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Speaker 4: Big Ray? He's got that army look at him right now.
Speaker 4: Welcome everybody. Yeah, A lot of stuff going on, right
Speaker 4: Arizona a number four seed in the East, but playing
Speaker 4: in the West.
Speaker 2: Were you surprised at all where they landed?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 5: Well, not sorry seating, but maybe the region?
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, kind of yeah, kind of because well I
Speaker 3: was selfishly hoping they'd get to Denver. Yeah, because I
Speaker 3: wanted to get to Denver, just get their easy hoabe
Speaker 3: relatives up there. But I'm not gonna go to Seattle.
Speaker 3: I think this is the first time telling everybody I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna go to Seattle. This will be the fourth
Speaker 3: tournament in thirty four years I've missed something like that,
Speaker 3: so but I'm okay with that because it is what
Speaker 3: it is, right, You're not going right now? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: and it's it's a it's a long haul and then
Speaker 3: it's at Costly Hall. So I'm gonna cover it from here. Obviously,
Speaker 3: try to do that from here. And I have another
Speaker 3: assignment I have to get to later in the week,
Speaker 3: so I'm not gonna go. But we're going to talk
Speaker 3: a lot about basketball today, probably tomorrow and Wednesday. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna have a a show on Thursday and Friday,
Speaker 3: I'll be on the road other places, so and then
Speaker 3: we'll cover the game on Friday. So if you'd like
Speaker 3: to call, please do five two zero four, one sixty.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk about basketball, men's basketball, women's basketball,
Speaker 3: and football. Right spring training Spring football starts now, right,
Speaker 3: I think the first practice is tomorrow tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We we sat down with UH with coach Brennan here
Speaker 3: for about twenty minutes and otherwise today talking about this.
Speaker 3: The spring break is spring training or whatever, you know,
Speaker 3: spring football. It's gonna be totally different. We'll talk about
Speaker 3: that later. Uh and UH, just one take away from that,
Speaker 3: what did you do? What did you take away from that?
Speaker 3: Crist Covers talk more about it.
Speaker 5: Given the season that happened last year, there's still a
Speaker 5: lot of excitement. You can see it on his face.
Speaker 5: He's working hard. I was gonna it makes me a
Speaker 5: little bit more optimistic.
Speaker 3: I didn't ask any questions because that's not my lane,
Speaker 3: and it's just not my lane right now, or it's
Speaker 3: just not my lane further.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: The question I wanted to ask and I didn't ask
Speaker 3: any questions was does he feel any pressure in I
Speaker 3: don't even know how to pass him? Does he feel
Speaker 3: any pressure this spring to get some some steps since
Speaker 3: out of it? But that's obvious, yes, right, Uh, but
Speaker 3: would want that right right, So I'm gonna wait for
Speaker 3: that question to come in the in the fall, because
Speaker 3: that's when the pressure starts. You know, it's not already there, right, right,
Speaker 3: And what's you gonna say?
Speaker 2: The yeah?
Speaker 3: But we'll wait for that to be us later because
Speaker 3: to me, it's a do or die season for.
Speaker 5: Him for sure, going into the second season. Failed to
Speaker 5: meet expectations last season. Yeah, not a lot of expectations
Speaker 5: this season, so a little bit more of a curve
Speaker 5: to it.
Speaker 3: Well, expectations from whom I think just in general, I
Speaker 3: would say, I think I'm gonna leave it at that,
Speaker 3: because obviously the fans they want to see wins, and
Speaker 3: so does the team, the coaches, but it's it's the
Speaker 3: second year, second year, but I think that the expectations
Speaker 3: are coming from the a D and then fans who
Speaker 3: thought they were cheated last year with a what would
Speaker 3: have been a pretty good team. Right, So we'll see,
Speaker 3: we'll see. I'm not gonna talk about it this spring.
Speaker 5: One outside observation, not from today, is that there's been
Speaker 5: a lot, in my opinion and what I've seen a
Speaker 5: lot of community outreach, especially before like other sporting events
Speaker 5: with Arizona Athletics, like before softball, before baseball tomorrow, they
Speaker 5: have these autograph sessions, so I think maybe it's a
Speaker 5: little bit of reaching out to the community and also
Speaker 5: maybe just introducing who's on this team this year because
Speaker 5: there was a mass exodus and the football entrance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, they're having a lot of those signings. Okay,
Speaker 3: I thought maybe with the team. Oh really, I didn't
Speaker 3: know that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, before some of the softball games and even before
Speaker 5: some of the basketball games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Forfeita and some of the other players out there.
Speaker 2: Why do you think to.
Speaker 5: Reach out to the fans kind of get them back
Speaker 5: into it, into the spirit of Arizona football.
Speaker 3: They also sent an email I think it was an
Speaker 3: email or posted something on Facebook. Uh, season tickets. I
Speaker 3: can't remember what it was, But can you contribute to
Speaker 3: the player fund? The player fund, I think that has
Speaker 3: a lot to do with it too. They need to
Speaker 3: find ways to get these guys some more money. Good
Speaker 3: luck with all that theme.
Speaker 2: To the new reality.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and we talked a little about that too,
Speaker 3: talking about money and situations like that.
Speaker 2: So we'll move beyond.
Speaker 3: But the big news, of course is Arizona a four
Speaker 3: seed going to Seattle to be in the East. If
Speaker 3: they get through the through the Seattle bracket, they'll get
Speaker 3: to New Jersey. And good luck with the fans there
Speaker 3: because it's going to be tough two weeks to get
Speaker 3: to here to there, and I think if they get
Speaker 3: to the final four, I'll be able to make that.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm eyeing San Antonio. I'm sure all of two
Speaker 5: songs eyeing San Antonio. Yeah, so we'll see. Did it
Speaker 5: surprise me?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: They should have been a four. They played well enough
Speaker 3: to be a four. This weekend they Houston. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you read my column.
Speaker 2: Do you read me? No, shame on? No, it pops
Speaker 2: up every now, it pops up. Yeah, I'll read it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, So I wrote that there was no shame
Speaker 3: in that gloss, not at all. They played their butts off.
Speaker 3: And but I've covered this team for thirty some years,
Speaker 3: directly and indirectly. Uh, anytime you tell Arizona that they're
Speaker 3: not good enough, they show up. It's the it's the
Speaker 3: teams like the Akrons and the teams that they think
Speaker 3: they don't have to show up that they just win.
Speaker 5: The Buffalo's, the Wichita States, the Presidents, the Princeton's, the
Speaker 5: Santa Clara's, the East Tannessee States.
Speaker 3: So we'll see how he gets them ready, gets them
Speaker 3: ready for Friday afternoon.
Speaker 5: The only thing I think most fans were disappointed by
Speaker 5: were those final five minutes.
Speaker 2: It just looked they looked tired. Yeah, it looked like
Speaker 2: they ran out of gas. Didn't you see that game here? Yeah,
Speaker 2: exact same game.
Speaker 5: I think I think a little bit more of foul
Speaker 5: trouble here in Tucson, whereas not so much in Kansas City.
Speaker 5: But regardless, right, they played a great thirty five minutes.
Speaker 2: Right right.
Speaker 3: The unfortunate part is they played for forty right, race,
Speaker 3: So you agreed, kind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought so.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, they they played Tech really well
Speaker 6: and then they you know, getting to Houston, everybody knew
Speaker 6: was going to be a tough matchup. Yeah, and so
Speaker 6: I thought that, like you guys said, is like, they
Speaker 6: played a great thirty five minutes, but it's a forty
Speaker 6: minute game.
Speaker 2: Right right, and Houston's damn good. Yeah. I think that's
Speaker 2: why there was no shame to me, because damn good.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: And sometimes guess what, the best team wins.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the better team wins on most days, it takes
Speaker 5: it takes an almost perfect performance for the underdogs to win, right,
Speaker 5: And it wasn't perfect for Arizona.
Speaker 3: No, No, it's a couple of slip ups. There wasn't
Speaker 3: maybe bad call, but it's in real time. It's you
Speaker 3: can't tell if he touched the ball or didn't touch
Speaker 3: the ball on the turnover and they hit their shots.
Speaker 5: Again, and then it's just you don't put yourself in
Speaker 5: that position to give it to the ref to decide
Speaker 5: a game, and not that that call decided the game,
Speaker 5: but you just can't put yourself in that position.
Speaker 3: Right, right, Okay? And then the women didn't get to
Speaker 3: pick to the n C doa tournament, right and that
Speaker 3: was no big shock?
Speaker 2: Now are you covering that?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: The the tournament, the end. No, as far as I
Speaker 5: know right now, I'm not okay because Kim does Kim
Speaker 5: does that? You usually Kim Okay.
Speaker 3: So they're gonna play Thursday, I believe, Thursday, Thursday afternoon
Speaker 3: here at McHale.
Speaker 2: Uh the w B I E something, w B I
Speaker 2: T something. Uh. They take on in state rival and
Speaker 2: in state right, and they lost. That's kind they lostuff
Speaker 2: there in the flag Staff.
Speaker 3: That's kind of a shocking in state rival Northern Arizona,
Speaker 3: and they got to you know, redeem themselves from that
Speaker 3: loss earlier. We'll see what happens because there's kind of
Speaker 3: like a lot of underlying stories there right involving the
Speaker 3: idea the team the postseason.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you saw, but uh, Jada Jadah
Speaker 5: Williams most likely not to play, more than likely not
Speaker 5: to play coach because of the injury that's been bugging
Speaker 5: her all season, and it's still bugging her through the practices.
Speaker 2: I didn't see that. Who reported that? I saw?
Speaker 5: I saw it on X I think leave from Kim
Speaker 5: or or I saw I saw it retweeted by Desert Swarm.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: That's a big that's a big blowing and it's nothing official.
Speaker 2: It was more than likely, more probable, not gonna.
Speaker 3: Oh, they didn't say that. Someone said it. Someone else
Speaker 3: said it.
Speaker 8: Not that.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's a tough blow if that's the case, because
Speaker 3: they obviously everybody they don't have much. No, you know,
Speaker 3: they haven't had much. That's probably the problem. Well, that's
Speaker 3: not probably the problem. That's a problem of what's going
Speaker 3: on over there, and unfortunately for Adeo, that's just tough.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So that's Thursday. Men play at four forty five on
Speaker 3: Friday on True TV. People already complaining, what the hell's
Speaker 3: True TV? Do you know what True TV?
Speaker 2: I have it? I have it, I have it. That's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I watched that stuff True TV. But guess what
Speaker 3: it's it's the nable A tournament. If you go find
Speaker 3: if you want to watch, you gotta find it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean most fans like going to the dirt
Speaker 5: bags and the general bends and uh so, I'm sure
Speaker 5: a TV a TV monitor in too.
Speaker 2: Someone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you might have to go get some wings. And
Speaker 3: what's a game with a bunch of people, But that's
Speaker 3: be with a bunch of people. I'm not gonna say
Speaker 3: that their fourteen point favorite. I'm not gonna say it's
Speaker 3: gonna be easy because I've been here too many times.
Speaker 3: Nothing's ever easy in the tournament. He's just gotta be ready.
Speaker 3: We'll see wi, Sha'll see. It is one game at
Speaker 3: a time, one game left. You sound like a coach
Speaker 3: do I one game at a time, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the reality, but it's true. It's the reality.
Speaker 2: It's true. You just gotta say it differently. There's no
Speaker 2: way to say it differently.
Speaker 3: Okay, cool, If you guys want to call five two
Speaker 3: oh four, one, six, seventy four forty, we have a
Speaker 3: couple of minutes here. We're gonna have Reggie Geary here
Speaker 3: in the first hour at three seventeen obviously former you
Speaker 3: a football basketball player and analysts now and you know
Speaker 3: a guy who's in the system at McHale. And then
Speaker 3: at four to seventeen more basketball with Richster Brad Alice
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Speaker 3: I'll find it.
Speaker 2: So well.
Speaker 5: You'll obviously have a lot of days in between now
Speaker 5: and Friday to talk about the acting game. Just my
Speaker 5: my first question to you is what's something that is
Speaker 5: going to hinder Arizona come Friday?
Speaker 3: What something that could get in the way stopping the
Speaker 3: three point shot? They'll probably take enough. They'll probably shoot
Speaker 3: what twenty five to thirty right, accron and if they
Speaker 3: hit ten fifteen, I could spell disaster for Arizona.
Speaker 2: They haven't.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you something, okay, both to you guys,
Speaker 3: who is Arizona? This is this basketball team? Who is Arizona?
Speaker 2: I'd say gritty they play, I mean that defense.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's stifling, man, Okay, So sometimes so they're sometimes gritty, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 5: I think that's a perfect word right there. Sometimes sometimes
Speaker 5: they are a great team. Sometimes they're bottom tier team, right.
Speaker 5: Sometimes they're a scrappy team, and sometimes they get guessed
Speaker 5: in the final five minutes.
Speaker 3: So there is that. So the reason I ask is
Speaker 3: that's what they're That's what they are? You say it, right?
Speaker 3: What are they not.
Speaker 5: A great three? Point shooting team in opinion. Okay, that's
Speaker 5: one a great three point defending team.
Speaker 2: That's two.
Speaker 5: Consistency if you're can have to work sometimes and inconsistent
Speaker 5: and inconsistent.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: There's three. So could those three things? And I know
Speaker 3: people say you're always negative. I'm just telling what the
Speaker 3: reality is, right, Uh, with one of those two three things,
Speaker 3: and there's more, show up what happens?
Speaker 2: Oh, they're out for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and aquin has its own issues, right, They're not
Speaker 3: as talented, they're not as tall. Everyone has a lot
Speaker 3: of advantages, so they have to play out of their
Speaker 3: mind too, and sometimes that happens sometimes.
Speaker 2: Well, ireciate it enough.
Speaker 5: That that one game at a time, one game left
Speaker 5: mindset means a lot more to it. Sure may mean
Speaker 5: a lot more to a thirteen seed than a four seat.
Speaker 3: And they don't have anything to lose at all. You've
Speaker 3: ever been broke? You ever been broke? Try not to be,
Speaker 3: but you've ever been broke? You're a college student, Guess
Speaker 3: you've been broke? You know you've been I've been broke?
Speaker 3: Sure you ever?
Speaker 2: You ever?
Speaker 3: You ever mess with the guy who's been broke? No,
Speaker 3: I've seen them really they don't mess around. They they
Speaker 3: have nothing to lose. They they want to they want
Speaker 3: to find a way to eat. They want to find
Speaker 3: a way to get by, right, So what do they do.
Speaker 3: They do whatever it takes, whatever it takes, whatever it takes.
Speaker 3: And that's what these lower seeds do because you know,
Speaker 3: and there these guys didn't show up by accident. They
Speaker 3: have a pretty good record. Look at those other teams,
Speaker 3: they're pretty damn good. Thirty thirty and three. Remember Florida
Speaker 3: International two years ago. You're thinking, who in the hell
Speaker 3: are these guys? When never and then they get to
Speaker 3: the final four? Yeah, we never heard of them. Well,
Speaker 3: because you didn't pay attention.
Speaker 5: Exactly what do you know about acron I M to
Speaker 5: be honest, nothing right now outside of them shooting a
Speaker 5: lot of reason and like them to run exactly.
Speaker 2: So you don't know. We don't know. Most people don't know.
Speaker 3: In this Oh we could beat them, no, okay, man,
Speaker 3: Oh maybe maybe not.
Speaker 5: They're they're a school in the heart of a basketball town, Cleveland,
Speaker 5: Ohio on a game win streak. There you go that
Speaker 5: they know how to win, and they've done it for
Speaker 5: a straight games.
Speaker 2: They only won the championship game by a bucket. So yeah.
Speaker 3: And also, let me say this, I think people in
Speaker 3: the public who mayrate a lot of them are picking
Speaker 3: Akron to win, and not so much because Akron is good.
Speaker 2: It's because it's the inability to believe in Arizona. Yep.
Speaker 2: Because why they've seen this before. I've seen it before,
Speaker 2: We've seen it before, We've all seen it before.
Speaker 3: The reputation of them not coming through in these types
Speaker 3: of games is very obvious.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I believe I don't remember the exact
Speaker 5: stat but Arizona is the worst, yeah, worst when it
Speaker 5: comes to losing or I get maybe the best to
Speaker 5: losing to lower tier seeds.
Speaker 3: And you say the worst because they are the worst.
Speaker 3: I mean it's last year. It came out again, right.
Speaker 3: They lose when they're the lower seed. They lose regularly
Speaker 3: to higher seeds yep. Yeah, and they're the ones that
Speaker 3: have done that the most in all these tournaments.
Speaker 2: From Loot to Sean to Tommy. Now, it's not a trend.
Speaker 2: You want to keep them.
Speaker 6: And I think what else is scary about it too,
Speaker 6: is you've also seen that kind of inconsistency to close
Speaker 6: out games.
Speaker 2: Very much so and you know that very much.
Speaker 3: So that's for right, that's four and and and sometimes
Speaker 3: you have habits, right, ray you have. You probably came
Speaker 3: here the same way you've been coming here to work,
Speaker 3: Uh you senor you with your name, goody T shoes,
Speaker 3: gatty tissues, you you've come here. We all have tendencies, right,
Speaker 3: we do the same things, those four things. That's kind
Speaker 3: of who they are. You don't just so, okay, we're
Speaker 3: gonna forget that. No, if I walk with the limp,
Speaker 3: guess what I do. I walk with a limp. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna change that. And that's who they are. What
Speaker 3: are these four And there's probably more could bite you
Speaker 3: if not two or three, and then with two or
Speaker 3: three get you, you're in trouble exactly.
Speaker 5: Arizona limps to finish the finish line most games, and
Speaker 5: sometimes the team pushes you down and you lose that.
Speaker 3: Well, just recently, I mean there were three five Hilosophy
Speaker 3: I think there was. And when they had those ten
Speaker 3: point leads twelve point leads, did you kind of think, Okay,
Speaker 3: this one's gonna be enough and are they gonna hold on?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 3: Are they gonna hold on? And because what you've seen
Speaker 3: it before, right, it's it been the trend of the season. Okay, hey,
Speaker 3: we're going over. I'm talking too much. We're gonna take
Speaker 3: a break, come back and get a whold of bread.
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to my in the Ball drel Fox
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Speaker 3: until ninety Redge, how are you.
Speaker 8: I'm good, see you, I'm good. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3: Yes of course, let me ask you a question. I
Speaker 3: kind of talked to you over yesterday. I think because
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Speaker 3: other station. When you're not doing that and you're just
Speaker 3: kind of watching them from home on a regular day,
Speaker 3: do you watch the game differently?
Speaker 8: Yeah? I probably would, you know.
Speaker 18: You know, I just keep in mind, first of all,
Speaker 18: I love basketball and just kind of following the Pats
Speaker 18: and just following basketball in general. But you know, after
Speaker 18: after playing nine years professionally, after leaving the U of A,
Speaker 18: I coach for fourteen years, you know. And so I
Speaker 18: was with coach Loud Olsen or you know, coach Olson
Speaker 18: for a couple of years here at the U of
Speaker 18: A for two years of an SMU. I coached in
Speaker 18: professionally as the head coach.
Speaker 8: In the NBA Development League. I'm head coach in Japan.
Speaker 8: So removing that head coaching or that coaching hat is
Speaker 8: very difficult for me. So I don't think I necessarily
Speaker 8: look at it as a casual viewer. I don't think
Speaker 8: I'm as in depth as some of the coaches just
Speaker 8: because but I always have that lens on as a
Speaker 8: coach kind of when I'm watching things.
Speaker 3: So so you're kind of you could be a team
Speaker 3: you could be a team guy when you do it
Speaker 3: on the radio with with Brian. So when you're at home,
Speaker 3: Oh no, do you kind of cheer underneath the desk
Speaker 3: up there?
Speaker 2: And I'm sure you do at home?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah.
Speaker 18: I mean I'm not smart enough to hide my feelings.
Speaker 18: I show my emotions and and my lesions pretty I'm
Speaker 18: pretty I'm pretty forthcoming with those. And so you know,
Speaker 18: when I'm on the radio and I'm working with Brian,
Speaker 18: you know, even though I'm a wildcat, you know, true
Speaker 18: and through, I'm still honest at the same time, and
Speaker 18: I think it's important that if things are going well
Speaker 18: and the team's playing well, that I that I reflect
Speaker 18: that and things are not going well, that I don't
Speaker 18: sugarcoat it as well, that I say, hey, you know,
Speaker 18: things could be better. So I think that the listeners,
Speaker 18: I think they appreciate that. I know that's what Brian
Speaker 18: would like for me. But deep down know I want
Speaker 18: to catch do well.
Speaker 8: But I have to call it as I see it
Speaker 8: sometimes as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So so I don't know if you read me on
Speaker 3: Saturday afternoon enough to the game, but but I thought,
Speaker 3: and I want you, I want your true assessment of this,
Speaker 3: of your assessment of the game. I thought they played
Speaker 3: very well, you know, well enough to win. They just
Speaker 3: had to face Houston. They played good enough just you know,
Speaker 3: obviously Houston's very good. There was no shame in that loss.
Speaker 3: Kind of gets them ready for what's ahead. So that's
Speaker 3: just how I felt. Did you feel the same way
Speaker 3: or what did you see?
Speaker 8: No, exactly, I'm exactly with you there, there's no there's
Speaker 8: no shame whatsoever. You know, the way the team Tommy
Speaker 8: has prepared the team and they've conducted themselves. This year
Speaker 8: has been fantastic. You know.
Speaker 18: Obviously we got off a little bit slower start and
Speaker 18: expected where people were kind of wavering on what's gonna
Speaker 18: you know, to be the full story for this issue
Speaker 18: of a team. And you know, after a couple of
Speaker 18: adjustments in the lineup and just things just settling in.
Speaker 18: Keep in mind with all of these teams, there's so
Speaker 18: many new faces and new roles and responsibilities for players.
Speaker 8: It just takes time. And so once.
Speaker 18: Arizona did get their footing under them, obviously we went
Speaker 18: into league play and you know, that has been a
Speaker 18: fantastic experience. You know, there's been a little slippit yere
Speaker 18: but I here towards the end of the Big Twelve,
Speaker 18: but a lot of that is due just to the
Speaker 18: quality of teams that we see in this league and so,
Speaker 18: but Kansas City, you know, besides coming home with the
Speaker 18: hardware was the success. You know, Tommy had mentioned it.
Speaker 18: We we went down and played Kansas and Kansas City
Speaker 18: a Kansas team that was motivated, a Kansas team that
Speaker 18: was really hungry for a win, and we were able
Speaker 18: to thin them off for a nice win. You know,
Speaker 18: Texas Tech was was undermanned a little bit, but still
Speaker 18: still very game, still very well coached, still had enough weapons, and.
Speaker 8: That was, you know, a really good win for the Cats.
Speaker 18: And then Houston. You know, Arizona won't see a better
Speaker 18: defense in my mind in intblay tournament. So the preparation
Speaker 18: that that did for them and just playing under that
Speaker 18: kind of pressure, under that kind of intensity will definitely
Speaker 18: only help them going forward.
Speaker 2: Hey, Red, you want asy desert swarm.
Speaker 5: Just looking back at that Houston game, What's was something
Speaker 5: that kind of prevented the Wildcat from getting that victory
Speaker 5: and something that they might have to fix going forward.
Speaker 2: Looking at Akron, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 8: A little bit of deja vu from the first from
Speaker 8: the first game here in McHale Center.
Speaker 18: You know, you kind of get to those five minutes
Speaker 18: and if you guys hear me on the radio or
Speaker 18: just hear me in general, I always talk about those
Speaker 18: five minutes being championship minutes. You know, that's kind where
Speaker 18: championships are won or loss for the most part, that's
Speaker 18: where everything is magnified. Turnovers, poor decisions made, buckets, everything
Speaker 18: is magnified at that point. And I just think Houston
Speaker 18: right now, just being a thirty win team, Kelvin Stampton coach,
Speaker 18: just the experience they had from last year. They were
Speaker 18: just a little better in those last five minutes in
Speaker 18: terms of how they wanted to play, what kind of
Speaker 18: shots they wanted to take. And so I think that's
Speaker 18: just another valuable left for Arizona that you know, we've
Speaker 18: made such good stride to the team has in terms
Speaker 18: of how they want to play. But when you get
Speaker 18: into those last minutes, you know, maybe getting a kJ
Speaker 18: Lewis three ball, you know, somewhat, you know, early in
Speaker 18: the shot clock, or you know.
Speaker 8: Just just maybe take value.
Speaker 18: In the basketball just a little bit more, not that
Speaker 18: they don't, but just doubting a little bit more in
Speaker 18: the last five minutes, knowing that, hey, we got to
Speaker 18: get a shot up. We can't have back to back
Speaker 18: turnovers and possessions if we want to, you know, really
Speaker 18: do the thing that we want to do.
Speaker 2: So really good.
Speaker 18: Teachable moments thing they can correct on. But that was
Speaker 18: probably the big difference. Using just was a little bit
Speaker 18: better in that area.
Speaker 3: So teachable moments here we go with the tournament, you know,
Speaker 3: they're all important tournament because they went what twenty two
Speaker 3: and sevens like that, whatever it was. Uh, and no
Speaker 3: one will remember that unless they do well in the tournament, right,
Speaker 3: because everyone's measured in the tournament.
Speaker 2: So, so you played it four. I think you played
Speaker 2: in four? Right? This is two good too? Not so good?
Speaker 3: What's what's the difference in being good in the first
Speaker 3: game and not being good in the first game, because
Speaker 3: you know here that first game is crucial.
Speaker 18: Yeah, it is crucial. You know a lot of you know,
Speaker 18: as you mentioned, you know, I've been in six at
Speaker 18: all for as a player and two as a coach,
Speaker 18: and everyone with that first round matchup being that with Arizona,
Speaker 18: the prestige and the brand, there's definitely a little bit
Speaker 18: of pressure that comes with that. And so the pressure
Speaker 18: is the big thing. And just because you you're playing
Speaker 18: an opponent that you're supposed to be more time than not.
Speaker 18: You know, you know, we're usually the higher seed and
Speaker 18: so all the pressures on the higher seed in the
Speaker 18: first round, and if a lower seed is able to
Speaker 18: hang in there and get into that second half, well,
Speaker 18: now the pressure really.
Speaker 8: Ranches it up. And so, uh, if you're able.
Speaker 18: To survive that, things feel it's much lighter going forward.
Speaker 18: It's much easier to advance going forward. It's just getting
Speaker 18: past that first one because you know, just looking at
Speaker 18: you know acting, you know, here's a team that doesn't
Speaker 18: possess a ton of size, but at the same time,
Speaker 18: they shoot a lot of three, they play very fast.
Speaker 18: They've won a lot of games here, so after a
Speaker 18: slow start to their season, they really corrected things. And
Speaker 18: you know, they're on a big winning streak right now,
Speaker 18: and so they're playing with a lot of confidence and
Speaker 18: that that can be difficult for a higher seed with
Speaker 18: that first game.
Speaker 3: It's funny ninety three because I won't talk about those losses,
Speaker 3: but you know, in ninety three, ninety four, ninety four,
Speaker 3: you guys went to Sacramento. I think it was I
Speaker 3: played the Greyhounds.
Speaker 2: I think I can.
Speaker 3: I'm just kind of reminiscing now and that once you
Speaker 3: won that game, I can remember, like the relief in
Speaker 3: in Loot's mind, the relief and the players because you
Speaker 3: got through that and it rolled you to the final four.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean, when when you have those when you
Speaker 18: have those those missteps or those missed opportunities a year
Speaker 18: before the next time you get there, You're you're just
Speaker 18: locked in. You know, we were so focused on task,
Speaker 18: so focused on making sure this does not happen again,
Speaker 18: that we were going to leave no doubt, you know.
Speaker 18: And that's how you have to uh, that's how you
Speaker 18: have to address the tournament.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 8: I remember, even maybe a year or two ago, I
Speaker 8: want to say, I remember an uf A player saying, man,
Speaker 8: we didn't be our first game was going to be
Speaker 8: so hard. That is the recipe for that, exactly Exactly.
Speaker 18: You treat the first opponent like their duke, like their miss,
Speaker 18: like you know, a a highlite major, and you handle
Speaker 18: your business. Is the way to go about that.
Speaker 8: So you know.
Speaker 18: There's gonna bring the correct you know, correct attention and focus.
Speaker 18: I don't envision acron being a problem, but it's the
Speaker 18: tournament and you just got to be ready for anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're there for the reason for a reason.
Speaker 5: Yes, you know you talk about lessons and taking that
Speaker 5: from the Houston game into the acting game. How does
Speaker 5: he ever get to a point in your mind where
Speaker 5: lessons really don't matter anymore.
Speaker 2: Where you just need to start showing results.
Speaker 18: Well, I don't think the lesson part ever ends. I
Speaker 18: think maybe saying this was a moral victory or this
Speaker 18: was a moral win, or I think it's too late
Speaker 18: in the season for things of that nature.
Speaker 8: But in terms of learning.
Speaker 18: Now, because you can learn something in the first half
Speaker 18: is gonna help you in the second half in my mind.
Speaker 18: And so these guys are young, they're student athletes, student
Speaker 18: being the main word there. These are all moments for
Speaker 18: them learned from and and try to process and then
Speaker 18: be better within the next play, next half, next game.
Speaker 18: So that learning thing never stops, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you.
Speaker 3: I kind of joked it with yesterday with you uh
Speaker 3: a TV time. Right, So you're looking at the court.
Speaker 3: Is the Arizona basketball team to your left or to
Speaker 3: your right on their bench to the left right.
Speaker 18: To my left the last couple of games that we've
Speaker 18: been on the other side of the court, which is
Speaker 18: nice the kind of matters, but more more times than not,
Speaker 18: there there's my left.
Speaker 2: So were you Were they close to you? On Saturday?
Speaker 18: We were actually across the way from oh so we
Speaker 18: were kind of closer to ESPN, So okay, so we
Speaker 18: were looking at them.
Speaker 3: So the reason I asked that question because I wanted
Speaker 3: to have perspective, the perspective. Did you see Tommy kind
Speaker 3: of go off on the team. I'm sure you saw
Speaker 3: some videos since.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean we keep an eye on that. I'm
Speaker 8: always looking at the huddles.
Speaker 18: I'm always looking for body ling, which I'm looking for, Uh,
Speaker 18: Tommy's interactions with the officials, you.
Speaker 8: Know, anything that I can.
Speaker 18: You know, glean from those interactions to share with our listeners,
Speaker 18: you know, and I think it's appropriate, I will.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think there was there was a couple of
Speaker 8: moments that, yeah.
Speaker 18: Like you know that Tommy's definitely trying to tune the
Speaker 18: guys up and make sure he gets their attention. Whether
Speaker 18: it was I believe there was a there was one
Speaker 18: fast break like a two one, one, three on one
Speaker 18: for Houston where d trans I didn't think everybody was sprinting,
Speaker 18: and I think Tommy picked up on that, and you know,
Speaker 18: any kind of jumped the guys. But nothing, nothing crazy.
Speaker 18: I think, like say, he's just doing his doing his
Speaker 18: job in terms of uh, just correcting on the fly
Speaker 18: and and doing it with with with a emphasis.
Speaker 3: Right right now, because that's my next story for tonight,
Speaker 3: because that was a rare thing you saw, people saw
Speaker 3: it on TV.
Speaker 2: Right, it was like, who is this dude?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 2: It was It was funny, but it was good. I
Speaker 2: mean it was good.
Speaker 19: Yeah.
Speaker 8: It shows the seriousness and the intensity of the situation.
Speaker 8: You know, as you're playing for championships, you're on a
Speaker 8: big stage, you're gone through a long season, there's some
Speaker 8: things you still shouldn't be doing at this point. And
Speaker 8: at the coach I know when a guy does that,
Speaker 8: or you know, and you know it could be for
Speaker 8: something negative or positive, you just want to make sure
Speaker 8: you're forcing it on the moment.
Speaker 2: Sure should I can see you doing that?
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, well yeah, I was that way as a
Speaker 8: three year my three years here at you as a captain.
Speaker 18: It was a role that I did in my nine
Speaker 18: years as a professional athlete. I always felt confident enough
Speaker 18: that if I'm doing the right things, that I'm working hard,
Speaker 18: that I'm in a position that I could speak to
Speaker 18: others about what, you know, in an appropriate way of
Speaker 18: how they should be doing things.
Speaker 8: I thought, if you, if you do things the right way.
Speaker 18: And in your heart's in the right place, I think
Speaker 18: coaches them and your players realize when you get on
Speaker 18: them or encourage them, it's coming from a good place.
Speaker 18: So I did it as a player, I did as
Speaker 18: a coach, and that I try to do it now
Speaker 18: is just as a as a fan.
Speaker 8: You know who's around the team.
Speaker 5: Just going off of your experience you've obviously played in
Speaker 5: coach in the tournament, how hard is it to settle
Speaker 5: into the games? Especially that first round game when you
Speaker 5: know you're playing maybe a little bit lesser opponent, but
Speaker 5: you got to show out. What is it hitting that
Speaker 5: first shot? Is it maybe just like a pregium ritual.
Speaker 18: Well, now you want to try to make it as
Speaker 18: normal as possible because you know it's a tournament. You're
Speaker 18: going to be excited, and so both teams are going
Speaker 18: to be going to be coming out there excited. It's,
Speaker 18: you know, the first team that can settle down, that's
Speaker 18: kind of the first team that's going to make a run.
Speaker 18: I think where an.
Speaker 8: Arizona has an advantage over an.
Speaker 18: Acron say is is scheduling and being in the Big
Speaker 18: twelve and having to strength to schedule and being on
Speaker 18: a big stage as much as we have. Keep in
Speaker 18: mind we have twenty or twenty plus squad one games.
Speaker 18: That means we say twenty big time games We've been
Speaker 18: to Lawrence, We've gone to Cincinnati, We've been in Ames,
Speaker 18: We've been in Provo.
Speaker 8: You know what I mean.
Speaker 18: So, you know, playing on a big stage, that's why
Speaker 18: you come to Arizona. This team is battle tested because
Speaker 18: of all those experiences, just for the fact when they
Speaker 18: get to the tournament that they can settle down quicker
Speaker 18: than Akron, who will be excited as well playing against
Speaker 18: an Arizona on a big stage on national TV.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, what would be your advice, guy, because you know,
Speaker 3: obviously you were close to lut I wrote a lot
Speaker 3: about lout He was the same every game right emotionally,
Speaker 3: he was like a flat line. He would give you,
Speaker 3: guys speech or whatever. But it wasn't a raw raw.
Speaker 3: It was just every game is the game?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well, how would you handle your team or how did
Speaker 3: you handle the team in playoffs?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 18: I mean, no, everyone and these guys aren't dumb. You know,
Speaker 18: they understand the magnitude of situation. You know, a big
Speaker 18: thing with coach Olsen and you know it's just how
Speaker 18: you take great pride in in the name of the
Speaker 18: front of Jersey, take great pride in the brotherhood. You
Speaker 18: guys have done this year. You work so hard to
Speaker 18: get to this point, you know, do don't do yourself
Speaker 18: a disservice by taking anybody light to go out there
Speaker 18: and play your hardest and just enjoy his experience. But
Speaker 18: you know, realize that this is a business trip and
Speaker 18: we're here to take care of business. And and Tommy
Speaker 18: does a great job of communicating.
Speaker 8: Out with the guys. This is a really good group of.
Speaker 18: Young men, and I think they they want to do
Speaker 18: bigger things and and they were prepared for that. And
Speaker 18: it's in a lot of different scenarios, and so I
Speaker 18: don't think there's gonna be any panic in this situation
Speaker 18: that anything occurs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, are you covering? Are you going? What
Speaker 2: are you doing?
Speaker 8: So as right now? No, I won't be I'll be
Speaker 8: here for the women's game.
Speaker 18: Eye up, I believe it. I believe it's Thursday night
Speaker 18: at WBIT. So I'll be here in town on supporting,
Speaker 18: supporting Ada and the ladies and helping to bring home
Speaker 18: it out on some more hardware for their program.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, thank you bunch man as always, see you soon.
Speaker 8: Yeah, see you soon, guys, Thanks goding On.
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to the ball here on Fox Sports
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Speaker 2: I'm Steve. You're one.
Speaker 3: You got ready at the control. If you guys want
Speaker 3: to call please do? I want to kind of know
Speaker 3: how confident are you guys?
Speaker 2: I think they'll get to the sweet sixteen. I think
Speaker 2: that's a.
Speaker 3: Fair gauge, right, and then after that, who knows, it's
Speaker 3: how gravy after that?
Speaker 18: Oh?
Speaker 2: How confident are you?
Speaker 13: Me?
Speaker 5: Personally not that confident because all the things we said, well, no,
Speaker 5: I believe we or Arizona it's past achron. But that
Speaker 5: second round matchup probably more than likely against Oregon concerns
Speaker 5: me because they don't have the best record against Oregon.
Speaker 5: It's about fifty fifth. Are you talking about history?
Speaker 2: Yeah? History? Uh. Dana Almonds a great coach.
Speaker 5: He always has a team prepared in March, and uh,
Speaker 5: I just I don't feel confident. Yeah, well I think
Speaker 5: this and this year just well, especially because I just
Speaker 5: realized is in Seattle.
Speaker 2: That's what a couple hours drive for Oregon fans? Few hours?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, is that a neutral court?
Speaker 3: Uh, it's a neutral court, just not a neutral uh
Speaker 3: arena arena for the fans. But Arizona's proven that that
Speaker 3: really doesn't matter. That's true because you know they they've
Speaker 3: had a ton of fans and what does that mean?
Speaker 3: Not a damn thing. So we'll see, we'll see. You
Speaker 3: got to get by the first one. But you're so,
Speaker 3: you're so so on the suit sixteen. I think it
Speaker 3: was a poll. Someone did a poll earlier, and I
Speaker 3: think that was the majority of the they thought they
Speaker 3: could get there.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know, I do believe that's the ceiling for
Speaker 2: Arizona because of what you've seen. That's their resume is
Speaker 2: kind of put you there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they are a perfect sweet sixteen team.
Speaker 5: Not sure if they're in the lead eighteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, they're slated as one of the top six
Speaker 3: sixteen teams.
Speaker 2: Are right in the in the tournament, they were. I
Speaker 2: believe they were the sixty sixteen.
Speaker 3: Team, right and today that we're not gonna have any
Speaker 3: breaking news. Did you have come prepared for some Oh
Speaker 3: you have? Okay, you do.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: They're twenty one in the in the polls. I'm sorry
Speaker 3: if I took that from you. Twenty one in the polls.
Speaker 3: The polls mean nothing. I said that today and at
Speaker 3: this point because they just aren't and we'll see the
Speaker 3: the Ken Palm and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: They have them in the top sixteen and then they've
Speaker 2: they've stayed around that area.
Speaker 3: Yes, this season mostly even though they were in the
Speaker 3: in the polls at all. I mean, they are who
Speaker 3: they are. Yeah, we got a call. Hello, you're on
Speaker 3: the air nine the ball.
Speaker 2: Who's this? Hello, you're on the air nine in the ball.
Speaker 2: Who's this?
Speaker 1: VIC?
Speaker 3: What's going on? I got your message yesterday. I didn't
Speaker 3: want to get into a debate with you.
Speaker 19: Well, I'll tell you what I mean, the question just
Speaker 19: asked one, and I've got disagree with almost everybody in Tucson.
Speaker 19: I mean, I wasn't happy with that Houston game. They
Speaker 19: played tough, but all the time we use baseball analogies.
Speaker 19: That's like playing tough and baseball and then you're short
Speaker 19: stopped booting three balls in the ninth inning to lose it.
Speaker 19: I mean they played three and they have I think
Speaker 19: three turnovers and three stupid shots at the end.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 19: No a coach, and Reggie answered Juan's question grade as
Speaker 19: a coach, you can't be happy with that. I wasn't happy. Yeah,
Speaker 19: I can't play tough for thirty five minutes and then
Speaker 19: blow it like that.
Speaker 3: In fact, in fact, I wrote that story, and there
Speaker 3: was a time or two I'm thinking Viking like this,
Speaker 3: like this, I got to get Vicut the art the
Speaker 3: ledge here. But thankfully you probably have a one story house.
Speaker 3: You'll survive that leap.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I do.
Speaker 17: I do.
Speaker 19: But it's a cactus on the bottom. So that shows
Speaker 19: you where this tournament is going.
Speaker 3: Well, I totally I understand that, but those those who
Speaker 3: are like Vic I get that because you want to
Speaker 3: win the game and and then moral victories don't mean
Speaker 3: much to you, guys.
Speaker 2: I know that's just who you are. I know that.
Speaker 19: So so, And have we seen him play a forty
Speaker 19: minute game? I don't know. I want in the man,
Speaker 19: I don't know.
Speaker 3: If we have this that's a good question, that's a
Speaker 3: good question. I think are they played thirty let's say thirty.
Speaker 2: I think the closest game would be the game at
Speaker 2: b YU.
Speaker 19: Yeah, by you're right, that's right.
Speaker 2: One I can put Baylor Baylor.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, just if you're if you're saying that Arizona
Speaker 5: play front of thirty thirty five minute great game?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Baylor Baylor. So yeah, maybe maybe three four.
Speaker 19: So let's see. And if they do the thirty five minutes,
Speaker 19: is that enough to be then Oregon or no? Or
Speaker 19: do we falter in that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No it's not.
Speaker 3: But let me tell you something, because you're a coach
Speaker 3: that used to play vic Uh, how many times did
Speaker 3: you have a perfect game?
Speaker 19: You know?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: Quite a bit?
Speaker 19: Who no, No, No, I mean I mean where you
Speaker 19: went away satisfied with you know, hey, I gave one
Speaker 19: hundred percent. I didn't boot any balls. So yeah, there
Speaker 19: was there was times when when we all played great together.
Speaker 19: And like I said, I never obviously never played in
Speaker 19: the level like these guys, but you can't doubt that
Speaker 19: they played thirty five thirty thirty five minutes and then
Speaker 19: just poop the bed or whatever your analogy is.
Speaker 17: And that's bad.
Speaker 3: Well, no, I get that, but Vic, when you play
Speaker 3: a tougher team, a tougher team, and Houston's a tougher team,
Speaker 3: you're gonna you're gonna get beat by tougher teams.
Speaker 8: And and that's why.
Speaker 19: Though that Reggie's Towan. That's where you you've got to
Speaker 19: say to yourself, Hey, we can't have two turnovers in
Speaker 19: a row. We've got to do this or we've got
Speaker 19: to do that. And it just doesn't seemed like like
Speaker 19: we do that. I mean, those three balls at the end,
Speaker 19: those three three he's work. Wow, I mean me, you
Speaker 19: and Juan could put together a better game plan than
Speaker 19: those three shots.
Speaker 2: Thanks for confidence. Confidence, No, I get you, I hear that.
Speaker 19: But but if if thirty five minutes the game is
Speaker 19: enough to get us to the sweet sixteen, we're in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, there's those your those your morayal victory.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, all right, we'll.
Speaker 8: See you guys.
Speaker 19: Hey, and everybody got a root for Grand Canyon girls.
Speaker 19: I told you my cousin Alyssa Dudazo Frescott's top three
Speaker 19: point shooting. The Nation take on Baylor. So okay, they
Speaker 19: take on Baylor in Waco. So a little shout out
Speaker 19: to one of the local teams and h and a
Speaker 19: local girl there.
Speaker 2: Okay, are you going to Thursday's DA game?
Speaker 19: I'm going to Thursday's a DA game.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, good, Okay, we'll talk to you soon. Thank you,
Speaker 2: Okay you.
Speaker 3: Vic is a grumpy old dude. He's younger than me,
Speaker 3: but he's a grumpy old dude. But I get what
Speaker 3: he says, and he's right.
Speaker 2: He's right.
Speaker 5: Most Arizona fans are grumpy old whatever do do dads?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 5: But I don't know, I'm gonna have to change career
Speaker 5: trajectory is you're You're over here saying I sound like
Speaker 5: a coach. He has enough confidence to I can put
Speaker 5: a game plan together in a live uh.
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm hearing. Yeah, Yeah, we all hear
Speaker 2: what we want to hear. I hear Arizona's in San Antonio.
Speaker 2: That's what I hear.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Will Will them there. It's a tough world.
Speaker 3: The funny thing about is you are you in social?
Speaker 3: You're on social, You're on Twitter though, right the mean
Speaker 3: people Facebook kind of like the mean old people. Uh uh,
Speaker 3: Where's I gonna go with it? Oh, that Arizona's in
Speaker 3: the toughest bracket. I don't know, but that they're all tough.
Speaker 3: When you have alburn, you have all these number those
Speaker 3: number ones are legit number ones. Yeah, you know, they're
Speaker 3: not any cupcakes. I still think the best team right
Speaker 3: now is Florida and Arizone is in the Duke Duke area.
Speaker 3: They already lost the Duke. He saw that. It's pretty good.
Speaker 3: All of them are tough. You gotta get by some
Speaker 3: tough teams.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Akron stuff, Yeah, Akron is gonna be tough, possible,
Speaker 5: orient is gonna be tough. All these teams are tough
Speaker 5: because the most teams have nothing to lose, right, We've
Speaker 5: talked about it, and that's we're gonna keep saying it
Speaker 5: because we're at that point and no, uh, moral victories
Speaker 5: like no.
Speaker 2: No, no, especially in that first game.
Speaker 3: I mean, the first game is the one who in
Speaker 3: this town, you it shakes.
Speaker 5: You so just hypothetical, because you know you love to
Speaker 5: live in worlds of hypotheticals. Per Tommy Lloyd, uh Arizona
Speaker 5: wins that first game but loses in the second round.
Speaker 2: Are we okay or no?
Speaker 5: I speak from the fan perspective, No, No, they won't
Speaker 5: be a appointment. It's a disappointment. Yeah, even a Sweet
Speaker 5: sixteen lost.
Speaker 3: They play who I think, Duke, Yeah, no, that'll be okay,
Speaker 3: it'll be better. It'll be much better if they lose
Speaker 3: to Duke, if they get by e lead eight, Yes,
Speaker 3: Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Depends how they play, and I don't
Speaker 2: know hypotheticals.
Speaker 3: Well they The last time I remember going to Sweet
Speaker 3: sixteen and covering the game was the Louisville game in
Speaker 3: eighty nine, two thousand and nine, I think it was,
Speaker 3: and Russ Penola and Mirke Dunlough for the coaches, Chase
Speaker 3: Budingers and all those guys.
Speaker 2: They it was.
Speaker 3: It was an okay team most just nothing special about it.
Speaker 3: They won the first two, they got to Louisville, go
Speaker 3: out to Miami, got beat by Louisville, crushed by Patino,
Speaker 3: and that was kind of like, Okay, we're happy blah,
Speaker 3: blah blah because that team.
Speaker 2: Was was horrible.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's one of the worst ones in Arizona program,
Speaker 3: one of Loot's final one because he was not around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's different. This is this team. This team
Speaker 2: it's there, it's it's there.
Speaker 3: But the thing is we talked about the deficit deficiencies, right,
Speaker 3: that's a heck of a lot of deficiencies to overcome.
Speaker 3: I mean there's probably equal amount of pluses they're negatives.
Speaker 2: That's a heck of a lot of negatives, right, Yeah.
Speaker 6: And I think like one of the things too, is like,
Speaker 6: you know, kind of getting back to like Akron being
Speaker 6: on that a game win streak and like them them.
Speaker 2: Winning a close one.
Speaker 6: It feels like they know how to win, whereas Arizona
Speaker 6: like knows how to hang on.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 3: And guess what if you're in your thirty five minute
Speaker 3: frame and you got five minutes left and they're within seven,
Speaker 3: that's two and a half shots pretty much, and that's
Speaker 3: what they do. Yeah, you're thinking, oh man, can they
Speaker 3: hang on? That's scary and.
Speaker 5: Every Arizona fan is gonna feel that no matter yeah,
Speaker 5: what the game is, you go into those final five
Speaker 5: given this season's history.
Speaker 2: Which way is it gonna go?
Speaker 5: Are we gonna pull away or are we gonna let them?
Speaker 2: Well again, speaking from a fan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've been with me with Jay right, and who's
Speaker 3: more snake bit to Jay because he's something. You can't
Speaker 3: be too happy because they're gonna bite you somehow. Football
Speaker 3: or basketball, you can't be too crazy because something's gonna
Speaker 3: happen that's gonna disappoint you.
Speaker 5: And that's why it's hard for the fans to get
Speaker 5: invested because you want to you want to see Arizona win.
Speaker 2: Sure, but they.
Speaker 3: Well, you're an Arizona fan and you're a young one.
Speaker 3: You're you're lucky your heart's still young because if you're older,
Speaker 3: I mean that, and a lot of them older fans were.
Speaker 2: Oh no, not again, Oh no, not again.
Speaker 5: Well I've gotten to that point really, Oh yeah, what
Speaker 5: started that? So it was those two heartbreaking losses to Wisconsin.
Speaker 5: Those were tough just because I was young. I'm passionate now.
Speaker 5: It was one of my first teams and you go lose,
Speaker 5: which saw State, you go lose to uh Buffalo, you
Speaker 5: lose to a Princeton and now you're like, well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was used to Houston when you're a number one, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then you lose to Houston.
Speaker 5: I knew Houston was a was going to hang around.
Speaker 2: What about Clemson? Clemson last year's team.
Speaker 5: I wasn't really confident in so I wasn't surprised by
Speaker 5: that Clemson game.
Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you?
Speaker 5: I I looking at the way Clemson played, I thought
Speaker 5: they could beat us.
Speaker 3: Well, this team is no different than last year's to me, no,
Speaker 3: not at all. It's pretty much the same team.
Speaker 5: Maybe a little bit more athleticism this year and a
Speaker 5: little bit more experience, but.
Speaker 2: It's not more inconsistent too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate Davis to watch an inconsistent team.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's rough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like your wipe telling you bring home some milk,
Speaker 3: milk and bread, and you do it three times and
Speaker 3: missed it four times. I don't know, but I trust
Speaker 3: you to get the milk. I'm getting the milk on
Speaker 3: my own. Yeah, we gotta go. Let's come back there
Speaker 3: with some breaking news.