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Speaker 3: Welcome to Iron the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Rivera.
Speaker 4: In with me today is Blake Eager from the Southern
Speaker 4: Arizona Sports Tourism and Film Authority.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you say that, and we got our boy
Speaker 3: with less training wheels on signor what you make Kobe.
Speaker 4: I wanted I wanted you to say it. Okay, Hey,
Speaker 4: what the hell did you guys do last night? I
Speaker 4: know where I was at the same place you guys
Speaker 4: were at, or you were at the game. I was
Speaker 4: at the game, yeah last night. Yeah. Uh, First, you
Speaker 4: blake what you just did for the whole game because
Speaker 4: you saw some people leaving them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't listen.
Speaker 4: We stay no matter what happens, and then we wait
Speaker 4: till everybody leaves because we've got my uncle, my dad,
Speaker 4: so we've got I.
Speaker 3: Know these fans, and I know these fans. I'm thinking,
Speaker 3: what the hell are you guys doing? Unbelievable but to
Speaker 3: their to their credit or whatever, what if you were
Speaker 3: ESPN the gauge of percentage to win with five seconds left,
Speaker 3: what did you give them? What would you give them
Speaker 3: to win the game? I would think you're two percent.
Speaker 3: There's no way they're winning that game. There's no way
Speaker 3: they're winning that game.
Speaker 4: Okay, listen, five seconds now, Henry's they're down by three
Speaker 4: misses a second free throw purposely of course, puss. They
Speaker 4: want to pick the rebounds to put it back, and
Speaker 4: so does not happen. They found the other dude and
Speaker 4: by two. Right now, he hits two free throws at
Speaker 4: two position, game game over. He can't, right, so he
Speaker 4: hits his first one, it's his second one, it's the
Speaker 4: second one second one, and all the circumstances that had
Speaker 4: happened happened. There's there's a two percent chance, maybe a
Speaker 4: three percent, Yes, so they win that game with.
Speaker 2: Five seconds left.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm not a statician, but uh,
Speaker 4: that's a very low percentage. I mean, nearly impossible at
Speaker 4: that point.
Speaker 2: And then how did you react to were you like
Speaker 2: at the school guy? I went crazy?
Speaker 4: I some random guy in front of him, grabbing his
Speaker 4: shirt and shaking him, throwing them around and there's Iowa
Speaker 4: State fans all by us.
Speaker 2: Could you they traveled?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 2: Did you believe that?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 3: I was sitting next to Brian Peterson, one of my
Speaker 3: regular guests, and I'm thinking, where do these guys come from?
Speaker 3: And I'm thinking that have you gone to a lot
Speaker 3: of the games? Are all the games home games?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I have?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Georgia, georg George, Greg Cannon, Grand Canyon. Do you
Speaker 3: remember that game with fans? They had a lot of fans.
Speaker 2: They did.
Speaker 3: I don't think they rivaled these guys, No, because they
Speaker 3: had younger kids and they had a lot of vocals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this crowd last night from Iowa State was holy crap.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 4: And they were sitting all around us. So I was
Speaker 4: asking them the questions because I thought maybe they were
Speaker 4: just snowbirds. There was, I mean a good majority of
Speaker 4: them were from AIMS and they traveled out for the game.
Speaker 3: Which was fantastic because they were I would say about
Speaker 3: a thousand people.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they were loud. There were good over them,
Speaker 2: no question.
Speaker 4: Because I lived in Iowa for a while, so I
Speaker 4: was able to have that conversation with him. So, oh, okay,
Speaker 4: you talked to you talked I yeah, I was. I
Speaker 4: lived in Waterloo, so I played summer baseball out there
Speaker 4: for two summers.
Speaker 3: Okay, how does that sound that those conversations when you talk.
Speaker 2: To one Yeah, let's put you want a role play
Speaker 2: on their go ahead? Okay, so I know. I just
Speaker 2: I asked him if the where they're from.
Speaker 4: They said Aims and then I said, oh, I used
Speaker 4: to live in Waterloo, and then that's pretty much.
Speaker 2: I say, how you doing? But yeah, I mean I
Speaker 2: don't pick up I.
Speaker 4: Mean, yeah, it's a there's no food from Iowa that
Speaker 4: I'm like trying to talk about.
Speaker 2: You don't talk about corn? Not really? Well, they they
Speaker 2: they got in your your reaction there, senor amazing. Probably
Speaker 2: the best game I've ever been to was did you
Speaker 2: behave yourselves? You guys in that in that area? Gosh,
Speaker 2: high five and random students? Yeah, meet a cute girl,
Speaker 2: no codysing? Alrighty the radiog he's not age? Yeah, okay, no? Cool?
Speaker 3: Oh cool, great game. Fantastic game. I've been to a
Speaker 3: lot of them at home. I've this maybe ten in
Speaker 3: the last thirty five years, and most of them because
Speaker 3: of COVID.
Speaker 2: We got a call, got a call. Hello, you're on
Speaker 2: the air. Who's this?
Speaker 8: This is Jay?
Speaker 9: You got J call J.
Speaker 2: How was your night last night? Did you enjoy your night?
Speaker 10: Mine went wild into the morning.
Speaker 8: Uh for sure.
Speaker 9: Uh, you know got home probably a little after midnight.
Speaker 9: I'm sure home before you got home. But I was
Speaker 9: so wound up.
Speaker 6: I know, I saw two o'clock in the morning on
Speaker 6: my on my clock, and then had to be up
Speaker 6: at five thirty this morning.
Speaker 9: So it's been a long day with a long night
Speaker 9: and a long day.
Speaker 10: But then how many times I watched the climp on
Speaker 10: the shot.
Speaker 9: I've probably seen it fifty times.
Speaker 2: Well what are you looking for?
Speaker 11: You know what?
Speaker 9: The explosion of sound.
Speaker 6: That that's what got me more than anything, because.
Speaker 10: You know, I you know, when you're sitting there with
Speaker 10: two point two.
Speaker 6: Seconds left and you know the other guys are shooting
Speaker 6: free throws, you've lost the game. Yeah, And while nobody left,
Speaker 6: the place was pretty quiet. When they brought the ball in,
Speaker 6: there was a little bit of a buzz, and so
Speaker 6: going from no noise.
Speaker 10: To the explosion of sound that happened from the ball
Speaker 10: went in, I can't remember you know that extreme, you know,
Speaker 10: it's been loud in machaale before it was really loud.
Speaker 2: Last night, yeah, it was, but to go from.
Speaker 10: Nothing to that was crazy. I couldn't believe the sound,
Speaker 10: and I keep watching it for that.
Speaker 9: I keep just listening to the sound of that.
Speaker 3: Well, because I don't think you would have you would
Speaker 3: have been able to watch it live.
Speaker 2: You personally, Yeah, in.
Speaker 10: That instance, I do. Because there was two point two
Speaker 10: seconds left.
Speaker 9: So you know, normally I'm looking at.
Speaker 10: At my computers, things are happening, but with two point
Speaker 10: two seconds left, there's not a lot that can happen
Speaker 10: in there. So I watched the play because then I
Speaker 10: I'll input it after I see what okay, okay. So
Speaker 10: I actually saw the shot and actually I thought we
Speaker 10: had a pretty.
Speaker 9: Good angle where we sat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, I know about you.
Speaker 10: But it went up and I thought that's got a shot.
Speaker 9: And I didn't think I didn't know it was in,
Speaker 9: but I'm.
Speaker 10: Like, that's got a shot to go in, and it did.
Speaker 2: Well, you and I on the side.
Speaker 10: I did get to see it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you and me are right on the same line.
Speaker 3: I'm just a seat lower than you. So I felt
Speaker 3: the same way. I really didn't know. Uh, I thought,
Speaker 3: uh uh, there were some people leaving though. I saw them,
Speaker 3: and so did Kal because he talked to that. He said,
Speaker 3: he said, well, you know they left, but I we
Speaker 3: still love our fans.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: What I'm thinking just by visual and you you're talking sound,
Speaker 3: I'm taking visual. The Florida game, Uh you know that
Speaker 3: did that one day. Our clients hit that shot and
Speaker 3: that was the winner. I thought it was more more
Speaker 3: loud and more crazy because just it was the game winner,
Speaker 3: not a game tire. Yeah, but and that in that one, Steve,
Speaker 3: you remember, the noise was it was about what, you know,
Speaker 3: a couple of minutes of just total noise as eresone
Speaker 3: who came back, you know to win that game.
Speaker 9: It was never quiet in that period of time. You
Speaker 9: were just loud and it stayed loud.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, You're right this time. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: You so last that was like a build up. The
Speaker 3: other night it was or the other game was just
Speaker 3: a continuous anxious, anxious, anxious maybe we're going to pull
Speaker 3: this off.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: You know, I've been sitting here really since last night
Speaker 6: trying to think of Okay, you know, I've been going
Speaker 6: to games in MacHale for fifty years. You know, since
Speaker 6: I was in high school and trying to think of, Okay,
Speaker 6: which games did I see have I witnessed that were
Speaker 6: either better or in the same neighborhood as that game
Speaker 6: last night?
Speaker 9: And I don't think I can come up with more
Speaker 9: than three or four.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and and you know, and when you take in
Speaker 10: you got to take into consideration a.
Speaker 6: Lot of things, like you know, I you know, I
Speaker 6: was going through lists of you know, top moments of machail.
Speaker 6: You know, they talk about Sean Elliott breaking the scoring record,
Speaker 6: you know, uh, the the uh, the Derek Williams block
Speaker 6: against Washington, stuff like that.
Speaker 9: For there were moments, but.
Speaker 6: This game from start to finish was an incredible game.
Speaker 9: We were talking about what.
Speaker 10: Incredible game and you know, when they're going to shoot
Speaker 10: those free throws the two point two seconds, were like, uh,
Speaker 10: this was such a good game.
Speaker 9: You sure hate this. Here is on the loop.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, they did it.
Speaker 3: I asked Blake here what he thought the percentage was
Speaker 3: when uh, when Henry went to the to the line,
Speaker 3: what would you have given him?
Speaker 2: I said two or three percent?
Speaker 10: Yeah, No more than that, I mean how many Okay,
Speaker 10: the percentage you give him is how many.
Speaker 6: Times in a hundred does he make that shot? And
Speaker 6: I'm talking about Lloyd from catching the pass and shooting
Speaker 6: him on the run with a guy in his face.
Speaker 10: How many times out of one hundred is he going
Speaker 10: to make that?
Speaker 9: Maybe twice? Oh, you know, you're talking about a two
Speaker 9: percent shot.
Speaker 2: To hit that.
Speaker 3: And you know who's the funny thing. That's what I thought,
Speaker 3: who's the funny thing? Blake and Jay?
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: He's known to be a good shooter.
Speaker 3: Right, he couldn't hit a twenty two footer to save
Speaker 3: his life, but he hit a fifty five footer to
Speaker 3: continuous life.
Speaker 2: I mean he had three wide open looks before that.
Speaker 4: So I mean you're looking in one of his worst
Speaker 4: games of the year to turn into arguably his best
Speaker 4: game of the year in a span of five minutes
Speaker 4: and two seconds, right right, Sorry, Jake?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, he was a topic. He was a topic
Speaker 6: of conversation among us the stat crew through the whole.
Speaker 9: Game and just saying, you know what, the fans think that.
Speaker 6: Caleb Love is a great shooter, and they get mad
Speaker 6: when she doesn't shoot great.
Speaker 9: He's not a great shooter. He's what a thirty thirty
Speaker 9: one percent three point shooter.
Speaker 2: Is this year.
Speaker 8: That's what he is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and to expect more than that from him after
Speaker 6: five years in college basketball, it's crazy.
Speaker 10: And these people who are upset that he doesn't shoot better,
Speaker 10: he shoots the way he's always shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, not he was terrible. Yeah, he was
Speaker 2: one for ten at a time. Yeah, he won for
Speaker 2: tenants of yeah, and then he got fired.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 10: And yeah, we were talking during the game, during the
Speaker 10: earlier in the game when you.
Speaker 9: Know it was a dog fight. I mean, it was
Speaker 9: a great game from start to finish that you know,
Speaker 9: nobody took charge of the game.
Speaker 6: You had the sixteen to nothing arison a run, but
Speaker 6: you know, Iowa State immediately turned that around on him
Speaker 6: at the end of the second first half and started
Speaker 6: the second half and he raced that.
Speaker 9: It was a great game from start to finish.
Speaker 10: It was two really good teams just going at it.
Speaker 6: You know, just a dogfight of a game. And you
Speaker 6: know in the first effort thing that Caleb love or
Speaker 6: or del orso needs to have a great game if
Speaker 6: they're going to win this game, and neither was having
Speaker 6: a great game all the way.
Speaker 10: To the are S.
Speaker 9: Apparently they played in the second half because.
Speaker 10: He just couldn't he couldn't you know, he could handle
Speaker 10: the speed of the of the defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I wanted to do historically.
Speaker 10: Historically see historically this is you know, I don't know
Speaker 10: how many hundreds.
Speaker 9: Of games I've been to historically. This is right now.
Speaker 6: I put it, you know, top five, top five games.
Speaker 6: You know. I think of you know, I think of
Speaker 6: the UCLA game in seventy nine Fred Stoden's team to
Speaker 6: beat Ucla.
Speaker 9: I think of the mcclutch shot. Right again, that was
Speaker 9: an Oregon State team.
Speaker 6: That was when Oregon State was v team in the
Speaker 6: in the Pac twelve back ten. Arizona was just trying
Speaker 6: to establish it stuff.
Speaker 9: I was at that game as a fan.
Speaker 6: That was an incredible game, you know, I think of
Speaker 6: the There's two UCLA games that come to mind.
Speaker 9: The one where ling Stardom hit a.
Speaker 6: Three pointer, you know, right, it just walked up from
Speaker 6: about eighty five feet and hit a three pointer at
Speaker 6: what maybe.
Speaker 10: Thirty feet a three pointer. And then there was another
Speaker 10: UCLA game. I think Arizona was down eighteen points in
Speaker 10: the second half against UCLA. Yes, I think I think
Speaker 10: I'm changing fory was on that team. I can't I
Speaker 10: couldn't figure out what year that was, and they came
Speaker 10: back and won that game.
Speaker 3: It was nineteen twenty twenty two, because I wouldn't no, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: twenty twelve two or two O two o two.
Speaker 6: OK, yeah, because I remember I just remember Chandy Fry,
Speaker 6: you know he hit the gold ahead basket in that game.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So those and then and then those that game.
Speaker 10: I think one that you'll remember the two two overtime ninety.
Speaker 9: One Arizona Duke game.
Speaker 6: Yeah right, Matt Mulebox shaves the ball, they you know,
Speaker 6: you know, get a basket, you know all that stuff.
Speaker 10: Those are the only games I could think of that
Speaker 10: even come close now, that Florida game.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: But when you add in the meaning of that game
Speaker 10: versus the meaning of these other.
Speaker 6: Games, you know that were conference games and and whatnot,
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 10: It's just a notch below. This was such a big
Speaker 10: game last night.
Speaker 3: You forgot the Stanford game Lootonah when.
Speaker 2: They stormed the court, they stormed the court, when.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they stormed the court. That again, a meaningful game,
Speaker 10: But you know that was at a time that when
Speaker 10: you didn't feel like Arizona should be taking.
Speaker 9: Storming the corn.
Speaker 10: Against anybody, especially Stanford, right, I mean Stanford was.
Speaker 9: Good, they were they number two and number two at
Speaker 9: the time or something like that country.
Speaker 10: But but Arizona was that level of you know, of
Speaker 10: team and yeah, I guess you could throw that one
Speaker 10: in there, but this is this is the neighborhood that
Speaker 10: this game last night was in, you know, after the
Speaker 10: game was in there, trying to think of historically, where
Speaker 10: does this game set and it's it's up in that.
Speaker 9: Up in that realm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's one of my top five,
Speaker 3: no questions, because I started in ninety one. You talked
Speaker 3: about the Duke games and I wasn't here from a clutch,
Speaker 3: but all those games, the Duke, the Duke, Yeah, you know, the.
Speaker 10: The Arizona Duke came in the eighty seven eighty eight season,
Speaker 10: you know, the fest of all classic game, you know.
Speaker 10: But I mean maybe that's another one because the meaning
Speaker 10: of that game was huge and that Arizona was about
Speaker 10: to become the number one team in the country.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know type of stuff.
Speaker 2: Okay, get back to work.
Speaker 10: That's where I'm a man.
Speaker 9: You know, it's been hard to work today because.
Speaker 2: Don't tell, don't make that public. You know the list. Okay,
Speaker 2: we'll see you soon, all right, man, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: One of the things, you know, because you're a player
Speaker 3: and a coach, the one of the most difficult things
Speaker 3: to do after an emotional win. Let's keep them steady
Speaker 3: for the next game. No matter who you play, well
Speaker 3: in this case, it's your rival.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think that the one advantage that they have right
Speaker 4: now is it's it's not a quick turnaround right Saturday,
Speaker 4: because there's going to be a hangover effect. No sure
Speaker 4: what I mean. I know we're talking about, you know,
Speaker 4: all time history, great games. We're talking about, you know.
Speaker 4: I was at the Michigan game, the Duke game. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, those were unbelievable. I mean blue blue blood.
Speaker 2: At that time.
Speaker 4: This is somewhat of a blue blood, but the grind
Speaker 4: on defense on both sides last year it was fantastic.
Speaker 4: I was unbelieve I don't know if I've seen it
Speaker 4: better defensive team at home that we've played against or
Speaker 4: that we've been with them against them. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: they they were. They're incredible. They're an incredible defensive team.
Speaker 4: Let me taste something it's not gonna be pleasant when
Speaker 4: they go to games. No, no, no, it's gonna be
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Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivera. In today with me is Blake Eager
Speaker 3: and now on the phone we have Kelvin e Fon
Speaker 3: former you a bestballer footballer and now only kind of
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Speaker 2: Kelvin, how are you?
Speaker 8: Oh man, I'm doing good. I'm doing good.
Speaker 2: Do good? Thank you.
Speaker 3: Last night was a fantastic game. I listened to you
Speaker 3: guys coming home. What were your initial thoughts? Well, wait, wait,
Speaker 3: I've already asked the guys who've called in and in
Speaker 3: the studio with me. What do you think the percentage
Speaker 3: of chances? What was the percentage of them to win
Speaker 3: that game with five seconds left?
Speaker 8: Probably zero point three? You think it's basically over man,
Speaker 8: just a full court opportunity. They didn't even call time out. Usually,
Speaker 8: you know, the coach called time out and draw up
Speaker 8: some master play like the Duke play where they threw
Speaker 8: it down to Christian later he turned around and hit
Speaker 8: the shot, or the bad Plays play where they threw
Speaker 8: it down and when they threw it over to I
Speaker 8: think Bryce drew and he hit the three or whatnot.
Speaker 8: But now, man, they just threw it in and just
Speaker 8: you know, let him figure out. So I basically figured
Speaker 8: it was over with man, And you know, luckily Caleb
Speaker 8: didn't think it was.
Speaker 3: Over right, Yeah, no question. And I'm going a little
Speaker 3: more back than you're talking about. Henry's at the line
Speaker 3: five seconds, they're down by three. He's gotta hit, you know,
Speaker 3: at least one. He hits one, throws the bad free
Speaker 3: throw because he hopes to get a rebound.
Speaker 2: They don't.
Speaker 3: Then they foul and the other guy has to has
Speaker 3: to miss a free throw and he does so the circumstances,
Speaker 3: you know, it's just so many circumstances that hadn't happened happened.
Speaker 8: Yeah, man, and it just basketball man the day. Man,
Speaker 8: it's just an exciting, exciting, exciting game for sure.
Speaker 2: Kelvin, this is Blake. How's it going?
Speaker 8: Oh man, it's going great.
Speaker 4: What I mean after last night's game just from a
Speaker 4: fan perspective, and you've been there as a player as well,
Speaker 4: Like what's a hangover effect? Like how long does this
Speaker 4: stick with you and the excitement stick with you? Is
Speaker 4: it a twenty four hour thing? Is it a forty
Speaker 4: hour window?
Speaker 2: Is it longer? What is it like for you?
Speaker 8: I would say a twenty four hour thing because I
Speaker 8: think at the end of the day, to me, the
Speaker 8: person that I think it would affect the most is
Speaker 8: Caleb and the freshman. And you think about Caleb, he
Speaker 8: didn't have a great night shooting, so I think he's
Speaker 8: smart enough to know that, man, he got to get
Speaker 8: back to work. I mean, he's an older guy. He's
Speaker 8: been around for a while, So I think Caleb is
Speaker 8: smart enough not to get caught up in it. He's
Speaker 8: hit a lot of big shots. He's a guy coming
Speaker 8: back from being PAC twelve Player of the Year, even
Speaker 8: though the way people talk about him is almost like
Speaker 8: he didn't do that before, you know, so it's you know,
Speaker 8: it's it's uh. And then the freshman that we have,
Speaker 8: Carter Brian. I mean he's a sophomore now, he's a veteran.
Speaker 2: I mean his dad raised him.
Speaker 9: Right he Yeah.
Speaker 10: So I think the people that we have when this
Speaker 10: team are gonna.
Speaker 8: Be all right. kJ lewis a grinder, Jaydon Bradley. Uh,
Speaker 8: you know, you just think up and down this roster.
Speaker 8: I don't see guys that are gonna have necessarily a hangover. Now.
Speaker 8: What you do have to worry about is the other
Speaker 8: teams marking you on the calendar. You already Arizona. Now
Speaker 8: you upset one of the top teams in the Big twelve.
Speaker 8: Now they're really not gonna overlook you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question.
Speaker 3: So, as I was watching the game and then I
Speaker 3: gun the card and listen to you guys, you and DK.
Speaker 3: I think you know Kelvin. That was a Kelvin game.
Speaker 3: It was a brutal dog fight. You know, it's just
Speaker 3: a dog fight. And then I'm thinking of Waka, who
Speaker 3: don't you look great in as a tight end for
Speaker 3: the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 8: Man, it if not tight end, I'll take him at
Speaker 8: d tackle, Okay, d tackle, I mean, because man, he
Speaker 8: has some bully qu all of these about him that
Speaker 8: would go excellent with football.
Speaker 10: A lot of guys have transitioning into football, a lot.
Speaker 8: Of them at tight end. But I think he has
Speaker 8: the size, uh in athleticism to possibly be a defensive
Speaker 8: tackle or even maybe a defensive end man. And we
Speaker 8: need him in Dallas. We need all those guys that.
Speaker 3: We get see a lot of Dallas. But you know,
Speaker 3: the last few games, the dude has been a stud.
Speaker 3: What do you think the switch has been?
Speaker 10: I think this conference, man, I think that he's tailor made.
Speaker 8: I think you got to give props. I've been giving
Speaker 8: props to the coaching staff. Uh, you got to give
Speaker 8: props to the coaching staff.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 8: Uh, you know, they knew that they had to get tougher.
Speaker 8: They remember playing Houston, They understand the conference that they
Speaker 8: would get coming into. So it wasn't ironic to me
Speaker 8: that they ended up picking up Townsend, who's physical six
Speaker 8: seven to fifty of you know, you know, you pick
Speaker 8: up a walk of sixty eight to eighty, right, I mean,
Speaker 8: because you know, you're gonna have to bump and grinding
Speaker 8: this league with the huge students in Kansas States and
Speaker 8: Kansas and Iowa States and all the other teams in
Speaker 8: this conference, You're gonna have to bang. And so they
Speaker 8: made that transition and brought in a couple guys. Losing
Speaker 8: Creevus was was was terrible because that's you know, a
Speaker 8: huge presence on the block that we were going to use.
Speaker 8: And so now coaches had to really coach the team
Speaker 8: up and figure out, you know, how he was going
Speaker 8: to make things work. Man, And you know he's been
Speaker 8: a musician so far. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, in last night we talked about Walker's
Speaker 4: evolution over the season. Right, he looked like he was
Speaker 4: a step behind everybody at the start of the season.
Speaker 4: He started catching up with these last four games. I mean,
Speaker 4: he's kind of like fire. I think, you know, you
Speaker 4: look at Tommy last night. Probably went to a walk
Speaker 4: up before the game and said, listen, every rebound is yours. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because no matter what or who was around him, even
Speaker 4: if it was like kJ or anybody else, he wasn't
Speaker 4: giving up that ball last night. And that was impressive
Speaker 4: to me that he went out there and serted dominant
Speaker 4: dominance early in the game when we needed somebody to
Speaker 4: do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I.
Speaker 8: Think you need to go farther than that, man. I mean,
Speaker 8: if y'all was watching the same game I was watching,
Speaker 8: I thought everybody picked it up on the defension. I thought,
Speaker 8: I mean that attitude and that usually flows over to
Speaker 8: the offensive side of the court, right, And it was
Speaker 8: just a dollphight it was. I said, it was like
Speaker 8: playing at Randolph Gym, you know, in the summertime, one
Speaker 8: hundred degrees hot, and all the guys over there just
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, you got fifteen minutes, whoever you
Speaker 8: have the most points win I mean, these guys were
Speaker 8: in a brawl, man, and it wasn't no bragging down.
Speaker 8: The reps wasn't gonna save anybody. You had to win
Speaker 8: this game. And I love that because that's how the tournament,
Speaker 8: the NCAA tournament, when it gets down to it, that's
Speaker 8: the way the game is gonna be rep So these
Speaker 8: guys are getting a great audition going through this conference,
Speaker 8: a practice runch as they getting ready for the tournament.
Speaker 8: But man, having a waker, it has been here. And
Speaker 8: even Townsend, even though he hasn't been you know, aver
Speaker 8: getting the points and stuff that people thought that, you know,
Speaker 8: having a production point, why that people thought even rebound
Speaker 8: his rebound and numbers haven't been there. But he's been
Speaker 8: out there as a veteran giving the minutes that if
Speaker 8: you just put Parker in all those minutes, he's gonna
Speaker 8: break down because he is still eighteen years old. So
Speaker 8: he has that guy to buffer all of that for Carter.
Speaker 10: After Parker for Carter, so when he comes.
Speaker 8: In the game, he can just play his game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's not exactly to your point. I'll probably
Speaker 3: use some of your quotes for a story on Awaka.
Speaker 3: What that I do later this week likely, But when
Speaker 3: they were playing, I'm thinking one, they got him for
Speaker 3: a reason for this season, right, And we talked about
Speaker 3: this maybe two months ago. And I don't know, Kevin,
Speaker 3: if you were part of that conversation when you were
Speaker 3: on left. Okay, so Arizona's in the Big twelve. We thought, oh,
Speaker 3: this is perfect. They're gonna get they're gonna learn how
Speaker 3: to be tough, physical when they get to March. Right.
Speaker 3: But here's the other issue. Won't they be be beat
Speaker 3: up by the time they get there? And then what
Speaker 3: the heck they're tired because they've been beat up in
Speaker 3: the conference and the tournament before.
Speaker 2: To get to the tournament, yeah, man.
Speaker 8: But that's what you sign up for, right, And if
Speaker 8: you end up winning that, you'll be immortalized.
Speaker 9: That's just what it is.
Speaker 8: There's no nobody feel sorry for nobody. Connecticut has done
Speaker 8: it a couple of years. They were beat up, hurt guys,
Speaker 8: I mean.
Speaker 10: Playing for a coach that's out of his mind, right,
Speaker 10: And but but you gotta suck it all in.
Speaker 8: It's worth it at the end of the day to
Speaker 8: be able to call yourself a champion. If you can
Speaker 8: get through all that. You know, I got some buddies
Speaker 8: that were national champions, man, And remember they was coming
Speaker 8: off a season where they finished fifth in conference, right,
Speaker 8: and they went through a war in that conference because
Speaker 8: everybody came after of them. We had the talent, we
Speaker 8: had the NBA guys, but it all came together in
Speaker 8: that tournament because they had been through adversity. They had
Speaker 8: been through adversity, and they didn't want to have that
Speaker 8: feeling going out of that season. So, you know, man,
Speaker 8: I think that if you can get through this conference,
Speaker 8: if you can get into the tournament's you know, because
Speaker 8: the conference champion doesn't necessarily it's not it's certainly going
Speaker 8: to be in the final four at this conference. Right
Speaker 8: it could be you know, Kansas could win it or
Speaker 8: Houston could win it and then Kansas and Iowa stayed
Speaker 8: in the final four. But but I do think two
Speaker 8: teams from this conference is going to be in the
Speaker 8: final four. I do think that.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, what impressed you the most last night? Because
Speaker 3: there were so many things, Uh, the one they had
Speaker 3: to go on sixteen zero run they did, they came back.
Speaker 2: It was just a punch for punch type of thing.
Speaker 8: Well, what impressed me the most, man was that they
Speaker 8: didn't back down. I mean I had said it before
Speaker 8: when we were known as West Coast. When I was here,
Speaker 8: we had so many California guys. Now we only have
Speaker 8: one California guys, and a lot of people may not
Speaker 8: This is not the Arizona teams of the past, where
Speaker 8: we were California heavy at the at the at the
Speaker 8: center and forward position right uh in the Uh for
Speaker 8: sure at the guard position. But right now this team
Speaker 8: doesn't have a starter that's from California or even the
Speaker 8: West Coast.
Speaker 3: So is that Kelvin Sampson Kelvin Evan's language for day worse?
Speaker 2: Soft?
Speaker 8: I don't you know.
Speaker 10: Now, I came out to the West Coast thinking.
Speaker 8: That, but when I got out here, I realized it
Speaker 8: wouldn't necessarily solve the conference called the referees. The style
Speaker 8: of play was soft. Uh you know, everything was a foul.
Speaker 10: You couldn't touch.
Speaker 8: Anyone and it and it hurt us when we got
Speaker 8: into the tournaments and the referees was letting the physical
Speaker 8: play happen, and it's just throwing our guys off their game.
Speaker 8: So I think it was the way the rest the
Speaker 8: man I mean, I've been on the West Coast for
Speaker 8: a long time and a lot I thought Miles Simon
Speaker 8: was soft, and he ended up being one of the toughest,
Speaker 8: toughest guys I can know. I mean a lot of
Speaker 8: times people think being tough is just fighting. Now, being
Speaker 8: tough is not bagging down. Being tough is figuring out
Speaker 8: a way to get it done when you can't jump
Speaker 8: that high or run that fast. And so I got
Speaker 8: a lot of respect for a guy like Miles Simon
Speaker 8: because initially I didn't have it.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, Well, you know a gun like that, and
Speaker 2: you're talking to one guy. Is Carter Bryant.
Speaker 3: The dude what just a month or two ago, he
Speaker 3: was like a little little doe, little bamby guy, baby drought. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he was just kind of learning even, you know, kind
Speaker 3: of afraid. Now the dude's a demon man. He's hitting shots,
Speaker 3: going after stuff. You got a little chip on his
Speaker 3: shoulder too. Would I like to see a little bit
Speaker 3: of swag?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 10: And I said this on twelve ninety talking to DK
Speaker 10: and j Doub, I said.
Speaker 8: You got to get a lot of that credit to
Speaker 8: coach Lloyd for figuring out that.
Speaker 10: You know, when you recruit most.
Speaker 8: Of these guys, you recruit them to what they position
Speaker 8: they project at right, and then once you get him there,
Speaker 8: you figure out what position their best at being able
Speaker 8: to help the team. So I thought he did a
Speaker 8: great job.
Speaker 10: He didn't lie to the kid he recruited him.
Speaker 8: He let him play guard. He let him play the
Speaker 8: small forward kind of slash two guard position, and he
Speaker 8: was handling the ball a lot, and I just felt
Speaker 8: like he wasn't being that effective because you're.
Speaker 10: Going against the Division one.
Speaker 8: Grown men guards. You're not going against little high school
Speaker 8: guys anymore. You're going against real savvy guys. And I
Speaker 8: think last if he would have had to play guard,
Speaker 8: he wouldn't have had a good night either, like the
Speaker 8: rest of our guards really didn't. Right, But coach moved
Speaker 8: him to forward to the power forward spot, where now
Speaker 8: he has a chance to spot up on the outside
Speaker 8: and at the free throw line and force the other
Speaker 8: team's bigs to have to come out and play him
Speaker 8: where he actually has an advantage because he does have
Speaker 8: guard skills. So you got to take your hats off
Speaker 8: the coach alluding him in the staff for putting them
Speaker 8: in a spot of where he could be effective. Now.
Speaker 8: I know that their hand was forced because if Pree
Speaker 8: was getting injured, but regardless, they ended up making that move.
Speaker 8: And you guys have all seen the production that he's
Speaker 8: been able to have because now he doesn't have to
Speaker 8: play against the pressure of the Imagine if you had
Speaker 8: to play against the pressure of those little guards. Did
Speaker 8: you see you know how they turned over, you know
Speaker 8: Jake and Bradley last night. I mean, if he had
Speaker 8: to play against that type of pressure, it would have
Speaker 8: been different. But notice his three point shots were wide
Speaker 8: open because a lot of the times a walker had
Speaker 8: the ball and they had to make sure they had
Speaker 8: a guy in the lane. Uh so a waker wouldn't
Speaker 8: drive because the waker made like two or three drives
Speaker 8: to the bucket with some little floaters and finishes at
Speaker 8: the rim. So now you got a help. Now you
Speaker 8: have uh Carter Bryan standing over on the wing, go
Speaker 8: on the corner, wide open for the knockdown three.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Kevin, I think last night was the first time
Speaker 4: we've seen Brian play the three since Mo got hurt.
Speaker 4: Because there was a point where you had a walker
Speaker 4: Towns and end Brian on the floor and that was
Speaker 4: the first time we've seen it, I think since Mo
Speaker 4: got hurt, but you get you. It was a point
Speaker 4: where he's forced himself to stay on the floor. And
Speaker 4: that's great to see.
Speaker 8: Yeah, now, and against and and and against some of
Speaker 8: these big twelve teams there are a little bigger, so
Speaker 8: you can get away with having them in there for
Speaker 8: some possessions. But I thought the best team is when
Speaker 8: they actually went four guards when they I mean, well
Speaker 8: it's not really four guards. Is when they had him
Speaker 8: at the four and then they had Townsend or Walker
Speaker 8: at the five. I thought that was, you know, our
Speaker 8: stronger teams. And and I don't know if anybody noticed,
Speaker 8: Coach Tomy loves to run the flow offense. Where if
Speaker 8: you looked at a couple of those plays when Carter
Speaker 8: Brian knocked down the shot, kJ Love called some play
Speaker 8: that looked like a five that he put up in
Speaker 8: the sky with his hands and he held the guy off.
Speaker 8: They set a screen. It was a screen and Pop
Speaker 8: with a waker a waka caught it and immediately threw
Speaker 8: it to Carter Brian for the knockdown three. So that
Speaker 8: was the design play that they had practice because coach
Speaker 8: understood that once the ball go to a big, the
Speaker 8: other big has to help, so it opens up your
Speaker 8: other forward if he has range from the wing. And
Speaker 8: that's what Carter Brian brings.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, good, good evaluation. One last quick question, Kevin. So
Speaker 3: we're late January. We got about six weeks left before
Speaker 3: the tournament. Seven weeks Your perception of this team compared
Speaker 3: to what it was maybe two months ago?
Speaker 8: Uh, you know, I personally knew it was gonna take
Speaker 8: some time. I liked the schedule that they had early
Speaker 8: because they got challenged and they they didn't jump out
Speaker 8: and you know, beat up on a bunch.
Speaker 10: Of easy teams.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 10: Because this is a brand new team.
Speaker 8: It was one starter back from last year in the
Speaker 8: starting lineup, So I knew this team was gonna take
Speaker 8: some time to round out and having to play Duke U.
Speaker 8: So I think they right were I thought they would be.
Speaker 8: I thought they would play well in conference. I thought
Speaker 8: Caleb Love would be playing better than what.
Speaker 10: He's doing on a consistent basis. But he continues to.
Speaker 8: Show, you know, glimpses of that he is that guy.
Speaker 8: So that also offers me hope that man when he
Speaker 8: really get it going, when Townsend really gets it going
Speaker 8: when Vasa becomes a little more consistent. So they still
Speaker 8: got a little time to to get better and that
Speaker 8: and that says a lot for a team that just
Speaker 8: beat the number three team in the nation, uh Iowa State.
Speaker 8: So yeah, man, I think that this team could end
Speaker 8: up making a nice little run. I think they have
Speaker 8: the pieces, they have the size, uh to be able
Speaker 8: to get it done. I just the backup point guard.
Speaker 8: kJ is still trying to figure that out a little bit.
Speaker 8: But to me, they have everything else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, good evaluation. Okay, Kelvin, thanks so much
Speaker 3: for joining us.
Speaker 8: Oh man, no problem, man, appreciate you that great stuff.
Speaker 3: Good Kelvin ethon talking about the last night's game. We'll
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Speaker 2: We did to get to this boring show.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, listen, every time you have me on before we
Speaker 4: come on the air, you're like, I hate you. And
Speaker 4: then we go on the air and I realized that
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Speaker 2: Have me on every time. But I do appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: So thank you.
Speaker 3: Sure of course it's a lot of fun. Who and
Speaker 3: who thought the game would end that way? Hey, we
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Speaker 2: Well, Richard Page, how you're the one that called early?
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling Richard?
Speaker 3: So Richard Page is h come like my little brother
Speaker 3: paid in the ass, little brother, and I'm bigger brother.
Speaker 3: Richard was the SID for sports information off for sure
Speaker 3: with Loot for all those years. And we were texting
Speaker 3: each other late last night and he went to that
Speaker 3: he's in Indiana and talking about big games. Where would
Speaker 3: you figure this game is perspective wise, rich with all
Speaker 3: the games that you've seen, I've seen in all the
Speaker 3: games that has happened, well, it's.
Speaker 10: Come to put it in the perspective only because I
Speaker 10: was telling my wife what coincidentally.
Speaker 17: Was at the game last night. It's it's the biggest
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Speaker 17: a top five opponent, and and and and a team
Speaker 17: looking to make a big market at home, and the
Speaker 17: McHale magic was there, so everything was was lined up
Speaker 17: for it to be a great game. And then it
Speaker 17: turns out to have an incredible finish at the end
Speaker 17: of regulation and you have five minutes of extra basketball
Speaker 17: and the Cats win and everybody goes home happy. So
Speaker 17: it's the McHale story that you've seen so many times
Speaker 17: before that the fans kind of live for. I mean,
Speaker 17: there are a couple of ones that come to mind,
Speaker 17: you know, going back through my time. You know, Salim
Speaker 17: hit some game winners there in two thousand and five
Speaker 17: and including about a thirty footer against UCLA, the comebacks
Speaker 17: that Cats had in two thousand and two when they
Speaker 17: erased big deficits to be Oregon State and UCLA. You
Speaker 17: and I were talking about that.
Speaker 10: Stanford game from nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 17: But when I saw the way the game ended yes yesterday,
Speaker 17: the first one that came to my mind wasn't even
Speaker 17: an Arizona home game that in Michale. It was when
Speaker 17: Miles Simon hit that sixty seventy footer to give Loot
Speaker 17: his five hundred victory, you know, up in Phoenix. That's
Speaker 17: the kind of shots that it reminded me of because
Speaker 17: most of the ones that I remember from my time
Speaker 17: in Tucson, you know, you don't get sixty seventy footers
Speaker 17: at the buzzer like that very often. And what made
Speaker 17: that one interesting was it didn't decide the game.
Speaker 8: It just tied it.
Speaker 17: So it got a chance to get a little bit
Speaker 17: more love of the show piece there with the way
Speaker 17: he sort of closed it out in overtime. So it
Speaker 17: was kind of a cool game for everyone and a
Speaker 17: big win for the Wildcats for sure.
Speaker 3: Sometimes some of these other games are buried in Stanford
Speaker 3: Michael Wright in that crazy gym Maples and It's people
Speaker 3: don't understand how crazy Maple's got with Arizona and how
Speaker 3: it shook. It shook and the boards of backboards shook
Speaker 3: when he.
Speaker 17: Hit that show That was the cool thing about Maples
Speaker 17: was the court was the court felt like you were
Speaker 17: on springs. It was designed specifically that's sort of allegedly
Speaker 17: prevent knee injuries. But what it would do was the
Speaker 17: everything around it would bounce, and the baskets were connected
Speaker 17: to the ceiling, so when the building would shake, the
Speaker 17: rim would shake as well. And remember a story about
Speaker 17: Jason Gardner used to tell and you probably remember this.
Speaker 17: He was a freshman or sophomore, and and would and
Speaker 17: went to the and went to the referees at one
Speaker 17: point during one of the games, and Maples and and
Speaker 17: and had the had him stop the crowd from bouncing
Speaker 17: because it was shaking the baskets, and and and and
Speaker 17: so those kind of crazy things always.
Speaker 9: Happen, you know. That win.
Speaker 10: I'll tell you the when you referenced.
Speaker 17: Michael Wright hit that hit the buzzer beater. It was
Speaker 17: a shot down on the low block. Gave us the
Speaker 17: win at the end of the regular season in two
Speaker 17: thousand and one, which was as important of a win
Speaker 17: that we had down the stretch there before the tournament.
Speaker 17: But with Stanford, all those games were back and forth
Speaker 17: there for a while, you know, a couple of years
Speaker 17: after that.
Speaker 10: Of course, the shoe was on the other foot when
Speaker 10: uh it was it Nick Righter if he hit it,
Speaker 10: hit a shot and and and we will lose.
Speaker 17: And it was either four or five. And Tiger Woods
Speaker 17: was there in the whole whole nine yards, So I mean, yeah, Maple's.
Speaker 17: Maple's had it a wave just because it was two
Speaker 17: great teams going back in spurts where it was always
Speaker 17: going to be close, and somebody played hero at the end,
Speaker 17: that's for sure.
Speaker 3: So let me we have Blake Eager here. He's there,
Speaker 3: Richard with a WBC. So he was there at the
Speaker 3: game last night. You've been to a lot of games,
Speaker 3: home games for how.
Speaker 2: Long, going back since I was twelve, so ninety four.
Speaker 3: So I was gonna I was just did you and
Speaker 3: and Richard brings up this point and I thought this
Speaker 3: during the game too, Arizona. In last night's game, they
Speaker 3: had them all the time if you had a ticket
Speaker 3: back in the day, and Luke didn't shy away from
Speaker 3: big games that had this feel.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, absolutely, it was an old school feel from
Speaker 4: the start to the finish. It's it's hard to describe it,
Speaker 4: but it's it's almost like you feel it in your bones.
Speaker 4: And McHale last night that was the case.
Speaker 3: And truthfully, rich because you were with Sean Miller for
Speaker 3: a long time, I didn't get that feeling a lot
Speaker 3: with him.
Speaker 17: Well, the hard part, the hard part in you know,
Speaker 17: for it to be a big game, it's got to
Speaker 17: be a big game across the board. You know, a
Speaker 17: lot of things have to fall into place. You've got
Speaker 17: to have the right opponent, you've got to have the
Speaker 17: right ranking. You know, Zona has to be playing well.
Speaker 17: All this stuff that goes with you know, it has
Speaker 17: to happen at a time when the students are around.
Speaker 17: All those kinds of things that fall into place, and
Speaker 17: and you know, schedules change and people, you know, leagues
Speaker 17: change and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 10: So I mean, it was look, a lot of us
Speaker 10: tie that magic to to loud Olson.
Speaker 17: And all they went with it, and it's gonna be hard.
Speaker 17: You know, nobody's gonna really ever measure up to that again,
Speaker 17: you know what I mean. Sean won a lot of
Speaker 17: games and there were a lot of big wins in
Speaker 17: there as well. Uh maybe that's a credit to how
Speaker 17: good he was in hindsight, the fact that there weren't
Speaker 17: very many buzzer beaters and things in that nature. You know,
Speaker 17: when you think about Arizona and McHale, outside of maybe
Speaker 17: mcclutch way back when, and Pete Williams doing a couple
Speaker 17: of things like that, there weren't a lot of there.
Speaker 17: There aren't a lot of games where Arizona's got to
Speaker 17: sink a shot to win it. You know what I mean,
Speaker 17: that's just not the way.
Speaker 8: That's just not the way it goes.
Speaker 17: And that's the credit to you know, Loot and Sean
Speaker 17: and now Tommy building something and keeping it at that
Speaker 17: pace and the and the fans showing up and putting
Speaker 17: fifteen thousand strong in there. So it's it's still a
Speaker 17: tough place to play, and that's a credit to everyone
Speaker 17: in Tucson for making that something special. Yeah, because last
Speaker 17: night on TV, Yeah, I didn't get a chance to
Speaker 17: watch the whole game, but it was obviously electric and
Speaker 17: like he just mentioned it, I mean, it was one
Speaker 17: of those games where you knew it was going to
Speaker 17: be big and.
Speaker 9: And and he's right, it is it.
Speaker 17: It is Michael's one of those special places, especially when
Speaker 17: it's a big game. There are very few places like
Speaker 17: it anywhere in college basketball.
Speaker 2: Well, especially with the whiteout too. Did you can you compare?
Speaker 3: I thought it was better than Duke well, and they
Speaker 3: lost against Duke and they were not really in it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you, I mean I would agree with
Speaker 4: you completely on that, but it was a different feeling
Speaker 4: last night. I think the reason why it was a
Speaker 4: different feeling last night too, is that you're starting to
Speaker 4: see this team evolve a little bit, and you're seeing
Speaker 4: that I think we can beat anybody. And maybe you
Speaker 4: agree with me on that, Steve, we've had this conversation,
Speaker 4: but I think knowing how good we've been playing in
Speaker 4: the stretch that we've been playing, it's exciting to go
Speaker 4: into a game like this because you know they're coming
Speaker 4: into our house one of the best teams in the country.
Speaker 4: If they win the national championship, I'm not surprised at all. Really,
Speaker 4: I was state. I'm sorry, Yeah, Iowa state. You disagree
Speaker 4: with me on that. Yeah, I mean, listen you okay,
Speaker 4: are they top Are they top five defensive team in
Speaker 4: the Yeah, no question.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And they've got great guard play, Okay, two things
Speaker 2: you need when you're going to with a hurt guy.
Speaker 4: I get it, okay, But yeah, electric from start to finish,
Speaker 4: and we there was never a give even like when
Speaker 4: we were down there last night, I felt the crowd
Speaker 4: was able to pick us up because I think you're
Speaker 4: you really had a true sense of a six man
Speaker 4: on the court, and that was a crowd of mikail.
Speaker 3: But by the way, Richard, because you've seen a ton
Speaker 3: of games here, how many points. Would you say mkale
Speaker 3: is is worth because you and I had this conversation,
Speaker 3: remember what you back in the day, how much is
Speaker 3: it worth?
Speaker 17: Well, I mean, a good hope court, I would probably
Speaker 17: say five or six points, probably a couple of.
Speaker 10: Possessions, you know, you know, you figure a possession.
Speaker 17: Each half or something down the stretch. But at least
Speaker 17: I'd say at least five or six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, on a night like.
Speaker 17: On a night like that, maybe a little bit more.
Speaker 17: You know, guys, you know, the guys feed off that,
Speaker 17: and you the home team plays with a little bit
Speaker 17: more confidence and the road team plays a little tighter.
Speaker 17: So I mean, you know, maybe it stretches to a
Speaker 17: little bit more than that. But yeah, I mean, of
Speaker 17: course it has an effect.
Speaker 8: And that's what makes college.
Speaker 10: Basketball so special is that the fans can't have an
Speaker 10: effect on the game. You know, it affects the way they.
Speaker 17: Were officially called the game and affects the way the
Speaker 17: guys play it. And you know, that's why there's a
Speaker 17: home court advantage because especially the plays at the Kale
Speaker 17: because you can see it and you could feel it,
Speaker 17: and you know, obviously it makes a difference in especially
Speaker 17: what you saw in a game like last night.
Speaker 4: Rich, have you ever seen a U of eight team
Speaker 4: constructed like this that's been like this? I guess what
Speaker 4: I mean is that at any night can be a
Speaker 4: different player. I mean, you look at the span over
Speaker 4: the last eight games. I think we've had six different
Speaker 4: players of the game. Not only that, but the grind
Speaker 4: that we and the grit that we show on the floor.
Speaker 4: If you when's the last U of eight team that's
Speaker 4: kind of felt this way, Well, the last.
Speaker 17: Time we had a team that was as probably as gritty.
Speaker 17: The first team that comes to mind for me is
Speaker 17: probably the two thousand and two team with Rick Anderson
Speaker 17: and Jason Gardner and Luke Walton and Andre I mean
Speaker 17: in those guys primarily because it's like you said, you
Speaker 17: had some talent there, but you weren't sure. I mean,
Speaker 17: anybody could start at any point in time, you know.
Speaker 17: But I mean that's that's what makes I think this
Speaker 17: team a little bit unique in the fact that it's
Speaker 17: it's you know, there's there's a depth there across the
Speaker 17: roster where these each one of these guys could star
Speaker 17: in ways that You're right, Other teams weren't constructed that way.
Speaker 9: There.
Speaker 17: There were a couple of guys clearly that were you know,
Speaker 17: stars or featured or whatever phrase you want to use,
Speaker 17: and those were gonna be the guys that we're gonna
Speaker 17: drive the engine. But this year, any of those guys
Speaker 17: can And that's a wonderful luxury to have to know
Speaker 17: that multiple guys can get you ten fifteen points every game.
Speaker 8: That's great.
Speaker 3: Well you you pulled that one out because I think
Speaker 3: that was Andre's first year and Hassan's.
Speaker 17: Yeah, Andre, Andre Channing, Isaiah Foxers on that team.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was kind of like a vagabond as a
Speaker 3: group of just the misfits that worked well together.
Speaker 2: I think that was the what they lose the first
Speaker 2: round two Milwaukee.
Speaker 17: No, they lost, they lost in They lost in the
Speaker 17: Sweet sixteen eight year in Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, Oklahoma, that's right, Okay, Okay, Yeah, Rich,
Speaker 3: thanks for calling that.
Speaker 2: I always appreciate you.
Speaker 10: Love you man, Sure call any time.
Speaker 17: I love to talk about big wins.
Speaker 2: I gotta have them. Thanks Rich.