was? It was because the family sued them for negligence and he wasn't
in trouble, but they recognizing their mutual privacy interests, blah blah blah.
But I guess I don't understand why the school is nond responsible for something that
Jim Beheim did unless unless he was coming home from a school event, he
was coming home from a game, but was he hammer? No? Well
then what the what the hell? He was calling us going home from work
and he hit and he killed a guy. I mean, that doesn't mean
that the school should have to pay for that, you menis his family follow
the lawsuit in two twenty a legend that Bayhouse actions were negligent, reckless,
and wanton. All right, at the lawsuit was fouled in Canada. Blah
blah, and so unspeci specified amount of money. All right, all right,
Well, okay, that's that's a chapter in his book. He can
close. Right, all right, I'm gonna still keep saying that Jim Bayhan
killed a guy. Well as you're not wrong, I'm not wrong. We'll
hope to get him on the show. Yeah, you'll come on the show.
Yeah, they'll, they'll both come on. All right, let's take
a break, we'll get out of here. We're gonna come back and we'll
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I heart radio IM and welcome back to on the ball. Here we're
so here. Here's the call this time Steve, he's j Jackson behind the
booth here. We had a collar during the was pretty funny. He made
us laugh. But he did mention, you know, uh, because Ridick
talked to to Steven and Russo there's a lot of complaints about the load loads
management. And now all the players or a lot of the players hurt.
They're actually real injury right right and and and you know, uh and I
you know, we use Kawhi Leonard as the example. Who do he played
fifty some games or yeah? Round there even that this year, you know,
And I mean I had this argument with my with my son last night.
I said, who would you rather have Kawhi Leonard for fifty let's say,
fifty five games of an eighty two game season. Would you rather have
that or a guy who's there every day, not as good as Kawhi,
but as a guy who's there every day. That's a good question. And
I said, I'd rather have the guy who's there every day because at least
you know what you got. He said, because he goes. I wouldn't
he said, because you can win a championship with Kawhi Leonard even if he's
not there every day. Whereas you get somebody who's not as good as him,
that guy can't win you a champion. Well, I think on the
surface also want to say, if I'm like a fans perspective, if you
want the guy that's there every day, but from an organizations perspective, you
want the guy that's gonna be there part time that's might be the better player
I think won the championship. I was just gonna go there kind of to
both of your point, Okay, Arizona, Tommy Lloyd and I think Bruce
kind of talked about this. Jay Um. We've already proved that Arizon has
already proven that talent doesn't always win the day. They've lost the teams lower
than with less talent. So now everyone says to go get the talent.
Well, it doesn't always work. We've seen that. We've seen that three
years. If you guys got players that can play and play together, he
mentioned that that's what Tommy's trying to do, mesh him together. We've seen
the experiment with with the with the Miller. It didn't work. That you
don't need the five star guys. They're hoping to get one today, but
you just don't. Yeah, maybe you have some great talented Luke did this.
We talk about this. You know, they had good talent, but
there was a surrounding wealth of talent. Not great players, but pretty good
ones. They had some really good ones who were there consistent late and did
what they were asked to do. Yeah, right, knew the roles.
Yeah, I mean again, you think about the great teams at Arizona UM.
Some were loaded and some were The two thousand one team was loaded,
right, was loaded with talent. Even the ninety eight team, you know
didn't get to a final quarter, that was loaded with talent. But the
year before those same guys, correct, were not the loaded. You know,
they were like, wait a minute, these guys are this good?
You can't mention the ninety eight without mentioned ninety seven, because ninety seven they
were just a buddy. They came out of nowhere a bunch of dudes,
and ninety seven then you said, oh they could play, how come they
didn't play for thirty games they finished feeling exactly again, the eighty eight team
was just a bunch of dudes. It was Sean Elliott, but then everybody
else were I mean, did Tobrid have a cup of coffee in the NBA?
He did. Kerr was a really good player, and he was a
good player in the NBA, but he wasn't a quote unquote superstar. He
wasn't a super star on the level of a Seawan Elliott. You know,
Anthony Cook, Craig McMillan, you know the gun Bees. Pieces they were
just pieces. They were just pieces. And we said this one hundred times,
that just pieces. You know, I go to the ninety eight Arizona
football team, right pieces that all fit together, you know, two quarterbacks.
I'll give you. I'll give you this because I think you we ask
you this question when you first got here. Uh Kawhi, Kyrie, I'm
Kawai all day because Kyrie rex the locker. Though he's healthy, right,
even though he's healthy, right, and he could get you to the to
the chapmanship. Right, there's the butt though, Right, there's the butt
though. You have to deal with all the other crap, right right that
And yeah, I mean again, I my son, who's a Yeah,
he's not an NBA expert, but he knows a lot more about the NBA
than I do. He loves he loves Kyrie Irving. Uh and and he
goes because he's there aren't a lot of players as good as him. Look
what he did in Dallas, I said, Okay, I said, but
great, he can be great, but he trashes the place wherever he goes,
you know. I mean Dallas was on their way to the playoffs.
He got there and tanked, yep. I mean they were like the fourth
fourth seed, I believe. And then and this season like the Zech coincidence.
I don't think it is exactly. I don't think it is, you
know, And and I you know, I just you know again, the
one the one that I go to, you know in the NFL was um
um um I can't think of his name now, the receiver um Oh Owens,
Yeah, Terrell Owens, right, I mean, yes, did he
get to a super Bowl with the Eagles. But everywhere when he was in
San Francisco, he was in Dallas, they just going. They trashed Brown
what's his name, Brown, Um, Pittsburgh, nag Into Yeah, A
J. Brown Brown. You know these people they come and they just trashed
the place. It's like you invite you know, you've been trying to get
this guest to come over to your house, you know, because and then
you get him in there and they they demolished the place and then they leave.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, So you played ball, right, Yeah,
I'm sure you've had You've had teammates that were pretty good. But he
says, what shut up, just play? Yeah, but they can't.
Yeah that's right, guys. I just have that like personality about them that
they know. It's like extra stuff you have to deal with because of the
talent. So that's just kind of a part of the game. And guess
what coaches deal with it? Yeah. Yeah, and at the detriment of
the rest of the team, Well, you end up spending time dealing with
stuff that you wish you didn't have to trint time dealing, right, you
know, you have to, uh, you know, I'm god, I'm
Steven, And this is just in sportsman. I you know, I had
a guy that I hired a TEP and I would spend hours conseling him on
how to be a better employee, halfway decent. Just you know, you're
great at what you do. But this part of it is important too.
You're trashing the locker room. To my point, and we all know this.
Twenty seventeen eighteen Alkins Trier. Yea even fantastic group. Ristic, Right,
how did that go? Yeah? Because they never they never got to
where you thought they were capable of, No at all, not even close.
Yeah, Leven close with all that talent. Yeah, no, and
yeah, I mean to me, it's it's it's one of the most important
things you can have as a team is the is the chemistry. Chemistry you
well, and you've done this because you worked in corporate, which is very
toxic in many places, can be if you have no chemistry, or they
don't get along, even if they don't even talk to each other, it
doesn't matter, doesn't where your pieces can all individually, can all be great
pieces, but if it doesn't fit together as a team, you're just you're
just messing around, right, And you're you know, you're punching the wall
all the time because you can't, you can't seem to pull it together.
And there are people who just inherently do that. It's their personality to do
that. And I'm not saying that they take pleasure in doing it, but
I'm saying that they can't help themselves. No, they enjoy starting fires and
they sit back and watch the fire burns, but some of them just can't
do it, just can't help themselves, you know. It's just it's just
the way they are. And they get up every morning and say, what
trouble am I going to cause today? You know? And it drives me
crazy. And that's you know, that's what guys like Kyrie Irving, tarall
Owens Um, you can name a whole bunch of others, you know,
just do and and to me, they're you know, they call them cancers,
right because they are. Well, my, my hope today it's five
o'clock, which is on a little thirty three minutes or so, that that
Arizona gets the guy Carter. I have no dog in the fight. I
just kind of want the bleeding to stop. And but bleeding, I'm talking
about complaining right, because it's it's uh, some good news has to happen.
If it doesn't, well we'll have to continue to it fix for our
show show. I know, but I'm getting tired of talking about it and
probably people getting tired of hearing from us because we're you know, but I
have gotten a lot of the people that I've talked to, right, Uh,
I mean, look, and to understand these if I'm if I'm an
idiot on the on the on the show, these people tell me I'm being
an idiot, but you know, they're pretty much in agreement saying what the
hell is wrong with these people? They're they're sick of hearing these people.
But then you know, we had, you know, the conversation and you
know, Bruce really led us, led us onto that that you know,
it's not that it's not the majority or anything like that. It's just that
they're loud. And we know that, you know, the people that are.
You know, just because they're loud on social media doesn't mean that that's
the running opinion, right right, No, And if one guy gets brazen,
other guys feel free to do the same thing, right, they feel
they feel that there's a okay to do it, there's an okay that well
if we pile on, Yeah, we're gonna pile on with the demise of
whatever news it is. Yeah, okay, no, I I I you
know it just I don't know. It drives me nuts. But anyways,
you know where we're we're, you know, at a point where I think
that maybe just yet is as Bruce said, there's on a fan just want
to hear something good after, you know, because the last the last thing
has been the Princeton Laws, you know, and then when you see that,
you know that Connecticut and you see you saw Florida International get to the
final for you know, and all these things or is it fraude Atlantic?
I don't remember Florde Atlantic, I U f a uf you you. I
don't know whatever is there? An? I don't think I attended it to
close it down. Lack of funds, lack of funds. God, so
uh, you know it was incredible. That was so bad? All right,
Um, okay, gotta call we gotta call it all right, Let
please save us. Yeah, Hi, you're on the art on the ball,
Okay, you're talking to the local official on the NBA and the Phoenix
Suns with the knowledge go go because I've done it for I've just been paying
attention for forty five years and closely for thirty. First of all, you're
all wrong, and of course your son m Adams the closest to it on
Kyrie, because Kyrie didn't know that he couldn't. He said he could play.
Okay, if we're not getting it, but he's a better player.
Oh. Also, they were closer to sixth place, they were not in
fourth when Kyrie came on. Okay, so your point as well. We
got the number wrong. But they still didn't make the playoffs. Well,
no, what's not Okay, I'm gonna tell you why they didn't. I'll
just give you the answer because freaking uh the really guy you which, I'd
rather have him in eton um um um whatever his name is, number seventy
seven. They're real starring their team not getting a bad attitude. He said
he wasn't having fun. It's his fault too. It's not all Kyrie.
Okay, you would rather have Kyrie than then? I don't. Okay,
that's all. That's no. I'd rather have um uh Luca. But but
I'm saying Lucas was the problem too. He was complaining more than ever,
it's not just all on you know, Kyrie. Okay, he's still painting
the ass. You have to admit that. Now, No, I don't
we you're you're, you're, you're all those people you point out. I
want to just be brief because I don't want to go to politics. You
know, he's still no, he's got a championship. Okay, Luca doesn't
period, but I want to go. I want to take the young man
to the carpet. That they have a bench. It might be sin and
you got to blame Monty for not playing it because they've played with t J.
Warren, both the current Sons and Durant, and they have a guy,
Terence Ross who already scored twenty five points in a game. Monty's got
to get them playing more so. The coach who coaches them, uh doesn't
know he has a bench. No, he doesn't know. He knows,
but he doesn't William More and he Okay, let me put it this way.
When he had a twenty point lead last night, he could have put
those guys in there. They're hungry, they want to show him something.
They could have kept the lead, but they got could place and they're probably
tired he burned out that you know the other guys, So why didn't he
play the bench unit? Then? No, Well because he doesn't have confidence.
I mean, I pay attention to everything said he did. He's fallen
in love with sham It. Yeah he had a three pointer, but other
players can play too on that bench. Do you know that ish Waynewright had
a forty point game last year? No, you guys didn't know that.
But so he's just not because with with with Durant, he could play with
anybody. So if Monnie, if he's Montie, sucks compared to ty Lou,
who'd he just be? Okay, Loue is a better coach than Steve
Kerr. Steve Kerr is a good defensive coach, but ty Lou, he
he got so much out of those guys, not for having the worst guy
Kawai to be on your team. He got a lot out of the players.
Howard, he's a great coach. Howard, you're all over the map
and I don't even know what map you're on. I don't even know what
you're on. Tylu is one of the best coaches in the NBA. That's
why they when hung around so well. I would bet you another dinner.
You want to bet another dinner, but I want to I want the first
one first. Okay, Well, you'll just see what happens in this first
couple of games. Then we'll go to see what happens in this series.
They're gonna, they're gonna, he's gonna find a way to put some of
these guys in and then they're gonna practice on it. They got three days
to do it. Well, Jason and I are shaking our heads, and
I know that well. I was going to Sun's game at the New Arena
way before he even knows what's going on, just so I know. The
soun's like the back of my hand. Well, you've better wash you better
wash that hand. Thin wash that hand and use the other one to running
everybody else. Just because he's been there doesn't mean you know, Howard.
Thanks for the no original thought, no original thought, Howard. Thanks Howard,
Thanks you very much. We've never had a runt like that from Howard
Man. Well his point, he did this to George too. I've been
doing this forever, so I know. Okay, I've been very ten times
so I know. Mom blurry wow, goods you said him, Jason,
you've said him, mom, Man, after I'm gonna take that young guy
to the math. Wow, look, don't take Jason to the mad he
just got here. How we love you. You know that I'm selling your
cards tomorrow. All right, you're ready to take a break. I needed
that hurt man, and that went on. I mean, there don't even
know where to go there, there was no if he if he has a
bench and mere Monty use it right, Yeah, it's doesn't have confidence,
like he said, this is Tommy Lloyd with his bench, right, yeah,
I mean if the guys aren't good to play, there not to play
and you're looking and who knows better than that the coach or Howard, he's
been there. How I love you, man, You know we do love
you. Appreciate the call. All right, let's take our break where we'll
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I mean my Heart Radio Whip. This is I on the Ball with
Steve Breva and Jay Gonzalns on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. So welcome back to
High on the Balls one sport and fifties Up. Steve, He's Jake,
got a Jason here. Howard must add a great vacation. I don't know
if something happened to him up there. He went to the Coolendetta, kind
alot of the system. He's ready to go. I still love you,
how Steve, Steve, it's like seventeen minute, seventeen minutes because Carter Bryan
I just went to I've never hey, I've covered all these Bib Stanley Johns,
I could. I don't care about this, but it's funny how you
just mentioned that. It's like waiting. There's people sitting there in front of
the computers. You know, they're they're hidding refreshed, refresh, refresh,
just in case word gets out ahead of time as to where he's going.
They too already have their Facebook post ready to Yeah, they've got like three
Facebook posts written or three. We didn't need them anyway. Yeah, we
don't care. We don't care. The Arizona Arizona's winning the national championship next
year. Uh he was an Arizona good Yeah, yeah, you know.
But yeah, you get about four or five different options. I feel for
Bruce, I really do. I mean, how many stories does he have
written? You think two for sure, just going at least two coming,
Well, he's got two. But he's got, you know, some thoughts
on different stuff. He's got to say. You know, it's kind of
like when you had to write somebody's oh bit before they were dead. You
ever have to do that? Uh, nobody know any of those. I
do know what you're talking about. Yeah, because we always have to,
you know, because you wanted to be able to put that up as soon
as somebody, you know, if it was somebody prominent, you know,
dives. Yesterday, I didn't realize this. We got a call. I'll
Taylor Hi, You're on the R and I on the ball. Yes,
Man, Nico, you're gonna get honest like Howard you hey, man.
First of all, Howard's right, man, about what which he had?
That what exists that that they've got a bench and he just doesn't use it.
He hasn't been playing in the playoffs. Man, I don't know why.
Why do you think why you would you think? I don't know,
man, that is not any good like that. But they they're all right,
man, they're all right. They played in the regular season. Man,
this is not the regular season. Man. Do they need do they?
I mean, really, do they need to have a great bench in
order to win this thing? They need to have some guys that can hold
the ship. Daddy, Okay, I'm shy. Yeah, Jason's nod in
his head. He says they do need a ben. Jason knows way more
about NBA. What'd your college to get on us? You know what us?
I was gonna call about the nim Man. Correct, please you go
go? But then you upset me about megu the flourish Yers can't be upset,
he nico man. Don't he might go to the desert. It's too
hot to be don't go to the desert. Well no, actually, not
a good time too tomorrow, Yeah, exactly what Okay, So what do
you want to say by the night? Okay? A he just needs to
get it together still, then they'll be screwed. You mean the feel the
fans do? I mean where they gonna get the money from? They need
it from your dad. They need some bits and pieces from you, me,
Jay, everybody. Hey man, I got so I'll take it all
right. That helps. I'm doing my part. That helps. That helps?
So have you used them? Have you been going? No? But
I got him. I love church, but I don't go. I have
church, but I don't go. I still praying but you guys gotta take
it easy here. Yeah, oh my god, what happened today? Man?
It's a Wednesday, right, you know the true factor would be fat
Mike calling us oh man, yeah, given us a Greek Yeah yeah,
definitely. Oh god, you know what not to tooot? Our army people
listen to us? You know, I just today, okay, I did
an interview with uh oh, yesterday, I did an interview with the guy
that you know, business story that I'm working on, and I love your
show and I'm like, really cool, man, that's just really cool people.
People who recognize us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know,
I got another guy that I talked to, Uh, you know, he's
gonna you know, he told me he listens to it in this office.
I said, putting you in the whole office. He goes, yeah,
maybe I'll do that. I'm like, you know, make all make everybody
listen to us. Sure love that. What are those fools saying today?
If nothing else? Man? We people go, you know, I'm smarter
than both of those guys, And I'm really happy. I'm glad to know
that. No, I'm smart. How come I don't have a show?
Yeah? How did those guys get a show, and then poor Jason over
here, he's going like, what did I get myself into? It's gonna
be fun? What did you get yourself into? Jason? Oh no,
I'm just you know, happy to be here. This would look good on
your resume. It up. Oh my gosh, Okay, eight minutes down.
Yeah, well and we're we're twelve minutes j Carter Bryant announcement. Well,
how long do you think they're gonna They're gonna he's gonna he's gonna stretch
that up. Five ten minutes. I'm on the site. There's really nothing
there, Yeah, to say anything that's gonna hit. Remember, remember I'm
sure you do the Lebron thing that yeah? Right, yeah? How long
that took? Yeah? Forever? There was a big gold party scene,
you know, like twelve when that happened. Yeah, I was young.
Yeah. That was one of the dumbest things that I ever sat down and
watch. It's like that, I'm like, what am I doing with myself
right now? That in the Horaldo Luck Oh yeah, I remember that,
and those two are kind of in the same neighborhood really, but I sat
down and watch that, I'm like, and I kept saying, why are
you. Why why are you watching this? It's like your car crash.
Yeah, why are you watching this? You're an idiot. You're you're an
idiot because you're sitting you're waiting for this twenty some year old dude to talk
about where he's gonna go play back. The only real one like this we're
sitting here to wait for. We saw Stanley's he put on a hat,
you know, in La the second coming, YadA, YadA. How'd that
go? Not so much. The only one that really in my mind,
and I'm just trying to think back now, is the baby thing. He's
the baby one right where he was a big deal local in the states,
in the state, and you got him. What was going to happen?
Well, it happened right right outside of that. I can't remember any you
know, people having this fanfare. I'm gonna put an ad on all this
stuff. The guy in football, the first five star guy a few years
ago. Yeah, he came and then he never. His mom was pissed
and his mom said, you're not going? So what the heck was that
about? Right? No? I know, I you know, yeah,
I mean it's and that's what tris to me. Crazy about it because and
then on top of it, looking he may be really good, he may
be really really good, but he might not be really really good. And
he said to twenty twenty four, righty, it's this is yeah, he's
not He's not for this coming season. He's for the next season. So
this is one thing that I took away from from Bruce, although I've known.
One more thing is he doesn't have to sign until he can sign in
November at the earliest. He you know, something could happen because change.
The one thing that I realized, and you know this in recruiting is and
everybody's involved with loaves of stuff. No one lives for today. No one
lives for today, to live for tomorrow. Right well, this guy's gonna
come in and this guy we're gonna be great. Well, live today.
You have a team, now, enjoy enjoy the moment, right right well,
because guess what, it may not happen tomorrow. Like he said,
I am way more as a fan, way more concerned about who they have
this coming season. Then this kid maybe showing up next season. Just don't
post him, don't even use a fake name like everybody else on Twitter.
I'm not Now I'll go on and see what everybody says with whatever happens,
right, if they lose their minds because he decides to go to Louisville,
or if he comes to Arizona and they lose their minds because he's coming to
Arizona, I'll, you know, for the sake of us on our show.
I'll go on and see what all people are saying. But if he
doesn't come, I don't know that I want to look. Yeah, I'm
on Twitter now too, so yeah, just because I'd rather watch golf,
I really would. I'd rather watch golf, but there's no golf on today,
so I'm not going to watch golf. Go watch the NBA turn playoffs.
Is one of the games starting like right now. Yeah, the Miami
heats in the Bugs games games right now, and then the Lakers in Memphis
games on right now. That's on two. Yeah. Well oh man,
I'm missing all these games. Like yeah, the NBA hit that, by
the way, like the doubleheader two early games at the same time. Yeah,
and they did the same thing with them two um later games the Heat
and the Bugs and then the Warriors and Kings play like thirty minutes. There's
four games. Yeah, there's four games, and they started like thirty minute
after like h first one. They got a play them, I mean they
can't. Yeah, yeah, so all right, okay, if there's still
two more games after this, I can Yeah, maybe we get a little
something, a little something that because I'm still doing solo. My wife is
still out of town, so I gotta I gotta find something to do with
myself and stay out of trouble. You know, it used to be Steve
on nights like this when there was you know, my wife was on the
road, nobody to talk to you. I'd go to the dog track.
I'd be one of those losers at the dog track, just like all by
himself, no friends, nobody to talk to bet On the dog who said
he was in the corner leave him alone. And you know what, it
was a you know, going to the dock track alone. It's a lonely
It was a lonely walk from the car to the to the to the track.
And then was not safe too, because you knew that people were looking
at you, saying that guy, he's got no friends, he's got no
life, and he's here at the dock track because he does kicking kicking rocks
to the car, there's nobody else to talk to. It was. It
was a lonely feeling on that on that walk. R did did the time
or two. Then it was time the time that Adam was with me,
my son, and he was like six or eight months old, and it
was a Sunday afternoon, and I just want to get my wife the time
off, you know, And and I walked, I walked out the door,
and the last thing she said was don't take him to the dog And
then I took him to the dog track and you're still married. Yeah,
And she actually she knew she found she found out because because she said,
you know, call me a little bit. So I called her from the
dog track off a pay phone, and I thought, you don't know,
she's not gonna hear anything, right, And then the music came on when
they bring the dogs. It was like, you're at the dog track and
I'm like, yeah, yeah, I'm actually I said, Adam wanted to
see the puppies. I don't want to disappoint that him. So it's it's
kind of a running family joke about the time I took him to the track.
When I want to use it's pretty funny, but no, I looked
at dog racing in there being a really bad thing for everybody. But it
was fun while it last. I had fun there. So okay, got
two minutes before we leave today's show, Howard. We're just making fun of
you, we know, and we do love it for calling in. Yeah,
I appreciate, Yeah, that was it. But what do you think,
Steve? No, I don't know. I had heard a while back
he was one hundred percent coming in now is about fifty fifty? Really?
Yeah? Yeah, why is that? I don't know. Well, lo,
well that maybe have some money and be part of a program that's going
to be on the right, well when you're at the bottom, right,
this is this is nineteen eighty three for this is nineteen eighty three for Louisville.
Be the guy that's gonna help build it up again. And it's a
story program. We know that, Yeah it is. You know, I
still think money's involved playing I don't know, I don't, I don't know,
and it's not I have no dogg if no pun intended. So we'll
see. Yeah, yeah, I bet he comes. He's from California.
You know he's gonna But you also said that that coach coach uh Brian was
not gonna go to Colorado, wow, because because it was cold, cold,
that it was the back door. A funny thing because he's wearing a
cowboy hat all the time. They're saying, Boulder is the last place you'll
find a cowboy hat that you know, because it's a it's a very you
know, kind of hippie kind of place, and it's not it's not Texas.
Yes, it's not a cowboy place, right, And I guess he
thinks that since there's a buffalo there, I should wear a cowboy hat.
I don't know what the deal is anyway, Okay, all right, okay,
so yeah, here we go. This was fun. Talk to you
tomorrow all about this, right. Pat Finley coming on, He's will talk
NBA Draft. He's he covers the NFL for the Chicago Sun Tanda fill Draft
NFL Draft, he covers it for Chicago Suntimes, also covers the Bears.
We'll get his thoughts, right, I mean, the NBA Draft starts like
right when our show ends, So we'll get him on and see what he
say, see what his thoughts are about the draft, and then we'll find
out who who's going wearing where be Jean Robinson is going so yeah, all
right, good job, hey, Jason, nice job, first day.
Feel you feel good? Yeah? Feel good? Yeah? Okay, all
right, man, get us out of here. Don't piss off anybody more.
We'll be back tomorrow.