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Steve Ribera and Jacob Salids they have
their Eye on the Ball on Tucson Sports

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Stage. Chef Fox Sports fourteen fifty, Welcome back on the balling on Fox

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Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Jacob Zalez
hosting here. Well, Steve Rivera's in

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Salt Lake City. We just had
him on the air, so if you

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missed what he had to say,
you'll be able to catch it on the

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podcast. We also had Regie Geary
in the first hour breaking down that eighty

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five sixty five win for Arizona over
Long Beach State. I got George Maida's

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from Showtime Cards here hanging out with
us, as well as Sid the intern

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running the show capably. And we've
got said here ready to break out the

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breaking news. This is Eye on
the Ball breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen

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fifty. All right, so we'll
start with, you know, basketball news

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today. Obviously it's a busy day. Women's tip off yet or you should

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be about to tip off. I
guess are there in the first four Obviously,

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like we mentioned, to start the
show down to seven players. Seven

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players to begin this tournament run.
It'll be super interesting if they can win

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this game, just because for this
team to to to really get a win

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with this, with with everything that's
happened this year, anything they do from

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here is bonus. Bonus is cake, right, It's it's it really is

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because you know, you just and
you know, we talked about this off

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air. A team may play with
seven players Arizona. You know, the

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men played with seven. They had
a seven man rotation last year, but

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there was also an eighth and the
ninth and the tenth person on the bench

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if it was foul trouble and then
or whatever. Arizona doesn't have that.

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They got seven players on the plane
over there. If they get in foul

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trouble, if if somebody rolls an
ankle or whatever, you know there,

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you know, it's an issue.
You know mentioned that in that that double

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overtime game against USC They in the
two overtimes they had five players because two

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players had falled out. So and
we'll see, but yeah, that's about

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to tip in stores, Connecticut.
So we'll see if Ada and and your

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group can pull you know, pull
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and and get into the field of
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pressure, they're they're playing with money, and yeah, they're just out there,

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Hey, if we can win,
we can win, right, And

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you know the fact, I think
you really have to give them a lot

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of credit for the fact that they
just even got this far. Sure,

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right, And then moving into the
men's news today, obviously we mentioned the

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three point shooting. Well today it
was the most three pointers made they in

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a single NCAA game for Arizona.
They beat their record from twenty twenty two

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in their first round game. So
today they at thirteen. They had leave

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eleven and the right State game back
in twenty two. Okay, all right,

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they shot a whole bunch of them, though you got to say the

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volume, the volume was they shot
thirty five of them. They were thirteen

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of thirty five. As mentioned,
Caleb was was three of twelve. So

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but you know, so it wasn't
a great percent. Well they say if

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you make thirty five percent of your
three pointers, you know where instead of

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getting into that's sort of the number
that says, okay, they were worth

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you know, it's kind of a
break even point. So you know,

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Arizona was about there. You know, they were thirty of seventy two from

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the field forty two percent, So
not a great shooting day, but they

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put eighty five points up on the
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thought it was interesting the Long Beach
State a d when he was talking about

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the firing of their coach, he
said it was made to inspire the team

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to make a run. Really yeah, wow, exactly, He's not true.

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Yeah, so no, you know
what, I there has to be

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a little bit of bittersweetness for Tommy
because he's basically ended the career of a

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good friend to hit him, you
know, one of his good buddies.

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Not whether Dan Monson goes and coaches
somewhere else, you know, remains to

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be seen. But at least,
you know, he ended his season,

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maybe maybe even ended his career by
beating him today. Yeah, And then

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moving into other news the Dodgers,
as we talked about bus today fifteen to

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eleven, Yamamoto was chasing the first
a late late game, as you said,

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even when you woke up this morning, game still going. But they

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finish up in Korea, so they
get come back to speak strain, which

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is unusual, right, And there's
some people, as we talked about yesterday,

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some people are not happy about opening
the season you know, out of

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country somewhere, but but yeah,
Dodgers got beat. I you know,

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I woke up this morning, you
know, immediately checked the score. It

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was still the top of the ninth. The Dodgers were down twelve to eleven.

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I turned it on Manny Machado was
coming to the plate and he hits

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a three rung dong that just yeah, he hit the he hit into the

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ozone. It was really far,
really far. So do you think with

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Moto's they're still learning the like the
American game? Or No? I don't

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think that. I think that these
guys, you know, playing, I

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mean they know and the right and
the guys who scout him, they can

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tell can he pitch or can he
not pitch? Right? It's not like

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they're I mean it was. Is
a good major league pitcher more dominant in

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Japan? Most likely? Sure?
But you can see when a guy a

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guy's velocity. Can he move the
ball around? Does he have a breaking

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ball? Does he have a change
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be able to pitch at this level? You can tell that, you know,

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you should be able to. But
one wonders first game, your first

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inning, Maybe he was nervous.
Who the hell knows? Right, you

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know, maybe there's so many things, and you know, look you want,

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I mean, how many times have
has a guy gone on and pitch

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great in his first game and then
awful after that? Look, I mean

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these horrible days, right, the
best pictures have horrible days. Although I'm

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gonna say right now that I'm glad
I didn't draft him. He got taken

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before I could do them. So
there you go. Moving into NFL news,

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the Cardinals have opened up their number
four pick. They're open to trading,

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open to any offers. So we're
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so they're not suck on Marvin Harrison
junior. Yeah, so maybe Harrison advocates

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maybe won't happen. I don't know. Wow, interesting, what's his name?

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Howard called yesterday and he was all
excited about getting Marvin Harrison Junior.

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I'm like, all right, you
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think that that'd be a huge mistake
if we move off. Well. Yeah,

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Jody Ailer on on Monday and he
thought the Arizona should trade the pick

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and go get some guys, you
know, get some linemen, get you

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know, just go get a couple
of a couple of lower number ones and

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maybe a or one for next year. Just do something because they need guys.

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Sure, they need guys, and
so that was his opaining. I

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don't know one way or another,
what you know what they ought to do.

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But what I do know is that
the Cardinals often screw this up,

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so whatever they do is probably gonna
be wrong anyways. But that's just me.

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Other NFL news, the forty are
listening to Brandon Ayuk offers as well.

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We'll see what they get. I
know the Jaguars had a package to

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get him, but the Niners didn't
think it was enough, So we'll see

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what goes there and then I don't
know if you guys been seeing any of

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the rule changes that they're trying to
do. The kickoff will tell us what's

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going on with that. Well,
I was specifically talking about another one,

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but you want to elaborate on that. I don't know they're talking about changing

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the kickoff. I didn't see that
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tackle with the NFLPA came out.
The players, yeah, said if you

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change it, it's gonna be tough
on us to turn. We've been they've

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been taught to tackle the entire line
right and then to change you know the

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fundamentals of it right, well,
you know, and again, you know

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when you talk about, for instance, you know, when when you sack

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a quarterback in mid motion, you've
got to figure out a way not to

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land on the guy. How the
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I've never agreed with it. I
get it. You don't want Tom Brady

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or Aaron Rodgers U you know,
uh uh uh, you know Patrick Mahone.

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You don't want those guys getting hurt. But it's almost let him play

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for speed the momentum, just like
freeze. Yeah, you got to let

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him play foot through it. And
if you know what, if you get

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hurt playing football, then guess what
you made the choice to play football.

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I've never agreed with that, and
I know a lot of the the NFL

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guys, you know, get off
my long kind of guys don't agree with

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it either. But you know,
if they're gonna now start saying you can't

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do this certain kind of tackle,
like I get the horse caller, right,

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I get the horse caller. You
know that's easy, Yeah, that

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you don't go for. But but
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a certain way, I don't know. I have an issue with it.

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Yeah, so I do have an
update on that kickoff rule proposal. So

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basically what the committee wants to try
to do is kind of go towards the

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XFL route. So I don't know
if you guys have seen that, but

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so the kickoff players they'll they'll line
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a collision. Yeah, so there
the plans basically try to limit it,

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but there's so many chang's they're wrecking
the game. I did see also that

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they're saying that if they do that, then if you want to do an

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onside kick, you got to tell
the other team, and they got,

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yeah, we're going to do an
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I mean, there's a there's a
line where it kind of come on,

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man, it's just like, look, if you don't want to get

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hurt, then don't play the damn
game, right. That's that's how I've

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always thought about it. If you
don't, you know, if you're if

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you don't, if you're afraid of
getting hurt, go go play Tilly Winks

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or something. I don't know.
So many rule changes too. I mean,

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you've even't seen it in the Super
Bowl. The overtime. The players

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didn't even know the exact rules on
it. Too many rule changes can too

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many. You're you're trying to you're
you're trying to, you know, manage

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all these little pieces with these rules, and then you change this little piece.

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But it changed. There's a fallout
in other areas, right, yes,

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Now you know, let's say you
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You probably can't return kickoffs for touchdowns
anymore. How hard does that be?

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Right? You know? The just
so many things I don't know. All

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right, arizon't about getting about ready
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So we'll see. Uh he had
to det Barnes on the screen here.

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Well, we won't do a play
by play, but we'll keep you updated

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on what's going on, all right. One rule that that won't change,

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though, is the touch bush.
They said that that will stay, all

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right, I will stay so made
it fun. It made it fun,

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right, you know, the Eagles
mastered it. I think you know,

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okay, everybody that's they're gonna allow
the rule. Now you go figure out

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how the hell the Eagles do it, and uh, and and and and

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get better at it. If they're
gonna let you do it. And then

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moving into basketball stuff, Kevin Durant
pass shack on the scoring This now eighth

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all time eighth. Wow, I
wouldn't had him that high, all right.

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Yeah, So that that's both the
big news I got. I don't

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know if you guys, you're a
young guy, Kevin Durant, is he,

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like to you, one of the
all time greats? No? Not

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in my opinion. No, in
my opinion, there's very few. So

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they gave him a permanent contract.
One of the few players I think for

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me as far as this generation,
the players that I'm gonna grow up and

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remember, is Lebron Curry, you
know those generation generational guys. And he's

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not a generational guy to you,
not to me as far as I mean

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he he got a couple of championships
in Golden State. But I mean what

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Lebron and Curry did. They they
changed the game. I mean Curry completely

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the game. So you sell his
cards and stuff like that. I mean,

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where where does he sit in that
He's not very popular in the hobby.

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He's not very popular, and he
sit is right like, uh,

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Purry, he's very He's just very
likable. You know. Purry likes so

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in the hobby, you have to
have that those kind of characteristics likability and

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I believe it or not, looks
help, you know. So you know,

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crays the good like a kid.
Lebron' says Lebron. He's gonna sell

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all the time. But Kadi,
even here in Arizona, doesn't sell as

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well as one would think. Wow, even though he's just up the street.

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Yeah yeah, wow. Interesting.
What's one player right now that's on

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the younger side that you're seeing we'll
ring in all talk about like the Phoenix

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Suns. On the other hand,
though Devin Booker, we sell a ton

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of Devin book can't even keep him
in stock. They like him. Yeah,

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well again, a guy seems like
a likable guy, right, you

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know, he's he's meaningful to the
team. You know, those are the

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guys. It's I've always thought that, you know, because they talk about

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you know that, like Barry Bonds, right. I really feel if he

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would hadn't been such a turd to
the media, he might have actually had

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a chance to get the support to
get into the Hall of Fame, right,

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but but you know he was like
he wasn't allowed and they said he

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did this, So he's out,
but he's not. He's not banned like

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Pete Rose. If the media wanted
to vote from they would have voted for

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him. But there were too many
guys out there who just said, well,

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I've got a reason I can stand
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him. He was I mean,
he was, I mean he was,

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and you know, and and so
I mean, was he one of the

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best players ever? He absolutely was. Did he cheat? Hundred percent?

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Believe that he did. But he
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he would have gone into the Hall
of Fame anyways, You're right,

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he probably would have. Okay,
but he had this career where he was

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just a grouch for his entire career
for no reason whatsoever. And now he's

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not in the Hall of Fame and
he never will be. Well, he

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might be down the road, maybe
somewhere down the road. All right,

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is that it set? Yeah?
All right? Man, Okay, Well

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we're at we're at a time for
a break. We're gonna get mat mealbock

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on here. We'll get his take
on on the game today. Arizona is

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up to four nothing lead against h
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So let's see what happens there,
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We're doing a lot of college basketball
all over the place. I'm assuming you

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were. You were all over this
game today, Matt. Just let me

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just throw it out there and you
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do you think you saw? Well, thanks for having me on the show.

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I think I think number one got
it dub Yeah, very important.

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So survive in advance is, you
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else. So I thought that was
I thought that was great. You know

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it was I guess if I dive
into it a little bit. You know,

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it felt like the first half Arizona
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not tentative. They were just a
little bit maybe not there's I mean,

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not one hundred percent on full tilt. And you know, then they turned

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it around. You know, it
felt like it felt like a game that

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in a good way, like it
was a good matchup for them. Right

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Long Beach State wants to wants to
play and go up and down and they

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want to have you know, eighty
five ninety points just like Arizona does,

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and that that really plays into Arizona's
hands, and that just it just happened

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to be a good matchup and they
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I thought they I thought that the
biggest takeaway for me was that when they

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it got up a little bit the
first half, and then that there was

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that big run by Long Beach and
they got down and I thought they didn't

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panic, you know, they stuck
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playing possession by possession and then went
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before half and then to start a
second half. So how much do you

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think in that first half or even
just walking on the court. You know,

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last year's loss in the first round
was weighing on them at all.

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I know Tommy tries real. He
just said, you know, I'm not

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even thinking about that. We've got
to win a game and that's all I'm

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thinking about. But as a player, you know, are you walking on

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the court or if you fall behind
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head at all? I don't think. I think you as a player probably

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try to keep it out. But
when you get down by five and you

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hear the crowd start to, you
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I mean, I can't imagine it
doesn't get in your mind a little

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bit. You know, it's it's
just part of that tournament. And each

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year, I will say this,
you know, each year is definitely a

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sort of life of its own.
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players and coaches alike. Like it's
almost like golf, right, they always

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talk about golfers having scar tissue,
right, and you know, the young

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ones they've never missed any big puts. But by the time you're you know,

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thirty five, thirty eight, they
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a little bit. And so you
know, you've had your puts, you've

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made, you've had your puts you've
missed, and very few people ever in

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the history of the world tiger Woods, maybe a couple others, Jack Nicholas,

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you know, didn't miss them.
But it's the same in basketball,

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Like I was, I was thinking
about this the other day, like,

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look, every team in its history, if they go to the tournament a

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lot is going to have some runs
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where they get bounced, right,
So you know, there's always to me

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a little bit of scar tissue,
but you're you're doing your best just to

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keep it out. Yeah, So
a big key today. Obviously, the

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you know, Colin Boswell had had
a very nice game of one of the

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best games he's had in quite a
while. On the flip side of that,

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Caleb Love struggled shooting the ball,
but contributed in a lot of a

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lot of different ways outside of shooting. Let's talk about Kylon first. He's

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a guy that people say, you
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good. What do you see today
with him? Well, I think I

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agree with both of those because those
guys are are both scores and you know,

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I mean, Calem is a big
time shooter scorer. He's a you

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know, he's a guy that looks
for a shot. He's gonna hunt his

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shot. He always has and always
will and and you know that. But

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Boswell is too like Boswell's. Boswell
is more of a probably more of a

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scoring point guard than he is a
you know, kind of a pass first

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point guard. Even though he hit
pass it in fact today was he was

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awesome. He was a assist one
turnover, which is you can't get any

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better than that. And but but
he hunts his shot, you know,

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and I liked his aggressiveness. You
know that that long beach team played his

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own and they both they both want
to fly. They were not intentative,

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and I'll tell you last year in
the second half, those guards were of

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Arizona were tentative. They were very
tentative. It's one of the reasons they

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lost. And I do appreciate the
fact that they you know, that they

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were that they were aggressive. I
think that's important, you know. And

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when you when you talk about Caleb
Love, you know, the shooting struggles

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that he's been having. Is there
a point that it weighs on him or

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does he just every game go out
and say I'm fixing this today. I

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mean, how is he going to
handle that? You know? I Caleb

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is probably different than I am.
Like I would I would probably shoot less

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just because I was more of a
passer, right and then I would shoot

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shoot second. But that's what he
does, and so I think for him,

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there was a little It's funny,
there was a little frustration. He

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missed that free throw in the second
half. You can see him kind of

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shrug his shoulders, like this is
kind of starting to annoy me. But

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he just keeps firing. That's just
his personality. And I think he's he's

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got a mind for it. You
know, he's got a good mind to

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to kind of it's like a defensive
back. You just got to have a

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short memory, and he does.
And so I think, uh, it

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was nice to see him hit a
couple of jumpers. So he hit that

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one where he got really squared up
and he had had a ton of time

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to take it. He once he
has his time, and I think he

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takes good shots. His percentages go
up, I think I give anybody.

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But the step back that he shot
right after that, that told me that

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he was kind of feeling it a
little bit. And you know, I

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think that's a good sign, you
know, going into the game Saturday.

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Yeah, so we talk a lot
about how this team has so many different

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parts and then when they're all working, you know, they had the five

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guys in double digits, Umar got
his his his uh double double. You

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know again, Boswell was dealing you
know, eight, eight assists, one

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turnover. All those pieces come together
and that kind you get a twenty point

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win out of that. But how
do you do that again? You know,

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you got it an eventuae you know
coming up, Uh, you know,

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what's what's the mindset? These next
couple of Days. Yeah. Actually

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Dayton ended up winning that game.
Yeah, you're right, Yeah, yeah,

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they came back and won that game. But you know, I think

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Dayton. Dayton has a terrific offense. They have one of the most prolific,

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you know, three point shooting teams
in the country. In fact,

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I think they're third in the country
in three point percentage, which is which

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is pretty amazing. And they get
that their their top twenty in the country

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in terms of getting their points from
three point shots. And and uh so

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that's that's a team that they're going
to have to really, you know,

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focus on on getting those guys off
the three point line. And I was,

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in fact, I was just looking
at that they ended up winning by

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one point. I didn't realize that. What a game, huh. And

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But anyway, it's it's going to
be interesting because, you know, because

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there's such a good shooting team in
Arizona. Let's let's let's be honest,

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like they've struggled with a couple of
teams that have shot it well this year.

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Stanford had a big game shooting at
Oregon, stayed at a big game.

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But look, I think I think
they're gonna know, like, hey,

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that's that's the focus, you know, get those guys off the line,

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and uh, and use your size
inside. I don't I don't think

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they're particularly big team. And so
I will say this though. One thing

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00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:27.559
they I did notice they did they
did was they changed defenses a lot,

408
00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:32.799
and you know, that's almost like
an Oregon team or something like that.

409
00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:34.960
So that's that's not easy to prepare
for. I think you've got to be

410
00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:40.440
really sharp and some people, you
know, you want to identify what they're

411
00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:42.799
in and it's almost like you just
got to run your stuff and not worry

412
00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:47.599
about what they're in. So,
uh, they've got the game under the

413
00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:52.160
belt. Everybody's breathing easier. You
know. You you had you didn't lose

414
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in the first round the whole time
you were in Arizona, right in the

415
00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:59.960
four in your four tournaments, I
did not know. We we've lost to

416
00:28:00.119 --> 00:28:06.200
the final four is Sweet sixteen twice
and we did lose in the second round

417
00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:08.920
one year. Yeah. Yeah,
so you know, after the first round

418
00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:11.799
win because there's all this pressure,
right and I'm I don't know if the

419
00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:15.839
players are feeling it. Certainly the
fan we're feeling it, yeah, going

420
00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:19.119
into the day. But you know, you got to get that first win,

421
00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:25.279
then you do you know, what's
what's your mindset in terms, Okay,

422
00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:27.839
we got one, and do you
I know you don't want to relax,

423
00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:30.359
but you certainly have to feel better
about it. What what you know,

424
00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:37.680
how do you handle the success?
You know, that's a good that's

425
00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:41.759
a good question, because you do
have a little sigh of relief to win

426
00:28:41.799 --> 00:28:47.759
the first one, especially if you're
pushed, you know, and and and

427
00:28:47.960 --> 00:28:49.920
you know, and especially if they
lost the year before, Like those are

428
00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:53.160
those are real things, and I
think I think it should give them a

429
00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:59.279
little confidence and a little bit of
where it does take the pressure off a

430
00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:02.720
little bit, but I want to
also be clear, like it doesn't take

431
00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:06.039
it all the way off, I
guess because there's a team with a two

432
00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:10.480
seed, and and you know,
if you don't make it to the sweet

433
00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:14.039
sixteen with the two seed, you
certainly feel like you like you've let one

434
00:29:14.079 --> 00:29:17.839
get away, right, and that's
and that doesn't feel good. So as

435
00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:21.000
much as as much as they can
kind of have a little bit of a

436
00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:26.039
breather, you know, I think
I think it's it's it's it's going to

437
00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:27.599
be right back on it on Saturday, And I think that's the key.

438
00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:32.000
You've got to be able to play
in the perfect roads. You got to

439
00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:34.240
be able to play not feeling that
pressure. But it's it's really difficult.

440
00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:37.000
Let me tell you how they did
it. What were those in between game

441
00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:44.079
days like for you? Because as
I recall in the ninety yeah, you

442
00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:48.119
guys lost in the second round,
But that in between game, how much

443
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:52.200
can you do? And what are
you focusing on? You're focusing on yourself,

444
00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:55.200
you know, as a player,
what are you thinking about? You

445
00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:56.960
know, with that day in between
you and now you've got a second round

446
00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:02.680
game coming up. Well, I
think I think two main things is,

447
00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:04.920
yeah, yourself, you know,
what what's your team feel like? What

448
00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:08.720
do you guys? You know,
you always focus on yourself first, like

449
00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:11.000
what are we trying to fix?
What are we you know, what's what's

450
00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:15.319
going right? What's not going right? I remember in ninety when we lost

451
00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.480
in the second round, it was
sort of a harbinger of things to come,

452
00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:23.400
because we played awful the first day
we played South Florida, and I

453
00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:27.680
mean we just it was weird because
a week earlier we rolled through the PAC

454
00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:32.359
twelve. We played some really good
teams. We blew out every team we

455
00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:34.279
played. We blew out sc who
was pretty good, We blew out Stanford,

456
00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:38.400
who was a tournament team, and
we blew out UCLA ended up making

457
00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:42.359
the Elite eight I think that year, so we could not have been playing

458
00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:45.680
better. And then five days later
we played one of the worst teams we

459
00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:49.440
played all year. Nobody knows why. You know, We're just we were

460
00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:55.559
just it was like we were walking
in quicksands, and all of a sudden

461
00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:59.559
I could tell like there was a
little bit of trepidation from the team.

462
00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:02.599
It didn't feel great. And but
then what you're doing. The second thing

463
00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:06.319
you're doing is you got a short
turnaround. It's not like the Pac twelve

464
00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:08.640
where it's a short turnaround and you
know the teams typically right right, we

465
00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:14.039
know the style or the team or
the court we're playing on. You might

466
00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:17.839
know a lot of the players you're
playing against. This is this is it's

467
00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:21.519
a it's an odd feeling because it's
usually something completely brand new. It's a

468
00:31:21.559 --> 00:31:22.759
new team. You don't know how
they play, you don't know who their

469
00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:26.720
players are, so you're trying to
you're trying to get accustomed to who they

470
00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:30.960
are and what they like to do
pretty quickly. Yeah, I asked Redie

471
00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:33.839
Gary this he was on earlier.
You know what was the best? What

472
00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:37.720
was Loot like, you know,
on this day, you've won a game,

473
00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:42.799
You're getting ready for the next game. You know, settling was he

474
00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:47.400
you know, very technical? I
mean, how did he treat those days

475
00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:51.920
in between? And what do you
recall from the way he did things when

476
00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:55.799
you guys are getting ready for a
second round game. You know, I

477
00:31:55.839 --> 00:32:00.480
felt like I felt like Loot he
was a little bit of the old school,

478
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:04.200
like like John Wooden, like you
don't want to you don't want to

479
00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:07.759
treat it like too differently, you
know, and and and sort of put

480
00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:14.519
pressure on yourself. I mean,
but at the same time, sometimes you

481
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:16.960
know, you gotta you gotta one, like I mean, me and Steve

482
00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:21.799
have talked about before. I think
sometimes with Luke doing that, it was

483
00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:25.039
a little scary in the first couple
rounds. But I felt like with Luke

484
00:32:25.799 --> 00:32:31.440
every round we won, his confidence
got got you know, just increased,

485
00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:36.319
and he almost became in a cool
way like Matt Off and I used to

486
00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:38.680
talk about this, He almost became
like I would never have said, you

487
00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:43.720
know, Luke was super cocky.
So he was a very confident coach and

488
00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:47.680
confident about his team and his players, but he almost became cocky in between.

489
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:52.319
Once we started winning a couple of
games. It didn't usually happen till

490
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:55.039
about the second weekend, you know, the first weekend, I think he

491
00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:58.680
was, you know, just trying
to get our team through it. And

492
00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:01.039
fortunately, I can said my three
or four years, we did. But

493
00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:05.480
I felt like the more we won, the more he kind of got this

494
00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:07.880
this sort of like swagger to him, which was awesome, you know.

495
00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:12.920
I mean, I think I think
that's why Luke's teams typically performed really well

496
00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:16.119
after they got past the first or
second There was a few slip ups,

497
00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:20.559
but I think everybody goes through it. I don't think not only there's a

498
00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:23.200
team out there that's immune, you
know, from from conference, I mean

499
00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:29.200
from MC tournament upsets. It's just
the way that way it goes. All

500
00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:30.480
right, Man, you're having fun
with this? You know? Are you

501
00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:34.880
a fan? Like, were you
nervous as hell today going into the game?

502
00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:37.039
Uh? You know, how,
what's your What's how are you as

503
00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:43.640
a fan with this? That's a
great question. I've I've probably been different

504
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:47.920
a different type of fan over the
year at different times. I think now

505
00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:57.680
I probably purposely lower my expectations to
avoid some sort of like fall. But

506
00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:00.279
I actually felt very good about this
game just because of the style. You

507
00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:05.759
know, the style was right up
Arizona's alley. The next the next game

508
00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:07.840
is is different. You know,
it's not the same style. It's a

509
00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:12.840
slowdown style they've got. I just
looked this up. They've got a really

510
00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:16.679
good player, their center is a
fantastic player, and so that will not

511
00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:22.800
be easy. They've got shooters,
and they've got a guy inside so and

512
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:24.400
and a team that plays a little
bit slower and kind of you know,

513
00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:29.679
junks up the defenses. So it'll
take I think for them. You know,

514
00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:34.000
it's it's all about their energy,
and it's all about their concentration and

515
00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:37.119
focus. If they're ready to play
and they're focused, you know, they're

516
00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:39.480
a better team than Dayton is.
But at the same time, Dayton's a

517
00:34:39.559 --> 00:34:44.320
very very good team. All right, man, Hey, appreciate the time.

518
00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:46.039
Thanks a whole bunch, get back
to work like everybody else, and

519
00:34:46.199 --> 00:34:51.519
uh well we'll see what happens over
the weekend. Appreciate the time. Sounds

520
00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:54.440
great, Thanks you appreciate it.
Matt Othic mexcuse me, man Meulebach.

521
00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:59.000
Uh, you know again. You
know he got to a Final four as

522
00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:01.719
a freshman with Arizona in nineteen eighty
eight Sweet sixteen. A few times,

523
00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:07.639
but you know he did have I
covered. The last game I covered was

524
00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:10.840
was that as covering basketball, was
that Alabama loss in nineteen ninety and that

525
00:35:12.599 --> 00:35:15.920
he was right. I forgot.
They had played really bad against South Florida

526
00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:20.840
and then they played even worse against
Alabama and got blown out. That was

527
00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:22.360
it. That was a bad time. I remember coming home for that,

528
00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:25.000
and that was in Long Beach as
a matter of fact, and I remember

529
00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:29.400
thinking, what the hell just happened? It was and he said that was

530
00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:30.639
a good team. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they were good. They

531
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:34.880
blew through that. They blew through
the conference. So all right, we're

532
00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:37.199
gonna take our last break. Would
love to hear from you five to two

533
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zero four one six seventy four forty
give us a call, your thoughts on

534
00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:45.039
this game, uh, your thoughts
on the next one coming up, and

535
00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:47.800
how your bracket's doing. We'll talk
a little bit about our bracket that we've

536
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got, our show bracket and how
things are going with that one. So

537
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Brivera and Jacob Salez on Fox Sports
fourteen fifteen. Welcome back to the ball

583
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here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm
your host, Jacob Zalas. Steve is

584
00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:19.920
on location in Salt Lake City,
UH, covering in Arizona. I've got

585
00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:22.400
George Midas from Showtime Cards here and
as well as sid start to tak your

586
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call. So we've got first call
coming in. Hi, You're on the

587
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air, and I'm the boy.
I love your show man, appreciate that.

588
00:39:31.159 --> 00:39:34.559
So I just want to throw my
two cents in here. MA would

589
00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:38.320
love to hear it. I think
this is the easiest past we got this

590
00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:42.320
here. Okay, can you turn
off your radio? Do you turn off

591
00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:44.320
your radar's in the background? There
you go hear me? Now? Yeah?

592
00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:45.880
I can you hear much better now? All right, day, So

593
00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:50.440
I want to say that I think
this is a year that we have the

594
00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:53.719
easiest pass actually to meet Alabama.
I believe in the elite, right,

595
00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:59.239
so all right, No, it
would be a care to be there either

596
00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:02.280
North Carolina or or or Alabama in
the lead eight if they get to there.

597
00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:07.960
So I think, you know,
nobody this season, nobody had us

598
00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:12.960
for anything. So I think,
you know, being in Arizona, being

599
00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:15.599
an Arizona fan and having the final
and the Final four year in Phoenix,

600
00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:21.800
I think this is this is a
year that either I think we should be

601
00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:24.760
we should be there. I don't
know what you guys think of us getting

602
00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:28.639
in the bracket, you know,
I just I just feel that this should

603
00:40:28.679 --> 00:40:30.159
be our year at least to make
the final four. Man, what do

604
00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:32.960
you what do your guys take on
that? Well, I think we've been

605
00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:36.119
saying all along, George, and
I think you'll agree with me, is

606
00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:40.719
that they're good enough to it's just
a matter of could be destiny that you

607
00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:45.320
know, it happens to be here
in Arizona. I mean, it's it's

608
00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:50.280
it's a long way to go,
uh North Carolina could be you know that

609
00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:52.440
that could be a challenge right there
at the elite eight. That's where I

610
00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:55.960
see us kind of getting to and
then that could be a difficult game.

611
00:40:57.519 --> 00:41:00.840
I will I will say this,
Okay, the last time the Final Four

612
00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:04.800
was in was in Phoenix. Was
the year that they got beat by Xavier

613
00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:09.039
in the Sweet sixteen, which was
completely an unexpected and unexpected loss for Arizona

614
00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:14.440
and Sean Miller and those guys.
But this team is certainly capable. I

615
00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:16.960
I you know, I got agree
with you. But it just a matter

616
00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:20.000
of you got to get hot and
you got to do it, and you

617
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:22.360
got it. You need a little
luck, sure, right, what do

618
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:24.519
you think anything any anything that happened? Well, I love your guys to

619
00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:29.719
show a great time, you know, dive home and go cat well,

620
00:41:29.760 --> 00:41:31.519
appreciate you, appreciate you calling,
Thanks so much and thanks for listening.

621
00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:37.320
All right, No, you know
again, I mean we sit here,

622
00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:42.679
we talked about about all that,
George, and I think that from the

623
00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:45.239
day they beat Duke, we thought, wait a minute, what do you

624
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:47.320
know? What do that was met? I mean, and and you think,

625
00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:52.519
okay, I mean the number one
team right off the bat over there,

626
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:57.239
So you're thinking this team is capable. But over the over the course

627
00:41:57.239 --> 00:42:00.199
of the season, I think we've
all said they they've lost some bad games

628
00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:04.000
and they're capable of losing to a
lot of guys. But guess what,

629
00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:07.119
so has everyone else. Right,
But that's it and you're right, and

630
00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:13.679
they lost so and that, and
that's the deal. And and so you

631
00:42:13.719 --> 00:42:15.360
know, you do what Tommy's going
to do. You go game by game.

632
00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:21.079
That's it, right, They got
dating tournaments and momentum and see who

633
00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:22.440
does it at the end, right, And as Matt Mealbux says, this

634
00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:24.760
is going to be a different game. And you know, I think I

635
00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:28.880
mentioned in the you know, in
the first hour that when I saw that

636
00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:30.000
Long Beach State was going to try
and run with them, Thad Airson was

637
00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:32.239
going to win this game. I
know it was close. And then you

638
00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:36.719
know they they were in the first
half and Long Beach State had a lead.

639
00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:37.880
But if you're going to try and
run with their zone, you're going

640
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:42.119
to lose, right, And then
they lost by twenty. Dane's going to

641
00:42:42.199 --> 00:42:45.000
be different, so and they're going
to slow down. And as Matt said,

642
00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:50.199
you know, their downfall against Stanford, against Oregon State, against Washington

643
00:42:50.199 --> 00:42:53.679
State, against Purdue was not being
able to defend the three point line.

644
00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:58.880
And that's what these guys do.
So that's a little scary when you think

645
00:42:58.880 --> 00:43:01.280
about that for this game. Come
I think this, if they do go

646
00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:06.639
out and and win against Dayton,
I think it's not it's not a great

647
00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:09.360
win for Tommy. But it's definitely
a good win for Tommy considering that this

648
00:43:09.519 --> 00:43:15.480
same team that's lost against this play
style, right, has showed up and

649
00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:17.760
they win a game against in the
in the big moment, right, and

650
00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:22.000
if and if they can do that, because look they're gonna say, well

651
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:24.719
it's just Dayton. Well just Dayton
is a seventh is a seventh seed in

652
00:43:24.760 --> 00:43:28.840
this tournament. It gives you confidence, you know, like I talked about

653
00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:32.119
like loude Olsen, he gained confidence
every every win they have the tournament.

654
00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:36.239
I mean, it gets Tommy confidence
as well, right, you know,

655
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:40.079
and and you know, if aar
Zona does beat Dayton, you cannot discount

656
00:43:40.400 --> 00:43:44.280
how important that would be and what
a good win that would be, you

657
00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:46.800
know, to win that game.
So you know, it mains to be

658
00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:51.960
seen. But uh, you know
again this things about matchups and is Dayton

659
00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:53.960
a bad matchup for Arizona. Well, we're gonna find out. You know.

660
00:43:54.119 --> 00:43:58.000
You think if somebody's a three point
shooting team, based on what we

661
00:43:58.039 --> 00:44:00.760
know about Arizona this season, a
good three point shooting team is a bad

662
00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:05.360
matchup for Arizona. But you know, we if we know that, I'm

663
00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:07.840
guessing Tommy knows that. I'm guessing
the players know that, and they know

664
00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:10.440
they've got to get out there and
defend that. And and I think the

665
00:44:10.519 --> 00:44:15.039
caller was what he meant to say. It was like this, if you

666
00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:17.559
look at it on paper, it's
not your typical staple schools on there.

667
00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:21.360
You know, He's like, if
we have a path, this could be

668
00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:23.280
this could be a pattern. Certainly, you know, look, they've proved

669
00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:29.599
they've beaten Alabama, and you know, there's nobody there's a lot of the

670
00:44:29.920 --> 00:44:31.760
a lot of the predictions that I
saw was that if Arizona in North Carolina

671
00:44:31.880 --> 00:44:36.639
play, Arizona shoul win that game. You know. So these are people

672
00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:38.199
who analyze the hell out of this
and stuff like that. Who you know,

673
00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:42.639
who knows what they they know or
what we know. But I think

674
00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:47.760
that what you're going to find out
is that how Arizona is going to handle

675
00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:54.320
h a game where or a team
that they've had trouble with, right,

676
00:44:54.519 --> 00:44:59.559
that's what we're gonna you know,
and and and that's that's how you win

677
00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:04.239
the tournament. You do things that
better than you did them, you know.

678
00:45:04.360 --> 00:45:07.880
Early sure you learn from those.
Yeah, and we'll find out on

679
00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:10.480
Saturday. But for now, the
vibe is great out here in season and

680
00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:15.119
you can see it and feel it, and we're gonna definitely enjoy this win.

681
00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:17.840
Yeah, they got they gotta feel
they gotta feel pretty good about it,

682
00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:23.079
you know. But again, they
have to keep they just got to

683
00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:28.880
keep their focus right right, you
know, don't screw this up. Think

684
00:45:28.920 --> 00:45:30.800
about the fact that we're good.
Let's just go out and do what we

685
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:34.360
do. Sure, that's what they
have to do, and we'll be interesting

686
00:45:34.360 --> 00:45:37.920
to see if they in fact can't
do that, because it's gonna be a

687
00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:40.599
hard game. But I think a
little of the pressure is off. You

688
00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:43.760
know, they've won their first game. It's not for you know, they're

689
00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:45.840
not losing in the first round.
I agree with Matt muleback. If they

690
00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:49.320
don't get past this one and get
at least to the Sweet sixteen, it's

691
00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:52.599
a disappointing season. There's some people
say it's a disappointing season if they don't

692
00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:54.880
get to at least to the Elite
eight. Then there's some others that say,

693
00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:58.199
if they don't get to the final
four, it's a disappointing season.

694
00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:01.199
What do you what were you on
that? Well? I mean sweet You

695
00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:05.159
definitely want to get past the Sweet
sixteen. Even a couple of years ago

696
00:46:05.239 --> 00:46:07.159
we had that great team. I
think it was in twenty two. We

697
00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:13.440
had a Mathrin Dalan Terry Coloco and
we took it to Sweet sixteen and we

698
00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:15.119
lost that game. It was kind
of disappointed. We thought we were going

699
00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:19.599
to get further. So this is
a similar situation, similar type of team

700
00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:22.880
where we've been in the top five
most of the season, top ten for

701
00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:27.079
sure. I'd definitely like to see
us get to the Elite eight. Yeah.

702
00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:30.280
Yeah, Otherwise it's it's not really
you know, as successful. Yeah,

703
00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:35.199
me too. I should update on
Arizona. I think they're up.

704
00:46:36.559 --> 00:46:38.719
It was twenty to twelve. They've
gone to the half. I don't know

705
00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:42.519
if that's still the score. I
think it's a low scoring game. Yeah.

706
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:45.039
I don't have it on my thing
here, Yes I do. It

707
00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:52.320
is it's just a second year.
Yeah. No, oh, they're at

708
00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:55.920
a time out. I'm sorry.
Four fifty four left in the in the

709
00:46:55.960 --> 00:47:00.039
first half in Arizona is up twenty
to twelve. I saw they're at the

710
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:04.320
studio, so I thought it was
halftime. So they're at the under under

711
00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:08.679
five time out in the in the
second quarter up twenty to twelve against Auburn,

712
00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:12.559
you know, to eleven seeds.
You know, you think they got

713
00:47:12.559 --> 00:47:15.239
seven players that you know they can't
be favored. Well, they're both they're

714
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:19.000
both eleven, right, Yeah,
so you know, Auburn is feeling as

715
00:47:19.039 --> 00:47:22.079
fortunate to be in this, uh, in this bracket, in this tournament

716
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:24.519
as Arizona is. So you go, Auburn's got the ball, So we'll

717
00:47:24.519 --> 00:47:28.599
see what happens here. But uh, you know, goet On. I

718
00:47:28.599 --> 00:47:31.400
mean, they're they're obviously there to
you know, take their shot at this

719
00:47:31.679 --> 00:47:36.440
and to see what see what happens
from there. And I mean, like

720
00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:40.440
we mentioned you, one of the
reasons why you can't overlook this win is

721
00:47:40.440 --> 00:47:46.239
because upsets in March are inevitable.
And if you're if your team can somehow

722
00:47:46.320 --> 00:47:51.719
survive the first round and keep going, that that's huge because we saw last

723
00:47:51.800 --> 00:47:55.800
year with even Purdue, there's there's
there's no team that any team, right,

724
00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:00.519
That's that's the beauty of the beauty
and the sad this. So this

725
00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:01.599
is if it is your team,
if you're on the wrong end of this,

726
00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:07.679
yeah, and then you're right and
anything absolutely can can happen. So

727
00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:10.239
I'm trying to see where Arizona winds
up if they do, in fact win

728
00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:15.880
this game. I don't they don't
know. I don't. I don't even

729
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:19.199
see where they are in the in
the darn bracket. So we'll figure that

730
00:48:19.239 --> 00:48:22.559
out for Saturday. When do the
times come out later on tonight? Right,

731
00:48:23.239 --> 00:48:29.119
one game after all the games they
played, TV dictates, so they'll

732
00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:31.320
decide, you know, the matchups, and and they'll set up the whole

733
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:37.119
day exactly. Again, I think
being in the West, they'll be later

734
00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:40.000
in the day, maybe you know, mid to late afternoon or in an

735
00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:45.079
early evening second game or something like
that. So we'll we'll find out.

736
00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:50.280
But uh, you know, it
also depends on who else wins and and

737
00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:53.199
who doesn't. So we'll we'll see
what what happens. So I think,

738
00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:57.119
uh, you know, look,
Arizona's in a you know, they're in

739
00:48:57.159 --> 00:49:00.639
a good spot. You know,
just the fact that they're still around and

740
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:02.719
that's a great right, That's all
that's all you can ask, you know,

741
00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:06.559
we're still playing, Uh, and
so we'll see what happened. And

742
00:49:06.639 --> 00:49:09.360
it seemed closer than it was,
but the score says twenty points and that's

743
00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:13.679
that's a big win. Exactly exactly, George. And that's a really good

744
00:49:13.679 --> 00:49:15.199
point, is that we thought it
was this was a close game. It

745
00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:20.800
really wasn't for most of the second
half. Let's take this call. Whoever

746
00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:22.760
that was calling, please call us
again. We're just trying to keep an

747
00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:25.920
eye on the phone here, but
we got got to talk and try again.

748
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:29.519
Well, we'll take your call.
We want to hear from you.

749
00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:32.920
But you're right, I mean,
because it was close, people think that

750
00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:36.280
was a really nerve wracking game.
Well, it was a nerve wracking for

751
00:49:36.320 --> 00:49:39.360
a half and then everyone just kicked
their asses, which is what we want

752
00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:44.400
to hope they were gonna do.
They weren't. From about five minutes into

753
00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:46.239
the end of the second half,
they weren't threatened. So I feel like

754
00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:51.679
fans also have to remember that most
of these games early on, they're gonna

755
00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:55.519
be close early on, especially the
Illinois game. Also, even going into

756
00:49:55.559 --> 00:50:00.719
the second half, Creighton was in
a battle and then they took so the

757
00:50:00.719 --> 00:50:04.840
good teams usually second left teams.
Yeah, right, I found it.

758
00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:07.760
I found there's only women on the
bracket. They're in storage, Connecticut,

759
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:12.719
and I should have made sense.
They're in the they're in the Connecticut bracket,

760
00:50:13.719 --> 00:50:17.920
the Connecticut site. So uh,
if they win, they would play

761
00:50:19.039 --> 00:50:25.559
at three point thirty on Saturday against
Syracuse. Uh. And then then if

762
00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:31.039
they win that they probably have Yukon
on their on their on their plate on

763
00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:35.199
the on the twenty fifth, which
would probably be which I think would be

764
00:50:35.360 --> 00:50:38.079
Monday, right, which would be
Monday. So that's where they're at right

765
00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:42.440
now. But they're up twenty to
sixteen. Uh, make it twenty one

766
00:50:42.519 --> 00:50:45.000
to sixteen with three minutes left in
the half, so five point lead and

767
00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:49.960
running up and down the running up
and down the court again, give us

768
00:50:49.960 --> 00:50:52.000
a call. We got about two
minutes left, five to two zero four

769
00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:57.239
one six seventy four forty you guys
taking taking the cats in the net and

770
00:50:57.280 --> 00:50:59.280
the next game. I haven't seen
a line on it, but uh,

771
00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:02.360
oh yeah sure. I think as
far as I've seen from this game today,

772
00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:07.639
I think there's no reason why I
shouldn't. I'm going to stay away

773
00:51:07.679 --> 00:51:10.480
because I am the kiss of death. I was about to say, please,

774
00:51:10.760 --> 00:51:13.960
I know people are asking me in
Hope, so let's talk about the

775
00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:17.280
who do you guys have? I
think I you know, I came out

776
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:22.239
yesterday and I thought, I think
Arizona will get there. In Yukon,

777
00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:27.599
I have Houston was where I was
thinking, I don't know, I've settled

778
00:51:27.639 --> 00:51:30.679
in on Houston. I think Houston
will get there. And and then I've

779
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:36.840
got Tennessee. So that's that's my
that's my primary final four. I've got

780
00:51:36.840 --> 00:51:39.480
a number of other brackets with some
other teams I think I've got. I've

781
00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:43.639
got North Carolina in one, I
got North Carolina beating Arizona and the Elite

782
00:51:43.639 --> 00:51:46.880
eight and one. I think I've
I think I've got Marquette in one.

783
00:51:50.280 --> 00:51:55.360
I think I've got I might have
taken Iowa State over Yukon in one because

784
00:51:55.360 --> 00:52:01.719
it's just there's two and you CON's
bracket. That's a that but you know,

785
00:52:01.880 --> 00:52:05.639
just and not because I think Iowa
State's better anything like that, It's

786
00:52:05.679 --> 00:52:10.199
just that it's hard to don't It's
there's a reason it's hard. People don't

787
00:52:10.199 --> 00:52:15.559
go back to back because it's damn
hard. And so you know, I

788
00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:19.559
almost feel though that if you Kond
loses, it's going to be to somebody

789
00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:22.119
we don't expect him to lose to, like maybe not in the late eight

790
00:52:22.159 --> 00:52:27.320
but the sweet sixteen. I think
back to when Arizona beat Kansas in the

791
00:52:27.480 --> 00:52:32.400
in the Sweet sixteen that that year. You know, yeah, so you

792
00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:36.360
know, I don't I kind of
feel like it. You know, it

793
00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:39.559
could happen there if in sweet sixteen
the number four seed there is Auburn.

794
00:52:40.599 --> 00:52:49.039
Auburn is yeah, so you know
Auburn team, they're capable, right,

795
00:52:49.320 --> 00:52:53.559
yeah. I think typically we have
what about one or two at least one

796
00:52:53.679 --> 00:52:57.920
once he lose the first weekend.
I think it is in their second round.

797
00:52:58.039 --> 00:52:59.800
So it's gonna be curious to see
who it is. There's a lot

798
00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:02.000
of it is fun. Yeah,
right, somebody is, somebody is,

799
00:53:02.039 --> 00:53:07.760
so you know, all right,
that's great. That's our show. Great

800
00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:09.960
show, Joe, Joe, George, thanks for being here, being here

801
00:53:10.000 --> 00:53:14.400
again tomorrow. We do appreciate that
we're having fun. We'll get a couple

802
00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:16.079
of guests tomorrow who can talk to
break this down a little bit. Maybe

803
00:53:16.079 --> 00:53:20.039
we'll get somebody who can talk a
little bit women's basketball with us. They're

804
00:53:20.119 --> 00:53:23.719
up twenty two seventeen, two forty
left in the first half against Auburn in

805
00:53:23.719 --> 00:53:27.400
this playing game. Sid, We'll
see you again tomorrow as well. Thanks

806
00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:30.039
for running the board. Appreciate it. All right, everybody, We'll see

807
00:53:30.039 --> 00:53:30.480
you tomorrow.