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Thank good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to

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Eye on the Ball here on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera,

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He's Jaginsaus. Got our guys sit
in Today Friday Show another. Uh,

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I want to say, disaster Jameson, I've made five more bad picks,

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is what I've done. Have you
already done your research? I've done it.

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I have you have to do money. You know. I didn't put

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a lot of research into it.
I just said you're better off, you

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know. I mean, I'm just
looking at it and saying, these are

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game teams that I should have been
picking all year long. You know,

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got on bandwagons and got right off
when they did me wrong. I should

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have stayed on them. Let's tell
your boy here what the score is.

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Okay, it's Steve has eighteen points. He's eighteen. I have twenty.

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You've got You're right, you've got. Oh, I haven't adjusted this.

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Uh, you've got twenty two points. You're what twenty two out of thirty

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five, is that right? Yeah? Thirteen, twenty two out of thirty

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five on picks, I've still got
four points and I am ten out of

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thirty five. That's terrible. You
didn't need to say that, I said.

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You didn't need to say like that. How many weeks are left?

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There's still another twelve, twelve weeks, four weeks. Well, it's bad,

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said, I mean, it's it's
really bad. No no Bowl game

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for Jay this year, no game
for well, explained explain to to your

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guy here said that the lowest ever
was twenty Yes, the lost ever in

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a in a a season for anybody
in this pool is twenty points. I

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currently have four four and then his
he'd have to go, well, he'd

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have to get one each more than
one two for sure to break all that

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streak, to break that record low
record low. Yes, Yes, it's

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it's it's it. It's bad.
It's it's bad. I can't, I

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can't, I can't. I can't
explain it either, because because it's it

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just doesn't make any sense that that
you know, you're supposed to be fit,

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you know fifty right, you're supposed
to get you know, fifty to

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fifty and I can't seem to do
that, and I don't know what the

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hell it is. So it seems
like the curse is alive. This is

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probably your best example of the season, right yeah, yeah, So I'm

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just, you know, just go
with it, then see what happens.

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But I you know, I feel
like I've got some decent picks, just

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you know, every week, every
week, and then they're just terrible at

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this point. He's got to pick
whoever you think is opposite. Well,

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I've done that too, don't work
either. Well I did it for one

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game and you know, I picked
the opposite of what I thought and I

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hit that game and then any more
game. So yeah, okay, let's

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we'll talk about that more at the
end of the Telly that that'll be in

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the last segment or fab five Friday
Picks. I've got mine. They're good.

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We're going I'm I'm hitting something this
week. Yeah, they're good.

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We'll see, we'll see what happens. Okay, No, cool, So

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welcome to to Friday Show. We
have a pretty good show. At three

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seventeen. We have Aeron Torres,
right, Aeron Torris from he He's got

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a number of things. He's Fox
Sports and uh Fox Sports Radio. He's

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got a podcast and then he's got
a Twitter feed called Torres on Arizona where

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he he just covers a lot of
stuff Arizona. So he's gonna come and

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see, you know, get his
impressions of football, basketballah, all things

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going on around here. But he's
a national uh uh you know media figure.

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I guess you would call him and
uh, you know, has a

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lot of stuff going on. So
we'll talk to Aaron. Yeah, and

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then at four seventeen, we're gonna
have a Terran cowattch I guess like that.

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I found him on the internet.
He covers the basketball team for Lewis

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and Clark State. He is not
in town, but he covers a team.

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So we'll talk to him. Just
gonna preview up today's game. Right,

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yeah, that's you know, that's
who Erizona was playing in this exhibition

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tonight, and so we'll see what, you know, what he's got got

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to say about what maybe we can
expect to see from Lewis and Clark tonight.

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Okay, all right, so uh
pop out, you know, finish

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out the Friday. It's an off
week for football. A lot of reaction

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to our interview with Jed fish lat
yesterday or so mostly I think it was

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mostly toward your post about the quarterback
situation. Was the gist of it.

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I mean that's what we you know, we wanted to have something about that

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because that's the thing that everybody's talking
about. Yes, they're talking about the

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defense and how good the defense has
been. Uh you know, yes,

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uh they're you know, they're just
playing really well. But people want to,

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you know, who's who's the quarterback? And that's that's the case with

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any football team, who's the quarterbacks? And the Jed head can't come out

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when Jayden Delrugg got hurt and said
when Jade and Laura is healthy, he's

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the quarterback. Again, well that's
not what he said yesterday. So that's

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kind of been the reaction. You
know, a lot of reaction to that,

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and a lot of people saying it's
a no brainer. Sure of course,

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I think those ill bit you.
If you pulled people, they would

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be about ninety percent if not more, saying you got to go with ja

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with with no yeah. So so
yeah, just the you know, I

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just posted that detail of the interviews
that you post. Listen to the interview.

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Yeah, the interview. If you
haven't heard it, it's that you

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can catch both on our Facebook and
uh in Twitter feed and you know you

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can listen to it. It's a
you know, the fish the jet fish

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interview is about fifteen minutes into the
first hour. You can listen to the

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whole thing. But you know,
we just did ask you know, how

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are you going about making this decision? We didn't ask him who the quarterback

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is, and he's not. He
wasn't gonna tell us anyways, but how

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are you going about it? And
he said, the quarterback that gives us

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the best chance to win is going
to be the quarterback. That's all anybody

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was asking for. Right, we'll
know more next week. I'm sure he

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will have the same answer. We'll
know what we know. I mean again,

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you know, it sounded like De
Laura was really gimping around on the

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on the field before the game.
After this next week, there's five weeks

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left, right, at some point
he's gonna because De Laura at some point's

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gonna get healthy. Yeah yeah,
and if they win again, well,

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the thing is that, you know, let's say if the feeda goes on

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and has a horrible game, you
know, and it's back up in the

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air. Sure, but again,
a good problem to have sometimes. You

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know, if you got two guys, you can win. Well. He

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said that. He said that the
press covers on Monday. He says,

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good to have two quarterbacks, right, you know, And and again there's

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no there's been no sense that he's
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two quarterback system. And it's gonna
be you know, it's gonna be the

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one guy and you know, whoever's
playing the best. So we'll see and

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uh, you know, again it's
nice to have, you know, a

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guy in the bullpen if if your
starter is not doing very well. Sure,

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sure, okay we'll move on from
that. But uh, good interview

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yesterday. We even got a couple
of calls about it. Yeah, okay,

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what else is going on basketball tonight? It's gonna be a late night,

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Yeah, seven o'clock start. We're
taking that, so, Jacob,

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I'm taking that for about fifteen a
power to app In fact, you know,

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it's a it's an exhibition game,
but it's our first look at you

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know what Tommy's looking at. You
know who his starters are. Well,

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you saw that there's they're gonna be
missing three key players that Pelly Lars and

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stuff for the sprained ankle, so
he's out. He was wearing a boot

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yesterday. Uh Aballo will not be
playing too. He's banged up, as

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is one of the big men.
Uh not creevious thing I was watching.

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No, it's it's uh. I
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three people that will not be playing. That'll give a chance for other people

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to kind of show what they can
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I hadn't seen that at all.
Yeah, so we'll see how they go

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with who the center is and somebody
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are going to be out. I
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most of the day, so I
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I know you are definitely chasing a
kid all over my house. He's crawling

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and he's fast, fast crawler.
He gets out in a hurry. No.

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No, so I hadn't seen that. So uh well, then you

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know, we'll see some guys,
you know, and that'll be interesting as

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well. It'll be good to see
those guys because you know, realistically we

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may not have seen, not see
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once the season. So yeah,
no, I'm we'll see what that.

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Yeah, I'll find out who those
third guy is, but I'm sure it's

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something men. Okay. Yeah,
so yeah, So that came at seven

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o'clock and as we said, we'll
have beat righter for the Lewis and Tribune

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Terren Cowach, Well, come on
and talk a little bit about Lewis and

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Clark. See what they see,
what we can expect from those guys.

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What he sent me the photo on
thinking God, it's been so well,

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God, the business is going to
kids because everythings, everything's young. Yeah.

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Well, and you know, every
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they could be our kid or our
gran it's like the kid from USC,

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right or current USC from Orange County, Rochester. Yeah, he was like

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twelve. He looked well, yeah, he really looked. Well it's Crevis

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Creevous will be out okay, all
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And then they've got about a week
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yeah, the thirtieth until the next
they got they got a team coming in

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from my part of the hood,
Las Vegas. From the kids. Your

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quarterback, the quarterback for this the
the quarterback from the Sugar Skulls. He

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went to that school, Highland High
School, Highland Highland University. That's what

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the team's coming in to play Arizona
in about ten days. Got yeah,

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New Mexico Highland, a small,
very small school. Okay, all right,

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uh so look forward to anybody want
to call please do. We only

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have five minutes for this segment,
and but then we're gonna get to the

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guests. You can call us on
the other side of the segment. We

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put you have more time on the
other side of the segment because we'll do

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our pig pigskin stuff at the end
of the end of the showy, But

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if you want to give us a
call, you're going to give us a

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call. Sit here, has got
it taken care of? Yeah, you're

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you're onto this dead. I didn't
mess it up too much, right for

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what? Oh it's right? No, no, no, no, no,

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no, except for you know,
I hope I was quick enough on

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the on the dump. But you
didn't hear it. You didn't hear anything

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for you didn't check for it.
I did. I cut it out of

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I cut it out podcast. Okay, so, but I don't know if

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it records the podcast. I don't
know if it makes aaf it blocks it

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out when it's live on the air, that's what I think it does.

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It's still on the it's still on
the recording. I have to go take

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it out. We're gonna have to
find hammer next time says you got a

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fifty thousan dollars. He said he
was all over it, and he was

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aware and he got away from him. Well, this is you know,

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this is a conversation like two dudes
at a bar, sitting there talking about

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sports. Yeah, yeah, it's
hard. You're not even of age,

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are you in the morning to Oh
that's right, you're old. Yeah,

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you're fine, You're fine. You're
finding when you're kind of kind of good

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at this year, older, not
shy. How about your Diamondbacks? Wow,

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I mean, I mean, I
I had a feeling that they were

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going to beat the Dodgers, just
because it's the Dodgers. But if they

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somehow tied up, we haven't seen
you, we haven't seen you since you

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Clinton, we have right, Well, yeah, this this run for the

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d Backs, if they can tie
it up tonight, make things interesting.

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Yeah, I mean that was that
was quite you know, quite a win.

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Last night. I mean they had
to they had to. Oh yeah,

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absolutely had to and they did so. Yeah, so you don't live

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to breathe another day. Right,
we'll see what they do tonight. The

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Astros are still up one zip.
It is the top of the fifth inning.

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Their bady Okay, Yeah, the
game ended. Rights that we were

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like play by playing it and then
right is the right? As the show

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ended, they get the base right. We couldn't even we couldn't put it

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on. Yeah, so anyway,
but what you know, and this is

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a huge game for Texas today.
You know, they they won two on

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the road and now they've given up
to at home. You know, Houston's

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got the last two games at home. So you know, the Rangers cannot

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lose this game today. They can't
go back needing to you know, needing

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to sweep. Verlander's going next game, right, No, Verlander just threw.

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Yeah he's throwing today. No,
he threw. He threw. No,

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he threw Game one two days ago. He threw game one. Game

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one. He lost Game one.
How do I know? I bet that

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game? He didn't? He didn't. He's he'll probably pitch tomorrow for game

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five if he has to go.
Well, Game five, he pitched Game

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one. I'm thinking of sure,
yeah, yeah, yeah, I get

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those two. You know, I've
always mixed those two guys and then they

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were together. I don't know why
I always had the old veterans. I

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don't know. Yeah, I've always
mixed those two guys. Some stupid susure.

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I don't know if you'll see him
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Yeah, with those bats rolling,
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pitching today, is he? No? Yeah, Okay, the Astros are

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let you know. All right,
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fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to

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You're Diggers also the won if all. We have Erorta Torres, a

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national guy who comes to Arizona.
Very well. How are you, darn,

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I'm doing well though, you guys
hear me. Okay, how's everything

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going? Yeah, well that we're
good. I think we're good. Okay,

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okay, good. Great to have
you back on the show. It's

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midway through the football season and we're
gonna get geared up here for basketball season.

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So you must be a little busy
with Arizona stuff. Uh, it's

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surely get getting busy, and and
you know, it's a fun time of

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year and obviously from the Arizona perspective, it's been awesome to see the growth

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in the movement of this football team. I know everybody's got an opinion on

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the quarterback stuff and all that,
but you know, I was on air

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during the USC game, so I
was watching, you know, play by

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play, you know, second by
second, and then obviously last to go

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into the buy off, what Washington
State was was just a really positive way

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to kind of go into the buy
So yeah, no, I'm excited about

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what the football team has done so
far, and obviously very excited to see

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what the basketball program can bring this
year. You know, Aaron, we

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you know, the quarterback thing is
you know, obviously very unsettled. But

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one of the things that what we've
called the other storyline has been the defense

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at Arizona has put out there.
It's been a long time since they've had

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even a decent defense at Arizona,
you know, and I think there's still

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a lot of people who think Arizona
is not a good defensive team until they

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see them. But what have you
seen or what do you think they've done

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that it surprises you. Yeah,
it's funny, you know, I'm I

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mean, even from just a perception
standpoint. I mean last year, the

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the passing game was so good and
the offense was so potent that I think

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people still think that that's what Arizona
is this year, and it really isn't,

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to be perfectly honest, I mean, it's more of a balanced team.

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The offense isn't quite as explosive.
But you know it's also because they're

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playing more complimentary football. You know, how has it happened? I'm far

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from a x's and o's expert.
I mean, I think obviously when you

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recruit the portal as aggressively as Jed
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a bunch of guys from a bunch
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an effect. And I just think, you know, again the balance on

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the offense where you know, they're
running the ball well and all that stuff,

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where now it isn't score quick,
get the ball back, all that

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stuff. So I just think,
like, yeah, I guess the best

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way to put it is, I
just think they're they're they're more balanced team

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this year. And to your point, Steve, I do think there are

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people that still think of them as
you know, super you know, uh,

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you know, pass heavy dah dah, da dah, this and that.

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But if you look at a lot
of the offensive stats are a little

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bit down this year, but they're
complimented again by you know, nice balance

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on the other side of the football. And the last three weeks they've been

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balanced with a pretty good quarterback who
you know was the backup before. So

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I'm gonna give you a new role. You were the new head coach of

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the Arizona football program. Who are
you starting? Well? First of all,

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I like that, I like this
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the first thing. The first thing
I'm doing is going off for a nice

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dinner tonight. But after that,
I mean, listen, I'm starting no

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with Fafida and listen, I get
it right, Like like, you know,

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I respect coach Fish and I I
you know, there's this old kind

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of perception in the you know,
sports world that you never lose a starting

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job to an injury blah blah bah
blah blah, this and that. But

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the results speak for themselves, you
know. I mean, you know,

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the offense seems more I don't know
what the right word is. Calm isn't

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necessarily the right word, but it
just seems more in sync with noble Fefeeda.

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I know that maybe his upside isn't
as good as Jaden Dolaura, but

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it doesn't feel like the peaks and
valleys are there as well. I mean,

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listen, I mean, you know
this guy. I don't want to

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say he went toe to toe with
with two Heisman Trophy guys in Kingvill Williams

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and Michael Pennix, but I think
he definitely held his own. And then,

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oh, by the way, you
know, they couldn't stop scoring last

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week against Washington State. So I
don't know if at any updates this week

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during the bye week or if coach
Fish had a press conference. And again

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I understand why he feels the need
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kind of play at koy and say
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is one hundred percent healthy, he's
gonna have a shot at the job.

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But to me, I look at
it and say, you know, this

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is a results based business. You
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guys are getting paid. You know, sometimes he get paid late,

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Like it's just I don't know.
I just think it's a results based business.

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Fafita is getting the job done.
To me, there's no reason to

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go away from him while you're winning. Well, we did have Jed on

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the show yesterday, and you know
when when Fafia excuse me, when Delora

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got hurt for the first couple of
weeks, he said, when Jaden is

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healthy, he's back, he's going
to be the starter. On the show

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yesterday he said, you know,
when the decision time comes, it's gonna

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be who gives us the best chance
to win. So it's kind of backed

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off of that. So it looks
like, well even I mean, I

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could be wrong, guys, but
I believe it was the post to usc

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press conference where you're so close,
you're right there, and he I thought

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he said something to the effect of
if Jaden's ready to go, he's our

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guy next week and any kind of
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of that too. I could be
wrong on that, but I just bring

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it up to say that, you
know, listen again, I was joking

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about the salary, but that's why
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is that you got to make tough
decisions like this, and it sucks,

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and you know, we'll see where
their team is at a week from now.

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But I would go with Fafida and
then, as he said, whoever

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gives you the best chance to win? No, I like your evaluation on

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the team because I'll use the word
steady. It's just very steady with Fefida.

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Yeah, no flash, nobody get
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done and looks very calm. To
let's switch if we could to, uh

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to since there's real game this weekend, let's wish to basketball. Uh.

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you see? Well, I see a

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00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:21.519
different team, you know. I
think obviously more athletic, a lot of

406
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guard play. I think there's I
think the strengths are really strong and the

407
00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:27.759
weaknesses are obvious. Is they're super
athletic. They're gonna get up and down

408
00:26:27.799 --> 00:26:32.920
the floor. I'm excited to see
Caleb Love. I think there's been a

409
00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:37.160
lot of negativity and maybe not in
Tucson but another corners of college basketball.

410
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But I think he kind of understands, Hey, this is my last chance

411
00:26:40.359 --> 00:26:44.359
to really uh you know, accomplish
the goals that I want to accomplish and

412
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get myself to the NBA. The
only concern that I have, if you

413
00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:51.880
want to call it one is three
points shooting? Is that? Obviously?

414
00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:55.880
Again, I don't claim to be
an x's and o's expert in anything,

415
00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.000
but that system that they run is
so about, you know, being able

416
00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:06.079
to make open jump shots and so
statistically, whether it's Keishaw Johnson, whether

417
00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:08.319
it's Jayden Bradley, whether it's Caleb
Love, none of those guys have been

418
00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:11.680
great three point shares throughout their careers. Doesn't mean they can't get better,

419
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but that would be the concern for
me. But overall, I like the

420
00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:18.000
talent that's assembled. You know,
I'd be lying if I said I knew

421
00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:22.880
a lot about the international recruits,
but I'm excited to watch them. But

422
00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:26.200
of the guys that have played in
college basketball, whether it's the Returney's like

423
00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:30.759
Colin Boswell and Ballow, or whether
it's you know, Caleb Love, Keishaw

424
00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:34.880
Johnson, jayde and Bradley, the
transfers, I really like the group that

425
00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:37.720
they have. Yeah, no question, Well, you know I think that

426
00:27:40.359 --> 00:27:41.720
you know, it's funny because that
you know, after they lost to Princeton

427
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last year, the thing was the
running theme here was, you know,

428
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Tommy can't recruit how's he going to
get guys? You just shake your head

429
00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:52.559
at that. And then you look
at this team that I know, they

430
00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:53.839
came in ranked twelfth, you know, in the AP at the start,

431
00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:59.480
but I see a top ten team. Yeah, yeah, I know,

432
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the the top ten or the recruiting
stuff. You know, Listen. The

433
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one thing I've noticed about him is
he certainly takes his time. I mean,

434
00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.839
he's very what's the right word deliver
it in the portal, you know.

435
00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:15.359
I mean you look at two years
ago with Courtney Raimie, I don't

436
00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:18.480
think he got till June. A
couple older guys. Last year, it

437
00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:22.039
really felt like it felt like all
of mccame in May. I could be

438
00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:26.119
wrong on that, but I think
most most of the activity came in May.

439
00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:29.799
So you know, I don't know
about the recruitings. I'm not saying

440
00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:33.920
that it's a wrong commentary that that
people think that, but I think it's

441
00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:37.279
ridiculous. And as far as the
team is concerned, I see a really

442
00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:41.279
good team. And I think what's
interesting is, and I think Steve mentioned

443
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this off the top is a very
you know, very anticipated schedule, but

444
00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:48.720
I think it's almost by design.
Is that with the way the Pac twelve

445
00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:52.279
is again looking this year, I
think you kind of have to be aggressive

446
00:28:52.279 --> 00:28:55.599
in the non conference. I'll be
curious, and I was talking to somebody

447
00:28:55.599 --> 00:28:59.519
about this earlier this week, is
as you transition into the Big twelve,

448
00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:03.400
you have not only Kansas on the
schedule, but Texas Tech, Baylor,

449
00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:06.519
b Yu. I mean, these
are tough teams, tough places to play,

450
00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:11.440
Houston, et cetera. I'm curious
as too if that out of conference

451
00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:14.920
schedule stays as aggressive as it's better
if it slows down a little bit.

452
00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:17.640
But uh, but yeah, I
think I've done a really good team,

453
00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:19.440
and I think they're gonna be tested
plenty early with that loaded, loaded,

454
00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:23.400
loaded schedule. Excited to see them
against all these different teams that they're gonna

455
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have to play early. No,
I thought your point to your evaluation of

456
00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:30.519
the three point shootering, they don't
have it. They haven't had it since

457
00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:33.720
a guy named Salim's Totama was here. I mean that's been a while because

458
00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:37.319
Gabe York wasn't that guy, and
Ben Matherin didn't shoot him often enough.

459
00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:41.839
But I totally agree, until until
proven otherwise, I think you're right,

460
00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:45.480
that could be an acues heel.
It could be, it could be,

461
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:48.640
and and I think, you know, listen, one thing, I'll say,

462
00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:51.960
no team is perfect, especially this
time of year. And as I

463
00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:56.319
said, you look at the assemble
talent, it's really good, by the

464
00:29:56.359 --> 00:29:57.759
way, especially relative to the rest
of the FACT twelve. I mean,

465
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you know, if you want to
talk about do who can Purdue and some

466
00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:03.240
of the other teams in the out
of conference, that's a different conversation.

467
00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:07.240
But you know, they're gonna be
able to as bad as this sounds,

468
00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:10.599
they're gonna be able to kind of
tinker a little bit during the regular season

469
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:14.400
because the PAC twelve is so weak. But yeah, I think when I

470
00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:17.200
look at that team, that is
the thing that stands out. A lot

471
00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:18.480
of guards that can get to the
rim. And by the way, you

472
00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:21.720
know, when you have guards as
good as the three that they have,

473
00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:25.079
maybe it's about getting to the rim, getting to the fall line, getting

474
00:30:25.079 --> 00:30:27.160
your points that way, and maybe
three point shooting isn't as big of a

475
00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:30.880
deal. But you know, just
to somebody who loves basketball, we all

476
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:34.079
get the concept of guard beats a
guy off the dribble, you know,

477
00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:37.960
in theory, as the defense collapses
somebody's gonna be opening a corner, so

478
00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:41.880
you know, I'm with you,
Steve. I think it's probably is the

479
00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.079
team's achilles heel. Maybe you can
coach around it. I don't know,

480
00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:48.440
but if you're asking me what I
think the biggest concern is coming into the

481
00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:51.880
year, that would probably be it. Well keep an eye on. I

482
00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:52.839
think the Leap is gonna be one
of those guys you didn't think that.

483
00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:56.160
You were thinking, Wow, this
guy can play. He hasn't played much,

484
00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:00.920
right, I think he will be
that guy who is this I'm sorry,

485
00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:04.160
in one of the one of the
international guys. He was a sophomore,

486
00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:08.160
Philipe Borovich and he was a sophomore. I thought you said Khalid I

487
00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:12.759
was like some reeves or who are
we talking about here? Like some of

488
00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:18.960
the team that I don't know about
it now. Philipe was good last year.

489
00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:21.599
I didn't mean to cut you off
season, Philippe. Philipe was good

490
00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:23.079
in that limited role. I think
that's the you know, let me say

491
00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:27.000
one thing really quick too. On
that and the international stuff, it's just

492
00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:30.680
so hard to know. I mean, U c l A has gone heavy

493
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:34.319
international this offseason. Kentucky brought in
an international guy, and I and you

494
00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:38.039
know, talking to coaches like I
do, think it really does kind of

495
00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:41.799
in a lot of cases take a
year for these kids. I mean,

496
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:45.240
you know, it's it's a new
country, it's a new language, it's

497
00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:47.759
a new system, it's a new
way of coaching, it's a new way

498
00:31:47.799 --> 00:31:52.039
of traveling, it's a you know, obviously different rules relative to FEBUS.

499
00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:53.799
So I mean you talk about guys. A lot of these guys, even

500
00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:59.160
even when Tommy was at Gonzaga,
a lot of those guys red shirted their

501
00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:00.799
first year and it really took him
a year to get going. So I

502
00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:04.039
think you're right, Steve. I
think that's a guy that when you look

503
00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:07.279
at a potential breakout candidate or or
you know, improvement candidate or whatever,

504
00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:10.160
I think that guy's at the top
of the list. Yeah. He certainly

505
00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:15.039
looked, you know, very confident
in the in their overseas games, and

506
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:17.680
then in the Red Blue game here
he just he walks, he just looks

507
00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:21.559
different. He walks different, he's
got he's got a different presence, yeah,

508
00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:24.640
than he's had up to now.
It takes time, you know,

509
00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:27.799
And I'll just say this, I'm
going to cut you guys off. Like

510
00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:30.079
I think everybody, you know,
we live in this you know, microwave

511
00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:35.519
culture, and especially in college basketball, right is you know, it's the

512
00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:37.519
one and done culture. It's you
know, you get in and get out

513
00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:42.039
as fast as you can. It
just takes time. It just takes guys

514
00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:44.279
a while. I mean, you
know, listen as as a Yukon of

515
00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:46.720
lum. You know, you look
at that Yukon team last year, they

516
00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:51.720
had in their starting lineup, Uh, you know, two thirty year juniors

517
00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:53.319
that had been in the program for
three years, and one of them,

518
00:32:53.640 --> 00:32:57.640
Andre Jackson, is now in the
NBA. He was a projected one and

519
00:32:57.720 --> 00:33:00.119
done and you know how good,
and it just it took him a little

520
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:04.519
bit longer. Domasnogo, it's a
little bit longer. And I think that

521
00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:07.759
that's part of like the college basketball
thing now is if you don't have immediate

522
00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:09.640
success, do you want to go
somewhere else or you want to do something

523
00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:14.240
different, or you go pro anyway, it's not always that easy. College

524
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:15.319
basketball is a lot moreer than people
give it credit for. You know,

525
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:20.519
you mentioned that you mentioned the schedule
that Arizona's got. I think they've got

526
00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:24.119
the two number two three and four
ranked teams in the country, you know,

527
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:30.000
in their in their preseason, along
with f A U Alabama. It's

528
00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:32.039
a crazy schedule. I mean,
to me, it's kind of refreshing to

529
00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:37.400
see this kind of scheduling. Yeah, are you guys coming out to Palm

530
00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:44.000
Springs on Thanksgiving or what? You're
gonna have to talk to my wife about

531
00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:46.880
that one to welcome to the club. No, I'm I you know,

532
00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:50.559
Palm Springs about a half an hour
from where I live, but I think

533
00:33:50.559 --> 00:33:53.079
I'm going to have some family commitments
that day as well. Yeah. I

534
00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:59.400
don't know what the scheduling preference was
under Sean Miller or the previous regime or

535
00:33:59.400 --> 00:34:02.920
whatever, but Tommy has been very, very very aggressive, and you know,

536
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:06.920
I think the cool thing is,
you know, listen, I understand

537
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:09.039
not everything can be a true home
and home, but the fact that you're

538
00:34:09.079 --> 00:34:13.519
going to Cameron Indoor early in the
year, the fact that Wisconsin is a

539
00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:16.559
true home and home, you know, even Alabama, I know it's not

540
00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:20.079
a true home and home, but
you're at least playing them in Phoenix where

541
00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:22.880
the fans can show up. That's
the part that I like, and I

542
00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:24.880
think, you know, I understand
why stuff is done in college basketball the

543
00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:28.639
way that it is. But all
these neutral psyche gas, you know,

544
00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:30.760
by the way, I was joking
about the Thanksgiving Day game. But even

545
00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:35.159
there, you know, we know
the presence that Arizona has in southern California,

546
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:39.320
So it's not like you're playing Michigan
State in you know, in wherever,

547
00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:43.360
you know, Tulsa or something like
that. You know, it's a

548
00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:45.840
place that fans can get to if
they want to make a day of it.

549
00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:47.679
So I just bring it all up
to say, like one, I

550
00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:52.199
love the early season games. It's
great for college basketball. It's a great

551
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:54.360
test for the players. But I
also like that some of it is to

552
00:34:54.480 --> 00:34:58.000
the benefit of the fans. I
know next year Duke will be coming to

553
00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:00.280
town. You know, you got
a couple of guys home games this year,

554
00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:05.000
and then the neutral site games are
kind of advantageous for the fans.

555
00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:09.000
Like I said, you know,
Paul Springs from Michigan State Vegas for Florida

556
00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:15.079
Atlantic. I like how the schedule
breaks. No super well erin good to

557
00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:16.960
hear from you, Torres on Arizona. In fact, I've met one of

558
00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:21.119
your interns, Mary Grace. She
was happy to be working for you.

559
00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:24.599
So oh nice, good, Well
that's good now and now I feel okay,

560
00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:28.519
you're making me feel good now still
okay, good, I'm not the

561
00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:32.679
taskmaster, you know, mean person
that everyone makes me out. You're a

562
00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:36.159
good dude. You're a good dude. Thank you, Eron. I appreciate

563
00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:38.440
it. All right, guys,
take care. Thank you. Aaron tos

564
00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:44.280
Tourre's on Arizona. Just google his
stuff. Stuff he's just got he's got

565
00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:46.000
knowledge of everything. Yes, he's
great. He's got a lot of good

566
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:50.480
stuff. He's got a great podcast. And as you can see by just

567
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knowing the names on you know,
Arizona's basketball and football teams. He just

568
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knows. So he's a good guy
to follow. So all right, let's

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and Oh, it's Steve Lamera and
Jaden Salmis. This is I on the

626
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Ball on Fox Sports fourteenth fifty.
Hey, welcome back to I'm the Ball

627
00:40:09.159 --> 00:40:13.199
here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve, He's Jake. Got our

628
00:40:13.400 --> 00:40:17.440
guy said with us today. So
we've got about ten minutes in a half

629
00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:20.679
minutes you guys want to call.
We have that time for you guys to

630
00:40:20.679 --> 00:40:23.519
give us a quick call five to
two oh four one sixty. Uh,

631
00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:25.960
let us know what you're thinking of. That's a good time with Aaron Tortoise.

632
00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:28.440
You don't been ready to get him
for a while. You know,

633
00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:30.559
he's a busy guy. He's on
a lot of shows, he does his

634
00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:34.599
own podcast, so just one of
those guys out there doing college sports all

635
00:40:35.039 --> 00:40:38.280
the time. And it's football,
basketball, whatever, p any of stuff

636
00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:40.840
to go going on. So yeah, it was good to get him.

637
00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:44.880
He's always good. Yeah, Okay, cool. I hope to get a

638
00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:47.239
call too here sare would love to
hear from you. Are you excited about

639
00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:50.880
tonight? Are you just kind of
a game? It's an exhibition game because

640
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:54.119
it's in four hours. I'm excited
four hours. Are you excited? I

641
00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:58.400
don't know. It's kind of really
quick. It's cool. Yeah, but

642
00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:00.159
you know, now that it's here, it's kind of like, okay,

643
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:04.960
let's get this thing going. Let's
get the season started. You know,

644
00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:07.920
we'll still pay a lot of attention
to football. And really, there's an

645
00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:10.599
exhibition today, there's one in a
week and a half, and you know,

646
00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:14.639
the season doesn't really get going until, you know, until the first

647
00:41:14.679 --> 00:41:19.400
week of November. So you know, it's time, it's time, let's

648
00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:23.800
get let's let's get time over by
a T shirt. Time Well it is,

649
00:41:23.920 --> 00:41:28.639
you know, how long do you
think or or do you think they'll

650
00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:32.480
get into the top ten for the
basketball program, well, because I think

651
00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:36.599
they will not until after they play
Duke. Well that's the whole thing.

652
00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:37.599
If they lose Duke, they're not
going to get in, right, But

653
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:40.039
if they beat Duke, they will
get We'll get it. Yeah, they'll

654
00:41:40.119 --> 00:41:43.760
jump right in. Right there,
is there a twelve You go on the

655
00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:45.800
road and beat Duke, you know, Duke number two? Yeah, Duke's

656
00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:49.440
number two. But if they don't, yeah, and I hope Arizona fans

657
00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:52.199
have the correct expectation of that,
right, Duke is the number two team

658
00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:57.000
in the country. You think if
you think that they should go in and

659
00:41:57.039 --> 00:42:00.199
beat Duke at Cameron, you need
to shake yourself if you think they can.

660
00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:06.960
Yeah, fine, they can,
but uh uh uh you know it's

661
00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:09.159
it's uh, it's gonna be a
hard place to go get a win.

662
00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:12.599
And then that early in the season, you know, there's they're gonna be

663
00:42:12.599 --> 00:42:15.559
so fired up for basketball over there. Yeah, no, it's gonna be

664
00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:17.719
crazy. That's why I'm going.
I'm just kind of been there, so

665
00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:22.559
it'll be fun to go. Somebody's
giving me some grief over saying that Philippe

666
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:25.559
will have a big role on the
team. He said he'll take the under

667
00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:29.800
that he won't. Yeah, well
I bet that. I bet that.

668
00:42:29.960 --> 00:42:37.320
Yeah, man, oh man,
look I again, did you say what?

669
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:38.679
No, it just says he said, did I too? Son,

670
00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:42.719
just say Philip B will have a
big role. He says, I'll take

671
00:42:42.760 --> 00:42:47.679
the under, like I you know, just his presence, he just walks

672
00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:52.639
different, he looks different, his
his his his, his presence is different

673
00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:58.079
on the court. And it showed
it. It showed on the overseas trip

674
00:42:58.079 --> 00:43:00.280
and it really showed at the Red
and Blue game. And it's not so

675
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:05.719
much what he did. Can't he
shoot all? He just looks, you

676
00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:07.440
know, I belong here now,
Like like Aaron was saying, it kind

677
00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:10.159
of takes these guys a year to
get acclimated, you know the internet.

678
00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:13.920
Well there's no spot for him too. Yeah, and so but he just

679
00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:17.039
you know, he's he's I think
he will have a Is he gonna start?

680
00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:20.639
No? But is he gonna?
Is he gonna be a guy who's

681
00:43:20.639 --> 00:43:22.719
gonna be important to them? I
believe so, So let me tell you

682
00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:24.840
him. So. We we had
a chance to go see them play last

683
00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:30.400
year. Last year when we had
the camp and Tommy let us go see

684
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:31.760
the fans and blah blah blah,
and I said, who is this kid?

685
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:35.639
He just runs the court differently.
He shoots the ball well, uh,

686
00:43:35.800 --> 00:43:37.079
kind of thin side, kind of
like a you know, like a

687
00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:40.599
deer, like a young deer,
and they're not fully developed, and the

688
00:43:42.039 --> 00:43:44.639
right little shakey, yeah, a
little shakey. But he had some talent.

689
00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:45.840
He said, who's that guy?
And I'm thinking, okay, cool,

690
00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:49.519
And then you don't see him anymore. And then I said, this

691
00:43:49.559 --> 00:43:52.920
is a guy who's gonna do very
well this next year. So then he

692
00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:54.360
has that night, right, but
then he comes into the press. Were

693
00:43:54.360 --> 00:43:58.119
you there for the post game press? For the Red Blue? Now?

694
00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:00.920
So he comes in he kind of
looks like, not that he's lost,

695
00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:04.559
but he's a giddy, happy,
gold lucky just you know, when you're

696
00:44:04.599 --> 00:44:06.599
you know, when you're young,
you don't know any better. That's what

697
00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:08.280
he looks like. Yeah, he
just doesn't know because he doesn't know.

698
00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:12.840
And I think that's why it's kind
of a hidden type of thing. I

699
00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:15.559
think Arizona's got a bunch of guys. No, he's got a bunch of

700
00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:17.440
guys like that like that, because
you don't know who they are. Again,

701
00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:23.400
you know, what's his name,
you know, Henry Bason. Another

702
00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:27.920
guy, another guy who just looked
kind of lost out there last year and

703
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:30.480
just needs to get his feet on
given was giving a chance. And again

704
00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:34.239
another guy that you know in the
in the uh you know, in the

705
00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:38.920
Overseas trip and in the Red Blue
game. You just he just appeared different.

706
00:44:39.239 --> 00:44:43.760
Yeah. Now, is that going
to translate to playing time and have

707
00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:47.159
an impact on the game. We
don't know, but you think they might.

708
00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:51.079
Aaron said this, and I don't
think we needed to hear it from

709
00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:53.280
him that, because it's true.
We live in a time now where college

710
00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:58.280
basketball, if you're good, you
should be good right away. That doesn't

711
00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:00.400
work. And Luke and Luke Simon, which is still a biable if he

712
00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:04.400
could play, he'd do the same
thing if he was alive still coaching.

713
00:45:04.599 --> 00:45:07.639
Where you come in as a freshman, you bide your time, you play

714
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:10.480
against guys better than you, you
get better and as a sophomore, junior

715
00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:13.960
and senior, that's when you shine. Right, Look how this look how

716
00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:15.800
the light came on for Kylon Boswell
in the second half of the season last

717
00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:20.960
Right, here's the guy you know
he couldn't play because his foot because yeah,

718
00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:23.159
I mean he just wasn't ready to
go. Took him a while to

719
00:45:23.199 --> 00:45:27.599
get to get acclimated. And by
the time by that, you know,

720
00:45:27.639 --> 00:45:30.119
by the pack twof tournament, he
was he was he was money. Well,

721
00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:34.000
you know the guy that's gonna maybe
be that freshman guy coming in right

722
00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:37.440
aways, Lewis kJ Lewis Lewis,
He's he looks so athletic, he looks

723
00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:42.760
so good. Confidence he does.
He has all the kid. He has

724
00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:45.280
a big physical kid. He's not
he's not some skinny you know, six

725
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:51.920
foot four, six foot three.
He looks he looks solid, and he's

726
00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:54.199
got these broad shoulders and again,
as you said, not afraid to go

727
00:45:54.199 --> 00:45:58.880
out on the court and take on
anybody. Yeah. So I and I'm

728
00:45:58.960 --> 00:46:02.000
looking forward to seeing what these says. But it looks like tonight just to

729
00:46:02.039 --> 00:46:05.239
see him, see them run,
right, I just want to see them.

730
00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:07.920
That's what they're gonna do. Well, I think to his point with

731
00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:09.920
the three pointer, and and he's
right, we don't know who could be,

732
00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:16.880
could be Philip, But in in
Tommy's offense, you do need that

733
00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:21.199
perimeter shooting, right, you do
need it. Maybe it's kJ, maybe

734
00:46:21.239 --> 00:46:23.760
it's Philip we will see. But
because they do so many different things,

735
00:46:24.239 --> 00:46:28.960
uh, and they have some capable
inside guys kick it out boom. Well

736
00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:30.800
that's it. And that was the
thing that that that we've seen already is

737
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:35.119
that the guys that they the four
guys that they have that are gonna play

738
00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:38.920
the two guard positions. You know, Boswell, Love, Bradley, k

739
00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:44.840
J Lewis all go to the basket
all and I hate saying it this way,

740
00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:49.320
but they all go to the basket
way better than than Kirk ever did.

741
00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:52.840
Right, Kirk Greesa just was not
physical enough, not quick enough.

742
00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:58.079
Yeah, these guys are physical.
They're gonna go to the hoop. But

743
00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:00.360
if you've got it, if you've
got somebody on the outside who can they'll

744
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:04.880
be able to kick it back out
and shoot some threes. And if they

745
00:47:04.920 --> 00:47:07.360
have somebody who can do that,
you'd like to think Caleb Love is that

746
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:09.639
guy. I mean, he's supposed
to be, you know, a bit

747
00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:15.119
of a shooter. You know,
is is uh Jay is jayde Bradley?

748
00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:17.760
I don't know, is kJ Kji
I don't know. I don't know if

749
00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:22.239
kJ Lewis is more of a point
guard kind of guy. But you know,

750
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:24.000
if they got if they got somebody
who can stand out there and shoot,

751
00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:28.239
and Phelipe maybe one of them.
You hope Paly Larson is one of

752
00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:32.800
them. You know, They've just
got all these pieces that look like they

753
00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:37.119
can fit together in a way that
uh, you know, Tommy's been trying

754
00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:42.840
to trying to get over the last
couple of years tournament experience experience guys as

755
00:47:42.880 --> 00:47:45.800
well. Right, that's gonna be
huge because it seems like the past few

756
00:47:45.880 --> 00:47:50.840
years, guys like Tubella's maybe in
the tournament shied away a little bit.

757
00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:53.440
It seems like it just didn't seem
you know, physically fit enough, not

758
00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:58.880
physically fit, physical enough to get
in there and muscle around with you know,

759
00:47:58.920 --> 00:48:01.440
those guys like you know, there
was you know, two years ago

760
00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:06.440
TCU in Houston, and then last
year, last year, they just they

761
00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:08.760
just ran into a Princeton team that
just had an incredible game and they were

762
00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:12.199
going to beat a lot of teams. Last year, you were making shots

763
00:48:12.199 --> 00:48:14.880
from the outside, we were doing
all kinds of things. Well, we

764
00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:19.039
got a call. Let's take this
call before we have the break. Hi,

765
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:21.960
you're on the air and I on
the ball. Hey, j how

766
00:48:22.039 --> 00:48:27.000
you doing? Howard? What are
you doing. Yeah, I called Steve

767
00:48:27.119 --> 00:48:30.679
when you were gone the other day. Hey, I actually was at the

768
00:48:30.719 --> 00:48:34.920
Red Glue game and freaking we know
that lewis guy. He's going to be

769
00:48:34.920 --> 00:48:37.239
the freshman of the year. That
guy is so good. But but my

770
00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:42.599
wife and I, you know,
we're you know, we're we're we've been

771
00:48:42.599 --> 00:48:45.360
married about the same time as you, j But my wife and I.

772
00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:49.559
My wife's a lot older than your
wife. I'm sure she was a cradle

773
00:48:49.639 --> 00:48:54.199
Robert. Ye know, you know
my you know, she's more the same

774
00:48:54.239 --> 00:48:59.519
age, but your wife is a
lot She's probably younger than me and still

775
00:48:59.719 --> 00:49:04.800
me and Steve's age. No,
she's about Steve. Oh no, but

776
00:49:04.840 --> 00:49:07.039
that's younger than me and my wife
because remember I'm between you guys. And

777
00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:12.559
remember we're mature, Howard. We
don't become old Tour seventy. Anyway,

778
00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:15.800
that game was good, but we
left before the game even started. It's

779
00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:21.079
too late, okay, but we
saw all the dunk contest. It was

780
00:49:21.159 --> 00:49:24.480
great. I enjoyed myself. Here's
your question to you, Jay, Jay,

781
00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:30.880
you know why these guys are getting
these stolen bases, right? The

782
00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:36.599
base is bigger, yo. Yes, you're so being being but but Steve,

783
00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:39.039
you were spot on all your assessment
of the Wildcat team, so I

784
00:49:39.039 --> 00:49:45.559
didn't have to say anything because you're
spot on out you know, how checks

785
00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:49.960
in the mail. Howard, No, no, but it's true. That's

786
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:54.039
why I I really followed you and
you were sort of my you know,

787
00:49:54.119 --> 00:49:58.639
I read your article when I saw
you thirty years ago. Yeah, I

788
00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:01.760
was quiet. You see louder today. You know what I mean. It's

789
00:50:01.760 --> 00:50:07.519
like Steve's at my table looking into
my cards. But was shell show.

790
00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:10.000
I'm serious. Well we gotta go, all right, Howard, thanks the

791
00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:15.880
whole. I would love Howard,
but I have no idea who she's like,

792
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:22.679
goes one way. He talks about
how please keep calling? All right,

793
00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:25.199
God, that that was a fast
first hours. It really was.

794
00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:28.519
All right, we're gonna be back, so it's gonna have breaking news for

795
00:50:28.599 --> 00:50:31.800
us. And then we'll have a
tarn College who's the writer for the Lewis

796
00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:35.719
and Tribune, and we'll talk a
little bit about Lewis and Clark State coming

797
00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:37.639
in tonight to face Arizona. So
stick around.