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everybody. Welcome to I on the
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I'm Steve Rivera, no Jay Gonzalez
today, so all it is gonna be

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with Sammy and Me. Today was
their TV show, Sammy and Me.

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I don't know, I've been watching
TV that one. Hey, happy to

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be here, No good, I'm
glad you're here because otherwise we wouldn't be

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doing this. I don't do that
thing you do over there, So we're

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glad to have you, Sammi.
Hey, happy to be here. All

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run the board and talk some sports
with you. Sammy. I think Jay's

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out, No truth through the rumor
that he's out, because he went zero

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for five last weekend. It would
be a little upset to come on here

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and talk. I got another weekend. I think he's embracing his difficulties.

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Yeah, and I think last week
didn't he try to go against his heart

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and brain? Well he did.
He did it for one he did,

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at least for one game because what
he wanted anyone, and then he lost

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the other ones. So it might
he might have to go to the betting

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strategy of just paid what you think
right right right, and people who know

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know exactly what you just said.
Okay, welcome, welcome to welcome everybody.

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Busy weekend for a lot of people. We had the Red Blue game

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on Friday, we had the big
game on Saturday. I think he went

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to both, right, I did. I was at both. Will you

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go as a fan or you go
as an observer like me this this past

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year as a fan the years prior
to was covering the games Red Blues on

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my favorite for whom just for you
atv Okay, okay, you were there.

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You were one of the kids we
saw there. Yep, I didn't

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even recognize you. I was the
head sports director down there. Okay,

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nice, it's nice, very stuff. It's very smart of you to be

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doing exactly what you're going to try
to do in the real world. Yeah,

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thanks and being here's guarantees though,
no, no, never guarantees.

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Yeah, we'll talk about a lot
of different things. We'll talk about that.

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We have Brian Peterson coming in from
from Desert Swarmasy Desert Swarm should that

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should be fun? And uh,
and then in the second half, we're

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gonna have Adam Lazarres from Arizona Assists. He had a big deal going on

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Friday with the ex Cats that were
here and a lot of the fans.

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They had a big function before and
after the game. I wanted to see

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how that went and see how Arizona
assist is moving along with the basketball program

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as they start the season here soon. Okay, So so you went to

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the games. Did you stay?
You for all of them? Both of

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them. I stayed for all of
them, both of them. I really

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Obviously the three point contests Friday and
then contest is fun and all the hoopla

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around it was really fun. But
I was more interested in what we were

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going to look like. Obviously some
new guys. kJ Lewis look good.

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Yeah, I'll talk about him a
little bit. But and Kyl and Boswell

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finally getting the starting point guard job
hopefully, and then Caleb Blove. I

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was interested to see what he was
going to look like in a University of

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Arizona, Jersey. And just more
and more Ballow seems to keep getting a

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little bit better. He got better. He got the biggest thing with me

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would blow. I don't know if
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took, he looked heavy and lumbering. He didn't look heavy and lumbering now,

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which was surprising to me because I
want to know how he lost that

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weight, because I couldn't try to
lose that weight. Yeah, I mean

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it helps when he's twenty two years
old, he's probably got some of the

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best people in his corner telling him
want to eat, what where to work

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out. But he like, like
you mentioned, he looked limber. He

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looked more athletic might not be the
right word. He's always been mobile an

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athlete, But I think it was
Kelli Larson through him Aliyop and he caught

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it one handed, slammed it like
we were kind of used to seeing a

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little last year. I put a
note of it as though, if if

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he can just be who he is
consistently. I know last year he was

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really great some games thirty and ten
rebounds and he would be an animal,

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and then some games it would wouldn't
get in double figures, have trouble rebounding

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the ball. But I think the
absence of a Zulus Tabellis this year might

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free him up to well, there's
they're gonna be. They're gonna be a

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lot of big dudes out there,
a lot of big You saw them play

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altogether two at times both gets each
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doing what they do. But he
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with this as athletically you were talking
about and his weight loss and his kind

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of will to get ready for the
for the year. Yeah, and now

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it's kind of Pelly Larson and Umar
Balo might have to just be the leaders

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this year because last year you had, I mean, Kirk Criso would try

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to take over that leadership. And
I think those two guys in the locker

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room have to really preach what Tommy
Lloyd's been trying to teach because they've been

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in his system for two or three
years now, and they the new guys

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and even Kylan Boswe who's been there
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a year now though the new guys
will look to them to be like,

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Okay, how does Tommy coach?
And by now they've realized it a little

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bit. But when we get into
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play and it's Tommy has a certain
way of coaching, and some players are

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up to the challenge and some might
not be so following Pele will need to

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somewhat be leaders. So let me
ask you this, because you made this

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observation, what do you see from
his from his style of coaching? What

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do you mean by that? Yeah, I think each and every great coach

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in college basketball has a certain style
or a way that they go about doing

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business. I think you do see
a very because of how many years he

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coached under marked few. You do
kind of see a little bit of the

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system that he runs, and he
tries to get the players that can play

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accordingly to a system. But again, he does have a lot of sets,

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and by sets, I mean the
plays that he runs and the personnel

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in which he wants to put out
there. You've seen that in the last

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couple of years with the international recruiting. He wants to recruit guys that can

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can both. He really enjoys toughness
in his players, and I've really noticed

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that. I think Pelly Larson's a
great example. Kylan Boswell is very tough.

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Caleb Love even in the first I
watched him a little bit in the

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trip they took Overseas. He's very
He's a very tough guard, and that's

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what it takes to win in college
basketball. You need tough guards, you

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need tough players. Yeah, well
they haven't had that forever, right exactly,

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And so I think that's something that
he's trying to establish. And I

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think he has done a decent job
in his first couple of years here getting

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the players that he wants to be
sure, no question, but your toughness

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is noted because they need that.
Whether it happens, you could be tough,

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but if you get a tough team
that's tough for you, your toughness

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means nothing. But no, that's
good that you notice that. One of

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the things that I really liked.
And I didn't know if I started doing

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the game, but I liked him
when I first saw him more than a

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year ago. More in a year
goes Philippe, who who won the three

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point contest. Who knew we had
that in him. But he's he's going

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to be a virtualtil guy. I'm
not sure he's gonna start, but I

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think that he's going to be a
big have a big impact on see that's

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really interesting because I was excited for
him last year to see what he could

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do, and there was no room. There was no room for him.

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And similar to the to Vassar,
the big footer we got last year.

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I don't say those fancy words because
I can't say right those two guys kind

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of were the odd man out and
that rotation last year. They want I

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think he really want, and I'm
sorry to interrupt you, but I think

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that Tommy wanted deeply to have Henry
play and get some experience. Henry wasn't

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ready. No, I think he's
going to be fantastic, he just wasn't

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ready. And what I noticed too, is he's playing alongside Baller as opposed

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to last year. He would come
out when he would go in when Ballo

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came out, kind of that back
up five and obviously ended up being two

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bellas back up Ballow or going back
and forth. But if he and I

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noticed, he's put on weight.
He doesn't look like the super skinny freshman.

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Sure he looked like last year,
and sure he's Tommy has him spreading

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the floor when Ballows in there,
and so it'll be interesting to see at

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that. Yeah, he is and
hopefully. His jump shot came a long

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way from last year. Not to
say it was poor by any means,

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sure, just that confidence in being
able to shoot it. Uh. But

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it'll be interesting to see who the
backup five will be to bollow. If

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it is it is Vassar or his
name's Crevos. I think he's gonna be

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the guy. Yeah, he's gonna
be the guy. I think he has

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a lot of upside like Henry,
but I don't know how many, how

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many rotations will he be able to
go to? Right? How deep is

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he gonna be? I think he's
gonna be. He have a lot of

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good depth. H It's just you
know they'll try to use it and then

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they don't right down as you get
closer to the tournament, they start to

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whittle their their little line up here. But if he goes deep, he

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Crevous, I think it's gonna be
the guy. I think Crevous is going

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to be the guy as well,
just because watching him play with Boswell,

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who will be the one or two? A lot with love in there.

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He has a real high IQ similarly
to Well. His soft hands, knows

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when to role and he he got
to the free throw line a lot in

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the Red Blue game of grants.
That doesn't mean much, but and it

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looks as though he can. He
has good touch from the line, and

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so yeah, I think he might
be the guy. It's funny you say

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that, because I was thinking that
during the game that at some point I'll

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ask Tommy this the press conference,
is how much does this team have when

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it comes to i Q basketball a
Q because the Euros are off the charts

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with it because they've been playing in
all their lives and it's and it's not

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and it's not that the Americans don't
have it either, but they're special because

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they see angles, they see things
that they that other people don't see.

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You know, when you get a
feel for it. They have a feel

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for it. They just don't play
exactly and you even look at it in

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the NBA like Luca coming over and
even Sabonis, like the European guys grew

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up playing a very teams oriented game
of basketball. And not to say,

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like you mentioned, the guys growing
up here don't have a great basketball like

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you. I think, right,
a lot of our teams are a lot

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of our players do. But it's
less one on one, it's less seven

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seconds. Get the ball, get
the shot up. It's more how can

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we run this set to get the
best look? And I think you see

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that, and that's why Tommy goes
over there and recruits those guys because he

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wants guys to be able to make
the right basketball play right right, Well,

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it's it's and his offense is the
ball will find its place to the

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right man at the open time,
right, you know, pass, pass

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past past, you're open shooting.
And that's why one thing I wanted to

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mention is that this year and teams
in the past, it feels like we

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haven't had a guy that can create
his own shot. I think Benedict Matherin

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was really the only guy in the
last couple of years. Yes, So

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when you need a basket and who's
your best player to go create a shot?

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And I think he's and I think
having Caleb Love on this team is

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that person. Yeah, And that's
a good observation because we haven't seen it,

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but I guess that he would be
that guy. How much he takes

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advantage of that in a bad way. And that's been the question, right

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because he had the ball in his
hands a lot of North Carolina, probably

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to his detriment because you know,
he's labeled maybe a ball hog or whatever,

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and maybe he isn't, but maybe
that was his role when they needed

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him, you had the ball.
And what was really cool to see is

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that he in the Red Blue game. And I know we can't keep going

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back to it, but he was
playing off the ball quite a bit.

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And so one of the notes that
I put down is if him and kyl

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and can learn how to share the
back sat, they're going to be very

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very He must like this team because
I know I do, because there's a

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lot of talent there. What that
means nationally is another thing. Because you

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could be the best looking dude in
the room, you're probably if you are,

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you're probably in the wrong room exactly
because there's a lot of rooms out

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there. Other teams have very good
teams as well. But this team's gonna

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be a lot of fun. They're
gonna be competitive with a tough schedule.

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Uh, it should be should be
a lot of fun for a lot of

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people, and not just the two
guys we haven't really talked about the The

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guy that impressed me the most on
Friday was kJ Lewis, And I don't

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know if you you were in the
building, i'd assume yeah. And obviously

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you can go with the dunk over
ballow, you can go with his just

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likability. It seems like he's a
very likable guy for the fans. He

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had a chase down block on Caleb
Love. You don't really you don't see

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very often from a from a freshman. And I think he's just going And

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I think he has this energy to
him. Might just be he's a freshman

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wants to come in and create that
energy. But I think he's incredibly long.

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Defensively, he's gonna be able to
guard the opposition's best player at some

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points. He has a smooth jump
shot from what it looked like. Yeah,

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And I think he's just pleasing.
He has a fantastic motor, which

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I think this team needs. He's
got a good motor. I saw the

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same things. Uh. He has
an air about him. He's beyond his

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years. Uh. I think he's
gonna find some spots for him. How

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can you not play him? He's
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I think it's spot on. I like

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it too. It's just like he's
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that that Chase down block was very
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and then blow without prompting, talks
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I mean he to a freshman.
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No, you don't. It's gonna
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We've talked a lot about the depth
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five players can play. We may
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nine to ten guys, but Tommy
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in crunch time. Yeah, and
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If they played ten to begin with, I would not be surprised if

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they played down to seven or eight
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Wouldn't be surprised. And I think, go ahead, and I wouldn't be

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surprised if they stick with the ten. It depends. It just depends on

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who's got the hot hand, right, And we didn't talk about Keyshawn Johnson

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at all, but I think he's
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team needs because he's been to a
national championship. Yeah, and he's got

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that. He's got that whatever that
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Yeah, and you need a couple
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has that. I think your guys
you just mentioned Johnson is Johnson. Yeah.

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And then maybe love too, Maybe
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to mix the stew to make it
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back to I on the Ball here
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera.

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Jay's out today by guys Sammy here
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Acy Desert Swarm dot com. Brian, how are you? I'm great?

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Thanks for having me back. Yes, yes, hey. Busy weekend for

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all of us or those who go
to the games. Let's start with football

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because it's the most recent that we
went to. What what I know.

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You don't write columns, right,
you write? You write game stories,

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and you probably do you do an
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mean, I'll tweet during the game
from about and whatnot, but more,

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yeah, I'm there, more to
trying to cover the actual game and leaves

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that up to other people. Okay, so I'm gonna give you a chance

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to become a columnists. What was
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you read me, but what was
your biggest takeaway? I think this was

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a game they weren't supposed to win
and could have easily been blown out in

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and they just kind of fell right
in the middle. They played competitively,

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they made a couple of mistakes that
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the improvement is definitely there, and
I think it's some people find it very

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difficult to see improvement even in losses, and that they assume at this point

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they should be five and zero and
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and that's the only way that you
can truly see that there's improvement.

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But this is a game that they
wouldn't have won last year and it wouldn't

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have been as closed. Same with
the Mississippi State game, and the Stanford

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game is a game they probably would
have lost last year. So there's been

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that improvement. It's just a matter
of getting over that hump is always the

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hardest part, and you know that
may just take a little while that they're

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still going to lose to the teams
they're supposed to lose to. Yeah,

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yeah, no question. Let me
ask you this because this is kind of

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how I wrote it, well the
week prior were what were your impressions after

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Stanford? That they managed to win
a game that they tried so hard to

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lose and being able to do that
is pretty significant because usually there's always that

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safe statement about before you can win, you can, you have to find

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a way not to lose, and
they found a way not to lose that

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game, and that probably showed some
of the best improvement that I've seen this

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season. So there were any concerns, you know how people this they're kind

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of like the Sunday morning quarterback and
they said, God, this team hasn't

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done anything. You know they have, and then a week later this team

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says, well, they played this
team fairly. Well, So my point

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was you can't go from one extreme
to the other or the other way.

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Row you can't, but people will. And that's just that's a level of

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fandom. Everything is recency bias.
That if a quarterback throws an interception,

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he always makes bad plays, but
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A defense gives up a big run, you forget about the fact that

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they had held opponents to sixteen points
a game entering this last game. It's

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just there's so much of that recency
bias, and I think people aren't able

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to kind of look at it from
a grand scheme and that that just kind

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of comes with fandom. Yeah,
no question. And your website is all

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about that, right, Yeah.
I mean we're we're a fan site,

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but we try to cover it from
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And sometimes people have trouble with that. They assume that we should be

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raw rawing when things are good,
and when they're bad, we should be

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calling for the heads of people,
And I mean, I just don't really

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see it that yeah, no,
and it shouldn't be that way anyway.

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Well, what did you make of
a fafida I thought he was solid and

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he was not spectacular. He was
not bad. He was just kind of

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right in the middle. I think
game manager is kind of a good way

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to look at it. He didn't
do anything other than that kind of Jade

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Delora esque shovel pass where he got
them in trouble. But he also really

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didn't do too much where it was
like spectacular and and above board they're being

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able to elude some of the sacks
and staying alive and being smart. He

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just he didn't make any major mistakes
in that. And I think that that's

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probably the biggest difference between the two
quarterbacks is that I think do Laura gives

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you the best chance to win games
and be explosive in games, but also

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increases the greatest likelihood of having a
blowout and having a huge bob of a

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game, whereas I think Fafita,
the floor is going to be higher,

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but the ceiling is also lower.
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Laura is fully healthy, you expect
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Yes, yes, he has said
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don't see him being the kind of
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job because of injury unless the person
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him to go back to the original
starter, and that wasn't the case.

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Noah Fafita had a fine game,
but he did not have a Khalil Tate

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FBS rushing record kind of game.
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for Matt Scott and leading to a
huge victory and just making it impossible to

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take him out of the game.
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when he's healthy, if he struggles
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shorter, and I think the possibility
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And I don't think that Do Laura
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he can do no wrong anymore.
So, Sammy, you made this observation

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before Brian came on that the offense
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simplified right for him. He didn't
do anything that maybe that Do Laura would

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have done or whatever. They just
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he executed it. Did you Did
you see that too? Brand It was

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a little bit of that, but
it was also more a matter of Safita

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times. And we saw that,
especially against Stanford, where he seemed to

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really want to make that big play
and it's just not always there. Fafita

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was over five on passes of twenty
ft yards or deeper down the field,

407
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and Fish today kind of used the
excuse of the not having the experience with

408
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the first team receivers and not knowing
how they're going to run the routes and

409
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the timing and all those kind of
stuff. I could see that a little

410
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bit, but I also think that
they weren't trying to take the deep shots

411
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because while those can bring up big
points, they also are harder to hit,

412
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and they didn't want to give the
ball back to Washington super quickly.

413
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After those first three and out in
the four and out in the first quarter,

414
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they pretty much were sustained drives the
rest of the way, which was

415
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the game plan. So I think
it was a mix of bolts. Yeah,

416
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and on Saturday, is there a
number in coach Fish's mind where if

417
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the lore is said percent, he
will play or is it a hundred or

418
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busting things? Well, I guess
that depends on what your definition of one

419
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hundred is. I think it's just
going to be a matter of if he

420
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if he's able to be the kind
of quarterback he is has in terms of

421
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his mobility and being able to drop
back, and that there's no limitations,

422
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then he'll play. If there is
limitations, then I think that it would

423
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go to fafita to give him extra
time. It's there's there's this kind of

424
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window here where you've got the back
to back road games against USC and Washington

425
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State and then you have a buy
So if he looks nowhere near close to

426
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one hundred percent midway through this week, I wouldn't be surprised if they just

427
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pull the plug and say, no, you're not playing this week, and

428
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then you know, we'll see see
about the Washington State game. But knowing

429
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that there's an extra week off after
that before you come into really the the

430
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really more of the potentially winnable games
down the stretch with back to back at

431
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home and just more opportunities than these
next two. So but I doubt he'd

432
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give any sort of percentage. Yeah, no, I agree with you,

433
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especially with Washington State coming up after
the fact, right and going back home

434
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or back where he was before coming
here. But let me let me say

435
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I was thinking about this, and
I'm running out of time this last question

436
00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:56.720
about football. So they go to
USC. What was the prediction for you

437
00:29:56.880 --> 00:30:00.680
in wins before the season started.
I had them going six and six?

438
00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:04.480
Okay, has that changed? Now? They've won every game that I thought

439
00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:08.759
and lost every game that I thought. I in fact, I have them

440
00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:14.119
losing the next two. I had
them to USC and to Washington State,

441
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so being three and four and needing
to be able to win three of those

442
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last five to get in and getting
to six with ASU. The wins haven't

443
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been, I guess, as impressive
as I thought they could be. But

444
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the losses also haven't been. They
haven't been blown out. I mean,

445
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they went to overtime and they had
an on site kick with the opportunity to

446
00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:42.359
try to tie it in this next
game if they had recovered. So a

447
00:30:42.440 --> 00:30:48.759
pair of one score losses, one
on the road in overtime in SEC territory,

448
00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:53.039
and won against the top ten teams. So I can't really think you'd

449
00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:59.920
be too upset with that Stanford game. Maybe should have been a better over

450
00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:03.680
all performance, but the fact that
they played poorly in a lot of areas

451
00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:07.039
and still one is promising. Yeah, okay, the reason they asked that.

452
00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:11.079
Okay, so how's this gauntlet?
USC on the road? Washington State

453
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on the road back to back weekends. You talked about the little gap there.

454
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They have a week off, then
they go to Oregon or they play

455
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Oregon State here, a better team
than mostly well but a very good team

456
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UCLA, which may be a winnable
game here at home, and then at

457
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another they're at Colorado, who who
knows what's going to happen there, and

458
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then Utah which is obviously very good, but they play them here. So

459
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:37.319
this is a heck of a heck
of a next road next The next few

460
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:41.680
weeks are going to be tough.
Oh yeah, I mean last year they

461
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:47.240
played at one point five consecutive ranked
teams and going into conference play seventh straight

462
00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:51.799
were ranked after the first game and
some of them fallen out since then.

463
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But yeah, I mean, there's
there's three top ten teams in this conference

464
00:31:56.160 --> 00:32:00.640
and they're going to be playing two
of them in uh, they're gonna Yeah,

465
00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:02.200
you played two of them in back
to back weeks, and then an

466
00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:09.559
undefeated team after that if Washington States
beats UCLA on Saturday, I think this

467
00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:13.519
is going to be the first time
Arizona is gonna be playing like three consecutive

468
00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:20.519
unbeaten pack twelve teams in gosh,
probably at least fifteen years. So yeah,

469
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I mean, but you have to
play the hand you're doubt you know

470
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that, Steve Yes, And sometimes
you've got to throw it away to throw

471
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it away. Okay, let's move
to basketball real quick. Got a couple

472
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of two three minutes. What were
your impressions from Friday night? If you

473
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:39.359
can get anything from that, I
mean, it was you can't get too

474
00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:43.440
much from it other than the fact
that it just seems like there's a lot

475
00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:50.960
of guys and maybe there isn't like
a superstar or like u Ben math Ain

476
00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:53.680
a n Azulist to Bellas where you
can say he's clearly going to be the

477
00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:58.160
main guy on this team, But
then how are we going to make sure

478
00:32:58.200 --> 00:33:02.119
that we have other stuff if that
one or two guys struggles. I think

479
00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:07.759
that there's so much more potential for
this to just be a very well balanced

480
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:13.720
and deep team where you goes eight, nine or nine ten deep in games

481
00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:16.839
on a regular basis and are getting
meaningful contributions, not just three to four

482
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:22.000
minutes from that eighth person. What
remains to be seen if that stays that

483
00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:25.799
way, But it sounds like Tommy
Lloyd wants to be more deeper this year

484
00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:29.720
because he saw how much it got
in the way at the end last year.

485
00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:34.799
Yeah, I think in Tommy's early
stint here he hasn't really gone to

486
00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:38.680
that depth, especially as the season
progressed. What guys do you think or

487
00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:43.440
who will those eight nine guys be
that you think he might be able to

488
00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:49.680
rely on. Well, I mean, he's brought in three transfers who are

489
00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:54.279
all starters at major programs, and
you figure if at least two of them

490
00:33:54.279 --> 00:34:01.359
will probably start, Plus you have
Pella Larson and Are and Kylin Boswell coming

491
00:34:01.359 --> 00:34:07.039
back, So right there that six
it's really going to come down. And

492
00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:10.920
then I think kJ lewis, while
being a freshman, he just seems like

493
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:15.280
a guy who's going to find a
way to be a regular mix in there.

494
00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:19.000
But then after that it's just going
it's going to come down to the

495
00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:24.960
other freshman of the international players,
and the returning sophomore is Philly or Vichenen

496
00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:30.199
and NRB Sarnil Anderson to prove that
they deserve to be on there on a

497
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:36.719
regular basis. I think most of
us Krebs is the best likelihood to be

498
00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:38.599
involved in there. I don't know
if it would be as a starter or

499
00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:45.559
not. And then Maruscus potentially as
well, if they can find what works

500
00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:51.519
best for them. But the also
weird thing is this is such a challenging

501
00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:54.360
non conference schedule that I don't know. I mean, are you willing to

502
00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:59.360
sacrifice, like losing some games just
to make sure you're getting these guys the

503
00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:04.199
experience or is it that they're only
going to have those four or five quote

504
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:08.400
unquote buy games at home that you
really can test that out. We will

505
00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:12.119
soon see. That's why he gets
paid the big books. I think you'll

506
00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:14.719
probably give a lot of the guys
a chance and see I really think the

507
00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:17.400
undergo underdog guy is going to be
Philippe. He has a shot and we

508
00:35:17.559 --> 00:35:21.719
saw that Friday, and I think
that he is understated. Last year didn't

509
00:35:21.719 --> 00:35:24.719
really play a lot, but we
might find something out of him. Yeah

510
00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:28.800
yeah, I mean this team is
definitely going to be much more guard oriented

511
00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:32.320
than it's been the previous two years. But that also means with so many

512
00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:36.280
more guards, if someone struggles,
they're going to get pulled. You didn't

513
00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:37.599
see that last year. I mean
Kerr has a bad game. He's staying

514
00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:42.960
in there because they really just don't
have that beyond the three main guys.

515
00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:46.800
If they have four or five guards
now, then someone struggles and they go

516
00:35:46.840 --> 00:35:51.440
to the next guy. Yeah,
we'll see what happens a busy weekend.

517
00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:54.320
It's going to be that way the
rest of the year. Pretty much love

518
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the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay
Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Subscribe

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now to the podcast on the iHeart
Radio Whip Just Surgery. I on the

636
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Ball. Hey, welcome back to
it on the Ball, Fox Sports fourteen

637
00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:44.000
fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, James
out today. Got a guy Sammy here

638
00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:45.920
working the board. You guys want
to call please do We're ready for you

639
00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:50.719
five two o four one six seventy
four forty tell me we're ready for them.

640
00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:53.280
Oh, we're very ready. Okay, So you found some cool music?

641
00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:58.719
Yeah, good ones. Well,
I need to tell Jay about all

642
00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:01.079
this stuff. Yeah, I know
we got the same couple of songs normally,

643
00:45:01.159 --> 00:45:06.119
but yeah, no diversity. Baby, Hey, that's where we're trying

644
00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:07.880
trying to get some new songs.
I like it. I like it.

645
00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:10.559
Okay, anybody want to call Let
us know what you thought about the Red

646
00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:15.559
Blue game, the football game.
What do you like the chances this weekend

647
00:45:15.599 --> 00:45:19.920
about going to LA and facing USC. There are twenty two point dogs.

648
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:25.239
There were twenty point dogs here,
like you are pretty good against the spread.

649
00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:29.920
Let me say this, Uh so
they covered the spread. Oh,

650
00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:34.519
as we were talking before the actual
show started, Sammy and I they were

651
00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:37.599
they played close, right. I
think people in Washington read it, wrote

652
00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:40.360
it. They were never in it. I mean they were never in jeopardy

653
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:45.239
of losing it, give or take
for that little the on site kick at

654
00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:50.280
the end. Okay, granted,
but they were also a touchdown away from

655
00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:52.519
getting brown out. It would have
been twenty one points had they not fun

656
00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:59.119
with the ball on the five U
A today and also on Saturday, talked

657
00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:01.800
a lot about them will recovery that
thing, we're not granted. Yeah,

658
00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:07.599
when Stuke's got on the ball seemingly
near the near the ends the end line,

659
00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:10.039
you know, out of bounce line, Whether you got it or I

660
00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:15.119
don't know, but it was tough
to overturn. Yeah. I think the

661
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:17.760
big thing with this Washington you have
a game is is we talked about it

662
00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:22.840
before. If you're gonna be excited
about this, then you have to ridicule

663
00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:28.960
the Stanford performance. Yeah yeah,
really really, or question or or critique

664
00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:31.519
it exactly. There's or you just
have to stay right in the middle and

665
00:46:31.599 --> 00:46:36.800
be like, we beat a Stanford
team that historically is a great program,

666
00:46:36.920 --> 00:46:39.360
and then obviously having a down year, you're supposed to win that game.

667
00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:43.639
You win the game. It was
ugly, it was gross, whatever you

668
00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:45.280
thought of it. You win the
game. You take the win. But

669
00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:49.119
and now that if you if you
take the win and look at it like,

670
00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:51.800
Okay, you win, then you
can be you can say, oh,

671
00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:53.679
we only lost by a touchdown to
Washington. Sure, sure, No,

672
00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:58.559
you have the same pair of rise
right for that game. You have

673
00:46:58.639 --> 00:47:00.079
the same pair of bise. You
may not have the same bias. I

674
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:04.039
know that Jay would think of it
as Okay, we won the game,

675
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:08.440
and hey, I'm really promised,
I'm really happy how they survived on And

676
00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:12.280
we'll talk about this tomorrow when he
arrives, because that's what we do.

677
00:47:12.599 --> 00:47:15.960
But he'll say Oh no, I
liked how they play. They played close,

678
00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:20.119
and I won't disagree with any of
it, but but they were still

679
00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:23.880
that close from being blown out earlier. It's not to say they would have,

680
00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:30.400
but yeah, And I think if
you swap performances, if you if

681
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:34.039
the way we played this Saturday against
Washington, we played against Stanford, we

682
00:47:34.119 --> 00:47:37.519
win that game by double digits.
Sure, play the way we played against

683
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:39.800
Stanford on Saturday, we lose by
thirty points. Sure, sure, Sure.

684
00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:43.679
But the thing about it, and
you're a former athlete, right every

685
00:47:43.719 --> 00:47:45.159
day to me, and I've written
this one thousand times and I believe this

686
00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:50.079
more more and more as I write
stories for the last fifty years, forty

687
00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:52.920
years, every game is a season, Every game is a season. And

688
00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:59.000
you're a golfer. What other sport
do you do that You may be the

689
00:47:59.039 --> 00:48:01.920
greatest golfer, goodood or whatever.
He has bad days, he has bad

690
00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:07.280
weeks where the best players or did
he show up? He's not even making

691
00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:10.000
the cut. You see all the
time, and it happens. It happens,

692
00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:14.920
whether it's smatch ups, you just
get up bad that day. Whatever,

693
00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:17.440
right you see it, you see
it with I mean, we talk

694
00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:21.760
a lot about Colorado, but you
see it, especially the last two weeks

695
00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:25.119
with them, they got they got
boat raced by Sure and Sure that's a

696
00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:29.000
tribute to Oregon. Their defense is
great, and there was a lot of

697
00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:31.920
incentive there was, and then this
past weekend it looked like things were going

698
00:48:31.960 --> 00:48:36.719
to get out of hand against US. Late in that fourth quarter, Colorado

699
00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:40.880
had a chance to similar to Arizona. In fact, the show before ours,

700
00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:45.400
we're talking about how they never had
a chance and they probably didn't have

701
00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:49.920
a chance. I think USC and
everyone talks about Washington Oregon, but I

702
00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:52.519
still think USC is probably the better
team. Go ahead. We got a

703
00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:57.000
call. Hello, you're high on
the bet the ball. You're on the

704
00:48:57.039 --> 00:49:02.639
air, Gus Gabriel. Gabriel.
Fine, let me let me give you

705
00:49:02.679 --> 00:49:07.960
a little bittee Gabriel. So I'm
listening. I'm going home after the game

706
00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:12.239
on Saturday night, and lo and
behold do I hear Gabriel on the postgame

707
00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:17.639
radio show And I'm thinking Gabriel's cheating
on me. Oh yeah, sorry,

708
00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:29.000
go ahead games that I just I
support the media, whether it be you

709
00:49:29.239 --> 00:49:36.480
guys, bearing all these show.
What Jason Sheer does with his what's his

710
00:49:36.719 --> 00:49:42.320
podcast, So I support every single
media that covers that covers you know,

711
00:49:42.320 --> 00:49:46.880
every Arizona you guys have. You
guys have better media than Fresno. To

712
00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:50.360
be honest with you, Thanks,
What do you got on your moe?

713
00:49:50.400 --> 00:49:53.840
What's on your mind? So I
just want to give you my uh my

714
00:49:54.039 --> 00:50:05.559
thoughts about the game on Saturday.
So obviously the offense. Obviously the offense

715
00:50:06.360 --> 00:50:13.079
struggle with scoring the first points in
the first half, and the defense tried

716
00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:20.639
tried their best to stop Michael Pennix. But I mean, I was hoping

717
00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:25.199
for an Arizona upset, but I
guess Arizona has a better chance to deal

718
00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:31.159
I guess USC because USC's defense is
not that very good. But I just

719
00:50:31.400 --> 00:50:36.679
kind of wanted to say this after
we played this last year of the pack.

720
00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:40.480
I'm just really happy that Arizona does
it. The Arizona is not going

721
00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:49.360
to play against Oregon, UFC or
even Washington because sometimes Arizona really sometimes Arizona

722
00:50:49.519 --> 00:50:54.280
upsets those those three teams, but
most of the times is the ZAC opposes.

723
00:50:54.400 --> 00:50:58.400
So that's my thoughts. Yeah,
no, I heard you say that

724
00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:00.960
dealer night, So the guys didn't
really want to believe what you said.

725
00:51:01.119 --> 00:51:04.800
I hear you though, we're gonna
go into a different conference, and you

726
00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:07.440
might be a little pleased. Maybe
you won't be we'll see what happens.

727
00:51:08.559 --> 00:51:14.360
I think it's easier for Arizon to
win more games in the Big compared to

728
00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:20.840
the because comparison to the pastrol because
Arizona is not playing a guest Oregon,

729
00:51:21.159 --> 00:51:25.320
Arizona is not playing against USC Washington, Alkohol, Marks Texas. The Big

730
00:51:25.400 --> 00:51:30.519
twelve is just wide up. And
so so okay, no, I agree

731
00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:32.880
with you. Thank you, Thank
you, Gabe. We'll talk about that

732
00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:36.880
once we get off the phone.
Thank you much for calling and listening to

733
00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:39.519
us. I don't mind you.
I don't mind you cheating on me there,

734
00:51:39.719 --> 00:51:44.159
Gabe. Thank you. So no, he's right, and we talked

735
00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:47.320
about this at number of times.
You're gonna go into a great basketball conference,

736
00:51:47.400 --> 00:51:52.639
right and the basketball program is gonna
have its handsful, which is fine

737
00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:55.320
because you'll get tested every weekend,
and every weekend will be fun for the

738
00:51:55.400 --> 00:51:58.639
fans, and then when you get
to the tournament, you'll be ready.

739
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:00.400
And if you're not ready, that's
on you, exactly. I think it's

740
00:52:01.639 --> 00:52:05.480
we got another car. But okay, okay, go ahead. I think

741
00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:07.719
we'll take the car and then we'll
go ahead and good and we'll talk.

742
00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:13.760
Hello, you're on the air.
Hello, this is Brett. I wanted

743
00:52:13.840 --> 00:52:20.000
to, you know, inquire here
about Arizona football, so I stopped projection

744
00:52:20.079 --> 00:52:24.760
today. It had in the Guaranteed
rain Bowl against Kansas. Sounds like a

745
00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:30.079
great dame. It's just becoming a
great out of a schedule. I just

746
00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:35.519
don't see three wins in the near
future. Can you hate that picture?

747
00:52:35.719 --> 00:52:37.320
How can we find those three wins? No? No, I hate I'm

748
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:43.440
with you. It was this again, Brett. Okay, Brett, I'm

749
00:52:43.480 --> 00:52:45.960
with you, man. It's gonna
be very difficult. And I went to

750
00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:52.760
the schedule. How many wins did
you have to begin the year? Who

751
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:55.079
there, Brett? How many wins
do you think Arizona was gonna work for

752
00:52:55.199 --> 00:53:00.199
the year? Yeah, yeah,
we can hear you. Hold on,

753
00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:02.840
how many wins did you think they
were gonna have before the year started?

754
00:53:05.239 --> 00:53:07.119
Before the year three or four?
And that's where I'm still at. I

755
00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:15.079
think is game schedule huh yeah?
S either I started with five. I

756
00:53:15.159 --> 00:53:17.039
started with five. I don't disagree
with you, because it's gonna be difficult

757
00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:22.599
to find three wins here. I
think the winnable games are UCLA, and

758
00:53:22.639 --> 00:53:27.599
I'm not saying they're gonna do that. Ucla, maybe Colorado and and and

759
00:53:27.800 --> 00:53:30.679
likely Arizona State. But but those
other two are gonna be very difficult.

760
00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:35.800
I hear what you're saying, and
I don't I don't disagree with you.

761
00:53:35.880 --> 00:53:40.039
It's gonna be very difficult. Alright, alright, thank you for the game.

762
00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:44.800
And uh and in US next weekend
or is it gonna be cool?

763
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:46.280
No, I don't think. I
don't think so. But they, like

764
00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:50.800
you said, like you said,
the heavy, they've covered every game and

765
00:53:50.880 --> 00:53:53.039
they played for some reason. They
play you see, very good or very

766
00:53:53.079 --> 00:53:57.519
well. So we'll see, we'll
see, all right, Thanks Pratt,

767
00:53:58.119 --> 00:54:00.400
Thank you man, Thanks you listening. Thanks going. I don't know what

768
00:54:00.559 --> 00:54:06.320
game he talked him playing again about
Kansas, but oh, there was a

769
00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:09.480
I think in the most recent bowl
predictions they have us if we win six

770
00:54:09.559 --> 00:54:14.320
games, go into some bowl against
Kansas, and that'd be that's just ironic

771
00:54:14.360 --> 00:54:16.880
because we're gonna play them a bunch
and the next football Okay, so you

772
00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:21.000
were talking about something, we were
talking what were we talking about that we

773
00:54:21.119 --> 00:54:24.639
were interrupted by the call. We're
talking about golf. No, no,

774
00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:30.840
okay, well a question just before
we go it's a break. So the

775
00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:35.679
War's injuries really interesting. We were
hearing that if he's not healthy this week,

776
00:54:35.760 --> 00:54:37.800
you won't play, but then they
might give him that next week off

777
00:54:38.079 --> 00:54:43.400
get to the bye. If thea
FETA plays well in these next two games,

778
00:54:43.480 --> 00:54:45.239
it doesn't mean we have to win
the game. But if he shows

779
00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:52.199
progression and shows signs that he's becoming
more confident, is there a question come

780
00:54:52.360 --> 00:54:55.159
after the bye? If sure we
roll with that guy? Sure the question

781
00:54:55.199 --> 00:54:58.440
will come from the media. Of
course I will, because that's what we

782
00:54:58.559 --> 00:55:01.760
do. I will, will will. Will you lose the starting position from

783
00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:06.039
the injury? You have ever heard
the Wally Pip story? You know you

784
00:55:06.039 --> 00:55:08.599
don't have to google that because Wally
pipped. God, I don't know why

785
00:55:08.719 --> 00:55:12.440
I'm saying this, because it just
drew a blank. But Wally pipps the

786
00:55:12.519 --> 00:55:16.199
starting whatever position in baseball. He
got hurt and oh it was the Luke

787
00:55:16.199 --> 00:55:20.519
Garrick. I think it was Luke
greg who who who replaced him? And

788
00:55:21.280 --> 00:55:23.639
lou Garrick never left the game again, even never, he never Wally Pip

789
00:55:23.800 --> 00:55:28.440
never played again? Oh wow?
Oh yeah, I mean Okay, it

790
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:30.719
makes sense because you see that a
lot. The next guy comes in,

791
00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:34.760
it comes in. It was yeah, yeah, he's just better and he

792
00:55:34.920 --> 00:55:37.480
plays out of his mind and the
other guy's lost. I don't know,

793
00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:42.320
I don't know. Fafita is more
of a stable quarterback, if that makes

794
00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:45.360
any sense, because he's kind of
like, just gets the job done and

795
00:55:45.679 --> 00:55:49.000
De Laura is kind of a reckless
dude, and you get what you get

796
00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:52.079
either, big plays. We're kind
of crazy plays. That's Taylor Swift for

797
00:55:52.159 --> 00:55:59.079
us. Oh no, oh no, let's go. Let's go and come

798
00:55:59.159 --> 00:56:00.760
back to that talk. But some
breaking news, right, yeah, breaking

799
00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:15.119
news midnight night. Come and pick
me up, no headlights, come Joy