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Steve Rivera and jaygn Salez. They
have their Eye on the ball on Tucson's

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sports stage yet Fox Sports fourteen fifty
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WAPs Hey, welcome back to Night
in the Ball here Fox Sports fourteen

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fifty of Steve Rivera. Jay is
out today not feeling well. But we

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have Kevin Thomas here doing the board
and gonna do some breaking news. This

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is Eye on the Ball breaking news
on Fox Sports fourteen to fifty. It's

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a new year, New me,
Steve, New Year. What did you

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do? Get a haircut? Killed
that? Oh? You got it?

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Okay? Yeah? One one in
the New Year. Okay, that's yalldaytty

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good. But so we do have
some news in the NFL. Titans have

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fired head coach Mike Rabel. Yeah, after six seasons, and he's been

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pretty successful. He has been pretty
successful in the first three seasons. Now

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when you look at from twenty eighteen
twenty twenty one, three playoff appearances,

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sixty three percent percentage and twenty five
points per game with a turnover differential plus

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thirteen, okay, and then in
the last couple of years no playoff appearances,

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a thirty eight percent percentage seventeen point
seven points per game in a minus

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nine turnover differential. Well, how
how fortunes changed? Was there some connection

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to New England that they're gonna swap
something or he was gonna go there,

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He's gonna go there. So the
team had the option to as the team

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Tennessee option. Yes, Tennessee has
the option to trade him. They decided

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to just outright fire trade him.
Don't you need to be wanted somewhere to

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be traded the I don't think you
have to be wanted. Well, I

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guess you have to you be wanted, but the coach has to be.

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It's like a no trade classe kind
of in a way where they can be

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like, I don't want to be
a part of this, and then the

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team can't trade them. So it's
believed that Mike Rable was he wanted to

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stay, okay, and Tennessee did
not want to so they fired him.

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Yeah, isn't that help? The
life works? The life works, it

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is. Yeah, you know,
I don't want to be traded to uh

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Todaisy Fuentest, but you know she
does wanting part of me? You know

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who she is? Okay, you
have but yeah, no, I thought

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it was interesting that they did not
try to find get any reward or compensation

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for him. Yeah, didn't want
to draw it out. He'll land on

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the spot. I don't know if
he's a great coach, but he's a

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pretty good quick because you know,
the last three years will prove that he

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hasn't been a great coach. Great
coaches don't do what he's done the last

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three years. Could he eventually end
up at back at New England? Who

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knows? Right well? If not? If he leaves, if they sail

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and there's the door, that's true, there's the door because there's one of

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those things. It's not whether you
want to stay or not. It's not

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whether this wants me or not,
it's whether it does. It's like being

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a great musician. You know,
you never know you're done until your fans

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tell you're right right right. That's
kind of when I asked Marquis, did

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you call your shot to say goodbye? Or did someone else call the shot?

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Because there's no better feeling you say
you know when you retire, or

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or you want to stay. Sorry, we don't want you to be here,

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you know. But there was another
firing and right after that wasn't there

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Maybe no, no, there wasn't. Jacksonville fired their their defensive side of

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the ball, I believe, so
oh Arthur Smith also got fired. But

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that was like two minutes after that. Did you see what happened during the

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game when he was fighting he was
arguing with you. Yeah, yeah,

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there was a bunch of you know, you could read the apps. You

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could yeah, you could read the
lifts, and it was still not what

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do you what do you follow on
that? Because we talked a little about

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that yesterday. It's a unique case. I think in general, stop them,

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okay, but but here's here's the
nuance with it. Uh I forget

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the coach's name for New Orleans.
I apologize, but he's he said that

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they actually ran a neil. Jamis
said he did run a neil, and

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then I was like, forget all
that. We're scoring Jamaal Williams' first stretch

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out of the season. So it
was a unique case because they did come

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out in victory formation, and I
think it's kind of a shady move.

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Okay, okay, they ran to
play from the neil formation. I didn't

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know that. I didn't know that. So if're on the defense, we're

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like, well, let's just stand
Okay, then they run it and totally

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makes sense and that's why he's pissed. Yeah, okay, I didn't get

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he got embarrassed on his last I
didn't get that information. But okay,

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So if you don't want if you
don't want them to score on a normal

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situation, what is it. What
do you do? Are you pissed that

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they scored? No? Like,
you stop them? Stop them, you

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stop them if you don't want to
like being court stormed, win the game,

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Win the damn game. Pretty simple. Yeah, I agree with you.

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I think we're a lockstep on that
one. Steelers. T J.

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Watt he's bounced out for the wildcard
matchup versus the Bills. I have I

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have an interesting stat on that go
ahead for our gamblers out there. Pittsburgh

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is one and ten straight up and
four six and one to the spread without

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t J. Watt and the eleven
games he's what's the spread? Now?

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That's the Bills. I think they're
ten point underdog. If if he was

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available, that'd be a tough task. I do believe that they're ten point

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underdogs. Yeah, that's that's about
fair. That's about fair and Buffalo's playing

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really well right now, not that
it matters because every game is this season.

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We'll see. Yeah, and so
we also had I also had a

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little interesting guessing game. Michigan has
the longest winning streak right now in the

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FBS, but yeah, who has
the second longest? Washington was pretty they

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had the longest. I think Washington
did twenty something two. Who has don't?

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Is this a trick question? I
don't know. Is it Arizona?

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It is Arizona seven seven. It's
Arizona. That's a trick because it's seven.

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You said seventeen seven. It goes
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So who would you get that?
I saw I saw it on Twitter

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last night and it was and everything. Okay, so everything you read on

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Twitter, I guess is when it's
verified by multiple different sources. Don't.

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Don't have me out here sounding crazy, but yeah, but that's you know,

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that's a big number. I mean, seventeen to seven. That's there's

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no win between. Yeah, I
have to I'll have the double checkers.

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So that's cool. That's cool.
It was just a couple of years ago

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when you were maybe a freshman or
so, they were did not seem really

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they were. They were zero for
whatever. Well me three years ago that

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there will be a seven game win
streak here at this school. I think

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I would have called, who sold
you have to kill to get that has

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control? I don't know if you
got rabies or what happened, That's what

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I would have said. But thankfully, Yeah, honestly, not much breaking

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news. We can talk about the
we can talk about the the wild card

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matchups. Well, we haven't talked
about Draymond coming back. We don't talk

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really much national news. But Draymond
coming back to the Golden State Warriors.

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I'm not sure if I'm happy about
that. I've been really confused by the

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discourse around him coming back in what
sense there's It's been a lot of like

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really serious undertones, Like he came
out on his podcast and said, you

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know that that Steve Kerr visited him
during his suspension, and then Steve Kerr

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cried and he cried and they had
a long conversation where Steve Kerr insinuated that

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he does not want Draymond to end
his career like this, right, and

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neither does a Silver Yeah, because
Draymond threatened to retire during the thing which

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people on the internet made a big
laugh about, like, Hey, they

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tell you to stop hitting people,
and now you want to retire. But

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Adam Silver told them, Hey,
I think I'm making a rash decision,

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he said. So it's just a
weird a lot of weird discussion. I

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think, honestly, I expected him
to be like, you know, hey,

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I didn't mean to hit him.
I hit him, and then he

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would just go in his suspension,
make up, make a podcast about it,

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and come back. But it's just
like weird. Do you think that

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he'll be okay after this? And
I don't even know what means? Yeah,

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I don't know what do you think
will be? Right? It's Raymond

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Green. So you're saying the scorpion. I'm saying whether whether on purpose or

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not, I think he will find
himself in a situation because guys are going

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to try him. I think I
think guys are going to try to them

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up. Okay, that's fair,
but that's fair in the evaluation. I

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don't know. I think he probably
will get something will happen. The Spider

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doesn't need the Scorpion eventually gets to
be the scorpion of warriors. In the

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standing round, they're like eleventh tent
I was like, I was like,

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if it's just towards the regular season, maybe I'll give him a clean bill

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of health for the regular season.
But if they make the playoffs somehow,

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then something could happen too many games. I don't know if you want to

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talk about this, but we talked
about this off the air, about about

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Jimmy Kimmel and Aaron Rodgers today or
last night. Kimmell went on the air

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live for seven and a half minutes
or whatever it was to talk about the

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situation because it was his first public
and then and then Rogers Today went on

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for a while and for a while
talking about his situation. Your line was

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what because Kimill went after his education. So Aaron Rodgers was talking about how

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he felt wronged by kim Will bringing
up his education and his JUCO experience and

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things, and then he went to
cal, I mean, the dude's a

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smart dude. Yeah, And Rogers
said something along the lines of I find

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it really funny that a guy with
ten joke writers in an ACU education could

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read off the CALLI prompter and when
you were in that which is a good

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yeah, like him or not?
Rogers moments where he's amusing. Yeah,

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I think it's just a weird,
weird situation. Yeah, I'm not a

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political guy. I only going there. But he's I think he's a very

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bright dude. He knows he's a
very bright dude. Rich dude, women

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like him, influential dude. But
there's a point when there's a point when

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he just play. I mean,
just play. We're just talking about I

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mean, I guess he is talking
about what he wants to talk about.

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But that's the whole purpose of that
segment. I suppose, man, he

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said, he didn't say anything.
I mean, it's funny because he quoted

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himself. He read it back and
I heard the quote again and I was

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like, but just why I throw
his name right right, right right?

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And that was and that was the
issue. Yeah, it was strange.

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It was just strange. You didn't
have to go there. He didn't really

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and he thought he was retaliating from
a two or three year old the attack

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of a stand up comedian. Yeah, part of your issues. He said

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that he doesn't like he doesn't care
about what people say. But yeah,

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Rogers, he did say today he
doesn't care what people think about him outside

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of the those that he loved,
which is a fair sentiment. Yeah,

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sure, if you then back it
up right. I mean, if you're

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remembering jokes from a late night host
three years, two years whatever, ago,

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do you really not care or are
you just waiting until you can direct

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it so that the public doesn't think
so this or that about you? Yeah?

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He definitely has an ax to grind
almost every Tuesday. Sure. Sure,

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no. And there's a lot of
people in this business. You write

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about people. You can write ninety
nine things or the show. Do you

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remember that one thing that you said
you brought up or whatever. People remember

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those things. You could be ninety
five to ninety nine percent positive for all

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these things, but they remember that
one. It's it's the Sam Decker thing.

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Sam Decker was a great player for
Wisconsin. Huh Right, So he

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gets in NBA, drafted by the
Rockets. He's playing a game of the

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Rockets. I think most people my
age only remember him for killing dribbling the

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ball off of his face against the
Knicks. Okay, he was running down

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the court, trips, dribbles,
the ball bounces off his face, goes

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out of bounce. That's what I
think first when I think, Okay,

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and it goes to your point of
like you just remember what sticks out,

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and if they were good consistently and
they did one bad thing, that's an

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inconsistency. It's an abnormality. It's
gonna stick out among all the great performance.

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That's great. That's great analogy because
I use that, and in fact,

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I saw it again today on on
Instagram. A math teacher goes onto

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the board that has ten. I
don't know if you've seen this. He

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does ten math problems and then the
ninth ten math problems gives nine accurate equations,

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and then the tenth one messes it
up purposely and the students start laughing.

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He says, what are you laughing
about? Well, you made a

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mistake in the tenth one, and
why are you laughing? You didn't praise

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me for the first nine that I
got right. Wow, So people remember,

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that's a powerful message, very powerful. And he went into the dissertation

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of that's what people like to talk
about, how you screwed up. It's

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fit. That's Twitter and Facebook.
Yeah, there's some psychological effects I remember

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from high school. I forget the
exact name, but it's where no matter

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what, if you get one hundred
positive comments. You're gonna remember the one

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that just made you feel bad.
Yes, you're gonna remember that. I

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don't know why, but you're gonna
remember that before you remember any of the

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good stuff. So this kind of
goes student and I don't know if he

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even compares. But and this is
nothing political, just it's a statement.

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So so MAWI happens, right,
disaster, YadA YadA, the Rock and

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Oprah donate ten million dollars each.
I hope, I'm getting start y.

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They get give ten million dollars each. They're criticizing for not giving more because

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of their wealth or mass wealth.
Had they not given anything, would have

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been out better. I think some
people, I think some regardless of any

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opinion on the situation. I think
some people would have been unhappy regardless.

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Yeah, but they're pointed out because
of what they did. And I bring

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up a example for me. My
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did this. Don't make us not
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I know that Rock and Oprah have a

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we didn't have to do anything.
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just not enough and the apology is
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ten bucks, do you have twenty? Yeah? You know, you know

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what I mean. Yeah, And
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fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back
to IM about Hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

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I'm Steve Rivera, no Jay today, but we got Kevin with me.

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Now we have mister Brian Peabody from
Pima. Brian, are you there?

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He's not there. We're gonna have
to Holy moully, what happened?

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Okay, why don't you go ahead
and hit yeah, kill that one.

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And Brian, if you can hear
us, or Raymond, if you hear

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us, give us a quick call
back. We're having issues with the phone.

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So is that what you did?
Saw you did last time? You

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just hit the blue and it came
back on. So we'll try if you

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guys can call us back. We'll
keep an eye on the phone. There

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we are, here we go helo
is this Brian? Oh? Brian?

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Thanks? Did you hear my stuff
when you couldn't hear me? Or I

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couldn't do? Okay? Cool?
Cool, cool, Thanks for coming back.

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Very very impressed with what's going on
at Pima. You must be or

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coaches ever impressed? Yeah, I'm
impressed. I'm happy. I mean,

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it's all going good. So,
you know, anytime you start out a

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season and have the success that we've
had, you know the bar you're obviously

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you know, happy but not satisfied. Yeah. You know, we had

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a good year last year and got
upset in the conference finals to go to

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the national tournament. So you know, as a coach, you know you're

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wary of everything. You blink your
eye and somebody gets hurt or ineligible or

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something like that, so it's got
to be careful. So how does this

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team look Given the number of teams
that you've had over the years, they're

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probably playing the type of basketball you've
always wanted to play. And it's not

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that you haven't had teams like it, but this is kind of like the

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team that you've wanted to have.
I think you get a team like this

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about every ten years. Yeah,
And I just say that because this team

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is really close. They don't they
don't care about accolades or who scores or

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anything like that. They're they're just
worried about winning. And especially in today's

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game, you don't get a team
like this very often. Like I mean,

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I talk to coaches all the time, and you probably get a team

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like this every ten years, right, right. Tommy Lloyd talks about margin

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for error. I don't think that's
the phrase he uses, but he likes

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that because you at the end of
the game, if you're up by ten,

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you're up by fifteen, they give
you some wiggle room you're one of

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those teams and score a lot of
points and see what comes of it.

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Right, we do, We do
score a lot of points. But on

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the other you know, the other
side of that, you know, we

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share the ball. I think we
lead the country in scoring and also lead

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the country and assists, and we
haven't to be honest with you, we

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do score a lot of points,
but we haven't played well down the stretch.

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We've had you know, like Snow
number five in the country, and

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we blew a big time lead against
them CoA chief on Saturday, we're up

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twenty seven, blew a big time
lead. So we got to you know,

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we saw a room to grow.
We got to figure some things out,

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especially in the last ten minutes of
the game, of what we're doing.

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And it's you know, it's as
a coach when people say, you

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know, how do you play so
fast? I mean you got to take

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the good with the bad. We
do play fast, and you can't say,

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okay, now all of a sudden
plays slow. You know, it

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doesn't work that way. So we
got some things to figure out, and

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hopefully we'll figure it out and get
better down the stretch. Obviously, the

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kids see that, which you just
said, you know, the the the

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late game meltdowns, fightably not the
road, but late game demise or whatever.

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Those are partly teachable moments, which
is good too, because you need

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to have those in your coaching pocket
to use to motivate the kids. We

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do and and there are so many
things that you can that you can learn

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from. I mean, the other
day, we're playing mcclennan, you know,

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Division School for Texas, and we
were up three with six to go,

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and we had we only had two
fouls, and we did we didn't

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execute properly down the stretch. We
ended up fouling a guy shooting a three.

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You know, we were just trying
to file to get the guy,

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you know, to run clock out
and then worst case scenario, shoot one

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on one and we ended up fouling
the guy shooting a three. He missed.

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But that's another moment that you know, it's hard to teach every single

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circumstance every single day, so it's
good to go through stuff like that,

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right right, No, that's that's
great. So you're probably not surprised or

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a huge surprise because you right now
you're, what fourteen and one, we

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are fourteen and one obviously a great
situation, even to this degree, has

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it surprised you? I know,
I ran into you last week and you

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were talking to how exactly how you're
how happy you are with the team.

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Yeah, Like I said, the
team doesn't come around every year, so

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you got to, you know,
save of the moment. And you know,

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I think there's three reasons, you
know why we're good. We got

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I got really good coaches. You
know, I've got Minder Morgan who've been

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with me for over thirty years.
You know, most marriages don't last that

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long. And then we you know, we added Flaying again a couple of

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years ago, the longtime Peleverty guy
that is kind of the good cop back

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Cup. He's a good cop.
When guys want to hug, they go

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to him, you know, when
they want to be down, they come

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to me. So it's it's it's
worked out really well there. And then

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you know, I've got really good
players. You know, I'm not a

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good enough coach to make chicken salad
out of chicken poop, So I got

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I got good players. You know
that I've been blessed there. And I

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think the most important thing is you
know that the community we have with guys

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they like. When we played CoA
Chiefs, they all like each other,

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they root for each other. And
we had two guys come off the bench,

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Tanner and Coda that had twenty one
and seventeen off the bench, and

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our guys after, you know,
after the game were you know, they

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weren't down because they didn't score.
You know, a normal guys Baker and

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Cohen and Jalen didn't have the game
that they normally have, but they were

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so happy for those guys, and
that just doesn't happen very often. So

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I credit those three things. And
what are the things that I think you

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Yeah, those close to basketball or
coaching knows that this happens. You have

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the head coach who's who's the guy, and then you have a group of

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assistants who who are kind of like
the middleman before you and the kids.

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Uh, I think you give up
a little secret if people don't know is

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if they don't go to you for
whatever reason they have, you have an

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assistant or two that they can go
and get caddled by or the ego can

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be stroked or everything's going to be
okay. Uh. That that ain't easy.

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You have to fight the right dynamics
to find those guys, right,

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Oh, no question. And I've
got the right guys, you know.

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That's the cool thing about it,
you know, Morgan, a minder.

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Like I said, all those years
of and then Planned is unbelievable with our

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guys. And we got a couple
of assistants, younger assistants, Mateo and

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Jacob that you know, they're almost
like as young as our guys, so

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they can you know, deal with
our guys whatever issues they have and all

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kind of stuff. And I'm just
and our guys know it. I'm tough

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love and and not by choice.
That's just the way I am. Right,

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I'm not trying to put a you
know, active thought on and they

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know that, you know, if
they need something, then go to Plan

406
00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:07.720
and and he'll hug him and take
care of him and all that kind of

407
00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:11.240
stuff. So it works out really
well. Yeah, I couldn't be happier

408
00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:15.000
with with my staff. So so
so I'm sure, I'm sure your coaching

409
00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:18.400
style has been with you from day
one. But let me ask you a

410
00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:23.440
question, because I don't know the
answer. Have you have you been able

411
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to or even wanted to adjust the
style three years? You know, you

412
00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:30.960
and I are not young guys anymore, but have you have you kind of

413
00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:37.720
been a bit more nimble with it, no question. I think my guys

414
00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:41.400
probably wouldn't believe that, but yeah, way nicer today than I was,

415
00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:45.799
you know, ten years ago.
And I think I think the biggest thing

416
00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:48.960
that we've done is a just philosophy
well, you know, philosophy wise,

417
00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:52.119
where when we got to Pima,
you know, they were no good and

418
00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:55.839
we had to make some changes because
back in the day, all we did

419
00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:59.000
is work on defense, and I
heard Timey Loid talk about Sheldren and all

420
00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:02.480
kind of stuff. You know,
that was us and we would get slaughtered

421
00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:04.799
if we were to play that way, and so we did. The change

422
00:27:04.839 --> 00:27:08.559
we made was playing fast and that
was you know, eleven years ago when

423
00:27:08.599 --> 00:27:14.519
I got there, and it's evolved
into what we're doing now philosophy wise,

424
00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:18.960
and people you know want to come
and play that team and now, which

425
00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:22.279
they didn't before because the way we
play and the amount of kids that are

426
00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:26.480
getting scholarships, you know, out
of our program, Like I have five

427
00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:30.079
guys on my team that have been
offered a scholarship to a four year school

428
00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:36.200
already, and that's never happened to
me before. It's usually you know,

429
00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:40.359
after the season or after the first
of the year when coaches find out their

430
00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:44.240
team is no good and they start
going searching for guys. But I've never

431
00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:48.000
had that many guys been offered a
scholarship this early. So you know,

432
00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:51.079
the credit to the kids, they're
doing a great job. Well, you

433
00:27:51.160 --> 00:27:53.480
know, I was going to go
there with you with the scholarship situation,

434
00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:59.279
because that's fantastic. Has has it
changed now with the transfer portal? And

435
00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:02.559
I think I asked to code this
and a couple of other coaches, especially

436
00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:06.599
in the j C level, have
Has it changed with the JC dudes now

437
00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:11.039
that the portal is is available to
everybody in that level, the four year

438
00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:15.599
school? And are they are they
still keeping an eye on the JC kids

439
00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:18.279
when they have more access to other
cod players at their at their own level.

440
00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:22.240
They are It's not like it used
to be. I think high school

441
00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:27.319
and junior college has suffered the most. And then not only the transfer portal,

442
00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:30.079
but also the post grad And there's
so many postcrads out there that a

443
00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:34.079
lot of kids are electing not to
go junior college but are going to the

444
00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:38.279
postgrad you know, and then reshuffling. But again, you know, I'm

445
00:28:38.359 --> 00:28:44.720
different. The kids I'm recruiting,
you know, are high character, They're

446
00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:45.839
going to go to class, they're
going to do right things and all that

447
00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:49.799
kind of stuff. So it hasn't
affected me. Like We've already signed four

448
00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:53.640
kids for next year that you know, would never have thought about PIMA back

449
00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:56.440
in the day. But you know, you know, I tell this to

450
00:28:56.519 --> 00:29:00.799
parents all the time, be careful
because there's not many roster spots. So

451
00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:04.319
somebody's recruiting you, you better take
that recruitment really, really serious because there's

452
00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:07.240
not many spots out there. People
are leaving and transferring and all kind of

453
00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:10.799
stuff. Yeah, And to me, honestly, I haven't even looked.

454
00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:12.079
I don't ever look at the portal. I'm sure we can maybe get a

455
00:29:12.119 --> 00:29:15.240
kid out of there, but they're
leaving and unhappy for a reason. You

456
00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:18.799
know. I want to first start
with a kid that wants wants to go

457
00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:22.799
to PEMA and wants to be at
PEMA. And if you can get those

458
00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:26.880
you know, fifteen kids to buy
into that whole philosophy. Yeah, I

459
00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:29.160
think you got a chance to be
good every year? Sure, sure,

460
00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:33.440
how I think are you are we
passed or you passed the COVID situation where

461
00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:37.880
you get extra years, transfers and
all that. Are we beyond that now

462
00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:41.599
or is still affecting you. I
have no idea. I don't know.

463
00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:45.839
I just coach the people that are
in front of me. I don't know

464
00:29:45.880 --> 00:29:48.799
if they have years left or not. I don't know. I'm not very

465
00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:52.400
smart when it comes out stuff.
But whoever shows up, whatever ten guys

466
00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:53.799
are in front of me, I'm
gonna coach. I don't know the answer

467
00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:56.079
to that. Yeah, okay,
because you know how it is. Some

468
00:29:56.240 --> 00:30:03.279
kids are taking seven years of playing
ball. Yeah no, out of your

469
00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:07.160
guy, out of your kids that
graduated, he's older than two of my

470
00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:11.119
assistants, exactly, exactly. So
again, you've been at this for a

471
00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:14.640
while now. If you want to
say, how many years? Uh?

472
00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:17.720
And I don't think I've asked you
this question in the number of times you've

473
00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:25.839
been on But has the attitude or
the philosophy of the kids changed? I

474
00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:27.079
don't you know. I hear that
all the time. I don't think,

475
00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:30.119
so, to be honest with you, I think maybe maybe the coaches have

476
00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:33.839
changed, you know, and they're
trying to cad all the kids a kind

477
00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:37.279
of stuff, But I don't see
any difference. Our kids play hard,

478
00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:41.240
you know, and I'm happy with
them. They still dive after loose falls,

479
00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:42.640
they do all the fifty to fifty
stuff, and you know, I

480
00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:47.880
don't see a big time difference.
To be honest with you, I think

481
00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:51.359
maybe, you know, if you
allow them to do that, yeah,

482
00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:55.519
they probably would act differently. But
if you're a coach that you know,

483
00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:57.119
sticks by your guns and says,
hey, this is the way we're going

484
00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:02.559
to do things, you know,
we've had a ton of success by you

485
00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:07.160
get just taking a blue collar kid
that may be under recruited. You know,

486
00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:11.160
Dylan Baker, you know nobody,
you know, no d Ones recruited

487
00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:14.480
him out of high school and he
trusted us and came in and worked really,

488
00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:18.200
really hard, and you know he's
got ten Division one eyes on the

489
00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:22.519
board and going to NAU and you
just gotta, you know, you I

490
00:31:22.599 --> 00:31:25.839
want to take a kid's got a
chip on his shoulder, Hey I didn't

491
00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:27.680
get recruited. I'm going to go
in and show people, hey, I

492
00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:32.960
should have been recruited. My point
guard. You know, people didn't recruit

493
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:37.000
him because of his size, and
now people are regretting it. Now he's

494
00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:40.400
getting calls, Hey, we didn't
realize he's that good, right, So

495
00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:44.200
I don't I don't see a big
difference. Well, I think, you

496
00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:45.079
know, and this is kind of
strange for me to say this, but

497
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:51.599
I think a number of times,
uh Division one coaches miss and a number

498
00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:55.519
of people who I didn't realize he
was that good, they end up going

499
00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:57.440
to you or somebody else and saying, how did we miss on this kid?

500
00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:02.880
Right? And again, you think
the thing that's changed recruiting wise is

501
00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:07.839
like you'll go to a tournament and
you know, there's a lot of times

502
00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:10.039
I'll be the only coach there,
only college coach there. You know,

503
00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:14.279
a lot of times they're just recruiting, like you said, transfer portal off

504
00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:16.920
film. Yeah, not a lot
face to face, and I don't do

505
00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:20.839
that. I got to see a
kid, meet a kid, see him

506
00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:22.759
workout, see them face to face, talk to them, you know.

507
00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:25.440
Might you know people talk about some
all time. I get a kid,

508
00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:30.559
I cut a kid that played for
me that ended up going to Yukon just

509
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:34.039
because of his you know is that
it was it was no fun and I

510
00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:37.960
got to have fun, just like
you know the kids do. So I

511
00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:40.039
want I want to see everybody.
I want to see their work ethic and

512
00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:45.839
you can win, you know,
at the junior college level with just blue

513
00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:50.519
collar, hard working guys that maybe
they're not all D one guys but their

514
00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:53.720
division two any I guys, you
can be really successful with that formula.

515
00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:58.519
And that's where you're at right now. Yep, yes we are. Yeah.

516
00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:00.880
Yeah. And by the sound of
it, because we had you on

517
00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:02.960
the show maybe a year or two
ago, and you were coming off this

518
00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:07.880
year saying that wasn't no fun,
right exactly. And that was the year

519
00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:13.920
during COVID where I recruited because we
didn't have a choice off of film,

520
00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:15.920
you know, and they would get
there and I'm like, oh my god,

521
00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:17.519
did I miss on that? Kid? Did I miss on that?

522
00:33:17.960 --> 00:33:21.559
I mean, I could look I
could look like Michael Jordan on film.

523
00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:28.079
I mean, so it's really really
difficult to evaluate the intangibles off of film.

524
00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:30.680
How hard does he work? What's
his character? Like? Are you

525
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:32.559
going to go to class? Is
he a good teammate? You can't,

526
00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:37.200
you can't. You can't you evaluate
that on film? Right? No?

527
00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:38.799
Okay, Well, good luck to
you. I will probably talk to you

528
00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:43.599
as the season comes closer to the
playoffs, you only have what two more

529
00:33:43.640 --> 00:33:47.759
months? Correct? We're exactly halfway
with our year, sort fourteen one.

530
00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:52.799
We got fifteen games, fifteen league
games left. Big week for us.

531
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:57.240
We play Chandler Gilbert tomorrow. It's
the only team that's feed us. They're

532
00:33:57.319 --> 00:34:01.839
ranked right behind us. Where's that
where's that cat? Where's that game at

533
00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:05.759
in town? It's happening. It's
happening in the college. Okay, tomorrow

534
00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:09.199
at six eight o'clock, seven thirty, okay, And people need to go

535
00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:12.760
out and see you guys score one
hundred points. You guys are averaging what

536
00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:17.199
one hundred and some eleven hundred,
make one hundred and seven or putting up

537
00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:21.840
right now. We're the leading junior
college team in the country, leading score

538
00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:25.599
junior college team in the country.
Loyola Merriormount shades a Loyol herror Mount for

539
00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:29.239
you kids. Google it, you
kids, google it. Thanks man,

540
00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:31.360
thanks by, thanks mister, appreciate
it. Thank you very much for having

541
00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:36.440
me. Take care. Bryan Peabody, Yeah, Bryan Peabody from from PEMA.

542
00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:39.599
I'm glad that phone worked me too, me too. Yeah, Mystery

543
00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:45.159
scored a lot of points that's a
lot of shots one hundred and fifty plus

544
00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:49.679
on some of these teams. Yeah, sheeesh Okay, cool, let's take

545
00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:52.239
a break. Maybe we'll get a
call or to and hope the phone works.

546
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592
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out today. Got my guy Kevin
Thomason working the boards thankfully. Have you

593
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not been here, Kevin, we'd
have no show. Would have been a

594
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one man band. No, no, no band to do. I don't

595
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work that board. You see all
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596
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not know what to do. Hey, you have some breaking news real quick.

597
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I do have some breaking news for
Arizona fans. Not nothing shocking,

598
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but Michael Wiley has officially declared for
the twenty twenty four NFL Draft, sources

599
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himself on Twitter on Twitter. What
do you say? Thanks for everybody?

600
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Yes, just like the classic long
paragraph, Yeah, thank you who he

601
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wants to thank, you know,
thanking the fans, thanking his teammates,

602
00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:06.880
and looking ahead to the draft.
Yeah, Okay, So good luck to

603
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Michael Wilin. Yeah, yeah,
that's not a shock. Like you said,

604
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he was all but gone. I
think you'll have a nice little career

605
00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:15.599
hopefully. It's a business. It
is. It's a business man, it's

606
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a business. Hey, I gotta
read the Draftking sportsbook stuff because Jay's not

607
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here. But they're back. I'm
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really? So the other ones don't
do that. I think they carry the

635
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fights, but not like round props, like you know, method of method

636
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of victory in round two for example. So okay, I follow that,

637
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right, Yeah, I do when
I'm interested. I haven't. Is there

638
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a big this weekend or next weekend? The first card of twenty twenty four

639
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is this weekend, but we don't
have anything major until the end of the

640
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morning, okay, because I saw
the promo on it today this morning fifteenth,

641
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I think Ray first, Arizona pla. Arizona plays basketball this weekend Saturday.

642
00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:57.760
I just looking for the time because
I have to watch that and write

643
00:41:57.760 --> 00:42:02.159
a quick Arizona plays Washington State Saturday
the thirteenth at four pm. Four pm.

644
00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:07.119
It's gonna be cold up there.
Cold. I don't miss that trip

645
00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:09.760
at all. We went there like
twenty years and it was just too cold.

646
00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:14.320
And they only played one game this
weekend, no Washington because of the

647
00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:19.320
change schedule. You know, typically
they plaid Washington on Thursday, Washington State

648
00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:22.079
on Saturday, or vice versa.
What do you think about the schedule we've

649
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:23.400
had this year, and not in
terms of the teams we've played. We've

650
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:27.920
discussed that in Leke, but like
the way in which we've we've scheduled it.

651
00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:30.599
We've played a lot of Saturday games. We've almost god like a football

652
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:32.440
schedule. Yeah. The first couple
weeks it was like Saturday, Saturday,

653
00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:35.760
Saturday. Yeah. Well they've been
on the road. Well, you know,

654
00:42:35.960 --> 00:42:37.920
Duke obviously was on a Saturday.
Yeah, there are a couple of

655
00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:44.400
Alabama's on Wednesday. I think FAU
was on a Saturday in Vegas. I'm

656
00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:47.360
not concerned about that. My concern
is Arizona doesn't play anybody the rest of

657
00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:53.039
the year in terms of quality team, and FAU is faltering quickly, so

658
00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:59.079
that win or lost isn't a good
one. And Michigan State lost again,

659
00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:02.480
they'd beat me Chigan Stay pretty not
handily, but they beat him. So

660
00:43:02.920 --> 00:43:07.639
you know, there'll still be a
number one or number two, but it

661
00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:10.000
will not be as easy to evaluate
them as maybe we thought weeks ago.

662
00:43:10.159 --> 00:43:15.239
Correct, correct, Yeah, especially
well, and they're good. You know,

663
00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:16.239
I really like this team. I
really like to see him a lot.

664
00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:20.239
It's probably the best team he's had
here. It's best, probably the

665
00:43:20.280 --> 00:43:24.280
best team Arizona's had in a while. Apples and apples in my opinion.

666
00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:28.519
Yeah, so just from even I
mean, honestly, from any standpoint you

667
00:43:28.559 --> 00:43:31.519
look at it, in my opinion, within at least the last what I'd

668
00:43:31.559 --> 00:43:38.760
say, well, even beyond that, probably seventeen eighteen Arizona when Sean had

669
00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:45.880
Sean trier, Eton and Alkins.
Everyone, i'mistic, everyone thought this team

670
00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:50.280
is fantastic. In fact, I
remember Luke doing an interview and I was

671
00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:52.480
there. He said this had the
potentially be the all time best team,

672
00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:55.840
and it turned out to be a
disaster. You know, we all know

673
00:43:55.960 --> 00:43:59.679
what came out that and they lost
in the first round to Buffalo. Yeah.

674
00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:02.039
Yeah. The people just didn't like
playing with each other. There was

675
00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:06.920
only one ball basketball. That's how
it is usually, that's how they kind

676
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:09.280
of keep it right, try to
keep right. And there was five dudes

677
00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:14.320
who wanted the ball because they wanted
numbers, and then ended up with only

678
00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:20.480
one dude being an NBA guy.
Sure had a cup of coffee and had

679
00:44:20.480 --> 00:44:22.960
a pretty good expensive cup of coffee
because he got paid and then he just

680
00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:27.000
disappeared. Now he's in the upper
he's in the Upper West Coast, so

681
00:44:27.079 --> 00:44:30.280
he's definitely getting an expensive cup of
what's he what's he doing Portland? He's

682
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:35.840
true. I was just saying I
was no coffee joke. Yeah yeah,

683
00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:37.559
oh yeah, yeah. No.
And he's playing. He's doing right.

684
00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:38.360
I mean, he's doing right.
No, I was seeing about Trier.

685
00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:44.159
I don't don't even know where Trie
is. Okay, thank you, Trier

686
00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:49.320
and Alkins. I think that those
two guys are somewhere, maybe the G

687
00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:51.199
League. I don't know. They've
got a lot of dudes in the G

688
00:44:51.320 --> 00:44:54.800
League. The guys that are thriving
are in Indianapolis with the with Nathain and

689
00:44:55.079 --> 00:45:00.039
and TJ. McConnell doing very well. Don't no worry. I don't I

690
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:01.880
know where true is that. They
don't even show it. I was looking

691
00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:06.159
for, like, I was looking
for where he is immediately right now?

692
00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:08.239
In this Wikipedia? Nothing Wikipedia,
Yeah, nothing on Wikipedia. It just

693
00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:13.119
says that he last played for the
Iowa Wolves in the G League. How

694
00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:15.239
long ago was that? Let me
let me check his basketball reference page.

695
00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:21.079
That'll give me a better Yeah,
okay, I think I think the COVID

696
00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:23.000
season, so nineteen twenty. It
looks like, Wow, he's been out

697
00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:27.639
for that longer. Maybe a little
sooner than that movie the year after,

698
00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:31.159
but within the last couple years he's
been out of the league. Wow,

699
00:45:32.239 --> 00:45:36.000
and the Alkins, who knows,
he might be in the G League as

700
00:45:36.039 --> 00:45:39.039
well. He's visited a couple of
times in the last couple of years.

701
00:45:39.199 --> 00:45:43.679
That is one thing I'm not I'm
thankfully not really worried about with this Arizona

702
00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:45.719
team. Is the willingness or lack
thereof to share the ball. I'm not

703
00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:47.920
really worried about that. No,
no, no, no, real nice.

704
00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:51.800
Yeah, they do that a lot. The guy that I think I'm

705
00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:58.000
not concerned with, but Love takes
some shots that he could maybe give up

706
00:45:58.039 --> 00:46:01.199
extra pass to. But he is
who he is, so you live and

707
00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:04.760
die with what he does. Yeah. We were talking about that earlier in

708
00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:07.760
this season. Yeah, and nothing's
really changed. Yeah, but to his

709
00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:15.079
to his applause or whatever, he's
done well with it. I just don't

710
00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:19.679
know how long he can sustain it. Yeah, he kind of in a

711
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:22.480
way. I'm a Celtics fan,
but in a way he reminds me of

712
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:25.679
Marcus Smart from a fans view of
where he does all this excellent stuff on

713
00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:28.960
the court, not the same stuff
between the two players, but they do

714
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:30.000
a bunch of excellent stuff on the
court, and then there's a couple shots

715
00:46:30.039 --> 00:46:34.000
each game where you're like no,
no, yes or no no no,

716
00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:36.920
you know sometimes right then he does
that. He does it a lot.

717
00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:40.159
Yeah, So there's a lot of
good things happening. They share the ball,

718
00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:45.280
a lot of players are are doing
well. Who would you think And

719
00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:49.760
I don't know if you've heard the
who would you think is the key to

720
00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:52.880
their success? And I asked this
because we had a guy on about two

721
00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:58.199
weeks ago and the analytics say this, And in fact, after we had

722
00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:01.039
the guy on the show, the
guy had a great The guy that he

723
00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:06.239
mentioned had a fantastic game, and
it's kind of had better games. You

724
00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:07.519
know, that's a great question.
I'm really sitting here thinking about it because

725
00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:13.400
I'm thinking about if each I'm thinking
about it like this, which which individual

726
00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:16.719
at their best that's the most outsized
impact on the team. Well, that's

727
00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:20.519
a good way to look at it. You're kind of an intellectual. I

728
00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:25.440
almost feel like oswell as far as
like most not the best, but like

729
00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:30.800
who elevates the team the highest?
I think it's gotta be Love Boswell,

730
00:47:32.360 --> 00:47:38.320
Ballow rounds out the top three for
me probably maybe kJ lewis. That actually

731
00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:42.199
makes a lot of sense because he
does a lot of things, does a

732
00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:45.599
lot of things. You don't see
it until you look at it and you

733
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:47.000
notice it, and his shooting can
be a big variance in the game.

734
00:47:47.079 --> 00:47:50.719
And that and then the next night
he had he told us that this is

735
00:47:50.719 --> 00:47:53.159
apparently really and then the next act
he went off and you're thinking, hmmm,

736
00:47:53.599 --> 00:47:57.360
kind of makes sense, and he's
he's done well. Since it makes

737
00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:00.159
a lot of sense actually when you
say it, but I definitely, I

738
00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:01.679
mean obviously would have been around.
Yeah, we wouldn't think that, Yeah,

739
00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:06.320
because you think that he'd have more
of a visible impact. It's got

740
00:48:06.400 --> 00:48:07.960
to be the defense, right,
The defense and the shooting is defense and

741
00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:10.239
shooting. I was thinking bozball,
well, he can shoot and spread the

742
00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:15.159
ball, but he's probably gonna be
not in his peak on defense. Ballow

743
00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:17.280
he can you know, he gives
you a woom, but there's still some

744
00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:22.039
flaws there even at his best.
Yeah, Pella is a really good pick

745
00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:24.519
actually. Yeah, so as he
goes in your buddy watch when you watch

746
00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:27.760
games, now you kind of have
a different sense. And when you look

747
00:48:27.760 --> 00:48:30.559
at him and say, I didn't
realize it, but it looks makes sense.

748
00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:32.920
It's funny if you say that,
because I had that. We had

749
00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:37.480
that conversation a couple of weeks ago, like almost probably a month and a

750
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:39.840
half ago, honestly at this point
when we were talking about Pele shooting and

751
00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:42.840
he said, well, it can
be a little inconsistent here and there,

752
00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:44.679
and I was like, well,
he's shooting a high percentage of start,

753
00:48:44.880 --> 00:48:46.440
but it was a small sample size. So I've actually been like keeping track

754
00:48:46.519 --> 00:48:49.599
in my head mentally when to watching
the game of them. All right,

755
00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:51.800
and he's done, well, he
has done. He had an eighteen the

756
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:54.400
other night and it was kind of
a sneaky eighteen and then he's diving for

757
00:48:54.559 --> 00:49:00.320
balls and doing all these things.
So just keep an eye on that and

758
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:01.679
see how it goes. What would
your answer have been, I'm sorry,

759
00:49:01.719 --> 00:49:07.360
he already gave it. If you
didn't know this, no, I would

760
00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:12.480
have said, uh, buzzwell,
because it's just I think he makes the

761
00:49:12.519 --> 00:49:14.760
highlight plays. You're like, well, if he's doing that, boswell,

762
00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:16.960
yeah, yeah. And he's not
a he's not a he's not a dude.

763
00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:22.320
Who's it's the guy with all the
highlight toys, his love the dunks.

764
00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:25.199
He didn't everyone's saying he'd jumped from
the free line. He didn't jump

765
00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:28.840
from the freetha line. He's about
four feet in. He's been jumping from

766
00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:31.039
outside the paint a lot, he
has been, and he's also missed a

767
00:49:31.079 --> 00:49:35.119
few dunks. In fact, if
somebody texted me on Thursday night says,

768
00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:38.400
I think Arizona leads the leads the
country and miss dunks because they've missed a

769
00:49:38.440 --> 00:49:43.000
lot. He's missed a couple at
the rim. Uh. You know,

770
00:49:43.079 --> 00:49:46.719
obviously some of them have been fantastic. You know, his his dunk and

771
00:49:47.320 --> 00:49:52.000
uh and Johnson's dunk. Holy crap, I mean, I think those are

772
00:49:52.039 --> 00:49:54.920
two guys. I didn't even think
that's about Caleb coming into the season,

773
00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:58.920
but uh, those are two guys
that every time they attacked the rim,

774
00:49:58.960 --> 00:50:01.599
they're looking to slim that ball as
hard as they can to the bottom of

775
00:50:01.639 --> 00:50:05.239
the well. That's the one thing
with with Caleb. He gets to the

776
00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:07.239
rim, he knows how to score. He's a scorer. He knows how

777
00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:09.800
to score from the perimeter, and
if he's getting guarded, he can get

778
00:50:09.800 --> 00:50:15.159
to them. He doesn't remind me
of Michael Dickerson, but he can get

779
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:20.119
He can score inside outside. Dickerson
had that first step that was could free

780
00:50:20.199 --> 00:50:22.320
him from space and he can get
to the rim with ease. Because he

781
00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:27.840
was so good at the basket,
we were talking about him as like a

782
00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:31.679
natural score type. Yes, there
was another natural score type that that played

783
00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:35.519
here at Arizona a couple of years
ago, but it was a much different

784
00:50:35.559 --> 00:50:38.599
system in which he played. I
was wondering, what do you think as

785
00:50:38.679 --> 00:50:44.400
far as like the ceiling for Caleb
Love, how can we use like the

786
00:50:44.440 --> 00:50:50.480
Benedict Maathrian system that Arizona played.
There's no answer because I think that from

787
00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:54.480
my end, Love is Love is
a maverick. I think he even plays

788
00:50:54.519 --> 00:50:59.960
that way because he once he gets
the ball in his hand, you don't

789
00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:02.440
know if you're gonna get an assist. It's more like you're gonna get a

790
00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:07.719
shot, and you don't know how
soon he's gonna take that shot, because

791
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:09.599
I think his range is like twenty
five feet at least, he's taking a

792
00:51:09.639 --> 00:51:14.360
few where you're like, the smartest
smart thing is no, no, no,

793
00:51:14.599 --> 00:51:16.239
oh, they're good. Yeah.
But he had that chance with the

794
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:20.960
fau and well, he kept him
in the game with that shot. He

795
00:51:21.039 --> 00:51:24.079
did. He put him in the
second overtime and then and then and then

796
00:51:24.159 --> 00:51:27.679
lost it in the in the in
the overtime. That lost it. He

797
00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:30.280
missed it. You can't be well, I was, I was not happy

798
00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:32.320
with that shot, but you can't
be too mad at it because he just

799
00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:36.920
made it five minutes ago. Sure, but still you'd like a better look

800
00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:38.960
than that. Yeah, regardless.
Well, and you're saying that now you

801
00:51:39.039 --> 00:51:43.119
know why because he missed the shot. It's the Paul George thing, right

802
00:51:43.119 --> 00:51:45.880
where after Damian Lillard hit that dagger
on him from the hash Yeah, what

803
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:49.280
do they ask him in the press
conference? He says that was a bad

804
00:51:49.360 --> 00:51:52.719
shot. It wasn't a bad shot. I'm not saying that, but I'm

805
00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:55.039
just saying there are some shots,
whether you make or miss, I'm sure

806
00:51:55.079 --> 00:52:00.239
you could have got it better.
Sure, and impatience or you you get

807
00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:04.280
lulled into what you do. What's
that? Dug and Dougan the dunning Kroger,

808
00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:06.599
Yeah, you better than what you
think. You are really good at

809
00:52:06.639 --> 00:52:08.000
one thing, and it makes you
think that you're smart at everything. We

810
00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:10.679
were talking about that with Rogers earlier
between the break. Yeah, tell me

811
00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:15.039
a kids, the Dunning Kroger Dunning
Kroger. Okay, I'm gonna use that

812
00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:19.679
people think I'm smart because I know, I know I'm not. You're really

813
00:52:19.679 --> 00:52:22.119
good at this one thing, So
maybe I'll start making I know a lot

814
00:52:22.159 --> 00:52:24.079
of those dudes, especially on Facebook. There's a lot of them on the

815
00:52:24.079 --> 00:52:28.639
Internet, so all the world's probably
a lot of internet doctors to do that

816
00:52:28.719 --> 00:52:31.159
with, Like players getting injured,
they're like, well arm twisted, that

817
00:52:31.320 --> 00:52:36.360
means it's a sprain, but the
twisted left it's probably broken. We'll see.

818
00:52:36.760 --> 00:52:39.400
Yes, thank you doctor. How
much you for the co pit?

819
00:52:42.079 --> 00:52:44.840
Yeah, okay, thanks for coming
in. You only got a minute here.

820
00:52:45.360 --> 00:52:47.239
You'll be in maybe a time or
two this week. Yeah, hopefully

821
00:52:47.239 --> 00:52:52.039
we'll see. I think I got
Sammy coming in tomorrow. Uh maybe you

822
00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:54.519
Thursday. You get to go to
that school thing that you have to do,

823
00:52:54.599 --> 00:52:58.480
this thing called school sometimes. Yeah, do you go to class all

824
00:52:58.519 --> 00:53:00.000
the time? I do, I
really do. I mean I pay to

825
00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:04.039
go to classes. Well, look
at you. That's so smart. Wasn't

826
00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:08.440
do you pay for your parents?
So that's even but that's even more noble

827
00:53:08.440 --> 00:53:12.079
because a lot of kids don't go
because you know they're not paying. Honestly,

828
00:53:12.119 --> 00:53:14.400
I think if I was paying with
my own money, I might give

829
00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:15.639
a couple more classes. Really well, I mean it's not you don't have

830
00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:20.159
a schedule. Do you know?
This is it for you? Dude?

831
00:53:20.199 --> 00:53:23.840
You enjoy enjoy your final semester of
school because you know this real world that

832
00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:28.719
we live in sucks. Man,
sucks, I know, because you need

833
00:53:28.760 --> 00:53:30.880
to find a job. I'm working
on it. I'm gonna hire me,

834
00:53:32.039 --> 00:53:35.880
all right, thanks man for coming
in. Well, maybe Jay comes in

835
00:53:35.920 --> 00:53:37.159
tomorrow. Maybe not. I'm not
sure. He's not feeling well today.

836
00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:42.000
So thanks for listening everybody, and
we'll see you tomorrow. Will seem Jay

837
00:53:49.360 --> 00:53:50.400
five, he's so fa