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Speaker 3: In today with me is Dave Silver and Juan at
Speaker 3: the control here. So we should be great today. Hey,
Speaker 3: how about that game on Saturday? In so many levels,
Speaker 3: so many different things happen. Huh yeah, crazy. It's almost
Speaker 3: it's almost like you could have written five stories and
Speaker 3: I only wrote one. But there's so many elements to it.
Speaker 3: And if you start one thing, you have to kind
Speaker 3: of expand on it, and it would have been a
Speaker 3: two thousand word story. First, let's go to the big picture.
Speaker 3: They lost, you said, Juan, that was not a surprise.
Speaker 4: Not for me, because I think BYU is a good team,
Speaker 4: and they are, and they.
Speaker 2: I think at in Provo they just lost their touch.
Speaker 3: Who say, I thought this game was gonna happen in
Speaker 3: Prolo exactly, and the other game would have happened here exactly.
Speaker 4: That's that's what So when we want to were when
Speaker 4: Arizona won at Provo, I thought coming back to Tucson
Speaker 4: they were gonna lose it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and people don't understand they're good. I was with
Speaker 3: some people over the weekend. A few people, well they're
Speaker 3: not any good. They're not ranked, that means nothing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Dave, you know that they're they're they're really good.
Speaker 5: And they were on a hot streak. They've been playing
Speaker 5: well their veteran team, and I think they felt like
Speaker 5: they let their fans down probably a couple of weeks
Speaker 5: ago when the UFA played up there, so they had
Speaker 5: their chance. It was National TV. They were shooting lights out,
Speaker 5: they were you know, they were on their game. They
Speaker 5: played a good game, and Arizona just usually isn't gonna
Speaker 5: win if they're gonna give up like ninety six points
Speaker 5: like they did.
Speaker 3: No, I'm gonna make a comparison. Maybe it's good, maybe bad.
Speaker 3: Princeton two three years ago they pick pickpocket at Arizona
Speaker 3: a number of times, either with a long long shot
Speaker 3: or the fake of the long dra shot and the
Speaker 3: drive to the basket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with crafty dudes playing.
Speaker 5: With you know, under control and just you know, very
Speaker 5: disciplined things like that. So I mean Arizona, you know,
Speaker 5: hung with him and made some you know, pretty dramatic
Speaker 5: plays in the last couple of minutes as well.
Speaker 2: But obviously the way it ended is not how they
Speaker 2: looked for.
Speaker 3: Did Arizona get robbed, yes, yes, but they opened the
Speaker 3: door to let the people get right the people who
Speaker 3: robbed the door the door they didn't the door in
Speaker 3: the front of the back.
Speaker 2: True, very true.
Speaker 4: And this is supposed to be a better team, so
Speaker 4: they they're not supposed to put the game in that
Speaker 4: type of position.
Speaker 2: Arizona, Yeah, Arizona. Well guess what.
Speaker 3: The guy who would have said that perfectly said that perfectly,
Speaker 3: and that was Tommy should have never been in the
Speaker 3: position that they were in.
Speaker 2: To be in that position, never.
Speaker 3: Uh. And they had to get lucky too, because well
Speaker 3: lucky and lucky Caleb hit that shot, that runner, and
Speaker 3: that wasn't called. That should have been an n one,
Speaker 3: I thought, I thought, oh, yeah, the one, Yeah, the
Speaker 3: previous to get him ahead. It wasn't an and nobody again.
Speaker 5: Watching it on TV, you're there, but I'm watching it at home,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, wait a second, don't they have continue
Speaker 5: I mean, don't they haven't had one in college basketball?
Speaker 5: There was nothing you know in the replay that looked
Speaker 5: like it should have been just stopped right there in
Speaker 5: the middle of the lane, right. I mean, he was
Speaker 5: driving and he made the basket right.
Speaker 3: So there's that extra point there. You all you had
Speaker 3: to do is hit the free throw that got up to
Speaker 3: right right, got up to and then they have that
Speaker 3: shot or the foul, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 3: It was just a tough day, tough da all around.
Speaker 3: But Tommy's credit, he was a bit snarky as he
Speaker 3: should have been, as you should have been about it.
Speaker 3: A bit I'm saying a tad maybe a two percentage,
Speaker 3: but he was very candid. Hey, we're tough, but you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: maybe we had a call. Ready, you're in the air
Speaker 3: nine of the ball.
Speaker 2: Who's this?
Speaker 6: Yes, Brian, how's it going right?
Speaker 2: What's the word? Give me some perspective?
Speaker 7: Well, it was, it was. It was a fun game, Okay,
Speaker 7: it was you know, uh, I know, the last play
Speaker 7: was a terrible call, but you know that's not going
Speaker 7: to cost us.
Speaker 2: I mean, at the moment.
Speaker 7: It costs us the game, yes, but if you look
Speaker 7: at the the whole game is itself, you know, giving
Speaker 7: up what twenty two second chance points. Yeah, turnovers and
Speaker 7: are you and are you and our usual the ball
Speaker 7: way we shouldn't be, you know, it's we just we
Speaker 7: have to clean that up or it's gonna be a
Speaker 7: tournament run.
Speaker 3: So, Brian, you you've been calling on the show law
Speaker 3: and you're a regular listener, and you you're very savvy
Speaker 3: and what you talked about. Let me throw this at
Speaker 3: you because I hear it all the time. Okay, they lose,
Speaker 3: they lose in December, losing November December. Well we're gonna
Speaker 3: learn from this. Okay, Oh sure you're gonna learn this.
Speaker 3: But they lose in January and we're gonna learn from this.
Speaker 3: This is basketball. Tomorrow's another day for you, Brian. Do
Speaker 3: you think you're gonna learn what you do? What you
Speaker 3: or don't do what you did today? You know, did
Speaker 3: you learn from today? It doesn't work that way every day.
Speaker 2: I would hope so, yeah, but but every day I know.
Speaker 7: But but you know, you know one thing too, is okay,
Speaker 7: b Y, you very very intelligent, team, very savvy, right
Speaker 7: you know?
Speaker 8: Yes, uh, they shot the ball very well.
Speaker 7: You know, I mean, you know everybody you could say, okay,
Speaker 7: they shot the ball. Well, we only lost by one.
Speaker 7: But the problem is, you know, our defense of lapses.
Speaker 7: I mean, there was just some easy layups that they had,
Speaker 7: you know, getting picked whatever on deep on our defense
Speaker 7: and you know, like I almost sometimes.
Speaker 2: What were they thinking out there?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 6: It was it was frustrating. It was a terrible end
Speaker 6: of the game.
Speaker 7: I'm very embarrassed about what happened at the very end
Speaker 7: after the game.
Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about that, because I was going to
Speaker 3: go that was part that's part of the complete picture
Speaker 3: of the story, right, We're gonna go there.
Speaker 2: Uh and we saw that.
Speaker 3: Were you there, Brian, Yes, I was, oh, okay, so
Speaker 3: you're kind of well aware. You talk about the fans
Speaker 3: that Arizona it wasn't so much the fans, and you
Speaker 3: know that depends where you were sitting.
Speaker 9: It was.
Speaker 7: It was the student section, right, you know, And to me,
Speaker 7: that was that was you know, that was just that
Speaker 7: was totally embarrassing, you know, exact you know, I mean, Okay,
Speaker 7: they beat us, so what you know, it's just a
Speaker 7: game in life, you know, and you know, to yell
Speaker 7: what they yelled I thought was, you know, that was
Speaker 7: just terrible.
Speaker 3: Well, here's here's a couple of issues. I'm one hundred
Speaker 3: years old. And then okay, shoot me if you have to.
Speaker 3: I've been there for thirty some years. I haven't missed
Speaker 3: the game much in that Most times, Uh, it's the
Speaker 3: f U c l A's Yep, it's the throwing stuff
Speaker 3: on the floor. And they did. They did Saturday.
Speaker 8: They also when the refs were leaving, they were throwing
Speaker 8: stuff at the reps.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so totality of it, not just Saturday, but
Speaker 3: it's it's other days too, where it's these privileged kids.
Speaker 2: I'll use that word that what are you thinking? What
Speaker 2: are you thinking?
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, you know, I I you know.
Speaker 7: To me, it was luckily I did not watch the
Speaker 7: replay of the game. I recorded it also, but I
Speaker 7: haven't watched it yet, And I don't know if all
Speaker 7: that was caught on I wouldn't think it was caught
Speaker 7: on TV. Know, I probably would have gone to Sports
Speaker 7: Center right away.
Speaker 2: I was watching, and they did show.
Speaker 5: They showed the guy's kind of getting a little bit
Speaker 5: of a scuffle, you know, as they were heading to
Speaker 5: shake hands, and then they came back. They came back
Speaker 5: maybe thirty seconds later. They did have kind of a
Speaker 5: tight shot of Kleb talking to one of the players,
Speaker 5: one of the YU players. As far as the chanting
Speaker 5: and things like that, I don't think I heard that
Speaker 5: on TV.
Speaker 8: Well that's good, Okay, maybe some other people did.
Speaker 2: Maybe one, he says, maybe he did.
Speaker 5: Maybe I just turned it down or turned it off
Speaker 5: at that point and we didn't realize that was happening.
Speaker 7: And I saw, I mean, you know, that was I mean,
Speaker 7: you know, to be on national TV and to have
Speaker 7: that at the face of Arizona and you know you
Speaker 7: hear that, and it was it just it was embarrassing
Speaker 7: and it was you know, it was.
Speaker 5: A headline yesterday all day long, I mean like ESPN
Speaker 5: dot com and on the bottom line there was all
Speaker 5: kinds of you know things spoken about it.
Speaker 2: So you know, it wasn't not a good look for
Speaker 2: the school.
Speaker 3: Well here's another issue, right, and you're aware of this.
Speaker 3: Everyone on Twitter, Facebook, whatever, ESPN hates us, right, and
Speaker 3: I'm talking abouts a fan hates us. They don't give
Speaker 3: us this.
Speaker 2: This is one of the reasons why Jesus.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, and and also too, you know, we
Speaker 7: had that issue up at a issue you know where
Speaker 7: Bobby her I mean Bobby and heard it calls us classless, okay,
Speaker 7: and you know, and then you hear what happened the
Speaker 7: other night and then going, well, gosh, you know maybe
Speaker 7: some of the fans are pretty classes Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we know the fans, I know, we want
Speaker 3: to put you know, ten thousand people, nine thousand people
Speaker 3: all behind. It was the student section. It was the
Speaker 3: student section, right, and Juan, you're a student. And it
Speaker 3: didn't surprise.
Speaker 2: You, not at all, not at all. It didn't surprise you. No,
Speaker 2: you've been in that section.
Speaker 4: Yes, and I'll be honest, I have part taken in
Speaker 4: the end of the yes. Uh so it was it
Speaker 4: was surprising. It was more surprising of who was directed at.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, what's going to be bad and what
Speaker 7: a little over a week or eight days when we play.
Speaker 2: As you here, yeah you hear you'll hear it for sure.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I mean Herley is going to hear everything.
Speaker 7: And you know, it may be a nine o'clock game,
Speaker 7: but those students will.
Speaker 2: Be in rare form. Yeah. Yeah, all right, Brian, thanks
Speaker 2: for the calling.
Speaker 5: You know, it's sad because there's there's probably I don't
Speaker 5: know ten times it happens during the school year.
Speaker 2: It happens during football season.
Speaker 5: It happens, you know, the emotions of the game gets you,
Speaker 5: especially when it ends that way at home. I mean
Speaker 5: not to say that that should be happening, but that's
Speaker 5: when it usually happens, is when you know the game
Speaker 5: just doesn't go your way and you know you're you've
Speaker 5: been sitting there all game hoping your team's gonna win,
Speaker 5: and you're frustrated, and I don't know, just to go
Speaker 5: with those kind of slurs is just just a one.
Speaker 3: You're a fan of the sports, right, you love sports, juve, Yes,
Speaker 3: At what level do you just kind of say I
Speaker 3: just want to be a fan and watch the game
Speaker 3: and not get emotion involved.
Speaker 4: Actually I hit that point last year where I just
Speaker 4: wanted to enjoy the game. I didn't care really the
Speaker 4: outcome so much anymore. Fresh my freshman year, of course,
Speaker 4: first year, I'm getting into it. I was chanting those
Speaker 4: chants with them. But I think it was right after
Speaker 4: I said that that's not something I should probably be saying.
Speaker 2: And let's just just make it a good game. It's
Speaker 2: a game. At the end of the day. The b
Speaker 2: YU game was a great game. Yeah, Yeah, you got
Speaker 2: your buddies Worth. Yeah, Dave, what about you? Well, you're
Speaker 2: a good guy. I missed a good guy.
Speaker 5: But you know what, I spent all those years having to,
Speaker 5: you know, just kind of put my hands behind my
Speaker 5: back and not cheer and not really really rude.
Speaker 2: We're not supposed to.
Speaker 5: Be as reporters, so I've I've kind of kind of
Speaker 5: had that in my background forever. And even though I'm
Speaker 5: out of the business now it's I'm more of a fan,
Speaker 5: but I still sit there pretty quietly during games. I
Speaker 5: mean I sat and watched that game by myself with
Speaker 5: a sound sort of on, sort of off, and you're
Speaker 5: just kind of like, oh, you know, just kind of
Speaker 5: talking to myself. Yeah, that's kind of how I've lived
Speaker 5: my life the last forty.
Speaker 2: Years or so.
Speaker 3: My whole thing is how looney Tune fan you have
Speaker 3: to beat it. That's stupid, that's awful. You know, there's
Speaker 3: no defense. You're throwing stuff and whatever.
Speaker 4: And it's not just overall privilege of some of the students.
Speaker 2: Good good word.
Speaker 4: I live in the privilege of being an Arizona basketball fan.
Speaker 4: We are supposed to be good. We're not supposed to
Speaker 4: lose at home, right, I'm seeing we as talking about
Speaker 4: as a STUDIENTO. We're not supposed to lose. The teams
Speaker 4: on ranked teams like.
Speaker 3: B White have that privilege, right, they have that hoity
Speaker 3: toity privilege.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're supposed to be a blue blood. We were not,
Speaker 4: Thank you one. Arizona is not a blue blood.
Speaker 11: It's not.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 5: Back of the day sometimes too, I don't know, you know,
Speaker 5: what happened at the end of the game, and people were,
Speaker 5: you know, in and out of McHale. But in the
Speaker 5: old days, they used to eyeball the student section, you know,
Speaker 5: and there were police or so someone you know, looking
Speaker 5: at those kids, at those kids and see who's who's
Speaker 5: the one throwing, especially if they're throwing stuff. Good point,
Speaker 5: you go ahead. No, I was going to say, I've
Speaker 5: been to some football games. I remember going to a
Speaker 5: game years ago, all places in Berkeley, and I'm in
Speaker 5: the press box and I'm sitting next to two cops
Speaker 5: who have like telescopes or binoculars looking at the student
Speaker 5: section for a cow.
Speaker 2: Well, here's an idea.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if it's happened or not, because
Speaker 3: they won't confirm or deny this. In the McHale Center.
Speaker 3: What's the what's the We see those little what's they
Speaker 3: have it on? Those little little balls there who scan everything,
Speaker 3: the little cps. They even have a TV show in
Speaker 3: Eye of Evil. Or there's just cameras, cameras why not
Speaker 3: cameras in mchil at the top of the thing scanning
Speaker 3: the kids, just scanning the kids area and see throughout
Speaker 3: the time who's doing what and if those kids and
Speaker 3: maybe they do it now and we just don't hear
Speaker 3: about it. I wouldn't be surprised if they do. I'm
Speaker 3: sure there's some security that we don't know. Exactly my point,
Speaker 3: exactly my point. I'm sure they do. They just don't say, right, okay,
Speaker 3: we'll get another call, quick call. Oh okay, cool, if
Speaker 3: you called a callback, we're gonna have Josh Passner.
Speaker 2: We just get the schedule here set.
Speaker 3: Josh Pastler is gonna come on here once we take
Speaker 3: a break here in a second and then talk about
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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on
Speaker 1: Blox Sports foteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to in the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and with me today's
Speaker 3: Dave silver Nile on the phone. We have Josh Passner,
Speaker 3: you no one former, you of a coach, player, all
Speaker 3: that good stuff now on ESPN, Josh, how are you.
Speaker 8: I'm doing doing well, Steve Dave. Great to beon with
Speaker 8: you guys.
Speaker 2: Dave.
Speaker 8: I'm sending you a big hug through the radio waves here,
Speaker 8: same as.
Speaker 2: You, Steve. And all's good.
Speaker 8: Tough one for Arizona on Saturday. I was in the
Speaker 8: ESPN studio during that game, and there's no doubt that
Speaker 8: it was a I thought, two plays, let's just get
Speaker 8: right to the point on it. I thought there was
Speaker 8: it wasn't the South that it was good defense.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 8: And then I thought there's a continuation yes on the
Speaker 8: and one on Caleb Love and they didn't call the
Speaker 8: n one. They said it was on the floor. I
Speaker 8: thought those are two big However, a few plays prior
Speaker 8: to the non call to the foul call on a townsend,
Speaker 8: there is a switch and Caleb Love was on the
Speaker 8: big and the shot was up and the big just
Speaker 8: out competed in cayleb Love on the glass there and
Speaker 8: got the offensive rebound and put it back. So that
Speaker 8: was a big play that that happened. That had nothing
Speaker 8: to do with the officials. It was just a fifty
Speaker 8: to fifty ball and BYU won that fifty to fifty ball. Look,
Speaker 8: Arizona's really good, very talented, and I think Coach Lloyd
Speaker 8: would say the same thing. Yes, you can magnify. The
Speaker 8: call is late, and the officials have a hard job.
Speaker 8: It's not it's not an easy job. It's a hard
Speaker 8: job they do. Officials do about as good of a
Speaker 8: job as they can. They get the majority of the
Speaker 8: calls right. There are times that they don't get them right.
Speaker 8: That's just the reality of it. But look, you still
Speaker 8: get Arizona and I can. Like I said, Coach Lloyd
Speaker 8: would back me up on this. You did give up
Speaker 8: over ninety points defensively, and that's where probably Coach Lloyd's thinking, Hey,
Speaker 8: and he said, this is his postgame. It doesn't come
Speaker 8: down to one play. And I think that's probably where
Speaker 8: that he was like, we didn't do a good enough
Speaker 8: job defensively as a team, because they have been good
Speaker 8: defensively this year. They just had some breakdowns going into
Speaker 8: that game during that game versus Uyu Saturday.
Speaker 3: Have no question, you hit it on the head. We
Speaker 3: had already talked about exactly what you were talking about.
Speaker 3: We didn't talk about the Caleb Love thing.
Speaker 19: No.
Speaker 5: It's interesting, Josh, because I remember I was watching it
Speaker 5: on ESPN, and it had a great angle. I mean
Speaker 5: he was basically just backed up to the basket and
Speaker 5: was almost kind of pushed away and didn't didn't have
Speaker 5: any chance to get that ball at all. I mean,
Speaker 5: there was somebody a much bigger player right in front
Speaker 5: of him.
Speaker 8: You're talking about the on the on the foul or
Speaker 8: the Caleb Love where you got the rebound, the play.
Speaker 5: Where you were just describing where he just was really
Speaker 5: had no chance of getting getting that rebound.
Speaker 2: The offensive rebound went in by the un you played.
Speaker 8: I just thought that was I just thought that was
Speaker 8: a fifty to fifty ball there, and and that was
Speaker 8: a big play because that would have and I'll pay
Speaker 8: another play in a second, but that was a big play,
Speaker 8: and he just it was a And yes, he was
Speaker 8: bigger than Caleb Love because they were switching on those
Speaker 8: screens and so Cayla Loved and once goes on a
Speaker 8: bigger guy, and that's where you've got to kind of
Speaker 8: just root him out with your with your butt on
Speaker 8: their thighs and kind of just move them out as
Speaker 8: much as you can to the best of your ability.
Speaker 8: But you know, that was a fifty fifty ball. But
Speaker 8: there's another play.
Speaker 3: Before you before you say that, just let me see
Speaker 3: if I can predict the play because you haven't mentioned
Speaker 3: it yet. It was the three pointer that Caleb Love
Speaker 3: took and missed, but the other guy was called for
Speaker 3: a foul that didn't know.
Speaker 8: It was Carter. It was Carter Bryant earlier in the
Speaker 8: game who threw it ahead and he threw it to
Speaker 8: b Yu. Yeah. Yeah, and Arizona was about to go
Speaker 8: on a run and they had numbers and he.
Speaker 2: Threw it to the b YU.
Speaker 8: I mean literally threw it to the Yu and they
Speaker 8: came down and hit a three and it was a
Speaker 8: huge momentum swing game play on that. I don't know
Speaker 8: if you remember that exact play, but you know, and
Speaker 8: so hey, look, here's the here's the great news with
Speaker 8: Arizona's really good. They've got really good players. Caleb Loves
Speaker 8: is a really good player, Carter Bryant is a really
Speaker 8: good player. Tommy Lloyd is an elite coach. You know,
Speaker 8: they've got a chance to to great opportunities in front
Speaker 8: of them coming up, uh, you know, and then and
Speaker 8: then obviously the Big twelve tournament, they're gonna be a
Speaker 8: team that's going to be reckoned with in the in
Speaker 8: the n C two A tournament. But look, this is
Speaker 8: a new deal now, Dave and Steve. You know, players
Speaker 8: are getting paid, is as much as you want to
Speaker 8: say about Nil's pay to play, and so more so
Speaker 8: than ever. Coaches are going to get criticized at times
Speaker 8: and on their performance, and so are the players now.
Speaker 8: I mean, just because it's a different climate, you know
Speaker 8: it it's more it's more like pro sports than ever before.
Speaker 8: And and so because of that, you know, that's that's
Speaker 8: kind of the difference of the climate that we're in
Speaker 8: with with all three of us now, you know, I've
Speaker 8: been on the other side of it, but now being
Speaker 8: on the media side, and I think you two have
Speaker 8: been in at your whole you know, you two have
Speaker 8: been in your whole life. But I think you would
Speaker 8: agree with me that's probably a change in the coverage
Speaker 8: of college athletics. I don't know if you agree with
Speaker 8: me on that one totally. I think you do totally.
Speaker 3: At least is a fair more fair grain than ever.
Speaker 3: I kind of still kind of shy away from it.
Speaker 3: But you're right, they're making they're making half a million
Speaker 3: dollars A million dollars depends what you talk about, and
Speaker 3: they should be held accountable whether they're nineteen or twenty
Speaker 3: one or twenty five.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and at that at this level, I mean that's
Speaker 8: part of part of the Again, never a personal attack
Speaker 8: or doing anything, as you guys know, but you can,
Speaker 8: you can. It's it's the ability to talk about the
Speaker 8: performance in this day and age, because it's it's changed now.
Speaker 8: For the Arizona fans out there, Look, I know that
Speaker 8: was a tough because no, I get it, the fans
Speaker 8: are upset for Saturday's loss. But Arizona is a really
Speaker 8: good basketball team and and uh, they're gonna have chances
Speaker 8: like I mentioned in front of them, and they can
Speaker 8: do damage in the in the Big twelve tournament. And look,
Speaker 8: they beat BYU at BYU just a few weeks ago,
Speaker 8: which is one of the toughest home atmospheres in the country.
Speaker 8: They got a great win there, and they should have had.
Speaker 2: Youth and beat.
Speaker 8: They really had them beat. They had them down thirty
Speaker 8: five to thirty six minutes of the game, kind of
Speaker 8: blew it at the very end there, and so they
Speaker 8: had been beat. They so they're capable and Houston's potentially
Speaker 8: can win the whole national title. They're going to possibly
Speaker 8: be a one seed. So Arizona's right there and can
Speaker 8: really do some great damage in the Big Twelve tournament
Speaker 8: once they get into that tournament.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what about the Big Twelve that I you know,
Speaker 5: I think everybody here was kind of sort of worried
Speaker 5: about how the U of A would do.
Speaker 2: How do you think they've kind of fared through?
Speaker 5: Like you mentioned, they they win at Baylor, they win
Speaker 5: at BYU, They have been able to win as some
Speaker 5: of these tough places. They still have to go back
Speaker 5: to Iowa State, they still have to go to Kansas
Speaker 5: even before this is all said and done.
Speaker 8: Well, Look, I think I think the Big Twelve is
Speaker 8: a really good basketball league. There's you know, from top
Speaker 8: to bottom. I do think Kansas is They destroyed Oklahoma
Speaker 8: State on Saturday, but before that they were playing as
Speaker 8: poorly as a billsof Kansas coach team as I had
Speaker 8: seen ever they had. They're just their pieces didn't fit,
Speaker 8: you know. They they they paid a lot of money
Speaker 8: for certain guys, and guys aren't producing and and they're
Speaker 8: just not playing well. They didn't look like a spin
Speaker 8: I've never seen that from a coach self team. I mean,
Speaker 8: he's one of the greatest to ever do it. So
Speaker 8: this is not your typical Cansas year, I would say.
Speaker 8: But but what I would tell you over on the
Speaker 8: Big Twelve, it's a really really good basketball league. When
Speaker 8: you're looking at Houston, you're looking at Iowa State, those
Speaker 8: two teams are outstanding. Arizona, I think BUYU is really good.
Speaker 8: You've got you know, there's there's there, it's a deep,
Speaker 8: deep you know league. Texas Tech is a outstanding basketball team.
Speaker 8: And it looks Central Florida. They've been up and down,
Speaker 8: but they've got a lot of talent. Do you look
Speaker 8: at their roster just basically strictly on a roster, high
Speaker 8: level talent, a lot of really good players there. So
Speaker 8: it's gonna be wide opening tournament. I thought i Was
Speaker 8: State played really well Saturday for Houston without Gilbert, without
Speaker 8: Jones or two leading scorers, and they really had great
Speaker 8: success against Houston, even though Uston held and got the win.
Speaker 8: And going back to Dave, you said this, credit to Arizona,
Speaker 8: rate win at Baylor, rate win at BYU. They've had
Speaker 8: some really good road wins and you both know this.
Speaker 8: You've covered it long enough. Winning games is hard, Winning
Speaker 8: road games is extremely hard, and winning road games in
Speaker 8: conference is extremely, extremely, extremely hard, and so they've been
Speaker 8: able to get some of those. And guys, this is
Speaker 8: new for the Arizona fans. This is new for you too.
Speaker 8: This is not the PAC twelve or the PAC ten
Speaker 8: or the most recent PAC twelve, where you're playing a
Speaker 8: few you maybe get three or four Quad one opportunities
Speaker 8: the entire league season. Every night you're either getting the
Speaker 8: Quad one or Quad two and that's the difference. Yeah,
Speaker 8: you might take more losses, but you have more opportunities,
Speaker 8: and that's a good thing about being part of the
Speaker 8: Big twelve.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll get back to the to the regular Seaton
Speaker 3: regular schedule program here, but let me ask you about
Speaker 3: the good old days real quick. About the person in
Speaker 3: your good old days lout And we had I think
Speaker 3: last week we had Harvey Mason on and asked them
Speaker 3: the same question. I'll ask you, how do you think
Speaker 3: that Loot would have handled the nil situation?
Speaker 9: One?
Speaker 2: And two? Why in the world would you ever want
Speaker 2: to come back to this?
Speaker 8: Well, uh, the second problem, answer the second part. First,
Speaker 8: I love my gig with TV.
Speaker 9: I love it.
Speaker 8: But listen, if there was a right opportunity to coach again,
Speaker 8: then I would would would love to. I'm you know,
Speaker 8: I being kind of out for two years. You've got
Speaker 8: a chance to really taking a you know, gather your notes,
Speaker 8: gather your thoughts. Yes, I've been parting. We've won a
Speaker 8: lot of games for fourteen years as the head coach,
Speaker 8: I've won a lot of games, part of teams that
Speaker 8: have won championships at both schools. And but I would
Speaker 8: be excited to have another opportunity if it's the right sit,
Speaker 8: if it's you know, it doesn't it. They've got to
Speaker 8: feel on the right sit and I've got to feel
Speaker 8: they're the right sit.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 6: And I do think in this day and age, with the.
Speaker 8: With the you know, dealing with people now more so
Speaker 8: than ever, in every facet of the program, I you know,
Speaker 8: as you both people's guy. So I would I would
Speaker 8: be enthused about that. In regards to coach Olsen. In
Speaker 8: regards to coach Olsen, how would he handle the nil?
Speaker 8: I think and I can only speak on on my
Speaker 8: just knowing him. Look, he would adapt because he he adapted.
Speaker 8: Look how he adapted going from a two post offense
Speaker 8: to spread the offense with guard plays. He was the
Speaker 8: first guy to kind of run the two point guards plan.
Speaker 8: I mean he he revolutionized that before anyone. You look
Speaker 8: at some of the offensive things that he did was
Speaker 8: way before anybody. I mean he would his evaluation skills
Speaker 8: and everything else. Now would he be in for paying
Speaker 8: the guys and and and the guys making you know,
Speaker 8: more money than than possibly assistant coaches and things like that,
Speaker 8: I don't know if if that would be up his alley.
Speaker 8: I don't I can't see him being for that. I
Speaker 8: think he would probably like, I'm out of here. If
Speaker 8: we're gonna if we're gonna do this, this is not
Speaker 8: what I'm gonna do. But but I got to say,
Speaker 8: the guy adapted as well as any buddy. I think
Speaker 8: you both would agree with that. How he played, who
Speaker 8: you recruited, how he changed his style and system.
Speaker 6: So I'm sure he would have.
Speaker 8: Adapted the nil some way somehow.
Speaker 5: Hey, there's got to be some like young coaches, I guess.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's gonna be an interesting evolution of the coaching. Well,
Speaker 5: you seems you see, you know a lot of the
Speaker 5: guys you know that stepped down in the last five
Speaker 5: years kind of saw this coming.
Speaker 2: Coach ks and people like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just going to be interesting to see who
Speaker 5: is coaching and where they're coming from, say in the
Speaker 5: next ten years, you know, because you're.
Speaker 2: Growing up in this environment. You're only like forty five ish,
Speaker 2: aren't you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm I still got a long time.
Speaker 8: I want to Hey, if the right opportunity to present
Speaker 8: her stuff, I hope I can coach on seventy five
Speaker 8: if God willingly, But if not, I'll be doing TV
Speaker 8: and my number one stressor will be where am I
Speaker 8: going to dinner tonight? You know what I mean. So
Speaker 8: so either way, I look at it a good it's
Speaker 8: a good situation. Yeah, so either way it's a good situation.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, no question.
Speaker 3: Let's go to the national landscape real quick, because you
Speaker 3: talked a little about Arizona.
Speaker 2: A lot of very good teams.
Speaker 3: Auburn seems to be the jewel, but there's a lot
Speaker 3: of teams in the two to ten mark where if
Speaker 3: they catch hot, even Arizona, if they catch hot, they
Speaker 3: could pull it off.
Speaker 8: I think the best team in the country is all here.
Speaker 8: Here's why I think the four best teams in the
Speaker 8: country personally Auburn, I think Duke, I think University of Houston,
Speaker 8: and I think Florida, And I think out of those four,
Speaker 8: Florida is probably the most dangerous and could be winning.
Speaker 2: The whole thing.
Speaker 8: Really, the two teams that are playing at the very
Speaker 8: highest of high levels right now are Duke in Florida,
Speaker 8: and so I would say those four are the best
Speaker 8: right now. But I do think it's wide open this year.
Speaker 8: Anything can happen. I think it's a wide open race.
Speaker 8: A lot of it's going to come down, as it
Speaker 8: always does, to match up seedings, all those things that
Speaker 8: go into it. But you know, I think it would
Speaker 8: be a complete upset, shocking and probably just disappointing if
Speaker 8: two teams from the SEC are not in the final four,
Speaker 8: because they're going to get to they're definitely getting two
Speaker 8: seeds at the one line. They could possibly get three.
Speaker 8: I think if Houston wins the Big twelve regular season
Speaker 8: the tournament championship, they're gonna knock off one of the
Speaker 8: SEC teams because there's gonna be Auburn is gonna be
Speaker 8: a one seed. I think Florida is going to be
Speaker 8: a one seed. I think Duke's going to be a
Speaker 8: one seed in that fourth number one seed, either going
Speaker 8: to be Houston or an SEC team. And so what
Speaker 8: I would tell you though, is if anything can happen,
Speaker 8: because it is, it is. There's a lot of parody
Speaker 8: all throughout. And that's one of the positives of NIL.
Speaker 8: It creates a lot of parody because maybe where some
Speaker 8: players would go to originally with and wouldn't go to
Speaker 8: another school are now going to those schools because of
Speaker 8: the opportunity of the financial and maybe they can, you know,
Speaker 8: offer more or maybe there's a there's a better package
Speaker 8: there because another school put more money somewhere else. Plus
Speaker 8: you've still got to do a great job evaluating, I think,
Speaker 8: evaluating and player developed, and it's still at the forefront
Speaker 8: of it all. But you know, on a national landscape,
Speaker 8: and I'll tell you another team out West that I
Speaker 8: don't think a lot of teams talk to people talk
Speaker 8: about I think it's really good and you look at
Speaker 8: their numbers or they're really good. At Saint Mary's, I
Speaker 8: think they're going to go to sixteen. I think I
Speaker 8: think they're outstanding, And so that's kind of my thing. Look,
Speaker 8: the SECNE going back to the SEC, they possibly could
Speaker 8: probably going to get thirteen teams in the SEC Tournament
Speaker 8: and the NC three Tournament from the SEC, which is
Speaker 8: a record. The last the record was eleventh from Big
Speaker 8: East and I think in twenty eleven. But the secson
Speaker 8: to get thirteen teams in they they need to get
Speaker 8: they should and need to get two teams in the
Speaker 8: final four this year. I think that's something that would
Speaker 8: be an expectation if they're going to get that many
Speaker 8: teams in the tournament based on how good their league
Speaker 8: is and how deep their league is this year, it's
Speaker 8: really incredible. So you know that that's just some little things.
Speaker 2: On the on the national landscape.
Speaker 3: So are you a favor of expanding the tournament?
Speaker 6: Absolutely?
Speaker 8: I think they should expand it. I think it would
Speaker 8: be great. I know some people have gone against said
Speaker 8: they shouldn't, but I think it's great and and they
Speaker 8: don't have to. Look when I was coaching, I won
Speaker 8: it all three hundred and sixty four teams to be
Speaker 8: in the tournament. You know, I'm like, get everybody because
Speaker 8: it's so you know, it's good for all coaches.
Speaker 2: But but they.
Speaker 8: Should they can expand it. And use Tuesday and Wednesday
Speaker 8: in those first four days instead of just playing night
Speaker 8: games playing, you added a couple of games and play
Speaker 8: in the afternoon. I think it's great. People love the
Speaker 8: Thursdays and Fridays where you're starting at noon, you know,
Speaker 8: or Arizona time ten am or Eastern time noon, and
Speaker 8: you're going all the way to midnight. I mean you
Speaker 8: can do a couple. You can add a couple afternoon
Speaker 8: games on the on the Tuesday Wednesday docket on those
Speaker 8: first four and so yes, I have them for the expansion.
Speaker 8: But look, obviously CBS and Turner have it until twenty
Speaker 8: thirty two, and you got to remember that it could
Speaker 8: it's as long as they have the tournament, which is
Speaker 8: till twenty thirty two in their contract, they're never going
Speaker 8: to go past. They always have to finished the weekend
Speaker 8: before the Masters. So because CBS has the Masters, so
Speaker 8: they're never going to go past that. So the dead
Speaker 8: the last weekend they can play the final four of
Speaker 8: that Saturday is the week weekend before the Masters. So
Speaker 8: however you add it, you're not going to add a
Speaker 8: whole nother weekend or anything. You're talking only a half
Speaker 8: a day here, to half a day there, So I
Speaker 8: don't think it's that much of a of a big difference.
Speaker 8: And and again, you know, part of it too is
Speaker 8: is is I think those first you know, those first
Speaker 8: that first week of the n C to A tournament
Speaker 8: is about the exciting of a of an atmosphere of
Speaker 8: college hoops around the country. And look, if you include
Speaker 8: betting now, I mean think how much you know betting
Speaker 8: has become legalized. I don't gamble, but but I see
Speaker 8: it and all the TV things that I do, I
Speaker 8: mean everyone is sponsored by some form of bet and
Speaker 8: that becomes a big deal. And I and I and
Speaker 8: there's a billion dollars or bet on the first four
Speaker 8: days of the n C Toy Tournament, So that that
Speaker 8: I'm sure goes into the play too. And because it's
Speaker 8: it is a big finance, she'll deal now, So you know,
Speaker 8: I think you guys just can see that as as well,
Speaker 8: which I also think there could be some dangers with
Speaker 8: that when you're dealing some stuff, But that's for a
Speaker 8: whole other topic and another deal. But uh, that's the
Speaker 8: reality of the world we're in right now.
Speaker 3: You don't gamble, you don't drink caffeine, but you're still
Speaker 3: gonna buy me dinner next time you're in town.
Speaker 6: You're making the big.
Speaker 8: Bucks, man, I need you to buy the dinner.
Speaker 9: Come on, you and Dave.
Speaker 8: You and Dave got to buy me dinner. Come on,
Speaker 8: you guys are making the big bucks.
Speaker 2: When are you going to be back in Tucson anytime soon?
Speaker 6: Not?
Speaker 8: I would not that I'm initially planning. But uh, but
Speaker 8: you know, I I was there last summer because my
Speaker 8: wife's family's out and out on the east side of
Speaker 8: Tucson in Sierra Vista. So I was there and I
Speaker 8: actually went by and saw Tommy's workout coach Lloyd's workout
Speaker 8: a day or two, and he does a great job.
Speaker 8: And and so that was the last time of there.
Speaker 8: But I you know, look, I I love my time
Speaker 8: in Tuson. I love the mountains, love the outdoor. You
Speaker 8: have a I have a great appreciation for the West Coast.
Speaker 8: So so I've enjoyed it. You know, sometimes not everyone
Speaker 8: everyone gets on about the dry heat or you know,
Speaker 8: hey it's one hundred. I'm like, look, sometimes I'm in
Speaker 8: Florida and it's ninety and it's ninety five degrees. Yeah,
Speaker 8: it's not a hundred, but it's one hundred percent humidity,
Speaker 8: So what's the difference.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean, it's all the same with
Speaker 6: the hot hot.
Speaker 2: What do you mean, I've enjoyed my time with two son.
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: You have? One of the favorite suns is Kerr Elliott Passenger.
Speaker 8: I love listen. You know how much I love Tucsons,
Speaker 8: you know, and I love the people there too as well, too,
Speaker 8: love I loved everyone there. I like some of my
Speaker 8: great years and time there was with with with Coach
Speaker 8: Olsen and all the all the friendships and the experiences
Speaker 8: that we were able to accomplish in.
Speaker 2: What are your job duties here in March? Are you
Speaker 2: going to be in studio? Are you going to be out?
Speaker 2: What are you going to be doing?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'll be doing I'll be doing a lot of
Speaker 8: studio work, so a lot of stuff with ESPN, especially
Speaker 8: as we get into the last two weekends of Championship week.
Speaker 8: I'll be doing stuff with with NBC Peacocks for the
Speaker 8: last couple of weeks of Big Ten and then the
Speaker 8: first weekend of the Big Ten, first day of the
Speaker 8: Big Ten Tournament and the Big East Tournament. I'll do
Speaker 8: some things with Turner, which is the n C two A.
Speaker 8: In those first they do the NCAA fast Break, which
Speaker 8: you know if you ever watched those commercials, they tell
Speaker 8: everyone to go to NCAA dot com. And so I'm
Speaker 8: on that where they you go to and you can
Speaker 8: watch all the different games. Is sort of like the
Speaker 8: red Zone with the NFL, but it's the fast break.
Speaker 8: So I'll be on that and and there'll be a
Speaker 8: couple of other things for TV y so yeah, so
Speaker 8: I'll stay busy and and it's good. Look, I've got
Speaker 8: a face for radio, but they keep putting me on TV,
Speaker 8: so so God bless.
Speaker 2: Them, you know, let me see this, let me see this.
Speaker 3: So so I'm watching you over the weekend on studio
Speaker 3: and I'm thinking, God, I'm old.
Speaker 2: I'm old. You know how I know I'm old. You've
Speaker 2: got great hair.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, well that's what happens when when you've got
Speaker 8: kids running around and then ahead basketball coach. Yes, no,
Speaker 8: I've got I've got some great haired a bench. I
Speaker 8: might have to color it, but right now I'm keeping
Speaker 8: the great good.
Speaker 2: Josh as always, Thank you very much.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 2: Think the world will be you know that, you too.
Speaker 8: I think the world about you, guys. I appreciate you
Speaker 8: having me on. Let's talk as we get.
Speaker 3: Closer to us, we will, we will. Thanks, Thanks, Thanks
Speaker 3: jo Okay. Josh Josh Pastner former U of a guy.
Speaker 3: You know, he's one of the favorite guys in this
Speaker 3: town by far. If you drank a beer, they'd buy
Speaker 3: him a beer but didn't drink. We used to do
Speaker 3: a thing called Sundays with Josh. We would get him
Speaker 3: on and he would just kind of give us a
Speaker 3: little inside scoop on our Sunday night news during the
Speaker 3: basketball season, and it was great. So, I mean, there
Speaker 3: were times I remember again we're talking in the twenty
Speaker 3: two thousand and nine ish years, and he'd come walking in.
Speaker 5: He had two phones going at the same time. He
Speaker 5: had like these earpieces and I go, Josh, are you
Speaker 5: talking to me? He had like two I mean, he
Speaker 5: was always on, always recruiting, always, you know, on those players.
Speaker 2: It's made him good, that's what he did when the recruits. Yeah,
Speaker 2: always on the phone.
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Speaker 3: something that was pretty interesting to me, and today we've
Speaker 3: talked about it a little about the Indiana situation through
Speaker 3: Purdue and coach Painters was asked about what any suggestions
Speaker 3: about the new coach and blah blah blah, And I'm
Speaker 3: not talking about the fan I'm not talking about the coaches.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the fan base.
Speaker 3: And you can put any team in that fill that
Speaker 3: Indiana word with any team and we'll talk.
Speaker 2: About it if we can cue it up and really.
Speaker 5: Go, I mean this would be kind of similar to
Speaker 5: the Arizona Arizona States, right, yeah, yeah, you're.
Speaker 19: Happy about what just happened, like you like, so you
Speaker 19: a fan base, isn't the people that tweet. A fan
Speaker 19: base is the people when you're bleeding, they support you,
Speaker 19: like they jump in and off, they jump on and
Speaker 19: off things here way too much like support your coach man,
Speaker 19: support your players. Don't tweet negative things about them, like
Speaker 19: be supportive, like see how that works for you. But
Speaker 19: they build them up, like and they overdo.
Speaker 3: Things minute and a half of a minute and a
Speaker 3: half of stuff that he said. But that was kind
Speaker 3: of the just I heard and I see and I
Speaker 3: do it every day, right you kind of read Twitter
Speaker 3: and Facebook and everybody's kind of complaining and complaining. And
Speaker 3: I'm always wondering, I say, when Jay was with me,
Speaker 3: and who knows by myself doing the show, at what
Speaker 3: level of fan are you?
Speaker 2: Are you an emotional fan? Are you a financial fan?
Speaker 2: Are you both? Does it really hurt that much? Really?
Speaker 3: Does open up your computer or your phone and say
Speaker 3: this needs to happen or this should happen, and this
Speaker 3: is yes, Really, it's.
Speaker 5: Pretty crazy that the fan bases have a pretty strong
Speaker 5: voice these days. I really think that we went through
Speaker 5: that with football this year, this last year here in Tucson,
Speaker 5: where the you know, there was all kinds of thought
Speaker 5: about you know, Brent Brennan lasting more than one year,
Speaker 5: and it seemed like most of the noise was coming
Speaker 5: from social media, wasn't necessarily coming from the real media.
Speaker 5: It was coming from other people who wanted to chime in.
Speaker 5: And maybe they feel like they have, you know, reason
Speaker 5: to feel like they're part of the program.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're donating a lot of money. That's it could be,
Speaker 2: but probably not. We'll get to we'll get to that.
Speaker 2: Got the call first, n Hello, you're on the air
Speaker 2: and I on the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 9: Hey? Hey Ben? How you doing today?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 10: Three things?
Speaker 6: Number One, I thought the officiating at the DYU Arizona game,
Speaker 6: I thought, for the very most part of it was
Speaker 6: very fair.
Speaker 10: I think they were calling the same stuff on both
Speaker 10: sides of the court. So I think this last minute
Speaker 10: no call or the last minute call, I think you
Speaker 10: could look at the history of that game and you
Speaker 10: can see the same types of call being called both ways.
Speaker 10: So enough crying over the call.
Speaker 9: Number two.
Speaker 6: I heard about the I was back and forth to Phoenix,
Speaker 6: and I heard on some talk shows about the fan behavior,
Speaker 6: and I was like, because I didn't see it on TV,
Speaker 6: they didn't, or maybe I didn't keep watching it long
Speaker 6: enough to but I heard around on the radio or
Speaker 6: national radio, and I was really surprised.
Speaker 10: To hear that. I was disappointed to hear it.
Speaker 9: And I remember.
Speaker 10: Experiencing that kind of behavior at ASU Arizona Games years
Speaker 10: ago up at ASU. So these kids got to grow
Speaker 10: up and stuff at acting like, you know, respectable adults.
Speaker 10: Otherwise they're I don't need it, We don't need it
Speaker 10: here in Arizona. Three number three, I was a great
Speaker 10: listening to Josh. I missed him. He's a good friend.
Speaker 10: But when he was in Memphis and I have family there,
Speaker 10: I called him up because he was our spokesman for
Speaker 10: one of our restaurants, for barbecue barbecue restaurants, and I said, Josh,
Speaker 10: I hate to say it, but you're a barbecue country
Speaker 10: right there in Memphis. They got they take their barbecue
Speaker 10: very very seriously. So anyway, you guys have a good afternoon, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Thank you, thanks, thank you. So you're talking about
Speaker 3: the people who tweet and all that stuff. I guarantee
Speaker 3: you people that you go after for money and the
Speaker 3: people I talked to and make money, they're too busy
Speaker 3: making money rather than sitting down and tweeting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I'm saying. They're not good.
Speaker 3: They're not Oh, let's get on Facebook and rag the
Speaker 3: program and I you know, people who listen to me,
Speaker 3: I'm not a favorable guy for Arizona. I'm not a
Speaker 3: non favorle that. I'm kind of middle of the road.
Speaker 3: The people with the money aren't tweeting.
Speaker 22: They're not right.
Speaker 2: You're right. But again, it's just weird.
Speaker 5: It's just weird to watch how it evolves, Like especially
Speaker 5: during the course of the game, right after the game,
Speaker 5: what you see.
Speaker 2: And what you see posted. Let's take the call.
Speaker 3: Hell, little you're on the air and on the ball.
Speaker 3: Who's perfect call? Perfect timing on my fan base?
Speaker 22: Wow, I've got a call and argue with you guys.
Speaker 22: Last Friday when Jay was on there, he was crying
Speaker 22: about his buddies and everything, and I'm like, how can
Speaker 22: you not with this team? See, it's uh, it's a
Speaker 22: three guard offense that turns the ball over like crazy
Speaker 22: and his friends and I don't know them obviously, but
Speaker 22: the reason they're crying and bitching is because they know
Speaker 22: it's one and done. And guess what. This team can't
Speaker 22: shoot turn the ball. And even in wins. I'll give
Speaker 22: you the analogy to you and Dave, and you tell me,
Speaker 22: it's like telling your kids, Hey, go watch the dishes
Speaker 22: and they are half hour they say I'm done, but
Speaker 22: you go in there and there's three holy still on
Speaker 22: the ford and and chili stelling the dishes and you're like, well,
Speaker 22: you're done. What are you talking about your Yeah, you
Speaker 22: did the dishes, but you did them crappy. So every
Speaker 22: win is almost like god, dang, it's horrible, like rooting
Speaker 22: for this team, and you know what the thing is,
Speaker 22: I'm so hypocritical. I love watching the team, but it's
Speaker 22: hard because you know, like I said, they can't shoot,
Speaker 22: they throw the ball away, Like like, can.
Speaker 2: You how old are you? How old are you?
Speaker 19: Give me?
Speaker 2: Just arrange you don't need to tell me you a
Speaker 2: hundred I'm sixty five, Okay.
Speaker 3: So you've seen this team for the last forty years,
Speaker 3: and every year you're disappointed, except for one. I would
Speaker 3: either say get off the band, get off the ship,
Speaker 3: or just watch the ship.
Speaker 2: Because you're gonna be disappointed this year. You're gonna be you're.
Speaker 22: Wrong the team, and then you enjoy the heck out
Speaker 22: of watching. And I'm not disappointed.
Speaker 3: This team is just tought. Do you mean to tell
Speaker 3: me last year's team was it? And year before was it?
Speaker 3: And you you know I think the world of you two.
Speaker 3: You're my buddy, and this is this is not an argument.
Speaker 3: This is a discussion.
Speaker 2: When you text me and you text other people, I'm sure,
Speaker 2: what the hell are you thinking.
Speaker 22: That most of the time it's been jets, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: To give me a laughing mode. You to let me
Speaker 2: know when you're in jest, because you're saying.
Speaker 22: Of the time it's like and and even even today,
Speaker 22: I'm just calling this as a fan and and and
Speaker 22: it's true. And like I said, the analogy, these guys
Speaker 22: are so talented. We have such a good team. How
Speaker 22: can a three guard offense be committing turnovers to lead
Speaker 22: to twenty two points?
Speaker 2: You used to coach, you used to play. Do you
Speaker 2: mean to tell me you didn't lose because the other
Speaker 2: team was pretty good.
Speaker 22: And nobody I'm not taking anything away from BYU. But
Speaker 22: when you have kJ Lewis, he has to leave the
Speaker 22: nation and following three four shooters, that's not good. And
Speaker 22: I've had that All star shortstop believe me, that made
Speaker 22: great play after great play, but then he blew three
Speaker 22: balls to cost you the game and you're like, what
Speaker 22: the heck just happened? So I just this team is
Speaker 22: as a head scratcher. It definitely is a head scratcher.
Speaker 22: You guys are and that's why, like I said, I
Speaker 22: sided with Jay's buddy because they know it's one and done.
Speaker 22: And you know what, I wouldn't be surprised if this
Speaker 22: team loses in the first round, and I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 2: To go to the final four.
Speaker 5: kJ had an interesting line on this last game, nineteen minutes,
Speaker 5: so it didn't play half the game, scored thirteen points,
Speaker 5: had five fouls, turnovers to assists.
Speaker 2: But you know what they're talking about with him five assists? Interesting? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is this is one of Victor's analogies.
Speaker 3: I love him, I love it. Oh, I hate Hi
Speaker 3: when he does this, but I love him when he
Speaker 3: does this. So one, what are they talking about with kJ?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: His defense right that you cannot go without Kj's defense
Speaker 3: because he's the terror.
Speaker 2: Well, either you take the good and you take the bad.
Speaker 2: You can't. You can't have it both ways.
Speaker 6: I guess you can.
Speaker 22: You can clean it up a little bit. How about
Speaker 22: that one one ball when he ran the guy was
Speaker 22: sitting in the corner and he ran after him like
Speaker 22: you run after your little kid, and just goes right
Speaker 22: past him. Like you don't play defense like that. You're
Speaker 22: not taught that way. That's my thing. You don't follow
Speaker 22: a jump shooter. How many times have you heard that,
Speaker 22: whether you're a basketball player or you read it. And
Speaker 22: he just continues to fly out those guys and follow them.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna go get my plates and put them
Speaker 3: in my dishwasher because I know I can't clean them.
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
Speaker 22: Well then, indeed, but if your kids are doing them,
Speaker 22: have them do it the right way.
Speaker 3: You know, I'll get e Coli. You gotta go, You
Speaker 3: gotta go appreciate it. We gotta go too, don't we.
Speaker 3: Pretty soon? Hey, good, good, first hour, We're gonna go
Speaker 3: get some breaking news from Wine and then we're gonna
Speaker 3: have Jim liven Good on the other side.