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Welcome to Eye on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve
Rivera, He's Jaginsaus. Got our guy Kevin in today on Tuesday. Fifteen
minutes available if you want to give us a quick call. It's Tuesday and
really going on. Well we have a good show today. Well you got
nothing going on on your computer for sure? I know disappointed. I'm depressed.
You know the way we're tied to our electronics. Man, Like you
leave your phone behind somewhere, No you naked? Naked? I do that.
Let's week do that to the game? I left in my mom say
it was at the game. And I'm taking a little mugginn do now I
left I left mine in the bathroom at Apple A and He's orchard on Sunday
And would you do have to go back? I go back, you know,
I mean I've just gone back out to you know where the food is,
which is where you'll normally find me over there. Oh you didn't leave,
You didn't leave, didn't. I had to go back to open that
it was there because the people would know it's old people problems, and those
are anybody problems. You leave that stuff. Well, you know, it's
funny because the way we're tied to our electronics. Right. I was at
my business meeting this morning and we had our I T guy who's in the
group i'll give give a talk about what he does, and completely freaked me
out about getting hacked. Oh, it's happening a lot now. Yeah,
And I'm like, you know, it's like he said, if you haven't
gotten hacked, you probably If you don't think you've gotten hacked, you probably
have been. And if you haven't been, you're gonna be part of it,
because you know, yesterday I got hacked and people, oh, we
took over your AP address and blah blah blah. So why do I turn
it off? Turn it back on? We took over your IPGA address And
I don't know what the hell, but that's happened before, like three or
four years ago, and I just turned off and it comes back and really
it's fine. Yeah, Well, no, they may have taken it over
because it's soid. It doesn't work, doesn't turn off, it's it's scary,
scary enough. I remember the pencil and paper. But you know,
on the other hand, you know, I had to do a couple of
Zoom interviews today and you know, having that that order program that records the
trans and transcribes your interviews, like you don't even have to take notes.
No, I don't. That's that's one thing I used said, that's what
we use in the you know, the press conferences. I don't take notes
anymore. I just sit there and look at my phone and highlight, you
know, comments that I'm you know, I'm sure I'm gonna need. That's
all I used to write. Well, welcome to our lives here on the
day the episode eight of Days of your Life exactly. Hey, if you
guys want to call, please do a lot of stuff going on. I
don't know if you want to talk about this right away. Your friend guy
I covered, well, you you shared the same dentist, didn't you?
You know we did? You know? I'm torn? Okay, how well
I want to bash this guy for because of what he did to this program,
But then he's clearly got a problem. Yeah. Right, So on
the other hand, you want to be a little sympathetic to that. Mm
hmm. But I really don't like the guy, and I and I and
I feel like not knowing the guy right and not, I don't know him
well. But on the one hand, I feel like he's got a problem.
But I also feel like if he's not gonna try, then why should
we try to, you know, cut him in his slat to be nice.
Yeah, well we're obviously talking about Kevin someone. Yeah, it happened
right after the well the news broke right after the show ended yesterday. I
don't know what to think. I mean, it's not a surprise, not
surprised, but like I said, do you see she texted, shares comment
Twitter, Now, what do you say? Look? Yeah, go look
he he'll commented. I was a bit surprised about that. And obviously he
he has insight, as we all do. But he went there and and
then made national news when they did the story on someone just where he said
not one persons on a surprise. Yeah, he has a history, blah
blah blah, whatever it is. Well that's all he's saying. Well that's
all I on the one I'm seeing. Oh no, there was another one.
There's no the one, and and he ken he went there and just
yeah, I kill Okay, we kind of all knew and just too bad.
I mean, I don't know, what do you say? What do
you say? Well? Well, I mean that that's the truth. You
know who you know who is surprised? I mean, you know those of
us who saw him covered him. Uh oh, he says, Kevin someone
has a major alcohol that one. Yeah. Yeah, we all heard stuff,
right do I did I see any of that myself? No? I
heard things. You heard things. We all heard things. You know you
hear you hear it enough you think it's probably true, right, but you
know who knows for sure? Only a few people probably right, right?
But not Yeah? But no, yeah, but no read the rest of
it. This is not coming from us. Yeah, yeah, should I
read the Yeah? Okay, it's public sero posted Kevin someone has a major
alcohol issue. He was out in the open, and I have multiple stories.
I have no idea how Arizona didn't want to fire him for cause would
have been an easy case. Not so should have been an easy case.
But unless they had, you know, specific things like police reports Uh,
you know witness accounts of I was with him and he did this incident,
incident stuff like that. That that's that's difficult. Also, you know I
was, I was telling you you know the story that that I You know
that I the thing that I witnessed, right, Uh, maybe a different
situation. Well, I was, I was the head of the pr but
this was in house. This was in house. This was in house.
But when I'm a two two songdlect trick, I come in on a Monday
and we find out that, uh, an employee, a union employee,
so that might make a difference, had wrecked gotten into d U. I
have wrecked a utility truck, you know, returning from a job, gotten
the d U. I got a rest in the truck, in the company,
in the company vehicles. He was on the job, probably on his
way home, got hammered somewhere and got on you know the rest of you
won't gotten wrecked. He checked himself into rehab before anybody a TEP found out
about it, so he could not be fired because he was then considered an
employee with a disability. And so you don't know situations like that. If
if let's say someone had done something or whatever, whether or not you don't
know if you can fire him if they determine he's got some kind of alcoholism
as a disability. So there's a lot of different things. I know,
guys get fired, Employees get fired for duys all the time, coaches and
stuff like that, and maybe there's something in their contract that says, you
convin these offenses any felony or a dui or you know, YadA YadA YadA,
you're fired. He probably can't, but it's sad. It's I'm angry
still and what he did here. Now. I love the fact that things
are getting turned around, but we spent how many years with the worst program
in America? Yeah? Three? Three years? A few wins, it
is. I can't say this what it is. We'll see what happens.
It seems to me that would be hard for him to keep that joke.
Yeah, yeah, but you know what do you I don't know. The
guy needs the guy needs somebody to help him out. Well, I think
he had some help here, all right, but you know what, you
gotta want to be helped, sure, of course, of course. Okay,
so let's move on from that. At least we got out of that
so a big game on Saturday, another big game, which line is still
the same. I haven't seen it again. Last night last I thought it
was four. Okay, it was three and a half. Last time I
checked, it was like five minutes ago. Oh okay, so it's going
down. I figured it the other way. I figured it would be because
I think there'd be a lot of money on the ares old. Like we
said yesterday, I think Simon said the money line bet on. That sounds
a little tasty. I happen to have the stats, okay, because that's
what I do. There are stats. There are one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven teams that have only one loss against
the spread, and Arizona's one of them. Arizona. Actually I have Arizona's
five in one because that's the NAU game, doesn't you know. But they
covered the NAU game. Spread came up in DraftKings and they covered that.
So they're actually six and one. It's Arizona, Georgia State, James Madison
Old Dominion Penn State didn't cover for the first time this week, and crazy
U NLV and your friend and ours Rich Rich Rodd in Jacksonville State. He's
but he's only three and one because I have spreads on his non Division one
games. But Arizona's you know, top team against the spread. But then
again, you know Oregon State. I'm sure it's pretty well up there to
Let's take this away, right, Hi, Hi, You're on the air
and I on the ball. How's it going today? What's up? Brian?
What? Uh? You know? Then? Kevin? Someone saying I
don't really care, you know, he goes the program into the ground.
I just hope for his sake he solves the problem he has he can move
on with in his life. You know. Yeah, you clearly don't hold
grudges like I do. I think you should. And you know we lost
you for a second there. Do you hear what he said? Brian,
I'm sure you did. You clearly don't hold grudges like I do. Yeah,
or Jay Jay does, especially like another stuff. Jay holds grudges the
game seasons and stuff like, Man, what do you tell you? J
Jay is mister grudge? Oh he is? I mean, well, you
know it's that is his ticks are I guess you should have grudges on stuff.
I don't. Yeah, you know, and I don't know that.
I want to talk to you anyo this game this weekend. Ye, And
it's one of these things where Arizona could we have five games left, Arizona
could win five games, or they could lose all five, or they could
be two and three, three and two, four and when we don't know.
Yeah, yeah, I think you said that last week too, right,
I didn't distribute. I agree with that completely, you know what I
and I think fans in general feel that they feel like they can win them
all, but they also understand. You look what a su did to Washington
last week, right, you know, you know, and Colorado clearly can
beat you. So yeah, no, anything can happen, and that's kind
of the fun of it, but it's kind of nerve wrecking when you go
to the game. Yeah, I seem to think that Colorado is starting to
employ I agree with you. I agree with you. I just I just
see problems occurring. You know, maybe the expectations were too high for that
team after the start, and things aren't. People are figuring them out and
they're figuring how to plan and they're just not, you know, not that
good right now, and it's causing the set and problems on the team.
Yeah, we'll see. I think high expectations from from the selves or whatever.
But people have no expectations to begin the year. Remember when they played
TCU and they're playing very fairly well and everyone's like shocked, look at it.
They're playing pretty well. And then they win and they say, oh
wow. And then they win again and he says, oh wow, maybe
they are good. And then they win again and they're thinking, oh wow.
But but they didn't play anybody. I think they played the team,
no winning team right, no winning teams right, so realistically, and then
ASU took him to the man. So yeah, I mean, yeah,
I mean after watching that ASU Washington game, it's going to be you know,
I don't know what we're going to see when we play. Maybe by
then they'll be there'll be one in ten and they'll be depleted and they don't
really care anymore. Right. No, I agree with you too, am
I agree with you now because you said you were turning into me. But
is this a courtesy? Yeah, no, it's you know, it's got
my life has become pathetic. Well, you are listening to the show,
so that's the start that could be part of my problem. Yes. Hell,
my name is Brian Little. I have a problem. Like you know,
I don't want to say this, but I feel like Kevin someone I'm
having all these problems in life now that maybe have to blame it on the
show. We'll see, we'll see he's too many miles away. Thanks for
calling me, VI right, I called him Kevin. No, this is
Kevin right here. What do you got? What do you got? Rottenman
on your shirt? This is Kobe Bryant. Ok I can't see, I
hear you see the yellow shirt? The brand actually is made by Max Hazard.
Okay, yeah, okay, okay, okay, cool. Thanks Brian
throwing the call. We've got a couple of minutes. Today's show will have,
Yeah, we will have starting off with Reggie Gary will toximars on a
basketball with him, see what he thinks and what he's seeing. He's obviously,
you know, former player, but also Waldcat Sports twelve ninety color analyst
does some of the games. So reg will give us his early impressions and
maybe maybe we'll try to get a prediction out of him. And then a
nice guest as somebody who've never had before. She has been here very long,
but Kaylen Gilbert, who presumably is going to be the starting point guard
for women's basketball front Where's she from? We have to look that up,
but she's a sophomore. She played she played behind SHANEA. Pellington last year,
so she's kind of the heir apparent. And the women have their exhibition
opener tomorrow, so we'll see what that's going to look like. So we'll
talk to her a little bit about some some thoughts and expectations for both for
her and the team. So we'll talk to Kaylen Gilbert here in a little
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about three four minutes. Okay, let's do that, all right, Let's
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Hey, welcome back to one on the Ball Heil Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve Riverta. He's Jagensauce and on the phone we have former you've
a cat geary. How you doing, Reggie, I'm doing good, doing
good. Thanks trying me on? Yeah, no, good to have you
on. Let me say I went to the game on Friday as you did
too. You worked it that Jay was there, and I was watching the
backcourt and I'm thinking to myself, you know what, this looks familiar to
me, and let me tell you where, and I don't, and you
would say, yeah, you're n it's uh. It's the back court that
we saw was with Boswell and and Love and who was the third guy?
Was a group. Yeah, there was a group of you know, a
very good they have a bunch of them. And I'm thinking, you know
what this is nineteen ninety five, ninety six, ninety four, ninety five,
whatever it was with with Khalid, Reggie and Damon. Do you see
some similarities? Yeah? No, I definitely some similarities to that ninety three,
ninety fourteen and the fact that it's ak a three guard offense. Everyone
daft what everybody brings a little something different to the table, but together and
that really can work. You know, I don't know quite. I don't
know that they you know, pass over the mantel and saying that, you
know, Boswell and in Love and Katy Lewis or you know, to the
level of Damist out of mich Libreeze. But in terms of similarities, I
definitely think, you know, it's definitely there. And that's what happened me
so excited watching the games and when there was a moment there halfway through the
half when they really turned up the pressure, turned up the physicality defensively and
we're getting out to people, and I was like, Okay, this looks
this is interesting. This this could be a lot of fun. You know.
I think one of the things that I that I like Reggie about.
You know, what I saw those guys is they'll do either thing right but
go to the hole or they'll you know, pull up and you and shoot
a three you know. And I know, you know, I don't don't
want to bring Well. I'm going to bring him into it. I'm gonna
bring Kirk cries into it, you know. He he just wasn't able to
go to the hole as physically as these guys are already. You know.
Uh uh Kylon does it really well, but Caleb didn't, you know.
And kJ and and uh And and Jade all went to the rack, and
it was great to see that they get went in there physically, didn't get
pushed around, you know, and to see that, I think is a
big It's gonna be a big thing too for all all of those guys to
be able to do that most definitely, you know, when you have guys
that play that way and and just in and looking at you know, especially
when you look at Boswell Love and kaj Lewis. You know, Jade's a
little bit smaller in terms of his physical stature, but like all those guys
have big shoulders that are all athletics. They have the ability to get to
the lane. And so when I see that, Yeah, they can't breeze,
but it's nice the fact that they can break down people, get to
the rim, get to the free throw line. You know, when you're
getting high percent of shot and you start doing those free throw battles, you
know, those are the things that really you know fair you farewell in high
level games. So I love the fact that cale Love is getting to the
hole there and using his body and and I'm with you. You know that's
something needs to be you know, it just can't be one hundred and fifty
three from each guy. It's got to be you know, some threes,
but also mix it in getting into the lane as well. So I want
you to be to be your analysts now uh uh you unlessly that you usually
do, and be critical if you can be. Last year, that team
lacked what it lacked in the back court a go to guy, somebody who
with the you know who, they would would have the basketball in their hands,
it could make decisions. Kirk Criesa was a good basketball player, but
he wasn't really good at making others around him better. You know. A
Zulah Sabellis was a fantastic I'm not, you know, a very very good
college basketball player, but he was you know, he's in that four or
five positions, so he needed somebody to kind of get him the basketball.
So they were missing at Ben Matther and that could live read some of those
names in the past that you could just give them a Ball and they could
go out there it's you twenty twenty five. And I think this potentially that
filould Love is the first candidate, is being an experienced guy who's actually played
on a big stage. And then I think Boswell over time can develop into
one of those guys as well to go along with with Jaden and others.
Yeah, that's what I wanted to go with. So now they got that
solved. With the guys you just mentioned, Yeah, okay, yeah,
I mean it looks like to me, and then you know, then he
just keeps rolling in these you know, seven foot eight guys. That's just
a whole bunch of them. There's just a whole bunch of those guys.
No, there is. I mean we have four seven footers on the roster,
which is you know, a great luxury for for coach Lloyd AND's have
to kind of you know, Bill and Anderson really did a nice job the
other night with with with you know, Omar Ballo and Mosti. Crevi is
now and so he's got some options there. We haven't even talked about Kashad
Johnson his ability to play three four in a five edition Make Ball with him
at the five, they can play big with him at the four. You
know, they can do a lot of different things, and so, you
know, I just have a lot of depth, a lot of weapons,
and I think that flexibility is really going to play out throughout the season two
to our benefit. Yeah. You know what I said I liked about Kashaun
Johnson was that he walks on the court and he looks pissed off. Uh
and he looks mean and he's looked to get out of my way kind of
guy. Yeah. I mean he's dynamics, he's athletics. I mean that
reversed up, he cut off the alley loop. I mean that was big
time. You know, a friend of mine I mentioned it the other day,
you know, aired him to Aaron Gold and I thought, you know
what, that's not a back of Harrison the open floor runs well to give
to him on the block, and just has a high motor, like you
say, just kind of plays a little bit of chip on the shoulder.
So and you need those type of guys, and so I think he's gonna
be really valuable to share. Yeah, I was gonna ask you, Okay,
I know this is gonna be a biased question from to a guard to
a former guard, So, so on a team like this, where does
it all begin, uh, in the back court or in the front court?
Because you have so many good players in the in the back court,
but you also have so many good players in the front court. I mean,
I think, and I think Andrew, that question probably starts in the
back court, just because predominantly those guys, you know, their decision makers
with the ball. You know, Boswell is a playmaker. He's gonna make
majority of decisions in terms of you know, on the break and in the
half court. So I think kind of set the tone offensively and defensively.
And so I think it starts with the guards. And in Arizona has a
really nice you know, some older guards, some younger guards. So I
think it starts in the back. So with the with the schedule they've got
coming up, and you know, right out of the right out of the
box, you've got Duke in the second regular season game, what do you
what do you think you what do you think you have to see the most
improvement in in order to take on the schedule that they've got in What do
they have to be a whole lot better at? A good question? I
mean, it's a brand new team. So it's a little hard to answer,
but I think, you know, obviously defensively, if they could play
at that high level, uh of that physicality and kind of being the aggressors,
you know. I think last year at times we weren't always aggressors,
you know, we would I don't know, we were too cool for school
or just whatever it was that sometimes we were a little bit laid back.
I think this team, with the depth and if what this isn't they have
has a has an opportunity always kind of to set the tone aggressively on a
defensive end and often league just to have a good balance that inside outside it.
You know, Tomy runs a great system there, you know, where
they share the basketball, they have a high low they play in transition.
So I think defensively, if they can show that they can, you know,
play with a little bit of edge offensively, continue to share the basketball
as they do as well as anybody in the country, I think we'll be
in good shape. Yeah. No, there's a lot of hype for this
is that there's a lot of hype for this team. I know in nineteen
ninety three, ninety four there wasn't and then you guys came around, but
the year later that you guys were the number one team going into the country
into the season and didn't live up to it. How how difficult is living
up to it part of it? I mean, it can be if it's
something you're you know, you're you're, it's you're constantly thinking of or playing
on your mind. I think if Arizona team is coming in at number twelve,
it's it's perfect. You know, it's right there, It's right down
the middle of the road in terms of the top twenty five team they have.
There's definitely a lot of questions still to be answered, but I don't
think they should feel any pressure that they have to do anything. The dude
game is going to be an astutely fantastic night and a fantastic game, But
it doesn't really mean all that much in advanced scheme of things because it is
so early and Arizona still has and do it probably most likely have to have
a long way to go before you know, we'll see a final a final
product in March and April. But it is a good indicator of where you're
at. So I think as long as they just keep everything focused on on
on the team, and what they're trying to do and what they're trying to
accomplish. The pressure kind of goes away and then you just kind of do
what you're supposed to do. So it's it's the fair wall. It's the
farewell Tour for the PAC twelve. If you had a chance to look around
the league and and you know, see what, see what's out there for
for this season? Uh, you know, it obviously starts with the USC
and U c l A. But you know who else is out there?
Yeah, you know, I haven't really jumped into as much as as much
as as I would like to have, just because you know, we're still
it's still early on, but obviously you knows and what they're bringing back in
the recruiting class, and they've got a lot of hype going around that program.
I never I never discount Orgon and and Dana Allman and kind of John
he does there. I know they's down the last couple of years, but
I think they're dude to I'll be, you know, bounce back a little
bit. U c l A. I'm not as familiar with who they replace
some of the horses with, but I'm sure it's U c l A.
So they'll have some good teams. So the Pac twelve will be will be,
will be competitive as always. But my main focus right now is just
kind of on Arizona and how we're gonna start this season. So I'm,
you know, always the guy with the bearer of bad news or very bad
questions. So so you you went, you went to the final four,
ninety four, ninety five, you lost early, so and I know you
were you were concerned a lot because of what happened when you were from senior
in high school and then you came back, Uh, these first round losses.
How did the guys get past that? Yeah? Question? You know.
For for me, you know, my senior year, it was it
was I had the model in my mind, I not on my watch.
It was kind of the thing I had had to worked into year that this
was not this is not happening on my walk, and it was playing with
that a little bit of a stick on on my shoulder of being coming off
in an embarrassing walls and then there's no way else around it. Yeah,
it's unfortunate, but I was embarrassed. You know, here we are,
the University Arizona losing in the first round. Well, he's not gonna happen
next year? How do I make sure it doesn't happen. I have a
great off season, getting away, get my shots up. My focus is
just a little bit sharper than maybe it would have been on the casual year,
so this doesn't occur again. And I think if that's the mindset going
into a season, that sets you up. Okay, Reggie, thanks for
your time. Man, we'll part you talk to you a lot this uh
season. No, please do see thanks thanks for having me on. Guys,
Reggie former U big guy now job. I mean you feel like,
well, you know, he's been a coach and stuff, so you feel
like they're that knows the stuff, right, I mean just even today in
the answers, you know he he sees things that we don't see. Well,
the guys have lived it two especially here. Yeah, you know,
yeah, they know the climate. Right. Okay, all right, let's
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Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jake got Kevin
and today got twelve minutes. If you guys want to give us a quick
call five two oh fourty, it'll be great. Yep. You know,
we uh a lot of great discussion. I love what Reggie said about about
the guards because you know he obviously he knows, and you know, I'd
run a bash on Kirk Cries. But he was a different guard from all
all four of the guards that they got. He was a different guy,
different, different player. Work. I thought he worked hard. I know
people you know, got on him about his antics and stuff, but he
was a good basketball player. Still is. He's in West Virginia. It'll
be interesting different you know, without question, it's it's a it's a more
stable backcourt. Well, it's a more stable and certainly more athletically yeah,
gifted or whatever, a more Athleticurt with those four, no question. And
you can go to a variety of guys to fill that role, not just
one. Because if he, if Kurt was not on, you didn't get
any you didn't have anybody else, you know, and and that showed the
last two years you just did. Yeah, I mean, and and we
talked about this. We talked about this a lot. Jay uh. In
the last well the first three weeks of the football season, Kerr and and
Jayden are the same player. They're the same player. You don't know which
Kurt, which guy you're gonna get. You're going to get good good Jayden,
bad Jayden? And in in moments your momentum thing, there's two good
plays momentum the third play. Am I wrong? Kid? I think I
think the fit was the thing with Kerr. I think he's a like you
said, Jay he's a fine basketball player. I think it's just not what
that team needed to be the best that year. Well again, and you
know what and what Reggie said, he said Kerr, you know, Zulus
needed to have Kerr do things, and there were days that Kerr didn't do
those things. So not only was Kurr not doing those things, but then
it really kind of held a Zulus back from doing the things that he could
do. You know, when and when you got the guys that they have
not again, Kashaw Johnson is a key shot of Cahot. Whatever we whatever,
we'll figure it out. But I'm telling you, man that that guy,
I for some reason immediately thought of Pete Williams because you know, Pete
Williams looked pissed off on the court. Yeah, he usually was, and
he was ready. He wanted to take your head off, and that kind
of player, and that's why he was the player that he was. He
was. He was six foot seven, but he was a beast underneath the
back. That's funny because I didn't cover him back then. You saw him.
Yeah, and I'm trying to think about I've been very impressed with him
too. Physically. Yeah, I don't. I don't have to go back.
And you know, you compared him to Ronde Rondels had a smile on
his face. Yea to direct players. He had a smile on his face,
and you know he was out there playing and having fun. Yeah,
I'm trying to think of a guy who just walked out on the court and
just wanted to beat the hell out of you physically. Yeah, no,
I'll give it to you right now. I'll tell you right now, Geene
Edgerson, there you go. But Jean was never he starter. He was.
He was never a guy that was on the court. You know,
at the start of the game, he'd come in and beating a force and
he'll had he had elbows. Somebody in the face and then he'd come out
of the game. There was the Also the guy from for Seawn's team was
the no easy buckets guy. Oh yeah, Kevin Parram that I pulled a
name him. But he wasn't this guy either, right, you know,
right, they were all kind of this guy liked right. You know again,
Kevin param would go out there and in force, but he wasn't going
to hit you at three no, right, he wasn't going to score you
some points. He might get you some rebounds, but he wasn't going to
be a guy through the whole game. Let's was making an impact. Let's
also not annoy Yeah yeah, because we haven't seen him yet in person.
But let me say you, if I were a betty man, I would
bet that he is. That I like the way he looked, just like
the way the presence that he had on the court. Sure, I really
like that what I saw a lot. Now you understand that I I only
see things between plays, right, Yeah, you know, I didn't see
his behind the head dunk because I you know, as soon as the ball
went up in the air, you know, but I saw the replay of
it. But you know, and it's not even those things it's just his
physicality underneath and his aggressiveness underneath. Sure, we were talking about that at
the table, like he's not gonna take any crap from anybody. Yeah,
you know. And also he's an older dude. He's an older dude.
He's been there, done that, gone to the final four. And what're
you gonna say, Well, you have never been to the final four?
Shut up? Yeah, you know, saying he's got that credibility exactly exactly.
But you know, Arizona needs to get back. Let me tell you,
Jay, everyone, as much as you guys joke about it, talk
about it, I joke about it, YadA YadA, it's been it's been
twenty three years. They got to get back. They gotta get back.
Well, the thing is, they think about the great teams. Okay,
they were those guys. They had an enforcer, they were physical, They
had a guy that was more complete Mike Baby, who could do so many
things. It was complete on that had a guy like Sean Alley who can
do so many things. You know, Tomtober, we make fun of him
because it's just kind of a big, old fat guy out there doing stuff.
But he was good. He was good, and he didn't take crap.
Yeah, no, no, this is the two thousand and one team,
you know, with you know all those guys, you know, Michael
Wright and all those guys. This is and we talked about this two days
ago, whatever it was. Maybe we'll get right on in here too.
This to me, this is the most complete team in the last it last
week? Was it? Last week? Oh? I was? I was
just actually I was gonna ask you talking about the more complete team thing,
when is the last time you guys coming into a season thought, because we're
talking a lot about the like a variety of options this team traditionally, when's
the last time you're coming into a season like where are the holes? Yeah?
Yeah, no, that's where I was gonna go. I think since
the twenty fifteen year when they lost to Wisconsin the second time and the first
time. But because it's the same team that this feels like that where if
there's good at every spot, but these teams even better because it has more
people in the in the bench that you there's no drop off at least you
don't think that. You don't think that. But even more so, more
than any I think the biggest deal is going to be the four guys at
the guard spot, just those four having four guys like that, where if
Colin Boswell has to come out and take a blow, another guy goes in.
Who can do all the things that Boswell does. Okay, so between
both of you guys, and I was gonna ask tell me this at the
press conference. Okay, you got all these guys, who's your shooter that
we don't know? People say it's gonna be Caleb Love, you know,
gonna be him, you know, could be Boswell. He's so nonchalant about
it. You know, he finds open. He just shoot. Yeah,
so he's not. And then as we were talking to Reggie, it just
brought me back to ninety four. He's got the same type of body of
of of Clid, big body, wide, rings and legs. It's just
a big dude, like a big dude. But but Clid was just goin
nonchalant. He'd love you to death and didn't score on you. He was
so smooth, so smooth, he was just just he just clated. He
floated. He floated with a with an aggression. I think Boswell has some
of that, but he's just so big you card to notice it. I
mean Clid could take it in the hole on anybody anytime. Yeah. You
know, I had a buddy who said he could score every time he gets
the ball. I don't know why he doesn't, no question, because he
had Damon and he had other guys. You had the guys, and if
you would have said Clid do that, he would have smiled for the first
time in his life. And he would have done it because he also had
a coach named Lout who wouldn't allow him to do that. Yeah. But
look, and I know me. You know, we're talking about, as
you said, we're talking about this team that we've barely seen. But you
know, when you see some of the pieces and how they look so so
far, you kind of wonder they I mean, it looks like it all
it's all gonna fit. We'll find out, well, no, no better
then we go, oh you know, you know what's gonna happen. And
and again, I look, let's warn the fans. Do not expect them
to win. And do I hope they can win. Sure, I think
they can win. Sure expect it and be pissed off if they don't stop.
One of the things jay I saw when I was selling a book to
people, Uh, a few months ago they and they about the book,
says, people tell me one of the guys, my friends, my colleagues,
said that should have had more than one championship. I had this conversation
with you, more than one conversation, one more, one more championship.
But I'm thinking, okay, here here we'll have to kind of defend Loot.
So he had the talent, a lot of talent. Which's just he
had a lot of talent. Other teams have a lot of talent too,
and you have to be lucky good. The talent in the league. There
was Montgomery's and they got to the finals too, But you have to be
lucky good and all that stuff. And they did. They have a chance
to. Yes, but other teams have to have big time rosters as well,
the Dukes, the Kansas, and then you got to be lucky.
I mean, you think think about the championship game against Duke, and you
know the call on on Jason Gardner that didn't get called and things like that
that happened in a game. Well, you know, Gilbert Reinas got hurt,
you know Luke. Yet let me say this too. I was with
some of yesterday and he was saying it was the most unsuspecting team to win
a title in three years for you, Arizona, Arizona, Are you kidding
me that they had no business winning now exactly when every and every chance went
into the next year. I mean, I think to the end, Steve
wasn't wasn't that the team that finished lowest in the pack? Well if for
Luke ten ever, not ever, not ever? They finished fifth under Loop.
I know they finished fifth under Loop, But what I'm saying, didn't
they wasn't that the team that finished the lowest in loots years? Well he
didn't didn't finish out high his first year, Okay, after the first after
the first year, right, yeah, yeah, possibly, I haven't even
thought of that. Possibly they finished fifth in the and then they went and
won the dang national champions and then almost lost the first round. What the
hell was that? And they was lost in the well, almost lost in
the first round, they almost lost in the third in the in the lit
eight, Sweet sixteen, Sweet sixty. Well, yeah, you know,
so not second shot Okay, no, no, yeah, no. I
like reminiscing about the good old days, but I you know, I more
than anything, I think people are you know, people that I talked to
and saying, I'm really looking forward to the season because it looks like it's
gonna be really fun. It's no question that. I mean, it's been
fun the last two I think last year was less fun than the first year
because the first year happened with such no expectations. Then last year there were
a lot of expectations, and there was some frustration with certain things, you
know, and they lost some games at home and stuff like that. But
I think people see him. Maybe it's because the guys like us who are
telling people they got a bunch of really good players. They're sure, really
good. Sure, but when when the fans in this town or Arizulta fans
should know every year they're going to be good. How good we don't know?
And I say this all the time. I get a minute, I
have. Have you met my girlfriend? She's very pretty. She's great looking
in November, great looking in December, great looking in January and February.
Come March, the prettiness whears are she be able to better, be able
to cook? She's better for the three weeks. Pres you understand what I'm
saying. This team for sure looks great for this time and then March come
you said, oh no, and there's a real hard schedule. They can
lose a bunch of those. Sure, you know when Brian Peterson said,
you say they can lose, what do you say, I'm thinking there's no
way. And then I'm thinking, yeah, I guess, so, yeah,
I guess. So I don't think the lose five games in the conference.
I think I don't know that the conference is that good. But there's
twenty games. Agree with twenty. I think they go like sixteen and four,
seventeen and three in the league. I only see a couple of teams
that, yeah, they have to be healthy, all that stuff, all
those things. Yeah, and they gotta do well on the road. But
uh, you know, I I don't even see U C l A or
your USC being at their level. So we'll see what happens there. Okay,
you gotta take a break. I'm gonna pray here comes on comes all
right, let's go and take our break. Uh, Kevin series got break
the news for us. We've got all kinds of stuff, right, Kevin.
Indeed, he says he does, all right, and then Kaylin Gilbert
at about uh actually probably about four to twenty coming back after the top of
the hour, so stick around. This ceiling can hold I like this ceiling
can hold down. We go down.