WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.879 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:09.240 Fox Sports fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services ensure 3 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:11.880 your most prized possessiets. 4 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:15.400 May good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball 5 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:17.679 here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. 6 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:24.079 Look we have here today, d Welcome back to your 7 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:25.600 place of education. 8 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:28.239 Can we call it education or can we just call 9 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:28.600 it home? 10 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:32.159 You could call it well you feature your possible future home. 11 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:37.039 Who knows? You're your station now in Los Angeles. The 12 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:38.560 big city has a big city. 13 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:40.280 The Big City secks. 14 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:42.479 It does suck. Okay, hey yellen, it's. 15 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:43.960 Very loud and very state. 16 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:47.119 How does it take you to go to work? Just 17 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:48.640 as a commute, So. 18 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:53.359 For reference, I live less than ten miles from our 19 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:56.200 production studio in LA and it can take me anywhere 20 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:57.759 from twenty minutes to an hour. 21 00:00:57.920 --> 00:00:58.920 Oh, there are you downtown? 22 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:04.040 No, so I am a little further south. So our 23 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:06.400 studio is like right next to the Lax Airport, so 24 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:09.120 I'm just south of that. But no, it can take 25 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:10.200 me upwards of an hour sometime. 26 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:13.040 Yeah at l A l A. And we have one 27 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:15.840 today one, yes, sir, good to see you. Again. Yes, sir, 28 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:17.680 it feels good to be back. This is my fourth 29 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:18.239 straight show. 30 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:22.280 Yes, Friday, Friday, Thursday, Friday, well, yesterday, you're going to 31 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:22.680 put you. 32 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:23.079 On the clock. 33 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:24.560 I remember those days. 34 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:28.239 Yes, we need you guys, I need you guys. Good 35 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:30.200 to have you back. What are you here for? 36 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.319 My brother's graduation on Thursday. Whole family's coming into town. 37 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:35.159 It's a very big deal. 38 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:38.599 My boy, Doug, he's probably listening right now. Doug, you've 39 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:39.159 ignored me. 40 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:41.680 He's probably at work because he's an hour behind. He's 41 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:42.239 an hour bind. 42 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:45.799 Okay, specific time, so we won't get any tweets about anything. 43 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:49.079 And my mom she's doing okay, she's all right. She's good. 44 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:53.200 MENI you or you're the mini to her? Yeah yeah, yeah, 45 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:55.599 yeah sorry you last at the Breeders Cup. Had a 46 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:58.719 great time one Friday, lost Saturday, so it's still a 47 00:01:58.719 --> 00:01:59.120 great time. 48 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:01.000 That's okay. I lost Friday and one Saturday. 49 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:03.319 You you must have done well Saturday because all the 50 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:04.879 long shots would coming. I did okay. 51 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:08.599 On Saturday. I laid off the Japanese horses and decided 52 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:10.960 that they weren't it this year, and made some other 53 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:12.599 decisions and it worked out well. 54 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.680 For me hit crap Saturday day. 55 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:18.120 Just had to be on the correct Bafford horse to 56 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:18.840 even it out. 57 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:21.639 Yeah yeah, well and that was he finished first, third 58 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:25.520 and fourth right, and he in the Juvenile Yeah yeah, 59 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:26.280 which was. 60 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:26.879 Which is great. 61 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:29.840 And one of the horses from Tucson are owned by 62 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:31.840 Tucson finished third, so I think he's going to. 63 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:32.680 Be the Derby. 64 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:36.400 Well and Gaming just ran in the Lost Alamitos Futurity 65 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:38.879 this past weekend. He did not run fantastic. 66 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:39.960 What did he finish? 67 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:42.080 I believe it was third. He was beat by Journalism, 68 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:43.199 who is named Michael McCarthy. 69 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:45.159 Really, that's the name of the horse. 70 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:48.039 Journalism, Yeah, texted me. 71 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:49.840 I would have been all over. Both of those horses 72 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:50.159 were one. 73 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:52.680 First went off at like five to two. 74 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:55.439 Journalism, Journalism, it's never been that favorite. 75 00:02:57.319 --> 00:02:59.520 Journalism is now ten to one in the world. 76 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:02.439 But uh yeah, lots of good stuff coming along. Bob 77 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:05.639 Baffort had three of those horses in the Los Ale 78 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:09.560 Futurity and he's won it the last leg. He had Journalists, No, 79 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:14.319 Michael McCarthy had Journalism, he had Mel Baffert had Mellencamp, 80 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.800 Gaming and get Away Car. 81 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:20.319 Okay, and he didn't do fast second third, Gaming ran 82 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:24.479 third and that was his best horse probably. 83 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:24.879 In that race. 84 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:25.759 That's not good. 85 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:28.719 Well, Bowls back on the worktab. Barnes is on the worktab, 86 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:31.159 so I mean he's very flushed with two year old 87 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:32.680 soon to be three year olds. And if I had 88 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:34.319 to guess, he's gonna pull out a three year old 89 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:37.520 that we haven't seen yet, I'm running for that Derby 90 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:39.360 trail now that he's back in Well, we had him. 91 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:42.479 On the show right after the dirt, after the the 92 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:46.680 the the what you call it cup, That's what I. 93 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:48.680 Call it, Yeah, the Beach Cup, and he was fantastic. 94 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:51.360 So I haven't gone on again. Party of March April 95 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:53.360 as we prepare for the for the Derby. 96 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:55.120 If I had to guess, he's going to have at 97 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:56.759 least two contenders in the Derby this year. 98 00:03:56.879 --> 00:04:01.240 Yeah, okay, no, super, we're gonna we might cut to 99 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:07.560 the Sean Miller I down the dum. 100 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:12.039 J got Tommy Lloyd. Well, everyone on the internet is 101 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:12.759 talking about what. 102 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:17.720 You have, Sean. This is Sehn Miller's offense, same exactly, 103 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:20.639 it's same. It's not good. It's not good, Tommy. He 104 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:22.319 needs to go back to what he's doing. But again 105 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:23.480 I say, this is not about Tom. 106 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:24.920 What is he doing? What does he need to go 107 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:25.480 back to doing? 108 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:28.720 He's a running movement to move the ball around to coach, 109 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:31.680 and if if if I can, if I'm very good 110 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:35.560 at transition points, running and and all that moving around, 111 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:37.560 what are you trying to prevent all that? 112 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:39.800 Right? All the teams are doing exactly that. 113 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:41.639 But was he good at that because of who he 114 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:42.920 had two to three years ago? 115 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:45.439 Or is he just I hate you the hatred discussion 116 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:51.399 you're making me think now controversial topics, yes, no, you're 117 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:53.560 You're exactly right. I think they're not as good as 118 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:55.720 the ones in the past, but they're still damn good. 119 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:56.199 Uh. 120 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:00.199 It seems like it's just stagnant, right, Yeah, the of 121 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:03.079 standing around waiting for the ball, that's. 122 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:05.160 Like number one role in basketball. Elvis has left the building. 123 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:07.560 You can't be standing up right, exactly right? 124 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:10.079 Okayleb loves guilty number one. 125 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:10.519 Yeah. 126 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:12.279 You see it almost every game. 127 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:14.839 If he doesn't have the ball, he's waiting for the ball, 128 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:17.800 not creating anything else anyone else. 129 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:21.600 Right, Right, So that's probably one A or A one 130 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:24.480 and b whatever. Then there's one of a thousand when 131 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:26.680 yesterday we talked about all of them if we could. 132 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:29.279 There was so many, so many, So we'll wait for that. 133 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:31.800 Right, there's nothing yet five after so we'll go to that. 134 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:33.279 So I think we have a pretty good show. D 135 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:35.839 Thanks for showing up visiting in town. I might you 136 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:36.680 might see me. 137 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:38.759 A couple of times, right, Yeah, we might be back. 138 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:41.199 Saturday, Friday, Monday. Yeah. 139 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:46.360 Yeah, I'm sure we might get a call from your admirers. 140 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:45.360 From the past. 141 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:48.040 That's okay. Maybe maybe I bring Collar Doug with me 142 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:48.399 one day. 143 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:50.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought that if we. 144 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:51.879 Do it Friday, I can bring Collar Doug with me. 145 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:54.279 He does, he doesn't have an opinion and a lot 146 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:57.439 of different things. He his Seahawks are. 147 00:05:58.480 --> 00:05:58.680 Yeah. 148 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:01.639 Yeah, it's it's a very sad situation up in Seattle 149 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:04.199 right now. There's currently a saying going around called a 150 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:06.839 Gino Special, whereas you're getting on a drive and you 151 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:08.319 get down in the red zone and you throw a 152 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:10.360 pick in the end zone. It's now called a Gino Special. 153 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:12.800 Gino Special. So that's all. Yeah, he didn't have. He 154 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:16.040 didn't look good. I had. I had. Who did they play? Oh? 155 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:16.480 Green Bay? 156 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:16.879 Green Bay? 157 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:17.639 Yeah? I had green Bay. 158 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:19.360 That was one of my pick I told people that 159 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:20.920 it was not going to be an easy game, and 160 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:23.639 that was not a game I would have bet for Seattle. 161 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:28.360 With Seattle, it was the inconsistent. Nope, they looked soft 162 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:29.199 and asleep. 163 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:31.439 That's Arizona football. 164 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:35.279 That's Arizona right now, right right, the whole except for volleyball, 165 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:38.279 right So we're going to keep our eye on that. 166 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:40.600 We're going to have Michael. 167 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:43.680 Lev here in the first hour about three seventeen, get 168 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:45.959 caught up with what's going on with football, all the 169 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:48.680 transfers and all that stuff, and then at the end 170 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:51.160 of basketball situation get his view on it and probably 171 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:54.160 maxes us or that doesn't and uh. And then in 172 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:58.319 the second hour, we're gonna have oh, Pat Nuchen, who 173 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:01.480 just retired after a great career at all over the 174 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:03.399 place in town at the high school level. So we 175 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:06.079 got some stuff. It's three seven, let's go for like 176 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:07.480 five minutes and just see what he says. 177 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:10.879 Come on you, you can't have a thirteen point lead 178 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:13.519 with ten minutes to go. And then I mean, maybe 179 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:15.759 maybe you might lose it, but it better because they 180 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:17.000 hit a bunch of threes and a couple bunch of 181 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:18.720 crazy stuff happens to better not because. 182 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:21.959 You don't score, and and we just you know, couldn't score. 183 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:23.959 So you know, I was, you know, pretty frustrated with 184 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:26.399 myself that, you know, I just wasn't able to give 185 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:28.120 maybe a little more certainty on how we wanted to 186 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:31.399 attack their pressure. And you know, the frustrating thing. I 187 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:33.439 think we were in the bonus at the fourteen minute mark. 188 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:36.600 I mean, just hey, run into somebody, fall down, get 189 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:39.360 a couple of free throws. But but you know, just 190 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:41.079 just none of it came together and it kind of 191 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:42.319 unraveled in front of us. 192 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:44.920 And you know, when you're when you're a team with a. 193 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:47.800 Little bit of a fractured psyche, you know, you you know, 194 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:49.959 you the belief probably isn't where you'd want it to be. 195 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:52.240 And that's what we got to fight for. We got 196 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:56.240 to fight to get there. And what an awesome challenge. 197 00:07:57.319 --> 00:07:59.680 Did What did you think specifically against their defense? And 198 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:01.000 you'll it sounds like you'll have a. 199 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:03.160 More extreme version of it, was what Samford does? 200 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:06.920 Do you think that you exposed Anything's. 201 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:09.079 Just they just they took the ball from us like 202 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:12.879 fifteen times. I mean, these turnovers weren't like crazy passes. 203 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:14.800 They just literally came and took the ball out of 204 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:17.639 our hands, like you know, and just you know, hey, 205 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:20.120 and and they're ballhawks. I'll give them credit. But but 206 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:21.720 we got to be tougher than that. I mean, we 207 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:23.639 got we gotta have a little more toughness, you know. 208 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:27.079 I mean it's you know, that's one of those things. 209 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:29.800 You know, you can say the scheme, the you know, 210 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:33.679 the concepts, whatever. The dudes got to hold onto the 211 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:37.200 ball and you know that that's where that's their responsibility 212 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:38.240 and they're accountable for that. 213 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:39.879 And we didn't do a great job of. 214 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:43.639 It six minutes stretched there in that second half when 215 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:45.600 the league was going away, where you didn't make any 216 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:46.480 sort of subs. 217 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:48.000 Looking back on it. 218 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:50.000 Was a choice for well, I don't think there was 219 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:51.600 a lot of dead balls, for one. I mean, I 220 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:53.320 think that probably played into it too, because I know 221 00:08:53.399 --> 00:08:54.759 Murph and I were talking. 222 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:56.320 You know, hey, should we do this, should we do that? 223 00:08:57.080 --> 00:08:58.399 And you know this is just you. 224 00:08:58.320 --> 00:08:59.840 Know, only having that one time out, you know, I 225 00:08:59.879 --> 00:09:02.080 mean obviously, I mean, if you're asking me, in hindsight, 226 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:03.320 I should. 227 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:05.039 Have called it. You know, that's easy in hindsight. 228 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:07.759 But also you know, I could have called it, and 229 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:09.399 we get to the last minute of the game and 230 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:11.080 we don't have a timeout, and you guys could be 231 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:12.200 saying we. 232 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:13.440 Wasted all your time, you know what I mean. 233 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:16.639 So like you just never know with that what what's 234 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:18.320 going to sway it one way or the other. And 235 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:20.120 you know, traditionally, I'm a guy who likes to have 236 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:22.120 a timeout, and you guys know I usually like having 237 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:22.519 a couple. 238 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:24.879 Of timeouts the last minute or two of a game. 239 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:29.039 But you know, we lost those two timeouts when guys, 240 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:31.759 you know, we're trying to save possessions, and I'm not 241 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:34.279 faulting them for that. You know that that's what they did, 242 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:36.360 and that's what they did and their instincts told them 243 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:39.679 to do in that moment, we saved the possession and 244 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:41.600 and we just didn't have any timeouts down the stretch 245 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:43.879 to maybe you know that we would have liked to 246 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:46.039 have or you know, maybe I should have used that one, 247 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:47.399 but but I didn't. 248 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:50.159 You regularly talked about how you give your players a 249 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:52.399 lot of freedom. Is there such a thing as too 250 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:55.240 much freedom? Maybe that they they are able to freelance 251 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:57.320 so much that it goes out of assist. 252 00:09:57.159 --> 00:09:59.639 Me listen, it's not it's not freelancing like you think. 253 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:02.840 I mean, there's definitely concepts we play within and and 254 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:04.879 but but there there needs to. 255 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:06.080 Be when we're doing it right. 256 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:10.039 There's a randomness to it that that maybe to the eye, 257 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:13.200 but there's structure from within and and I mean it's 258 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:15.600 just it's the same concepts. You know, we've we've we've 259 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:18.320 drilled for years, but you know, we we just got 260 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:19.799 to keep hammer and we've got to keep hammering. And 261 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:22.720 part of it is just trusting that you know, if 262 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:24.720 you get the body of your hands and that's something 263 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:26.279 that's gonna happen for someone else or it's going to 264 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:27.879 come back to you. And we just got to have 265 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:29.720 a little more trust in the game moments of that, 266 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:31.559 and and and we're working for it. 267 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:35.480 The cultivates the kind of taughtness that you feel may 268 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:37.240 not be whacking with these guys right now. 269 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:40.440 I mean, I think you got to challenge guys, you know, 270 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:43.080 you you got to teach them what winning plays are, 271 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:45.440 and you got you got to hone in on those things, 272 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:47.200 and then you try to hold them accountable for it. 273 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:49.679 I mean, it's not really much more complicated on that 274 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:52.679 than that I didn't think our effort, you know, for 275 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:54.879 the most part, was lacking, you know. I mean, I 276 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:56.279 think in a lot of these games, the guys have 277 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.879 played hard, you know, like like like really hard, and 278 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:03.320 just maybe this a little bit of our our execution 279 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:07.159 and and and and making things a little bit easier 280 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:09.919 for each other could could be better, you know, at 281 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:12.120 both ends of the floor. So I mean, I I 282 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:15.679 don't I'm not like, you know, questioning the toughness overall, 283 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:17.759 but but you know, just we just got to get 284 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:20.679 a little bit better at you know, some of the 285 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:23.679 you know, late game execution, you know, and hey, you're 286 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:26.000 looking at some of these games like that game, I 287 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:28.000 think we out rebounded of my ten, which is you know, 288 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:32.919 that's pretty good against UCLA, but just there were timely 289 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:35.039 rebounds down the stretch that you know, you're just like that, 290 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:37.679 we're just backbreakers and and those are those are the 291 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:40.000 winning plays you got to fight for. You know, if 292 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:41.600 you win by ten on the glass, but you give 293 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:44.879 them two or three offensive rebounds down the stretch, you know, 294 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:48.080 it's almost like undoing all the positive you did. So 295 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:49.919 so we we got we can get better in those areas. 296 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:55.399 Yeah, let's let's go so d if I can remember this, 297 00:11:55.960 --> 00:11:56.600 and it's been two a. 298 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:58.320 Couple of years, right, since you've been a couple of years, 299 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:00.480 so so, and I don't think one we had to discussion. 300 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:04.080 And I've said this all the time, can you teach tough? 301 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:05.639 Right? I think we talked about this. 302 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:08.240 We talked about this so many times in Tommy's first 303 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:10.639 season here at the u of A, and they didn't 304 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:13.360 have it, and they didn't have it then and I'm 305 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:15.559 hearing that they still don't have it. Mentally tough versus 306 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:19.360 physically tough is something that's incredibly different. And you can 307 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:21.919 train mentally tough, that's something that you can train, but 308 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:24.879 you cannot train physical toughness. Like if these guys are 309 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:26.879 going to get pushed around, the other team's going to 310 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:28.200 know it and they're going to take advantage of it. 311 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:30.080 And that's what other teams have done and they've figured 312 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:32.279 it out. They walk all over us because they start 313 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:34.679 throwing elbows, they actually box out, they get a body 314 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:37.799 on someone, and you get cry babies crying for a 315 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:39.559 foul because they don't know how to take it. 316 00:12:40.679 --> 00:12:41.399 I think I think you can. 317 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:45.759 Kind of leak that into from mentally tough to physically tough. 318 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:48.279 You know, yeah, they're upblowing you. So what go on 319 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:49.720 to the next play, Go and make a play on 320 00:12:49.759 --> 00:12:50.320 the next one. 321 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:53.559 And I think that's a huge thing is because they 322 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:55.960 get in the lax mind if they get stuck. You 323 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:58.519 should have Ted Lasso said it best. You need to 324 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:00.440 have a memory of a goldfish. Ten second. It's got 325 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:02.320 to be done. You get back up, you get pushed 326 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:03.879 on the ground like that's it. It's done. You have 327 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:05.440 to get up and go make a play. The other 328 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:07.000 thing that I really want to capitalize on is what 329 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:10.559 Tommy said is time management. His time management has not 330 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:12.360 been what it's been in the last couple of years. 331 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:15.440 He has not controlled the game as much as he 332 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:17.559 has in the last couple of years, and they suffered 333 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:19.879 in that UCLA game, they suffered in the Duke game 334 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:21.080 because of time management. 335 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:23.559 Well, they've never been in this spot this early, and 336 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:26.639 so we've never really had to kind of call him 337 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:28.279 on it, call him on the carpet on it, because 338 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:31.120 the last three years it's been an eight to nine 339 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:31.519 and one. 340 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:33.120 Everybody's happy and giddy. 341 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:35.000 But while they were winning those games and they had 342 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:37.240 winning seasons the first half of the game. They'd always 343 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:39.480 be asleep. They'd always put themselves in a hole. They'd 344 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:41.519 let teams stick with them, and then in the second 345 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:43.120 half they'd come out and they put them away and 346 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:44.799 they would do what Arizona's supposed to do. 347 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:46.440 I don't know about that. I have to fact check you, 348 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:50.639 because I'm not sure about that either from a student's perspective. 349 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:51.480 I want to back me on this one. 350 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:54.120 I've been going to almost every game since I got 351 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:58.440 into the UVAIL. It's been that case, even from every student, 352 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:00.799 like why are they within ten? Oh, I see what 353 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:01.399 this is. 354 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:05.960 Within ten They let teams stick around when they shouldn't 355 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:07.200 be like to stick around. 356 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:08.279 Yes, yes, and no. 357 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:10.600 In fact, he said this yesterday, and he said this 358 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:12.679 a couple of years ago. They want to have enough 359 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:15.879 wiggle room, get out to the fifteen point lead, have 360 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:18.720 enough wiggle rooms so they won't catch up. They won't 361 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:20.360 if they go on a run. They were not going 362 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:23.240 to catch up. Well, that proved otherwise Saturday, right, it 363 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:25.879 proved otherwise against Princeton. Remember Princeton, they had a double 364 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:27.759 digit and they came back and won that game. 365 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:30.600 Yeah, it goes to the mental toughness that you're talking about. 366 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:33.840 It goes to the physical toughness that you're talking about Arizona. 367 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:36.720 I don't if they're lacking And I didn't even put 368 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:38.720 this in the in the scenarios yesterday of what they 369 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:42.360 needed or lacked was toughness, because that was kind of 370 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:42.919 just assumed. 371 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:46.879 But if they don't have your teams walk all over 372 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:48.759 them and they have four years, that's what Tommy said. 373 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:52.200 I mean almost fifteen times on during the UCLA game, 374 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:54.080 they just got the ball taken away. 375 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:56.840 From them, which was very odd, just very I mean, 376 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:59.000 just you can slap it away and then they come 377 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:00.720 up with the ball and and then. 378 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:02.879 You get butt hurt and then you're stuck in a 379 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:05.000 hole and you can't re rally to be able to 380 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:08.399 put something together. 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