WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:04.679 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on 2 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:09.359 Fox Sports fourteen fifth Day powered by Nova Insurance Services 3 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:11.880 Ensure your most Prized possessionets. 4 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:18.519 Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Iron the Ball here 5 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:21.839 on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in today 6 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:25.719 with me is Blake Eagert from the Southern Arizona Sports 7 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:28.079 Tourasament film Authority. Thanks for having me. We got that 8 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:30.640 big doubt. Now if I don't did a ruptue, I'm good. 9 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:33.119 We got Kobe winning the system, so don't blame me 10 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:37.159 ifything bad happens. It's all on Kobe. This like you're 11 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:39.840 fifth time by yourself. Yeah, it's sorting to get the 12 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:43.679 hang of it. Yeah, okay, here we go berserk here. Hey, good, 13 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:47.320 good afternoon, everybody. Well it's Tuesday, not Monday. It feels 14 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:49.560 like a Monday though, doesn't it does? It does? Which 15 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:51.840 I'm glad as Tuesday. Did you watch your game last night? 16 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:52.799 I did? 17 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:55.520 What did you think? I thought the team that should 18 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:58.799 have won one? Yeah, I mean you're you're arguably the 19 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:01.840 most talented team in college football should have come on 20 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:03.439 top and did so. 21 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:06.120 Yeah, and by the by the margin, I think not 22 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:08.480 maybe how it happened by the margin they won by, 23 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:11.359 if not more. You know, they had that comfortable lead. 24 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:14.480 They kind of like played backs of days ago whatever word, 25 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:16.799 and then the guy fumbled before he fell and blah 26 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:19.439 blah blah. Yeah, fourteen points or whatever it was. That's 27 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:20.079 that's about right. 28 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:22.000 Yeah, I would think so, I mean you would hope 29 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:24.519 for maybe a little bit more competitive National championship game. 30 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:28.519 Yeah, NFL. It was for like a second, yeah, for 31 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:30.319 a quick second, yeah, quick second, but it was. It 32 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:34.879 was Okay. I I'll wait for Jay when he comes 33 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:38.359 on the show eventually to gloat with him, because everybody 34 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:41.719 who follows us knows that we have this competition. And 35 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:44.280 I pulled it off. So I won and lost the 36 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:47.159 field goal, so I won. So that's for another day. 37 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:48.719 So I gotta tell you. 38 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:51.319 So, my cousin, my so my my mom's side of 39 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:55.599 the family lives in Cleveland and Akron area. Uh, and 40 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:58.200 they're all Ohio state diehards, right yeah, And so when 41 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:00.400 they lost to Michigan this year, our and gets in 42 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:01.680 the group chat and he's like, oh, they got a 43 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:04.280 fire and I was going way timeout. I said, So 44 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:06.200 if they win a national champion he says, I don't care, 45 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:08.280 you got to beat Michigan. I said, so, you don't 46 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:11.159 care whether you win a national championship, you care more 47 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:12.080 about beating Michigan. 48 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:13.199 And he's like, yeah, absolutely. 49 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:15.479 I was like, this is the dumbest conversation I've ever had, 50 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:17.879 because you're talking to you of a football fans who 51 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:19.280 would die for that opportunity. 52 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:22.439 Sure, sure, no, no no. I heard that conversation this morning. 53 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:25.240 I think he was on Justin's show that they had 54 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:27.680 somebody on and a guy who covers with somebody, and 55 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:31.280 he said exactly that there's still some people, some people 56 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:33.840 on that life still want him fire because of that 57 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:36.960 he can't beat Michigan. He's seventy and ten I guess 58 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:39.919 in the last whatever years he's been there, and a 59 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:42.439 few of them have been to Michigan. Of those ten, right, yeah, 60 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:46.240 I think four or five and they say, okay, yeah, 61 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:48.919 but you know, yeah, but yeah about what, there's no 62 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:52.719 asterisk you won a national championship. Yeahan In fact, ESPN 63 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:54.439 talked about that with him at the end. You know, 64 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:57.680 sit and sit down, what can you do? I mean 65 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:00.599 they won nine titles or eight titles three of the 66 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:03.840 last few years the last fifty years. You know how 67 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:06.280 you know because you played and you coached, you know 68 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:08.520 how difficult it is to win a national title. 69 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:10.879 Yeah, I've won two championships. I've been to the playoffs 70 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:13.719 a lot, but it's so hard to win that final 71 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:14.479 game of the season. 72 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:17.400 In what sense? What level? 73 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:18.800 I won? 74 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:21.199 Hi, A, we won a championship? High. 75 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:24.319 I won a winter league in Hawaii when I was 76 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:26.400 still with the Mets, and then I won I guess three, 77 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:28.439 I want a championship in the north Woods League. 78 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:31.120 So you want that? And when you didn't when you did, 79 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:33.639 did you finish second at all? When? Oh, yeah, that 80 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:37.560 on the field, it doesn't it? Did it diminish your 81 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:41.080 worthiness because you didn't win it? I mean, that's a 82 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:42.199 really good question. I'm a sicko. 83 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:44.080 So I sat there and watched the whole thing happen 84 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:46.319 because I wanted to remember that feeling. Yeah, so it 85 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:48.919 just had to I emphasize what I need to do 86 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:51.759 the next day to get to that point. But yeah, 87 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:54.240 you do, you do question yourself for especially like for 88 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:56.080 me as the starting pitcher. So if I started that 89 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:59.560 game like I started the championship game in Hawaii and 90 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:01.639 we end winning, But you know, if we would have 91 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:03.520 gone the other way, I would have felt the blame 92 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:06.639 on my shoulders, and sometimes rightfully so. But it's such 93 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:09.560 a long season to carry that burden to the final. 94 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:11.759 It's not There's so many things that could happen. So 95 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:15.520 you followed your forty two. I sorry to tell you, Steve, 96 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:17.519 we don't need to talk about age on the radio. 97 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:22.319 Well they wanted twenty seven years ago, twenty eight years ago. Now, 98 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:25.040 I think it was NCAA til you were fourteen. She 99 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:27.600 have some perspective. I know that Kobe doesn't, but Kwan 100 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:32.199 does because he's followed all his life. So in your estimate, 101 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:34.240 who would be the best or what team would be 102 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:37.319 the best ever? At you of a? Could you have 103 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:38.120 like a listen to it? 104 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:40.120 And I think we talked about this last time because 105 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:42.560 we talked about me being at Putney's and everybody going 106 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:44.720 crazy with ketchup and mustard and shooting all. It was 107 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:46.639 like the weirdest celebration, but it was the coolest thing 108 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:48.199 ever as a fourteen year old. So with the best 109 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:52.040 basketball team, I don't listen. I still think I might 110 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:56.680 be going. I still think that eighty eight team's pretty crazy. Yeah, 111 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:59.160 but Miller's Aaron Gordon. 112 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:00.399 Wow, I just. 113 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:03.519 Think that's that's starting five. To me is arguably five 114 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:05.839 of the greatest athletes in college basketball at that time. 115 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:09.160 Okay, so so they're not even in my top five 116 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:09.920 I think. 117 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:16.920 Positionally Zeus, Brandon, Ashley, TJ McConnell, Nick Johnson, Nick Johnson, 118 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:17.879 and Aaron Gordon. 119 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:19.639 That's not okay. I want to trump you. I want 120 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:23.519 to try to trump you with this. These guys, Gilbert Luke, 121 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:30.720 Richard Michael Wright, Lauren Woods, who, Jason Gardner. That's my 122 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:33.600 tough one. So I'm talking team. I'm talking team absolutely. 123 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:35.920 And the reason I asked this they finished second in 124 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:38.639 the in the championship right then Austin Duke a couple 125 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:40.920 of controversial calls, and to me, that was the best 126 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:43.240 team ever here you threw me for a curve because 127 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:46.600 I expect that as of you. But but they don't. 128 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.399 They don't. They're not talked about. They're not talked about. Yeah, 129 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:51.160 we don't ever really bring that. And to me, they 130 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:53.800 would beat ninety seven ninety eight given head to head. Yeah, 131 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:54.639 all things equal. 132 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:56.720 I mean that run though, was crazy for the ninety 133 00:05:56.759 --> 00:05:58.360 seven Oh yeah, yeah, that was ridiculous. 134 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:00.199 Sure, sure, and they and you you know this, you 135 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:02.279 catch light in the bottle and you right and you 136 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:05.160 write it. Two thousand and one did that too, kind 137 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:07.160 of but they were very good, ran into a very 138 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:09.839 good Duke team and guppy. So so my point is, 139 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:14.600 if you've finish second, does that diminish your you're worth? Yeah? 140 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:16.360 We have this, We have this question all the time 141 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:19.120 and our family because of U A basketball, right. I mean, 142 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:21.399 if we go out in the sweet sixteen, is that season? 143 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:23.800 Is that season of failure? If you won you know, 144 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:26.160 let's say you want a pre pre conference tournament, if 145 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:28.240 you won the conference, if we won the conference tournament 146 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:30.160 and you were ranked in the top ten all season 147 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:34.079 or top you know eight, to me, to me, as 148 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:35.759 you know, it's hard because you have to take a 149 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:38.120 step back of what the realistic outlook is. Sure for 150 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:40.000 that for that year, in that team, that for that year, 151 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:42.399 and for that team, that two thousand and one team, 152 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:44.439 do they walk away as failures? You ran into one 153 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:47.000 of the best college teams of all time in that 154 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:50.600 Duke team. I don't think that season's a failure. No, no, 155 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:53.120 it's not. But I think high expectations, like for me. 156 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.240 If you look back at that mather Arin team, right, 157 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:59.079 you had Terry Matharin. I mean that group is you're 158 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:01.759 looking at now, little Loco. I mean that's you have 159 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:04.240 four NBA guys off that team. But they weren't mature 160 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:06.279 enough and hadn't been haven't been there in the first 161 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:08.199 year coach, Yeah, first year coach. I think if you 162 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:10.240 go back, that's a to me, at least the Elite 163 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:11.439 should be an Elite eight team. 164 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:13.680 Yeah, you know, yeah, and then they were kind of 165 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:16.079 there until they weren't. Yeah, and they ran into a 166 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:17.879 pretty good Houston. Houston team was really good. They should 167 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:19.600 not have benified. I'm not sure why we're talking about this, 168 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:22.160 but I was thinking about the Dore Dame and all that. 169 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:25.800 But I like this discussion of of Arizona basket basketball. 170 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:26.600 The player night. 171 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:28.319 Oh. 172 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:30.639 I run into a guy I don't know, I don't know, five, six, 173 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:33.959 seven years ago, and we were talking about the failures, YadA, YadA, 174 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:36.160 and if you say no, but they want to pack 175 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:39.600 twelve title or packed title, packed title. They did very well. 176 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:41.879 They finished you know whatever, it was twenty two and whatever. 177 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:44.519 And I'm thinking, because the only I only say this 178 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:46.879 because you brought this up. Okay, So now that your 179 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:50.720 measurement is the PAC twelve title, are you talking about 180 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:53.720 Arizona basketball? They don't, they don't measure it by Pack 181 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:54.839 twelve titles. Yeah. 182 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:56.600 It goes back to the same conversation we had last time, 183 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:58.800 blue Blood, right, Yeah, you can't put yourself in a 184 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:01.079 blue Blood conversation. And if the last time you went 185 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:02.800 to the final four was two thousand and one, right, 186 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:04.759 I mean you have to be able to show that 187 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:08.319 consistency and march matters, that's all it matters. And if 188 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:11.399 you're comparing if it's an ACC or Big twelve title 189 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:15.000 every year, that's a different story and a PAC twelve 190 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:18.279 or PAC ten where you maybe have three teams ranked, Yeah, 191 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:20.000 it's not the same makeup. 192 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:22.759 Yeah yeah, And how are you going to convince that 193 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:23.920 you a fan about that? 194 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:27.120 You enjoy the ride, Steve, Right, You enjoy the ride, 195 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:30.120 You enjoy the winning piece of it, you enjoy the makeup. Now, 196 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:33.039 we talked about this last time as well. Now it's 197 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:34.720 a different fan base, right, The Big twelve is a 198 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:36.360 different fan base. Every place you go to play is 199 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:38.600 a mikhale, Right, So how are we going to differ 200 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:41.639 and share or differentialate ourselves from other teams and other 201 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:44.840 fan bases. And that's really the evolution that we need 202 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:46.320 to make at this point. 203 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:48.799 Right, And I get that because the quality of play 204 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:50.799 in the Big twelve is much different than it than 205 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:53.600 it was in the PA Pack ten Pack twelve. So 206 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:57.519 there's that, and it may be a while, maybe a 207 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:00.960 long while, before Arizona wins a Pack twelve regular season title. 208 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:02.840 Yeah, I mean with the Big twelve, I mean it's 209 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:05.320 gonna be tough. You've got so many things that need 210 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:06.960 to fall in place for that to happen. I mean 211 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:09.600 you're talking about what was it, five teams or preseason 212 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:11.919 ten y right, ranked in the top ten. I mean 213 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:15.320 you look at Kansas, l Houston, yeah, twelve, And I 214 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:17.080 mean you even look at teams that we just played. 215 00:09:17.159 --> 00:09:19.360 UCF is not a it's not a it's not a 216 00:09:19.399 --> 00:09:22.200 blowover team by any means. They're physical. They just beat somebody, 217 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:23.399 didn't they or they played well. 218 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:26.440 So I think they lost by two to Houston, Yeah, yeah, yeah, 219 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:30.519 and then West Virginia beats I would say, yeah, I 220 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:33.200 mean that's kind of how goofy this this season is 221 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:36.440 going to be, or has been, so far Arizona could 222 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:39.159 lose again tonight. I don't think they will. We're gonna, 223 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:41.480 in fact, we're gonna talk to Ryan Hanson at the 224 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:45.080 four seventeen hour about tonight's game and just you know, 225 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:46.960 ask him because he's close to it. Obviously he's been 226 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:49.360 close to it for a long time. Just what the 227 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:51.600 hell does he think is going on? Because I think 228 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:54.240 that's the question for seven straight games. I think you 229 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:57.399 were with me last week. We talked, Well, they hey, 230 00:09:57.440 --> 00:09:59.440 they found their way, right, they're good now, they're good again. 231 00:09:59.519 --> 00:09:59.679 Yeah. 232 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:02.360 And when I say they haven't played anybody, they haven't 233 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:04.759 played any of quality to kind of determine how good 234 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:08.559 you are. And then they lay the egg against Texas Tech. 235 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:13.960 All right, but that stuff happens. That stuff happens. I'm 236 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:17.240 gonna go Tan Gentle here. Uh, because you're a player 237 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:19.159 and your coach, I'm a believer of every game is 238 00:10:19.159 --> 00:10:22.039 a season. How you play that day is how important. 239 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.320 How you play the next day is important because yesterday 240 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:26.679 has nothing to It's like, really, the ball doesn't care 241 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:31.240 what happened yesterday in spinning right now it's gonna land 242 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:33.679 somewhere else. And did you feel that you have that 243 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:37.120 philosophy where Okay, you pitched one day, Jimmy pitched the 244 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:39.440 next day. Every game is a different season. 245 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:41.600 Yeah, I mean every five days, I got the ball 246 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:43.399 in my hand, right, and I had to perform every 247 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.639 five days, right, So I couldn't I couldn't think. And 248 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:48.840 relievers have a really difficult time. I don't say they 249 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:51.000 the most difficult time in sports. But you've got to 250 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:52.799 have a goldfish memory. You've got to get rid of 251 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:54.679 it in thirty seconds because you've got to reperform, and 252 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:56.679 if you don't, that's your career. And every time a 253 00:10:56.720 --> 00:10:59.080 coach writes a lineup, that's his job, and that's it. 254 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:01.399 We we tend to not realize that. We try to 255 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:03.440 put too many things into that. But every time a 256 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:05.440 coach writes a lineup, it's his job at the end 257 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:07.879 of the day. And every good team doesn't show up 258 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:11.000 to be good that day. You know, Notre Dame is 259 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:15.480 pretty good, but but enough that they weren't deserving. They 260 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:17.960 ran up against a pretty good Ohio State team. So 261 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:20.519 here's a good here's a good question. Who's the second? 262 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:23.399 In your mind, who's the second best football team this 263 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:25.200 year in college football? Was it Notre Dame. 264 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:30.080 Uh, good question. I would I would venture to guess 265 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:35.360 apples to apples, I would take Oregon probably, Yeah, I 266 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:35.799 would too. 267 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:38.039 I mean I just as soon as that matchup happened, 268 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:39.879 I said, there's no way Organs being on. No, No, 269 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:42.240 it's just a bad matchup, right, So that's what we 270 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:44.720 were just talking about. Like, it also comes down to matchups, sure, 271 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:47.720 a lot match ups. Time of they had already beaten 272 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:50.480 beaten them. That's tough to be the time team twice 273 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:52.919 they beat them at home, right the first time, that's 274 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:53.679 worth some points. 275 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:55.279 They beat him at the last second or the final 276 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:58.879 final score. Yeah, no, that would be my guests. Who's 277 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:02.080 the second best basketball at U of A. Oh no, 278 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.039 we can go into that too, but attend we have 279 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:09.200 we have about two minutes, two minutes, two a half minutes. Okay, cool, cool, 280 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:11.639 your second best team? Okay, let me ask you this 281 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:14.879 question first. So, what what's what's the best decade for 282 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:19.759 you of a basketball out of ninety Okay I didn't hesitate. Yeah, no, 283 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:25.399 I mean you're right, yeah, ninety four, ninety seven, ninety 284 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:27.039 eight they were even better than ninety seven. They just 285 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:30.440 layed an eight ninety nine. It was Jake and Terry's 286 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:34.320 senior year. They weren't that good. Ninety five, ninety six 287 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:36.200 to what to Sweet sixteen could have beat Kansas in 288 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:39.879 the final final moments, they didn't. Ninety three first round 289 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:41.159 lossninety two first one loss. 290 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:43.919 So you don't rank that Illinois loss up there. You 291 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:47.399 know they were up with three minutes. Yeah, you were 292 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:48.120 talking about loss. 293 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:51.799 Yeah, lost or team just that team and that loss 294 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:54.480 because that team was good team. Yeah, the team had 295 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:57.519 that team had some dysfunction on it, but they played 296 00:12:57.519 --> 00:13:02.120 really well in the tournament. Uh hasan loss the Salem 297 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:07.679 Channing McMillan. McMillan, McLellan was Iguodala on that team, Okay 298 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:13.080 left at Yeah, so yeah, yeah, no, no, no, this 299 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:15.879 is the second or third best team. Who's your second team. 300 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:18.159 I think that eighty eight team is probably myself, Yes, 301 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:20.279 I said in two thousand and one. I would change 302 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:22.559 my answer two thousand and one. I still think that 303 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:25.919 Gordon It's pretty solid, but I think that eighty eight 304 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:27.720 team was was really good. 305 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:28.120 See. 306 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:30.559 The funny thing is I don't disagree with I'm gonna 307 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:34.279 go two thousand and one. It's between ninety eight and 308 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:37.320 two thousand and eighty eight, because eighty eight and then 309 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:39.600 you're first born. Right now, you're first born. How do 310 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:41.399 you not love your firstborn? Go in the final four? 311 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:44.360 Good dudes. They had that mentality of let's kick the 312 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:46.960 crap out of teams. They had a good NBA career 313 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:50.000 for that team too, coming out of there. Uh so 314 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:51.879 you're Gordon, I didn't. I haven't even thought about maybe 315 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:55.559 fifth or sixth. Here's what, here's a here's a caveat, 316 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:58.200 here's the asterisk for me. I covered the team, but 317 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:01.679 we were never close to any of his team. To Miller, yeah, 318 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:03.120 but that's a conversation we had last time. 319 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:05.279 That's always it was always an you know, you're always 320 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:07.399 six feet apart from there, like you can never get close. 321 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:10.240 There was never a connection of community to team, and 322 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:11.759 I think that takes away from that. I think that's 323 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:14.559 where Lloyd's been so successful, as there's been some community. 324 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:17.080 There's been some community. Yeah, yeah, well because of him. 325 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:19.759 It's like it's like a Last Night's coach, the coach 326 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:23.039 from Freeman with Notre Dame. You may not like do 327 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:24.840 to day. A lot of people don't like Notre because 328 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:26.240 but you like them because of the coach. 329 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:28.159 Yeah, you love them because of the coach. Yeah, like 330 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:29.919 the Lions we talked about you love them because of 331 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:30.440 the coach. 332 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:32.399 Right right, And we'll talk about that pros because that 333 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:35.919 was a really funky Weekenducky weekend. Okay, let's go. We're 334 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:38.200 gonna talk to whom? Are we gonna talk to? 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