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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, everybody, Welcome to I on the Ball here
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Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivera.
Speaker 2: In with me today at least letter later is gonna
Speaker 2: be Edgar Soto. He's gonna come in about three thirty
Speaker 2: and my guy Kobe here running the board. He Hello,
Speaker 2: we're doing yeah, good, good good. We're gonna talk by
Speaker 2: myself for a while with you Kobe. For the first
Speaker 2: ten to fifteen minutes. We're gonna have Lindsey Stell. She's
Speaker 2: from the Athletics. She's in town to do a feature
Speaker 2: I think on you of A or maybe Tommy. So
Speaker 2: she's gonna be on the phone about three fifteen to
Speaker 2: about three twenty five, which would be good. She's one
Speaker 2: of the national beat writers for the athletic So that
Speaker 2: should that should be a lot of fun. And then
Speaker 2: then we'll have Edgar Soto on in inside the studio
Speaker 2: and we'll talk about a lot of different things, you know,
Speaker 2: his time at Pima, his time playing and his association
Speaker 2: with the WBC the World Baseball Classic. So he's going
Speaker 2: to be my second guest, but in house.
Speaker 3: Is that cool? So you went to the game right
Speaker 3: last night?
Speaker 4: Yeah, good game, great first half, not a good second half.
Speaker 2: No, they lollygagged in the second half. Yeah, I had
Speaker 2: a four point lead, kind of went down to eleven
Speaker 2: with about a minute left and finished by seventeen.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they kind of do that. I mean, they do
Speaker 3: that a lot.
Speaker 2: And I want to say I mean because I hate
Speaker 2: when people say I mean they do the.
Speaker 3: Lot, Because they do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and in the tournament's bit them a couple of times.
Speaker 2: They can't allow leads like that to dwindle. Yeah, especially
Speaker 2: against better teams. Yeah, that's not going to fly against
Speaker 2: better teams. So what did you notice when you were
Speaker 2: at the arena?
Speaker 4: I noticed there wasn't a lot of energy, especially like
Speaker 4: ten minutes for tip off. A lot of empty seats.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and what about five minutes before the tip off?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Empty? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I posted something with about five minutes left before this
Speaker 2: tip maybe even sooner than that, And there was a
Speaker 2: lot of empty seats, right, And I even said that
Speaker 2: there's a lot of empty seats here.
Speaker 3: Apparently it might have been sold out or.
Speaker 2: Close to it, and they two signs this this program,
Speaker 2: they show up late and and it did fill in, right,
Speaker 2: they did fill in. Yeah, but not not all the way.
Speaker 4: No, not at all. Yeah, that's not gonna happen versus
Speaker 4: Arizona State next week. I'm sure. I'm sure it'll be
Speaker 4: much more energy.
Speaker 2: And it's the final game of this season, home game
Speaker 2: at least. Yeah, So what do you think? So what
Speaker 2: did you think about Caleb? Caleb was great. He was
Speaker 2: great in the B y U game and this game.
Speaker 2: That's a great sign for Arizona going forward.
Speaker 3: Did you play ball? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I played all my life throughout high school basketball, soccer.
Speaker 3: Did you were your score or what?
Speaker 4: I was a slasher, so a score? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, So did you have games? So you played really
Speaker 2: well in games when you didn't? Yeah, and what did
Speaker 2: you did they continue or did you go you know,
Speaker 2: here and there like Caleb, I would like to say.
Speaker 3: I'm going somewhere with this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it would be off and on you.
Speaker 2: So you're you're you're saying it's a good sign that
Speaker 2: he's had a couple of two three games that have
Speaker 2: played well. Do you think that means that he'll have
Speaker 2: a game, good game on Saturday, I believe.
Speaker 4: So I feel like this is where you want him
Speaker 4: playing his.
Speaker 2: Well oh sure, sure, so that's where you want him.
Speaker 2: But that doesn't doesn't equate just because you've had you
Speaker 2: played roulette. Yeah you play roulette, Okay, not legally right
Speaker 2: because you're yeah, so so you play you played roulette,
Speaker 2: so you you you spin the wheel and it lands
Speaker 2: on twenty. I think twenty is red and so so
Speaker 2: do you think that it's going to be on red
Speaker 2: again or on twenty again? Every every spin of the
Speaker 2: wheel is random. And my point is just because he
Speaker 2: had a good game last night doesn't mean that he's
Speaker 2: going to have a good game on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You really never know, especially with him, right, Yeah, you're
Speaker 2: hoping that happens last night. Our guest yesterday was Kevin
Speaker 2: Kevin Kevin Thomas from phn X, and his postgame show
Speaker 2: was talking about this is Kevin love time, This is
Speaker 2: love time. Well, you've seen love at this time of
Speaker 2: the year before, Yeah, and had that work out for you?
Speaker 4: Not good?
Speaker 3: Not good, So it's not really Kevin love.
Speaker 2: I think everyone's hopeful like you are, Like you're saying
Speaker 2: that's a good sign.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but is it. Yeah, I feel like the only
Speaker 4: reason I'm kind of hopeful. I feel like they might
Speaker 4: have figured something out with this offense, how to use
Speaker 4: love better, moving off the ball more, getting the ball more.
Speaker 2: After thirty games pretty much. Yeah, I mean it took
Speaker 2: a while, but that's what you're hoping, right, Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: not what you're seeing. You're seeing that he's playing better. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Now you just gotta hope that he hits shots.
Speaker 4: Definitely.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: He tied his career high in threes, like yeah.
Speaker 3: Six six, six out of fifty six out of twelve.
Speaker 3: I think it was. He went seven for fifteen. Overall.
Speaker 2: He was my calumn for today because you know, it's
Speaker 2: just very obvious when he plays well, the team looks better.
Speaker 2: But let me also say in my story, and I
Speaker 2: wrote this a couple of times, that it was Utah,
Speaker 2: it wasn't Iowa State.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't Kansas, it wasn't Houston.
Speaker 2: So you know, he's got to play well as everybody
Speaker 2: else does. I don't think I've asked you this because
Speaker 2: you haven't been here, and I've asked everybody else in
Speaker 2: the room. Who's your ex factor in terms of making
Speaker 2: this team go, like who do you hope now, who
Speaker 2: do you hope Who do you think needs to do
Speaker 2: really well for them to do well moving forward.
Speaker 4: I've had this answer for like the whole season. I
Speaker 4: want to say, Bradley's the one most important players and
Speaker 4: he was mentioned. Yeah, he's had a little drop off
Speaker 4: recently as him playing great in what way he hasn't been.
Speaker 4: I feel like his numbers have been down a little bit.
Speaker 4: We need him to be solid. I feel like as
Speaker 4: the point guard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's probably one of the toughest positions to
Speaker 2: do because you always have It's like the quarter of great.
Speaker 2: If your quarterback doesn't do well, the team doesn't do well.
Speaker 2: If the point guard doesn't do well, the team doesn't
Speaker 2: do well. But he's he's yeah, and that's not gonna
Speaker 2: strike or criticize that pick because it's it is what
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 3: It's your pick. But Bradley, they said. One of the
Speaker 3: guy said, Henry.
Speaker 2: The guy said, Bryant Caleb, of course, And I said,
Speaker 2: you know my X factor, my ex factor, because you
Speaker 2: don't know what you're going to get for him. Last
Speaker 2: night you got very little from my X factor. Delorso Yeah,
Speaker 2: why did you say delorso I knew.
Speaker 4: I think you mentioned that last week as well. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I agree.
Speaker 2: I agree because if he scores ten twelve points, that's
Speaker 2: ten or twelve points you're not getting anyway. So if
Speaker 2: he if he comes in and does really well, hits
Speaker 2: two or three shots from the perimeter, and it opens
Speaker 2: up the situation on the perimeter. Who they need shots
Speaker 2: from the perimeter right when Caleb isn't hitting, Because.
Speaker 4: What's Arizona's problem been the last few years in Marchmadas?
Speaker 4: They haven't been.
Speaker 2: Shooting the three exactly, thank you you honor the deep stress, right,
Speaker 2: so they need to shoot the three well with.
Speaker 3: Door right, right are these two dudes?
Speaker 2: Because surprisingly kJ Lewis hasn't shot the ball well, No, Bradley,
Speaker 2: you can't really depend on him and Henry you don't
Speaker 2: really want him to shoot too many of those. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you want him to shoot him yeah, because he
Speaker 2: can a waka and I think o'waka shot a three
Speaker 2: last night.
Speaker 4: He hit one the other game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, shoot it occasionally, right, So we'll see. They did
Speaker 2: look good beat the alternative of losing. They played really
Speaker 2: well in Spurts. You know, had twenty four point lead
Speaker 2: the first half. Yeah, and a little in the second
Speaker 2: half before they kind of faltered one by seventeen.
Speaker 3: So that was good.
Speaker 2: Tommy was a little getting snarky again in a in
Speaker 2: a smallish way. So was he upset about the second half? Sorry,
Speaker 2: Tommy upset about the second Not really, not really.
Speaker 3: But he was good. He was good.
Speaker 2: He got on the media, of course, Bruce kind of
Speaker 2: snapped back at me for one and I kind of
Speaker 2: just said, you know, hold on, let me ask.
Speaker 3: The question first. Yeah, So it was good. It was good.
Speaker 2: Very emotional to He was very emotional during the time
Speaker 2: when he was talking about Smith's sons are still on
Speaker 2: the team. Smith got fired from Utah, but his kids
Speaker 2: want one's a walk on on the team and one's
Speaker 2: a like a general manager on the team, and they
Speaker 2: both travel with the team.
Speaker 3: They're still with the team. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh no, oh, no, oh no, no, our guests can't
Speaker 2: do it. That's not good. Okay, let me see. I'm
Speaker 2: just texting her real quick. She says she can't do it.
Speaker 3: I think they might be.
Speaker 4: Arizona twenty nine free throws.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they hit the twenty three ish twenty nine Okay,
Speaker 2: they have thirty three percent from three.
Speaker 4: Outscored Utah by three in the second half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that was a yeah.
Speaker 2: You know when you have those big leads, you kind
Speaker 2: of start, Yeah, started not playing as hard as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were loggy gagging and Utah started hitting some
Speaker 4: of their shots.
Speaker 3: Okay, let me.
Speaker 2: Let's just trying to communicate with her maybe, Okay, I'm
Speaker 2: just trying to sorry for these silenced guys. She's just
Speaker 2: texting me, I guess you finished early from practice and and.
Speaker 3: Uh, I'm just trying to get it because I wanted
Speaker 3: to talk to her.
Speaker 2: She's here for a reason for doing a story till
Speaker 2: five o'clock. Okay, so we'll see what we do with her.
Speaker 3: And that was.
Speaker 2: That was Lindsay Schnell from the from the Athletic. Obviously
Speaker 2: she's well read at that site with Doug Holler and
Speaker 2: some of the other guys at the national level. So
Speaker 2: she would have been my premiere guest today. But Grissoto
Speaker 2: will help me come in and anybody want to call
Speaker 2: please do so. Now we'll kind of go with a
Speaker 2: schedule that we usually do. We'll go to break about
Speaker 2: three fourteen, come back talk more. I think Edgar is
Speaker 2: gonna come in about three thirty, and that'll be fine.
Speaker 2: If anybody want to call, I'll give us I thought,
Speaker 2: your thoughts on last night's game. That'll be appreciated. We're
Speaker 2: gonna fill some time with maybe some callers as we
Speaker 2: move forward, right, Oh yeah, okay, cool five two zero
Speaker 2: four one, six, seventy four forty if you want to call.
Speaker 2: We had a lot of calls yesterday or a few
Speaker 2: calls yesterday, so if you'd.
Speaker 3: Like to do that.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of stuff going on this weekend. WBC
Speaker 2: starts Sunday, The Cold Guard Classic starts next week, Early
Speaker 2: finishes next Sunday, and U of A goes to Iowa State,
Speaker 2: which is gonna be a tough game. I don't know
Speaker 2: if the two guys are coming back by then. Have
Speaker 2: you heard anythings?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that there injury prone, the two top
Speaker 4: players are hurt, and they got beat last game. Yeah
Speaker 4: they got upset, Yeah by.
Speaker 3: Good question. Glahoma State. It was yeah.
Speaker 2: Last night, issue hung close but lost to b y
Speaker 2: U I think by ten, and they only had like
Speaker 2: seven players. I think they almost finished with under five really,
Speaker 2: because everybody was either fouled out or or or in
Speaker 2: foul trouble. So they're there. I'm sure Tommy and Tommy
Speaker 2: Bobby is probably not going to return.
Speaker 3: For next year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think you return.
Speaker 3: You're going You're going to Monday Tuesdays game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm minnygo. Do you think they'll boohurly?
Speaker 3: Do I think?
Speaker 2: Oh it's going to be brutal. Yeah, his last time there.
Speaker 2: They always blew him. I hope they're just not vulgar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So well you'll be there. Yep, you can kind
Speaker 2: of be the lead. Ye where you Where were you sitting?
Speaker 2: We were in the Zona Zoo in the middle. We
Speaker 2: were at the at the back area, and there were
Speaker 2: so many empty seats we actually we actually moved up
Speaker 2: to like the regular seats.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because the pizzas were delivered right there, right in
Speaker 2: the middle of the whole white of the band.
Speaker 3: Did you see that?
Speaker 8: I did it?
Speaker 3: Contend?
Speaker 2: And coach Brennan was the one in the football team
Speaker 2: was there, yeah, because they were sitting right to the
Speaker 2: left of you.
Speaker 3: Probably yeah, right.
Speaker 4: Yep, and they I think they left early, but yeah,
Speaker 4: we're there.
Speaker 2: They were there, So was the So was the volleyball team.
Speaker 2: Beach volleyball team. There's another team too, I can't remember
Speaker 2: who was beach volleyball. Yeah, it's one of those teams
Speaker 2: because they were just there to help out. I guess okay, shoot,
Speaker 2: I was just I'm disappointed that she's not gonna be
Speaker 2: able to go. So let's take a break down that
Speaker 2: we're running out of team. Uh, and then come back
Speaker 2: and maybe uh, mister mister Soto will be here by
Speaker 2: that time, but I expected him about three thirty, and
Speaker 2: then we can still take calls from the people who
Speaker 2: want to talk to us.
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Speaker 2: Bok two Eye on the ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve ROVERA, you're Kobe. We're waiting for
Speaker 2: some calls, waiting for some calls and maybe Bruce is
Speaker 2: going to call in unless sure of us. A couple
Speaker 2: of people and we're waiting for Edgar Soto. You said
Speaker 2: he'd be about three thirty, three thirty between thirty and four. Uh,
Speaker 2: to sit in for my co host situation. Uh, there
Speaker 2: was something I wanted to say. You have a lot
Speaker 2: of you have a lot of breaking news.
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, there's a lot of stuff today.
Speaker 3: NFL college things like that. Yep, this crazy time.
Speaker 4: Right now in the Arizona Auburn.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, don't break your own breaking news.
Speaker 2: Yeah right right, yeah, so no, that's a lot of
Speaker 2: cool stuff. Arizona's I just finishing practicing practice now for today.
Speaker 2: They head out on the road tomorrow to go to
Speaker 2: Iowa State. Should be probably one of the best games
Speaker 2: of the year on the road, specifically if they could
Speaker 2: put If Arizona could pull this off, that'd be good.
Speaker 2: There probably will be a four seed, three seed maybe yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: even if it's uh, even if I was State's hurting.
Speaker 3: We'll see what happens with that. I think it's an
Speaker 3: early game, right, it's a mid midday game. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: want to check that.
Speaker 2: I think it's mid day game like last nick. Next
Speaker 2: week's is a midway game, mid day game with Kansas
Speaker 2: two thirty game.
Speaker 4: You see. It is March first, Saturday, seven pm.
Speaker 2: Seven pm. Okay, so it's a that's good. This later
Speaker 2: in the day, so I have things to do in
Speaker 2: the day. No, fantastic, So we'll see. Y oh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you wanted to do that.
Speaker 3: Let's do that.
Speaker 2: Let's listen to some of Tommy's post game, right, yep,
Speaker 2: this post game, guys.
Speaker 3: Today they played on Utah.
Speaker 14: Brady and Landon Smith are Craig's kids, and one is
Speaker 14: the director of operations.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a walk on. And both those kids showed
Speaker 3: up today, and which is pretty amazing.
Speaker 14: I mean, I know, you guys, this is a business,
Speaker 14: and it's a hard business, and I get all those things.
Speaker 3: But like we all have families, we all have kids.
Speaker 14: And for his kids to show up today, and you know,
Speaker 14: and and and Craig I talked to him today and
Speaker 14: had not didn't have one bad word to say, straight class.
Speaker 14: For his boys to show up today with their teammates,
Speaker 14: you guys have opinions. I think it's neglected because what
Speaker 14: we're doing to try to, you know, to prove our
Speaker 14: work as a coach, to prove our value, to prove
Speaker 14: that that we belong at this level. And and so
Speaker 14: I got a lot of respect for those two young men. Yeah,
Speaker 14: it's impressive. Those dudes showed up with our teammates today.
Speaker 14: And and and the Utah team they played their ass
Speaker 14: off today and uh I knew, I knew they were
Speaker 14: gonna throw some curveballs at us, and they obviously did
Speaker 14: with the triangle and two in the second half, and uh, hey.
Speaker 3: We got the victory. That's what that was.
Speaker 14: Mission accomplished. Our guys played pretty well for certain parts
Speaker 14: of the game. And and uh, and and and and
Speaker 14: you know, we respect Utah and those guys showing up
Speaker 14: today with considering everything they're going through.
Speaker 3: So I'll take some questions.
Speaker 15: How about did you call Craig Smith? I mean, was
Speaker 15: that an awkward conversation that happened?
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean that, Bruce, every exchange between humans
Speaker 3: is that to be awkward?
Speaker 14: And and he and I are colleagues, and and you know,
Speaker 14: we got to know each other coaching in the Pac
Speaker 14: twelve and we kind of came into the league together.
Speaker 14: So you know, but I think you know, to Craig
Speaker 14: and I talk on the phone a lot. No, do
Speaker 14: we completely understand what every he goes through all the time. Yes,
Speaker 14: So you develop a brotherhood because there's not too many
Speaker 14: people that know what your life's really like and and
Speaker 14: and and the stress you feel and uh, and the
Speaker 14: and the pressure is it's on you and and trying
Speaker 14: to figure out your team and everything comes with it.
Speaker 14: It was just one guy calling another guy because he
Speaker 14: respects him, and I just wanted him to know that, Hey,
Speaker 14: he's a great dude.
Speaker 3: And and sorry that that happened, and I hope he
Speaker 3: and his family are okay.
Speaker 2: I called him when when cambll plays like does like
Speaker 2: did tonight, how much different is the team?
Speaker 3: I mean, Kay, Caleb was great today at both ends
Speaker 3: of the floor.
Speaker 14: You know, he really took that challenge to guard matts
Speaker 14: and Mattson's a heck of a player.
Speaker 3: We have played them for three year. Three years.
Speaker 14: You talk about an enernergizer bunny and relentless energy. That
Speaker 14: dude is moving all the time, and the degree of
Speaker 14: difficulty of some of his shots that he can hit
Speaker 14: are impressive. I thought Caleb did a great job. I think,
Speaker 14: I mean he guarded for the most game. I mean,
Speaker 14: I think I looked at the final stats. He ended
Speaker 14: up two for ten from three, but I only think
Speaker 14: he had eight, you know, until to the last minute.
Speaker 14: So Liam Lloyd and Grant Whiteman each gave him a three,
Speaker 14: so they probably got to set a lines tomorrow. But
Speaker 14: Caleb did an amazing job for the Worsham And I
Speaker 14: think he banked one of those threes in, right, didn't
Speaker 14: he In the first at the first one was a
Speaker 14: bank three.
Speaker 3: I think, So Caleb did an amazing job.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 14: But but but here's your reward. You get a chance
Speaker 14: to do it again on Saturday. So you know, what
Speaker 14: you did today was great, but now it's March basketball.
Speaker 14: It needs to be again.
Speaker 2: Saturday doesn't lift the team because it just look different.
Speaker 14: Well for sure, I mean listen, Caleb obviously gives us
Speaker 14: a higher ceiling, and he plays with that energy and
Speaker 14: focused at both ends of the floor. Obviously we're a
Speaker 14: better team. You know, you probably can say that for
Speaker 14: a bunch of other guys in our team too. But
Speaker 14: when when when guys play well and we play well
Speaker 14: and and so uh, you know, Caleb, Caleb was a
Speaker 14: standout tonight, and other guys have been standout in other days.
Speaker 3: Kind of like to the.
Speaker 14: Second half feel casualbe from the efforts standpoint, I mean,
Speaker 14: listen a little bit, I mean maybe a little bit casual,
Speaker 14: you know, but they were throwing a lot at us.
Speaker 3: You know, they're going down switching defenses every possession.
Speaker 14: And you know, this time of year, you know you're
Speaker 14: playing teams, and you know, the deeper you get into March,
Speaker 14: and in this time, teams are pretty.
Speaker 3: Set in the ways they do things.
Speaker 14: And obviously there's a little curveball here, and you know,
Speaker 14: I had not seen him play much trianglin too.
Speaker 3: But I also knew Josh, you know.
Speaker 14: And he's been in this situation before, he went through
Speaker 14: it last year at West Virginia.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 14: I mean sometimes when you're in that in that role,
Speaker 14: you could come in and and and you know, throw
Speaker 14: pitches that maybe aren't your repertoire. And he did that today,
Speaker 14: and so that kind of made the game feel a
Speaker 14: little bit disjointed. But but I'm proud of the way
Speaker 14: our guys handled And listen, I could have coached it different.
Speaker 14: I could have called time outs and started get on
Speaker 14: the whiteboard and all this stuff.
Speaker 3: But I'm fine that we struggled a little bit. You know,
Speaker 3: we got the win. We dealt with a little bit
Speaker 3: of adversity.
Speaker 14: Hey, you know, maybe now next time, if somebody tries
Speaker 14: to triangle two on us, we can address it a
Speaker 14: little bit and be a little bit more familiar with it.
Speaker 3: We've been changing up so much people's finish. It was
Speaker 3: seven turnovers, so just that number of your expressions something. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we had two in the first half at seven.
Speaker 14: We've really been talking about taking care of the ball
Speaker 14: and I think for the most part, our guys are
Speaker 14: doing a good job as a team taking care of
Speaker 14: the ball. I think we've just been having some individual lapses,
Speaker 14: so we really get trying to focus on that as
Speaker 14: the teams have more as individually, Like if each one
Speaker 14: of you could take away that one turnover, that one
Speaker 14: habit that you're having, you know, the individually, collectively, that'll
Speaker 14: mean a lot.
Speaker 3: And so I think our guys did a good job
Speaker 3: of that.
Speaker 14: Individual is better, but seven turnovers in a forty minute
Speaker 14: game is that's a great thing, and that's so that's
Speaker 14: a winning formula for us.
Speaker 15: You mentioned the higher seal and obviously with Cable, how
Speaker 15: different do you feel like as this season's gone, are
Speaker 15: you in the sense that you can win maybe when
Speaker 15: he's not doing that and then when you don't.
Speaker 3: I think that's important, you know, I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's a team game. We can't just be
Speaker 3: dependent on one guy.
Speaker 14: And you know, we've never tried to be dependent on
Speaker 14: one guy, So you know, we got to be able
Speaker 14: to as we get to the conference tournaments and in
Speaker 14: the march or even through a big twelve season, you know,
Speaker 14: you've got to be able to survive games where a
Speaker 14: guy like Caleb doesn't play well.
Speaker 2: And we've done that, o' The last few weeks beig
Speaker 2: kind of stressful games, close games, you know, one position games.
Speaker 3: Last few weeks.
Speaker 2: That's a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: You know, how about a few months, let's two weeks? Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: it was this kind of a relief game.
Speaker 4: You needed the game just to.
Speaker 3: Get through it. I mean, I mean, I don't know
Speaker 3: if it's a relief game.
Speaker 14: I mean, I'm sitting over there trying to figure it
Speaker 14: out in the second half and I'm not worried about
Speaker 14: what the score is.
Speaker 3: But uh, yeah it was. It was nice.
Speaker 14: It's nice to get a win, and maybe you have
Speaker 14: it be a little bit more comfortable, but we're not
Speaker 14: asking for things to be comfortable, because you know, I
Speaker 14: know Saturday it's going to be very uncomfortable, so we
Speaker 14: better be comfortable in an uncomfortable environment. And and for
Speaker 14: the rest of the season, I think that's just kind
Speaker 14: of how it's going to be. So I thank the
Speaker 14: Big twelve for that, and I honestly do in a
Speaker 14: good way. Not not that we didn't have stressful moments
Speaker 14: in the Pac twelve but we've had a good stretch
Speaker 14: of him here and I think it's I think we're
Speaker 14: going to be better for it in the long run.
Speaker 15: Speaking of Kayleb, what do you what kind of reception
Speaker 15: do you think he'll get out there?
Speaker 3: Do you have to talk to him about that or
Speaker 3: do you think you know, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 14: I mean, I'm not going to pay attention to that.
Speaker 14: Like you know, how much that kid's been booting his life. Yeah,
Speaker 14: so probably business as usual.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I was just wondering, you know, I mean, or
Speaker 16: if you talked to him just in general about you know,
Speaker 16: whether how he approaches things mentally or is he at
Speaker 16: this point in his career you pretty much so in
Speaker 16: touch him.
Speaker 14: Well, I think he's been through the battles in the war,
Speaker 14: so I mean I would expect him to show up
Speaker 14: and be unaffected.
Speaker 3: That would be that that that that better be what happens.
Speaker 7: They mentioned how kind the prompt king for dinner ended
Speaker 7: your basketball caps not things and rocks type of something else.
Speaker 15: Hard during the game.
Speaker 14: But yeah, I mean I didn't know they were doing
Speaker 14: that tonight. Billy right, it's a big time. I mean,
Speaker 14: that's really cool. And listen it's not my basketball camp.
Speaker 14: It's Arizona's basketball camp. So let's make that clear. You know,
Speaker 14: they've been running bastball camps for here for years, and
Speaker 14: it's about Arizona basketball.
Speaker 3: It's not about me.
Speaker 14: So you know what's really cool about the camps here
Speaker 14: is you know how many people have come up to
Speaker 14: me and their first, like initial intimate experience with Arizona
Speaker 14: basketball is probably watching the game with their.
Speaker 3: Family then maybe coming to a game at McHale.
Speaker 14: But the connection is driven for a lot of these kids,
Speaker 14: and like they went to the Littels and Basketball camp,
Speaker 14: they went to the Shawn Miller basketball camp, they went
Speaker 14: to the Tommy Lloyd basketball That's amazing.
Speaker 3: I mean, I got guys telling me, like, I mean.
Speaker 14: From forty years ago, So I think that's really special,
Speaker 14: like what those camps mean to this community.
Speaker 3: And for Billy to come here and for what he's
Speaker 3: gone through, I mean, you.
Speaker 14: Know, Billy, you know, it's obviously I think he's had
Speaker 14: a leg amputated, you know, like like you know, and
Speaker 14: it's amazing. The more I get into Tucston, the more
Speaker 14: I'm learning about all the amazing programs and community you know,
Speaker 14: things here that that support, you know, people that are
Speaker 14: going through tough times, and that's really special stuff and
Speaker 14: that really really touches my heart.
Speaker 3: So good for Billy and that's awesome.
Speaker 14: And uh, you know, he's probably a little bit too
Speaker 14: old to come to camp now, but I can't wait
Speaker 14: to see him and give him a big hug.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, good stuff. It was again a little snarky,
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. Yeah, people canna hear me? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, cool? Yeah you get anything from that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's saying klebloves, he's not concerned about
Speaker 4: the booze because he's been booed.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a really kind of odd question because
Speaker 2: and I know what Bruce was trying to get at,
Speaker 2: because he had the last second shot right to get
Speaker 2: him to the wind.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Will how he How will he be? It's just
Speaker 3: another game, no doubt, Yeah, another game.
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera he's got his eye the ball on Tucson
Speaker 1: sports station Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to wying the ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera or Kobe. We're waiting
Speaker 2: for Edgar Soda to come in. Probably get a call
Speaker 2: from Lindsay Schnell on the other side of the four
Speaker 2: o'clock hour. She's with Tommy right now, so we'll see
Speaker 2: how much time we have to.
Speaker 3: Get with her.
Speaker 2: Anybody want to call. I know Brian was trying to
Speaker 2: call during that interview. Please do Brian, if you're listening
Speaker 2: to just give a quick call back. We're ready for you.
Speaker 2: Five to zero, four one, six, seventy four to forty
Speaker 2: if you guys want to call a call about last
Speaker 2: night's game, maybe moving forward or looking forward to to
Speaker 2: to Iowa State and then Tuesday to ASU and then
Speaker 2: the final game against Kansas and then the Big twelve tournament.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's gone by quick for me. I thought, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's going by fast for you. No,
Speaker 2: the season's gone by really fast.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so when you cover the game, so it seems
Speaker 2: like a doesn't go fast, but it went by really fast,
Speaker 2: especially with this new schedule that we have to deal
Speaker 2: with with Big twelve. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately for a lot of people in Tucson, they don't
Speaker 2: get to go to Vegas in a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: because of the Pac twelve tournament. Yeah, well, the Big
Speaker 2: twelve tournaments in Kansas City. But I do we got
Speaker 2: a call below. You're on the air and on the ball.
Speaker 3: Who's this, Brian? Can you hear me? I can hear you?
Speaker 2: Okay, you were the one calling earlier, right, yeah, I was.
Speaker 2: What's the word what's the word.
Speaker 19: Well, this game, I guess you'd call it.
Speaker 3: We won? Yeah, right, No, let me tell you. I
Speaker 3: mean I was bored. Did you go to the game? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Were you?
Speaker 3: Were you bored to some of it?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 19: I was?
Speaker 6: It was terrible.
Speaker 19: You know, I think you had a forty minute game
Speaker 19: and they played twenty five minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's about right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 19: It's I just don't understand sometimes, maybe since I'm not
Speaker 19: an athlete in that sense. You know that you know,
Speaker 19: you can't play inspired ball. You know, I don't care
Speaker 19: if you're playing Utah or whatever. Right, you know, you're
Speaker 19: coming down to the diddy gritty of the season, and
Speaker 19: you know, I'm we won and everything, but made terrible passes,
Speaker 19: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it was That's a team they talked about
Speaker 2: we should be by thirty at least.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Brian, Brian asked, you know, did he feel that the
Speaker 2: team was uh what's that word he used again, con
Speaker 2: carm Was it passive or whatever word he used the
Speaker 2: day before? I'm not sure passive any And he asked me,
Speaker 2: did you feel that way? And he like you thought
Speaker 2: or saw? Brian, he did say that they were a
Speaker 2: little bit uh lax in circumstances.
Speaker 19: Yeah, and you know, and I know, you know they
Speaker 19: I just hope they got it out of their system.
Speaker 19: And we know Saturday is going to be a tough day,
Speaker 19: and then we know next Thursday is gonna so and
Speaker 19: and we can't play with that kind of inconsistency, you know,
Speaker 19: And still we still had the problem. We're a terrible
Speaker 19: passing team, you know. You know, I'm watching them pass
Speaker 19: the ball and go, wait a minute, they're going to
Speaker 19: pass the ball and the guy's gonna see it really
Speaker 19: easy because the way they the way they throw passes,
Speaker 19: there's nothing on a pass and they and they telegraph
Speaker 19: their passes, and.
Speaker 3: You know, right, I think that, Well, I think that
Speaker 3: Caleb does that a lot.
Speaker 19: Yeah, well so does Todas Lewis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's you know, I know he's a so
Speaker 3: did you.
Speaker 19: You're a great athlete, but a basketball player. I think
Speaker 19: he's he hasn't really done.
Speaker 3: Much this year.
Speaker 19: I mean, at times he looks great and the other
Speaker 19: times he looks terrible.
Speaker 2: So I know you listen to us a lot, Brian,
Speaker 2: And I don't think I've asked anybody who listens to
Speaker 2: this question.
Speaker 3: Who's your X factor guy moving forward?
Speaker 6: Yeah, k Lewis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why is that?
Speaker 19: Because I think they need him to be able to
Speaker 19: go uh it rebounds and also to drive the ball
Speaker 19: in and you know, you know, like what Caleb's been doing, uh,
Speaker 19: you know, driving inside to get some points in there too.
Speaker 19: We need more than just Caleb to be able to
Speaker 19: do that and kay and Lewis has all of the
Speaker 19: athletic ability. Yeah, he does, and you know, I don't
Speaker 19: know if maybe he just doesn't feel comfortable doing it
Speaker 19: as much.
Speaker 3: You're coming in and out every now and again. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: are there? Yeah? Yeah, you're just coming in and out.
Speaker 3: You're probably somewhere, Oh I'm on the freeway. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: what it is.
Speaker 2: No, No, so I told everybody, not everybody. A lot
Speaker 2: of people have had the same, same kind of different opinion.
Speaker 2: It's not the same different opinions on different people. But
Speaker 2: I don't don't disregard yours because he is. He is
Speaker 2: as les athletic as anybody. He's They need him defensively
Speaker 2: and if you can score ten twelve points, he's like
Speaker 2: my ex factor in in Dolorso you don't get those
Speaker 2: points very often, right, Yeah?
Speaker 19: By what Delloso last night. He just he just doesn't
Speaker 19: seem to have that confidence, you know. You know, I
Speaker 19: understand what Tommy says, grab the ball and shoot it. Yeah,
Speaker 19: and he just kind of go get the ball, and
Speaker 19: that split second hesitation will throw them off.
Speaker 2: Well, here's here's the issue, Brian, and I think you
Speaker 2: might like this one. We're twenty nine games in and
Speaker 2: he's still struggling with that Townsend. We're twenty nine games
Speaker 2: in and he still struggles with what he struggles with.
Speaker 2: Other than that, I don't think, and maybe maybe your
Speaker 2: guy kJ still still is kind of missing some stuff.
Speaker 3: But this team, Martinez is not going to be playing
Speaker 3: very much the rest of the way.
Speaker 6: We know that.
Speaker 3: No, so there's seven So there are seven dudes deep.
Speaker 19: Right, Yeah, that's gonna be it. Well, you know that's
Speaker 19: basically most teams about this time.
Speaker 13: Eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. They just better hope they'll get into foul
Speaker 3: trouble with the big guys.
Speaker 19: Oh, I know, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I thought.
Speaker 19: Henry Bassar did pretty well last night.
Speaker 3: He did in the second half.
Speaker 2: I think he was scoreless in the first half, and
Speaker 2: then he came up with that the rebound dunk and
Speaker 2: then he kind of became a person again.
Speaker 3: Know, I'm pursue the reason that we used to see.
Speaker 19: Yeah, he didn't he didn't score that much.
Speaker 2: No, no, they they didn't really need him that much.
Speaker 2: So we'll see and remember, and Brian, and you're realistic.
Speaker 3: Like me, it was utah. Yeah yeah, so okay, okay,
Speaker 3: thank you very much. Thanks, thanks for calling it. Hey,
Speaker 3: Jay's with us tomorrow. She might want to call him tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I saw him last night. Oh you did?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Sorry about that?
Speaker 19: Yeah he was.
Speaker 3: I went the game.
Speaker 19: He was working hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, no, no, thanks, Brian, Thanks, Brian, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: We got our guest guy. That's cool. If anybody else
Speaker 2: want to call, please do five to zero four one
Speaker 2: six seventy four forty.
Speaker 3: And we'll take the call.
Speaker 2: Coobe's got COBE's got it, My guy, Edgar Soto. Did
Speaker 2: you find the post? No problem? Yeah, yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: here's your headphones. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Pleasure.
Speaker 4: How you doing?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Good good? Are you busy like your boy? Got your
Speaker 3: boy Blake with the WBC. I am busy, but where's
Speaker 3: this going underneath? Yeah no, I'm busy, but it's a
Speaker 3: good busy.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, so with the WBCs, that's been my focus
Speaker 10: right now. But of course I'm still doing my Pima jobs.
Speaker 10: So yeah, that's where you're coming from. Yeah, well actually
Speaker 10: I came so you want to hear some funny as
Speaker 10: I I'm going to coach a team on Saturday. It's
Speaker 10: gonna play this team called Asian Breeze. But it's a
Speaker 10: bunch of you know, local guys, a couple of guys
Speaker 10: from Phoenix. Yeah, all stars kind of. So we put
Speaker 10: a team together to play Team Germany. And so we
Speaker 10: actually put together a pretty good team and then we
Speaker 10: played an independent team and beat him. But the guy
Speaker 10: that you know, I was kind of like the GM
Speaker 10: sitting in the stands, just gonna put the bill. But
Speaker 10: Ben Granger from the Tucson Men Senior Baseball League's he's
Speaker 10: gonna be gone this weekend. So I'm gonna have to
Speaker 10: put on my baseball pants and go back to my
Speaker 10: coaching roots.
Speaker 20: And you know, would you already put a team together
Speaker 20: right this week? Yeah, it's the same Germans, the Germans.
Speaker 20: Yeah it's the same it's the same team. I mean,
Speaker 20: give a take a few guys, but yeah, it's the
Speaker 20: same team.
Speaker 3: Okay, we got another call, Well you're on the air
Speaker 3: and nine on the ball. Who's this? It's tannering, Well,
Speaker 3: what's going on?
Speaker 6: I was just wondering, Steve.
Speaker 21: I feel like that atmosphere yesterday was one of the
Speaker 21: worst atmospheres I've been in since my time there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get we're not playing a.
Speaker 21: Great team, but you still got to get more excited
Speaker 21: as you're the fans.
Speaker 2: I feel like, right right, because you guy Kobe here
Speaker 2: and I said this, I put this on Facebook and
Speaker 2: maybe Twitter, where it sounds like there was like ten
Speaker 2: thousand people five minutes before the game started, and how
Speaker 2: disappointed they gave free towels and all that, and then
Speaker 2: I didn't know you guys were there, and then it
Speaker 2: slowly started to fill, but there was still another two thousand,
Speaker 2: probably empty.
Speaker 4: No energy.
Speaker 21: I feel like there was no point in the game
Speaker 21: where the fans are standing up trying to get the
Speaker 21: team going, especially in the second half when you started
Speaker 21: coming back.
Speaker 2: So so, Henry, you're realistic too. Since you've been with me, Uh,
Speaker 2: you've been to a lot of games. What do you
Speaker 2: what do you what do you think about the fan base?
Speaker 21: I think it definitely has been better than I expected
Speaker 21: coming into the school. But I just think that's why
Speaker 21: yesterday was so disappointing to me, because I expect more
Speaker 21: from the fan base.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, but you'd say in football, probably the fan
Speaker 3: base isn't as good as I would want it to be.
Speaker 21: But basketball, it's definitely exceed an expectation.
Speaker 2: Right, and and obviously you've gone to the bigger games,
Speaker 2: so you you know how it is big games, big crowd,
Speaker 2: not not a big game, not so big ground. Yeah yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: well thanks for taking You're not you're not in this
Speaker 2: class right now. What are you doing about the I'll
Speaker 2: see tomorrow all right, thanks?
Speaker 3: Thanks? So okay, editors, So wait, so but we won yesterday, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was it was It was not.
Speaker 2: It was a nondescripted game outside of Caleb Love doing
Speaker 2: well and they need him to do well.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I've been talking about this all the time with players.
Speaker 2: You have a good game on a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Speaker 2: you're a former player, Yeah, it doesn't mean you're going
Speaker 2: to have it again Thursday, Friday. Every game is a
Speaker 2: different game. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. It might
Speaker 2: feel good, may translate to maybe some momentum as the
Speaker 2: word they use. I hate that word, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: always happen that way, you know.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of it has to do with matchups,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 10: So I know in baseball, when I was coaching or
Speaker 10: when I was playing, sometimes there was this guy that
Speaker 10: just had a little cutter and and I always had
Speaker 10: trouble with it. But then the guy that was throwing
Speaker 10: ninety four, Oh man, I could do something with that,
Speaker 10: or somebody could, you know. So I think it has
Speaker 10: a lot to do with matchups and right, and like also, yeah,
Speaker 10: you know, there's something to be said as far as
Speaker 10: sometimes you play a few games and all of a sudden,
Speaker 10: energy is low. But I think that's the job of
Speaker 10: the coach, right You've got to figure out how to
Speaker 10: connect with guys and really know what butns to push
Speaker 10: to get a motivated that that's part of the coaching.
Speaker 3: Oh, the you probably coached, coached and played.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I coached that, PEMA for fourteen years. I coached
Speaker 10: the USA Baseball.
Speaker 3: Okay, so let's use your coaching situation.
Speaker 2: PEMA, for fourteen years, you played fifty games in a year,
Speaker 2: fifty six games, fifty six games in a year, all
Speaker 2: those fifty six in a game in a year? How
Speaker 2: many did you and you saw this, this team is
Speaker 2: not ready to play? Oh yeah, how many times? Fifty six?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Five? Ten?
Speaker 10: No, No, it is probably about you know, thirty percent
Speaker 10: of the time they feel like they're not ready because
Speaker 10: it's better.
Speaker 3: As a coach, you think that, man, they're just not
Speaker 3: ready and you can see it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So how in the hell you you kick eighteen
Speaker 2: twenty year old kids and you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: U in the butt to get them ready if they're
Speaker 2: not emotionally involved, you know.
Speaker 10: So here's a story I'm going to tell you real
Speaker 10: quick that that I used while I was coaching a
Speaker 10: lot from you know, when I was coaching that PEMA
Speaker 10: to when I was coaching first rounders with USA Baseball.
Speaker 3: Is I would go in there and try to connect
Speaker 3: with them individually.
Speaker 10: So, for example, I had this coach his name was Tony,
Speaker 10: and I remember before a game he would just were stretching.
Speaker 10: He would come say something like, hey, Edgar solto best
Speaker 10: hitter in the conference, you know, just something like that,
Speaker 10: and it would just kind of sticking there. I remember
Speaker 10: those were some of the best games I had. You know,
Speaker 10: was when I just had somebody nudge me a little bit.
Speaker 10: Sometimes people just need a little nudge, and that's I
Speaker 10: feel like as coaches, like you know what, what buns
Speaker 10: to push? And there's been guys that are go ahead,
Speaker 10: we got a call. Yeah, okay, you are Troy. Okay, Hello,
Speaker 10: you're on the air and nine the ball?
Speaker 3: Who's this? Hey see if it's Troy, Troy, what's up?
Speaker 18: I just want to point out one thing that nobody's
Speaker 18: talked about.
Speaker 2: The last five minutes of.
Speaker 18: The game, it felt like both teams kind of didn't
Speaker 18: want to be on the court, like, let's wrap this up,
Speaker 18: let's get this going.
Speaker 19: This is going to be the result. You know, we're
Speaker 19: missing our head coach. You guys don't want to be here.
Speaker 19: What's in this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You know what about that time, guess what happened in
Speaker 2: the crowd? They started to leave.
Speaker 4: Leave, Yeah, they did.
Speaker 18: It was in my opinion, it was probably the worst
Speaker 18: crowd of the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm Michael. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I turned to Juan in the back behind me and
Speaker 2: I said, look at this. This is something we talked about.
Speaker 2: The fans weren't there, and you were there, right, you
Speaker 2: saw it. They gave all those white towels and there
Speaker 2: was a lot of white seats out there, and then
Speaker 2: that started, maybe with about five minutes into the game,
Speaker 2: they started to fill it up. And then at the end,
Speaker 2: five minutes left, they were starting to take off.
Speaker 22: And you know what that tells me is no more
Speaker 22: complaining about nine am games, I mean nine pm games.
Speaker 22: It doesn't matter if it's six seven, nine pm that
Speaker 22: this is going.
Speaker 18: To be the result.
Speaker 19: Who cares what time it is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, how long you've lived here all your life,
Speaker 3: this is not news to you. Yeah no.
Speaker 18: But you know what, though, I would say the last
Speaker 18: ever since COVID, I feel like that was the changing
Speaker 18: point for you of a hoop. The crowds haven't been
Speaker 18: the same. It's been, you know, kind of exciting when
Speaker 18: you know a big moment of the game, but it's
Speaker 18: not the same environment. It's not a top ten arena anymore.
Speaker 18: And you know, it's kind of hovering around that fifteen
Speaker 18: twenty range. But very disappointing in the last five six.
Speaker 19: Years for McHale.
Speaker 3: Right right, Well, they have one more chance to make
Speaker 3: it better on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Well, I would give one guys, thank you, thank you, Troy.
Speaker 10: No, you know, so no, I want to talk about
Speaker 10: that because I went to a basketball game up in Albuquerque.
Speaker 3: I went to got University of Mexico.
Speaker 10: My niece is a cheerleader there, and so I went
Speaker 10: hung out with some of my baseball buddies just recently,
Speaker 10: just recently last it was a Sunday. I was there Saturday,
Speaker 10: Sunday Monday. But we went to a game in the
Speaker 10: pit and the pit. I don't know if you've heard
Speaker 10: of that, but you of a got beat there a
Speaker 10: long time ago, I think eighty eight, and then Ludelsen
Speaker 10: didn't want.
Speaker 3: To go back over there.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a tough place to play because you know,
Speaker 10: it's a i' when were you there?
Speaker 3: I was there from ninety one ninety two, a little
Speaker 3: bit of night.
Speaker 20: Okay it was okay, yeah, okay, So that place was crazy,
Speaker 20: like it was just so much energy.
Speaker 10: And I did go to the U of a game
Speaker 10: about a week ago. I'm trying to figure out who
Speaker 10: they played that day.
Speaker 3: On a Saturday.
Speaker 10: No, no, no, no tech it yeah, text tech, text
Speaker 10: tech game. Yeah, that was a really good and the
Speaker 10: energy was good there. But I got to tell you
Speaker 10: the pit, Oh my goodness, it was. It was crazy.
Speaker 3: I grew up there, you went to school there, You
Speaker 3: grew up in Albuquerque. Okay, sobra and all that stuff,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: So but I went to a lot of the Global
Speaker 2: games because we had tickets, and uh, the Global fans
Speaker 2: are like Arizona fans probably everywhere fans. Right, if you're good,
Speaker 2: they go and show up and die with you, and
Speaker 2: that's who they are. When they're bad, they don't show
Speaker 2: up at all. So I'm trying to figure out the
Speaker 2: time that you were you were there, they weren't that good.
Speaker 3: I don't think. Yeah, they weren't that good.
Speaker 10: Now they had a couple of Luke Longley was on
Speaker 10: the team, But no, they weren't as good as they
Speaker 10: are now.
Speaker 3: They're having a really.
Speaker 2: Good seat's see Patino stays yeah, because he's going to
Speaker 2: be to take another job.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah yeah. But but you're right.
Speaker 2: It is kind of crazy, and it's a different fan base,
Speaker 2: you know, that's who they live in the state.
Speaker 10: They're a really young fan base from what I noticed.
Speaker 10: But yeah, so there was some some craziness going on
Speaker 10: in the in the stands. One thing I got to
Speaker 10: tell you though, so I get these tickets online, right,
Speaker 10: and I'm like, oh, second row tickets.
Speaker 3: I'm like, this is great. No, not at the pit.
Speaker 3: Second row means you're up at the top, so yeah, no, no,
Speaker 3: not up there.
Speaker 10: It's it's like the closest tickets to the to the
Speaker 10: court are are like forty five is the front row.
Speaker 10: But it's because it's a pit it goes underground that
Speaker 10: they're like the only place in the country that does
Speaker 10: it like that.
Speaker 3: But I was that was disappointing that I have these
Speaker 3: great seats.
Speaker 2: But you saw a good game, I'm sure. Oh it
Speaker 2: was a really good game. Yeah, it was a really
Speaker 2: good game. Okay, well you got to wrap it up. Okay, Edgar,
Speaker 2: thanks for showing up. But we're going to have you
Speaker 2: for the next hour. We'll talk a lot about what's
Speaker 2: going on all over the place and then have some
Speaker 2: breaking news on the other side.
Speaker 3: Yep, great, Thanks