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Speaker 2: Now we have Henry with breaking news.
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Speaker 3: Arizona Baseball is currently playing their opening day game. They
Speaker 3: are losing too nothing to ole Miss after six innings.
Speaker 2: Who got the first start? Who's the picture? I don't know.
Speaker 2: You could tell me Jim blowing out.
Speaker 4: Well, they're playing in that thing over at the Texas
Speaker 4: Rangers Stadium.
Speaker 5: It was the big deal.
Speaker 4: It's like kind of like a like a preseedon like
Speaker 4: Maui Classic or the preseason. I don't know for the
Speaker 4: last few or two years ago, but they played in
Speaker 4: it before. But it's a big deal over at over
Speaker 4: at the Texas Rangers Stadium in Arlington.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They play Onson tomorrow and Louisville on Sunday. Travis Hunter
Speaker 3: has officially entered for the Combine as a cornerback.
Speaker 4: Interesting, you know, Dion Sanders was on the number of
Speaker 4: those radio road shows, you know, super Bowl and you know,
Speaker 4: basically saying, you know, why can't he play both? You know,
Speaker 4: because they were trying to pin him down, and he
Speaker 4: wouldn't be pinned on, you know, you know which he
Speaker 4: thinks he's got a better shot at.
Speaker 5: He said he can play both.
Speaker 4: He's an athlete, you know, but it's a lot harder
Speaker 4: in the NFL. Receiver he played some receipts, not like
Speaker 4: a guy that went out there and was you know,
Speaker 4: like like like like yeah, like he'd like Travis Hunter
Speaker 4: did it. You know, he wasn't all, you know, a
Speaker 4: primary receiver and a starting cornerback.
Speaker 5: He played.
Speaker 4: He played cornerback, but he would play receiver a few
Speaker 4: plays a game.
Speaker 2: I couldn't remember that, I know. Yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3: College basketball this weekend, Number one Auburn takes on number
Speaker 3: two Alabama tomorrow, that is at at Alabama.
Speaker 5: Alabama's giving points in that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Number sixteen Wisconsin at number seven Purdue, and number
Speaker 3: twenty four creating at number nine Saint John's.
Speaker 2: This year, have you paid attention to the kind of Yeah,
Speaker 2: this year has been Bonker's good. Yeah, because last week
Speaker 2: last that Tuesday night when they played. Everybody's playing the
Speaker 2: top twenty teams, right, Everyone's playing everybody, and there's a
Speaker 2: lot of there's a lot of good teams outside of
Speaker 2: Auburn and Alabama and that are.
Speaker 5: Really good, right. I mean, look at look again.
Speaker 4: You know, Joseph Darky mentioned Kansas, right, they've got five
Speaker 4: conference last time. Look at luk at Yukon right, And
Speaker 4: you can tell Danny Early is so frustrated that he
Speaker 4: had mouth off to the Creighton fans the other night
Speaker 4: when you know when they beat Creighton. You know it's
Speaker 4: clearly getting to him too. You know, the whole don't
Speaker 4: turn your back on me. I'm the best fing college
Speaker 4: basketball coach ever.
Speaker 5: That's good, you know. So you know the fact that
Speaker 5: you know some of these teams are having.
Speaker 4: A tough go tell you what, you know, how great
Speaker 4: college basketball is. You know that Arizona's you know, at
Speaker 4: the top of the Big twelve Conference.
Speaker 2: Well, this is the whole thing. And I'm sure it
Speaker 2: gives hope to your buddies and to people who follow
Speaker 2: Arizona basketball all the time. And I've heard this thousands
Speaker 2: of times, and she all he have to do is
Speaker 2: do what the ninety seven team did go in and
Speaker 2: get hot and double. Could this team do it? Yes, likely,
Speaker 2: not likely, but but that's the whole right.
Speaker 5: That's right. If it's happened before, it can happen again.
Speaker 2: Sure, and this team and this team if Caleb got hot,
Speaker 2: and I still say they're going to need Caleb at
Speaker 2: some point to get on a roll. And if he
Speaker 2: got in a role.
Speaker 4: When he's at his best, he's one of the five
Speaker 4: or ten best college basketball players in the country.
Speaker 2: Even Kelvin said that they're earlier.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he's not come he kills you because you're
Speaker 4: counting on him, and then you're not anything from sure.
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 6: NBA All Star Weekend is this weekend.
Speaker 3: We've got the Celebrity Game and Rising Stars Challenge tonight tomorrow,
Speaker 3: the Skills Challenge, three point and Dunk Contest, and All
Speaker 3: Star Game is on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Could you care any less?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: You know, I didn't know it was this weekend, and Henry,
Speaker 4: I'm not you know, I'm I'm on Twitter and and
Speaker 4: you know I see stuff, But I I had no
Speaker 4: idea that this was it was the All Star Game.
Speaker 2: Do you you know what the biggest drug would have
Speaker 2: been the three point Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Klen declined it.
Speaker 5: I think so.
Speaker 4: No, I I care about as much as I care
Speaker 4: about as much about that as I did about the
Speaker 4: Flag football Pro Bowl.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't watch any of that either.
Speaker 6: The Eagles had their Super Bowl parade earlier.
Speaker 5: Today, and I can't how many people died.
Speaker 6: It looks like this.
Speaker 2: Your that's your neighborhood. Would you if your team, if
Speaker 2: your team would would win. Yeah, maybe you're gone and
Speaker 2: you're back in New York, And would you go if
Speaker 2: it was like fifteen degrees? I think you got to
Speaker 2: because they finally won.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if it's like there, like how many years ago,
Speaker 3: a few years ago, if it's like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, first, if you're you're not a giant, right, you're.
Speaker 3: A yeah, like yeah, if your team's first championship in
Speaker 3: a while, if you should.
Speaker 6: Go, no matter what the weather is, I'm watching from TV.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what, I I don't know that I
Speaker 4: would because I'm an old guy and just didn't win
Speaker 4: one of a million.
Speaker 2: You know, you were coming back, you were coming back
Speaker 2: from Indy. Were you the next day when they had
Speaker 2: the Yeah? Yeah we missed the parade. Yeah, I missed it.
Speaker 4: We were we were flying back with a really bad hangover.
Speaker 4: There's anything worse than getting on a plane with a
Speaker 4: horrible hangover and no sleep. Well, if you didn't throw
Speaker 4: in the kids too, right, and we had and we
Speaker 4: had kids who had gotten no sleep either, that was
Speaker 4: one of the worst playing rides back ever.
Speaker 2: Well, the night before was pretty good.
Speaker 5: Night before it was pretty fun, exactly. I don't want
Speaker 5: anybody to think it was. It was totally worth it, absolutely, That's.
Speaker 6: All I got.
Speaker 2: Okay, and we have time if anybody wants else to
Speaker 2: call five two o four one six seventy four forty.
Speaker 2: We appreciate your calls. Talk about tomorrow's big game.
Speaker 5: Again, Steve, I, I I.
Speaker 2: Got a text friend because you make sure you bored me,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 4: To me, I just hope our fans are having fun
Speaker 4: and not and not with the same level of angst
Speaker 4: that the Pac twelve gave them because you felt like
Speaker 4: they should win every single Pack twelve game.
Speaker 5: That this is this is fun.
Speaker 4: It should be fun because a team is you're playing
Speaker 4: teams that you can here, and then it's supposed to
Speaker 4: be more fun than that. How much fun do you
Speaker 4: have it? A thirty three point win over State. You
Speaker 4: don't there, there's awful and all the games sound familiar.
Speaker 4: So let me say this, because you you're on Twitter
Speaker 4: stupidly like me and Facebook stupid ly like me. Do
Speaker 4: you still get pissed or whatever word I want you
Speaker 4: can use about the people talking about the games and saying, oh,
Speaker 4: this is yeah, God, here's.
Speaker 5: What I wanted to do the other day. It was.
Speaker 5: It was. It was when when Arizona beat Iowa State.
Speaker 4: Okay, that that incredible game, right, And I went looking
Speaker 4: for the tweet from the guy who started the fire
Speaker 4: Tommy hashtag back at the end of the conference season,
Speaker 4: and I wanted to.
Speaker 5: Call him out. I wanted to I wanted to.
Speaker 2: Repost it because I found it.
Speaker 4: I wanted to repost it and crack and he it
Speaker 4: was the original guy who posted it. But then there
Speaker 4: are a bunch of people who kept saying Tommy's not
Speaker 4: the guy. He could get rid of him. He's he's not,
Speaker 4: And I'm like you, I want to say, the word
Speaker 4: is what do you think now?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 5: What do you think now?
Speaker 4: And I and then I thought that guy wants me
Speaker 4: to repost his posts, so I didn't, but I wanted
Speaker 4: to go back there, And then I wanted to send
Speaker 4: him a private message and say you aren't freaking butt head,
Speaker 4: you know, because I'm like, who are you?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well that's the whole thing one, And I'm not sure
Speaker 2: I'm guilty of this because I'm more of a watcher
Speaker 2: than reader than a poster. Uh. No one, No one
Speaker 2: gives a crap of what you're thinking, what you say.
Speaker 2: No one's gonna say, I wonder what builds thinking?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 2: You know who's who's a carpenter and builds boat ships
Speaker 2: or sorry?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 2: You know what do you know?
Speaker 4: People care what you know? Frankfurt Silla, who's coming on?
Speaker 4: People care what he thinks? Sure, because he's national media.
Speaker 4: You know his his opinion can affect how things, you know,
Speaker 4: come out. But you know, Joe blow in his mama's basement. No,
Speaker 4: we don't give a crap what you But it bothers
Speaker 4: me because to me, when somebody posts a fire Tommy thing,
Speaker 4: it's it's like personal. I'd say, you don't even know him,
Speaker 4: You have no idea well about his family, who he is,
Speaker 4: how good a coach is? You know nothing, and then
Speaker 4: you bring out your stupid opinion.
Speaker 5: On something like that.
Speaker 4: Just sit there and say, hey, you know, but I
Speaker 4: don't think Tommy's doing the great top fine.
Speaker 2: And here's my problem with it is that they don't
Speaker 2: know what it takes to win the game, right. You know,
Speaker 2: you probably the guy who's postion is probably five minute
Speaker 2: state to work. You know what I'm saying, Yeah, you
Speaker 2: have issues at your place, and you're coming here to
Speaker 2: tell him he's not the guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that he's not the guy.
Speaker 4: You have no idea who the guy is, right, And
Speaker 4: then it just bothers me when people do that, because
Speaker 4: I think it's so personal when people do that.
Speaker 2: And it's well, buckle up for the next three four weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but Steve or throw your computer away. No, I'd like
Speaker 2: to think that it's good.
Speaker 4: This is I mean, this is a transition for for
Speaker 4: Arizona fan to understand what Arizona is up against being
Speaker 4: in the Big twelve ye specifically in basketball that you know,
Speaker 4: it's just darn different.
Speaker 2: We got a call. Yeah, Hello, you're on the airline
Speaker 2: of the moment. It's Rick.
Speaker 10: Hey, you know you said, I heard you guys talking
Speaker 10: about Caleb Glove and this terrible shooting night. One of
Speaker 10: the things that people don't take into consideration is the
Speaker 10: threat regardless of the shooting. He is a threat, and
Speaker 10: the other teams are very aware of what a threat
Speaker 10: he really is. And when he's not hitting, other people
Speaker 10: are picking up the slack. Now, maybe not the slack
Speaker 10: that we need or would like to have, but at
Speaker 10: the end of the day, he is such a formidable
Speaker 10: opponent that people have to pay attention to who he
Speaker 10: is and if he's not, they're in trouble. If he's not,
Speaker 10: Arizona can still play basketball regardless. And I liked the
Speaker 10: idea about the gray area you guys are talking about.
Speaker 10: And I coached baseball for five years. Give me a
Speaker 10: kid that's having a bad day out in the field,
Speaker 10: I can I can live with it. Give me a
Speaker 10: kid that's got an attitude adjustment he's on the bench. Yeah,
Speaker 10: that is the way coaches think because we're in the
Speaker 10: human business and just happened to be guys playing basketball
Speaker 10: right now.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, have a good day. I hope you
Speaker 2: put some gray, some Greecian formula in that gray area here.
Speaker 10: Oh I don't need it. The ladies like my gray.
Speaker 2: Brought it up.
Speaker 10: I'm thanks, goodbye, Jim.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so I want to talk more about the
Speaker 2: gray area. Maybe we can find that clip just where
Speaker 2: he talks about that great. Maybe we talked to Fran
Speaker 2: about that. Explain it to me. It was towards the
Speaker 2: end of the press conference. Okay, we'll look for it.
Speaker 2: We'll look for it just because I'm interested, because maybe
Speaker 2: that's what games are won and lost, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. And it's pretty more like what we talk
Speaker 2: about the psychological part of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll find it during the break, Henry, and we'll
Speaker 4: queue it up. But yeah, there is so much. I mean,
Speaker 4: we know way less. I'm trying to find. There's way
Speaker 4: more that we don't know about coaching than we do know.
Speaker 4: You know, we know about two percent of what it's
Speaker 4: like to be a coach, and ninety eight percent is
Speaker 4: a mystery to.
Speaker 2: Oh of course, Well let me remind you what you
Speaker 2: told the media group back to the early nineties. I
Speaker 2: know more about basketball and this little big game, you
Speaker 2: guys know it.
Speaker 5: That's the thing.
Speaker 4: We don't know what goes into a coach when they
Speaker 4: make you know, when they make a sub why they're
Speaker 4: playing a certain guy. You know, like those of us
Speaker 4: who are sitting here thinking Carter Brian should be a starter. Right, Well,
Speaker 4: there's something that Tommy sees in practice every day and
Speaker 4: how he's using him and what he thinks he's capable
Speaker 4: of to say he's better for us coming off the bench.
Speaker 2: No, there's a method to the matter.
Speaker 5: Do I think, for instance, do I think Carter brant is?
Speaker 4: I think he's a better player than either Trey Townsend
Speaker 4: or Dell or so. But but there's something that those
Speaker 4: two guys bring that we don't see that Tommy does.
Speaker 5: That says those two guys need to start, and he's.
Speaker 2: Talked about that. Where why why fix something that's not broken.
Speaker 2: They're doing well, how they're doing. Why mess with it?
Speaker 2: And everything's okay?
Speaker 4: My son, Ke's smacking me in the face when I
Speaker 4: tell it with that comment exactly, he says, When I
Speaker 4: say that Carter Brian should be starting, he says, Dad,
Speaker 4: they're winning all these games with what they're doing.
Speaker 5: Why are you going to change that?
Speaker 2: Wait? Wait, wait so that grasshopper, I don't Holy crap,
Speaker 2: you could be my assistant here, not Jen.
Speaker 5: He would be a much better host.
Speaker 2: Get him on the line. Let's go and take a break.
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Speaker 1: now at five to two oh four, one six, seventy
Speaker 1: four to forty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to one in the ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in today would
Speaker 2: be Jakinsaw's knowing the po we have frand for Schella,
Speaker 2: who'd be be covering the game tomorrow for ESPN. Friend,
Speaker 2: how the heck are you?
Speaker 5: They're a good Steve.
Speaker 16: I'm in town watch practice today and they they got
Speaker 16: us up at Rose Vintanna Canyon, which is beautiful.
Speaker 5: Oh my tough, holy cow, tough life. Yeah, you like
Speaker 5: to stay here for a week?
Speaker 2: Life, They're gonna change the title of Life of Riley
Speaker 2: to Life of France.
Speaker 5: Friend, this, I wish I could.
Speaker 16: I wish I could stay more than one day, but
Speaker 16: I'll be off to Waco for the next game on Monday,
Speaker 16: So you're geting catch twice and two days.
Speaker 4: Friend, this is jagon Zows. We've never talked to him.
Speaker 4: Good to meet you. Let me just tell you about
Speaker 4: Low's Ventana canon. What you've got. I live about fifteen
Speaker 4: minutes from there, but I'll go stay there on a
Speaker 4: weekend in the summertime because it's such a such.
Speaker 5: A great place. You are in a great place. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 5: we are.
Speaker 16: Well, I'm uh, you know, I I prefer to be
Speaker 16: down by the campus, but I guess there's a lot
Speaker 16: going on this weekend. And then you got all the
Speaker 16: Valentine's people that taking their wives out to dinner and
Speaker 16: probably you know, staying and spending the night in the
Speaker 16: beautiful Arizona Marriott, Tucson Marriott.
Speaker 5: But this is good.
Speaker 16: This is not not complaining, not complaining.
Speaker 2: Well, you're coming in at the perfect time. You probably
Speaker 2: knew you'd be covering this game, the game of the
Speaker 2: year in my estimation, what do you see tomorrow?
Speaker 16: I'm excited, I really am, Steve. You know, if you
Speaker 16: look at what now, you know did not this not
Speaker 16: discounting what happened to the Cats up in Manhattan, Kansas, where.
Speaker 5: I didn't think they played.
Speaker 16: Neither team played particularly well, right and but part of
Speaker 16: that is case Stags playing great basketball right now, six
Speaker 16: in a row. But I think what I'm excited about
Speaker 16: is is the way that the Cats have handled two
Speaker 16: very tough, physical teams recently at home, Iowa State and
Speaker 16: of course Texas Tech. And I think we're going to
Speaker 16: see the same type of fight tomorrow from them against
Speaker 16: the team that is not only capable winning the national championship.
Speaker 16: But I think everybody understands that Calvin Sampson's team is
Speaker 16: one of the toughest, hardest nosed teams in the country.
Speaker 16: But when I saw practice today was pretty I'd be
Speaker 16: optimistic because this team is learning how to punch back,
Speaker 16: as they've done on numerous occasions here in Big twelve plays.
Speaker 5: So it should be a it.
Speaker 16: Really, I want to say Street fight in a complementary way,
Speaker 16: because I do think it's going to be that kind
Speaker 16: of game.
Speaker 4: Well, and that's what you know, Steve and I have
Speaker 4: been talking about quite a bit, is that, you know,
Speaker 4: Arizona is the new kid on the block as it
Speaker 4: relates to Big twelve basketball and what we've seen and
Speaker 4: what's obvious to us after forty years of back to
Speaker 4: pack ten Pac twelve basketball, is Arizona in a very
Speaker 4: quick period of time has become a much tougher team.
Speaker 4: They're tougher on the floor. You mentioned that, and that,
Speaker 4: you know, in terms of being more physical and all
Speaker 4: those things. And that's the glaring thing that we see
Speaker 4: over here, you know, the difference between just from last
Speaker 4: year to this year.
Speaker 16: I think you're right, and I think I talked to
Speaker 16: coach Lloyd about that today and you know, he had
Speaker 16: an interesting point. You know, I said, what's the difference
Speaker 16: between coaching here and the Gonzaga And he said, you know,
Speaker 16: at Gonzaga, we got rest and we gained confidence because.
Speaker 5: Of where we play the WCC.
Speaker 16: You know, we were able to you know, not play
Speaker 16: our guys thirty five minutes. We gained a lot of
Speaker 16: confidence from being the big kid on the block and
Speaker 16: dominating that league. But he said the flip side is
Speaker 16: being in the Big twelve toughens you up every night,
Speaker 16: every single night in this league. And I've been a
Speaker 16: part of this league, as you guys know, for over
Speaker 16: twenty years now, and Coach Lloyd kind of feels that
Speaker 16: this league has really toughened up the Cats this year.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 16: When I look at their team, I see a guy
Speaker 16: like Tobyahwaka, I see kJ Lewis, I see it, Jayden Bradley,
Speaker 16: any other guys. You know, Caleb Love is a is
Speaker 16: a tough kid from Saint Louis. They've got the kind
Speaker 16: of team that especially the way they as Steve and
Speaker 16: I talked about last time, the way this team has
Speaker 16: kind of morphed into a different team without Moe Krevas.
Speaker 16: There's definitely an element of junkyard dog with these guys.
Speaker 16: They've proven it on a number of occasions this year,
Speaker 16: sweeping the Trip East, obviously beating a couple of really
Speaker 16: good teams at home. And so I got the feeling
Speaker 16: today that you know it's gonna be, you know, two
Speaker 16: dogs and one bone, you know, as coach Lloyd has
Speaker 16: said in the past. I think this is gonna be
Speaker 16: a game that's gonna come down to toughness.
Speaker 5: And I think as.
Speaker 16: Much as I've admired what Kelvin's doing, and I think
Speaker 16: the coaches really do have a mutual admiration for each other,
Speaker 16: I think that's gonna be the key to the game.
Speaker 16: Who wins the battle of the fifty to fifty balls,
Speaker 16: who wins the battle of the boards, Who makes more
Speaker 16: tough plays down the stretch. And we have seen on
Speaker 16: a number of occasions recently that the Cats and Capable
Speaker 16: are doing that.
Speaker 2: So one of the things I Jay and I spoke
Speaker 2: about earlier, and this is how I feel. Lot Guy
Speaker 2: has been fenn tastic, Henry's been very good, Jaden's done
Speaker 2: what he's done. But but Arizona, to me, at times
Speaker 2: plays with one hand behind his back. If Caleb's not
Speaker 2: shooting the ball well, and he hasn't, Delocio hasn't shot
Speaker 2: the ball well at all, and there's other things. You know,
Speaker 2: Townsend hasn't been that great. So you have three or
Speaker 2: four good players, but you still need more.
Speaker 16: Yeah, there's no question, Steve, I mean, listen, we know
Speaker 16: what Caleb is.
Speaker 5: Caleb.
Speaker 16: I compare him to the He's the guy, you know,
Speaker 16: playing for the you know, the Diamondbacks, who's going to
Speaker 16: hit forty homers. He's gonna hit two forty. It's going
Speaker 16: to strike out two hundred times. But he's dangerous because
Speaker 16: he can, you know, because he can get on a
Speaker 16: hot streak. And it's not a knock on him.
Speaker 5: It's who he is.
Speaker 16: I mean, he's proven time and time again that he
Speaker 16: can be feast or fam and I'm sure Tommy would
Speaker 16: like him to be more consistent. But he's also capable,
Speaker 16: as he has done in the past, both at North
Speaker 16: Carolina and obviously last year in the Pac twelve as
Speaker 16: the Player of the Years. He's capable going on on
Speaker 16: a run. And the other thing about Caleb Love that
Speaker 16: I've admired from Afar now I've gotten to know him
Speaker 16: a little bit more from watching him play and talking
Speaker 16: to him, is he's a you know, he's not afraid
Speaker 16: of big moments. You know, that's that's apparent now. Sometimes
Speaker 16: those big moments go awry. But on the other hand,
Speaker 16: you know, the Iowa State game was a perfect example,
Speaker 16: not only hitting a shot that I by the way,
Speaker 16: still think it was too far put that on let's
Speaker 16: put that on the record. But having said that, I mean,
Speaker 16: he was just incredible and overtime. So but to your point, Steve,
Speaker 16: I do think, like you know, del Orso has been
Speaker 16: in a slump lately. His defense was not very good
Speaker 16: the other night. They had to take him out like
Speaker 16: the first two minutes of the game. And then Trey
Speaker 16: looks like he's going to be back tomorrow. I don't
Speaker 16: know if I'm giving away anything, but it sounds like
Speaker 16: he's ready to go. And certainly he's played with some toughness.
Speaker 16: I mean, he's a little undersized. I think for this level,
Speaker 16: he's you know, here's what I would tell you guys,
Speaker 16: without rambling here, but to ask these two guys Orso
Speaker 16: and Townshend to be, you know, Keisha Johnson and Pelle
Speaker 16: Larson would be a reach because it wasn't until after
Speaker 16: the season when I started studying up for the NBA
Speaker 16: draft and I think, wow, you know what, these two
Speaker 16: guys could actually make it, and they have and so
Speaker 16: they're not the guys that left here, but they've got
Speaker 16: to be better versions of themselves than they maybe have
Speaker 16: been in recent weeks.
Speaker 2: So I'm wondering how I got you on the show
Speaker 2: because you're too pragmatic for us. That's just too that's
Speaker 2: too realistic, like youug me.
Speaker 16: I found out on Twitter. I think I don't remember,
Speaker 16: say in Arizona State, but I must have because I've
Speaker 16: sadly had to block a few people. Yeah, listen, you
Speaker 16: know I get that at Kansas too. I get I
Speaker 16: really get it more with the blue bloods than I
Speaker 16: do with the Iowa States and the Iowa States and
Speaker 16: the Texas Texas just so you guys know.
Speaker 5: And the Bailers.
Speaker 16: They're thrilled when I talk about them or tweet about them.
Speaker 16: If I make one innocent mistake out an Arizona or
Speaker 16: Kansas game, Uh gosh, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2: It's like you losing to Utip when you were in
Speaker 2: New Mexico.
Speaker 5: You can't do that, exactly, exactly, no question.
Speaker 4: So Fran, that sort of the running running theme of
Speaker 4: the discussion of the of the of this game tomorrow.
Speaker 4: You know, if you you have Arizona that you know
Speaker 4: likes to run up and down the floor, there the
Speaker 4: free wheeling kind of team you got Houston, that's you know,
Speaker 4: the half court grindy grind you team.
Speaker 5: When you see two teams like.
Speaker 4: That, let's say they got equal talent and whatnot, do
Speaker 4: you have a sense of what tends to be How
Speaker 4: does the game end up being it can or how
Speaker 4: does one impose their will on the other? And is
Speaker 4: do you think it's more often the team that's a
Speaker 4: grinder has a better chance of putting the brakes on
Speaker 4: a team that run up and down the floor.
Speaker 16: No, watch it. I think it's a team that has
Speaker 16: the great home court advantage. Okay, do you know what
Speaker 16: I mean? Is gonna you know, make it a treat
Speaker 16: like you know.
Speaker 5: Fat uh? You know that Bekale is such a great
Speaker 5: home court. It's right there.
Speaker 16: I'll still don't see him, which is, by the way
Speaker 16: of one of the great places in the country, as
Speaker 16: the Cats will find out in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 16: But no, I think the crowd has a lot to
Speaker 16: do with with you know, the Temple game. I mean,
Speaker 16: obviously Arizona wants to run and they're capable of it.
Speaker 16: You know, the guards are going to be I'll tell
Speaker 16: you what. There's a lot of interesting matchups here. Both
Speaker 16: teams are basically pretty hard line of pretty count.
Speaker 5: That kJ is going to play.
Speaker 16: Over thirty minutes starters minutes, and you look at Houston
Speaker 16: with their three guards, they're all kind of similar junkyard dogs.
Speaker 16: They're probably they shoot it better, there's no doubt they're
Speaker 16: shooting nearly forty percent. But you know, Jaydon Bradley is
Speaker 16: having a phenomenal year. I think he's the heart and
Speaker 16: soul his team. The guards can you know, Caleb loves
Speaker 16: to get up and down. So no, I think a
Speaker 16: lot of it's going to have to do with can
Speaker 16: this team get the crowd into it? Because and by
Speaker 16: the way, I believe it is the only team in
Speaker 16: the country that's feeded on the road right now, I'm
Speaker 16: pretty sure about that, Dave Cash, it's not true, and
Speaker 16: you'll have to blame him. Yeah, and I almost said
Speaker 16: it like ten seconds ago. But no, I think that's
Speaker 16: gonna be I think the crowd is gonna be a
Speaker 16: big factor, and I think I think both teams will
Speaker 16: try to impose their will. Don't forget now, there's a
Speaker 16: Houston gets ten more field goals.
Speaker 2: A game than their opponent.
Speaker 16: Why because they're great on the offensive glass, right, and
Speaker 16: because they turn you over more than most teams do.
Speaker 16: So that's they don't have to shoot well to win,
Speaker 16: so they like the grind it out game. Uh, Arizona's
Speaker 16: becoming more accustom him to play in that way. But
Speaker 16: they also have some firepower too when they get up
Speaker 16: and down. And I think again McHale is going to
Speaker 16: be a big factor tomorrow.
Speaker 2: So you mentioned Jayden beating the heart and sold this team.
Speaker 2: I think one of the things that we talked about
Speaker 2: this last time, like you said with Creevos, the guy
Speaker 2: that I've been really that I've liked since he first
Speaker 2: shut up. Uh, this is Henry. Henry has been fantastic
Speaker 2: in this stretch where what who is this guy?
Speaker 16: Yes, yeah, you know it's a I think I told
Speaker 16: you this last First of all, by the way, I'm
Speaker 16: convinced he will play in the NBA someday, hopefully not.
Speaker 5: After this year. I don't think. I don't think he's
Speaker 5: remotely ready.
Speaker 16: I think he's going to have a couple more great years.
Speaker 16: But addition, by Pat and I don't mean negatively, last
Speaker 16: time Stevens team turned around because of injury, remote crevas,
Speaker 16: they had to kind ofst their game.
Speaker 2: Much we lose. You must have gone to the pool
Speaker 2: because we're losing you on the phone.
Speaker 16: No, no, you know, I'm in my room here just
Speaker 16: Tanna canyons, So I don't know if it's.
Speaker 5: Uh, can you still hear me? We're good now, okay, Yeah, I.
Speaker 16: Mean I'm out here in the boonies now, you know,
Speaker 16: I'm uh, I'm out here with the with the coyote and.
Speaker 2: Bill Bill Walton would yes, yes, yes, dear, So you're
Speaker 2: talking about Oh, I just.
Speaker 16: Think that the team evolved after the injury and a
Speaker 16: chance to play more, and it's you know, the rest
Speaker 16: is history. I think he's playing great and he's gonna
Speaker 16: get a big factor tomorrow because he's gonna have to
Speaker 16: play with the kind of toughness that Tommy's that we've
Speaker 16: seen a lot of sports.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, there's a there's a lot tomorrow. I know
Speaker 2: you don't. I'm not gonna ask you for prediction because
Speaker 2: you're you're you're doing the game, uh tomorrow, But welcome back.
Speaker 2: Is this your last time here or do you know the.
Speaker 16: Last time here? I will see the Cats three more
Speaker 16: times on the road, all tough games. Baylor Iowa State
Speaker 16: in March eighth at Kansas man Man.
Speaker 2: You got there. Let you know this guy, you've been
Speaker 2: here before. You came in here with the New Mexico.
Speaker 2: He pulled off some magic. The fans here got used
Speaker 2: to winning a whole lot here, but they went thirteen
Speaker 2: and one right in this stretch here, and people started thinking, okay, great,
Speaker 2: but they hadn't gone to Kansas and I su' what's
Speaker 2: coming up is going to be the test?
Speaker 16: Yeah, no question and wasten. They're head into the tournament.
Speaker 16: They're probably going to get a high seed. If they
Speaker 16: could steal a win on the road at places like
Speaker 16: bail Or in Iowa state, another feather in their cap.
Speaker 16: But I'm impressed. Well, you know, Steve, we talked about it.
Speaker 16: We saw them give away that thirteen point we to UCA.
Speaker 16: Things did not look good. And obviously I got to
Speaker 16: tell you Tommy Woyd's done a great job because coming
Speaker 16: off of Atlantis and then that, you know, Boston Phoenix,
Speaker 16: he was very optimistic that he would have a very
Speaker 16: good team and he does. And you know, so I
Speaker 16: think they're heading to the tournament. And before we go,
Speaker 16: by the way, thank you for the Rudolfson book. It
Speaker 16: is incredible, great reminiscence. I saw Matt Bracy today Root's
Speaker 16: grandson of practice the seventy six years. Obviously you're on
Speaker 16: break and Match in town and you know that you
Speaker 16: talk about a giant of a man. You know, there's
Speaker 16: nobody quite like like Luds.
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, no problem. Thank you for tweeting it out.
Speaker 2: If you like it tweeted out again, I will, Yeah,
Speaker 2: thank you, I think I will. We'll see you tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 2: Be well.
Speaker 5: Thanks gee, thanks Jay. Good to talk to you for.
Speaker 2: Selling good stuff. You know, I'm not trying to blow
Speaker 2: smoke because he's on the phone. He does a very good,
Speaker 2: even handed call of the game.
Speaker 5: Right right, and and you love that about it about
Speaker 5: a guy, you know, Uh, that's all you want.
Speaker 4: You want somebody who's smarter than you about the game
Speaker 4: to kind of keep you up on what's going on
Speaker 4: so that you see what you see.
Speaker 5: But then somebody like him comes in and say helps
Speaker 5: you see more.
Speaker 2: For the people who don't like or hid like Walton
Speaker 2: you know too much. He just kind of gives you
Speaker 2: the notes of bolts of what's going on.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of good guys that are like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's what you like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, let's go. We're gonna maybe listen to one
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Speaker 1: Streaming live on the iHeartRadio app. This is I on
Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Raverra on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Winning the Ball here Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, you're Jay dat Henry. Get about
Speaker 2: twelve minutes, maybe about four thirteen minutes. This would look
Speaker 2: clip real quick, and then we'll kind of.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this was this was that clip.
Speaker 4: We're talking about the gray area that tom that Tommy
Speaker 4: Lloyd was talking about it's again. The bottom line to
Speaker 4: me is is we don't know anything, and they know
Speaker 4: more than we did.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's why they're coaches. Which basketball, you can't live
Speaker 5: in revision as history.
Speaker 19: Because because the games keep coming, keeps coming at you.
Speaker 19: You know, there have been times I've called a play
Speaker 19: and it sucked. There's been other times I haven't called
Speaker 19: a play and it's like magic. There have been times
Speaker 19: I haven't called a play and it sucked. There's been
Speaker 19: times I've called a play and it's worked really good.
Speaker 19: So like, I don't know, I mean, I think that's
Speaker 19: this is the game.
Speaker 5: The game.
Speaker 19: I mean, you're right, there's no The beautiful thing about
Speaker 19: this game is there's a lot of gray and and
Speaker 19: for you guys, you try to make a black and white.
Speaker 5: I understand that. It's simple when you coach and play it.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of gray. You have to be good
Speaker 5: in the gray.
Speaker 19: And so you know what, you're gonna live with some
Speaker 19: You're gonna live with some good things and you're gonna
Speaker 19: live with some lot of tough things too. You just
Speaker 19: got to keep going.
Speaker 5: The game doesn't stop.
Speaker 19: You know, you guys can make the game stop because
Speaker 19: you're analyzing it after in the moment, it doesn't stop.
Speaker 19: So you know, you make decisions. Sometimes they're regretful, sometimes
Speaker 19: they're genius. And that's every coach, that's every player, and
Speaker 19: and the best ones just keep going and probably incrementally
Speaker 19: get a little bit better at making better decisions and
Speaker 19: and then so that's how I'm approaching it.
Speaker 2: So was one of was the question about like a
Speaker 2: play that happened on Tuesday, Like I think it was.
Speaker 4: I think it was just talking about how, you know,
Speaker 4: they've been they've been having turnovers and you know, you know,
Speaker 4: and what do you do about that? And and his
Speaker 4: point was we just keep playing, you know, we you know,
Speaker 4: we try, Yeah, we try. And I'm reading a bunch
Speaker 4: of stuff into what he said. It's part of other
Speaker 4: parts of the press conference. But what I'm reading into
Speaker 4: it is that they're going to be bad and they're
Speaker 4: going to be good, and we we want them to
Speaker 4: always be good and never be bad. Who's the we
Speaker 4: we as fans media spectators.
Speaker 2: See, I don't know about the media, because we're there
Speaker 2: to ask questions. Granted, half those questions are stupid because
Speaker 2: we were trying to listen a response for the story.
Speaker 5: Well, that was the question, Steve. The question was how
Speaker 5: do you stop these turnovers from having you?
Speaker 2: And you can't. You can't. You can't see exactly, you can't.
Speaker 5: You don't.
Speaker 2: That's and that's kind of a dumb question because you know,
Speaker 2: it's like, how do you how do you stop the
Speaker 2: water from the ring ring for the world? You just don't.
Speaker 4: The question was kind of like, how do you play
Speaker 4: good all the time and never play That.
Speaker 2: Makes no sense, you know, how can you play better?
Speaker 2: Or whatever? Right?
Speaker 4: And his thing was, we just keep playing in the
Speaker 4: course of a game, and you know, they move on
Speaker 4: to the next thing. Well, we're still pissed off about
Speaker 4: the bad pass. It happened five minutes ago.
Speaker 2: And you hear about the bad past because you you this.
Speaker 2: That allows for the second guessing, right, like the like
Speaker 2: the end game in the pass a half court right
Speaker 2: where they you know, it was just a bad pass
Speaker 2: ride I think it was, and you're thinking, that's the place.
Speaker 2: Why did you do that?
Speaker 5: Well, because we don't know why he did that, we
Speaker 5: gotta call.
Speaker 2: We gotta call, so I get it. Yeah, okay, hey,
Speaker 2: you're on the your and I on the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 9: Hey?
Speaker 5: Jay?
Speaker 9: Hey, Steve Howard, Hey, so you know what I always
Speaker 9: like to do. I'm not going to go to the game.
Speaker 9: I'll just watch it somewhere and eat some chicken wings
Speaker 9: or whatever because that, like I say, I don't have
Speaker 9: espan a home, but it'll be good. What's so, what's
Speaker 9: your spread?
Speaker 7: Jay?
Speaker 4: What's spread at It's a it's a Houston by one
Speaker 4: and a half. So Arizona's getting points at home, but
Speaker 4: only one and a half.
Speaker 9: I think that's a great spread. These guys, these guys
Speaker 9: are geniuses. I could they're you know, they do this
Speaker 9: for a living.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a spread number. That's a spread that's enticing
Speaker 4: Arizona fans to.
Speaker 2: So let me tell you, Howard, what are you gonna
Speaker 2: do with that?
Speaker 9: It's gonna be a good game.
Speaker 20: I think the.
Speaker 9: One and a half spread says it says all we
Speaker 9: need to know.
Speaker 2: Right should I wouldn't touch it to me?
Speaker 4: When you get when you get one and a half
Speaker 4: point spread, it's it's like who it's to pick them?
Speaker 5: It's who pick them?
Speaker 9: Right? I mean you usually get three at home, but
Speaker 9: US is really good and we'll upset them whether it's
Speaker 9: one point or I mean if it'll be an upset
Speaker 9: of we bring by one or we've been by five.
Speaker 5: Right, Well, that's why I said.
Speaker 4: You know, it's enticing Arizona fan who says we don't
Speaker 4: lose at home. I'm giving the point because all we
Speaker 4: got to do is win the game.
Speaker 2: You know, if it's what.
Speaker 9: Happens, Wan, we lost one gate one game in home, right, Yeah,
Speaker 9: you don't.
Speaker 5: Want to lose anymore.
Speaker 2: I know that there was on got the the Achilles
Speaker 2: he with the half court stuff and all the physicalness,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. But me says they can win this
Speaker 2: game because they're an underdog. You're not gonna tell j
Speaker 2: Jayden know that they're better than you, especially at home.
Speaker 2: And guess what happens. They show up and they right
Speaker 2: right and.
Speaker 9: And here's one reason that's going to help. Even though
Speaker 9: Trey Townsend is nothing, he's not slice spread, but at
Speaker 9: least Tommy knows what to do. Just put him in
Speaker 9: for a few minutes for the real players to rest.
Speaker 5: He's another body.
Speaker 2: We gotta go. Thanks for the call. We got another call.
Speaker 2: You got you're on the air and I on the ball.
Speaker 2: Who's this, Nico? Your ears must have been ringing.
Speaker 8: Nah, Man, it's a good man, Jay. You need to
Speaker 8: delete Twitter.
Speaker 5: Man, it's I have fun with it. You know.
Speaker 4: I don't take it too I take semi seriously.
Speaker 5: Kay, I probably should, but I can't.
Speaker 8: I mean, what did that get? I mean, I get
Speaker 8: you this. Yeah, but Jesus, I know, taking something up
Speaker 8: from me years ago.
Speaker 4: Right, I shouldn't. I shouldn't let low LIFs like that
Speaker 4: get to me.
Speaker 5: I don't. I shouldn't, but I'm I do and I
Speaker 5: can't help.
Speaker 2: He's not Betters. Did you make the game the last
Speaker 2: time you talked to us?
Speaker 21: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I went to the Texas that game.
Speaker 17: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And you found parking fine?
Speaker 8: Yeah, well now we had a reserve parking spot parked
Speaker 8: by the football stadium.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you were good. You're going tomorrow?
Speaker 8: No, I only had tickets for that thing, Okay, So
Speaker 8: I'll be honest with you. It wasn't better than football, really, I.
Speaker 2: Don't.
Speaker 8: I had really good Seatson that there were row three.
Speaker 8: I don't remember what section, but football is just better
Speaker 8: to me.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Well, in the in the grand scheme of things, it is.
Speaker 4: You know, you don't go tailgate at a basketball game
Speaker 4: and stuff like that, and it's it's more of an
Speaker 4: event than basketball.
Speaker 5: Basketball.
Speaker 4: It's a game. You go to, the game, you come back.
Speaker 4: Football is more of an event to me.
Speaker 8: Then basketball is like war. People came up to me,
Speaker 8: Are you in the right seat? I'm like, I know.
Speaker 2: How to read, but you don't look the type. You're
Speaker 2: about forty years younger.
Speaker 8: No, and I probably wreaked the marijuana.
Speaker 2: But that makes sense. Okay, all right, Nko back, thanks
Speaker 2: for the call. He always gives us too much information.
Speaker 2: It was always good information. You know what, Nico, don't
Speaker 2: never give out your address. No, No, for a lot
Speaker 2: of reasons. Lo, Nko, we have a warranty, so you're
Speaker 2: gonna stick with your pick.
Speaker 4: You know, a friend was nearly talking me into, you know,
Speaker 4: thinking that Arizona, Arizona's gonna win the game.
Speaker 2: I don't don't do that.
Speaker 4: Don't maybe nudged up five percent, you know, maybe fifty five,
Speaker 4: forty five. I still think Houston wins this game because
Speaker 4: I tend to think that, for some reason, it's easier
Speaker 4: for a team that grinds to slow down the team
Speaker 4: that you know that likes to run the ball than
Speaker 4: vice versa. You know, Parzone wants to run the ball.
Speaker 4: There's ways for Houston to put the brakes on them. Uh,
Speaker 4: you know as opposed to you're not gonna make Houston
Speaker 4: play out of its element and try and run the ball.
Speaker 4: So I think, you know, it's just one of those
Speaker 4: things where they're gonna kind of be hitting a brick
Speaker 4: wall often and it's gonna be hard.
Speaker 5: For them to win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Henry didn't ask you. You're kind of the sensible
Speaker 2: one in the room.
Speaker 6: I think they're gonna lose.
Speaker 2: So that's the four losses. Yeah before I mean, that's
Speaker 2: the smart money, right, that's the smart money.
Speaker 6: It's just like Houston's like not the matchup you want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's the answer right there, because it's it's
Speaker 2: not if I was State was coming back, you know,
Speaker 2: how the game could go part maybe Arizona hedge a little, yeah,
Speaker 2: Texas Tech same thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But but Houston this is you know, it's funny because
Speaker 4: you know, going into the Kansas State game, when the
Speaker 4: game started, I said, not only to myself but to
Speaker 4: the guys I hang with, I didn't Arizona lose this game.
Speaker 5: And then they lost, and I was pissed off that
Speaker 5: they like, what do you doing lose?
Speaker 2: I hear you, But we've seen this. We've seen this
Speaker 2: movie too many times. I was not surprised at all.
Speaker 2: In fact, I watched it. I was saying, this is
Speaker 2: not gonna be good.
Speaker 4: It's the same feel as when Duke was coming in.
Speaker 4: You just kind of thought, you know what this is, Duke, Well,
Speaker 4: they're really good and for you to walk in thinking
Speaker 4: you want you should walk in hoping they're.
Speaker 5: Gonna win instead of walking in knowing they're gonna win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And and invariably a time or two Arizona plays
Speaker 2: against the team. I'm not saying Kansas State isn't good
Speaker 2: because they're good. Uh Jaginzawas who's six on the bench,
Speaker 2: comes in and scores twenty four points. And he wasn't
Speaker 2: on the on the scouttery report, and I'm sure this
Speaker 2: guy McDaniel was. But you know what I'm saying, you
Speaker 2: have a game of a lifetime and take what the
Speaker 2: hell just happens?
Speaker 5: We see?
Speaker 4: Those are the things that were caused me to lose
Speaker 4: my mind in that game, and like, why is this?
Speaker 4: Why can't Arizona guard this guy right? Why is he
Speaker 4: going off like this?
Speaker 20: And it's that thing Arizona, you know, Arizona always football
Speaker 20: always makes thequarterback looked like Joe Montana. Arizona basketball always
Speaker 20: makes a guy.
Speaker 5: Look like Larry Burr. Sure you know.
Speaker 4: And it's like, yeah, but you know something is in
Speaker 4: the matchup that allows that to happen that we don't Again,
Speaker 4: we don't know about.
Speaker 5: And Tommy, you know, Okay, they didn't. They didn't have
Speaker 5: that guy doing that.
Speaker 4: And and in Kansas State figured something out that said
Speaker 4: keep giving that guy the ball because they don't have this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, we'll see what happens. One, we'll call you.
Speaker 2: We can do it. We can do it. Hello, you're
Speaker 2: on the air. And nine the ball. We got about
Speaker 2: three minutes to make it quick.
Speaker 9: Allright, this is Robert.
Speaker 10: I think we can beat Houston to malls. And the
Speaker 10: reason we can't beat him here they're.
Speaker 21: Not a dominant, dominant team.
Speaker 22: And one thing they have to do is.
Speaker 21: Make sure kJ Lewis does not handle the ball on offense.
Speaker 21: The guy that turnover machine, they don't steal it from him,
Speaker 21: he loses it himself. And name for Caleb Love, he's
Speaker 21: not shooting, but that guy they have the dumbest turnovers
Speaker 21: more more most unfort turnovers. I think of any team
Speaker 21: in college basketb I.
Speaker 2: Am go ahead, all right, you go ahead. I have
Speaker 2: a friend who's a good friend, and he's a pain
Speaker 2: in the ass, and he's a cranky guy. You must
Speaker 2: be my second favorite friend. He's a cranky guy.
Speaker 22: Probably no, but I you know, if a walker gets
Speaker 22: in there and does the things on the boards, and
Speaker 22: Desert goes in there, and we can stay out of
Speaker 22: Paul trouble, and if tel Oorzo learns how to stay
Speaker 22: in front of the guy.
Speaker 21: He's depending instead of behind from behind trying to tap
Speaker 21: the ball out of his hands, we might have a chance.
Speaker 21: I think we're gonna play him really well, and I
Speaker 21: hope it's close. And I think we're gonna win tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks Robert, well appreciate it. We're gonna say really sick.
Speaker 2: So he just gave me five ifs, and he.
Speaker 4: Said, and I still think, well, look, first of all,
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be a really good game.
Speaker 5: I don't think. I don't think he's the team.
Speaker 2: This is why you have season tickets, right, and this
Speaker 2: is and and this is why.
Speaker 9: This is packed.
Speaker 4: This is big twelve basketball. These games are hard, they're grinds.
Speaker 4: They're both teams on the four are really good. Both
Speaker 4: teams can win this game. If somebody plays their best
Speaker 4: and somebody's a little off, that team's gonna win. And
Speaker 4: it's just a matter of how do you play that day,
Speaker 4: and it shouldn't affect how you're gonna play the next game.
Speaker 4: I'd like to think though, that Arizona will be a
Speaker 4: little you know, after losing on Tuesday, they're playing at home,
Speaker 4: they're underdogs, that they might have a little more bounce
Speaker 4: in their step, and I think we'll feel that tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a given they're gonna play hard, they're gonna
Speaker 2: play well. I think they'll play well. McHale's gonna be rocking. Right.
Speaker 2: That's two advantages too. Now they have to overcome a
Speaker 2: good Houston.
Speaker 5: Team, right will they right?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: You know again, if right, let's say Caleb Love has
Speaker 4: another one of those twenty seven point games, then they're
Speaker 4: gonna win. But if Houston puts a guy on him
Speaker 4: then and Caleb scores twelve, then they're probably gonna lose.
Speaker 4: And and and it's not all on Caleb, you know,
Speaker 4: as as Roberts said, kJ Lewis can't be in. They're
Speaker 4: making bad, you know, dumb turnover you know. Again in
Speaker 4: the press conference, Tommy said, you've got to be tough
Speaker 4: with the ball. If you're not tough with the ball tomorrow,
Speaker 4: we're gonna lose. Remember those gray areas. He's gonna have turnovers.
Speaker 4: He's gonna be overcoming it with defense.
Speaker 5: Or making some plays offensively.
Speaker 2: Expect the gray areas not just in my hair, your hair,
Speaker 2: and a lot of the hair is in that building.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Henry