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Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball
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Speaker 2: today with me is Blake Eager from.
Speaker 3: The Southern Arizona Sports Tourament film authority is thank you.
Speaker 3: And then we got Juan from.
Speaker 4: Two Sun Arizona sitting in at five ten whatever, wait,
Speaker 4: five ten too much?
Speaker 3: Too much like that? That's me?
Speaker 2: Hey everybody, everybody, Okay, you're your heart rate? Okay, last
Speaker 2: night you're fine. You're not gonna jump over any cliffs
Speaker 2: or something. No, I think you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's no good loss, and I don't want
Speaker 3: to use that that slogan, but I after our first
Speaker 3: half last night and see the composure that we had.
Speaker 3: We just couldn't hit any shots, but I thought it
Speaker 3: still played pretty good defense for the most part, and
Speaker 3: we were we battled. There was grit there. So if
Speaker 3: you listened to the show yesterday, I kind of said
Speaker 3: this would happen. You came in today one and what'd
Speaker 3: you say, wasn't surprised.
Speaker 4: By the outcome. No, not at all, because, uh, credit
Speaker 4: to Kansas State. They're on a hot streak and they're
Speaker 4: playing they're pretty good, pretty well, right, yeah good.
Speaker 3: Their record does not dictate how good they and they're
Speaker 3: probably the best, one of the best games in the
Speaker 3: country right now playing in their lists to the general public.
Speaker 3: And you guys are in general public because you guys
Speaker 3: seen it a lot. You know the game. They think
Speaker 3: that they're what twelve and ten and how good can
Speaker 3: they be? And they didn't win very many games? No, no,
Speaker 3: they're good. Yeah, you reman. They start off one and
Speaker 3: six right right in conference place, so to see what
Speaker 3: they're doing right now. And we had to go to
Speaker 3: their house. I'm not saying that's a storied program by
Speaker 3: any means, but you know, any house that you have
Speaker 3: to go to in the big twelve on the road
Speaker 3: is a difficult place to play. Yeah, no question, no question.
Speaker 2: Oh, I tweeted, oh on the first half, did you
Speaker 2: what did you notice thinking about the game? Maybe Kansas
Speaker 2: State or Arizona just anything just struck out. It's funny
Speaker 2: what struck out to me? Like just in general?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just when you saw the game you're thinking, oh, okay,
Speaker 3: I mean, just for me, it was it was a
Speaker 3: sloppiness of the first half. Huge, Like I just I mean,
Speaker 3: Aaron Passes can't control the ball, just making you know,
Speaker 3: mistakes at this level that shouldn't be made at this
Speaker 3: in this at this point in the season.
Speaker 4: I noticed two things. One, Kansas State is very twitchy.
Speaker 4: They're very quick to the ball. They're very locked in
Speaker 4: on the defensive set. I had a pretty good starting five.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that McDaniel's kid is gonna be I think
Speaker 4: he'll be a legend come March for the Cats or
Speaker 4: those Cats. And uh, the other thing I noticed is
Speaker 4: Tred Townsend is huge to Arizona. You may not show
Speaker 4: it on the stat line in what way he eats
Speaker 4: up minutes and really, in my opinion, doesn't do a
Speaker 4: lot of damage for Arizona.
Speaker 3: Really in my opinion, wow, because let me tell you something,
Speaker 3: majority of the city doesn't like him for that reason
Speaker 3: that they what does he add to the table, what
Speaker 3: does he bring to the table, what can he do?
Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, you know I've.
Speaker 4: Heard it all season long, not to you, not to me,
Speaker 4: because I think Carter Bryant is going to be an
Speaker 4: even bigger factor down the stretch, and with Trey Townsen
Speaker 4: eating up some of those minutes, that's less minutes for
Speaker 4: Carter Bryant to go and commit four fouls like.
Speaker 3: He usually does.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 3: He is an autorium, but he's a pretty good player. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: So this is not Arizona related, but it is what
Speaker 3: K State related. They had a halftime lead pretty good.
Speaker 3: I said, if that Hawkins kids just stop shooting, they'd
Speaker 3: have a fifteen point lead.
Speaker 2: But he's one of the better players. The dude couldn't
Speaker 2: stop shooting. I'm thinking, in spite of themselves, that dude is.
Speaker 3: Killing him absolutely, and he's supposed to be pretty one
Speaker 3: the he could hit the rim. I thinking I had
Speaker 3: never seen him before. I said, god, I can't remember
Speaker 3: in Arizona player like him, and then I then I
Speaker 3: saw Caleb. Yeah, that's that's funny. I mean it's one
Speaker 3: of those games that and we've had these games in
Speaker 3: the past where we had these conversations and you look
Speaker 3: up and you go, we got to be up by
Speaker 3: fifteen points right now, and you're going, we're up by two.
Speaker 3: Last night, I would have said we were down the
Speaker 3: way that I thought we would be down twenty points, right,
Speaker 3: And I look up and I go, Okay, it's not
Speaker 3: as bad as it looks.
Speaker 2: If there's a consolation to fans who watch the game
Speaker 2: and are kind of a stoote to it, they played horribly,
Speaker 2: shot horribly, through the ball away horribly, and you know
Speaker 2: that's by three.
Speaker 3: But I have eight first half turnovers, right at least
Speaker 3: anyway seventeen total? No, no, no, But that's that's the
Speaker 3: whole thing.
Speaker 2: So if this is a horse race and you're thinking, oh,
Speaker 2: this horse who's pretty good, got in trouble. He couldn't
Speaker 2: get through the lane, couldn't get past these horses. But
Speaker 2: he's the best horse in the league, in the race.
Speaker 2: But all these things happened, and that's what was there Arizona. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they shut themselves on the foot seventeen times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they definitely did. Yeah. Where we hit two from
Speaker 3: two for twenty two? Yeah, yeah, they hit one for nineteen.
Speaker 3: It was the worst three point shooting game I've ever
Speaker 3: I think maybe i've ever seen in my life have
Speaker 3: been the three point live Yeah, three for forty one,
Speaker 3: three for forty one. Look at me doing math? Wow,
Speaker 3: I had to pull my calculator. You were ready for that?
Speaker 3: I was, Yeah, I already written down. I got notes on
Speaker 3: my hand. No, it was it was bad basketball. I
Speaker 3: thought it was like the wreck. You go to the wreck, right,
Speaker 3: you work at the wreck. You've seen the shot better
Speaker 3: than that was. To make that clear, I shot Vic
Speaker 3: who calls me? You know, Vic calls in and he
Speaker 3: texts me like, oh, Jill barber Cliffe. He says, I
Speaker 3: went to the I went to the park today. I
Speaker 3: shot twenty two threes. Twenty two threes and I hit three.
Speaker 3: I should be on the team. Yeah, you didn't have
Speaker 3: a six seven guard on you though, or bumping bodies.
Speaker 3: But yeah, true, it's a it's just one of those nights.
Speaker 3: And I thought, you know, I thought at some point
Speaker 3: that cold streak would end from an offensive standpoint, but
Speaker 3: it was they really had to grind to get any points.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's it's funny up. So yesterday I said
Speaker 2: I thought they would lose, and only because of this.
Speaker 2: And I've seen thousands of games already, in almost two
Speaker 2: thousand games of you they what do they do and
Speaker 2: what are they notorious for? Getting up for the Houston's,
Speaker 2: the Texas Tech, the Iowa States getting and then playing
Speaker 2: out of their minds and playing really well. Tell them
Speaker 2: they're not as good as Kentucky. They beat Kentucky by five.
Speaker 3: Tell them they're not going to be blah blah blah,
Speaker 3: the who's in town Oregon State. They'll lose who they played,
Speaker 3: and not that Kansas State was that team. But people
Speaker 3: in people's perception, maybe even theirs, look at us, look
Speaker 3: at us. I mean there's two Sorry, go ahead, I
Speaker 3: was gonna say, there's two videos. If you're opposing team
Speaker 3: when it comes to march that you watch for u A,
Speaker 3: it's Texas Tech, It's Case State at their place, because
Speaker 3: they were able to disrupt the tempo on offense exactly exactly,
Speaker 3: even if even with open looks. I mean, Texas Tech
Speaker 3: I thought was much better defensively at home than Kansas State.
Speaker 3: But you disrupted the offense and our offense couldn't figure
Speaker 3: it out. Welcome to November December. Yeah, you know, what
Speaker 3: are you gonna say? Uh, Blake, Blake loves to run
Speaker 3: in transition. What am I to do? I'm gonna hold
Speaker 3: the ball for twenty five Yeah. If you can't do it, Blake,
Speaker 3: I don't care how if you're beating me by ten.
Speaker 3: Guess what you're still not gonna do. You're not gonna
Speaker 3: go in transition because I'm not gonna let you.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 4: I noticed the body language in Arizona last night. It
Speaker 4: looked like they expected to win that game. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: because they're Arizona, because they're eleven and one of the conference.
Speaker 3: How many have you seen that before?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're eleven and one in the PAC twelve and
Speaker 4: then they go to loose to Oregon State.
Speaker 3: That's the same story. I covered the team every day
Speaker 3: for twenty five years. That was the thing.
Speaker 2: They go to Washington State, some white dude, six seven
Speaker 2: dude you've never heard about, scores twenty four points and
Speaker 2: beat someone. You're thinking, well, he wasn't on the scout. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're absolutely right, and not that McDaniel was not on
Speaker 2: the scout. Some dude ends up with twenty four points
Speaker 2: and as a the.
Speaker 3: Day of his life.
Speaker 4: That's how it goes in the tournament too, exactly. Princeton, Oh,
Speaker 4: these dudes, we got this and we'll just look at
Speaker 4: the second round already.
Speaker 7: Nope.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you never want to look past the opponent, right,
Speaker 3: But I mean, when you play a team, and to
Speaker 3: Princeton's credit, they're fundamentally sound. Right, they're fundamentally sound. Sure,
Speaker 3: they're not going to make mistakes. That's the whole thing.
Speaker 2: And don't you tell the guys that said, look, they're good. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they're smart and they're clever, and they get back door.
Speaker 2: They'll back the door the hell out of you. They'll
Speaker 2: do these things and you'll say, what the hell just
Speaker 2: happened By that time, thirty nine and a half minutes
Speaker 2: have gone by and we're looking for a three pointer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're trying to chuck something up at the
Speaker 3: end of the game hoping it goes in when you
Speaker 3: haven't been able to make anything at all during the game.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you guys have been pretty pragmatic after last
Speaker 2: night's game. I wanted to say this for a comment
Speaker 2: that was on a story on our website. Okay, so
Speaker 2: this is last night. Okay, I won't say his name.
Speaker 2: Lloyd really needs to get these guys mentally ready to go.
Speaker 2: Frustrating watching these guys achieve at this point in this season.
Speaker 2: Losing to a team doing well is one thing. Losing
Speaker 2: to a sputtering k State team who shot just as
Speaker 2: poorly as we did. Is another putting this weak product
Speaker 2: out there is why we were consistently sent home in
Speaker 2: early March. We have to we have no consistency in
Speaker 2: anything we do, from shooting to passing.
Speaker 3: It's on and on and on and off.
Speaker 2: If you told me a team who reinbounded the or
Speaker 2: opponented by thirteen had lost, I would not believe you.
Speaker 3: This just happened. So that's kind of extreme. Kansas State's
Speaker 3: better than sputtering Kansas State team. If you've wachd in
Speaker 3: the last six games they played, you would make that
Speaker 3: argument that they're much better than Oh, they beat Iowa State,
Speaker 3: they beat Kansas Y.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're racking up what they're three and
Speaker 3: four against squad one teams right now. I mean, that's nothing.
Speaker 3: You know, if you didn't know, if you didn't know
Speaker 3: the record and you said they've done this, you think, damn,
Speaker 3: who are you talking about? I know once at March,
Speaker 3: but they might not even play in March. You know,
Speaker 3: they might not be im I mean, they may be
Speaker 3: in it, but they might not make the tourney. And
Speaker 3: that's that's crazy thing. Yeah, listen, I'm going to say
Speaker 3: this and We've had this conversation. You have a basketball
Speaker 3: fans and where for me, I am one right a
Speaker 3: long time, You're not just yeah, I'm not a fair
Speaker 3: weather fan.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 3: It's really difficult to live in peaks and valleys, right,
Speaker 3: and I feel like our basketball fans are so peak
Speaker 3: and valley driven, like great win. Oh my god, I
Speaker 3: was wrong about Tommy Lloyd to where they lose next game,
Speaker 3: they need to fire Tommy. It's Tommy Lloyd's again. I
Speaker 3: will say this. Coaches coach players play right, so there's
Speaker 3: an execution of a game plan. Some doesn't. Sometimes it
Speaker 3: doesn't go that way, and you cannot coach guys when
Speaker 3: they shoot one or two for twenty two from the
Speaker 3: three point lane and some not all of them were
Speaker 3: great looks, great looks. Some of them were wide open
Speaker 3: looks they just banged out. It wasn't case Stage's defense.
Speaker 3: They were just missing this and vice versa. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: was one who didn't play greed defense on Kansasy.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I thought last night was our and you said this earlier, Steve.
Speaker 3: It was us playing down to an opponent and our
Speaker 3: mental state opposed to the way we came out against Baylor.
Speaker 3: Iowa state that defense is shut down. And I didn't
Speaker 3: think they played terrible defense by yell right any means
Speaker 3: last night just I think there was a lot of turnovers.
Speaker 3: That also goes in your mindset. I mean, there were
Speaker 3: so many errant passes last night. Yeah, you're like, what
Speaker 3: what are we doing? Who's runing to Yeah?
Speaker 4: There is a play where Basar how to rebound and
Speaker 4: took it right, tipped it back.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, thinking over there and nobody was and you
Speaker 3: saw I think it was Love went up to him
Speaker 3: and said, just grab the ball, you know. I mean
Speaker 3: there was three plays down the strets that you look
Speaker 3: at and you go, if we don't make those plays,
Speaker 3: there's a good chance that you're either winning that game
Speaker 3: or going to overtime.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk to Brian Peterson after we go
Speaker 2: to break in about a minute, but and he'll talk
Speaker 2: about And I thought you thought your observation is perfect
Speaker 2: because I hadn't really heard it.
Speaker 3: It's a peak and valley place.
Speaker 2: It's almost to the point of eleven one and Arizona
Speaker 2: fans and probably some of the athletes can't handle prosperity
Speaker 2: because eleven and one.
Speaker 3: I'm booking my flight to the Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: And before this started, it's like, you know, the world
Speaker 2: is ending, wasn't it in December?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah? I mean I thought I think we
Speaker 3: talked about this when I went on the message boards.
Speaker 3: But this is like the worst thing. I oh what,
Speaker 3: I thought you were a smart man. I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 3: It's just it's all a persona at this point. It's
Speaker 3: reading those comments going, you know, like we are so fortunate,
Speaker 3: and people are like, we gotta get rid of this
Speaker 3: coach and have like what are you talking about? Like,
Speaker 3: I get it. You don't love losing in March. Nobody does.
Speaker 3: The greatest team has to win the last game. Sure,
Speaker 3: I understand that, but like you can't argue with his
Speaker 3: regular season and pre season body of work. It's funny
Speaker 3: because last night Michigan State with Izzo, which which you know,
Speaker 3: you could talk he's a good coach or a great
Speaker 3: coach whatever, lost to Indiana, right, and they had and.
Speaker 2: Indiana had lost like seven straight horrible game. MSU was
Speaker 2: ranked highly, thought of, highly, done very well, and now
Speaker 2: they've lost three or four and you're thinking what I'm
Speaker 2: sure those fans are feeling the same way everybody in
Speaker 2: this town's feeling get rid of the guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, blah blah. And this is just casual dudes who
Speaker 3: are making burgers, flipping burgers, and that's no disrespect. But
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, they have no idea what
Speaker 3: it takes to become. Yeah, but you're every That's the
Speaker 3: whole point of a fan, right you. You're not supposed
Speaker 3: to know what it takes to become, but we're supposed
Speaker 3: to be supportive when we know we have something good
Speaker 3: to an extent where we're not calling for the world
Speaker 3: to end after a loss, after we've played our butts
Speaker 3: off in conference play. That's all I'm asking. Good luck. Oh,
Speaker 3: I know I'm not gonna get.
Speaker 2: Hey, let's go come back and talk to Brian Peterson
Speaker 2: because he's on those he's part of those message boards
Speaker 2: and sees them, and obviously the world's gonna end. Yeah now,
Speaker 2: yeah until Saturday night when they win the game, and
Speaker 2: then it's completely there.
Speaker 3: Sorry, right, yeah, your.
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Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivert. You're Blake Eager from the Southern Arizona
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Speaker 3: we have Brian Peterson from Azy dentis Warm. Brian, how
Speaker 3: are you?
Speaker 7: I'm great?
Speaker 17: Thanks for having me back.
Speaker 2: How how let's say that ben to say the ben
Speaker 2: Wagen is about thirty?
Speaker 3: You can feel thirty. How were you're on that today?
Speaker 7: Ah?
Speaker 5: You know, I'm I'm somewhat surprised that the doom and
Speaker 5: gloom wasn't as pronounced as I expected from this game.
Speaker 5: I think once you get past the people who only
Speaker 5: look at teams records and think it's a bad loss,
Speaker 5: I think there was a realization for people who actually
Speaker 5: pay attention that Kansas State has been playing really well,
Speaker 5: and also that Arizona very easily could have won that game,
Speaker 5: and just it's easily fixable stuff. If they just stopped
Speaker 5: throwing the ball to the other team with the same nickname,
Speaker 5: they win that game without any sort of problem. I
Speaker 5: think the more concern is that they have a game
Speaker 5: like that right ahead of playing Houston, which just had
Speaker 5: twenty eight points off turnovers against Taylor and is really
Speaker 5: really good at forcing turnovers and taking advantage, whereas Kansas.
Speaker 7: State really wasn't. That would probably be the biggest concern
Speaker 7: that I've heard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I mean, Brian, this is Blake. That's
Speaker 3: what we were talking about earlier, is that you're not
Speaker 3: playing to the ability that you're capable of. But the
Speaker 3: turnovers are so bad at times last night and you're
Speaker 3: rolling into Houston game where they're really making their money
Speaker 3: on turnovers at this point.
Speaker 17: Yeah, it's a lot of the passes.
Speaker 5: I don't want to use the word lazy, but it
Speaker 5: feels like they were just assuming people were going to
Speaker 5: be in spots or just didn't put.
Speaker 7: The same kind of touch.
Speaker 17: And the last handful of games, Arizona's opponents have been
Speaker 17: getting a lot of deflections and knocking a lot.
Speaker 5: Of passes off and poking balls out. So the ball
Speaker 5: security has gotten a little looser these last few games,
Speaker 5: and maybe in some ways having this game right before
Speaker 5: Houston helps drive home the importance of taking care of
Speaker 5: the ball.
Speaker 7: But it wasn't even just that.
Speaker 5: I mean late in the game there was one where
Speaker 5: it was a long rebound.
Speaker 17: And Vsar it came to him and instead of like
Speaker 17: catching it and passing someone he just tried to slap
Speaker 17: it back to somebody assuming they would be there, and
Speaker 17: it goes out of bounds. It's just little things like
Speaker 17: that that were kind of getting in the way. And
Speaker 17: yet I mean, they still had opportunities to win that game,
Speaker 17: So this wasn't I mean, same with the Texas Tech game.
Speaker 17: It's not like teams are dominating them or anything. There
Speaker 17: was just a few plays away from being twelve and
Speaker 17: one instead of eleven and too.
Speaker 2: I'm allowing you to be a professor O'Brien this afternoon.
Speaker 2: With Caleb Love's homework and his work to this point
Speaker 2: in the semester for the season, how would you grade him?
Speaker 17: I think he's been really good on defense.
Speaker 5: And he's been really good with every thing other than shooting,
Speaker 5: and like a lot of that are the things that
Speaker 5: he needs to get better at to make it to.
Speaker 17: The next level, particularly the defensive thing. And even in
Speaker 17: this game, I mean, he was he was playing very
Speaker 17: well on.
Speaker 7: The defensive side.
Speaker 17: He wasn't the guy that was.
Speaker 5: Getting beat on a lot of that stuff. The shots,
Speaker 5: I mean, I didn't see any difference in the most
Speaker 5: of those attempts compared to games where he made four
Speaker 5: out of nine from three or five out of nine
Speaker 5: from three.
Speaker 17: Sometimes when he goes to the basket he.
Speaker 5: Maybe tries to go into a crowd rather than kick
Speaker 5: it out. Some of his best plays last night were
Speaker 5: when he passed the ball off to somebody for a
Speaker 5: dump off or a dunk or.
Speaker 17: Whatever by drawing all that attention.
Speaker 7: But sometimes I think in.
Speaker 5: Games where collectively as a team no one is doing
Speaker 5: well offensively, he feels like he has to keep doing
Speaker 5: a lot. But even in that game, he didn't take
Speaker 5: a shot for like the first I don't know, eight
Speaker 5: minutes of the second half, focusing on other things. So
Speaker 5: I don't think his year has been as bad as
Speaker 5: some people would describe it, but it certainly hasn't been
Speaker 5: a good year.
Speaker 3: So so what's the grade. What's the grade?
Speaker 17: A S?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean you can still pass with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, see degrees right, so we'll seah, we'll give it.
Speaker 2: I think so C plus maybe for the same reasons.
Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen offensive you know, if you come
Speaker 2: in as an offensive, dude, there's no offense to be found. Mostly,
Speaker 2: but he's right, he's played defensely a lot better over
Speaker 2: the last month or so. He's played very well. Arizona
Speaker 2: doesn't need him as much as we thought they would
Speaker 2: need him because they're playing well. Last night was just
Speaker 2: one of those games you'd throw away. It's a throwaway,
Speaker 2: you say.
Speaker 3: What the hell yeah?
Speaker 5: And actually something else to consider. So Arizona had seventeen turnovers,
Speaker 5: Cala Bluff had zero, so he wasn't he was missing shots,
Speaker 5: but he wasn't giving.
Speaker 7: The ball away.
Speaker 5: He was and there were times where he was passing
Speaker 5: to someone who would then give it away. His shots
Speaker 5: just didn't go in. I mean, the iOS State game
Speaker 5: is just such a perfect example from a couple of
Speaker 5: weeks ago, where like he had all these open looks
Speaker 5: and just nothing would go in. And then he hits
Speaker 5: a sixty footer and then makes every shot in regularly
Speaker 5: in overtime, and then has two games after that where
Speaker 5: he's hitting pretty much everything.
Speaker 7: It comes in waves for him.
Speaker 5: But I also think he is somebody that even if
Speaker 5: he's going to have a game like this, he needs
Speaker 5: to keep shooting. He can't be one for nine. I'd
Speaker 5: rather see him, frankly one for eighteen than one for eight,
Speaker 5: because if he loses the confidence and stops doing that,
Speaker 5: and then no one has to bother guarding him. Then
Speaker 5: it's five on four and they don't always have five
Speaker 5: offensive players on the court to begin with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I would just to chime in real quick.
Speaker 3: I mean, to your point, Brian, the defense that we're
Speaker 3: playing against is going to base their game plan not
Speaker 3: solely around Kaylen by any by any means, but he's
Speaker 3: their primary point of contact, right, So, like you said,
Speaker 3: if he's if he's one for eight and he can't
Speaker 3: hit anything, they're starting to now ease up on that
Speaker 3: tension and putting in on other guys. So and I
Speaker 3: think the Iowa State games a perfect a perfect game
Speaker 3: to point to when you know, he gets a shot
Speaker 3: to go and it was a half court shot, but
Speaker 3: it was like he could have hit any shot he
Speaker 3: wanted to after.
Speaker 7: That, mm hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And if it's going to continue to ebb and flow,
Speaker 5: they just kind of have to hope that the wave
Speaker 5: is going on the way up when.
Speaker 17: They get into the postseason, then being.
Speaker 5: On the way down last year. It was on the
Speaker 5: way down when they were in the postseason. But yeah,
Speaker 5: did you I don't know. I mean, I think that
Speaker 5: is a good problem to have because they've still been
Speaker 5: winning for the most part.
Speaker 3: With that, with that uncertainty, well, this is so so Arizona.
Speaker 3: Did you have them winning alusion? Yesterday?
Speaker 7: I thought I.
Speaker 17: Predicted they would win in when I did a Q
Speaker 17: and A with.
Speaker 7: With our sister site for Kansas State.
Speaker 17: But on Saturday night, me and Jason Sheer from Wild
Speaker 17: Cap Authority, we're talking about this and we could have
Speaker 17: definitely seen them losing month Tuesday to Kansas.
Speaker 5: State, but then winning Houston on Saturday, just because of
Speaker 5: the whole bounce back and that the more important game.
Speaker 5: I don't think in any way they looked past or
Speaker 5: overlooked Kansas State. I don't think it was any of that.
Speaker 5: It was just it was a bad night against a team.
Speaker 17: That was hot and very easily could finish.
Speaker 7: Fifth place now in the league after starting one and six,
Speaker 7: And that.
Speaker 2: Would have been my point to you, says, Okay, isn't
Speaker 2: that Arizona basketball in a nutshell? Lose this game and
Speaker 2: then come back and play your mind against Houston. Win
Speaker 2: that game, because to Tommy hasn't lost too in a row,
Speaker 2: has he.
Speaker 17: He did lose two in a row twice earlier this year.
Speaker 7: I forgot those in the non conference but he hasn't.
Speaker 17: Lost too in a row in the conference.
Speaker 7: In fact, Arizona I believe is up.
Speaker 17: To now seventy seven consecutive conference.
Speaker 7: Games dating back even to like the end of.
Speaker 17: The Sean Miller era without consecutive conference losses, which is
Speaker 17: longest active streak in the country.
Speaker 7: This is the stretch right here.
Speaker 5: Even if they beat Kansas State, there was that opportunity
Speaker 5: with Houston and then going to Baylor two nights later
Speaker 5: where they.
Speaker 7: Could lose two in a row.
Speaker 5: This does set up the possibility, a very real possibility
Speaker 5: of a three game losing streak with the next two games,
Speaker 5: and that's when you're going to start seeing like the
Speaker 5: haters and the doubters really start to get emboldened.
Speaker 7: Even though I mean.
Speaker 5: From the beginning this was going to be a tough
Speaker 5: conference season and a backloaded season. And Arizona, even if
Speaker 5: they know they struggle down the stretch and finish at
Speaker 5: you know, at worse fourteen and six in the conference,
Speaker 5: considering where they were at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 5: I think that's still a major accomplishment and they would
Speaker 5: go into the Ncblee Tournament with a fairly decent two.
Speaker 2: Well to my point because you and I said together
Speaker 2: at the games and we talked about this, and I
Speaker 2: think you've done a story or two about this, and
Speaker 2: I talked about it in public because they asked me,
Speaker 2: how good is this team?
Speaker 3: I says, I will find.
Speaker 2: Out in game twelve, because the back end is when
Speaker 2: you get tested and you're going to go and not tomorrow,
Speaker 2: it's tomorrow, Tuesday, and Thursday.
Speaker 3: It's it's every day. Almost all set of maybe ASSU
Speaker 3: and Utah maybe, but you yeah, the remaining Yeah. Of
Speaker 3: the remaining seven games, four of them are against the
Speaker 3: teams that were picked to finish ahead of Arizona in
Speaker 3: the conference. Iowa State's the only one they played, and
Speaker 3: they needed overtime and a miracle shot to beat them,
Speaker 3: and I was State. I would say it's.
Speaker 5: Stumbled a little bit after that, but they are still
Speaker 5: very good. But they haven't played Kansas. They have to
Speaker 5: go that they they haven't played excuse me, they haven't
Speaker 5: played uh Houston that yeah, they played Baylor ones, but
Speaker 5: they have they have to go on the road.
Speaker 7: To play them.
Speaker 5: So they they've played. The toughest opponents they've played so
Speaker 5: far have been at home. And I would say West
Speaker 5: Virginia and Kansas State have been the toughest they've played
Speaker 5: on the road, buy U a little bit as well,
Speaker 5: but they still have their toughest games left on the schedule,
Speaker 5: which or lose is probably good for just the overall
Speaker 5: leading into the conference, Whereas if in the Pac twelve,
Speaker 5: you might have only had two or three or four
Speaker 5: really tough games, and depending on how.
Speaker 17: It lays out, you could be going into the postseason.
Speaker 7: Not having been tested much lately.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great, it's crazy, but it's realistic. I mean,
Speaker 3: they beat who they should have beaten as we lay
Speaker 3: out the schedule now. But you're right, the back end's
Speaker 3: gonna be tough. I still believe it was one of
Speaker 3: basketball they lose to yesterday, they'll win Saturday. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be a heck of a good game, you know.
Speaker 17: Yeah, it's tough. The it's gonna be weird to see
Speaker 17: how slow the game is, considering that Houston averages like
Speaker 17: sixty possessions a game and the only time they run
Speaker 17: is off of turnovers.
Speaker 5: So whereas Arizona tries to get quick shots and will
Speaker 5: try they play, they may force you to take a
Speaker 5: while on defense, so that's might say the same. But
Speaker 5: is Arizona going to try to run and get ahead
Speaker 5: or are they going to be very methodical so that
Speaker 5: they don't give the ball away. The teams that have
Speaker 5: tried to run against Houston have had a little bit
Speaker 5: of success but still haven't won the game or have
Speaker 5: barely won. Like Alabama went fast but that game went
Speaker 5: all the way to overtime. Texas Tech did not, but
Speaker 5: Texas Tech still scored in the seventies in regulation and
Speaker 5: then won in overtime. And so maybe this team has
Speaker 5: not run as much as previous ones, and not just
Speaker 5: because they haven't been able to get out in transition,
Speaker 5: but they seem to be taking a little bit more
Speaker 5: time on offense and the overall tempo is lower. So
Speaker 5: maybe they try to just match it slow for slow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's not good. I still believe they can't
Speaker 3: play well. Another. I have this guy named Juan here.
Speaker 3: I want you to ask or ask a question. You
Speaker 3: talked about Townsend and the Bryant thing to see if
Speaker 3: he can understand what you're saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, basically I said that trade Towns is going to
Speaker 4: be very important for Arizona down the stretch.
Speaker 3: He needs to remain healthy.
Speaker 4: Do you agree with that and that he's going to
Speaker 4: be an important factor for Arizona because Brian needs to
Speaker 4: remain off of the foul line.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, Oh no, I mean Arizona is a much
Speaker 5: better team with eight guys than they are with seven.
Speaker 5: And say what you want about who should be starting,
Speaker 5: who shouldn't and Townshend's overall value, but he is valuable
Speaker 5: in the respect that it takes pressure off of Carter Bryant.
Speaker 5: Carter Brian has made five starts this year, and I
Speaker 5: believe he's scored like twenty points in those games, and
Speaker 5: he's had foul trouble in all of them and sometimes
Speaker 5: is playing fewer minutes when he starts than in all
Speaker 5: the games on average when.
Speaker 17: He is off the bench, and he could just play
Speaker 17: as a different person, and if he gets in a
Speaker 17: little foul trouble.
Speaker 5: It's fine because there's somebody else. But these past two games,
Speaker 5: when they're down to seven people, even though there have
Speaker 5: been some good parts to playing with both Awaka and
Speaker 5: vs are out there together for a size aspect, losing
Speaker 5: that that ability to shift things around and have one
Speaker 5: step in for the other has really it's it's had
Speaker 5: an impact on things overall, especially this.
Speaker 7: Uh, this last game.
Speaker 5: And I mean if if Townsend is not available for Houston,
Speaker 5: it's going to be very troublesome. And I mean if
Speaker 5: if they have to hold him out just to make
Speaker 5: sure he's better for the long run, then that's fine.
Speaker 5: But the sooner they can get him.
Speaker 7: Back, the better, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Okay, can you make a prediction today because I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you before then for Saturday.
Speaker 17: I've seen this movie before and.
Speaker 7: They see Arizona being able to win this game.
Speaker 5: I think just the way everything has been set up,
Speaker 5: especially with the loss beforehand, if this team continues to
Speaker 5: be the kind that responds like they have like previous
Speaker 5: teams when when they come off all off, this should
Speaker 5: be one of the better efforts early in the season.
Speaker 5: I kind of discount those that were tournaments and things
Speaker 5: like that where you're playing consecutive games and all that.
Speaker 5: I think that, Yeah, I do think they respond and
Speaker 5: I do think that Arizona wins this game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't disagree with you.
Speaker 2: I have to look at it a little bit further,
Speaker 2: but I don't disagree with you because it always happens
Speaker 2: that way. Okay, thanks Brian, appreciate it. Yeah, thanks Ed
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Winning the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports sporteen fifty and Steve, You're blake.
Speaker 3: You're one solving the world's problems off the air, of course. Yeah.
Speaker 3: One conversation at the time. Yeah, yes, yes, another Tuesday, Yeah,
Speaker 3: another Tuesday. It's Wednesday. That's my point. Yeah, I say,
Speaker 3: it must be nice to have that kind of life
Speaker 3: for you. Wedday? Is it one you're getting funny at
Speaker 3: this job? I know, try ironic.
Speaker 4: I think it's someone I'm actually sick funny. It all
Speaker 4: just kind of blends in together.
Speaker 21: Mask.
Speaker 3: No one knows who you are.
Speaker 7: One.
Speaker 3: When'd you get that fresh cut man today?
Speaker 7: Actually?
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Speaker 22: so I appreciate Yeah him, Mommy didn't. Mom probably baked
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know Spanish.
Speaker 2: You have to yeah, oh yeah, because you grew up
Speaker 2: here and you probably played ball somewhere. I played ball
Speaker 2: in a lot of places, and Parbaty called a lot
Speaker 2: of weddows a few times.
Speaker 3: Yeah when I was growing up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, anybody want to call five to zero
Speaker 2: four one, six, seventy four forty give us your observation done.
Speaker 3: A lot of people liked.
Speaker 2: Our conversation yesterday done, and I got into it just
Speaker 2: a little dad everyone, and then I told him this
Speaker 2: was going to happen. You know, he was talking about
Speaker 2: them beating Baylor, you know, or I was. I was
Speaker 2: state he might be able to call and clarify. But
Speaker 2: because they beat him here by fifteen or whatever, they're
Speaker 2: going to beat them by different circumstances, totally different circumstances.
Speaker 2: And I was talking about the home court adventits itself
Speaker 2: is about a six point you're going to overcome that,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe back calls or whatever, even they took
Speaker 2: away two points from Yeah, listen, we actually had calls
Speaker 2: go are away last night. You had that, and you
Speaker 2: had the yeah, the goldending off of Bryant's plate, where
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't yeah, that was definitely golden.
Speaker 3: We got a call to see who's on the Oh
Speaker 3: we don't. Okay, what did you do? You give me
Speaker 3: a signal?
Speaker 17: Oh?
Speaker 3: You were like, oh you're bad at.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But to your point the goaltending, what was the
Speaker 3: other one? There was a few. There was a few
Speaker 3: and now I can't remember. Yeah, well, you know what
Speaker 3: when one call that was probably not good and they
Speaker 3: needed a ball, not that they would have made a
Speaker 3: difference in the win. Was the over bat Oh? I
Speaker 3: thought for sure we were going to get that call
Speaker 3: to tourist, right, that wasn't over and back it was
Speaker 3: and at that point where they could go, oh, they
Speaker 3: couldn't review that call, right, I guess that was not reviewable.
Speaker 3: I guess, but they said that's not reviewable. I thought
Speaker 3: that was a little strange. Well, I thought it was
Speaker 3: below two minutes, right, I thought everything was. But they
Speaker 3: said that call is not reviewable. Yeah, that's strange. That
Speaker 3: was definitely always confused with.
Speaker 4: Most of those are mostly to the monitor looking at something,
Speaker 4: and what are you looking at?
Speaker 3: They went to the Montreal a lot. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: uh no, we got a call. Okay, you're on the
Speaker 3: AAR and on the ball. Who's this he with?
Speaker 7: Outher is vic vic?
Speaker 3: What's the word? How's your workout this morning?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 7: My guy was better than than Arizona till.
Speaker 3: My boys excited said what you did?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 21: Honestly, I wanted to ask all three of your guys
Speaker 21: opinions and what scares me? And you know, my background
Speaker 21: is baseball, and when my short stops booting balls and stuff,
Speaker 21: I'm worried.
Speaker 17: And the turnovers are.
Speaker 21: Are are such lazy passes that have been going on
Speaker 21: since the beginning of the season, and they're just pick
Speaker 21: six turnovers.
Speaker 7: You throw it right in the guy.
Speaker 17: And the second thing is.
Speaker 21: Is like kJ lewis following two three pointers, then he
Speaker 21: follows the guy on the breakaway dunk, so that that's
Speaker 21: six seven points right there, that he gave up seven
Speaker 21: points wins of that game. If that doesn't alarm tom me,
Speaker 21: he's flipping out of his gorge. And then I've never
Speaker 21: and once again, you know my background, Steve, I was
Speaker 21: with do Mingus High School at their height with Tyson
Speaker 21: and Tayshaun and all those guys, and to let guys
Speaker 21: like Conrad and h Carter Bryant, and they.
Speaker 7: Just don't move their feet.
Speaker 17: And that's just a defense.
Speaker 21: I mean, if that happened, that Dominga's coach Otis would
Speaker 21: flip out of his mind and they'd be running for days.
Speaker 21: They just don't the lord, so he can't guard my fat.
Speaker 21: But I mean, and those things are alarming to me,
Speaker 21: and nobody brings them up. Your guy that you just interviewed,
Speaker 21: he didn't bring none of that up. I mean, for
Speaker 21: kJ to foul two three pointers, that's just unsatisfactory. Yeah,
Speaker 21: I want to hear what you guys got to say
Speaker 21: about it?
Speaker 3: Well, for me, Vic, let's talk about the Baseball reference,
Speaker 3: because you're right. I mean, if you if you roll
Speaker 3: in a major league game and one of the opponent
Speaker 3: opponents commits four errors in that game, it's highly likely
Speaker 3: that they're not going to win that game. Right, So
Speaker 3: you've got eight turnovers in the first half last night
Speaker 3: it was a battle, and then we end up committing
Speaker 3: what we had seventeen total game. That's a lot, twenty
Speaker 3: three points, I think. Yeah, and you know they were
Speaker 3: lethargic and they were things that could have been avoided. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's the one concern for me. That second piece.
Speaker 3: I think you look at KG. I think the one
Speaker 3: three was him trying to be help defense that he
Speaker 3: came across maybe. Yeah, so that's concerning too.
Speaker 21: Yeah, it's just and I'm telling you in the beginning
Speaker 21: of the season, and just like last night, I laugh
Speaker 21: and I challenged. See, they're picked six turnovers. They're just
Speaker 21: like at the top of the key, pass it to
Speaker 21: the next guy lazily, and then they take it to
Speaker 21: the length of the court. Yes, it wasn't like, hey,
Speaker 21: I turned it over driving to the basket and fumbled
Speaker 21: it or something.
Speaker 2: Well, this is this is my concern because I've seen it, Like,
Speaker 2: like Brian said, I've seen this movie before. We've seen
Speaker 2: this team's the Princeton Yere. They've given up leads a
Speaker 2: number of times. Right, what happened in the Princeton game.
Speaker 2: They were up by twelve and they gave up a lead.
Speaker 3: So this is what you are?
Speaker 2: Who you are eventually, and there was one, what eleven
Speaker 2: and two? They've played really well against teams that they
Speaker 2: should have beaten, blah blah blah. Because the schedule is backloaded.
Speaker 2: So come March, what's gonna happen. They're gonna start Come March.
Speaker 2: They're gonna play in the second round, either the thirty
Speaker 2: two or the sixteen game, and you're gonna have fifteen
Speaker 2: turnovers for twenty points.
Speaker 3: And you're gonna say that's the team we didn't want
Speaker 3: to see. Well pretty much, that's who they are. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. You are who you are.
Speaker 3: I don't disagree with you. Here's the only here's the
Speaker 3: only change in mind that I have compared to years
Speaker 3: in the past with this team. Like you're talking about
Speaker 3: the Oregon State loss. Right, we got our doors blown off.
Speaker 3: You're talking about Stanford lost, got our doors blown off.
Speaker 3: You're trying in regular season. In regular season, I think
Speaker 3: this team has a little bit more grit to it now.
Speaker 3: The is no question you're not losing those kind of
Speaker 3: battles right their last You're you're losing the game. Still
Speaker 3: have a chance in the last minute. The Texas tack
Speaker 3: was a little bit different, but you're still in that
Speaker 3: game almost the whole time. The question to me is
Speaker 3: problem solving, Right, do we have the attention to detail
Speaker 3: to problem solve because you're looking at us find ways
Speaker 3: to score points last night and at least stayed in
Speaker 3: the game. We didn't shoot well at all, but you
Speaker 3: found ways of score points. But you didn't find ways
Speaker 3: to keep the turnovers down, and that's what killed us. Well,
Speaker 3: let me tell you too, Kansas State almost gave the
Speaker 3: game away. They couldn't hit free throws or threes. Yeah,
Speaker 3: at the end of the game, you had well.
Speaker 21: Okay, so like like the guy's not moving their feet
Speaker 21: like Carter, I mean, we lost a little bit of
Speaker 21: our grit last night.
Speaker 7: Don't tell me we did.
Speaker 21: Henry fumbling the ball, couldn't secure the reading and he's
Speaker 21: been doing that. He's been grabbing those fuckers with two hands,
Speaker 21: fighting his own teammates off. And last night there he
Speaker 21: would get a hand on the ball and they knock
Speaker 21: it out of his hand, and I'm like, are we
Speaker 21: losing our toughness?
Speaker 7: What happened here?
Speaker 3: Vic?
Speaker 2: You remember that one time you went to Hula Hans
Speaker 2: and you went in casually and women just loved Vic.
Speaker 2: You pulled out a hot looking girl. So you went
Speaker 2: again the next week and you thought you could do
Speaker 2: it again, and no one liked you. That's what happened.
Speaker 21: But I ran out of ni olt money that you
Speaker 21: spent it all on the.
Speaker 3: First night, right, Yeah, that's what happened.
Speaker 2: You thought you were poop, didn't steak, and you went
Speaker 2: back again and nothing worked.
Speaker 3: To Vix point, though Visar looked a little soft last night.
Speaker 3: That's the first time in a while, Yeah, in a
Speaker 3: while that I've seen him not play, with a little
Speaker 3: chip on his shoulder and looked like he wasn't playing.
Speaker 3: And maybe it's at a walk of Vsar when they're
Speaker 3: on the court together, because you've got an alpha male
Speaker 3: and a walker from a rebounding standpoint, Uh, where But yeah,
Speaker 3: you're right. I fig you're right on that. That was
Speaker 3: that was a waka was out? Yeah a lot? Okay, Vic,
Speaker 3: thanks man.
Speaker 21: But I'm telling you will see you guys. But this, uh,
Speaker 21: they've got to go back.
Speaker 7: Every day and start rolling the ball to them and
Speaker 7: and and uh and making good throws the first because
Speaker 7: this yesterday scared me.
Speaker 3: See you Saturday to Bobby McGee's. Steve, you're gonna.
Speaker 7: Rine all right with you guy?
Speaker 3: All right, man? Thanks see Vic. Yeah, I'll talk talk
Speaker 3: to Tom and say, hey, get this stuff stake, Hey,
Speaker 3: send me your practice plan. Let me let me take
Speaker 3: a look at it, Tommy. Yeah, stuff like this happens.
Speaker 2: How I asked this one of the interns, I think
Speaker 2: maybe a couple of days ago or not. You want
Speaker 2: so three hundred and sixty five days out of the
Speaker 2: year year you work forty two hundred and fifty those
Speaker 2: days you work because you know, five days a week.
Speaker 3: How many bad days you have with those? How many
Speaker 3: bad days? It's probably the wrong time of year to
Speaker 3: ask me that question. Last night was one of those
Speaker 3: days where you had a bad day. I mean it
Speaker 3: happens to be. How many times you go and get
Speaker 3: you ask once out of once out of every five starts,
Speaker 3: was was probably you're gonna go get like, you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to grind, grind, and then maybe. I mean there
Speaker 3: was times you just had to figure out a way
Speaker 3: you were. You were starter of I started. So how
Speaker 3: many times did you last past three? I mean there
Speaker 3: was a didn't last Yeah, it was a rarity that
Speaker 3: I didn't make it past three. Uh, but yeah, there
Speaker 3: were times. I mean I can tell you, I can
Speaker 3: tell you a couple of starts. It's still like my
Speaker 3: neck still hurts from watching balls. Either go out of
Speaker 3: the yard or go Did you have anything last? Did
Speaker 3: you have thing more?
Speaker 2: You know you by the same stuff. Yeah, it was
Speaker 2: just one of those days. It was not your day. Yeah, unexplainably.
Speaker 3: I mean here's the perfect point, right, we watched that
Speaker 3: game last night, and I'll put it into my perspective.
Speaker 3: We couldn't hit a three to save our lives. Whether
Speaker 3: we're wide open. I mean, when I was pitching, if
Speaker 3: there were days that I would throw a curveball or
Speaker 3: slider that was just like just we called some mixers
Speaker 3: that would just stay up there and get crossed right,
Speaker 3: and then the next start it's just wipe out, like
Speaker 3: it's it's one of those You're right, you just have
Speaker 3: to find a way. You've got to use this all
Speaker 3: the time. You've got to look at your toolbox and
Speaker 3: your tool belt and see what's going to work in
Speaker 3: that short and and you're doing it in real time,
Speaker 3: real time time. It's not that easy.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to give them an alibi. No, it
Speaker 2: happens like this happens Michigan State It last night there
Speaker 2: were seven you know, one point favorites lost in Indiana,
Speaker 2: team playing horribly. Every day you can find something this show.
Speaker 2: I know, as good as this is, we suck sometimes.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you that. Sometimes we can't figure out the
Speaker 3: phone calls. Even there's just dead air. I've gotta make
Speaker 3: fart noises and everybody's confused, right, you know, yeah, it's no,
Speaker 3: You're absolutely right. And but like that's that's the beauty
Speaker 3: of the whole thing. Right, you want consistency, but you've
Speaker 3: you've got to have some loads human humans humans don't
Speaker 3: do that. I mean, humans just don't play how many times.
Speaker 2: That's why the glory of the tournament is you don't
Speaker 2: even know who Florida Atlantic is yeah, and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden during the final four, how.
Speaker 3: These things because you didn't pay attention to who they
Speaker 3: were Gulf Coast right Dunk City, and then you go
Speaker 3: get a job at USC after that. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: how wild is this. Let's say you you you work
Speaker 3: your tail off all season, you barely make the tournament, right,
Speaker 3: you're mid level, low level D one coach. You make
Speaker 3: a run of two great games, and you're a hot ticket.
Speaker 3: Next you're getting hired at a at a premium top
Speaker 3: five program, like top five conference program. That's wild. That's
Speaker 3: wild to me. I mean it's great, but it's wild.
Speaker 3: What was your point? You just I don't know. I'm
Speaker 3: just talking at this point. There's no points. I mean
Speaker 3: your as game that was more interested in your curve
Speaker 3: ball and you see, but stuff like that happens.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is Arizona basketball played to the Arizona
Speaker 2: didn't won their title in ninety seven by surviving the
Speaker 2: first round, which they survived at South Alabama. They probably
Speaker 2: won the tournament that game because they won that game.
Speaker 2: They struggled in game two when they should have beaten
Speaker 2: that team pretty bad. They beat Canadas. No one ever
Speaker 2: thought that possible, but why Arizona was challenged against a
Speaker 2: better team?
Speaker 3: They showed up the.
Speaker 2: Next game they struggled against College Charleston. I think it
Speaker 2: was Providence once overtime. They should have beat them. They
Speaker 2: went in overtime, and then the rest was gravy against
Speaker 2: North Carolina and Kentucky. Not gravy, gravy, But you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, because they had they had a challenge
Speaker 2: in front of him. You're not gonna tell my baby
Speaker 2: that those dudes are better than him. You're not gonna
Speaker 2: tell Miles that they're better. But South Alabama we got this,
Speaker 2: we got this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know you know those athletes, Yeah, plays
Speaker 3: with those that you maybe one of those athletes I got,
Speaker 3: I got, I got your cell point, I got green
Speaker 3: bed greenfields. Oh did you just tell me? Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: no problem. Do you know what I'm saying? You go
Speaker 3: up thinking I got this, Yeah, and you don't got this. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you run into one you said it earlier. You wanted
Speaker 3: a guy that you never prepped for that lays twenty
Speaker 3: four points on you, and you're like, what just happened?
Speaker 3: What just happened? Yeah, Like that guy wasn't even our
Speaker 3: video review, we weren't even like, Okay, he's gonna be
Speaker 3: off to the side, but give him some room and
Speaker 3: then he drops twenty four. Didn't that dude know that
Speaker 3: I'm in All America?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Didn't get the memo, nor did he care.
Speaker 3: I'm making sure if I'm Caleb lev says that I'm
Speaker 3: an All American, just just to make sure everybody knows
Speaker 3: my n I L Yeah. Yeah, well it's we have time.
Speaker 3: How much time? Here's the perfect example. So Shaq Shack
Speaker 3: it was going to place L s U in L
Speaker 3: s U whatever.
Speaker 7: I think it was.
Speaker 3: The first game. L s U kicks the crap out
Speaker 3: of Arizona. They come back for the returning game, and
Speaker 3: Rooks is going against him, right, and Rooks played out
Speaker 3: of his mind, I'll play Shack here and and uh
Speaker 3: they talked to talk to Shack and they said he
Speaker 3: told Rooks, I'm still gonna be the number one pick.
Speaker 3: I don't care what you do. Okay, if you were
Speaker 3: talking about this, because it kind of lines into the
Speaker 3: trash talk, have you heard and this is going way
Speaker 3: off base here? Have you heard people talk about Tim
Speaker 3: Duncan and his trash talk. And then because he never
Speaker 3: said a word, no, he was all encouraging. So there's
Speaker 3: I can't remember wh they're talking about, but they dropped.
Speaker 3: He dropped like sixteen straight points on this guy, right,
Speaker 3: and he goes back to the bench after every time
Speaker 3: he's like, hey, it's okay, you're gonna get better, You're fine.
Speaker 3: He the guy was like, that's word. That's the worst
Speaker 3: trash talk because like you're not talking, you know, to me,
Speaker 3: You're you're trying to encourage me while you're doing we
Speaker 3: get in real time to be I think that's glorious.
Speaker 3: Don't worry, you'll get it. You'll be okay to worry
Speaker 3: about it. Yeah, okay, let's take a break. Okay, we'll
Speaker 3: come back with breaking news a little bit, okay, cool,