Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon, five minutes past the hour, two o'clock.
Speaker 2: It is a very March day.
Speaker 1: It is about forty five degrees, very cloudy. It was
Speaker 1: a little chilly this morning, but heating up throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the weekend.
Speaker 2: Could get some rain coming up on Saturday.
Speaker 1: I speed ahead to next week where it actually might
Speaker 1: feel like spring fifties early in the week, sixties about Tuesday,
Speaker 1: then Wednesday, Thursday, seventy and seventy two before we dip
Speaker 1: back down coming up next weekend. I know that you
Speaker 1: tune into the show for the weather. That's why I
Speaker 1: bring it to you every single day. But what's going on.
Speaker 1: It is time for the drive on a Thursday afternoon,
Speaker 1: and as it is every single day, it is good
Speaker 1: to have you along for the riot Spence check.
Speaker 2: It's behind the mic.
Speaker 1: We are out and about today as March madness is
Speaker 1: going on. And if you're looking for a place to watch,
Speaker 1: we got you covered. We got you hooked up here
Speaker 1: as we're live today at the Crossroads Bar and Grill
Speaker 1: on the West Side, because that's how I roll. Porter
Speaker 1: can't relate to that, but Crossroads Bar and Grill. Here's
Speaker 1: the address, fifty five south Redwood Road. We've got our
Speaker 1: which van do we have out in front? Cynthia is
Speaker 1: a the mix van. It's a radio van. You can't
Speaker 1: mistake it. You'll see the other cars and one of
Speaker 1: our radio vans right out front. Can't miss us. Come
Speaker 1: on buy and say hi. Fifty five ninety two South
Speaker 1: Redwood Road. They've got a full service sports bar and
Speaker 1: this is twenty one and over by the way, so
Speaker 1: you got to leave the kiddos at home.
Speaker 2: Great food.
Speaker 1: It's one of the best food spots as far as
Speaker 1: the sports bar you're gonna find in.
Speaker 2: The entire valley.
Speaker 1: They show all UFC fights. They have pay per view
Speaker 1: events of course fight nights as well. Every March Madness
Speaker 1: game is going on right now. We'll give you a
Speaker 1: scoreboard update. If you're not looking for spoilers, then just
Speaker 1: be aware because I'm gonna hook you up with updates
Speaker 1: throughout the entire course of the show today. If you're
Speaker 1: unable to be in front of a television, if you're
Speaker 1: out at about in your vehicle, we'll let you know
Speaker 1: what's going on. VCU and BYU just barely tipped off.
Speaker 1: VCU gets the first bucket to zero VCU nineteen ten
Speaker 1: left there in the first half is BYU just barely
Speaker 1: tipped off. Utah State's gonna be an action coming up
Speaker 1: tonight at seven to twenty five Mountain Time. That game's
Speaker 1: on TNT and they're gonna take on UCLA. Ucla about
Speaker 1: a five point favorite. BYU closed is a two point
Speaker 1: five point favorite over VCU. But this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a tough task for bringing me young. So we'll keep
Speaker 1: you up to date on our local team. So out
Speaker 1: of the course of the show today, out here at
Speaker 1: Crossroads Bar and Grill, they've got a little Taco Tuesday action, right,
Speaker 1: Taco Tuesdays. It's not Tuesday today, but their Taco Tuesdays
Speaker 1: feature a made from scratchbury to taco and then Bingo
Speaker 1: starting on Tuesday in April. Huh, Bingos and Taco. Come on,
Speaker 1: Bingo and Tacos. Look at that, So come on buy
Speaker 1: and say what's up. We've got I don't know, fifteen
Speaker 1: twenty TVs fired up with all the March Madness action.
Speaker 1: So if you want to come by and watch the
Speaker 1: BYU game or any of the other games going on,
Speaker 1: we encourage you to come by and say hello. All right,
Speaker 1: jam packed program. Today on a Thursdays, we inch closer
Speaker 1: and closer to the weekend. We will talk a little
Speaker 1: Kyle basketball. The Utah women will be in action coming
Speaker 1: up tomorrow. Of course you can hear that game on
Speaker 1: our radio station. We'll talk some Utah women's hoops today.
Speaker 1: They're going to take on Indiana the night Seed at
Speaker 1: eleven thirty am tomorrow, so bright and early.
Speaker 2: You can watch that game on ESPN two.
Speaker 1: Of course you can hear it here on the Home
Speaker 1: of the Utes, ESPN seven hundred, So we'll preview that.
Speaker 1: We'll talk the latest with the Utah men's basketball coaching change,
Speaker 1: as Alex Jensen was officially announced just a few days ago.
Speaker 1: Alex was in Indiana last night coaching the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 2: One of their assistant coaches.
Speaker 1: My brother and sister a Lot went down and said, hello,
Speaker 1: I got a picture of Alex up on the old
Speaker 1: Instagram page if you want to check that out. So,
Speaker 1: the latest with Alex Jensen, to the the latest with
Speaker 1: him filling out his staff, The latest with March Madness.
Speaker 1: The Utah Jazz Blue had last night, the Jazz One,
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? The Jazz Beat, the Wizards
Speaker 1: one twenty eight to one twelve. Now the Wizards have
Speaker 1: a virtually a two game lead on the Jazz for
Speaker 1: the worst record in pro basketball.
Speaker 2: I know it's odd to talk about the Jazz like this.
Speaker 1: It's not really anything that we've done very much in
Speaker 1: this market with a history of success in winning with
Speaker 1: our local pro basketball team. But that's not the deal
Speaker 1: and hasn't been the deal now for three years.
Speaker 2: But the Jazz will be back.
Speaker 1: In action coming up tomorrow as they welcome in the
Speaker 1: world champion Boston Celtics to the Delta Center for a
Speaker 1: seven to thirty tip time. It'll be a reunion of
Speaker 1: sorts for Danny Ainge or union of sorts for Will Hardy.
Speaker 1: We'll see who the Celtics decide to play. We'll see
Speaker 1: who the Jazz decided to play, because that's the deal
Speaker 1: in pro basketball. Ray Al Salt Lake a couple of
Speaker 1: days away for the next match from RSL, It's gonna
Speaker 1: be Dallas. Dallas is the opponents for ourself, coming off
Speaker 1: a win against Houston on the road.
Speaker 2: We'll see if they can keep up their winning ways.
Speaker 1: No concrete news about these supposed reinforcements on the way
Speaker 1: I'm starting to get a little skeptical. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: or of the recent stretch where they've won a couple
Speaker 1: of games, A couple of matches over the past three
Speaker 1: have changed the plans. Of course, a lot of rumors
Speaker 1: about Diego Luna potentially being on the way out during
Speaker 1: the summer window. But RSL Dallas coming up on Saturday.
Speaker 1: That's going to be a seven to thirty first kick.
Speaker 1: You can watch it on Apple TV Big twelve Pro
Speaker 1: Day for some utes. Trying to get the attention of
Speaker 1: pro scouts. We'll give you the latest on which you
Speaker 1: football players, including Kayleb Lohner have decided to work out
Speaker 1: for the pros for the Big twelve Pro Day, and
Speaker 1: I will do a little college and pro football off
Speaker 1: season style of course. On the program today is Springball
Speaker 1: Getting ready to get Wrong? Coming up on the Hill
Speaker 1: BYU has been doing springball now for quite some time.
Speaker 1: Good guest list to talk about a bevy of different
Speaker 1: topics on.
Speaker 2: The program, most of which we just covered.
Speaker 1: The Boston Celtics, who will be in town coming up
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. We're sold today for six.
Speaker 2: Point one billion dollars.
Speaker 1: I believe Larry Miller paid what seven million dollars for
Speaker 1: the Jazz in the early eighties, so a decent ROI
Speaker 1: right finance guys who listened to the program the Boston
Speaker 1: Celtic six point one billion dollars they've been sold. So
Speaker 1: get to the latest with both local and national topics.
Speaker 1: Will keep you up to date on March Madness BYU
Speaker 1: now has.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, VC, you just hit A three. It's VCU
Speaker 2: eight BYU six.
Speaker 1: That's going to go back and forth. And if you
Speaker 1: want to watch the game, coming out to Crossroads Bar
Speaker 1: and Grill out here on the west side. It's fifty
Speaker 1: five ninety two South Redwood Road, right off the freeway,
Speaker 1: so if you're pretty centrally located, you can get to
Speaker 1: us in I don't know ten fifteen minutes and we'd
Speaker 1: love to see a great food, full bar. If you
Speaker 1: want some beers, if you want some cocktails. Again, it
Speaker 1: is a bar, so leave the kids at home. Twenty
Speaker 1: one and over. Only our first guest right out of
Speaker 1: the gates. Craig bowler Jack TV Voice of the Utah Jazz.
Speaker 1: I have fond memories of listening to Craig bowler Jack
Speaker 1: call March Madness, Call some NCAA tournament games, including some upsets,
Speaker 1: So we'll have some fun with Bowler today. We'll take
Speaker 1: a trip down memory lane, maybe some story time, and
Speaker 1: talk about the latest with the Jazz and is he
Speaker 1: seeing some growth? Has he seen some incremental progress even
Speaker 1: though they've only won sixteen games all year? So Boler
Speaker 1: our first guest right out of the gates. Then we
Speaker 1: move over to the head coach, the manager of URSL,
Speaker 1: Pablo mash twenty front of the show. He'll be on
Speaker 1: the program today to get us ready for the Dallas match,
Speaker 1: look back on the Houston match, and maybe Pablo can
Speaker 1: shed some light today about whether or not this mythical
Speaker 1: number nine is actually on the way or is that
Speaker 1: just lip service. We're kind of waiting for reinforcements for
Speaker 1: this soccer club that moved on from a number of
Speaker 1: different pieces for a pretty little penny and they have
Speaker 1: not reinvested the funds into talent just yet.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what Pablo has to say about that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Andy Larson has some thoughts and he'll join
Speaker 1: us today on both the Jazz and Raal Salt Lakes.
Speaker 1: We'll bringing Andy today and then a preview tomorrow's Utah
Speaker 1: women's basketball game against Indiana. Good friend of the show,
Speaker 1: it's been a while though. Tyson Ewing will stop by.
Speaker 1: He's going to course call the women's game, and Tyson,
Speaker 1: good kid. He's been in the market for a while.
Speaker 2: Good kid. He's a grown up, he's an adult.
Speaker 1: But he'll help us get ready for the Utah women's
Speaker 1: game tomorrow taking on Indiana, and the winner of that
Speaker 1: game most likely will advance on to take on South Carolina,
Speaker 1: who is the best team in women's basketball and has
Speaker 1: been for a couple of years now. After that, we'll
Speaker 1: do a little sports court as we are often wont
Speaker 1: to do on a Thursday afternoon with our friends from
Speaker 1: Handy and Handy Garrett and Preston Handy. So some fun
Speaker 1: sport court today, a bunch of different topics for you
Speaker 1: guys on a Thursday afternoon with Craig Bowlerjack with Pablo
Speaker 1: mash Too, Honey with Andy Larson, with Tyson Ewing with
Speaker 1: Me Spence Jackets live at Crossroads Bar and Grill at
Speaker 1: fifty five ninety two South Redwood Road.
Speaker 2: Come on by watch.
Speaker 1: Some march madness, Grab some boneless wings, grab a modella, whatever,
Speaker 1: you want.
Speaker 2: You're not a drinker. They've got, you know, water and soda.
Speaker 1: So fifty five ninety two South Redwood Road, back in
Speaker 1: the Broadway Media studios is where we find the producer
Speaker 1: of this program who cannot relate to me out on
Speaker 1: the west side because he.
Speaker 2: Is a snob. Porter Larson Well on a Thursday, Hello Porter,
Speaker 2: how are you.
Speaker 3: Wow, says mister east Bench out there.
Speaker 1: I'm out here, I'm out here on the west side.
Speaker 1: Cynthia got some bonus wings. Don't judge what's wrong with
Speaker 1: boneless wings.
Speaker 3: Just since it's Cynthia.
Speaker 1: I won't.
Speaker 3: I won't say anything. I won't be aware. I won't
Speaker 3: be a wing elitist today on March Madness, for the
Speaker 3: first day of March Madness. Well, we've got good vibes today.
Speaker 1: You did just say elitist, right, yes, yes, So I'm
Speaker 1: out here on the west side and you're in your
Speaker 1: cozy studio.
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear your judgment.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, fair enough, how your brackets so far?
Speaker 4: Not good?
Speaker 2: Not good.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of folks are in that boat,
Speaker 3: or at least uh looking at it in that way.
Speaker 3: McNee State is up big on Clemson, right, now I
Speaker 3: did take high point in that one earlier. But yeah,
Speaker 3: the way the first day shakes out is kind of
Speaker 3: usually how it is. Just wait until the end of
Speaker 3: the evening see where you stand after for that and
Speaker 3: you might have a good idea but not great or
Speaker 3: early on.
Speaker 1: Not great, not great, and you know, we'll kind of
Speaker 1: review some of the bracket stuff today. It is the
Speaker 1: madness of March. I'm looking for the BYU game. It's
Speaker 1: not even on TV. So we'll get that, get directified.
Speaker 1: We'll get that taken care of. All right, Bowler, our
Speaker 1: first guest, right out of the gates on a Thursday afternoon,
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Speaker 1: All right, we're live today at Crossroads Bar and Grill
Speaker 1: out here on the west side. It's fifty five ninety
Speaker 1: two South Redwood Road. Come on by and say hello.
Speaker 1: And the madness of March is upon us. So what
Speaker 1: we have in front of us right now? One of
Speaker 1: the local teams in action fifteen oh seven left, excuse me,
Speaker 1: fourteen thirty six left. In the first Richie Saunders just
Speaker 1: knocks down to three. So BYU eleven VCU ten. This
Speaker 1: is going to be a battle. I would be stunned
Speaker 1: to fi the team pulls away. As we've talked about
Speaker 1: kind of all week long. Ryan Odum the former Utah
Speaker 1: State head coach who's now at VCU, with rumors swirling
Speaker 1: that he's about to leave to take the Virginia job.
Speaker 1: Nothing official there, although there has been some chaos in
Speaker 1: the college basketball coaching world already. He has a very
Speaker 1: very good team, a very veteran team, a very deep team,
Speaker 1: a very big team led by Max Schulga, who was
Speaker 1: a aggie once upon a time for.
Speaker 2: Coach showed him he was the A ten Player of
Speaker 2: the Year.
Speaker 1: And one thing that VCU does not do super well
Speaker 1: is guard the three. Now they guard the two very well,
Speaker 1: they guard the interior very well, but they are a
Speaker 1: pressure defensive team with length three players six' ten in their,
Speaker 1: rotation four seniors and they're starting, five three of whom
Speaker 1: are fifth year, players one of whom is a seventh year,
Speaker 1: player and the conference player of the YEAR byu was
Speaker 1: a sixth seed last. Year they took on the eight
Speaker 1: ten champ last year In ducane and they. Lost so
Speaker 1: a lot of national pundits BELIEVE byu is built for
Speaker 1: a bit of a, run whatever that, means AND i
Speaker 1: think MOST byu fans are just, like can we just
Speaker 1: win one. GAME byu has not won AN ncaa tournament
Speaker 1: game since twenty, ELEVEN i, believe and they have not
Speaker 1: been out of the round of thirty two Since Jim
Speaker 1: orferdebt was making it rain down In.
Speaker 2: Provo so we'll see IF byu can get this.
Speaker 1: Done right, now it's fourteen, twelve thirteen thirty four left
Speaker 1: in the first coming up, TONIGHT ucla And Utah state
Speaker 1: live at Ropp arena In, Lexington. KENTUCKY ucla is a
Speaker 1: five point five point, favorite and we'll get you up
Speaker 1: to date on the games that have already went. Down
Speaker 1: shout out to our Guy Ken. Pomeroy his bracket busted
Speaker 1: with the first, matchup AND i have to SAY i
Speaker 1: also Picked louisville to Beat. Creighton ken Had louisville to
Speaker 1: Beat creighton and then advance on to Beat. Auburn But,
Speaker 1: creighton behind Former Utah state point Guard Steve, ashworth who
Speaker 1: was really really good, today took care Of louisville eighty
Speaker 1: nine to seventy. Five purdue struggled a bit with High,
Speaker 1: point but pulled away in the end seventy five to sixty.
Speaker 1: Three same goes For, wisconsin who had a Pesche montana,
Speaker 1: matchup but over the final six or seven, Minutes wisconsin pulls.
Speaker 1: Away SHOULD byu BEAT, vcu they advanced to take On
Speaker 1: wisconsin for the right to go to The sweet. Sixteen,
Speaker 1: houston it like WHENEVER i Watch houston, play like IF
Speaker 1: i Watch houston play against elite, teams OFTENTIMES i feel
Speaker 1: bad for the other elite. Team THE Siu edwardsville, matchup
Speaker 1: they were a sixteen. Seed it was over within the
Speaker 1: first two. Minutes seventy eight to forty was the. Final and,
Speaker 1: obviously you, know not even a. Challenge but if we're
Speaker 1: if we're gonna be, honest that was not even that.
Speaker 1: Close McNeice is Stomping. Clemson that's a five to twelve,
Speaker 1: matchup and it is thirty one to thirteen at, halftime
Speaker 1: thirty one to thirteen at. Halftime auburn is now incrementally
Speaker 1: pulling away From Alabama, state but that game was closer.
Speaker 2: Early that's a one sixteen.
Speaker 1: Matchup and right now It's auburn Fifty Alabama state thirty,
Speaker 1: six and of course more games coming up throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the day and throughout the.
Speaker 2: Night in just about fifteen minutes right.
Speaker 1: Now BYU's Old West Coast conference Fogn zaga in which
Speaker 1: it'sah will take On.
Speaker 2: Georgia that's an eight to nine.
Speaker 1: Seed it's a fifteen to Two Whafford tennessee matchup after
Speaker 1: they're done with the morning. Tilt In, Lexington, Arkansas. Kansas
Speaker 1: That's John calipari And Bill, self a couple of big
Speaker 1: time coaches in the landscape of college. Basketball that's In
Speaker 1: providence ten to seven matchup There yale thirteen out of
Speaker 1: THE Ivy league they got to win last year in
Speaker 1: round one over the Aforementioned Auburn. Tigers they're going to
Speaker 1: take on the four Seed TEXAS a AND m out
Speaker 1: of THE. Sec eleven to six matchup In wichita as
Speaker 1: well Is drake And, missouri and Then Rick Patino Davon.
Speaker 1: Smith the two Seed Saint john's will take On. Omaha
Speaker 1: later ON u See San diego as a twelve seed
Speaker 1: will take On. Michigan michigan The big ten, champ but
Speaker 1: that didn't really do much for their. Seeding and THEN
Speaker 1: Unc wilmington against a kind of a sleeper final four
Speaker 1: pick out of The big twelve Is Texas, tech a
Speaker 1: team that we know really well from around. Here so
Speaker 1: the madness Of march is upon, us and it is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite times a. Year even though the
Speaker 1: weather is not cooperated just. YET i think this is
Speaker 1: the best individual, event sporting event that we have on
Speaker 1: our sporting.
Speaker 2: Calendar time.
Speaker 1: Out kevin YOUNGS vcu is now taking a seventeen to
Speaker 1: fourteen lead with twelve minutes left in the first. Half
Speaker 1: B yu trying to get out of the first round
Speaker 1: in The East, region taking on to a really really
Speaker 1: TOUGH vcu. Team so we'll keep you up to date
Speaker 1: on The Madison march throughout the course of the show.
Speaker 1: Today Real Quick jazz welcome in The Washington wizard last
Speaker 1: night and they, won which is too. Bad so The,
Speaker 1: jazz they try to get a little sneaky as far
Speaker 1: as the way they were approaching this.
Speaker 2: Game but you, Know washington sat a bunch of.
Speaker 1: Different, players Including Rashawn holmes in addition To Chris. Middleton
Speaker 1: they just Received Chris middleton From milwaukee in the trade
Speaker 1: prior to the trade, deadline And washington had been. Playing actually,
Speaker 1: okay they swept the season series against The Denver. Nuggets
Speaker 1: The jazz sat lowry marketing for quote personal, reasons they
Speaker 1: incrementally Rested Walker, kessler who only played fifteen.
Speaker 2: Minutes in his fifteen, minutes he took six.
Speaker 1: Threes and it's kind of The jazz are simply trolling
Speaker 1: THE nba, like, oh you're gonna find us for sitting.
Speaker 2: Players we're. Here here's how we're gonna.
Speaker 1: Lose we're gonna let our seven foot or just shoot
Speaker 1: it like He's Ray allen From.
Speaker 2: Yukon he only made one of the six.
Speaker 1: Threes he only played fifteen, minutes but goodnight once again
Speaker 1: From Isaiah. Collier Collin sexton in only nineteen minutes was very.
Speaker 1: Efficient Kyle philipowski continues to show his skill set since
Speaker 1: about knockdown some shots off the. Bench it was a
Speaker 1: Good keyante game for the most. Part he had twenty
Speaker 1: on twelve. Shots and so, Unfortunately washington now has virtually
Speaker 1: a game and a half lead over The jazz for
Speaker 1: the worst record in THE. Nba but the good news
Speaker 1: is the bottom three teams have the same fourteen percent
Speaker 1: chance to lock in that number one seed in or excuse,
Speaker 1: me lock in that number one pick in order to
Speaker 1: hopefully draft One cooper.
Speaker 2: Flag all, right we are live, today out and.
Speaker 1: About if you want to come experience the badness In
Speaker 1: march with, us i'd encourage you to do it at
Speaker 1: fifty five ninety Two South Redwood. Road it's Called Crossroads
Speaker 1: bar And.
Speaker 2: Grill they've got a great food.
Speaker 1: Menu they've got full bar, beers, cocktails and if you're
Speaker 1: not a, drinker they've got a team caried with water
Speaker 1: and soda and whatever you. Need our next guest knows
Speaker 1: a thing or two about this. Tournament he knows a
Speaker 1: thing or two about a lot of. Things, jazz, basketball old,
Speaker 1: westerns old, comedies Def, Leppard Craig, Bowler, Jack, sir how
Speaker 1: are you on A?
Speaker 6: Thursday Hey, spence good good talk to, You. PALVIN a while.
Speaker 1: It has AND i appreciate the. Time so before we
Speaker 1: get to the, Jazz i've said a couple of times this,
Speaker 1: WEEK i have fond memories of listening to the dolcid
Speaker 1: tones of. One Craig Bowler jack Call March madness games
Speaker 1: when this tournament rolls. Around, craig what are some of
Speaker 1: the fun memories that roll into your.
Speaker 6: Mind oh, oh Man, Spence i'll make phone calls TO
Speaker 6: cbs and see IF i can't still come back for a,
Speaker 6: game but that's not going to. HAPPEN i, MEAN i
Speaker 6: had a blast thirteen, seasons thirteen years Of March. Madness
Speaker 6: so many games pop up in my. MIND i remember
Speaker 6: Buck nell The bison fourteen seed knocking Off, kansas the
Speaker 6: number three. Seed that was a wild Game Taco Bell.
Speaker 6: Arena Boise James worthy was my, analyst and all four
Speaker 6: games ended with a buzzer beater and it was the
Speaker 6: craziest day that you can. Imagine four games and just
Speaker 6: one day is a tough, call BUT i wouldn't trade.
Speaker 6: It and you, know you got a prep, obviously and
Speaker 6: during those days OF, cbs we had a chance to
Speaker 6: probably see during the course of the college basketball season
Speaker 6: about half the teams that we actually had in our.
Speaker 6: Region so you had to bone up on some of
Speaker 6: the fourteen to fifteen, seed some of the, twelves and you,
Speaker 6: know there's always that feeling Of. Cinderella you know that
Speaker 6: one day at practice On tuesdays And, wednesdays no matter
Speaker 6: what region you were, assigned every, player every, team every
Speaker 6: coach really thought they believe they could beat the team
Speaker 6: to stand and win the national, championship and that Was
Speaker 6: that's still the beauty of. It it's changed a lot those,
Speaker 6: spenses you, know, oh because most players that are at
Speaker 6: that high level or one and, done so fans don't
Speaker 6: get a chance to really rally around two or three
Speaker 6: year players Like Al. Horford you remember Who jazz will
Speaker 6: play tomorrow. Night won back to back national championships With
Speaker 6: Billy donovan At, florida AND i don't know if that
Speaker 6: scenario will ever happen, again but it still doesn't take
Speaker 6: away the thrill of the moment because you just don't
Speaker 6: know who actually on that given, night that given day
Speaker 6: will actually, shine, Right and that's why you play. IT i,
Speaker 6: mean that's Why March madness is CAPTURES i think the
Speaker 6: imaginations of even fans that don't even really follow college
Speaker 6: basketball that. Much that, bracket by the, way means a.
Speaker 1: Lot, yes it, does even though it's an exercise and
Speaker 1: futility trying to fill it. OUT i, Mean i'm already.
Speaker 1: SCREWED i Had louisville Beating auburn and they lost To creighton.
Speaker 2: Today but you, Know, craig.
Speaker 1: Let's stay in the space for a, moment because you know,
Speaker 1: ME i love, basketball And i've grown up around, it
Speaker 1: played it as long AS i. COULD i WISH i
Speaker 1: could have played in my whole. LIFE i, mean that's
Speaker 1: how MUCH i loved. It and there's just something about
Speaker 1: like the first four, games the final two of the
Speaker 1: first four are played last, night and After american lost
Speaker 1: in such heartbreaking, fashion their star player hurt his, knee
Speaker 1: and the postgame press, conference the head coach and the
Speaker 1: star player were just in.
Speaker 2: Tears they were just.
Speaker 1: Crying and there's something about the passion of this tournament, that,
Speaker 1: HONESTLY i don't think any other level of basketball. CAPTURES
Speaker 1: i don't exactly know. Why AND i love THE Nba,
Speaker 1: playoffs AND i LOVE nba basketball when players decide to
Speaker 1: show up and. Play but what is it about the
Speaker 1: tournament that you think inspires so much intensity and so
Speaker 1: much passion during these few weeks In march And, april.
Speaker 6: You, know spends my first thought when you asked me
Speaker 6: that questions the last, bastion the last stronghold of still
Speaker 6: some purity of amateur athletics that still remain Some and
Speaker 6: that's not at all, Schools but like An american right
Speaker 6: that they lay it on the. Line you, Know Utah
Speaker 6: state will play, later and that probably has so much
Speaker 6: more meaning for some of those so for some of those,
Speaker 6: players and it does maybe others At auburn or you,
Speaker 6: KNOW ucla or, Whomever BUT i think the smaller. Schools
Speaker 6: and you could ask this to thorough who won the
Speaker 6: championship in eighty three with such incredible you, know The
Speaker 6: cinderella The slipper fit And Jimmy valvano's running on the
Speaker 6: floor looking for someone to. Hug that's one of the
Speaker 6: most iconic moments In March madness. History and that's the
Speaker 6: feel good. Moment AND i think fans want to feel
Speaker 6: good about Sports, SPENCE i really. Do nil you know
Speaker 6: that spoils it to some and you, know the purity of,
Speaker 6: it you, know can you hang on to some of?
Speaker 6: It AND i think that's really What March madness still.
Speaker 6: Represents the little guy who's going to fight you, Know
Speaker 6: goliath and say, hey look at me and raise their
Speaker 6: hand and say we. Belong AND i think that's really
Speaker 6: a big part of. IT i remember we talked about
Speaker 6: it AT cbs all the, time you, know looking for
Speaker 6: those stories that would bring kind of that narrative alive
Speaker 6: of who actually could possibly come out of nowhere to win.
Speaker 6: It and that's why That elite, eight The sweet, sixteen
Speaker 6: The elite, eight and of course The final. Four the
Speaker 6: man getting there is, tough the emotions are, real AND
Speaker 6: i think again that's the beauty AND i hope it
Speaker 6: stays some way and still in some way we still
Speaker 6: capture that every year because nil becomes more. Professional players
Speaker 6: jump and go after one year because they're that, good
Speaker 6: AND i think the fans sometimes miss having that relationship
Speaker 6: with a team that actually plays their players or players
Speaker 6: stay right three or four, years but in THE nba
Speaker 6: that means you're not that, good and so the. Pressure
Speaker 6: it can't work both, ways is my. Point BUT i
Speaker 6: sure love the fact that out of this, group hopefully
Speaker 6: there'll be one or two that surprised every one and
Speaker 6: they find their way to The sweet, sixteen just to
Speaker 6: make the narratives a good one BECAUSE i love those.
Speaker 1: Stories B yu twenty FOUR vcu twenty, Two, craig this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a really really good. Game, Yeah AND
Speaker 1: i wonder what you make Of year, One Brigham young
Speaker 1: Under Kevin young not to be.
Speaker 2: REDUNDANT i know most of.
Speaker 1: Your attention is on jazz, hoops and we'll get to
Speaker 1: jazz hoops as they Show Danny ainge down in the
Speaker 1: CROWD byu guard from seventy.
Speaker 2: Seven to eighty.
Speaker 1: One he had a little bit of, Game, craig didn't
Speaker 1: he back in the, day.
Speaker 6: Man Oh, man the drive the bucket Over notre With
Speaker 6: Notre dame and still, replayed, replayed. Replay that's another magical.
Speaker 6: Moment Danny ainge is a, gamer and you, know hopefully
Speaker 6: that gamesmanship and that just the way that the furnace
Speaker 6: burns with competitive. Nature hopefully that again and relates to
Speaker 6: what he's doing with the. Jazz beginning back to the B.
Speaker 6: Yu i've watched two games this year When i've been
Speaker 6: on the. ROAD dyu had a little bit of a.
Speaker 6: Slump they worked their way out of. It they do
Speaker 6: space the. FLOOR i noticed very, well LIKE nba, teams
Speaker 6: and What young does is COACH byu like he's been
Speaker 6: to THE. NBA aj may do the same thing At
Speaker 6: utah and he's got a lot of work to. Do Alex,
Speaker 6: jensen because you, know if you coach in THE, nba
Speaker 6: you can tell the college. KIDS i, KID i know
Speaker 6: what it takes to get you, there AND i Think
Speaker 6: young has done that AT, byu and obviously nil money
Speaker 6: is going to play a big factor with the alums
Speaker 6: who are going to donate to that, fact AND i think.
Speaker 7: BY us is making you, know it's made.
Speaker 6: TURNS i mean they dominated the old days along With
Speaker 6: utah and the Old. Whack those are fun. GAMES i
Speaker 6: REMEMBER i called The Kevin nixon free quarter shot in
Speaker 6: The whack Turn ye and tip in By Van horn
Speaker 6: that that was just so iconic at the moment WHEN
Speaker 6: i was AT. Espn But i've been blessed to see
Speaker 6: some great, basketball But i've been blessed just to know
Speaker 6: some of these guys who are AGAIN i think represent
Speaker 6: the past and now we're into the future of where it's.
Speaker 6: GOING i, mean those are guys who played three years sometimes, four,
Speaker 6: uh and you, know the fan base got to know
Speaker 6: them so well and so and we did as a
Speaker 6: media by the, WAY i, mean they were, approachable not
Speaker 6: saying these guys, aren't but you know the bottom line
Speaker 6: is they want to move on to the next. Level
Speaker 6: but how do they get. There they've got to go
Speaker 6: Through march madness and hopefully that bills in their. Minds
Speaker 6: it it's because there's there's a there's A gm on every,
Speaker 6: right there's a rep from every team watching trying to
Speaker 6: find that one nugget of one player that maybe overlooked
Speaker 6: they could help their team the next.
Speaker 1: Level no, Doubt, craig since you Referenced Alex, jensen the
Speaker 1: news that everybody was kind of pining to hear or become,
Speaker 1: official did just that.
Speaker 2: This he was introduced as.
Speaker 1: The seventeenth head coach In utah men's basketball, history and you,
Speaker 1: know it's been really cool to. Hear like when The
Speaker 1: jazz were up In minnesota not too long, Ago gobert
Speaker 1: was asked about his years working With alex and gave
Speaker 1: a really just classy and it's What, Rudy it's Who rudy.
Speaker 1: IS i Know rudy takes a lot of, flak But
Speaker 1: rudy gave a really, classy detailed description of their time working.
Speaker 1: Together And Will hardy was asked about A Walker kesse
Speaker 1: was asked about, it and it seems, Like, craig this
Speaker 1: is a hire that has been met with just like a,
Speaker 1: consensus like.
Speaker 2: Yes this was the right.
Speaker 1: Move of, course you had a front row seat to
Speaker 1: watch the development Of Rudy gobert under the tutelage Of Alex,
Speaker 1: jensen and the majority of the credit always goes to the,
Speaker 1: player especially based off of the early returns From rudy
Speaker 1: when nobody knew if he was ever going to be
Speaker 1: able to turn into, anything and he puts in the,
Speaker 1: Work alex is by his side and now he's A
Speaker 1: hall of. Famer say what you want about, him he's
Speaker 1: A hall Of. Famer so from your front row, seat
Speaker 1: what did you see on the developmental, side As Alex
Speaker 1: jensen was kind of the name digman coach For rudy
Speaker 1: for you, know seven eight, years and Then Walker kestler
Speaker 1: for his his rookie year as.
Speaker 6: Well Right, Spence i'd say he's kind of a quiet.
Speaker 6: ASSASSIN i, mean is he, Boisterous, no but he gets
Speaker 6: the message. Across he's a hell of a. Coach he's
Speaker 6: a great, communicator AND i think he was the right
Speaker 6: guy at the right time For. Rudy kind of Brought
Speaker 6: rudy out of the, show let him know that he
Speaker 6: had the skill set if he put the work, in
Speaker 6: And rudy then started going into the. Weightlifting he then
Speaker 6: started going into, Boxing he then started working with his
Speaker 6: feet more and more AS aj kept telling, him, look
Speaker 6: you've got to be, quick you got to be able
Speaker 6: to show and, retreat show and. RETREAT i can't tell
Speaker 6: you how many times we heard that in, practice AND
Speaker 6: i Think, gobert you, KNOW i spoke to him in
Speaker 6: the locker room And i'd say he was just so
Speaker 6: much of smiles when you brought up Just Alex jensen's,
Speaker 6: name BECAUSE i really do believe WITHOUT, AJ i don't
Speaker 6: know if he would have had this top to. Success
Speaker 6: he was driven By Alex, jensen AND i Think Walker
Speaker 6: kesher would tell you exactly the same. Way in that
Speaker 6: rookie season After, quinn you, KNOW i, mean they just, said, look,
Speaker 6: man who do you want to? Be now you had
Speaker 6: the sophomore slump into his, credit he's busted his tail
Speaker 6: to get back to a high level in year. Three
Speaker 6: BUT aj has been a big factor in development Of,
Speaker 6: biggs AND i think when he, recruits let's be, honest
Speaker 6: those names will follow him when he knots on someone's
Speaker 6: door and say you want to come play for me
Speaker 6: At utah BECAUSE i know what it. Takes i've Developed.
Speaker 6: Biggs i've got four Defensive player of The year awards
Speaker 6: under my belt With, gobert And i've developed a young,
Speaker 6: name a young man Named Walker. Kessler and look what he.
Speaker 6: Did he also he lived a, dream, right he lived
Speaker 6: a dream With majeris in ninety eight In San. Antonio
Speaker 6: but they lost To. Kentucky but, man what a run that.
Speaker 6: Was AND i think he can relate those stories to
Speaker 6: an eighteen or a seventeen year old and, say, hey
Speaker 6: we got something, here and we got a fan, base
Speaker 6: by the, way that's going to embrace.
Speaker 1: You AND i know every single student UNDERGRAD i should,
Speaker 1: say at The university Of, utah they weren't even born
Speaker 1: When alex was playing For.
Speaker 2: Rick, LIKE i get.
Speaker 1: IT i understand that maybe the younger generation does not
Speaker 1: understand how much fun that. Was and you, know as you, Know,
Speaker 1: CRAIG i was a student At utah in the. Nineties
Speaker 1: AND i just keep, saying, like for, this for this
Speaker 1: student body who clearly know what it's like to cheer
Speaker 1: for a very, fun very successful football program winning Some
Speaker 1: pac twelve championships and going to A Rose, BOWL i
Speaker 1: want them to experience what it's like as a student to, say,
Speaker 1: hey let's go up to The, Union utah is playing
Speaker 1: in THE ncaa, tournament or let's go to the frat.
Speaker 1: House they're in the, elites you, know The Elite aid
Speaker 1: or The sweet, sixteen or maybe even The final, four
Speaker 1: like those times in the, spring or some of my fondest.
Speaker 1: Memories AND i wonder from your, prism your vantage point
Speaker 1: When rick was on the sidelines And utah was not
Speaker 1: just advancing to the, tournament but they were making. Runs
Speaker 1: what you remember from that really exciting time with so
Speaker 1: much buzz in the.
Speaker 6: Market oh my, Gosh, Well rick Was, rick as you, know.
Speaker 6: Unpredictable he you, know he was good in front of a.
Speaker 6: Microphone he was. Unpredictable but the one one thing that
Speaker 6: you knew What utah was always going to be as uber.
Speaker 6: Prepared they knew basketball back of their, Hand they knew every.
Speaker 6: Angle they were so well, coached just on the simple, Basics,
Speaker 6: spence as you, APPRECIATE i, know just as simple basics of,
Speaker 6: basketball WHICH i think had been lost in some. Programs you,
Speaker 6: know it's not all about the, three it's three level,
Speaker 6: Scoring it's about. Defenses look What boston did last, Year
Speaker 6: look What Oklahoma city did is doing this. Year AS
Speaker 6: i make a switch to THE. Nba how do you
Speaker 6: win Titled it's usually done with hard nos defense when
Speaker 6: you have to make the big play or the steal
Speaker 6: or the. Block And rick had those, bodies and those
Speaker 6: guys totally bought. In was he rough on, him, absolutely
Speaker 6: but he got the message. Across if you want to
Speaker 6: be a, champion this is what you have to do
Speaker 6: to do.
Speaker 7: It he was one of the most intriguing Men i've ever.
Speaker 6: MET i, MEAN i can't even really define, him but
Speaker 6: his love for the game you can't. Question and he
Speaker 6: passed that along to The Andre, millers The Hano, mentalas The,
Speaker 6: doliaks The jensen's, RIGHT i, mean all those guys still
Speaker 6: kind of where you know. THAT i guess The rick
Speaker 6: manjaris brand right in the sense of just knowing the.
Speaker 6: Game and, man they were Just, harden those guys who
Speaker 6: got the job. Done maybe old, school Maybe hoo's your
Speaker 6: esque in some, ways but they weren't expected to go that.
Speaker 6: Far but, man it was a great run and to
Speaker 6: be there In San antonio to watch. It they just
Speaker 6: simply ran out of. Gas, ben don't you remember? That for?
Speaker 6: Sure KENTUCKY i thought they Had, kentucky But doleyak just
Speaker 6: seemed to be worn. Out he did all he could
Speaker 6: to Protect Paint jensen and, others and, man it was
Speaker 6: a heck of a game and. Disappointing but, again they
Speaker 6: got a taste of what it feels. Like they've got
Speaker 6: a great. TASTE i think it BRINGS i think it
Speaker 6: Takes aj into another level of coaching because he knows
Speaker 6: what it's like and what it takes to get to that.
Speaker 1: Level one more thing, here then we'll end with some jazz, Stuff.
Speaker 1: Craig you, know now we wait to hear the news
Speaker 1: about What alex's staff is going to look, like AND
Speaker 1: i know there are conversations going on behind the. Scenes
Speaker 1: the hard part about making this a sports talk radio
Speaker 1: topic on The home of The utes Is utah basketball
Speaker 1: is still. PLAYING i mean they've accepted an invite to
Speaker 1: this new tournament called The College Basketball crown In. VEGAS
Speaker 1: i don't know who's gonna. PLAY i, Mean Hunter, Erickson
Speaker 1: Jake walleen are the transfer, portal But Josh eilert's still coaching.
Speaker 2: Them they're still.
Speaker 1: Practicing so you kind of feel bad about the whole.
Speaker 1: Thing but you, know for, Me, craig If andre wants to.
Speaker 1: Come you make that. Happen, Okay so If Andre miller
Speaker 1: says he wants to be on the, bench you do.
Speaker 1: That but beyond, THAT i don't know that you need
Speaker 1: every single you that's ever played in the market to
Speaker 1: sit on the.
Speaker 2: Bench and it feels like a lot of people are wanting.
Speaker 1: That but as we await the, news what do you
Speaker 1: think that staff should look like to you Give alex
Speaker 1: the best chance of success as the head coach of The.
Speaker 6: Utes, yeah that's a great. QUESTION i, MEAN i love
Speaker 6: the message or two WITH, aj but he's been more
Speaker 6: busy to. Answer but you, know we to be. Able
Speaker 6: we can't get his Wife natalie on Because shipray has
Speaker 6: all the. Answers She's she's going to be tremendous in that.
Speaker 6: Position for. Sure, yeah for sure you. Will she'll be.
Speaker 6: Awesome but you, KNOW i Think, andre if he wants
Speaker 6: to be, here, YEAH i think you also have to
Speaker 6: have maybe ANOTHER nba assistant coach THAT aj knows that
Speaker 6: would like to maybe work his way up the ladder
Speaker 6: if he has interest in the college. Ranks but so
Speaker 6: they're gonna have to be young and. VIBRANT i think
Speaker 6: he's got to have where WHERE aj will be the
Speaker 6: closer Like rick was on on going out and. Recruiting you,
Speaker 6: know you have someone that sets it up and THEN
Speaker 6: aj walks in the door and, says let's get this,
Speaker 6: done Like majeeris did on so many. Occasions so it's
Speaker 6: gonna have to be a. Mix. UH i think you'll
Speaker 6: see with With alex and HIS nba experience in what's
Speaker 6: happening With, BYU i think you'll see more, space more more.
Speaker 6: PACE i mean that's just my first. THOUGHT i don't
Speaker 6: know what you, think but you, KNOW i think that's
Speaker 6: where the college game is kind of. Gone but you
Speaker 6: also still have to focus your your your your focus
Speaker 6: on defense as. Well you, know it's hard to outscore
Speaker 6: everybody every. Night you got to force, Turnovers you got
Speaker 6: to get some block. Shots you got to have a
Speaker 6: big that can roam and also step out and be
Speaker 6: a threat To so he's got a big job. Ahead you.
Speaker 6: Know it's it's gonna be interesting to see him how
Speaker 6: fast he can Put utah back on the. Map BUT
Speaker 6: i think he's got the ability to, personality to background
Speaker 6: to do. It just have to find the right guys
Speaker 6: you want to be a part of a. Rebuild but
Speaker 6: hopefully a short, one And i'm excited for.
Speaker 1: Him all, right, bowler a few minutes, remaining Then i'll
Speaker 1: set you. Loose appreciate the time byus opened up a
Speaker 1: little bit of breathing. Room they've got a five point lead,
Speaker 1: now a couple of minutes left in the first, half
Speaker 1: thirty one to twenty.
Speaker 2: Six we'll keep you up to.
Speaker 1: Date so The Washington wizards rolling to town last night
Speaker 1: to take on The Utah, jazz and it is the
Speaker 1: ultimate example Of tanka. Palooza it's, look you're just never
Speaker 1: going to tell players to.
Speaker 2: Lose you're never gonna tell. Coaches the coach to.
Speaker 1: LOSE i get, it and, LOOK i keep reminding our
Speaker 1: listeners the bottom three teams all have the same, percentage
Speaker 1: so you don't have to be the worst. Team it's
Speaker 1: a weird thing to Ask jazz fans to understand dynamics
Speaker 1: like this because for basically forty, years we're used to mostly,
Speaker 1: winning AND i know this season has taken its. Toll
Speaker 1: but on the positive side of, things what are some
Speaker 1: some of your takeaways as we enter the final. Stretch
Speaker 1: what are some of the things that you've been able
Speaker 1: to notice with a front row seat to every game
Speaker 1: The jazz fans can truly latch onto not, intangibly but,
Speaker 1: Tangibly like what is real about progress if you have
Speaker 1: seen any at, All, CRAIG i want to get your
Speaker 1: thoughts on.
Speaker 6: That what comes to mind Versus. WALKER i think that's real.
Speaker 6: Progress now they're using these last twelve thirteen games to
Speaker 6: let him experiment with the three point. Shot has not
Speaker 6: been successful at this, point But i've seen him in
Speaker 6: practice knock it down and he has some confidence with that.
Speaker 6: Shot game, time as you, know is much different different
Speaker 6: than practice. Time BUT i Think walker has really solidified
Speaker 6: himself around the. League COACHES i talked to, broadcasters, man
Speaker 6: they sit back and, go, wow This. Walker keusser's taken
Speaker 6: a huge stride in year three after his sophomore slump
Speaker 6: of last. Year he's totally turned around with, strength, confidence,
Speaker 6: attitude and he. RUNS i Think Isaiah caller may be
Speaker 6: his best friend because this big guy can really run
Speaker 6: and take up space on the. Floor that brings me To,
Speaker 6: caller WHO i think has solidified himself as the guy
Speaker 6: at the. Moment kiante may not like hearing, that but
Speaker 6: they made this decision to really see if they both
Speaker 6: could survive in a six man role For kiante And
Speaker 6: Isaiah callyer as the point he has some abilities that
Speaker 6: other players don't have because he's ran a point guard
Speaker 6: position space as you, know his entire, life his young.
Speaker 6: Life but he leads all rookie and. Assists he's, tough
Speaker 6: he gets into paint. NOW i think he also understands
Speaker 6: that he's got to, improve you, know on his three point,
Speaker 6: shot And i've seen him improve defensively. Some the other
Speaker 6: guy that jumps DOWN i have to talk about Is.
Speaker 6: Philopowski this may be one of the best deals The
Speaker 6: Jets i've ever Had at thirty. Two he slipped and
Speaker 6: The jazz decided to roll the dice on. Him but you,
Speaker 6: know he's been able to show that he can do
Speaker 6: more than just shoot to. Three he refined his three point.
Speaker 6: Shot he's also hit a mid. Range But i'm telling
Speaker 6: you he's stronger THAN i, thought and he's built his body
Speaker 6: this year to actually go inside and, finish and he
Speaker 6: can rebound in a. Crowd so those are the first
Speaker 6: three guys that come to, mind AND i think those
Speaker 6: are kind of the pieces That jazz will build around
Speaker 6: what happens to the. Veterans that's up To. Danny but,
Speaker 6: man they've been gamers to help this young group understand
Speaker 6: what it takes to be AN nba. Player no one's
Speaker 6: quit On Will, hardy AND i would tell you if they.
Speaker 6: Had but, No will is a guy that understands the
Speaker 6: mission AND i really respect that he wants to. Win
Speaker 6: spence who. Doesn't that's in every ATHLETE'S, dna or you
Speaker 6: should even be in this. Game BUT i think they
Speaker 6: have developed players and maybe they pushed him ahead of
Speaker 6: schedule and in the long, run in the long run
Speaker 6: or maybe the short, run that's gonna pay off in a,
Speaker 6: hurry let's, hope.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah and you, know part of this, plan just
Speaker 1: as any other plan in pro, basketball when you find
Speaker 1: yourself in the space The jazz find themselves.
Speaker 2: In is simply needing. Luck it just is part of the.
Speaker 1: Deal and you, know the teams that are in markets like,
Speaker 1: this that have built up winning teams over the course of,
Speaker 1: years have lucked themselves into A shay via a good
Speaker 1: trade Or apollo Ban caero because he was the number
Speaker 1: one overall, pick or A duncan and a A robinson
Speaker 1: in a Wimban yama if you're as lucky as The
Speaker 1: San Antonio, spurs or if You're, cleveland you're lucky That
Speaker 1: lebron happened to be born In. AKRON i, mean you
Speaker 1: have to have some, Luck, craig you, know like you
Speaker 1: just have. To and so it's Not danny's, Father justin's.
Speaker 1: Fault if The jazz don't luck into A Cooper, flagger
Speaker 1: what have? You but BEFORE i set you, Loose Sarah
Speaker 1: todd Desret news covers The jazz front of the.
Speaker 2: Show she wrote a really interesting piece last.
Speaker 1: Week they got a lot of traction and the the you,
Speaker 1: know the gist of, it you, know the cliff notes
Speaker 1: as it were for you old people that used to
Speaker 1: cheat in college LIKE i, did is the last three
Speaker 1: years have been what The jazz are now calling a tear,
Speaker 1: down and the rebuild kind of begins. Now and there
Speaker 1: was even a little bit of an intimation that if
Speaker 1: they do luck Into Cooper flagg at one who for our,
Speaker 1: listeners if you don't, know reclassified and should be a
Speaker 1: senior in high school right, now will be eighteen years
Speaker 1: old as a. Rookie and there's a guess kind of
Speaker 1: a thought process like if you Get cooper flag at,
Speaker 1: eighteen then your timeline starts. Now so if that's the, Case,
Speaker 1: craig next year could feel an awful lot like this.
Speaker 2: Year what are your thoughts on?
Speaker 6: THAT i Think sarah's probably right on, target you, know
Speaker 6: as much as we all want to put w's and
Speaker 6: entertain the you know in the win, column you, know the,
Speaker 6: PLAN i think again is to Do Oklahoma city's, Done houston's,
Speaker 6: Done orlando's, done use the drafts or their best. Ability
Speaker 6: and but, Again, spence as you, said you still have
Speaker 6: to have the. Luck you, know you still have to
Speaker 6: be able to get What atlanta did last year to
Speaker 6: get you, know the number one. Pick it doesn't. Happen
Speaker 6: but then the other part of this equation that sometimes
Speaker 6: gets lost is what Does danny? Do how does he?
Speaker 6: Move does he able to do more with the bucket
Speaker 6: full of picks that he, has and how does he
Speaker 6: actually use them to better this? Team and how patient
Speaker 6: HERE'S i think the most important. One how patient Is
Speaker 6: Ryan smith as the owner to see if by, Chance
Speaker 6: Delta center doesn't have ninety percent capacity every? Night Right
Speaker 6: And i'll tell you, What you've been, There you've seen,
Speaker 6: it AND i have to just Applaud jazz fans, like,
Speaker 6: wow they understand and they're interested to see the. Development
Speaker 6: but also there's kind of a line you have to
Speaker 6: pass this Say, okay been, there done, that what are we?
Speaker 6: Doing but you, know If Cooper flag comes aboard again
Speaker 6: and whatever the draft pick may, be and how you
Speaker 6: know and how he can impact this, franchise that would
Speaker 6: be the one to elevate the interest level. Again, Right
Speaker 6: they're going to come see this young guy or whomever
Speaker 6: to play and watch him grow and then how does
Speaker 6: that work With? Walker how does that work With? Callier
Speaker 6: how does that work With? Keante and how does that
Speaker 6: work With filipowski and? Others so a, tea there's still
Speaker 6: work to be, done and you, Know sarah maybe knows
Speaker 6: more THAN, i but my pay grade doesn't get me
Speaker 6: inside those. Doors BUT i think if you guestimate some
Speaker 6: THEN i, think, yeah she's pretty close to seeing. That
Speaker 6: there's still work to be done and another draft pick
Speaker 6: that The jazz want And. Spence you go back To San, antonio,
Speaker 6: right you go back To Oklahoma. City how do they?
Speaker 6: Build they always did it to the draft and then
Speaker 6: you find the one piece that you can spend money
Speaker 6: on or make the trade for with the picks you
Speaker 6: have in hand and get THE sga that sits like a,
Speaker 6: glove and then put you into the conversation of A
Speaker 6: Western conference or AN nba. Champion, Okay see's, Good, Okay
Speaker 6: see's very. Good one of the best defensive Teams i've,
Speaker 6: seen and that's How boston won it last year With gray.
Speaker 1: D byu is going to take a double ditch lead
Speaker 1: into the locker room with a nice run the end
Speaker 1: of the half thirty nine to twenty. Eight Bringham young's
Speaker 1: open up a little space.
Speaker 2: There so good for, Them, Greg thank, you.
Speaker 1: Sir i'll let you go so you can watch the
Speaker 1: madness and enjoy the world Champ Boston celtics tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Night they'll be there tomorrow. Night we just saw him
Speaker 6: ten days. Ago it seems like we played all these
Speaker 6: teams like in a, bunch Right. Spence at the end
Speaker 6: of the, Season i'd, say that's a whole other subject
Speaker 6: to THE nba. Schedule how that, WORKS i do not,
Speaker 6: Know but we're almost through.
Speaker 1: It, yeah you've almost made a, buddy and you've earned a,
Speaker 1: vacation maybe a little, cabo maybe a little.
Speaker 2: Guac who. Knows, craig but you've earned a. Vacation you're almost.
Speaker 1: There, Buddy i'll take.
Speaker 5: Both.
Speaker 6: Thanks talk to All.
Speaker 1: Craig, Bowler JACK Tv voice of The Utah. Jazz we
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Speaker 1: we'll also get you ready for Tomorrow's Utah utah women's basketball.
Speaker 2: Game they are in THE ncaa tournament taking On.
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Speaker 1: Soccer on A, thursday the head coach Over al Sau,
Speaker 1: Lake Pablo mashdauenni on A thursday, Afternoon pop's Happy, thursday?
Speaker 2: Buddy are we Doing Happy?
Speaker 8: Thursday spent's doing, great, Man just winding down the week
Speaker 8: in preparation for this game Against.
Speaker 2: Outs there you, go and we'll get to that coming
Speaker 2: up a little.
Speaker 1: Bit you're back home after a successful road trip down
Speaker 1: To houston two to.
Speaker 2: One you guys get the.
Speaker 1: Results so you take all three on the, road and
Speaker 1: you get two goals from two players that folks are counting,
Speaker 1: on and you're counting on two to carry a lot
Speaker 1: of water for your. Club With diego And diego both
Speaker 1: grabbing the, goals what sort of pressure does that take
Speaker 1: off the convert sation about your nines when you can
Speaker 1: get goals from other.
Speaker 8: Places, yeah, NO i think we talked about it last.
Speaker 8: Week you, KNOW i think with our, nine they're they're
Speaker 8: doing a good job and again not having a lot of,
Speaker 8: experience it's always it's it wouldn't be fair to put
Speaker 8: so much pressure on.
Speaker 9: Them and And diego And Diego i've both been performing
Speaker 9: well between the boxes and it was really just that
Speaker 9: killer instinct in the box and spent you, know quite
Speaker 9: a bit of time.
Speaker 8: With those two last. Week are coaches involved and making
Speaker 8: sure that they're always arriving in the box and making
Speaker 8: sure that our nine always had two players on either
Speaker 8: side that could finish as. Well and to be, fair
Speaker 8: they both took their chances really, Well diego And. Diego
Speaker 8: but with that they're also building in confidence in our, link,
Speaker 8: play in our in in the way we're, attacking and
Speaker 8: their voice on the training. Field so it's been maybe
Speaker 8: a little bit slower than than what we, wanted but
Speaker 8: the fact that they got it done it this weekend
Speaker 8: was a big Confidence boece for the.
Speaker 2: GROUP i would be remiss IF i didn't ask.
Speaker 1: You AND i know this is not necessarily your seat
Speaker 1: on the, bus but every TIME i kick the tires
Speaker 1: on internet, rumors and internet rumors typically bring a lot of, Truth,
Speaker 1: pablo as you. Know so it just it feels like
Speaker 1: everybody continues to pontificate on these possibilities of reinforcements on the,
Speaker 1: way but we haven't heard anything. Official can you illuminate
Speaker 1: us at all as far as where we're at in this?
Speaker 10: Process, yeah, yeah we're, again we're we're identifying a couple
Speaker 10: of players and have had a conversation with a player in.
Speaker 8: Terms of possibly coming hopefully sooner than. Later and again
Speaker 8: it was a really good. Chat and obviously the thing
Speaker 8: With dispense is so unique is like there's so many
Speaker 8: things that have to line, up AND i think we've
Speaker 8: talked about this in the, Past, right they got to
Speaker 8: get the release from the club who's willing to engage
Speaker 8: in the, negotiations so you get the player on. Board
Speaker 8: that's only half of. That the other half is making
Speaker 8: sure that the club is the wants the part ways as,
Speaker 8: well and so it's a it's a tricky negotiation. Process
Speaker 8: BUT i feel like we've identified two, players one of
Speaker 8: WHICH i, think, uh you, know hopefully you can get
Speaker 8: across the. Line SO i don't know IF i divulge
Speaker 8: too much from the club, perspective But i'm but but
Speaker 8: Why i'm excited about it, is you, know when the
Speaker 8: team performed the way they did from an attacking perspective In,
Speaker 8: HOUSTON i feel like that's a great environment in which
Speaker 8: to bring somebody into and so that there's not this
Speaker 8: insurmountable pressure where you have to be the guy that
Speaker 8: carries a. Load but when you have you, Know diego
Speaker 8: And diego produce them like they did in the last,
Speaker 8: game it creates a great environment for these guys to
Speaker 8: come in and help the team be.
Speaker 2: SUCCESSFUL i can excuse.
Speaker 1: ME i can tell you that you're not divulging too
Speaker 1: much Because kurt essentially said the same thing a week.
Speaker 1: AGO i just know that some fans are a little
Speaker 1: bit anxious to see this actually get. Done and, look
Speaker 1: you want to two of the last three, right and
Speaker 1: ultimately the results are still still. Coming but IF i
Speaker 1: could follow, up, uh who are these?
Speaker 2: Players what are their? Names who do they play?
Speaker 4: For just.
Speaker 2: Kidding are you?
Speaker 1: Trying are you trying to get them across the line
Speaker 1: prior to the window closing In april next?
Speaker 8: Month, yeah, no for, sure that's that's obviously the. Games
Speaker 8: the sooner the. Better and LIKE i, said you, know
Speaker 8: usually when you when you signed the, player there's usually
Speaker 8: a three week waiting period in order to get all
Speaker 8: the paperwork across the line and the visa and all that.
Speaker 8: Stuff so you, know Again i'm optimistic it's going to get.
Speaker 8: Done as far as the, timing nobody. Knows and that's
Speaker 8: why me from my from in my, chair it's just
Speaker 8: how do we get how do we get guys one
Speaker 8: to two percent more, confident more belief and executing the
Speaker 8: right way to give us results in the.
Speaker 1: Meantime you, KNOW i know a lot of THE rsl
Speaker 1: fans who listen to these interviews don't like it WHEN
Speaker 1: i do a basketball soccer, parallel but just, anecdotally you,
Speaker 1: know there are these stories about how The jazz used
Speaker 1: to use their head, Coach Quinn snyder when trying to
Speaker 1: attract players to play for, them and it's the front.
Speaker 1: Eye this his job to get the deal done and
Speaker 1: negotiate the contracts and and then what they used to
Speaker 1: do is Call quinn and Then quinn was just this, tactician,
Speaker 1: mastermind and they give him a marker and, say go
Speaker 1: to the whiteboard and tell this player how you're going
Speaker 1: to use him if we do actually get him. Here
Speaker 1: what is your, Role pablo And kurt Or jay Or
Speaker 1: tony or whoever calls you in to try, to you,
Speaker 1: know kind of get a deal across the.
Speaker 2: Line what what does that look.
Speaker 8: Like that's a great, Question, Spence uh, no thank. You, so,
Speaker 8: yeah we we've done a pretty good job secure in
Speaker 8: most of the guys that that that we've gone after
Speaker 8: in the in the past few. Years AND i think
Speaker 8: our process is pretty. Good so currently it's it's It's
Speaker 8: kurt presenting an overview of the, club how ownership ties,
Speaker 8: in you, know the different clubs that the, ownership you,
Speaker 8: Know Global Football holdings has pathways uh, domestically pathways. Internationally
Speaker 8: and in that, bit we we show them the city
Speaker 8: Of Salt, Lake state Of, utah shows the beautiful, mountains
Speaker 8: the packed, rio tinto aff the, stadium, right so just
Speaker 8: kind of bringing bringing them Into Salt lake and THEN
Speaker 8: i get on there and THEN i have a seven Minute, uh,
Speaker 8: basically it's a it's a style of play. Documents so
Speaker 8: it's offense and, defense AND i do that in seven
Speaker 8: minutes and really just talking to a player about the
Speaker 8: position that he'll be, playing what his role and responsibility.
Speaker 8: Is and so OBVIOUSLY i have a lot of highlights
Speaker 8: right when we're banging goals and and and attack and free,
Speaker 8: flowing and then some of the defensive, responsibilities which is
Speaker 8: intensity and all these. Things and so you, know we
Speaker 8: just did it yesterday as a matter of, fact and you,
Speaker 8: know the one thing that you, know they get a
Speaker 8: good feel as to what the city looks, like.
Speaker 11: What the people are like at the, games and how
Speaker 11: and how hungry they are for wins and and how you,
Speaker 11: know how great a fans they, are and then showing
Speaker 11: them the soccer, side which is also really important for the,
Speaker 11: guys and so just trying to tie it all.
Speaker 8: Together but my role is is basically an evolved version
Speaker 8: of the.
Speaker 2: Whiteboard ah, okay SEE i find that stuff.
Speaker 1: Fascinating i'd be really interested to kind, of you, know
Speaker 1: see exactly how that.
Speaker 2: UNFOLD i, mean every front office.
Speaker 1: Does it differently synergistically with a you, know relationship with
Speaker 1: the coaching. Staff it's but it does seem like you
Speaker 1: guys really are a group that makes decisions after putting
Speaker 1: your heads. Together, Right this is not some. Monolith it's
Speaker 1: not one person calling the. Shots.
Speaker 8: Correct, yeah AND i forgot to add and then, afterwards,
Speaker 8: Uh Jason, ull we'll ask them really pointing, questions so
Speaker 8: really observe the player and ask questions. Basically you, know
Speaker 8: yesterday it was a couple of soccer questions and a
Speaker 8: couple of personal, questions, right just to kind of just
Speaker 8: tie it all. Together and so you, KNOW i think
Speaker 8: the three of, us, uh you, know we've been around
Speaker 8: for for quite a, while but we all have different
Speaker 8: ways of. Thinking AND i think, that, uh you, know
Speaker 8: when when when the three of us agree on a, player.
Speaker 6: It's go.
Speaker 8: Time and it's just now about getting over the. Line
Speaker 8: and that's we're really pleased with the interview we had
Speaker 8: yesterday and and now it's just leaving it to the
Speaker 8: gods to make sure that it happens.
Speaker 1: When it when it comes to the potential of adding a, nine,
Speaker 1: specifically how much of the conversation entails the creativity of you,
Speaker 1: Know diego And diego And dom as. Well and fortunately
Speaker 1: it to be without a couple of those, guys and
Speaker 1: we'll get to coming up this.
Speaker 2: Weekend but if you are a.
Speaker 1: NINE i would imagine you want to know, that you,
Speaker 1: know the players providing the service have the ability to
Speaker 1: be creative and put you in a good. Spot so
Speaker 1: how much of the conversation is, like, look this is
Speaker 1: exactly who you're playing, with this is how we foresee your,
Speaker 1: role and this is what these guys can.
Speaker 6: Do, Yeah, no we.
Speaker 8: Talk we talk a lot about the the supporting cast as,
Speaker 8: well and h in. Particular you, Know diego has got
Speaker 8: an unbelievable uncanny ability to you, know find passes between the.
Speaker 8: Lines you, know the fall he put in For forrester
Speaker 8: Against seattle was a fantastic. Path so he's he's got
Speaker 8: a great. Eye And diego is really good at, combining,
Speaker 8: right so, dribbling finding a one to, two and one
Speaker 8: of the things that this individual was talking, about he
Speaker 8: likes to combine around the box and so but he
Speaker 8: also likes to run in behind the. Defense SO i
Speaker 8: think he serves both tens really really. Well where one
Speaker 8: likes to, combine the other one likes to make a three,
Speaker 8: pass and SO i think it would be a great
Speaker 8: a great blend of great attack and football for the
Speaker 8: three of. Them and AND i think it's really important
Speaker 8: for them to have an understanding of who the players
Speaker 8: that were playing. Alongside and again it's just how do
Speaker 8: we bring them to this club at this, Moment and
Speaker 8: IT'S i think it's the threefold the three head of
Speaker 8: the attack and.
Speaker 6: The three of.
Speaker 8: Us but you, know the conversation went really well yesterday
Speaker 8: And i'm really optimistic that we can get this one
Speaker 8: across the Line.
Speaker 2: Conker Calf Nations league.
Speaker 1: Tonight i'm sure there are literally three people listening to
Speaker 1: the show THAT i have any clue what that. Is
Speaker 1: Andy larson's one of, THEM Us. Panama, okay so we
Speaker 1: will See diego tonight and then dom is With poland
Speaker 1: For World cup. Qualifiers let me start With, Diego and you,
Speaker 1: know you're a guy that played In World, cups and
Speaker 1: we have players that have played FOR rsl in the
Speaker 1: past that have Been World cup.
Speaker 2: Players and from my vantage, POINT i.
Speaker 1: Always just observed this extra level of confidence when you
Speaker 1: know they were able to get a call. Up and you,
Speaker 1: KNOW i can remember When kyle had his FIRST us
Speaker 1: men's national team call up and it was A Gold
Speaker 1: cup team and he killed it and that led to
Speaker 1: A World cup call up where he was a starter
Speaker 1: except For, belgium, Right and we're all mad that he
Speaker 1: didn't start Against. Belgium but what's from your vantage point
Speaker 1: as the head, coach what's the hope as far as
Speaker 1: What diego can learn or Glom onto with confidence when
Speaker 1: he comes back from the call.
Speaker 8: Up, YEAH i think that's a great. Point you, know in,
Speaker 8: particular when you have when you're in a camp with
Speaker 8: a lot Of european. Players so WHEN i was IN,
Speaker 8: MLS i was in a lot of camps With european,
Speaker 8: players and obviously all we do is Watch european, soccer
Speaker 8: whether It's Champions league or The Premier, league and some
Speaker 8: of these players coming back to THE us camp are
Speaker 8: from these leagues and playing these big, games and so for,
Speaker 8: me it was always about sizing up and like just you,
Speaker 8: know whether it's a small sided game or going up
Speaker 8: against this particular person in, training is like how far
Speaker 8: AM i away from? This like if he can do,
Speaker 8: it why CAN'T? I and SO i think that's where
Speaker 8: the confidence is really, fuils is that you realize that
Speaker 8: you're not far away from playing in the biggest leagues
Speaker 8: in the world and and and then having these players,
Speaker 8: there the speed of the game is faster than it
Speaker 8: is AN mls and so with every level you go,
Speaker 8: up the less the less time you have to make the.
Speaker 8: Play so you have to be aware of your space
Speaker 8: and aware of time because you have much less of
Speaker 8: it at a higher. Level and so when you when
Speaker 8: you tile that, together you come back TO mls teams
Speaker 8: and you are playing at a much faster, clip you're
Speaker 8: you're you're now a leader as far as holding a
Speaker 8: standard in training because you just trained with a bunch
Speaker 8: of guys that are going one hundred miles an hour
Speaker 8: and and playing for you, know trophies and you know
Speaker 8: the nation stuff and these. Things so when you come,
Speaker 8: back there's there's really about a two week period where
Speaker 8: that that those vibes still hang on and now that
Speaker 8: that's what we have to tap into it as a.
Speaker 8: Team so really looking forward to you, know both these
Speaker 8: young players coming back to our group and injecting that
Speaker 8: type of confidence that you experienced when you're with the national.
Speaker 1: Teams so Against, houston you Had dom out right and
Speaker 1: you Had diego out, Left diego. Centralized at least that's
Speaker 1: according to the lineup. SLIDE i know it's nuanced and
Speaker 1: you move, around, okay but that's just the lineup slide
Speaker 1: that have in front of.
Speaker 2: Me so what do you?
Speaker 1: DO i mean the old, monikers next man? Up what's
Speaker 1: it going to look like with those two on international?
Speaker 8: Duty, yeah so you, KNOW i think we're gonna we're
Speaker 8: going to try something a little bit, different just because
Speaker 8: AGAIN i think What dom does is very, unique AND
Speaker 8: i think What diego does is very, unique AND i
Speaker 8: don't think we have light for like within our. Group
Speaker 8: so you, know what we want to make sure is
Speaker 8: that we put players in the in positions that that
Speaker 8: they're comfortable. With so tactics don't work if the player
Speaker 8: isn't bought in or if he doesn't feel. Comfortable, Right
Speaker 8: SO i think the most important thing is make sure
Speaker 8: we put a player on them in those two positions
Speaker 8: that feel comfortable playing that. Role and the next thing
Speaker 8: is just working through some of the some of the
Speaker 8: the tactical aspects that they will encounter based upon What
Speaker 8: doubts is. Doing so we spent the last couple of,
Speaker 8: days one day on, offense one day on defense of
Speaker 8: just kind of walking through. That, tomorrow the game day
Speaker 8: minus one will tie it all together to make sure
Speaker 8: there's complete understanding and more, importantly just check for understanding
Speaker 8: and make any little. Tweaks BUT i think it's it
Speaker 8: may be a surprise to. SOME i don't think we've
Speaker 8: necessarily gone this way from a personnel standpoint and tactical,
Speaker 8: standpoint BUT i think that we're in a position to
Speaker 8: be able to do that given a good week of.
Speaker 1: TRAINING i, wonder And i'm not saying this IS i
Speaker 1: would never tell you how to do your, job BUT i.
Speaker 1: Wonder So Pablo luiz is back and healthy, now essentially
Speaker 1: after almost two years, out and you, know maybe out of,
Speaker 1: side out of.
Speaker 2: Mind he you, know is a.
Speaker 1: Central holding, mid but you've got two of the best
Speaker 1: in the lead lee there Could pablo be somebody that
Speaker 1: maybe you utilize a little bit more in the attack
Speaker 1: when you have players called up or hurt if that makes.
Speaker 8: Sense, yeah you, Know and and just to be completely,
Speaker 8: transparent you, know that's where we've Played pablo a couple
Speaker 8: of games last year Against miami And Saint, louis and
Speaker 8: then you know he played again there this year Against San,
Speaker 8: jose and the one THING i would say With pablo
Speaker 8: is that he is world class when he's got time
Speaker 8: and space.
Speaker 6: In front of.
Speaker 8: Him you, KNOW i think We're pablo's struggles because he's
Speaker 8: not real comfortable with.
Speaker 6: It it hasn't done in.
Speaker 8: A long, time is playing with players all around. Him
Speaker 8: in other, words when he was playing as a pivot for,
Speaker 8: us he'd receive it off in the pockets so that
Speaker 8: he can turn and face and once he's facing the
Speaker 8: game with, time he is. Lethal and so what we've
Speaker 8: been working on is is how do, we given our game,
Speaker 8: model how do we put him in these positions to
Speaker 8: be THE x?
Speaker 6: Factor?
Speaker 8: Right and and you, KNOW i think we're still working through.
Speaker 8: That but but the other part, is you, know what
Speaker 8: we ask from our tens is getting in the buy
Speaker 8: and that's something that is doesn't come naturally To. Pablo
Speaker 8: so we're working through that as. Well and SO i
Speaker 8: think it's been a tough you, know a couple of
Speaker 8: years For, pablo but BUT i believe, that you, know
Speaker 8: he's got the desire and we see a possibility With
Speaker 8: pablo playing in those attacking, positions you, know moving.
Speaker 1: Forward so we haven't talked a Ton pablo about your back,
Speaker 1: line because it feels like you have a lot of
Speaker 1: depth back, there but it also feels like at times
Speaker 1: the continuity isn't necessarily where you want it to be
Speaker 1: based off of some of the you, know a line
Speaker 1: of adjustments you. Make but but, again it's good to have.
Speaker 1: Depth how do you how do you land on the
Speaker 1: four that you want to make sure that that continuity
Speaker 1: is locked?
Speaker 8: In, yeah you, know sometimes it's and then there's there's
Speaker 8: a term for, this but it's it's escaped me at the.
Speaker 8: Moment but when you have so many, options sometimes you
Speaker 8: don't know what the best back four is or the
Speaker 8: most cohesive back for right because you have so many,
Speaker 8: options you're, like, well let's try. This you, know sometimes
Speaker 8: when you have four guys that you, go these are
Speaker 8: four number one. Defenders, now whether they're making mistakes or,
Speaker 8: not you still know that they're the cream of the
Speaker 8: crop and that you know it's going to come good
Speaker 8: with a little bit more time and. Chemistry and but
Speaker 8: in our, situation because we did the two, tournaments split
Speaker 8: up the two back, fours we're still in this period
Speaker 8: of going what is our best back for because you,
Speaker 8: know the last thirty minutes In houston felt very, loose.
Speaker 6: But we hung on to the.
Speaker 8: Result you, know the game before In San diego it
Speaker 8: felt really, loose and SO i think we're getting. CLOSER
Speaker 8: i don't think it has been, solidified and hopefully this
Speaker 8: game at the weekend will help us continue to make
Speaker 8: the best decision for the group as far as who
Speaker 8: those four primary players, are whilst whilst them understanding that
Speaker 8: they have to maintain the standard because we have four
Speaker 8: guys behind him that are equally as.
Speaker 2: Talented is And i'm not. Trying i'm trying to probably
Speaker 2: honestly don't.
Speaker 1: KNOW i just have the stats up and is it
Speaker 1: true That lachlan hasn't played a minute this?
Speaker 4: Year is?
Speaker 2: What what's? What what gives?
Speaker 6: There?
Speaker 8: Yeah, NO i think it's interesting Because locke played.
Speaker 6: In uh both championship.
Speaker 2: Games, okay so NO mls you minises?
Speaker 6: Yet?
Speaker 8: Okay, Yeah so so we just split the groups and
Speaker 8: so then when we got back to the regular, season you,
Speaker 8: know some of the guys who's been playing really, Well
Speaker 8: don was playing well and Obviously diogo and then we
Speaker 8: Got diego and so then it's it's trying to find.
Speaker 8: Time but but AGAIN i think he's had a really
Speaker 8: good week in training and so you know he should
Speaker 8: he should see some action this.
Speaker 2: Weekend all, right, Man, well look go get. Him always
Speaker 2: cheering for.
Speaker 1: You glad you're that you're back, home and obviously if
Speaker 1: you need, anything reach Out budd'd be.
Speaker 2: Good, okay, awesome but thank you so.
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Speaker 4: BIT i am this time of year for. Sure.
Speaker 12: Okay some of my favorite memories growing up or watching the,
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Speaker 12: now it.
Speaker 4: Is it's just COMPELLING.
Speaker 12: Tv, yeah and you, know, no the product's not as
Speaker 12: good as THE. Nba but like when you have four
Speaker 12: games to watch at the same time and it is for.
Speaker 1: Sure it Is are you a bracket?
Speaker 2: Guy does the?
Speaker 1: Trip have you do a? Bracket do you do it
Speaker 1: with friends or?
Speaker 2: Family?
Speaker 12: Yeah ever SINCE i was a. KID I i THINK
Speaker 12: i started my first bracket WHEN i was. Twelve. Yeah
Speaker 12: so this is the twenty first Annual angulars And March
Speaker 12: Madness Bracket.
Speaker 4: Challenge oh so you run a. GROUP i WANT i
Speaker 4: run a. Bracket.
Speaker 12: YEAH i run a group with my friends and family
Speaker 12: and so, on and it is it's. Fun one YEAR
Speaker 12: i won against the teachers in my school that in high.
Speaker 6: School.
Speaker 12: Nice that was to get like a bundle of ones
Speaker 12: from all my all my, teachers and that was that was.
Speaker 4: GREAT i don't. KNOW i love this time here.
Speaker 1: Porter did you get Invited Tandy's Bracket challenge this?
Speaker 6: Year?
Speaker 3: Negative?
Speaker 2: Yeah uh now let me check my. Phone what gives man?
Speaker 2: Said facebook.
Speaker 12: Invites i'm still doing like this old two thousand era. Website,
Speaker 12: okay if you've got a, bracket eye can put it
Speaker 12: in last minute for.
Speaker 2: YOU i Have Louis Obeedian. Aubora they lost this.
Speaker 1: Morn how many people in The Andy larson bracket.
Speaker 12: Challenge, uh that's a good. Question the maximum in the
Speaker 12: website he uses. Fifty so that's that's where we're, at
Speaker 12: like usually around.
Speaker 1: There you, know let me get your thoughts on just
Speaker 1: a couple of college hoops storylines that we'll get to
Speaker 1: The jazz And LITTLE. Rsl first of, all B YU
Speaker 1: vcu B yu pulling away a little. Bit it's, funny,
Speaker 1: man there have been Times i've watched THIS byu team
Speaker 1: And i'm, like that's as deep as any team that
Speaker 1: we've seen In.
Speaker 2: Provo AND i mean, EVER i mean.
Speaker 1: Truly obviously The Big twelve brings different, Challenges but what
Speaker 1: do you make of year one B yu Under Kevin.
Speaker 2: Young i'm really.
Speaker 12: IMPRESSED i mean it is a pro style OFFENSIVE nba style,
Speaker 12: offense which means that you, KNOW i recognize the style
Speaker 12: of wall that they're going, for AND i think they
Speaker 12: are hitting those.
Speaker 6: Marks you.
Speaker 12: KNOW i think it took a while when they first
Speaker 12: started A Big twelve play to really kind of get
Speaker 12: used to the style of play of what could.
Speaker 4: Work and couldn't.
Speaker 12: Work BUT i think they figured out that they do
Speaker 12: have to use their depth a little, bit that they
Speaker 12: have to use kind of their three big, men you,
Speaker 12: know kind of mix and match depending on who the matchup.
Speaker 4: Is and then you, KNOW i.
Speaker 12: Think, Honestly Jego demons figured out some a little bit
Speaker 12: out where he Has he's able to move on the
Speaker 12: floor a little bit. More you're, SAYING i think some
Speaker 12: real game to game development from. Him not that he's an,
Speaker 12: amazing you, know player at the collegiate level, yet BUT
Speaker 12: i think he's a deserving starter in a way that
Speaker 12: he may not have been two months. Ago and then you,
Speaker 12: KNOW i Think Richie saunders has figured something. OUT i
Speaker 12: think just the pace in space they play with.
Speaker 4: Does remind me of THE nba game a.
Speaker 12: Lot and then have been impressed with their ability to
Speaker 12: stick with teams defensively in their best. Performances so, yeah you,
Speaker 12: KNOW i think they're really good. TEAM i think they're
Speaker 12: probably better than a sixth. SEED i have them winning
Speaker 12: Against wisconsin in my personal bracket BECAUSE i just do
Speaker 12: think that this is a good team with some pretty
Speaker 12: good players on.
Speaker 1: IT i excuse, ME i actually think they match up
Speaker 1: better With wisconsin than they do AGAINST. Vcu but right
Speaker 1: now they're showing, that and, look there's plenty of time,
Speaker 1: left BUT byu was up fifteen and earlier, Today i'm
Speaker 1: watching The Louisville creighton game and they showed a stat
Speaker 1: that is wild teams that are up fifteen in the
Speaker 1: first round are one hundred and ninety one to oher
Speaker 1: since nineteen Ninety so it looks like they're gonna kind of.
Speaker 1: Cruise let me follow up About yegor because you, know
Speaker 1: among the many things that you do for The Solid
Speaker 1: tribune as you cover THE nba, draft And Jonathan cavoni's
Speaker 1: latest mock Has yegor at eight To, portland so a
Speaker 1: top ten, pick and you understand, why, right because if
Speaker 1: you've seen him up close and in person like you, have
Speaker 1: the measurables are. REAL i, mean he's super, long and
Speaker 1: he's having a good. Game today's three of five from.
Speaker 1: Three the turnover struggles are, there twenty five percent turnover
Speaker 1: rate and he's only twenty percent on three for the.
Speaker 2: Year but you can see why pro scouts like him can't.
Speaker 12: Ya, YEAH i, mean, look there's there's no one else
Speaker 12: in the class and in most, classes with the intersection
Speaker 12: of passing and height and size that he, has, right
Speaker 12: and we when you see those players in THE nba
Speaker 12: they are the NBA's elite, players whether That's Luka, dancic
Speaker 12: whether that's Shake, Gilgess, alexander whether THAT'S i, mean you
Speaker 12: just are looking for height and playmaking to lead your
Speaker 12: offense because that.
Speaker 4: Allows you to ping passes all over the floor and
Speaker 4: get open shots for everybody every time down the.
Speaker 12: Floor and and so that being, said you, know, yeah
Speaker 12: the three point shots not. There it has been, today
Speaker 12: by the. WAY i think he's three or four in this,
Speaker 12: game twenty seven percent for the.
Speaker 4: Year and then like the ability the wiggle isn't.
Speaker 12: There the ability to beat defenders off the, dribble the
Speaker 12: ability to deal with a contested, lane the ability to
Speaker 12: deal with the defender on his hip is not, there
Speaker 12: and frankly isn't even. Close so in order for him
Speaker 12: to be a GOOD nba, player AND i don't think
Speaker 12: he would, be you, know year, one rookie, year he
Speaker 12: will really.
Speaker 4: STRUGGLE i think he is a.
Speaker 12: Project but if he can improve one of those two,
Speaker 12: skills then he can be a really valuable role. Player
Speaker 12: if he improves, BOTH i think he can be an
Speaker 12: actual star in THE, nba you, know like a, again
Speaker 12: one of those kind of great players THAT i mentioned
Speaker 12: maybe not.
Speaker 4: At luca, level but like a lead ball handler in the.
Speaker 12: League so but then you, know if he only gets
Speaker 12: a shot and doesn't get the ball, handling maybe he's
Speaker 12: More Joe. Inglesy if he's gets a ball handling but
Speaker 12: not the, shot maybe he's Like Kay, landerson you, know
Speaker 12: like those players are still.
Speaker 4: Pretty useful To, skiddy.
Speaker 12: Right, Yeah and SO i don't THINK i would draft
Speaker 12: him in that top. TEN i think that's probably a
Speaker 12: little bit too, high but in the ten to twenty,
Speaker 12: Range i'd certainly consider.
Speaker 1: It you Think richie has played his way Into big
Speaker 1: twelve Most Improved player of The. Year and you, KNOW
Speaker 1: i think the first what surprised me the first TIME
Speaker 1: i Saw Richie saunders play in person is he's legitimately six.'
Speaker 1: five he has good size for. A guard he has
Speaker 1: great elevation on. His jumper he shoots a, jump shot
Speaker 1: not a. SET shot i love the fact that he's
Speaker 1: just he. NEVER stops, i mean the energy is. Sky
Speaker 1: high do you think he's played himself into a spot
Speaker 1: where either drafted or undrafted training CAMP.
Speaker 2: INVITE nba I do i.
Speaker 4: SEE some nba?
Speaker 12: Potential there, and look he's, he's old, Right like so
Speaker 12: that's always the problem with by he prospects is you're
Speaker 12: dealing with a guy who's probably not.
Speaker 4: Going to develop too much more from what.
Speaker 12: He, is yeah, Good point AND the nba teams worry,
Speaker 12: about that and if you look at, the analytics like
Speaker 12: you should really avoid those guys unless they do have.
Speaker 12: Big PRODUCTION but I Think ritchie sanders works in kind Of.
Speaker 4: A sam merrol sort. Of way he was also old
Speaker 4: coming Out of utah eight.
Speaker 12: Like that he has a you know kind of ways
Speaker 12: he can contribute TO the nba game, right away and
Speaker 12: that he, can shoot and that he does work his butt,
Speaker 12: off defensively, you KNOW and i think that's kind of
Speaker 12: an underrated part of his game. As Well kevin young
Speaker 12: compares Him To, alex caruso who's one of the best
Speaker 12: guard defenders in. THE league i don't see him being
Speaker 12: that good IN, the nba, but like, you know if
Speaker 12: you can hang on the floor and make shots and
Speaker 12: defend a, little bit like there's Like A grayson allen kind,
Speaker 12: of role, you know for what he is in the league,
Speaker 12: right now and it's worth a two, wais slot may
Speaker 12: be worth.
Speaker 4: A second round pick.
Speaker 12: From somebody but, you know that's certainly a lot higher
Speaker 12: than what we were thinking of The just hunters coming into.
Speaker 1: THE year byu at this point pulling away fifty six
Speaker 1: thirty NINE.
Speaker 2: Over vc you will keep you up to date on.
Speaker 1: That game let's stay in the, college space Because the
Speaker 1: University of utah announcement became. A Reality, alex jensen seventeenth
Speaker 1: head Coach in utah men's. Basketball history over the past
Speaker 1: Week the Jazz, Roin minnesota rudy was asked.
Speaker 2: ABOUT him I thought rudy gave a.
Speaker 1: Great answer We've Heard, Walker Kessler, will hardy a lot
Speaker 1: of guests on my show talk about having that front
Speaker 1: row seat To watch Alex help. Rudy, develop obviously the
Speaker 1: bulk of the credit goes to. The Player but i've
Speaker 1: talked to you about. This, Before man rudy's. ROOKIE year
Speaker 1: i can remember watching JUST going i, don't, know MAN
Speaker 1: like i, don't Know and rudy worked his tail off
Speaker 1: and now He's a Hall. Of famer your vantage point
Speaker 1: working With covering alex while he was With, the jazz
Speaker 1: and what you think he can do With.
Speaker 12: The, You YEAH and i Think that rudy instance IS
Speaker 12: such a good example of what he was good at
Speaker 12: is one kind of developing a relationship with the player.
Speaker 4: So that he Really, trusted rudy REALLY, trusted.
Speaker 2: Aj, right yeah.
Speaker 12: For sure and that meant THAT when, Aj, said hey
Speaker 12: we don't want you to work on your offensive game.
Speaker 12: At all we, want, you know we rather than develop
Speaker 12: your three, point shot you're gonna be developing your, screen
Speaker 12: setting your. Your body you're gonna work on your upper
Speaker 12: and your, lower body and you're gonna be working on
Speaker 12: your defensive timing, and, awareness right and all of those
Speaker 12: things turn him Into An, all star turn him Into
Speaker 12: AN all, nba PLAYER where i think a lot of
Speaker 12: guys like would have Gone The christian wood route and
Speaker 12: tried to make threes and forgot about the rest of.
Speaker 6: The.
Speaker 12: Game, Right LIKE so I Give alex jenson actually a
Speaker 12: ton of credit For How rudy gobert turned out to
Speaker 12: be a real force IN. The NBA and i think
Speaker 12: that is something that is replicatable and something you can
Speaker 12: sell to recruits that the you is like.
Speaker 4: Again kind of In A kevin young sort, Of, Way
Speaker 4: hey i've worked with the.
Speaker 12: NBA's best i can develop you into the, you know
Speaker 12: into the player that you want. To be there's a
Speaker 12: path THERE that i think is is harder for a
Speaker 12: harder case to make For a quake smanth or.
Speaker 4: Even a Leary kris kovak who WAS an nba.
Speaker 12: Assistant coach but with some pretty bad teams and didn't
Speaker 12: have that level of success on his res, Me right,
Speaker 12: so yeah, YOU know i think it's a good hire.
Speaker 12: FOR youth i think it's probably the best one they
Speaker 12: could have possibly. Realistically Made and i'm interested to see how,
Speaker 12: they do, YOU know i think from a program point,
Speaker 12: of view, you know and and they were working to
Speaker 12: address this with trying to build A New huntsman. Center
Speaker 12: replacement but that situation is a little, bit, rough right
Speaker 12: like the games aren't as the environment isn't what it
Speaker 12: is at some other colleges around. The country and then,
Speaker 12: you KNOW the nil funds going to football is, a,
Speaker 12: concern right but from a basketball point, of view and
Speaker 12: we'll see. How much, you know clearly that the donors
Speaker 12: were willing to DONATE the aju may indicate that there's
Speaker 12: more investment, There coming so. We'll see but, you know
Speaker 12: as FAR as i hire goes my point, OF view
Speaker 12: i think.
Speaker 4: It's as good as they could.
Speaker 1: Have done do, you remember off the top of your
Speaker 1: head your final four who you picked to go to the.
Speaker 12: FINAL four i had the most boring final four of,
Speaker 12: all time which is top four.
Speaker 1: Number one seeds had all four ONE seeds.
Speaker 12: I did and you, know, WHAT like i think there
Speaker 12: is a real gap between the top four and what goes.
Speaker 4: Comes below and you look On, kem palm, For, example.
Speaker 12: Yeah that there is a clear gap in the net
Speaker 12: ratings between the first four and what and the number,
Speaker 12: two seeds number three seeds and, So ON and i
Speaker 12: just think that those four teams.
Speaker 4: Have separated themselves and are most likely to.
Speaker 12: Make it and, you, know, like yeah probably at some
Speaker 12: point one of these number one seeds, gets UPSET but
Speaker 12: i don't really know at what stage and, by WHO
Speaker 12: because i think they should be favored to win all
Speaker 12: of those games that they play by at least.
Speaker 1: Five, Points Yeah and ken actually made that point on
Speaker 1: the show that there actually is a large gap between
Speaker 1: the top teams and then the.
Speaker 2: Next tier so, we'll see we'll keep you up.
Speaker 12: TO date i think it's the First time i've ever,
Speaker 12: done that though picked complete scratch number one seeds in the.
Speaker 1: FINAL four, I mean.
Speaker 2: I was I Picked.
Speaker 1: Duke Houston then I've Got texas Tech And Michigan state
Speaker 1: texas Three And michigan state so.
Speaker 2: To two but when you fill out, a bracket you
Speaker 2: Know this.
Speaker 1: Cinderella stories upsets, are fun But typically, Elite eight, final
Speaker 1: four the cream.
Speaker 12: Does, rise YEAH and i think there's real Cool like duke. Is,
Speaker 12: awesome yeah and we'll see what Happens With. Cooper flag
Speaker 12: but even, without him they played so well that in,
Speaker 12: the Tournament like florida's really. Really good i've been really
Speaker 12: Impressed with houston. This year they were actually my pick
Speaker 12: to win. It, all uh just with the, athleticism there,
Speaker 12: You Know and i'm Just and auburn Has Probably national
Speaker 12: player Of the Year And, Johnny GROUP like i think
Speaker 12: that's it's just a clear top four that has.
Speaker 4: Differentiated themselves.
Speaker 1: You know it is such a, fun tournament and if
Speaker 1: you juxtapose it to how painful it's been this year
Speaker 1: watching our pro, basketball team it's just been fun to
Speaker 1: like be reminded of teams that are serious about winning
Speaker 1: in care and, out passion like the. First four, Last
Speaker 1: night american loses their star player jacks up his knee postgame,
Speaker 1: press conference the coach and the plays are just, in tears,
Speaker 1: you know and it just you just don't find that
Speaker 1: type of passion in pro basketball.
Speaker 2: MUCH anymore i.
Speaker 12: Mean certainly Not, in march when you know half of
Speaker 12: literally half OF the nba stars are sitting and maybe
Speaker 12: more than half of the teams aren't playing, for, ANYTHING
Speaker 12: right i, do think, YOU know i go back to
Speaker 12: last year when the tournament was At The delta center
Speaker 12: and you saw that emotion, up, close right like what
Speaker 12: it Meant for Kansas and Samford on samford to get
Speaker 12: that game winning block that was incorrectly called a foul at.
Speaker 12: THE end i don't know if you remember, that game
Speaker 12: Ure the, arizona game, You KNOW like i think you
Speaker 12: just see like the traveling fan bases and the students
Speaker 12: and it's it's, A yeah, i mean it's a, playoffs
Speaker 12: right like it matters and it's one.
Speaker 1: And DONE and i LOVE the, nba playoffs don't get.
Speaker 1: Me WRONG and i can't wait for, you know LATER spring.
Speaker 1: Nba basketball but we'll move over into the space And the.
Speaker 1: Jazz Now And sarah todd's in front of the show
Speaker 1: and she does a really, good job and she's a,
Speaker 1: good rider she's a good. Media member she asked. Great
Speaker 1: QUESTIONS so i don't want this to come A like
Speaker 1: i'm knocking on her, at all but the, whole, like,
Speaker 1: hey guys what we've been doing for three years is actually.
Speaker 2: Tearing down, the house and now.
Speaker 1: We're ready to build the house three years after you
Speaker 1: move On from Gobert and Mitchell and Bogdanovich and royce
Speaker 1: and your head coach leaves and your general. Manager Leaves
Speaker 1: like i'm sorry to, be cynical but the rebuild started
Speaker 1: when you moved on from the bulk of your roster
Speaker 1: and your coach AND.
Speaker 2: Your gm that's just.
Speaker 12: My, OPINION look i to, whatever EXTENT and i think
Speaker 12: you are right to whatever extent that you don't like,
Speaker 12: that opinion you should blame the people in the front
Speaker 12: office Of The.
Speaker 4: Utah jazz and THAT'S why i Want, To, yes yes.
Speaker 12: It's clear it's a MESSENGER for i think it's it's
Speaker 12: really valuable to have that front office point of view.
Speaker 12: OUT there, i MEAN and i hear from of those same, things,
Speaker 12: too right like that they.
Speaker 4: Feel that this is still part of.
Speaker 12: The teardown and, YOU know i think that's Frustrating for
Speaker 12: jazz fans who, YOU know i think watched the last
Speaker 12: two seasons and were confused about why the team was
Speaker 12: staying in, The middle and we're confused why not why
Speaker 12: more trades, weren't made and why they were so happy
Speaker 12: kind of being in that nine and tense spot in
Speaker 12: both of those seasons when clearly.
Speaker 4: More should have.
Speaker 12: Been, done now, you know props to them for really
Speaker 12: embracing the tank, this, Year, RIGHT like i think it
Speaker 12: is ultimately the right move for the franchise to try
Speaker 12: to get a franchise changing player rather than a prospect
Speaker 12: Like Of.
Speaker 4: Cody williams but.
Speaker 12: It didn't have to be, this way and, YOU know
Speaker 12: i do think they that is maybe the biggest piece
Speaker 12: of criticism you can throw In the jazz front, office
Speaker 12: direction is that the rebuild the teardown has taken too
Speaker 12: long and kind of left them in this position where
Speaker 12: we are in, year Three since Donovan and rudy and
Speaker 12: the prospects that they have to show for are IN
Speaker 12: that B or C TIER.
Speaker 1: B yu now has a thirteen point lead with nine
Speaker 1: to fifty five left in.
Speaker 2: The second.
Speaker 1: So the other Thing that sarah's piece kind of, you
Speaker 1: know intimated as, a possibility, AND look i nobody will
Speaker 1: be more excited if we're all sitting down on lottery
Speaker 1: night And the jazz, grab one then it's like here, we,
Speaker 1: Go Right cooper flag for our listeners and may not
Speaker 1: know reclassified he should be a senior in. High school
Speaker 1: he's going to be eighteen during his. Rookie Season and
Speaker 1: sarah's piece kind of intimated that the potential Of the
Speaker 1: jazz season next year looking a lot like this year
Speaker 1: could kind of be the reality if they Do Draft.
Speaker 1: Cooper flag and she even went on to talk about
Speaker 1: the potential of as the, season ends you'll be able
Speaker 1: To trade lowry, this offseason and she even talked about
Speaker 1: maybe moving On from walker who Thinks He's ray allen
Speaker 1: circa nineteen ninety eight all of, a sudden which is a.
Speaker 1: Different topic that's a tough thing to Consider because walker's
Speaker 1: really Good and, Larry's awesome.
Speaker 2: But what do you make of? THAT potential i think it's.
Speaker 12: An option, For him, AND look i, think that, you
Speaker 12: know kind of continuing the teardown is more likely if
Speaker 12: they Don't Get, cooper, Flag, right like if you truly
Speaker 12: don't get A Franchise chining cross back then you're really.
Speaker 12: Talking about, you know If You're, tray johnson is the
Speaker 12: guy you get out of, this draft let's say at, Number,
Speaker 12: five yeah then it makes sense just to tank, another year,
Speaker 12: because again if you go for the eighth pick in
Speaker 12: the draft, or something then you're losing out on the
Speaker 12: the odds of A j Debanza Or darren Peterson Or
Speaker 12: cam boozer or these really again franchise changing prospects that
Speaker 12: are at the top of. THE draft i that, being Said,
Speaker 12: with cooper, you know maybe all of a sudden because
Speaker 12: he is, so good because he is kind of. GAME
Speaker 12: changing I think i think he's one of the best
Speaker 12: prospects we've seen in the. Last decade, YOU know i
Speaker 12: think he's a upper echelon number. One pick if that,
Speaker 12: MAKES sense, i would, you know kind of consider maybe
Speaker 12: doing something else there and maybe Build around Cooper and
Speaker 12: Lowry and walker and then try to acquire a franchise
Speaker 12: changing guard and see what you. Have there, but, yeah
Speaker 12: look it's this is not going to be a. Short
Speaker 12: Process the jazz are not going to make the playoffs,
Speaker 12: next year, you know like, it is and the front
Speaker 12: office has their eyes open. ABOUT that i think when
Speaker 12: they First Traded. Donovan rudy their hope was to flip
Speaker 12: the picks that they received for a star right to
Speaker 12: go big, Game hunting and what they've.
Speaker 4: Learned is that.
Speaker 12: That's nearly impossible to do if you don't already have
Speaker 12: a star on.
Speaker 4: The, roster yeah.
Speaker 1: And as MUCH as I, love lowry he's because one
Speaker 1: of THE things i try to do on the show
Speaker 1: is look at teams that maybe two three years ago
Speaker 1: were where the jazz are at that are playing. Well
Speaker 1: now and the problem With like Detroit is kid. Is
Speaker 1: awesome the problem with, you know Making the orlando Parallel
Speaker 1: is polo. Is AWESOME and i could keep going Shay,
Speaker 1: with okac but they just don't have that dude on
Speaker 1: the roster, right now.
Speaker 12: Right right and, you know, And again lowry is a really, Good,
Speaker 12: players like, you know he hasn't played that well, this
Speaker 12: SEASON but i think, there's realistic, YOU know i think
Speaker 12: there's a good chance.
Speaker 4: He'll just get back to kind of all star form
Speaker 4: in the years.
Speaker 12: To come but like, even, then yeah he's not, a
Speaker 12: distributor he's not. A playmaker he's not he's a, you know,
Speaker 12: a finisher to use. His nickname and so he needs
Speaker 12: to be set up by. His teammates he's he's not
Speaker 12: really making his teammates better in any real way other. Than,
Speaker 12: spacing yeah and So the jazz need someone Like A
Speaker 12: cape cunningham to create stuff for himself. And others, and
Speaker 12: yeah they have no one, on that no one who
Speaker 12: is going to be AT a nba star level to
Speaker 12: be able to, do that and probably not EVEN an nba,
Speaker 12: starter level, you Know unless Isaiah call your magically gets
Speaker 12: a jump Shot or kyante magically boosts the efficiency, in defense,
Speaker 12: you know five percent shooting and one hundred.
Speaker 1: PERCENT defense i was, gonna say it's, JUST like i
Speaker 1: think there are some things to Like.
Speaker 2: ABOUT kyante i.
Speaker 1: Really DO and i don't want to Sound like i'm
Speaker 1: constantly cracking, on HIM but i, YOU know I just
Speaker 1: i don't mean to sound high brow, about BASKETBALL but
Speaker 1: i just think most people that sit down and watch
Speaker 1: basketball watch the ball and watch the shots to. Go
Speaker 1: in if you Watch k kyanty, on defense there are
Speaker 1: five to ten moments every night or you're, just, like
Speaker 1: dude what are? You doing do you not know what
Speaker 1: you're supposed?
Speaker 4: To do are you not?
Speaker 2: Trying hard it is fun.
Speaker 4: To Watch will hardy's reactions during.
Speaker 2: Those, MOMENTS sure i will.
Speaker 12: Say THAT like i think the coaching staff is probably lower.
Speaker 4: On him than the.
Speaker 12: Fans, are YEAH and i may be in kind of
Speaker 12: the middle on THAT where.
Speaker 4: I think his last month has actually. Been better, you
Speaker 4: know like.
Speaker 12: We, TALKED about i made this comparison on the show the.
Speaker 12: Other day but, you Know If jordan clarkson's a four
Speaker 12: out of, ten DEFENDER which i don't know, if that
Speaker 12: let's say that's what. He is, You know kiante at
Speaker 12: the beginning of the season was probably one out, of
Speaker 12: ten And now kiante is probably a three out.
Speaker 4: Of ten and maybe he can get to four, or
Speaker 4: five and, you know you hope that.
Speaker 12: He can but it does limit his ability to play
Speaker 12: in a, starting lineup to be in at the end
Speaker 12: of games against good teams If the jazz are really
Speaker 12: trying to. Win games, and again maybe, that develops maybe.
Speaker 12: We'll see but his mentality has been so scoring focused
Speaker 12: and offensively focused that it will Change a it will
Speaker 12: require a mindset change for him to be kind of
Speaker 12: the level player he.
Speaker 1: Wants TO so i know that you know a lot,
Speaker 1: of guys a lot of, people men women. Or whatever
Speaker 1: i'm a fan of all that do this for. A
Speaker 1: living sometimes just zig when everyone else. Is zagging and
Speaker 1: So when Wam and yama, was available you'd hear basketball hipsters, be,
Speaker 1: LIKE hey i kind Of like scoot and, you're, like
Speaker 1: dude just don't.
Speaker 5: Do.
Speaker 1: That okay are we in a scenario now where you
Speaker 1: believe It's clearly cooper head and shoulders above? Everybody Else
Speaker 1: Does dylan harper move the needle for you?
Speaker 2: At all move?
Speaker 12: The needle he's really he's clearly the second. Best Prospect
Speaker 12: but Cooper is if you ASK thirty, nba gms they're.
Speaker 4: Getting thirty cooper.
Speaker 12: Flag picks like it's it's not even a question because
Speaker 12: of his production at At at duke has been incredible
Speaker 12: this year at. Age eighteen you don't like and just barely,
Speaker 12: for nineteen but like is. It's incredible he's so good
Speaker 12: and has advanced his game offensively in a number of really.
Speaker 12: Interesting ways, you know kind of the worry before was
Speaker 12: that he may not be able to be a number one.
Speaker 4: BALL handler i.
Speaker 12: Think those worries have been pretty much just waited at.
Speaker 12: This point like, he is he is. THAT good, i think,
Speaker 12: you know there's a chance He's A all nba second
Speaker 12: team guy rather Than AN.
Speaker 4: All nba first. Team guy, but like he is clearly the.
Speaker 1: Best prospective so he turned Eighteen, in december he'll turn
Speaker 1: nineteen this next, because, no no because usually you're right about.
Speaker 1: Most Things so, i'm, like WAIT because i thought he
Speaker 1: was going to be eighteen as. A rookie so he just,
Speaker 1: turned eighteen he'll turn Nineteen. Next december but your, point
Speaker 1: stands like that is still, so young and unless You
Speaker 1: are lebron or something, like it an expectation to be
Speaker 1: awesome right out of the gates of that age is really. Really,
Speaker 1: hard yeah even If You're cooper flack.
Speaker 12: And, you know we have the history of number one probably,
Speaker 12: you know like looking At What anthony davis Did And,
Speaker 12: zion williamson and, you know like some of these really
Speaker 12: awesome prospects that set the world up, as freshmen they
Speaker 12: weren't doing it at quite the Young age. Cooper is and,
Speaker 12: YOU know I think cooper is really unique in the
Speaker 12: way in how many different ways he can impact the
Speaker 12: game on, ball defense off, ball defense as, a playmaker as,
Speaker 12: a shooter as, a creator as a, rim finisher, in
Speaker 12: transition in. HALF court, i mean he just does have,
Speaker 12: it ALL and, i think like he doesn't have it
Speaker 12: all to a ten out of. Ten degree, you know
Speaker 12: he's not going to be one of the five best
Speaker 12: athletes IN the nba when he comes in. Or anything
Speaker 12: but he's just an eight or nine out of ten
Speaker 12: at everything such that like he becomes a really. Valuable
Speaker 12: player and, you know people have Used That kawhi leonard
Speaker 12: comp for him for a, long TIME and i kind
Speaker 12: of see it because of the kind of craft he
Speaker 12: plays with on the floor and again that he plays
Speaker 12: both ends of.
Speaker 4: The floor, so well.
Speaker 1: How many in, your estimation if We take cooper off
Speaker 1: the table and at the jazz fall pass one. Or
Speaker 1: two so It's, not cooper It's Not, dylan harper how
Speaker 1: many other prospects would excite you as far as you
Speaker 1: know the ability to.
Speaker 2: Step in and be pretty special. Right away.
Speaker 12: None of them are going to be special, RIGHT away i,
Speaker 12: don't think, you KNOW so i, would say, YOU know
Speaker 12: i would still be Excited About, ace bailey certainly just
Speaker 12: because of his ability to make tough shots at.
Speaker 4: His size, YOU know i think that's a really.
Speaker 12: Really interesting starting point for a prospect that again you're
Speaker 12: just not gonna get anywhere else besides the top five of.
Speaker 1: The.
Speaker 12: Draft vj edgecombe is again super interesting to me with
Speaker 12: the athleticism, And SCORING like I Saw donovan mitchell comparison
Speaker 12: to him the, other DAY and i don't think that,
Speaker 12: that's crazy, you know but that's a top, end, Outcome
Speaker 12: right and then some of the time he becomes a,
Speaker 12: you Know A victor oladipot or something. Like that, but
Speaker 12: regardless still a really. Good PLAYER but i don't know
Speaker 12: that his skill level is necessarily and his size is
Speaker 12: going to be a problem, early on like he's it's
Speaker 12: going to take him a year or two, to be,
Speaker 12: you know a twenty point score in the league. Or
Speaker 12: Something trey johnson again good score needs to probably up
Speaker 12: the physicality of his games and kind of the other
Speaker 12: non scoring aspects of. His game jessica zionis or however,
Speaker 12: YOU say i just butchered that can pass really.
Speaker 4: Well and also is disappearing a little Bit during. Illinois games, so.
Speaker 12: Yeah, YOU know i think the top two clearly Helped
Speaker 12: the jazz on. The court next year, after that you're
Speaker 12: talking about more of, a project more of a month
Speaker 12: of clay that needs to be molded to be a
Speaker 12: star in, the least you weren't.
Speaker 1: That bad it's casperis, Jacketcionis, jacket yes and he had
Speaker 1: a crazy good start to, the year but, your point
Speaker 1: he's fallen off over the past month and. A Half
Speaker 1: but illinois as a, sixth seed maybe he can do.
Speaker 2: Something, all right.
Speaker 1: Real quick washington rolls into town, last night And that's
Speaker 1: TANKATHON one. O one washington wins even though, they lose
Speaker 1: And the jazz lose even though.
Speaker 2: They win what are your thoughts on what happened?
Speaker 12: Last, night yeah impressed with How Poorly jordan Poole And
Speaker 12: marcus smart played for he should go one for seventeen from.
Speaker 4: THOSE guys, i mean that is that's next all.
Speaker 12: THE look, I mean i thought That the jazz had
Speaker 12: a brilliant taking move By Allowing walker kessro to.
Speaker 4: Shoot threes.
Speaker 12: For sure just letting fifty four free throw shooter take
Speaker 12: threes all of a sudden is fun and interesting and
Speaker 12: also probably really bad. For winning, but Yeah the wizards
Speaker 12: showed a new level, last night so the props.
Speaker 4: With them the two teams split their, their games and the.
Speaker 12: REMAINING it's i believe it's twelve games For the jazz
Speaker 12: four team For, the wizards we'll decide at all.
Speaker 4: What drama, you know.
Speaker 1: It's tough it's been tough. All year if YOU and
Speaker 1: i are of the, same mind it's the right thing.
Speaker 2: To do but it.
Speaker 1: Just sucks so we'll look forward to lottery night and
Speaker 1: hopefully something fun that. Can happen, all right prior to you,
Speaker 1: Stopping by i'll set you loose, After this pablo HEAD
Speaker 1: coach rsl. Stops by on the, positive side they've won two.
Speaker 1: Of three on the, Negative side houston is Horrific, in
Speaker 1: seattle can't Win.
Speaker 2: IN sandy i don't get that.
Speaker 1: At All, But Pablo, kurt jason all three of them
Speaker 1: on the show over the past couple. Of weeks two
Speaker 1: players sounds like two players on the way prior, TO
Speaker 1: that i Think it's april third is when the. Window
Speaker 1: closes any thoughts on what you'd like those players to
Speaker 1: look like for this club that needs.
Speaker 12: Attacking options there needs to be, attacking options and, YOU
Speaker 12: know i think clearly you look at the output of
Speaker 12: the forwards and it's, not terrible, you KNOW like i Like,
Speaker 12: RIP ol, i like but it's just not at a
Speaker 12: You know Forster and ari are going to be BOTTOM
Speaker 12: five mls.
Speaker 4: Starting forwards and.
Speaker 12: If you want to be a playoff, caliber team if
Speaker 12: you want to have a top ten offense IN, the
Speaker 12: mls if you really want to, contend again you need
Speaker 12: someone to score. Those goals and it Can't Be jago
Speaker 12: luna all.
Speaker 6: The.
Speaker 12: Time yep and so when you look at kind Of
Speaker 12: how diego's struggled since being COMING into rsl and BEING.
Speaker 12: A dp had the goal, last week which, is good,
Speaker 12: but ultimately, you know it was not a huge difference maker.
Speaker 4: So far they just need more talent, up top.
Speaker 12: And Especially if diego is going to be playing FOR
Speaker 12: the us men's national team at from, ten times.
Speaker 4: So yeah.
Speaker 12: We'll see, but yeah somewhere on, the wing somewhere in,
Speaker 12: the middle and just two attacking players that you can
Speaker 12: be kind of. Versatile with AND then, i, think uh,
Speaker 12: you know ideally your defense, would UPGRADE but i.
Speaker 4: Just don't know how you make that acquisition at.
Speaker 12: This point like right back is clearly a point and,
Speaker 12: could improve, but uh.
Speaker 4: It's hard to find. Right back it just it.
Speaker 1: Just Is well dallas, in town oursel, BACK home i,
Speaker 1: would imagine and you will be at the.
Speaker 2: Match up we'll. Be, there, Yep okay i'll, Let you i'll.
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Speaker 1: The utah women are at action coming up tomorrow Taking
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Speaker 1: Basketball program great To have tyson ewing back on the
Speaker 1: show On, A, thursday tyson how are your man being?
Speaker 6: Too long, I'm.
Speaker 7: Good spencer how, are?
Speaker 2: You sir i'm doing.
Speaker 1: Very well i'm doing, Very WELL so i appreciate. The
Speaker 1: time so before we get to, tomorrow's GAME since i
Speaker 1: have not had a chance to catch up, with you
Speaker 1: we had a coach on, LAST week i wonder how
Speaker 1: you have kind of digested this year with the coaching
Speaker 1: Change and alyssa, moving On and utah is still maintaining
Speaker 1: their success level advancing to their fourth tournament in.
Speaker 13: Four, YEARS well i think the overall season has, been very.
Speaker 13: VERY strong, i feel especially with the, coaching change there's
Speaker 13: a lot of uncertainties on what might. Have happened but
Speaker 13: keeping things uniform is the lay that was at the
Speaker 13: beginning of. The season Stepping having gavin step in and
Speaker 13: basically have it go as seamless as it possibly could
Speaker 13: has been. Extremely positive obviously a little disappointing down the
Speaker 13: stretch as far as the results of. Games goes but,
Speaker 13: You know utah does or did BRING back I guess
Speaker 13: i should say now a good majority of their Starters
Speaker 13: minus alyssa, last year AND so i think they had
Speaker 13: expectations from not just us in, the media in the,
Speaker 13: local media but national media as well to return Even Without,
Speaker 13: alyssa peelee and they've and they've obviously done enough to
Speaker 13: be right back in the. Situation again had a nice
Speaker 13: eight game winning streak During The big twelve play and
Speaker 13: struggle a little bit down, the STRETCH like, i mentioned
Speaker 13: lost three their last. Five games but this is a
Speaker 13: team that when they, get hot especially they're, outside shooting
Speaker 13: that could potentially make some damage in The upcoming. Instadably
Speaker 13: tournament what have.
Speaker 2: You noticed Most About Gavin.
Speaker 1: GAVIN peterson i think we've had him on the show
Speaker 1: four times, or so including this week when we were
Speaker 1: up At the Huntsman For alex jensen's introductory press and
Speaker 1: of course we all Love coach rob but she cannot
Speaker 1: say no. TO that, i mean it's one, of, like
Speaker 1: yeah you go do, your Thing and gavin strikes me
Speaker 1: as a, really positive kind of ray of sunshine. Type
Speaker 1: COACH and i just wonder what stood out most to
Speaker 1: You since gavin took over The program.
Speaker 13: For ME and i MENTIONED this i HAD earlier i
Speaker 13: was asked, this question and, for me what it's been
Speaker 13: for me is just, a large overwhelming excitement level from
Speaker 13: him to step into, this role to be up and ready.
Speaker 13: For it as far as the team goes and the
Speaker 13: way that, they've reacted it's been so fun to see
Speaker 13: how they have been able to just seamlessly take his
Speaker 13: energy and continue to. Move on, for Me what i've
Speaker 13: Loved about gavin is it just appears and this is
Speaker 13: obviously no disrespect to To coach rob, at all but
Speaker 13: it just appears As though gavin brings this Kind of
Speaker 13: He's from hawaii first, of all so he kind of
Speaker 13: brings this kind of calm sense, of like you, know what,
Speaker 13: everything's good. Everything's fine when he gets between. The lines
Speaker 13: obviously he could be, extremely intense especially, in practice being
Speaker 13: able to attend. Several practices But what i've loved about
Speaker 13: him And what i've noticed most as far as a change,
Speaker 13: would go because it disappears As though gavin's a little
Speaker 13: bit more down to earth maybe might be the best
Speaker 13: way to word it's he's a, lot more a lot
Speaker 13: more let's have fun type a type of coach outside
Speaker 13: of when it's between. The lines he's a guy that
Speaker 13: you can easily talk to. About anything and like, you
Speaker 13: said you had him on. LAST week i listened to
Speaker 13: that interview and good twenty minutes of where you were
Speaker 13: able to just have, a nice cool con conversation. With
Speaker 13: him and that's one Thing about gavin that he brings
Speaker 13: that he brings to every single day when you go
Speaker 13: and you talk to him about about the game. Of
Speaker 13: basketball but that's really, for me THAT'S where i would
Speaker 13: say it's been the. Biggest change but everything else obviously
Speaker 13: they've been together for they WORK together i should say
Speaker 13: for twelve years in, a row and a lot of
Speaker 13: the style of play that That coach lynn had he's
Speaker 13: been able to adapt and, BRING it i guess continued with.
Speaker 13: This team so not a lot of change other than
Speaker 13: just JUST like, I said i feel like he's a little,
Speaker 13: bit more, you know kind, of cool calm and. Collected
Speaker 13: type have.
Speaker 2: You noticed any, schematic difference?
Speaker 1: You Know and gavin kind of he gave me a
Speaker 1: little bit of a side EYE when i said you
Speaker 1: were kind of like the defensive coach For coach. Rob
Speaker 1: right he took an issue. With that, he's like, Come
Speaker 1: on i'm the. HEAD coach i do it. All now
Speaker 1: but and he was very upfront and honest about kicking
Speaker 1: the tires With coach rob throughout the course of the
Speaker 1: season to kind of get her take, on things how
Speaker 1: can he improve this or that. Or whatever and, you,
Speaker 1: know ultimately whether it's, you Know coach eiler taking Over
Speaker 1: For craig Smith Or mike pajakian taking Over for Andy.
Speaker 1: Lug ludwig when a good system is, in place you're
Speaker 1: not going to try and reinvent. The wheel And coach
Speaker 1: rob took this program to places that it hasn't been
Speaker 1: a number. Of years but is there any sort of
Speaker 1: a different schema approach after the, COACHING.
Speaker 13: Change i would, say no to your questions what you
Speaker 13: asked him, last week he would say that he necessarily
Speaker 13: wasn't the. DEFENSIVE coordinator i would say that kind of
Speaker 13: shifted when they kind of changed their style, of PLAY
Speaker 13: because i would absolutely say that he was quote the
Speaker 13: defensive coordinator up until about twenty goodness twenty twenty, twenty
Speaker 13: one when they made that shift and when they were
Speaker 13: going to start playing this type. Of basketball so but
Speaker 13: as far as the way that they're playing now these last,
Speaker 13: four years the One thing i've noticed is that there's
Speaker 13: a little bit more mid. Rangecome SHOTS and i mean
Speaker 13: that in one, Specific Player gianna neepkins is the type
Speaker 13: of player that can score from. Every facet And what
Speaker 13: i've seen is that it appears at Least that gavin
Speaker 13: is more than okay, and allowing especially in Certain Situations
Speaker 13: gianna neapkins to go one on one and stop and
Speaker 13: pop in the mid range when it felt like the
Speaker 13: last three and. Five game, three years in five Games before,
Speaker 13: lynn left very little times did we ever see anybody
Speaker 13: take a mid range jump.
Speaker 7: Shot unless it.
Speaker 13: Was desperation but now we're seeing Players. Like giana she's
Speaker 13: really the only player that's we've noticed that's taking those
Speaker 13: jump shots on a more. Frequent Basis but gianna will
Speaker 13: in the in the rhythm of, the offense stop and
Speaker 13: pop and take a mid range. Jump shot so other, than,
Speaker 13: THAT schematically i have not seen very many changes, at
Speaker 13: all both offensively.
Speaker 6: Or defensively and in the.
Speaker 1: Year that jiohn, has had if she wants to take
Speaker 1: mid range or take threes or whatever you want, to
Speaker 1: do just let her.
Speaker 2: Do it and she's not new to.
Speaker 1: The program but you know, the Question after alyssa took
Speaker 1: off with really a special, record setting, you Know so
Speaker 1: jordan with the utes was who's going to. Step up
Speaker 1: AND like, i said it's Not like giohn, is new
Speaker 1: but it feels like she's taken up this like next
Speaker 1: level of leadership and production because she's been one of
Speaker 1: the best players in the conference all year long here.
Speaker 13: For you, Absolutely correct she's a Player who there were
Speaker 13: a couple of instances in the last two Years. WITH
Speaker 13: alyssa i guess it was a year and eight games
Speaker 13: before she got hurt to where where she could take over,
Speaker 13: in games and so we knew that she had this
Speaker 13: mentality of being able to take over when it. Was
Speaker 13: necessary ONE game i remember is when you saw two
Speaker 13: years ago got a big win Over At oregon state
Speaker 13: in a Game where gianna scored the majority of those fourth.
Speaker 13: Quarter points and so that's when we Knew that gianna
Speaker 13: could potentially be that type of person, this year like,
Speaker 13: you stated she's she's she's taken over and she has
Speaker 13: had to be that type of player who you give
Speaker 13: the ball to and she can create, for herself and
Speaker 13: she has, done that averaging nineteen points. A game but
Speaker 13: she's done it extremely efficiently, as well and she's one
Speaker 13: of the only players in the. Entire country, IN fact
Speaker 13: i can't even think of anybody Other than kennedy McQueen
Speaker 13: and maybe one other player in the nation who's flirting.
Speaker 6: With a fifty to.
Speaker 13: Forty ninety so being able to, do it but do
Speaker 13: it at a level of consistency the way she's doing
Speaker 13: it is. So impressive averaging nineteen points, a game but
Speaker 13: shooting fifty percent from, the floor forty five percent, from
Speaker 13: three and it's just a little shy of ninety percent
Speaker 13: from the free throw. A line so showing she can
Speaker 13: do it on all three levels is. Super impressive and,
Speaker 13: you know we're just hoping that after the, season ends
Speaker 13: whenever that, might be that she decides she wants to
Speaker 13: come back for her last year.
Speaker 1: Of, Eligibility, yeah junior she can still, come back and
Speaker 1: she'd probably break every record in the book if. SHE
Speaker 1: did i wonder what, Your take tyson is on the
Speaker 1: depth and the ability of this roster to get gone from,
Speaker 1: the outside because as you look at, the stats they
Speaker 1: have seven players that have taken at least fifty three,
Speaker 1: point shots and you know it's a team oftentimes they'll, go,
Speaker 1: eight nine, you know maybe even sometimes.
Speaker 2: Ten deep but talk about that a.
Speaker 1: Little bit how many Options that gavin has at his
Speaker 1: disposal and how many players can get gone from.
Speaker 13: The, outside well that's the one thing that has been
Speaker 13: so impressive this year is that they can rely on
Speaker 13: players off. The bench you Think Of reese ross as
Speaker 13: one that comes. To mind obviously you Talked About. Maddy
Speaker 13: wilkie she obviously hit a huge shot a couple of.
Speaker 13: Weeks ago both of those players consistently coming off. The
Speaker 13: bench i'll Start with Reese because reese is a type
Speaker 13: of player who prototypically she appears as though she is
Speaker 13: the type to just go and attack, the basket but
Speaker 13: she is also the player that can step back and
Speaker 13: knock down a. Three reef on, The season she's one
Speaker 13: of the players that shot fifty three sixteen to fifty,
Speaker 13: this year so shown that she can knock down, that
Speaker 13: three shooting thirty two percent from beyond. The Arc But
Speaker 13: maddy wilkie is a legit three, point shooter one that
Speaker 13: we are extremely lucky to.
Speaker 7: Have coming off.
Speaker 13: The bench she this season shooting forty. Three percent one
Speaker 13: of those other players that's flirting with a fifty forty
Speaker 13: ninety from beyond. The arc so if YOU have, I
Speaker 13: mean i've already talked. About it kennedy McQueen is another
Speaker 13: player that averages fifty. Forty ninety if you have three
Speaker 13: players that can consistently shoot the way that, you talk
Speaker 13: and you're going to be able to be in any
Speaker 13: single game that in any game that you are a,
Speaker 13: part of and, you know other than a couple of
Speaker 13: games that we can think of that maybe they just
Speaker 13: kind of shot themselves out. Of it when you have
Speaker 13: the ability to knock down shots The way, Utah DOES like,
Speaker 13: I said i feel like, they're able uh to be in.
Speaker 13: Any game and this dial of offense that you think
Speaker 13: back to To win lynn brought it In And gavin
Speaker 13: peterson has continued To run it's it's an offense that
Speaker 13: basically requires you to have s take the.
Speaker 7: Outside shot a player that.
Speaker 13: Came in that was not. Doing That maya tore has
Speaker 13: taken seventy eight three pointers.
Speaker 7: This year she's hit twenty two. Of them before.
Speaker 13: This year her career high in three pointers made and
Speaker 13: the season. Was twelve so just kind of showing that
Speaker 13: this is a player who played four Years At rhode
Speaker 13: island didn't really take a lot of, outside shots but
Speaker 13: this offense has kind of allowed players that ability to
Speaker 13: if you can. Shoot it we want you to shoot
Speaker 13: that shot as much. As possible and it's, been very,
Speaker 13: very effective and so obviously it's going to be key Tomorrow,
Speaker 13: against indiana and if we can potentially get that One,
Speaker 13: over indiana it's going to be extremely important to be
Speaker 13: able to have that outside shooting if we get paired
Speaker 13: Up Against south Carolina, on sunday.
Speaker 1: And we'll get we'll get there in. A moment BECAUSE
Speaker 1: when i saw, the draw, of course my eyes went.
Speaker 1: Around TWO and i Even got gavin to admit a
Speaker 1: little bit like you're looking at like it's All. About
Speaker 1: indiana but if You, beat indiana you run into this
Speaker 1: Now That don staley. Has built but let me ask
Speaker 1: you this Question because giohn is. A junior as we,
Speaker 1: Talked about kennedy's.
Speaker 2: A senior, You know.
Speaker 1: Jenna's senior we've seen a lot of these, players before,
Speaker 1: and yes the question was with a list had taken
Speaker 1: off for the pros who would? Step up but of
Speaker 1: the players that you weren't overly, familiar with who stood?
Speaker 2: Out most he was a pleasant surprise on.
Speaker 13: This roster, For me i've already mentioned her. This year,
Speaker 13: FOR me i Would Say matti willkie has been a
Speaker 13: player that consistently has been able to come off the
Speaker 13: bench and knocked on those. Outside SHOTS so i Would
Speaker 13: say maddie maybe not necessarily a surprise because we saw
Speaker 13: glimpses last year to where she could be extremely important down.
Speaker 13: The stretch but, FOR me i love the way that she.
Speaker 13: Plays defense he's a very tough. Nosed defender she's somebody
Speaker 13: that will guard one of the better defenders or of
Speaker 13: the best offensive Players whenever kennedy's not on, this Floor
Speaker 13: because kennedy definitely takes that. Role on But if kennedy takes,
Speaker 13: the seat then it's going To be maddie coming in
Speaker 13: guarding the best offensive player on the. Opposing team but
Speaker 13: she has the ability to knock, that out knocked down that,
Speaker 13: outside shots shooting forty from the floor and forty three
Speaker 13: percent from the three point line. This year but her
Speaker 13: ability to as well attack. The basket she's shown glimpses
Speaker 13: this year to where she can rely on that. As
Speaker 13: WELL so i, would say just, you know as far
Speaker 13: as players have really stuck out to me that, you
Speaker 13: know aren't of those names that, You'd mentioned maddie is
Speaker 13: really the one that sticks out to.
Speaker 1: Me before we get to tomorrow's matchup and what could.
Speaker 1: Lie ahead i'm actually just noticing THIS and i wonder
Speaker 1: what your thoughts are. On IT and i don't know
Speaker 1: how much is, there there but, you know from a,
Speaker 1: recruiting perspective we oftentimes, talk, about uh the necessity to
Speaker 1: get the in, state kids the good players that are,
Speaker 1: in state and then supplement that with stars from. Other
Speaker 1: places this team Has two utah players. On It it's
Speaker 1: alyssa And, it's kennedy and then everyone else is either
Speaker 1: From the states and they've got international flavor. As well
Speaker 1: i'm truly just learning this in. Real, time well what
Speaker 1: what does that? Say about, you know Certainly, coach rob
Speaker 1: but this program's ability, to find, you know players in
Speaker 1: places that are somewhat random and and how is that
Speaker 1: kind of cooked into the way this this thing has
Speaker 1: Been built.
Speaker 13: That that is such a, great question BECAUSE when i
Speaker 13: look this OVER and i think about it on a,
Speaker 13: frequent basis one of the things that sticks out to
Speaker 13: me IS when i first stepped into this program nine
Speaker 13: years ago and started, Doing games utah's Pipeline. Was canada
Speaker 13: canada was was the was the was the hub To
Speaker 13: where utah was building their. Players around that's altered over
Speaker 13: the last five years. Or so whereas, right now obviously
Speaker 13: you Think, of gianna you Think Of. Jenna johnson both
Speaker 13: come From. From minnesota that north that Kind, of northwest
Speaker 13: kind of The, THE midwest i, should say has become
Speaker 13: Huge in utah's ability to be able to recruit those type.
Speaker 13: Of players obviously we talked about just a Moment Ago.
Speaker 13: Rhees ross He's From, Rapid City. South dakota you Go
Speaker 13: down gianna From, D, Luth Minnesota Brook walker's Amando. Over
Speaker 13: Kansas so utah has done such a nice job of
Speaker 13: honing in On. The midwest AND when i think, about
Speaker 13: this you think about next year and just kind of
Speaker 13: giving a little bit of what to look. Forward to
Speaker 13: the top recruiting Class in utah women's basketball history comes in,
Speaker 13: next year and two of them are From. The midwest
Speaker 13: one of them Is. From texas the One from texas
Speaker 13: is a five. Star athlete she's going to be the
Speaker 13: highest rate to recruit in you tell women's. Basketball history
Speaker 13: and then two, four stars One from oklahoma and One.
Speaker 13: From illinois there's a Potential and i'm just gonna throwing
Speaker 13: this out there right now at the potential of maybe
Speaker 13: adding one More. From oklahoma one just Decommitted, from AUBURN
Speaker 13: and i know she's good friends with the recruit that's
Speaker 13: coming In. From oklahoma so it's been fun to See
Speaker 13: how utah has adapted over. The Years HOW like, i
Speaker 13: SAID when i, first STARTED when i first started in,
Speaker 13: the program it Was, all canada and now it seems
Speaker 13: to Be that midwest where they're really honing in On
Speaker 13: the midwest and we're seeing absolutely tremendous players come in
Speaker 13: and make a big difference immediately From.
Speaker 6: The midwest and.
Speaker 13: You just Talked To, gavin peterson he'll and he'll just
Speaker 13: absolutely ooze over the fact that these recruits that, are
Speaker 13: leaving or the players are leaving, THIS year i, should
Speaker 13: say who have completely changed this program to what, it
Speaker 13: was to what it is now and what continue what
Speaker 13: it can continue to be in the years.
Speaker 1: To come so let's move over now to what's next
Speaker 1: and what you've kind of learned in. Your Prep terry
Speaker 1: morin has Been in indiana for a, decade now and
Speaker 1: that's the Nine seed utah will. Face tomorrow and when
Speaker 1: you just kind of scroll up and down Their season
Speaker 1: they've got some very, impressive wins and you know they've
Speaker 1: beat some top twenty teams and they NEARLY, upended usc
Speaker 1: the second best team in the country according to. The
Speaker 1: polls so what should we know About what indiana does
Speaker 1: well and how do how do How does utah counteract
Speaker 1: have to get this?
Speaker 2: Win Tomorrow, TYSON well i would.
Speaker 13: Say that this is a very very similar team in
Speaker 13: the style of Play that utah likes. To play this
Speaker 13: is a team that likes to shoot the three, point
Speaker 13: shot a team that it's. Very active should the three
Speaker 13: point shot good for third In The big ten, this
Speaker 13: year eighteenth in. The country so look for them to
Speaker 13: similarly similarly To what, utah does take that outside shot
Speaker 13: and connect on a. FREQUENT basis i could imagine that's
Speaker 13: going to be one of the keys in, tomorrow game
Speaker 13: is looking to take that three point. Shot away but
Speaker 13: they again are. Extremely efficient they DO not i, will
Speaker 13: say they do not rebound the basketball. Very well so
Speaker 13: if you're looking for a potential Key that utah can potentially,
Speaker 13: win tomorrow it's win the battle of.
Speaker 4: The.
Speaker 13: Boards oh gavin is very heavy, on that especially. Offensive
Speaker 13: rebounding when you have the opportunity To after misshoff to
Speaker 13: put it back up. And end this is a Team
Speaker 13: in utah that likes to crash, the Glass but indiana
Speaker 13: is not a very good, rebounding team so that could
Speaker 13: be an Edge that utah to. Potentially have and really other,
Speaker 13: than THAT like, i said very similar style of Play.
Speaker 13: To utah they don't turn the ball over. Very much
Speaker 13: that might be A difference utah has kind of struggled
Speaker 13: with in the basketball over, l Lately but indiana does
Speaker 13: not turn the basketball over. Too often so those are
Speaker 13: kind of three areas and three, point shot rebounding and
Speaker 13: then turning over. To basketball it could be keys in
Speaker 13: tomorrow's Game for utah to potentially come up and get
Speaker 13: to Win In.
Speaker 1: South carolina so BEFORE we i do have a quick
Speaker 1: job because you're still doing the, jazz stuff, Aren't? YOU
Speaker 1: tyson I am, Kiah OKAY so i have a quick
Speaker 1: jazz question. For it but before we, get there, of
Speaker 1: course we know That if utah Does, beat indiana they
Speaker 1: will advance on to play this Juggerna That don staley.
Speaker 1: Has BUILT and I thought gavin handled it BEAUTIFULLY when i,
Speaker 1: asked him just talking about what a great experience it
Speaker 1: would be a, great opportunity would be, a look it
Speaker 1: would take a shock the. WORLD performance, i mean that's
Speaker 1: how Good The south carolina. Team is but what are
Speaker 1: your Thoughts should utah advance two round two to Take On?
Speaker 13: South carolina so earlier today walk down with my partner
Speaker 13: down to the arena to go grab our. Media credentials
Speaker 13: we were talking about that exact point to Where if
Speaker 13: utah does win this, game tomorrow they do have the
Speaker 13: opportunity to play On a sunday afternoon in front Of
Speaker 13: The south carolina crowd.
Speaker 7: That would absolutely show up and.
Speaker 13: Show out with it being the last time they get
Speaker 13: a home game, this season.
Speaker 7: The opportunity would.
Speaker 13: Be, incredible obviously this is a team that has shown
Speaker 13: so much success over the years as the reigning, national
Speaker 13: champions a tremendous head Coach In don staley who has
Speaker 13: taken this program and elevated it to a level of of,
Speaker 13: absolute excellency and so being able to have that opportunity
Speaker 13: to potentially go in there and have, AN upset, i
Speaker 13: mean if you If if utah was to pull off,
Speaker 13: the upset let's, JUST again i know we're being h
Speaker 13: we're looking ahead a, Little, bit uh, but if But
Speaker 13: if utah was potentially go in there pull off, an
Speaker 13: upset that would be the talk of the entire week
Speaker 13: in the. National media so it would be an. Incredible
Speaker 13: opportunity but just to have the chance to be there
Speaker 13: to see WHAT and i Love what gavin said to
Speaker 13: you when you talked to him, about that to see
Speaker 13: what you taught could potentially build, if they, you know
Speaker 13: follow that type of uh that uh go down that
Speaker 13: line and Follow What south. Carolina does so what the
Speaker 13: potential could could be in. WOMEN'S basketball i think that
Speaker 13: would be. Just incredible and, YOU know, i Obviously like,
Speaker 13: gavin said we're gonna Look at indiana and we'll look
Speaker 13: down those lines if we get. That opportunity but just
Speaker 13: that chance would be so, So INCREDIBLE and I know
Speaker 13: i would love it from a perspective of just being
Speaker 13: in the building and seeing these seeing these fans show
Speaker 13: up and, SHOW out i think it'd.
Speaker 7: Be Amazing, all.
Speaker 1: RIGHT before i set, you loose in addition to you
Speaker 1: your duties Collegen the utah women's, basketball games you've been
Speaker 1: how long you've been doing the broadcast statistician stuff Over
Speaker 1: the jazz, now ties.
Speaker 13: This is my eleventh year With, the jazz ninth Year,
Speaker 13: with utah eleventh year With.
Speaker 8: The jazz.
Speaker 2: That's wild.
Speaker 1: That's wild so this is a new experience for all
Speaker 1: of us that know, the history the rich history and
Speaker 1: tradition of winning basketball And salt. A can i, it's,
Speaker 1: tough MAN because i actually think they're doing the.
Speaker 2: RIGHT thing i just think. IT sucks i don't know
Speaker 2: how to.
Speaker 1: Say it what's it been like for you to observe
Speaker 1: this and are there some things you've been able to
Speaker 1: notice that are actually tangible for fans to latch onto
Speaker 1: even though the winning is just not?
Speaker 13: There yet, MAN more, i mean everybody's gonna, say, it,
Speaker 13: Right everybody you're going to get the same. Exact answer
Speaker 13: the what what they want.
Speaker 7: To see more than anything is being able to develop.
Speaker 4: The.
Speaker 13: Youth right everybody's saying those, exact terms which. Is great
Speaker 13: it really is great.
Speaker 8: To be able to.
Speaker 13: See that but like, you said it sucks at times
Speaker 13: just to be able.
Speaker 6: To walk into, the gym HAVE this nba game.
Speaker 13: In front of you and know that they're trying to
Speaker 13: not win. The Game is i'm kind of delicately word that.
Speaker 1: You need to keep.
Speaker 2: YOUR job i don't work.
Speaker 1: There anymore so you. BE careful i want you to keep.
Speaker 1: Your gig it doesn't move the needle for, me, anymore so.
Speaker 13: You KNOW but i mean like when you see when
Speaker 13: a couple of, Games ago laurie markten playing the first half,
Speaker 13: The lead utah leads it, to half and then They
Speaker 13: pull laurie and doesn't play any entire. Second half they
Speaker 13: end up losing. THAT game i didn't see what happened
Speaker 13: In the wizard's game yesterday for them to be able
Speaker 13: to get. That win but it is one of those
Speaker 13: things that is clear that we're trying. NEW things, i
Speaker 13: mean the, big thing that's the big thing that's surprising
Speaker 13: to me is, seeing how, you know what can, We
Speaker 13: do what Can the jazz do in the middle of
Speaker 13: a game to potentially not. Win, it well Let's Put
Speaker 13: walker kessler in a position to where he set the screen,
Speaker 13: popped out they play a pick and pop and he
Speaker 13: shoots a three pointer from. Straight away oh just it
Speaker 13: just kind of seems a, little odd but you know what.
Speaker 13: It is although it does, at times like you've eloquently, put,
Speaker 13: it suck it is going to be interesting to see
Speaker 13: what they decide to do and how this roster will
Speaker 13: look in the, upcoming years whatever draft picks they. Might get,
Speaker 13: either way it is definitely interesting AND can't i can't
Speaker 13: wait to see what they decide.
Speaker 1: To do whatever, it is, well. Said buddy i'm stun
Speaker 1: you weren't Locked Into jazz wizards, last Night but i'll
Speaker 1: give you a pass on. That one, all, RIGHT dude
Speaker 1: i appreciate. The time have a great.
Speaker 2: Call, Tomorrow. Thanks, tyson okay.
Speaker 7: Thank you we'll talk to it.
Speaker 2: All Right tyson ewing the voice Of the utah women's.
Speaker 1: Basketball Program the utah women are in action coming up
Speaker 1: tomorrow at eleven Thirty Am. Mountain Time It's. Utah indiana
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Speaker 2: O'clock hour bowler called a lot Of Memorable.
Speaker 1: March madness games back when he WAS, with cbs and
Speaker 1: we're gonna Talk Some. March madness we're gonna talk some
Speaker 1: college Basketball, with craig and we'll TALK, some byu we'll Talk,
Speaker 1: some utah we'll Talk Some utah state and then we'll
Speaker 1: do some fun jazz conversation. As well SPEAKING, of byu they,
Speaker 1: Advanced today survive. In advance that's the name of the
Speaker 1: Game in march if you're a college basketball team and bringing.
Speaker 1: Me on able to ADVANCE past vcu after a pretty,
Speaker 1: hair start it was eighty to.
Speaker 2: Seventy one that's. Your final it was back, and forth back.
Speaker 1: And forth then with about three minutes left in the,
Speaker 1: FIRST half byu ran AWAY and vcu kind of made
Speaker 1: a little bit of a, late charge but never was
Speaker 1: really all. That close really good Game From, richie saunders
Speaker 1: who was the most improved player In The big twelve.
Speaker 2: This year richie had. Sixteen points he also had.
Speaker 1: FOUR boards byu did not shoot the, lights out but
Speaker 1: they were able to, play really really solid defense and
Speaker 1: do just enough when it came to their free. Throw
Speaker 1: line they went to the free throw line twenty, eight
Speaker 1: times a really aggressive. Game plan fustre came off the
Speaker 1: bench in, nineteen minutes had. Thirteen points he had. Nine
Speaker 1: boards he also had four. Offensive Rebounds diegor dema got
Speaker 1: off to a, hot start cooled a little bit, later
Speaker 1: on but he did have, fifteen points.
Speaker 2: Four boards and. TO assist byu was able.
Speaker 1: TO advance vcu was not really able to do much
Speaker 1: really during. That run at the end of the first
Speaker 1: half into the, second Half, zeb jackson who's actually their,
Speaker 1: sixth MAN led vcu with twenty, three Points but byu
Speaker 1: advances and they will Take, on wisconsin Who beat montana
Speaker 1: earlier today eighty five to. SIXTY six i would imagine
Speaker 1: When the vegas line comes out for, THAT one byu
Speaker 1: will be A, underdog wisconsin, of course a new coach
Speaker 1: and a new, offensive Approach As ken pomeroy kind of
Speaker 1: outline on the. Show yesterday so the late afternoon tilt
Speaker 1: is going on. Right now we'll get you up today
Speaker 1: With some. March madness Tennessee leads wafford seventeen. To eight
Speaker 1: that's a two point fifteen matchup out Of the midwest
Speaker 1: region in the. First round and then we are just
Speaker 1: moments away from Tip between Arkansas. And kansas That Is,
Speaker 1: john calipari That is. Bill Self After kazan kansas tip Off,
Speaker 1: In providence ballerina Will have Yale AND texas a And
Speaker 1: m yale, Thirteen SEED texas a AND m a four seed.
Speaker 2: Move Over to Drake. And missouri that's an eleven.
Speaker 1: Six matchup then we move over to the night Tilt,
Speaker 1: in Providence it's Omaha And. Saint John's It's rick patino
Speaker 1: and Former You. Davon smith one of kind of the
Speaker 1: sexy under the radar picks to win the national championship
Speaker 1: this year is a two seed.
Speaker 2: Out Of The.
Speaker 1: WEST region a five to twelve Matchup is Michigan the
Speaker 1: big ten champ TAKEN On Uc. San diego that's Also.
Speaker 1: In denver then at eight Ten ON, TRUE Tv unc
Speaker 1: wilmington Takes On.
Speaker 2: Texas tech out Of the.
Speaker 1: Big twelve let's get you the up to date finals
Speaker 1: games that have already. Gone Gone final gonzaga took Care
Speaker 1: of georgia and it was. Not close eighty nine to.
Speaker 1: Sixty eight creighton with an, upset earlier the eight seed
Speaker 1: over the. Nine, SEED guy i should say the nine
Speaker 1: seed over the eight seed eighty nine to. Seventy five
Speaker 1: creighton has won a first round matchup in four.
Speaker 2: Straight Years Former.
Speaker 1: Utah state Point Guard steve ashworth had a really really
Speaker 1: good game. For them i'll, BE honest i did Not
Speaker 1: Know stephen ashworth was still in. COLLEGE basketball i think
Speaker 1: he's like TWENTY eight i think he has like a
Speaker 1: four year.
Speaker 2: Old son but they were able to get. That done
Speaker 2: your five to.
Speaker 1: Twelve matchup as far as the upset is in, the
Speaker 1: books McNeice ran out to a thirty one to thirteen
Speaker 1: Lead over clemson and then they barely hung on for
Speaker 1: a sixty nine sixty. Seven win purdue had a pesky high,
Speaker 1: point team but they were able to beat them seventy
Speaker 1: five to.
Speaker 2: Sixty three that's a four to.
Speaker 1: Thirteen MATCHUP as, I referenced Wisconsin smoked montana eighty five to,
Speaker 1: Sixty six auburn no Problems With alabama state eighty three to,
Speaker 1: sixty three And then houston pretty MUCH Embarrassed. Siu edwardsville
Speaker 1: that is a one sixteen matchup then in seventy eight,
Speaker 1: to forty and honestly it was not. That close later,
Speaker 1: on tonight seven, Twenty Five mountain TIME, On Tnt utah
Speaker 1: state will TAKE. On Ucla utah state is at five
Speaker 1: point five. Point underdog that game is taking Place At
Speaker 1: rupp Arena, In. Lexington kentucky so the Madness of march
Speaker 1: continues and we have our. Bracket challenge hopefully you guys
Speaker 1: are playing along and porter do you have the leaderboard
Speaker 1: up FOR the espn seven hundred crew on the bracket.
Speaker 2: Challenge side have you been able to check that and
Speaker 2: pull it up? Just yet.
Speaker 3: NOT recently I know i'm not doing doing too hot
Speaker 3: so far though.
Speaker 1: It's early yeah, it is but let me just refresh this.
Speaker 1: Real quick, first, place huh let's, see me no. Big
Speaker 1: deal i'm Tied With Cavon. KEEVON motiz i Didn't know
Speaker 1: kavon was still allowed to fill out a bracket because he.
Speaker 1: Ditched us but it's Me, And caveon and How About
Speaker 1: jeff schwartz football guy in, First Place sarah todd from
Speaker 1: The d news And Second, James Peterson, Gordy Chase, porter
Speaker 1: Larson And. Scott mitchell alonzo is in last place and that.
Speaker 2: Feels right oc is.
Speaker 1: Also tied so it is, very Early but i'll take
Speaker 1: the early lead with, seven points but we're all behind the,
Speaker 1: actual leaders which is most of. Our listeners we have
Speaker 1: five listeners with eight points, right now so you can
Speaker 1: LOG onto espn seven hundred sports dot com to. Follow
Speaker 1: along And as, porter referenced it is EARLY and i
Speaker 1: will not stay in the LEAD because I had louisville
Speaker 1: Advancing past creighton and Then, beating Auburn and louisville Lost
Speaker 1: to creighton. Earlier today so, of course it is the Madness,
Speaker 1: of march and we've talked a Lot of march madness on.
Speaker 1: The Program The utah jazz welcome In The. Washington wizards
Speaker 1: Last Night tanka palooza two thousand and twenty five went
Speaker 1: the way Of the wizards Because the jazz won one
Speaker 1: twenty eight to.
Speaker 2: One Twelve the.
Speaker 1: Jazz will welcome In The World Champs boston celtics coming
Speaker 1: up tomorrow night At The. Delta center just so, you
Speaker 1: know so a busy night of pro basketball tonight does
Speaker 1: not Include The. Utah Jazz andy larson hoped on the program.
Speaker 1: Earlier today if you missed, that conversation log onto our
Speaker 1: podcast page of.
Speaker 2: The website we talked a lot, about prospects.
Speaker 1: A lot about some of these young players, that, you
Speaker 1: guys If you're, jazz fans you can watch IN the.
Speaker 2: Ncaa tournament if you're.
Speaker 1: Wondering exactly Why the jazz are, doing this you should Check,
Speaker 1: out duke, of course and if things go the, Right
Speaker 1: way duke could advance in the second round to Take
Speaker 1: on Baylor and if that's, The case duke will take
Speaker 1: Take On Mount saint mary's tomorrow And Then Baylor mississippi
Speaker 1: state will take place tomorrow. As Well if Baylor and,
Speaker 1: duke advance you Will See cooper FLAG And vj edgecombe
Speaker 1: on the. Same, FLOOR now vj is to be thought
Speaker 1: to be a top. Four prospect the problem is the
Speaker 1: other prospects in the top Four Are ace Bailey And,
Speaker 1: dylan Harper and rutgers didn't even make it out of
Speaker 1: the first round of their, conference tournament so they. Go home,
Speaker 1: but Yes The March badness tournament is oftentimes a OPPORTUNITY
Speaker 1: for nba fans to watch some prospects to, you know
Speaker 1: give you a little bit of encouragement as to why
Speaker 1: your team might be in, a rebuild And the jazz
Speaker 1: certainly are in.
Speaker 2: A rebuild rsl will TAKE On fc dallas coming Up.
Speaker 1: On saturday back At, The, RIOT yes i still call It.
Speaker 2: The riot got Up.
Speaker 1: With pablo macechaoni. Earlier today some interesting stuff for ourself
Speaker 1: fans if you. Missed it pablo's surmise that there are
Speaker 1: two players that they have spoken to over the past,
Speaker 1: you know number of days that he believes they'll get
Speaker 1: basically past the dotted line prior To that april thirtieth.
Speaker 1: Trade deadline, Excuse me april thirtieth transfer window is what
Speaker 1: they call it in, professional soccer and we're told that
Speaker 1: a nine could be on the way and another winger.
Speaker 1: AS well rsl this weekend will Be Without, diego luna
Speaker 1: who is WITH the us men's, national team and the
Speaker 1: men's national team is actually playing. Right now they just
Speaker 1: got gooling IN a i believe It's The, league's Cup
Speaker 1: THE Conka Caff nations league to way too, many, Cups
Speaker 1: man i'm just over all the cups.
Speaker 2: In soccer too.
Speaker 1: Many cups But The nations league is going on tonight
Speaker 1: AND it's Us. And panama this is kind of a
Speaker 1: BIG Game, us, panama right they kind of. Need it
Speaker 1: it's not a. Big Game andy larson is. Still here
Speaker 1: he's our. Soccer expert so it's just an opportunity to
Speaker 1: Hopefully watch diego, play, Tonight Right diego LUNA So us
Speaker 1: panama on the, thirteenth minute and then later on it's
Speaker 1: To be Canada. And mexico Dominic mark zuk is Also
Speaker 1: with poland For Their world, cup qualification so he is
Speaker 1: not going to be with the team coming Up on,
Speaker 1: saturday EITHER so rsl hoping to continue their winning ways
Speaker 1: after grabbing a win on the Road against houston and
Speaker 1: then that came off the heels of a Lost Against.
Speaker 1: San diego but prior, to that the home OPENER and
Speaker 1: mls play went rosales Way as seattle just can't win.
Speaker 1: Down here it's kind of a, weird thing but a
Speaker 1: lot going on. Right now Big Twelve pro Day for utah.
Speaker 1: Football Players caleb loner running a four, six forty which
Speaker 1: is noteworthy because he has never trained really for the
Speaker 1: forty as a basketball player who just started playing football.
Speaker 1: This year caleb's a big body. KID man i wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised if somebody takes a shot. Out him all
Speaker 1: four of his catches for the utes this year and it,
Speaker 1: in touchdowns had four touchdowns at the, Goal line so
Speaker 1: a little bit of. College football kind of a quiet
Speaker 1: time of course, right now and both pro and. College
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Speaker 1: Was able to ADVANCE past vcu behind a pretty, balanced
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Speaker 2: Second THAT allowed byu to.
Speaker 1: Pull away when this, game started the line had moved,
Speaker 1: down again so the line moved three times and every
Speaker 1: time the line moved it WENT. Towards vcu prior. To
Speaker 1: tip it SETTLED at byu minus one. Point Five so
Speaker 1: vegas thought this would be a, nail bier and it was,
Speaker 1: early ON, but byu on two, separate occasions just went
Speaker 1: on this really really good run where they were able
Speaker 1: to get out in transition and knock down a. Few
Speaker 1: Threes jegor demon got them started and then kind, of
Speaker 1: cooled but he had a really good, first half finished
Speaker 1: with fifteen points and. Four Boards richie saunders was kind
Speaker 1: of a conduit in the second half with the aggressive
Speaker 1: drives to. The bucket he had, sixteen points four rebounds
Speaker 1: to assist. TWO steals byu was only seven of twenty
Speaker 1: from the three. Point line now that's not a bad
Speaker 1: personage thirty five is in. That bat i'm just surprised
Speaker 1: they didn't get more than twenty. Threes off trevinnell knocked
Speaker 1: down a couple. Of Threes dawson baker, came in had some.
Speaker 1: Good minutes foustrerion only, nineteen minutes had, thirteen points, nine
Speaker 1: rebounds and four of those. WERE offensive byu with fourteen
Speaker 1: offensive rebounds and now rebounded the team that on paper
Speaker 1: is a lot bigger than.
Speaker 2: THEY are byu had forty REBOUNDS and vcu had.
Speaker 1: THIRTY one vc who has three six ten dudes in
Speaker 1: their LINEUP leading vcu With zeb jackson is actually their.
Speaker 1: Sixth man he had twenty. Three points he was five
Speaker 1: to ten, from three nine to fourteen from. The floor
Speaker 1: AND now byu advances into the round of thirty two
Speaker 1: where they're going to Take, on wisconsin Who beat montana
Speaker 1: earlier today eighty five to sixty. Sixty six coming up
Speaker 1: at about an hour and twenty five. Minutes form, right
Speaker 1: Now It's utah. States turn they Are At rupp Arena, In,
Speaker 1: lexington kentucky where they're going to take ON The ucla
Speaker 1: Bruins And utah state as of, right now.
Speaker 2: A five point five point underdog.
Speaker 1: Against mccronin, Excuse ME Ucla ucla bruins at a very
Speaker 1: historic venue in the world of. College basketball so b
Speaker 1: why you get to? The win So Hope utah state can.
Speaker 1: Follow suits as far as some of the notable Games
Speaker 1: From march, madness today some. Earlier results gonzaga Ran By
Speaker 1: georgia creighton for the fourth, straight tournament wins a first
Speaker 1: round Game Behind, steven Ashworth Former utah state. Point guard
Speaker 1: They beat louisville eighty nine to. Seventy five we already
Speaker 1: Have the evergreen five to. Twelve upset is McNeice jumped
Speaker 1: out to a thirty one to thirteen Lead, over clemson
Speaker 1: then held on sixty nine to. Sixty seven all of
Speaker 1: the one seeds that have played so far. Have won
Speaker 1: Auburn Beat, Bama state houston RAN By, siu edwardsville and
Speaker 1: The night.
Speaker 2: Action getting ready to get gone.
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Speaker 1: South redwood road on the, west side where A porter
Speaker 1: i am amongst my people while you're once again in
Speaker 1: your cushy studios in Downtown. Salt lake because you couldn't
Speaker 1: DO what i do on a daily basis.
Speaker 3: OUT here i must just be clear that the address
Speaker 3: here Is, fifty west so technically on the.
Speaker 2: West, side yeah but aren't You on broadway On? Third
Speaker 2: south that's? Right, downtown yeah, it is.
Speaker 3: It is but those are my people out. THERE too i, don't,
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Speaker 1: YOU are i think this is a job THAT only
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Speaker 1: andy larson rolled in live. On site now that the tournament,
Speaker 1: has started we can reveal our final four for the.
Speaker 1: STATION bracket I believe i think that's that's completely. In
Speaker 1: bound so do, you remember off the top of, your,
Speaker 1: head porter who you picked to you to make the?
Speaker 6: Final?
Speaker 3: FOUR yeah i actually went along the same Routes as
Speaker 3: andy and a lot of our are listeners here with
Speaker 3: my thoughts on the top four teams in, The country
Speaker 3: spence kind of being on a, different tier a. DIFFERENT
Speaker 3: level i always pride myself on picking upsets, and whatnot
Speaker 3: and THIS year i just couldn't bring myself to do
Speaker 3: a lot, of that just because it's how it felt
Speaker 3: like college basketball is looking, this year and to, BE
Speaker 3: honest i unfortunately think that's kind of what college basketball
Speaker 3: looks like in the future as the nil era AND
Speaker 3: the tv money really take over. The SPORT but i
Speaker 3: do have the top four seeds making my. FINAL four
Speaker 3: I just i didn't look not only at the route that,
Speaker 3: they HAD but i looked at the matchups that they
Speaker 3: would potentially come up with on their. ROUTE there i
Speaker 3: did not see A team SPENCE that i felt confident
Speaker 3: beating any one of. Those four knowing that that's not,
Speaker 3: really likely that's still THE way.
Speaker 1: I went so you have all four one Seeds like
Speaker 1: andy in the, FINAL four.
Speaker 3: I do i. DO now i picked, HIGH point i
Speaker 3: picked a few upsets here, and there, but yeah when
Speaker 3: it came down to, the contenders those are the TEAMS
Speaker 3: that i. Am confident.
Speaker 2: All, right there.
Speaker 1: YOU go I, Have Duke, Michigan State, texas Tech. And
Speaker 1: houston so it's Not like i'm going out on a.
Speaker 1: Limb either i've got two to, one seeds a, two
Speaker 1: seed and a.
Speaker 2: Three seed but it is a. Fun.
Speaker 1: Tournament man it is, a really really exciting time. Of
Speaker 1: year so of local, interest tonight it Isn't Just utah
Speaker 1: state TAKING. On Ucla The Utah hockey club is also in.
Speaker 1: Action now it is going to be tough for them
Speaker 1: to advance to the wild card In The stanley cup playoffs.
Speaker 1: This year but if they're going to tonight is an absolute.
Speaker 1: Must win buffalo is. Not good they're In saut lake
Speaker 1: At The, delta center And So Utah hockey club has,
Speaker 1: to win not just get, the win but win. In
Speaker 1: regulation this cannot go to overtime because time is running
Speaker 1: out and obviously, tomorrow morning don't forget set those alarms
Speaker 1: eleven thirty am. Mountain, time well if you have to
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Speaker 1: we might need to have conversation about your.
Speaker 2: Personal Habits but i'm.
Speaker 1: Not Judging The utah women are gonna Take on indiana
Speaker 1: coming up here on the station television coverage will BE on.
Speaker 1: Espn two, and then of course another Day Of march
Speaker 1: Madness The, thursday friday the first Weekend Of, march madness
Speaker 1: two of my favorite days of, The year so stay tuned,
Speaker 1: for that, All, Right porter before we bounce and get out,
Speaker 1: of here what comes Our way On a friday edition of,
Speaker 1: the show back in, the studio back.
Speaker 3: On a friday Here Downtown Salt, lake city we'll be
Speaker 3: Recapping The march madness action, so far including Hopefully a
Speaker 3: utah women's. Basketball win they'll be on air just before
Speaker 3: we Are on. Friday Afternoon howard beck will stop by,
Speaker 3: the program TALKS some nba talks of. College basketball We'll
Speaker 3: Get gordon monson on. The program we're splitting Up The
Speaker 3: big hour On A thursday friday edition this. Time around
Speaker 3: dave mcminnimon stops by. The Program paul pogmyer Will get
Speaker 3: we'll give YOU The U into golf leader board update
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