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Speaker 3: Are you on? Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on
Speaker 3: the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty from Steve Rivera. Hey,
Speaker 3: Andy Brown made his way to the office today. I
Speaker 3: got a guy jan here.
Speaker 4: One let me in the building today Tuesday, I didn't
Speaker 4: do anything well, Texas, We're gonna have to replace a
Speaker 4: window or two, but we got it. Steve didn't want
Speaker 4: to let us cut me down. I ain't got a
Speaker 4: haircut for you and everything today.
Speaker 3: Ste did you look sharp? I look good for our
Speaker 3: listeners out there. You you didn't get you didn't get
Speaker 3: a haircut about two weeks ago when you had some
Speaker 3: guests in town.
Speaker 4: No, you know, and things got busy and Snoop Dogg
Speaker 4: he was in town a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: That go.
Speaker 4: That guy's cool. He just oozes coolness. Let me tell
Speaker 4: you one of the coolest guys I ever met. And
Speaker 4: he can fit himself into conversation any gathering, and it's
Speaker 4: it's not awkward and it's not forced.
Speaker 2: Was it?
Speaker 3: You're so you're the you're the you're a co boss
Speaker 3: or the a boss of eighteen eighteen yeah, eight team security.
Speaker 3: We all see you guys everywhere all. So did you
Speaker 3: kind of use some privilege with that title?
Speaker 4: Actually, no, I didn't. I actually assigned about three of
Speaker 4: my uh good staff to him, and they got the privilege.
Speaker 3: Okay, but did you were hanging around?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hung on the outside. I'm flying the all
Speaker 4: type of thing. But you can imagine everybody wanted a
Speaker 4: picture with him. Oh yeah, I was going to be that.
Speaker 4: I'm not that guy. I don't think he took very much.
Speaker 4: I didn't see very many. He took a few. He
Speaker 4: took quite a few pictures with the local law enforcement.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, but not but not.
Speaker 4: No, he never sat around long enough. Yeah, he was
Speaker 4: always going to go. Was on his script and he
Speaker 4: did it. And the guy is professional. He's cool, he's
Speaker 4: you can see why he's successful at everything he does.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, did you have a conversation with the man?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: I did not per se to his staff. My guys did,
Speaker 4: Yeah they did, Okay, cool, cool, cool. Yeah he was
Speaker 4: a hard target to Yeah, he was down, he was
Speaker 4: moving target. He he's really good in the booth. I
Speaker 4: don't know if you got to listen.
Speaker 3: I did. I did. Second quarter I did. He was
Speaker 3: pretty good up there.
Speaker 4: But yeah, everybody's on the peripheral trying to get a
Speaker 4: picture take him selfies one hundred feet away and he's
Speaker 4: in the back that's at Snoop. Yeah, but no, it
Speaker 4: was a great, great game. I think it was a
Speaker 4: huge success for the community. And give him back. And
Speaker 4: that was the one thing that drew him here was
Speaker 4: we give all that net proceeds back to Chared. Are
Speaker 4: you part of the am on the board of directors? Okay,
Speaker 4: whatever you want to call it. Yeah, yeah, I'm a
Speaker 4: blue jacket guy. Yeah, I bought some cool. I brought
Speaker 4: some of the sneakers, the Snoop Dog slip on sketchers
Speaker 4: do there and and uh la, ma honey, went got
Speaker 4: up pair.
Speaker 3: He's like, I like those. I'm gonna get paired too.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, who are you selling them at the game
Speaker 4: or something?
Speaker 3: No, No, we just bought him online.
Speaker 4: Catchers. When you got big feet, like, you got to
Speaker 4: pre order those. You don't just walk into a store.
Speaker 4: And by fifteens you got to order those things. Yeah, cool, cool,
Speaker 4: You're sold on this.
Speaker 3: That was a good time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, now I got time to get my haircut
Speaker 4: and come on the radio.
Speaker 3: We had Kim Adarre on the show last week. It
Speaker 3: was awesome.
Speaker 4: She's great at what she does. She's full of energy,
Speaker 4: doesn't stop. They hit a not to mix a metaphor,
Speaker 4: but they hit a home run. They did, they scored.
Speaker 4: I mean, she works her butt off. Yeah, and that
Speaker 4: whole crew does in that in that office. But this,
Speaker 4: you know what, Yeah, you got all that age to
Speaker 4: be careful what you asked for. Thing. We've always been
Speaker 4: wanting a nice, big, huge name as a sponsor and
Speaker 4: we got it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then you're like, oh, this is a lot more work. Yeah,
Speaker 4: in what sense, In the sense of that brings what
Speaker 4: Snoop Brock to the table as far as the security
Speaker 4: part of it, the details of timing where he needs
Speaker 4: to be and all the people involved in that is huge.
Speaker 3: So did you guys get the memo on that or something,
Speaker 3: just okay, this is what's going to happen from their end,
Speaker 3: And you said, okay, yes, we have to abide by whatever. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So that went back and forth quite a few times,
Speaker 4: and I was on a few zoom meetings. And I
Speaker 4: won't get into too much detail, but you have to
Speaker 4: be on the ball and when you're dealing with professionals
Speaker 4: like that, and you understand why he's so successful, right
Speaker 4: because he puts people around him that are that good.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: So it's not like he hires any slepty off the street.
Speaker 4: He's got top notch people running his show for him
Speaker 4: and they expect excellence.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And it raised our game as a bowl to a
Speaker 4: whole other level. And I think that's what's nice about
Speaker 4: dealing with somebody like Snoop is he gives you that
Speaker 4: level of professionalism, like, oh, I thought we knew what
Speaker 4: we were doing, or I knew what we were doing,
Speaker 4: but now this is a whole other level.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I think he has two more years, right,
Speaker 3: and that this will kind of be a helpful And
Speaker 3: I always say helpful, hid but helpful for moving on
Speaker 3: even beyond him if he doesn't continue after two years. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Yeah, Like I said, it raised everybody's game to
Speaker 4: another level to see the kind of professionalism that he brought,
Speaker 4: you know, Yeah, Town, it was just it's amazing. Across
Speaker 4: the board was well attended to. It was not much
Speaker 4: better than that Potato Bowl and I do. Yeah, that
Speaker 4: was brutal. I didn't see that on like twenty seven people.
Speaker 3: It was bad. Really, there was a couple of them
Speaker 3: that were really bad, but forty thousand, yeah even look
Speaker 3: good on TV, both sides, both sides of the you know,
Speaker 3: so snoop.
Speaker 4: He surprised both teams in their locker rooms when they
Speaker 4: showed up, which was really cool. I don't know if
Speaker 4: you knew about that. Yeah, I heard he had tucked,
Speaker 4: but yeah, he got there early and when they walked in,
Speaker 4: he was there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It was so cool because he he nil deals
Speaker 3: for the kids. Yeah I say kids, you know, athletes
Speaker 3: or whatever, and took care of him. He gave the
Speaker 3: coach the whatever called the necklace.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he gave everybody a change. All the winning team
Speaker 4: got oh really pro records. Oh okay, cool and one
Speaker 4: of my I think one of my guys might have
Speaker 4: ended up with one of those. But he he's the
Speaker 4: guy who watched them all day. Yeah, but yeah, that
Speaker 4: was fun. He had a little surprises like that all
Speaker 4: around the corner. And those are the things that you'd
Speaker 4: think he was just going to come in and show
Speaker 4: and put his name on it. But he wanted to
Speaker 4: be involved. He wanted to do things. He wanted to
Speaker 4: be around people. He wanted to intermingle with the with
Speaker 4: the student athletes. He really loves football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, he knows football, yeah, because he's been around
Speaker 3: it with the kids and he know he was a
Speaker 3: coach and owned the teams and all that.
Speaker 4: Well, he has a youth football So we had youth
Speaker 4: football games Thursday, Friday and Sunday here in town. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and he brought him in from all over. I think
Speaker 4: we had Canadian teams and he had all kinds of
Speaker 4: international teams here and we put on a good show
Speaker 4: for them. So I think there were eight teams maybe
Speaker 4: told them Yeah, and the games too. Yeah, they all
Speaker 4: came to the game. They all got tickets to the game.
Speaker 4: The kids all got tickets and I think their parents
Speaker 4: did too.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, there you go. There's the attendance of forty thousand.
Speaker 4: It's exactly what you want as a sponsor from a
Speaker 4: sponsor of a big bowl like that. That involved, right.
Speaker 4: Some people just put their name on it and they
Speaker 4: walk away. He was in it.
Speaker 3: So it was nice, good, good for everybody involved. We'll
Speaker 3: see what the money effects when they start distributing the
Speaker 3: money to the local Yes, that's a great part. We
Speaker 3: always do that.
Speaker 4: We do a really cool meeting with the Blue Jackets
Speaker 4: and we invite all those people that we give the
Speaker 4: money to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been there. Oh I can give out the checks. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it's it's a it's a varying amount and everybody
Speaker 3: appreciates it, obviously of the nonprofits. No, no, cool, cool, cool. Well,
Speaker 3: welcome to the show, everybody. We're gonna take some the
Speaker 3: calls if you can. I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 3: fun show. Five to zero four one, six seventy four forty.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have Brian Peterson from Acy Desert Swarm here
Speaker 3: in the first hour, in about ten twelve minutes. And
Speaker 3: then we're gonna have someone I've been trying to maybe
Speaker 3: not trying, but I attempted to reach him on Sunday,
Speaker 3: got him a friend for sella. Uh you know ESPN
Speaker 3: guy if you remember he was, he was a coach
Speaker 3: at New Mexico back in the day. So I'm gonna
Speaker 3: give him grief about that. Remind him of a couple
Speaker 3: of things that have happened back in the day. I
Speaker 3: was surprised to see on his resume he hasn't coached
Speaker 3: since New Mexico. That was tooth And two I looked
Speaker 3: him up after you told me show Yeah, and I'm thinking, wow,
Speaker 3: he got smart and got out of the business, because
Speaker 3: I'm sure he doesn't want to be part of this
Speaker 3: business anymore. Uh but you know, you know, he does
Speaker 3: a pretty good job of and he knows he knows
Speaker 3: he does a pretty good job what he does. Uh.
Speaker 3: And two he he was kind of like pre pre
Speaker 3: Tommy Lloyd. He went after euros to where he he
Speaker 3: did that stuff as well. Or he has a history
Speaker 3: of going over and knowing who's who in euro in
Speaker 3: Europe and every other places beyond. So we'll talk to
Speaker 3: him about yeah, absolutely, about that and his time at
Speaker 3: New Mexico. Given they played Arizona a time or two,
Speaker 3: I'll remind him of a couple of incidents as that
Speaker 3: I remember. It should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: So that'll be a lot of fun. And tonight we
Speaker 3: have a game, right Arizona versus West Virginia. West Virginia.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Bruce, was that their last the wind
Speaker 4: that kicked off their put seven in a row? NINNI
Speaker 4: now Kansas. Will they be Kansas too long ago?
Speaker 3: Last week I think played well, they're not playing with
Speaker 3: their star guy, right, is that right? Yeah, Tucker, he
Speaker 3: was the guy that torched Arizona. I think he almost
Speaker 3: like it, like what every three.
Speaker 2: Point of.
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, and you played back in the day, Andy,
Speaker 3: and I remember this. We'd go to we And I
Speaker 3: say we because they traveled with the team, yes, uh,
Speaker 3: to the games. Uh when you played Washington State or
Speaker 3: Oregon State or I'm trying to think of those games
Speaker 3: back in the day. No attendance and and some dude
Speaker 3: named Joe blow beat the crap out of you because
Speaker 3: no one, no one was there.
Speaker 4: To see in Utah was one of them. Yeah, they
Speaker 4: just light us up with some kids you never heard of. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: You're like, where did this guy come from?
Speaker 3: Right? And then you say here, you know, right, number
Speaker 3: ten in the country and this dude's they just show
Speaker 3: up and ten people in the arena and then they
Speaker 3: come away with a win.
Speaker 4: Well, I tell you what, everybody kind of showed up
Speaker 4: when Arizona came in time. Yeah, Pullman, Pullman is uh
Speaker 4: not a bright town. I mean you know, it's cold,
Speaker 4: cold and strowing and Oh my goodness. Yeah, but we
Speaker 4: showed up and they would throw kids out there that
Speaker 4: didn't sometimes they didn't think, like its Arizona.
Speaker 3: I don't even know who we're playing it right? Is
Speaker 3: playing right?
Speaker 4: That's what you get from those kids West Virginia. Can
Speaker 4: he just came out and start playing right. I sat
Speaker 4: next to a guy at an establishment watching that game.
Speaker 4: Oh this this year, yeah it was, and he was
Speaker 4: from West Virginia, and he was telling me all about
Speaker 4: that kid and his dad who's the coach, And I
Speaker 4: mean he was a real At the end of that game,
Speaker 4: I knew everybody on the West Virginia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm sure he was pretty happy when he
Speaker 3: went to overtime.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I actually had to end up buying him
Speaker 4: a drink or two. Yeah, I think me you might.
Speaker 3: Have had a it's a wager or two. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well I even left early. Here's ten drink, you can
Speaker 4: have it. That's fine to me. It was a surprise.
Speaker 3: But they're pretty good in ranked twenty one, right, they've
Speaker 3: got the streak here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they're at home so big clubs. That's you know,
Speaker 4: you hear it the whole time. Now, is you got
Speaker 4: a hold court at your own Allison. Yeah, obviously West
Speaker 4: Virginia is is doing that.
Speaker 3: So I think at the beginning of the year, you
Speaker 3: think that Arizona, knowing what you knew about both schools
Speaker 3: or didn't know that they'd be able Okay, go in,
Speaker 3: win and get out.
Speaker 4: But that's not the case in the nowadays. And our
Speaker 4: team has that tendency to give up leads, right, and
Speaker 4: which is a surprise tough part to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I don't know if Tommy, you know, I
Speaker 4: could put a finger on it yet, but if he did,
Speaker 4: he could squash it. I think it's just some of
Speaker 4: those teams have that neck have kind of sometimes disappearing
Speaker 4: for a minute. Yeah, right, it's just they get kind
Speaker 4: of a lots of days ago and they don't go
Speaker 4: back to what they were doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's happened. Well, let's remember they beat Houston
Speaker 3: beat them not this way. Houston rough them up in
Speaker 3: the tournament. The next year they played Princeton, right, they
Speaker 3: were down like ten to twelve, and they came back
Speaker 3: and won that game. Last year, Clemson had that big
Speaker 3: lead there was on a storm back and didn't have enough.
Speaker 3: So it's kind of been varying, but he talks about
Speaker 3: this and he used a phrase last year that I
Speaker 3: really wish i'd remember, where you try to have enough
Speaker 3: wiggle room. You get that lead, and you have enough
Speaker 3: wiggle room too, just in case there mistakes.
Speaker 2: All.
Speaker 3: He's had two wiggle room games and one bit him. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the other one almost bit him. Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, that was tough to watch that. I don't know
Speaker 4: if it's uh. I think your team has to win
Speaker 4: one of those to get over that hump. I think
Speaker 4: they did, and I don't think they'll give up those
Speaker 4: leads again like that, But they have to stay focused.
Speaker 4: That's the biggest thing, is lack of focus when you
Speaker 4: get to that point.
Speaker 3: So let me ask you this because you were you
Speaker 3: were on one of the better teams in the history
Speaker 3: of Arizona, and you're an observer, I will say, and
Speaker 3: you know this bit of me. Yeah, you're an observer.
Speaker 3: Of the thirty one games, I think it was I
Speaker 3: could be more than that. How many times did you
Speaker 3: guys not stay focused?
Speaker 4: There were very few, but you had a great leader
Speaker 4: in Damon who wanted to squash people from the beginning
Speaker 4: to the end. That I think there's a there's a
Speaker 4: guy on every team that does that, and Damon was
Speaker 4: that guy and he led it. He wanted to score.
Speaker 4: You know, everybody stands before until we the other team
Speaker 4: scores at Miguel. He wanted to see how long he
Speaker 4: can make people stand and he throws some mathfs.
Speaker 3: I want to see how long I could make these
Speaker 3: mfors stand? Right, And you're like, whoa. And that was him,
Speaker 3: that was the dog in him so well. And he
Speaker 3: had some good observers too, because Colid was was the dude.
Speaker 3: They just kind of give me the ball man.
Speaker 4: Yes, and he needed Damon to push them, right, And
Speaker 4: that was if you had a team of Clid's no,
Speaker 4: everyone's like we're up twenty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of cruise it. And that's how we played.
Speaker 3: But you also have dudes like Griggie who fed off
Speaker 3: probably Damon, oh yeah, and you have JB who kind
Speaker 3: of maybe fed off a little from JBL from both.
Speaker 4: All those three guys are mostative guys I've ever met.
Speaker 4: Rays Right, he was the same, Right, He was a
Speaker 4: quiet dude. He was a quiet mean dude. He was
Speaker 4: a silent killer.
Speaker 3: We call him. Yeah, I don't think you never want
Speaker 3: to cross with.
Speaker 4: Drake no, no, but he that's you gotta have a
Speaker 4: team that's focused.
Speaker 3: And I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm not close enough to this team him to say
Speaker 4: that that's the deal.
Speaker 3: But I think the guy that and I said this
Speaker 3: when they lost to UCLA in Phoenix. Yeah, uh that
Speaker 3: if Caleb is not the guy and you and you
Speaker 3: think that they're going to live or die with kileb
Speaker 3: that Jayden.
Speaker 4: Has to be that guy. He's the dude that give
Speaker 4: me the ball I'm gonna take. And he did last game, right.
Speaker 3: He scored that the go ahead game, He goes downhill,
Speaker 3: he puts the pressure on the opponents. I think he's
Speaker 3: going to probably have to continue to do that the
Speaker 3: rest of the way. Right.
Speaker 4: It's kJ is good at the end of that last
Speaker 4: game too, and with two drives to the hoop. But
Speaker 4: it's the dumb turnovers, you know, just the lazy passes
Speaker 4: up top of the key.
Speaker 3: Those kill me. And you're watching and you're like, dude,
Speaker 3: you got to be right. The ball is most important.
Speaker 3: Keep that thing in your possession. That happened a couple
Speaker 3: of times.
Speaker 4: Always said if you got the ball, the other team
Speaker 4: can't score, right, right, So you need the ball I
Speaker 4: want the ball, so keep that ball handy, don't turn it,
Speaker 4: don't get sloppy with it, because that's what hurt him. Okay,
Speaker 4: let's go. We're gonna get ahold of Brian Peterson here
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Why on the Ball here on
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and today with
Speaker 3: me is mister Andy Brown. Now on the phone, we
Speaker 3: have Brian Peterston from azydisinitessform dot com. Brian, how are you?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great?
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, of course. Hey, big game tonight. How would
Speaker 3: or is it a big game tonight.
Speaker 2: I think it's it's a big game in that it
Speaker 2: can it can mean a lot to win this game
Speaker 2: and to pull off a road sweep right at the
Speaker 2: beginning of the conference against a pair of ranked teams.
Speaker 2: Losing the game isn't the end of the world. Maybe
Speaker 2: how it is lost would be if considering that West
Speaker 2: Virginia's missing the player that torched Arizona in the Bahamas,
Speaker 2: if they beat them in an equally in the same
Speaker 2: fashion or more, then it could be a little problematic
Speaker 2: for Arizona. But I think the fact that they started
Speaker 2: off this trip with a win a split is still
Speaker 2: considered a major success.
Speaker 3: You talked about end of the world. Give me remind
Speaker 3: me of of the Listen, your your readers, and you're
Speaker 3: the naysayers. They've had four or five end of the
Speaker 3: world lost.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's already been five season ending losses and the
Speaker 2: season has been cooked. I've heard that quite a bit.
Speaker 2: Predictions of no more than twelve wins for the entire season. Uh,
Speaker 2: don't forget fire, Tommy Lloyd, you know all the all
Speaker 2: those the usual things. It's and and even this last
Speaker 2: game because they gave up the lead. But didn't actually
Speaker 2: fall behind, but they blew the nineteen point lead. It
Speaker 2: doesn't matter that they want, it's that they gave up
Speaker 2: the lead. And that's it's you're never going to please everyone.
Speaker 4: We know that I wanted you hear that five season
Speaker 4: in Doomsday already.
Speaker 3: But you know that people ask you how's.
Speaker 4: Going on, the same crowd that leaves at eight minute
Speaker 4: mark when they're up by twenty. So I tell you what, man,
Speaker 4: the kids just got to stay at the course and
Speaker 4: play man, and.
Speaker 3: Hopefully they shut that stuff out and just play.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think that that I think they pretty
Speaker 2: much don't really pay attention to that stuff. But I
Speaker 2: think the team has definitely played better these last few games.
Speaker 2: They mean, it's far from perfect, but there just seems
Speaker 2: to be more of a not so much more of
Speaker 2: a plan, but more of an execution of that plan,
Speaker 2: and that people are figuring out what they are supposed
Speaker 2: to be doing and how they can do it best,
Speaker 2: and particular guys like Carter Bryant and Henry b Star
Speaker 2: take on more of a role and and fit well
Speaker 2: into what they're doing. Has been very important.
Speaker 4: And I think you know, you talk to Tommy every
Speaker 4: now and again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so hold that out. And and we covered
Speaker 3: Tommy obviously, And I think he's the perfect coach for
Speaker 3: the temperament of what needs to be done here because
Speaker 3: there ain't five there's no panic in him. He's okay,
Speaker 3: we're just gonna get better. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: It's not a it's not a freak out. No, he
Speaker 3: doesn't freak out. And that's why kids like playing for
Speaker 3: him too. He's not he's not the you know, the
Speaker 3: guy's gonna yell at him and scream at him all
Speaker 3: the time and and brow beat them.
Speaker 4: No, he's not Sean Miller. He's not the guy from
Speaker 4: a su.
Speaker 3: What's his name? You wouldn't say, you just don't say it.
Speaker 4: So he kids like playing for him because he is
Speaker 4: the positive. Guys gonna say, you know, keep shooting, keep
Speaker 4: doing this, keep doing this, but you gotta stay focused,
Speaker 4: you gotta you gotta get into the system and figure
Speaker 4: it out. Carter Bryant is the one of the best
Speaker 4: athletes I've seen come through in a while. But he's
Speaker 4: still he's still thinking the game because he's learning a
Speaker 4: new system.
Speaker 3: So, Brian, do you agree with my he's the like
Speaker 3: perfect temperament for this team.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean he he'll lay into them in
Speaker 2: practice and in the private moments and all that, but
Speaker 2: he's not a he's not to throw them under the bus.
Speaker 2: He's just somebody. No one's listening anyway. He's he's he's
Speaker 2: he He picked these guys and they picked him for
Speaker 2: a reason, and he's not gonna change that because of
Speaker 2: some poor performance. If there is poor behavior and attitude
Speaker 2: and all that, then maybe that would be the case.
Speaker 2: But I don't see that from these guys. And he's
Speaker 2: just like, Hey, we are a group and we're going
Speaker 2: to do this throughout the year. There's gonna be good
Speaker 2: times and bad times, and we have to be the
Speaker 2: same whether we're doing well or doing poorly in terms
Speaker 2: of our demeanor and everything.
Speaker 3: Is there a level? Is there a level of me?
Speaker 4: It's a combination of on a coach that you want
Speaker 4: to come and see some fire from him on the
Speaker 4: sidelines at sometimes. I saw a little bit of that
Speaker 4: during that game this last game where Tommy going into
Speaker 4: a timeout, he was he was pulling guys in. It
Speaker 4: was like, hey, figure this out right, but he was
Speaker 4: I kind of like to have a little more fire
Speaker 4: just a little bit.
Speaker 2: I can see that, and I know that there are
Speaker 2: a lot of fans that feel that way, especially since
Speaker 2: Tommy is not the stereotypical coach that like two three
Speaker 2: baskets in a row by the opponent and he immediately
Speaker 2: calls a timeout to kind of stop that. He wants
Speaker 2: to see if they can work their way through it.
Speaker 2: And there have been times where maybe he's waited too
Speaker 2: long to take a timeout, and the UCLA game was
Speaker 2: a pretty good example of that. But he was also
Speaker 2: down to one timeout because of some that had to
Speaker 2: be used in tie up loose ball situations, and he
Speaker 2: readily admits, maybe I should have done something different than that.
Speaker 2: But I think he doesn't want to be a micro
Speaker 2: managing coach. Sean Miller basically every time up and up
Speaker 2: the court was micromanaging every little thing, and Tommy and
Speaker 2: his staff are more like, Okay, I'll call out a play,
Speaker 2: but you know what you're supposed to do. I don't
Speaker 2: have to remind you as the plays going off, right.
Speaker 3: Right, allude to that to let him play, and then
Speaker 3: that's why you practice. You understood the time and circumstances
Speaker 3: and whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we usually did three or four trips up and down,
Speaker 4: up and down, up and down, and then that was
Speaker 4: kind of like that was the that was the tempo. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, and then then you.
Speaker 3: Did stop and you get on your So so, Brian
Speaker 3: with regard to Caleb, and you've been there when I've
Speaker 3: asked the question of time or two about Caleb's Uh,
Speaker 3: does this team ride with Caleb high and low? Maybe
Speaker 3: I can maybe soften that a little. They should, They
Speaker 3: could win without him being great. But I still think
Speaker 3: that he has to show up.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think that when he has a monster game,
Speaker 2: then good things are going to happen. But when he
Speaker 2: when he has an off game like he this past one,
Speaker 2: others have to step up. And maybe that wasn't there
Speaker 2: last year that when he was having a bad game
Speaker 2: and kept shooting, there wasn't anyone else who was filling
Speaker 2: in the void. But Jaden Bradley had fifteen points in
Speaker 2: this past game, Carter Bryant was over double figures. You
Speaker 2: had guys that we were doing things so that it
Speaker 2: wasn't just like, Okay, if Caleb has a bad game,
Speaker 2: then we're screwed. There's a little bit of a bounce,
Speaker 2: but you need to still let love take those shots
Speaker 2: and they're going to go in a fair enough amount
Speaker 2: of times that you're still going to get the good
Speaker 2: value out of that. I don't think he took necessarily
Speaker 2: any terrible shots. He had one bad turnover and maybe
Speaker 2: one three point shot that was a little too quick,
Speaker 2: I think in this past game. But otherwise, you know,
Speaker 2: no one ever gives credit to the opponent. Cincinnati was
Speaker 2: a top ten defensive team, TCU was a top ten
Speaker 2: defensive team, the top twenty defensive team, and West Virginia
Speaker 2: is the top twenty defensive team, and he scored twenty
Speaker 2: four against them. So the opponents have something to do
Speaker 2: with it. And if they are forcing a player into
Speaker 2: bad shots, they get some credit for that.
Speaker 3: What do you having played the position and he just
Speaker 3: had a different situation. But what do you make of
Speaker 3: Awaka and Townsend? Towns I like his shot.
Speaker 4: He can get a shot off, but he needs like
Speaker 4: three more inches, So what do you make of it?
Speaker 3: Bright of them?
Speaker 2: For me, I think Townsend is I mean, he is
Speaker 2: a great mid major player who at the power level
Speaker 2: is always going to be massively undersized, so he has
Speaker 2: to find ways to make the most of what he
Speaker 2: can do despite being against bigger guys, and I think
Speaker 2: he does. He's able to get shots up he needs to,
Speaker 2: despite the fact that he's only six to six, he
Speaker 2: still needs to be taking most shots close to the rim,
Speaker 2: even though it looks like a mismatch. I think people
Speaker 2: may defend him in a certain way that they don't
Speaker 2: think he can get the shot off a waka. You know,
Speaker 2: he gets his hand on almost every missshot. It's just
Speaker 2: a matter of whether or not he can hold on
Speaker 2: to it. It seems like he's really struggled with actually
Speaker 2: holding on to rebounds lately, and his offensive game really
Speaker 2: is is about putbacks and stuff really close to the basket.
Speaker 2: I don't see a lot of value in trying to
Speaker 2: run the offense through him. That the high low game
Speaker 2: just isn't there with him. It would probably actually be
Speaker 2: better with a guy like Towns and because he can
Speaker 2: get go up and down from Ken in the pass
Speaker 2: and going up much quicker.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I agree, I agree. I agree. The good thing.
Speaker 3: The good thing is I think that they have the
Speaker 3: bench now right with Henry, and they have kJ coming
Speaker 3: off the bench, and well, Dolors, he's another one that
Speaker 3: you have to kind of figure out he's got to
Speaker 3: hit some shots. If he's going to be serviceable, he's
Speaker 3: got hit at least three or four shots. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean he had the first five four or five
Speaker 2: points of the game against Cincinnati, and then he really
Speaker 2: didn't play much after that. And I think that was
Speaker 2: more they they were going with Vsar and Bryant and Townsend,
Speaker 2: a mix of those guys, and then having the three
Speaker 2: guards with Lewis out there, that that del Orso was
Speaker 2: the odd man out. But you know, it's not terrible
Speaker 2: to have an odd man out. These previous teams they
Speaker 2: had to have. They they had to use the same
Speaker 2: seven or eight guys and really had to rely heavily
Speaker 2: on them. If one of them doesn't really get to
Speaker 2: play very much because the other ones are doing well,
Speaker 2: then that's that's a good problem to have. And I
Speaker 2: believe that Tommy Lloyd has mentioned that the timeouts are
Speaker 2: a little longer in the big twelves. I guess to
Speaker 2: where he can play guys for more minutes. He doesn't
Speaker 2: have to rest guys as much because they have more
Speaker 2: of the TV rest, Like and Bradley played thirty eight
Speaker 2: minutes the last two games, and that's probably going to
Speaker 2: be the case. So even though they go eight deep,
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean that the three guys on the bench
Speaker 2: have to play thirty minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question. What about Henry, I think everyone's going
Speaker 3: to start to like how he's playing because he's playing
Speaker 3: on a cupboard trend and he's uh, he's you know,
Speaker 3: he's a stretch. He's the guy that Grant Jarrett should
Speaker 3: have been many years.
Speaker 2: Ago, remembering some guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you think all the time he was a stretch
Speaker 4: five and then he was here. I'm not going to
Speaker 4: be here anymore. I gotta go. But you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, he's perfect for this. If he hits maybe
Speaker 4: a shot or two from the perimeter. He I made
Speaker 4: mention he would playing with such better feat this last
Speaker 4: couple of games, he just seems more confident on it
Speaker 4: where he is in his own skin, so making someone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he doesn't have to take or make many
Speaker 2: of those outs, just even the threat of it works.
Speaker 2: And this last game against Cincinnati, there were multiple times
Speaker 2: where see when Awaka is out on the perimeter for
Speaker 2: ball screen and all that they don't have to guard
Speaker 2: him when he gets the ball because they know he's
Speaker 2: not taking that shot, and he's probably also not going
Speaker 2: to drive, so it's basically a five on four. But
Speaker 2: when Vsar's out there, they have to pay attention to
Speaker 2: him because he may try to drive, he may try
Speaker 2: to shoot, and there were multiple times where he kind
Speaker 2: of did a little bit of a pump fake, then
Speaker 2: started to drive and then passed out to a wide
Speaker 2: open three. That is that's where his value is more
Speaker 2: than anything else, just the threat of the fact that
Speaker 2: if he has the ball out there, he can do
Speaker 2: something with it a waka. They didn't have that, and
Speaker 2: same with Crebus. Those are not things that those guys
Speaker 2: were going to do now. I still he hasn't faced
Speaker 2: like the super physical big man yet in the Big twelve,
Speaker 2: so that's where I need to see what he can do.
Speaker 2: He's he you know, West Virginia is an undersized team.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati was long, but they weren't like massive in the
Speaker 2: front court, and TCU wasn't particularly big in the front
Speaker 2: court either. If he's going up against big, physical guys,
Speaker 2: that's where I want to see him on a defensive
Speaker 2: side and being able to post up. Well.
Speaker 3: I think it's obvious too that we're gonna see eight dudes.
Speaker 3: He feels more comfortable with eight guys than nine or ten,
Speaker 3: you know, and that's typically what he used to do anyway. Right,
Speaker 3: If he feels a trust in those eight, he's gonna
Speaker 3: stay with those eight part of the rest of the way,
Speaker 3: even with the guard.
Speaker 2: Certainly, and you'll, I mean, you'll have opportunities here and
Speaker 2: there where Conrad will play a little bit. And then
Speaker 2: I mean, heck, I wouldn't be surprised, not this game,
Speaker 2: but UCF on Saturday if he tries to get both
Speaker 2: Conrad and the Emmanuel Stephan maybe like two or three
Speaker 2: minutes in the first half. Kind of the equivalent of
Speaker 2: the NBA regimen where you have your starters sit the
Speaker 2: last minute or two of the first quarter and the
Speaker 2: first few of the second quarter to save them for later,
Speaker 2: just to be able to get those guys in there
Speaker 2: and save the other player's legs. But it really does
Speaker 2: come down to those eight and eight is better than seven,
Speaker 2: and they've had seven in the past. Now it would
Speaker 2: be nine if if Creebus hadn't been hurt. So, but
Speaker 2: you don't just automatically bring another guy into the rotation
Speaker 2: because someone's hurt. You change the opportunities and roles for
Speaker 2: the eight.
Speaker 3: To both of you, and you've covered the team a
Speaker 3: long time, Brian to know this. I think that historically
Speaker 3: Arizona being called out or not being recognized or whatever
Speaker 3: words you want to use, helps them because they have
Speaker 3: a chip on their shoulder. Historically that's just been the case.
Speaker 3: Arizona's already been cutted out. They're not even the top
Speaker 3: twenty five, YadA YadA, and they play differently. They just
Speaker 3: played to prove themselves.
Speaker 2: Well. I think they play the way that people thought
Speaker 2: they were supposed to because and maybe they're not playing
Speaker 2: any differently, but it's because there's this now belief, okay,
Speaker 2: they're not to be good that when they do play well,
Speaker 2: it's like where has this been? It's been the whole way.
Speaker 2: It's just, you know, it's it's not manifested into wins.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think any of the games that
Speaker 2: they've lost they played terrible. They had bad stretches, but
Speaker 2: they also were playing very good teams. I think Wisconsin
Speaker 2: is the only one of the teams they've played this
Speaker 2: year that has more than two losses, and Oklahoma just
Speaker 2: lost its first game. The other day, Duke is top
Speaker 2: ten and is you know, going to run away with
Speaker 2: its conference. They've played good teams, they just haven't beaten
Speaker 2: any good teams until they got to Cincinnati. And maybe
Speaker 2: Cincinnati isn't as good as their ranking, but it's still
Speaker 2: It's a road win in the Big Twelve, and you
Speaker 2: know they're going here with West Virginia. The road sweeps
Speaker 2: were always hard to get in the Pac twelve with
Speaker 2: the travel and all that you'd play two games in
Speaker 2: three days, but there were I think there were like
Speaker 2: six of them last year and Arizona had one. There
Speaker 2: were only three road sweeps out of thirty five opportunities
Speaker 2: last year in the Big twelve, and Arizona has a
Speaker 2: chance to get one on its first try.
Speaker 3: Nice let me ask you, you've I know you're trumping
Speaker 3: as a bit to get to spring practice with football.
Speaker 3: What do you think that how do you think that
Speaker 3: Brendan has done to this point with the portal and
Speaker 3: handling stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think they've made them the best of
Speaker 2: a bad situation with the need to overhaul so much,
Speaker 2: and they still have more guys they need to get.
Speaker 2: But I think that this they these are guys they
Speaker 2: want rather than guys they were given. And I'm sure
Speaker 2: that to some that's going to sound like a cop out,
Speaker 2: but I think it's a lot easier for coaches to
Speaker 2: coach the guys that they want rather than the ones
Speaker 2: that they're handed. And especially when those players have had
Speaker 2: success with a previous coach, you're you're just assuming that
Speaker 2: it will translate over into success with this coach. But
Speaker 2: styles are different and all that, blah blah blah. That's
Speaker 2: why you see a lot of these guys are following
Speaker 2: Jed up to Washington because that is something that worked
Speaker 2: for them. Now, these guys who all have chosen to
Speaker 2: come here either signing out a high school, junior college,
Speaker 2: or the transfer portal, they're doing it specifically for what
Speaker 2: they believe this coaching staff can do for them. And
Speaker 2: so the spring is going to be a great opportunity
Speaker 2: to see what this coaching staff can do as far
Speaker 2: as developing and putting together the players that it has assembled,
Speaker 2: rather than trying to, you know, slide in to a
Speaker 2: pre existing condition, if.
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Speaker 3: I have a long list of people and sometimes they
Speaker 3: say yes, sometimes they say no. It depends on the schedule. Yep.
Speaker 4: Sometimes life gets in the way. You feel like I'm
Speaker 4: nut sometimes. Still you've got my boy wanting here. Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: helping me out. Obviously you're here. Tomorrow should be yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: school starts next week. Yeah, unfortunately, got to get back
Speaker 4: to all right, I should be I should be thankful.
Speaker 3: That's my last one, your last semester. All right, hopefully nice.
Speaker 3: You've got to pass those classes first.
Speaker 2: First things.
Speaker 3: First, can be an athlete and say, you know, what
Speaker 3: the hell my last measure? The hell with that. My
Speaker 3: GPA is what it is. As long as I get
Speaker 3: out of there with the sea, I'm good. Yeah. See
Speaker 3: he's getting degrees.
Speaker 4: They do. I remember getting a CEA in a class
Speaker 4: cost accounting, first County Classic, took upper managed, upper class,
Speaker 4: and I walked into the last day and I go
Speaker 4: in my passing his class. He said, we'll see how
Speaker 4: you doing the final. I got a in the final,
Speaker 4: failed everything else. You gave me a scene and said
Speaker 4: you should probably change your major. You're more like a
Speaker 4: finance guy. Okay, good idea. You'll never see me again, Luke,
Speaker 4: howit's turned out. Thanks for the scene.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you probably when you do the Hall of Fame, says, oh,
Speaker 3: by the way, my accounting what's it was.
Speaker 4: It account classes, County cost accounting. Remember his name, No,
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: You can just say in your Hall of Fame speak
Speaker 3: and by the way, I want to thank you. Really,
Speaker 3: I have to my accounting professor who got me out
Speaker 3: of the professional.
Speaker 4: I just remember him going, mister Brown, what are you
Speaker 4: doing here? I'm here to take the final. He goes, well,
Speaker 4: you need an A. I go, I know, yeah, I
Speaker 4: did that. I did that in a freshman math algebra.
Speaker 4: I went to my first class. It was seven thirty
Speaker 4: in the morning.
Speaker 3: I hated. I hate the mornings. Went took a couple
Speaker 3: of classes and it was self paced pace, self paced,
Speaker 3: and I and I did okay, I did okay, But
Speaker 3: I didn't go to class, and so they went to
Speaker 3: the last class to take the final. He didn't have me,
Speaker 3: So you're in the classes, said yeah, I've been in
Speaker 3: the classes day one.
Speaker 2: Because I don't have you on the list.
Speaker 3: I said, I've been here. I mean, I've been here
Speaker 3: before at least twice. And you don't have to do
Speaker 3: exactly what you're past. Okay, And I pulled it off. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: Now I'm a finance guy. Yeah that was And that
Speaker 3: was a journalist. So hell with that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, he didn't need math. No, I was bro No,
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Speaker 4: We love to hear from you. We haven't heard from anybody.
Speaker 4: I've been gone for this break. It was pretty nice.
Speaker 4: It was nice two days. I actually I had another
Speaker 4: question for Brian. I wish we could have had more
Speaker 4: time with him. I wanted to see I wanted to
Speaker 4: ask him if he thought coach has done enough to
Speaker 4: fill his coordinator spots or filling in his well coach.
Speaker 3: The big mystery is what's going to happen with the
Speaker 3: defensive coordinator? Right, and and we can kind of speculate
Speaker 3: that he hasn't announced it by now, right after a
Speaker 3: month or so after.
Speaker 4: This, so everybody's kind of taken up, right, The people
Speaker 4: that you would think you would go after are kind
Speaker 4: of gone and tied up.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: It might make some shifts in the in house.
Speaker 4: Sows you're gonna internally promote promote from within?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Is that a good idea? Or is it? I
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you though this because Brian, one of
Speaker 4: your listeners, asked me that question. Oh yeah, you want
Speaker 4: me to bring it up? Yeah, but you know, he
Speaker 4: wasn't too happy about the non moving of what right
Speaker 4: you know, I understand totally. Let me ask you a
Speaker 4: question that you can answer or not answer. But he
Speaker 4: brought up the fact that Brian died about players coming
Speaker 4: to play here wanting to play for for Brennan. Right,
Speaker 4: you're coming here for a reason. You want to play
Speaker 4: for him. You want to come to a good school,
Speaker 4: have a chance to play. Uh and as opposed to
Speaker 4: what you were inherited. And I when I have talked
Speaker 4: to I've said there was some and I actually this
Speaker 4: all the time. People are saying, shut up, Steve, there
Speaker 4: was disconnect between the past and the present and that
Speaker 4: sometimes you know, you said, that's not how we used
Speaker 4: to do it. Why are we doing now?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Right? And they have a hard time playing for a
Speaker 3: coach like we gotta call you know what I'm saying, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I guess that part. Yeah, yeah, Hey, welcome to the ball.
Speaker 2: Who's just.
Speaker 11: Steve.
Speaker 14: This is John John Good. I love the show and
Speaker 14: all that your your guests, But I wanted to tag.
Speaker 14: I wanted to tag onto the academics. Many years ago,
Speaker 14: I was in college. I was in college in Michigan
Speaker 14: and it was freezing in the winter, and I had
Speaker 14: a you know.
Speaker 3: Like a seven thirty eight.
Speaker 14: O'clock in the morning algebra yeah class, and couldn't make it.
Speaker 14: And I ended up going in and told the lady, Uh,
Speaker 14: I've had personal problems and gotta see.
Speaker 3: So did you go to class at all? Maybe a
Speaker 3: few times? You know, same deal. Yeah, I said, I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna get it. It is self faced anyway, I
Speaker 3: take my classes in nice. Oh, crass was easy for me.
Speaker 3: Me too, That's why I didn't do it. That's why
Speaker 3: I didn't worry about it. It was easy until again, well
Speaker 3: then I have to really do well at the end. No,
Speaker 3: I get it. To get Any thoughts on the basketball
Speaker 3: team tonight?
Speaker 14: The game, Yeah, well I'm excited. I think it should
Speaker 14: be a good game. I you know, I'm buying all
Speaker 14: the platforms, the ESPN Plus and uh YouTube TV and
Speaker 14: all that, and uh.
Speaker 15: You know, I hope it's a good game.
Speaker 2: That's what you want.
Speaker 14: I want to win, But if it's a good game,
Speaker 14: that's exciting. There's a lot of pressure on the young guys. Yeah,
Speaker 14: and uh, you know, I hope we're evolving and make
Speaker 14: it to the tournament.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think you're You're in lockstep with everybody else
Speaker 3: in this town because I think there's still some doubt, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of doubt. Yeah, people like we.
Speaker 4: Don't not going to make the tournament, Yeah, which would
Speaker 4: be kind of and that's a reaction.
Speaker 3: I mean I probably said it three or four times over.
Speaker 14: The last four games, respectfully respects even in the uh
Speaker 14: loud Olson era that I I took graduate classes for
Speaker 14: twenty years so I could get student seats and take
Speaker 14: my kids and.
Speaker 3: Went all those games.
Speaker 14: And now it's hard for me to get down there.
Speaker 2: But uh, you know, the.
Speaker 14: Games I really enjoyed were the ones that went down
Speaker 14: to the wire, not the blowouts, even though you got
Speaker 14: to see the gummies. But you know, I saw that
Speaker 14: Craig McMillan and all, uh you know that Hail Mary
Speaker 14: lay up or whatever he did, and a lot of.
Speaker 2: Great games, and uh, enjoy the show.
Speaker 3: Thank mcshotshot. Yeah, thanks a bunch for the call. We
Speaker 3: got another call, good call, thank you. Oh you're on
Speaker 3: the air. And I on the ball.
Speaker 2: Who's this Facatiously, I'm gonna say it's Howard.
Speaker 3: Oh, Howard scored Howard. You're alive? Were new Year?
Speaker 15: Okay? I know, yeah, we're did You said that good
Speaker 15: guy that torched just the last time. And it's so
Speaker 15: rare to have played two games against the same team,
Speaker 15: no matter if you're in their conference or not, as
Speaker 15: we all know, being when tournaments, that will happen. Anyway,
Speaker 15: that said, the guy not there, I guess is that
Speaker 15: the reason why I think we're gonna win anyway, even if.
Speaker 2: He was there.
Speaker 15: But we're only we're two and a half point favorite,
Speaker 15: as you probably know, Steve, No.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that. That's about right, I guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah said this morning. That's what I saw this morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it makes sense. I don't know how hostile
Speaker 3: the crowd will be because it's not school time right now,
Speaker 3: but and it's cold and snowy. Well, that's true. Maybe
Speaker 3: their kids aren't there.
Speaker 4: Right or the people because it's going to be hard
Speaker 4: to get to too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 15: Well you telling me that, I'm pretty positive that we're
Speaker 15: gonna the U of A is gonna win by whatever.
Speaker 15: Half to that the Sun's better win by against a
Speaker 15: really crappy Charlotte Hornet's team.
Speaker 3: Hey, real quickly with your sons, you like him, they
Speaker 3: haven't been playing well, then Bill's Benson.
Speaker 15: We're we're playing at the bad level where we were.
Speaker 15: Finally we needed to bring Beale off the bench.
Speaker 2: You know, it's we are weird.
Speaker 15: But you when Booker and Beale play the same position,
Speaker 15: you need to bring the guy that that that's kind
Speaker 15: of that's more injury prone off of the bench and
Speaker 15: who has no trade clause and they are getting a
Speaker 15: swing of it. He needed to be brought off the
Speaker 15: bench and we wouldn't be in the Holy are just
Speaker 15: like the lowly Warriors. I mean we're a little worse,
Speaker 15: but I mean we're way better team than the Warriors
Speaker 15: don't have they.
Speaker 3: Don't have anything.
Speaker 15: That's why they need to get Jimmy Butler worse than
Speaker 15: the Suns. Or they really want to try to get
Speaker 15: Miles Turner out of Indiana.
Speaker 2: That's that's their rumors.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, Well, I'm gonna take off my Golden State
Speaker 4: attire now and move on you bye bye, Okay, Howard's
Speaker 4: our Phoenix course, bond I get it locally locally. Uh,
Speaker 4: we'll see you know, Bidy Bill, would you rather have
Speaker 4: breda bal or what's his name from from Miami? Butler?
Speaker 4: Butler Butler? Yeah, but they're both. They're both well. Butler's
Speaker 4: also kind of headache. Butler's due though.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I like him. I think, well, he's obviously not
Speaker 3: happy where he is.
Speaker 10: He's that player that you need, Like we've talked about
Speaker 10: that ala, just the guy that you know they're going
Speaker 10: to take the shot and whether they make it or not,
Speaker 10: you know it's gonna Yeah.
Speaker 4: Alpha just just a mean dog autpha. They don't have
Speaker 4: an alpha.
Speaker 3: They need an alpha they need or he needs to
Speaker 3: show or if he's there, he needs to start showing up.
Speaker 3: He got a bunch of a minus. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, I think Bradley is still that kind of a
Speaker 4: I like him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gonna have to be last.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 3: I thought he was selfish the whole Yeah, and he
Speaker 3: finishes he.
Speaker 4: Said like I said, he's selfish or looks selfish, but
Speaker 4: you need selfish.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Hey, by the way, I have to we're gonna be
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Speaker 3: right maybe see they're gonna have the the Mobe seasonal selections,
Speaker 3: Citrus Orange, Honey Chicken Wings. Have you been there? Oh
Speaker 3: it sounds I'm gonna have something next Thursday, the the
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Speaker 2: We do.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I think it's probably just automatic digital, Yeah,
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Speaker 4: How about the new golf, the new golf that McElroy
Speaker 4: is coming out with, the digital Golf.
Speaker 3: It's a whole digital golf league playing video games. Anybody
Speaker 3: and anybody's like you do on all with kids. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they yeah, and they're playing. I know it'll be horrible
Speaker 3: to that, but that's at least somewhere I don't have
Speaker 3: to chase the ball. Start.
Speaker 4: I guess that starts this weekend. I think it's why
Speaker 4: I don't play, because I don't get my ball in
Speaker 4: the snake land. Maybe it'll come up on the hot
Speaker 4: news here and.
Speaker 3: I use the scuba gear to get the ball from
Speaker 3: the leak because my ball my my golf balls.
Speaker 2: Love the leak.
Speaker 3: Can't this?
Speaker 4: My wife goes, hey, I want to buy your uh
Speaker 4: your future future son in lawesome golf balls.
Speaker 3: What kind of you like?
Speaker 4: I go free l golfers like free golf ball You
Speaker 4: kidding me?
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what kind they are. They're free.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're gonna have like fifteen ye second sports rider.
Speaker 4: The reason you get into this business free food, free food. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the food. We don't get the free food anymore. Oh
Speaker 4: my goodness. You got the same food up there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh yeah, because you're up there hot and the chickens,
Speaker 3: chicken chicken tenders.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm not complaining as good salt. You know you're you're
Speaker 3: a student.
Speaker 4: Yeah, free food, but after sixteen years of it, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's how long I've been up there. You've been up
Speaker 4: there long enough than that. But I don't go to
Speaker 4: football games that much anymore. But it's it's yeah, I
Speaker 4: go for the sodas now, Yeah, sodas and the chips
Speaker 4: and salsa.
Speaker 3: That is what it is. Okay, we're ready to go.
Speaker 3: Can we breaking news on the other side? Okay, cool,