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Speaker 2: As a good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the
Speaker 2: Ball hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In
Speaker 2: with me today as usual on a Monday, Mike Quinn, Hey,
Speaker 2: Henry running the board with our guy Cody, trying to
Speaker 2: figure out my life saved me on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Speaker 2: Welcome Cody. This is the beginning. Kobe, I'm sorry, Kobe,
Speaker 2: Kobe as in this guy over in the corner as
Speaker 2: in Lakers Kobe there, you can't read? What can I do?
Speaker 2: Screw this up? If you start start working the board right,
Speaker 2: He'll call you your first name. Thank you. You gonna
Speaker 2: prove yourself. You're gonna prove yourself here. Yeah right, Hey,
Speaker 2: I was just testing you, Kobe and Henry. Hey man,
Speaker 2: how's it to be an Arizona Wildcat alum and student?
Speaker 2: This weekend? Uh? It's rough, rough, it's uh. It's a
Speaker 2: tough weekend, tough weekend. I think expectations were a little higher,
Speaker 2: uh than than than we played out. So let me
Speaker 2: ask both you. I asked Henry and and Kobe this, Uh,
Speaker 2: which was worse the football game or the basketball game?
Speaker 2: Mint and the women lost too? They think that.
Speaker 3: No, I think they came back though.
Speaker 2: They won't they beat they lost an AU earlier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they won their last then.
Speaker 2: They won their last game. Yeah, So which is the
Speaker 2: worst basketball? Football? Well? Yeah asking me? You're asking, yeah,
Speaker 2: I kind of I will talk to them in the second.
Speaker 2: I already know their answer because we talked about there.
Speaker 2: I think that the the most disappointing is the is
Speaker 2: the basketball. I think that there were people that like
Speaker 2: really thought that we were gonna kind of show better
Speaker 2: against Duke, and we did not. I think football we've
Speaker 2: kind of gotten used to like ups and downs and hey,
Speaker 2: maybe we'll win this game. It's like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: we won't, which is uh, you know, upsetting in itself.
Speaker 2: But I do think that expectations were a little bit
Speaker 2: higher for our performance in basketball. Yeah, we just didn't
Speaker 2: seem to We just didn't seem to put anything together
Speaker 2: like we had And again, it's just kind of to me.
Speaker 2: I'll talk about it after Henry's answer and hope.
Speaker 3: Yet, Well, I think at this point there's just no
Speaker 3: expectations even left for football that I feel like you
Speaker 3: got to say basketball.
Speaker 2: So so what about this weekend? We'll get more. We'll
Speaker 2: get to that in a second. You didn't have any
Speaker 2: expectations after we did well against Houston that you know,
Speaker 2: maybe we'd be able to do Yeah, you're a pessimist.
Speaker 3: Not even pessimists. I just didn't. I watched the Houston game,
Speaker 3: and Houston beat themselves. We really didn't do anything that impressive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, TCU tried to beat themselves, but we wouldn't let
Speaker 2: them exactly, Kobe, what about you?
Speaker 4: I would say basketball as well, especially after the first
Speaker 4: game versus Wisconsin, we thought it was a flu uker
Speaker 4: on the road, like Duke came and you had a
Speaker 4: chance to get a big win against a great team
Speaker 4: and they didn't come to play. And football, it was
Speaker 4: a bit of a letdown after a good week before.
Speaker 4: But they have a chance to bounce back verse as you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree with you everybody, especially your analysis Henry,
Speaker 2: where you're already given up hope on football, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: who hasn't who this weekend is everyone talks about their
Speaker 2: bowl game, blah blah blah. They're still gonna say, Okay,
Speaker 2: we won, but we still had a second season at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, that's what you remember the
Speaker 2: season by people rattling enough that the coach would be fired,
Speaker 2: YadA YadA. Okay, you go five and seven. I guess
Speaker 2: what that would be the final record?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Okay? So what's the big deal with there? Even though?
Speaker 2: So what I mean that second you were here too,
Speaker 2: you were here a number of years that that a
Speaker 2: nickel gets you a nickel. Well, I will tell you
Speaker 2: some right now. If you if you win that game,
Speaker 2: you remember that game, and what does that get you?
Speaker 2: It gets you something to remember it by? Are you
Speaker 2: kidding me? Like, look, I'm from I'm very familiar. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm familiar with Arizona, Arizona and state game, but I'm
Speaker 2: very familiar with the Army Navy game. It's like there
Speaker 2: are times that we've been one in ten. You win
Speaker 2: the Army Navy game, you know what you say, twenty
Speaker 2: years from now, Hey remember that time we won that
Speaker 2: Army Navy We won the Army Navy game. We beat you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what when winning the Arizona Arizona State
Speaker 2: game is a big deal. Now, I get that. I
Speaker 2: get now it would would we rather win a national championship? Probably? Yep,
Speaker 2: they'd rather win a national championship. My point, would we
Speaker 2: like to go, you know, win a bowl game against
Speaker 2: bug tussel Tech. No? Maybe for the money. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sure the athletic department is like, hey, we'd really
Speaker 2: like to go to a bowl game against bug tussele Tech.
Speaker 2: But there's the and then who's gonna go to that.
Speaker 2: Who's gonna go to that? No one's gonna go to that.
Speaker 2: They're gonna get the They're gonna get the money. My
Speaker 2: point is, okay, you get the breaking rights. That hell,
Speaker 2: good for you. Let's move on. It is okay, well, okay,
Speaker 2: there I get I get it. And and this this
Speaker 2: game is has all your I would call you a
Speaker 2: bit jaded, okay, ons you've done that, and you've called
Speaker 2: me worse. You've done that many times. I know who
Speaker 2: hasn't called me jaded after all these years. And I'm
Speaker 2: surely going to understand. I'm according to Bill Listener, I'm
Speaker 2: grumpy for a reason. You know, something in my life
Speaker 2: has really affected me. I need to see a therapist.
Speaker 2: Probably look in the mirror every morning and get grumpier. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: all the great hair. There's not much I can do.
Speaker 2: God already did it to me. Uh So I get it.
Speaker 2: I get it. The concern now is basketball. I will
Speaker 2: talk about football. We have Troy Hutchinson coming on at
Speaker 2: the three, three fifteen, three seventeen, and then we have
Speaker 2: mister Doug Haller here at four seventeen, coming from Phoenix.
Speaker 2: He covers the asue he's covered Arizona a bit, So
Speaker 2: we'll talk all about that. We can argue it later.
Speaker 2: But the basketball team, to me was just kind of
Speaker 2: like I was gonna write a column that night and
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, what the hell am I going to say
Speaker 2: that people don't already see. The one thing that bothered
Speaker 2: me was and not so much Caleb, even though he
Speaker 2: can't hit anything these days in the ocean, it's like
Speaker 2: it's like they don't even look together offensively. And you've
Speaker 2: seen this team. I've seen this for thirty seven years,
Speaker 2: and the one thing that I noticed more than anything
Speaker 2: is Arizona. In order for Arizona to be good, they
Speaker 2: have to run, they have to move in transition. They
Speaker 2: got to do these things. And that's historically since Luke
Speaker 2: got here in eighty three. Okay, so if they don't
Speaker 2: do that, they're toast. I don't care who they're playing.
Speaker 2: So so that was sensive rebounding and moving the ball,
Speaker 2: moving the ball, and Duke prevented all that because they
Speaker 2: just couldn't shoot shoot the basketball. So if and guess
Speaker 2: what teams are gonna do, not that you didn't don't
Speaker 2: even know this, slow them down? Okay, they missed them shot, YadA, YadA,
Speaker 2: And and here we are again. Well you know, uh
Speaker 2: fast break start with defense, okay, and uh so I
Speaker 2: do think that we need to we need to pick
Speaker 2: up on our defense. I think we're gonna we're certainly
Speaker 2: gonna have to run. We we seem to, and by
Speaker 2: I mean mostly Caleb Love seems to be pressing, trying
Speaker 2: to make a little too much happen at this point. Okay,
Speaker 2: you can sit there and go, oh, you know, that'll
Speaker 2: all settle down after a while. And after a while,
Speaker 2: I mean, what is he the fifth year senior. I
Speaker 2: mean he's played in some really really big games. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure how much more settling down he's gonna do.
Speaker 2: I just I don't know where he goes from here.
Speaker 2: You know, I mean turn the ball over like that
Speaker 2: or shooting. Can't see him still Caleb, I'm talking about
Speaker 2: Caleb Love. Yeah, you know, we talked about that too
Speaker 2: coming up. I mean, realistically, if Tommy, I mean, when
Speaker 2: you talk about what are you most disappointed in? That's
Speaker 2: a play with Caleb Love. Yeah. So we're coming up
Speaker 2: and and hittering, and Kobe with a beat says, uh,
Speaker 2: they got they gotta move, they gotta change the lineup. Obviously,
Speaker 2: I think if if Tommy had anything in him, excuse me,
Speaker 2: with regard to Atlanta, don't you think that would be
Speaker 2: one of the first moves. I gotta I gotta believe
Speaker 2: that if things don't change rapidly, you've got to have
Speaker 2: Caleb watch a lot of basketball. So, Henry, would you
Speaker 2: move Caleb out or crieve us in first? Grieve us
Speaker 2: out first?
Speaker 3: Which was moving Caleb out? Just feels like you're conceding
Speaker 3: the season. Honestly, were they him?
Speaker 2: Great point? Great point? Yeah? No, you're right, offensively nobody, Yeah, no, one.
Speaker 2: Bryan Bryant would move probably two of the three four.
Speaker 3: You gotta you gotta make a center change for this
Speaker 3: upcoming tournament and see how it looks and if that
Speaker 3: goes wrong, then I don't even know you.
Speaker 2: You you make a point. And if you do that
Speaker 2: with Caleb, how will he react emotionally to it? Will
Speaker 2: he say? Okay, I'm gonna tune that the rest of
Speaker 2: the year. I mean you could lose him emotionally. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: you absolutely could lose him emotionally. But what are you
Speaker 2: shooting one for nine? I mean? Whoa? Okay, I mean
Speaker 2: who could you put Henry here? Let's go, you're in,
Speaker 2: Come on, I can shoot one for nine. Well, I
Speaker 2: don't know if I could shoot. I don't want. I
Speaker 2: don't want to sit there and be too hard on
Speaker 2: because he's an accomplished individual. Sure is he going to
Speaker 2: turn it around? He's the first team All American preseason.
Speaker 2: I understand his first team All American. He's certainly not
Speaker 2: playing like first team all How do you fix it?
Speaker 2: How do you fix it? I think one thing? They
Speaker 2: didn't give him the ball early, get him going early.
Speaker 2: I think that's a big thing.
Speaker 3: I think Tommy thought he could just settle into the
Speaker 3: game on its own, but that's it's harder to do
Speaker 3: that in college than like the stars in the NBA.
Speaker 3: And they know when it's their time to take over.
Speaker 3: I think he didn't know that kind of this game
Speaker 3: and just like get him the ball earlier to get
Speaker 3: him going.
Speaker 2: But he took the first couple of shots in the
Speaker 2: game night in most Oh, they were up five zero,
Speaker 2: six zero.
Speaker 3: I think too. I think his first shot was with
Speaker 3: like fifteen minutes left.
Speaker 2: Really, oh yeah, I really, yeah. They were probably tight
Speaker 2: at the time. So one of the articles I read
Speaker 2: mentioned how they got it. They tried to get him
Speaker 2: involved early, So maybe I'm maybe I'm wrong. It depends
Speaker 2: who wrote it. Yeah, I was gonna say you didn't
Speaker 2: write it, So it's like I'm a would have been
Speaker 2: kept looking for good articles. Yeah, then you could fight
Speaker 2: because yes, no, I I agree with you, Henry. We'll
Speaker 2: see what happens with him. But two games in a row, right,
Speaker 2: two games in a row first time the mistake. Second
Speaker 2: times could be a habit. And we've seen how he
Speaker 2: kind of go into funks. Yeah, so we'll see from
Speaker 2: that end. Creevous too, I think is an issue. You
Speaker 2: can't hang on to the ball. He looks. I don't
Speaker 2: think he's ready yet. Obviously, it's just in the good competition.
Speaker 2: So so we'll see. And then I've Henry's been spotty
Speaker 2: a little, He's been better at least, right, and we're
Speaker 2: talking about maybe starting o walka Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 2: a heck of a change, but it's a nice solution.
Speaker 3: I mean they started a walka what two games ago
Speaker 3: and look good?
Speaker 2: Yeah again can yeah? And uh and whoever the other
Speaker 2: one Morgan State or whatever it was, I can't remember
Speaker 2: even anymore. But we know that they're better than those guys,
Speaker 2: just not as bad as good as Wisconsin and Duke.
Speaker 2: So so we'll see. This weekend is a huge weekend. Uh,
Speaker 2: Bahamas has been tough. Everyone that carry already penciled the
Speaker 2: Zags and Arizona in the finals. I'm not sure that
Speaker 2: could or may happen. They played, they play like they did,
Speaker 2: turning the ball over like yeah or not. But but
Speaker 2: but Henry, to your point, and I've said this all along,
Speaker 2: it's only November. It's four games in what happens in November.
Speaker 2: You eat some turkey, get a little fat, march, you
Speaker 2: eat off that fat, and you get beat.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll see, we'll see if they can turn it around,
Speaker 2: you know, start holding onto the ball. Yeah. Well, Henry
Speaker 2: Henry Tommy, Tommy gets paid a lot of money. He
Speaker 2: got a big raise over the last few months. Uh.
Speaker 2: Now we'll see if he can earn his keep. Yep,
Speaker 2: he's got a coach. This this is this is a
Speaker 2: team that's gonna need coaching. Hes coaching correct correct. Uh.
Speaker 2: And and we saw you know under under Sean where
Speaker 2: he thought he and he kind of misspoke or he
Speaker 2: said he misspoke, but he talked about how he couldn't
Speaker 2: get get a hold of the guys to play hard,
Speaker 2: and he talked, walked it back, talked it back, and
Speaker 2: they still didn't play hard.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And so he was probably telling you the truth. And
Speaker 2: tom tom was very Tommy was very uh stern on
Speaker 2: Friday night. He knows that needs to be changed. Things
Speaker 2: need to be changed, need to be looked at.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: He's not gonna not gonna not change it. So we'll
Speaker 2: see how the rotation goes here. And just because they
Speaker 2: went on Wednesday doesn't mean anything. Because they went on
Speaker 2: Thursday doesn't mean anything. Well yeah, I mean it means
Speaker 2: the same thing as any other game in November, which
Speaker 2: is like we're playing to try and get better by March.
Speaker 2: And so you got to you gotta understand that. I
Speaker 2: just well, I'm terrified that we play the whole season
Speaker 2: with love not getting into the into the groove here right, Well,
Speaker 2: you're not. Doesn't happen. He'll be He'll be fine for
Speaker 2: most of the games. That's the problem with switch games.
Speaker 2: Won't he be fined? We'll find it. Okay, Hey, let's
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Speaker 1: Princess Steve Rivera, he's got his eye on the ball
Speaker 1: on Tucson Sports Station yet Fox Sports fourteen FIFA.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my the ball here Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Mike Quinn and Mike
Speaker 2: Quinn and I on the phone. We have Troy just
Speaker 2: Sen from gooasycats dot com. Youre Troy.
Speaker 12: Yes, I'm here.
Speaker 2: I'm here. Great, great to hear. We weren't sure we're
Speaker 2: gonna get we weren't executing sure whether we did or yeah, yeah, Troy, Troy.
Speaker 2: So I'm asking people who it was worse, the football
Speaker 2: game with a basketball game. I think it's unanimous.
Speaker 12: I would say the basketball game because football is over right,
Speaker 12: I mean, the season is far from over high expectations
Speaker 12: with basketball, so I would I would vote the basketball game.
Speaker 2: So, so would you temper the expectations for basketball now
Speaker 2: what you've seen through four games?
Speaker 12: No? No, I think you know they still have a
Speaker 12: very good team and you're going through four games again
Speaker 12: and two really high level opponents. I know was struggled
Speaker 12: in their very next game, but you know, that's the
Speaker 12: way at college basketball, and it's going to be the
Speaker 12: way of life.
Speaker 2: In the Big twelve.
Speaker 12: I still believe this is a twenty two to twenty three,
Speaker 12: maybe twenty four win team that will be a top
Speaker 12: three seed and then see the Blade Tournament. But you're
Speaker 12: going to take your lumps along the way. Maybe a
Speaker 12: little concerned about Caleb Love as of right now, but
Speaker 12: Tommy Lloyd has been a coach that has proven to
Speaker 12: fix themes offensively throughout the season if there's an area
Speaker 12: of struggle, and you know, you just got to believe
Speaker 12: in the system. And this is going to be a
Speaker 12: team that's going to be in the thick of the
Speaker 12: Big twelve. It's just taking a few lumps along the
Speaker 12: way right now.
Speaker 2: Would you bench or no, no, no, who would you bench?
Speaker 2: If you had a chance to bench.
Speaker 12: I would go back to Tobya Waka starting in the lineup.
Speaker 12: I think he brings you a physicality that three of
Speaker 12: us just isn't prepared to bring you right now. And
Speaker 12: I don't know if creve Us is full go as
Speaker 12: of right now, and Tommy even said that, you know,
Speaker 12: maybe he should have made that adjustment.
Speaker 2: In the lineup.
Speaker 12: Caleb Love, I want to benj M, but you might
Speaker 12: want to change up the roles. You know, they've asked
Speaker 12: them to play more off the ball, and he's talked
Speaker 12: about it being a squirrel without the basketball in his hands,
Speaker 12: and quite frankly, that's just not his game. And you've
Speaker 12: seen them kind of stand around in the corner at
Speaker 12: times and then when he gets the ball, he chucks
Speaker 12: it up. I think it's difficult asking somebody to do
Speaker 12: that what they're not used to doing when they're a
Speaker 12: fifth or six.
Speaker 2: Year senior, right right, how you're not supposed to be
Speaker 2: disappointed or related when they win or lose. What was
Speaker 2: your biggest observation outside of Caleb Love with the team.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, just just not a lot of communication
Speaker 12: out there. There's a few transition opportunities, but big man
Speaker 12: looking for a guy to pass it to you and
Speaker 12: not getting it out of their hands quick enough. There's
Speaker 12: a counted about six or seven times where if they
Speaker 12: got the ball out quick enough on a rebound or
Speaker 12: a turnover, it would have been an easy dunkers lay
Speaker 12: up on the other end, you got to get out
Speaker 12: in transition and the communication needs to be better there.
Speaker 12: And then defensively, there's just been a couple of breakdowns,
Speaker 12: especially at the three point line late in the shot clock.
Speaker 12: I think overall, I was going to play a great
Speaker 12: defensive game against Duke, but they could have had their
Speaker 12: opportunities to limit that score.
Speaker 2: For the Blue Devils, how do they fix the turnovers?
Speaker 2: It's like the they just don't seem to be handling
Speaker 2: the ball well, like it's it doesn't feel good in
Speaker 2: their hands. I mean, is Caleb had a couple of
Speaker 2: things where he was just previous had a couple of
Speaker 2: time before he was fumbling the ball. Are you seeing
Speaker 2: that or am I not watching close enough? Yeah?
Speaker 12: You know, I mean the turnovers. For me, the number
Speaker 12: that you're going to look at for Arizona, especially with
Speaker 12: a high level offense in terms of tempo and up
Speaker 12: and down, is that probably twelve to fourteen range somewhere
Speaker 12: in there. That's where they've been around during the Tommy
Speaker 12: Lloyd era. And I'm taking a quick look at here
Speaker 12: right now. For the game they had fifteen, so maybe
Speaker 12: two more than what you want. One of the main
Speaker 12: issues and they only marked Kreebus for two of those turnovers.
Speaker 12: Is the balls in the big hands a little bit
Speaker 12: too much and they're not back to the basket type
Speaker 12: of big and they fumble the ball and that gets
Speaker 12: messed up there. But you know you're gonna have turnovers
Speaker 12: when you're having so many possessions in a game. What
Speaker 12: you want to see is a high assistant andover ratio.
Speaker 12: And again to do they only have sixteen assists, so
Speaker 12: if you have twelve turnovers, so if you have fifteen turnovers,
Speaker 12: you want to see the assists numbers in the twenties.
Speaker 12: And that's usually the style of basketball. Tommy Lloyd likes
Speaker 12: to play as the highest this number.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the things that I was watching during
Speaker 2: the game was I said, God, this seems so disjointed.
Speaker 2: And I remember using that word a few times seeing
Speaker 2: the Sean Miller the era for the offense because it
Speaker 2: looks so disjointed. He took offense to it because it
Speaker 2: was disjointed and he just didn't want to admit it.
Speaker 2: It's not a Tommy Lloyd. Often you've got to score
Speaker 2: in the eighties, eighties or you know, seventies for sure,
Speaker 2: and it just didn't look It looked at a scenc disjointed,
Speaker 2: just not very comfortable.
Speaker 12: It looked disjointed. It looked like people players were looking
Speaker 12: for somebody to take over the game rather that be
Speaker 12: a Caleb Lover or Jaden Bradley. Just a lot of
Speaker 12: standing around and lack of communication out there on the court.
Speaker 12: And again, you know, you have three high level guards
Speaker 12: and Bradley and Love and kJ Lewis. But this is
Speaker 12: the first side that they've been in the starting lineup together,
Speaker 12: so I'm sure they're trying not to step on each
Speaker 12: other's toes and make sure the balls distributed equally. But
Speaker 12: there's got to be those moments where you know somebody's
Speaker 12: looking around for something to happen, and someone says, just
Speaker 12: give me the ball and get out of the way,
Speaker 12: let me get to the hoop. Too many jump shots,
Speaker 12: too many settling for mid rings jumpers, and bad three
Speaker 12: point shots. But it's a lot of stuff that's correctable
Speaker 12: as you play more basketball with this group, and this
Speaker 12: group gets used to each other because yes, there's a
Speaker 12: lot of returners, but the roles are very different.
Speaker 2: So do you see your sense I'm sensing that you're
Speaker 2: saying that they're going to play through this, can how
Speaker 2: do we move the ball better? Is it just a
Speaker 2: feel as you're as you're alluding to here that we're
Speaker 2: doing this or I mean, is there something more that
Speaker 2: Tommy Lloyd can do other than hey, we'll get there eventually.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, I think one of the things is
Speaker 12: just getting better about getting out once you get the
Speaker 12: ball in the rebound and getting the steal. They need
Speaker 12: to get out in transition. That's the biggest thing for
Speaker 12: me with this offense right now is there's just not
Speaker 12: There hasn't been a lot of transition opportunities for them
Speaker 12: that they've capitalized on. So you need to do that.
Speaker 12: And then number two is just a little bit more
Speaker 12: cohesion with Jaden Bradley and Caleb Love. If you're going
Speaker 12: to have Bradley be the main ball handler.
Speaker 2: Then Love needs to start.
Speaker 12: Moving around the perimeter more and moving around the court
Speaker 12: more because right now, in the half court set, like
Speaker 12: I said, he's been camping in the corner because you
Speaker 12: know that's not his game.
Speaker 2: So but he's been trying to.
Speaker 12: Train on how to do that, how to score without
Speaker 12: the basketball, and it's hard. So you're asking a guy
Speaker 12: that plays more of a Jamal Murray style in terms
Speaker 12: of getting the ball and out.
Speaker 2: I'll be the one to.
Speaker 12: Dictate everything to do more of a Clay Thompson style,
Speaker 12: which is coming off screens, which is constant movement out
Speaker 12: there on the court. And it takes time to develop that,
Speaker 12: And especially when you're trying to have a point guard
Speaker 12: switch to more of that role and then another point
Speaker 12: guard take over the main point guard role, there's going
Speaker 12: to be a gelling moment and I think we've seeing
Speaker 12: that right now between the two of them.
Speaker 2: Let me jump in here with this. I read a
Speaker 2: couple of articles about alluding to Caleb Love's attitude. Do
Speaker 2: you think that he's upset about the way he's being
Speaker 2: played right now? And is that affecting him or is
Speaker 2: he you still sense that he is upbeating part of
Speaker 2: the team. No, I think he's upbeating.
Speaker 12: Part of the team.
Speaker 3: And when you.
Speaker 12: Have losses and frustration fouls like you have the technical
Speaker 12: against Wisconsin and stuff like that, you know people are
Speaker 12: always going to question that because you know that costs
Speaker 12: you seven points right there. You look frustrated, you haven't
Speaker 12: been playing well. But I still think he's bought into it.
Speaker 12: He want to come back to Arizona if he didn't
Speaker 12: believe in Tommy Lloyd and what this coaching stack is asked.
Speaker 2: Them to do.
Speaker 12: You know, I think they made it very clear from
Speaker 12: the moment he entered the draft too. When he came back,
Speaker 12: there was on their game plan for him for the
Speaker 12: next season.
Speaker 2: They laid all that out. He was on board.
Speaker 12: It's just a process of getting used to it in
Speaker 12: live action when you're going up against teams like Duke
Speaker 12: Wisconsin compared to you know, your your low level teams,
Speaker 12: and compared to in practice. You know, it's one thing
Speaker 12: to run it in a practice, in a scrimmage, it's
Speaker 12: another thing to do it against a high level opponent.
Speaker 2: So Friday night, there was a lot of media in
Speaker 2: the room, some notable people obviously see from Duke and
Speaker 2: from from Arizona. The one question I wouldn't want to ask,
Speaker 2: and I said, no, that's a dumb question. But here's
Speaker 2: the question, as as Caleb Love goes Arizona, do you think.
Speaker 12: You know? I I one hundred percent believe that last
Speaker 12: year the way Caleb Love goes, Arizona goes. But now
Speaker 12: I've with the way they're asking him to play, and
Speaker 12: the way that Jayden Bradley has played, I wonder whose team.
Speaker 3: It is right now?
Speaker 2: Right now Bradley seems more than yeah, right now Jaden's team.
Speaker 12: And so it can can you win that way? And
Speaker 12: I think that's what they kind of wanted to transition to,
Speaker 12: is it being not necessarily Jayden's team, but Jaden.
Speaker 2: Dictating the depo.
Speaker 12: But Love again needs to just be a little bit
Speaker 12: more aggressive and less reliant on the mid range shot.
Speaker 12: You nego as he goes. But I don't know if
Speaker 12: he if what's what they're asking him to do that
Speaker 12: there are those opportunities for him to take over the
Speaker 12: game right now.
Speaker 2: My whole thing is he shot two air balls, but
Speaker 2: like two airballs. This is the first team All American
Speaker 2: guy that you we've seen have a lot of good
Speaker 2: games and a couple of you know, bad games, But
Speaker 2: that two in a game against a big time opponent
Speaker 2: in front of a lot of eyes, that's not good.
Speaker 2: Well you miss You also missed a free throw, which
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, okay, people miss free throws. But he's
Speaker 2: one of two. Okay. His game, as you're just alluding to,
Speaker 2: his game is don't get into the basket getting fouled
Speaker 2: of the line, shooting ninety from the line. He just
Speaker 2: didn't scene real Caleb basketball.
Speaker 12: No, exactly. And when you're trying to learn a new
Speaker 12: role and you're trying to buy into something, sometimes you
Speaker 12: become hesitant and forget who you are out there on
Speaker 12: the court, who you are as a player. You know,
Speaker 12: one of nine from the three point line. There's not
Speaker 12: a game in the world that Caleb Love should be
Speaker 12: shooting nine to three point shots. You want to see
Speaker 12: that number probably around four and having him be more aggressive.
Speaker 12: There is a part in the game where he had
Speaker 12: an open three point look and instead of just a
Speaker 12: quick trigger three like we're used to seeing, he hesitated,
Speaker 12: took the three and it hit the back iron. They
Speaker 12: got to back out, kicked it back out there and
Speaker 12: nailed the second one. But it's that hesitation. Anytime you
Speaker 12: see a shooter at the three point line and there's
Speaker 12: a hesitation, they're more than likely they're not making that shot.
Speaker 12: So just playing careless not I don't want to say
Speaker 12: careless fastball, but like, just don't think you just want
Speaker 12: to play, you want to play in rhythm and right
Speaker 12: now he looks like a player that's thinking too much
Speaker 12: out there on.
Speaker 2: The court because we won't see you or I won't
Speaker 2: see you. Maybe we'll see you Saturday, but not before
Speaker 2: the tournament starts. Are they going to win the tournament?
Speaker 12: You know, with what they've shown you, you would say no.
Speaker 12: But I just have a gut feeling with the way
Speaker 12: Tommy Lloyd's seems perform in these type of environments, how
Speaker 12: they're able to recollect after games like this, I think
Speaker 12: they are. I think they're going to beat Davison, beat
Speaker 12: the next team whoever they play after that. I don't
Speaker 12: know the bracket off the top of my head, and
Speaker 12: then they'll up a Gonzaga Arizona matchup in the championship game.
Speaker 12: And I think he gets mark Field. I think they're
Speaker 12: just going to go through a run right now where
Speaker 12: they play good basketball and kind of get back on track.
Speaker 12: And I think it's good for that. You're away from campus,
Speaker 12: you're away from everybody, and you're on a team trip
Speaker 12: in the Bahamas where you can focus on just you
Speaker 12: guys and yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just watching video on Twitter. They're already in
Speaker 2: the Bahamas and joining themselves. Yeah, you can imagine the
Speaker 2: game is long past them. Well, they need I do
Speaker 2: think they need to blend as a team. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're just not playing well together. And I don't care
Speaker 2: about the Canasians game whatever in the previous game, because
Speaker 2: you're not gonna fay. You're not going to face those
Speaker 2: two teams in the tournament. And everyone's talking about all
Speaker 2: the big club's gonna get him ready for the tournament. Well,
Speaker 2: so do these last two games?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Right, these two games are getting ready for a big
Speaker 2: twelve try. I think that you you you said the
Speaker 2: word that I was thinking about, and that was rhythm.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: They don't feel like they're in rhythm. They don't feel
Speaker 2: like they're on a roll. And yeah, you're absolutely right,
Speaker 2: Caleb is not shooting in rhythm. Do they get their
Speaker 2: mojo back there? You I'm assuming you're saying they do
Speaker 2: on this trip.
Speaker 12: They they do, and you're going to start to see
Speaker 12: not only Caleb Love play well. I have a feeling
Speaker 12: Townsend will have a good game or two in this
Speaker 12: tournament and a guy like Dela Rosso taking more of
Speaker 12: his type of shots. You just want to see guys
Speaker 12: get back to their roles and and kind of find
Speaker 12: that offensive rhythm and that full to the game because
Speaker 12: you know, basketball, in my opinion, it's one of the
Speaker 12: most rhythmic games out there. If you're not feeling good,
Speaker 12: if you're not if you're not feeling the flow of
Speaker 12: the offense, it's not gonna be good. It's not going
Speaker 12: to end well. So just getting back into that tempo
Speaker 12: of what they want to do will pay dividends. And
Speaker 12: I think they do that this weekend.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll trust you, you know, you know far, I'll
Speaker 2: trust you like the next block. But okay, let's talk
Speaker 2: about football real quick. Did you go to did you
Speaker 2: go to Brandon today?
Speaker 12: I did? I did go to Brennan today.
Speaker 2: Well, what's the lasting impression?
Speaker 12: The last thing impression is talking about you know, this
Speaker 12: being the end all the all, biggest game of the
Speaker 12: year type of game, especially now with no Bowl game,
Speaker 12: and this is it lasting impressions, you know, on the
Speaker 12: season and trying to end on a good note and
Speaker 12: send guys out on a winning note that have been
Speaker 12: around the program four or five years, that have helped
Speaker 12: build it to was last year and where it is
Speaker 12: this season. Unfortunately. Uh, but you know, and there's been
Speaker 12: talked will tet Roald McMillan play. Will guys like that
Speaker 12: who have NFL potential uh and be NFL draftics play
Speaker 12: in this game? And as of right now, Brennan says, everybody's.
Speaker 3: Ready to go.
Speaker 12: They're they're going to play. Tet Roald McMillan's going to play,
Speaker 12: and if Jonas Savinea is healthy because he did get
Speaker 12: being up at the end of the game, that he'll
Speaker 12: most likely play. So that's a little bit surprising given
Speaker 12: that you're not going to be going to a bowl game,
Speaker 12: and this game really means not team for a guy
Speaker 12: like doctor Rowland Millan. But as of this moment, he's
Speaker 12: he's going to play in the game.
Speaker 2: That would be very interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be if.
Speaker 2: He didn't play. And what that would mean to this team, well,
Speaker 2: I wonder, I mean a lot of other venues for Arizona.
Speaker 12: Well, you know, I think it's a situation where you're
Speaker 12: balancing it as a coach and as a player, and
Speaker 12: no I fa Fieda gets it and his teammates get it,
Speaker 12: where you know, you're not playing in a bowl game,
Speaker 12: you're not playing in a college football playoffs, you're not
Speaker 12: playing with a chance to go to the Big Twelve
Speaker 12: Championship game on the line. If he hurt himself and
Speaker 12: his draft stock win from a top five pick all
Speaker 12: the way out to the first round, they would feel terrible,
Speaker 12: the coaching staftware, the players would everybody would feel terrible.
Speaker 2: So how do you balance it?
Speaker 12: If it's close and they go on the second half,
Speaker 12: fourth quarter with the game online, he'll probably play the
Speaker 12: whole game. But if it's a twenty point blow out
Speaker 12: by the end of the third quarter, you probably saw
Speaker 12: the last of Tetroll McMillan in an Arizona uniform. Because
Speaker 12: it's it's something where you want to balance, because you
Speaker 12: don't want to ruin a player's career post college.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So do you think he stays here or goes
Speaker 2: pro or I don't. Can he be drafted? Can he
Speaker 2: enter the draft? I don't even know.
Speaker 12: Yes, Tetroyal McMillan is draft eligible and he will be
Speaker 12: a top five pick. There's no chance to come back there.
Speaker 2: This is like the Mike Biby thing in the two
Speaker 2: years you're coming back. Oh, I haven't made that my decision.
Speaker 2: You made it last year. You already you already know
Speaker 2: what you're going to do. Okay, Troy, thanks a much.
Speaker 2: We'll see you this week at the football game, and
Speaker 2: we'll see if your prediction of basketball doesn't does or
Speaker 2: doesn't come true. I'll hold it against you either way.
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 12: Okay, Well, I'll see you guys later.
Speaker 2: Have a good one. Yeah. I believe everything he kind
Speaker 2: of said. I do. I love I love his comment
Speaker 2: about the rhythm because Caleb does not look like he's
Speaker 2: in rhythm. And he's not the only one. And he's
Speaker 2: not the only one though, you knowkj Lewis hasn't been
Speaker 2: kJ Lewis and Crevis we talked about. He can't hold
Speaker 2: water right now. I mean he's dropping a lot of balls. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Ramera on Fox Sports fourteen
Speaker 1: fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my thebaut here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen and fifty I'm Steve RIVERA your night, Quinn. I
Speaker 2: still am well, I'm questioning that now. Yeah, not doing well?
Speaker 2: But dam you feel like I mean you feel like
Speaker 2: Caleb loved Yeah, me and Caleb have no rhythm anymore. Eligibility?
Speaker 2: What the hell kind of question?
Speaker 12: What it was?
Speaker 2: What it was? Can I see your resume? I think
Speaker 2: you gave me a fake resume? No? Yeah, all my
Speaker 2: background in sports, Henry, Like I said, I came, I
Speaker 2: I come here devoid of facts, Henry. Feel perfect, You're perfect,
Speaker 2: perfect spot for it. Federal opinions. You that one slipped
Speaker 2: through the cracks. You're my my fixer upper here. Yeah, Hey,
Speaker 2: anybody want to complie? Do Henry's got the mic or
Speaker 2: the control over here? We got some calls five to zero, four, one, six,
Speaker 2: seventy four, forty The guy I haven't heard from his
Speaker 2: I hope we still do it, Okay? Is Gabe game
Speaker 2: has a call?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 2: He hasn't called a couple three weeks. I wonder how
Speaker 2: he's doing because football is notne good. That was not
Speaker 2: too good to say they could Gabe, but this could
Speaker 2: be the tough time is Thanksgiving? Maybe he just getting
Speaker 2: ready for the holidays. Yeah, I don't know, Miguel what
Speaker 2: doing that. Mike's dying to be on a show. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have my fat Mike as a host here, but
Speaker 2: in these days that's going to be crazy. You got
Speaker 2: to be with us, Henry, because I don't know if
Speaker 2: I could take Mike by myself time. Kobe's gonna be
Speaker 2: learning from Henry. So hopefully Kobe will get it in
Speaker 2: a day back to borrow, to help me to borrow.
Speaker 2: So anybody want to call, please do There's gotta there's
Speaker 2: gotta be people out there that have an opinion. On
Speaker 2: this basketball team. Yeah, five to zero, four one, six,
Speaker 2: seventy four, forty. Give us a quick call if you
Speaker 2: want to let us know what your thoughts are to me. So,
Speaker 2: if you paid money for that game, you guys were
Speaker 2: your students, right, You guys got good seats. You guys
Speaker 2: probably got prime two thousand and two and a half
Speaker 2: thousand dollars seats. But if you paid money for that game,
Speaker 2: I would be disappointed. Oh yeah, and they did that
Speaker 2: with North Carolina. Remember North Carolina. You weren't here for
Speaker 2: North Carolina and they paid that was the highest price
Speaker 2: ticket back then. It was like, you know, seven hundred
Speaker 2: hundred dollars with coach Williams coming in and there was
Speaker 2: on to stinking it up that weekend or that night
Speaker 2: or that morning whatever game I think it was the
Speaker 2: afternoon and there was someone didn't show up in one
Speaker 2: of the Loot's final games here. Well, yeah, so they
Speaker 2: need to get better quickly. They're Tony. You can I
Speaker 2: say it. You do you have the Paul. You can
Speaker 2: mention that in the breaking news.
Speaker 3: You can you can talk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're twenty twenty fourth, hanging on in the top
Speaker 2: twenty five. That two doesn't really matter, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: does it matter in their psyche? No? Who's the big teams?
Speaker 2: I mean it doesn't matter ours. I mean, I mean
Speaker 2: we're just like, hey, you know, no, they're not looking
Speaker 2: at that at all, not at all. No, No, No,
Speaker 2: the fans look at that. That's a fans thing. It
Speaker 2: is a fans thing. You don't worry about it now. Hey,
Speaker 2: so I know that. I don't know if you're going
Speaker 2: to mention this, but with Yukon losing the are they
Speaker 2: going to fire that coach? Kobe would saying the last
Speaker 2: night I saw him on the going ballistic the earliest
Speaker 2: of number one team or not the earliest, but yeah,
Speaker 2: pretty pretty good Memphis. Isn't that good, is it?
Speaker 3: I don't think they're ranked now.
Speaker 2: No, with with Hardaway, they're five and the big win. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what it means. Not a damn members gets
Speaker 2: into in MAUI. It doesn't mean anything. Yeah, my thing,
Speaker 2: and I don't want to stir anything up. But if
Speaker 2: I was a coach and I was observing this, I'd
Speaker 2: be concerned about the chemistry because I've seen this before
Speaker 2: where things don't go well, they don't go well, and
Speaker 2: they don't continue to go, well, football, Kobe. You're new
Speaker 2: to this group. I think I've asked Henry this time
Speaker 2: or two, but I'll ask you now you've seen football
Speaker 2: for your software, you so would you say that what
Speaker 2: are the biggest issues for football?
Speaker 4: The coaching change was big and me and Harry talking
Speaker 4: about the wide receiver two position, not a great wide
Speaker 4: receiver two, the O line and yeah, disappointing year, but
Speaker 4: we'll see what Brennan can do. Do you do you
Speaker 4: sense that the players are playing hard for the coach.
Speaker 2: I think they do like the coach.
Speaker 4: You like Brennan's always clapping and have you during the
Speaker 4: game in the DC. I know he's older, but the
Speaker 4: coaches say they like him a lot. I think Brennan
Speaker 4: still has the locker room. I just think it's lack
Speaker 4: of skills.
Speaker 2: Henry, do you want to refrut to what the Kobe
Speaker 2: just said.
Speaker 3: I kind of agree he's saying. I also agree with
Speaker 3: the thing you talked about a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 3: how they don't fear him because he was nice to
Speaker 3: them from the start, so they don't feel like they're
Speaker 3: gonna give you disciplined if something goes wrong like that.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, it's like they need each other in a
Speaker 2: in a weird way, right you convince them to stay,
Speaker 2: to be part of the team, and you're saying, come on,
Speaker 2: guys or whatever whatever cell job you gave. Now that
Speaker 2: they're back, you said, well, we're here, We're here for you.
Speaker 2: What else did you want? Is this? Is this a
Speaker 2: generational thing?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 2: I mean it's is it one of those things where
Speaker 2: it's like, hey, the way you reach his general is
Speaker 2: this general parenting? You know you're not going to reach
Speaker 2: his team. You know, by you would have been, you
Speaker 2: would be in jail right now. Mike, Yes, I would.
Speaker 2: I would. I mean I'd like, I don't believe in
Speaker 2: you know, talk to my daughter who's here from the
Speaker 2: in from Boston, if she were here there right now,
Speaker 2: she'd be like going, yeah, I'm not a big general
Speaker 2: parenting guy. Uh the I just you know, I remember
Speaker 2: my dad not a general parenting. It's a generational thing,
Speaker 2: it is, so is is what he's doing. Is that
Speaker 2: reaching the players more than it would if you were
Speaker 2: yelling and screaming. And I still believe this. I still
Speaker 2: believe this. And it's a fine line to be a coach. Now,
Speaker 2: I generally believe that kids of this age want to
Speaker 2: if you're an athlete, want to be coached, and they
Speaker 2: want to be taught to become better players. They also
Speaker 2: know more than the coach. They also, Hey, I was
Speaker 2: a young dude, stupid young man, and I knew more
Speaker 2: than my dad. I realized I didn't know more than
Speaker 2: a dad when I had a son, and I had
Speaker 2: no idea how to raise one. You know, that phrase
Speaker 2: is I my dad became smarter smarter as I became older,
Speaker 2: And it's that's the way it is. Well, sure, I
Speaker 2: mean we're not going to get an a pairenting here.
Speaker 2: We're trying to keep it on coaching. But the thing
Speaker 2: but but well, that's the thing about it. I mean,
Speaker 2: how do you how do you reach this team or
Speaker 2: how do you lose this team? If you know, I
Speaker 2: mean a yeller and a screamer right now, Woody Hayes, No, no,
Speaker 2: Woody Hayes wouldn't be coaching this team. Well, let's talk.
Speaker 2: Let's not even go to Brendan. Let's go to Tommy.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Tommy because now this is a fresher example. Sure,
Speaker 2: this is a fresh for example, because he's these guys
Speaker 2: don't even know who what Haes is. But let's go
Speaker 2: to Tommy because it's a new example of having to
Speaker 2: get on the guys, uh to a certain level. Right,
Speaker 2: and if you get on them too much, what if
Speaker 2: they shut down? Yeah? Let me let me say that
Speaker 2: you guys are here when when your kids from Illinois
Speaker 2: and Boswell, Boswell? Okay, so this is fact I'm saying.
Speaker 2: In fact, he's and then he's only seventeen, he's only eighteen,
Speaker 2: he's only nineteen, and he was at a black check
Speaker 2: table in Vegas? Right now? Did we ever know what
Speaker 2: happened to the kid? Disciplinary wise? Probably couldn't do anything
Speaker 2: with him because you needed the kid. Yeah yeah, And
Speaker 2: so what kind of respect are you going to get
Speaker 2: from that by not being able to discipline? Maybe they
Speaker 2: did inside and we didn't know what it was, but
Speaker 2: he played the next game? Yeah right, Well, am I
Speaker 2: making I think you need to?
Speaker 3: I see, I see what you're saying. We don't know
Speaker 3: you can't really disabout him because you need them, So.
Speaker 2: You get right right right? And if you say, and
Speaker 2: this is not an example to this, but Mike Quinn
Speaker 2: being at eleven, you better be in at eleven. You
Speaker 2: show up at eleven ten and I don't do anything
Speaker 2: to that. What's the point of telling you being by eleven? Well, no, absolutely,
Speaker 2: and I think that you need to hold that stand.
Speaker 2: I do love one of Bill Walton's best stories about
Speaker 2: John Wooden, where John Wooden he finally went to John
Speaker 2: Wooden and he said, He's like, Coach, He goes, I
Speaker 2: understand that you want me to cut my hair and
Speaker 2: you want me to cut my beard. But you know,
Speaker 2: it's like going, this is who I am, and this
Speaker 2: is what I believe in, and I'm going to stand
Speaker 2: here and Coach wood And said, I I think it's
Speaker 2: great that you're standing up for something. And we're going
Speaker 2: to miss you, you know, Bill Walton, And you know,
Speaker 2: I know John Woulden. I've talked to John. He's talked
Speaker 2: to me. I haven't talked to him. He talked to me,
Speaker 2: and he would have he would have said, look, we
Speaker 2: got we got other people here. I don't know if
Speaker 2: we have a coach that would do that. We don't
Speaker 2: live in those times anymore. Well, that's that's again.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: We don't live in those times. We live we live
Speaker 2: in a time of general parenting and I think that's
Speaker 2: the way you reach what. I just saw a young
Speaker 2: lady here that back from college when I was I
Speaker 2: coached her in a in a little small tournament when
Speaker 2: she was twelve and raised my voice. And she's still
Speaker 2: I mean, I think she's twenty now. So I saw
Speaker 2: her at the hardware store and she didn't want to
Speaker 2: talk to me. It's like still holding that crutch about,
Speaker 2: you know now. So it's one of those things, is like,
Speaker 2: and I'm fine with that. I mean, it's like she
Speaker 2: got better. I don't care, which was my point as
Speaker 2: a coach. But that's the thing about it. Do you
Speaker 2: do you reach the players better by being the clapper
Speaker 2: and the glad hander now, or do you reach players
Speaker 2: better by yelling and screaming and putting a foot in there? Well,
Speaker 2: I think there's a fine line between one or the other.
Speaker 2: We already have one example of football, and that's zero
Speaker 2: for one right now, right with the clapper and the appreciator.
Speaker 2: How many times Tommy Lloyd lose his stuff? We haven't
Speaker 2: really seen it. A whole heck of a lot, he
Speaker 2: says he has. He says he kind of does in
Speaker 2: other ways. Well, we'll see you we'll see how it
Speaker 2: how it works. Yeah, I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 2: Mike certainly you've seen him lose his stuff. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: And and he's my I mean, he has a reputation.
Speaker 2: These dudes, these dudes either transferred or they didn't play.
Speaker 2: You know, he was one of those guys. Okay, see
Speaker 2: later if you don't enjoy it, I'm gonna be here.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you will be, but I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be here. Coach Lopez. Did you listen to the show
Speaker 2: last time with Coach? And I hope I'm not doing
Speaker 2: anything that I shouldn't be doing because I think he
Speaker 2: said this publicly. And the thing that when he went
Speaker 2: out recruiting one time and he spoke to the kid,
Speaker 2: obviously they wanted the kid. The mom came in and
Speaker 2: the mom said, do you yell at the kids? And
Speaker 2: he says, yes, yes, I do. He didn't come here.
Speaker 2: The kid didn't come here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Well that's the thing about it. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's some there. There are a lot of you know, anxious,
Speaker 2: fragile people here. We've lost a bit of resilience and
Speaker 2: I'm sure some individuals. Sure, and not to say that
Speaker 2: that's the issue. But how do you motivate, how do
Speaker 2: you motivate, how do you motivate the guys to play? Well,
Speaker 2: you have the bench, I mean the Bobbie Night you
Speaker 2: say all the time. The greatest motivator is does just
Speaker 2: sit down right there? Son, and you'll get back in
Speaker 2: when you get back in, right And it's true. Now,
Speaker 2: the problem, one of the problems that we're not very deep. No,
Speaker 2: you have ten, ten guys. You have ten guys, but
Speaker 2: you're deep Henry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah. Last year they only were eight
Speaker 3: guys the whole sea.
Speaker 2: That's all he would do. Even now, how many did
Speaker 2: he go with? Probably eight or nine. He didn't play.
Speaker 2: He didn't play Martinez.
Speaker 3: Played double or so Brian Waka and that's nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's that's who he's gonna go with. He'll
Speaker 2: play Martinez when he has a chance to play Martinez
Speaker 2: because they don't really need Martinez in the backcourt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they really don't have like a true ball handler.
Speaker 2: No, but they if he could shoot it, they would,
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, because you have the three guys. And
Speaker 2: you know, the funny thing is I got I got
Speaker 2: called out Friday night by one of my good friends
Speaker 2: and former former guy at Uba. I said, they're gonna
Speaker 2: be so good in the good back court because if
Speaker 2: kay J Lewis is is cold, they're gonna have Caleb Love.
Speaker 2: And if they have Caleb Love, don't have Calea Love,
Speaker 2: They'll have Jane Bradley. Two of those guys can't be
Speaker 2: going for that time. And he says, how did this
Speaker 2: tweet last? This is well in age? Well, yeah, didn't
Speaker 2: age well, And I'm thinking you're right, it didn't. They
Speaker 2: didn't shoot well. Also, Duke is pretty damn good. Pretty good.
Speaker 2: I mean, Duke Duke is a good team. There's no
Speaker 2: doubt about our flag is is the real deal? Okay,
Speaker 2: the uh we are too. You know we've seen you know,
Speaker 2: we've seen this team play. You know, I mean people
Speaker 2: in this team play. So it's like I just hopefully
Speaker 2: they hopefully they they they they come around and uh
Speaker 2: give him out. That was was Caleb running the point
Speaker 2: the whole year last year or no, no, no, he's
Speaker 2: not at all. He was Yeah, he was off. He
Speaker 2: was off the ball. So I'm not sure how different
Speaker 2: is this position? Then, well, that's the thing we're talking about.
Speaker 2: He's what eighty fourth? I think in the latest NBA
Speaker 2: drafting eighty four. This is the first team All American.
Speaker 2: He's not he's not a ball on ball guy. He's
Speaker 2: a shooter guy. He is, And maybe that's another issue
Speaker 2: why he's not a big NBA guy because he needs
Speaker 2: to to the ball more. But if you can't handle
Speaker 2: the ball, now, why press him into a situation that
Speaker 2: he doesn't do any good at? Yeah? I know, well,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know. He played, he kind of played.
Speaker 2: He played a bit off the ball last year. He's
Speaker 2: playing off the ball this year. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 2: how different this position is. Maybe he's just in a slump. Well,
Speaker 2: I mean, people get shooters getting slumps and shooters shoot,
Speaker 2: so you know, but you got to tell you what,
Speaker 2: if you're shooting one from behind the arc, you gotta
Speaker 2: a bad missus. Yeah, you got to start getting them good.
Speaker 2: How are we doing all the time?
Speaker 3: We got like a minute?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah enough. If you can't get to the
Speaker 2: line and get your shot down, then then you're not
Speaker 2: And then when you get the line, you better you
Speaker 2: better make them. Yeah. Well, I mean, if you're ninety
Speaker 2: percent free throw shooter, you need to Yeah. Well, you know,
Speaker 2: we can solve everybody else's the problems. Do you have
Speaker 2: any problems at the house. I have no problems. Okay,
Speaker 2: hot tub's not working very well. Well, I can't do
Speaker 2: anything for that. You know, need work on that. That's
Speaker 2: what I called this show that the best thing. We
Speaker 2: can solve everybody else problems, but we can't solve our own.
Speaker 2: If you can fix any six problem calling, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: let's go.