Speaker 1: Breaking down all they says, and ohs. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rovera on Fox Sports fourteen
Speaker 1: fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera, you're Dave Silbert.
Speaker 2: We got Ray and thankfully Chris has left the building.
Speaker 2: They don't know Chris is, yeah, they kind of. He
Speaker 2: was on the show one day and he's like ruined
Speaker 2: the whole show. I either recover from two years of traumatize.
Speaker 3: They know the name for sure, because oh no, it's
Speaker 3: just he always comes in and finds someone to talk
Speaker 3: about this.
Speaker 4: It's a good time, though.
Speaker 2: Get us away from this. Take me away, Calgan. You
Speaker 2: don't even know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: I don't. Sorry, are you doing breaking news? And we're
Speaker 4: just gonna add lib this. I think he's gonna were
Speaker 4: you were? You don't have a lot, okay, yeah, just
Speaker 4: go through it, you know, it's just there's a lot
Speaker 4: of stuff talk all right, We'll find some stuff.
Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball, Breaking News on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of coachings being signed right now.
Speaker 4: Coaches from Yes, Yes, well signed extended.
Speaker 3: The gymnastics coach John Court was extended through twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3: That happened today right before or around two o'clock, and
Speaker 3: then the women's tennis coach Ryan Scotland was also extended
Speaker 3: through twenty twenty eight as well, making him the second
Speaker 3: coach again. An extension this week that was yesterday kind
Speaker 3: of makes you wonder about Kaitlyn Low a little bit.
Speaker 4: Well, if she's done next, I was gonna say she's
Speaker 4: gotta be next. It seems like it's been extension week
Speaker 4: with Chip and the ones you just mentioned. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a slow summer. Yeah, no rush, Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4: There is no rush. There's no one around the U
Speaker 4: of A too. It's kind of fun driving around there
Speaker 4: like a ghost town. When when I worked there was
Speaker 4: always fun. In the summary, do it anyway? Do you
Speaker 4: park anywhere?
Speaker 2: Because we have a lot of time here. You've been
Speaker 2: into town a long time, and I'll mention this to you.
Speaker 2: Do you notice a lot of invisible drivers? You know
Speaker 2: there are a lot of invisible cars. Have I explained
Speaker 2: this to before? Next time you're at a stop sign
Speaker 2: or light and you want to turn right or whatever,
Speaker 2: and you see a car that's staying there for longer
Speaker 2: than needs to be because you can turn right and right,
Speaker 2: no cars coming the other way, right, no cars coming
Speaker 2: the other way.
Speaker 4: Those are the invisible cars, because.
Speaker 2: This car is waiting for something to happen. But he
Speaker 2: sees or she sees an invisible car coming. Yeah, what
Speaker 2: the hell are they looking at? There's a bunch of them.
Speaker 2: They're more apparent in the winter buds. Yeah, because those
Speaker 2: people are not here this time of year.
Speaker 4: No, no, but.
Speaker 2: Yesterday there was one and I finally said, okay, honked
Speaker 2: and she waved and says, well, you can still go.
Speaker 2: It's thread, but you can still go. There was nobody coming.
Speaker 2: I said, this is a visible cars are still here.
Speaker 2: Eventually years guess what I want to start seeing invisible cars?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no.
Speaker 3: And then there's the people that, uh don't see the
Speaker 3: red lights either.
Speaker 4: So that's true. That's another that's another problem.
Speaker 3: Given a go And obviously, the big news of today
Speaker 3: is that Carter Brian got picked fourteenth overall by the
Speaker 3: Spurs that in last night's first round of the NBA Draft.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna try to reach out to Sean. Let's
Speaker 2: just see what he says to say, no yet.
Speaker 4: I've got so I pulled up the let me, let
Speaker 4: me give you our fourteen number. Fourteen All Star Team kicks. Okay,
Speaker 4: guys who picked fourteenth, because you know, you go Carter
Speaker 4: on fourteenth, that's it. But thank of some other guys
Speaker 4: who were picked fourteenth in the first round. It's a
Speaker 4: pretty good little All Star team. Clyde Drexler nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 4: Clyde the Glyde played fifteen seasons, of course for Houston
Speaker 4: and then you know, great great career with Portland and
Speaker 4: Houston to Hardaway, known for his killer crossover. Five time
Speaker 4: All Star, five Texas Pass Bay selection. That's right, Utep
Speaker 4: played against Arizona, I believe in the eighty six tournament pages. Soyakovic,
Speaker 4: great shooter for the Sacramento Kings in the mid nineties.
Speaker 4: Dan Marley thunder dan fourteenth pick out of I want
Speaker 4: to say was Central Michigan. Correct, right, So he played
Speaker 4: two time All Defensive Player, three time All Stars. Sun
Speaker 4: just finished his time at restaurant owners. I think is
Speaker 4: Marley still up there? And I don't know. I don't
Speaker 4: think so. I had a number of restaurants right right
Speaker 4: by the Stadium and then some others smart idea. Going
Speaker 4: even further back, Casey Jones, longtime Boston Celtic, was picked
Speaker 4: by out of the University of San Francisco. Played with
Speaker 4: Bill Russell in college Hall of Famer, and then Hal
Speaker 4: Greer who played for the Sixers. Do you remember that name?
Speaker 4: He played with Wilt the seventy six ers, like in
Speaker 4: the late sixties, sixties. Ok, So, I mean there's some
Speaker 4: pretty good people. So he's in pretty good cover. And
Speaker 4: then you think about there as Michael Porter Junior recently Arizona. Oh,
Speaker 4: Michael Michael Dickerson. Right, so there's been some players at fourteen,
Speaker 4: so it's not you're not doomed. No, still a lottery point,
Speaker 4: still the very last pick of the lottery. So he's
Speaker 4: gonna always say he's a lottery pick. But I assume
Speaker 4: that'll get him something in McHale. You know, well, he
Speaker 4: has to.
Speaker 2: Finish ten years. Ten years, he won't he's not qualifying.
Speaker 2: Of all the people that are on qualify, he's not
Speaker 2: one of them because he wasn't Freshman of the Year,
Speaker 2: he wasn't this or that, And now he has to
Speaker 2: be ten years in the NBA, like like our first
Speaker 2: one and done.
Speaker 4: Guy, not one and dyne guy, but Joe Bayliss and
Speaker 4: make a tenue he didn't make Yeah yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: okay did so so today I'm referenced to hail Mary David.
Speaker 2: Back in our day, there was a guy for Dallas
Speaker 2: that had a Hail Mary.
Speaker 4: Who was it? Who threw it? No, who cut it?
Speaker 4: Drew Pearson? Drew Pearson.
Speaker 2: Yeah so I say, because he wore an eighty eight
Speaker 2: shirt the other day and Michael No, no, no, we
Speaker 2: talked about Michael.
Speaker 4: Yeah it was it was a del Earn Hard junior shirt.
Speaker 2: But it was a Dallas Colors. That's why I got
Speaker 2: a confused eighty eight. Okay, oh wait that was was.
Speaker 4: That his car number?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I guess I would have to soon. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't watch Nascar. I just thought it was sure
Speaker 4: about it who he is, but yeah, so sure.
Speaker 2: The hill Mary was kind of like a I don't
Speaker 2: know if it was a fake one or a real one.
Speaker 2: There was a non call on the on the push. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the fantom push.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I haven't Yeah, I was gonna do that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: do that. You'll see given it going though.
Speaker 3: Arizona is one of six schools to have a first
Speaker 3: round pick in the NFL and NBA draft one yeah,
Speaker 3: and has a potential has a chance to be the
Speaker 3: only school with a first round pick in the NFL,
Speaker 3: NBA and MLB draft because of Brandon summer Hill.
Speaker 4: Right, isn't that coming soon? Yes? July thirteenth is when
Speaker 4: it starts. Okay, yeah, but not in the NHL draft.
Speaker 4: I don't think tomorrow. What I remember.
Speaker 2: That's the stuff that keeps the logo alive because you
Speaker 2: start seeing the logo oh wow.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, keep some relevant for sure. Diamondbacks lost
Speaker 3: yesterday to the White Sox, but took the series. Have
Speaker 3: the Marlins coming up tomorrow, and you know there are.
Speaker 4: Only three games back in that West, that that racing. No,
Speaker 4: there's three games back in the wild card.
Speaker 3: Maybe because three games back in the yeah of the
Speaker 3: wild card, keeping it going though.
Speaker 4: Ravens kicker Justin Tucker is in trouble. Oh you got
Speaker 4: a call? Okay, cool? Hello, you're on the air. Nine
Speaker 4: on the ball. Who's this Rick?
Speaker 6: Anybody?
Speaker 7: How you doing?
Speaker 8: Rick?
Speaker 4: You're alive? Could you hear your voice?
Speaker 7: Well, it's good to be heard from Thank you, heyday.
Speaker 7: You know I was thinking when you're talking about NBA,
Speaker 7: I have when Sean Elliott was a senior and graduating
Speaker 7: in the spring of it would have been I guess ninety. Yes,
Speaker 7: I had a display over. We had a furniture patio
Speaker 7: furniture business at the time and our home base was
Speaker 7: San Antonio, so he and Anthony Cook were there and
Speaker 7: sew and Sean signed right over San Antonio. A little
Speaker 7: bit of useless memories for me. But what I was
Speaker 7: really thinking about was I was watching t J McConnell,
Speaker 7: and you talk about a young man that probably I
Speaker 7: don't know where he went in the draft, but yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean he he is one of the examples where
Speaker 7: you work your tail off, you show up, you put
Speaker 7: up your disciplined, respectful, and you know what, he really
Speaker 7: shined and made Arizona look good. And uh, I have
Speaker 7: to say it was really nice to see him perform
Speaker 7: the way he did, particularly in the playoffs. And I
Speaker 7: think Arizona has a lot to be proud of because
Speaker 7: we have a lot of those blue collar guys, you know,
Speaker 7: the Bruce Ki's, uh, you know that just show up
Speaker 7: and they do their job and they represent Arizona. And
Speaker 7: I think that we all ought to just kip our
Speaker 7: hats and say thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I agree with you.
Speaker 2: Thanks Rick, leave it there, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: No, obviously, it was great publicity for the U of
Speaker 4: A to have Mathn and TJ playing so well, and
Speaker 4: you know doesn't hurt you know their name mentioned. Oh
Speaker 4: they were you know, went to the same university and
Speaker 4: it was good. Yeah. And he was not drafted, as
Speaker 4: you said, you just signed with Philadelphia as a free
Speaker 4: agent and look what happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of speaking about like the undrafted just because
Speaker 3: you know, we know that it's a potential with love
Speaker 3: with Caleb Love. Yeah, just like looked up some like
Speaker 3: of the best recent like undrafted players and I didn't man,
Speaker 3: I didn't know if Fred van Vliet was undrafted. I
Speaker 3: didn't realize Alex Caruso had been undrafted, you, Donnis Haslam.
Speaker 4: I mean, just interesting stuff. You know, it's it's a
Speaker 4: tough league.
Speaker 2: It's a tough league, and if you can play, they'll
Speaker 2: find you and they'll sign you and you'll you know,
Speaker 2: have a good career.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's yeah, it's gonna be interesting. I'm I'm excited.
Speaker 3: I probably won't you know, I'll keep up with it.
Speaker 3: It's one of those things where it's like you will,
Speaker 3: you know, because it's like it's the same thing with
Speaker 3: the draft. It's like you don't really need to like
Speaker 3: the NFL draft, but he just you know, if you
Speaker 3: just just like check your phone everything, maybe half hour.
Speaker 4: Well even tonight, who's gonna who's gonna?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 4: I mean, really, in all honesty, do you even know
Speaker 4: who some of these guys are when you get into
Speaker 4: the second round? Barely? I mean, you know, there were
Speaker 4: a lot of guys last night that I don't remember.
Speaker 4: I just you know, we watched it all the time. Right,
Speaker 4: But oh, the Son's just traded their number fifty two
Speaker 4: and fifty nine picks to get the Warriors forty first tonight.
Speaker 4: That kind of news is popping every all afternoon. So
Speaker 4: they're gonna have one more pick. The sun is picking
Speaker 4: up the Duke Center yesterday, right, So yeah, and they
Speaker 4: they traded away that their later pick. You think they're
Speaker 4: twenty ninth pickers? Sure they have some rebuilding to do. Yeah, slightly,
Speaker 4: what happens? Okay? Anything else? I have something that's what? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well, I was telling Dave jam DeLaura. I didn't realize
Speaker 2: it until today. He's coming to play here this weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 2: against the Sugar Schools, against the Sugar Schools. I really
Speaker 2: realize he's with the Las Vegas Indoor League.
Speaker 4: Right. How'd you know this? I saw a Spears post
Speaker 4: about it on Twitter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw I heard it on the radio. I said, well,
Speaker 2: because I was wondering where he ended up.
Speaker 4: But he's with the Las Vegas Indoor team. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 4: coming coming kind of home for Yeah. I mean I
Speaker 4: can't keep track of what happened to him. It was
Speaker 4: unfortunately here, he's there, he's moving, he transfers, he lends
Speaker 4: in Texas State, and then it didn't work out, and
Speaker 4: then that was it. That was it. And yeah, and
Speaker 4: he recently signed. He played in the UFL according to
Speaker 4: according to AI, but that was how long that was exactly? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 4: good for him that he san Antonio Brahmas on twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four, so maybe maybe he hasn't been playing since then.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, it's probably what happened after he didn't make
Speaker 2: it at Texas State. It's not that he didn't make
Speaker 2: it to anyone in there, and he yeah, joined that team.
Speaker 4: No, it's in the indoor League. Okay, yep, anything else, Okay,
Speaker 4: let's go. We'll get ahold of Steve pot Finn from
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Speaker 1: This is Eye on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 1: Want to take part in the show Call up Steve
Speaker 1: now went five to two oh four one seventy.
Speaker 2: Hey welcome, that's why them all here Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Rivera, you're Dave Silvert. You got Ray behind
Speaker 2: the scene here and now we have coach Steve poppin
Speaker 2: from the roadrunners.
Speaker 14: Are you doing, coach, I'm doing well. Excited to be
Speaker 14: talking hockey. I'll tell you that I was gonna.
Speaker 4: Say, tomorrow's a big day for you guys, or is it?
Speaker 6: Oh, it's a huge day.
Speaker 14: You know that the draft is everything, right, It's the
Speaker 14: foundation of everything we do.
Speaker 6: It's where we find the next wave of talent.
Speaker 14: Everybody's looking for that one piece, right and you look
Speaker 14: at a lot of times those pieces turned into real
Speaker 14: serviceable assets or tradeable assets that you know eventually help
Speaker 14: you win the Stanley Cup. So tomorrow's a big day.
Speaker 14: We're all looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: How many of those players who picked you know here
Speaker 4: in this this draft will maybe wind up here in Tucson,
Speaker 4: do you think.
Speaker 14: Well, you know what, I think there's going to be
Speaker 14: a real strong showing Listen. We want to set the
Speaker 14: standard for development in the American Hockey League. So I
Speaker 14: think the way that the team is being shaped up top,
Speaker 14: you know they're they're pushing to to really make a
Speaker 14: playoff run here.
Speaker 6: And when your team is deeper, while your your prospects.
Speaker 14: Are going to spend a little bit of time in
Speaker 14: the American Hockey League, you know, trying to evolve their
Speaker 14: talent and expand on on their skill, and so I
Speaker 14: suspect that.
Speaker 6: A lot will join the road Runners.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and what this may be a dumb question, what
Speaker 2: impact do you have with the draft? I know you're
Speaker 2: having a party here tomorrow for viewing, but what's your role.
Speaker 4: In all of this?
Speaker 14: Well, my role in all this is is, uh, you
Speaker 14: know what, I'm going to watch and let the scouts
Speaker 14: and the management group do their job. Uh, they prepare
Speaker 14: all season long, they watch all the players, all the kids.
Speaker 14: I think they have a real strong understanding of what
Speaker 14: winning hockey looks like. And so we put our trust
Speaker 14: in the scouts and listen, they're they're involved knee deep
Speaker 14: in some some pretty good meetings right now trying to
Speaker 14: figure out which which kids are going to be part
Speaker 14: of our organization.
Speaker 4: So real quick, Dave, just to follow up on that one.
Speaker 2: Uh, So they're the they're the they go, they go
Speaker 2: buy the groceries, and you're the chef at this level.
Speaker 6: I like it. That's good. That's good.
Speaker 15: I like it.
Speaker 14: Yeah, listen, we we you know, we we just saw
Speaker 14: Josh don and and Kessel Ring. You know, those are
Speaker 14: two players that grew in our organization in UH in
Speaker 14: Tucson first and then they evolved and we're able to
Speaker 14: be contributing players at the NHL level.
Speaker 6: But you know, we're proud that we drafted a player like.
Speaker 14: Josh and he was able to to grow within our environment.
Speaker 14: So it's it's we're real proud of that, and you know,
Speaker 14: we want to want that growth to continue. As I
Speaker 14: said earlier, we want to try to really set the
Speaker 14: standard of what development and growth looks like at the
Speaker 14: American Hockeyhive levels. Uh, it requires the draft first, and
Speaker 14: that requires a pretty good plan and uh, you know,
Speaker 14: making sure we follow through our process.
Speaker 4: Are most of the players still coming out of the
Speaker 4: juniors in Canada still? I mean, it looks like that
Speaker 4: seems to be the case. There's a few n C
Speaker 4: Double A guys listed among the possibilities in the first round,
Speaker 4: but are most is the cream of the crops still
Speaker 4: still up there? I think it's got to go.
Speaker 14: There's a good mix now, you know, the n C
Speaker 14: Double A is obviously done well in recent past, and
Speaker 14: you know, I think there's going to be a little
Speaker 14: bit of a restructuring.
Speaker 6: I think they're you know, the players.
Speaker 14: Are are going to come from Canada, of course, but
Speaker 14: you and see how how deep the US is becoming
Speaker 14: and how well they're developing their young talents. It's going
Speaker 14: to be a pretty good mix of both at this point.
Speaker 2: Do you so next week are you gonna have the
Speaker 2: party tomorrow to the viewing and then right away next
Speaker 2: week you start to develop and stuff?
Speaker 14: Right, that's right, So we go, I guess we've got
Speaker 14: a couple ex players, right, you.
Speaker 6: Got Kracknell and MP that are going to be joining
Speaker 6: the the draft party.
Speaker 14: But yeah, the draft happens, and then the boys they
Speaker 14: have one day and they end up we all end
Speaker 14: up meeting in Utah, and then we go through, you know,
Speaker 14: things that we value. We go through some skill development
Speaker 14: sequences that they'll be exposed to as the season goes on,
Speaker 14: not only in practice but obviously in gameplay. So we
Speaker 14: try to put them in some of those situations so
Speaker 14: they're ready to you know, expand their game and be
Speaker 14: ready for the.
Speaker 6: For the pro game, or you know what.
Speaker 14: A lot of them go back to play junior or
Speaker 14: college and they'll you know, have an opportunity to expand
Speaker 14: and understand what it takes to become a pro.
Speaker 4: Do you have a chance to see these guys like, like,
Speaker 4: I don't want to compare it necessary to you know,
Speaker 4: the NBA, where it seems like we do get a chance,
Speaker 4: at least in the US to see most of the
Speaker 4: top prospects. But you, as a hockey coach, one are
Speaker 4: you wondering maybe what am I getting when even if
Speaker 4: we know he's going to be a first round pick
Speaker 4: or you know, picked early, they're going to be good.
Speaker 4: But have you seen a lot of these guys yourself.
Speaker 6: I've not been able to see them.
Speaker 14: You know, when when the hockey season starts, you're you're
Speaker 14: so focused on your team and the teams that you're playing.
Speaker 14: You know, we don't we don't really get a real
Speaker 14: strong understanding of how the players are performing and you know,
Speaker 14: what their strengths and weaknesses are during the season.
Speaker 6: So at this point, I really don't know.
Speaker 14: Obviously, once we recre with the players, we'll dive in
Speaker 14: and we'll set a profile and you know, we'll take
Speaker 14: a look at their film and make sure that we're
Speaker 14: fully aware of, you know, the player that's coming and
Speaker 14: we've got to make sure that we're able to lead
Speaker 14: them and guide them in the right direction to maximize
Speaker 14: his growth.
Speaker 2: So last year you made the playoffs very well or
Speaker 2: fairly well? What were your needs and how was last year?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 14: I think last year was you know, success can be
Speaker 14: measured in so many different ways.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 14: I think with the team that we had two seasons ago,
Speaker 14: we had a real good mix of young players that
Speaker 14: were ready to play in the NHL and it was
Speaker 14: just a matter of when, not if, And of course
Speaker 14: they were mixed in with some a real good lead
Speaker 14: you know, a lot of good, real strong leaders. So
Speaker 14: I thought the mix was really good. And last season, you.
Speaker 6: Know, we were a younger team.
Speaker 14: The players were trying to do what they could to
Speaker 14: you know, evolve to the American Hockey League level, learn
Speaker 14: the level, and you know it's gonna take them some time,
Speaker 14: but they're you know, they're gonna have an opportunity down
Speaker 14: to grow their.
Speaker 6: Game and see how far they can push it.
Speaker 14: And uh, you know, obviously we're hopeful that it's it's
Speaker 14: going to expand into an h L brand game and
Speaker 14: you know that will eventually help obviously the Tucson Roadrunners,
Speaker 14: and I thought last year the mix of leadership that
Speaker 14: we had did a real good job of expanding their
Speaker 14: communication and their qualities as people and leaders, and they
Speaker 14: helped the young guys grow and so we're able at
Speaker 14: the end to form a real strong team.
Speaker 6: And I thought.
Speaker 14: It was from that to that point real successful and
Speaker 14: I thought our young guys were able to evolve.
Speaker 6: You know, in a league that listen, isn't easy. It's
Speaker 6: a it's a lead that's gonna test your will. And
Speaker 6: that's how bad.
Speaker 14: They want to be a hockey player, because you know,
Speaker 14: I guess a little bit narrow at the top and
Speaker 14: typically that last five.
Speaker 6: Rather to do some things that maybe you weren't.
Speaker 2: Exact real quick. You're your phone is kind of like
Speaker 2: coming in and out a little. I'm not too sure
Speaker 2: where you're at. But you're going to get a chance
Speaker 2: and maybe this year to coach a Dmitri and Danell
Speaker 2: Where were they last year?
Speaker 6: Sorry you cut out there, Okay what you said.
Speaker 2: So you might have a chance to or maybe you
Speaker 2: already have Dmitri and Danelle to coach this year or
Speaker 2: have they.
Speaker 14: Yeah, look, listen, we're we're not exactly sure at this point.
Speaker 14: We're going to try to do what we can to
Speaker 14: get through this development camp. Go through rookie tournament, then
Speaker 14: go through the NHL training camps, and then we'll see
Speaker 14: how it's how it all kind of evolves.
Speaker 6: So we're looking forward to.
Speaker 14: Whoever we have and whoever we get will be prepared
Speaker 14: and we'll have a strong understanding of what they need
Speaker 14: and where they need to evolve.
Speaker 2: Could you, could you, because I'm not too familiar with them,
Speaker 2: because I'm not a big hockey guy, could you just
Speaker 2: mentioned last year there were two first rounders from a
Speaker 2: couple of years, right, so we don't so last.
Speaker 14: Year we we didn't have a first rounder with us
Speaker 14: six we had up front, we had mav Lamaraux in
Speaker 14: the back end, which was a first rounder.
Speaker 2: This was in twenty twenty three, though, I think maybe
Speaker 2: you're a year behind. No, no, they sent me this
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. Dimitri and Danil were first rounders who
Speaker 2: signed with Utah last month.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we haven't. We haven't seen them yet.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 6: No, we haven't seen them yet. Our first rounder last
Speaker 6: year that we were able to coach was Maverick.
Speaker 4: So logistically, how how did things go this year with
Speaker 4: the with the team, you know, relocating kind of the
Speaker 4: way they did. And you know, there's such a closeness
Speaker 4: between Phoenix and Tucson. How did things go with Salt
Speaker 4: Lake City?
Speaker 6: You know what, I we thought it was. We didn't
Speaker 6: we didn't.
Speaker 4: We thought it was seamless.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 14: I thought our group did a great job of, you know,
Speaker 14: making sure that we had everything we needed when we
Speaker 14: were you know, in transition when guys were getting called up,
Speaker 14: we were ahead of it.
Speaker 6: I don't think there was really any issues there.
Speaker 14: And you know, I thought our communication with the staff
Speaker 14: was you know, in the NHL staff was good. So
Speaker 14: I thought I didn't think the transition was difficult at all.
Speaker 4: So tomorrow's a big day. Like we talked about, open.
Speaker 2: To the public, correct starts at four, Yes, sir, what
Speaker 2: can people do?
Speaker 4: They can go be fans. Is it a cost anything
Speaker 4: like that?
Speaker 14: Well, I'm not sure that there's a cost involved, but
Speaker 14: I know that there, you know, there there's gonna be
Speaker 14: some excitement there.
Speaker 6: I think there's going to be, you know, a pretty
Speaker 6: good environment.
Speaker 14: I think everybody's excited to be part of the draft
Speaker 14: and see what you know, what players are coming.
Speaker 6: We have former players that.
Speaker 14: Are going to be there, Adam Kracknell and Tyson MPI
Speaker 14: are going to be there, so it's always nice to
Speaker 14: have familiar faces, and you know, there's just just just
Speaker 14: gonna be you know, I think an environment where everybody's
Speaker 14: happy talking hockey again and looking forward to getting the
Speaker 14: season started and looking to see what our future looks like.
Speaker 4: Nothing like hockey talk when it's one hundred degrees and
Speaker 4: Tucson man. The Stanley Cup finals were amazing. Again, maybe
Speaker 4: just talk briefly about Florida and the dominance that they're
Speaker 4: showing here over the last couple of years. What's happening
Speaker 4: down there?
Speaker 14: Oh well, you know, give credit to how they were
Speaker 14: able to put that team together, you know, to be
Speaker 14: able to pick up Marshawn and Jones at the tail
Speaker 14: end and foreslan As just to basically a free pickup.
Speaker 14: I mean, those are three major players that really contributed.
Speaker 14: It's hard to imagine a team in this era to
Speaker 14: be able to get to the finals three years in
Speaker 14: a row and win two of them back to back.
Speaker 14: So it's it's a credit to their to the management group.
Speaker 14: But look at they they set a standard of how
Speaker 14: simple and how hard you need to play and when
Speaker 14: you play real simple like that.
Speaker 6: It's it's it's really effective.
Speaker 14: And they've got the guys to be able to play
Speaker 14: a hard nosed game, and you know, when they wanted
Speaker 14: to turn it on, it was hard to play against them.
Speaker 2: Can you talk briefly, maybe last question about the fans
Speaker 2: and Tucson. They pushed really hard for them to stay,
Speaker 2: for you guys to stay here, and I'm sure they
Speaker 2: kind of supported you a lot over the last year.
Speaker 6: Oh, it's been great. You know, I know that there
Speaker 6: was you know, a major there was you know.
Speaker 14: Support that we we really weren't expecting when things were
Speaker 14: going really poorly.
Speaker 6: I mean, I know that there was, you.
Speaker 14: Know, a petition going around, and you know, I thought,
Speaker 14: I thought the fans really rallied together. And it just
Speaker 14: goes to show and prove that hockey belongs in the desert.
Speaker 14: And you'd love to see that the new rink now
Speaker 14: was being built and you know, minor hockey is going
Speaker 14: to continue to grow and it's.
Speaker 6: Great to see it. And listen, we just talked about
Speaker 6: Adam and Tyson.
Speaker 14: They're they're running a clinic there daily and they're offering
Speaker 14: some office shooting and we're seeing you know some kids
Speaker 14: partaking that and it's just great to see the fans
Speaker 14: give us the type of support that they have, and
Speaker 14: they showed up and were able to really help us along.
Speaker 14: You know, we had some really good crowds late in
Speaker 14: the season, and I thought it elevated our game.
Speaker 6: You know, our guys.
Speaker 14: Wanted couldn't wait to get home and play in front
Speaker 14: of them, and we were able to win that last
Speaker 14: game and get.
Speaker 4: Us to the playoffs.
Speaker 14: So it's definitely a credit to you know, the fans,
Speaker 14: the organization, the players, and we're all connected.
Speaker 2: Well, see, we appreciate your time. Good luck tomorrow and
Speaker 2: next week at the camp.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
Speaker 14: Thanks guys, thanks for having us on and hopefully we
Speaker 14: pick up a couple guys here that can get us
Speaker 14: to the cup.
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Speaker 2: the road Runners, appreciate you.
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Speaker 1: Tucson's sports station, Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to our on the ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, Your Dave got
Speaker 2: Ray waiting.
Speaker 4: For some calls.
Speaker 2: So if it's the number five two zero four one
Speaker 2: six seventy four forty. We had Don on yesterday, our
Speaker 2: usual Don call and what.
Speaker 4: Do you want to talk about? We talked about We
Speaker 4: were talking about coaching kids, coaching kids and the expectations
Speaker 4: that they had, and the parents and all the usual
Speaker 4: crap word. You know, this Keller helicopter parents and they
Speaker 4: expect more, YadA YadA. But VIC tried to get in. Vic,
Speaker 4: you couldn't get in.
Speaker 2: If you want to call five two zero four one
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Speaker 2: text if you want to call in, that's fine too.
Speaker 2: Anybody else who wants to call, first time listener, first
Speaker 2: time caller, that'd be appreciated. We went through some hockey,
Speaker 2: some MBA stuff. Will Caleb Love get drafted? You kind
Speaker 2: of think maybe.
Speaker 4: I mean, what's give me a percentage, I don't know, fifty.
Speaker 2: Fifty, I don't know. I'll take the fifty percent. That
Speaker 2: is it gonna happen. Yeah, And I only say that,
Speaker 2: and I'm not negative on this. I just his name
Speaker 2: hasn't popped up anywhere, you know it is really that's
Speaker 2: for a reason, and maybe they're just trying to keep
Speaker 2: it secret.
Speaker 4: But I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's just surprising because he has so many, so many accolades,
Speaker 3: He's had so many big moments.
Speaker 4: It's just it. I mean, he was an All American
Speaker 4: a year ago, right, not this last season, right, first
Speaker 4: team making first or second team first making All Star teams.
Speaker 2: So in your list of people that were retracted by you,
Speaker 2: of a Marcus Williams was like the thirty three, I
Speaker 2: think like that.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you something. He's twice as good as
Speaker 4: Marcus Williams. Yeah, and you don't get a sniff, Well,
Speaker 4: you know, who knows what the environment was like in
Speaker 4: those years, were a lot of international players coming over there.
Speaker 4: I don't who knows.
Speaker 2: This is back in the day, almost almost twenty years ago,
Speaker 2: which is unbelievable now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's really interesting too, because it's like you,
Speaker 3: like you say that, it's like maybe it's something we
Speaker 3: don't know about, but it's like we see it on
Speaker 3: the court that he you know, he has the potential
Speaker 3: right to be able to play at that at that level.
Speaker 3: And then and you know, the after the Duke game,
Speaker 3: I remember Vasar and like a bunch.
Speaker 4: Of the guys like we're like, hey, he's a great guy.
Speaker 3: And then obviously we've had like we played the clip
Speaker 3: of Tommy vouching for him too.
Speaker 2: So it's like, well, look at you, look at you,
Speaker 2: so continue what are you observing?
Speaker 3: I don't know, It's just it's it's a tough call.
Speaker 3: It's like, what what's making this guy so unattractive teams?
Speaker 4: Well, here's here's the other thing. Why would they have
Speaker 4: to vouch for him exactly? Well, yeah, it's a fair
Speaker 4: point to.
Speaker 2: Raise a good guy. He's a super good guy. I
Speaker 2: see do charity work. But I'm talking about you just joking,
Speaker 2: but in a situation raise a good guy, I se
Speaker 2: do charity work. But why would I have to say
Speaker 2: that publicly? Yeah, you know, to defend you.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's no surprises out there to they know
Speaker 4: everything exactly. They talked to coaches, they've talked to you know, scouts, whatever,
Speaker 4: they've seen them in person, they've watched them in games.
Speaker 4: I mean, they know who he is. We got a call.
Speaker 15: Who's this?
Speaker 4: You're on the air, t Ken, How are you? First
Speaker 4: time caller? Sounds like.
Speaker 15: Yes, I am. I've listened bookayse bookays at different times.
Speaker 15: In any way, I I always liked hearing you regardless,
Speaker 15: you know, not a religious listener.
Speaker 4: If you will, Okay, what do you are you? What
Speaker 4: are your thoughts? Thank you?
Speaker 15: By the way, Well, my my thoughts are I've been
Speaker 15: here since nineteen seventy nine, and coincidentally I grew up
Speaker 15: in Saint Louis where you're singing the praises of that
Speaker 15: guard on the in the draft pool, and I must say,
Speaker 15: you know he's talented, but uh what he he didn't
Speaker 15: have as far as I look for, like I'm like,
Speaker 15: I'm a draft analyst. Is one of the last games
Speaker 15: he played, you know, he shot like thirty or forty
Speaker 15: times and made of three of them, and he was
Speaker 15: just like robotic trying to make a shot. Instead of
Speaker 15: saying what a lot of people will will acknowledge well,
Speaker 15: I'm not hitting the hidden of you know, the making points.
Speaker 15: So what else can I do? Can I right?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 15: Or apposite? On stealing baskets? You know, the whole gamut
Speaker 15: of things.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, I understand what you're saying. You're probably referring
Speaker 2: to the Clemson game too. Thanks for the call, because
Speaker 2: we got another call. But we'll answer that your thoughts
Speaker 2: real quick. It's Ken, right, what's your name?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Ken?
Speaker 2: Thank you Ken for calling. Keep listening, hopefully you will.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, so we've got a new call. Let me
Speaker 2: answer the question real quick. So against Clemson, if you remember,
Speaker 2: you went like three for eighteen something like that, and
Speaker 2: that still reverberates right this last year he was off
Speaker 2: and on, off and on until the playoffs last month
Speaker 2: or so when he's really on.
Speaker 4: So, which Caleb Love is are you going to get? Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's the key. I'm sure that's what the scouts are thinking,
Speaker 4: like that, we're gonna get this guy that's just gonna
Speaker 4: go shoot. But you know, maybe he would be more
Speaker 4: controlled in the NBA environment by a different coach or
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, here's your point because you mentioned this, and we'll
Speaker 2: get to the call in a second, at the at
Speaker 2: the G League or the summer league. You said, let
Speaker 2: him take control. That's the problem. You can't let him
Speaker 2: take control because that could be.
Speaker 4: Who he is. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 4: don't know. I mean, are the NBA coaches going to
Speaker 4: let someone go three for eighteen though? Oh no, no,
Speaker 4: you know they're out, You know them, doesn't There's all
Speaker 4: because there's somebody else right whereas maybe the UFA didn't
Speaker 4: really have a you were, you were spot on. Yeah,
Speaker 4: if this guy can't do it, guess what we got
Speaker 4: another dude who you can. Yeah, yeah, okay, we got
Speaker 4: a call. You're on the air and nine on the ball. Hey, gentlemen,
Speaker 4: you brought up Marcut Williams. Is this Marcus about for
Speaker 4: sona non grata?
Speaker 6: You know what I mean? Like he was here and
Speaker 6: then he left and it was just.
Speaker 20: Like everybody washed their hands and like, hey, let's move on.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 20: Maybe, I mean Iguodala kind of had issues with Loot,
Speaker 20: but I don't know if any I wasn't even living
Speaker 20: here at the time. But I don't know if anyone
Speaker 20: who like the fan base just didn't like, like, I
Speaker 20: don't know that's Marcus Williams.
Speaker 6: That's funny he brought.
Speaker 20: His name up because like I was like, man, who
Speaker 20: is that?
Speaker 6: And like, oh, yeah, that was Marcus. Well, that dude
Speaker 6: played for the U of A.
Speaker 20: Like he totally was outside of my my mind space,
Speaker 20: Like I had to like.
Speaker 6: Recall who he was.
Speaker 2: Right along those lines, there was Chris Rogers if you remember,
Speaker 2: of course, who was kicked off a team and brought
Speaker 2: back Marcus. Marcus was just one of those dudes who
Speaker 2: thought he was an NBA guy after two years he
Speaker 2: was not. Andre Andre and Lute had their back and
Speaker 2: forth every now and again. It's weird that you knew that,
Speaker 2: but it's true.
Speaker 4: So yeah, no, I would think Caleb.
Speaker 20: I don't think he's going to you know, get drafted
Speaker 20: and become a contributor on an NBA roster. I think
Speaker 20: he's gonna hang out in the bottom third maybe some
Speaker 20: G League time.
Speaker 4: I think Marcus was bigger than him. I remember, yes,
Speaker 4: he was, yes, like six eighty six to seven.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 20: Yeah, So I mean I think that's kind of the
Speaker 20: NBA kind of drafts on potential and you know, like
Speaker 20: a lot of Hubris. But I mean I hope somebody
Speaker 20: does give him a chance because the guy is a
Speaker 20: gamer and put him in the right situation.
Speaker 7: I think it can contribute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree with you. And guess where Marcus
Speaker 2: went San Antonio. Ah yeah, so okay, hey, thanks again.
Speaker 2: This is Money team Money, right, yes, sir, thanks man,
Speaker 2: thanks for listening, Thanks for calling.
Speaker 4: All right, take care.
Speaker 2: Anybody else want to call. We have a few minutes
Speaker 2: right down, about seven eight minutes.
Speaker 4: So that's good in a career that took him literally
Speaker 4: around the world. You know, he played in China market, Marcus,
Speaker 4: he played in you know, yeah, China quite a bit.
Speaker 4: Actually played he played for the Austin Toros. We're talking
Speaker 4: about Austin with Vinnie Is. This is the saying Tonio
Speaker 4: spur Product played for the Clippers for a minute or so.
Speaker 4: It's funny because that's eighteen years ago.
Speaker 2: I think about eighteen years ago, he would be about
Speaker 2: thirty eight, almost forty now, you got it?
Speaker 4: Uh yeah?
Speaker 2: So hey, and remember who he played with, Chase Budding,
Speaker 2: who I had on the show here. And I used
Speaker 2: to talk to Chase when he was a freshman. I said,
Speaker 2: who was a fantastic player, right, And I said, why
Speaker 2: don't you just kind of take over. He says, I'm
Speaker 2: a freshman. I don't want to step on anybody's toes.
Speaker 2: The guy that he would have stepped on was Marcus Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. That was an interesting period of time because
Speaker 4: it because kind of the end of Loot's yeah era,
Speaker 4: and some of these guys kind of came in with
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, Chase came in with incredible credentials.
Speaker 4: Was any one of the players in the country.
Speaker 2: Well, he and Luke had said maybe he was maybe
Speaker 2: fibbing a little because he needed him to play.
Speaker 18: Well.
Speaker 2: Was the all time best recruit he'd ever had. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there was a guy named Steve Sean Elliott, right, there
Speaker 2: was some other dudes out there, but he was trying
Speaker 2: to you know, prop him up. Yeah, because he needed
Speaker 2: that class because of a why Nick Wise, Jordan Hill,
Speaker 2: and he was coming off not a great year, so
Speaker 2: he needed to get the people to believe again.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I mean, like I said in Team Money
Speaker 4: just said too about the potential situation with with Caleb,
Speaker 4: it's obviously he's got the potential and it's just a
Speaker 4: matter of which team wants to take the chance. And
Speaker 4: they only get a couple of picks and you know,
Speaker 4: do I do we draft him or do we maybe
Speaker 4: sign him? Maybe we just you know, have him on
Speaker 4: the back burner and we'll we'll get him tonight later.
Speaker 2: I think that we talked about this earlier, David is
Speaker 2: probably the best thing is not to get drafted. You
Speaker 2: you and your your team of agents figure out where
Speaker 2: the best place to go and go from there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember, I was I was interviewing one of
Speaker 3: the coaches here in the area and they had told
Speaker 3: me about how they had an agent. It was for
Speaker 3: football though, and he was from Houston, and he he
Speaker 3: told me about how he obviously wanted to play for
Speaker 3: the Texans but played linebacker, so it was when they
Speaker 3: had like a really good linebacking course.
Speaker 4: So it ended up going to the Rams. So it's
Speaker 4: one of those things where it's like you find your place.
Speaker 3: It's better to find where you can fit than where
Speaker 3: you want to go.
Speaker 2: Sure yeah, sure, no, if you want to make this
Speaker 2: a life, yeah yeah, sometimes I won't even use this analogy.
Speaker 4: I always use these stupid analogies.
Speaker 2: You know what, probably what I'm going, oh man with women.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes it's the other place that's going to be
Speaker 4: a more comfortable fit. And also too, I was just
Speaker 4: looking and I didn't kind of forgot the fact that
Speaker 4: there's a lot of teams. It didn't have any picks
Speaker 4: last night that I don't want to get somebody maybe
Speaker 4: that's going to fit in. I mean, the Warriors isn't.
Speaker 4: I was just going to ask you that Detroit Pacers
Speaker 4: have two picks coming up tonight, didn't have any in
Speaker 4: the first round. Does the Golden State have some? The
Speaker 4: Lakers have one, the Bucks. Golden State has two, Yeah,
Speaker 4: but like fifty two and fifty nine, so I mean
Speaker 4: that's going to be pretty late in the draft. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and then Cleveland also has two. So those are playoff teams.
Speaker 4: It didn't have anybody, So you know, the playoff teams,
Speaker 4: how many Yeah, how many spots are available. The Lakers
Speaker 4: didn't go either, I don't think do they. No, Yeah,
Speaker 4: the Lakers have the forty fifth pick tonight and the Suns.
Speaker 4: The Suns have they had too now they think they
Speaker 4: just have one.
Speaker 3: Funny enough, I could see I could see Caleb Love
Speaker 3: going to the Warriors, like like he kind of fits
Speaker 3: into that cominga role, kind of cominga role.
Speaker 4: Really, Yeah, I think athletic.
Speaker 3: You know, athletic guy, decent, shooter, streaky, but I mean
Speaker 3: one and Steven.
Speaker 2: The group has drafted some Arizona guys in the past.
Speaker 2: That's true, Manion that made the stage for Bud a
Speaker 2: year Forgot. Yeah, maybe, but Caleb's just rare something.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 2: He's a shooter. He's a scorer, but he's more of
Speaker 2: a shooter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he is a scorer. In these days, you got
Speaker 4: to be like six five sixty six to be that
Speaker 4: two guard. It seems like he's not a point guard. No,
Speaker 4: I don't think you know, so, I don't know. Is
Speaker 4: he tall enough? That maybe something that's holding them back
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 2: He's a fantastic town you can get to the rim.
Speaker 2: He knows he's dunks out of this world. But it's
Speaker 2: the butt.
Speaker 4: Play much defense? Is that going to be an issue?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Well? That's yeah.
Speaker 2: Another thing when you watched when you watched Carter, did
Speaker 2: you see that he played defense?
Speaker 4: I mean he made defensive plays like highlight They.
Speaker 2: Talk about him doing this three I don't remember him
Speaker 2: being this like stopper.
Speaker 4: I remember getting a lot of follows. Yeah that did
Speaker 4: I miss? Yeah, I mean there were the highlights I
Speaker 4: kept showing over and over him. There's a couple of
Speaker 4: great block shots where he kind of recovers and and
Speaker 4: gets in a position to make it kind of a
Speaker 4: spectacular Hey, but because he probably just got burned.
Speaker 2: To use that analogies, I've started a fire or too,
Speaker 2: but I also had to extinguish her to turn it off.
Speaker 4: You know, that's kind of what we're seeing with him.
Speaker 4: So I don't know, but you know, we've seen him
Speaker 4: in six y nine. He's got a huge wingspan, he
Speaker 4: can jump out of the court. He's going to have
Speaker 4: a long career. He's a Stanley you know. When you
Speaker 4: saw Standley Johnson, everyone said he's the you know, first
Speaker 4: he didn't have a long career. No, No, I don't
Speaker 4: know what happened there too, because I remember he was
Speaker 4: kind of you know, you know, here we are, Oh,
Speaker 4: we're comparing him to Lebron because he kind of had
Speaker 4: the same body, big body, you know, So we kind
Speaker 4: of felt that way and sort of saw that as
Speaker 4: a young player here, but it just never evolved in
Speaker 4: the pros. No, because he didn't have a shot.
Speaker 2: He was an athletic dude who can gets the rim
Speaker 2: and stuff, but he didn't have a shot, and and
Speaker 2: kind of his mentality was was a little selfish. You know,
Speaker 2: in the story for TJ McConnell, his sor, you're not
Speaker 2: going to mess up our season by being this selfish guy.
Speaker 2: And and that just doesn't happen overnight. That's kind of
Speaker 2: who you are until you're not until you can't be.
Speaker 2: And if you're there in the in the NBA, people
Speaker 2: are going to tell you it doesn't work here.
Speaker 4: Just you're not stiff, You're not this guy to be
Speaker 4: that guy. Well, I mean, Carter, he passes the eye test.
Speaker 4: You know, he's got a nice looking shot, he can
Speaker 4: he does make those spectacular plays on defense. Let's see.
Speaker 4: I mean, let's give him a chance. I guess we
Speaker 4: really didn't get a chance to really see him play
Speaker 4: that much and get him in front of some procout
Speaker 4: pro coaches and pro players to compete against. Let's see
Speaker 4: where he stacks up. I mean, there's nothing we can
Speaker 4: say right now. He's he's in position to be successful.
Speaker 4: I'll give you another guy, another guy who was one of.
Speaker 2: Those guys the Shimmy, the shimmy I just left his name,
Speaker 2: Lefty Shimmy or with the TJ. McConnell's and Aaron Gordon's.
Speaker 2: And did you think he left early too? And he
Speaker 2: played a figure he played well maybe three yeah, maybe
Speaker 2: three went to in New Jersey. God, why didn't I
Speaker 2: get it for you?
Speaker 4: I don't recall someone called? Tell me someone text me?
Speaker 4: Uh where?
Speaker 2: He lasted maybe three maybe four years at the most.
Speaker 2: And you think, okay, he has potential, but he couldn't score.
Speaker 4: He was more of a defender. That's right. He was
Speaker 4: all defense. College. Oh no, I can't.
Speaker 2: I gotta get this name how I'm not gonna get
Speaker 2: it out of like, Oh man, it's our j it's
Speaker 2: a who is it?
Speaker 4: Tell me Dave?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: I know, no one's gonna tell me. I have to
Speaker 4: come back tomorrow. Jefferson. There we go, that guy. But
Speaker 4: he was more you know, yeah, he is all defense,
Speaker 4: all defense. Money. We gotta go.
Speaker 1: We go.
Speaker 2: Team money's calling it. Thanks Team Money for the chance.
Speaker 2: We'll see you guys tomorrow