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Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I End the Ball
Speaker 2: here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. Your
Speaker 2: Troy as my guest host, Troy Hutchison at go easycats
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Speaker 2: thank you. Welcome everybody. Uh, just a day or two
Speaker 2: before the women's game and two before the men's game,
Speaker 2: we'll talk all about that we've been talking about all week.
Speaker 2: We have Matt Miilbach coming in at three seventeen. I
Speaker 2: hope he answers his phone.
Speaker 3: And we have Jay.
Speaker 2: Who's at four seventeen. I hope he doesn't answer his phone.
Speaker 2: So we should have a fund show about to about
Speaker 2: these upcoming games.
Speaker 3: Did you want to practice this morning? That this morning yesterday?
Speaker 3: But you're gonna have it? Yeah? Okay, So how did
Speaker 3: that go? You know, it's a typical first day of
Speaker 3: Supreme ball. Everybody's excited. You're running through I don't want
Speaker 3: to say easy drills, but non contact drills from seven
Speaker 3: on seven's. You have guys blocking there. It's the typical
Speaker 3: light day of first practice. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not hit very much this fall. You saw that, right,
Speaker 2: They're just not going to do that. Nobody hurt move forward.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure a whole lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they already have nine guys that will
Speaker 3: not be participating in this fall. Yeah, one of them
Speaker 3: being Rhino Tapio Doyo, who is coming back from Toyopio Doyo.
Speaker 3: I'm probably saying it wrong, but you know it's a
Speaker 3: good attempt.
Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, what do I know? I would butcher that too. However,
Speaker 2: you say it's right for.
Speaker 3: Me, we just say Rhino, that's right. Okay. What's up
Speaker 3: with a tent.
Speaker 4: That you know?
Speaker 3: That's annoying? Nobody's called him that? He How did this happen?
Speaker 3: Just some analysts on ESPN started or some radio guy
Speaker 3: on you know, one of the national people started saying, everybody, oh,
Speaker 3: that's his nickname, tat. You know, they asked, no, if
Speaker 3: have you ever called him that? He goes No. Yeah, nobody.
Speaker 3: My nickname on the radio is so go ahead and
Speaker 3: start using me there. I thought it was. I said,
Speaker 3: what the hell is this coming from? Where's this coming from? Okay? Cool?
Speaker 2: Uh So it's gonna be like this probably the whole spring, right, really,
Speaker 2: go in, get interviews and that's it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, interview, a lot of install for the offense and
Speaker 3: a lot of install for the defense. You're talking about
Speaker 3: two new defense, two new coordinators, one on offense, one
Speaker 3: on defense. A lot of a lot has changed, so
Speaker 3: it's going to be a lot of learning for the players. Right.
Speaker 2: Well, he's done that the last three four years, right
Speaker 2: with the three different coaches or and for this is
Speaker 2: a third straight season with a new offense coordinator.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, a bright guy. He'll be able to do it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Uh see what the other guys can do though,
Speaker 2: with changes, a lot of.
Speaker 3: Changes offensively in terms of the offensive line, you're not
Speaker 3: gonna have the Duroma Millan at the receiving corps anymore. Uh. Defensively,
Speaker 3: some new faces out there, there's there's a lot of
Speaker 3: new It's usually when that happens, it's not a good thing.
Speaker 3: You want. You want that consistency.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well, we'll see how it goes, uh with that,
Speaker 2: because we have plenty of time to talk about that.
Speaker 2: But first we have the basketball games.
Speaker 3: Uh did you go.
Speaker 2: To any do you guys get any of the press
Speaker 2: commerces for a da other people?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So I saw some portion of it, you know, and
Speaker 2: they're excited to be playing in it. And it's more time, right,
Speaker 2: Uh we just the clock is on idea.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, I mean you think about last time because
Speaker 3: they changed the name of the w N I T right,
Speaker 3: it's now the w E I Yes. Yeah, Back when
Speaker 3: they first made it, there was a sitement. You know,
Speaker 3: you're you're making it, you get the host and get
Speaker 3: to the top. Now it's like why are you here again? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well you know.
Speaker 2: To tell you the truth is that is that official
Speaker 2: that they replaced the n w N I T.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they were. I thought it was
Speaker 3: a replacement, Okay. I thought it was maybe just another tournament. Okay,
Speaker 3: but okay, so so you no. I agree with you, though,
Speaker 3: what four or five years ago maybe longer? They get
Speaker 3: the w N I T play very well win it, right,
Speaker 3: they think they want it. They're buying home games and
Speaker 3: then they sold the heck out of it.
Speaker 2: It became I opened my eyes for the first time
Speaker 2: of Wow, is this as possible? Wow, she's done a
Speaker 2: great job, done a great job. Okay, so they'll play
Speaker 2: in it, and no harm, no foul. They weren't good
Speaker 2: enough to play in in the big tournament.
Speaker 3: And I think that's where the foul comes though, is
Speaker 3: you're in a weaker conference than the back twelve. I
Speaker 3: think the fan expectation was probably top six in that
Speaker 3: conference and you fall far below that. And how do
Speaker 3: you where do you go on from here? From this
Speaker 3: this point, from this point on? If you can't make
Speaker 3: how does how does she go on from there? The
Speaker 3: program and better? Yeah? Be better?
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't. It's possible, right, It's it's not
Speaker 2: as tough as a Pac twelve, or it wasn't.
Speaker 3: It's not as tough that you finished worse than he
Speaker 3: did the previous yea.
Speaker 2: But circumstances, all those circumstances happened a lot. It's happened
Speaker 2: last yeah four years, and yeah, once it becomes uh,
Speaker 2: just one of those things.
Speaker 3: It becomes a habit after second or third year. Eventually
Speaker 3: when stuff keeps on happening to you there's a reason.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe you're part of the reason. Yeah, so we'll
Speaker 3: we'll see. I mean I saw that we had Michael
Speaker 3: lev on the show yesterday. Did you listen to the show,
Speaker 3: But Michael.
Speaker 2: Lev and we talked about that with his interview with
Speaker 2: Desre and just you know, the evaluations of the coaches
Speaker 2: after the season. I mean, what is she going to say?
Speaker 2: Of course, we'll do all the evaluations after the season.
Speaker 2: And obviously you have three coaches. You have three big baseball, yeah,
Speaker 2: baseball with Chip Hail, you have softball football with Kaitlin Lope.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have a da. They're all after this season,
Speaker 3: will be entering their final year of their contract.
Speaker 2: Sure, and in order to recruit and be good at it,
Speaker 2: you need time right.
Speaker 3: Any times, and security right and money. Everybody needs money,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: She also said that Left said that I guess the deficit,
Speaker 2: whatever number it was, I don't know if it was
Speaker 2: forty five thirty, I don't know what it was. That's
Speaker 2: what sounded like a few years ago, right, forty five million.
Speaker 2: It's just for the athletic department. Yeah, yeah, she's got
Speaker 2: that under control, should be done by next year.
Speaker 3: Well before she before she walked in. I think it
Speaker 3: was around that eighty ninety mark, and then she got
Speaker 3: it down to forty five real quickly. Oh really, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it was around eighty nine. Didn't realize that.
Speaker 3: I thought it was forty five. Originally I thought it
Speaker 3: was eighty ninety. But so many numbers were only facts
Speaker 3: getting the way of a good story. They're trying go
Speaker 3: ahead and make it and Bellish buying. Oh yeah, okay, well,
Speaker 3: she says Michael, but it has cut down, she said, Well,
Speaker 3: she said to Michael. According to Michael, that that should
Speaker 3: be gone by the physical year of twenty twenty six,
Speaker 3: which is amazing. If it is amazing, an amazing job.
Speaker 3: You know some of that obviously booster and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: trying to fundraise money and also shaking up the athletic
Speaker 3: department in terms of person to re organizing stuff and personality.
Speaker 3: If something's going wrong, you gotta look at yourself. Sure,
Speaker 3: an athletic department of that, Sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no question. And we kind of knew this.
Speaker 2: And when Michael was talking about that yesterday, Desiree has
Speaker 2: a job. It might have been Troy Dave silver Jay,
Speaker 2: whomever whoever held that job was going to be up
Speaker 2: against it, you know, being the bearer of bad news,
Speaker 2: the cut person, the you know, eliminate this, eliminate that,
Speaker 2: trying to get it down to the bones of what.
Speaker 3: It needs to be. Yeah, I mean to make an omelet,
Speaker 3: you gotta crack some eggs. And that's what happened.
Speaker 2: There's two expensive we're not eating any If you're gonna
Speaker 2: eat them, you better go buy him. You an Eastern
Speaker 2: Good luck with East. We're gonna get the past the
Speaker 2: egg and a egg. Oh yeah, yeah, the yolk thing. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't take imitated. I don't like gigs. I'm fine
Speaker 2: with no eggs. I don't need eggs. Okay, no cool?
Speaker 2: And then uh then Friday, of course, Tommy Lloyd. I
Speaker 2: think they're on the road today, right on the road today.
Speaker 2: Did they already leave?
Speaker 3: You're no? Yeah? Hicking her head? How do you know that?
Speaker 5: Senor Well, I believe I saw a post from the
Speaker 5: basketball Instagram the farewell and big crowds.
Speaker 3: Okay, best of luck.
Speaker 2: So so let me ask you, Troy, because you've been
Speaker 2: around and the kids have two a little bit. Uh,
Speaker 2: the times that they lose in the first round, and
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that's gonna happen is the times they
Speaker 2: overlook the opponent because they're obviously more talented. I'll say
Speaker 2: this publicly, have covered what four or five first round
Speaker 2: losses that it's it's the overconfidence that kills the Cats,
Speaker 2: not the play of the Cats.
Speaker 3: For the most I think the Buffalo one was the matchup.
Speaker 3: I think the match the matchup. Oh, I think Buffalo
Speaker 3: was the better. That's a better matchup for them. With
Speaker 3: the height of Arizona and the small guards of Buffalo,
Speaker 3: I think they're able to get into.
Speaker 2: Let me ask my kid, evaluator one, do you go
Speaker 2: with it? Would you believe that with the Buffalo game? Uh?
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna be honest. I don't remember the Buffalo
Speaker 5: game because one, I don't want to as a fan,
Speaker 5: I don't want to remember that. But it was I
Speaker 5: wasn't as analytical at the time. I need this team
Speaker 5: to win because I like this team. Yeah that was
Speaker 5: eighteen seventeen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, seven years ago in Ristic playing in the front court. Yeah,
Speaker 3: six eight size a Buffalo running gun.
Speaker 2: And right, well, I'll give you some of that, Troy,
Speaker 2: I'll give you some of that. I also one thought
Speaker 2: that they didn't want to be there for sure. They
Speaker 2: didn't like each other, and they wanted to get the
Speaker 2: hell out of Dodge. And that was the quickest and
Speaker 2: easiest way to get the hell out of Dodge. Get
Speaker 2: your ass kicked and go home, get ready for the NBA.
Speaker 2: Who they all thought. Who they all thought, maybe Ristick
Speaker 2: not so much, but Trier definitely thought he was going.
Speaker 2: And Ayton was already signing his checks for sure, you know,
Speaker 2: thought he was going to that's and that's exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: So that was my whole thing, not whether they were
Speaker 2: And yes, the style buffalo random out of the gym,
Speaker 2: but I'm also saying those guys didn't care to be either.
Speaker 3: That's fair, you could tell, and the way they they
Speaker 3: played right and Chalan and just going back to Tommy
Speaker 3: Lloyd's upset with Princeton, you tell you know what, we're
Speaker 3: better than this Princeton team. The thing that set me up,
Speaker 3: go ahead, that that whole that team, that whole season,
Speaker 3: they did that all right.
Speaker 2: The thing that set me off for that game was
Speaker 2: that game where they did the introductions and I can't
Speaker 2: remember who the guys that transferred.
Speaker 5: In two of them, Corney Ram Cedric Henderson. Yeah, right,
Speaker 5: I think it might have been one of the two.
Speaker 2: When they're doing the introduction lines blah blah blah, he
Speaker 2: didn't go to shake the other dude's hands. It was
Speaker 2: like more of a dismissal, like it was like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: who are you. I don't need to shake your hand.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking that's not good. That's not good when
Speaker 2: you start treating a pony. We just have to show
Speaker 2: up and play and you know we're gonna be good enough.
Speaker 2: It doesn't work that way, especially this time of year,
Speaker 2: especially given Arizona's history. You know, they need to be
Speaker 2: more like eighty eight eighty eight, and I'll go back
Speaker 2: to the original four to fourteen. They didn't give a
Speaker 2: crap who they beat that crap out of you because
Speaker 2: they wanted to have fun and doing so.
Speaker 3: In ninety four.
Speaker 2: In ninety four, they were afraid of that first game
Speaker 2: because they had already lost two first round games, and
Speaker 2: they played. They beat Maryland whoever it was, and they
Speaker 2: rolled into the final four there and so they got
Speaker 2: over that first ninety seven ninety five they lost again
Speaker 2: in the first round Miami, Ohio kind of beat up
Speaker 2: ninety six. They went to Sweet sixteen ninety seven, they
Speaker 2: won it all struggled in that first game was closed
Speaker 2: South Alabama right South Bamo. They won the tournament in
Speaker 2: that game because they had to get through that game
Speaker 2: and they were down like ten with them at five
Speaker 2: minute stuft. So that first game, if you're not over
Speaker 2: confident and you play how you're supposed to play, they
Speaker 2: should be fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and again you're looking at it. Everybody wants to
Speaker 3: talk about, oh, east coast, west coast and all that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. One advantage Arizona has. You're playing in Seattle. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's a lawn trip for Accurent, lawn trip for Arizona,
Speaker 3: but you're familiar with that area. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see how much of an advantage we're not
Speaker 2: advantage it is, but we'll see.
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to it. I like the style.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a first one to eighty wins.
Speaker 2: And what does Akrin do one of Arizona script tonight
Speaker 2: slow it down? No, they play it fast. It's it's
Speaker 2: one shooting the three.
Speaker 3: Oh, I see what you're saying. Shooting the three.
Speaker 2: And if there's a list of things that you don't
Speaker 2: want it Arizona face is shooting the three and shooting
Speaker 2: the three and defending the three, right, that's what you're
Speaker 2: referring to.
Speaker 4: One.
Speaker 3: They're defending the three. Yeah, So here we are and
Speaker 3: they are. They're very undersized too, Yeah, very understanded. You
Speaker 3: telling me Buffalo Buffalo was yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: These Arizona bigs move better than Aiden and yeah yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: and they and they're better suited. Yeah, suited.
Speaker 2: So it's a good word because I don't even know
Speaker 2: where to go with that because, like I say, those
Speaker 2: guys didn't want to be there. Yeah, so if you
Speaker 2: don't want to be there, let's just get the hell out.
Speaker 2: These guys want to be there.
Speaker 3: And they're tougher, Yeah, tougher physically and in mentally mentally. Yeah.
Speaker 5: This is this is where that Big twelve introduction comes
Speaker 5: into play, where maybe you go into that first round
Speaker 5: game you're like, well, can our big men handle the physicality?
Speaker 5: What if they get punch in the face. First, Arizon's
Speaker 5: been punched in the face many times this season. They've
Speaker 5: been able to handle it well. At least that's your
Speaker 5: that's what you have behind your pocket, right, Yeah, But
Speaker 5: if they don't go to the big bucket. I mean
Speaker 5: you're supposed to have that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I think what's key and the reason why
Speaker 3: he brought them in and he's proven out throughout the
Speaker 3: whole tire season is Tobya Walka. There hasn't been a
Speaker 3: single game where you question that guy's hustle out there
Speaker 3: on the court or his ability to physically impact the
Speaker 3: game rather be defensively offensively. And you can say kJ
Speaker 3: Lewis as well. He's been physically tough, mentally tough throughout
Speaker 3: the season, even when he's not scoring the basketball. So
Speaker 3: just having that added toughness that Tommy really hasn't had
Speaker 3: his own dire career here at Arizona, and that Arizona
Speaker 3: really hasn't had since I would say the Aaron Gordon
Speaker 3: Nick Johnson team of thirteen fourteen, that's key.
Speaker 2: And they were more mentally tough than anything then. They
Speaker 2: weren't physically tough. Yeah, they were mentally tough. And you
Speaker 2: need that too, right, you need that to And let's go.
Speaker 2: We're gonna try to get ahold of Matt Mealbock here
Speaker 2: talk about the more about the Uba basketball team.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
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Speaker 2: me is Troy Hutchison and I got and Ray with
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Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 4: What's happening?
Speaker 3: Are you doing?
Speaker 4: I'm great, I'm great.
Speaker 3: Tournament week baby, Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, are you doing anything? Any and analytics? Any analysis
Speaker 2: for anybody in the postseason?
Speaker 4: You know, typically once the Pac twelve tournament was over,
Speaker 4: I was I was done, and that was kind of
Speaker 4: we didn't have the tournament this year obviously, so I've
Speaker 4: been done. Although I am actually going to be calling
Speaker 4: the U of A women's game tomorrow night. Oh nice,
Speaker 4: they asked, Yeah, they have that the w B I
Speaker 4: T H game and they host the first round against NAU.
Speaker 4: And they called me just a couple of days ago
Speaker 4: and asked if I'd do it. I said, yeah, I'd
Speaker 4: love to do it. Gonna be awesome. I love Ida,
Speaker 4: I love what she's done with the program, and that
Speaker 4: that'd be fun to do.
Speaker 2: What what's the outlet what's where you going to be
Speaker 2: seeing ESPN.
Speaker 4: I think it's I want to say it's ESPN Plus
Speaker 4: and so, you know, on one of their on one
Speaker 4: of their streaming on ESPN, But I don't. I think
Speaker 4: I think that's what it is.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you'll be working continuously until a year or not.
Speaker 2: That's cool, that's cool. You know you're busy.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: So did you after after the season is over, for
Speaker 2: all the seasons.
Speaker 3: You've done now I don't know how many years it is.
Speaker 2: Do you feel kind of like, Okay, now I can breathe,
Speaker 2: or you kind of wish you continue?
Speaker 3: What's your feeling?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I you know, I still did a
Speaker 4: bunch of games this year and and and hope to
Speaker 4: do more next year. You know, the same thing, you know,
Speaker 4: I typically when I get done with the season, it
Speaker 4: is kind.
Speaker 3: Of a nice break.
Speaker 4: And part of that usually is because when I've done
Speaker 4: the PAC twelve tournament, you know, like the last couple
Speaker 4: of years, like I've done every every game, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm I've been in the studio on site or doing
Speaker 4: games live, and so it was it was quite a
Speaker 4: it was quite a lift. I guess I'd call it
Speaker 4: that and so I was pretty you know, I got
Speaker 4: pretty tired by the time that tournament was over, and
Speaker 4: I was ready to rightly just watch basketball. But you know,
Speaker 4: I didn't have it this year, so you know, I
Speaker 4: definitely missed it. I was that was one of the
Speaker 4: more fun sort of sporting events I've ever been a
Speaker 4: part of. And so I'm not you know, I got
Speaker 4: plenty of plenty of stuff left to do, but yeah,
Speaker 4: wait till next year and just kind of enjoy the
Speaker 4: games and hope, obviously hope Arizona, you know, can win
Speaker 4: a few.
Speaker 3: You know, man, I was about to say, I think
Speaker 3: we all missed the PAC twelve tournament in Vegas and
Speaker 3: that whole environment there, and that's hard to replace. But
Speaker 3: Arizona going through the Big twelve tournament and seeing what
Speaker 3: that was about. Just your general thoughts of not only
Speaker 3: the tournament, but Arizona's run to the title game in
Speaker 3: that tournament and how that's really helped boost the Cats
Speaker 3: come tournament time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I've always said this, I think the
Speaker 4: tournament's you know, kind of a rock fight, and you know,
Speaker 4: I don't I've always fought back or into the PAC
Speaker 4: twelve against its talent base, its talent base, it has
Speaker 4: easily been as good as most, if not all, the
Speaker 4: other conferences you know, through the years when you think
Speaker 4: of NBA talent and first round picks and lottery picks.
Speaker 4: But as a whole, the conference, you know, partly maybe
Speaker 4: because of some of the distribution issues, maybe a little
Speaker 4: bit less resources. You know, I don't think they were
Speaker 4: as deep as some of these conferences, like like the
Speaker 4: like the Big Twelve has been, and the style of
Speaker 4: play didn't lean it, you know, lean itself to I
Speaker 4: mean didn't you know. It wasn't a style that I
Speaker 4: thought fit the tournament. It was a style that fit
Speaker 4: you know, guys trying to audition for the NBA. That's
Speaker 4: for sure. Now that doesn't mean I mean Arizona's obviously
Speaker 4: had team's good enough to go to the finals or
Speaker 4: win it or be in the final four. But as
Speaker 4: a whole, I thought this year prepared this Arizona team
Speaker 4: more or the type of tournament that you have than
Speaker 4: what we've seen in the past. It's a great point,
Speaker 4: A great question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no question. I think we talk about all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 2: Right, you go to the Big Twelve, you think, okay,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be better off going through the toughness and
Speaker 2: then getting to the tournament. So now that you're you're
Speaker 2: not working and you get to observe and watch, are
Speaker 2: you more of a fan one and two? What do
Speaker 2: you they and what do you think they need to
Speaker 2: do moving forward to maybe advance as far as they can?
Speaker 4: So yeah, I kind of, you know, during the season,
Speaker 4: I definitely have my objective hat on, right, I don't.
Speaker 4: I'm not a fan, especially obviously when I'm doing games,
Speaker 4: like I feel like when I do a game, I
Speaker 4: could do Arizona versus you know, my family members, and
Speaker 4: I'm not. I'm an objective I don't. I don't take sides.
Speaker 4: I just call the game like I see it, prepare
Speaker 4: the same as if I do any other game. But yeah,
Speaker 4: when the season ends and I'm done and my stuff
Speaker 4: is done, I definitely as an alum, I'm rooting, like
Speaker 4: heck for the U of A. So I hope they
Speaker 4: do well. To answer your point, I mean, I think
Speaker 4: there's a there was a couple obvious things. I mean,
Speaker 4: this may be just obvious, but I think it's worth staying.
Speaker 4: It's just you've got to shoot the ball well. In
Speaker 4: the tournament. You know, they didn't shoot it well last year,
Speaker 4: and you know, they had a bad shooting game against Clemson.
Speaker 4: I think they've learned some lessons from that, especially Caleb Love.
Speaker 4: You know, he had a poor shooting game, and he's
Speaker 4: learned some lessons about getting to the rim and you know,
Speaker 4: becoming I've I've noticed I didn't even think he had
Speaker 4: it to start the season, Steve, but you tell me,
Speaker 4: like like you probably know so too. All of a sudden,
Speaker 4: he's got a much better mid range game, like in
Speaker 4: the last even month than he had in even January.
Speaker 4: So and maybe he had it, but he never was
Speaker 4: like comfortable with it or you know, didn't go to
Speaker 4: it as much. But he's really gone to the mid range,
Speaker 4: the floater. He had a couple of post ups against
Speaker 4: Texas Tech that I loved and even Houston. So I
Speaker 4: think they got you got to shoot the ball well.
Speaker 4: I really love how they're playing offensively, though they're they're
Speaker 4: playing way better than they've played all year offensively, just
Speaker 4: in my mind, how they their identity so if they
Speaker 4: shoot the ball, well, you know, the one thing we've seen,
Speaker 4: we've seen a little bit of drop in defense, their
Speaker 4: defense has gone down a bit now. They've also played
Speaker 4: better teams the last month, so there's a bit of that.
Speaker 4: I also think the second piece, Steve is I think
Speaker 4: they were tired. I thought they were a little bit fatigued.
Speaker 4: They have a short bitch. The Big twelve is is
Speaker 4: a gauntlet. It's a marathon, and I think it got
Speaker 4: to them a little bit, you know, which is understandable.
Speaker 4: It gets to a lot of people, So they had.
Speaker 5: A little bit.
Speaker 4: I didn't mind in a way that they even lost
Speaker 4: the finals. They had a day, they come home and
Speaker 4: then rest. They got a day. This now they got
Speaker 4: I think, you know, coaches do usually a good job
Speaker 4: this time kind of period to really give guys rest
Speaker 4: and shoot a lot and not so much real practice.
Speaker 4: But if they can have the energy on defense that
Speaker 4: they had in January and mostly February, I think they're
Speaker 4: going to be in great shape. I think they just
Speaker 4: got to defend.
Speaker 3: Though.
Speaker 4: Last year again against Clemson, go back and look at
Speaker 4: what Clemson shot in the two point range. They were
Speaker 4: they made a ton of shots in the paint and
Speaker 4: layups and and and you know, shots close to the rim,
Speaker 4: and that that hurt Arizona, it really hurt them. So
Speaker 4: their defense had some some holes in it, you know,
Speaker 4: in the sweet sixteen games. So it's easy to say, like,
Speaker 4: you just got to be solid, right, you got to
Speaker 4: You got to be pretty good on both sides, defense
Speaker 4: and offense. It's why, it's why the Kim Palm numbers
Speaker 4: historically have shown that teams that make the Final four
Speaker 4: are top twenty in both offensive defense.
Speaker 3: They have balanced.
Speaker 4: Attacks, and Arizona does have a very balanced attack. As
Speaker 4: I said, the one piece of the balance that dropped
Speaker 4: a little bit with their defense. Their offense is twelfth
Speaker 4: in the country, like they are. They're really offensively right now,
Speaker 4: playing fantastic. Their defense dropped to thirty third, so you know, hey,
Speaker 4: they can they can move thirty third. They can move
Speaker 4: up to the top twenty easily in the next four
Speaker 4: games if they played bour games, and and that would
Speaker 4: be true. So they've got to They've got to really button.
Speaker 3: It up on that time real quick. Matt, looking at
Speaker 3: a player like Tobya Wata and just thinking about you
Speaker 3: of a history and you know, you've seen a lot
Speaker 3: of basketball in Tucson. Has Arizona had a player quite
Speaker 3: like him? And what how does his toughness help this
Speaker 3: team come march about a minute.
Speaker 4: You know, maybe a Eugene Eggerson type guy, Michael Wright,
Speaker 4: you know Ben Davis, some of the strong, sturdy guys
Speaker 4: down low. I've made the statement, I think he's the
Speaker 4: toughest player maybe in Arizona history, or at least the
Speaker 4: most physical We've had. Some tough players comes to mind
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 3: I've got a call coming in Pete Williams.
Speaker 4: Pete Williams, there you go. Pete as tough as anyone
Speaker 4: that we've ever had. But he just he is as
Speaker 4: physical as any player I've ever seen play the post
Speaker 4: at Arizona, and he was the perfect recruit. Tommy and
Speaker 4: his staff deserve a lot of credit for bringing him in,
Speaker 4: you know, for that for that piece of the puzzle.
Speaker 3: Great, great, you got to go back. Take care.
Speaker 2: I know the mewbox would be a thirty point dog
Speaker 2: against Arizona.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: That'd be blucky had to take off early. But no,
Speaker 2: thanks very much. I thought he talked about Arizona's defense
Speaker 2: being thirty. I saw something yesterday, and you know the
Speaker 2: Mike Cowell, all those people who do these analytics says,
Speaker 2: and they're doing their analysis that they like Arizona, but
Speaker 2: over the last few months they've dropped to ninety second
Speaker 2: in overall analytics, and I'm thinking we've noticed that they
Speaker 2: haven't played as well. But during that span, during that span,
Speaker 2: the other like ninety second the worst of the good schools.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, holy holy, because we've seen it, right,
Speaker 2: they're not the same team.
Speaker 3: And a lot of that is the three point nine
Speaker 3: and a lot to me, it's all been in transition.
Speaker 3: Hack you son. In the Big Ball title game, even
Speaker 3: though I thought Arizona played well enough to win it,
Speaker 3: Houston got three wide open threes because they weren't communicating
Speaker 3: in transition. Knock down every single shot that was wide open,
Speaker 3: and they lost by eight. So, right, right, what did
Speaker 3: you make of you?
Speaker 2: You were there at the thing when I asked, Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: when I asked you about his little rant.
Speaker 3: Oh, I was so I was there when he went
Speaker 3: on the rant about the Oh you were there about
Speaker 3: the about Michale know.
Speaker 2: About about him going on the sideline when they went
Speaker 2: to huddle.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, okay, yeah, No, I wasn't there when you Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was funny. Did you you read the stories
Speaker 2: or you saw the story, what did.
Speaker 3: You make of that? I think it's great. I think,
Speaker 3: you know, I think a lot of people look at
Speaker 3: Tommy as a guy that isn't fiery, just kind of
Speaker 3: like it happened, almost like a happy, go lucky guy.
Speaker 3: But if you're around that bench, if you get to
Speaker 3: sit behind that bench, and I got to do that
Speaker 3: his first year when they played Stanford in the Packboll Tournament,
Speaker 3: he is as fiery as anybody out there. Really he is.
Speaker 3: He's but he's under control. He's not a Sean Miller
Speaker 3: that's gonna be kind of your refs and and players,
Speaker 3: and he's not gonna go into the press conference and
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Speaker 3: lot of fire that people don't see right, right, And
Speaker 3: that was manufactured though a little bit. Yeah, well even
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Speaker 3: friend there who wanted me to do it. Blah blah blah.
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Speaker 2: So you talked about the team again. I had three
Speaker 2: things and talk about all the time shooting defending, and
Speaker 2: there was the third one, Caleb Loove, right, which is
Speaker 2: more critical to Arizona doing well defending the three, shooting three,
Speaker 2: You're Caleb Love plaving a good game.
Speaker 3: I think Caleb Love. I think Caleb Love is going
Speaker 3: to be the most important thing because I think during
Speaker 3: the Big twelve tournament they've proven that they can keep
Speaker 3: themselves in it, plays solid defense. They have their lapses
Speaker 3: the defensively, but overall very solid defense and had others
Speaker 3: step up. But come to the Houston game, they're right
Speaker 3: in it and then all of a sudden, Kayleb Love
Speaker 3: gets hurt. And I'm talking about before the choice today
Speaker 3: and cool it was kind of limping in that ten
Speaker 3: min mark limited him offensively where he could only really
Speaker 3: take jumpers and not push the ball, and Everyzon's offense
Speaker 3: kind of stalled out. So I think when he's aggressive
Speaker 3: and driving, it frees up everything else for everybody else.
Speaker 5: Guys, do you think personally? I think it's defending the three.
Speaker 5: I think they've in my opinion, they've shown an ability
Speaker 5: to win games without Caleb Love without being able to
Speaker 5: shoot the three. But most of the time when they
Speaker 5: can't defend the three. They get into holes, they get close,
Speaker 5: but they can't come out on top in the end
Speaker 5: and go ahead.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I'd say the same thing, I mean kind of.
Speaker 17: I think a good example is that was the Kansas
Speaker 17: game during the tournament. You know, I think Caleb had
Speaker 17: like under fifteen points around yeah or nine and he yeah,
Speaker 17: you know, it wasn't a great night for him, but
Speaker 17: you know, the defense rallied offense was able to find
Speaker 17: some sparks.
Speaker 3: So if not Caleb who it's probably gott to be
Speaker 3: a Jayden Jayden. You saw it in the tournament again,
Speaker 3: that Kansas game. Even though Caleb Love wasn't scoring, he
Speaker 3: had six assists. Jaden, I think the first game against
Speaker 3: Kansas had eighteen points. Second game, I believe sixteen something
Speaker 3: like that. If he's able to drive and be aggressive,
Speaker 3: he's another guy that has a great mid range jumper
Speaker 3: and attacking the hoop. You need somebody that is gonna
Speaker 3: be fearless of getting in the paint. And those are
Speaker 3: the two guys on the roster because when shots aren't falling,
Speaker 3: you just got to scrap and say get to the bucket.
Speaker 3: And those are your two guys that can get to
Speaker 3: the bucket. Yeah, I was thinking more Henry.
Speaker 2: That's a good one, Henry, because they're smaller, he's gonna
Speaker 2: he's you know, he's versatileity's athletic. He'll fit right in
Speaker 2: because he's he's athletic, and they can't. They don't have
Speaker 2: a guy his height to defend him. You're saying, just
Speaker 2: for that, just for this, just then Henry. Yeah, or
Speaker 2: a WAKA offensive glass.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I think I want to CBS Sports Lines show
Speaker 2: with with what's his name? What's his name? You probably
Speaker 2: don't even know what I'm talking about. They played at Miami,
Speaker 2: uh Miami A while he talked, there's no player like
Speaker 2: him that he's just done so much for this team.
Speaker 2: There's nobody better rebounding the ball. And and in Mia,
Speaker 2: how was listing's he's the second best rebounder in the
Speaker 2: in the tournament one I can't remember. You could probably
Speaker 2: you can fire it up, you find it.
Speaker 3: But he is.
Speaker 2: He is that dude, And I agree with you, and
Speaker 2: and uh and the Matt Bilbock Uh. It's like, okay,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be in the Big twelve. Who do we
Speaker 2: go get? Let's go get Tobiya Walker, he's gonna he's
Speaker 2: gonna fix our rebounding.
Speaker 3: And you look at the other transfer editions and this
Speaker 3: isn't a slide at them. But if you didn't get
Speaker 3: Tobya Walka, where's the physicality coming from on the portal?
Speaker 3: Because Townsend, you know, has his moments, but isn't really physical.
Speaker 3: And Anthony Yeller, So there is games where you couldn't
Speaker 3: even play him the game of sol So, I mean,
Speaker 3: I can't imagine where this team would be without Toba
Speaker 3: Waka on the roster. Yeah, no, that was good.
Speaker 2: You know, I may have messed this up when I
Speaker 2: asked about their X factor guys and I said del
Speaker 2: Orso he's the x He's the x x x X
Speaker 2: guy because he has He shows up every now and again,
Speaker 2: but he doesn't do it enough to.
Speaker 3: I hate again, I kind of alluded to it. I
Speaker 3: hate to say it. I think when you get to
Speaker 3: a certain point of the sweet sixty and on where
Speaker 3: the games get physical. Yeah, I agree, you can't play him.
Speaker 3: I know where you're going with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally agree because the games are different, right,
Speaker 2: You're playing against more better teams.
Speaker 3: Games that will push you around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's not that guy. He's the finesse guy.
Speaker 2: He might be the acron guy. Yeah, yeah, and maybe
Speaker 2: Oregon guy. Like I said, I haven't seen them, But
Speaker 2: you're right because he hasn't to this point, he hasn't
Speaker 2: shown he can be part of that unless he just
Speaker 2: roams on the perimeter.
Speaker 3: But then you have to defend right and and you
Speaker 3: had to shoot the shot. He doesn't shoot forty three percent,
Speaker 3: but if you're only taking three shots again, have you
Speaker 3: ever seen a shooter not want to shoot or not
Speaker 3: want to any guy coached by Sean Miller? Because anyone
Speaker 3: is outside of that, Yeah, you know, outside of that. No.
Speaker 3: Imagine Salim Stottamayer Hessington throwing up a shot. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 3: that's why he was what he was. Give me the
Speaker 3: damn ball, Yeah, clear the way I'm gonna shoot, get
Speaker 3: out of move.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was one who hasn't had a guy like
Speaker 2: him since since him.
Speaker 3: No, they haven't.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe maybe he's the horse could, but he's
Speaker 2: but he's not that guy.
Speaker 3: He got it, he's not that. You got to have
Speaker 3: a mentality, yeah, no, he's got to have the Caleb
Speaker 3: Love mentality, Caleb or at Momo Jones. Uh what was
Speaker 3: got Mark lyons. Yeah, they had that mentality.
Speaker 2: Right right, Yeah, yeah, Mark plans was just he could shoot,
Speaker 2: but he could get the ball to the basket.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And that's what Caleb Love has done. He talked, Matt
Speaker 2: talked about this mid range game that and he's getting
Speaker 2: to the basket more, attacking more.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, he's getting to the basket attacking, drawing vows and
Speaker 3: he's playing at a high level defensively right now. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know that stuff.
Speaker 2: Maybe I just don't look for it or whatever, but
Speaker 2: you know, kJ is it was doing that and came
Speaker 2: up with everyone talking about his defense, and Sony said, yeah,
Speaker 2: he does, and then he gets lazy every now.
Speaker 3: And again I don't Yeah. I mean, sure, offensive players
Speaker 3: want to be locked and offensively, but I think what's
Speaker 3: key right now is that he's not he's not getting
Speaker 3: beat on hedges. He's hedging hard. He's forcing guys to
Speaker 3: to really go up against them. And it's where you
Speaker 3: get in isolation, where it's just him and the offensive player,
Speaker 3: that's where he gets in trouble. In trouble, you guys,
Speaker 3: you guys run Instagram and all that.
Speaker 2: You watch that little girl who says, uh, she's she's
Speaker 2: critiquing some soup. It has a little hint of Paprika
Speaker 2: has a right, what.
Speaker 3: The hell she has the answer? What is the hint? Well,
Speaker 3: I don't know someding good. So what the hell's hedging?
Speaker 3: It's where you come out the screen. You're trying you're
Speaker 3: trying to head your offensive player so he doesn't have
Speaker 3: a free lane to the basket. Just defend the damn guy.
Speaker 3: I don't need no hedging. But he's a good team defender.
Speaker 3: If it's ISO basketball and he has to go one
Speaker 3: on one, that's where you have your problems. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: And he's not used to playing defense. No, man, it
Speaker 3: is what it is, right, Okay, Uh, anything else, we
Speaker 3: have a lot of time. It's when he said we
Speaker 3: have ten minutes. We went early, really early.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I think one thing that everybody keeps
Speaker 3: that I mean, people mention it, but that's going to
Speaker 3: help Arizona in this tournament compared to others is the rebounding.
Speaker 3: Arizona has been very good rebounding the basketball under Tommy Lloyd,
Speaker 3: but it's been you know, one or two guys on
Speaker 3: the roster that are really good at rebounding the ball,
Speaker 3: your whole entire starting unit outside of okay, outside of
Speaker 3: Dela Roso because he starts. But you're let's say, the
Speaker 3: the last five guys playing in the last final five
Speaker 3: minutes are high level rebounders. Your guards rebound, your ford's rebound,
Speaker 3: your BIG's rebound. That's rare to have that. Then that's
Speaker 3: that's a skill that's positive for this tournament.
Speaker 2: The last team's last ten teams that I was on
Speaker 2: to add, where does this team rank in terms of
Speaker 2: being good?
Speaker 3: I think this is Tommy's second best team. I'll say
Speaker 3: this outside of the first one. Outside of the first one,
Speaker 3: but they're much more physical and mentally than the first one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, and then Shawn's. I guess Shawn's is the
Speaker 2: tail end of the twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3: I would say this is their's in terms of Sean Miller,
Speaker 3: probably the Stanley Johnson here. Yeah, okay, because I think
Speaker 3: even that Lonzo Trier, Wristic and Larry Market in the season,
Speaker 3: I would take this team over them in any day
Speaker 3: of the week, because you're you're asking Parker Jackson cart
Speaker 3: right to go killa blove.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did have more flaws Yeah, they did have
Speaker 2: more flaws, but they had some pretty good pieces.
Speaker 3: They did. But then you're asking Duson to keep up
Speaker 3: with this pace.
Speaker 2: No, I I yeah, this team is so inconsistent it's
Speaker 2: hard to figure out where to put them. I would
Speaker 2: say this is his second best team. Yeah, because he
Speaker 2: lost to uh, Princeton's second team, right, and that was
Speaker 2: kind of wish you watched with Kerr and his injury
Speaker 2: and Trier in that Trier but.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, Kerr was the injury to Kirk Crise.
Speaker 3: That was the first first year, first year really already
Speaker 3: that long ago. Yeah, okay, God, the second year was
Speaker 3: was Princeton was Princeton, and they just didn't play well
Speaker 3: because they didn't have they didn't have a guy to
Speaker 3: be the go to guy outside of Taballas where you
Speaker 3: have to feed him the ball. He can't just take
Speaker 3: the ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and in the end he couldn't handle the ball,
Speaker 2: lost the ball. And then last year of course, was
Speaker 2: just that bad. You know, I think again they were
Speaker 2: thinking Clemson, Okay, Clemson, really.
Speaker 3: I agree, you know, I think everybody saw Clemson thought, Okay,
Speaker 3: Arizona's going to.
Speaker 2: Because they didn't know that's the that's the bad thing.
Speaker 2: I think that they might think about Erk in that way.
Speaker 2: They could even think about orgon that way.
Speaker 3: I think the one thing with Oregon, though, is you
Speaker 3: have a lot of players on this roster that got
Speaker 3: punked from a by organ last year in the packball tournament.
Speaker 2: Okay, yet helps you guys were shaking your head.
Speaker 17: Yeah that was I mean I remember being at that
Speaker 17: game and yeah, I'm forget who which Oregon player was,
Speaker 17: but he went out and then you know, Arizona sorry
Speaker 17: to come back to the lead, and then he came
Speaker 17: back in and it was just a scoring drought like
Speaker 17: or it felt like like the offense just got like
Speaker 17: hit like.
Speaker 3: Hit a wall or something. That was their big guy.
Speaker 3: I forgot his name. He oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he's
Speaker 3: he's a pronoun and yeah, big dude. Yeah he uh
Speaker 3: he had a great Yeah yeah he did.
Speaker 12: He was.
Speaker 3: He was.
Speaker 2: He kept them in the game in the first half,
Speaker 2: and then he got trouble.
Speaker 3: I think it was he got hurt. He got hurt
Speaker 3: and then came back. He came back, right, he was
Speaker 3: the big dude. He's in the NBA. I don't know
Speaker 3: where he's at, but it was.
Speaker 5: Like o'donna or I know it was either the first
Speaker 5: last name Dante.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. That's it. That's it, that's it.
Speaker 5: I don't remember.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good numbory. That's why we have your kids here.
Speaker 3: You guys remember because he he rebounded the ball, like no,
Speaker 3: I think one game he had a twenty twenty game
Speaker 3: in that.
Speaker 2: Right, you know, I know I do remember that game
Speaker 2: now because it was in Vegas, right, Yeah, okay, so
Speaker 2: we'll see. Yeah, No, that's a good point. They they've
Speaker 2: had the experience with them. They know what to see.
Speaker 3: Uh. And al Almans a pretty pretty good coachmens one
Speaker 3: of the better coaches in this in this tournament. I
Speaker 3: think he's one of the most underrated coaches in the tomb. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well in the country, not conference anymore. But yeah, so
Speaker 3: we'll see. And they had a pretty good year with
Speaker 3: their fifth right fifth seed. Yeah, okay, anything else from
Speaker 3: you guys.
Speaker 5: You just mentioned earlier that if back in ninety seven,
Speaker 5: it felt like if Arizona kid get past South Alabama,
Speaker 5: they'd go all the way. It kind of feels like
Speaker 5: that this year, where if you go and if you
Speaker 5: face Akron and your you're well, Arizona has a history
Speaker 5: in the first round with lower tier teams. But if
Speaker 5: they can get past Akron, they go and play Oregon,
Speaker 5: who they have history with. I don't think they'd be
Speaker 5: I don't think there's a chance that Arizona would lose
Speaker 5: that game.
Speaker 3: Do you think they play Oregon?
Speaker 12: I do?
Speaker 3: I do they play Liberty, who shoots like forty and
Speaker 3: there and they're slow and slow down. Yeah, I would
Speaker 3: rather play if I was Arizona, rather play Oregon. I
Speaker 3: was going to say, I'd rather play one Liberty and Liberty. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh, And then you're looking at a possible duke call
Speaker 5: credit to duke. I don't think Arizona loses the duke again.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't disagree with you. I do a little,
Speaker 2: you know, and one percent, maybe forty percent.
Speaker 5: I think the difference in that game with possibly a
Speaker 5: Cooper flag legendary game like Legacy. Oh here, I'm him,
Speaker 5: this is my team. I'm going to take us.
Speaker 3: To the to the leading if he's healthy exactly, and
Speaker 3: that ankle did not let.
Speaker 2: And it takes a lot to be the Arizona twice
Speaker 2: in a season, and they won't overlook it. They'll be
Speaker 2: pissed because you pissed off Arizona. They played really well.
Speaker 3: And Henry Vasar didn't play that much in that game.
Speaker 3: That was when was playing more. Yeah, and that's when
Speaker 3: Carter Bryant really didn't know his role yet. Okay, that's
Speaker 3: a good, good way. And Duke is missing. I forget
Speaker 3: the guy's name, but he fell in that game where
Speaker 3: Flag got hurt as well. But he was one of
Speaker 3: their best defensive players. And he's out for the season.
Speaker 3: So okay, I think there's something to.
Speaker 2: Keep a note. We'll see, we'll see. There'll probably be
Speaker 2: like a five point favorite. Yeah, on a neutral court. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean after after Duke. Your Arizona fans are already
Speaker 2: happy with the season at that point. Wait a seconds,
Speaker 2: fans happy.
Speaker 5: It's crazy, right, we're talking to talking, We're talking about
Speaker 5: the lousion again.
Speaker 3: Here we go. I actually disagree with you. I think
Speaker 3: even if they get to an e lead eight, everybody
Speaker 3: will everybody will say, oh, this is great, this is great.
Speaker 3: What if you get just not slaughtered, but you lose
Speaker 3: by ten to Alabama or something like that, who's a
Speaker 3: really good, well coached, really good offensive team. I could
Speaker 3: see Arizonaugh fans saying, well, see typical Arizona. We're not
Speaker 3: winning an lead eight.
Speaker 5: That is very true in the moment you see that,
Speaker 5: and you're not gonna piece everybody because you know the
Speaker 5: people on Twitter, you know them.
Speaker 2: But to both your points, I think you're both right.
Speaker 2: They beat Duke especially right to get to the lead eight.
Speaker 2: And then Alabama, all bets are off. They'll play their style.
Speaker 2: They could have played them last year. Yeah exactly. Well,
Speaker 2: here's my thing. I don't think they play Alabama. Who's
Speaker 2: who they play.
Speaker 5: I think they play the winner of possible b YU
Speaker 5: Wisconsin game.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, So you're saying BYU Wisconsin will beat Alabama,
Speaker 3: and then I can see that. I'd see that you
Speaker 3: have done your bracket. I have, and I believe if.
Speaker 5: This is where my memory comes in, I have to
Speaker 5: go and take pictures.
Speaker 3: Now, Uh give me one second. You've been on the
Speaker 3: show too.
Speaker 5: I have Wisconsins. I was gonna say into the final
Speaker 5: four were no, no, no, to play Alabama and be Alabama.
Speaker 3: Okay, So okay, that brings me how upset what Arizona
Speaker 3: fans be Wisconsin does it again a third time? I
Speaker 3: know it's not Tommy's fault. Didn't coach those games. But
Speaker 3: well everyone ask history with everybody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, talk about owning the state.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I have to say one thing about the selection committee
Speaker 3: though they say they don't set up matchups, but kind of.
Speaker 2: Well, the thing is a lot of things have to
Speaker 2: happen for them to happen, right. But they lost to
Speaker 2: Wisconsin earlier this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then it wasn't look like this is Arizona
Speaker 3: really and they played Duke, they played BYU. But how
Speaker 3: do you not put in Zaga Arizona in the same bracket.
Speaker 3: This might be Mark Fu's final run, may you know.
Speaker 3: I mean he's up there in age. It's been speculated
Speaker 3: that this might be it. And really and this we
Speaker 3: may never see Tommy versus Field. They don't want it.
Speaker 3: And they have a schedule the game that they got
Speaker 3: to make up. Yeah I don't think they ever will. Yeah,
Speaker 3: probably not. Okay, let wish that we get two minutes,
Speaker 3: three minutes, a couple minutes. Okay, Rady, did you have
Speaker 3: something to say? Uh yeah, getting back to that was
Speaker 3: not here just to be a pretty pacer. Uh yeah,
Speaker 3: getting back to that Wisconsin game.
Speaker 17: Though, from like earlier this year, there was so there
Speaker 17: was like sixty eight.
Speaker 3: I was like, that dude went off. It was I
Speaker 3: can't remember his name, yeah, but what I told you, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: he had like forty one points something like. This was
Speaker 3: a New Mexico State guy, I think or somewhere. But
Speaker 3: most of the like thirty of his points came from
Speaker 3: the free throw line. I mean that that was a
Speaker 3: whistle every time.
Speaker 2: Well, the good thing that we know is Arizona's not
Speaker 2: the team from November December.
Speaker 3: It's just not that team. Right. They do have one
Speaker 3: problem that was happening, you know them or in that game,
Speaker 3: what's that a three point? They were They were giving
Speaker 3: up threes, right, and that really hasn't changed. It went
Speaker 3: away for a little bit.
Speaker 2: But because they stopped shooting, well, I don't know, I
Speaker 2: didn't pay attention to the teams start stopped playing.
Speaker 3: Well maybe maybe a stretcher, but I think your opponent matters, yeah,
Speaker 3: very much.
Speaker 2: So people didn't understand that they're eleven in one and
Speaker 2: look how good they're playing.
Speaker 3: They didn't play anybody pretty much. Yeah, I mean West
Speaker 3: Virginia was yeah, they were you know BYU was solid. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now it's part of the best game. Did we
Speaker 2: talk about that yesterday that was their best game.
Speaker 5: There was maybe two good games.
Speaker 3: The most Yeah, they haven't Tech Texas tech game, maybe
Speaker 3: Texas out even even though they almost choked it at
Speaker 3: them and they got a Caleb Love halfcourt shot. Sennet,
Speaker 3: I always say that I thought overall was their best
Speaker 3: game except for the last five minutes where they almost
Speaker 3: blew it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, the thing about it with people that you went
Speaker 2: to the games and solid games the league watching was fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the season was fun.
Speaker 2: It was not boring, and it wasn't because it was
Speaker 2: no drama, which we loved no drama, but they it
Speaker 2: was entertaining.
Speaker 3: High quality brand of basketball. Yeah, yeah, okay, we gotta
Speaker 3: go raise give me that nots. We gotta go