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Speaker 2: the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rovera.
Speaker 2: In with me today is Dave silver dotje one. How
Speaker 2: are you haven't seen you in ages?
Speaker 3: I know it's been a months. It has been a
Speaker 3: month now, it's been a couple of weeks. But feels
Speaker 3: good to be back. Your hair is getting rare. Oh, yes,
Speaker 3: not from you got a job search pretty soon?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't help either. No, it doesn't have it
Speaker 2: at all. Well, welcome here. Ready Friday, we're gonna have
Speaker 2: some picks. Did you Jay send you something? Yeah, I'll
Speaker 2: reach out to okay, because I haven't even made mine either.
Speaker 2: Picks from Jay at the end of the show. We
Speaker 2: have a pretty good show going on today. A lot
Speaker 2: of basketball talk. I don't know if you want to
Speaker 2: talk a little about you a football after some coaching
Speaker 2: changes yesterday, Dave, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean I think we kind of anticipated some things
Speaker 4: would happen after the season ended and Brad Brenda made
Speaker 4: some moves on the staff. I guess Dino Babers will
Speaker 4: be not not with a team, but Duenna Quina will
Speaker 4: still be on the on the staff in some shape,
Speaker 4: and who knows exactly what. I guess we'll have to
Speaker 4: wait and see how that the DBS.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's to me it was a little much ado
Speaker 2: about nothing because we kind of already guessed that big
Speaker 2: babies were not gonna be around.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, and it's really I don't know with
Speaker 4: the other schools, but I was listening to some other
Speaker 4: folks talking today. I mean, it's kind of what happens
Speaker 4: after after they get the guys signed. Sure, then they
Speaker 4: start making these coaching moves like this. Sure some will
Speaker 4: be you know, much more drastic. Well I'll actually actually
Speaker 4: get rid of the head coach. But in this case,
Speaker 4: you know, again, these these recruits have been recruited by
Speaker 4: a couple of these coaches which probably been close to
Speaker 4: them and you know, kind of telling the stories about
Speaker 4: the U of A and hey, you're I'm gonna be
Speaker 4: your coach, and they disappear. So we'll see if any
Speaker 4: of these players in those positions also make a change.
Speaker 2: Sure, and because that's the case, only maybe maybe because
Speaker 2: that's the case Bee Babers were the only guy doing it,
Speaker 2: because one coach is not going to affect a bunch
Speaker 2: of people, right, uh, you know, offensive minded people. Yes,
Speaker 2: but I don't know how much he was involved in
Speaker 2: the offense after he had kind of relinquished the job earlier.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they made that change with the was is it
Speaker 4: Matt Adkins? I guess is the other assistant count He
Speaker 4: kind of took over there. So yeah, you I don't
Speaker 4: even know if, if if Dino was even involved in recruiting,
Speaker 4: So we'd have to be asked some.
Speaker 2: Questions given what you know now, Is any of that
Speaker 2: the scapegoat for the season, the fact that there were
Speaker 2: there were changes and they all involved the offense. But
Speaker 2: I do have another thing, because I said this in
Speaker 2: the show and people who listened regularly, I would have
Speaker 2: asked him. And I didn't have a chance to do
Speaker 2: it on Facebook or not on Facebook, but on Zoom
Speaker 2: yesterday when I was on the press commerce because he
Speaker 2: talked about looking in the mirror, maybe making some changes,
Speaker 2: you know, blah blah blah maybe And I said, well,
Speaker 2: did they include himself? Because I think his and what
Speaker 2: do I hell do I know. I don't get paid
Speaker 2: to be a coach.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: His approach to coaching is not conducive to today's kids. Well,
Speaker 2: you know, we'll see.
Speaker 4: I mean, we've give we've got a twelve game you know,
Speaker 4: slate of games to look at at this point.
Speaker 2: So who knows it? And my sample size is not
Speaker 2: good enough for your days? I don't know.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm willing to give him more than a Yeah,
Speaker 4: me too, everybody, everybody kind of you know, you jumped
Speaker 4: the gun that fast.
Speaker 2: Me too, Dave. But the thing about it, some people
Speaker 2: like me or I don't really care if he stays
Speaker 2: with goods. Uh. I told you so, we saw this,
Speaker 2: We saw this, so we'll see. Well, Gaudi has been
Speaker 2: very good this week in terms of media access, and
Speaker 2: he's more vibrant or or you know for jovial or
Speaker 2: whatever the word is, which hadn't been him in the past.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, the pressure is off as far as
Speaker 4: preparing for a team, preparing for a game. Now it's
Speaker 4: no losses, there's nothing, nothing's gonna happen until September next year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no losses are coming to any spring football.
Speaker 4: You know, there's gonna be a lot of things happening
Speaker 4: with the transfer portal and other players coming and going
Speaker 4: here in the next yeah, a couple of months, and
Speaker 4: then next thing, you know, it'd be spring football public
Speaker 4: and you know, in March or April, and we can
Speaker 4: sort of see who's some of the Maybe some of
Speaker 4: the freshmen have already come to enroll with the u
Speaker 4: of A in that second semester of classes, so there
Speaker 4: could be some you know, some young talent already on campus.
Speaker 2: Right and there's a couple of people leaving. I'll leave
Speaker 2: that for you. On your breaking news, did you guys
Speaker 2: have something on your on your website on talking about
Speaker 2: some guy criticizing the UA football program and the recruits
Speaker 2: or something like that. I saw on Twitter and I
Speaker 2: think it used you guys as a source, but I
Speaker 2: could be wrong. I'm looking at it now and I
Speaker 2: thought maybe maybe not. I don't believe, so maybe the
Speaker 2: recruiting class evaluation. What did you wrote something yesterday?
Speaker 3: I wrote a summary of what he had said on
Speaker 3: Wednesday at the National Signing Day. Okay, okay, I saw
Speaker 3: something that said uh Arizona would like to recruit a
Speaker 3: new coach.
Speaker 2: I just I tossed to a side. Yeah, you stuff
Speaker 2: like that all the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, losing that quarterback recruit did you just talk about that, yes,
Speaker 3: because it had not happened.
Speaker 4: Robert McDaniel who went to u u c l A
Speaker 4: from the from the U of A. So that I
Speaker 4: think dropped Arizona and the recruiting rankings a bit. They
Speaker 4: were in the mid forties forties, yes, and now they're
Speaker 4: like sixty ish.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll see that he's a three star. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but but good enough for Arizona to chase them and
Speaker 2: then someone to take him away.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's that there's another quarterback in the class.
Speaker 4: You know, some of those decisions too, you're just not
Speaker 4: always sure what the players are looking at. Hey there's
Speaker 4: another quarterback, maybe he's better than me, I'll never.
Speaker 2: Have a chance.
Speaker 4: Or there's some quarterbacks you know on the roster now
Speaker 4: that he doesn't think he'll ever get a chance to
Speaker 4: beat out.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and no one's still here. So I'm sure
Speaker 2: that's going to a scare way of prospect.
Speaker 4: And everybody, all the all the good quarterbacks there's a
Speaker 4: price tag on every one of them in college football now,
Speaker 4: So who knows if Noah's going to be here in
Speaker 4: a month or a week, right, somebody, how would you
Speaker 4: how would.
Speaker 2: You feel you did this on the other side, you know,
Speaker 2: the academic excited and the academic a lettle bit of
Speaker 2: that if you had to do that nil chasing and
Speaker 2: and you know, you know, Jim, Jim, Bob, you got
Speaker 2: to give I hope you give you know, thirty five
Speaker 2: thousand to five hundred thousand dollars in we got a quarterback,
Speaker 2: we really want to get him. How difficult would you
Speaker 2: think he would be for you? I think it the
Speaker 2: more I was thinking about it lately, is that? Okay?
Speaker 4: So maybe maybe if it's an experienced quarterback, somebody who
Speaker 4: we know is good. But when they start dishing out
Speaker 4: money to recruits that no one's ever seen play besides
Speaker 4: high school, that's that's where it gets a little bit like, hmmm,
Speaker 4: I must really have a lot of money to give
Speaker 4: if I can give, you know, fifty thousand dollars for
Speaker 4: some freshman quarterback who.
Speaker 2: Knows and who may not be here very long too exactly,
Speaker 2: So who's the guy who's the quarterback that went to
Speaker 2: Florida State lately? Or yeah, that one and he wasn't
Speaker 2: very good, right, he got a ton of money and
Speaker 2: then he got hurt. Right buyer's remorse.
Speaker 4: Dave, there was a kid I don't know if you
Speaker 4: read and I should get the more details because I
Speaker 4: kind of heard the anecdote about a kid from Mississippi
Speaker 4: who originally committed to Mississippi State, then he changed his
Speaker 4: mind to Mississippi and he took you had the news
Speaker 4: conference and he opens up his jacket and he's wearing
Speaker 4: a Mississippi shirt and everything like that, and he signed
Speaker 4: with Mississippi State.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, just two ago. Yeah, this was Did he
Speaker 2: have the wrong jacket?
Speaker 4: I don't know, but he just he like did the
Speaker 4: double the double flip, the double reverse afternoon, Well, you know,
Speaker 4: and I don't know if you know, if the nil
Speaker 4: came into play like all of a sudden, maybe somebody
Speaker 4: in Mississippi State, some some boosters.
Speaker 2: Again we're talking about an eighteen year old or no. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't do I wouldn't I wouldn't do any of that.
Speaker 2: They came to me, can we get till we rely
Speaker 2: on you for X amount of money? I don't think so. Sorry,
Speaker 2: we turn on the investment too. I just don't know
Speaker 2: what's Yeah, we turn and is it all it's gotta
Speaker 2: be all emotional from the guy who's giving the money, sure,
Speaker 2: because what are you getting out of it? Not a
Speaker 2: damn thing nothing.
Speaker 4: But you know, I mean, those were the stories that
Speaker 4: are floating around, and that's over the past week where
Speaker 4: the guy he did like a double flip.
Speaker 2: I'm not that with a couple hours. I'm not to
Speaker 2: google that that scenario. Yeah you did you saw a
Speaker 2: two one? Yeah, I saw something about it. Yeah, that's new.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean what I forget the kid rushing from
Speaker 4: from South Point last year?
Speaker 2: I remember he was all E said, going to Arizona and
Speaker 2: winds up going to Oregon. Yeah, do your play. I
Speaker 2: mean I probably not.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure he Richard, Yeah, took the year to grow,
Speaker 3: get bigger, get stronger.
Speaker 2: And there was him and the other kid who went
Speaker 2: to Oregon. No, Washington, which is the one that went
Speaker 2: to somewhere the quarterback, No, there was two, weren't there two?
Speaker 2: This year?
Speaker 4: The player at Morana High School went to Washington. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm assuming Jed I'm assuming Jeed Fish had some kind
Speaker 4: of contact with him while he was here.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he was a great player. At Morana.
Speaker 4: He was the best player in one of the top
Speaker 4: players in the state, and he signed with the Huskies.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let me tell you real quick about the
Speaker 2: show before we run out of time. We already gone
Speaker 2: nine minutes. We're gonna have Rhino Ryan Hanson coming on
Speaker 2: the first hour, were at three seventeen talking about UA basketball,
Speaker 2: his thoughts on what's going on. Judge Tommy Lloyd had
Speaker 2: a press conmerence today. It was pretty good. You know,
Speaker 2: Tommy Lloyd press conference are always pretty good. He's kind
Speaker 2: of truthful or candid and how he presents things and
Speaker 2: simple kind of you know kind of things. And then
Speaker 2: at the other hour for fifteen four seventeen, we're gonna
Speaker 2: have Evan Mai Kawa, one of our guys that we
Speaker 2: saw or found a year or two ago with his
Speaker 2: analytics and the programs, and we'll ask him. And I
Speaker 2: didn't see this at the beginning of the year where
Speaker 2: he had Arizona at the beginning with all the analytics.
Speaker 2: Now they've fallen to twenty third overall, at least they're
Speaker 2: in the top twenty five for him. And I know
Speaker 2: that a lot of coaches go to his rankings and
Speaker 2: his evaluations of players and situations, so widely used. A
Speaker 2: very smart young man out of Texas. So we'll up
Speaker 2: to date him on or update our listeners on who
Speaker 2: he is, because we've had a number of times. He
Speaker 2: one of my favorite guys. Talked to him at the
Speaker 2: Final four.
Speaker 4: So Gonzaga number one, Yeah, Tennessee to Duke three, So yeah,
Speaker 4: I kind of usual suspects.
Speaker 2: Losses. Yeah, losses didn't matter in his thing because Gonzaga
Speaker 2: lost in the Bahamas, right, right, Duke's lost a couple
Speaker 2: or three. You know, there's a lot of Auburn just
Speaker 2: lost Kentucky, so you know it's it's good, but you're
Speaker 2: gonna see the in basketball, you're always going to see
Speaker 2: the usual substance suspects. Right. I don't know how far
Speaker 2: Creton went up, but they pulled off in the top ten. No,
Speaker 2: but no, but it's gonna be tough for Arizona to
Speaker 2: kind of get rebuild that love because it's lost some
Speaker 2: and it's not gonna get any easier in their schedule
Speaker 2: except for tomorrow, Except for tomorrow. Yeah, everything's gonna be
Speaker 2: okay after twelve twenty tomorrow, everyone's gonna be happy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: for you. You know, hey went to dance the other day,
Speaker 2: you want. I danced with about twenty women. I had
Speaker 2: a great time. I played at UCLA a week later.
Speaker 2: Nobody wanted to dance with me. That's the truth. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the truth.
Speaker 3: Everything Everything goes away after twelve o'clock tomorrow and then
Speaker 3: we'll see you all again next week.
Speaker 2: We revisited a week later. It gets better teams because
Speaker 2: you're not going to see South Utah in the tournament. No, no,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you see Ucla. But the styles
Speaker 2: for Arizona have given them trouble, tough, physical, slow them
Speaker 2: down teams.
Speaker 4: And yeah, which they're going to see in the Big twelve.
Speaker 4: Probably every game something a little bit different than we
Speaker 4: saw in the Pac twelve.
Speaker 2: Right, there's some teams that want to move, like Houston
Speaker 2: and Kansas, but you still got to be tougher, tougher.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and again, as Arizona found out all through their
Speaker 4: years in the Pac twelve, Pac ten, you know, they
Speaker 4: were the team that everybody look forward to having come to town.
Speaker 4: There's always a big game, and you know that's going
Speaker 4: to sort of probably carry over and there's no questions
Speaker 4: time where hey, Arizona's coming into Iowa State. You know,
Speaker 4: we've never seen them here, kind of thing. That's going
Speaker 4: to be a big game wherever they go. Still, even
Speaker 4: if there are five hundred.
Speaker 2: What did the Spider say to the fly? Come on in, baby,
Speaker 2: run in. Everything's gonna be good. Okay, did I say
Speaker 2: the water's warm? Come on in? Yeah, jump in, jump in,
Speaker 2: because they're gonna love it. In Kansas and Houston, in
Speaker 2: Iowa State, which is still a very good team, Baylor,
Speaker 2: all these teams, Yeah, looking forward to it. Anything else.
Speaker 2: I know, you can have a lot of breaking news, right,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of stuff going on. Yeah, some good stuff. Volleyball,
Speaker 2: A volleyball women. Did you go to the game last night?
Speaker 2: Women's I didn't cover. I know what it was. What happened?
Speaker 2: You want to you? We'll talk about it. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 2: ask my questions when it's time.
Speaker 3: They had They had the pretty good lead too, and
Speaker 3: lost it in the last moments of the game again
Speaker 3: missing a bunch of free throws.
Speaker 2: I guess I don't know. Well, well that one tell
Speaker 2: us what happened. Then we'll ask.
Speaker 4: They lost to Nau and Grand Canyon. They still being
Speaker 4: too against the state teams. So pretty interesting.
Speaker 3: Pretty interesting, Yeah, because they I think, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 3: memory serves me correctly. They kind of got worked up
Speaker 3: in Flagstaff Againstacks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were ahead.
Speaker 4: Arizona was ahead like by fifteen, I want to say,
Speaker 4: in the second quarter, and then the Nau went on
Speaker 4: a ridiculous run and I scored him like thirty to ten,
Speaker 4: you know, and then it was over.
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Speaker 12: This is Eye on the Ball with Steve Ravera on
Speaker 12: Fox Sports Sport fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to WYD the Ball hero Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Arba and today with me is
Speaker 2: Dave Silver and we have one at the controls now.
Speaker 2: We have Ryan Hanson from the ve A Radio broadcast
Speaker 2: on twelve nineties Rhino.
Speaker 5: How are you doing great?
Speaker 13: Thanks for having me on. Steve good here. Good to
Speaker 13: hear the days with you as well.
Speaker 2: We need somebody who's a voice of reason on this show.
Speaker 2: Dave is the guy to you, right, Hey, Rhino, what
Speaker 2: hes going on with the basketball program? Speaking of reasoning?
Speaker 13: Yeah, speak speaking of a different territory, right, I mean,
Speaker 13: what a what an interesting.
Speaker 5: Start to the season.
Speaker 13: I can tell you a couple of things that I've seen.
Speaker 13: One the individual performances. Right, when you look at individuals,
Speaker 13: they're not playing up the snuff. I mean, let's just
Speaker 13: start there. Facts are these. Caleb Love is not performing
Speaker 13: at even the same or remotely close to how he
Speaker 13: performed last season, which was all conference player type status.
Speaker 13: He k fifth year. We should expect more from him.
Speaker 13: It's not a knock on him, but to be shooting
Speaker 13: twenty seven percent from the three point line and thirty
Speaker 13: seven percent overall, that's below where he should be at.
Speaker 5: Let's start there.
Speaker 13: There's other players that aren't playing up to their caliber
Speaker 13: or what we would have expected to see in the
Speaker 13: jumps of the other two perimeter players, Jaden Bradley and
Speaker 13: kJ lewis getting their first opportunities. I'll give Jaden a
Speaker 13: lot of credit. He is living up to his hype
Speaker 13: in regards to scoring. But guys that there are some
Speaker 13: there's an issue and one major issue is is he
Speaker 13: facilitating is he leading this team as a point guard should.
Speaker 13: And I don't have this stat Steve, you would have
Speaker 13: to dig into the archives, but if this season ended today,
Speaker 13: it might be the lowest assist average per game of
Speaker 13: an Arizona point guard in the last years.
Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, you know what. I actually I did see
Speaker 2: the statistic and.
Speaker 4: There right now there are one hundred and twenty second
Speaker 4: in Division One with fifteen a game, which is like
Speaker 4: three and a half less than last year.
Speaker 2: So you're right, you know, and the team, you.
Speaker 13: Know, we're we're losing, you know, we lost sharing the
Speaker 13: basketball as a team from last year. They've still to jail.
Speaker 13: That's kind of my second point, Dave, but I'll sticking
Speaker 13: on that first point. You know, you look at what
Speaker 13: Jaden's giving you. Incredible defense, scoring, I don't want to
Speaker 13: say at will, but definitely a significant upgrade in the
Speaker 13: scoring from an average standpoint. His ability to get to
Speaker 13: the rim, not shooting it great from the three point line,
Speaker 13: but he's been at least judicious with his shot selection.
Speaker 13: But he has to create better opportunities for teammates.
Speaker 5: You just can't have a point guard in Tommy Lloyd's.
Speaker 13: System average what two and a half assists per game?
Speaker 5: That's just not enough.
Speaker 2: Well, I like your evaluations so far. I'm sure you
Speaker 2: have two more, but I totally agree with the individual performances.
Speaker 2: I'm sure the opponents had something to do with that
Speaker 2: over the last couple of days. Right now, how do
Speaker 2: you like these two or give you the obvious one,
Speaker 2: the obvious one that people are talking about defending the
Speaker 2: three point line, right, they just look horrible at doing that.
Speaker 2: But I think the one that people aren't talking about,
Speaker 2: and they didn't talk about it today in the press conference,
Speaker 2: it would have been my question, the difficulty in making
Speaker 2: transition baskets. They don't. Teams are not letting them do that.
Speaker 2: And you know, and I know, we've been around a
Speaker 2: long time, thirty some years, and what did Loot live
Speaker 2: on nineteen to two runs? Twenty four to four runs?
Speaker 2: This team doesn't have that in them, or it hasn't
Speaker 2: had it so far.
Speaker 13: Yeah, let's look at Tommy's first three and a half
Speaker 13: season exactly even been a half yet, But in his
Speaker 13: seasons right they percentages from the field are extremely high.
Speaker 13: Why because he gets fast break baskets. I mean this
Speaker 13: is a coach who predicates his offense on transition opportunities
Speaker 13: at the rim or open threes inanition, And so is
Speaker 13: it a defensive issue our other teams scouting Arizona better
Speaker 13: this year than they have the last three years or
Speaker 13: I think that could be some of it, Yes, for sure,
Speaker 13: But I also you have to question is the personnel
Speaker 13: living up to what we have historically seen? Do we
Speaker 13: have guys running the floor is hard? Do we have
Speaker 13: guys that can finish at the rim as well in transition?
Speaker 13: I'll just today is kind of a truth conversation. We
Speaker 13: miss umar Balo running to the rim.
Speaker 5: We do.
Speaker 13: There's a fact that he grew he was a magnet.
Speaker 13: He either drew the basketball on a fast break or
Speaker 13: he drew attention or both in some cases. And so
Speaker 13: his ability to run to the rim and bury his
Speaker 13: opponent his guy guarding him in front of the rim
Speaker 13: gave Arizona high percentage looks, created foul trouble for the defense,
Speaker 13: or it allowed for open jumpers or open transition up
Speaker 13: ortunities for teammates. We are not seeing that out of
Speaker 13: Arizona's bigs right now.
Speaker 5: Tobyo Waka has.
Speaker 13: Done an amazing job on the glass. He's just not
Speaker 13: the same finisher.
Speaker 5: At the rim.
Speaker 13: He's not running to the rim and commanding the basketball.
Speaker 5: Mo Crevis. Let's give the guy a little break, right.
Speaker 13: He's back healthy, but he missed significant time in the
Speaker 13: offseason getting better. So I will revisit this maybe in January,
Speaker 13: to see is Mo running to the rim better and
Speaker 13: commanding the basketball at the front of the rim, and
Speaker 13: that all of that's trickle down, Steve right, It affects
Speaker 13: your assist numbers, it effects your percentages at the rim,
Speaker 13: it affects your fast break baskets.
Speaker 5: That is a big challenge for Arizona right now.
Speaker 4: You know, as far as Caleb goes is there is
Speaker 4: there like an assistant coach or somebody that he can
Speaker 4: go to. Maybe maybe not Tommy, maybe go to some
Speaker 4: assistant and maybe I don't know, get a pep.
Speaker 2: Talk or a little shooting drills. How does that work?
Speaker 4: You know within the staff to have a player who's
Speaker 4: so good and it's probably you know, we all think
Speaker 4: it's mostly a mental situation at this point.
Speaker 2: How does he get better?
Speaker 5: I'm going to do think it's a mental thing.
Speaker 13: Let's start there, Dave, we have a large enough sample
Speaker 13: size of Caleb Love in his four years in college,
Speaker 13: two at Arizona, one at Arizona, three at Carolina, now
Speaker 13: his second year here, going into his fifth campaign to
Speaker 13: be able to say it his percentages are below his averages.
Speaker 13: He's not a guy who's been a high efficiency player
Speaker 13: in his career. However, last year he was the most
Speaker 13: efficient he had been.
Speaker 5: In his entire career.
Speaker 13: So for him to go backwards to me is not
Speaker 13: he just forgot how to play, and that's not the case.
Speaker 13: I do think a lot of it's mental. He's a
Speaker 13: mentally tough kid who's going to have to do what
Speaker 13: you're suggesting is rely on the support that's around him.
Speaker 13: So guys like Steve Robinson who have known him for years,
Speaker 13: and guys like Murph who's going to work him out.
Speaker 13: Ram Bakhamist is the personnel kind of work out genius
Speaker 13: for the coaching staff. I'm sure he's in the in
Speaker 13: the gym with Caleb, just working through things. We saw
Speaker 13: a little bit more more of what we expected from
Speaker 13: Caleb and the Bahamas. I think those three games we
Speaker 13: at least saw a little He's got to play with
Speaker 13: an edge he's got to play with a little bit
Speaker 13: of a swagger. His percentages weren't perfect, but I think
Speaker 13: he was nine for twenty in the last game. That's
Speaker 13: pretty good efficiency three for seven. Not ideal from the
Speaker 13: three point line. You'd like to see him closer to
Speaker 13: forty to fifty percent, but better than what his season
Speaker 13: percentages are going. So I think if I were to
Speaker 13: kind of put the crystal ball out there, I think
Speaker 13: Caleb is starting to return to form. I think he's
Speaker 13: starting to have more of the season that what in
Speaker 13: what we're expecting.
Speaker 2: So today they had of prescons with Tommy, you know,
Speaker 2: usually got the Tommy stuff that he always says. But
Speaker 2: had I been there, there's things that would ask what
Speaker 2: about the transition and the difficulty teams are doing to
Speaker 2: make that happened one and two, and I thought maybe
Speaker 2: he would think he'd give me that face and say,
Speaker 2: you know, why are you asking me this, Steve? But
Speaker 2: let me ask you this, Steve, this question right as
Speaker 2: Caleb goes Sodo's Arizona. We did it. We saw it
Speaker 2: last year and looked so far not so good.
Speaker 13: Maybe in the sample size we've seen right now, maybe
Speaker 13: I would agree with that but I think Arizona's got
Speaker 13: other weapons that just need.
Speaker 5: To play better.
Speaker 13: Jayden Bradley is one that we spoke about. I think
Speaker 13: Trey Townsend started to figure out, Okay, I need to
Speaker 13: play like I have been playing at Oakland. That's another
Speaker 13: guy when I'm saying players that have not lived up
Speaker 13: to what we expected.
Speaker 5: I think Trey.
Speaker 13: Turned the corner and started to realize what his skill
Speaker 13: set can allow him to do. I think he took
Speaker 13: a back seat intentionally. I think that was a personal
Speaker 13: choice to start the season of I'm going to figure
Speaker 13: out how I fold into this team. I think he
Speaker 13: can be an outstanding weapon for Arizona. I think that
Speaker 13: kJ Lewis can play better. So I don't think it's
Speaker 13: just Caleb the eye. The eye is and the focus
Speaker 13: is big on him because of the preseason All American height,
Speaker 13: because of what we saw last year, Like we mentioned
Speaker 13: player of the Year caliber, I don't think it's it's
Speaker 13: like the Derek Williams year where it was either Derek
Speaker 13: or no or we lost. I don't I would disagree
Speaker 13: with you. I don't think this team is how goes Caleb,
Speaker 13: how goes Arizona?
Speaker 5: Right now?
Speaker 13: It is because the other guys aren't carrying their weight,
Speaker 13: would be or or maybe just not reaching the potential
Speaker 13: that we all see in them is a better way
Speaker 13: to phrase it.
Speaker 2: Well, then you're then you're assuming that that's some to
Speaker 2: one of your points earlier. You're assuming that these players
Speaker 2: all fit it are all good. I mean what if?
Speaker 2: What if?
Speaker 5: What I think?
Speaker 13: Assumption?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, right, seven games through seven games? How would
Speaker 2: you rate them? Not good?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I would.
Speaker 13: I would rate them as dysfunctional probably right, They're not cohesive?
Speaker 13: Uh and and you wonder last year, years past. I
Speaker 13: try not to compare a year to year, but in
Speaker 13: the modern era, right of lots of new faces and
Speaker 13: experiences coming every year, you know, there were a couple
Speaker 13: of new faces, and those guys seem to gel quicker
Speaker 13: to the team, especially Keyshot. I think he jeled a
Speaker 13: very beautifully well to this team. I think we're still
Speaker 13: and I say we. I think Tommy has got to
Speaker 13: figure out how to maximize all of the talents that
Speaker 13: are out there. Are they good enough individually? I think
Speaker 13: Steve you ask a good question. Is Toby Alwaka a
Speaker 13: Big twelve All Conference player right now?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 13: Does he have the physical tools and abilities to become
Speaker 13: an all conference level player. I think that answer is yes,
Speaker 13: but he's not playing there yet. He's he's been dubbed
Speaker 13: and I think appropriately so as a rebounder, effort, energy defender.
Speaker 13: That's what his role was at Tennessee. Arizona's asking him
Speaker 13: and wanting him to be more than that.
Speaker 5: He has to grow into that.
Speaker 13: That wasn't going to be a light switch situation where
Speaker 13: he was all of a sudden going to become Michael
Speaker 13: Wright in the low block and just finish everything. He's
Speaker 13: got to learn, He's got to develop. He has to grow.
Speaker 13: Same for Mo Crevius. Moe was not going to step
Speaker 13: right in, and I mentioned the loss of umar Bollo
Speaker 13: and all the positives.
Speaker 5: There were some.
Speaker 13: Challenges to umar Bollo defensively the free throw line, right.
Speaker 5: We saw that.
Speaker 13: Moe's got to develop into that. I'm going to command
Speaker 13: the basketball. I'm going to get double teams. Now I
Speaker 13: know how to play out of the double teams.
Speaker 5: And be productive. But Steve, I.
Speaker 13: Think you're you've asked a very good question, Well, before
Speaker 13: is the talent level of this team where you want
Speaker 13: it to be?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 2: You you responded perfectly and before Dave, you go into questions.
Speaker 2: So you asked that question of a waka, you can
Speaker 2: ask those of all the players. Are they at the
Speaker 2: level of Big twelve necessity or how they need to play?
Speaker 2: And will they If not, how can they get their
Speaker 2: Because I think your evaluation to my questions spot on, Dave.
Speaker 2: If they're not up to the snuff, this is gonna
Speaker 2: be a long year in the Big twelve could be rough.
Speaker 4: And you know a lot of programs are going through
Speaker 4: this too because of the whole transfers and il I mean,
Speaker 4: rosters are flipping all over the place. If you look
Speaker 4: at some of the normal teams that are in the
Speaker 4: top twenty five, there's a bunch of them, are you know,
Speaker 4: around the five hundred mark here early in the season,
Speaker 4: Because I think teams are just you know, there's not
Speaker 4: teams yet. They're still putting together the best combinations, and
Speaker 4: I think the U of A maybe just falls right
Speaker 4: into that trap right now. So maybe, you know, let's
Speaker 4: let's as Ryan has been saying, let's maybe look at
Speaker 4: this in about a month and see how things are.
Speaker 2: They're starting to gel.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and Dave, it might take a little longer than
Speaker 13: that because if you look at the rest of the
Speaker 13: games in the calendar year of twenty twenty four, how
Speaker 13: much more are we going to learn about Arizona and
Speaker 13: tomorrow's game. Probably not much more unless it's a close game.
Speaker 13: If it's a contested game, then then we're going to learn. Wow,
Speaker 13: we still do have a ways to go. If it's
Speaker 13: a if it's a you know, a one possession game
Speaker 13: at the under four media time out in the second half,
Speaker 13: that that could raise some questions. But uh, Dave, I
Speaker 13: appreciate that you're sensing, and I do want to articulate this.
Speaker 13: I do believe Tommy has the ability to develop these
Speaker 13: guys this year. When I say Toby's not there today,
Speaker 13: I'm not saying that it's well, we're gonna well, we
Speaker 13: might as well mail in the season.
Speaker 5: He's going to have to develop guys differently.
Speaker 13: He does not have ready made guys that he's just
Speaker 13: putting into the right positions and we're tweaking. Let's also
Speaker 13: look at this, Okay, so it was a one possession
Speaker 13: game against Oklahoma and we lost an overtime to West Virginia.
Speaker 13: A couple of bounces go a little bit differently. We
Speaker 13: didn't play great, don't get me wrong, but the bounce,
Speaker 13: the ball bounces a little bit differently, and you win
Speaker 13: one of those, Let's say you win the West Virginia game,
Speaker 13: We're probably not as down in the dumps on where
Speaker 13: this team is at. So I want to give Tommy
Speaker 13: an opportunity. And here's my prime example exhibit A. You
Speaker 13: and I, You, all three of us could probably argue
Speaker 13: that at the end of the Duke game, all of
Speaker 13: us looked at each other and said, is Anthony Delarso
Speaker 13: going to play a minute in the Big twelve? Because
Speaker 13: he was yanked after ninety seconds of deer in headlights right,
Speaker 13: he did not look like he could even play on
Speaker 13: the floor against.
Speaker 5: Duke, which, by the way, there's a lot of guys that.
Speaker 13: Are like, we're talking elite level talent. But what I
Speaker 13: learned in the Bahamas that was a positive was Anthony
Speaker 13: Delorso is a mature kid. He stepped into a tough,
Speaker 13: tough tournament for some guys, and he produced. I do
Speaker 13: believe he has the ability to play in high level games.
Speaker 13: I think he now is learning how to do that
Speaker 13: within the Arison the system. That was a bright spot,
Speaker 13: and that was just one what five days removed from
Speaker 13: a game where it looked like, oh, my goodness, can
Speaker 13: can he play in these high level games? I do
Speaker 13: believe he can. And Arizona's system has to be tweaked
Speaker 13: and they've got to work it out to figure out
Speaker 13: what Anthony brings you into strength, find out his weaknesses,
Speaker 13: and try to minimize those.
Speaker 5: Guess what that is. That's called coaching.
Speaker 13: That's what every coach does every year. Maximize strengths, minimize
Speaker 13: weaknesses of individuals and teams.
Speaker 5: That's what Tommy's got to.
Speaker 13: Do and have faith that he can get it done.
Speaker 13: But you guys have said it, and you're not wrong.
Speaker 13: If the schedule does not have a lot of breaks,
Speaker 13: there's not a lot of opportunity for the get right game.
Speaker 5: You know, we're gonna be okay because we've got you.
Speaker 13: Know, fill in the blank team at home that we've
Speaker 13: beaten at home twenty five out of the last twenty
Speaker 13: six times in the Pac ten slash Pac twelve era, Right,
Speaker 13: there was a lot of those teams that you could
Speaker 13: call the get right game. Not a lot of get
Speaker 13: right games in the Big twelve this season. And that's
Speaker 13: probably where you're saying Wow, that that could be the
Speaker 13: challenge is not just that Tommy can't get us there,
Speaker 13: that these guys can't develop. It's just, wow, the schedule
Speaker 13: sets up for a lot different, more difficult competition.
Speaker 2: It's funny we had to go. I could play, I
Speaker 2: can pay, I could talk to you forever about all
Speaker 2: this stuff, just to kind of evaluate and then figure
Speaker 2: out what's going on. But guess who's on the clock.
Speaker 2: Tommy Lloyd. He's got to figure it out o the.
Speaker 13: Clock and that's the job, right, he would have nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 13: he wants it right, that's what he wants to If
Speaker 13: it was easy, any of us could do it.
Speaker 2: And he said that, he said that today three of
Speaker 2: us can't. Yeah, no, no, he said that today he's
Speaker 2: built for this. You know. The funny thing, I got
Speaker 2: a test and I said this on the air yesterday.
Speaker 2: He says, oh, okay, and I don't take a little
Speaker 2: while to find it. But he says, Tommy's never been
Speaker 2: in the situation. You know, it's been all roses and
Speaker 2: fun the last three years. Now we'll see how he
Speaker 2: gets out of it because he hadn't been in this situation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I don't know if it was Rosie.
Speaker 13: I mean you and I and Dave can sit here
Speaker 13: and say, wow, Tommy hadn't lost back to back games
Speaker 13: in his coaching creators on it. He's lost more games,
Speaker 13: uh you know this season than he did in the
Speaker 13: entirety of the season of his first year.
Speaker 5: Right, you can. You can throw out all.
Speaker 13: Those stats, but if you're Tommy and you're an elite
Speaker 13: level college basketball coach, he'll tell you this. Yeah, the
Speaker 13: wins and losses are there, but what's going on in
Speaker 13: between the during practice and how we're developing. He's had
Speaker 13: some challenges. He may have they may have come out
Speaker 13: publicly as w's but there's been challenges that.
Speaker 5: He's worked through.
Speaker 13: So I I do believe he's built for it and
Speaker 13: we're gonna find out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, right know. I was always We've got to
Speaker 2: come on more often because I love the stuff that
Speaker 2: you've provided us.
Speaker 5: It's great talking to you boys.
Speaker 13: Dave. Try to keep Steve on the straight and Maryland.
Speaker 2: I'm trying. It's fun, but it's hard, you know. By
Speaker 2: the way, we gotta go, guys, we gotta go. Thanks right,
Speaker 2: appreciate you. Here's no way you're going to keep you
Speaker 2: on the straight.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to trying the ball here a Fox
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Speaker 2: If we'll take some calls, we can take some calls, right, yeah,
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Speaker 2: a perfect time, Howard. If you want to call back.
Speaker 2: You couldn't get on yesterday. Sorry about that. Anybody else
Speaker 2: who tried yesterday, please do. We've got a lot of
Speaker 2: calls yesterday. What do people want to talk about? Football
Speaker 2: or basket? They both both. They want to talk. We
Speaker 2: had my favor on and people talked to him. We
Speaker 2: had Tom Dennehy. People loved he's a he's a goofy,
Speaker 2: funny guy, right, very smart guy. Yes, and he was.
Speaker 2: He was exactly that yesterday. Uh made the uh Pema
Speaker 2: call Pema County Hall of Fame? Did he No? So
Speaker 2: I made I made that? Did you the running out
Speaker 2: of people a long time ago?
Speaker 5: Oh? Really?
Speaker 2: I think they felt sorry for me? No, I mean,
Speaker 2: come on, it was just there's yeah, but that's worthy.
Speaker 2: You've been around a long time and a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: We got a call yeah, okay, great, Hey you're on
Speaker 2: the air and line the ball. Who's this Brian? Brian?
Speaker 2: Brian you know's not here.
Speaker 5: I know that he's still on vacation from my job.
Speaker 2: Is Baker's hour's job? Yeah, I guess so, yeah, I know,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 5: What a call about on the u of a sports
Speaker 5: I don't know. It's football is over. Probably can't talk
Speaker 5: about it until after we find.
Speaker 13: Out who we get in the nil in the portal
Speaker 13: and who we lose, because.
Speaker 5: We know we're going to lose a lot. We're gonna
Speaker 5: pick up a bunch of guys, so, you know, but
Speaker 5: at least he has time from the beginning.
Speaker 2: Of the portal to find.
Speaker 5: People this time, you know, last time. You know, it's
Speaker 5: huge because by the time he was hired, you.
Speaker 2: Know, there was guys like me and.
Speaker 5: You Steve, who are left you know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, right right, So you're talking about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's not real promising either, you know it just
Speaker 5: you watch them and in fact, they don't play with
Speaker 5: the purpose, you know, like watching the Duke game, they
Speaker 5: look I don't know if they were just tired. I
Speaker 5: don't know how they could be tired, you know, they
Speaker 5: were they played very slow, or Duke is very very fast.
Speaker 5: Whether to I don't know which one it is, but
Speaker 5: but we just seen not to play as it meshes
Speaker 5: a team yet, and hopefully in the next couple of
Speaker 5: weeks we decide to do that. Otherwise it's going to
Speaker 5: be a very long season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know. I can't tell you how
Speaker 2: they're going to right this ship because just what it's
Speaker 2: gonna get tomugher than what they just saw. So how
Speaker 2: they gonna do that? How are they gonna do that?
Speaker 2: At the players they have.
Speaker 5: Because every game is going to be tough. It's not
Speaker 5: like you're gonna have one game and then you're gonna
Speaker 5: play a crappy Pac twelve score. It's like all the
Speaker 5: teams in the Big twelve are gonna be tough.
Speaker 16: What if?
Speaker 2: What if the last thirty years was all an illusion
Speaker 2: because it wasn't a Pack twelve?
Speaker 5: Well, right, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Schedule?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I'm still not real. I mean, I understand
Speaker 5: moving to Pac twelve. They didn't. I mean, the Big
Speaker 5: twelve didn't really have a choice in the whole matter.
Speaker 5: I mean, they could have tried to stay in the pack,
Speaker 5: but that wouldn't have worked. But I just don't like
Speaker 5: the way the Big twelve promotes itself. There is no
Speaker 5: promotion on this in this conference, you know. I mean,
Speaker 5: as pathetic as the Pac twelve Network was, at least
Speaker 5: we got this see. But some of the players, and
Speaker 5: you know, I have I don't have any idea about
Speaker 5: the players in the Big twelve football.
Speaker 4: We're all gonna have to learn. I mean, we're all
Speaker 4: kind of in the same boats. I don't know anything
Speaker 4: about you know, Kansas State or some of these.
Speaker 2: Funny you bring that up because I didn't notice that, Brian,
Speaker 2: But you're you're right, because I when you watch TV,
Speaker 2: and well, I'm at the games mostly, but when you
Speaker 2: watch TV, what do you know about the conferences? They're
Speaker 2: not out valuehooting themselves or pueling their chests.
Speaker 5: No, no, they're not. And you know, the worst part
Speaker 5: of it is, Okay, the football season basically is over
Speaker 5: except for a few teams will still be playing. Well.
Speaker 5: Next year, we're going to have every team is going
Speaker 5: to have like fifty new roster. So we'll be going
Speaker 5: through the same thing next year, right, you know, And
Speaker 5: it's not like we have, you know, like the Big twelve,
Speaker 5: the PAC twelve Network would have shows about the teams
Speaker 5: and whatever, and or have that PAC twelve at midnight whatever,
Speaker 5: you know, uh, showing highlights of the basketball games and
Speaker 5: talking about players and the football teams. You know, we
Speaker 5: just don't have that to know these players, even though
Speaker 5: with the NIL and I think that, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Think you're right.
Speaker 4: I think from a media standpoint, you know, being one
Speaker 4: of the four big conferences, we're the only one that
Speaker 4: does not have their own TV networks, got.
Speaker 5: That Big ten everybody, you guys who are in the
Speaker 5: media get to see more of it than this of
Speaker 5: the average viewer, you know, so you know a lot
Speaker 5: more about the different players than we do.
Speaker 2: It's funny, but it's funny. Buy and you bring that
Speaker 2: up because uh, and I was just going to say,
Speaker 2: be careful what you wish for, because everybody in the
Speaker 2: PAC twelve. Oh, I hate the PAC twelve network. I
Speaker 2: hate this and I hate that we jump to another person,
Speaker 2: another you know, the hot the hot girl, and we're saying,
Speaker 2: you don't cook. What the hell you don't cook? There's
Speaker 2: always something wrong with.
Speaker 4: The next thing. Well, the big thing was the access.
Speaker 4: It wasn't It wasn't so much the quality of what
Speaker 4: we saw. It was just them not being available for
Speaker 4: for everybody to see. You're living Tucson, if you have
Speaker 4: you know, god forbid, you don't have direct TV, or
Speaker 4: if you do have direct TV, you can't see it,
Speaker 4: so right, it was always very that was very frustrating,
Speaker 4: and there are fans all over the country who had
Speaker 4: the same problem. Didn't matter where you were, there are
Speaker 4: places just couldn't see it.
Speaker 5: You know. It's kind of sad that I might know
Speaker 5: more about the SEC players or the Big ten players
Speaker 5: and I do about my own conference.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll see Brian. Thanks, thanks, good that you
Speaker 2: know that. Jason, I'm not here so you can call
Speaker 2: it any time.
Speaker 5: Oh well, you know, I don't want to disturb his
Speaker 5: vacation time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't get we'll see. We'll be at the casino
Speaker 2: if you have a chance to get out there in
Speaker 2: three two weeks.
Speaker 5: Two weeks, two weeks, okay, if I'm in town, I'll
Speaker 5: give you I'll be out there.
Speaker 2: Great, great, see you last time, right right, thank you?
Speaker 2: Anybody else know we got on the call? Okay, great? Perfect, Hello,
Speaker 2: you're on the air and eye of the ball. Who's this, Hey,
Speaker 2: what's going on?
Speaker 13: Steve? You do.
Speaker 2: What's the word man? The voice of reason?
Speaker 17: All right? Brother, uh, I guess the guy not this
Speaker 17: guy that was just talking a sick and a goal?
Speaker 5: But was it Ryanos.
Speaker 17: I'm gonna tell you what it is is this team
Speaker 17: chemistry is not what it is supposed to be. You
Speaker 17: got three guys who would probably be like off guards
Speaker 17: because even though they say Bradley's a point you can't
Speaker 17: be a point guard and you're only averaging to assist
Speaker 17: the game.
Speaker 5: My man.
Speaker 17: A point guard is a guy that sets the table
Speaker 17: so everybody can eat, and that's not happening. And the
Speaker 17: other thing is what I noticed about Jaydon, Caleb and
Speaker 17: kJ Lewis at first, although kJ has kind of put
Speaker 17: the brakes on it a little bit, is all of
Speaker 17: those guys were trying to take play hero ball. If
Speaker 17: you notice the shots that they were taking, they were
Speaker 17: taking shot when they drove to the basket a high
Speaker 17: degree difficulty. Yeah, if you Michael Jordan, you can hang
Speaker 17: up in there and make those kind of moves and
Speaker 17: stuff like that there, but those guys don't have that
Speaker 17: skill level.
Speaker 13: Yet.
Speaker 17: Another thing about it is poor Monk krisis Uh. Every
Speaker 17: time he brings the ball down. Uh, the smaller guy
Speaker 17: slapped them, slapped the ball.
Speaker 2: Out of his hands.
Speaker 17: Uh except for the Larso I haven't seen a consistent outside.
Speaker 2: Shooter, three point shooter on this team yet. Well, you
Speaker 2: mentioned four or five things right there. Tells you why
Speaker 2: they're struggling.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then poor Toby o'walka.
Speaker 5: I heard Rhino saying that.
Speaker 17: They want more out of him to become a He
Speaker 17: wasn't a store at Tennessee. He was a just a
Speaker 17: defensive player and a rebounder. And if you expect the
Speaker 17: guy to transition into that, that's not gonna happen. So
Speaker 17: right now, what I could see is poor Timmy Lloyd.
Speaker 17: Uh yeah, he probably got the players that he could get,
Speaker 17: but the chemistry is screwed up.
Speaker 5: Big tie.
Speaker 2: Right. So what Ryan said too about bollow, how he just.
Speaker 4: Took up so much space in the middle, and maybe
Speaker 4: he didn't make every basket, but he was he was
Speaker 4: a force. He changed He changed Arizona offense. If you
Speaker 4: got the ball into him, you know, if he got
Speaker 4: it out quickly, usually somebody was wide open because they're
Speaker 4: all collapsing on him.
Speaker 2: And they just don't have that right now with any
Speaker 2: of their big guys.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 17: Well, you know, I think I talked to you Steve,
Speaker 17: within the last month or so when they were losing
Speaker 17: games like to do and uh, as I told you,
Speaker 17: I quoted Clint east Wood and Ronald Reagan. These areason
Speaker 17: the fans.
Speaker 2: They ain't seen nothing yet. Well, as long as you
Speaker 2: say make my day, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 17: He Well, I'm just telling you like this here, brother,
Speaker 17: Uh they were crowd and getting all twisted about them
Speaker 17: losing and stuff like that, then they're gonna lose them
Speaker 17: no game.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no question.
Speaker 17: Basically, when you look at Iwall Stay, you look at Houston,
Speaker 17: you look at Kansas State as Unfortunately, I do know
Speaker 17: about the players and the people in this conference because
Speaker 17: I follow college basketball.
Speaker 5: There's four or five.
Speaker 17: Teams in this conference that's gonna beat Arizona regularly until
Speaker 17: uh we upgrade in some areas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, appreciate the calls, always call any time.
Speaker 17: Yeah, but you know I'll still cheer for him and
Speaker 17: watching on TV.
Speaker 2: Look, take make sure you take your headache pills and
Speaker 2: all that stuff. You'll have one.
Speaker 13: You are no.
Speaker 2: I know what's coming.
Speaker 17: I know what's happening A lot I mean, I'm not
Speaker 17: I'm not gonna need no private or fifth don't be rolled,
Speaker 17: so I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna be all right, perfect, perfect, Well, thanks for calling me.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you. Thanks, you will you will well.
Speaker 4: This is interesting to see how people cope with this
Speaker 4: if it if it goes south, how are they coping now?
Speaker 4: I mean, I have a hard enough time, and I
Speaker 4: don't really you know, I got nothing going. I'm just
Speaker 4: you know, I'll turn the sound off most of the
Speaker 4: time or be somewhat superstitious. But it'll be interesting to
Speaker 4: see if there's a fan trend on how are you
Speaker 4: dealing with all this?
Speaker 2: It's not good. It's not going the right way. We
Speaker 2: got a last call before we go. Hello, you're on
Speaker 2: the air and eye on the ball?
Speaker 16: Was there somebody on his show defending the Pack twelve network?
Speaker 16: Yea fact and the result of it? And then the
Speaker 16: last caller, we know what a point guard is. We're
Speaker 16: Arizona fans, you know what I mean? And then I
Speaker 16: don't know if he's gonna take his pills and smoking?
Speaker 5: Oh, he like you?
Speaker 2: If anything? If anything, we's off Jay, and you know it,
Speaker 2: who's Jay? I think we say we're not a part
Speaker 2: of the Blue Bulloods. And it is what it is.
Speaker 16: We're soft, hey, and you know I'm a Sean Miller guy.
Speaker 16: At least we were tough before we softer. We're dairy
Speaker 16: queen and it's yeah, it is what it is. They're
Speaker 16: pretty like Dave Silver.
Speaker 1: Than you.
Speaker 2: Fighting for Joe, fighting for the hair.
Speaker 16: Jel I wonder almost hair, Joel Cake gun nine hat.
Speaker 16: My friend has a pug and you know we named
Speaker 16: the pug what pug Foster.
Speaker 2: He was on k gun for a few years. That's why.
Speaker 2: That's why he said that. All right, man, you know
Speaker 2: who that was?
Speaker 13: Right?
Speaker 2: Like that Mike, I'm gonna try to have him as
Speaker 2: a as a co host. God help me. Let me
Speaker 2: come in with him. Got to help me because it's
Speaker 2: gonna be crazy. If you want to come in, it'll
Speaker 2: be like yeah, yeah, back and forth with a bunch
Speaker 2: of crap. Are we ready to go? How do we
Speaker 2: not screen that call? Are joking? Of course? Do we
Speaker 2: screen the call? No? We kind of see takes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we just as love as it will cus. Thanks that
Speaker 2: Mike for the call. You know you'll be in here soon,
Speaker 2: irritating people. Don't worry about that. We're ready to go, Kenna,
Speaker 2: we can okay, No, we got time. This is my
Speaker 2: problem when I'm on your spot that I don't know
Speaker 2: to go exactly because then I go, then I come
Speaker 2: back too early. But I play it anyway. Is it
Speaker 2: okay to come back early? I have no idea. It
Speaker 2: just does it because sometimes we do come back early.
Speaker 2: Yesterday I came back two minutes early. I'm thinking, I
Speaker 2: hope everybody's hearing me. Yeah, I have no idea. I
Speaker 2: try to get it as close. How do you know
Speaker 2: is there a number? There's a number, you said, uh,
Speaker 2: for for sure? The the next time okay.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: The audience is learning radio one on one, so this
Speaker 3: is the next one up, uh huh. And that's how
Speaker 3: much time. Okay it's gonna take for all right, all right,
Speaker 3: we're going, We'll be back. I can news on the
Speaker 3: other side.