Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to Winding the Ball. Here on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve your Dave. Now we have
Speaker 1: Kobe with breaking news.
Speaker 2: This is High on the Ball, breaking news on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Breaking news from the sports world. Arizona Miranda Stoddard earned
Speaker 3: second Big twelve Softball Player of the Week honors.
Speaker 1: She must have had a holder of statue against Utah.
Speaker 3: She was five for seven, I believe, with two home runs.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, thetty solid here. Yeah, that's some pretty good pitching.
Speaker 1: I mean, what else you need pitching? You need pitching.
Speaker 1: You don't have pitching. You're not gonna last long.
Speaker 3: Indiana is expected to hire West Virginia coach Darien DeVries
Speaker 3: to be next coach. Devreue spent one year at West Virginia,
Speaker 3: where we were in nineteen and thirteen. He also led
Speaker 3: Drake to three NCAA tournaments in four years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now that I kind of we talked about this
Speaker 1: right off the r Dave. I thought it was kind
Speaker 1: of a stretch. But you know, he's got a good
Speaker 1: past and he did pretty well this year. Is his
Speaker 1: son still have a.
Speaker 4: Bunch of injuries too, Right, he was injured, and then
Speaker 4: he played the airs and against Arizona early in the season,
Speaker 4: shot it was great. And then, uh, the coach must
Speaker 4: have some pretty strong Midwestern ties. I mean he's been
Speaker 4: a drake, he said, and then in West Virginia. So
Speaker 4: we'll see. It's a big job. It's that's one of
Speaker 4: those where, you know, even they haven't been great for
Speaker 4: a long time, but it's still very important job.
Speaker 1: Right. No, I was just gonna say, they've had a
Speaker 1: lot of coaches come to the system, including Sean Miller's brother.
Speaker 1: That's who didn't do I think first name escapes me,
Speaker 1: but Archie Archie, and he was a heck of a coach.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's at Rhode Island, I think now, So
Speaker 1: we'll see.
Speaker 3: H a Otani collected a pair of hits in his
Speaker 3: return to Japan as the defending champs defeat the Cubs
Speaker 3: four to one.
Speaker 5: You had a baseball season underway.
Speaker 4: The real games are not gonna all come back to
Speaker 4: Arizona and play some more spring training. But you know,
Speaker 4: I guess it's pretty cool that there were both teams
Speaker 4: have a number of Japanese stars, and I heard there's
Speaker 4: all kinds of you know, just Hurrah having show hey there,
Speaker 4: and of.
Speaker 1: Course you know, yeah, Star World, Superstar you're going to
Speaker 1: take the subscreen training games right.
Speaker 5: The way, We're gonna hit some games.
Speaker 1: Well, how one does it end?
Speaker 4: We actually went to a game last week too. It
Speaker 4: ends next weekend, I think. Then we actually saw a
Speaker 4: show hey last week in Glendale against the Diamondbacks, and
Speaker 4: as you can imagine, I'm it's it's like a mini
Speaker 4: Dodger Stadium and you go there, everyone's were in Dodger
Speaker 4: Dodger jerseys, and he's got the number one selling jersey
Speaker 4: I'm sure.
Speaker 5: In the world, and everybody they love him.
Speaker 4: And I remember I was in a Dodger game in
Speaker 4: La last summer, the same thing. I mean, it's just
Speaker 4: incredible the following he.
Speaker 1: Has were you well, I guess this is a long
Speaker 1: time ago, so you can't compare like the Fernando mania, right,
Speaker 1: it was kind of crazy like that.
Speaker 4: It's similar, maybe even more, I would say more. I
Speaker 4: mean Fernando was was big. I mean he was big.
Speaker 4: It was you know, Los Angeles has a has a
Speaker 4: gigantic population that would support him, obviously the Southwest and
Speaker 4: h you know, he was like a cultural phenomenon, and
Speaker 4: he came on as a kid. He was like twenty
Speaker 4: years old. We showed up and he's throwing you know,
Speaker 4: these screwballs and you know, had great success.
Speaker 1: Right twenty years old. Yeah, and he was like to
Speaker 1: buy accident. Yeah, because he just kind of replaced the starter.
Speaker 1: I can't remember who it was, and he became this guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Whereas Otani, you know, we saw him with the
Speaker 4: Angels and we kind of you know, watched him, you know,
Speaker 4: at least come into Major League Baseball. But then he
Speaker 4: gets this you know, enormous contract and you know whatever.
Speaker 4: It was seventy million a year, which is nothing these
Speaker 4: days in baseball. The Dodgers made seventy million just in
Speaker 4: TV rights, probably just because his games are on in
Speaker 4: Japan and things like that, so you know, they'll break
Speaker 4: even easily.
Speaker 3: The AP All America First Team came out today. Making
Speaker 3: It was John Broom, Cooper Flag, Mark Sears, Walter Clayton Junior,
Speaker 3: and Braden Smith.
Speaker 1: Tell me where he's from? From Purdue Purdue Okay, he
Speaker 1: was almost goods are pretty good. I didn't see him
Speaker 1: play it at all. The other guys are really good.
Speaker 1: Guard from Florida he's fantastic. Yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 4: I wasn't Crayton Smith on the team last year with
Speaker 4: Zach eat hole, Yeah, I think so. I think he
Speaker 4: was like there outside shoot. Yeah, it's really good. But yeah, no, no,
Speaker 4: Caleb Love anywhere.
Speaker 1: No, his name has not been mentioned. And Evan strike up.
Speaker 1: Evan Miyaka our guy. And I've been on his site
Speaker 1: all day to day because I wanted to do my
Speaker 1: uh my bracket here and uh Arizona's nowhere in top
Speaker 1: tens anywhere backcourts, front courts, teams anything like that.
Speaker 5: Uh oh.
Speaker 1: The one guy that made the list and he's number two.
Speaker 1: Uh and it's take a guess who it is?
Speaker 5: Number two?
Speaker 1: What that's why if I tell you, you'd know Henry No,
Speaker 1: which is a good guess. Al Waka In rebounding, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he's the second best rebounder in.
Speaker 4: The offensive rebounder, just rebounder.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And that's the only name on that any any
Speaker 1: of his lists. Yeah.
Speaker 3: In the newest AP twenty five, Auburn is four, Florida's three,
Speaker 3: Houston is two, and Duke.
Speaker 1: Is won or any of those guys are gonna win it.
Speaker 4: I picked Florida. I think I picked Houston in one
Speaker 4: of my pools. Yeah, I don't know. You want to
Speaker 4: get one shot, David, you.
Speaker 5: Know, yeah, five dollars I'll never get back.
Speaker 1: It's called dead money, man.
Speaker 4: But I to Vegas, have gotten to Vegas on this particular.
Speaker 1: Week two three years ago? Did you really three years ago?
Speaker 1: It was not what I expected? Did you just go
Speaker 1: to one casino? Which is stayed A good question? A
Speaker 1: little bit both. I did for one day and then
Speaker 1: the next day it was kind of like, it's crazy,
Speaker 1: it's just so much there. You know, which game do
Speaker 1: you watch? Blah blah blah. But it was I want
Speaker 1: to do it. I did it because I want to
Speaker 1: do it, because there was one it was not in.
Speaker 1: It had to be twenty nineteen, okay, when they didn't
Speaker 1: get in and it was okay, I did it. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't do it again. I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's you know, I mean basically.
Speaker 4: The way it's staggered though, it's not too tough to watch, honestly,
Speaker 4: but it sounds bad. Yeah, but there's only like, you know,
Speaker 4: there's a few games that are gonna be on at
Speaker 4: the same time, but you know, basically just have to
Speaker 4: outlast the whole day because it's started so.
Speaker 1: Early and end's late. Yeah, I can't. We went to
Speaker 1: a few of them. Circle We didn't get the circle,
Speaker 1: but I love circlech is amazing. Yeah, but so many,
Speaker 1: so much fun, you know, just an all day of
Speaker 1: you know, what the heck did I just watch? You
Speaker 1: know your eyes are like holy craft? Yeah, yeah, but cool,
Speaker 1: I did it. You know, this is my first time.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to the term this week this year,
Speaker 1: unless to get to the final four. But this is
Speaker 1: my fourth one and thirty two years that I missed. Wow,
Speaker 1: so I'm a little I was listening to an interview recently,
Speaker 1: remember Dick hoops Weiss. Yeah, of course he has.
Speaker 5: Listened to an interview actually, as I was coming over here.
Speaker 4: He's been to like fifty two final fours, you know,
Speaker 4: going all the way back to like the late sixties
Speaker 4: or whenever he got to college.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been to nineteen nineteen final fours. Yeah. In fact,
Speaker 1: we're kind of friends. We talked a lot at the
Speaker 1: Phoenix for the final four. Okay, and he's still the
Speaker 1: Christy Kresty dude. You don't know, it's not still. He's
Speaker 1: been that way from a long time. You know, I
Speaker 1: should try to get on tomorrow. You should get him.
Speaker 4: He you know, he talked about are we good on
Speaker 4: time here?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Get because I mean he was talking about when he
Speaker 4: went to the final four. Maybe it was the one
Speaker 4: in Phoenix where he just you know, in the old days,
Speaker 4: you know, you'd walk into the press room and I
Speaker 4: knew all the writers, and everybody knew everybody, and there
Speaker 4: were a hundred of us in there. Because now you
Speaker 4: go in there, I maybe know five of them, and
Speaker 4: all there's all these young guys and they're working for websites.
Speaker 4: They aren't even like printing newspapers anymore. It's a totally
Speaker 4: different dynamic.
Speaker 1: Very true.
Speaker 4: This isn't coming from a guy who's you know, probably
Speaker 4: seventy five years old now at least, very true in
Speaker 4: the business forever.
Speaker 1: Very true. That's true. Was like that, Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: Was like that. And because I know a lot of
Speaker 1: the guys. It's the Pat forties, the Dick Wises, the
Speaker 1: the Dan Wilkins, and those guys, the what's the name,
Speaker 1: who's gonna un Dennis dogs. Those guys were all you know,
Speaker 1: they're and I'm friends for them because they've been around
Speaker 1: a long time. But yeah, there it's a different generation.
Speaker 1: They're all working for websites and you know I have
Speaker 1: about these podcasts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they don't have to necessarily be in the
Speaker 4: press room, you know, doing what we used to have
Speaker 4: to do. We had to be there, really, we couldn't
Speaker 4: just somehow get the stories right.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what you missed the most, because you're going
Speaker 1: to get access to the press conferences and then the
Speaker 1: quotes from there, but you don't get to go into
Speaker 1: the into the into the locker rooms. Yeah. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what Bruce was telling me, you know, telling us a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago when he was the lonesome guy
Speaker 1: in Kansas City. Uh, you know, because they have the
Speaker 1: press converage and then have the locker room open, and
Speaker 1: he was the only dude in the locker room after
Speaker 1: not having access the whole year, right, and you know
Speaker 1: he was like a kid in candy store. But you
Speaker 1: can only talk to so many people and then a
Speaker 1: lot of time.
Speaker 4: Well I mean, even as you know Michael was talking,
Speaker 4: or maybe it was the caller who called in earlier
Speaker 4: about the TV coverage. When's the last time I think
Speaker 4: I ever saw Caleb Love interviewed one on one after
Speaker 4: a game. Maybe he did it a couple of times
Speaker 4: during the season, but you know he did it after
Speaker 4: some of the games in Kansas City. Yeah, I had
Speaker 4: him like, oh okay, he was okay.
Speaker 1: The only time I remember saying, they have the Arizona
Speaker 1: has its in house. Okay, a person the young woman
Speaker 1: who does it and they get about ninety seconds, right,
Speaker 1: and he does this thing. He's not a great quote.
Speaker 1: He's just not a great quote. But sure, and that's
Speaker 1: what you need. You need great quotes. But that's when
Speaker 1: I see him by himself.
Speaker 5: They need practice. That's the problem, you know.
Speaker 4: That's what they're protecting these guys and letting him go
Speaker 4: out and talk. They need to very sure that and
Speaker 4: build their brand so we can learn about him.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the funny thing. And I think you'd agree
Speaker 1: with me with this. I think one of the things,
Speaker 1: and I say this to the administrators as often as
Speaker 1: I can, is one of the things about Loot. And
Speaker 1: he had his criticisms also, but he let his kids
Speaker 1: grow up, talk to us pretty much open locker rooms
Speaker 1: until his end days. Right, But Sean's on TV, Channing's
Speaker 1: on TV. All these guys have media experience because they were.
Speaker 5: Good at it.
Speaker 4: Josh Passner was on for hours. He continues to me,
Speaker 4: he's fantastic. Yeah, he's going crazy on ESPN SA.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right. These guys had that chance.
Speaker 4: They grew up, they were able to, you know, again,
Speaker 4: build a brand a little bit, especially at a college level,
Speaker 4: and then you know, they graduate, they go on to coach,
Speaker 4: and then they can handle the interviews and news conferences
Speaker 4: and things like that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, people don't talk about that often enough, and
Speaker 1: they do such a good job. People at Duke do
Speaker 1: they you know, obviously bright kids and now they're who
Speaker 1: they are.
Speaker 5: Right Grant Hill, Yeah, Bobby Hurley.
Speaker 1: And the point guard Williamson Jason Williams PEMA basketball lead
Speaker 1: from start to finish as they cruise to the national
Speaker 1: quarterfinals after beating sixteen seeds Souning Niagara.
Speaker 3: They are now thirty three and oho on the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the first game. Yep, there's a first game.
Speaker 1: They play Thursday three pm. Thursday three pm in the
Speaker 1: quarterfinals and then the women play too. You have that score, so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the man just just destroyed them ninety
Speaker 4: nine to sixty six.
Speaker 5: I mean, the typical you know, offense.
Speaker 4: They scored like fifty eight points in the first half
Speaker 4: in a junior college game.
Speaker 5: It's just amazing.
Speaker 1: And the women on one last night seventy four to
Speaker 1: sixty five in the semis. They're in the quarters. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: they play and they not in the semis but in
Speaker 1: the in the sixteen or whatever it was. They're in
Speaker 1: the quarters tomorrow they play at six pm. And both
Speaker 1: coaches were named Coaches of the Year in the West
Speaker 1: District after winning their regions.
Speaker 4: I mean, Pema just blew them away in the first
Speaker 4: I mean they had had a fourteen oh run today,
Speaker 4: They just you know, they're They're a powerhouse, and I
Speaker 4: don't know who's gonna be able to stop them. The
Speaker 4: way they've been playing, shot what uh not even fifty percent,
Speaker 4: shot forty eight percent and still outscored these guys by
Speaker 4: you know, forty points whatever it was, ninety nine sixties,
Speaker 4: thirty three points.
Speaker 3: Last thing that I have is Cooper Cup has signed
Speaker 3: his contract for the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1: Being an official Oh okay, yeah, I'm thinking I'm thinking
Speaker 1: basketball right it Cooper Cup and I'm thinking what and
Speaker 1: then he the player to say Cooper Flag the Cooper Cup. Okay,
Speaker 1: anything else on that wire there.
Speaker 4: Sir Darien he mentioned Darien Devrees Sons, more injuries. Bradley
Speaker 4: Beale he hurt again, surprising. Yeah, the team's toast. They're
Speaker 4: just they're just jinxed. They're just thinking, so I don't
Speaker 4: want to play. They're just not they're not good together.
Speaker 3: They said they're probably going to fire the coach. Some
Speaker 3: reports one one one season, one season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's how many? How many in the last
Speaker 1: five years? Williams Williams and then the next guy, and
Speaker 1: then the next guy, and this.
Speaker 4: Guy and Money Williams and then Frank Vogel. Right, he
Speaker 4: was next because Miles was with him. Where's Miles.
Speaker 1: I think he's not doing anything, you know. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: a little surprised by that because they loved him on TV.
Speaker 4: I know, I think he would go back unless he's
Speaker 4: just waiting for something else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe maybe, Okay, anything else, Oh, that's it. Okay,
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Speaker 2: This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Want to take part in the show call out Steve
Speaker 2: now went five to two oh four one, six seventy
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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to my on the ball here on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, your Dave and Kobe Kobe.
Speaker 1: You were playing a little reporter work today. Oh, I
Speaker 1: was that. It was fun. Good to hear from fe
Speaker 1: Fida and Brennan on the.
Speaker 13: What was the result from the first day of practice,
Speaker 13: would they say? Yeah, they talked a lot about the
Speaker 13: new offense, how the o ceth dojer He's a new scheme,
Speaker 13: he's an up tempo offense. They're getting used to it.
Speaker 13: And Fafida likes that, he says.
Speaker 1: I would hope that he would say that doesn't have
Speaker 1: any choice third offense in three years for him? Yeah, yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: smart guy though. He'll be able to and I think
Speaker 1: the fans will like it too. You know last year
Speaker 1: last year was the offense. The problem with the defense
Speaker 1: or was it everything.
Speaker 5: I think it was a combination, especially with the offense,
Speaker 5: was not too.
Speaker 1: Imagine, it wasn't too much, right. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of the problems last year was because the running back.
Speaker 1: You know, he played one game and then he was done.
Speaker 1: I think he played one game, just one game, maybe
Speaker 1: one game, and then he got suspended or whatever whatever
Speaker 1: happened to him. I don't think it was fully explained.
Speaker 1: And then he turned out to be just a good player, right.
Speaker 1: I guess he was an All Star and did really well.
Speaker 1: So okay, so.
Speaker 4: All gets going in August thirtieth, gonna be a little
Speaker 4: toasty for Hawaii here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so let me let me ask you, David so
Speaker 1: so Kobe here says, how did how did Jay go?
Speaker 1: It was fun? When was the last time you went
Speaker 1: to to practice? And the press converson?
Speaker 6: David?
Speaker 1: How was these practice? Was it fun?
Speaker 5: If I could tell my stories?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 5: No, I mean we weren't even allowed.
Speaker 4: To go to practice back in the day, very sticking
Speaker 4: there for like a half hour if if that, and
Speaker 4: then you had to leave.
Speaker 5: I don't know how things are.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be kind of wipes down too. But Duke
Speaker 1: told me you can kind of sit around and kind
Speaker 1: of watch, and the thing.
Speaker 4: About the shoot what are you watching exactly? They were
Speaker 4: so worried about us reporting on stuff. We had no
Speaker 4: idea what we were watching. Basketball, maybe you can sort
Speaker 4: of see things, Hey, that guy's got a pretty good
Speaker 4: outside jumper or whatever.
Speaker 5: But for football practices.
Speaker 4: It was basically, you know, a bunch of guys standing
Speaker 4: around trying to figure out what are they even doing really,
Speaker 4: And the coaches were so paranoid because one day, you know,
Speaker 4: there was a spy that snuck into some practice if
Speaker 4: U C l.
Speaker 5: A or something, and they I don't know it was there.
Speaker 1: I remember the one time and Stoops was the coach
Speaker 1: at this time. They had to be in the twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: thirteens whatever it was, and he was he was concerned
Speaker 1: about when they affected in the corner, remember in the
Speaker 1: corner of the sixth and whatever Campbell or whatever, in
Speaker 1: that grassy thing, and then he was afraid of the
Speaker 1: people across or chubble hutts now or up on the
Speaker 1: top and thinking, you know, taking film and I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: this is what you've come to be freaked out about,
Speaker 1: ye back in the day, and not that I'm older
Speaker 1: and do I care? But Dave, if you had a
Speaker 1: team that was pretty good facing my team, I was
Speaker 1: more concerned about you having a pretty good team facing
Speaker 1: my team, whether you knew what I was gonna do
Speaker 1: or not. It wasn't it just going about head to
Speaker 1: head and trying to beat me beat me? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I don't understand exactly that was. That was always
Speaker 1: kind of a running joke with the media folks two
Speaker 1: week like what what do they think we're even doing?
Speaker 4: You know, we were doing stories and we would like say,
Speaker 4: you know, say it was Noah if we would be shooting,
Speaker 4: just Noah, we wouldn't be shooting, you know, some wide scheme, offense,
Speaker 4: trick play or Dick told me was fantastic coming over
Speaker 4: and telling us turn the cameras off for a few
Speaker 4: minutes because we're gonna do some stuff don't want anyone
Speaker 4: else to see, and I'll come back and tell you
Speaker 4: when you can turn them on.
Speaker 5: So that was great to have that.
Speaker 1: Let's also remember that that was way before the live
Speaker 1: tweets and the uh and this guy that guy and
Speaker 1: all that. Yeah, but he was a.
Speaker 4: Good sport about it, and he understand, you know, he
Speaker 4: understood in the job, right, you know, it's a generation ago,
Speaker 4: So I don't know.
Speaker 5: You're right.
Speaker 4: The coaches, all they know trick plays could get out
Speaker 4: on the internet, you know in March.
Speaker 1: Guess what, David, everybody has them. Everybody has those trick plays.
Speaker 1: Really Yeah, nothing new good. I can stopping them. You
Speaker 1: can't use them all the time. Yeah, So that's what
Speaker 1: it is. Just keep an eye on that phone there, Kobe. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you guys want to call them, we have no
Speaker 1: guests here, so we'll take some calls. Five to zero, four, one, six,
Speaker 1: seventy four, forty. I'm going to have my last show
Speaker 1: of the week tomorrow, so if you want to call in,
Speaker 1: talk about what's going on this weekend with the with
Speaker 1: the women's team, with the men's team as they get
Speaker 1: ready for the postseason.
Speaker 4: Hey, we've got to score out of Dayton. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: one Saint Francis and Alabama State. Uh, Saint Francis winning
Speaker 4: twelve to ten. It just they just started. So they
Speaker 4: they get the number. Who they're they're gonna play.
Speaker 1: What one of those things? Yeah, I can't remember who
Speaker 1: it is. Like I said, I haven't looked at my
Speaker 1: bracket yet.
Speaker 4: They're playing, uh waite, who are they playing?
Speaker 1: What do you think the first the first game? To me,
Speaker 1: that's going to be interesting. Arkansas versus Ken's.
Speaker 5: They're playing Auburn versus Kansas.
Speaker 1: That should be a good game with the Calipari, my
Speaker 1: guy and favorite favorite coach and uh self, two guys
Speaker 1: who can be a good one, you know, two Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame guys going against each other and then with
Speaker 1: the winner with the winner possibly uh facing Patino.
Speaker 13: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: I'm scared about Saint John's. I mean, and you know
Speaker 4: every year, I mean kind of gets kind of cliche ish,
Speaker 4: but that five twelve game is always.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to find that one. Well.
Speaker 5: Oregon and Liberty, so you know, I don't know about Liberty.
Speaker 1: No, they're they'd like to slow it.
Speaker 5: They slow down.
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, I'd like to slow it down.
Speaker 1: And there was one up they faced the team like
Speaker 1: that they would have a hard time. But I agree
Speaker 1: with was it David with the mic? Uh that uh
Speaker 1: Arizona a facial team that likes to move up and
Speaker 1: down right into their wheelhouse, right into their wheelhouse.
Speaker 5: Michigan got Michigan.
Speaker 4: You see San Diego our buddy Steve Quis covers those
Speaker 4: you see San Diego and this is I think this
Speaker 4: might be the first time ever for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know they're in.
Speaker 3: They're a good team.
Speaker 1: Thirty and three years thirty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they won like fifteen in a row or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You doing a bracket, Yeah, the either one.
Speaker 5: You got Clemson and McNeice.
Speaker 1: Clemson and McNeice. McNeice is with the UH with the
Speaker 1: LSU coach that got in trouble, and I think he
Speaker 1: has some ties to comps in something. There's so many storylines.
Speaker 1: Should be fun, should be really fun. I haven't done
Speaker 1: my paperwork. Get you said you did a few?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I keep changing going back and forth with mine in
Speaker 3: terms of the winner. Yeah yeah, I keep changing it up.
Speaker 1: So who you said Florida? I have Florida.
Speaker 3: I think I think they're a really good team. I
Speaker 3: have some upsets. I have Yale beating Texas A and
Speaker 3: m m M. Yeah, I liked I saw Yale. They
Speaker 3: have a really good lefty shooter. I think average like
Speaker 3: twenty five a game.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: How many teams out of the SEC made it fourteen fourteen,
Speaker 4: Toledo fourteen. I don't even know who the last two
Speaker 4: did not. Some of them I didn't even know they
Speaker 4: were in the SEC. Texas A and M.
Speaker 5: Vanderbilt. That's pretty amazing though. Vandy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's see if they hold up the bargain, because, uh,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of teams. I see how far they
Speaker 1: get Saint John's you're from how far are you from?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 3: Like forty five minutes they've kept. I'm a supporter, I
Speaker 3: wouldn't say I'm a fan, like I'm happy for them
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 4: The other five twelve is the Memphis Colorado State match.
Speaker 1: That's that's an interesting one. I've been following that one
Speaker 1: for a while. I've been watching a lot of the
Speaker 1: TV programs. Again, I don't kind of believe anything out here,
Speaker 1: but they've been talking about I think I might take
Speaker 1: Colorado State in that one.
Speaker 4: And then right after that, the four thirteen is Maryland
Speaker 4: Grand Canyons. So Grand Canyons had a nice Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: just the two Arizona schools make a tournament.
Speaker 1: That's the funny thing about it. When we were I
Speaker 1: think it was gonna add in the in our commercials
Speaker 1: that look we have Arizona, you know, kind of a
Speaker 1: staunch or a long time basketball power issue hasn't figured
Speaker 1: it out right, maybe once or twice in this whole time,
Speaker 1: and then Grand Canyon has come on the scene recently.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm strong and very good, the second best
Speaker 1: probably the team in the in the state. The issue
Speaker 1: is still kind of still trying to find a way just.
Speaker 5: I mean the conference they're in whatever it is, the whack, Yeah.
Speaker 1: But they're good. I mean I remember we were usually
Speaker 1: we're in Utah last year watching games, and they were
Speaker 1: pretty good last year in the tournament. They played well
Speaker 1: until the end. You gotta find those five twelve You
Speaker 1: gotta find.
Speaker 4: The right twelve middlesh games, the four thirteen's and stuff.
Speaker 4: You know, like you mentioned Kansas Arkansas. You know it's
Speaker 4: a pick them. What the odds are.
Speaker 5: In that game.
Speaker 1: I think Kansas will be favor by four and a half.
Speaker 1: Actually I would take Kansas. I still have to go
Speaker 1: to my last year.
Speaker 4: I mean, most of the mismatches are going to be,
Speaker 4: you know, the two in the fifteen's or eighteen point
Speaker 4: difference for Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Don't say that wasn't it just last year where two
Speaker 1: years ago where Arizona Princeton was a two or fifteen,
Speaker 1: right right, and then Arizona was a two. Arizona was
Speaker 1: favored by what thirty something big and then you just
Speaker 1: fill apart in the say in half. So we'll see
Speaker 1: if you again, if you want to call five, two, zero, four, one, six,
Speaker 1: seventy four or forty we read appreciate it if you
Speaker 1: want to call it. What else do you have there?
Speaker 1: The women? I think the women I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: there was a little part of me. Do they still
Speaker 1: do the wn I T? Maybe?
Speaker 5: No, it's whatever this tournament is wb I T what
Speaker 5: it is.
Speaker 1: There was a little partion to me that said, if
Speaker 1: they get invited, they may not go. But yeah, they'll
Speaker 1: they'll get five thousand, you know, a deal will continue
Speaker 1: her career here. We'll see what happens beyond that because
Speaker 1: we don't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of I mean, well, I guess the
Speaker 4: men's game is not going to be up against it,
Speaker 4: but that that would have been rough if that that
Speaker 4: turned out that way.
Speaker 5: Right, right, So it's good they'll get you know, they'll
Speaker 5: get their crowd there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's totally different cars and crowds. I mean,
Speaker 1: so we'll see, we'll see what they do. And they
Speaker 1: lost to them. They lost them first time, and you
Speaker 1: they lost up and that's right.
Speaker 5: You know, I think I remember watching that game of all.
Speaker 1: The lost that game and they don't have a couple
Speaker 1: of players as short again. Yeah, I mean, that's how
Speaker 1: many times have we said that?
Speaker 4: If I remember that game, Arizona had a pretty good
Speaker 4: lead and just any you went on some ridiculous run
Speaker 4: where they scored like eighteen straight or something like that,
Speaker 4: and then cats couldn't couldn't catch them. But yeah, that's
Speaker 4: kind of a surprising. And remember because like lut would
Speaker 4: never go up to flag staff. No, basically can make
Speaker 4: them come down here. But I guess it is more comedy.
Speaker 4: They have to pay. They have to pay. Well, they
Speaker 4: paid them too. Yeah, games, and they don't play. I
Speaker 4: don't even know where they play. It might be in
Speaker 4: the dome.
Speaker 1: But wouldn't they I don't know.
Speaker 5: Isn't there some I don't know. I don't know speaking
Speaker 5: I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well he went there, he went there when he
Speaker 1: first got here in eighty three, and they drove, if
Speaker 1: I remember, just to kind of show, yeah, because you
Speaker 1: would know you were here. Yeah, just to get the
Speaker 1: word out, you know, connect the caravans that they're doing now, right.
Speaker 4: Coming this was Yeah, this is like throwing Pete Williams
Speaker 4: and Eddie Smith into a bus or something.
Speaker 1: Did you know those guys back then? You know they
Speaker 1: came here accommodating and then Tate Eddie Williams. No, he
Speaker 1: was half half a half the year.
Speaker 4: Think that's all he lasted. I remember because we've talked
Speaker 4: to Pete about that. How he thought he was super
Speaker 4: gonna be good. Yeah, but you know Kerr was coming
Speaker 4: in and brock Bunk brock Bronk Horse was finishing up basically,
Speaker 4: so that first team, you know, all the holdovers from
Speaker 4: the Ben Lindsay era Ben Lindsay season, and then you know,
Speaker 4: he brings in the two JC guys and John Edgar came.
Speaker 4: I think maybe the next year. I can't remember exactly
Speaker 4: how that came.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I thought they came in together.
Speaker 4: Maybe there are another Buddies next now, but neighbors pretty much. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but yeah, it was it was a quick especially now
Speaker 4: when you think about you know, the transfer portals and
Speaker 4: how you're you know, remaking your rosters.
Speaker 5: That's basically what happened here.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I never yeah, exactly at that time,
Speaker 1: and that's going to be happening for the rest of
Speaker 1: our time covering games because every team you said, wow,
Speaker 1: this team is pretty good. Well when they come together,
Speaker 1: well just in August, you know, because everybody's new.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know already there's somebody I don't. I just
Speaker 4: saw some headline already about somebody's alreadys made their decision
Speaker 4: on where they're going next year. Basketball guys are making
Speaker 4: their well, even finishing the semesters.
Speaker 1: There was a kid here at a unil Via guard
Speaker 1: because they fired Lon Kruger's son Kevin. Kevin Kruger. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so be right, So they fired him. I don't know
Speaker 1: who they're gonna get, but their guard is a pretty
Speaker 1: good guard. He's leaving. I think he was all whack
Speaker 1: or all conference whatever Melton West, and they said, now
Speaker 1: that Caleb's leaving one and two h Bradley needs some
Speaker 1: help with the with the spot that this guy would
Speaker 1: fit in perfectly. Well, there's times there's out there and.
Speaker 4: His high school kids gonna be ready to walk right
Speaker 4: in and play like Carter Bryant.
Speaker 1: Well, they have this other kid that they're chasing. I
Speaker 1: forget his name, A big name that and I think
Speaker 1: that he's favored to head somewhere else maybe you will see.
Speaker 1: So the question is Canny retreat those high school kids
Speaker 1: because he really he really hasn't you know, Kobe?
Speaker 4: Or he gets guys from around the country, around the world, right,
Speaker 4: you know, right, what's what's going on in in Estonia
Speaker 4: this year?
Speaker 5: You know who wants to come?
Speaker 1: So I think he's doing fine. He's such a So
Speaker 1: you read my story about him and being uh being
Speaker 1: animated in the in the in the huddle. That got
Speaker 1: a lot of attention. I'm not not my story, but
Speaker 1: the situation and there was did you.
Speaker 5: Well that it happened?
Speaker 4: It was just like, you know, we have not seen
Speaker 4: him do that exact cameras are not usually allowed in
Speaker 4: that spot.
Speaker 1: Right right, So it happened, and I'm thinking this is odd.
Speaker 1: I'm sure everybody did. Did you read my stray and
Speaker 1: then bald WoT be killing this? My mom texted me
Speaker 1: she said, does he having a heart attack? So that
Speaker 1: was part of the story, and it kind of it
Speaker 1: was would you say to me manufactured?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, you could tell. I'm sure it was manufactured.
Speaker 4: You and he had to agree to have the cameras right.
Speaker 4: It wasn't like you they just popped the camera in
Speaker 4: there and he was so I'm sure he probably thought
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 1: Well. It was kind of like the moment that I
Speaker 1: think it was during the Final four Runner or the
Speaker 1: chemps that run, where she was caught on camera. She
Speaker 1: swore she know she gave the finger the finger, and
Speaker 1: it's like, to me, it's like, what's the big deal?
Speaker 1: These are coaches, man, don't you want to see these
Speaker 1: guys and women do this? That's what they do.
Speaker 4: It's an emotional game, It's exactly. You know, so much
Speaker 4: is on the line, and you know.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't rather have them do that than not do that, right,
Speaker 1: you know?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know it just gives us another side
Speaker 4: of Tommy that many of us haven't seen. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't think we have ever except the players get practice.
Speaker 1: And I asked. I asked because that was my story
Speaker 1: for today. But I asked, and I purposely had this
Speaker 1: story in mind, so I asked him about it. Initially,
Speaker 1: he says, what, what what was up with that? It's
Speaker 1: as well, you know, my friend kind of egged me
Speaker 1: on to do it, blah blah blah. And then how
Speaker 1: did it feel? Because every kind of reaction in the
Speaker 1: public got reaction. And then I'm assuming that it's not
Speaker 1: going to happen again because it was that one time
Speaker 1: thing because he said, I don't want everybody think I'm
Speaker 1: a psych code, you know, because I'm not. I'm just
Speaker 1: a normal dude who's coaching.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was. It was one of those moments we'll
Speaker 5: never forget.
Speaker 4: The first time we saw Tommy, you know, explode on camera.
Speaker 4: Speaking of coaches exploding, Xavier gets to play tomorrow too,
Speaker 4: Sean Miller, We'll get to watch him tomorrow against.
Speaker 1: And we saw him doing a lot.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that was. That was Sean Miller's what.
Speaker 1: What I say to this? And I and I did
Speaker 1: this big story on this two sound on Tommy last
Speaker 1: year year at this time to me and I hate
Speaker 1: to go back in this one. I'll do it anyway.
Speaker 1: He was the perfect guy to replace Sean be for
Speaker 1: that reason. Sean did it all the time, and he
Speaker 1: was just that dude who yelled the scream and did stuff,
Speaker 1: and Temmy was the soothsare. He was kind of like
Speaker 1: everything's gonna be okay, and the kids at that time
Speaker 1: needed that.
Speaker 4: After that, right after Shawn's it's gonna be interesting to
Speaker 4: see what happens with U. C. L A.
Speaker 5: What do you think?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he's kind of kind of the
Speaker 1: te leaser, kind of he's always busy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's yeah. I mean he's kind of the Sewan.
Speaker 4: He's out of the same mold.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. Yeah, but he's apparently off the off
Speaker 1: the courty. He's a pretty damn good guy since what
Speaker 1: Ben Bell both says. You know, he's not that guy
Speaker 1: in interviews or in conversations, but he's tough on the
Speaker 1: kids and then he rags the kids.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they play Utah State and then they have
Speaker 4: to play Tennessee if they win the end of that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, he's kind of always been kind of on
Speaker 4: the bubble. It seems like for the last few years.
Speaker 4: What makes a good coach? Tell me what makes a
Speaker 4: new coach? You gotta be able to do a lot
Speaker 4: of things, honestly, this time, in this day and age.
Speaker 1: So I said this, I think with you Dave or
Speaker 1: on the show. To me, the best coach in the
Speaker 1: country is Rick Patino. I'm just seventy two years old.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine it's been twenty seven years twenty eight years,
Speaker 1: right since everyzon'a played in the final four, So twenty
Speaker 1: eight minus certain two. He's prout. He was like forty five.
Speaker 1: I thought he was way older than that when when
Speaker 1: they played it, you know, looting him in the ninety seven.
Speaker 1: So he's been here a long time. A lot of
Speaker 1: stuff has happened in on the road to where he's
Speaker 1: become this guy right at Louisville and other places.
Speaker 5: He's seventy two. Yeah, so he's been around.
Speaker 1: But he's been around, and he's got that show and
Speaker 1: he's just a tough dude. He's a tough dude like Sean.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, different background, but you know, came
Speaker 4: out of the New York City area.
Speaker 5: Things like that.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know, different, different and all these
Speaker 4: all these teams now have like these general managers.
Speaker 5: You're asking, like what takes to be a good coach.
Speaker 4: There was a I can't remember which game it was
Speaker 4: somewhere this past weekend, you know, and there was a
Speaker 4: woman that stood up in the crowd and they showed
Speaker 4: they zoomed in on her and she.
Speaker 5: Was like some teams general manager. I forget what college was.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys were watching it, but
Speaker 4: it was somebody like, oh, I guess now we're I mean,
Speaker 4: we I know they have them, but they're really identifying them.
Speaker 1: Well, you have the guy from ESPN, what's his name,
Speaker 1: woch Och. He's the one the same bottom on a venture.
Speaker 1: They're not in the tournament.
Speaker 4: I'm sure Arizona has one. We know that too, And
Speaker 4: it's just that's also part of the organization now, the
Speaker 4: coaches to be able to coach and the gms maybe
Speaker 4: the one handing them the players and here's.
Speaker 1: Your bag, you get too, I get one to, you
Speaker 1: get to. So yeah, it helps solve the coaches problems
Speaker 1: because they don't have to deal with it. Yeah, yeah, Okay,
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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to the wall here on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Dave Silver, got Kobe
Speaker 1: waiting for some calls. My story on I guess Sunday
Speaker 1: after talking to Tommy was before the school got into
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve, right, maybe more than a year ago.
Speaker 1: You're thinking, okay, cool for basketball, because they shouldn't. They
Speaker 1: should be prepared, yep, for what's ahead. They're not going
Speaker 1: to be soft and not soft. They're hardly as soft
Speaker 1: as they used to be right there, they're pretty stout.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's gotten them ready?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean that's a good point you made, because
Speaker 4: I think that's kind of what the storyline has been
Speaker 4: really well, the softness and maybe things have gotten a
Speaker 4: little bit tougher to play in the Big Twelve, and
Speaker 4: they're set up like I don't know one of one
Speaker 4: of the guys. I think it must have been Bruce
Speaker 4: or someone wrote a good story about, you know, the
Speaker 4: types of teams they were playing through the Pac twelve
Speaker 4: as opposed to times the teams they were playing, especially
Speaker 4: the last part of the Big Twelve. They've seen some
Speaker 4: of these teams they've seen that, you know, one of
Speaker 4: the number one seeds just a couple of days ago,
Speaker 4: so they've you know, they're up. The competition was definitely
Speaker 4: much better in Kansas and Texas Tech being high seeds
Speaker 4: as well, so they should be set up for some
Speaker 4: you know, difficult matchups.
Speaker 1: You can't use that use anymore, right, that's for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like, oh, we just got worn out by
Speaker 4: some team. They're one of the teams that should be.
Speaker 1: Wearing people out now and they're capable of doing that.
Speaker 1: You know, this Friday, they're going to play Acron, who
Speaker 1: likes to run it up shoot the three. They're small,
Speaker 1: Arizona should have a huge height advantage, so kind of
Speaker 1: right in their wheelhouse if they defend the three, of.
Speaker 4: Course, and that's kind of been their kryptonite, you know,
Speaker 4: basically the last couple of years. So you know, they
Speaker 4: know that. I don't know what, I don't know what
Speaker 4: use to say. They just they need I'm sure they're
Speaker 4: going to scout them. They're gonna know who their hot
Speaker 4: shooters are, and they just need to get a body
Speaker 4: of sure.
Speaker 1: Sure, that's the one thing they've been hot and cold
Speaker 1: with that defense because maybe from January to mid February
Speaker 1: maybe to March. Do you think this team has been
Speaker 1: great defensively? Exactly defensively and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: what happened to the defense?
Speaker 4: That's why I was it was weird the last you know,
Speaker 4: a month or so where it just kind of fell
Speaker 4: apart and like where was that team that Basically when
Speaker 4: they had that big streak of you know, winning a
Speaker 4: ton of games in a row or a ton of
Speaker 4: you know, most of their games, that was what was
Speaker 4: doing it right. They're scoring their eighty five a game,
Speaker 4: they were giving up you know, seventy.
Speaker 1: The caveat is that that they were playing the bottom
Speaker 1: half of the league, Yeah, and that the top half
Speaker 1: of the league. Yeah, So so we'll see. But the
Speaker 1: thing is they've been tested. You can't use that as
Speaker 1: an excuse we needed to be tougher, No, you know,
Speaker 1: you need to be tougher. You can be.
Speaker 5: And they've got a break.
Speaker 4: They haven't played since Friday, since Saturday, you know, there's
Speaker 4: an extra day they get to come home or whatever
Speaker 4: school starts restarted, I guess, and then they'll leave and
Speaker 4: go up there tomorrow. And they've been to Seattle most
Speaker 4: of the guys have made this road trip before.
Speaker 5: There's gonna be some fans.
Speaker 4: I've even been contacted just by some of the people
Speaker 4: I used to work with up there that are excited
Speaker 4: to have the u of a drop in all of
Speaker 4: a sudden again, Well.
Speaker 1: That's that's the thing. What I traveled with them forever.
Speaker 1: People say that they travel, well, not necessarily, they'll have
Speaker 1: a contingent. But the good thing as you well know
Speaker 1: that they have lums in all these West Coast places,
Speaker 1: right La San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Well, you know they're going to bring I don't know,
Speaker 4: they don't. They usually bring like two planeloads or something.
Speaker 4: People are from Tucson are gonna fly up. So that's
Speaker 4: you know, maybe a thousand people or so. And then
Speaker 4: you're right. I mean I've been to I've been to
Speaker 4: some games in Seattle that were it was at the
Speaker 4: heck Ed wherever the name of the arena is what
Speaker 4: that small place that seats maybe six thousand fans, and
Speaker 4: half of them were Arizona fans. I mean, there's a
Speaker 4: big there's a big alumni group in Seattle, so they'll
Speaker 4: be there if they can get tickets. I don't know,
Speaker 4: a lot of times it's harder to get tickets for
Speaker 4: these sure types of games.
Speaker 1: And don't forget the coaches from there, so he'll have
Speaker 1: some continent people still have the The Tommy family is
Speaker 1: growing as we speak. It's right, grandson and his family
Speaker 1: up there. So no, I think it's gonna be great.
Speaker 4: And you know again, Oregon's gonna have some fans there too,
Speaker 4: being right there.
Speaker 1: So and what do you think the fans from Arizona
Speaker 1: think about that? Oh? Man, how can we go? And
Speaker 1: Portland's gonna be right there?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah, it'll probably be important.
Speaker 1: Fans are not what they think they are, but they
Speaker 1: have a hard time selling out their place or it's
Speaker 1: not as popular.
Speaker 4: They can drive there, they could, they could get on
Speaker 4: the continue.
Speaker 5: You can get there in day.
Speaker 1: Well how did that work for Anaheim? How did that
Speaker 1: work for.
Speaker 4: Laf We can sit here today and just go through
Speaker 4: this and talk ourselves to sleep.
Speaker 5: But I mean those things.
Speaker 1: That's why I wish I wish we had, like I
Speaker 1: should get one from from Nate where it's just the booklet, right,
Speaker 1: you can go down the games for the games that
Speaker 1: you and I saw in the late eighties and nineties
Speaker 1: and say, okay, this is why they lost, this is
Speaker 1: why they lost, this is why they lost.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I've got great memories of of the
Speaker 4: Seattle games. Were you there was there an eighty eight
Speaker 4: when they advanced in the Kingdom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was not unseen by the Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: we were.
Speaker 5: It was freezing. I think it was the eighty eight.
Speaker 4: Maybe it was. It was one of those two. They
Speaker 4: were up there a couple of ninety one.
Speaker 1: Okay, ninety one when heard his thumb broke his thumb
Speaker 1: and they lost a seat in hall.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But I mean, you know, one of the greatest moments
Speaker 4: in Arizona sports history was winning the North Carolina game
Speaker 4: in the eighty eight. So that was in the Kingdome,
Speaker 4: and you know, we all knew that, I mean, we
Speaker 4: were Arizona was great.
Speaker 5: That team that was obviously was a special.
Speaker 4: That was the team that you know that started started
Speaker 4: to crack the door open to get to the final four.
Speaker 4: But that was a great moment. And say, I don't
Speaker 4: really remember the fan situation. They're playing in a dome,
Speaker 4: there were like sixty thousand people in there, but later,
Speaker 4: like I guess I said, I was just I remember
Speaker 4: was the DeAndre eight in the year and I was
Speaker 4: in that game. No, I was at the game in
Speaker 4: Seattle the season when they lost to the Huskies. But
Speaker 4: there were a ton of you of a fans there.
Speaker 4: There's a big group called the Sea Tax the Seacats, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I should say that are the alumni group.
Speaker 5: They are very very.
Speaker 1: Vocal, and there's there's plenty of some kind of similar party. Two.
Speaker 5: They always do pepper Allis. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they're everywhere. Game is a good time. It's
Speaker 4: you know, don't have to wait up all night and
Speaker 4: play that last game. It's going to be like the
Speaker 4: first game in the early first game of the evening session.
Speaker 1: Right. So then the winter they played the winner who
Speaker 1: plays it right after right? Right?
Speaker 5: Oregon play after that.
Speaker 1: Yea, So we'll see, we'll see anybody on the phones. Okay,
Speaker 1: So what.
Speaker 4: Do we know about the Zips Just that they're one
Speaker 4: of those American conferences.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but re member they played Mimi of Ohio and
Speaker 1: ninety five yep, got beat. So you just can't take
Speaker 1: these guys lightly. If anything, in my history of covering
Speaker 1: the team and even writing about a number of times.
Speaker 1: It's it's more about they have to take this game seriously.
Speaker 1: You went with me with Jim Moore came on and
Speaker 1: they played Wisconsin in one of those games, and they
Speaker 1: had that attitude in two thousand, I think it's two
Speaker 1: thousand when they were the number one overall seed then
Speaker 1: won of the first game they played Wisconsin. Oh we
Speaker 1: got this, we got this, and they lost fifty two
Speaker 1: to fifty in Utah. Yeah, and you can overlook anybody
Speaker 1: that's the number one thing. Phone call cool, Okay, Hello,
Speaker 1: you're on the air nine the ball. Who's this? It's Brian,
Speaker 1: Brian doing what's going on? Brian?
Speaker 15: Well, just I figure we can win the game if
Speaker 15: you can figure how to score and at least thirty
Speaker 15: eight minutes of the game and instead of only thirty five.
Speaker 1: Yeah right right. So you you followed the team for
Speaker 1: a long time, I would assume because the way you speak,
Speaker 1: is this a concerning game the first game for fans
Speaker 1: because of what the history is shown.
Speaker 15: Every game is a concerning game this season. The other season,
Speaker 15: I wouldn't be overly worried about it. But this season,
Speaker 15: I don't know what team's.
Speaker 1: Going to show up Yeah, that's true, that's true, you know.
Speaker 15: I mean, you know, we have all these we have
Speaker 15: a lot of talent on a team, but whether or
Speaker 15: not they produced out on the court, it is a
Speaker 15: different story. Yeah, And we don't know what's going to
Speaker 15: happen with them.
Speaker 4: The beauty of beauty of sports, you just don't know
Speaker 4: from day to day and who's going to play well
Speaker 4: and what the mashups look like, who's having a bad day.
Speaker 4: It just doesn't feel good. I mean, there's so many
Speaker 4: things that could happen and things have to go.
Speaker 15: I mean, I mean before we looked at it and
Speaker 15: we you know, we figured out, we know what's going
Speaker 15: to happen, you know, and we would take a drastic
Speaker 15: flop not to do well. But this team, you know,
Speaker 15: like one one day.
Speaker 1: They're great.
Speaker 15: That game against Houston, I'm sorry, but we should have
Speaker 15: won that game, you know, but in the last five
Speaker 15: minutes and thirty seconds, we can't seem to find a basket.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I think Houston Houston, like the first game
Speaker 1: they played, rotcheted up a little, it up.
Speaker 15: A little, I know, but yeah, but still I really
Speaker 15: felt we got away from what got us there. And
Speaker 15: I know Houston took us out of some of that stuff,
Speaker 15: but we still just sat there and side it all.
Speaker 15: Let's go shoot some three pointers, you know, or let's
Speaker 15: not drive the middle anymore, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the things I think you guys need
Speaker 1: to be happy with. You should be happy with us.
Speaker 1: H Kaji Lewis has played pretty well the last few games.
Speaker 15: Yeah, he has. You know, you know one of the
Speaker 15: things you were talking about, you know, people transferring the
Speaker 15: portal and everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've always.
Speaker 15: Been thinking about what happens to our center who got
Speaker 15: hurt previous Does he come back?
Speaker 1: I would assume. So I think that he's going to
Speaker 1: be loyal to Tommy.
Speaker 15: Are going to have two seven footers, and plus you
Speaker 15: had the other seven footers sitting on the bench. She
Speaker 15: hasn't played much that step In is that his name?
Speaker 1: Yeah, even, Yeah, I think he stays. I think you'll
Speaker 1: be there. It's the other guys. You know, he's Brian
Speaker 1: gonna stay.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 15: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm sorry, but if I'm
Speaker 15: Bryant and some guy tells me I'm going to go
Speaker 15: in the first round, I'm you know, I'm taking the
Speaker 15: money now. Yeah, yeah, we had you know, for three years.
Speaker 15: That's guaranteed money. Yeah, and there's no way that we're
Speaker 15: paying him the same kind of guaranteed money that the
Speaker 15: NBA would pay real.
Speaker 1: And I think initially that's what his intentions were, right,
Speaker 1: come here, do really well and get out and he's done,
Speaker 1: or he hasn't done really well, but he's good enough.
Speaker 15: Or maybe he looks at and go, well, now that
Speaker 15: love is gone. Whatever, I've got a year under my
Speaker 15: belt and this stuff. Maybe I can come back next
Speaker 15: year and be a lottery pick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, potentially, Yeah, we'll see. It's hard to tell. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: thanks Brian. Wait wait wait, wait, wait, So do they
Speaker 1: get to this sweet sixteen? I know you're a little
Speaker 1: your little you know, skeptical, but do they get there?
Speaker 1: I'm hoping they get there. That's skeptical to me, okay, bros.
Speaker 15: I mean in order the fact that you know, they
Speaker 15: play Oregon.
Speaker 5: We don't know if they're playing Morgan.
Speaker 15: We're going to assume they play orgon right, and you
Speaker 15: know in Oregon, right, that's true.
Speaker 1: Who knows anyth about Oregon? Do you know?
Speaker 15: You know, I have no idea. You know, Oregon has
Speaker 15: always played us tough.
Speaker 1: You know they know how we.
Speaker 15: Play, right, so we know how they play though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, thank you make for a great matchup. Thanks, okay,
Speaker 1: that's root for liberty. Liberty, And just what style they play?
Speaker 1: The anti slow, this low fifty four to sixty point game.
Speaker 1: And I don't think you would rather play Oregon, you
Speaker 1: would look score them just yeah, just and just played
Speaker 1: like Arizona. I mean, I hate hearing that from people
Speaker 1: now I'm saying it. But if you can just do
Speaker 1: what you do, it could be okay. But Oregon is
Speaker 1: gonna say some radio station in in new Portland saying
Speaker 1: the same thing. Right, if you just do what you do,
Speaker 1: you'll be able to have them before we can beat
Speaker 1: them again. Yeah, stop, stop Caleb, and you're good, Henry,
Speaker 1: We'll see.
Speaker 4: I know the things we've been talking about all year
Speaker 4: is the you know, the Caleb bad shooting day and
Speaker 4: not playing any defense.
Speaker 1: He would be the mnic thing because we've been here
Speaker 1: long enough, Dave. If he go two for thirteen scores,
Speaker 1: you know, the two for thirteen, right?
Speaker 5: Are we not talking about the tournament next week?
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr Salim all these guys went two for thirteen
Speaker 1: and the end of the season happened.
Speaker 5: That was the set really two for thirteen?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 5: Yeah, dejev, let's not even think about it.
Speaker 4: Let's see see if they can get through a couple
Speaker 4: of games and we'll have a good week.
Speaker 1: Thanks Dandy for coming on in. Yep, I might see
Speaker 1: you tomorrow. I'm not sure yet. Thank you Kobe for
Speaker 1: coming on in, and we'll talk to you guys tomorrow