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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen.
Speaker 2: Fifty Hey, welcome back, everybody. I'm Steve Rivera in today
Speaker 2: with me as Troy Hutcherson and we got Kobe with
Speaker 2: breaking news.
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Speaker 3: The Jets high former lines defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn as
Speaker 3: their twenty second head coach and their fifth head coach
Speaker 3: in ten years. Aaron Glenn was also the Jets first
Speaker 3: round draft pick in the nineteen ninety four draft, playing
Speaker 3: with the team for seven years and earning two Pro Bowls.
Speaker 2: Will he be the answer? Probably not. You know, good coach.
Speaker 4: They had a good defenses here that got riddled with
Speaker 4: injuries down the stretch of the season. But I don't
Speaker 4: know what the answer is for the Jets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're jinxed. Well you would know you're Jets fan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean this is it's just doesn't doesn't get worse.
Speaker 3: I mean, same cycle over over again. Fire the coach,
Speaker 3: get a new coach, get it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't like the higher personally. I would like more
Speaker 3: offensive minded coach. So you're twenty or twenty one, twenty, Okay,
Speaker 3: so you've had a tough childhood.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how many times have they wont in your time?
Speaker 3: They haven't made the playoffs since twenty fourteen, longest drought
Speaker 3: in sports.
Speaker 2: And they haven't won much in that in your lifetime.
Speaker 3: No, they made the ANFTY Championship with Rex Ryan.
Speaker 2: But yeah that's all I remember. Yeah, Oh good. I
Speaker 2: hope you have a good future.
Speaker 3: I The Miami Heat have suspended Jimmy Butler two games
Speaker 3: for missing a team flight amid ongoing trade rumors with
Speaker 3: the Suns and the Bucks as potential destinations. As this
Speaker 3: is Butler's second suspension in two weeks, He's done.
Speaker 2: He wants, Oh yeah, you know what, you makes a
Speaker 2: game a lot. I saw it today. I was watching
Speaker 2: the NBA to day. More than a lot of us
Speaker 2: world in one game. Yeah, three sixty four, Yeah, three
Speaker 2: hundred thousand, and he can't find the passion to play
Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty four thousand dollars a game.
Speaker 4: You know, as a Suns fan, it's gonna work out
Speaker 4: for them. They're gonna get bubbler eventually, because that's how
Speaker 4: the NBA works. But this is why people get tired
Speaker 4: of the NBA. A star is making you know, is
Speaker 4: about to make fifty five million if he signs option
Speaker 4: into this option next season, but he can't find the
Speaker 4: passion he wants out he can playing. You're on a
Speaker 4: playoff team, Shut up and play.
Speaker 2: It's that simple. Well see you see you're it's a
Speaker 2: player driven league. No, no, Troy, I know you're a
Speaker 2: little veteran now covering this team. I've been doing it
Speaker 2: too long. I've already been jaded for a long time.
Speaker 2: It's it's headed that way, and it's been that way
Speaker 2: for a while. Look at look at the NC DOUBLEA.
Speaker 2: Now it's a player driven they're in charge of the
Speaker 2: of what's going on. You don't like me, you don't
Speaker 2: play me, I'm going. I'm gone. Now this is the
Speaker 2: same situation, just but you're You're in every league. It's
Speaker 2: pretty much I don't like it. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 4: NBA is the worst. So you don't see no question.
Speaker 4: You don't see MLB being able to move that easily.
Speaker 4: NFL they can't move that easily. There's some tyrants, you know,
Speaker 4: and stuff like that. But this is I don't feel
Speaker 4: like playing. I have more power than the ownership group by.
Speaker 2: Right, no question. It's just you know, I could tell
Speaker 2: people on this show I'm not a sports fan, and
Speaker 2: this is one of the reasons you just get to
Speaker 2: talk about it. It's yeah, it's you know, to tell
Speaker 2: you I get about maybe ten years left of doing
Speaker 2: what I do and love what I do. Obviously you
Speaker 2: got a long time if you can continue both you guys,
Speaker 2: But this is what you'll do with every year?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, it will get worse every year. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: because you've already opened Pandora's box. You can't shut it.
Speaker 2: No, and it's going to be worse even at the
Speaker 2: this level that we cover. I wouldn't guess how much
Speaker 2: Caleb's making. I wouldn't guessed how much no one is making.
Speaker 2: But but I'm sure it's a lot. And how did
Speaker 2: that go?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that I think the issue of today is,
Speaker 4: let's let's be honest. A lot of plays were making
Speaker 4: money back in the day. That sure nobody under the table.
Speaker 4: The difference is that transfer portal rules where I can go, hey,
Speaker 4: this didn't work out this year. This guy's gonna give
Speaker 4: me a little bit more. Bye, I'm transferring again. I'm
Speaker 4: on my fourth school, and for.
Speaker 2: Sure we see that a lot.
Speaker 4: They need to reel it in with the transfers a
Speaker 4: little bit.
Speaker 2: But how do you do that? Yeah, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: Arizona baseball pick to finish second in the Big Twelve
Speaker 3: in debut season.
Speaker 2: They're I think nineteenth eighteen. I thought I was twenty first.
Speaker 2: They could be nineteen to that range though, yeah, twenty
Speaker 2: one last week. I make sure there's more than one Polly.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna try to get Chip Hail next week
Speaker 2: to talk about all this. They've been good and lust
Speaker 2: he's had them pretty good. They've been solid. Yeah, saw
Speaker 2: what that means? What I mean?
Speaker 4: They're making the post reason, they're making a run, they're
Speaker 4: not making a deep run.
Speaker 2: No, So that's solid. You're you're winning the conference. Okay,
Speaker 2: so that's solid. Is there a little basketball solid exactly?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 2: No, no, it's a serious question.
Speaker 7: No. No.
Speaker 4: I well it was on the basketball that they've been solid,
Speaker 4: but they haven't been the expectations of Arizona. I think
Speaker 4: the same could be sad for baseball. The expectations haven't
Speaker 4: been met. Oh well, okay, good.
Speaker 3: Arizona women's basketball gets first home win in Big Twelve
Speaker 3: play vers Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I guess one of the reserves came
Speaker 2: through yesterday. Yeah. Swan she was a player of the
Speaker 2: Week and the Big Twelve. She's the one that had
Speaker 2: a lot of points last Yeah. She she was a
Speaker 2: great interview at the end of the game. I saw
Speaker 2: that on TV and she was very critical of herself.
Speaker 2: She said, when Adia gets on her and she appreciates it,
Speaker 2: she plays better. So, oh wow, refreshing, And.
Speaker 4: You got to find those players. She's going to find
Speaker 4: those better because that's her coaching stuff. Same back in
Speaker 4: the day of Bobby Huggins, same with BoNT Night. And
Speaker 4: I'm not saying she's like that's agreed, but if you're
Speaker 4: a hard nosed coach, you better have hard.
Speaker 2: Nose players that you appreciate that coaching. Sure, and I
Speaker 2: think over the last few years she hasn't found those players. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Head coach Kevin O'Connell has been voted as coach of
Speaker 3: the Year by the PF.
Speaker 2: You a good coach. I mean they did put fourteen
Speaker 2: and two or fourteen whatever it was, fourteen three, fourteen two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, first round exit. I mean you had Sam Darnold
Speaker 4: nobody expected that out of Sam Donald. Right, should you
Speaker 4: have been coach of the Year, I don't know. I
Speaker 4: would have given it to Dan Campbell with how many
Speaker 4: injuries they had into Yeah, you won the you won
Speaker 4: the conference league, right.
Speaker 2: I mean you won the division? Who votes for that?
Speaker 3: This is the pro football writers?
Speaker 2: Okay, butch of writers don't know what they're talking. I
Speaker 2: am one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it for today's breaking.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay. There's still some thoughts that that the NBA
Speaker 2: might have an international league. I guess yeah. Commissioners Silver
Speaker 2: talking about that today officially. But Lebron's not part of it.
Speaker 2: He said, No, I'm not part of it. Not gonna
Speaker 2: be back.
Speaker 4: Can we stop changing stuff and we appreciate what's good
Speaker 4: and what you have on the on the court and
Speaker 4: go back to maybe a little bit more rugged style.
Speaker 2: No, your Pendora's box is open, like you said, And realistically,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't know what the percentage. Maybe you can google
Speaker 2: it on their thing. How many international players are in
Speaker 2: the NBA Now, I'm cauching maybe thirty forty percent. I
Speaker 2: was gonna say near that thirty five forty. It was
Speaker 2: just maybe I don't know. Aaron Gordon maybe maybe ten
Speaker 2: years say ten years ago, uh, maybe a little less,
Speaker 2: when the guys were coming out early, right, a little early,
Speaker 2: and the euro euros were being picked ahead of them,
Speaker 2: and people were saying that shouldn't be allowed. You know,
Speaker 2: this is the you know, the United States's NBA. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: it doesn't work. Life isn't like that. If you have
Speaker 2: a guy who's better at it than you from Mexico
Speaker 2: or Russia or whatever, you're going to hire the guy.
Speaker 4: And I remember a show here locally, I can't remember
Speaker 4: who it was, but they were saying that, oh, why
Speaker 4: is DeAndre Aiden projected behind Luca? Luca shouldn't be a
Speaker 4: head of eight and eighty in place college basketball?
Speaker 2: And da da da dah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Luca's going up against guys I'm twenty five,
Speaker 4: thirty man at sixteen seventeen years old right now?
Speaker 2: Was Aiden drafting number one? Did he get making an
Speaker 2: NBA finals?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: I want to call him a buds, But look what
Speaker 2: Luka Doncicas. What was the same you heard of DeAndre lately?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Late? Oh, I was gonna say when he got snowed
Speaker 2: in and couldn't play last year, and that was a
Speaker 2: self inflicted wound. Did he get Yeah, but I haven't
Speaker 2: heard his name much now, and you get maybe you
Speaker 2: get lost in Portland, but you get lost in being
Speaker 2: okay with being mediocre. Yeah, yeah, yeah, who would you take?
Speaker 2: And I said this all the way from I'm just
Speaker 2: saying this just to the pop of my head. Uh
Speaker 2: Aidan or marketing. I think Mark Oh without qu I
Speaker 2: wouldn't even have a second thought, because one's hungrier. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I thought that when he came here. I love
Speaker 2: the way marketing to play inside outside. He good body,
Speaker 2: He could shoot it. He can. He was aggressive for
Speaker 2: yeada yea now now if you give me the hunger.
Speaker 4: In terms of talent, I think Aiden's one of the
Speaker 4: more talented players Arizona's ever had.
Speaker 2: But if you don't have that drive, he didn't have
Speaker 2: it for for the time.
Speaker 4: He didn't have it for Arizona. He rarely had it
Speaker 4: in high school. I have heard from many people he did.
Speaker 4: He definitely didn't have it with Phoenix. He definitely doesn't
Speaker 4: have it in Portland. You are who you are if
Speaker 4: you have a team lies one talent, but you don't
Speaker 4: you don't care.
Speaker 2: What does that matter? Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: There are one hundred and twenty five international players, one
Speaker 3: on each team.
Speaker 2: At least on the team, one hundred and twenty five points.
Speaker 2: The rosters ten twelve thirteenth players.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thirteen, that's the most international players.
Speaker 2: It's going to be about twenty five percent. Then, yeah,
Speaker 2: twenty five percent of them. Yeah. Did you know who's
Speaker 2: the start for Oklahoma? Sag gah whatever? Canadian? He's Canadian.
Speaker 2: He didn't play college? No, yeah, yeah, you played Kentucky. Oh,
Speaker 2: he was one of those guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, Kentucky one and then okay, but he wasn't
Speaker 4: great at Kentucky. You kind of kind of similar to
Speaker 4: Russell Westbrook at UCLA.
Speaker 2: Yeah, makes go under the under the wire a little bit,
Speaker 2: your top ten picks and then all of a sudden
Speaker 2: you burst out. Yeah no, no, I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 2: remember that. I didn't realize that. But yeah, no, he's fantastic. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he could be the new face outside of Wimby. Well,
Speaker 2: there's one BEYONDA. There's also well, let me, I think
Speaker 2: he's going to be better than one BEYONDA. To be honest, well,
Speaker 2: I do, I think where did you come from? What
Speaker 2: it's a guard driven league. Yeah, but that dude's fantastic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but if you haven't been played at the perimeter,
Speaker 4: taking ten threes a game.
Speaker 2: It makes sure make sure that this is his last day.
Speaker 2: Do you remind me of what I haven't on? Just
Speaker 2: say never mind, never mind?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay. My point is it's a guard driven league.
Speaker 4: And you look at the faces of the NBA. Let's
Speaker 4: talk about that. They're not American players. You're talking about
Speaker 4: Luka Doncics, you're talking about uh, you're talking about the
Speaker 4: Greek freak. You're talking about now, Shane Giltrick's Alexander. Where
Speaker 4: do you get to an uh American player?
Speaker 2: How old?
Speaker 4: He's maybe Minnesota? What's the saying? I can't think of
Speaker 4: it off the top of my head right now. Yeah,
Speaker 4: jo no, no, no, no, non, Anthony Edwards, John Morant, that's
Speaker 4: another one.
Speaker 2: But they're not better than those guys. Yeah no. And
Speaker 2: we've been talking about that for years now, that the
Speaker 2: invasion from the euros or international players. What's there?
Speaker 4: What's the difference between European basketball and American basketball right now?
Speaker 2: European fundamentals, that's it. But it's always been the case.
Speaker 2: But it's always been the case. But back in the day,
Speaker 2: you didn't have so many aaus.
Speaker 4: You had the players coming out of high schools, coming
Speaker 4: out of colleges where they trained with the one guy,
Speaker 4: one voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where you asked the question for the exactly
Speaker 2: the coach. No, No, you've always had that, You've always
Speaker 2: had that, But no, it's more prominent, always had that.
Speaker 2: It's just not a structured situation. That's I think that's
Speaker 2: what you're getting at, because you could have somebody's uncle
Speaker 2: coaching and yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not structured. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: and you said it earlier. I mean they're when they're
Speaker 2: when the sixteen year olds are playing against the man,
Speaker 2: you learn to get good quickly exactly. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 2: what they're doing. I remember Luta did Jeffson something so
Speaker 2: Luton and Bobby Huggins were that had to be ninety
Speaker 2: one ninety two when I first started coming louton back
Speaker 2: in the day, and they had a they had a
Speaker 2: thing in Phoenix and and part of my story was
Speaker 2: they went to Europe or they went overseas to coach
Speaker 2: you know, the Euros, you know, just to be part
Speaker 2: to get the game going outside. That was thirty five
Speaker 2: years ago, and he says, he says, Steve, it's going
Speaker 2: to be huge down the road. They're going to be
Speaker 2: coming in huge and low and behold, it's been huge
Speaker 2: for last ten to fifteen twenty years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, actually have been nineties. Really, Eric, Derek,
Speaker 4: you've had you know, you've had a lot of the
Speaker 4: lock back with the Lakers. Who was his who was
Speaker 4: his friend that played for the Portland trail Blazers and
Speaker 4: the nets at the time with dec they did they
Speaker 4: did a thirty for thirty because they had a falling
Speaker 4: out because of oh yeah.
Speaker 2: The war going on. Well there's also the one that
Speaker 2: to Sacramento wasn't a sacramental picture. Yeah, well patriots or whatever.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's when so many more and the kid from Gonzaga,
Speaker 4: his dad, the big dude. Yeah, Sabonas and a lot more.
Speaker 4: I mean, those are just a couple that we named
Speaker 4: off the top of trad But sure it's growing, No.
Speaker 2: And it's going to continue to go. You're gonna take
Speaker 2: the jobs out of the Hey, the loves of the world,
Speaker 2: we're looking for jobs, and that's why they're going to
Speaker 2: try to get this international Nothing going, which would help
Speaker 2: kids looking for jobs from here. Ye. If that's the case,
Speaker 2: I don't know what the situation will be. Hey, let's
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the xys and ohs. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to laz of ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, your Troy Hutchison, and
Speaker 2: we got Cody Kobe at the at the controls here,
Speaker 2: and now we have PJ Brown from the Arizona DA.
Speaker 2: They star on the phone. PJ, how are you good?
Speaker 14: How are you guys doing?
Speaker 2: We're doing fine. You've been busy this year with this
Speaker 2: team here. Give me a quick email of what you've
Speaker 2: seen so far.
Speaker 7: Sure, they've had a lot of growing pains, very young team,
Speaker 7: and the last couple of games they seem to start
Speaker 7: putting things together.
Speaker 14: They're on a two game winning streak.
Speaker 7: They'd be Kansas at Kansas and last night they'd be
Speaker 7: Cincinnati at McHale Center. And if they keep going like this,
Speaker 7: they have a shot at making the NCAA tournament. They've
Speaker 7: got thirteen wins right now and their net ranking as
Speaker 7: of this morning was sixty three. So if they keep
Speaker 7: winning and keep winning, sneak a couple they have a
Speaker 7: couple of big games coming up. If they could steal
Speaker 7: a win somewhere, they could make it. Otherwise they won't.
Speaker 7: You know, it's it's that easy. It's it's all about
Speaker 7: winning at this point, you.
Speaker 2: Know, PJ.
Speaker 4: We've kind of talked about it feels like this for
Speaker 4: idea in women's basketball in terms of the offensive end
Speaker 4: and developing and young players coming together. Where have you
Speaker 4: seen them grow on that side of the court, especially
Speaker 4: with players like Jada Williams and other young talented stars
Speaker 4: out there on the on the court for Arizona.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I you know, it's really interesting.
Speaker 7: I think that we're seeing, you know, Lauren Twine who
Speaker 7: got injured last night, hopefully she'll be back into uh
Speaker 7: in Saturday's game. She's a shooter, and she'd come off
Speaker 7: the bench or started, and it really looks good on
Speaker 7: the offensive side. Jada has worked really hard on her
Speaker 7: game and her shot, all aspects of her game and
Speaker 7: her shot, and she's putting up numbers, she might not
Speaker 7: be as efficient as.
Speaker 14: She would like to be.
Speaker 7: Part of it is, you.
Speaker 14: Know, as they've been going.
Speaker 7: Through this kind of rough patch, right, they've you know,
Speaker 7: end of the shot clock.
Speaker 14: Who gets the ball.
Speaker 7: Of course, it's Jada because she wants it and she's
Speaker 7: she's that person who will take that shot. Lauren will
Speaker 7: take it too, but mainly it's Jada who's taking And
Speaker 7: so a lot of times you know, at that point
Speaker 7: you're taking on a great shot, right because it's not
Speaker 7: set up for that. And so there's there's been a
Speaker 7: lot of that. But I think with the addition of
Speaker 7: Lauren out on the court and Maylene Rolf who's who's
Speaker 7: a really good freshman as well, I think that really
Speaker 7: helps Jada. They helped create shots for Jada, and I
Speaker 7: think it opens up Dada a little bit more so
Speaker 7: she can get the better shot and and not take
Speaker 7: a crazy.
Speaker 14: Circus shot at the end. Right.
Speaker 7: So I think that I think Brea has Obviously she's
Speaker 7: grown tremendously over last year.
Speaker 14: Her defense.
Speaker 7: I think during the and during that three game losing
Speaker 7: streak when they played against Baylor, They've played.
Speaker 14: Iowa State and then they went to.
Speaker 7: Kansas State, who are three top teams in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 7: She went toe to toe against some of the best
Speaker 7: centers in the country in Ioka Lee at Kansas State
Speaker 7: and Audie Crooks at Date, and she shut them down.
Speaker 7: She really neutralized them. And she's a sophomore. She's grown
Speaker 7: tremendously and she's still one of the best offense efficient
Speaker 7: offensive players in the league, in the country and in
Speaker 7: the league. And so she has been really steady and
Speaker 7: consistent for them, and that's been really important. And someone
Speaker 7: who's come on late during the Big Twelve play is
Speaker 7: you have to talk about Isis Bay. She really took
Speaker 7: to heart that this was her last season. She came
Speaker 7: back for that extra season and got into shape and
Speaker 7: has really over the past six games or eight games
Speaker 7: of now eight of the Big Twelve play has really
Speaker 7: shown She's always been a smart player on the court,
Speaker 7: always does the right things, but now she's looking for
Speaker 7: her shot. She's been more aggressive on the offensive end,
Speaker 7: and you know, when all these pieces come together, they
Speaker 7: win games like they've won the last couple of games.
Speaker 4: You know, looking at the conference and I think a
Speaker 4: lot of people said this going into the Big Twelve
Speaker 4: coming from the Pac twelve. PAC twelve being so dominant
Speaker 4: in women's basketball top to bottom that there was room
Speaker 4: for Arizona to do a little bit more than maybe
Speaker 4: would have been expected if they were in the Pac
Speaker 4: twelve this season, given how the Big twelve lines up,
Speaker 4: still a very competitive conference. How you know, Arizona's kind
Speaker 4: of right there in the middle with Iowa State, Colorado.
Speaker 4: I think West Virginia is right in that range as well.
Speaker 4: How close are they to getting into that other range
Speaker 4: of you know, the Utah's the Oklahoma State who's had
Speaker 4: a surprisingly good year this year as well. How close
Speaker 4: are they to getting into that range of the conference.
Speaker 7: Well, they're four and four and they've gone through and
Speaker 7: played most of the top teams.
Speaker 14: In the league.
Speaker 7: So they've played Iowa State, They've played Baylor's top team,
Speaker 7: Kansas State, and and you mentioned Utah, but you know
Speaker 7: they have TCU left and.
Speaker 14: So in Oklahoma State.
Speaker 7: You know, there they are right in the middle of
Speaker 7: that group.
Speaker 14: At the sort of the that middle part. You know,
Speaker 14: that's the thing.
Speaker 7: If they play like they've played the last couple of games.
Speaker 7: They played really well against Baylor, took a to overtime
Speaker 7: just couldn't finish, right. You look at last year's team too,
Speaker 7: at the beginning of January, they had a tough time
Speaker 7: in the Pac twelve. Remember, they played a lot of
Speaker 7: games into overtime.
Speaker 14: And they just couldn't win. There was a lot of that.
Speaker 7: Sometimes you have a team in a season where you're close,
Speaker 7: but you just can't get over that hump, right, And
Speaker 7: there are a lot there's a lot of.
Speaker 14: Things that go into that.
Speaker 7: I think that you know, they have the pieces, right
Speaker 7: if they all continue to raise their level and be
Speaker 7: as consistent as Brea has or even Jada or Isis
Speaker 7: who's come on and during Big twelve play, if they
Speaker 7: can all keep raising their games like they have and
Speaker 7: all be consistent and get the four or five players
Speaker 7: in double figures and play the tight defense that they
Speaker 7: can play that they've shown that they can play, you know,
Speaker 7: I think that they they probably bump up from maybe
Speaker 7: that eighth spot to the sixth spot or possibly the
Speaker 7: fifth spot. I think that they're right in there. And again,
Speaker 7: I think it's all about you know, stealing a game,
Speaker 7: one or two games. And I was listening to you
Speaker 7: guys earlier. When you win the games, you're supposed to right, yea,
Speaker 7: And if they continue to do that right. Colorado's had
Speaker 7: an up and down here. I know they go to
Speaker 7: Colorado and sometimes it's hard to play there. But if
Speaker 7: they can beat them, because they should beat them. They
Speaker 7: play Arizona State twice. I know it's a rival, and
Speaker 7: that's always a tough game, but they should beat them, right,
Speaker 7: if they can win those games.
Speaker 14: They already beat b Yu.
Speaker 7: B Yu for some reason is not playing having a
Speaker 7: good well thought, they'd have a better season if they
Speaker 7: can they play them here again. If they could beat
Speaker 7: them again, that that helps, you know. So I think
Speaker 7: if they can do that steal a game or two
Speaker 7: somewhere down the line, I really think that they're in
Speaker 7: good shape. But it depends, if you know. Anything can
Speaker 7: happen with teams. Right, they can go on a big run.
Speaker 7: They cannot go on a big run. They can get
Speaker 7: stuck in that losing street. So we'll see what happens
Speaker 7: the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: PJ, You've been covering the team for a while now,
Speaker 2: a long time. You know, no one knows Adea better
Speaker 2: than you. Is she frustrated with this? Is she okay
Speaker 2: with this? She knows that she can. She's right there.
Speaker 2: What's her emotion?
Speaker 7: I think, you know, she's just head down doing the
Speaker 7: work right, teaching the kids, finding she's found a different
Speaker 7: way to teach them. She shows them a lot of
Speaker 7: films so they can see on film what they're doing
Speaker 7: wrong and what they're doing right, so that they can go, oh,
Speaker 7: I shouldn't be doing that right and they can figure
Speaker 7: out what they should be doing. I think it's always
Speaker 7: a challenge for her. And would she like a team
Speaker 7: that's senior, like she had five seniors? Right of course
Speaker 7: she would, Right of course, she would like that more
Speaker 7: experienced team that they could have just been, you know,
Speaker 7: had sixteen wins already, but they're at thirteen and this
Speaker 7: is the way the season's playing out. Yeah, she's just
Speaker 7: busy grinding and working hard and trying to teach her
Speaker 7: kids the right way to play and make sure that
Speaker 7: you know, hopefully they bring the effort and they fight
Speaker 7: and they do all the stuff that what her standards are.
Speaker 7: And that's where she is right now, just battling it out.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you, because we've seen idea developed as
Speaker 4: a coach from the time she's got here and develop
Speaker 4: the program and grow the program, get it to the
Speaker 4: National Championship game, and then you know, have that little
Speaker 4: bit of the lull and get over that hump. How
Speaker 4: do you where do you think Idea has grown the
Speaker 4: most as a coach during her time from the National
Speaker 4: championship games now in terms of her coaching style, where
Speaker 4: do you think she's developed the most during that time,
Speaker 4: Because even though you are a great coach or a
Speaker 4: very good coach, there is still always room to grow,
Speaker 4: and coaches always grow year in and you're out.
Speaker 14: Oh yeah.
Speaker 7: I think to the two biggest things are the development piece.
Speaker 7: You know, we see year over year and we see
Speaker 7: game to game, months a month, how players develop and
Speaker 7: how the team collectively develops, right, And I think that
Speaker 7: that that just gets better and better with the DEA.
Speaker 7: There's something like she just gets that and understands how
Speaker 7: to do that and keeps growing.
Speaker 14: In that area. And I think the other thing is, you.
Speaker 7: Know, we always look at the National championship year and
Speaker 7: think that's her best coaching performance. And it was phenomenal,
Speaker 7: right that when they went.
Speaker 14: To the National Championship game.
Speaker 7: It was that for most people, that came out of nowhere, right,
Speaker 7: and she was able to get that team ready to
Speaker 7: play every single game. And if you look at the
Speaker 7: road to the National Championship game boy, on paper, they
Speaker 7: should have lost probably most of those games. Those teams
Speaker 7: were all better than that team at that point on paper, right,
Speaker 7: even though they had Aera McDonald and Trinity Baptist and
Speaker 7: Sam Thomas and Kate Ree's right, they probably should have.
Speaker 7: But I do think that last year was one of
Speaker 7: her best coaching performances of her career. How you take
Speaker 7: six to seven players in the last six weeks of
Speaker 7: the season, turned the season around, beat Stanford, finish off
Speaker 7: that weekend series, beating Cal. So it wasn't like they
Speaker 7: had to let down after they beat Stanford.
Speaker 14: They beat Cal, they.
Speaker 7: Went toe to toe with UFC. Nobody played and nobody
Speaker 7: They may have lost two games, but you know, nobody defended.
Speaker 14: Juju like Helena Poyo. I mean, it was incredible how.
Speaker 7: They played against them, and then to make the tournament.
Speaker 7: It was a first four. It doesn't matter you made it.
Speaker 7: I mean six weeks prior, even she would have said
Speaker 7: we're not going to make it.
Speaker 14: Everybody said they're not going to make it.
Speaker 7: They only had six, they had seven, but Brooklyn really
Speaker 7: didn't play right because she was the walk on it
Speaker 7: at that point and she didn't know the plays or anything.
Speaker 7: But how you take a team that's sort of dead
Speaker 7: in the water at that point and completely turn them
Speaker 7: around to knock off of Stanford to win some of
Speaker 7: those games that they won all of a sudden, they
Speaker 7: won a couple. They took Washington to three overtimes a
Speaker 7: month before they went to won that game.
Speaker 14: To me, that was probably right.
Speaker 7: Out there as her probably best coaching performance, and that's
Speaker 7: probably where she's probably.
Speaker 14: Grown the most.
Speaker 7: Right where like she could take a limited roster, an
Speaker 7: extremely limited roster where they're playing every minute of the game,
Speaker 7: every single player basically, and and and have them perform
Speaker 7: at that level was remarkable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, PJ. Thanks a bunch. Good luck the
Speaker 2: rest of the way covering this team. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: You appreciate it sounds good.
Speaker 14: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Guess the last segment of the day. Uh, thanks to
Speaker 2: PJ for coming on. You know what, Uh? I think
Speaker 2: realistically the PJ and not PJ idea is is deep
Speaker 2: down probably saying, God, I need I need more help,
Speaker 2: need more help on roster and if we just have
Speaker 2: maybe another good or two or three players that we'd
Speaker 2: be okay. Well, I'm thinking for don't know what she's thinking,
Speaker 2: but I'm just thinking that's what she's how do you
Speaker 2: get the one?
Speaker 4: Though I don't know that that's she That's the thing
Speaker 4: that's hanted Arizona women's basketball since.
Speaker 2: Since she had the McDonald, since she had the one.
Speaker 2: How do you.
Speaker 4: Develop not maybe not the best player in one's past
Speaker 4: in U have a history because Aaron McDonald, in my opinion,
Speaker 4: is that she's the best player in one's basketball history.
Speaker 2: But how do you get that type of go to player? Again, well,
Speaker 2: I think there isn't that the question the sixty sixty
Speaker 2: four thousand dollars, that's cheap, the million dollar questions. When
Speaker 2: you have the nil, you find that player? You know,
Speaker 2: juju Ju Smith? Shoot Juju Smith? Yeah? Doose come once
Speaker 2: in a lifetime? Sorry Watkins Ju Smith? Yeah? The receiver? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What kids? And then you have you know, of course
Speaker 2: Katen Clarke and then you have the kid uh from
Speaker 2: Paige Paige Baker page.
Speaker 4: But you also have that at UCLA with Keiki Rice.
Speaker 4: Remember Arizona almost got Kiki Rice that we were told
Speaker 4: right when she was about to sign that she was
Speaker 4: going to sign with Arizona, so we had everything ready,
Speaker 4: but then she went to u C.
Speaker 2: L A at the last minute.
Speaker 4: It was supposed to be between Arizona and Duke of UCLA,
Speaker 4: sitting on the outside, and all of a sudden she went.
Speaker 2: To u C. L A and she is that go
Speaker 2: to player. Yeah for you. And there's some dynamic players
Speaker 2: you know in the country today, Watkins, this is fantastic,
Speaker 2: oh very much so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, probably the best player they've had since Reggie Miller's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Cheryl Miller. Yeah, Cheryl Maryland. No, very
Speaker 2: very good, just very smooth as a player. Okay, so no, great,
Speaker 2: we got that covered the tune a row, so good
Speaker 2: for them. Now we have Arizona basketball. Well, let me
Speaker 2: ask you. I'd be remiss without asking you about you
Speaker 2: eight football.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: If I think you're gonna be on the show with
Speaker 2: me next week, we'll probably get an assistant coach or two.
Speaker 2: Uh during that time. What do you think is going on?
Speaker 2: With a lot of positive.
Speaker 4: Stuff, A lot of positive stuff, a lot of energy
Speaker 4: with Joe Salvea coming back. I think offensively, there's a
Speaker 4: lot of positives right now with the new offense coordinator,
Speaker 4: a new mindset, just a fresh start for them. And
Speaker 4: defensively with Danny Gonzalez, you know, he's been there, he's
Speaker 4: done it before. He's been on he's on the coaching
Speaker 4: staff and was on the coaching staff last year, so
Speaker 4: you kind of know what you're getting. But he's the
Speaker 4: guy that's regarded as one of the top defensive minds
Speaker 4: in college football before he took that New Mexico job,
Speaker 4: and you know, kind of struggled there, but that, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a tough place to struggle.
Speaker 2: There's a very tough place. Well, you bring up his
Speaker 2: name and I don't know him. I spoke to him
Speaker 2: for maybe five six minutes a preseason media day. You know,
Speaker 2: he just talked about Albuquerque and stuff like that. We'll
Speaker 2: see how good he is, because now it's his job
Speaker 2: to make him good. Yeah, aggressive, I know, Shoot, I
Speaker 2: cussword two three four years ago we had we were
Speaker 2: covering the sack doctor Don Brown. Yeah, Don Brown, And well, okay,
Speaker 2: how'd that go? I mean, everybody has the reputations, hell
Speaker 2: with reputations. Well, yeah, get done, well, Don Don Brown.
Speaker 2: He came and Arizona had nothing when Jenifer's got here.
Speaker 2: So you're coming in.
Speaker 4: I didn't expect much and you saw the defense improved
Speaker 4: from the previous here. Now you have pieces that you know,
Speaker 4: we're here last year with you, they're healthier. You're getting
Speaker 4: guys out of the portal. You've recruited some guys. He
Speaker 4: did a lot with a little at at San Diego State,
Speaker 4: did a great job at ASU kind of getting his
Speaker 4: name out there and getting into that next job.
Speaker 2: Can you do that again? Yeah? No, you got to
Speaker 2: fight some magic and overall the portal what is it rank?
Speaker 2: And they're still getting kids, you know, rivals. We don't
Speaker 2: have a portal ranking right now, but it's near the top.
Speaker 2: I would say it's in the top twenty five. They've
Speaker 2: done a very good job of filling out the roster.
Speaker 2: Still some work to be done. I think you could
Speaker 2: have had maybe at defensive back here, a linebacker here,
Speaker 2: and they could have time to do that. They do
Speaker 2: have time.
Speaker 4: I mean the portal is closed, yeah, but you still
Speaker 4: have guys that are in the portal. You can no
Speaker 4: longer go into the portal right now, Oka, but you
Speaker 4: can still get guys out of the portal. And mind
Speaker 4: you team is like Ohio State and Notre Dame and
Speaker 4: they just finished their season, so they still have time
Speaker 4: for guys to go in the portal.
Speaker 2: Okay, So let me ask you, I was gonna ask
Speaker 2: you something, Oh, are the quality of kids that they're getting.
Speaker 2: We won't know until we know, right, but what do
Speaker 2: you see players that fit? Maybe potential? What I think
Speaker 2: the players that fit is number one right in it?
Speaker 2: Right now, You're you're meaning spots of needs. Talent wise,
Speaker 2: I'd give it a B minus.
Speaker 4: I think as of late they've added some serious talent
Speaker 4: that's improved that I think before that I would have
Speaker 4: put it probably out of C C plus because let's
Speaker 4: face it, even though they were high level players at
Speaker 4: the f CS level, like the linebacker that they got
Speaker 4: from Northeastern State, a defensive lineman from you know whatever,
Speaker 4: it's the FCS, and Arizona was the top score recruiting
Speaker 4: them in the Power five, So how are they going
Speaker 4: to translate to the Power five? Now you've gotten some
Speaker 4: players that that other programs wanted, like the running back
Speaker 4: out of Texas State, the receiver out of Washington State.
Speaker 4: So I think those are the guys that are going
Speaker 4: to help you. But where their bread is going to
Speaker 4: be better as how well did they do on the
Speaker 4: offensive line. Arizona has brought in a lot of linemen
Speaker 4: through the transfer portal, through the recruiting class, they've lost
Speaker 4: a lot on the line that they're not able to
Speaker 4: fix that line. No matter what your offense coordinator draws up,
Speaker 4: you're not going to be good. You need to mix
Speaker 4: that line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let me ask you all this because you've
Speaker 2: been doing recruiting for a while now, maybe five six years,
Speaker 2: five years, five years, five years, and I hate recruiting
Speaker 2: because it doesn't mean to get there is Yeah, what
Speaker 2: does Arizona have to not have to sell? But what
Speaker 2: does it have to sell these days? Playing time? You have?
Speaker 2: That's number one? I think right now that's where it is. Again,
Speaker 2: go ahead, so playing time and well we review it
Speaker 2: real quick. So playing time? What's two? I god, that's tough, god,
Speaker 2: because how do you sell development?
Speaker 4: That's okay, let's go with that. Let's go play numbers
Speaker 4: number two. I'll say family, I'll say culture and family.
Speaker 4: Everybody talks about that with Arizona right now. But they've
Speaker 4: always said that.
Speaker 2: They've always said that and not necessarily true, but it
Speaker 2: will always They told me the family, family, family, blah
Speaker 2: blah blah, and every program does that, yeah pretty much.
Speaker 2: Well you never heard that was someone rich, right, They
Speaker 2: didn't have enough time to talk. They well, yeah, they
Speaker 2: may not have believed in that. Okay, So those so
Speaker 2: playing time a family, culture, culture, okay, culture development, development.
Speaker 2: What about facilities Tucson blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: I would say Tucson's big up there, especially for the
Speaker 4: Polynesian community, easy to access, you know, California, easy to access.
Speaker 4: Other areas such as that weather I think is up
Speaker 4: there obviously.
Speaker 2: To so great weather. It's always just just what two
Speaker 2: sons always had that I.
Speaker 4: Always have that facilities have improved drastically. But the issue
Speaker 4: is facilities around the country have improve proved drastically. So
Speaker 4: I mean it's tough to judge. And the main thing
Speaker 4: at the end of the day now is in facilities.
Speaker 4: It's not development. It's an I L and Okay, So
Speaker 4: they do not have that. They have limited They have
Speaker 4: limited an I L.
Speaker 2: Sure, and they can prot have limited forever.
Speaker 4: So when you give out these nil checks, when you
Speaker 4: give out up, you better be hitting on them.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, giving you the players that are going to
Speaker 2: be performed.
Speaker 4: Because there's some guys from the portal last year who
Speaker 4: got the nil check and guess what they didn't play.
Speaker 2: They didn't play they've transferred out.
Speaker 4: Okay, well where they got them on the field in
Speaker 4: spring and training camp said you know he's not very good.
Speaker 2: Yeah you can't. We can't play this guy. Can we
Speaker 2: have our money back? Sorry that he came from name
Speaker 2: whatever big school you want. I think there's that's there's
Speaker 2: that to Troy, where you got one guy from Texas
Speaker 2: Texas State who has that reputation of being good and
Speaker 2: he can play at this level. And then you have
Speaker 2: guys coming in from big time school and and just
Speaker 2: aren't good. Yeah, just aren't good only because hey, well
Speaker 2: he's dating that hot chick. He must be a good guy.
Speaker 2: Shut up.
Speaker 4: I can't remember the guy. I think it was Jordan
Speaker 4: Allen or something like that. The defensive end that came
Speaker 4: up with rich Rod from l s U who was
Speaker 4: an edge rusher.
Speaker 2: There was two guys. There's that quarterback who could throw
Speaker 2: a mile.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, from LSU Gerard Randall get the Oh my god,
Speaker 4: we're going to change things.
Speaker 2: You know, these guys are bums for a reason. No
Speaker 2: offense to them. But when they weren't good, bum is
Speaker 2: a tough word. Okay, were they good? Jordan especially, Oh,
Speaker 2: he could throw them mile you're not trying to throw
Speaker 2: them ole.
Speaker 4: He's just gonna get the guy ten yards, but you
Speaker 4: have no todd. Sure you can throw them mile, but
Speaker 4: you have no touch. They're not at those programs for
Speaker 4: a reason. No, I hear you were last year or
Speaker 4: with Jed Fish's coaching staff. They hit on Bill Norton.
Speaker 4: Nobody knew Bill Norton was going to be as good
Speaker 4: as he was for Arizona. He was a special teams
Speaker 4: player at Georgia, but you know what it was, he
Speaker 4: was solid fundamentally, so they look at him, develop him,
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden he's a key player on
Speaker 4: Arizona's defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to hit all those guys. Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 2: no question. That's every every university. So so we'll see.
Speaker 2: Are you talking about facilities and all that everybody has
Speaker 2: that nowadays playing teme uh, you still have to coach them. Yeah, so,
Speaker 2: and I guess what happens in spring gets what happens
Speaker 2: in the fall. You can have the players or not
Speaker 2: players and can develop them. But if you can't coach,
Speaker 2: good luck.
Speaker 4: And you know I'll say this because it got brought
Speaker 4: up after his hiring press conference when Brendan was hired
Speaker 4: at Arizona friend and friend told me, you know, he
Speaker 4: doesn't have that head coach foxy, the fire that you want,
Speaker 4: and you saw it in in training camp and spring practice.
Speaker 4: Were like, man, he's he's very hands off, which can
Speaker 4: be a good or bathroom at times. And then fans
Speaker 4: started to question the fire during the season. Sure, you
Speaker 4: got to improve that.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this. Okay, So since that time,
Speaker 2: you've dealt with him two or three times in press conferences, right,
Speaker 2: there's been I have n't gone to him because yeah,
Speaker 2: and has that changed? And I would assume, uh, trying
Speaker 2: to maybe figure out desire like I can or can't
Speaker 2: that she's probably put a bug in his ears. You
Speaker 2: need to be more coach presentable, if that's the right phrase. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think at the end of the season and doing
Speaker 4: self evaluation and then having press conferences. From that point on,
Speaker 4: with the coaching changes, there's been a little bit more fire.
Speaker 4: There's he's owned up to it, and then how can
Speaker 4: you not own up to a very disappointing season. He
Speaker 4: has owned up to that and he's like, you know what,
Speaker 4: we got to change this and this and this.
Speaker 2: Better.
Speaker 4: You better see it in the spring training in a
Speaker 4: training camp, right or else, you probably will have the
Speaker 4: same result.
Speaker 2: Well, I also go to the point is you are
Speaker 2: who you are. Yeah, and you can you can fake
Speaker 2: it until you make it to a certain point, but
Speaker 2: you are who you are. I am who I am,
Speaker 2: and you know I have my faults and have my successes.
Speaker 2: But I guess what, at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: I am who I am. Whether I want to be
Speaker 2: vocal or not vocal. You know what I'm saying, It's
Speaker 2: hard to change who you are when you are who
Speaker 2: you are.
Speaker 4: And I hate being overly critical because, let's be honest,
Speaker 4: he did a Brendan did a tremendous job at San Jose. Say,
Speaker 4: I don't think people understand. They're like, well, he had
Speaker 4: a losing record, he didn't do a good joab. San
Speaker 4: Jose State has worse facilities than high schools. Yeah out there, No,
Speaker 4: he did TANDU. He did a tremendous job. So he
Speaker 4: knows how to coach. But how do you do that
Speaker 4: at the How you do that at that level?
Speaker 2: And the power five.
Speaker 4: Level is very different when the expectations are different because
Speaker 4: you go five and seven, seven to five every year
Speaker 4: at that level.
Speaker 2: You're fine. Well, let me say this, and I don't
Speaker 2: know if this analogy to work with Sean. Sean played
Speaker 2: that or coached, and Xavier did a fantastic job at
Speaker 2: Xavier got those kids that he got. They were not
Speaker 2: five star guys, right, They were hard working three stars
Speaker 2: who played for him hard. He came here and saw
Speaker 2: something that he probably shouldn't have seen. It's just that
Speaker 2: he had to feed the beast and keep Arizona at
Speaker 2: a four five star level. And Luke didn't even do that.
Speaker 2: He just coached him up and he got a couple
Speaker 2: of guys and played them well together. And he tried
Speaker 2: to do that, and he couldn't do that because they
Speaker 2: didn't want to stay here for long and he couldn't
Speaker 2: control them. You know, in that year when he had
Speaker 2: Ayton and Raley and and Trier, he admitted, maybe wrongly,
Speaker 2: but he went public with it that he couldn't get
Speaker 2: them to play for him, and then he walked it
Speaker 2: back and it happened again that we saw at the
Speaker 2: end of the year. So there's a point of getting talent,
Speaker 2: but if you can't control the talent or you coach down,
Speaker 2: what's the point having the talent once.
Speaker 4: It's what Tommy says is you know, not only does
Speaker 4: he recruit off of the talent level that that's key
Speaker 4: at that there, sure, but the fit to the program
Speaker 4: and the fit to the coach, no question. If you're
Speaker 4: if you're a coach and you get a square and
Speaker 4: you try to fit into the circle, it's not gonna work.
Speaker 2: And that was that was Seohn's biggest issue.
Speaker 4: Is he took offensive minded players try to make them
Speaker 4: defensive minded because he's a defensive Good luck with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially at this level words five stars, they're going
Speaker 2: to be here. It's rented player. Nowadays it's that's exactly
Speaker 2: what jam and you piss off the player. I don't
Speaker 2: need to listen to you.
Speaker 4: Even more so now, Yeah, no question, transfer portal has
Speaker 4: made that even you know, people talk about the difficulties
Speaker 4: of the one and done and having to coach around
Speaker 4: that this transfer portal that it's laughing at that in
Speaker 4: the mirror.
Speaker 2: It's an even harder job now than it was. Oh,
Speaker 2: no questions, I don't know. I don't MV. The only
Speaker 2: way I AMV the coaches that they're making making a
Speaker 2: ton of money and if you can make it Attenney
Speaker 2: for three years and get the hell out. You've made
Speaker 2: a ton of money.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, I am eve them with the buyout.
Speaker 4: If you do a formal job, Coachinger, give me ten
Speaker 4: million dollars.
Speaker 2: We've seen that someone someone and you know whose fault
Speaker 2: is that? That's you?
Speaker 4: Baseball pretty you have a Texas A and I think
Speaker 4: someone made over seventeen million from A and M right
Speaker 4: and then like nine million from Arizona. So that's like
Speaker 4: almost thirty million dollars for being a really bad coach.
Speaker 2: Where can we apply for that? Sign me up? Yeah? No,
Speaker 2: and now here we are so we'll see.
Speaker 1: This is it.
Speaker 2: This is not it for Brendan, but this is it.
Speaker 2: He's got to show cause this is a break here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: two years in he won't and everyone's going to say, well, well,
Speaker 2: Jed got two years. This is different.
Speaker 4: This starting point is way different Jed. And people will
Speaker 4: argue with Macavic in terms of where he left the program.
Speaker 2: I think Jed took.
Speaker 4: Over the worst spot in program, no question, no question.
Speaker 4: I think he had the least amount of talent. You
Speaker 4: had guys that probably shouldn't have been playing at a
Speaker 4: level of New Mexico out there on the field at
Speaker 4: Arizona turning around in three years into very good football
Speaker 4: program where you have Brennan. You're taking it over a
Speaker 4: program where you had a lot of guys coming back,
Speaker 4: and it was like, don't crash the Ferrari and you're fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm not. Look, it's still Arizona.
Speaker 4: Their's holes on the roster for sure, but it was
Speaker 4: still a Ferrari level roster for when he came in
Speaker 4: compared to when Jed came in and you crashed it.
Speaker 2: Well, the Ferrari had about two hundred thousand miles and
Speaker 2: but you crashed it. Crashed it right, all right? No,
Speaker 2: I get, I get. It's a good analogy. Okay, we
Speaker 2: got about two minutes. Okay, thanks are you're still awaking
Speaker 2: with her? Yeah, got a polls by doing his homework.
Speaker 2: Thanks for Kobe for doing this. Uh what else? Thanks
Speaker 2: for joining me. Tomorrow's Friday. Will you putty show up
Speaker 2: next week? We'll get some assistant coaches Seliva, maybe Miller
Speaker 2: or maybe maybe Dany Gonzalez and Gonzales. There was another one.
Speaker 2: Uh seth go yes? Is that how you say it?
Speaker 4: I'm a I'm trying I'm trying. Okay, maybe we gotta
Speaker 4: figure that out. We gotta figure that out. It's hey,
Speaker 4: they made a video. I need to watch that video.
Speaker 2: I saw that video. That's about a month ago or
Speaker 2: whatever it was. Yeah, they're heading in the right direction.
Speaker 2: At least they're making attempts because they have to there.
Speaker 2: I think there's a clear goal offensively.
Speaker 4: Finally, I think last year with the staff, well we're
Speaker 4: going to mix in what Jed did the year prior,
Speaker 4: have some player input. Well, what's your offense? This is
Speaker 4: the midway through the year. I don't know how much
Speaker 4: that we have about yeah, about a minute, so just quick.
Speaker 2: Uh, there were reports and we know this because we
Speaker 2: talked with the quarterback leaving right, there's either false or
Speaker 2: inaccurator or whatever. Even if they were close, I don't
Speaker 2: know if they were not, because I was guilty of
Speaker 2: kind of believing it. Why do you stay?
Speaker 4: I think he said, because one, tamax on, so then
Speaker 4: I will probably improved for him too.
Speaker 2: Instead of him getting it, he got it, I'm sure
Speaker 2: he got a little bit more. Okay.
Speaker 4: And two, you know, he is a culture guy. There
Speaker 4: are players on the team that he considers brothers. Of him,
Speaker 4: and you know Polynesian community, it's hard to leave family, right.
Speaker 2: No, and more power to him because he's he's he
Speaker 2: started here, he's gonna be good. He's a good player.
Speaker 2: Now he has some pieces. We'll see what happens. Yep. Okay, great,
Speaker 2: Thanks Kobe for handling it today. Thank you Try for
Speaker 2: coming in. We'll talk to you guys tomorrow.