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Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivera in Today is the.
Speaker 2: Well of well it was rested? Rested is the world
Speaker 2: I'm looking for, Dave Silver, maybe or not? Are you
Speaker 2: ready for this day? You're still rested? Ready for what
Speaker 2: the show? Getting back into the swinging thing. Yes, I'm
Speaker 2: kind of looking forward to it, Okay, And then Juan,
Speaker 2: didn't I just see you about an hour ago.
Speaker 4: I think it's yeah, it feels like it all the time. Now, Yes,
Speaker 4: that's good. That's good. I might as well just be
Speaker 4: a guess at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you should please do. Hey, welcome everybody to Wednesday.
Speaker 2: I think it's Wednesday to the show. Or maybe we
Speaker 2: get some calls today. We had a few yesterday five
Speaker 2: two zero four one six seventy four forty last night's game.
Speaker 2: We'll talk a lot about that. We have the brad
Speaker 2: Alice here what wildcat authority?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: In the first hour and then in the second hour,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have mister Blair willis former UA SID for football.
Speaker 3: He had TV.
Speaker 2: He kind of come up, comes up with some interesting
Speaker 2: tidbits about the team and factuals and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: He was the SID during the rich Rod time, and
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk to him because I saw a
Speaker 2: tweet about that when rich Rod got the job back
Speaker 2: at West Virginia, so, you know, just his time with
Speaker 2: rich Rod.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Blair is done a good job of kind of
Speaker 6: staying in touch and like like you said, throwing out
Speaker 6: some of these cool little facts that sometimes we missed.
Speaker 2: We miss Yeah. Right, he had one yesterday. I think
Speaker 2: it was like, I can't remember what it was, Arizona Pace.
Speaker 2: It was paced that they won in a pace game.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. And I'm into the pace because Arizona
Speaker 2: and lets snigy did that. They were able to do
Speaker 2: what Arizona does. Arizona looks like Arizona for the first
Speaker 2: time in a while. Right, That's what everyone's been saying.
Speaker 6: So that's good to see because the pace has always
Speaker 6: been important part of Tommy Lloyd's offense and just moving
Speaker 6: the ball up and down fast and getting it, you know,
Speaker 6: just to the open man usually ends in a good result.
Speaker 6: Part of the success with that day.
Speaker 2: And you know this, if you get to use that
Speaker 2: early and you get that twenty to ten lead, the
Speaker 2: other team has no choice but to play with you, right,
Speaker 2: because they can't slow you down because they need to
Speaker 2: catch up. Yeah, and in the past, the last month
Speaker 2: or so, teams had gotten equal or ahead of Arizona,
Speaker 2: so they had to play their pace.
Speaker 6: When the Wildcats do get that lead, though, you feel
Speaker 6: pretty good. I know they blew another lead the other
Speaker 6: day on the road, but usually when they get that,
Speaker 6: you know, ten, twelve, fifteen point lead, it's a pretty
Speaker 6: comfortable position to be in.
Speaker 3: Right, He's and they lost one.
Speaker 2: And last night they had, you know, they had a
Speaker 2: nice little lead and then got with him five with thinking.
Speaker 2: Then they stormed back and we talked about thees yesterday.
Speaker 2: Historically under Tommy, they've lost the lead a few times.
Speaker 2: Princeton oh yeah uh and that was notorious had a
Speaker 2: total point lead and they lost that. He's just gonna
Speaker 2: find a way. Maybe it's paying fast and loose too much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 6: Sometimes you don't want to get too conservative. I guess
Speaker 6: that's what Some people will also go to the opposee
Speaker 6: and say, yes, they're do conserve. Why are they not
Speaker 6: you know, forcing the ball and roar and so in
Speaker 6: basketball and a lot of sports that happens.
Speaker 2: Football to prevent defense, right, prevents the win he does,
Speaker 2: you're getting and then people who bet the game, Oh,
Speaker 2: you're gonna cover the bank door cover exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So so last night they looked sharp. I think a
Speaker 2: couple of people did.
Speaker 3: In my mind.
Speaker 2: kJ Lewis obviously had a good offensive game, you know,
Speaker 2: the guy that we expect him to be.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's good to see that, you know, getting some
Speaker 6: production from from kJ offensively because I know he can
Speaker 6: play defense. And then Henry seems like he's providing quite
Speaker 6: a little spark here. It's kind of fun to watch
Speaker 6: him grow up. Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 2: You don't see his numbers being great, but he's doing
Speaker 2: all the all nice things. Yeah, they get eight points
Speaker 2: last night, four or five rebounds I think it was,
Speaker 2: and you want, you know, you look at the score
Speaker 2: and you think, you look at the box score, you think, oh,
Speaker 2: maybe you wish you could add more.
Speaker 3: But he did exactly what you needed him to do.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I mean, that's kind of the key sometimes
Speaker 6: those guys, they don't need to score fifteen to twenty
Speaker 6: to have an impact. If they can get you know,
Speaker 6: seven rebounds or you know, a couple of block shots
Speaker 6: and play some defense, that's you know, a good way
Speaker 6: to contribute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is gonna be the big man in the
Speaker 2: middle eventually, not eventually. He is now a waka is
Speaker 2: not gonna give you a whole lot offensively, but he's
Speaker 2: gonna give you some stuff with rebounds in defense and
Speaker 2: clogged in the middle.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm still a little bit concerned about the lack
Speaker 6: of height there in the middle when Henry's not playing
Speaker 6: with a waka and Towns and not exactly the tallest forwards.
Speaker 6: We'll see where that how that plays out against other teams.
Speaker 2: Well, well, mister one, again, we talked about the best lineups,
Speaker 2: and we talked about that yesterday.
Speaker 3: Right, the best lineups were the ones we talked about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, explain, you know, go ahead and remind us of
Speaker 2: the lineup that was the best with kJ oh we
Speaker 2: think would be the best line up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd be Bradley, Love, kJ Bryant and Bassart right.
Speaker 3: Right, and then Rightan didn't have a great game. But
Speaker 3: he had a nice game. He was the energy.
Speaker 4: He was the one, not facility necessarily, but continuing the
Speaker 4: motion right in the flow of the game.
Speaker 2: Right, And that's what it is. It's that flow of
Speaker 2: the game. Who's that mentioned that two years?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: It was I think it was Andy yesterday. The flow, flow, flow,
Speaker 2: And that's what they've rekindled in the last five games.
Speaker 3: They found a flow.
Speaker 6: And I think Brian, it's gonna be fun to watch
Speaker 6: Bryan's here in January and see how he is in March. Yeah, especially,
Speaker 6: give him another ten twelve games and let's see how
Speaker 6: this goes with Sure.
Speaker 2: Sure, I think we had talked about that, and I
Speaker 2: think Bruce came up with this one. And I don't
Speaker 2: know why I missed it. Were you when we had
Speaker 2: Chase Bunting gr on? No, Okay, so we had Chase,
Speaker 2: and I asked Bruce. I asked Bruce, when was the
Speaker 2: last time they Arizona had a McDonald's All American? And
Speaker 2: you know, I've covered it for a long time and
Speaker 2: I've seen a number of these guys come and go
Speaker 2: and that didn't have that didn't have that confidence, or
Speaker 2: didn't have that swagger, right, and Brian's not that guy,
Speaker 2: at least he hadn't been and kind of I could remember,
Speaker 2: and he came up with Chase Chase kind of and
Speaker 2: I even talked to him about this when he had
Speaker 2: him on maybe a three weeks ago, where he kind
Speaker 2: of deferred to Marcus Williams and the other guys above
Speaker 2: him because he wanted to find his place and it
Speaker 2: took a while, and maybe that's what it was with Brian.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's definitely some similarity there, for sure. I remember
Speaker 6: when when Chase came in and we all expected him.
Speaker 2: To just, you know, just instantly be at the Superstar right, Well,
Speaker 2: why is that because didn't well, you know this, Luke
Speaker 2: said he was the best recruit he's ever recruited.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, so what are you thinking? Yeah, exactly
Speaker 3: when he comes in.
Speaker 6: And you know, I was like, wait a second, Chase,
Speaker 6: you're the guy that you're supposed to be doing something
Speaker 6: or go you know, go off and just go crazy.
Speaker 3: And it did take him a while.
Speaker 6: I think he you know, a lot of the I
Speaker 6: think a lot of younger players in any sport, Yeah,
Speaker 6: feel that way when they're walking in and there's already
Speaker 6: guys established here. I can't remember what that lineup looked like,
Speaker 6: but Marblus, Marcus Williams was there, nick Wise. Yeah, so
Speaker 6: there were some people who'd been around Jordan Hill and
Speaker 6: he was deferring to them, I would guess. And I'm
Speaker 6: sure Carter feels the same way a little bit, you know.
Speaker 6: But you know, like I said before, let's see Carter
Speaker 6: in March.
Speaker 2: Well, it's funny now that you we talked about this.
Speaker 2: I had Mike Bibi on maybe ten days ago, and
Speaker 2: he would be another guy, not that he'd deferred. He
Speaker 2: was so quiet. He just did his job. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. You think my baby's coming here and
Speaker 2: he's gonna play. And he wasn't spectacular, but he was
Speaker 2: spectacularly normal, if that makes any sense. He was very consistent, Yes,
Speaker 2: very consistency.
Speaker 6: He came in and you know, he had Miles and
Speaker 6: he had Dickerson, and he had all these guys who
Speaker 6: had kind of been around for a couple of years.
Speaker 3: And he's up and again highly touted.
Speaker 6: I mean, kind of similar to to Chase the Carter
Speaker 6: Bryant as well, the guy that you know, everyone expected
Speaker 6: big things right off the bat.
Speaker 3: He delivered pretty quickly, right.
Speaker 2: And what I'm thinking too with with Mike is because
Speaker 2: of his reputation behind the back passes, no look passes,
Speaker 2: being over the shoulder and no, he was just consistently good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like you said, he was fundamentally sounding right off
Speaker 6: the bat. I mean, we saw him in high school
Speaker 6: and you could tell, Wow, this kid's pretty special, right.
Speaker 2: Right, So so here we are, we'll see how good
Speaker 2: they're going to be. I was on a show just
Speaker 2: now in Phoenix. What do you what do you? What
Speaker 2: do I see in the last five games? Will They're improved,
Speaker 2: They're playing better, they're more cohesive. But but and I'm
Speaker 2: sorry to be the naysare, and everybody might say this, Uh,
Speaker 2: do we really know how good Cincinnati is? Do we
Speaker 2: really know how good West Virginia is?
Speaker 4: In West Virginia without their best player, I'm cautiously optimistic
Speaker 4: about this team, right, I think that's a good way
Speaker 4: to put it. But I do see a difference in
Speaker 4: the way they're playing. They're playing with purpose. When they're driving,
Speaker 4: and it's not just driving to see if it's no,
Speaker 4: they're driving and they're gonna score.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they did. They did it without Caleb pretty
Speaker 2: right again.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know they're they're feeling their way through the
Speaker 6: Big twelve. It's going to be I've been talking about
Speaker 6: this every time I come on the show, but it's
Speaker 6: it's a new experience. Every every game basically is who
Speaker 6: they're going to play, where they're gonna play. What's the
Speaker 6: situation going to be, like, students, Maybe we're not there
Speaker 6: this past weekend, so the next road trip could be
Speaker 6: a little more exciting in the in the arenas and
Speaker 6: the same things McHale as the students come back, I
Speaker 6: guess this week. You know, a couple of games coming
Speaker 6: up this weekend, and McHale Center could sound quite a
Speaker 6: bit different than it did over the holidays.
Speaker 3: Right, the experienced the travel situation.
Speaker 6: Yeah, go on to these coasts and snow and Tommy's
Speaker 6: quotes were pretty funny from yesterday about coming home to
Speaker 6: the T shirts and the shorts.
Speaker 3: Right, he kind of brought the weather. Yeah, they kind
Speaker 3: of brought the weather with them. Oh, they came back
Speaker 3: to this. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, I've been here thirty some years and
Speaker 2: you've been here longer than me, and you know, you lie,
Speaker 2: I've always say this. We got ten days of winter
Speaker 2: in Tuesday. I think we're on day three right now
Speaker 2: with the other two that passed a while back.
Speaker 3: So it's not bad. I'll take it. This could be nice.
Speaker 6: I mean the studio your your new studio here too,
Speaker 6: kind of in the foothills. Definitely in the foothills. We
Speaker 6: could be walking out to some snow and this is over. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you got great Poopa were up.
Speaker 3: Or the other place.
Speaker 2: He was like, you got the mustard. He spares the
Speaker 2: mustard a little bit of a difference. It is a difference.
Speaker 2: And I posted the picture yesterday. I think that I
Speaker 2: would have never posted the picture from the other Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: definitely not Yeah, Okay, we're gonna have again Brad Alice
Speaker 2: here in about seven minutes, right after we go to
Speaker 2: break and then again we're gonna have Blair. Willis kind
Speaker 2: of reminiscing about, you know, the rich Rod stuff and
Speaker 2: his thoughts and where he gets his information from, because
Speaker 2: those guys should have the information.
Speaker 3: They've been around.
Speaker 2: He wasn't here a whole lot, but he's he's really
Speaker 2: close to the program and he knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 3: So that should be fun.
Speaker 6: Anything else, No, I mean, you know, it's just good
Speaker 6: to be back and kind of catching up on things.
Speaker 6: I know, lots going on with some signees while I
Speaker 6: was going, and they got some transfer portal action again.
Speaker 3: I guess today as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you'll have news, Yeah, getting some players, so you
Speaker 6: know they're piecing it together.
Speaker 3: I guess. Yeah. The thing about is so is everybody else? Right?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 3: So is everybody else? Awards?
Speaker 2: There was on a fall and and now he has
Speaker 2: to coach them. Yeah, did you see to change subjects?
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure that you'll have what I'm breaking
Speaker 2: news last night and I didn't see it because I
Speaker 2: was too busy watching the game. Uh, Florida beating the
Speaker 2: crap out of Tennessee. Yes, I think that was that
Speaker 2: was That would have been a wine special to me.
Speaker 2: I thought that was going to be a I don't know.
Speaker 4: What if we were doing that for basket, I would have.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think it was obvious, and it's just Florida coming
Speaker 4: off their first loss, and I think getting a shot
Speaker 4: at number one at all they routed them.
Speaker 6: Isn't that the first time they've beaten the number one team,
Speaker 6: not in the tournament like like regular season?
Speaker 3: I think maybe.
Speaker 2: Maybe, I think so even when they're donav and they
Speaker 2: never did that. Well, they were probably pretty much number
Speaker 2: one at the time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, I actually as we were traveling yesterday,
Speaker 6: you saw that.
Speaker 3: I saw Yeah, okay, I saw.
Speaker 6: That game and it was as they were head by thirty,
Speaker 6: you know, late, so they were totally dominated them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Them and Kentucky lost. It's it's gonna be a fun year.
Speaker 2: And Auburn is just fantastically good.
Speaker 3: It was a little bit close, a little bit close.
Speaker 2: Who did play Texas Texas A yeah, okay, yeah at Texas. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we get a fight out for them, Auburn Auburn Texas.
Speaker 2: And also it was Kentucky lost, so it should be
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. Arizona kind of get back in
Speaker 2: the mix of names.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's good. We had a friend for
Speaker 3: schell on yesterday. Is very good. Do you expect them
Speaker 3: in the top twenty five soon? Yes?
Speaker 2: If they win Saturday, Yes, maybe twenty two ish, twenty
Speaker 2: three ish, what because you know, the voters were kind
Speaker 2: of lazy and we kind of Arizona's back, you know,
Speaker 2: and then they started and they see the name, you know,
Speaker 2: because it's one of it's not a blue blood, not
Speaker 2: a blue, but but it's it's a name and its
Speaker 2: established and you've won five in a row, six in
Speaker 2: row by the time they vote. So yeah, maybe twenty
Speaker 2: two and not that that's important.
Speaker 7: No, but I just got to focus on themselves, right,
Speaker 7: you know, it's not that important obviously now, but it
Speaker 7: does get you on the bottom line on ESPN a
Speaker 7: lot of times if you see that kind of thing,
Speaker 7: if you're in the top twenty five.
Speaker 6: I'm in fact just looking at it right now. There's
Speaker 6: nobody with five losses in the five.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, that's the that's the blemish the five. But they
Speaker 2: did play some good teams, you know. Well, I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what you see. You see he got their ask
Speaker 2: kicked last night. Yeah, and did you see the do
Speaker 2: you see the press conference? I heard he was he
Speaker 2: went off, he went off, and we were just what
Speaker 2: how long ago? Uh, three four weeks ago and Arizona
Speaker 2: played them, and I think how times have changed? Right,
Speaker 2: you know, he was he was happy, giddy in that
Speaker 2: locker in the in the press room that night, and
Speaker 2: Arizona was, you know, down after losing. And now he's
Speaker 2: just like, I have a soft team. It will play
Speaker 2: I have the most energy in the practices. YadA YadA,
Speaker 2: we suck pretty much. And now there was one of those.
Speaker 3: Eleven and four to two and two and the big ten.
Speaker 6: Yeah kind of keep from remember where they are, but yeah,
Speaker 6: not a good not a good performance by them.
Speaker 3: Yeah ninety four, seventy five.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was at at Polck Yeah, Paul, Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: when would this just go? Get ahold of bread and
Speaker 2: then talk more about football and basketball?
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to one on the ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fift I'm Steve Rivera in today with
Speaker 2: me is Dave Silver got one at the controls. Now
Speaker 2: we have Brad Ellis from well Cats Sports Report.
Speaker 3: Brad Hawaii doing well, good, good good.
Speaker 2: Are you been busy kind of following the basketball and
Speaker 2: football teams?
Speaker 20: Yeah, you know, I do it much more casually than
Speaker 20: when I was writing full time. But yeah, it's between
Speaker 20: losing streaks and the new transfer portal. With a new
Speaker 20: version of the transfer portal, there's a lot to keep
Speaker 20: tabs on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's go with basketball first. Let's get the
Speaker 2: overall picture, not with what happened last night, but you
Speaker 2: can include last night. What do you think overall or
Speaker 2: what have you seen?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 20: I think what you saw is that team that had
Speaker 20: a meat grinder of her schedule and they and they
Speaker 20: didn't handle it very well. I think the one thing
Speaker 20: is you were looking at you were trying to integrate
Speaker 20: a bunch of new guys, guys getting different roles, and
Speaker 20: it took longer. You know, we were spoiled either. Loude
Speaker 20: Olton was the master of getting guys ready for November
Speaker 20: and that's why what he lost what like three games
Speaker 20: and twenty years in those preseason tournaments. Miller was pretty
Speaker 20: good about getting his guys ready immediately, and then they
Speaker 20: always had that one dip it seemed around February and
Speaker 20: Tommy's come out of the gate pass. But I think
Speaker 20: this was a bigger challenge, and one of the problems
Speaker 20: is you brought in so many guys who are adjusting
Speaker 20: to completely different roles. Trey Townsend was the guy at Oakland,
Speaker 20: del Orsa was the guy.
Speaker 5: You know, Basar was off for a year.
Speaker 20: You know, you didn't know if you were gonna have Crevis,
Speaker 20: which now you know you don't. So you know, kJ
Speaker 20: Lewis was having to take a step up in his
Speaker 20: role and it just didn't mesh right away. You combine
Speaker 20: that with Duke, a Wisconsin team that's much better than
Speaker 20: I think a lot of people thought. You know, a
Speaker 20: West Virginia team that with Debries is a legit top
Speaker 20: twenty type team, and you just kind of ran into
Speaker 20: that meat grinder and you know, they didn't pull out
Speaker 20: enough wins, but they set themselves up to round in
Speaker 20: the form and that's what they've done despite the bad uh.
Speaker 20: You know, preseason you kind of look at it, if
Speaker 20: they can go twelve and eight, thirteen and seven in conference.
Speaker 20: They're not only a tournament team, but they may have
Speaker 20: an okay seed anything better than that. And with the
Speaker 20: strength of schedule, you know they'll be in that maybe
Speaker 20: the shape we thought they'd be preseason when some people
Speaker 20: were thinking, you know, top ten type team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you said twelve and eight, uh, just
Speaker 2: Christmas the twenty. So add maybe two more wins there
Speaker 2: in the tournament, in the in the Big twelve tournament, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that gets them mouth at least a five,
Speaker 2: maybe five or.
Speaker 20: Six probably especially and you know, now they're had a
Speaker 20: schedule because I thought, you know, if you go ten
Speaker 20: and oh nine and one at home, you've only got
Speaker 20: to pick off a few on the road. You've already
Speaker 20: picked off two. You could legit go what four and
Speaker 20: six on the road and have one of the probably
Speaker 20: better road records in the Big Twelfth. The way the
Speaker 20: league is shaping up, so Arizona's in very good shape.
Speaker 20: By getting those two wins the last couple of nights, you.
Speaker 6: Know, bad one of the guys I've been intrigued with
Speaker 6: so far, as Carter Bryant. Steve and I were talking
Speaker 6: about him a few minutes ago. What do you think
Speaker 6: we will see with him, say, in the next couple
Speaker 6: of months, compared to the Carter Bryant of December and January,
Speaker 6: to what we could see by late February March.
Speaker 20: You know, that's the million dollar question, because he is
Speaker 20: by far and away, I think the most upside of
Speaker 20: any guy on this team. He is the only guy
Speaker 20: I think you can say as a surefire NBA player.
Speaker 20: And I think even if he just progresses it the
Speaker 20: way he is right now, someone's going to take a
Speaker 20: flyer on him late first round, early second.
Speaker 5: Round if he was to leave now now, if he comes.
Speaker 20: Back, he can develop into a lottery type pick. But
Speaker 20: as he developed, he could become because I think Arizona's
Speaker 20: kind of looking for a consistent number three guy.
Speaker 3: You know, Caleb Love more.
Speaker 20: Often than not, it's going to be your number one guy.
Speaker 20: Jaden Bradley's you know, kind of one A one B.
Speaker 20: He does it in different ways, obviously with the defense,
Speaker 20: but you need a guy you know three out of
Speaker 20: five games is going to be you know, your number three,
Speaker 20: you're number four scored. If that could be Carter Bryant,
Speaker 20: I think Arizona's an excellent shape because he gives you
Speaker 20: this ability to be super versatile. You can play him
Speaker 20: at the four, uh and he has legit four size,
Speaker 20: but he's got the game of the three. He can
Speaker 20: put him at the three, and he's a matchup nightmare
Speaker 20: for a lot of smaller teams, just some teams that
Speaker 20: go three guard lineup.
Speaker 5: I think you could even see a scenario.
Speaker 20: When Arizona's trying to run someone off the floor, or
Speaker 20: they'll stick him at the five for two or three minutes.
Speaker 20: He's just such a versatile kid with you know, being
Speaker 20: six nine, with that crazy long wingspan, with great athleticism,
Speaker 20: and if he can continue to shoot well, which is
Speaker 20: not necessarily his strength, but well was perfect the other night,
Speaker 20: you know, against Cincinnati. That's just a weapon that you know.
Speaker 20: I don't know if Arizona was counting on. I think
Speaker 20: they were hoping to have, but he might be able
Speaker 20: to kind of leap frog maybe what they thought they
Speaker 20: were going to get in Tray Townsend just doesn't quite
Speaker 20: look ready for that spotlight role. He looks like a
Speaker 20: more of a complimentary player.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I agree with you there.
Speaker 2: Let me give you this question, maybe Dave, you want
Speaker 2: to answer Arizona will go as far as it can
Speaker 2: if X does the job.
Speaker 3: You're asking me both both.
Speaker 6: Uh Well, I mean, obviously the Caleb love story will
Speaker 6: have to be good for Zona to advance. But like
Speaker 6: I said before, you know, if Carter continues to grow
Speaker 6: and consistently they see kJ Lewis playing like he did
Speaker 6: last night, I.
Speaker 3: Mean they've got the pieces. They definitely do. They've got
Speaker 3: the potential, right Jayden Bradley, Yeah, you know what, I
Speaker 3: agree with.
Speaker 2: You because he's that downhill aggressive guy.
Speaker 20: Yeah, and he where you need him to be as
Speaker 20: the guy who can be something different on different nights,
Speaker 20: the downhill guy when they need him, the guy who
Speaker 20: can facility. He's never going to be a huge assist guy,
Speaker 20: but he needs to be a facilitator. You know, when
Speaker 20: we see those great Wildcats teams, they don't have.
Speaker 5: A seven assist guy, they have a four assist.
Speaker 20: Guy and then a bunch of three. You know, look
Speaker 20: at Mike Bibby's the best, if not the best player,
Speaker 20: the best point guard they was on a history there
Speaker 20: were Knights. He had one assist Why because you also
Speaker 20: had Miles Simon who the offense could flow through him.
Speaker 20: You had Jason Terry who could pass.
Speaker 5: You can even have Michael Dickerson.
Speaker 20: Who the offense could flow through. That's what they need
Speaker 20: Jayden Bradley to be.
Speaker 3: He needs.
Speaker 20: Some nights, he's gonna have to have a seven uh
Speaker 20: assist nights. Some nights he's gonna have to score fifteen.
Speaker 20: Some nights he's gonna have to just be a lockdown defender,
Speaker 20: be you know, a poor man's Reggie Geary. But he
Speaker 20: has that versatility, and I think that's why he know.
Speaker 20: He has to know they're gonna be NICs. Caleb can't shoot,
Speaker 20: why not? Don't need to get Caleb to the ball as much.
Speaker 20: You know, you have to look to work it inside.
Speaker 20: And you know, if Henry's got a mismatch, or you know,
Speaker 20: Trey Townsend's having a hot hand, how do you get
Speaker 20: them the ball that has to come from to start with?
Speaker 3: Jayden Bradley.
Speaker 2: You know that that's a great observation, and I totally
Speaker 2: agree with you. Let me see this about six weeks ago,
Speaker 2: seven weeks I said this, and I still believe it
Speaker 2: now more so than it although it didn't work until
Speaker 2: now that if that it reminded me a little of
Speaker 2: ninety seven ninety eight, and maybe not to that degree
Speaker 2: because we know what happened with that. But you know,
Speaker 2: Jayan Bradley, Caleb Love kJ lewis, if one guy goes bad,
Speaker 2: you have the other two who can can't come through
Speaker 2: and you can you know, a three card montiet or
Speaker 2: you can do the little you know, the thing with
Speaker 2: the three cards. So so it hadn't done that well
Speaker 2: up until recently. Right if if this guy does blaed
Speaker 2: or doesn't step up, the other guy will kJ last
Speaker 2: night Jayden Bradley, Yes, Love, No, you know one of
Speaker 2: the two or two or the three can always do that,
Speaker 2: do you see that?
Speaker 20: Yeah? And they have to be And again Carter Bryant
Speaker 20: might be in that conversation as well. And that's why
Speaker 20: you know, we all know this guard play wins tournament
Speaker 20: games because you can look at every great Arizona team
Speaker 20: that has made a deep run. The Guards have been
Speaker 20: great until they weren't. And almost every NCAA tournament lot
Speaker 20: especially those deep low very few times have everyone played
Speaker 20: really well and the other.
Speaker 3: Team was just a little bit better.
Speaker 20: Instead, you got you know, the classic exact one. Gilbert
Speaker 20: can't lift his arm, Gardener can't shoot that night. If
Speaker 20: Kerr was awful against.
Speaker 5: Oklahoma, everyone's as awful against.
Speaker 20: Utah, Yeah, exactly. So, you know, but what you need
Speaker 20: to be able to do is if Cayle and eventually
Speaker 20: Caleb Love is gonna have to Baras is gonna make
Speaker 20: around the tournament. He can't have four bad games and
Speaker 20: rely on Jayden Bradley and kJ Lewis and Carter Bryant.
Speaker 20: But if there isn't one night where he's off, you
Speaker 20: have to be able to overcome it, you know. And
Speaker 20: so so Dave's absolutely right. At the end of the day,
Speaker 20: if Arizona's gonna win four games, Love's gonna have to
Speaker 20: be one A or one B for three of those
Speaker 20: four games at least.
Speaker 2: We also have to remember that the competition steps up, right,
Speaker 2: You're not gonna play with Virginia Cincinnati all the time,
Speaker 2: especially when you get deep into tournament. You have teams
Speaker 2: that aren't gonna because they're not any good, right, Yeah, And.
Speaker 20: You know, but I think I think West Virginia and
Speaker 20: since I certainly look like second night teams. You know,
Speaker 20: they look like they look like you know, aar zones
Speaker 20: are five, they look like you know a four or
Speaker 20: five type matchup where if arizon'es are three, they look
Speaker 20: like a six to seven type matchup. Those are quality teams,
Speaker 20: and you were playing on the road, but.
Speaker 5: They're flawed teams, especially.
Speaker 20: West Virginia without the breeze. They were kind of a
Speaker 20: one man show last night, and there was a kind
Speaker 20: of figured out, you know, it was the old loop thing.
Speaker 20: We'll let one guy be us, we can't let three.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 20: Cincinnati was a ton of a flawed team that was
Speaker 20: kind of smoking mirrors. But those are tournament type teams,
Speaker 20: and those are the teams there are gonna have to beat,
Speaker 20: you know, if not on night two, on night on
Speaker 20: night three.
Speaker 5: So it's a good it's a good measuring stick.
Speaker 20: But yes, they haven't faced a Houston yet, who's a
Speaker 20: national title contender, Kansas who maybe not be playing like
Speaker 20: one now, but could you know a Baylor who's always
Speaker 20: kind of in the mix, even though you know they're
Speaker 20: not quite what they were a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: Who'll get that? In twelve days when I was soon
Speaker 3: you're gonna have yes, No, I was gonna say the
Speaker 3: schedule does pick up. They do.
Speaker 6: They do get Baylor, they do get uh, you know,
Speaker 6: Texas Tech. They do get some pretty good teams soon,
Speaker 6: so you know, it's been a nice warm up act.
Speaker 2: Let me say this to you, let me ask you
Speaker 2: use the word I used maybe two weeks ago, and
Speaker 2: it's very apparent.
Speaker 3: It was apparent to me that Arizona is flawed.
Speaker 2: Uh do you feel that way now or I don't
Speaker 2: feel that way as much, but I still kind of
Speaker 2: feel there's issues.
Speaker 20: Yeah, yeah, really who maybe there's very few teams that
Speaker 20: he got them on one or you know one hand,
Speaker 20: who aren't flawed. Even look at Tennessee last night. I
Speaker 20: mean they that was the best team in America and
Speaker 20: they they looked awful last night. Arizona's flawed, but they
Speaker 20: have enough pieces that yes, they are capable of making
Speaker 20: a run, but they're also capable of going in a
Speaker 20: tailspin and not making the tournament. That's why this is,
Speaker 20: you know, this is really gonna be the the how
Speaker 20: well can Tommy Lloyd coach? And I already like what
Speaker 20: I think because they've already improved, They've already you know,
Speaker 20: dicked some things. There's a lot still to fix, but
Speaker 20: I think now that they know what you know that
Speaker 20: they don't have Creevis. They can settle into that rotation
Speaker 20: and you know, continue to tweak and play with things,
Speaker 20: and you know you're inserting do or So in the lineup,
Speaker 20: but you know he's not always there in crunch time
Speaker 20: because they're right in the hot hand. And I think,
Speaker 20: you know, we're learning a lot about Tommy Lloyd, and
Speaker 20: I think Tommoyd's gonna learn a lot about himself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's funny. You saw that sight S game. Del
Speaker 2: Orso is a guy you need. You don't need him
Speaker 2: in a bunches right last night he had ten if
Speaker 2: you can get maybe eight to ten from him and
Speaker 2: you know some things, and then you have Brian who
Speaker 2: could get twelve. I mean this is kind of like
Speaker 2: a stew where you have a lot of here, a
Speaker 2: lot of hero a little there, but you need you
Speaker 2: need these guys.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you do need the kJ Lewis to come
Speaker 6: up with twenty one every once, someone to get into
Speaker 6: the twenties. And then maybe you know four guys and
Speaker 6: you know between eight and fifteen.
Speaker 20: Yeah, but if you look at the best Arizona teams,
Speaker 20: with the exception of maybe ninety four, that's.
Speaker 3: What you got.
Speaker 20: I mean, you know, you used ninety seven and ninety eight.
Speaker 20: An example, you had four guys, you know, really on
Speaker 20: any any given night who could get you twenty.
Speaker 5: You know, people, I think a lot of people forget.
Speaker 20: How good Michael Dickerson really was. I think too many
Speaker 20: people just remember that Utah game. But Michael Dickerson was special.
Speaker 20: That's why he was an NBA player. Maybe was special,
Speaker 20: Simon was special, Kerry was And you don't have to
Speaker 20: have to.
Speaker 3: Have guys that great.
Speaker 20: But you know, you look at the look at some
Speaker 20: of those really good Miller teams. They weren't they didn't
Speaker 20: have that ball dominant guy. You know, it could been
Speaker 20: you know, look at the look at the you know,
Speaker 20: the teams that lost to Wisconsin. It could be Nick
Speaker 20: Johnson one night, Aaron Gordon another night when.
Speaker 5: Healthier, Brandon Ashley. That's what this team.
Speaker 20: Kind of reminds me of. They're not that good yet
Speaker 20: and they may never get that good, but there are
Speaker 20: you know, four or five guys. You could have a
Speaker 20: door some night where he goes four or five from
Speaker 20: the line to fifteen and that freeze everyone else up
Speaker 20: to drive the line.
Speaker 5: You could have a night work.
Speaker 20: Would you be shocked if if suddenly Basar takes advantage
Speaker 20: of a smaller player and and puts in eighteen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but he could have zero the next night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, trouble.
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm expecting that where he's just gonna go
Speaker 2: off one night from the perimeter end close by because
Speaker 2: he has that in him.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 20: Yeah, he reminds me, you know, he's trying to remind
Speaker 20: me of some of those Loot guys.
Speaker 5: There's a little he's a little bit.
Speaker 20: He's a better shooter, and he might not be quite
Speaker 20: as tough, but there's a little Bramlet in him. I
Speaker 20: think where you know, people just forget Bramlett was just
Speaker 20: just put in the work and had really good nights
Speaker 20: and you didn't expect. Also, you look up and he
Speaker 20: was at twelve and eight. I think Henry's kind of
Speaker 20: becoming that guy. Now Henry can, you know, can knock
Speaker 20: down the three. He's a little more athletic, not quite
Speaker 20: as tough as AJ, but I think he has that
Speaker 20: kind of role where he's kind of that fourth or
Speaker 20: fifth guy, but he's gonna sneak up on you and
Speaker 20: it has some big nights and I think there's some
Speaker 20: some better things ahead.
Speaker 2: For him down the way, twelve and eight would be
Speaker 2: nice from Henry consistently, right, Yeah, And if you got
Speaker 2: that from from Ohaka and from Townsend, you know, thirteen
Speaker 2: and seven combined, I think that's another good night.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 20: I think if you can get from your post probably
Speaker 20: twenty to twenty five and twelve rebounds from those three,
Speaker 20: you're probably in great shape, you know, And I think
Speaker 20: they're capable, But just it's that consistency. You know, Trey
Speaker 20: Townsend's looked like a you know whatever conference player of
Speaker 20: the year, and the next night he looked like the
Speaker 20: twelfth man.
Speaker 3: On Oakland University.
Speaker 5: And then I take that's.
Speaker 20: Unfortunate what you're just going to get from him and
Speaker 20: Owaka and to a lesser of Kim Basar has been
Speaker 20: the most consistent of the three, which I think is
Speaker 20: very interesting because I'm not sure any of us would
Speaker 20: have said that preseason.
Speaker 2: No, let's go the last question, uh football, Do you
Speaker 2: like what you're seeing from Brennan on the transfer port?
Speaker 20: I do? And you know, I think what he's doing
Speaker 20: he basically knew and he knew this last year. You know,
Speaker 20: we talked about there was a lot of talent here,
Speaker 20: but was one to thirty and maybe one to thirty
Speaker 20: wasn't even as good as we thought. He needs to
Speaker 20: build depth. So what he's doing, he's casting a wide
Speaker 20: net and hoping that if they can get twenty five
Speaker 20: to thirty really solid players, you know, forty out of
Speaker 20: this group, that's a good building block. You know, they
Speaker 20: brought in another receiver today, a guy from Tennessee Chattanooga.
Speaker 20: So that's four transfer receivers, two freshmen, a couple of
Speaker 20: guys coming back. That's eight receivers.
Speaker 3: And if you can get three.
Speaker 5: Of them to consistently perform.
Speaker 20: You're in great shape. You know, they brought in the
Speaker 20: lineman who was at Oregon stage from Pueblo. I think
Speaker 20: that gives them four or five offensive linemen they're bringing in.
Speaker 3: You know, they were turning several.
Speaker 20: You know, they lost two or three key guys, but again,
Speaker 20: you need six or seven linemen because last year they
Speaker 20: had about four, maybe three. So that's what he's doing.
Speaker 20: I think it's a good strategy. You know, they are
Speaker 20: taking some chances on smaller conference guys. You know, they
Speaker 20: have the two guys I think was at Northwestern State,
Speaker 20: who was an awful football team, but they were their
Speaker 20: two best players. You've got Chattanooga, You've.
Speaker 5: Got I think you had a Montana.
Speaker 20: So you've got guys who performed at a high level
Speaker 20: at smaller schools. You also have guys who have performed
Speaker 20: okay at comparable schools or bigger schools. You know, the kid
Speaker 20: from Michigan who is a part time starter, the lineman
Speaker 20: from Georgia Tech. So it's just kind of this wide
Speaker 20: net and you hope you can get enough of them
Speaker 20: to hit. I also like that he's bringing back.
Speaker 5: Most of not all.
Speaker 20: Obviously, you know, Takario Davis is gone. Man who's gone.
Speaker 20: A couple others are gone. But you know, getting Genesis
Speaker 20: Smith back was huge, Getting Stoops back is huge. Getting
Speaker 20: a few of those other dvs back is huge. So
Speaker 20: I think they're building depths. Now you wonder do they
Speaker 20: have enough star power. But if this offensive coordinator is good,
Speaker 20: can you know, Noah Fafiita become a star again because
Speaker 20: last year he was ordinary, the year before he was special.
Speaker 20: Can they get that out of him? Can they get
Speaker 20: that out of some of these young running backs like Bersano,
Speaker 20: and then they have at.
Speaker 3: Chance be good? Great?
Speaker 20: No, but I think we you know a lot of
Speaker 20: people overrated them last year. I thought they were seven
Speaker 20: or eight wins. I certainly didn't see four wins. But
Speaker 20: if they can be in that six to eight range,
Speaker 20: I think you got some great building blocks for the future.
Speaker 3: Well, I think Brennan will take that.
Speaker 2: I think the AD will take that and not pull
Speaker 2: a trigger on and will the fans take that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's right.
Speaker 20: Honest. I think right now the fans are so bailed on.
Speaker 5: It that if anything over you know, anything.
Speaker 20: Flirting with five hundred, I think you get them back
Speaker 20: on board, to be honest.
Speaker 3: Okay, Brad, thanks as usual, appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Great being with you guys.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, Yeah, thanks. That was Brad Alice from the
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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars super paper rock scissors contest.
Speaker 3: You can kind of do that.
Speaker 2: I don't know how it works, but you have to
Speaker 2: slide your card and you get some points and you
Speaker 2: do it that way.
Speaker 3: Uh, Rock paid percisors. Uh.
Speaker 2: And obviously the playoffs are going to be starting here
Speaker 2: pretty soon here this weekend, right first weekend NFL. NFL
Speaker 2: tonight or tomorrow is going to be the first game
Speaker 2: for college to go to that and then Friday the
Speaker 2: next game.
Speaker 3: When's the when's the final Final? Is it that January twentieth, Monday, Monday? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Okay, so no, yeah, tomorrow you guys can preview that
Speaker 6: Penn State Notre Dame. Yeah, it's going to be pretty fun. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it should be. It should be a good weekend of football,
Speaker 6: great weekend, got straight days. Yeah, you got those two
Speaker 6: games back to back. Then you have with three NFL
Speaker 6: games I think on.
Speaker 4: Saturday two, two, Saturday, three, Sunday, and then Friday, Sunday
Speaker 4: and Monday night.
Speaker 2: So you have that then did you have you heard this?
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Speaker 2: So if you have one team against another team or
Speaker 2: they're not playing each other, it's this team against another
Speaker 2: team that's playing and they and they come up with
Speaker 2: the line like automatic. It's just kind of strange. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know for hey, hello, my name is Steve. I
Speaker 2: have a gambling problem for those people. Yeah, one of
Speaker 2: the next step. So that's that's kind of cool. Well,
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff going on ume seasonal section. They
Speaker 2: have honey so rocha, chickens, wings, obviously a lot of
Speaker 2: food there. So look forward to seeing people there. We've
Speaker 2: had a few guests the last few nights that we
Speaker 2: were there. Okay, I agree with with the Brad on
Speaker 2: a lot of few things. Uh the stars, you're you're
Speaker 2: Bryant guy that you know you expect more things from him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I agree too, because once he continues to get more confidence.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's kind of a typical freshman situation
Speaker 6: we've we talked about earlier where he comes in and
Speaker 6: you know what's expected of him. Is he expected to
Speaker 6: come in and score fifteen to twenty points a game
Speaker 6: or is he going to be, you know, a facilitator
Speaker 6: and just learn the game. Oh, the game is much
Speaker 6: different than you know, from high school to college.
Speaker 2: Let me throw this at you, Dave, because you were
Speaker 2: there and I was there when things well, you were
Speaker 2: there and I.
Speaker 3: When Loot was here.
Speaker 2: So of the starters now and maybe the top seven guys,
Speaker 2: how many would start for Loots teams?
Speaker 3: Caleb?
Speaker 6: Caleb for sure? I mean Bradley I think too. I
Speaker 6: think so too. I mean I like Brad was saying,
Speaker 6: I kind of forgot about how you know, how good
Speaker 6: he isnt getting into the basket and he doesn't need
Speaker 6: to have that's assists. He's going to have five, Say
Speaker 6: he has four to seven a game would would be
Speaker 6: great and he scores he could score, you know, fifteen
Speaker 6: points and that's a pretty solid performance. Yeah, probably kJ
Speaker 6: two and Bryant as well, three guys that who else?
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I think the bestar would come off the
Speaker 2: bench Townsend no waka No, but walk is more like
Speaker 2: a Genie Nigrison type kind of come in and fill
Speaker 2: in and get the rebound and create chaos.
Speaker 3: Townsend.
Speaker 2: I don't really know who he would be. Maybe a
Speaker 2: just In style. I really have to think of it.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know. No, he hasn't showed
Speaker 2: me enough yet. No, no, I don't think he will.
Speaker 2: I mean he hasn't to this point.
Speaker 6: The very first first game, it wasn't even a real
Speaker 6: six threes.
Speaker 2: He had a three last game, I think early in
Speaker 2: the game. And and Delorso probably not. You remember Matt
Speaker 2: You remember bow Mulewak remember that name? What was his
Speaker 2: claim to fame? I don't remember. I'll tell you that
Speaker 2: Red Blue came in. He had twenty six points off
Speaker 2: the bell. You know, he was a walk on dude
Speaker 2: from and you never saw him again.
Speaker 3: I don't think he even played.
Speaker 6: No, he didn't even make the roster though he did,
Speaker 6: but he but he didn't play it.
Speaker 3: I do remember that name. Yeah, yeah, he had that
Speaker 3: great Red Blue game. So who's this guy?
Speaker 2: And well it was like Josh when Josh came in.
Speaker 2: Josh could shoot it, right, you could shoot it, but Josh, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it wasn't good enough obviously. So all right, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: figured that this team has a lot of talent considering,
Speaker 2: but so to other teams, especially in this league.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And then again, as you know, we've talked about it,
Speaker 6: it's gonna be kind of fun just to sort of
Speaker 6: see how it plays out in these arenas against these
Speaker 6: teams that were maybe not all familiar with just yet
Speaker 6: and learning the reputations of these players and these coaches,
Speaker 6: and you know, besides the name, we know the names
Speaker 6: of Kansas, and we know the names of Houston and
Speaker 6: things like that, but you know, do we really know
Speaker 6: their players just yet?
Speaker 2: And last night there was no benefited from the snowscarn.
Speaker 2: A lot of people could not get to the game. Yep,
Speaker 2: you know, the locals couldn't get to the game, so
Speaker 2: there was a subdued crowd. Not that that would have
Speaker 2: made a difference last night because they was when it
Speaker 2: played really well.
Speaker 6: Everyone's looking for an excuse though, Oh yeah, yeah, of course,
Speaker 6: you know Arizona during this during the break, there's not
Speaker 6: enough fans here. They only got ten thousand or whatever. Well, dud,
Speaker 6: don't show that was the case here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And you know people are thinking this is
Speaker 2: a great place to playing. Well, no one's here. Well,
Speaker 2: and and Tucson you know this too, Dave. If they're not,
Speaker 2: if they're what were they eight and five or seven
Speaker 2: and five, Tucson doesn't fill an average with them under any.
Speaker 6: Aren't we looking at some eight o'clock and nine o'clock
Speaker 6: start coming. Yeah, you have to be there for those games, right,
Speaker 6: So those that's going to be a couple of late
Speaker 6: night ers.
Speaker 2: No, I know, And we talked about this last night.
Speaker 2: I can't remember who I was with. People are saying, oh,
Speaker 2: they're going to move to the Big twelve, we won't
Speaker 2: have to worry about these late night games.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, be careful what you wish for. We're still
Speaker 6: in Arizona. Yeah, yeah, you know, that's it's a time
Speaker 6: zone situation. They love having that game somewhere on the
Speaker 6: East coast.
Speaker 3: It's o'clock.
Speaker 2: You have to pull up the schedule. I think Saturday's
Speaker 2: game is eight thirty.
Speaker 4: Saturdays at eight, and next Tuesday inst s Balers at nine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's and then the Monday game with Iowa States
Speaker 2: like at nine.
Speaker 4: Eight thirty, eight thirty, but more than likely nine because
Speaker 4: of TV.
Speaker 6: And yeah, so yeah BYU games at nine on the road,
Speaker 6: but that's still nine our time.
Speaker 4: Texas Tech on a Saturday at eight o'clock. You got
Speaker 4: Houston at noon on a Saturday. That's pretty nice.
Speaker 3: That's here. That's in February. The ASU game there in
Speaker 3: tenp is eleven, eleven o'clock. No, that's the first party first. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so it's going to happen. You know, it's where we are.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's basically and that's kind of why these
Speaker 6: leagues did what they did. Conferences did what they did,
Speaker 6: or you know, to get the TV windows.
Speaker 3: Have you watched the game on TV? Oh? Yeah? How
Speaker 3: was the streaming? It's okay. Last night was fine. I
Speaker 3: thought at least I didn't experience anything. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: I've still people.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the thing, I guess maybe I haven't figured out
Speaker 6: how to necessarily record the game on ESPN Plus. I'm
Speaker 6: not sure you can see. That's the situation. People have
Speaker 6: been complaining a little bit about that you can't record it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I want to rewatch it twice.
Speaker 6: Well, if you're not home and you want to record it,
Speaker 6: like you know, you can turn off your phone and
Speaker 6: get home and just zip through that game in a
Speaker 6: half hour.
Speaker 3: But can we do that anymore with the ESPN Plus
Speaker 3: I'm not right now. You can't stream, you can't the streaming,
Speaker 3: you can't record. I don't believe.
Speaker 2: So Okay, well that you have it, there's another thing
Speaker 2: to complain about.
Speaker 3: Oh damn it.
Speaker 2: Okay, anybody want to call We got about three minutes
Speaker 2: five two four one, give us a quick call. See
Speaker 2: what your thoughts are about tomorrow. Well, yesterday's game.
Speaker 4: So ESPN does not have a DVR storage, but you
Speaker 4: can watch some events on demand. They'll come back and
Speaker 4: have them available for you to watch occasionally. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: nothing nothing to record.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I enjoy I've always enjoyed the app
Speaker 6: they have if you like golf, especially if you're a
Speaker 6: golf fan. They've shown the tournaments on you know, Thursdays
Speaker 6: and Fridays and stuff like that almost all day.
Speaker 3: Long on ESPN Plus.
Speaker 6: And then they're all the all the ESPN shows are
Speaker 6: you know on there, all those thirty for thirties and
Speaker 6: the sixties and all the different shows they've had through
Speaker 6: the years, all the Manning shows and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: If you if you want to kids kill time, they're there.
Speaker 2: But we talked about this yesterday etis. But Andy did
Speaker 2: about that Pro League on did you see that?
Speaker 3: Yes night? They had us a little bit. It was
Speaker 3: kind of interesting. I didn't really understand it.
Speaker 2: It was I missed it. That's to say digital is on.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, you know, up against the screen and you put.
Speaker 3: All that stuff like McElroy. I don't think. I think
Speaker 3: he will be dex week. Tiger's in it.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so in front of an audience, so people
Speaker 2: watching you go golf.
Speaker 3: I guess that'll be kind of cool. See your your
Speaker 3: favorite play golf. Yeah, what is it? The n I
Speaker 3: g L t g L golf gl.
Speaker 4: Six teams represents six different cities, go head to head
Speaker 4: all season long. So trying to figure out what exact
Speaker 4: how exactly it works.
Speaker 3: But it's like in a sports bar.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean that's what you know, y have
Speaker 2: that big screen that is simulation type of thing.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, Tiger was on the broadcast apparently last night. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so he'll be playing next week.
Speaker 2: Man, anything for for a buck and people are going
Speaker 2: to watch.
Speaker 3: You know, in the middle of the week. What else
Speaker 3: is that?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean there's obviously stuff out there, especially with
Speaker 6: with the ESPN's commitment to college basketball. Just just stick
Speaker 6: this in there. It's an interesting commitment to make.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe the way it works is you start
Speaker 4: at a certain area where you like tee off, you
Speaker 4: hit it into the screen. It goes as a certain
Speaker 4: distance and estimations and all that, and depending on where
Speaker 4: you're at, you go to a different spot, you're a
Speaker 4: little bit closer than once you're in the green.
Speaker 3: They actually have it there. Oh, the put the green,
Speaker 3: the putting. Yeah, I thought that was strange because I
Speaker 3: saw that. So how they do that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I'm more, how is it going to be
Speaker 4: the same every time?
Speaker 3: Doesn't it change? Yeah?
Speaker 2: They probably do have some courses that are different. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know, but kind of cool. I guess innovation, Yeah,
Speaker 2: go on, you know, yeah, something for the kids. So yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, seriously, it's no different. You're right, and that's
Speaker 2: what they're guarding everything for, not guarding, but making everything
Speaker 2: for right, the thirty millennials, the young kids want to
Speaker 2: watch the stuff that they don't give a crap about you, Dave.
Speaker 2: They don't give a crap about me.
Speaker 6: They don't want to sit there and watch four hours
Speaker 6: of golf on a Sunday, watch know, an hour and
Speaker 6: a half of this and make believe it's a video game.
Speaker 3: And I think it's legit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess we're gonna get that with basketball and
Speaker 4: football soon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guarantee it. Well, all these three on threes
Speaker 3: and stuff like that that they've kind of you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well the waen you factory women are doing yeah
Speaker 2: yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And the do you get you.
Speaker 2: Get anything from the courts, the different cell courts that
Speaker 2: you see now on TV, you know, with like the
Speaker 2: l ed likes. Yeah, the just kind of like the
Speaker 2: different they're not basketball courses, yeah, the normal basketball course.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't, I don't. I will always prefer just
Speaker 3: would Was it just me?
Speaker 6: I was watching Oregon basketball? Have they toned down their court?
Speaker 6: Have you noticed that changed? It's not as the trees
Speaker 6: are not as prominent, it's maybe it's a maybe the
Speaker 6: big tens to forget it, get it. If you guys
Speaker 6: are coming, you got to do something in that court
Speaker 6: because it was tough to watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't, I haven't seen it. But they're pretty good.
Speaker 3: They're pretty good this year.
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