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Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivera. In with me today.
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Speaker 2: And then we have Kobe with some breaking news right now.
Speaker 4: Beloved Brewers broadcaster Yuker, what is that is? Bob Ucker dies?
Speaker 4: That pass away in ninety.
Speaker 5: You kids, you kids said, did you did you ever
Speaker 5: meet him here? I think so.
Speaker 6: He came down for some spring training games, you know,
Speaker 6: at the High Corvette when the Brewers would come.
Speaker 2: In, and don't forget I think did he was he
Speaker 2: here part of the filming of Major League?
Speaker 3: He was in Major League? But I don't know if
Speaker 3: he phil if he was.
Speaker 6: Here, I honestly because all the scenes that I can
Speaker 6: remember I was thinking about that today were games where
Speaker 6: he was in Yeah, supposed in Cleveland, but it's actually
Speaker 6: h Milwaukee if I'm not mistaken with the stadium they used.
Speaker 6: But I don't think he was here for those early
Speaker 6: you know, the spring training for the High Corbett right,
Speaker 6: But yeah, I mean, okay, that's that movie made him famous,
Speaker 6: even more famous.
Speaker 5: Not in Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're on the air and I on the ball.
Speaker 7: Hey, it's Davis Jonashon.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Hey, John Good, good to hear from you.
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 7: Well, you know, living down with you of a sports borner,
Speaker 7: raised here and watched everything else come and go, and
Speaker 7: this is the one constant, right, and watched a lot
Speaker 7: of Arizona basketball teams. And I'll tell you the one
Speaker 7: advantage that I see this year playing in the Big
Speaker 7: Twelve and watching how the Big Twelve has been officiated
Speaker 7: so far, it is a much much more physical brand basketball.
Speaker 7: And to me when it comes tournament time, when you
Speaker 7: go through that through the through the conference season, as
Speaker 7: opposed to the ticky taxi fouls that we're called in
Speaker 7: the Pac twelve. You know a lot of times we
Speaker 7: were shooting three throws with thirteen fourteen minutes ago in
Speaker 7: the first or second half, and vice versa when we
Speaker 7: were you know, traveling to see four and five thouls
Speaker 7: called with six minutes ago and you know and a half.
Speaker 7: That's preparing us, I think, to be a more battle tested,
Speaker 7: tougher team come to tournament, to play in any kind
Speaker 7: of style that's officiated. And you know, to me, that's
Speaker 7: that's going to be a difference maker for us, you know,
Speaker 7: in the next four or five six tournaments, watching how
Speaker 7: we can play with different style officiated games, you know,
Speaker 7: as opposed to what we've experienced in the past to
Speaker 7: back ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny because I hadn't even noticed the changes.
Speaker 2: But you're right, yeah, because you haven't heard any good
Speaker 2: complaining about it. You know, you do you do during
Speaker 2: the game, but not outside of the noise, you know.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: There hasn't been anything that gregious where you're like, how's
Speaker 8: that a valt? He barely touched them, right, there's none
Speaker 8: of that. I mean, it's physical play, guys falling on
Speaker 8: the floor. There's a lot of the times where I
Speaker 8: watch it now and you're like, well, I'm surprised they
Speaker 8: ain't called out there, but she would never have said before.
Speaker 2: Because you're a long time fan, you pay attention to
Speaker 2: the teams. Do you like this team and how it
Speaker 2: sets up?
Speaker 7: So yes, I do, except for what is who you're
Speaker 7: talking about? And you know what scares me is, here's
Speaker 7: what scares me about this team. I think we're a
Speaker 7: better prepared team from a physical standpoint and maybe make
Speaker 7: a little bit of a run. We're bigger at Dard,
Speaker 7: We're more physical, and I think that the kind of
Speaker 7: team that we are sets us up to play a
Speaker 7: well in March. The what scares me is they have
Speaker 7: a tendency to let their foot off the gas. A
Speaker 7: team that tape is is that we're a little bit
Speaker 7: stops occasionally throwing the ball around the perimeter. And you
Speaker 7: know what you guys were saying with klo it's more
Speaker 7: it's not that he's gonna I think he'll play great
Speaker 7: in a game or two. It's I'm more worried about
Speaker 7: a four for seventeen night that he all of a
Speaker 7: sudden starts shooting up extra shots. Right now, at least
Speaker 7: he's playing within the flow of the offense. And you know,
Speaker 7: but at the same time, you know, a couple of
Speaker 7: decisions he's made the last few games late have allowed
Speaker 7: other teams to have late runs. So it scares me
Speaker 7: a little bit that that were reliant on him. But
Speaker 7: at the same time, I see a physicalness with our
Speaker 7: team that they could really could really bad. Welcome March.
Speaker 7: You know, it really always comes down and can you
Speaker 7: make free throws? Can you take care of the ball,
Speaker 7: and you know, can you stay out of the palace trow?
Speaker 7: Can you do at and can you rebounds? And you know,
Speaker 7: the only only thing I see that really scares me
Speaker 7: is we don't box out very well.
Speaker 3: But that other than that, missus Lincoln, how's the player? Okay?
Speaker 7: Okay, So you can do a lot of things really
Speaker 7: well though, I mean we're offensive, redounding, elite. Our defense,
Speaker 7: by the way, has been much more elite than it's
Speaker 7: been the last five years. So from that perspective, yeah,
Speaker 7: I do see where, you know, I can see where
Speaker 7: we can play a rugged style the day twelve or
Speaker 7: in the tournament where it could be a fifty five
Speaker 7: point game and we could still win. But it always
Speaker 7: comes down and you have as much talent, can you
Speaker 7: do the little fundamental things?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, John, Thanks for the call, Thanks for continuing
Speaker 2: to listen.
Speaker 7: Appreciate you guys.
Speaker 3: Thank you man.
Speaker 5: It could be our fourth voice on this show. Yes
Speaker 5: go ahead.
Speaker 4: Number two Iowa State defeats Number nine Kansas seventy four
Speaker 4: to fifty seven.
Speaker 3: Is it a case where Kansas isn't Kansas anymore?
Speaker 5: I think Kansas doesn't have the guard playing they usually do.
Speaker 8: They have the big guy Hunter Dickinson's been there two
Speaker 8: years in a row. They played through them, but when
Speaker 8: you press them, when he get in their face, they
Speaker 8: kind of fold. She was able to do that in
Speaker 8: the first half, kind of keep it up in the
Speaker 8: second half. Same with Cincinnati. But if you had the
Speaker 8: talent to compete with them and you're able to press them, uh,
Speaker 8: they're they're gonna fold.
Speaker 5: I don't think they're a straw in the back court.
Speaker 6: I didn't watch enough of it last night, but when
Speaker 6: I turned it on their way down, so I know
Speaker 6: they were having trouble from the out said and you
Speaker 6: know again, I was stayed a team that Arizona's going
Speaker 6: to see a couple of times here in the next
Speaker 6: couple of months. I have to deal with a team
Speaker 6: like that. Remind me where were we last year at
Speaker 6: the tournament Utah?
Speaker 3: Where do you go?
Speaker 2: I think we went to Salt Lake and Kansas was there.
Speaker 2: They almost got beat by the team in the red.
Speaker 2: I was not there, but yes, and the coach says,
Speaker 2: we got a call to real quick.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And the coach says, I wasn't even I was already
Speaker 2: looking to next year.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: What's his name?
Speaker 2: Well, next year's here? I wonder if he's looking to
Speaker 2: next year already. We got to call list get this
Speaker 2: real quick. Hello, you're on the air and I on
Speaker 2: the ball.
Speaker 3: Who's this? My name is Steve, Hey, Steve, what's up?
Speaker 9: I think that Arizona has got to do a better
Speaker 9: job on the offensive end.
Speaker 3: They take too many trips down where they come come
Speaker 3: away empty.
Speaker 9: They need to increase their percentages of being success successful
Speaker 9: on the offensive end.
Speaker 2: Didn't you Didn't you say they're hitting fifty three pots that.
Speaker 5: They shot pretty well?
Speaker 7: Are you?
Speaker 3: Are you talking certain certain situations, Well, I'm just talking overall.
Speaker 9: When they they lose, they lose the ball like Caleb
Speaker 9: Love lost the ball on the drive to the to
Speaker 9: the basket. I'm just saying they take a lot of
Speaker 9: trips down where they aren't as efficient on the offensive
Speaker 9: vent as they could be, or they should be if
Speaker 9: you look over history, like Uh's teams were much more
Speaker 9: efficient on offense, you know, cal Perry, those type of.
Speaker 3: Teams, the successful teams UH.
Speaker 9: You know they are when they get the ball down
Speaker 9: on an offensive end, they try.
Speaker 3: To come away with with points, some points. You think
Speaker 3: that that.
Speaker 2: Steve, are you are you a big fan? Are you
Speaker 2: an observer? What are you?
Speaker 9: I'm a big fan?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're do you get frustrated at times? That's
Speaker 2: why I asked him, Yeah.
Speaker 9: I mean, I'm telling you, I think that they're playing
Speaker 9: their best defense right now that I've I've ever seen.
Speaker 9: I've never seen a I mean, they used to have
Speaker 9: some good defensive teams under Loot And I actually told
Speaker 9: him that once in the costco that I thought he
Speaker 9: was a great defensive coach, as you know, but because
Speaker 9: I didn't think he.
Speaker 3: Got enough credit for that.
Speaker 9: But I think they're playing a better defense now than
Speaker 9: I've ever seen them play in forty years.
Speaker 3: So okay, but.
Speaker 9: I think they're good on offense, and I think that
Speaker 9: Bashar is really doing a great job. And so it
Speaker 9: was Bradley and s kJ I think those guys are
Speaker 9: kJ Bradley and they're like the of course, del Orsol
Speaker 9: is really picking up the he's really filling the.
Speaker 3: Gaps as well.
Speaker 9: But the defensive end is really where they really performing well.
Speaker 2: All right, right, we'll see things for the call, things
Speaker 2: for the observation. Appreciate it, welcome, Yeah, okay, cool. I
Speaker 2: have a little because they're playing. They're shooting the ball well,
Speaker 2: at least they have been recently. Well, their defense wasn't
Speaker 2: too solid in the second half that.
Speaker 8: Well, I'll say this, I think this is the best
Speaker 8: defense they played since Tommy's first season at Arizona. Really,
Speaker 8: I think that team was better defensively overall, but this
Speaker 8: team's a little tougher. That team matched up against Houston
Speaker 8: kind of folded. This team I don't think has the
Speaker 8: full capable, but I think they're just a little more.
Speaker 2: Well running around that edges again, guys, I mean this
Speaker 2: is this is just an observation. And I followed the horses.
Speaker 2: I mean this is there are one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: horse going against fifty thousand dollars horses, or they have
Speaker 2: been in this seven game streak. In the next few weeks,
Speaker 2: they're going to have two hundred thousand dollars horses against
Speaker 2: Iowa State, the better teams to Houston's and all that,
Speaker 2: so you have to rev it up a little bit more.
Speaker 8: I think the one positive thing though, is if this
Speaker 8: was the PAC twelve, You're looking at a what ten
Speaker 8: game winning streak, oh, and all of a sudden you're
Speaker 8: playing a RN team in UCLA. At then that you
Speaker 8: get smacked by. It's like, okay, then where are you?
Speaker 8: You've played a bunch of nobody's. Now you're playing at
Speaker 8: least you're playing top twenty five teams. You have three
Speaker 8: top twenty five wins in the.
Speaker 5: Skit to the tournament.
Speaker 6: In those old days, you know Week two you're gonna
Speaker 6: play you know, the fourth best team in the Big
Speaker 6: ten or something.
Speaker 2: Right, No, no, this, no question, guys. To your point,
Speaker 2: it sets them up nicely for later. But I asked,
Speaker 2: what's your name from Baylor? Historically, does this league beat
Speaker 2: you up? Beat you up, beat you up? Then you
Speaker 2: can to a tournament. You're beat up by the time
Speaker 2: you play the tournament. Yeah, So we won't know until
Speaker 2: we know.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And honestly, I think it depends on where you
Speaker 8: are and where you're seated in terms of the projections,
Speaker 8: and then CAA tournament and where like, if you're locked
Speaker 8: in to a three seed and you're feeling kind of
Speaker 8: beat up, you need to go out there and win
Speaker 8: the Patrol Tournament.
Speaker 3: Probably not well, that's that was mentioned or last week too.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, yeah, it's not that you want
Speaker 2: to lose, but you're okay if you lose the first
Speaker 2: one the rest.
Speaker 6: We have to go to Kansas City and play three games.
Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, you know we've seen what's happened. Well
Speaker 6: you do how Loot felt about that. I don't want
Speaker 6: to do this. We don't need to do this. We
Speaker 6: already proved who we are. This might be those times
Speaker 6: when we want it, we don't. Everyone knows how good
Speaker 6: we are.
Speaker 5: I'll say this.
Speaker 8: I think it's best for teams like Arizona that struggled
Speaker 8: in the beginning of the year that they're able to
Speaker 8: be one of those what is I forget out the
Speaker 8: bracket works out, but one of those teams that get
Speaker 8: the extra day or two off. If you're able to
Speaker 8: be one of those teams, it's going to allow you
Speaker 8: time to rest. You're going to play some high quality
Speaker 8: games and potentially move up in the ringing day?
Speaker 5: Do you have?
Speaker 3: Can you get thee we got to go?
Speaker 2: Already, I was gonna say the the U of a
Speaker 2: schedule and I'm just because I'm going to probably be
Speaker 2: wrong off the top of my head to go to
Speaker 2: the Big Twelve.
Speaker 3: But the last two games, last two.
Speaker 2: Regular season games, three issue Kansas issue here, issue here
Speaker 2: is there there? What's the one before a state? Okay,
Speaker 2: so those three and then they go to the tournament.
Speaker 2: Those are three huge games. Then you get the tournament
Speaker 2: to play maybe at least two huge games, and then
Speaker 2: guess what's a week later the tournamenturnament and.
Speaker 5: You could see Kansas And I always state again.
Speaker 3: How that's a that's a daunting them.
Speaker 5: Go play for the champions schedule.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just go back to the to the Arizona
Speaker 2: weather in March and you deal with the cold weather.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, play as you wish, but but
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 8: Don't don't be stuck in the middle. We were playing
Speaker 8: every single day in that tournament.
Speaker 5: You know what of that?
Speaker 6: Yeahs, the Kansas game falls on a Saturday, and then
Speaker 6: the Big Twelve tournament.
Speaker 5: I assume it's going to start with and are they
Speaker 5: going to stay there? They're probably going to.
Speaker 3: Stay in Kansas City because we've already talked about going.
Speaker 2: Right, try and we do we go to the Kansas
Speaker 2: game and just continue on or or not go at
Speaker 2: all because it could be a quick trip, right, you know,
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens.
Speaker 5: Kansas City is fun, but in March it's cold.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 5: I wonder what the U of a crowd is going
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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Iron the Ball Here on Fox
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Speaker 3: Obvious Steve Rivera, I can today with.
Speaker 2: The Troy Fits, just Simp, Gois and Cats, Dave Silver.
Speaker 2: We've got Kobe handling machines here. Now we have Jared
Speaker 2: Ramirez from Rivals out of Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: Jared, how are you?
Speaker 17: I'm good? How are you good?
Speaker 2: Thanks? What do are the one? Are the Cats gonna
Speaker 2: run up? Against up in Lubbock.
Speaker 18: Well, uh, they've got a Texas Tech team who's pretty
Speaker 18: hungry for a home conference win. You know, I think
Speaker 18: it's it's pretty interesting Texas won all three of their
Speaker 18: Big Twelve games on the road, owing two at home.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 18: You know, asking me that a few years ago, if
Speaker 18: I if I could imagine that happening, I'd probably tell
Speaker 18: you no. Uh, it's been a it's been an interesting
Speaker 18: stretch of Big Twelve play that that Tech's been in.
Speaker 17: Right now.
Speaker 18: You know, the team is just kind of starting to
Speaker 18: get healthy, and now it may not be as healthy
Speaker 18: as you as you would like it to be, but
Speaker 18: I think the meshing has finally started to kind of
Speaker 18: take place. And and with this Tech team, I mean,
Speaker 18: they're so potent offensively, but they're still trying to figure
Speaker 18: it out.
Speaker 17: On the defensive end of the floor.
Speaker 18: But I mean when it's both clicking at the same time,
Speaker 18: I think these Road Raiders are pretty strong.
Speaker 8: So in terms of home environments, Arizona has seen Cincinnati,
Speaker 8: They've obviously seen West Virginia as well. The Big Twelve
Speaker 8: is known for its home atmosphere. What are they going
Speaker 8: into going into Lubbock in that home crowd in Texas.
Speaker 18: Well, they're catching them on a I guess they're catching
Speaker 18: them about a week late. Classes started this week, so
Speaker 18: the full student body should be back here in the
Speaker 18: eight oh six. And I think it's it's kind of
Speaker 18: fluctuated here there this season. I think you've had some
Speaker 18: really good turnouts and some turnouts that were.
Speaker 17: Uh, you know, probably not so ideal.
Speaker 18: But now that you're kind of starting to get into
Speaker 18: the actual bulk of conference play, I think you can
Speaker 18: finally start to get more of the fan base invested,
Speaker 18: more of.
Speaker 17: The students invested.
Speaker 18: And even when this even when that arena isn't you know,
Speaker 18: packed to the brim, I think it's still can get
Speaker 18: pretty rowdy in there, still gets pretty loud. I mean,
Speaker 18: if you remember, even back to just a few seasons ago,
Speaker 18: I mean, people were nationally regarding the United Supermarkets.
Speaker 17: Arena as one of the tougher places to play in
Speaker 17: the country.
Speaker 18: I think it's it's taking a little bit more buy in,
Speaker 18: it's taking a little bit more investment from the people,
Speaker 18: from the fans to show up to the games, and
Speaker 18: show up even to the meaningless games. But now I
Speaker 18: mean you're getting into the big telf play. Every single
Speaker 18: one of these games is a big game.
Speaker 17: It's they're all a massive deal.
Speaker 18: So uh, definitely gonna be another pretty impressive environment this Saturday, especially,
Speaker 18: you know one o'clock tip.
Speaker 17: I think you're going to get a pretty packed house.
Speaker 6: Darien Williams they got to watch and there's some pretty good,
Speaker 6: pretty good mixture of talents.
Speaker 5: It looks like at this this point of the season.
Speaker 17: This is Darien Williams' team. It really is.
Speaker 18: You know, I don't I wouldn't go as far as
Speaker 18: saying he's the most talented player on this team, and
Speaker 18: I think people will acknowledge that, but he's the heartbeat
Speaker 18: of it all. I mean, he's one of the bigger
Speaker 18: returners from last season. I think he's averaging about sixteen
Speaker 18: a game. I know evanmaya dot Com one of the
Speaker 18: metrics websites, they've got him rated as like the number
Speaker 18: ten player in the country right now as far as
Speaker 18: all of their metrics and stuff go. You know, big,
Speaker 18: versatile threat. He's a big body at six six. I
Speaker 18: don't know exactly how much he weighs, but you mean,
Speaker 18: he plays, he plays big, and he does a lot
Speaker 18: for this team. I think he does a lot of
Speaker 18: facilitating some shot creating himself, shot making, shot taking, that
Speaker 18: sort of deal. And then, like you said, you know
Speaker 18: there's a bunch of bodies around him.
Speaker 5: JT.
Speaker 18: Topping is namely probably the most nationally known, you know,
Speaker 18: the New Mexico transfer from last season, Mountain West Freshman
Speaker 18: of the Year a year ago. I think he's I
Speaker 18: think he's been sick this week. I know, I know
Speaker 18: they talked about that today, Grant did. He was sick
Speaker 18: the other night when they played against Kansas State. But
Speaker 18: I mean, this is a guy who was getting NBA
Speaker 18: draft grades last season and you know very well could
Speaker 18: leave for the draft again after this season. Topping, what
Speaker 18: you're going to get with him is he's athletic. He's
Speaker 18: high motor. He does it all around the rim. He's
Speaker 18: going to go and do the cleanup plays. He's going
Speaker 18: to get the offensive rebounds, he's going to get the
Speaker 18: put backs, He's going to do all that.
Speaker 17: But he's got he's got some.
Speaker 18: Finesse around the rim. He's got he's got a little
Speaker 18: baby hook to him that he can he can use
Speaker 18: whenever he wants to. I think another guy you're you're
Speaker 18: going to look at a lot is is and they
Speaker 18: I think they're trying to get him back in rhythm
Speaker 18: because he's kind of struggled.
Speaker 17: He struggled the other night. At least is a chance.
Speaker 18: McMillan one of the nation's leaders as far as three
Speaker 18: point percentage goes. I know he was kind of hovering
Speaker 18: around fifty percent from three, which is you know, if
Speaker 18: if you cover basketball, if you watch basketball, fifty percent
Speaker 18: from three is just absurd. But with McMillan, you're getting
Speaker 18: I mean, he's a little bit smaller for the position
Speaker 18: that he plays, which is really more of a swing guard.
Speaker 18: He's only about sixty three. I think you'd like to
Speaker 18: have somebody a bit bigger there. But what he makes
Speaker 18: up or what he lacks in size, he makes.
Speaker 17: Up for with his athletic ability as well.
Speaker 18: I think he's a great rebounder for a guard, and
Speaker 18: like I said earlier, he's one of the best three
Speaker 18: point shooters.
Speaker 17: In the whole land. And then a guy that really.
Speaker 18: Starting to get rolling as conference player has gone along
Speaker 18: Elijah Hawkins, Minnesota transfer point guard. He's been playing pretty phenomenally.
Speaker 18: I'd say over the last few games, one of the best.
Speaker 17: Facilitators in the country last season.
Speaker 18: I think it took him a little bit to get
Speaker 18: rolling this year just because he had some injury stuff
Speaker 18: to deal with. But he's a guy who's gonna get
Speaker 18: the ball to his teammates. He doesn't turn it over
Speaker 18: a lot. So, like I said earlier, this is a
Speaker 18: very potent offense when they get rolling. And they've just
Speaker 18: got so many different ways of putting the ball in
Speaker 18: the hoop.
Speaker 2: So last time I was through a lubbuck, I was
Speaker 2: gonna play them in football. And I think he is
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eight, so a lot of things have changed,
Speaker 2: you guys. Love Like at least the Texas Tech had
Speaker 2: been pretty good in basketball in recent years with Beard
Speaker 2: and all the rest. Are you guys now a football
Speaker 2: school or a basketball school?
Speaker 17: Uh?
Speaker 3: For you again?
Speaker 18: And like asked me, Yeah, ask me again. Maybe give
Speaker 18: me maybe give you like two three years and we'll
Speaker 18: see how it's how that's coming along. I think the
Speaker 18: football program is definitely on an upward trajectory right now.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 18: They've got a lot of things going for them as
Speaker 18: far as what they were able to do in the
Speaker 18: portal this past this past window in December and uh,
Speaker 18: you know, eight wins was the first time they reached
Speaker 18: that mark in oh, I guess since nine the last
Speaker 18: year that that leach coached up here. Uh, you know,
Speaker 18: the football program I think was kind of in the
Speaker 18: depths there for a little bit, and right around when
Speaker 18: that started to dip pretty dramatically, is whenever the basketball
Speaker 18: team started to take off.
Speaker 17: At least that's what it kind of appeared like to me.
Speaker 18: Uh, you know, it's it's hasn't reached well, I guess,
Speaker 18: you know, Beard leaves and then Mark Adams comes in,
Speaker 18: one of his main assistants, takes over as the head
Speaker 18: coach that made the Sweet sixteen his first season. They
Speaker 18: made the tournament again last year after missing it in
Speaker 18: Adam's second year. So last year was Grant's Grant m
Speaker 18: chasms first season. They made the tournament again, and in
Speaker 18: all honesty, that making the tournament last season was quite
Speaker 18: the accomplishment. I think they dealt with injuries all season.
Speaker 18: They just them pushing that far and Grant squeezing as
Speaker 18: much as he.
Speaker 17: Could out of that team. Really was was.
Speaker 18: Kind of eye opening, kind of surprising, so as far
Speaker 18: as a football or basketball school, you know, college sports.
Speaker 17: In general, it all revolves around football.
Speaker 18: It you know, it always does, and that's the case
Speaker 18: for ninety ninety five percent of schools around the country.
Speaker 18: So I mean everything here does still heavily revolve around
Speaker 18: the football program.
Speaker 17: But I mean the basketball program is no slouch either.
Speaker 5: Though they came here, right, Texas came too. Had some
Speaker 5: fans here.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess it was part of the five percent
Speaker 2: because it's basketball, right, It's.
Speaker 8: Basketball, Arizona due Kansas. It's all basketball right there. Yeah,
Speaker 8: they're looking looking at Arizona and what they face. Uh,
Speaker 8: throughout Tommy Lloyd's tenure and really throughout the last fifteen years.
Speaker 8: Whenever they play a game on the road or a team,
Speaker 8: that team always switches the zone, loves to slow Arizona downs,
Speaker 8: to put them in the half court set. What do
Speaker 8: you see Texas Tech doing defensively? And are they a
Speaker 8: program that likes to change things up defensively or do
Speaker 8: they stay put in their their own defensive set.
Speaker 18: Well, as far as what we've seen this season, I
Speaker 18: think they've really kind of just stuck to their guns
Speaker 18: and tried to develop their main defensive identity as best
Speaker 18: as they can.
Speaker 17: I don't I don't.
Speaker 18: Expect them to to really switch it up or throw
Speaker 18: anything kind of different out there on the court.
Speaker 17: I honestly couldn't.
Speaker 18: Tell you if I've ever or even seen this team
Speaker 18: either this season or last season the one last season,
Speaker 18: if I've seen them run his own.
Speaker 17: It's all very man to man oriented. I think they
Speaker 17: really like to pack the paint.
Speaker 18: And I think what we've seen over the last week
Speaker 18: couple weeks, I think they've gotten a lot better as
Speaker 18: far as defending the perimeter goes. And that was something
Speaker 18: they've struggled with from before conference season up till whenever
Speaker 18: UCF came to town. They struggled defending the perimeter. It didn't
Speaker 18: matter who it was. I mean, Saint Joe's bit him
Speaker 18: with that, A and m got him with that. And
Speaker 18: so you know, in turn, now they've they've I do
Speaker 18: want to say, shifted the focus, but it's gotten a
Speaker 18: lot better defensively from the perimeter goes.
Speaker 17: And I think they're still trying to find find.
Speaker 18: Out exactly how good they can be at defending the basket.
Speaker 17: This isn't the.
Speaker 18: Biggest team by any means, by any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 18: They've They've got Toppen, who's six foot eight, six foot
Speaker 18: nine is what he's listed as, but I think he's
Speaker 18: really a little bit shorter than that. They've got another
Speaker 18: big man six foot eleven, Federico Federico and in you know,
Speaker 18: he's big, but I wouldn't say he's a marquee paint
Speaker 18: defender by any means. So I think the biggest issue
Speaker 18: for this team as far as defensive, as far as
Speaker 18: like a defensive identity goes, is just really trying to
Speaker 18: figure it out. I think you saw, like against BYU,
Speaker 18: they did a phenomenal job defending the perimeter there, and
Speaker 18: that's a BYU team who that's all they do is
Speaker 18: shoot threes. But then against Iowa State, I think tackle
Speaker 18: out in the neighborhood of fifty to fifty two points
Speaker 18: in the paint, And so it just kind of goes
Speaker 18: back to what I was saying, like they're trying to
Speaker 18: figure out what that what that defensive structure is, and
Speaker 18: it's it's progressed, it really has since conference play its started.
Speaker 18: And I think that's that's the result of mccaslyn's sense
Speaker 18: of urgency as far as getting that turned around. Uh,
Speaker 18: but no, I don't I don't anticipate seeing zone Saturday,
Speaker 18: and I think they're still going to try to pack
Speaker 18: the paint, but also try to defend from the perimeter
Speaker 18: pretty well as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Arizona's had trouble defending the three. Seems like for
Speaker 6: the last couple of years. It seems to be a
Speaker 6: trend maybe in college basketball. Hopefully each team can pick
Speaker 6: up the defensive load, you know, and then in that area.
Speaker 2: Right right, let me ask you real quick, because I
Speaker 2: don't remember off the top of my head, Arizon I
Speaker 2: had a transfer there U two three years ago. From
Speaker 2: here to there, I don't think he's any He's not
Speaker 2: there anymore, right, A tall, skinny a kid from Europe.
Speaker 18: You are referring to, and you're referring to Daniel Bacco.
Speaker 3: Did he believe he left there?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 17: He did? And let me I guess, let me double check.
Speaker 18: Yeah, he's still out a So he went from So
Speaker 18: he was here the first so like the first season
Speaker 18: after Beard left and then the year after that with
Speaker 18: with Mark Adams and then a Tech assistant, Telvin Hester
Speaker 18: actually went and became a coach at LA Tech. So
Speaker 18: he followed him there, Okay, And I mean he was
Speaker 18: pretty high. I don't know exactly what conference I think
Speaker 18: La Tech is in. Are they in Conference USA?
Speaker 9: Is that?
Speaker 17: Is am I saying that?
Speaker 16: Right?
Speaker 3: I think so he was a pretty good player in
Speaker 3: that league.
Speaker 18: He was I don't know if he was tabbed as
Speaker 18: their player of the year in the preseason, but I
Speaker 18: know he was pretty highly regarded going into this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: So very lanky, you know, European guy, you know, obviously, Yeah.
Speaker 18: He he was a he developed somewhat of a cult
Speaker 18: following here when he was here, actually very uh, you know,
Speaker 18: because he doesn't say a whole lot you know, he
Speaker 18: was French, so he didn't really know a whole lot
Speaker 18: of English, but like the little English that he did know,
Speaker 18: like people just kind of gravitated towards him because I mean,
Speaker 18: he was a funny guy.
Speaker 19: Uh.
Speaker 17: And so he was.
Speaker 18: Still super young when he was here, so he was
Speaker 18: just kind of starting to get his feet under.
Speaker 17: Him and and and develop into the game. And and
Speaker 17: I guess he's he's.
Speaker 18: Come along as one of the one of the elite
Speaker 18: there in that kind of that G five level.
Speaker 17: I guess.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, good to know.
Speaker 2: I can't speak English either, and I don't have't I
Speaker 2: don't have a cult, so I gonna forget what he did.
Speaker 17: There.
Speaker 2: You go, okay, cool, So before you go, uh, what
Speaker 2: do you predict any predictions?
Speaker 18: Well, Uh, it's it's been hard to call with this
Speaker 18: Tech team because I think.
Speaker 17: You've seen them.
Speaker 18: You've seen them a little bit of everywhere in conference play.
Speaker 18: I mean, you're five games in, you've had well UCF
Speaker 18: was an eighteen point comeback that they were unable to
Speaker 18: complete in the final minute of the game, had a
Speaker 18: couple of chances at it and just couldn't take that one. Uh,
Speaker 18: they dominated Utah on the road, they scraped out a
Speaker 18: tough one against BYU, and then you saw they played
Speaker 18: a really I'd say they played their best game of
Speaker 18: the season.
Speaker 17: I think against Iowa State.
Speaker 18: Uh, definitely, If if not their best, it's one of
Speaker 18: their better performances. I mean, you've got a top five
Speaker 18: team in the country on the ropes and it and
Speaker 18: it takes them, you know, exhausting everything that they have
Speaker 18: to try, and you know, well they do, you know,
Speaker 18: eventually make that comeback and eventually did win in overtime.
Speaker 18: And then like the other night against Kansas State, they're
Speaker 18: up in Manhattan. It was just a if you're a
Speaker 18: fan of the game of basketball, that game was just gross.
Speaker 17: It was just just the sloppiest game you could really imagine.
Speaker 18: So I say all that because Tech has been a
Speaker 18: just all over the place.
Speaker 17: I think they're hungry for a home win.
Speaker 18: I think they're they're anxious for a home win because
Speaker 18: that's evaded to them. And I think what they're trying
Speaker 18: to see too. And I think this will depend on
Speaker 18: how healthy like topping and Darien Williams are because you know,
Speaker 18: Darien Williams rolled his ankle the other night against the Wildcats.
Speaker 17: Toppin's been sick and.
Speaker 18: He had he had I think had some issues against
Speaker 18: Iowa State too, So I don't know exactly how healthy
Speaker 18: those guys are. If they're less than one hundred percent,
Speaker 18: I think it's gonna be really tough for Tech because
Speaker 18: I think depth wise is where they're also really kind
Speaker 18: of struggling. I think they're they're looking to get some
Speaker 18: more out of guys like Kevin Overton. I think a
Speaker 18: freshman like Christian Anderson has been really strong these last
Speaker 18: few games, but I mean he's a freshman.
Speaker 17: You know, you don't really know what to expect, and I.
Speaker 18: Think it's been a been a bit of a surprise
Speaker 18: how well he's been playing. And one thing that I,
Speaker 18: you know, I have picked up on about Arizona is
Speaker 18: it seems like their depth is really strong.
Speaker 17: They've they've got guys like kJ.
Speaker 18: Lewis or Henry Bursar off the bench who had some
Speaker 18: pretty good performances here recently. And I don't know, it's
Speaker 18: a it's a it's it's tough to call about tech.
Speaker 18: I you don't know what to expect with them, but
Speaker 18: all I can tell you is I think they're hungry,
Speaker 18: and I think if they're as if they're pretty close
Speaker 18: to healthy, I can see them. I can see them
Speaker 18: winning this game. I think they've proved they can hang
Speaker 18: with anybody. Take the Iowa State game. I mean, they've
Speaker 18: proved they can hang with anybody, especially at home. So
Speaker 18: I think they'll be a good one.
Speaker 2: Okay, Thanks, we'll get back to you and see Bobby
Speaker 2: on the return trip.
Speaker 3: Do you play again? Right?
Speaker 5: Yeah? They again?
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, we'll get you in reconnect. Thanks a bunch, sure,
Speaker 2: Thanks sharing.
Speaker 17: All right, I appreciate it. Yeah, we'll have to we'll
Speaker 17: set that one up. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, thanks so much, and let's take a break.
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the xs and ohs. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 21: Hey, welcome back to Why on the Ball Here on
Speaker 21: Fox Sports fourteen fifty Steve Rivera in today, Troy Hutchinson
Speaker 21: from My Go Easycats, Dave Silver, I got our guy
Speaker 21: from from the.
Speaker 3: School of U. A. Johnson, Kobe.
Speaker 2: We got some we can get some calls here five
Speaker 2: two zero four one, six seventy four forty CE. I'm
Speaker 2: blustered and I still don't have that. What do you
Speaker 2: have backing or what do you have like Boo the
Speaker 2: guy in Texas tech speaking this, but you have this
Speaker 2: following me. I can't speak an don't have a group
Speaker 2: of year.
Speaker 5: I think we're all that way today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that's fine. It's been a good show though.
Speaker 2: Getting ready for Saturday's game. Good talk to Ben Hallan
Speaker 2: and now to Jared to Rumirez. Anybody want to call?
Speaker 2: The lines are free five two oh four one, six,
Speaker 2: seventy four forty. We had a couple of calls already,
Speaker 2: so I asked, uh, Jared of the prediction, I don't
Speaker 2: think we got one.
Speaker 3: What do you guys think?
Speaker 5: You think? Yes, I think they're going to meet him.
Speaker 8: I think Arizona is going to go on the road,
Speaker 8: walk out with like a four or five point victory,
Speaker 8: hard fove game and find a way to win.
Speaker 3: Dave, you're you're mister Paul Yanna.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what am I gonna say? Oh, it should be
Speaker 6: a good game. It'll be closed.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I think I think the UVEA is
Speaker 5: playing great.
Speaker 6: I think it's it's Yeah, it's that time of year
Speaker 6: where they usually you know, historically have kind of sorry
Speaker 6: to get things primed up for yeah, for March, and
Speaker 6: you know, late January early February games are usually pretty.
Speaker 2: Good for Tommy has this radio show here today of
Speaker 2: five or six whatever time, but it's going to be
Speaker 2: I think one of the questions I'd like to ask me,
Speaker 2: how did those feats, those self surprising not self surprising
Speaker 2: defeats help him become this team? You know, because you
Speaker 2: know you learn and losses, right, you also learn the victories.
Speaker 3: But they must have helped. The UCLA game had to
Speaker 3: have helped.
Speaker 8: I was gonna say the c LA games the game
Speaker 8: to me, Yeah, point two. I mean that that's the
Speaker 8: I don't want to say embarrassment, but it's the it's
Speaker 8: by thirteen against your arrival. They go down the last
Speaker 8: ten minutes of the game and smack you and you
Speaker 8: only score what five points down that final ten minute stretch.
Speaker 8: That's the eye opener, the come to Jesus moment where
Speaker 8: you got to collect and say we need to change.
Speaker 5: We're not going.
Speaker 2: Anywhere right, And after that game, a lot of people
Speaker 2: have thought they were gonna go anywhere.
Speaker 5: They turned it around.
Speaker 2: Okay, they turn around, but they still show signs of
Speaker 2: late game meltdowns, not keeping the lead, not staying focused.
Speaker 3: YadA YadA, and not that loots team.
Speaker 2: And I go to that team because I covered it
Speaker 2: every day every day for a long time. That they
Speaker 2: had those Lully moments too, but not as often. And
Speaker 2: there were teams we covered them, Dave. They had teams
Speaker 2: that just wanted to beat the crap out of you
Speaker 2: and enjoyed it. Not a lot of teams like that,
Speaker 2: but you know, eighty eight they had fun and beat
Speaker 2: you bad, and I love beating you bad. I think
Speaker 2: ninety four was a little like that with Damon and
Speaker 2: Kalid and some of those guys. Ninety seven not so much.
Speaker 2: Ninety eight, Yes, you know, they just showed up with
Speaker 2: the crap out two thousand and one when they had
Speaker 2: a chance before Bobby, you know, when Bobby's the situation.
Speaker 2: But that's what they need, that's what they need, that
Speaker 2: killer instinct.
Speaker 6: All those teams had NBA players too, just about every
Speaker 6: one of them, right, and they were all kind of
Speaker 6: ready to go and want to lead the way and
Speaker 6: play that way.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Hello, you're on the air on the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is Nico. Good to hear from you. We
Speaker 2: were wondering about you, wondering about you.
Speaker 22: Hey man, I'm all right, man, I gotta work, man,
Speaker 22: so gotta work.
Speaker 17: For a living.
Speaker 3: Real life sucks. Let me tell you that.
Speaker 5: Now. What's up?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 22: I got two questions, man, Since you all are professionals, man,
Speaker 22: why did there gonna give up these leads all the time.
Speaker 3: We were just talking about that Nico.
Speaker 2: I wish they had a and not that I have
Speaker 2: a dog in the fight, but killer instinct. You probably
Speaker 2: grew up watching some of these teams I had that.
Speaker 22: I don't know, just that they look lazy out there
Speaker 22: at times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, things like, yeah, lazy's a good word, lacks you know,
Speaker 2: lacks of days, O cold, yeah, lazy, all those words.
Speaker 5: Defenses.
Speaker 6: Yeah, bad decisions the teams are making, making moves as well.
Speaker 2: So bad decisions. You sound like me, Dave? What's up
Speaker 2: that you your sound right? Yeah, you're right practically, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's good. And what else do you go? But I
Speaker 2: don't know, man?
Speaker 22: My second question, Man, when are you gonna put this
Speaker 22: over on the payroom?
Speaker 2: Man? Kid, he's a retirement, he's got a he's got
Speaker 2: a fluctuation with only a certain amount of money can
Speaker 2: go to his But you know the ten, ten ninety
Speaker 2: nine or whatever those things, he can't make as much.
Speaker 5: He's retired. You can be my agent, Nico.
Speaker 2: With Someone asked, man, he's bored at home, unus he's
Speaker 2: born at home.
Speaker 5: I'm not. This is great. This is taking me back
Speaker 5: to my roots.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, is that it?
Speaker 5: Nico?
Speaker 22: Yeah, man, see it gets softball tickets. Man, just sit
Speaker 22: by me and my dad.
Speaker 2: Oh hey, yeah, let me know where you're at because
Speaker 2: I might do that, Nico, I might need I might
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 3: Thanks man.
Speaker 22: I mean we'll probably only be at like three games.
Speaker 2: Me too, Me too, But I wouldn't mind going out
Speaker 2: there hanging out with you guys. You know all right,
Speaker 2: Thank you man, Thank you Nico. Thanks for the call. Hey,
Speaker 2: we just got a call coming in. We couldn't get
Speaker 2: to it because we had to say goodbye to Nico.
Speaker 2: Call right back. We'll get it to it. Thanks for calling.
Speaker 2: Five two o four one six seventy four forty. My
Speaker 2: guy here will get a hold of it once we
Speaker 2: see it. Come in, Dave, you can't make any more
Speaker 2: money than you're making now you're living.
Speaker 6: How much money? What are we talking about? I'll buy
Speaker 6: you lunch, Okay, I'll bout you lunch a gift card.
Speaker 6: And again here we go with a call. Hello, you're
Speaker 6: on the airline on the ball.
Speaker 3: Who's this? Hey, Steve, this is done? How you guys
Speaker 3: doing fine? We're doing fine?
Speaker 2: How you doing?
Speaker 16: Hey?
Speaker 9: Man?
Speaker 19: Well, first of all, I act the second what Nico
Speaker 19: said about Dave.
Speaker 3: You know, Dave, this is your last day.
Speaker 19: No, but you got to know your worth, Dave, You're
Speaker 19: worth a lot, thank you. But hey, I agree about this.
Speaker 19: I agree about this team and the lack.
Speaker 3: Of killer instinct.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 19: It's yeah, it's still so frustrated. The other night, I
Speaker 19: stayed up till there was about it was like seven
Speaker 19: minutes left in it, and the lead was down to
Speaker 19: like fifteen, and I just couldn't stay up any longer.
Speaker 19: And I said, you know what, I'm just gonna I'll
Speaker 19: just wait till the morning and find the score. And
Speaker 19: then I didn't want to look.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, I'm glad you looked, because you saw what happened.
Speaker 19: I did, and I and I and I saw it
Speaker 19: and go wow, you know. And then one of the
Speaker 19: podcasters put on there and they said, hey, you know,
Speaker 19: that's an eleven point win against a good Baylor team,
Speaker 19: And I'm going, you know what, but that was a
Speaker 19: twenty point win that you let get away to an
Speaker 19: eleven point win, and it's just like they you know,
Speaker 19: we'll have a misshot six shot and then and then
Speaker 19: we'll take a bad quick three point shot and then
Speaker 19: give up another shot, and then and then it's like
Speaker 19: and then then they're out the gate because they believe
Speaker 19: they can get back in the games.
Speaker 3: And everybody knows.
Speaker 19: That going in and and the thing is, it's like
Speaker 19: last year's football team. After we played those two close
Speaker 19: games with USC and Washington, everybody's like, you know what,
Speaker 19: they could beat everybody else on the schedule, but how
Speaker 19: many any of us really believed it. We wanted it,
Speaker 19: But you know when you saw these other teams and
Speaker 19: you know, UCLA came and everything else, they're like, yeah,
Speaker 19: they can beat them, they can beat them. I mean
Speaker 19: they beat them really good. But we didn't know what
Speaker 19: they were until they were what they were.
Speaker 3: So don this is my issue with it. And I
Speaker 3: don't know what the guys.
Speaker 2: If you have this tendency in you already, it's gonna
Speaker 2: bite you at some point again down the road, because
Speaker 2: that's just who you are.
Speaker 3: I remember we talked about with Ben and Memphis doing
Speaker 3: what they did.
Speaker 2: They couldn't hit free throws, during that time, and they
Speaker 2: could have won the national title had they hit free
Speaker 2: throws and they said, oh no, we'll take care of it,
Speaker 2: we'll take care of it.
Speaker 3: They never took care of it.
Speaker 5: This thing.
Speaker 2: They say, oh we'll take care of it, will take
Speaker 2: care of it. There's a good chance they won't take
Speaker 2: care of it.
Speaker 19: I agree, I mean, the the only the difference now
Speaker 19: it was with Baylor. We had that big lead, they
Speaker 19: had it almost they had it up to twenty nine
Speaker 19: at one point. Of course, that's going to be a
Speaker 19: short period of time because I don't even remember when
Speaker 19: it was twenty nine, but because well, it couldn't have
Speaker 19: been there for very long. But you know, you build
Speaker 19: a bigger cushion that gives you, you know. But it's like, dude,
Speaker 19: don't sit on the cushion. They're gonna pull it out
Speaker 19: from under you. And when are they going to lose
Speaker 19: it at the worst possible time.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: You're right, and it's in two months. Don We got
Speaker 2: to go get another call. Thanks for calling.
Speaker 3: Take care guys, Thank you. Hello, you're on the air
Speaker 3: nine the ball.
Speaker 5: Who's this?
Speaker 3: This is Connie, Connie, what's going on?
Speaker 23: What's the word Hey, listen, I know coaches coming up
Speaker 23: at a conference tonight and say, you're gonna asked a
Speaker 23: couple of questions, a couple of things. I mean, you know,
Speaker 23: we get these really nice leads and we just can't close.
Speaker 23: And I just I don't know why that is. I'm
Speaker 23: sure there's a lot of variables. And the other thing
Speaker 23: is to I don't know what the team's average free
Speaker 23: throw percentage is. But like John Wooden said, you live
Speaker 23: and you die at the line, okay, And that's that's
Speaker 23: like the other thing too.
Speaker 17: I mean, we I know it's gonna it's gonna become far.
Speaker 23: More imperative as we you know, near tournament time that
Speaker 23: we hit.
Speaker 5: Our free throws.
Speaker 23: And then lastly, Caleb is he's a crap shoot, you know,
Speaker 23: h every night, so you get a distros. So the
Speaker 23: other thing I think that needs to happen when he's
Speaker 23: not hidden, he's got to be either creating, you know,
Speaker 23: making assist he's got to be he's got to be
Speaker 23: doing other things to compensate for him not having the touch.
Speaker 5: That's what I've gotten.
Speaker 17: I'll just take care of you appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, thanks for listening.
Speaker 2: Troy you'd be good to talk about this because does
Speaker 2: he have the other stuff in him?
Speaker 8: No, No, I don't. I don't think he is. I
Speaker 8: think he is a shooter. He is a score and
Speaker 8: he knows that. And you know, if he if he's
Speaker 8: hitting the shots, the rest of his game starts flowing.
Speaker 8: He gets the rebounds, he gets this defense that's not there.
Speaker 5: Well, defensively, I'll give him this.
Speaker 8: I think somebody brought this up on your show the
Speaker 8: other day was that he played a little bit of defense.
Speaker 8: They're down the stretch of that Baylor game. You need
Speaker 8: them to do the other things. But I think right
Speaker 8: now you have a team everybody's worried about, why aren't
Speaker 8: they closing? Why aren't they're closing? They kind of did
Speaker 8: close out that Baylor game better than they closed out
Speaker 8: previous games. You're seeing a team grow from a below
Speaker 8: five hundred team that the pieces did not match. We
Speaker 8: all said these pieces did not match. This isn't gonna work.
Speaker 8: They're figuring it out.
Speaker 16: Now.
Speaker 8: Will they figure out to the level that they're rinked preseason?
Speaker 8: Maybe probably not, but they're slowly figuring it out.
Speaker 2: So let me throw this at you because you see
Speaker 2: to talk about the pieces. We know that the starters
Speaker 2: aren't really the starters, right, but we have and we've
Speaker 2: seen VSR and kJ and those guys do really well.
Speaker 3: Was that the reason why?
Speaker 2: I mean, that's kind of you can kind of point
Speaker 2: to that, but I don't think that's the reason why
Speaker 2: they're doing what they're doing.
Speaker 6: No, go ahead, I was gonna say it doesn't hurt.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think things changed when that lineup switched.
Speaker 6: Su brought something off the bench that wasn't coming before.
Speaker 6: So it's been a big part of it, I think.
Speaker 8: So far, I think you have players that shift, that
Speaker 8: put their egos aside and for the betterment of the team.
Speaker 8: In terms of which guys, kJ lewis becoming from a
Speaker 8: starter to a bench player, right, there's a lot of
Speaker 8: ego going to the bench. It's like, I don't want
Speaker 8: to do that. I'm a starter. I'm just starting. Well, hey,
Speaker 8: you're getting starters minutes. It's fine.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 8: His numbers have increased by it like two points per game.
Speaker 8: He's shooting over sixty percent during the seven game winning streak.
Speaker 8: He's put his ego aside for the betterment of the team.
Speaker 8: But also I want to focus on the number. One
Speaker 8: hundred and thirty nine. That's how many assists they've gotten
Speaker 8: in the last seven games, and the first nine games
Speaker 8: they had one hundred and thirty nine. But they're only
Speaker 8: averaging fifteen assists per game. Now they're averaging close to twenty.
Speaker 8: And when you look at Tommy Lloyd's teams, it's all
Speaker 8: about assistant turn overaging and they're starting to play like
Speaker 8: a team and you're set more again.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry to poopoo this. They haven't to me,
Speaker 2: they haven't played the teams that they need to beat. No,
Speaker 2: I agree, you know they're playing the And then Brian
Speaker 2: Peterson had that stat before the last game they paid
Speaker 2: the easiest schedule in the Big Twelve to this point,
Speaker 2: But what is that though, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, it's exactly what you saw.
Speaker 2: No, No, of course it's a good schedule, but it's
Speaker 2: the easiest group of four or five and you won
Speaker 2: four or five. You did exactly what you should have
Speaker 2: been doing. And to that point, hey, I didn't think
Speaker 2: they're gonna beat Cincinnati. I didn't think they're gonna beat
Speaker 2: West Virginia or at least sweep them, and they did that.
Speaker 2: Not that I'm the gauge of anything. But you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, did you.
Speaker 5: I thought they would go at least one on one on.
Speaker 3: That drive right right?
Speaker 5: Yeah? It was good. It was a great performance.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So yay, they've already exceeded what we thought.
Speaker 2: Right so, and now you're telling me they'll give to
Speaker 2: sweep again, yeah, which which is fantastic?
Speaker 5: Is there?
Speaker 3: What five and l right?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 3: Come back seven and zero before they paid?
Speaker 16: Uh?
Speaker 2: I always stay, which is which is going to be
Speaker 2: a huge test. And you you have them exactly where
Speaker 2: you want them in Michale and you know what you
Speaker 2: do now?
Speaker 8: And I think in conferences like this, you see the
Speaker 8: Dukes and Kansas's do this all the time, stockpile those wins.
Speaker 5: It seems you should be Yeah, because now you can.
Speaker 8: Afford to lose those close games down the stretch and
Speaker 8: still be able to win the conference title.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see what happens. Yeah, I think we got
Speaker 2: to go already. Don't we maybe get about half a
Speaker 2: minute at the most? Okay, No, thanks guys for coming in.
Speaker 2: It It is good. There's a lot a lot of
Speaker 2: discussions about a lot of different things. Thank you, bet Helen,
Speaker 2: Thank you Jared Ramirez from Rivals. We'll see you guys tomorrow.