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Speaker 2: Good after Rearon, everybody, I'm Steve Rivera and with me
Speaker 2: today is Mike Quinn.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I am in.
Speaker 2: We brought the kids in today to run the show here.
Speaker 2: We got Ray and we got Juan, so it should
Speaker 2: be a good discussion with a couple of great guests
Speaker 2: after a big weekend. What was your analogy coming in
Speaker 2: with the sugar high blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean today, like I said, today to me
Speaker 4: is like the worst sports day because it's like coming
Speaker 4: off of sugar high, you're just like, yeah, you're so
Speaker 4: excited about this week. It's like, what do you mean,
Speaker 4: I don't have four basketball games.
Speaker 2: To watch it right?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: And that's part of what you did yesterday, right and
Speaker 2: the guys all day just watching who Yeah, it's I mean,
Speaker 2: this is the greatest weekend of sports. The good thing
Speaker 2: is that you got at least a couple of games.
Speaker 2: I think you Arizona game was great, and that was
Speaker 2: he's finale. The Maryland game was a fantastic game, and
Speaker 2: finish finish. The Mississippi game not so much. Was the
Speaker 2: other one? The first game? It was the first game.
Speaker 2: What was the morning game?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: You you can't and then you kind of say, you know,
Speaker 2: good the ding Dong the witch is dad then and
Speaker 2: he continued to make a fool of himself. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I was going to say, I was going to ask
Speaker 2: you about that.
Speaker 4: What do you think about his comments at the end
Speaker 4: in theay, Yeah, what it's like when you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like I don't know. I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: want to sell I don't want to sell negative. That's
Speaker 2: what I do, right, I don't want to send negative.
Speaker 2: But it's like rich people. It's like rich people complaining
Speaker 2: that they don't have enough money. I mean, come on,
Speaker 2: he's he had a great run. He said that. He
Speaker 2: almost teared up and says, but at some point you
Speaker 2: gotta say, Okay, I lost and let's move on.
Speaker 4: I'll have to be classy. Yeah, and the opposite of classy.
Speaker 2: It's just very strange when he's when I heard that
Speaker 2: from him, and then I've seen his his brother, you know,
Speaker 2: do the antics fantastic coaches. I'll defend has to coaches,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure Bobby would be a better coach. You've
Speaker 2: got a better talent. But but there's a point where
Speaker 2: you know, Okay, I lost, congratulations and you don't you
Speaker 2: learned that from somewhere?
Speaker 3: Well, have have you ever heard of?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: And that's and that's where I have not I have
Speaker 2: not read any books about it. But I'm sure that.
Speaker 4: His dad is a legendary basketball code. I know that
Speaker 4: part of and he's a legendary horses behind.
Speaker 2: Okay, So that's where they get it. I mean, you lose,
Speaker 2: you win, You win with humility. You lose with humility.
Speaker 2: You can be a little cocky. He's the best coach
Speaker 2: in college. As he said a few months ago, I'm
Speaker 2: the best in this business. Don't mess with me. Okay,
Speaker 2: but now guess what he's out. So there's that. So
Speaker 2: I saw I saw the most of those games. I
Speaker 2: didn't see Mississippi State game, but I do know, I
Speaker 2: do know that Beard Beard Mississippi is a fantastic coach. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so here we are. Now let's go to Arizona where
Speaker 2: where all us you three? Because I have I know
Speaker 2: what the other youth, I know one of them. Five
Speaker 2: minutes in. Holy crap, was I getting texts people over Tommy, Joe.
Speaker 2: These guys got ready, Tommy Lloyd fire Tommy, you know
Speaker 2: what the hell doing here? One team showed up or
Speaker 2: the other one didn't care to win? Who were you
Speaker 2: on that spectrums? Their well?
Speaker 4: Oh, I said, I sent you know that. I said, hey, total,
Speaker 4: we're not an Acron anymore. Yeah, they weren't playing and
Speaker 4: they weren't playing Akron. Okay, look, Oregon came out on fire.
Speaker 4: I mean not just aggressive, not just hustling. They hit everything,
Speaker 4: I mean everything. That dude hit that one off balance
Speaker 4: three with the clock running down. So the little guard, yeah,
Speaker 4: I love that little guard was awesome and.
Speaker 2: He has he has a gait like he's broke.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, he played, he played really he nearly killed
Speaker 4: us the U. But yeah, it was it was one
Speaker 4: of those things where they came out on fire, ready
Speaker 4: to go, fired up, and we came out and frumbled
Speaker 4: the ball around. We had some issues, but I mean, look,
Speaker 4: you knew eventually we were going to get the get
Speaker 4: the wheels going in the right direction. Now, did you
Speaker 4: think that we were going to have as furious as
Speaker 4: a comeback to where it was like, you know, next thing,
Speaker 4: you know, you went out and got a bowl of
Speaker 4: ice cream and you came back in and the score
Speaker 4: was tied.
Speaker 2: No, right, that But that's what they're capable of, Yes,
Speaker 2: but against the better team your history. Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: Well they can't go down against other teams. But they
Speaker 2: had a couple of nine oh runs that got them
Speaker 2: back in there. And they're you know, one, they're known
Speaker 2: for that, they've they've done that in the past. Second,
Speaker 2: hit some shots.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: The one thing I'm going to say, and I was
Speaker 4: looking forward to saying this whole time, is like going,
Speaker 4: I've been a Caleb basher this whole time, this whole
Speaker 4: season because of the hustle and the misshots and da
Speaker 4: da da da da. Oh my goodness, what a difference
Speaker 4: he's doing in the tournament. You can't ask for a
Speaker 4: better game than what he had. He fumbled the ball
Speaker 4: around a couple of times, turnovers, But I mean, heck,
Speaker 4: they're doing it because they're aggressive.
Speaker 2: Yeah wow. Well, the good thing for Caleb is that
Speaker 2: he's getting help from other people.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Alwaki was tremendous. I thought the guy who's improved
Speaker 2: the most or done the best since the last maybe
Speaker 2: month is kJ Lewis. You know, outside of a dunk
Speaker 2: that didn't go and a couple of things, but but
Speaker 2: he's been fantastic from the field.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, it's been really good. The uh Brian's been good.
Speaker 4: He's been shots added those things. He can't understate the
Speaker 4: impact that had del orso had I mean after not
Speaker 4: after not having an impact or a negative impact. I mean,
Speaker 4: there was a against Acrine. It was one of those
Speaker 4: things like, oh my god, get this guy off the court,
Speaker 4: we need to turn a kid.
Speaker 2: He's killing us. He had been horrible against Houston. He
Speaker 2: looked like lost right then Acrin was what it was. Well,
Speaker 2: you know, every dog has his day and we'll see
Speaker 2: what happens next to the kids. Guys, what did you
Speaker 2: think five minutes in?
Speaker 7: Well, to be honest, just like from what we talked
Speaker 7: about last week, I thought, I thought, you know, Shelstead,
Speaker 7: I hit him from three.
Speaker 2: It was just gonna be the end of us.
Speaker 7: And kind of to your point, like kJ Lewis, they
Speaker 7: put they kind of put him on Shelstead and kind
Speaker 7: of shut him down, or at least I want to say,
Speaker 7: shut him down, but he cooled them off.
Speaker 2: That loaded down.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he sload him down for sure. But yeah, you
Speaker 7: know they rallied and they got locked in.
Speaker 2: And then they won a game.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I definitely wasn't surprised by the way organ
Speaker 8: came out. Uh, that's just who they are against Arizona specifically,
Speaker 8: they come out and hit shots. They don't hit similar
Speaker 8: to the way Arizona State plays when they play Arizona.
Speaker 8: It was it was the fact that that start happened
Speaker 8: so early. It was about three minutes into the game
Speaker 8: and fifteen point lead is is not you should not
Speaker 8: be scared by it, but you had thirty seven minutes
Speaker 8: of basketball left to play.
Speaker 2: Well, you saw the interview with Sean right with Kats
Speaker 2: and any Kats's interviews are kind of like two two
Speaker 2: hokey for me, just you know, hey, Mike, where you want.
Speaker 3: To go to dinner? Very very positive?
Speaker 2: Yeah, where are you going to go to dinner? No One.
Speaker 2: Then with this one he did he wasn't. He was like,
Speaker 2: you're down in nineteen fourteen, what do you do? And
Speaker 2: he like, come on, we got plenty of time. He
Speaker 2: looks at the clock. We got thirty four minutes will
Speaker 2: be okay. And then at the end, did you see
Speaker 2: the interview At the end, he says, stop asking me
Speaker 2: those dumb questions about you know, and then just left,
Speaker 2: which I thought was very clever. But but against Arizona,
Speaker 2: if you watched Arizona for all your life and you
Speaker 2: have one and you Mike Array and not so much,
Speaker 2: they have that in them, and this year specifically, I
Speaker 2: think they're one of the better teams that have. As
Speaker 2: Evan Maya Cowa says, the kill shots, right, it's a
Speaker 2: ten oh run. Many times you said nine oh run. Yeah,
Speaker 2: did they go nine o run? So maybe that's a
Speaker 2: that's a one kill shot.
Speaker 4: Eighteen and so well eighteen interrupt you, but no one
Speaker 4: really listens.
Speaker 2: It's like he had the uh.
Speaker 4: I wanted to say something intelligent, the uh uh. The
Speaker 4: question is this is it like, Okay, they ran out,
Speaker 4: we came there, okay, the Oregon ran out. Okay, we
Speaker 4: came racing back all the way up. We get up
Speaker 4: by ten or twelve, and then we're like, okay, can
Speaker 4: we go home and watch them movie?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: In fact, I was watching the game with somebody that
Speaker 2: was eight minutes left. I said, watch watch this. I
Speaker 2: was gonna do what it does all the time. They're
Speaker 2: gonna give up the lead or get or give up
Speaker 2: a run here, and it's gonna get closer and you're
Speaker 2: gonna have to sweat it out. And he says, no,
Speaker 2: that's no, exactly, just what I've seen thirty games. This movie.
Speaker 2: It's like, come on, what's the what scary movie? What
Speaker 2: you seen it five times? There's something.
Speaker 4: Don't go into the room. I know, I know the
Speaker 4: ending of this movie. Yeah, exactly. It was the same thing.
Speaker 4: It's like going, okay, you know we're gonna do now,
Speaker 4: We're gonna start launching up threes.
Speaker 2: Okay, turnovers, that's gonna do. Turn have had those couple
Speaker 2: of bad uh bad mishandles yep, the one Caleb not
Speaker 2: Caleb kJ missed the dunk, A missed the dunk and
Speaker 2: the technical and then they were then they're on, uh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what we did, and and we we let him
Speaker 2: back in and then we hit free throws at the game, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's it.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4: That is a really big difference from past teams that
Speaker 4: I've seen, where it's like we're hitting free.
Speaker 2: Throw who's got the guy who needed it? The three
Speaker 2: throws and you're thinking, when he's the lie on what
Speaker 2: are you thinking, Oh, he better hit those. Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: gonna get continue to get roasted exact. But you know,
Speaker 2: he had a pretty good game. He hit that little
Speaker 2: back underneath the basket one that was wonderful, then the three,
Speaker 2: then the three that you.
Speaker 4: Know, he pumped up and hit a couple of heavy
Speaker 4: a couple of clutch threes. I mean, he hit a
Speaker 4: hit a great game.
Speaker 2: I mean, and you get a good game, expert. I
Speaker 2: wanted to change and then you saw the thread. Do
Speaker 2: the thread with Jay because Caleb's j X factor, it
Speaker 2: could be everybody's X factor. But he had a fantastic game.
Speaker 4: It is well, twenty nine points, I mean, the second
Speaker 4: highest same most scored in the tournament.
Speaker 2: Here's your point, here's my point. They needed every single one.
Speaker 2: Ye I tell you what.
Speaker 4: When he came down and just pulled up and hit
Speaker 4: that three at the top, at the top of the key,
Speaker 4: it's like going, wow, was that It put us up five?
Speaker 4: And it's like going, you can't. I mean, that was
Speaker 4: an unbelievable thing. Now normally, normally, well normally previously, Uh,
Speaker 4: he misses that shot, they come down, they score, and I'll.
Speaker 2: Give you an opportunity like that. What do you think
Speaker 2: when when Henry took that three at the top and
Speaker 2: it was like what are.
Speaker 3: You doing right exactly?
Speaker 2: But when he hits it, you're thinking, oh, he can
Speaker 2: shoot those this time. It was like the U c
Speaker 2: l A game. Yep, you got time. Just kind of
Speaker 2: go with the flow. And he pulls it up and
Speaker 2: he misses big on it. He's like, watch, yeah, watch this,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hit that. That's what we do.
Speaker 4: We get there, we want we want to hit the
Speaker 4: hero shot on what we do, and Henry wasn't the
Speaker 4: guy to take the hero.
Speaker 2: And no one talked you know what I talked about.
Speaker 2: It's like, go ahead to ask ask the question about
Speaker 2: the walka question about what why wasn't he in there?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah?
Speaker 3: Why what? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Why wasn't a walking that?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 4: That to me is the is the is the question
Speaker 4: you have to ask Tommy Lloyd, why didn't you put.
Speaker 2: A walk in there? Unless it was asked off the
Speaker 2: off the podium, or you know, in a corner somewhere
Speaker 2: by somebody, no one asked the question we're gonna have
Speaker 2: Brian Peterson at the four seventeen. Brian was up there.
Speaker 2: We'll see if that was ever asked, but I haven't
Speaker 2: seen any responses. The thing about you don't why and
Speaker 2: you asked, well, Patina was asked why Well, because he lost? Yea,
Speaker 2: because he lost. It's less of an impact if you
Speaker 2: if you win. But I think it's a fair legit
Speaker 2: question of what was your thinking behind not playing the
Speaker 2: Walker during this time?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so so we're up by seven. That that guy
Speaker 4: on what's the guy for Oregon, the big guy, big
Speaker 4: guy Biddle, Biddle is Biddle is tearing up Henry. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: and it's like we're up by we just get up
Speaker 4: by seven. We just hit a big bucket. Okay, two
Speaker 4: something two four something like that left into the game.
Speaker 4: It's like, okay, let's put in a way, let's shut
Speaker 4: it down, let's go home, grab the popcorn, hit the exits,
Speaker 4: and we're like, no, Walk is still on the bench.
Speaker 4: I'm like, what do we saved him for?
Speaker 3: Over time?
Speaker 2: They kept flashing his foot, they kept flashing him right.
Speaker 2: It was know, what do you think? Well?
Speaker 8: Something I realized after the game was when he got
Speaker 8: that fourth foul. He was hunched over. He took him
Speaker 8: a while to get back to the bench, So I'm.
Speaker 2: That fantom fourth. Yeah, he didn't. That's another one of
Speaker 2: those fouls. Yeah, he was just straight up and you know,
Speaker 2: I'm curious to know if there's anything behind that. If
Speaker 2: he was injured at off he wasn't feeling well enough
Speaker 2: to get back to the game. Obviously, he went back
Speaker 2: into the game because they needed him to and took
Speaker 2: his shot to the gut.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm not sure what happened there, but it could
Speaker 8: have been maybe he needed that time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it's it's a strange one, but it deserves
Speaker 2: a question. You know. Maybe we have him on the
Speaker 2: zoom call tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was well, he was so he was out
Speaker 4: at least six minutes of six seven minutes of clocke. Well,
Speaker 4: he had to have been at least thirty forty minutes,
Speaker 4: which is about six rebounds and six points. Yeah, because
Speaker 4: he had a double double in the first half.
Speaker 2: Oh god, he was tearing it up.
Speaker 9: Dude.
Speaker 2: Let me They won by what three, three, five, five?
Speaker 2: With five I think the thread was five. I think
Speaker 2: they won by three eighty seven eighty four. Maybe or
Speaker 2: maybe four. So let me say this, there was one
Speaker 2: and I'm not discreding that because they played out of
Speaker 2: their mind and had to. Caleb played fantastically well. They
Speaker 2: went by fourth. Uh, they played a Walker played doublessly
Speaker 2: when he was in there. Henry was good, JJ was fantastic.
Speaker 2: I thought Jayden played very well. Just what, that's five
Speaker 2: guys who played very well because Townsend didn't and also
Speaker 2: played well. So my point is these five six dudes
Speaker 2: had to play very well to get by Oregon. Just
Speaker 2: what You're gonna have to have five or six dudes
Speaker 2: who have to play very well to get by Duke
Speaker 2: if not played better.
Speaker 3: Play the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, put the game of the season in order to
Speaker 2: get by Duke. Ye this Remember two Duke came here
Speaker 2: and one in an easy relative.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when we were not playing very well. It's the
Speaker 4: tenth time Caleb blows played dude.
Speaker 2: And let's go real quick, take a break and get
Speaker 2: ahold of Corey Williams obviously a former UA basketball player
Speaker 2: and an analyst for ESPN.
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera, He's got his eye on the ball on
Speaker 1: Tucson sports station Fox Sports sporteen fIF day.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to I on the about here at Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me today
Speaker 2: is Mike Quinn. Now on the phone, we have Corey
Speaker 2: Williams former. You have a basketball star about twelve thirty
Speaker 2: years ago, or really thirty years ago? What's up with that? Cory?
Speaker 3: Hey, time flies, baby, It literally is thirty years ago. Crazy.
Speaker 2: I know it seems so. It seems so long ago,
Speaker 2: but not really.
Speaker 1: Hey.
Speaker 2: When I say the word the name duke, what comes
Speaker 2: to your mind? For me?
Speaker 3: Personally? There's two dukes.
Speaker 18: There's the duke tied to Koshazhevsky and everything that he
Speaker 18: was able to create there in the nineties and you know,
Speaker 18: the early late eighties, early nineties and and until he
Speaker 18: stepped away, and then there's the brand that's there since
Speaker 18: his departure. Very similar to Arizona. But when I hear Duke,
Speaker 18: you know, they get a lot of attention in the media.
Speaker 18: They have a tremendous following, they've got tradition, they've got
Speaker 18: a ton of guys in the.
Speaker 3: NBA just you know, a solid program.
Speaker 18: And you can't say Duke without really feeling like you're
Speaker 18: talking about a formidable program. Duke basketball, it had its
Speaker 18: low point and dipped a little bit, but it's it's certainly.
Speaker 3: On the rise again.
Speaker 18: And it's just an old school, literally blue blood program
Speaker 18: playing and.
Speaker 2: Simple let me okay, let's go, We'll go to the
Speaker 2: Duke game in a little bit. Let's talk about over
Speaker 2: the weekends games. You're a you're an unbiased analyst, colored
Speaker 2: guy for ESPN and all the other ESPN, all the
Speaker 2: other ESPN sources. When you're watching these guys wherever you
Speaker 2: watch it yesterday, are you gonna go? And are you
Speaker 2: going crazy? Or how you watching the game?
Speaker 18: It's weird because ever since I got into being an analyst,
Speaker 18: your brain gets cut in half.
Speaker 3: You've got the side of.
Speaker 18: Your brain where you're a fan and you're just rooting
Speaker 18: for everything, and then you've got the analyst side of
Speaker 18: your brain that tells you why things are happening, what's
Speaker 18: going on. You're evaluating the coaches, their strategies, player performances, trends,
Speaker 18: coaching decisions. It even gets so bad that you know
Speaker 18: you couldn't watch a game with me because nine times
Speaker 18: out of ten I'd be commenting on what the commentators
Speaker 18: are saying on the broadcast.
Speaker 3: So you're like all over the place.
Speaker 18: Part fan, part analyst, part criticizing.
Speaker 3: It's just a mess.
Speaker 18: That's why I sit at home by myself so I
Speaker 18: don't drive other people crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, that's good. You're like Jake Fisher. So let
Speaker 2: me ask you, in your analyst brain side, why do
Speaker 2: you think Tommy didn't play a walk up for a
Speaker 2: lot of moments in the end to the end.
Speaker 3: Well, it's and I had so many people text me
Speaker 3: about this last night. So here's the deal.
Speaker 18: When Toby Owaka is on the court, the way you
Speaker 18: defend him is completely different than the way you defend
Speaker 18: basar If Toby Owaka is setting that ball screen for
Speaker 18: Caleb Love. You trap it because he's not a threat
Speaker 18: on the role. He's not a threat at the high post.
Speaker 18: Caleb Love doesn't get those ten straight points if those
Speaker 18: screens are being set by Tobyo.
Speaker 3: Waka, because you trap it.
Speaker 18: So as much as people think it was a mistake
Speaker 18: or they don't understand the very layered strategies of these coaches,
Speaker 18: coaches know.
Speaker 3: Hey, we've got four out one end with a.
Speaker 18: Seven vooter who can shoot threes, I'd rather go this way,
Speaker 18: And and Vaison gave up someone on ones defensively down
Speaker 18: the stretch. But I don't think Biddle was dominant. I
Speaker 18: think he scored some big buckets in the second half,
Speaker 18: but he only had five points at halftime.
Speaker 3: So it's kind of pick your poison.
Speaker 18: Do I put in a five man who's going to
Speaker 18: get no respect on the ball screen, and ultimately it's
Speaker 18: going to take away the effectiveness of our best scorer because.
Speaker 3: You want your four or five setting that.
Speaker 18: Screen because if it's a two or three or one,
Speaker 18: they're just gonna switch it. So you need to set
Speaker 18: that screen with a big and the only big they
Speaker 18: can't help off of is Basar. If you go back
Speaker 18: and look at Caleb loves threes the way they occurred.
Speaker 18: You gotta respect Basar. If you don't respect them. On
Speaker 18: the wall, he's gonna Tamahawk dunket right down the lane.
Speaker 18: He can pick and pop, which Toby can't do. So
Speaker 18: it was purely a strategy call. And then there's also
Speaker 18: you know, white coaches get the big bucks. It's their
Speaker 18: job to feel the rhythm of the game and if
Speaker 18: this team has it rolling, despite who my starters are.
Speaker 3: I've been on both sides of that.
Speaker 18: I've been a bench player who's closed out games, and
Speaker 18: I've been a starter who sat during the closed out
Speaker 18: games because the crew that was out there was getting
Speaker 18: it done.
Speaker 3: So it's a lot of things that factor into it.
Speaker 18: I immediately knew why he wasn't coming back with Toby
Speaker 18: because he had Dungeon's due diligence, he had his double double,
Speaker 18: he was all over the glass. He gave you everything
Speaker 18: he had. Now it's time for us to apply offensive pressure.
Speaker 3: And not make it easy on Oregon.
Speaker 18: When Arizona loses to Texas Tech, when they lose to Houston,
Speaker 18: when they lose to those teams in the big twelve
Speaker 18: traps on all ball screens and dribble handoffs. That's what
Speaker 18: the elite teams do, that's what Houston will do. But
Speaker 18: if you got the opportunity to three up your scorers,
Speaker 18: I think you have to take it.
Speaker 2: I say two percent of the people would have known.
Speaker 3: What you just said.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say, what a great insight that
Speaker 4: was that. No, no, no, no, no, well we certainly
Speaker 4: didn't the I thought that. I thought there was. I mean,
Speaker 4: certainly you can sit there and go, Okay, he's got
Speaker 4: the feel for the game. Okay, you know four files
Speaker 4: we went to talk about to talk about the traps
Speaker 4: some time, because you're absolutely right, the uh and and
Speaker 4: and then the uh. The announcers were talking about that,
Speaker 4: about how the how. The fact is that they kept
Speaker 4: running that play with Caleb over the top and he
Speaker 4: was either dumping an off or he was taking the shot,
Speaker 4: and either way we were scoring. But then we got
Speaker 4: up by seven with two minutes left, and that was
Speaker 4: kind of at that point I thought I would have
Speaker 4: gone with the defense.
Speaker 2: But like you said, you know, that's why he gets
Speaker 2: paid the big box.
Speaker 18: Yeah, and I mean, no matter what happens, at the
Speaker 18: end of the day, it all gets laid at Tommy
Speaker 18: Lloyd's feet. If they come back from Seattle with a loss,
Speaker 18: there's pitchforks and yeah, you know, everybody's trying to run
Speaker 18: him out of town. And you could see the relief
Speaker 18: on his face and the post game pressor as opposed
Speaker 18: to any Hurley who gets bounced and he's you know,
Speaker 18: throwing a temper tantrum in the hallway. These coaches make
Speaker 18: a very good wage. They go out and they fundraise
Speaker 18: and they drum up huge amounts of nil. And if
Speaker 18: you underperform in March, there's a whole new level of
Speaker 18: pressure that comes with early exits that wasn't there before, right.
Speaker 2: But now you're at Yeah, let me ask you this
Speaker 2: because now you're kind of in the media and you're
Speaker 2: you're doing that side of it, and I've been doing
Speaker 2: it for a long time, covered you for a long time.
Speaker 2: Uh So this is what I've noticed recently, and maybe
Speaker 2: I should have noticed because Luke did this every now
Speaker 2: and again. So you know, Bruce or me or whomever
Speaker 2: Corey is in the in the in the press room
Speaker 2: and you asked these questions. Maybe it's like the Bruce
Speaker 2: Perrol last week. Are you freaked out about going into
Speaker 2: the game, into the tournament? Uh, you know, losing three
Speaker 2: out of four? Blah blah blah. And he kind of
Speaker 2: went went off on the reporter. Tommy's done that a
Speaker 2: time or two. Other coaches have do it, and I'm
Speaker 2: not saying one. It's the reporter job to ask questions,
Speaker 2: even though some of them are stupid or kind of
Speaker 2: asked wrong.
Speaker 5: And and and you guys make five six seven million dollars.
Speaker 5: Why should that offend you? Am I wrong think? I
Speaker 5: don't think it. No, You're not wrong at all. I
Speaker 5: think guys like you and me we talked for a living.
Speaker 18: I remember when the when the scandal broke with ESPN
Speaker 18: and Sean Miller, and I was working for ESPN at
Speaker 18: the time, and they were like, Corey, we got to
Speaker 18: get a comment from you to start the game.
Speaker 19: Steve.
Speaker 18: I was on the Oregon State you see, LA game
Speaker 18: had nothing to do with Arizona, but my boss is
Speaker 18: one the comment from me. And I was doing the
Speaker 18: game with Steve Quiz and he was freaking out because
Speaker 18: he's an Arizona guy too, and he said, Corey, what
Speaker 18: are you gonna say, I said, Steve, I talked for
Speaker 18: a living.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say a bunch of nothing. I'm very skilled
Speaker 3: at that. I know how to do that.
Speaker 18: These coaches don't know how to give sound bites. They're coaches.
Speaker 18: They're not great at public speaking. They're not professional orators.
Speaker 18: They're not you know, going on circuits giving lectures. These
Speaker 18: guys are coaches, and when they're in that pressor, I'd
Speaker 18: say fifty percent of them are extremely uncomfortable because they
Speaker 18: don't really know how or have the desire to be
Speaker 18: good at public speaking.
Speaker 3: So when you drill them.
Speaker 18: Down on a question their flight or fight, their fight
Speaker 18: or flight response kicks in and they give these nasty
Speaker 18: answers because what they don't want to do is give
Speaker 18: you a SoundBite that's going to get played over and
Speaker 18: over and over.
Speaker 3: Take Patino not playing his smer player.
Speaker 18: He literally said, I'm not going to bad mouth my
Speaker 18: player because whatever I say will live forever.
Speaker 3: You guys know this. It is three for seventeen. It's
Speaker 3: not his night.
Speaker 18: No one's been around this kid more than me all season,
Speaker 18: and I think he's going to shoot us out of
Speaker 18: this game. I have an obligation to the rest of
Speaker 18: the guys to give us the best chance to win.
Speaker 3: And it's not his night.
Speaker 18: It's no big deal. He's going to sit while we
Speaker 18: try to win. We won games without him being our
Speaker 18: best player.
Speaker 3: Today's going to be one of those days.
Speaker 18: Well, but you guys want to get you want to
Speaker 18: get sound out of me bashing the kid.
Speaker 3: And you know, I'm not going to give you that
Speaker 3: sound bite.
Speaker 2: Corey. That's exactly what he should have said. It would
Speaker 2: have solved That's exactly well. That's interesting when he said
Speaker 2: there and he told me, he's like, you know why
Speaker 2: he didn't why we didn't play it? But you know
Speaker 2: the answer me, I can't quote me. Yeah right, but
Speaker 2: what you just said is perfectly Yeah, go ahead, yeah.
Speaker 18: Like bro, exactly like I. You guys want me to
Speaker 18: give you a SoundBite that will live forever. And at
Speaker 18: the same time, these coaches are there on into transfer portal,
Speaker 18: the recruiting high school kids. What kid wants to come
Speaker 18: play for a coach, you just do his guy under
Speaker 18: the bus. So these coaches are walking this tight rope,
Speaker 18: this fine line of not providing lethal sound bites that
Speaker 18: are gonna go viral. They also have to give you
Speaker 18: some type of reality and truth, otherwise they're not.
Speaker 3: Going to be taken seriously.
Speaker 18: I don't think I've heard one question asked by a
Speaker 18: member of the media that was outrageous this year. I
Speaker 18: don't think it hasn't happened. What's happened is this hyper
Speaker 18: sensitivity from the coaches, because it is so sink or
Speaker 18: swim right now if you say that, the only one
Speaker 18: that this doesn't apply to is Mike Cronin.
Speaker 3: And you see they say whatever the hell he wants,
Speaker 3: and you just when.
Speaker 18: You've got them, when you've been in the game as
Speaker 18: long as he has, make could take it or leave it.
Speaker 18: And I wish we had more coaches like him, but
Speaker 18: he's one of the guys that'll shoot it straight and
Speaker 18: doesn't care.
Speaker 2: Just dropped after you're exactly right, Hey, exactly right. So
Speaker 2: let's let's move forward to let's move forward to this
Speaker 2: game or do I don't think you covered the first
Speaker 2: game right, but you saw it obviously, and I've said
Speaker 2: this before you were there. So let me ask you.
Speaker 2: I can't remember in your four years how many times,
Speaker 2: if at all, you lost twice to a team. And
Speaker 2: I'm saying and I'm saying this with confidence and not
Speaker 2: that they'll do this. That Arizona beating Arizona twice in
Speaker 2: a year is very tough, if not impossible, it's it's
Speaker 2: very tough.
Speaker 3: Because if you remember the game at home, Arizona.
Speaker 18: Kind of stuttered offensively the final five minutes of the game.
Speaker 3: Cooper Flag didn't do anything great or heroic.
Speaker 18: They just kind of they stayed the course and we faltered,
Speaker 18: and I think they'd won by five. I think, but
Speaker 18: our last our last five or six minutes was offensively dead.
Speaker 3: That Duke team is nowhere near the team we saw
Speaker 3: in December.
Speaker 18: They are way better than they were when they came
Speaker 18: to McHale Center because the ancillary guys, the role players
Speaker 18: have got so much more under their belt. Now Now
Speaker 18: the ACC is weak, it is a trash conference. It's
Speaker 18: not strong. They haven't faced great competition. I was surprised
Speaker 18: Baylor didn't give him more of a game, right, But
Speaker 18: Duke hasn't been in the Big twelve like we have.
Speaker 18: We played Kansas twice, we played Houston three times, we
Speaker 18: played Texas Tech, we've played Iowa State like we've played.
Speaker 3: Final four quality teams multiple times. Duke has not. That's
Speaker 3: just a fact.
Speaker 18: So it'll be interesting if we can come out and
Speaker 18: apply that type of intensity. Now they've played some good teams,
Speaker 18: but my goodness, the ACC.
Speaker 3: Was not all that this year at all.
Speaker 18: So if Arizona can come out and punch him in
Speaker 18: the mouth early, I don't think that Duke team is
Speaker 18: built to play from behind. The question is can we
Speaker 18: put the defensive plants on him and get up double
Speaker 18: digits in the first half.
Speaker 2: No, I agree with you. I totally agree with you.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 2: Arizona's built differently too since December, and they're tougher than
Speaker 2: they were in December. And you know, you know these things.
Speaker 2: This US versus Duke type of thing from Arizona side
Speaker 2: is fantastic because they play and you know this, You
Speaker 2: guys are never going to back down to those types
Speaker 2: of teams in ninety six when you're going under ranked.
Speaker 2: You guys, you guys blew through the n I became
Speaker 2: top ten after nobody ranked you. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: You guys play unbelievable.
Speaker 18: I think we lost to Syracuse at home my senior year,
Speaker 18: and had we gotten past Kansas in the second round game,
Speaker 18: we would have No.
Speaker 3: Sixteen.
Speaker 18: We would have faced Yeah, we would have faced Kansas
Speaker 18: in the Elite and we would wait. We would have
Speaker 18: faced Syracuse in the Elite eight. We could not wait
Speaker 18: to play them a second time because we had their number.
Speaker 3: We knew what we did wrong, we knew what we
Speaker 3: didn't do.
Speaker 18: So I think there's definitely gonna be a lot to
Speaker 18: get back in this game. There's a couple of things
Speaker 18: that can send me one. Cooper Flag is a poster
Speaker 18: boy for college basketball in America, and deservedly so I want.
Speaker 3: To be clear about that. The young man has bald
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 18: I was totally surprised. I did not think a six
Speaker 18: or nine kid from Maine was going to dominate the
Speaker 18: way he has unbelievable. What's got me concerned is he
Speaker 18: gets a celebrity whistle. He gets everything you touch him,
Speaker 18: it's a foul. And at the same time, I can't
Speaker 18: knock it because he's always going to the rim. He's attacking. Yeah,
Speaker 18: being aggressive. But here's the thing about Arizona Vers Duke.
Speaker 18: Whatever referee crew walks out right out there, they're.
Speaker 3: Not calling nothing.
Speaker 18: And the reason they're not calling nothing is because these
Speaker 18: are two elite programs and we don't want to be
Speaker 18: the story, especially after all this stuff that happened in
Speaker 18: the last couple of rounds with the miscalls. I really
Speaker 18: doubt Thursday Nights Crew is going to have a tight whistle.
Speaker 18: I think they're gonna let the kids play. Hey, you're Duke,
Speaker 18: You're Arizona. Don't look over here us to call every
Speaker 18: little thing. Go out there and decide the game yourselves.
Speaker 18: And that helps Arizona because we've got more weapons than Duke.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you talk about Duke being in a in
Speaker 4: a softer ACC, which is you know, Duke is getting
Speaker 4: Duke's gonna get all the calls in the ACC. Flag
Speaker 4: is going to be matched up playing against a softer,
Speaker 4: softer ACC. They even't played really uh two teams that
Speaker 4: have given them much of a much of a problem here.
Speaker 4: But Arizona's not getting a lot of respect against Duke
Speaker 4: or you know, looking at point Dog.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, but I mean let's.
Speaker 3: Let's keep it that way. I mean, what do these
Speaker 3: people know.
Speaker 18: We're talking about people who never played basketball up here
Speaker 18: making sport, making betting lines and filling out brackets and
Speaker 18: getting on social media and talking, and they never played.
Speaker 3: Beyond LA's fitness.
Speaker 18: It doesn't matter what people think because at the end
Speaker 18: of the day, Instagram, Facebook, Vegas. They don't play Thursday Night.
Speaker 18: Duke has to play Thursday Night. And it Duke can't
Speaker 18: get open and Duke can't keep Toby off the glass.
Speaker 18: If Duke can't contest Caleb, look, then Duke will lose.
Speaker 18: So popular opinion, that's great bullets and material for Tommy
Speaker 18: in Arizona. And to be honest with you, not having
Speaker 18: any pressure being the underdog, being the team looking for revenge.
Speaker 18: It's Duke that everybody has filled in their brackets all
Speaker 18: the way to the championship.
Speaker 3: Not Arizona.
Speaker 18: Yeah, no, agree, Okay, you know, Duke gets to stay
Speaker 18: on the East coast. They always have the first two
Speaker 18: games in North Carolina, Raley or Charlotte, and then now
Speaker 18: they get to go up to Jersey and stay on
Speaker 18: the East coast and Arizona has to go all the
Speaker 18: way over there. That's fine, Duke is the favorite, that's
Speaker 18: fine too, But you still got to play the game.
Speaker 3: You can't just throw your shoes out there and expect
Speaker 3: to win. So we'll see. I prefer Arizona to be
Speaker 3: in the in the underdog seat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, because they play that role very very very well.
Speaker 2: How do I know, I've been through too many games.
Speaker 2: Let me say, for clarification, Duke won by fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 2: When they're here in December, I think your offensive and
Speaker 2: an offensive point really really takes because they didn't score
Speaker 2: very much in the second in the second half of
Speaker 2: the second half. But let me ask you, you played
Speaker 2: for a long time, how much and every one touch
Speaker 2: about it all? If they stay in Anaheim, Arizona has
Speaker 2: this home court advantage, and I say that's a bunch
Speaker 2: of Bologny because they haven't taken advantage of that. So
Speaker 2: how much do you think as a player? Does that
Speaker 2: play a factor having those fans there or is it
Speaker 2: just more talk because obviously in New Jersey they're gonna
Speaker 2: Duke's gonna have a ton of fans. Arizona has had
Speaker 2: a ton of fans in Anaheim and San Francisco like that,
Speaker 2: and it hasn't really done a whole lot.
Speaker 3: Where you play doesn't matter what there is. I will
Speaker 3: say this as a.
Speaker 18: Former Wildcat there does it does? When you hear that
Speaker 18: u of a chant or you hear your fan base
Speaker 18: on a must have possession where you need to stop.
Speaker 18: That does stiff in your spine a little bit. I'm
Speaker 18: not gonna sit here and lie pretend that it doesn't
Speaker 18: have an effect.
Speaker 3: When you can hear your.
Speaker 18: Crowd and key moments, it gives you a little bit
Speaker 18: of extra focus. It gives you a little bit of motivation.
Speaker 18: So the crowd can factor in. Now where you play,
Speaker 18: what time of day you play, Nah, that doesn't matter
Speaker 18: to these guys. These are guys are in the prime
Speaker 18: of their life. They thousands of hours of basketball ever
Speaker 18: since they were eight, nine, ten years old.
Speaker 3: You just want to get out there and play.
Speaker 18: So the atmosphere where the game is time zone. That
Speaker 18: stuff doesn't matter. But what does matter is when you
Speaker 18: take a six to old run and you hear your
Speaker 18: crowd telling you, okay, we got to d up, Okay,
Speaker 18: we got to make buckets. That kind of stuff does
Speaker 18: matter because in certain players' minds, they can flip the switch.
Speaker 3: So hearing some friendly voices.
Speaker 18: Is gonna help out a great deal, and it's a
Speaker 18: big it's a big difference because playing at Arizona, one
Speaker 18: of the things we always used to laugh about is
Speaker 18: who got the crowd to pop, Who made the shot
Speaker 18: that made michale go bomb.
Speaker 3: A matter of times, like we'd be like, oh, we
Speaker 3: were winning.
Speaker 6: But then when Jab.
Speaker 3: Put down there dunk, that's when the house came down
Speaker 3: and the game was over.
Speaker 18: Like we knew we were playing to make the crowd
Speaker 18: explode right right, Look the page we go on the road.
Speaker 18: Who's making the play to shut the crowd up? That's
Speaker 18: a different kind of basketball. Damen comes down and hits
Speaker 18: a three turfs of the crowd and does the finger
Speaker 18: over the mouth like be quiet, Like he's silencing the crowd.
Speaker 18: So Arizona on the East Coast is going to have
Speaker 18: to play to silence the crowd. Make plays to keep
Speaker 18: him quiet. Make sure Duke doesn't get on any runs.
Speaker 18: Keep the crowd out of the game. Every time you score,
Speaker 18: you're sitting those fans back down in their seat.
Speaker 3: You're zipping their mouths shut. Every time you get a
Speaker 3: three or dunk.
Speaker 18: That place is crickets as opposed to you know, Duke
Speaker 18: making plays and the place going crazy.
Speaker 3: That's what you want to avoid because that is that's
Speaker 3: a tough thing to overcome once the crowd gets locked
Speaker 3: into the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I always love to talk to you but this
Speaker 2: last question for me Corey. So having been in the
Speaker 2: business and Jalen Rose is now in the business and
Speaker 2: always in and out of the business. Now, have you guys,
Speaker 2: maybe Reggie you ever talked to him about the Fab
Speaker 2: four when you guys beat the crap out of him
Speaker 2: here and I think Reggie put blood on him, the
Speaker 2: good old he has been talked about.
Speaker 3: I ran into Jalen Rose like six years ago at
Speaker 3: es Skin headquarters. We had to go out there for
Speaker 3: a talent meeting, and I was like, how you doing, Jalen?
Speaker 18: I mean, I was like half working. But it was
Speaker 18: weird because I was a fan of a lot of
Speaker 18: my colleagues. I went and sat in on first take
Speaker 18: with Steven A and I went to see Janelle Hill
Speaker 18: and there was so many.
Speaker 3: People that I wanted to meet in person. And I
Speaker 3: was in the cafeteria.
Speaker 18: Jayleen was getting lunch and I walked over to him
Speaker 18: and said, hey, Jahen, how you doing Cory Williams college basketball.
Speaker 18: He goes, yeah, I've seen your stuff. I says, yeah,
Speaker 18: I played in Arizona. We played you guys in ninety four.
Speaker 18: And he just looked at me and his head went
Speaker 18: down and He was like, yeah, y'all beat our ass.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 18: But it was funny because they really came in and
Speaker 18: tried to Hollywood us. I remember, they disrespected they disrespected
Speaker 18: the tournament. They came to the banquet at La Paloma
Speaker 18: in sweats like it was a nice little you know,
Speaker 18: jack in entire event and these guys rolling in sweatsuits
Speaker 18: and just like they're the big guys on the block.
Speaker 18: And yeah, they'll never forget.
Speaker 3: That was the worst loss they ever took as the
Speaker 3: Fab four that year.
Speaker 18: Nobody that was the worst. That was one of the
Speaker 18: worst Michigan losses in a while. Yeah, but yeah, I
Speaker 18: did run into him and I made sure to bring
Speaker 18: that up, and he just dropped.
Speaker 3: His head and said, yeah, y'all beat our ass. And
Speaker 3: then he just finished his lunch, and I decided to
Speaker 3: leave it alone.
Speaker 2: Exactly at that point, that's all you have to do. Yeah, okay, Corey,
Speaker 2: thanks much. Then go ahead.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, No.
Speaker 18: Then I ran into Then after that, I walk out
Speaker 18: and I run into Teddy Bruce. I'm like, hey, Teddy,
Speaker 18: how you doing. Corey Williams University of Arizona. He looks
Speaker 18: at me and said ninety two to ninety six, and
Speaker 18: he looked at me again.
Speaker 3: He goes, that's the same time I was there. I said, yeah,
Speaker 3: I know, we never met. He had no idea, he
Speaker 3: had no idea who I was. But it was great.
Speaker 3: It was a great weekend all those guys. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I always got bragging rights forever for sure.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 4: Okay, Corey, thanks so much, man, Corey, great insights. Thanks
Speaker 4: you very much.
Speaker 3: Great. Nowhere, take care guys.
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the aces and ohs.
Speaker 6: This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera.
Speaker 3: On Box Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my on about your own Fox
Speaker 2: Sports Fortune fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, You're Mike Quinn. Are
Speaker 2: Mike Quinn? Now we got a call. Who's just.
Speaker 24: Guys.
Speaker 6: This is our gape from gape from Kelli.
Speaker 24: How you guys are dealing day from Kelly?
Speaker 2: What's the word? Man?
Speaker 24: Nothing?
Speaker 6: Just just for are you happy that Arizona beat the Quackers? So?
Speaker 6: Can't stand those rolls from Eugene Oregon. So I'm pretty happy.
Speaker 6: It's payback from two years ago when they beat us
Speaker 6: in the Passwort Tournament.
Speaker 19: So he he ha ha.
Speaker 2: So so let me tell you don't cuss when you're
Speaker 2: talking about Duke because I know you don't like them.
Speaker 6: Uh puke?
Speaker 3: You mean puke?
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 6: Yes, they gotta play good, they gotta not I mean
Speaker 6: during the Oregon game they cut too many mental mistakes
Speaker 6: and they gotta not have like when players hit the
Speaker 6: basket that's a goaltending or something like that. Right, yeah, okay, no,
Speaker 6: none of that, and just be where you are, don't
Speaker 6: make any mental or constantly mistake.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's the game plan. We'll see what happens. Anything
Speaker 2: else real quick.
Speaker 6: How's everything going with football?
Speaker 2: Well, I haven't been out to football because I've been
Speaker 2: concentrating on this, but I'm told they're doing well. They're
Speaker 2: getting a lot of stuff done. You know what, Just
Speaker 2: he got his thumbs up, So well, we'll be out
Speaker 2: there the next next week or so. A lot of
Speaker 2: new face is out there.
Speaker 3: How do you think is this I don't know.
Speaker 6: How do you think this team is gonna do?
Speaker 2: Or it's way too early because the offense. Yeah, Keena
Speaker 2: leaving way too early. We just got to see that
Speaker 2: Brendan gets to these guys and they play hard for him.
Speaker 2: That's part of the problem.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was kind of surprised that Keena left for Texas.
Speaker 3: What was that all about?
Speaker 2: We think that he has uh, you know, he has
Speaker 2: family out there, his grandkids and stuff like that, so
Speaker 2: it might have been more of a fan in.
Speaker 6: In Austin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where he's from. Okay, that's where that's where
Speaker 2: he came from. I should say.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And also going back to football deep, what's your over
Speaker 6: during or cause to Brent Brennan being fire is in.
Speaker 2: Less than fifty or FI fifty fifty that's the best, Like, yeah, gay,
Speaker 2: we gotta know the call. We gotta go. Thank you game.
Speaker 2: You guys were down become become You gonna know the call?
Speaker 3: Hello, you got it?
Speaker 2: Thank you. Hello, You're on the air nine of the
Speaker 2: Bell who's this.
Speaker 1: You there?
Speaker 3: Hello? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Did you hear me? Yeah? Who's this Howard? Howard? Give
Speaker 2: me a quick one? I got another call.
Speaker 24: I've read here quick, very quick. It's like Baylor. They
Speaker 24: beat Baylor, aren't they?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 24: Weren't there like our sixth rated team in our conference?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 2: They were fourth or film five or six? Fourth? Okay?
Speaker 2: What's your what's your point? What's your point?
Speaker 24: Okay?
Speaker 19: Well, okay. The only thing they have to do to
Speaker 19: win this for sure.
Speaker 24: Besides us playing good, Henry's got to play better.
Speaker 3: They gotta.
Speaker 24: They got a ice Proctor. He's the key to their
Speaker 24: whole game because he's athletic, he's taller. They got to
Speaker 24: because that's who I'm worried about his proctor because because
Speaker 24: Flag is going to get his stuff anyway, coronquers the guy.
Speaker 2: To neutralize their team. Yeah, okay, Howard, Thanks, a bunch
Speaker 2: of men coming tomorrow. I think I'm ready for a call. Hello,
Speaker 2: you're on the air nine of the ball. No, no, okay,
Speaker 2: I know we're getting a call from Rick because he
Speaker 2: has a contest going on. Hello, you're on the air
Speaker 2: nine of the ball.
Speaker 19: Hey, Bud, we're doing to day fine?
Speaker 2: Thank you? Hey, you got a few minutes or for
Speaker 2: your purpose plan and give me what you got.
Speaker 19: Okay, Well, first of all, and talk to little basketball
Speaker 19: if I may. Is that good?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Go ahead?
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 19: First of all, I've said that Arizona is gonna beat Duke.
Speaker 2: Okay, and I believe that. Okay.
Speaker 19: Second second, about if Arizona can you know, Charles Barkley
Speaker 19: is uh picked Arizona to win it all? But if they,
Speaker 19: by chance do, they theoretically could become the only team
Speaker 19: to beat three number ones to win the national championship.
Speaker 2: Say that again slowly, because I think you misspoke.
Speaker 19: All right? When Arizona one in ninety seven? Right, they
Speaker 19: beat they beat three number one? Yes, yes, if they
Speaker 19: were to win the national championship, theoretically they would have
Speaker 19: to beat Duke, Houston and Florida if all.
Speaker 2: Things go yeah, yeah, yes, no, I get that. But
Speaker 2: you're asking you're asking a lot, Rick. I don't even
Speaker 2: know what I'm going to have for dinner.
Speaker 4: Let's go, let's let's see if we get back to
Speaker 4: who who needs to step up to for for us
Speaker 4: to beat Duke? Who has who has the big game
Speaker 4: for us to beat Duke?
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 19: I think they all have to. I think they have
Speaker 19: to very disciplined within themselves because people just and I'm
Speaker 19: glad that they're the underdogs here because people just don't
Speaker 19: appreciate how tough this team really is. And they have
Speaker 19: played discipline for the most part, they have played coach
Speaker 19: has set a game plan for them. He believes in them,
Speaker 19: and more important, they believe in themselves now. And I
Speaker 19: think there is no reason that they can't go.
Speaker 3: All the way.
Speaker 19: I honestly believe that. And uh, that's just my thoughts.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I'm watch a lot rick Paulianna. That's your
Speaker 2: middle name now, Paulanna, But I'm okay, you're my buddy. Hey,
Speaker 2: before we go, we got we got a couple of minutes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, listen.
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Speaker 19: I've watched him for a long time. So anyway, thanks
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