Speaker 1: Are they the problem?
Speaker 2: Thank God, yes, really yes, pitching, pitching. They were number
Speaker 2: one in offense, number one in defense, twenty seventh in
Speaker 2: pitching this season, strong great career, had a.
Speaker 1: Lot of success to the career I'm going to try
Speaker 1: to get him.
Speaker 2: Was successful last year of Arizona, but this year, you know,
Speaker 2: some injuries and just couldn't figure it out and in
Speaker 2: the rotation and it led to an ERA over four.
Speaker 1: So his issue was not so much coaching, It was injuries.
Speaker 2: Injuries and a little bit of coaching a little bit
Speaker 2: in terms of not technique, but in terms of just
Speaker 2: attacking the hitters and game planning was a little bit
Speaker 2: of a problem there too.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, at the beginning of the year they were struggling, right.
Speaker 1: I went to go see him in May and he
Speaker 1: was the ruaid off guy Lefty Carb and Carrol. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he didn't have a good year. I know, he didn't
Speaker 1: have one well finish because he didn't. He didn't start
Speaker 1: well for a long time. He got it.
Speaker 2: I think at one point he was down to eighty nine. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that was when I was seeing him, and
Speaker 2: he got all the way up to two thirty five.
Speaker 1: So he had to be hit about to seventy to
Speaker 1: eighty the rest of the way. Uh so that was
Speaker 1: an issue at the beginning, right they I think they
Speaker 1: lost They lost it at the beginning of the year, right. Yeah.
Speaker 2: There there was a series against Atlanta. They were up
Speaker 2: six runs twice against the Braves on the road. They
Speaker 2: blew that game and they were up I believe five
Speaker 2: or six runs in the game previous to that against Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Blew that game as well. So how recent at the
Speaker 2: beginning of the year, what I'm saying. And then they
Speaker 2: blew a game at home against Atlanta. So he blew
Speaker 2: three games against the Braves who finished title with you
Speaker 2: and decided and got to go onto the wildcard. Uh
Speaker 2: having that tiebreaker, So you win those games and you're
Speaker 2: in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: One of their one of their pitchers there was a
Speaker 3: big signing was Jordan Montgomery. Yep, you thought he was
Speaker 3: going to be a good addition to the starting pitching.
Speaker 3: It's terrible.
Speaker 1: He was. He was terrible. Where do you come from?
Speaker 1: He came up to Texas.
Speaker 2: He just won the World Series with Texas and then
Speaker 2: Edward rod Rodriguez got hurt. I'll give him that, but
Speaker 2: then coming back out a five to six cra almost
Speaker 2: close to six, just really couldn't get things going.
Speaker 3: Okay, you have a volleyball They took down number twenty
Speaker 3: u YU last night for their first Big twelve win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was that was kind of big. Yeah, not
Speaker 1: kind of. It was big because it was the Big Twelve.
Speaker 1: They had lost two straight, I think, right, and now
Speaker 1: now it's big time though.
Speaker 2: Well, and it's big because the program's kind of been
Speaker 2: kind of in the flux of where they've been just
Speaker 2: you know, good to average and not great, and you're
Speaker 2: trying to get the program back on track. And it's
Speaker 2: a big win for the head coach and trying to
Speaker 2: get that program back where it used to be.
Speaker 3: Okay, it was on a women's basketball They've been selected
Speaker 3: to finish seventh in the Big twelve preseason pool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is that fair? I think that's fair.
Speaker 2: I think you probably could have gotten lower, you know,
Speaker 2: lower in terms of like eighth, eighth, eighth, ninth. You
Speaker 2: do have Jada Williams returning, you do have some returners,
Speaker 2: but you're losing a lot of role players there, and
Speaker 2: over the last couple of years it's been a don't
Speaker 2: want to say hodgepodgs, but sliding door of who's in
Speaker 2: who's out of rooms of transfers. So when you don't
Speaker 2: have that cohesion, where do you have to go off of?
Speaker 1: Right? So everybody loves idea. I love Idea. She's she's
Speaker 1: good at what she does. She loves the media type
Speaker 1: of things where she does the tweeting and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: She not in trouble. Trouble's too too strong. Where is she?
Speaker 2: You know, I don't think you could ever say she's
Speaker 2: on the hot seat. Give she got to a national
Speaker 2: championship game, but I remember during that run and after
Speaker 2: that run, she set the expectations of this is what
Speaker 2: we are going to be doing, and you haven't even
Speaker 2: come close to that. So you're talking about first and
Speaker 2: second round exits in the tournament teams that I've underperformed
Speaker 2: with a lot of talent. So right, right now, you're
Speaker 2: kind of looking for a path back to developing players
Speaker 2: and getting back to that level.
Speaker 1: Right, and she's done it. She's great at it. I
Speaker 1: think the people that watch the team and follow the
Speaker 1: team would like less drum, less drama and more offense. Well,
Speaker 1: you love defense, but you got to put the ball
Speaker 1: in the bucket, just because I'm curious, Nase, did she
Speaker 1: end up anywhere?
Speaker 2: Not that I saw, I'm gonna be honest, I wasn't
Speaker 2: exactly tracking that, so I'm not sure where she ended up.
Speaker 1: She might have taken a year off for medical babe,
Speaker 1: and that's what she said she was going to do, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it would not surprise me as she ends
Speaker 2: up at a Power five Power.
Speaker 1: Forward program somewhere down the line. Does she good? I
Speaker 1: think she's talented.
Speaker 2: I think it's hard to judge somebody that's that tall
Speaker 2: and has a little bit of mobility issues. But with
Speaker 2: the right coaching staff that can help her pay in
Speaker 2: her offensive post, she could be a special.
Speaker 1: Patient on both sides exactly because I think the kids
Speaker 1: men and women think Kylieo themselves coming out of high school, right,
Speaker 1: they got to do these things and they can do
Speaker 1: it right away, and then they get here and they realize,
Speaker 1: oh no, you know, and just another one of those
Speaker 1: many good players.
Speaker 2: And when you have a coach like idea that is
Speaker 2: so defensive driven, and that's the struggle. When you come
Speaker 2: out of high scho defense for men's and women's, you're
Speaker 2: not used to it. You're not used to the speed,
Speaker 2: You're not used to the demand on the defensive side
Speaker 2: of the ball, and when you have a defensive coach,
Speaker 2: there's no time for waiting around.
Speaker 1: You got to develop defensively. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3: Indiana fevers number one overall pick Kevin Clark. She has
Speaker 3: won the w n b A Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3: She had sixty six out of sixty seven votes from
Speaker 3: a national media panel.
Speaker 1: She I think I saw someone where she got paid
Speaker 1: pretty well for being kim or something. There was some
Speaker 1: kind of prize for being near unanimous or I could
Speaker 1: could have read it run. Yeah. Well, and everyone's I
Speaker 1: don't know, they just all all eyes on her, right
Speaker 1: because of the money she's making and the thing. But
Speaker 1: she's she's bringing a lot of eyes to the to
Speaker 1: the w NBA, although the ratings have been down because
Speaker 1: of the playoffs, I mean they're no longer in the Yeah.
Speaker 2: And you know, when you have that star player that
Speaker 2: everybody gravitates towards and turns the college translate that to
Speaker 2: the pros. And she had a lot of success early on,
Speaker 2: You're you're gonna have eyeballs on them and people are
Speaker 2: gonna want to see them and once they're out, ratings
Speaker 2: go down.
Speaker 3: And then Angel Reese got injured, so she's not playing anymore.
Speaker 1: Right, right, she was injured, but not near the end
Speaker 1: of the year. She had a fantastic here too. They
Speaker 1: fired her coach and she tweeted about that. How sad
Speaker 1: or you know, the howle instrumental coach was I think
Speaker 1: was to her.
Speaker 3: So staying in the staying with the w n b A.
Speaker 3: The expansion draft has been set for December sixth for
Speaker 3: their newest team, Golden State Doalkyrease and then in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty six. They've also announced that Toronto and Portland will
Speaker 3: have teams that will be starting play. Okay, cool, I'm
Speaker 3: not familiar with and Iron it'll follow WNBA too much,
Speaker 3: so wasn't aware.
Speaker 1: Of that yet.
Speaker 2: No, I heard about the Portland and Golden State, it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Didn't hear about Toronto. But I mean, anytime you have
Speaker 2: expansion in the league grows, that's good for the Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, of course, Chiefs place leading receiver Russie Rice on
Speaker 3: ir This was today that he was.
Speaker 2: I'm a Bronco fan, but Russian Rice is on my
Speaker 2: fantasy team, so there you go. Yeah, for all you
Speaker 2: geeks out there, but as a as a Bronco fan,
Speaker 2: bad news, I say that in terms of endearment.
Speaker 3: Saints Derek Carrwood, I would love to reunite with DeVante
Speaker 3: Adams down in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be a good pick up for right right there,
Speaker 1: or with Rogers somewhere better. There was something I don't
Speaker 1: know where I saw it, maybe ESPN talking about how
Speaker 1: the Raiders screw with their wide receivers and have all
Speaker 1: you most of last twenty years, Jonathan Cooper and lost loss.
Speaker 1: This this guy, Uh, there's been a few moss this guy, Uh,
Speaker 1: there's been a few got down, Oh Brown A J. Brown?
Speaker 1: Wasn't he with him? Yeah? Uh? And they just went
Speaker 1: Brown Tonio Brown who just wanted to get get in
Speaker 1: and get the hell out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it hasn't been the receiver haven uh there.
Speaker 2: You know when it was Derek Carr was there and
Speaker 2: they had uh, what's the same, Michael Krabtree and other
Speaker 2: receivering weapons there.
Speaker 1: Scrab Tree out of the league. He's been out for
Speaker 1: a while.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He was a fantastic college player. God I'm showing my age,
Speaker 1: but he's been on out for a probably a while, right,
Speaker 1: probably about three years that long. He didn't have a
Speaker 1: long career then, No, he didn't. What's long career? Probably
Speaker 1: ten plus? No way? Yeah, oh man, I gotta google
Speaker 1: that because my age. I'm showing my age because he
Speaker 1: played against Colt McCoy Texas Crabtree. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: google that. I gonna say ten plus years. Holy moly,
Speaker 1: where have I been? I slept through that. It's like
Speaker 1: a Dallas episode. Wow, Okay, how many years I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see here, go ahead, Ryan.
Speaker 3: Tonight, we got the Buccaneers and Falcons going going at
Speaker 3: it for Thursday Night football, John Robinson, Yeah, okay, this
Speaker 3: should be a good game. The Falcons are actually got
Speaker 3: too bad.
Speaker 2: In a lot of tight games, you know, just win
Speaker 2: it or lose it. They're in that game and they're
Speaker 2: going to give you a fight, and they're developing as
Speaker 2: an organization, and right there with Kirk Cousins, you know
Speaker 2: you're going to be in the.
Speaker 1: Game, right.
Speaker 3: Rajon Rondo is joining the Milwaukee Bucks training camp as
Speaker 3: a guest coach.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know, veteran point guard your floor In general,
Speaker 2: a lot of point guards become coaches, so good for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he last last played in twenty two with
Speaker 3: the think with the Lakers or the Cavaliers. I can't
Speaker 3: remember where he finished college football. Tonight is actually going underway.
Speaker 3: Right now. We got Texas State and Troy. They're in
Speaker 3: the first quarter, and then later on we got Sam
Speaker 3: Houston and UTEP Go Troy World.
Speaker 1: Hi been ten years? How many year? Ten? Ten? God?
Speaker 1: I just remember him playing two years ago wherever he was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking this kid could play. Holy moly, I need
Speaker 1: some memory bills. Great career to ten. Yeah, well, the
Speaker 1: thing is, yeah, I guess except for Aslad when he
Speaker 1: went to Arizona and had four catches, Holy moly, time
Speaker 1: flies for me. Noonder my kids are old. They were
Speaker 1: just sending me Wow, Holy moly, one of their old
Speaker 1: kids coming to the houses. What are you guys doing here?
Speaker 1: Who are you? Who are you?
Speaker 3: Last thing is the game three of the you know,
Speaker 3: long card is the way right now?
Speaker 2: You got the Mets Brewers. Troy said something earlier about
Speaker 2: go meteor, go Medior. I don't I don't care who
Speaker 2: wins that they could tie. I don't care what the doing. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: your Braves. Braves are out. I just kind of want
Speaker 2: had some of the misery here. I'm very sad, not really,
Speaker 2: but you know.
Speaker 3: If they had a better offense, they would have they
Speaker 3: would have done better, obviously, but they had a real
Speaker 3: good pitching well staff this year.
Speaker 2: But the surprise to this point in Detroit, Oh yeah, Detroit, uh,
Speaker 2: Kansas City, the Royals that looked great, right And honestly,
Speaker 2: if the Braves that they didn't get hurt, which is
Speaker 2: similarly to the Dinebacks, that they didn't get hurt, this
Speaker 2: season could have been very different for both organizations.
Speaker 3: Sure, long, six months, one hundred and sixty two games.
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, cool, anything else that you have You
Speaker 1: were at the press conference today, What was the gist
Speaker 1: of that? The basketball press conference?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know a lot of player development talk about
Speaker 2: the young guys coming in and the transfers coming in
Speaker 2: and how they could play positions three through five, you know,
Speaker 2: one through five, you know, and some of the typical
Speaker 2: stuff about versatility that you hear about the new guys
Speaker 2: on the roster from players and how the biggest thing
Speaker 2: to me that I took away was kJ Lewis saying
Speaker 2: that they've gotten better defensively, and that's been an emphasis
Speaker 2: is the defensive side of the ball, especially with Tommy
Speaker 2: Lloyd being an offensive coach, getting better defensively.
Speaker 1: I think it is gonna be critical for this program
Speaker 1: moving forward. So he has nine dudes. He has one
Speaker 1: hundred dudes, but he really has nine dudes. Do you
Speaker 1: think he's gonna go with all nine dudes?
Speaker 2: I think at some point you're going to shorten it
Speaker 2: to you. I think coaches love to say I would
Speaker 2: love to go nine.
Speaker 1: I've never I've never, just real quick, I've never seen
Speaker 1: a coach not say that and then do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because because it's just not in them. It's great at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, but when you're looking for
Speaker 1: minutes for guys and trust develops, that's it. That's the word.
Speaker 1: You can't. You can't do it in the middle of March,
Speaker 1: in the middle of February. You're looking at is he
Speaker 1: can make a good be good enough to beat Kansas
Speaker 1: on the road? Is he going to be able to
Speaker 1: beat the Houston on the road.
Speaker 2: So he's not going to have a stupid tournament over
Speaker 2: in the middle of a GM Pack game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who's your who's your player that you who kind
Speaker 1: of hope to see does well.
Speaker 2: I really want to see, Uh, what's the name the
Speaker 2: Anthony de Lasorio, however you pronounce that name? The transfer
Speaker 2: from Campbell really interesting player kind of has a and
Speaker 2: I'm not relating them to any way to Larry Bird,
Speaker 2: but has that style of below the rim, find a
Speaker 2: way to get to the bucket offensive skill set. But
Speaker 2: can he be solid defensively out there for Arizona or
Speaker 2: is it going to be a case like a Mark Paulison,
Speaker 2: who you know was supposed to be this defensive wizard
Speaker 2: from San Francisco and then you get on the court
Speaker 2: and it's like, okay, you're playing Power five schools.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know who developed whoever said that he
Speaker 1: was a defensive player coming in, it was that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Mine's going to be Henry. I really liked him two
Speaker 1: years ago excooting when he came on the scene and
Speaker 1: looked impressive at times, and then it gets hurt last
Speaker 1: last year obviously, But I'm not sure how much time
Speaker 1: he's going to get. But I hope to see that
Speaker 1: he does a lot of things and gets a chance
Speaker 1: to play a lot.
Speaker 2: One more player is uh Crevas can can he get tougher?
Speaker 2: I think that's going to be critical for Arizona. If
Speaker 2: Krevas isn't able to get tougher from what we saw
Speaker 2: last season, he kind of gets pushed around in the
Speaker 2: Big twelve, it could be a long year in the
Speaker 2: Big twelve for Arizona.
Speaker 1: Wow, No, I agree with you. You've got the big body,
Speaker 1: can do a lot of things under the basket. You're
Speaker 1: asking a lot there because you just don't get tougher
Speaker 1: or stronger in a year now, But you know when
Speaker 1: you have to. Yeah, I think that the front court,
Speaker 1: the back court's going to be fantastic. They might have
Speaker 1: to live and die there with Caleb and Bradley and
Speaker 1: kJ and whoever else is back to Bradley, not Bradley.
Speaker 1: Your refreshmen coming in, Yeah, Carter Bryan car Carter Bryant.
Speaker 1: So they're very talented. What was the last time I've
Speaker 1: covered this thirty some years? They weren't that. They weren't
Speaker 1: any good. I can't remember. Maybe Shawn's first year maybe, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe they were mediocre. I think, yeah, they finished below
Speaker 1: five hundred. I think I was just gonna say that.
Speaker 1: I think or at five hundred, but right around that mark,
Speaker 1: and he was frustrated all head because he didn't have
Speaker 1: anything left in the cupboard. But yeah, no, I totally
Speaker 1: agree with you. We'll see. I think he was gonna
Speaker 1: go eight seven, eight nine. That's what he does, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a crazy good ride. To me, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be.
Speaker 2: You know what, one thing we can say every weekend
Speaker 2: in the Big twelve, every week in the Big Twelve
Speaker 2: is going to be a gauntlet of a game in
Speaker 2: primetime television and interesting.
Speaker 1: To watch without question. Those who have tickets, more power
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Speaker 1: in to the games. And I know that you and
Speaker 1: I traveled a couple of times Lesture to Duke. We
Speaker 1: might go to Kansas. It's gonna be a tough thing
Speaker 1: because they're at Kansas right before the Big Twelve. Yep.
Speaker 1: So if we go to Kansas, we're staying in Kansas.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we ain't coming back. We have to as
Speaker 1: a because the team will stayed in Kansas for the tournament,
Speaker 1: and then the tournament, the Big Tournament starts a week
Speaker 1: after that. I may not have clean underwear for a while.
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Speaker 1: let's take a break, Let's go back, go out, get
Speaker 1: a hold of Reggie Geary and see what are you
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Speaker 13: Doing, ch I'm doing good, Steep. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we're talking to talk hoops. It's that time
Speaker 1: of year. Do you when you're doing your radio stuff,
Speaker 1: do you kind of do they make you kind of
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Speaker 13: I mean was talking basketball, which is nice. It's something
Speaker 13: the comfortable land for me.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 13: Obviously I'm gonna do my homework and prep. I think
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Speaker 1: with Rhino, right.
Speaker 13: I do, yes, Ronald watch most of the home games.
Speaker 13: I do most of the roadio.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's the schedule. Okay, No, that makes sense
Speaker 1: to me. So you must really enjoy that because it
Speaker 1: kind of stirs the juices from your good old days exactly.
Speaker 13: You know, you know obviously, you know, having played basketball
Speaker 13: league team and you know, play for almost twenty years,
Speaker 13: and then you know winter coaching. So be there with Brian,
Speaker 13: to sit court side, to be around Tommy and the team.
Speaker 13: It really keeps me energized. It's basketball, the passion of myne,
Speaker 13: Arizona basketball in particular, and so still be involved, still
Speaker 13: be around the guys. Yeah, Keeth me long, It's just
Speaker 13: something I absolutely love to do.
Speaker 1: Reggie. When you look at the way the season ended
Speaker 1: last year and what they brought in this season in
Speaker 1: terms of the transfers and freshmen coming in, what do
Speaker 1: you think the emphasis was for Arizona after the way
Speaker 1: it exited against Clemson.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think just how things ended, and then obviously
Speaker 13: you know us going now to the Big twelve. I
Speaker 13: think Tommy and I think you spoke on this is
Speaker 13: just being more physical. I think when I went to
Speaker 13: the transfer portal, they want to look for some physicality.
Speaker 13: I think they thought maybe at times they got pushed
Speaker 13: around a little bit, or when the game was slowed down,
Speaker 13: when the pace and temple would slowed down, that it
Speaker 13: was no longer to their advantage. And I think going
Speaker 13: into the Big twelve in particular, things are you know,
Speaker 13: they play a little bit of different basketball. They're a
Speaker 13: little more of a slugtuss So getting bigger I think
Speaker 13: was a priority, you know, and and we've done that
Speaker 13: all the way across the board now with Jayden Bradley
Speaker 13: as the one in kJ Lewis, I think we have
Speaker 13: one of the best backcourts defensively, especially in the country
Speaker 13: where they really set the tone there. So I just think,
Speaker 13: you know, getting bigger and stronger for those battles is
Speaker 13: something Tommy and the staff are looking at.
Speaker 1: Yeah, would you back in the day when uh, this
Speaker 1: is a dumb question, but back in the day, would
Speaker 1: you have kind of welcomed the switch from the PAC
Speaker 1: ten back then to a different conference.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean as just as a competitor. I think,
Speaker 13: you know, we all love challenges, and so you know,
Speaker 13: if for some reason back in the day we had
Speaker 13: left the PAC tending on to another big conference, we
Speaker 13: would have looked at as a challenge. We would have
Speaker 13: definitely had a lot of a chip on our shoulders saying,
Speaker 13: you know, this Arizona basketball and this is kind of
Speaker 13: what we represent and mean, and so taking that into
Speaker 13: some new arenas and some new cities and new states,
Speaker 13: I think we would have been excited. I think the
Speaker 13: group now is excited for that challenge.
Speaker 2: When you were playing back in the day, back in
Speaker 2: the nineties, what what do you remember from some of
Speaker 2: those Big twelve matchups that you're able to experience and
Speaker 2: just going to some of those environments in playing against
Speaker 2: those teams, Yeah, you.
Speaker 13: Knew it was going to be a hostile environment with
Speaker 13: big clouds. It's either going to be on a big stage.
Speaker 13: One thing about being an Arizona player, which is to
Speaker 13: our advantages, everywhere we go, it's the biggest game of
Speaker 13: the night for that for the for the opposing team,
Speaker 13: and that arena, so you know that will be being
Speaker 13: new to us, but just going to and you know,
Speaker 13: going to these new arenas. Obviously, the Big Twelve, if
Speaker 13: you ask around, experts will tell you it's the number
Speaker 13: one basketball conference in the country. So you know there's
Speaker 13: gonna be some challenges there. But yeah, you know, that's
Speaker 13: worry about being an areason A player. You always have
Speaker 13: a target on your back. Nothing's changed, there was just
Speaker 13: doing it into new places.
Speaker 1: I remember we just talked about it. When was the
Speaker 1: last time you said the Arizona basketball wasn't going to
Speaker 1: be any good? I can't remember last time I ever
Speaker 1: said that.
Speaker 13: I've never said that. Yeah, I've never said that. I mean,
Speaker 13: my first content, my first restored election of Ariasona basketball,
Speaker 13: you know it is probably somewhere in the mid to
Speaker 13: late eighties. You know, coach also has been here. Obviously,
Speaker 13: Sean Elliott was later on that time when I was
Speaker 13: in my eighth grade, started in high school.
Speaker 1: And so my.
Speaker 13: Whole knowledge of Arizona basketball from the eighties to the
Speaker 13: day has been a success and excellent and consistency at
Speaker 13: a very very high level. So I've never had that feeling,
Speaker 13: even the down years people like to point out really
Speaker 13: weren't down years. You know, I go back to maybe
Speaker 13: my last year with coach also as an assistant coach.
Speaker 13: You know, Coach had stepped away from the team. You know,
Speaker 13: we still had Chase Budding during Jordan Hill and nick wise,
Speaker 13: we're still an NBA guys. We still got to the
Speaker 13: second week of the tournament. People look at as a
Speaker 13: down year, and so maybe that's a good thing because
Speaker 13: extradas are so high. But it's been a very very
Speaker 13: long time. So I thought Arizona didn't have a good team.
Speaker 2: And I was gonna say, you brought it up in
Speaker 2: terms of expectations being high, and you know that that
Speaker 2: is what Arizona basketball is and what it's turned out
Speaker 2: to be in terms of expectations. How do you, if
Speaker 2: you're a fan, how do you allow yourself to give
Speaker 2: a coach like Tommy Lloyd time, especially in today's college
Speaker 2: athletics world where everybody wants everything now, they want to
Speaker 2: win now, and but there's a development process through that,
Speaker 2: and even for a coach like Tommy, when you have
Speaker 2: all this talent, there is a development side that people
Speaker 2: really don't give time to anymore.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think you're right there. Everybody, you know, they
Speaker 13: just expect everything to go well all the time. But
Speaker 13: I think it's gonna be important that we, as Arizona
Speaker 13: fan in Tuston community just kind of educate ourselves a
Speaker 13: little bit in terms of what we're about to go
Speaker 13: into the pat twelve. For whatever reason, it's been a
Speaker 13: strong conference in basketball, but it hasn't been the strongest,
Speaker 13: and we've been very dominant there for for a number
Speaker 13: of years. We're going to the Big Twelve. We know
Speaker 13: that's not going to be the case, and I think
Speaker 13: understanding as a fan base that hey, we might lose
Speaker 13: two for six eight league games this year, and that
Speaker 13: doesn't necessarily mean we're a bad team, you know. I
Speaker 13: you know, I haven't really looked as much closely as
Speaker 13: I wanted to, But the Big Twelve is gonna have
Speaker 13: eight to ten teams that qualify for the insul A Tournament.
Speaker 13: You can have eight teams in the top twenty five.
Speaker 13: So understanding that, yo, there's gonna be some struggles potentially.
Speaker 13: Obviously we all want team to go undefeated, but there
Speaker 13: could be nights where you know, there's gonna be some
Speaker 13: rough patches in the schedule. Not to panic. We're gonna
Speaker 13: be okay. We're still a good team. We're just in
Speaker 13: a much different and tougher league.
Speaker 1: Reggie, you've been around here for a long time, ninety two,
Speaker 1: ninety five, whatever it was. Uh, the thing, I was
Speaker 1: just gonna ease the pain here. You know, fans, the
Speaker 1: fans are gonna okay, we're just this good. They want
Speaker 1: to win. They want to win all the time. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: they do.
Speaker 13: They do, And it's important. It's important. Like I said,
Speaker 13: we try to educate the fan base as much as
Speaker 13: possible that these things can occurve. But that doesn't mean
Speaker 13: that you know, all is lost. But more important that
Speaker 13: understands that that when these things start happening and the
Speaker 13: fan base gets a little agitated and they start going
Speaker 13: on to the you know, social media and some of
Speaker 13: the websites, and you know that they don't allow these
Speaker 13: third parties or these outside voices to really penetrate their group.
Speaker 13: I know Tommy and his staff work very very hard
Speaker 13: to make sure that you know that kind of messing,
Speaker 13: that kind of negativity that sometimes fan bases do, doesn't
Speaker 13: permit in your team, doesn't affect your team in a
Speaker 13: negative way. That you seek your nose down that you realize,
Speaker 13: hey might be occurring. But our goal is what end
Speaker 13: of the year playing our best basketball and see what
Speaker 13: that means.
Speaker 2: And you know, I don't know about you guys, but
Speaker 2: this Big Twelve conference really has a feel of the
Speaker 2: old Big East in terms of the powerhouses that you
Speaker 2: have in it, the number of highly ranked teams, and
Speaker 2: it feels like a situation where, like you said, Reggie,
Speaker 2: where you could be staring at a team that has seven, eight,
Speaker 2: ten losses and there's still a top three, top four
Speaker 2: seed and then caa tournament and have a legitimate shot
Speaker 2: of getting to a national championship game. Where you have
Speaker 2: so many teams that have that capability.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, I've been telling you the Big Twelve
Speaker 13: is just murderous road right now. You know, there's just
Speaker 13: so many quality teams, so many quality coaches that had
Speaker 13: levels of success, and so we're just gonna have to
Speaker 13: be on it night in, night out, never getting too high,
Speaker 13: never getting too lots, just because as you said, you
Speaker 13: could come in third in the Big Twelve and still
Speaker 13: be a three seed with a real chance to make
Speaker 13: a deep run. So staying focused, not getting down the
Speaker 13: earth and we have those tough stretches will just be
Speaker 13: pro bodily important.
Speaker 1: No, no question. I've said this a long time since
Speaker 1: they've come into the league. Just a long time to
Speaker 1: do with end of the year thinking exactly what you're saying,
Speaker 1: four or five losses, maybe even six, but it's going
Speaker 1: to prepare you for March, and guess what, it all
Speaker 1: matters in March. The one thing that that I think
Speaker 1: that that Bruce brought up last last week, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was pretty good from Bruce that Okay, you
Speaker 1: get you get beat up. You maybe you you lose
Speaker 1: a game or two or six or whatever. How much
Speaker 1: are you going to be beat up? And and then
Speaker 1: that you get beat up for the tournament, which is important,
Speaker 1: and you get run down and now here you go,
Speaker 1: even though you played better or competition, now you're just
Speaker 1: kind of worn out. Major concern.
Speaker 13: Definitely a concern, you know when you're coming to it,
Speaker 13: you know, a league like the Big Twelve and then
Speaker 13: going from league play playing canvas on the final game
Speaker 13: of the year on the road, going straight into the
Speaker 13: conference tournament. I mean, it's just it really is Murders
Speaker 13: where he's just gonna have to see how you come out,
Speaker 13: and you have to come out, you know, intact and healthy,
Speaker 13: so you can definitely lose it into the tournament in
Speaker 13: your in your league tournament, play just what you say,
Speaker 13: just because you are so beat up. So you know,
Speaker 13: you know, watching the minutes, you know, really being on
Speaker 13: top of guys and their bodies, and Chris Rounds and
Speaker 13: and Jessica Costi, they do an excellent job there and
Speaker 13: they're just gonna have to really be on their job
Speaker 13: this year because it couldn't be about not only for Arizona,
Speaker 13: but we're.
Speaker 1: All big twelve teams right. Well then remember they only
Speaker 1: have nine dudes, at least nine scholarship guys.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, uh, you know, I I know we
Speaker 13: have twenty players on the team, but you probably go
Speaker 13: to that heavy rotation, there's probably about nine guys, and
Speaker 13: so yeah, they're gonna have to look at that. I'm
Speaker 13: sure there's gonna the opportunity where guys are gonna have
Speaker 13: to step up and be you know, Conrad and Martinez
Speaker 13: or or based out. There's gonna be there's gonna be
Speaker 13: a time where someone's gonna have to step up and
Speaker 13: and luckily in the past They've done a great job
Speaker 13: of that, and they're gonna gonna need to continue to
Speaker 13: do that.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I think luckily for Arizona, as you transition to new conference,
Speaker 2: in this gauntlet of a conference, you're not in a
Speaker 2: situation where you're welcoming in a top five, top two
Speaker 2: recruiting class full of freshmen. You're welcoming in Carter Brien
Speaker 2: who's phenomenally talented. You have you know, the kid out
Speaker 2: of Phoenix who's very talented as well. But you have
Speaker 2: Caleb Love back, you have Jaden Bradley back, you have
Speaker 2: kJ Lewis back and welcoming back that veteran presence. How
Speaker 2: important is that for a basketball team not only entering
Speaker 2: a new conference, but just entering a tough situation like
Speaker 2: Arizona is.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean to have like as you mentioned, your
Speaker 13: core guards, uh Jayden, kJ and Caleb and Caleb being
Speaker 13: a player of the year, you know, a fifth year guy,
Speaker 13: that's huge, you know what I mean, because your guards
Speaker 13: are your your are the players that can really settle
Speaker 13: your team down. They control things, they have the ball
Speaker 13: on your handle lot and so for Arizona to have
Speaker 13: three you know, experienced quality player there is definitely kill
Speaker 13: our advantage. And so you know when when we look
Speaker 13: at some of the other players, they've had it, you
Speaker 13: know through the transfer border. You know, Trey Townsend and
Speaker 13: Anthony del orso you know, they've had some really really
Speaker 13: good pieces to go along and some some some pieces
Speaker 13: that have some experienced So yeah, Carter, Brian and some
Speaker 13: of the other freshmen, they're gonna have their opportunities, but
Speaker 13: it's going to be at that backcourt and some of
Speaker 13: these trapsmen are going to really be the hardest team.
Speaker 1: Okay, I could be talking out on my you know
Speaker 1: what right here, but in ninety six you were the
Speaker 1: point guard for that team. They made it through the
Speaker 1: street sixteen was shot away from beating Kansas up in Denver.
Speaker 1: You had and at the top of my head, you
Speaker 1: had Joe mclaan. You had Corey, but those are more
Speaker 1: three guys.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 1: Then you had Miles who was a freshman. You had Michael,
Speaker 1: who are probably in the back court with you too.
Speaker 1: So you have them, but I think they're a lesser
Speaker 1: role obviously. I think now Kj's there, they have Bradley
Speaker 1: and they have Love kind of a three headed type
Speaker 1: of thing in the back court looks really strong. Can
Speaker 1: you is there any correlation there or no? Because you
Speaker 1: you were kind of ball dominant back then.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean that that was that three guard offense
Speaker 13: that we ran in ninety four to great success. You know,
Speaker 13: it really was a nice balance we had. Obviously, you know,
Speaker 13: Damion and Kalid were more of our scoring punch. I
Speaker 13: was the defensive guy and assist guy. But you know,
Speaker 13: we could use our quickness and really pushing tempo. And
Speaker 13: I think you know what, we looked at our scoring average,
Speaker 13: it was very It was very similar to Tommy Lloyd's
Speaker 13: team last year, which was one of the tops in
Speaker 13: the country. So we had that ability to play fast
Speaker 13: and I and I do see that a little bit.
Speaker 13: You know, Caleb Love he reminds me a little bit
Speaker 13: of Kalid Reeves, you know, big bodyguard, you know, who
Speaker 13: could really change the game with his scoring, can make
Speaker 13: it look easy at time. Than Caleb has definitely shown
Speaker 13: that in an Arizona uniform. You know, Jada Brawley and
Speaker 13: David steiermar not not too many similarities there that James
Speaker 13: more of a kind of a setup. He kind of
Speaker 13: set the team up defensive guy. But I think this year,
Speaker 13: We're all going to be real excited to see his
Speaker 13: growth and changing. It was his growth a consistent score.
Speaker 13: You know, these guys are showing the ability to score,
Speaker 13: but not on a consistent ninth and ninth basis. If
Speaker 13: they can do that, and I know they've worked very
Speaker 13: hard this summer and accomplishing that. If they able to
Speaker 13: do that, this team really going to take the next level.
Speaker 13: So from a scoring standpoint, you know, kJ and Jade
Speaker 13: really haven't got to that that Damian cult level quite yet,
Speaker 13: but we know it's there and they just need to
Speaker 13: show it.
Speaker 1: So you went to ninety four, sneaky guy, I was
Speaker 1: talking in ninety six, which of course is good because
Speaker 1: that's a good compression. Ninety seven. You know, you had
Speaker 1: Bibby and Simon and Terry for three guards. But let
Speaker 1: me ask you about Love specifically. You played in the league,
Speaker 1: you left here, you played in the league for a
Speaker 1: little while, and Love was told to come back right
Speaker 1: to get improved. What would you hope to see from him?
Speaker 1: Given we know he can score, but he's more of
Speaker 1: a volume guy than he is a consistent guy.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, I'm a big klea left fan, especially
Speaker 13: how he conducted himself last year. You know, I didn't know,
Speaker 13: I know a little bit about him. I'd heard a
Speaker 13: couple of things about him, but his maturity, the way
Speaker 13: he went about his business on a day to day,
Speaker 13: what he was at to do for our team, you know,
Speaker 13: in all honestly, he was asked to take a lot
Speaker 13: of tough shots. And and I know people say as
Speaker 13: a volume guy, but we asked him to take a
Speaker 13: lot of shots. We needed him more importantly to take
Speaker 13: a lot of shots on some nights, and maybe that
Speaker 13: won't be the case this year, but just more of
Speaker 13: the same. You know, he was a better athlete last
Speaker 13: year than I anticipated. He was a much better passer
Speaker 13: than I anticipated. Obviously, I thought his efficiency had gone
Speaker 13: up in Arizona uniforms in comparison to when he was
Speaker 13: at North Carolina, and so I was really really happy
Speaker 13: with him. I think defensively, you know, we saw we
Speaker 13: saw it at times. Maybe he could be a little
Speaker 13: bit more defensively locked in, but once again, we're asking
Speaker 13: a lot for them on the offensive bit, so we
Speaker 13: have the law of Caleb. He's responded really really well.
Speaker 13: I just hope, like you say, I hope he just
Speaker 13: stays positive this year, continues to be kind of that
Speaker 13: quiet leader, shows by example and has another big year
Speaker 13: for us.
Speaker 1: Totally agree with you, okay, Reggie is always thank you
Speaker 1: very much. On a text you a lot and say
Speaker 1: can you come on today? Can you come on today?
Speaker 13: No call man. I love talking about sports where you can
Speaker 13: talk about other sports too. But anytime you guys want
Speaker 13: to have me on, please reach out.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about love. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we know that he's a heck of a player, right,
Speaker 1: the heck of a college player. It wasn't surprising to
Speaker 1: me that when he went to the NBA they said
Speaker 1: go back. What they told him? I do not know
Speaker 1: because we haven't talked to him, right, Because if you're
Speaker 1: if you're a guy who watches the game, the guy's
Speaker 1: good and you think, oh, he's going to be great
Speaker 1: at the next level or good at the next level.
Speaker 1: They told him go back. So what do you think
Speaker 1: he needs to work or what did they tell him?
Speaker 1: Tell him what he needs to work on.
Speaker 2: I would think the number one thing they told him
Speaker 2: is efficiency, being more efficient, being more consistent on the
Speaker 2: offensive end.
Speaker 1: So does that mean take more shots, take less shots,
Speaker 1: take better shots?
Speaker 2: I think take better shots is the key there because
Speaker 2: we saw several times throughout the season where he kind
Speaker 2: of settled for threes, started chucking up threes and didn't
Speaker 2: necessarily let the game come to him and tried to
Speaker 2: be I don't want to say hero ball, but you
Speaker 2: know what, he was the only offensive weapon at times.
Speaker 1: And Reggie said that and.
Speaker 2: It kind of played into that, and he had to
Speaker 2: do what he had to do. But if you're going
Speaker 2: to make it to the next level, you can't do
Speaker 2: that and you can't have that poor of a three
Speaker 2: point percentage with doing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's only one guy that I think that could
Speaker 1: do that in that stuff obviously, Right, what is no? No?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: And that's what point because Davison he carried that team
Speaker 1: until he couldn't in that year that he was a senior,
Speaker 1: Right yeah, And you're thinking, who is this kid? Who
Speaker 1: is this skinny kid? No? Yeah, and I think he
Speaker 1: needs to involve He did a great job. I thought
Speaker 1: he did a fantastic job. There were games when he
Speaker 1: didn't shoot the ball well and you're thinking he needs
Speaker 1: to give the ball up more that I think they
Speaker 1: that's one of the things he needs to do that
Speaker 1: a little bit more. But he did a good job
Speaker 1: with that. He let the team in assists, I think, right.
Speaker 1: So I think you're you're right with the efficiency that
Speaker 1: he just has to be smarter with his shots. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's going to get him to the
Speaker 1: next level, but it shows that he's coachable with you know,
Speaker 1: tell him something, you know, don't walk, don't do this,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't do it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And also get and he did improve defensively. I think
Speaker 2: that was one of the main things Tommy Lloyd talked
Speaker 2: about when he came into there, was challenging them on
Speaker 2: the defensive side of the ball. Uh, making them a
Speaker 2: very good defender, but get better there because I tell
Speaker 2: you what, in the NBA, if you're able to be
Speaker 2: a consistent presence on the offense, then but a great
Speaker 2: defensive player. And there's something that you could in your
Speaker 2: add on you're gonna last in the league a long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you can score two obviously they need those
Speaker 1: type of players. We'll see what happens. What is you
Speaker 1: What are your impressions with with Bradley? He's to me,
Speaker 1: he's a different cat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and I think we said it a
Speaker 2: lot last year as he had tunnel vision that first,
Speaker 2: you know, month and a half, we counted all the
Speaker 2: time how many how many missed opportunities there were on
Speaker 2: the floor for them to pass the ball, because he
Speaker 2: went one on five, one on four, one on three.
Speaker 2: But as the year went on, actually in the tournament,
Speaker 2: he started to find those guys. He started a basketball
Speaker 2: and become a little bit more efficient offensively. And I
Speaker 2: asked him today about the passing game in terms of
Speaker 2: how do you develop that you worked on it and
Speaker 2: how is that going? And he said the main thing
Speaker 2: was you have all these coaches that know what they're
Speaker 2: doing and know what they're talking about, and they were
Speaker 2: sending him film, Hey, you missed the pass here, you
Speaker 2: missed the pass there, And they went and stopped doing
Speaker 2: that until you know it finally clipped, I need the basketball.
Speaker 1: Guess what happens, So then they're seeing what we're seeing.
Speaker 1: Because you and I talked about it a lot when
Speaker 1: we sat next to each other at the game, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking there was opportunities because even we had him on
Speaker 1: the show, I guess after the season and I kind
Speaker 1: of complimented him, complimented him in a weird way that
Speaker 1: he plays with his head down and he's full steam ahead.
Speaker 1: He's a downhill dude. And if he gets in trouble,
Speaker 1: he throws it away or or he finds somebody, or
Speaker 1: he just goes to the basket and gets fouled. He
Speaker 1: kind of laughed at that. He says, oh, thanks for noticing,
Speaker 1: But that wasn't the compliment. It was he's putting his
Speaker 1: head down and going when he needs to not his
Speaker 1: head down and either get rid of the ball or
Speaker 1: get a good shot, especially being the point guard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, without question, and Low used to have that, you
Speaker 2: know at the free throw line. That's that's stop signed. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's kind of gone out the window. There is no
Speaker 2: stop sign. But you need to have a little bit
Speaker 2: of that in your.
Speaker 1: Well Okay, and again he's a ball dominant guy, right.
Speaker 1: He likes to have the ball. Love so is Love
Speaker 1: and and kJ who is probably better than both of them,
Speaker 1: is not. But he needs to have the ball. But
Speaker 1: he's someone that is able to let the game come
Speaker 1: to him. He's Michael in my mind. He's Michael Dickerson.
Speaker 2: And he can affect the game in many different ways
Speaker 2: where he doesn't have to score.
Speaker 1: Right. Well, we all saw the game against Clemson and
Speaker 1: some other games at the end where he and Bradley
Speaker 1: saved the day or at least tried to save the day.
Speaker 1: In Clemson they both did tried to, they just couldn't
Speaker 1: hit the ball, hit the shot. So I think the
Speaker 1: key is going to be kJ or at least on
Speaker 1: that Love is going to score his nineteen whatever you
Speaker 1: will score his twelve or thirteen. Kg will have you know,
Speaker 1: eleven and twelve, but still be the best player on
Speaker 1: the court in my mind with previous like your guy. Uh.
Speaker 1: We'll see about the freshmanson Townsend. They have a lot
Speaker 1: of players. We'll see who's going to stay happy, stay happy?
Speaker 1: And also they've been so great defensively and offensively in
Speaker 1: the post the last several years of coach Tommy Lloyd.
Speaker 1: Can you be great defensively with no Umar Bollo, no
Speaker 1: Christian KloCo. You don't have that that big sure, sure,
Speaker 1: but you also don't have that inconsistent offensive player. That's true,
Speaker 1: So you know it's a one or the other. In
Speaker 1: Crevaus is going to be that guy. I think Henry's
Speaker 1: going to be able to fill in, and some of
Speaker 1: the other guys that they have brought in who have experience,
Speaker 1: who have that that not Genesis Quad. But you know
Speaker 1: that that failed for the game. Whether it happens or not,
Speaker 1: you can assume it will. But again, Duke Houston, Baylor, Kansas,
Speaker 1: it ain't.
Speaker 2: Easy c l A, Wisconsin. I mean, it's a continent
Speaker 2: of a schedule for Arizona this year. Yeah, no, I
Speaker 2: gues say, it's gonna be fun. I'd rather see that
Speaker 2: than not see that. Yeah, And honestly, this might be
Speaker 2: one of the last few times we see Arizona have
Speaker 2: a Duke Homan home a u c l A nutral
Speaker 2: site because as you go through scheduling, you have to
Speaker 2: deal with that big twelve conference.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, before you have to deal with you want
Speaker 1: to schedule tough. I think that Tommy will say yes
Speaker 1: to that. And you know, it's surprising you didn't call
Speaker 1: me and said you want to go to Bahamas and
Speaker 1: kind of go there and go there. I was thinking
Speaker 1: about doing that. I always thinking about doing that because
Speaker 1: that's not a bucket list but I but I thought
Speaker 1: I wanted to because I had never done it. It's
Speaker 1: one of the few tournaments I hadn't been to. And
Speaker 1: and if Arizona plays a Gonzaga. Perfect. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: why I would want to go. I want to have gone,
Speaker 1: But no, I'm going to the Breeders Cup and said,
Speaker 1: so my money is going to be somewhere.
Speaker 2: Are you a little shot that they haven't gotten that
Speaker 2: matchup together?
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, no, because those dudes don't want to play
Speaker 1: each other. But I mean, you're not affecting each other's
Speaker 1: season one. It's one game. No, they just don't want
Speaker 1: that being uncomfortable. You know, if it happens, it happens.
Speaker 1: But no, that happened organically or whatever. But no, I
Speaker 1: can see it. I can see you know, you don't
Speaker 1: want to face your boss, your good friend, your family friend.
Speaker 1: Although although I think they're probably putting too much into it,
Speaker 1: like thinking too much about it. Just do it. It's competitive,
Speaker 1: it's good programs, no question which I was going to say,
Speaker 1: you're right, helps both. There's no lose in that. No,
Speaker 1: there's no lose. And imagine the press, imagine the fun,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna it could happen how far as Bahamas
Speaker 1: two thousand miles. Yeah, that's the bad thing with none
Speaker 1: of us there to watch it, you know, Bruce, Yes,
Speaker 1: but not so I.
Speaker 2: Think the perfect situation for them. Nobody's there and they
Speaker 2: and they base each other.
Speaker 1: Actually actually for the you know, the national guys who
Speaker 1: think they know it all will be there or maybe
Speaker 1: maybe not maybe a lot of tournaments trimans. But if
Speaker 1: this happens, they could get down there to see that game,
Speaker 1: and it's it could happen. I wish I were. That's
Speaker 1: that's the only reason I wanted to go. That's fair.
Speaker 1: And it's the Bahama, you know, you know this is
Speaker 1: it's it's I've been to Mali five times with them.
Speaker 1: I just I saw the beach once. Because you're too
Speaker 1: busy writing to go in the game, you're too busy
Speaker 1: to have fun. But on the other side of it
Speaker 1: is the Bahamas. It's like the back called tournament. Sure
Speaker 1: it was Vegas. Yeah, now you're in Kansas City. You
Speaker 1: know where I want to be. I want to be
Speaker 1: in Vegas. No, no, I get it. Yeah, yeah you're working. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they have a casino in Vegas. I have heard
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, you know, of course I might
Speaker 1: have spent some time. And yes, I've seen you. I've
Speaker 1: seen like the Sodomo stuff down at the down down
Speaker 1: when they're dancing and all that stuff, you know at
Speaker 1: New York, New York where we stayed, the party atmosphere
Speaker 1: down there at the Central Bar. Yes, Central, the Central
Speaker 1: Bar was exactly it. Yeah, okay, we got about four minutes,
Speaker 1: three minutes, four minutes. Yeah, okay, we got a call. Oh, super,
Speaker 1: we got a call. Who is this? Oh you're on
Speaker 1: the air. Yeah, this is Nico. What's up?
Speaker 16: Hey man? Your show is pretty good, man, but you
Speaker 16: got to cut out this basketball talk.
Speaker 1: Man, Okay, I'm riding. I read it. No tomorrow, man,
Speaker 1: We've got the Red Blue do you. I don't think
Speaker 1: you and your dad have tickets? Do you.
Speaker 16: To the Red and Blue game?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 16: It's like watching paint dry.
Speaker 1: I won't disagree with you, but hey, some people need
Speaker 1: to see paint dry. No, I'm talking about regular season.
Speaker 1: You go to football games.
Speaker 16: No, I don't got basketball games. Then I don't want
Speaker 16: to go to the retirement home.
Speaker 1: How do we make you happy, Nico? How can we
Speaker 1: make you happy? You're in Tucson though, I mean it's
Speaker 1: kind of retirement village though, right.
Speaker 16: Well, yeah, sadly, I'm not gonna argue.
Speaker 1: So what's on your mind? Dico?
Speaker 16: Hey man, I'm just how many talks some more Texas.
Speaker 1: Tex Now we will tomorrow, we will tomorrow. We're trying
Speaker 1: to get the Texas tech beat writer coming on. We
Speaker 1: had them earlier this year. We're gonna have, of course
Speaker 1: and talk to a lot of the games. Are you
Speaker 1: gonna be there tomorrow?
Speaker 16: I'm gonna be there on Saturday?
Speaker 1: You know, I'm sorry, Yeah, Saturday, Saturday. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: early and sleep, sleep there. What do you think is
Speaker 1: gonna happen? And what needs to happen?
Speaker 16: They just need to win?
Speaker 1: Man style points, any style points? No, no, just win.
Speaker 16: Okay, you's gonna go around you.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you. Were you how shocked were
Speaker 1: you or not shocked at all about last week's game?
Speaker 16: I thought they were gonna get blown at.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. Do you know, Joy, anybody who
Speaker 1: thought they'd win?
Speaker 2: No, I thought it would be a four point game.
Speaker 2: If Wilson played, then that that's who played. I didn't
Speaker 2: think they would win.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, well, Nico, at least you have high hopes
Speaker 1: for the football program. Yeah, well somebody as Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I get it. Well, thanks for listening, man.
Speaker 16: I'll give you credit though, Man, Andy Lopez is a
Speaker 16: great game.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, he's gonna do it every now and
Speaker 1: again for me, So it was it was fun. He's
Speaker 1: a he's a great storyteller.
Speaker 16: And this dude you have today, he's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Too, don't I don't have to find a way to
Speaker 1: pay him.
Speaker 2: Okay, no, no, no, okay.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Nico, thank you. Yeah. You know, somebody else
Speaker 1: said that they liked having you on the show. I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: what in the world is the world coming to? People
Speaker 1: love me? I get it, I get it. You know,
Speaker 1: you're probably the only one that gets it. You're even
Speaker 1: kind of styling a little now, you're doing your hair better.
Speaker 1: Did you have the beard going on? I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you don't want to even ask if you have
Speaker 1: a lady in your life. I didn't want to care
Speaker 1: to know. Not yet. Okay, we've got one more call.
Speaker 1: We got one minute, one minute? Okay, no, thanks Niko
Speaker 1: for calling in. Did anybody else call? Who called it?
Speaker 1: Oht Mike, Mike asking for Jay. Jay's long gone? What
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Although we'll be uh, we'll be
Speaker 1: at the casino here in next weekend, a week from today,
Speaker 1: a week from today, So looking forward to that. Thanks
Speaker 1: Troy for coming in. You might be available now that
Speaker 1: people I want to hear you. I might have to
Speaker 1: invite you more often.
Speaker 2: Always happy, Yes, Go easycatsoaisycats dot com. And also, if
Speaker 2: you don't mind this, shout out to Alex Hubbert who
Speaker 2: passed away this last week, my cousin big time. You
Speaker 2: have a football fan. Shout out to his family and okay,
Speaker 2: that's elect to them. Our condolences grow. Thank you very much,
Speaker 2: that's no problem, and we got Ryan. Thank you Ryan again.
Speaker 2: As usual, we have our pregame show on Saturday. Ryan
Speaker 2: will be in the house with me.
Speaker 1: I'll have Byronevance and David Adams on Saturday at five
Speaker 1: o'clock on this channel. Thanks so much,