Speaker 1: This is Eye on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteenth fifding.
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Speaker 1: Now went five to two oh four one seventy four.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to the ball Here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Baba, You're Lamont Huntley. Now we
Speaker 2: have Kobe with breaking news.
Speaker 3: Breaking news. Jameis Winston records of Brown's passing record. The
Speaker 3: four drew ninety seven yards while also throwing two pick
Speaker 3: sixes in the loss of the Broncos forty one to
Speaker 3: thirty two.
Speaker 4: Do you watch did you watch last night? I locked
Speaker 4: that game last night, did guess? I didn't watch it,
Speaker 4: but I heard it was fantastic.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 4: It was a great game to watch.
Speaker 6: Man on both sides, on both sides ball, and I
Speaker 6: was impressed with Jamison, I really was. I felt bad
Speaker 6: with the two interceptions for touchdown, but I mean that guy,
Speaker 6: he looked like a pro bowler last night to me.
Speaker 2: Do you you watched that game differently than you watched
Speaker 2: the college game?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I just watched pro ball just for the all of it,
Speaker 2: just see what's going on, just.
Speaker 6: To watch again. Yeah, yeah, okay. Any I mean college,
Speaker 6: any college team.
Speaker 4: Other than Arizona. I watch it just oh okay, what's
Speaker 4: going on? Okay?
Speaker 2: So so when you let me ask you this, So
Speaker 2: you watch Arizona, were you frustrated?
Speaker 4: Oh? Hey, because you because they were not well.
Speaker 6: Frustrated you well, because they were frustrated me a few
Speaker 6: things like we talked of our elogy earlier.
Speaker 2: The energy not want looked like they wanted to. It
Speaker 2: was showing up right. I totally believe that.
Speaker 6: Then the coaching staff, I got frustrated because there was
Speaker 6: no creativity. There was nothing being done to counter act
Speaker 6: what they was doing to us.
Speaker 4: And you know, look me up there looking down.
Speaker 6: I said, this is going to take place, and you
Speaker 6: knew and I knew, So why can't you count acting?
Speaker 2: Let me say this, And I haven't said this publicly
Speaker 2: at all, especially here in the form. So it was
Speaker 2: with somebody over the weekend and they had heard that
Speaker 2: watched that issue kind of said may have been the
Speaker 2: word coach team they played all year.
Speaker 4: I can't argue that. You can't. That's sad because there
Speaker 4: was no adjustments.
Speaker 6: I mean, there was really no game time adjustments being made,
Speaker 6: you know, I mean you're stand stuck on on everything.
Speaker 4: You know throughout the.
Speaker 6: Game you have to make these and well, well maybe
Speaker 6: they made the game time adjustments, but the kids on
Speaker 6: the field just weren't good was an adjusting, yeah, or
Speaker 6: just not good enough?
Speaker 4: Good enough to adjust to it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, tem Mac is the first player in Arizona
Speaker 3: football history to be named the finalists of the for
Speaker 3: the Fred Bleachnikoff Award.
Speaker 2: Yes, so you can hate me if you want to, Lamont.
Speaker 2: I know you're teetering on that. But I said before
Speaker 2: the year, I probably said this to you that I
Speaker 2: thought by the end of the year that team Mac
Speaker 2: would be the best player to ever play here.
Speaker 4: I'd have to temper that because he didn't. He didn't.
Speaker 4: He played really well.
Speaker 2: Obviously he was the star of the show, but the
Speaker 2: show wasn't that great to watch, that makes any sense.
Speaker 2: And we know the greatness of your brother, we know,
Speaker 2: and we know the Bruskies, we know the So I
Speaker 2: don't think he took that over no. I.
Speaker 6: Even even if he if the team would have played
Speaker 6: at a so much higher level, I still don't think
Speaker 6: he would unless unless he was drafted higher than Ricky
Speaker 6: or Teddy or Kevin Singleton.
Speaker 2: Well, so that's to be determined exactly, but I don't. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's nottin, But I can't see that her eyes saw
Speaker 2: it more than me because you witnessed it, you played it.
Speaker 2: But by no means you know, I mean, and it
Speaker 2: was two different type of football, right. He was on
Speaker 2: the offensive side, which is glama, glama glamour.
Speaker 6: Ricky was on the decent side of football. And Ricky
Speaker 6: had done some you know, some things that would never
Speaker 6: be caught. You know, the leading tackler led the Pac
Speaker 6: twelve at that time in interception as a linebacker.
Speaker 4: You know that that won't happen again.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: Of course te Mak he got the record, that took
Speaker 6: it from Bobby Wade. But you know, unless he get
Speaker 6: a little high and draft and now regularly still has to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think so too, because because the season
Speaker 2: didn't match my expectations, he's still to go.
Speaker 3: Nick Foles shares his support via Twitter of Brett Brennan
Speaker 3: or Poorly being back for next season.
Speaker 2: Yes, did you see that tweet? Very two good guys
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 4: Two good guys?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 6: And I respect that, you know, you respect that coming
Speaker 6: from a player of that that that that level. And
Speaker 6: he and again you know, Nick sees some things and
Speaker 6: Brennan that some people can't see, you know, so you
Speaker 6: got to respect that also.
Speaker 2: To be fair, to be fair, lamon And I don't
Speaker 2: know if you feel this way. One season is not enough.
Speaker 2: He was here ten the conditions were not right, you know,
Speaker 2: he came in late. Had it been me, I don't know,
Speaker 2: because I don't know how to spend other people's money.
Speaker 2: But you know what, there's some issues they need to
Speaker 2: get fixed.
Speaker 6: And I'm sure at the end of the season all
Speaker 6: of those issues was addressed, you know, issues that's obvious
Speaker 6: issues and issues that we don't even know about. Right,
Speaker 6: but all those issues has has to be addressed. If not,
Speaker 6: then the person who's his balls need to be right. Question, Well,
Speaker 6: now it's now. It's belongs to her at this point
Speaker 6: in time, right, you know, and and and you know
Speaker 6: that's the.
Speaker 2: Way it should be. So so let me say this.
Speaker 2: You know the fan base better than I do, because
Speaker 2: you've seen it for years forty fifty years now. This
Speaker 2: is a fickle bunch. Many prove it to me otherwise
Speaker 2: I ain't.
Speaker 6: Showing up and and and that's gonna take place. Things
Speaker 6: here the season tickets is gonna go down. Yeah, and
Speaker 6: and it's it's gonna be up to her to get
Speaker 6: those numbers back up. They got to be creative to
Speaker 6: come up with some great campaign in regards to getting
Speaker 6: those butts back in that seat.
Speaker 2: You know what wins those butts in the seats? Win Winny, Yeah,
Speaker 2: when he does.
Speaker 3: Al Shahar suspended three games after his hit on Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 2: So did you see that hits? So what did you
Speaker 2: think about that hit? He could have came off? I mean,
Speaker 2: it was a vicious hit.
Speaker 6: It was it was too and not only that hit,
Speaker 6: but his previous history.
Speaker 4: Okay, so obviously, yeah, he has history.
Speaker 6: He has history to show that that he purposely go
Speaker 6: out and make these things, these hits happen. And that
Speaker 6: was I mean, that was that was he laid in.
Speaker 6: So you you you played that position. It's a brutal game, right,
Speaker 6: It's a brutal game. I didn't play at that level
Speaker 6: or any level. You can hit a guy and I
Speaker 6: want to go there. I want to go there. So, So,
Speaker 6: have you ever been a car crash?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, so you know you you know the bang bang,
Speaker 2: you know the bang bang. You can see it coming
Speaker 2: and you almost you can't avoid it. That's what these
Speaker 2: guys are dealing with every day because it.
Speaker 4: Was what do you do if you're that guy? Pull you?
Speaker 4: You got? You got? I mean that much time.
Speaker 6: Well, you know the thing is, at this point in time,
Speaker 6: you know your condition to pull off because you know,
Speaker 6: if you hit a person like that who's given up.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about that, but I get it.
Speaker 6: If you he's given up, you know there's a big
Speaker 6: fine that's coming behind it something and then and the
Speaker 6: games taken away from whatever it may be. So you know,
Speaker 6: it slows the game down defensively for you, you know,
Speaker 6: because the fact is that you you're constantly thinking, if
Speaker 6: I hit this guy the wrong way, it's going to
Speaker 6: cost me by blah blah blah. And that's completely slowing
Speaker 6: the game down. Becoming an offensive game at this point
Speaker 6: in time. Back to this gentleman, he has the history
Speaker 6: of purposely going out taking people out, and that's that's
Speaker 6: a whole difference.
Speaker 2: So back in the day, I used to say this
Speaker 2: to all types of offensive it's white offensive players drive
Speaker 2: cadillacs and defensive guys.
Speaker 6: Don't I know, everybody want to be an end zone,
Speaker 6: right everybody want to do that little danced up and
Speaker 6: down the field, right.
Speaker 2: So even more so now because the defensive teams are
Speaker 2: disadvantaged damage.
Speaker 4: We can't do the things that we used to do.
Speaker 4: But no means.
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers tells Pat McAfee his goal is to play
Speaker 3: all seventeen games this season.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, how many more games now?
Speaker 4: And maybe win one? Yeah, we wrapped it. Wait what's
Speaker 4: the what number game they are right now? Fourteen? I
Speaker 4: think I think fourteen? So his hopes is three more?
Speaker 4: Are you a Jet?
Speaker 2: Sadly yes, yes, because he's from New York? So wait, wait,
Speaker 2: three more games? When would that put them? I think
Speaker 2: I just hope they tank and get a good draft pick.
Speaker 2: So they tank it every year.
Speaker 4: You know the record, they're three and nine. Oh my god,
Speaker 4: they're three and nine. So what is three more wins
Speaker 4: going to do for?
Speaker 9: I know?
Speaker 4: So why play? He said he.
Speaker 3: Plans to be back next year, so do you like?
Speaker 4: But maybe not with that team?
Speaker 3: He said he doesn't know if he'll be back in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, but he would go to the Jets.
Speaker 4: Would you if it just would happen? This is a
Speaker 4: loaded question. Would you want him to quarterback your team.
Speaker 4: Not no, not the type of coaching player he is
Speaker 4: right now, right right, that's see, that's a fair answer.
Speaker 4: He turned forty two yesterday. Forty two.
Speaker 2: I thought it was like thirty nine forty Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: But no, I don't like the mentality.
Speaker 6: No, I mean I don't like I just don't like
Speaker 6: his demeanor and what he is to carry himself.
Speaker 4: So let's go there, let's go there.
Speaker 2: Back in the day. Uh, back in the day. You
Speaker 2: don't don't know any names, I don't unless you want to.
Speaker 2: Uh you had your roster of eighty four or whatever
Speaker 2: it is. How many of those guys have done? Shut up, man,
Speaker 2: just play? Just shut up?
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 6: Well, see, there's a difference on the team I played.
Speaker 6: We saw so so we we.
Speaker 2: Was like you know, old and thirteen and things like that.
Speaker 2: You know, so you couldn't afford to take it. There
Speaker 2: was nothing there on my ass back of it. But
Speaker 2: I'm sure you know teams that was playing for, you know,
Speaker 2: playoffs and championship games like that, of the guys would
Speaker 2: say shut up and you know, play the thing. If
Speaker 2: you're talking about the pros, Oh yeah, you know I'm
Speaker 2: talking about you.
Speaker 6: Oh, Oh that that is quite different. I mean I
Speaker 6: think we had pre Madonnald's like that they was. They
Speaker 6: just know that they was pre Madonnald's right. We let
Speaker 6: them no that they was a bunch of prema dominations,
Speaker 6: and we treat him that way, and they changed their personality,
Speaker 6: did something different with themselves. I mean there was guys
Speaker 6: that was thought they was Prima Donna's get away with
Speaker 6: certain things.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, you could throw them I'll say.
Speaker 6: Yes, because but they might have sat it that way,
Speaker 6: but they probably end up very hot productive playoffs.
Speaker 4: Smith.
Speaker 6: Coach Smith was a no nonsense type of a coach
Speaker 6: and and if you did it he I mean there
Speaker 6: was no favoritism.
Speaker 4: Whatsoever you better not do in front of him.
Speaker 6: Well, but whatever you did, you did. But what I'm
Speaker 6: saying there was no favoritism in regards to a type
Speaker 6: of a player.
Speaker 4: Everybody was treated the same.
Speaker 6: I mean from a Ricky Huntley to the last guy
Speaker 6: on our roster was treated the same.
Speaker 4: I mean I've seen Ricky.
Speaker 2: Get one up and chewed out by my personal linebacker coach,
Speaker 2: you know, because Ricky was horsing around, messing around, and.
Speaker 4: Coach Rogan didn't deal with that.
Speaker 2: That was his personality, you know, so we didn't have
Speaker 2: those type of players running up and down off.
Speaker 4: I apologize for this question. Is he still around coach?
Speaker 10: He's no longer with us. I think it's been about
Speaker 10: two years now, just recently, Yeah, about years now. You
Speaker 10: hear some stories about all this old school dude. We're
Speaker 10: real football coach, I mean really really could believe.
Speaker 6: In you as a person, as a as a football player,
Speaker 6: and gave everything that he had to let as you
Speaker 6: could he coach in today's world.
Speaker 2: No, too tough. He's too tough for them. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: he's too He's very much too tough for them.
Speaker 6: I mean if I go up and down the roster
Speaker 6: of coaches I had in my time, yeah, I mean
Speaker 6: because they no nonsense coaches. I mean, you was brought
Speaker 6: here for a reason, and you belong to me. Now, okay,
Speaker 6: you belong to me now your minds. You know, Mama
Speaker 6: can't help you, Daddy can't help you, the military exactly,
Speaker 6: you on mind field.
Speaker 4: So so you know even you know, get up, put up,
Speaker 4: or get out.
Speaker 2: Well imagine now today you have to coach. You say
Speaker 2: you say that to the kids. Well guess what I
Speaker 2: got four months, I'm out of here.
Speaker 4: I'm out here anyway. I'm out of here exactly.
Speaker 6: So it's I mean, it's a whole different And you know,
Speaker 6: I can't I keep going back to the fact of
Speaker 6: who you're bringing in here is really gonna dictate to
Speaker 6: what kind of team you have, you know, So I
Speaker 6: think when they out there recruiting these kids, you know,
Speaker 6: I mean, you can't make a mistake.
Speaker 4: Now, you can't make the mistake. You're definitely right. You
Speaker 4: got to get true people.
Speaker 6: That's that that you know can be a part of
Speaker 6: your your DNA as far as what you want as
Speaker 6: a player.
Speaker 2: I've said this on the show to a number of times.
Speaker 2: People ask me, so, what makes the difference between a
Speaker 2: pretty good player and a guy who's just not there
Speaker 2: who cares? And your answer is exactly the parents, how
Speaker 2: they raise them, what they think, uh, and how they act.
Speaker 2: If they don't have that, they're going to be paid
Speaker 2: in the next Uh. The prima donnas and we don't
Speaker 2: need them, just not team guys.
Speaker 4: And they're pours for the team.
Speaker 6: And you got to you gotta weed it out and
Speaker 6: get rid of it, don't bring it in.
Speaker 2: That's the here's the here's the problem. The coaches think
Speaker 2: I can fix this. The ego, you know, I can
Speaker 2: fix this.
Speaker 4: I want to be visited, appearents you.
Speaker 6: The thing is we we growing up, Rick and I
Speaker 6: and growing up we we we we But particularly didn't
Speaker 6: want to disappoint our mom, you know, so we knew
Speaker 6: she gave us off to the coaching staff.
Speaker 4: So you gotta call. You're on the air and eye
Speaker 4: on the ball. Who's this, Steve? How you doing?
Speaker 5: Buddy?
Speaker 4: Hey? What's going on?
Speaker 2: Rick?
Speaker 11: I'm coming after your money tonight?
Speaker 2: Oh you have you haven't one since you had no
Speaker 2: gray hair?
Speaker 11: Oh, buddy, it's been I'm on a I'm on a
Speaker 11: bad streak right now.
Speaker 4: I'm okay, keep it another night.
Speaker 3: You know what?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: Lamon, don't you?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Hey, Rick? Can I give you some money?
Speaker 11: Man?
Speaker 4: So I can, you know, go on top of that beat?
Speaker 9: Yeah? Right a head by the way, I lost.
Speaker 4: I tell you what.
Speaker 9: Jamison wis Winston?
Speaker 11: Last night?
Speaker 9: Senor pressed the heck.
Speaker 11: Out of me. I was, you know, And he had
Speaker 11: a couple.
Speaker 12: Of bad throws, but he played ball and I.
Speaker 11: Love his attitude. That young man has proven himself and
Speaker 11: I'm an old Browns fan and a Detroit Lions.
Speaker 9: Fan, So I haven't seen the.
Speaker 11: Super Bowl yet, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 11: I want to get to Arizona and Steve, you and
Speaker 11: I've talked about this. You're talking about the nil money
Speaker 11: and it's going to be real hard for Arizona to compete.
Speaker 11: And I'll go back to the days when Dick told
Speaker 11: me he wasn't recruiting A and B players, he was
Speaker 11: recruiting middle of the road and he coached them up.
Speaker 11: And I think coach Brennan is going to really have
Speaker 11: to do that because it's going to be real hard
Speaker 11: to compete with those A plus players.
Speaker 9: And I'll just leave it at that, gentleman.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I totally agree, And by all means you're absolute right.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's that's the markey and the makeup of
Speaker 6: our university. I mean, those the type of kids we
Speaker 6: we gotta go after and get into this university. And
Speaker 6: you know, and hopefully we can get some coaches they
Speaker 6: can coach them up and and get them will leave
Speaker 6: in And what that block A stand for, I mean,
Speaker 6: you know that block A does have history behind it.
Speaker 4: That blockade got meaning behind it.
Speaker 6: You know, so you bring them in here and and
Speaker 6: and and teach them and treat and teach them about
Speaker 6: the block A and what it all is about. Then
Speaker 6: and then you you know, you got an investment in
Speaker 6: this thing, and and and and hopefully that can make
Speaker 6: a big difference and get this thing turned over real quickly.
Speaker 12: Rick ahead, and I'm one more point. Here's the one
Speaker 12: thing about Arizona. I grew up watching you know, I
Speaker 12: go way back into the sixties.
Speaker 9: Uh, But we don't.
Speaker 12: Have a lot of locals, uh, like you have in
Speaker 12: the SEC in the Texas, even in southern California. We
Speaker 12: don't have a lot of people that lived here. We
Speaker 12: have a lot of transient people in this town and
Speaker 12: they want to be part of the Hollywood environment when
Speaker 12: you're winning, and you couldn't find them if you're losing.
Speaker 12: And that's unlike other schools around the.
Speaker 5: Country, Arizona just doesn't have.
Speaker 12: That local following anymore because we have so many people
Speaker 12: that came from someplace else.
Speaker 9: All right, I think we got more We.
Speaker 12: Got more people from Michigan than we have from you
Speaker 12: know that grew.
Speaker 2: Up in Tucson, Ohio. Yeah, you're right, okay, Rick, just right,
Speaker 2: just remember the games tonight. That's your first trouble.
Speaker 11: Okay, Oh buddy, you're not getting free layer.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's take a break because we're gonna get a
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Ian the Ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve ROVERA, you're Lamont Hunley and now
Speaker 2: on the phone, we have coach Middleton from push Ridge
Speaker 2: State champions How does that sound?
Speaker 5: Sounds awesome? Sounds awesome. Well earned and we worked hard
Speaker 5: for it, kid, did a great job.
Speaker 2: We had you on I don't know four weeks ago,
Speaker 2: six weeks ago, and uh when did you When did
Speaker 2: you get this feeling that this was a great possibility.
Speaker 9: Well, I thought, you know, I thought I knew we
Speaker 9: were gonna be a good team going into this season.
Speaker 9: We had a good training camp and played real well.
Speaker 9: But it was actually the game that we lost to
Speaker 9: Benjamin Franklin at I think ignited our guys. I think
Speaker 9: they uh uh, Benjamin Franklin came out and punched us
Speaker 9: in the face and and uh uh, you know, it
Speaker 9: hit us pretty hard. And I think the way we
Speaker 9: responded in the second half, I could tell that these
Speaker 9: guys weren't going to let that happen again, and and
Speaker 9: uh and they were gonna play real well and and
Speaker 9: we also had better practices after that. So I think
Speaker 9: right then I knew that we we could be we
Speaker 9: could do some good things.
Speaker 2: So most of the time in Lamont, and you probably
Speaker 2: know this, you get beat, you know, you've got to get.
Speaker 4: Better and that helps. And that's what the case was
Speaker 4: with this, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, did you think at any point that you
Speaker 2: might have started getting a little full of yourself before that?
Speaker 5: I don't know if we got full of ourselves. I
Speaker 5: think we were comfortable, you know, and.
Speaker 9: Uh, I don't. I don't think we were cocky or
Speaker 9: arrogant or anything like that. But I think what happened
Speaker 9: needed to happen, and it did and uh and we
Speaker 9: got better. And that's that's a tribute to our kids
Speaker 9: because they, uh, they absolutely acted on it.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 6: Coach, is a tribute to yourself just as well. This
Speaker 6: is lamon humbley here. I just wanted to reach out
Speaker 6: and tell you that. And bringing that trophy home and
Speaker 6: and the things that you guys have been doing up
Speaker 6: on that heel, it made his class act. I mean,
Speaker 6: I see you guys in the paper as well as
Speaker 6: I see you on your Facebook and things like that
Speaker 6: to me as a class act. And that's a tribute
Speaker 6: to you and your coaching staff. So congratulations, man. Is
Speaker 6: this the first one or you don't have multiples at
Speaker 6: this point?
Speaker 4: Correct?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 9: I No, I don't I have one. This was the
Speaker 9: first one.
Speaker 4: Okay, well that's even special. There you go, there you go.
Speaker 6: But but push, this is pushed for its second one
Speaker 6: in a time period or what were we talking?
Speaker 9: Yeah we want one back in twenty fifteen okay, and
Speaker 9: then played for the championship in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2: Excellent, Yeah, yeah, no question. So how does this feel?
Speaker 2: This being your first one? And I know you have
Speaker 2: the kids in the room.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 9: It's outstanding. I mean, like I said, to watch them
Speaker 9: celebrate Saturday night after the game, and to know the
Speaker 9: work that they put in a year. And you know,
Speaker 9: these guys they're champions on the field, but they're also
Speaker 9: champions off the field. Uh.
Speaker 5: They conduct themselves with uh.
Speaker 9: With with great with great behavior, and they just do
Speaker 9: a great job. They're polite, kids, are funny kids. They
Speaker 9: make fun of me all the time. They've done it.
Speaker 9: Just a great, outstanding job. And uh really really happy
Speaker 9: to see them get to celebrate this.
Speaker 2: And you getting, like Laman said, you bring it home.
Speaker 2: Uh how special is it? Because you know two sons
Speaker 2: of the little brother right do you be going against
Speaker 2: the Phoenix schools blah blah blah, and and you pull
Speaker 2: this off and and how does that feel?
Speaker 5: You know, Sabino won it last year, the three A
Speaker 5: state title, and uh, I.
Speaker 9: Think you know, Mike col Mounts got a chance to
Speaker 9: win one this weekend. Uh, it's you know, the three
Speaker 9: A South is the toughest conference in the three A division,
Speaker 9: So you know we play we play tough teams weekend
Speaker 9: and week out during our regular season schedule, particularly in
Speaker 9: our conference, and so I think it prepared us for it.
Speaker 9: You know, we we beat three number one teams on
Speaker 9: the way to the championship. And but but we were
Speaker 9: we were battle.
Speaker 5: Tested because because of our tough because of our tough conference.
Speaker 4: Well, you got you one? How do you prepare to
Speaker 4: get another one? Are you already talking about that? Are you?
Speaker 9: And sophomores in the You gott ask the juniors and
Speaker 9: sophomores in the class?
Speaker 4: Pulling on? Pulling on? All right?
Speaker 5: Come on up here? So here, here's a baby face,
Speaker 5: baby face.
Speaker 4: Give us what's the name and your position.
Speaker 9: Brendan Keating is a defensive and offensive lineman.
Speaker 4: Okay, he's six. Can Brendan can Brendan talk?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, I'm right here.
Speaker 6: Oh, okay, it's not a TV thing. Brendan, it's just radio.
Speaker 6: So you you okay, So.
Speaker 2: Tell us about how did this feel and then what's
Speaker 2: the prospects for repeating?
Speaker 7: Oh well, this is all amazing. I mean, being my
Speaker 7: first year on varsity, it felt good just to have
Speaker 7: a brotherhood's around a me. I'd like to shout out
Speaker 7: like Patrick Coyle and Noa Morrison, just kind of big
Speaker 7: being big brothers on the Owon and Delon. The Next year,
Speaker 7: it's gonna be great. We got some good juniors and
Speaker 7: sophomores coming back and like le By Adcock and Aaron
Speaker 7: Kenworthy and Dominic Painter. Of course, you know, uh but
Speaker 7: you know they're all great dudes. And you can't forget
Speaker 7: Nate Kemp, but he was one of our best receivers
Speaker 7: this year. But you know, we're gonna we're gonna have
Speaker 7: to step it up for sure. Three eight conference, like
Speaker 7: Coach Mit said, is very rough, but we got it
Speaker 7: covered for sure.
Speaker 2: Coach talked about the defeat and that kind of made
Speaker 2: spurred you guys to be better. How did that help
Speaker 2: and what did that mean when you lost or how
Speaker 2: did that feel?
Speaker 7: Oh well, that week, we just it was a rough
Speaker 7: week for all of us. And that loss is kind
Speaker 7: of like it kind of ignited something us.
Speaker 5: Like coach Mitdt said, you know, we kind of just
Speaker 5: brought that fire.
Speaker 7: We just kind of like lit that fin underneath us
Speaker 7: something new, like Okay, we're a good team. That's not
Speaker 7: us and we didn't want that feeling ever again, so
Speaker 7: we just kind of brought it, but brought it to
Speaker 7: the rest of the conference.
Speaker 6: So, hey, how does it feel being big man on
Speaker 6: camp is right now? And how long is that gonna last? Buddy?
Speaker 5: Uh, it feels pretty good.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't mean statute when the big man
Speaker 2: on campus, especially after a champions trophy.
Speaker 5: Brother Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it feels pretty good.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 5: Uh, I don't really like to think of myself too
Speaker 5: much as a big man on campus. I mean it's
Speaker 5: all brotherhood, so uh, it's just kind of everybody all
Speaker 5: tied together. So I mean it's just kind of like
Speaker 5: it's the hugest conference type thing. So it just feels great.
Speaker 9: Steve, Yeah, can I like to ask a question to
Speaker 9: one of our linemen.
Speaker 5: They don't get a lot of.
Speaker 9: Names in the paper.
Speaker 4: His name is Noah Morrison and he was an.
Speaker 9: All conference offensive lineman. He should have been off conference
Speaker 9: defensive lineman. So I'd like you ask him a couple quations.
Speaker 4: Sure, okay, what I wanted to ask you? Coaching? Maybe
Speaker 4: he can ask the kid, uh the student.
Speaker 19: Uh.
Speaker 2: You guys got a lot of two way players. I'm
Speaker 2: a I mean, then you're one of them. And how
Speaker 2: is that playing both sides?
Speaker 9: It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: I mean, I just I just kind of go out
Speaker 5: there and do my best. I try to play with
Speaker 5: my brothers.
Speaker 9: I mean it's it's a lot of work, but it's
Speaker 9: it's definitely worth.
Speaker 20: It in the end, you know, just playing both sides
Speaker 20: the balls, maximizing the amount of football I can play.
Speaker 9: It's it's just a good time.
Speaker 4: So nor you say you play offense and defensive line.
Speaker 7: I do.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Okay, what's your size? What's your size?
Speaker 9: I'm like six?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so so when you.
Speaker 16: It?
Speaker 4: So, nor you a junior this year?
Speaker 5: Right now, I'm a senior.
Speaker 4: So let me ask you, is there an opportunity to
Speaker 4: go to the next level or what did that stand?
Speaker 9: No, I'm I'm done with football.
Speaker 5: I'm just I was just here to play with my brothers.
Speaker 4: So a nice way to go out then, huh.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's the perfect way to go out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no question, tell me. I know he's in
Speaker 2: the room, so you're gonna have to little wax poetic
Speaker 2: or whatever. But the coach, the job the coach did.
Speaker 2: How did he put this thing together?
Speaker 20: I mean he's a great coach. He just really brought
Speaker 20: us together. He's he's a motivational speaker. He just he
Speaker 20: motivates us day in and day out.
Speaker 9: I mean we kind of give him, give him crap.
Speaker 20: For it, but he just says like the same thing
Speaker 20: every day. But he sounds like a broken record, but.
Speaker 9: It actually does.
Speaker 4: Hell does he have a saying does he have us
Speaker 4: go to.
Speaker 9: H Yeah, he's he.
Speaker 20: Always says, it's amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares.
Speaker 2: He gets the credit and just what he's absolutely right.
Speaker 2: More teams need to understand that.
Speaker 6: More teams And look at you guys now, with the
Speaker 6: position that you're in because of those great words.
Speaker 2: Right. In fact, you guys have mentioned brotherhood a few
Speaker 2: times already, so that must be solid because if without that, you're.
Speaker 4: Not gonna go anywhere.
Speaker 20: Yeah, this is this is definitely the tightest team I've
Speaker 20: ever brought been a part of. It's it's it's amazing
Speaker 20: to be a part of where we would do.
Speaker 9: Anything for each other.
Speaker 5: We die for each other on this team.
Speaker 2: Well just imagine, like you talked about reunions in baseball
Speaker 2: earlier in ten years, when you come back twenty years,
Speaker 2: when you.
Speaker 4: Come back, guess what you got. You got the you
Speaker 4: got the title brotherhood, right, and we'll have each other
Speaker 4: forever and you.
Speaker 6: You said it right, It's always going to be there
Speaker 6: forever brother and it's something that no one can ever
Speaker 6: take away from you. And you know, I've been blessed
Speaker 6: to play this game humpteen years ago and I'm still
Speaker 6: like I played it yesterday and I was on a team,
Speaker 6: that high school team we won the state championship and
Speaker 6: I still got brotherhood with those gentlemen. And so it's
Speaker 6: a beautiful thing. And hopefully you guys can keep this
Speaker 6: thing going to the rest of your lives.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Yeah, well thanks, let's talk to coach again
Speaker 2: real quick.
Speaker 5: So I'm a great motivational speaker.
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna say, so, you know, Arizona can use one.
Speaker 2: That's true. That's true. Uh so this had to be
Speaker 2: Sometimes going to work sucks blah. Blah blah.
Speaker 4: But this must have been fun for you beca because
Speaker 4: you knew what you had. Oh yeah.
Speaker 9: I And the these kids are great to be around.
Speaker 9: I mean, if if you get in a a joking
Speaker 9: contest with them, you better be ready because they'll, uh,
Speaker 9: they'll cut you down the size. And uh, I'm five seven,
Speaker 9: so that that I was six I was six six.
Speaker 9: But they've done they've just done a great there. They're
Speaker 9: just a pleasure to be around. I really enjoy them.
Speaker 5: And and you know, I don't think we even you know,
Speaker 5: this year, I don't think we really.
Speaker 9: Even stopped to practice. I know this is true. We
Speaker 9: stopped the practice to have to do discipline or anything
Speaker 9: like that. We talked to them after the Ben Franklin
Speaker 9: game and said, hey, we got to pick it up,
Speaker 9: and they knew it and they did a great job
Speaker 9: with that, and and and since then it's been really
Speaker 9: really good.
Speaker 4: So how many how many on the roster? First, just
Speaker 4: to give me a number, so we.
Speaker 9: Only have twenty nine? Oh a roster we brought up.
Speaker 9: We brought up a bunch of JV players to uh
Speaker 9: to uh fill out the you know, fill out the
Speaker 9: roster and look like we had a sideline and uh,
Speaker 9: but we had really twenty nine kids all year, and
Speaker 9: you know, the school we played against. You know, we're
Speaker 9: only a school with four hundred kids and the school
Speaker 9: we played against that eleven hundred kids. And and that
Speaker 9: that's what we deal with all the time.
Speaker 4: So I had to ask, how many two way guys
Speaker 4: do you got going? It must be a bunch, yeah,
Speaker 4: eight or nine?
Speaker 9: Definitely, Yeah, so so eight or nine.
Speaker 6: So in your small community up there, where are you
Speaker 6: getting these kids from? With the competition of these kids
Speaker 6: wanted to go somewhere else, Well, I think, uh.
Speaker 9: You know, most of our I would I would assume
Speaker 9: most of our kids are from the Northwest Side.
Speaker 5: Uh, but there's some kids and some stragglers.
Speaker 9: That are outside outside the northwest Side, but this is
Speaker 9: predominantly a Northwest Side school.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 9: We also have a lot of homeschool kids that come here.
Speaker 9: In fact, three of our five captains were homeschool kids.
Speaker 9: And you know, they've done a great Jobbers.
Speaker 5: I don't think we could.
Speaker 9: I don't think we could field the football team.
Speaker 5: Without homeschool kids. So we've had, you know, we've had
Speaker 5: some kids come in and.
Speaker 4: And just do a great job for us.
Speaker 2: So do these kids played together since they were like
Speaker 2: in Pop Warner or whatever they play here?
Speaker 9: Yeah, a lot of them have no doubt. You know,
Speaker 9: we're up here in the CEO Ironwood Ridge area and
Speaker 9: a lot of these kids no players on the Ceedo
Speaker 9: and Ironwood Ridge and some of them even went to
Speaker 9: Ironwood Ridge early in their early in their high school career.
Speaker 9: And and uh uh so you know we benefited from
Speaker 9: them coming over here and and and and and helping
Speaker 9: us out.
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask too, so I obviously asked this
Speaker 2: with coaches. So you don't have to be humble or
Speaker 2: you have to be arrogant, whatever where you want to
Speaker 2: go with this? What's your secret sauce? I mean, this
Speaker 2: doesn't happen by accident.
Speaker 9: Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is our secret, sauce. You know,
Speaker 9: we're Christian School, and we know that nothing is possible
Speaker 9: without Him. And everything we do, uh, we do with
Speaker 9: the face of God. And and we we you know,
Speaker 9: we try to get better and better better every day.
Speaker 9: But and then the other secret to this team is
Speaker 9: their their their cohesiveness. These guys love each other. Uh,
Speaker 9: you could tell that throughout, you know, even before the season.
Speaker 9: We go to a pre pre camp in San Diego
Speaker 9: and and you know, we have a blast out there
Speaker 9: and and these guys just they do they just they're
Speaker 9: just so tight and so together.
Speaker 2: So the I was gonna ask you both of the
Speaker 2: months and you coach, So I'm assuming you you were
Speaker 2: a player to right, an athlete back in the day.
Speaker 4: Coach.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I played.
Speaker 9: I played hockey. That's at the U of A.
Speaker 5: And a little bit after ye afterwards, I do.
Speaker 2: Remember that's three years of football. So so let me
Speaker 2: ask you this, uh, and and how many years of coaching.
Speaker 2: This is my thirty seventh, okay, so how many teams
Speaker 2: of your thirty seven actually.
Speaker 4: Had this.
Speaker 9: Early in my in my coaching career, we want to
Speaker 9: stay title at Mount View and they were very similar
Speaker 9: to this, very close. And then in twenty twelve, I
Speaker 9: was on the staff at armor Bridge and we want
Speaker 9: to stay titled. And uh, they were you know, they
Speaker 9: had played.
Speaker 4: In the Dolphins.
Speaker 9: They had like eighteen of them and played in the Dolphins.
Speaker 9: So when they got to high school they were all,
Speaker 9: you know, they were pretty tight, pretty close.
Speaker 4: Yes, well it's special, right, it is. It is special.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: When as you put this thing together. It is it's
Speaker 4: a life. It's unique.
Speaker 9: It's unique, and it's special and you know, and very
Speaker 9: very very few people get to experience it. And so
Speaker 9: that's why we're going to chaerish it. But we're gonna
Speaker 9: be humble while we do it.
Speaker 2: Well, well, you know, coach, you said, you used the
Speaker 2: word humble, but you know there has to be you know,
Speaker 2: a kudos to you guys too, because I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: and again I I kind of scope you guys on
Speaker 2: Facebook and your and your coaching staff that you put together,
Speaker 2: and those guys up there, you know, doing the X
Speaker 2: and os is not only just particularly ex and os,
Speaker 2: but loving those kids and believing in those kids that
Speaker 2: come from you guys. So that pat yourself on the back.
Speaker 2: It's not just coaching them up, it's loving them up, right,
Speaker 2: So pat yourself on the back also, coach.
Speaker 9: Well, you know, we uh we got like I said,
Speaker 9: we got outstanding young men and our coaching staff is fantastic.
Speaker 9: I think it's the best mistake. I mean, you know,
Speaker 9: we've got Jeff Stretch as our defensive coordinator and he
Speaker 9: you know, he led literally the best defense in the
Speaker 9: state this year. And and then Brent Bart's offensive coordinator
Speaker 9: who did it, who does an outstanding job. He's an engineer,
Speaker 9: so everything is you know, right down to a T.
Speaker 9: Dot your eyes and cross your t's and uh. Special
Speaker 9: teams coordinators Calvin Knox and we had we have we
Speaker 9: have the best kicker in the state, uh by far
Speaker 9: uh in Tyler Nolan, and then we uh and then
Speaker 9: we have Lamar Lamar love It who coaches our secondary
Speaker 9: and has been here for four hundred years and has
Speaker 9: just done an outstanding job. He has a son on
Speaker 9: the team, and he's had a son on the team,
Speaker 9: you know, pretty much the whole time he's been here.
Speaker 9: And then Gary White is our offensive and defensive line
Speaker 9: coach and he's new from South Point. He did a
Speaker 9: great job this year. And then Scott Moore was our
Speaker 9: quarterback coach and and he's very knowledgeable and and understands
Speaker 9: the game. He was an offensive coordinator at South Point.
Speaker 9: So they were great additions to our stand.
Speaker 2: We're gonna ask that you also have the best dancer
Speaker 2: apparently in the state on a coaching tree.
Speaker 4: We love it, right, I guess he.
Speaker 2: Does does his thing, But we were gonna ask you
Speaker 2: about his son who's playing somewhere in college, right. We
Speaker 2: we were talking about that before you came on the year.
Speaker 2: Where is he at and how what did he win
Speaker 2: or was he gonna win for some some some trophy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so so, uh, Evan.
Speaker 9: Played here for he started here for three or four
Speaker 9: years actually, and uh he was he was the offense
Speaker 9: he was the offensive All Conference Player of the Year
Speaker 9: for US at senior year. And he's playing at min
Speaker 9: Not State now and he's up for what's equivalent to
Speaker 9: the Heisman Trophy candidate at the Division two level.
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, so you have that, you have that
Speaker 2: quality of kids going through that school.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we've had We've had great kids. I mean outstand.
Speaker 9: Tyler Mustain's playing at uh uh the University of Arizona
Speaker 9: right now, and Ryan Fontein's at NAU and and we
Speaker 9: got some kids at the D two level and and
Speaker 9: uh Will Wade at Weaver State. And so we've had
Speaker 9: some really really good kids come through here. We benefited
Speaker 9: from great talent, no.
Speaker 4: Doubt, right, no question, and good coaching. Well, coach, we
Speaker 4: share your time.
Speaker 9: Thank you. I appreciate you guys taking the time to
Speaker 9: expose some high school sports.
Speaker 4: Sure, no, great and good kids. You can tell why
Speaker 4: where they speak. Great. Congratulations there, Thanks coach, Thanks you
Speaker 4: very much. All right, all right, thank you, God bless you.
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Speaker 4: It is so frustrating.
Speaker 6: And again, chemistry, let's talk about that. I don't see
Speaker 6: that happening. I don't see no one saying I'm the man. No,
Speaker 6: no one stepping up.
Speaker 2: I wrote about that after they lost the second time
Speaker 2: over the weekend and Bahamas, I said, who's the leader?
Speaker 4: No, there's not. There's not one. You'd assume kill him,
Speaker 4: but no, he's not. No leader. No one wants to
Speaker 4: be the leader and say give me the ball.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I just I think the ball just happened to go
Speaker 4: through Love's hand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, the guy that needs to be
Speaker 2: I think, in my in my humble opinion, is Jayden Bradley.
Speaker 2: He's he doesn't he's not afraid. He gets after it
Speaker 2: too young, he's aggressed. But yeah, but still you need
Speaker 2: that guy. You need somebody yeah, and he's good enough.
Speaker 6: But as he evolved himself, I think at the end
Speaker 6: of the year, maybe, but the one that I thought
Speaker 6: would step up and be the guy.
Speaker 4: Is a Waka. Oh yeah, but he's a new guy.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. He's your guy.
Speaker 6: He's been around, he's been in some good he's been
Speaker 6: at Tennessee, been places.
Speaker 2: See you're going with an older, mature guy who's been
Speaker 2: here one year, and I'm going with a guy who's
Speaker 2: been here two years.
Speaker 6: And he is a younger guy, but he hasn't been
Speaker 6: on the court to do anything. I mean, I just
Speaker 6: think I think a waka his body structure. I mean
Speaker 6: at the beginning of the year, and maybe we was
Speaker 6: playing who we were playing the difference, but I mean
Speaker 6: I was, I was, I was totally impressed with this
Speaker 6: chit and I said, this is going to be our guy.
Speaker 4: Sure.
Speaker 2: No, I think there's a lot of different little simple
Speaker 2: issue not simple, but little things that can con my
Speaker 2: number too things. And I said this she started with
Speaker 2: the group that I was hang with. Uh one is
Speaker 2: the candefend the three point line?
Speaker 4: They haven't.
Speaker 2: They haven't done it in years and now it's just
Speaker 2: showing how bad they are at it. And two, what
Speaker 2: what's the signature of Arizona basketball for the last thirty
Speaker 2: five years? That's that's breaking points, and that's break points
Speaker 2: and not so much we had low scoring, they scored
Speaker 2: past they'd be one hundred and eighty liter.
Speaker 4: Get the ball up.
Speaker 2: Have you seen them do that this year? And that's
Speaker 2: Tommy Lloyd's signature. Let them go get to eighty five first,
Speaker 2: and you will win and win the game. Here's the problem.
Speaker 2: If I'm playing you, uh, and you know that's what
Speaker 2: I do, what.
Speaker 4: Are you going to do to you? You can prevent
Speaker 4: that just what they're doing exactly. So do you question lois? Maybe? Maybe,
Speaker 4: but they have to get out early. They have to
Speaker 4: get out. Make you who's playing me?
Speaker 2: Play my pace not yours, because if you stay close
Speaker 2: four or five six points, they can just do we
Speaker 2: have those players to what to play that f Oh yes,
Speaker 2: no question. Well with the three guards running, no question.
Speaker 2: So again, but why not you're prevented me from doing it? Oh?
Speaker 6: Okay, you think the opponents is stopping us from the Yes, yes,
Speaker 6: But if I got the ball in my hand, don't
Speaker 6: I dictate.
Speaker 7: You do?
Speaker 2: But if they're gonna put you in a half court
Speaker 2: you have problems and everyone has always had trouble in
Speaker 2: the half court court, even with loots. Time's okay, Hello,
Speaker 2: you're on the air and I on the ball there.
Speaker 2: Hey hey Steve Howard, Hey, how are you brother?
Speaker 8: Good?
Speaker 17: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I saw a thing and I don't know if it
Speaker 8: was on Facebook. They were talking about like Duke, all
Speaker 8: these good teams, blue buzs wherever going to talk about it?
Speaker 8: Two losses for Duke and another team no panic and
Speaker 8: U of A was in the second group a little
Speaker 8: bit of a medium panic. And then there was a
Speaker 8: third group. I don't know if it was Indian. I
Speaker 8: don't know what the teams work, maybe, but with a
Speaker 8: lot of low losses like a major panic.
Speaker 4: Right, no, no, are you are you panicked now?
Speaker 2: Or no?
Speaker 8: Still to no?
Speaker 1: You know what I'll be.
Speaker 8: I'll be like George, I'm not panicked.
Speaker 9: But the point of it is, you know, you know
Speaker 9: what George will be?
Speaker 8: Tan? Do I need to get ready to press the
Speaker 8: panic button?
Speaker 4: Steve? You know?
Speaker 2: And it's like you know, your friend's friend Facebook friends
Speaker 2: with me?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So I pushed something today that Lenardi, you know,
Speaker 2: with bracketology, craziness, it's December third, right, December.
Speaker 4: Third, you're out of the tournament. Tournament. Well, the way
Speaker 4: you play there, you go.
Speaker 8: Right, but you still got it.
Speaker 5: You still when when conference plays, that's when it really starts.
Speaker 8: And who were playing? We're playing something good coming up?
Speaker 4: U s l A.
Speaker 5: We need to be using we played.
Speaker 2: And then U c l A.
Speaker 4: Guess what U c l A does? Half of course
Speaker 4: slow it down.
Speaker 6: So against Steve is that the coaching not adjusting to
Speaker 6: his opponent.
Speaker 2: You don't you don't have good enough shooters, and you
Speaker 2: think you would with Caleb and kJ but they haven't
Speaker 2: done yet.
Speaker 4: But then they bring Howard anything else Howard before we go.
Speaker 8: But but you were right you said they do need
Speaker 8: to run.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you hit that on the head that one.
Speaker 5: They need to shoot.
Speaker 9: Run.
Speaker 4: They need to shoot, make shots, defend the three, and run.
Speaker 4: So simple. But thank you had Thank you Howard.
Speaker 6: So now we say shooters. Townsend was brought. He had
Speaker 6: to shoot, not so much he was.
Speaker 2: He gave He gave you some good shots for against
Speaker 2: Canisius in the first one.
Speaker 4: I think you need Caleb to hit some shots. Of
Speaker 4: course we didn't. Kalos should be the shooter. Yeah, we don't.
Speaker 2: Jayden can get inside and kJ hasn't done much and
Speaker 2: he's the star of the show.
Speaker 4: Or who's the kid he's supposed to shoot better? Right?
Speaker 2: See, they got they got a bunch of salm wannabes.
Speaker 4: But they're not the lead. So is that bad recruiting?
Speaker 4: We don't know.
Speaker 2: It's too early to tell. How is that too early
Speaker 2: to you got six games? Well, two of the are, hope,
Speaker 2: it is too early to tell. Two of the kids
Speaker 2: that we talked about were here last year.
Speaker 4: Uh three of them?
Speaker 2: Three? Okay, three the backcourt it's all about Okay, so
Speaker 2: three of them were here last year. Let me say this,
Speaker 2: I've been wrong and I said this, I've been wrong
Speaker 2: to this point with those three. I said, they look
Speaker 2: and seem a lot to Bibby Miles and Michael Dickerson, right,
Speaker 2: And how can how could two of the three go bad?
Speaker 2: You pick up pick up two three? They're not gonna
Speaker 2: go bad at the same time they have, which makes me.
Speaker 4: Totally wrong exactly. So what's going on here?
Speaker 2: I have no idea, So I don't know. I don't know,
Speaker 2: And you, I think you you might have said chemistry earlier.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's it. There's only one ball.
Speaker 6: There's one but I can't I mean even if I mean,
Speaker 6: you get that there's only one ball, but who ever
Speaker 6: choose to get the ball is not being successful with
Speaker 6: the ball, right, you know? So so normally time you
Speaker 6: know that the person who's who's who wants the ball
Speaker 6: all the time are very successful with the ball.
Speaker 4: But that's not happening.
Speaker 2: So I think the question if I get to a
Speaker 2: press conference, which you tell me this week, if I do,
Speaker 2: and I'll ask you this, this Arizona goes as well as.
Speaker 4: Caleb goes, Isn't that scary? That is that's very scary?
Speaker 4: And why? And you can say and why from a fan?
Speaker 4: Lamon Huntley used to say, why what's going on?
Speaker 1: You know? Why?
Speaker 4: What do you what do you think, Kobe?
Speaker 3: I think they need another bucket getter guy just score
Speaker 3: the ball. Lost a lot last year and I'm talent
Speaker 3: lack of talent.
Speaker 2: Well, the one thing that hasn't come to fruition is
Speaker 2: the big guy Crevous is either he's slow by his
Speaker 2: injury or whatever.
Speaker 4: He's not very He hasn't been impressive to this point. Well, again,
Speaker 4: why did we think previous was going to be good.
Speaker 2: Good question, because I thought he maybe showed some signs
Speaker 2: a little signs last year. But because he's seven too.
Speaker 2: But well, you know what, who's leading and rebounding for us?
Speaker 2: Oh you got walk on the okay, you know. But
Speaker 2: he's a garbage guy. He's a garbage guy.
Speaker 4: And that's what you need.
Speaker 2: You need that. Hey, they got these garbage guys, mister Hendy,
Speaker 2: they have all the pieces. He got the garbage guy.
Speaker 2: He just needs somebody to throw the ball to. Who
Speaker 2: can make a basket. Well, that's the pulp. They didn't
Speaker 2: find anybody to making the well against the teams that
Speaker 2: they need to beat, right exactly like Saturday, Okay, they
Speaker 2: win by forty and everything's back.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, there's not enough for me. I think
Speaker 4: teams are.
Speaker 2: Playing there, Wason exactly how you need to play them.
Speaker 2: Make him play in the half court, slow them down,
Speaker 2: don't get any transition points if you If that's.
Speaker 4: The if that's the sauce there, why can't we count?
Speaker 2: I acted because you gotta get out early, got to
Speaker 2: hit some shots. So then open it up because the
Speaker 2: other team has to catch you.
Speaker 4: But you said earlier, we have that type of player.
Speaker 8: To do that.
Speaker 4: That's that's the mystery.
Speaker 2: If you if you don't prevent me, if you don't
Speaker 2: allow me to be fast by bringing us down, bringing
Speaker 2: it's it's I won't be able to do it. I
Speaker 2: just can't because you can milk the possession. And if
Speaker 2: you get miss your shot and get their offensive rebound,
Speaker 2: that's another position.
Speaker 4: I don't get right. And that's happening. Yes, And that's
Speaker 4: and that's two has happened now to me is coaching.
Speaker 6: I'm going back to go, okay, that's fair, you know,
Speaker 6: and and and give me a player that can do it,
Speaker 6: who wants.
Speaker 9: To do it.
Speaker 2: Well, guess what this is the rosters. This is roster,
Speaker 2: go deep on the bench, find them they don't have
Speaker 2: They have ten guys. And that's another thing.
Speaker 4: He usually of them. He used to go seven. He
Speaker 4: has ten guys.
Speaker 6: Now in the game of basketball. I'm assuming it takes
Speaker 6: a little longer. Shouldn't because only five of them. But
Speaker 6: it takes a little longer for the chemistry to build
Speaker 6: so they can get to recognize, know each other, feel
Speaker 6: each other.
Speaker 4: Tennessees and what.
Speaker 2: I did, I think that's a bunch of yes, because
Speaker 2: they've been together for a long time already you think
Speaker 2: is beat there back. I don't think that it's just
Speaker 2: that other teams have figured them out and have figured out.
Speaker 2: Give you NCAA tournament games, what's been their achilles seals?
Speaker 2: Slow down people put them in the fifties sixties, get
Speaker 2: the most slow down, make them shoot the shot from
Speaker 2: distance or whatever, and you don't let them get transition points.
Speaker 2: You haven't gotten many this year against quality teams.
Speaker 6: Right, there's a difference, right, And and the teams we
Speaker 6: were playing are really not quality teams at this point.
Speaker 2: Duke games and not the duke of the past. No, No,
Speaker 2: but they're they're in the time Wisconsin, Wisconsin. But they're
Speaker 2: and they but they're very disciplined in what they do. Slow, methodical. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this team won't get to it. And you know what
Speaker 2: they're like averaging eighty five points for the season. You
Speaker 2: know what, they beat the crap out of two teams.
Speaker 2: If you take those points out, you'll be fifty six.
Speaker 4: Damn exactly because the last game we didn't get like
Speaker 4: we stay in.
Speaker 2: The fifties exactly exactly. Watch watch don't watch Saturday, but
Speaker 2: watch against U C.
Speaker 16: L A.
Speaker 2: How they're gonna Cronin is gonna milk it and be
Speaker 2: tough and blah blah blah, And there was almost even
Speaker 2: though Tommy says they're built for it. How many times
Speaker 2: has Arizona been tough in your time? Yeah, I haven't
Speaker 2: seen it.
Speaker 4: You haven't seen it.
Speaker 6: It's just a running team without the toughness, right. You
Speaker 6: may have one or two players who home mine punch
Speaker 6: you in the face Waka Townsend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the end.
Speaker 6: You know, there was some games where it was kind
Speaker 6: of kind of mystery to this year, this year, this year,
Speaker 6: and I was wondering why the offense was going through
Speaker 6: the center so much.
Speaker 2: Did you notice that? Yeah, because of Crevous. But if
Speaker 2: he's not gonna finish, not on the Crevous oak Waka.
Speaker 6: They had Creis and a walker in the game at
Speaker 6: the same time in which Crevious was on the top
Speaker 6: of the key destripping in the ball to O Waka.
Speaker 6: It was one game where clockwise love hit did not
Speaker 6: a guard, didn't touched the ball for like six minutes.
Speaker 6: Everything went through. I'm gonna take this, Timmy right now,
Speaker 6: because you tuned into our show right now.
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, I just I want to figure
Speaker 4: out that offense.
Speaker 2: Well, there's no, no, there's right now. When you put
Speaker 2: them in the half court offense, they struggle. It doesn't
Speaker 2: look very good, doesn't look very good. Watch watch you
Speaker 2: can't Saturday Saturday. They're gonna get a lot of transition points.
Speaker 2: They're gonna have fun, dunk you all that stuff. But
Speaker 2: how many dunks have you seen? Breakaway dunk h exactly
Speaker 2: the same thing, exactly right.
Speaker 4: I mean like like last year we had what's the
Speaker 4: kid now? And they said Miami. He went to Miami.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Johnson, Johnson, Johnson, Yeah. I mean
Speaker 2: he would fly through the basket, through the arena.
Speaker 4: You know, you're right.
Speaker 6: We don't have any of those kids doing that, okay,
Speaker 6: And we thought Kate, i mean, Lewis would be that kid.
Speaker 2: Look, we gotta go, we gotta go. Good show, Thank you,