WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:05.120 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on 2 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:10.439 Fox Sports fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services Insure 3 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:12.279 your most prized possessions. 4 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:16.679 And good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball 5 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:19.559 here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and 6 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:23.640 with me today is Dave Silver. Running the board is Kobe. 7 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:27.000 So should be a good show today. God, you guys 8 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:29.640 didn't get into the transfer portal, thank you? 9 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:30.079 Not yet? 10 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:32.479 Nobody mean yet yesterday? 11 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:32.719 Did it? 12 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:33.479 It just open? 13 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:33.759 Yeah? 14 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:37.479 But there's sor my options, you and everybody else. 15 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:40.479 There's more than no puddy a thousand. Do you know what, Kobe? 16 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:41.399 What's the number? 17 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:41.799 Fair out? 18 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:42.600 What the number was? 19 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:45.880 It was like five hundred in the matter of minutes yesterday, 20 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:48.640 so I'm sure the minutes of God, and there's probably 21 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:52.359 double that now. Yeah, a few of the Arizona women's team. 22 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:55.320 Is there anybody left? I close the door if you do. 23 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:57.479 There's a draft. It's crazy, it's crazy. 24 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:00.600 But you know, like I said, the portal open yesterday 25 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:02.960 and the women and some of the guys, not the 26 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:05.719 man in Arizona of course, but the women have made 27 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:08.760 their decisions and we'll see what the idea does with 28 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:10.680 how she reacts, she going to try to get some 29 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:11.159 of them back. 30 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:14.040 I'm sure so you'll try or not. 31 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:17.239 Yeah, it's I mean, man, I know every school goes 32 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:23.239 through this because of the situation and money and comfort. 33 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:25.359 You know, back in the day for us when we 34 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:28.760 cover the team, David and you know this, ye maybe 35 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:31.879 one didn't come back at Christmas time and they were gone, 36 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:34.519 and lou was okay with that. But at the end 37 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:36.760 of the season, maybe one was gone because they didn't 38 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:39.319 see playing time at least. When I covered the team 39 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:41.680 back in the day and I was writing the books, 40 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:43.840 many of them said to me, you know. 41 00:01:43.959 --> 00:01:45.640 I was kind of immature. 42 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:48.439 I should have stayed because I went somewhere else and 43 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:49.760 it didn't pan out there either. 44 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:52.560 Really, only a handful of them, did yeh think about it? Well, 45 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:55.359 you give me, give me will buying them maybe well, 46 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:56.519 you know once he. 47 00:01:56.519 --> 00:01:59.200 Left, Yeah, that's a good number. There were not too 48 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:01.719 many of that. Ruben Douglas, I guess a little bit. 49 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:02.519 Mexico. 50 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:05.480 He went to New Mexico, but he didn't play professionally, 51 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:07.840 you know, at that level. But you're right, he was 52 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:10.560 like this, the nation's leading scorer. He wasn't going to 53 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:14.159 do that here obviously with Gilbert around, and he saw 54 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:15.520 the writing on the wall right away. 55 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:15.800 Yeah. 56 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:18.120 But it's interesting because the women players that left, most 57 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:23.240 of them are really underclassmen and big time recruits. What's 58 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:29.080 her name, Tsioga? Yeah, Jada Williams is extremely is a 59 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:31.719 huge influencer in women's basketball too, So that's just a 60 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:34.439 big Yeah. She's one of these people that's got like 61 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:37.240 a million followers and things like that, so that's going 62 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:39.560 to mean a lot. With her nil situation too, I'm 63 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:41.599 sure maybe she's looking elsewhere where she can get more. 64 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:44.759 Yeah, well, good luck to them. I mean the kid 65 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:48.319 from New Mexico, Dent. I don't know if you followed 66 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:50.479 the Yeah, I saw that he went. He went, and 67 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:52.439 he says he could come back. He's just trying to 68 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:54.879 explore his options and see how much he could he 69 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:56.960 can grab. I mean, and that's what it is now, 70 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:59.280 it's somebody grabbed. Yeah. Are you a question? 71 00:02:59.400 --> 00:02:59.639 I asked? 72 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:01.960 You thought I have best ear sports fan? Right of course, 73 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:04.919 yes see, And I'm not. And it started. It started 74 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:06.599 a while back because this is what I do for 75 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:08.639 a living, and I don't really don't get tied to 76 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:11.599 any teams or anybody anymore. And and here's one of 77 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:14.439 the big reasons, the free agency stuff. Yeah, you know, 78 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.039 if I like this guy back in the day, they 79 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.520 didn't have that. You know, they stayed together until they didn't. 80 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:20.879 Right now, it's like, this team goes here, this guy 81 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:24.159 goes here, and they're not the same team. Where's my loyalty? Hell, 82 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:26.080 I don't want to deal with this, So I'm not 83 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:27.280 gonna I'm just gonna watch the game. 84 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:29.719 It is hard to be a fan knowing you don't 85 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:32.159 know what your team's gonna look like in three weeks, 86 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:34.400 you know, basically could completely turn over. 87 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:36.800 And to and to that point, Dave, I've been reading 88 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:38.360 a lot on Facebook and Twitter. 89 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:39.960 Okay, so you're a UA fan. 90 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:42.919 You're a UA women's basketball fan, right, You've got season 91 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:45.879 tickets that are relatively inexpensive. You fell in love with 92 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:50.400 this team, this program, and you buy buy the jerseys, 93 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:53.280 You spend some money on the team, and you just 94 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:53.960 bout a jersey. 95 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:56.319 I don't know how much it costs. She's no longer 96 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:58.639 on the team, Yeah, she's got I don't know how 97 00:03:58.680 --> 00:03:59.919 that worked. You know, what do you do? 98 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:02.639 I mean, I think most fans are, at least in 99 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:06.000 college basketball, I would think are fans of the school, 100 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:08.479 maybe a little more than the players themselves. 101 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:10.639 Right, So you're buying a jersey with just Arizona, You're 102 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:12.080 not buying with somebody's name on it. 103 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:14.080 I mean, I've got like a Diamondbacks jersey. I don't 104 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.279 know Jim back shirts without a number, so it's just 105 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:18.079 the team. He kind of like those kinds of things. 106 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:19.680 But you're right, I mean, there are gonna be some 107 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:22.800 that are going to stick out, you know, but you know, 108 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:24.519 the Curs and the Shawn Elliotts and people like that. 109 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:26.639 You get those number jersey, it's gonna be something special 110 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:28.519 but from the past. But if you've got a current 111 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:30.639 player and you got, like, what's Jada William's number, I'm 112 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:31.079 gonna go out. 113 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:32.920 I don't even know what it is. Right, it's gone. 114 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:35.639 She's gone, right, and you're gonna say, God, I'm glad 115 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:36.480 I didn't get our jersey. 116 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:37.000 Yeah. 117 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:38.680 Yeah, But it was like last year there was a 118 00:04:38.759 --> 00:04:41.240 kid who maybe who's anybody who's listening to the kid 119 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:44.160 who's on the football program, and I guess he stayed. 120 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:48.519 He pitched his jersey and then he left does that 121 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:49.360 you remember that? 122 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:51.639 Yeah, I think so. Yeah, so you know I'm staying. 123 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:55.519 I guess he's staying, or said he's staying. Go buy 124 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:57.839 my jersey, Go buy jersey, and then boom. 125 00:04:57.519 --> 00:04:59.439 He was pitching. He was actually pitching it, and I think, so, 126 00:04:59.480 --> 00:04:59.800 I think that. 127 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:02.839 I don't think I'm talking to my butt, but you 128 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:05.680 know that could be. But that's what was the case, 129 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:08.000 you know, by on jersey and then I'm out of here. 130 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:12.120 Yeah, I mean the Walkout women's team has lost players 131 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:14.240 over and over again in the last you know, four 132 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:16.519 or five years since they were in the national championship game. 133 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:19.439 It's just been kind of weird to see that happening. 134 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:21.360 And you'd think it would go the opposite way and 135 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:23.279 the players would want to come, want to stay right, 136 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:26.040 have a chance again, and if they go. 137 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:30.600 To you know, fairness Idea was on the show about 138 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:32.680 this time last year, maybe in the summer. We had 139 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:35.639 her on and she threw something that through Jay and 140 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:39.399 I and through me for sure, well, this is we 141 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:41.000 have no money, We have no money to get How 142 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:43.000 am I going to compete with these big time schools 143 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:45.079 when you have one hundred and fifty thousand dollars whatever. 144 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:46.439 Yeah, you're right. 145 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:49.839 Guess what all these programs that are Arizona are below 146 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:53.720 maybe even the ones a little above probably don't have money, true, sure, 147 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:55.160 And so how are you going to compete with the 148 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:59.879 LSU's and those guys. Well, they've had an established, this 149 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:01.639 stablished road to what they where they. 150 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:03.279 Go to, right, right, I mean that have people who've 151 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:06.000 been giving to those programs before the nil days yea, 152 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:09.240 the Yukon's of the world and usc even you know 153 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:13.199 out west. But yeah, I mean there's a big disadvantage 154 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:15.360 to the teams. I mean, like you know, like I said, 155 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:17.639 the Wildcasts, we were nothing really until a couple of 156 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:19.600 years ago, and then they get big and they have 157 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:21.279 a great, you know, great little run there for a 158 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:23.279 couple of years, and then you know, now that things 159 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:24.879 have fallen off, it'll be interesting to see how they 160 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:25.959 recover as a program. 161 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:26.240 Right. 162 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:27.959 If she's going to stick around, if they're going to 163 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:29.639 continue to get good players. 164 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:31.519 Well, there's a couple I think to be fair too, 165 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:33.680 is she going to stick around or are they going 166 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:36.079 to want her to stick around? It's a marriage. We've 167 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:38.480 both been married, right, It's like I'm gonna leave I'm 168 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:40.319 gonna leave. Well, you know where the door is. 169 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:43.519 Yeah, Well, I don't know. 170 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:45.839 We've you know, every time I'm on here, we talk about, 171 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:48.240 you know, the new regime that's in charge there. Yeah, 172 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:51.600 and it's you know, it's not just the the athletic director. 173 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:53.680 There's well, there's a new president to be a new president, 174 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:55.560 and there's a money and there's a money situation. 175 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:57.279 There's a money situation still at the U of A. 176 00:06:57.319 --> 00:06:59.720 And there's all kinds of new leadership inside that department 177 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:03.439 and voices in Desiree's head. I'm sure just saying, you know, 178 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:05.399 I don't know, maybe we can I know somebody at 179 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:06.079 my school that I. 180 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:08.959 Was just stay at before I don't know, or or 181 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:11.279 the previous school before I went to the previous school. 182 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:12.720 Yeah, I mean, that's just the way it works. It's 183 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:14.759 a big network of coaches and they all know each other. 184 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:18.000 And I'm sure the coaches themselves are wondering, like, WHOA, 185 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:20.959 what's going on in Arizona? Is that someplace I would 186 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:21.560 like to go? Now? 187 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:26.079 Well, I know exactly if there's all this turmoil and 188 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:27.720 you're saying, well, I'm not too sure if I want 189 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:29.519 to send my resume there because what if I get 190 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:30.160 caught up in that? 191 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:30.480 Yeah. 192 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:33.839 Well, I mean even in our state, the coaches at NAU, 193 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:37.040 Grand Canyon and a Issue have all left, you know, 194 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:38.040 is there one more to go? 195 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:38.600 Who knows? 196 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:41.120 I mean, it's crazy. So it's a funny time. We'd 197 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:44.680 time conflicting time. So we're gonna talk a lot about 198 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:46.519 basketball today and in fact, we'll talk about it in 199 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:50.199 a little sec. But we're gonna have Todd Holthouse, the 200 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:55.160 women's basketball coach at Pima. Fantastic run. Yeah, second place. 201 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:56.519 They're great season for them. 202 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:57.399 Mm hmmmmm. 203 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:00.399 Continues to get better and they stay at this level 204 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:03.720 for a while. We'll probably have Peabody on tomorrow. They 205 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:07.560 finished third in their in their quest to a national title. 206 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:09.879 You don't win that game and cost them, but it's fine. 207 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:12.439 Yeah, it's hard to believe after all those wins. You're 208 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:15.160 just like, how can they lose something so close? 209 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:17.959 I was on with Mike Morgan earlier and it just 210 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:21.240 didn't shoot well that day. Sometimes you have a bad day, Yeah, 211 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:23.319 but god, what were they thirty nine and hours thirty three? 212 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:26.240 You know, thirty three and three? You know, So so 213 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:28.600 we'll talk to talk to Todd and then we're going to 214 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:32.000 talk to coach Allan ben Hallen from UCLA formerly of 215 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:34.639 UCLA in Mississippi State, just to get his thoughts on 216 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:37.799 this time of year. He was the last Western coach, 217 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:40.360 if I can correctly think that, when he took Ucla 218 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:42.720 to back to back final fours, right, just the pressure 219 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:46.360 and getting there, uh, and how he handled it and 220 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:48.840 how others maybe should handle it, and what he sayes 221 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:51.320 about what's left and to your point, before we started 222 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:54.120 the blue not the blue bloods, but the the echelon. 223 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:59.000 Yeah, conferences have have certainly emerged, and then and then 224 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:02.000 they're the story the tournament really right now is you know, 225 00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:04.240 the Big ten, the Big twelve, the big the SEC 226 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:07.480 obviously has a bunch and and none of the little guys. 227 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:12.000 I mean even Gonzaga is not here ANYMOREA lost to Houston, right, Yeah. 228 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:14.879 So so they were both going five in a row 229 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:17.600 to sweet sixteen I think it was, yeah, and both 230 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:20.879 of them were fighting to get that continued trend here, 231 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:23.039 but only the one could go. 232 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:23.360 Yeah. 233 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:27.159 I mean at first the first days of the tournament 234 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:29.639 was great for the Big twelve. I mean, just one 235 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:31.600 team after another, I think it would be one team 236 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:34.200 lost out of the first round exactly right, But it 237 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:36.759 was a pretty good performance by the conference, Like gu 238 00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:38.440 Iwa State lost the other day badly. 239 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:40.799 Yeah, but I was surprised about that they got They 240 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:44.120 got Mississippi beautyful Beer is a heck of a good coach. 241 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:46.279 And then the Baylor bailer was kind of sputtering. 242 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:47.799 Yeah, Baylor was kind of but I mean, you know, 243 00:09:47.799 --> 00:09:49.279 there were five or six seeds. 244 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:52.000 Yeah, they got it. Yeah, No, they did go to 245 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:52.320 show you. 246 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:54.159 We you know, we've always been talking about that, how 247 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:57.399 the conference was setting these teams up and there's still 248 00:09:57.440 --> 00:09:59.679 a few left and you know, we'll see how. 249 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:00.720 Things go weekend. Yeah. 250 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:02.600 We talked a little about that with Tommy today on 251 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:07.159 our Zoom call before tomorrow's press conference. Uh, they had 252 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:09.080 time for us today, so I'll probably have some stories 253 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:12.799 on my website later tomorrow. We talked about that, and 254 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:15.519 we had been discussing this. Uh wow, I think on 255 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:17.879 the air, Dave about that ball, that crazy ball. You 256 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:19.039 didn't notice until I brought it. 257 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:21.039 Up, right, No, I had no clue and then you 258 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:22.879 kind of started seeing it. Right, It's like what's going on? 259 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:24.840 It is, like you said, Caleb be like, what's you 260 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:27.679 doing and losing that ball like that? But everybody, it 261 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:31.919 bounces just strangely. It bounces short, bounces long, just and 262 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:33.679 I know everyone's gonna say, well, all the balls do, 263 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:36.000 but these ones have more air in them. 264 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:38.519 And you saw that story. I did see the story. 265 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:40.679 You know, it's interesting because the ball is one thing. 266 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:43.399 But like they used to always blame the court, like, oh, 267 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.399 there's these dead spots like the Boston Garden or Maple's Pavilion, 268 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:48.600 which always kind of crazy. But I wonder if if 269 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:51.080 that's a combination too, of the ball being and you know, 270 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:52.240 these are all modern courts. 271 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:54.080 I would assume they're all the same. 272 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:55.840 But the headline, and the one I sent you was 273 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:57.720 what was the headline? Yeah, they admitted to it and 274 00:10:57.720 --> 00:10:59.039 playing the balls too much. 275 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:01.240 Oh flate gate K. 276 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:05.600 Yeah, yeah, lady story So Wilson and Wilson's not going 277 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:08.600 to change it. But Tommy said, uh, because two years 278 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:11.360 ago it was a big story. Yesterday last year he 279 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:13.720 talked about, you know, how the balls were, and then 280 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:15.720 I asked him today the balls are still He says, yeah, 281 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:19.000 but that's true, but we've shot the ball very well, 282 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:20.159 so I'm not gonna say anything. 283 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:21.879 Did they come back to to soon or did they 284 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:22.440 sit out on the. 285 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:26.480 Road straight It went straight to to to New New Jersey. 286 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:29.600 Yeah, so they traveled all day yesterday, a long day 287 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:33.240 practicing today. They even looked tired on the zoom uh. 288 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:37.279 And then was on there kJ Caleb and Tommy. 289 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:38.279 Yeah. 290 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:40.559 I talked to kJ a couple of times, a couple 291 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:42.360 of concussions, uh, saying that. 292 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:43.519 Talked Tommy about him. 293 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:46.399 Too, that he's played very well the last three weeks 294 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:49.679 at least, I said, talking to the Naked Eye, my 295 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:53.240 naked eye, he's played better. And Kenny says, well, everyone's 296 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:55.960 trying to read too much into it, but he's softening 297 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:59.039 it because it's true. He hadn't played really well most 298 00:11:59.080 --> 00:11:59.440 of the year. 299 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:03.200 He's come on strong. I mean he hit another three pointers. 300 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:05.080 Sometimes it was like, oh my god, what's he doing? 301 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:07.159 Then he makes it exactly my point. 302 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:09.039 It's a menace on defense. 303 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:12.000 He has been, you know, very He's just you know, 304 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:15.600 he's a different type of player that Arizona has not had, somebody, 305 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:18.159 you know, all purpose player. And Tommy talked about that 306 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:20.039 fills up the box score with all kinds of stuff. 307 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:24.440 Tommy talked about that miss dunks twice technical foul on 308 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:26.039 one player that was like maybe one of the most 309 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:28.799 bizarre moments I've ever seen, right, miss is it? 310 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:29.240 Miss is it? 311 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:32.279 And Tommy brought that up in terms of him doing 312 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:34.879 more things that you don't see on the box score. Yeah, 313 00:12:34.919 --> 00:12:36.120 because he's a good defender. 314 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:37.879 Yeah, I mean there'll be times where you know, there'd 315 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:39.000 be a scramble for the ball and all of a 316 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:40.799 sudden he's got and he's breaking out on I mean, 317 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:42.919 there were things that you know, they're just you don't 318 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:45.080 see that much from you of a players over the years, 319 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:46.279 and he's he's definitely different. 320 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:46.840 He's been you know. 321 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:49.279 I think it's a difference maker. In the last game, Yeah, 322 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:50.600 we'll play in that defense. 323 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:54.240 I think we got about a minute left before, so 324 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:56.600 we talk about more about that. 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