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Speaker 3: Good, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball
Speaker 3: here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and
Speaker 3: with me today is Mike Fader. You're doing it for forever.
Speaker 3: You've been here just as long as I have.
Speaker 4: But just means I'm old, right, eighty seven ish, I
Speaker 4: came in eighty nine, eighty nine.
Speaker 3: I got you by two years. But you're all over
Speaker 3: the map in this town, as you like it. You're
Speaker 3: one hundred years old and you're still out there doing
Speaker 3: your stuff. I am one hundred years old. You feel
Speaker 3: like you're twenty five. How's that leg of yours, foot
Speaker 3: of yours?
Speaker 2: Whatever?
Speaker 4: The well, I tore my achilles tenant, So going through
Speaker 4: the rehab done everything which is rehab is tough. Well
Speaker 4: it was in the beginning. It's now next week is
Speaker 4: probably my final week. I'm getting I'm graduating. That's it's
Speaker 4: like what three months, four months? It happened July fourth,
Speaker 4: so four months. So I've got I go three days
Speaker 4: a week to Body Central and it's you know, it's
Speaker 4: you know, as I sit here right now, I definitely
Speaker 4: feel it. You know when when you tear your achilles
Speaker 4: and they sew together to the tendance, that's probably not
Speaker 4: a good thing.
Speaker 3: I'm hurting already listening to it. But you're you're and
Speaker 3: you did it dirty. Can we see how you did it?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: I did it playing pick a ball and that's not
Speaker 4: it's not uncommon. Well, it's no. If you talk to
Speaker 4: the people in the emergency rooms and orthopedic doctors, there's
Speaker 4: a lot of pickleball injuries and can you.
Speaker 3: Could you have prevented it? I'm even by comparing to
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 4: I took a step and the other foot wouldn't go,
Speaker 4: so there wasn't an action that occurred. But I could
Speaker 4: have prevented it by stretching. Okay, that's what I mean.
Speaker 4: And you know, you know I played basketball, pick up
Speaker 4: basketball for what twenty thirty years, never stretched, just strapped
Speaker 4: it on and just went out and played.
Speaker 2: But with this this there's a lot of different.
Speaker 3: Moves movements, right, you wouldn't think that, right, The quick
Speaker 3: quick motion back and forth.
Speaker 4: Well that's where it is. The hurky jerky and you know,
Speaker 4: even tennis. Here it's more of a flow, you know basketball,
Speaker 4: you're not jerking. But could I have prevented it. Probably,
Speaker 4: But let's just say I'm officially retired after after what
Speaker 4: how many months? After playing maybe six seven times? Yeah, no,
Speaker 4: I get it. I'm sure you're having fun too. I
Speaker 4: actually did enjoy it, and it definitely was fun.
Speaker 3: Ready to get compete against Tommy Lloyd in the book.
Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't say that. No.
Speaker 3: Well, welcome to the show, mister Mike Vader. Mike Fader's
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Speaker 3: running the board to helping getting help from Kobe. Kobe
Speaker 3: will have some breaking news right to the top of the hour,
Speaker 3: and Mike and I will shoot the Yes's.
Speaker 4: Bill Belichick interviewing for a North Carolina job count is
Speaker 4: breaking news?
Speaker 2: Uh, it's broke news.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know, is he?
Speaker 4: I just can't see somebody at his age going back
Speaker 4: into college.
Speaker 2: How old is you?
Speaker 3: So did you guess what mister coach Brown was? No,
Speaker 3: I understand twenty four No, no, But but I've asked
Speaker 3: you this. I don't know. You want to stay old
Speaker 3: your dot you want to say old you are.
Speaker 2: I'm seventy two.
Speaker 3: I asked of the kids, asked of people, how old
Speaker 3: is old?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not sure it's the old, but it's the change.
Speaker 4: And you know, change all of a sudden. And if
Speaker 4: you coach an NFL team, not to make it selling,
Speaker 4: that's easy.
Speaker 2: Uh, you're just coaching, you.
Speaker 4: Know, you're not doing all the administrative stuff if you're
Speaker 4: if you're the coach of a college football team, now
Speaker 4: you're dealing with the nil, you're dealing with the transfer portal.
Speaker 4: There's going to be a new rule rule next year
Speaker 4: on money going to athletes. Uh.
Speaker 2: And you know players.
Speaker 4: I can remember reading what Nick Saban said and and
Speaker 4: he said I just couldn't take any more players, backup
Speaker 4: players walking into my office and saying how much money
Speaker 4: they're going to make?
Speaker 2: Right? You know, as opposed to why don't you earn
Speaker 2: your playing spot?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 4: Sure, and it's and I I just hate that world
Speaker 4: right now. You saw the Virginia coach Tony Bennet, because
Speaker 4: very successful, not an old coach.
Speaker 2: Sure sure.
Speaker 4: So it's you know, Brent Brennan, I'm sure we'll talk
Speaker 4: about you of a football he said, I mean the
Speaker 4: transfer portal is going to be huge on what they
Speaker 4: have to achieve because his comment was we need to
Speaker 4: get bigger and stronger.
Speaker 2: Sure, most of the teams we played, they were all
Speaker 2: bigger than we were.
Speaker 3: You've been at the u A football games for years now,
Speaker 3: doing your capacity right.
Speaker 4: You have a chance to watch every now and again.
Speaker 4: I oversee the Sands Club since they opened it. I
Speaker 4: try and sit down and watch games. But do I
Speaker 4: watch it carefully?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: I don't so. But you could.
Speaker 3: Gauge the compass, or you can gauge the weather of
Speaker 3: that room, the hoity tony crowd.
Speaker 2: I'll say it's one of the more expensive areas.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure you've heard the rumblings or the positive
Speaker 3: negatives blah blah blah. I'm sure you plenty positive last year.
Speaker 3: This year not so much. What did you hear?
Speaker 4: Well, you know people are disappointed. I mean, obviously they're disappointed.
Speaker 2: You know they you know.
Speaker 4: It's it's for us. The way they express it is
Speaker 4: they leave. You know, they might leave it halftime, they
Speaker 4: might leave in the third quarter. But we've also played
Speaker 4: some late games and that's not good for trying to
Speaker 4: get people to stay around, but for us in the
Speaker 4: Sands Club.
Speaker 2: It's the bar.
Speaker 4: You know, people people could drink and and and in
Speaker 4: a full bar. So it's it's it's as much social
Speaker 4: as it is anything. But obviously there's people complain. I mean,
Speaker 4: I have to listen to my son complaining. You know,
Speaker 4: I just said, you know what, you know, you don't
Speaker 4: fire coaches after one year. I'm sorry, you know, you
Speaker 4: got to. He came in in January last year, coach Brennan.
Speaker 4: He really didn't have a chance to build his own program,
Speaker 4: per se. I mean, he's grabbing transfer portals, getting Sandy
Speaker 4: State guys, uh and Santose State actually did pretty good
Speaker 4: under the former Navy coaches here. But it's it's a
Speaker 4: it's a tough business and and I think he is
Speaker 4: in the hot seat next year. Sure, but you know,
Speaker 4: I'm sure you know you cover this every day. You know,
Speaker 4: he made the choice that he's getting three new coordinators.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, I think Dino Baber's was just helping out.
Speaker 4: You know, he just wanted to try to, you know,
Speaker 4: to get in here and see what he could do
Speaker 4: to help. I'm glad that Dwayne and Kena is still
Speaker 4: going to stay in some capacity.
Speaker 2: I think with the secondary.
Speaker 4: I actually read one of the incoming recruits saying he
Speaker 4: changes his recruiting from Texas State to U of A
Speaker 4: because of coach a Keina. I saw that, you know,
Speaker 4: so I love I love a Quina's enthusiasm. You know,
Speaker 4: just watching how excited he is in the sideline. They
Speaker 4: respect the hell out of him. Yeah, so it'll be anxious.
Speaker 4: I mean, Brendan's got it. He's got to make moves.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't I personally, you know, I got
Speaker 4: tired of some people saying needed to get rid of them.
Speaker 2: They don't need to get rid.
Speaker 3: Of Well, here's the Mike Cuban in sports all this time,
Speaker 3: and I hear those things too. My problem with that
Speaker 3: is the people who are saying that aren't digging in
Speaker 3: their pockets to help nor to help pay the damn thing.
Speaker 3: You know they have. They have opinions, that's great, fine,
Speaker 3: but you fire the guy, Okay, help come up with
Speaker 3: the money to.
Speaker 2: Pay the game.
Speaker 4: Well, and our athletic department is not in a position
Speaker 4: at this point exactly to be paying off contracts. So
Speaker 4: it's you know, it's at least he stayed positive. I've
Speaker 4: enjoyed what I've read and heard over the last two days.
Speaker 4: Uh and and I'm glad a lot of the players
Speaker 4: have maintained their recruitment, that they're their commitment to come here.
Speaker 4: Some guys say they're coming in early in the spring,
Speaker 4: but the transfer portal opens next Monday, right.
Speaker 2: Uh so we'll say, I mean, it's so crazy.
Speaker 4: I was talking to somebody about this even earlier today.
Speaker 4: When you if you're a big time recruit and you're
Speaker 4: the second or third string guy on a good program, Oh,
Speaker 4: you got to get out of there. You know, I
Speaker 4: got to get out of it. That's what does that mean?
Speaker 4: I mean, earn your spot.
Speaker 3: That that's lingo was gone. It's been gone for a while, sadly. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: no question. I'm curious. And we'll get back to that.
Speaker 3: Because because Brennan had a press commerce on the on
Speaker 3: the Zoom call the day I was on it, I
Speaker 3: had a question, but I didn't ask it at the end.
Speaker 3: And then I'll say why, But to your point, what
Speaker 3: did you What does your son say, because that's the younger, younger,
Speaker 3: get rid of them crowd?
Speaker 4: Well, my son's forty two, uh and I know it's
Speaker 4: and he basically says, oh no, they're not doing whatever
Speaker 4: it does. And I said, Nate, you know it's not
Speaker 4: what you do. You know, you were not in a
Speaker 4: university that that we could just do be doing things
Speaker 4: like that. And then so when I'm talking to him,
Speaker 4: I talking to him about the positive things about you know,
Speaker 4: the recruiting. You know, he would send me messages from
Speaker 4: Twitter of what's going on. Well, no, about the good
Speaker 4: things you know about guys signing, you know, and guys
Speaker 4: you know being at the National you know the one
Speaker 4: and you know this a thousand times more than I do.
Speaker 4: I kind of laughed that the one quarterback hasn't signed yet. Well,
Speaker 4: the truth is we got two quarterbacks and the recruiting
Speaker 4: and I don't like that personally because and I know
Speaker 4: the guys fizzle out.
Speaker 2: You know, Dorman Ly's the backup quarterback.
Speaker 4: But I don't, you know whatever, the guy we got
Speaker 4: sounds like he's pretty good, the one, the one that signed, correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, the other guy's being chased now by the
Speaker 3: other schools.
Speaker 2: You know what I found interesting?
Speaker 4: And I'm old school, well and I'm old Uh what's
Speaker 4: your first name?
Speaker 2: Cody? Kobe?
Speaker 4: You know, I'm sure Kobe doesn't even read a newspaper.
Speaker 4: But you know, it was interesting yesterday to read hegh
Speaker 4: age weight and then to see what other people offered scholarships.
Speaker 4: Uh and and and we got some guys that were
Speaker 4: offered by some pretty big time schools.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know I left when we get the guys
Speaker 4: out of Phoenix and they were offered by Arizona State.
Speaker 4: You know when they say they were offered, does it
Speaker 4: really mean it was a sincere offer or or they
Speaker 4: were kicking that they were kicking the tiers.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, my guy Christy Brinkley was asking about me. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, I had a chance, you know, yeah, right,
Speaker 3: they say that they went.
Speaker 4: Actually thought you're really doing well, and when that was
Speaker 4: the case. But but you I know exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 4: Everybody has this. Well they you said, flipped uh from
Speaker 4: Texas State. Okay, well that's not Alabama, No, that's Texas State.
Speaker 4: But there was one guy and I remember his name,
Speaker 4: that was recruited by Alabama, Alabama, Florida State ASU. I'm
Speaker 4: at least glad to see that those goals.
Speaker 2: Are interested in players. Right.
Speaker 3: One of the things today on zoom he went about
Speaker 3: fourteen fifteen minutes and it's a zoom thing and the
Speaker 3: locals are asking the question. And he talked about changes, right,
Speaker 3: the changes you had just mentioned my whole thing. And
Speaker 3: I was gonna ask him and I didn't.
Speaker 2: Is okay.
Speaker 3: He said he was going to look in the mirror
Speaker 3: on Saturday after the game. He was, you know, very forced, right,
Speaker 3: very candid about his situation, which was very refreshing, and
Speaker 3: he said, I'm look at the mirror, you know, look
Speaker 3: at what it needs to be done. I wonder what
Speaker 3: the changes within it himself need to be done. And
Speaker 3: I say this because you've been around coaches all your life,
Speaker 3: right in your capacity, You've seen give me twenty twenty
Speaker 3: five coaches at the baseball.
Speaker 4: Level, managers all right, well, Pat Murphy, yeh, so.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you've seen these great ones of it, and
Speaker 3: some of them are are not good. You know, you
Speaker 3: could probably main right, if you had twenty five, you
Speaker 3: can give me five bad ones. But they're in that
Speaker 3: capacity where they're not good people people, Well you're not.
Speaker 4: You know, you got to own the locker room. You know,
Speaker 4: it's because you're building the chemistry. For me, that part
Speaker 4: of the game is sometimes just as close as physical
Speaker 4: talent on the field, no question, because no question that
Speaker 4: that determines approach.
Speaker 2: And how are you gonna do it? I mean do we?
Speaker 2: You and I you probably more than me. You know.
Speaker 4: I read somebody complaining, well, the weight program wasn't as
Speaker 4: good as it was the year before.
Speaker 3: Somebody credible. No, okay, just some guys. You've got heard that.
Speaker 4: Well, that's just well, somebody's knew somebody whose son played
Speaker 4: on the team's cans with my wife. My wife reads
Speaker 4: all those stupid comments, and you know, and I said,
Speaker 4: these people they're not credible. They're people who are cowards
Speaker 4: and they want to put there with a crazy name,
Speaker 4: and they're not going to even identify themselves as meaningful
Speaker 4: very much. That's what I hate about society right now
Speaker 4: in sports. I mean, I'd hate to be in your
Speaker 4: business right now, because there's too many experts, too many
Speaker 4: people write blogs that shouldn't be writing blogs.
Speaker 2: I mean, even the other.
Speaker 4: Day, I mean the Fafita thing, I mean, who got
Speaker 4: that one started that he's leaving.
Speaker 3: One of the guys. Yeah, I kind of believed it
Speaker 3: because another source kind of repurposed that and it and
Speaker 3: people are still hanging on to that that could be
Speaker 3: very well true.
Speaker 4: Well my son, my son obviously shares Oh my god,
Speaker 4: Forfita is leaving, don't believe it. And then the local
Speaker 4: the people you know who post talk to Fefita's dad
Speaker 4: and they said and they said, oh, Fefeite is in
Speaker 4: the building working out right now.
Speaker 2: So where's he going.
Speaker 4: So I think if you keep a Fafita just like
Speaker 4: you did last year, he keeps a lot of the nucleus,
Speaker 4: you know, that Polynesian culture the West Coast. I think
Speaker 4: it is an important oh, no question to keep him.
Speaker 4: And talked about it, and I think is probably disappointed
Speaker 4: with the year he had.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well, no question. He was to get better.
Speaker 3: He'll have to get better. Well offensive line didn't help him, No, no,
Speaker 3: And then you talk about owning the locker room. I
Speaker 3: think part of that was he's new, right, Brendan's new.
Speaker 3: They're not his guys, right, they he has to prove
Speaker 3: it to them. At the same time realizing maybe he
Speaker 3: isn't that he's not jed.
Speaker 2: He's not jed.
Speaker 3: You've seen it. You've seen these things work wore. You
Speaker 3: have good talent, but they don't play well because of
Speaker 3: whatever reason, he didn't win the.
Speaker 2: Locker room or what it? Right? Well, even jed, what
Speaker 2: was there? What was Washington's record?
Speaker 7: Five?
Speaker 2: Six and five?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I thought it was one game over?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you know what that team was in the
Speaker 4: National Championship game last year?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: They to his six and six. Okay, so to his
Speaker 3: credit or whatever. Uh, they lost a lot too. They
Speaker 3: lost a lot too. And it's tough coming in as
Speaker 3: the first year, without question, and that's what the situation
Speaker 3: was here.
Speaker 2: My whole thing look at as how you can build
Speaker 2: two years? Yeah right, well you could.
Speaker 3: You can have the fanciest cars and all that stuff,
Speaker 3: but if you can't get from pointing to point, what's
Speaker 3: what's the point? He did in two years? And maybe
Speaker 3: he too struck lighting a bottle. We'll see.
Speaker 4: If I'm just Joe fan, and and I'm saying to
Speaker 4: myself last year, how do you bring in a guy
Speaker 4: that young and Kemy Dillingham?
Speaker 3: What does he do? Well, he's proved me wrong this year. Right, Well,
Speaker 3: let me tell you, and you may or may not
Speaker 3: agree with me. To me, he's Josh Pastor. He's Josh
Speaker 3: passionate to the t. Just the enthusiasm, the things he says. Uh,
Speaker 3: obviously the kids want to play for him or play
Speaker 3: hard for him, But is that sustainable.
Speaker 4: That's the whole world, that is anything sustainable nowadays?
Speaker 3: And that's my point.
Speaker 4: You know, I I don't know if we're in a
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Speaker 4: to be the same as it was ten years ago,
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the etsys and ohs. This is I
Speaker 1: On the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Why in the Ball Hero Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera. In today with me
Speaker 3: is Mike Vader. And now when the phone we have
Speaker 3: Brad Alice, Brad, how are you?
Speaker 2: Can you hear me? Brad? Yes, Brad? Can you hear me? Brad?
Speaker 2: Can you hear me? Technology?
Speaker 3: He got off, He's no, That's why I'll have to
Speaker 3: call him back.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what See, that's what it is. When you
Speaker 3: couldn't hear, you could hear. But we'll ask Brad about
Speaker 3: what things going on. He's kind of in tune with
Speaker 3: what's going on with the with the football program in
Speaker 3: terms of recruiting and all that that. With this with
Speaker 3: his podcast, I'll have him call us actually.
Speaker 4: Uh And if I could just preface what I was
Speaker 4: saying before, it was just as a fan, I mean,
Speaker 4: there was It's not like Steve, oh yes, being on
Speaker 4: the inside and then being on the press conferences, I
Speaker 4: was just kind of just giving out servations of what
Speaker 4: I saw. So like Brad and Steve and people like that, Uh,
Speaker 4: they really know the insight as opposed to me just
Speaker 4: being on the on the end. Well, for me, when
Speaker 4: I was asking you, I was more of what you've
Speaker 4: seen with writers and people.
Speaker 3: Your Brad, can you hear me? Okay? Great, thanks for
Speaker 3: coming back, mister Brad Alice. Good to hear from you.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you're keeping up with what's going on with
Speaker 3: the football and basketball programs. Where do you want to start?
Speaker 3: How about now? Can you hear me?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I can hear you. I'm not sure why you can't
Speaker 3: be Okay, let's talk.
Speaker 4: Maybe we can see you can't hear me, Guys know
Speaker 4: I can't hear I can hear you.
Speaker 3: Fine, Okay, I just heard them. Okay, good, okay, So
Speaker 3: where do you want to go first? Let's go basketball first,
Speaker 3: then le's talk football. What what do you see in
Speaker 3: this program that we've seen for a long time? Well,
Speaker 3: I have my two two key misses. What do you
Speaker 3: see that's missing?
Speaker 6: First and foremost there the primer defense is really bad,
Speaker 6: and that's been one of the few criticisms I've had
Speaker 6: for Tommy Lloyd over the past few seasons is their
Speaker 6: ability to you know, they're constant switching, their ability to
Speaker 6: fight under screens which these guys open.
Speaker 7: And the problem is, even if you would just and tighten.
Speaker 6: That up, if a guy gets hot early, he stay easily,
Speaker 6: stays hot, he builds that confidence and then he starts
Speaker 6: taking logo threes and things like that. Secondly, I think
Speaker 6: there's just a couple of guys who don't look like
Speaker 6: they're any better this year.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, some of that to understandable.
Speaker 6: Crevious is hurt for a long time. He's still probably
Speaker 6: not one hundred percent, but you know, you've seen some
Speaker 6: other guys. kJ Lewis doesn't look vastly improved. Caleb Love
Speaker 6: has actually regressed from where he was for most of
Speaker 6: the year when he was a PAC twelve Player of
Speaker 6: the Year, So that's a concern to me.
Speaker 7: The only guy who.
Speaker 6: Really looks noticeably better who was with the program last
Speaker 6: year is Jaden Bradley. Yeah, and then his defense hasn't
Speaker 6: been quite as good.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, No, I agree with every point you're making.
Speaker 3: My two things is when you mentioned originally or the
Speaker 3: first one was the defense on the perimeters, absolutely horrible.
Speaker 3: Teams are killing them on the perimeter, and even when
Speaker 3: they try to get back, the other teams are getting
Speaker 3: back better than they get back, which you know is
Speaker 3: rarely happens in the years that we covered him, right
Speaker 3: for a number of years. That and two, this team
Speaker 3: hasn't been able to go in transition. They don't score
Speaker 3: very many transition points. And since you were a kid
Speaker 3: and I was covering them, what was the signature for loot?
Speaker 3: Get out and score eighteen to twenty four points in transition?
Speaker 3: Blow away the teams and let's let's see they can
Speaker 3: make a comeback. And that's not the case now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, when you can't score in transition, you can't force
Speaker 6: those turnovers.
Speaker 7: And again you know Sean, Sean didn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah he might steals right, played.
Speaker 7: For shot clock, but you can't get on the runs
Speaker 7: of death.
Speaker 6: You can't get on those big runs because those are
Speaker 6: typically you know, everyone talks about what great offensive players
Speaker 6: were at the U of an that's two, but how
Speaker 6: many steals did Damon have that led the fast break points?
Speaker 6: Gilbert or Renis? I mean, that's how he got hurt
Speaker 6: in the one final four was the steal at the
Speaker 6: top of the key. You know, that's how Arizona basketball
Speaker 6: has been when it's been at its best, is using
Speaker 6: defense to offense, and this team just hasn't.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: They don't seem to get that key rebound with the
Speaker 6: outlet pass, they don't get the steel at the top
Speaker 6: of the key, they don't get that.
Speaker 7: Block shot that leads to a transition.
Speaker 6: And yeah, Arizona tends to have always been a transit
Speaker 6: even under Sewan when they did go on transition, they
Speaker 6: were very effective and they build up those big runs, right,
Speaker 6: But yeah, that just hasn't been happening with this group.
Speaker 2: Is it something?
Speaker 3: Well, here's here's my issue with when people ask Bill
Speaker 3: about that, and I say that's my number one issue. Okay,
Speaker 3: so it's brass playing me and that's what I do. Well,
Speaker 3: guess what Brad's gonna do prevent that from happening. Right,
Speaker 3: So I need to ship the ball better from the perimeter.
Speaker 3: I got to be better on defense. So it sounds easy,
Speaker 3: but is it fixable?
Speaker 7: So that's what my question is. They're I mentally talented.
Speaker 6: My fear is that they are built like a Steve
Speaker 6: Alford and even to a lesson TOI a Sean Miller
Speaker 6: team where I used to joke that they were like
Speaker 6: getting baseball cards. Got it, got it, needed, got it?
Speaker 6: You try to get all the good cards. Well, who
Speaker 6: cares if they fit together? And my worry is this
Speaker 6: team doesn't fit together. Wow, whether you don't have you
Speaker 6: don't have a Pella Larson, who's a blue guy?
Speaker 7: You know, can Caleb kJ and Bradley play?
Speaker 6: And last year they did play together, so they should
Speaker 6: be able to. But you know it is previous just
Speaker 6: not the right guy is a walk on his towns
Speaker 6: and not the right guy. And that's my fear is
Speaker 6: because we know they're all individually talented, but you know what,
Speaker 6: so are some of those Sean Miller teams. I mean,
Speaker 6: the team that missed the tournament has I think seven guys,
Speaker 6: eight guys who were playing pro basketball somewhere, whether it's
Speaker 6: G League, NBA. Sometimes teams just don't fit together, and
Speaker 6: that's my fear with this one. That being said, there's
Speaker 6: enough talent and Tommy Lloyd's a good coach, if not
Speaker 6: a great coach, so I think they will get better,
Speaker 6: but whether they can be the team that we you know,
Speaker 6: is going to be a top four in the Big twelve,
Speaker 6: which means you're top ten in the nation.
Speaker 7: I'm not sure because.
Speaker 3: They're certainly not that now, but but they have.
Speaker 6: That individual ability. It's can they get them together? And
Speaker 6: that leads to my other questions. How important was coach boy?
Speaker 6: Who was your player development coach? Now you've brought in
Speaker 6: a much younger coach, a good recruiting coach, but you know,
Speaker 6: do you you know you don't necessarily have maybe the
Speaker 6: coach who can mold them together. You know, Luke always
Speaker 6: had guys who each had a specific role as an assistant,
Speaker 6: you know, and and you know the attention to detail
Speaker 6: was always ross the you know, the hard school put
Speaker 6: sometimes scold you like an uncle, put the arm around you.
Speaker 5: With Rodney, you know.
Speaker 7: So each guy had his.
Speaker 6: Role and maybe you're missing what coach Foy brought to
Speaker 6: the to the table, which was player development and maybe
Speaker 6: some exces and that stuff we don't see now.
Speaker 3: Sure you're you're not getting the same excitement on the
Speaker 3: sidelines too, the bench because of the coach, because they
Speaker 3: were they would get after it on the side. In fact,
Speaker 3: you talk about glue guy, what about lead guy. There's
Speaker 3: no captain, there's no leader.
Speaker 6: What should be Caleb Lover, Jaydon Bradley And I'm not
Speaker 6: sure yeat either guy has quite betten that guy.
Speaker 7: So yeah, that is that is a concern.
Speaker 6: But they were you know, Love was the leader last
Speaker 6: year and that was a very good basketball team who
Speaker 6: had a bad night against Clemsons.
Speaker 3: Was was he a leader or leader by via default?
Speaker 3: Because he scored like he scored?
Speaker 7: You know, you might be right, we maybe find it.
Speaker 6: Maybe maybe it was Cayla uh Pela Larson and Kashaw
Speaker 6: Johnson maybe as you know, two guys in there or
Speaker 6: early twenties that they were the leaders of this team.
Speaker 6: And Caleb was just the really good player who wasn't
Speaker 6: necessarily the leader.
Speaker 7: And maybe that's what we're saying as well.
Speaker 3: And then your point, and then if he doesn't score
Speaker 3: what he scores or plays like he does, he loses
Speaker 3: some magic, right, we think of him differently. We already
Speaker 3: are because he hasn't had that magic. You I think
Speaker 3: you talked about this on the air. He's not the
Speaker 3: same player, no.
Speaker 6: And he's not getting the line you know a lot
Speaker 6: of times last year with the change in his game
Speaker 6: was if he can't shoot his way to a win,
Speaker 6: he'll he'll drive you.
Speaker 7: He'll get those big free throws.
Speaker 6: The other night he had no free throws, he had.
Speaker 7: No drives to the hoop that led the contact and
Speaker 7: led to those cheap points because he's a great powl shooter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's strange. This team is uh and so
Speaker 3: how much of it.
Speaker 7: Is on Tommy At the end of the day, it
Speaker 7: is on Tommy because it's his team.
Speaker 6: He put it together, he put the roster together, he
Speaker 6: hired to replace them coaches, and his job to coach
Speaker 6: them out of this funk. And he's certainly capable, or
Speaker 6: I think he is again, because it's not like he's
Speaker 6: working with a lack of talent.
Speaker 7: It's chemistry, it's fine tuning.
Speaker 6: So but whether getting him out of the funk means
Speaker 6: they're a nine seed or they're a three seed, I
Speaker 6: don't know.
Speaker 7: And this is going to be one of the great
Speaker 7: challenges of his career.
Speaker 6: We're gonna learn a lot about Tommy Lloyd this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hey, Brad, Mike Vader, just crazy question for you,
Speaker 4: Wesar Henry Vasar is he going to contribute this year?
Speaker 6: I think what we've seen from him is what you're
Speaker 6: gonna get from And he'll have some games where he
Speaker 6: can give you seven or eight and there's other games
Speaker 6: where he won't barely get off the bench. He is
Speaker 6: clearly the fourth big. I think he's better than a
Speaker 6: lot of people thought he was last year when he
Speaker 6: didn't play it and he was kind of out of side,
Speaker 6: out of mind. But I don't think he's ever going
Speaker 6: to be that guy. Maybe they hoped he could be,
Speaker 6: because there are some people we're talking about him being
Speaker 6: a fringe for NBA prospect when he came out of Europe.
Speaker 7: And he's not that guy.
Speaker 6: Is he a guy who can contribute on a good night, Yes,
Speaker 6: but they're also gonna be matchup Nightmare and Knights where
Speaker 6: he won't He won't see more than one or two
Speaker 6: minutes on the floor.
Speaker 7: So I think he is what he is, and that's.
Speaker 2: A role player.
Speaker 3: So that's funny because I still have my hope for him,
Speaker 3: but I've been zero for one of my predictions with
Speaker 3: because I had the kid who went to Borvichin and
Speaker 3: who went to New Mexico. I thought last year he'd
Speaker 3: be great.
Speaker 2: He will.
Speaker 3: He didn't play much and vsar who could who could
Speaker 3: stretch the floor, He can hit three pointers. He just
Speaker 3: hasn't been able to do that or just hasn't been
Speaker 3: doing it. But you're right, he is like the third
Speaker 3: or fourth big coming off.
Speaker 2: He could.
Speaker 3: He can create some matchups for the other team. He
Speaker 3: just hasn't been able to do that. You talked about it.
Speaker 6: He'll have his moments, but I don't think he's a
Speaker 6: consistent enough presence this year at least where we'll say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 6: Henry Besa, that was the sleeper, you know, that was
Speaker 6: when they put him in the lineup that turned everything around.
Speaker 6: I don't think he's that guy.
Speaker 3: So if Arizona, here's my question. If Arizona is to
Speaker 3: succeed to whatever degree success means to you, what needs
Speaker 3: to happen The one thing.
Speaker 6: Honestly, I think it's Caleb Love becoming an All Big
Speaker 6: twelve caliber player. Yeah, be a guy who is playing
Speaker 6: like an All American.
Speaker 7: Whether he you know, he makes the America team.
Speaker 2: NOPs, we're done.
Speaker 6: But he needs to be a guy who four out
Speaker 6: of five games is scoring you know, fifteen to seventeen points.
Speaker 7: He can't disappear in big games. You know, if he If.
Speaker 6: You're at TCU one night and he gets you eight
Speaker 6: and three rebounds, that's fine because you've got enough guys
Speaker 6: who are.
Speaker 7: Going to torch team.
Speaker 6: But when they play Kansas, when they play Iowa State,
Speaker 6: he's got to be the guy. You got to be
Speaker 6: one of the best two or three players on the court.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: Again, I'm speaking as a fan as opposed to you
Speaker 4: two guys, you know, both being involved. I think the
Speaker 4: most important thing this year is we have to get
Speaker 4: back to protecting the home court.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I think if you watched last night's Kansas game against Creighton,
Speaker 4: create led almost the entire game, and oh, by the way,
Speaker 4: Kansas was the number one team in the country. I
Speaker 4: if we get back to and we almost need the
Speaker 4: crowd to inspire us and get that fireback and the
Speaker 4: guys like you guys have been talking about, but we
Speaker 4: can't not play well at home if we're going to
Speaker 4: do anything in the Big Twelve this year.
Speaker 7: No, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 6: If they if they win every game we're all but
Speaker 6: one at home and go five hundred on the road,
Speaker 6: they're challenging for the league titles. And that's how I mean,
Speaker 6: You're not going to have a one or two lost
Speaker 6: team in the Big Twelve winning it. This isn't You're
Speaker 6: gonna have three four losses. It's just a meat grinder
Speaker 6: of a league.
Speaker 7: But yeah, whoever.
Speaker 6: Protects their home court the best and sneaks out a
Speaker 6: few key wins on the road, there's gonna be the
Speaker 6: team that wins this league. So you're absolutely right. If
Speaker 6: if they make Michale the place it is usually, and
Speaker 6: that's one of the toughest places to play in the country,
Speaker 6: the Arizona is going to be in very good shape.
Speaker 6: If they drop two, three four games at home this year.
Speaker 6: I don't think they're talented enough or good enough, and
Speaker 6: the league's too good to make too many of those
Speaker 6: up on the road. If you're five hundred on the road,
Speaker 6: that's excellent in the Big Twelve this year.
Speaker 3: So let's uh, let's kind of maybe transition to football. Brennan,
Speaker 3: how does you know zoom press conference today? What did
Speaker 3: you make of his his changes on the on the
Speaker 3: on the coaching situation, and some of the kids that
Speaker 3: he's bringing in.
Speaker 6: You know, overall, I think the class is solid. It's
Speaker 6: it's it's not a great class. It doesn't have that
Speaker 6: four star, five star talent, but it's not. You weren't
Speaker 6: beating out bad teams for for for for players, and
Speaker 6: when you did, they were intangible players. You know the
Speaker 6: kid they just got the commitment from yesterday or the
Speaker 6: day before.
Speaker 7: I think it's case in Brown.
Speaker 6: He's a six four safety. So if you're rolling the
Speaker 6: dice on a six four safety, okay, this isn't like
Speaker 6: rolling the dice on a five six wide receiver like
Speaker 6: rich Rod used to. You know, So they brought in
Speaker 6: the I think he's six seven, three forty lineman. Okay,
Speaker 6: I'll roll the dice on that. I don't care if
Speaker 6: he's from New Zealand or you know, New England or
Speaker 6: you know whatever. Let's let's take roll the dice on that,
Speaker 6: especially in this day age of more scholarships. The big
Speaker 6: thing to me is I'm a little surprised they're not
Speaker 6: making more changes to the staff, because I am not
Speaker 6: a blame the coach guy. But I will tell you
Speaker 6: I thought this was one of the worst designed offenses
Speaker 6: I have ever seen.
Speaker 7: Because I can't tell you what it is. Was it
Speaker 7: pro style, was it I don't know.
Speaker 6: All I know you have a five to eight quarterback.
Speaker 6: You were dropping back twenty yards and then throwing over
Speaker 6: the top of the line. You know you need to
Speaker 6: play him, you know, Steve you Ewan, I'm sure Michael Mrcoo,
Speaker 6: he Smith roll him out, slide that protection.
Speaker 7: Get you know, get even.
Speaker 6: What they did when when Sunny was here with the
Speaker 6: two and yard splits between the linemens, you can throw
Speaker 6: between them with a shorter quarterback.
Speaker 7: I am couldn't see.
Speaker 2: The field much this year.
Speaker 6: No, And I don't mind that because you've real didn't
Speaker 6: have anyone behind him.
Speaker 13: Right, but you need to you just you know, it
Speaker 13: was a lot like what.
Speaker 6: We saw from Khalil Tate when collel Tate was in
Speaker 6: the pocket. He couldn't see the middle of the field
Speaker 6: and couldn't read the middle I think for feet at
Speaker 6: times physically could not see those passes five to fifteen
Speaker 6: yards downfield because of the traffic.
Speaker 7: In front of him.
Speaker 3: And it's well the year before he did and if
Speaker 3: he didn't see it this year, what makes them next year?
Speaker 6: How many times though, was he booted out? How many
Speaker 6: times did he have those quick throws to the perimeter
Speaker 6: under jetfish? How many times? You know there's some subtle
Speaker 6: things that I didn't see flighting protections.
Speaker 3: So here's here's here's a point. Then, Okay, you saw it.
Speaker 2: I saw it.
Speaker 3: We all saw it, except for the coaching staff. He
Speaker 3: didn't see it.
Speaker 7: And that's my biggert.
Speaker 6: There are things Brennan was talking about in week eight
Speaker 6: that I mentioned in week two, and that to me
Speaker 6: is the big concern because again, I'm not going to
Speaker 6: pretend I know as much as coaches. You know, I
Speaker 6: haven't coached the football game since two thousand and one
Speaker 6: at TROYA High School.
Speaker 7: When you know teams.
Speaker 6: Did not we're still running the veer. But there are
Speaker 6: simple things that I'm saying, and that's what I cannot
Speaker 6: fathom that was allowed to.
Speaker 7: Continue this year.
Speaker 6: And so that's why when you're only maybe changing one
Speaker 6: or two offensive coaches, I'm a little concerned. Now, maybe
Speaker 6: it's all comes down to Baber's in Atkins design of
Speaker 6: the offense, and it can all be solved with the
Speaker 6: new offensive coordinator. Great, but I've got I've got concerns.
Speaker 6: I've got some concerns about the strength and conditioning because
Speaker 6: there were a lot of injuries that that staff is
Speaker 6: you know, returning intact One of the things I didn't
Speaker 6: have a problem with was defensive scheme. I just thought
Speaker 6: they didn't have enough bodies. And apparently, you know, they're gonna,
Speaker 6: you know, move guys around on the defense. McKeen is
Speaker 6: gonna coach DB's in some capacity. Who knows who's gonna
Speaker 6: wind up as the DC. There's some speculation Danny Gonzalez
Speaker 6: may get that promotion. If not, they'll bring someone else in.
Speaker 6: But to me, that to me, it comes down to
Speaker 6: offense and health of this football team, and I'm not
Speaker 6: sure they addressed enough.
Speaker 7: Of that yet.
Speaker 4: Speaking of that, Bratt is our best recruiting advantage going
Speaker 4: to be getting our injured guys back healthy. I mean,
Speaker 4: when you lose captains on defense to season long injuries,
Speaker 4: I mean you got to you got to maintain that
Speaker 4: those guys are going to return. But all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: our secondary was unbelievable the start of the year.
Speaker 2: It wasn't at the end of the year.
Speaker 4: We were playing guys that that were just incoming freshmen
Speaker 4: and transfers and and and I think ultimately excuses. People
Speaker 4: always have excuses for injuries, but they're real, and you know,
Speaker 4: when you lose your starting middle linebacker Manu. Uh, that's it.
Speaker 4: That's a big difference. And and what do you get
Speaker 4: hurt celebrating or something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a fluke injury. But yeah, when you lose,
Speaker 6: you're getting back in theory, assuming they don't transfer, and
Speaker 6: we never know, Jacob Banu, Gunner, Maldonado, Trendon Stokes. That's
Speaker 6: three impact guys you can put in. And I'm assuming
Speaker 6: Tacario Davis is own pro, but you should get Genesis
Speaker 6: Smith back.
Speaker 7: I know they've made them a priority.
Speaker 6: With the nil that's you know, a couple of the
Speaker 6: other guys keenerally looked solid. That's you're instantly bolstering your back,
Speaker 6: your back six, your back seven with Manu. So yeah,
Speaker 6: so that's gonna help imntally. You're right, Yeah, that the
Speaker 6: some of the most important recruits are getting those guys
Speaker 6: off injured. And if you can get some of those
Speaker 6: offensive line men healthier who were in and out of
Speaker 6: the lineup all year, that's gonna help. Because I was
Speaker 6: all at the beginning here, I thought the offensive line
Speaker 6: was the big question mark, and then they got decimated
Speaker 6: with injuries, and you know, the a couple guys who
Speaker 6: had the temporarily leave football. One of them, Laif Magnuson
Speaker 6: not gonna play again because of some health things with
Speaker 6: I think concussions. You know, whether they get Polito back
Speaker 6: or not, I have no idea, but losing those guys
Speaker 6: on top of you know, losing Jordan Morgan to the
Speaker 6: Pro is really decimating and already thin offensive line.
Speaker 3: Well, Brad, I appreciate you. Where can we find your stuff?
Speaker 7: You know, right now it's mostly on Twitter at WSR.
Speaker 2: Brad.
Speaker 7: I'm hoping to get the podcast up and running again.
Speaker 6: Just been you know, dealing with coach in Little League
Speaker 6: and life stuff and some work stuff that's been kicking
Speaker 6: my butt.
Speaker 7: But hopefully we'll start.
Speaker 6: Going back with the podcast a couple of times a
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Speaker 3: Well, Brent, thanks for coming on the show today. Appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Daytime. Good talk to you again too, Mike.
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Speaker 3: We got about twelve minutes, we went well, we got
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Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: I want to ask you, so I know you went
Speaker 3: to coach. You weren't the manager. You've done this for forever.
Speaker 3: You could probably tell. You could probably tell just in
Speaker 3: your walking around observation stuff the good teams for the
Speaker 3: bad teams, and how much of that chemistry we talked
Speaker 3: about you talked about is important, if not always important,
Speaker 3: even in baseball.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, I ran minor league teams for thirty years, and
Speaker 4: I will always tell you not the most talented team one.
Speaker 2: Uh, it's it's one. It was with Pat Murphy.
Speaker 4: Uh. You know, I and I call the guys, you know,
Speaker 4: the the grunts. You know, the guys will do the
Speaker 4: extra things on the field. And baseball's a little different,
Speaker 4: you know, moving runners, uh, taking extra base, taking more
Speaker 4: pitches to get pictures deep in pitch and pitch counts,
Speaker 4: doing things like that. But sometimes and it's it is
Speaker 4: really different than the minor leagues because the players have
Speaker 4: an eye on what's above them and and you.
Speaker 2: Know and what I mean there. So we were triple A.
Speaker 4: You know, if somebody had a hangnail in the big leagues,
Speaker 4: the guy in Triple A probably knew. Uh, you know,
Speaker 4: if if you had a sore arm, whatever it was.
Speaker 4: But you can't have the im guys, Uh, if you
Speaker 4: want to win, if you want to win, it's got
Speaker 4: to be we and that pertains the college sports and
Speaker 4: it pertains to the NFL. I mean I could tell, uh,
Speaker 4: guys who are cancer, Uh watch their interaction and you
Speaker 4: see this. You know, if if you see, you know,
Speaker 4: who's the guy who when something's going wrong, who's getting
Speaker 4: in the huddle and the coaches isn't there, who's getting
Speaker 4: who's jacking people up?
Speaker 2: I think that's important to see.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, just there are guys that and Brad
Speaker 4: mentioned it a little, you know, about leadership and who's
Speaker 4: gonna step up. And in baseball it was easy for
Speaker 4: me to see because we played one hundred and forty
Speaker 4: four games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got to call hello, you're on the aaron
Speaker 3: I on the ball.
Speaker 2: Who's this?
Speaker 5: Hey, duds? Shall how you doing?
Speaker 3: Hey? John good Goods? What do you have on your mind?
Speaker 5: So, you know, it's interesting. I was listening to Brad
Speaker 5: talk and you know, if you're asking what the team
Speaker 5: is missing or what what has to happen for them
Speaker 5: to be successful this year? To me, it's getting stopped.
Speaker 5: When you talk about, you know, our basketball team, it's
Speaker 5: can we actually get consecutive stops? You know, because there's
Speaker 5: gonna be nice where we shoot it really poorly. And
Speaker 5: there's the other teams that we're gonna be playing. Are
Speaker 5: gonna be physically tough and defensive minded teams like Iowa State,
Speaker 5: you know, and if you can play you know the
Speaker 5: one I think not Shawn Milliers teams, as tough as
Speaker 5: they were to watch, you were never out of a
Speaker 5: game because they could get four or five or six
Speaker 5: stops in a row and you might win a game
Speaker 5: fifty five, forty six or you know, sixty two to
Speaker 5: fifty one. And if this team has a poor shooting knight,
Speaker 5: can they get the stops you know, to sustain a
Speaker 5: bad shooting night and still have a chance to win
Speaker 5: a game?
Speaker 3: To me, well, they're zero for four of that category.
Speaker 5: But you know, I feel like the makeup of this
Speaker 5: team actually is more suited to progress and get better
Speaker 5: and do those things. You know, we do have bigger,
Speaker 5: stronger guards. Can we actually cohesively come together and get
Speaker 5: those stops?
Speaker 3: Does you know, does the does the schedule, I mean
Speaker 3: not Saturday Saturday Saturday withstanding, does the schedule scare you
Speaker 3: with that?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 3: Because you've seen them face what three or four quality
Speaker 3: teams and lose those quality games.
Speaker 5: You know no, I mean, yeah, yes and no. The
Speaker 5: schedule is what it is. But we are still a
Speaker 5: really quality basketball team, and you know we should be
Speaker 5: able to compete in those games. But you know, I
Speaker 5: watched the Baylor player the other day literally just almost
Speaker 5: bulldoze his way in. You know, I'm getting caught our travel,
Speaker 5: But can our guys physically stand up to that and
Speaker 5: not just get pushed around? You know, the biggest thing
Speaker 5: I've noticed with this team is we don't box out
Speaker 5: very well. And to me, that's something that's coachable, but
Speaker 5: that's also something that's problematic. You know, if we're boxing
Speaker 5: the guys out, the ball can almost drop on the
Speaker 5: ground if five guys are collectively boxing out. But if
Speaker 5: guys are standing there these teams that we're gonna be playing,
Speaker 5: they go get the ball. Houston goes and gets the ball.
Speaker 5: And so to me, it's defense and rebounding and boxing out.
Speaker 5: Those are gonna be the keys. If we can do that,
Speaker 5: then yeah, we're tough to stop on offense. But if
Speaker 5: we don't, then yeah, the schedule does scare me.
Speaker 3: So, John, I followed the team for thirty five years.
Speaker 3: You've watched it obviously being here and being a big
Speaker 3: fan for a long time. How many times have you
Speaker 3: seen an Arizona team be physically physically good? I can
Speaker 3: tell you maybe one maybe.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean that's yeah, that's yeah, you know, I
Speaker 5: mean a lot of Sean Millers teams were pretty were
Speaker 5: that way. We're built a little bit that way, you know,
Speaker 5: the Rendee teams with Aaron Gordon, I thought, you know,
Speaker 5: Kevin Parum, they didn't give up a lot of easy
Speaker 5: buckets at the RAM. You know, but back in the
Speaker 5: day we had rim protection and you know, rim protection
Speaker 5: does a lot of things to protect weaknesses, and it
Speaker 5: allows Damon to go play the passing lanes when you
Speaker 5: got somebody that can you know, can turn a shot back,
Speaker 5: and like, you know, it's interesting, man. I mean I
Speaker 5: watched our teams be really great in November for forty years, right,
Speaker 5: And so maybe this dynamic where we just have to
Speaker 5: grind down a season get a little bit better as
Speaker 5: the year goes on, maybe it's a recipe to actually
Speaker 5: be good. Come to you know, come with the time count.
Speaker 3: Don't make sure, don't wait to call me in March,
Speaker 3: then you call me in between.
Speaker 5: Now and Mike, you have on the community for a
Speaker 5: long time time. You know, I followed too on sports closely,
Speaker 5: and I just want to say thank you for all
Speaker 5: that you've done and all that you do. You know
Speaker 5: you've impacted You've impacted this community for a long time.
Speaker 5: Both of you have so just wanted to pass along
Speaker 5: just it's very appreciated for those that actually take close
Speaker 5: enough attach thank.
Speaker 2: You the checks in the mail. Yeah, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4: One thing to what you guys are talking about is
Speaker 4: a walk of that guy that could bring an attitude
Speaker 4: and bring as looks like it.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, John, what do you think?
Speaker 5: It's kind of like Caleb though that have tough enough
Speaker 5: on defense and Jayden. To me, it's it starts at
Speaker 5: the It really starts at the three point line. And
Speaker 5: if you can actually keep guys from getting in the
Speaker 5: lane a little bit, it from basically doing what they
Speaker 5: want to, you know. I mean, I think we'll be okay.
Speaker 5: I think we can mix it up with BSAR well,
Speaker 5: not VI Star so much, but you know a little
Speaker 5: bit with with UH, with Creeve us Like there's I
Speaker 5: feel like this team has the potential to actually be
Speaker 5: really good come come March. But if anybody can be
Speaker 5: in our guards or they take plays off on defense.
Speaker 5: You know, good teams are gonna exploit that. You know,
Speaker 5: you have to do the little things. You have to rebounds,
Speaker 5: you have to play defense, and you have to make
Speaker 5: free throws, you know, not turn the ball over the cheap.
Speaker 5: But it's you know, no matter what, they're still gonna
Speaker 5: be fun to watch and I love love supporting them.
Speaker 3: Okay, John, thanks for the call. We got to take
Speaker 3: the break right now. Thank you for your appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Here we go. You gotta take it the break