WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:07.519 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez sound Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.559 --> 00:00:14.279 fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services and Sure Your Most Prized Possessions kat z 3 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:19.280 R two sad at iHeartRadio Station Goo. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to 4 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:21.839 I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, 5 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:27.000 He's Jacins. OUIs got our boy eat in today? It's Thursday afternoon, 6 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:29.559 our last show of the week. Right, you have your picks? Did 7 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:33.079 you do your picks? You all? I haven't done. I mean I've 8 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:35.520 been you know, I've got some things that I've got on my mind, 9 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:38.840 but I haven't actually sat down and made them. But they'll be done by 10 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:42.759 by the last segment when we do our fat five Riddy picks. Okay, 11 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:46.759 okay, So I'm a ready big game. I spaced Tommy Lloyd's press conference. 12 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:50.719 I did listen to most of it, and then they also had Keyshaw 13 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:54.880 Johnson out there at China. How are they going to defend Edie? Anything 14 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:57.920 enlightening from the press conference? I missed it all together, haven't it? 15 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:02.640 No? Just Tommy's kind of been more surly or either more surdly or more 16 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:04.439 comfortable with the guys. Yeah, because he you know, teas him. 17 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:07.560 It's his second favorite, the worst day, you know, second favorite day. 18 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:11.480 First being he doesn't want to be there, you know, he doesn't 19 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:15.000 want to be there. Uh, spend him at fifteen minutes, you know, 20 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:19.040 just kind of straight to the point how you can defend him ed And 21 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:22.920 he's good, he says, everyone's good, right every day. Everyone's a 22 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:26.319 good player. So we'll see what happens. You know, fouls will be 23 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:29.719 a problem or an issue. It's gonna be on the road. Yeah. 24 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:33.239 Did you realize that tomorrow they also have an Indianapolis Colts game at the same 25 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:37.359 time. Well, well, the game is being played and they're just next 26 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:41.280 to each other the facility. Okay, so so it's gonna be a lot 27 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:45.000 of traffic, a lot of people at both places. So have you ever 28 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:49.480 been to the new Football football? Yeah, because you know, last time 29 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:52.280 I was there it was the right arc. Yeah. Yeah, no, 30 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:56.400 we had been there a couple of times. We'll see what happens. I 31 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:57.719 mean, it should be a fun game. I hope to see. I'm 32 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:00.760 not gonna write about it because I'm to be on the road. Javier will 33 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:04.640 do it. I hope I get to see it. Well, it's certainly 34 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:07.640 getting a lot of attention that you know, everybody's talking about it one versus 35 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:13.960 three. You know, Okay, a lot of is Arizona really this team? 36 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:16.000 You know, because everybody loves Purdue. You know, they're they're a 37 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:20.960 Big ten team. They've had Zach Ety for like eight years, and so 38 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:25.719 you know that's kind of people leaning towards produce should win this game. I 39 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:30.319 still haven't seen a spread because yeah, because what because it's Purdue and because 40 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:35.240 it's it's like, you know, Arizona's still in terms of with Tommy Lloyd, 41 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:37.439 Arizona's still kind of new on it. If you were a guy at 42 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:40.759 Montana, Jay, if you guys lived in Montana and Idaho maybe got the 43 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:45.400 news, maybe you didn't get the news, and you had both team's resume 44 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:50.400 over the last two or three years, who would you pick? I think 45 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.400 I picked Purdue. And guess what, they're more flawed than Arizona. While 46 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:57.879 they had they lost as the one there you go, and they didn't do 47 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:00.400 well the year before with the same play and when you're built around one guy 48 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:04.199 the way they are, and we'll ask we're gonna have Mike Carmen in from 49 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:08.199 the Lafayette Journaling Carrier who covers Purdue. You know, are they built around 50 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:13.840 one guy? If you if you if you neutralize Zach Edy, you know, 51 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:15.759 do you win the game? And have and have teams done that? 52 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:21.680 Last night? H Northwestern got beat, Northwestern got beat and just a few 53 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:27.360 days ago gets to Northwestern beat and and nobody big beat Northwestern. It was 54 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:30.680 just some team. So so you know, and and look and and you 55 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:32.960 know, Arizona's kind of like that last year. If you could stop a 56 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:38.879 Zulus, you could beat them. And there were games when Zulas just wasn't 57 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:42.639 there and guess when it happened to be the lost happened to be Princeton. 58 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:46.439 Yeah, so uh you know, uh, we'll ask Mike Carmen, you 59 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:49.039 know, is that how is that how you beat them? And as has 60 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:51.280 anybody been able to do that? I I don't. I didn't see the 61 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:54.280 Northwestern game, so I didn't see how Northwestern won that game. But we 62 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:57.759 do know that, you know, it's kind of unexpected, kind of disappointing, 63 00:03:57.800 --> 00:03:59.759 because this would be a cool, cool to be a one versus do 64 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:04.560 one versus three second Sigama Houston being number two, right, So we'll see 65 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:09.560 what happens. I hope to see what happens. It should be fun. 66 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:13.159 It's December soth he said, December sixteenth. Well, and you know what, 67 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:15.840 and in a way that makes these games more fun because there's not a 68 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:20.000 lot of pressure on these games, you know, like like uh Tommy said 69 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:26.360 before the Duke No, before the Wisconsin game, he said, look, 70 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:29.759 we can lose on Saturday and we can still have a great season. Oh 71 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:33.279 sure, you know, you know they yeah, they can lose tomorrow and 72 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:36.079 they can still you know, uh, you know, have a you have 73 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:40.519 a really good year. So they're they are coming off off of a win 74 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:44.600 over Alabama. Who are is on the faces uh next week? But they 75 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:48.800 did lose that game to uh to Northwestern in overtime. If you look at 76 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:56.000 the odds to it at all, I think Arizona is one of the favorites 77 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:59.319 now, if not the favorite. Ten to one down from eighteen should have 78 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:01.879 gotten I know, I know, but tender ones is still not bad. 79 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:06.120 Did you see a tweet yesterday which I thought was fine, kind of interesting 80 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:13.040 on the week's Week six of the schedule, and historically since two thousand and 81 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:16.319 three, two thousand and four in the top twelve. One of those top 82 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:21.519 twelve teams is gonna win the tournament. Oh really, it's It's like since 83 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:25.439 two thousand and three to two thousand and four, that team has one of 84 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:28.959 those teams has won the tournament. Well, because the the you know, 85 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:30.600 they've played enough games for you have an idea of who they are, right, 86 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:34.000 So that's how they get ranked. That makes sense, makes a lot 87 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:38.240 of sense. Actually, no other no other week has been as accurate as 88 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:41.959 this week six, week six, and this is week six, this is 89 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:44.800 week six. Arizona's in the ranking. Yeah so, and they have and 90 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:47.680 they're number one. Doesn't guarantee you gonna win. But those Twitter teams, 91 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:51.680 well, by this time, you should have established whether or not you're a 92 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:56.519 really good team, right in. Arizona has established that. Regardless of what 93 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:00.759 happens Saturday, they established it. They're really good. You know, even 94 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:02.759 when I saw that yesterday and I saw the odds, I'm taking ten to 95 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:05.199 one, and that's still not bad. You put a hundred bucks again, 96 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:09.839 a thousand bucks on a team that you cover. That's the issue. That's 97 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:15.480 the one issue. But but I haven't liked an Arizona team this much since 98 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:20.519 twenty fourteen. Probably, Yeah, in all honesty, you know, I 99 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:24.319 don't remember them coming out of the box. I mean, they kept winning 100 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:28.240 games, You've got holy crap, what are they fourteen? But I remember 101 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:31.439 actually start thinking, you know, before they got played, they're that good. 102 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:35.879 I can't remember. I can't remember, but I know that everybody in 103 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:41.920 this city thought that they'd win the title because until Brandon Ashley got hurt, 104 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:45.480 you know, they were number one, undefeated. He got hurt and then 105 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:48.040 things went to hell. But even then you still have to be lucky and 106 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:51.040 good too in the title. But they got like twenty and twenty yeah, 107 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:55.360 twenty three something like that. Like that, they they got into the twenties. 108 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:58.040 Yeah, without losing a game, right, that was crazy. Yeah, 109 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:01.360 there's another team that's ten to one, uh Houston, no, Kansas, 110 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:04.759 no, Purdue prey, Yeah, yes, you saw you see it. 111 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:08.399 I'm looking at it right now. Yeah, it's Parzona and Purdue at 112 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:11.480 ten to one, Kansas twelve, and it's eleven eleven. Okay, Yukon 113 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:17.199 thirteen, Marquette fourteen, Houston sixties, Houston, Kentucky at sixteen. Yeah, 114 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:19.839 I would go with Houston as well. I would, you know, 115 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:26.120 I think Colvin is probably due at some point. But it's it's interesting. 116 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:30.560 We know what we know and that's Arizona basketball. Next Saturday, we'll finally 117 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:32.920 see how good Florida Atlantic is. Right, last year we didn't see him, 118 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:36.000 but once it's probably in the final four, right, and who thought 119 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:39.279 they would show up? That was going to happen, right, But who 120 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:42.519 thought Sandy Can State was gonna happen? Sure? Sure, that's how fluid 121 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:46.439 college basketball is exactly exactly. But yeah, so you know, it's uh, 122 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:49.759 there's almost got its name out there, and this is is gonna be 123 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:53.399 a fun game and if you have peacock you get to watch it. Yeah, 124 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:57.759 people still complaining, I mean it is what it is. This been 125 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.759 on the docket forever. You know, Look, we got to get with 126 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.639 the streaming thing. It's becoming more and more of a thing. If how 127 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:07.759 can I say this, I get pans yelling at me or tugging down to 128 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:11.959 me or whatever they want to do, because I get on them. They've 129 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:16.079 done this for a while. But if they didn't have anything to complain about, 130 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:20.879 they wouldn't be Arizona fans you're right. What can I say? Come 131 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:26.120 on, this is simple, ye buy it. It's twenty bucks. Twenty 132 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:28.160 bucks, I think so twenty bucks for a month. Buy it for a 133 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:31.799 month, Get on it. It's like a movie. Go watch some dateline 134 00:08:31.799 --> 00:08:35.519 on it? Right, go is I going to the movie on a Friday 135 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:37.559 night? It's gonna cost you cheaper to buy the twenty books Peacock. But 136 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:43.080 basketball should be free, Steve, sports should be free. Yeah. You 137 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.960 know, people are complaining that don't don't ask me. I know this. 138 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:50.840 I just came across on social media. Cann't follow. But you know, 139 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:54.440 Taylor Swift made a movie a concert yeah, yea yeah, yeah right, 140 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:58.639 and it's that it's at the theater. So people think you're gonna pay the 141 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:05.240 eleven dollars whatever theater price to see this movie. For the concert that was, 142 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:07.960 you know, the tickets were five hundred bucks. So tell me where 143 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:11.080 are you going to bucks twenty bucks to go watch this movie? And people 144 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:13.120 were pissed. They said, we should be the same as going to see 145 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:16.399 any other movie. Guess what, if you want to do it, you 146 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:18.240 have to pay it, yeah, or don't do it? Yeah exactly, 147 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:22.120 But they were pissed. Of course there you have got something. There has 148 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:26.919 to be something to be pissed about it, you know. But yeah, 149 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:30.159 you're right, people, it's always something. So I went into a movie 150 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.159 with somebody about three months ago and we went to go see some regular movie 151 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:37.840 and uh, we sat there and there was set in the middle, you 152 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:41.279 know where you pick your seats. Said, this is so stupid. We 153 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:45.679 sat in the middle, and uh, we sat in the middle and started 154 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:48.159 filling and there was a young crowd. There was a young crowd for like 155 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:50.879 an al rated mystery or something like that, and it got young in it. 156 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:54.399 And then like Billie Eilish shirt one of those one of those up and 157 00:09:54.399 --> 00:10:00.200 comer young girls, was that she had a concert like the yew, wont 158 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:03.720 the hell did we get this theater? The theater were We looked at each 159 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:07.360 other about a half hour, and it says, I'm going to be embarrassed 160 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:09.799 if I leave this place, but I'm going to be embrassed if I stayed. 161 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:15.399 That's kind of how I felt when I went to a Backstreet Boys content. 162 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:18.320 So we got up you know kind of you know guy and sauntered off 163 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:20.320 and says, you guys told us to go to the wrong place. Can 164 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:22.759 we get new tickets by myself? So we got new tickets. But it 165 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:26.799 was like one of those concerts and these kids are it's packed with these kids 166 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:31.919 that you look creepy, and I felt a little creepy. I says, 167 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:35.960 I must be the oldest dude in this place. Billy. Yeah, because 168 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:39.799 she's hot. Who the hell? Who the hell was she could be my 169 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:43.720 daughter? But damn, she's hot. No, she was like a grungey 170 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:46.840 girl. She she's got the colored hair. Yeah, I didn't know what 171 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:50.600 she's not enough in covert. She's been around for I was. We looked 172 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:54.279 at it. Who is this girl? She won a bunch of Emmys like 173 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.080 two or three years ago, and I'm thinking, I think this is going 174 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:00.879 to be another trailer. No, it was not the trailer it was. 175 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:03.360 I couldn't name a single song of her. I know of her, but 176 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:07.559 I have the advantage of having a twenty two year old daughter who fills me 177 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:11.279 in on all this. Yeah, and don't change the chance I needed. 178 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:15.759 I need to say, I need to make a note of it. Graduating 179 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:18.440 from the University of Ares all tonight. Nice, your third college of Art, 180 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:22.399 my third my third college graduate. You can have money. Now, 181 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:28.120 no, she's moving in. You're not paying for her rent. But yeah, 182 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.080 we'rein't helping her with her now you won't, but now I won't. 183 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:33.919 Right, But she actually, you know, until she gets a job because 184 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:37.639 her her lease runs out the end of the end of the year. But 185 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:41.240 you know, she's working on the job, has some prospects. Oh, 186 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:43.679 this is the one that's schraeduling tonight. Yeah, you already have another one 187 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:46.480 too. Yeah, she's in the house too. Oh you bits back back 188 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:50.399 to the nest. Maybe the band is back together. What's for dinner? 189 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:56.679 So but my my daughter, Rachel, you're a Hispanic man. I'm sure 190 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:00.519 Gabby's loving it. We love it. Oh he does bad. Can get 191 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:05.000 the free holies and all that stuff for burrito night. Yeah, graduating tonight 192 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:09.759 from the College of Art. She's a creative, she's a graphic so she's 193 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:13.000 going to be broke like that was the rest of us graphic design. I 194 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:16.279 know she. I think she's gonna do well. She's working on some jobs 195 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:20.600 and they all look pretty good. It's just a matter of time to get 196 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:24.399 you know, to get get into those jobs and go start making some money 197 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:26.360 and stuff. So I just wanted to give her a shout out. Okay, 198 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:31.759 graduation, just less man, we got we got three fifteen. Yeah, 199 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:35.639 we have the guy from Port Mike Carmen. Yeah, okay, we'll 200 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:37.080 wait for breaking news. She saw what's going on to the PAC twelve. 201 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:41.879 They finally decided the issue with their layoffs no. No. One hundred and 202 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:48.399 forty five hundred and fifteen people beginning early next week next month. But that 203 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:50.720 was you saw that coming, right he Oh yeah, miss friend. It's 204 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:56.639 like we when we got our notice at the Tucson Citizen when they said you're 205 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:58.960 closing down. We had six months and I remember coming home and it just 206 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:01.080 you know, you knew with the date, you knew it was going to 207 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:03.519 happen. Where your wife was there. Yeah, and it's kind of like 208 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:09.679 you looked at what the hell are you going to do? Okay, So 209 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:11.919 let's why don't we just take the break okay now, and then come back 210 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:18.279 with Mike Carmon. Mike come from the Journal and Courier or Courier in journal 211 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:22.879 generally currier in h Lafayette. He covers Purdue. We'll try and get some 212 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:26.600 insight cool him on this game coming up. Get the purduce side of it, 213 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:33.639 so stick around for that. 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We want to get some insight on the big 295 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:37.079 game on Saturday from Purdue's end, just how good they are and things like 296 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:41.559 that. How big of a game is it out there over here? Obviously 297 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:45.599 it's a huge game. Yeah, it's a big game for Purdue. They've 298 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:48.640 been ranked number one this year and now they get to play the number one 299 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:52.559 team and they haven't done that in a while, So it's a big game 300 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:59.720 from that standpoint. Actually, the last time they played in they had a 301 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:07.200 winn. One team was against their two thousands. Oh from producing point, 302 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:11.480 I don't know. It's a big game, a lot of buzz. There'll 303 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:15.559 be a spell out and you're breaking up. You're breaking up a bit, 304 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:18.240 Mike, So I don't know if you can move to a place that you'll 305 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:21.960 break up a little bit less. So just tell us about what you know, 306 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:23.920 what you've seen. Right, they've only lost the one game to Northwestern. 307 00:20:25.480 --> 00:20:26.319 You know, who are they? I guess is the is the way 308 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:29.839 to ask it? You know, if you're if you're trying to describe this 309 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:33.799 team, who are they? Well, there's Zach keaty and he four he's 310 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:37.319 the raiding national player of the year. Right, A lot of a lot 311 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:41.960 of things they do offensively and defensively go through him, as they should. 312 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:47.759 But you know they've got a more experienced back court this year with the two 313 00:20:47.759 --> 00:20:52.119 guys at refreshman last year. Now they're sophomore's Braden Smith and Fletcher Lawyer Lawyer. 314 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:57.400 Uh. They they've improved. But yeah, everything, you know a 315 00:20:57.400 --> 00:21:03.359 lot of things what they do goes through Zach uh and you know they're they're 316 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:07.960 very good defensively, Uh, they're one of the better rebounding teams in the 317 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:11.440 country, So I mean they've got a lot of depth. They've added a 318 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:15.279 transfer from Southern Illinois, Lance Jones, which gives them a little bit more 319 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:21.920 quickness and athletic ability and ball handling that they lack last year. So they've 320 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:25.400 added to their team. I think they're better than what they were last year. 321 00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:29.240 But you know, it's a it's it's mid decem a lot of improvement 322 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:32.000 up to go. You know, we'll see how this all plays out. 323 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:37.960 Have the teams throughout the last couple of years tried to stop the big guy 324 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:42.039 and then dealt with the other guys or how they try to defend him. 325 00:21:42.279 --> 00:21:47.559 They've tried to get the ball out of his hands as much as they can. 326 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:52.839 You can't really because there's not a lot of seven four guys out there 327 00:21:52.880 --> 00:22:00.640 that new places. So they tried the hands by a double team and having 328 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:03.759 him part of the piper. Purdue does lean a lot on the three point 329 00:22:03.799 --> 00:22:08.039 shot, and a lot of teams have just taken the gamble that once the 330 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:11.079 ball gets out of the post, that Purdue is not going to hit a 331 00:22:11.160 --> 00:22:15.759 high percentage of threes. That happened last year in the NCAA tournament against up 332 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:21.119 to you. It's happened, you know, it's it happened a lot last 333 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:25.240 year. It's happened a little bit this year. But that's kind of how 334 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:29.880 teams play, Perdue. They would rather take their chances with produce shooting threes 335 00:22:30.519 --> 00:22:33.960 as opposed to stubbing it into Zach heaty the time. But when you have 336 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:37.119 a guy like like eighty seven foot four, big guy too, you know, 337 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:41.359 not a not a chet holmesbring kind of guy. Right, the assumption 338 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:45.880 is that they're that they're very physical inside. It is that? Is that 339 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:49.200 a correct characterization of of how they play? You know, it's particularly in 340 00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:53.079 the pain. Yeah, Zach is very physical when you're setting four three hundred 341 00:22:53.119 --> 00:23:02.720 pounds, you walk on the floor and you but they're four very Mason Gill 342 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:07.880 into some degree. Uh, the first are very physical inside. And I 343 00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:14.400 say their wings or are physical as well. And Lance Jones and Morton h 344 00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:18.359 six seven center out of the parimeter. Uh, they bring they bring a 345 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:26.759 level of scality which they have to. Then, because you're bringing up again, 346 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:30.359 I think one of the things that Arizona brings is it's uh it's athletic, 347 00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:36.359 it's fast. It has two big guys with with Bollow and Crebus, 348 00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:38.000 So you know there's a lot of fouls to give if that's the case. 349 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:42.039 Has Ey been infel trouble at all? No, he doesn't pick up a 350 00:23:42.039 --> 00:23:49.119 lot of fun. He just doesn't. He's gone most here he doesn't. 351 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:56.359 So you've got to really get his legs. You've got to get into kind 352 00:23:56.400 --> 00:24:00.279 of his middle area to force him to to foul. But he did. 353 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:06.319 He's very very disciplined. He you know, he can naturally block shots, 354 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:10.559 but he's very disciplined as far as not fouling his concern and that that kind 355 00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:12.559 of goes along with produced team. They don't file a whole lot. Yeah, 356 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:15.680 you know, I think people were surprised right that he came back for 357 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:21.440 this year. You know what, what what's the thought on you know, 358 00:24:21.799 --> 00:24:26.759 his his his strategy for for doing that. You know it was because of 359 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:30.960 the way last year ended, or did he just feel like he had a 360 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:33.160 lot more work to do to get to get to where he wanted to get? 361 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:38.079 Well? I think I think something was that he the way ended left 362 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:42.200 the bad taste in his mouth and everybody else's. But you know, he's 363 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:48.039 not he's not an NBA player right now because that's not how the NBA right 364 00:24:49.880 --> 00:24:53.480 you know. But he's holding onto the dream. He feels like if he 365 00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:59.799 can do some different things this year and improved in some areas, maybe there's 366 00:24:59.839 --> 00:25:03.160 a team out there. It only takes one a team that will look at 367 00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:07.279 him and want to maybe you know, use him in a rotational basis or 368 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:14.000 whatever. No, he's you know, he's a he's a nineteen eighties kind 369 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:17.559 of player in a way where he plays with us back to the basket where 370 00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:21.759 everybody else in the NBA is facing the basket. Yeah, but you know, 371 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:25.319 it's a it's a bit of a long shot for him to eventually make 372 00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:30.640 it in that league. But I think he's got tremendous opportunities to play professional 373 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:34.880 basketball throughout the world if he wants to do it, and I think you'll 374 00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:38.240 have I think you'll have that opportunity, and I think you'll flourish in those 375 00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:41.319 situations. So, Mike, I'm assuming you've been covering college basketball for a 376 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:45.160 long time, so you know this very well. There's few teams that know 377 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:49.400 about first round losses other than Arizona because because they've gone through a few of 378 00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:55.799 them over the years. How has Painter survived, not survived, handled that 379 00:25:55.880 --> 00:26:00.119 good good word, Jay handled probably the negativity out in your area. Ye 380 00:26:00.359 --> 00:26:03.000 How he's handled it really well. I mean he's been honest about it. 381 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:07.079 He's taken responsibility for it. You know, he points out the flaws of 382 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:11.920 what happened and why they happen, and it's up to him and his staff 383 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:15.240 to fix that. They're they're going through a period right now where they're losing. 384 00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:19.119 You know, they lose to fd FDU of sixteen seed. The year 385 00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:22.799 before, they lost to Saint Peter's a fifteen seed in the sweet sixteen. 386 00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:27.200 Before that, they lost to North Texas UH in the first round. So 387 00:26:27.799 --> 00:26:38.359 they're in this trend of battling probably quicker faller teams that give them give them 388 00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:45.000 a lot of problems with pruss ball handling thing. And but I do they've 389 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.839 gone out. I had to fix that area with the addition out with Lance 390 00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:53.240 Jones from Southern Ilamois and just the maturity and growth of their two freshman guards 391 00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:57.359 from a year ago with Braden Smith and Fletcher Lawyers. So you know, 392 00:26:57.400 --> 00:27:03.000 he's taken the criticism, he's taken heat. But the only thing you can 393 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:04.240 do is get back and try to do it again. I know he talked 394 00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:08.720 to Tony Bennett in the off season about what happened to Virginia a few years 395 00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:14.240 ago. Uh, and from the exact situation. And you know, we'll 396 00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:17.960 see if they can take you know, take advantage of that and and push 397 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:21.519 through and you know, try to make a run this year. So you 398 00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:23.480 mentioned we obviously you know, talking about Zach dy and the impact he'll have 399 00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:26.559 tomorrow and that things go through him. But tell us you know who, 400 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:30.720 you know, who are the Arizona fans gonna notice, uh, you know 401 00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:33.680 when they see this game on on Saturday that you know, you know, 402 00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:37.880 an impact guy, a guy who can have a huge effect on the game. 403 00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:47.319 Well point guard. He's a he had last Alabama. Him and Zach 404 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:52.960 worked really well. They can roll. But Brayden has really improved his shot. 405 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:56.319 He's more aggressive on offense. You can get into the free throw line 406 00:27:56.440 --> 00:28:02.440 area and get those jobs. He can hit three. Kind of took over 407 00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:07.519 the game in the Africans EMMA and really pushed him out to pretty good lead. 408 00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:11.400 Uh. So he's one that an eye on I think Arizona to try 409 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:17.319 to get fall up out of his hand off. But other than that, 410 00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:21.440 Yeah, there's there's a freshman for new Has. It comes off the bench. 411 00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:23.240 Uh. He doesn't get a lot of minutes, but he's athletic. 412 00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:27.559 It's Miles Colvin. Uh. He's the son of Roosevelt Colvin, the linebacker 413 00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:33.000 that played for the Patriots and the Bears in the NFL. He gives them, 414 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:36.920 gives them a big flipt and he's athletic as well too. So there's 415 00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:40.759 a couple of guys to keep an eye on as you you know, as 416 00:28:40.759 --> 00:28:44.559 you watch Saturday's game. Yeah, so should be. You said it's gonna 417 00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:48.039 be sold out. I understand the Colts game is going to be around the 418 00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:51.400 corner. Uh, in a big game there too, right, Yeah, 419 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:55.720 it's actually in the state of Indiana. On Saturday, you have the top 420 00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:59.559 three college basketball teams in the in the country in the state of Indiana. 421 00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:03.920 Because Kansas is playing at Indiana at twelve thirty Eastern time. You got Arizona 422 00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:10.799 and Purdue playing four hours later. And then the Colts are playing Pittsburgh at 423 00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:15.079 the same time as the Purdue game. So Indiana is a bit of an 424 00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:18.319 epicenter of activity on Saturday in the sports world, and they'll be playing Hoosiers 425 00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:26.079 later that night. So so tell me, you know, was the Northwestern 426 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:29.319 game a blip? You know, how did they what did they expose? 427 00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:32.200 Because you know, I'm looking at this first of all, the Maui Classic, 428 00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:34.240 Holy Cal. You know the three teams that they beat there, you 429 00:29:34.359 --> 00:29:37.599 come out, you know, then you know, lost Northwestern, but now 430 00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:41.000 you've beaten or they've beaten Iowa in Alabama. What was the Northwestern game? 431 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:45.119 What happened there? Well, it's not a clip because Northwestern beat them last 432 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:49.240 year when they remember, so it was a bit of a repeat of what 433 00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:56.759 happened a year. Agoudu has had trouble with stronger, more physical arts that 434 00:29:56.960 --> 00:30:02.920 ter and dark the last couple of years and boom boot or question that profile 435 00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:07.799 really well and they about him under control. Uh. In that game, 436 00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:14.240 Purdue had seventeen turnovers and Northwestern only had three, so they were minus fourteen 437 00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:18.440 in the turnover category. Uh. You know, sometimes produced best offense is 438 00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:22.920 just getting a shot up because there's such a good offensive rebounding team that when 439 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:27.160 they turned the ball over, they give themselves no chance. Right. Uh, 440 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:30.519 So but the Northwestern game wasn't a blip. You know, we've seen 441 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:36.759 that script before. But now now that they've they've been through it, you 442 00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:37.920 know, you hope that they get a little bit better for it, and 443 00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:42.240 you know Saturday will be another test as they get ready to get back in 444 00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:45.160 Big Ten play in a couple of weeks. Yeah, So how many how 445 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:51.759 many years have you covered the team? Well? As I mentioned to you 446 00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:53.559 off the air, I mean, I used to be with the local newspaper. 447 00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:57.680 I was with them for three decades and then I you know, moved 448 00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:02.880 over to Golden Blacks dot Com to help them cover basketball and some other things. 449 00:31:02.920 --> 00:31:07.880 So off and on, probably you know, twenty twenty some years or 450 00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:11.240 so. Yeah, so you're kind of like us. We're former newspaper guys. 451 00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:15.440 Now we're doing the radio. So are the teams? Are the teams 452 00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:18.519 you've covered? Purdue obviously very good ones over the years. I would assume 453 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:22.519 that this may be one of the better ones over the years. Well, 454 00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:29.759 I think it happened that was very good back into a match up against the 455 00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:37.359 years out of it. You coached Ford when he had to he had the 456 00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:41.000 Three Amigos back in the late eighties, and then they had a run in 457 00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:45.960 the mid nineties where they won three great Big ten championships. They've been on 458 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:48.960 the verge of the four a couple of times, just haven't broken. You 459 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:53.839 know. The last time the final four was eighty. Yeah, so it's 460 00:31:53.880 --> 00:32:00.079 been a long time for them. And but the recent run here that that 461 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:07.319 Matt paint was put together with Roster, you know, it's probably been honestly, 462 00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:17.559 yeah, we're still you're still breaking up again. Hey, Well my 463 00:32:17.640 --> 00:32:21.359 last year memory of Matt Painter. I I was working Nancy Double, a 464 00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:24.880 tournament up in uh uh uh Regional up in Phoenix. Yeah, you were 465 00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:31.319 probably there, and in a in a huddle, he snapped a clipboard over 466 00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:35.319 his thigh. He was trying to get his guys fired up, and he 467 00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:37.720 busted the clipboard and I'm like, wow, this is great. Uh you 468 00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:39.400 know, but you know, he's a getting his guys going, and I 469 00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:43.319 you know, I really liked watching him because he you know, just watching 470 00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:45.279 him coaching you when you you know, I sit under the basket when I 471 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:47.559 when I work these tournaments, and it's great. You know, that's the 472 00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:51.240 first time I saw Sean Millard, you know, doing stuff. He was 473 00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:52.640 there with the Savior, and I don't know if the two were playing each 474 00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:54.880 other, but I just remember watching that and he, you know, he 475 00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:58.240 was he's trying to get his guys going, but he's you know, I 476 00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:00.720 wouldn't know if you would because of that call him fiery, but certainly a 477 00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:04.720 guy that you know, demands attention, and these guys, I think give 478 00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:07.880 it to him if they've been so good for so many years. Yeah, 479 00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:13.319 he got that, I'm pretty sure, or anything like that, but he's 480 00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:16.240 he's calmed down a little bit with age, but he's still still very passionate. 481 00:33:16.799 --> 00:33:20.880 Yeah. Okay, well, thanks a bunch. We appreciate your time 482 00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:23.480 and and good luck on Saturday covering the game. We know it's work. 483 00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:27.880 They get there early, right, stay out of traffic, right, Yeah, 484 00:33:28.119 --> 00:33:31.720 try to Thanks for thanks for reaching out. Appreciate I appreciate it. 485 00:33:32.119 --> 00:33:35.920 Yeah, so we got some stump stuff from him. Yeah. Uh, 486 00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:39.839 you know, I don't when we say Purdue basketball, it doesn't kind of 487 00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:45.359 shake. He does it, not like Duke in Kansas and those, but 488 00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:52.440 even they're still they're they're they're like they're sort of a next level, well 489 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:55.880 right, the next level. But you you heard the history it's a long 490 00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:59.200 history, but it's not a great one, right they well haven't been to 491 00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:02.359 a final four instance eighty Yeah, so yeah, no, but you know 492 00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:07.440 that you're you're always up against it when they're always good. But you know, 493 00:34:07.679 --> 00:34:10.639 are they great? Right? And everybody thought they were great last year 494 00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:14.840 and then they got beat as a one seat Well, let me tell you 495 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:19.280 was hearing him hearing him talk about the team. I mean, Arizona has 496 00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:22.840 everything that they can't handle. Well, he talked about hand handling physical guards 497 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:23.920 guards, right, that's the one. The cop Yeah, me too, 498 00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:27.880 said, you know they have trouble with with physical guards. Well, that's 499 00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:31.519 what Arizona's guards are. Yeah, every guard that goes out there and plays 500 00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:36.119 Arizona is a physical I'm thinking if it's if it's a two or three point 501 00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:39.280 spread, I think Arizona, well there's okay. Again, they've got ten 502 00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:44.960 files to throw it, Zack with with with grievous and and remember the pace, 503 00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:47.679 right, it's not going to be slow right right, okay. And 504 00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:51.920 again if he's a back to the basket kind of guy, yeah, you 505 00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:57.480 know he maybe and down the court he may be there. I had heard 506 00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:01.880 there's actually you know, uh and listen whatnot who complained that Z doesn't get 507 00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:07.119 Edie zd Edie doesn't get enough Foles calling as big as us. We had 508 00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:08.480 a game, good day, We had zero files. He said, how 509 00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:13.039 does the seven to four guy who plants himself in the paint not get any 510 00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:15.039 files? So, well, say, I think it's gonna be intero. 511 00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:20.119 Well guess what I'm hearing now people on Saturday saying how does he not get 512 00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:25.440 any down? You're right, You're right. Okay, take our bank. 513 00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:28.440 We'll take your calls. Five to two, zero four, one, six, 514 00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:30.800 seventy four, forty. Would love to hear your thoughts on the Purdue 515 00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:34.880 game coming up. This is our last show today, so get your shots 516 00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:37.360 in today if you want, and then we'll have fab five Friday picks at 517 00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:39.880 the end of the the end of the show, so stick around. 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But Pat Shungo Week is more than the football game. 561 00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:50.400 It's Tucson's own end of year party that doesn't stop until the Taco touchdown at 562 00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:54.599 the Taco Belt New Year's Eve Downtown Bowl Bash featuring fireworks presented by O'Reilly Chevrolet. 563 00:38:55.000 --> 00:39:04.559 Start your Putshanga journey and get your tickets today at the Arizona Boldt Stringy 564 00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:07.400 Live. I mean I heard Radio whif This is Eye on the Ball with 565 00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:15.239 and Jacob Salez, Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to my 566 00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:16.519 I on the Ball hero, Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve, he's 567 00:39:16.599 --> 00:39:20.920 Jake. Got you with us today? They have fifteen minutes if you guys 568 00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:23.119 want to give us a quick call five two oh four one six seventy four 569 00:39:23.199 --> 00:39:28.599 forty. Uh. It was kind of a muddled interview, but it was 570 00:39:28.639 --> 00:39:30.039 sweet. You understood most of it. Yeah, you know, and again 571 00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:34.639 I think you know what struck you did we talk about it any talking about 572 00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:37.039 what struck me? Was that the whole thing about the guard Yeah, yeah, 573 00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:43.440 that Northwestern has physical guards that out physical uh produced guards, and that's 574 00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:46.159 what That's one of the things that that I think is sort of a you 575 00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:50.880 know who Arizona is. Yeah, right, it's it's physical play out on 576 00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:53.679 the perimeter and not just at the guard spot. Right before you got Keisha 577 00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:58.440 Johnson, who's very physical in the fore spot, you got Umar and and 578 00:39:58.559 --> 00:40:02.719 UH and Grievous were physical Arizona. If we ever said Arizona's a very physical 579 00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:06.920 team, but they are, Yeah, they are, and they play fast 580 00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:08.880 and they'll get into it. They can play both ways. Although we haven't 581 00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:13.199 seen it really kind of slow down yet. I don't think they can get 582 00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:15.000 well, I don't teams will have to kind of slow down, slow down 583 00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:19.719 and get a lead. Yeah for the and I think that's what we're gonna 584 00:40:19.719 --> 00:40:22.320 see with this Purdue game, right because Purdue games, you know, they're 585 00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:23.519 not going to run up and down the court with Zachi, That's not what 586 00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:28.239 he does. So if Arizona can go play in this game and still do 587 00:40:28.360 --> 00:40:30.760 what it does, well, no, now you're talking about a team that's 588 00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:35.079 you know, really really good, and the possibilities or you know, kind 589 00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:37.159 of off the charts, if they can handle this type of team, because 590 00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:42.400 if they handled Duke, they handled Michigan State, they handled Wisconsin. I 591 00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:45.679 mean they they had their way with all three of those teams. You know, 592 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:47.320 in a lot of regards. I know the Duke game was very close, 593 00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:52.639 but you know Arizona did. Arizona dictated that game. Yeah, yeah, 594 00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:57.199 they they had to lead a lot of it. Blah blah blah. 595 00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:00.199 And Duke's not in fact, I saw I didn't read the whole story, 596 00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:04.679 but Duke is not the Duke team. Everyone thought it would be right and 597 00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:08.360 obviously coach kse not said that arguably that. You know, so one of 598 00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:12.679 the top two or three players in the country. You know, so the 599 00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:15.679 big guy's very good. Yeah, he's really really good Patchanowski or something, 600 00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:20.840 Yeah, one of those. I mean, so I think that you know, 601 00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:25.519 this is another game that and you know Tommy's going to this game. 602 00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:31.519 He's playing with house money. Yeah. Let's take this call higher on the 603 00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:35.639 air and I on the ball. Hey guy, what's up? This is 604 00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:38.400 VI, Hey Vic, what's going on? Well? I kind of wanted 605 00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:45.920 to change up from men's to women's and get your opinion on on the on 606 00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:52.639 the on the Mayan Naji controversy there. Okay, you went to the game 607 00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:54.760 last night, right, Yeah, I went to the game last night, 608 00:41:54.920 --> 00:42:00.320 and uh, I just wonder is there anybody to blame? Is uh? 609 00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:07.039 I mean a DA had to know two years ago recruiting this girl, she's 610 00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:10.639 pre med. Do you do this? Uh? Do you ask her? 611 00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:19.039 Can you handle the workload? And knowing probably you can't. What happens if 612 00:42:19.079 --> 00:42:22.119 this girl shows up at Stanford next month? I mean, what's gonna happen 613 00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:25.519 then? Is that? Do who takes the blame for that? I don't 614 00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:28.599 know. Is there a blame? Is there a blame? I think that's 615 00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:30.320 a strong word. We all have to find blame somewhere, But I don't 616 00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:34.920 is blame. Maybe we don't know what. Well, we can only somebody 617 00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:37.320 miscalculate. We can only believe what they're telling us is true. Correct, 618 00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:42.440 that she's she's studied last night, or she needed time off to do her 619 00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:45.079 studies. Uh, this is super second, that's true, and we have 620 00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:50.000 to assume that's true. Good for her, good for her, and good 621 00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:54.840 for a idea for letting her do this. But but if something happens in 622 00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:58.480 the next two weeks, right, if all of a sudden she's not here, 623 00:42:58.639 --> 00:43:01.280 you know, next next week. Yeah, you know, because the 624 00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:05.840 school the school semester has ended. Correct, right now? You know, 625 00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:07.639 I do know, just because I you know, one of my daughters is 626 00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:12.920 just up until yesterday, she was still doing stuff, so you know, 627 00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:15.440 and what whatever pre mat is like, maybe she needed this week to do 628 00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:20.320 it to wrap up some things. If that, in fact is the case, 629 00:43:21.079 --> 00:43:22.599 that there has to be an end to that coming up. Yeah, 630 00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:25.960 So, vic Vick, you and I spoke last night or communicated last night. 631 00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:32.360 You were in the stands, and what was the buzz from the older 632 00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:39.360 geezers giving her props and blah blah blah to some people being fit because the 633 00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:45.280 team is already shorthanded, which Maya knew. And how can you leave your 634 00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:51.320 team hanging like that? H which I can see both sides, I can 635 00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:53.119 see, and you got to do with this for you as far as Maya's 636 00:43:53.639 --> 00:43:59.360 concerned. But yeah, man, you're leaving a team that you knew only 637 00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:06.039 had ten going in and now you're leaving them with nine and and there. 638 00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:10.920 So, so how integral is is her? Is her? Is her participation 639 00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:15.320 on that team? Oh? Very She's probably the second best player on the 640 00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:20.199 team right now, behind Gilbert, so she would have mattered. This is 641 00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:25.760 I'm making a face at that. I'm not so sure that she She might 642 00:44:25.800 --> 00:44:31.239 be disappointing as a five star and everybody says that, but he was making 643 00:44:31.280 --> 00:44:37.960 a little jump. He played well against UNLV and she scored seven points and 644 00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:43.440 defended Who else do you want in there? Yeah? Well, and it 645 00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:47.880 hurt last night too because Braa Cunningham got two fouls in the first minute and 646 00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:52.559 that's my if my and Igie hadn't started, that's when she would have come 647 00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:54.920 in the game and then they had to go with another you know, another 648 00:44:54.920 --> 00:45:00.559 player in the middle, so that that specifically her last night year long. 649 00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:06.920 So but I did Mark three eight Thursday. Vick was very positive. I 650 00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:12.239 had to raise this, but like I said, I do think there is 651 00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:15.519 some blame to go because you And I'll give you another instance real quick. 652 00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:21.239 When my girls went to Texas, they were going to take general hygienis or 653 00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:23.960 whatever, and the classes were on Saturday. A whole bunch of class were 654 00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:27.960 on Saturday, and the coach said no, because we play on Saturday. 655 00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:31.480 So you can't take that as your major, right, But that's how do 656 00:45:31.519 --> 00:45:36.079 you How do you crush your girl's dreams or women's dreams by doing that? 657 00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:37.000 If she wants to come here, where you go one or the other? 658 00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:42.400 I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, because you just don't recruit 659 00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:46.400 her. I mean there's got to be something you got this. Uh, 660 00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:51.840 it's stuff on Ada because guess what idea you're a basketball coach, so that's 661 00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:54.559 what you got to watch out for. Who's that football player? David Richards 662 00:45:54.679 --> 00:46:00.880 was an aerospace engineer major somebody around that period of time, playing Uh, 663 00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:05.079 or either Stoops or rich Rod was like aerospace. Yeah, I know you're 664 00:46:05.079 --> 00:46:07.480 talking about and and it's like, you know, I mean, that's pretty 665 00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:12.199 hard, you know, academic load. I'm sure for that guy, but 666 00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:15.400 I don't know, you know, there's no way. I just until until 667 00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:21.159 we see my anerogi come back and everything's fine, people are gonna be guessing. 668 00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:23.880 And the way that the way that she answered the question to whoever asked 669 00:46:23.880 --> 00:46:30.880 the question was very stern and short. And that's not like her, you 670 00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:32.360 know what I'm saying. I mean, she's got to be frustrated. You're 671 00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:37.719 losing You're losing players the last few years, so she's got to be frustrated 672 00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:40.800 too. You have no question, you only have ten players, and and 673 00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:44.920 then and then real quick. My second thing is with this streaming thing on 674 00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:49.119 Peacock, and I'm an old geezer. It's tough for me to do all 675 00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:54.239 that stuff. But it is funny because my kids don't pay for cable and 676 00:46:54.280 --> 00:46:59.719 do all the streaming and stuff, and yet they get away with it and 677 00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:05.000 all that stuff. And I'm a consumer, and I can guarantee you Christmas 678 00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:10.320 wise, I showed out thousands more than my kids did. But yeah there. 679 00:47:13.159 --> 00:47:17.159 How do you say the demographic Yeah no, I told I say that 680 00:47:17.199 --> 00:47:21.400 all the time to Jay and because he's he's got the young and I have 681 00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:25.199 the younger kids. But we're the ones with the money. Yeah yeah, 682 00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:29.599 yeah, I don't know, we're going to your house. We're not the 683 00:47:29.639 --> 00:47:32.800 demographic dage. No one cares about old geezers, I'm telling you. But 684 00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:36.320 anyway, I did get peacocks, so I just got to throw that in. 685 00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:38.440 What time does firs open? We're gonna go? Oh man, I 686 00:47:38.599 --> 00:47:44.719 miss first so bad. I miss so bad. The question you guys had 687 00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:47.880 yesterday about how old is old? Yeah, and I out young at that 688 00:47:47.960 --> 00:47:52.400 game last night that there were a lot of them there too. Okay, 689 00:47:52.519 --> 00:48:01.840 thanks, thank you again. The whole the whole mind thing is it's strange. 690 00:48:02.920 --> 00:48:06.360 Yeah, no, it is, it is, And we can only 691 00:48:06.400 --> 00:48:12.400 believe what they tell us until something changes. Yeah, so we'll see, 692 00:48:12.559 --> 00:48:16.119 we'll see. Yeah. I do feel bad, But the circumstances are the 693 00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:19.679 circumstances. The thing you get into it, you get into a possession like 694 00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:22.960 my nagis in, which in Tucson is very public. Yeah, you're on 695 00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:27.519 a basketball team that's that's got a following now, you know, five years 696 00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:29.880 ago, when there were three hundred fans going to the game, you wouldn't 697 00:48:29.880 --> 00:48:32.039 even know then around right, Well, first of all, my nudge wouldn't 698 00:48:32.039 --> 00:48:35.239 have come here, so there, let's go to that. Well, but 699 00:48:35.519 --> 00:48:38.320 you know, you you you you're, you're in that kind of position. 700 00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:42.360 It's kind of like people are asking and people are making stuff up and people 701 00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:46.960 are, you know, assuming certain things when it may be that she had 702 00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:51.960 some schoolwork that had to get done in order to stay in pre med and 703 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:53.599 she needed to get it done right right, No, no, you you 704 00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:58.360 talked about this before we started the show with the conversation on Twitter. The 705 00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:01.280 idea talked about what was her solution, says Twitter, you want me to 706 00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:07.639 do well? Somebody made the comment that they should say that they should say, 707 00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:12.639 and Hobb said, you know, normally they would, but you know 708 00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:15.480 it, this may be the situation. I think I Dia took it wrong. 709 00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:16.760 And she basically told ho, you've got my number, you know where 710 00:49:16.760 --> 00:49:20.039 I'm at. If you want to talk about this, let me know. 711 00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:22.440 Oh really I didn't see that one. Yeah, well that's but I think 712 00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:27.119 she took it wrong. See that's the whole thing. Normally she wouldn't take 713 00:49:27.159 --> 00:49:30.800 it wrong or she's never snippy, or depends on who it is. So 714 00:49:31.119 --> 00:49:34.800 to me, it seems like more because you don't have to be snippy a 715 00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:37.840 bit. She's in school, she's in class at the end. Who knows. 716 00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:42.840 Then she followed up with a with a tweet saying that how much she 717 00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:51.599 loves her husband because you get off of Twitter. Well you basically we like 718 00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:53.280 to break news that you give us. Basically say what the hell are you 719 00:49:53.360 --> 00:49:57.079 doing? Turn that, take that, put that phone down. I'll be 720 00:49:57.199 --> 00:50:00.199 come on, you know, I don't tweet because that's exactly you tweet every 721 00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:04.000 now and again. But it's only gonna get you in trouble. Well, 722 00:50:04.039 --> 00:50:07.960 and when you're Dea Barnes, people listen and they watch, they respond, 723 00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:12.199 and there's and that's one of the reasons they love her because she's open and 724 00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:15.760 she's she's engaging, right, and they and they interpret things. So no, 725 00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:20.639 I that was a fun little exchange. I didn't I understood what Hobb 726 00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:22.599 was saying. I understand. But then when she said was like, okay, 727 00:50:22.599 --> 00:50:27.559 I understand. I went back and read Hobb's text and I mean tweet 728 00:50:27.559 --> 00:50:30.320 tweet, and I said, okay, I see how she thought he was 729 00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:35.639 criticizing her for not coming out and saying that she was transferring if in fact 730 00:50:35.639 --> 00:50:37.880 she's transferred, or that she's off the team, if in fact she's off, 731 00:50:38.559 --> 00:50:43.239 I was saying. Hobb was basically saying, normally, they say what 732 00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:45.119 the situation is, and in this case, they're telling us it's this, 733 00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:49.679 yeah, and if it if it's not that, then why didn't you tell 734 00:50:49.760 --> 00:50:52.280 us? And then she come and said, you know, you know where 735 00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:58.719 I am. Call her right now, here's my text. I will say, 736 00:50:58.800 --> 00:51:01.199 we'll let people know. You know, we had we had Helena Playo 737 00:51:01.280 --> 00:51:05.400 on the show on Tuesday, and we were scheduled to have my anagy. 738 00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:10.559 We had announced it the day before and the day of Wednesday we were told, 739 00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:15.440 you know, Maya was not available and then we would have Helena Playo 740 00:51:15.519 --> 00:51:17.880 and we took Alana and we talked to her and it was fine. But 741 00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:22.320 you know, it was just I was told something came up. So the 742 00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:24.960 funny thing about is you're right. I mean back ten years ago, seven 743 00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:29.840 years ago, I wouldn't have thought anything of it. That's how big the 744 00:51:29.880 --> 00:51:32.039 program was going. And that's great. There were seventy two hundreds and it 745 00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:36.119 looked like seventy two hundred, and it was loud, and they stayed. 746 00:51:36.239 --> 00:51:42.039 Steve well, Jay that that group of people who go seize the games very 747 00:51:42.079 --> 00:51:44.840 loyal, and it's a totally different audience. I mean, when they got 748 00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:47.199 down twenty six, I thought this thing's gonna empty, and it did not, 749 00:51:47.239 --> 00:51:50.159 because then they make this run. I think it went in like a 750 00:51:50.199 --> 00:51:52.000 fifteen to one run. And I looked up in the seats and they were 751 00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:54.760 all still there and they were still loud. It's a great crowd. It's 752 00:51:54.800 --> 00:51:58.079 a great crowd, and it's a different crowd than what I'm used to. 753 00:51:58.920 --> 00:52:01.320 So it was a fun night. It was a good atmosphere. I thought 754 00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:06.719 I was gonna acquit itself pretty well. You know, they were getting blown 755 00:52:06.719 --> 00:52:08.440 out at one point, but they stuck with it, and so I you 756 00:52:08.480 --> 00:52:12.559 know, things aren't as bad as I've been saying. So they weren't bad. 757 00:52:12.599 --> 00:52:23.800 All right, Let's take our break.