WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:03.799 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on 2 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:08.439 Fox Sports fourteenth fifth Day powered by Nova Insurance Services 3 00:00:08.839 --> 00:00:10.960 Ensure your most prized possessions. 4 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:14.880 Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to your Eye on the 5 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:18.160 Ball and you're on Fox Sports fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, 6 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:23.839 They're David Silver. Are you doing it? 7 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:29.760 I'm doing well. 8 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:33.679 I'm rocking out. I'm the DJ. Okay you sound good. Yeah, 9 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:37.280 Hey it's Wednesday. You were just here Monday. Yeah, you're 10 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:40.119 almost irregular. Niko's gonna say you've paid them yet? I know, 11 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:42.200 really was that gonna start happening? No, it was great. 12 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:43.880 Monday Night had to be one of the highlights of 13 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:47.320 the sports years so far, the early early January. That 14 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:50.079 was quite a quit a game, quite a what a night, 15 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:51.079 what a shot. 16 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:54.439 Right now they were doomed. They were dooming all they 17 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:56.439 were doing. Yeah, they're doom They should not have won 18 00:00:56.479 --> 00:00:56.840 that game. 19 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:59.240 No, I mean it was one of those games again 20 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:02.119 and you're there, I'm watching it's one of those Uh 21 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:04.319 you know, I know it's getting late. Is this game 22 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:06.719 gonna you know the time you stay up? 23 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:06.799 Oh? 24 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:07.640 Yeah, I watched the whole thing. 25 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:09.959 Get out of there about twelve o'clock exactly twelve o'clock, 26 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:12.280 and we hadn't written yet. Yeah, I hadn't written yet. 27 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:14.959 So let me let me put this scenario to you. So, uh, 28 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:20.319 you're You're Dave Silver, and people are asking you before 29 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:22.879 this game, before a few of the games, how good 30 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:24.519 is this team? How good do you think they are? 31 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:25.519 Before this game? 32 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:29.120 Don't I thought they were getting better in the last 33 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:32.599 you know whatever or five weeks. I mean they're been 34 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:34.719 obviously their records much better than it was in the 35 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:38.319 first month. So yeah, I mean there was positive signs there. 36 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:40.000 How good are they going to be? Can they beat 37 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:41.959 the number three team in the country. I wasn't quite sure. 38 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:44.439 I don't think anybody was before the game started, but 39 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:46.599 you know, I think they showed kind of the way 40 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:49.280 Arizona plays at home forever, you know, they just kind 41 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:50.799 of they can contend with anybody. 42 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:52.840 Good point, because I say that all the time. Give 43 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:56.560 Arizona a challenge, they show up, Yeah, give them a say, 44 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:59.280 we just have to show up and win. They play 45 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:01.519 like that, and that wasn't the case. I'm money. The 46 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:03.879 reason I ask you is because for the last two 47 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:07.840 three weeks, when I go out of people. They obviously 48 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:10.879 recognize me with the crowd I hang out, and I 49 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:13.599 tell them they haven't played anybody yet. I've said it 50 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:16.280 on the show before too, right with us, they haven't 51 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:19.439 really played anybody, maybe outside of Baylor. They bake Baylor here. 52 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:22.240 So I said, you know, we will know when they 53 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:24.400 play Iowa State. And I've been saying this for three weeks, 54 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:26.240 that will know when they play Ia State. And every 55 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:27.840 time I see them, this is you still think they're 56 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:30.120 not any good And they're like seven zero, right, and 57 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:32.360 then they and then they go eight, and then then 58 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:35.000 they lose and then they whatever. And I said, yeah, 59 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.560 we won't know until they play Iowa State. And last 60 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:41.400 Sunday or Sunday, I ran into that group and they said, 61 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:43.400 what do you think even though they're doing a seven 62 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:45.159 to one or whatever I did, we'll know when they 63 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:48.240 play Iowa State. So next time I see them, next time, 64 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:50.599 I'm sure, says how do you feel now? How do 65 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:54.159 you feel now? I don't feel any different, only inasmuch 66 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:56.159 as they were able to do what they needed to do. 67 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:59.759 But they should have lost that game, honestly. 68 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:02.800 They Sometimes that's the sign of teams that have something 69 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:05.159 going their way maybe who knows. I mean, that was obviously, 70 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:07.080 you know, once in a lifetime shot. 71 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.680 But they should have lost. But you know that said, 72 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:14.280 even if they lost, and and and Brian Peterson tried 73 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:17.199 to pose that question to Tommy, you know, hypothetical, had 74 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:20.879 you lost, how would you feel about I think deep 75 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:23.680 down he would say, you know what, we played pretty 76 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:26.360 damn good and lost to the number three team in 77 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:26.879 the country. 78 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:28.520 And they hung with them. They really did. They were 79 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:31.080 with them the entire the entire game. Nobody really had 80 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:34.039 much of a lead. I think maybe Arizona had somewhat 81 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:35.520 of a lead every once in once in a while. 82 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:37.639 But you know, I always state was tough. They've they've 83 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:42.000 obviously played in some difficult environments in their season already, 84 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:44.719 and yeah, this was their their first look at Michael 85 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:45.360 sent So. 86 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:48.639 After that game, it comes Tuesday and you're with your 87 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:50.840 group of people. I don't know if. 88 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:52.960 Yeah, actually we were. We were talking about it and 89 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.120 what they say, Yeah, they were, well, they were excited. 90 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:56.800 I don't think they look at it as closely as 91 00:03:56.800 --> 00:03:58.280 maybe you and I do, but they were, Hey, wait 92 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:01.560 with the game, would you think I mean, for ten minutes, 93 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:03.120 that's all they wanted to talk about. Was just the 94 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:05.560 game last night. And there are more fans to rights 95 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:07.639 and they've been around. These are people who've lived in 96 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:09.840 Tucson for a long time and they've many of them 97 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:12.039 are alumni, so they have some vested interest in it 98 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:12.439 as well. 99 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:15.879 They were excited, Yeah, as they should be, and beats 100 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:19.199 the alternative of not winning, right, right. But here's the 101 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:21.279 catch to And we've seen this number of times, Dave, 102 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:23.480 how many times? I know Sean did it a few times? 103 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:26.759 They win big games, go up north and get beat Yeah, 104 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:28.800 when he left, he was like five and five against 105 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:31.839 them up there was he really and he had pretty 106 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:34.839 damn good teams. Of course. Oh look, was that last 107 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:36.439 year of the year before when the guy hit the 108 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:37.360 same type of shots? 109 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:37.879 That's right? 110 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:39.199 Was it last year the year before? I mean a 111 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:42.360 couple of years ago when Arizona gave the Hurley some 112 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:45.199 grief on the sidelines and then he went back to 113 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:46.800 give them grief because they hit the shot. 114 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:51.519 And as U last night, you know, Colorado is still winless. 115 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:53.959 They beat him, they you know, they knocked off Colorado 116 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:56.120 on the road last night. So issue got a few 117 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:57.279 wins here here and there. 118 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:00.000 Yeah, so they're capable up there to knock up your 119 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.639 Arizona because invariably, if Arizona doesn't show up under any 120 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:09.480 condition or whatever conditions, they'll get beat. Because if you're 121 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:13.000 they're challenged, Uh, they're challenge they play out of their mind. 122 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:16.040 If they're not challenged, they don't play out of their mind. 123 00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:18.759 They've had a couple of challenges. Obviously the Texas Tech 124 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:20.680 game on the road, they were they were tight, tight, 125 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:22.920 and then the last ten minutes they got far apart. 126 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:26.399 Yeah, but the Duke Duke here, I think that's the 127 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:28.120 one game that you can kind of look back and 128 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:31.240 they didn't go mono on mono with Duke. Yeah, it 129 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:33.720 was maybe too early, but he just that's the one 130 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:35.319 game that they failed to kind of show. 131 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:35.680 Yeah. 132 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:38.800 And it's funny how basketball works too with matchups and 133 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:41.639 things like that, where you know, Dolorso has this ridiculous 134 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:45.040 game a couple of games ago against coll against Colorado 135 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:46.959 and then the other night he barely was on the court, 136 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:49.199 you know. Or it's funny how just you know, maybe 137 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:51.319 it just wasn't his style. They would call it. Colorado 138 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:53.839 played that zone defense. He's a great outside shooter. Yeah, 139 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:55.439 and I always he's playing more man and man in 140 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:57.519 your face, and he just wasn't gonna get open. 141 00:05:57.720 --> 00:05:59.879 So where I was going with this with your group? 142 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:02.600 And they probably, like you said, don't watch it as closely. 143 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:05.759 H my group, well, yesterday we were rather function you 144 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:08.600 and I and some of the people that they talked to. 145 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:10.600 They said, oh, what do you think about Arizona now? 146 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:12.360 And I told them the same thing. And then he says, 147 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:15.600 you know what, that Iowa State team is a Final 148 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:19.040 four team. I don't disagree they have that. They have 149 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.680 that in them because you saw how tough they were. 150 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:25.040 One of their best players had a horrible game, and 151 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:27.720 they were kind of missing somebody. Somebody else's hurt. Tommy said, right, 152 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:32.079 Tommy said, so that team is pretty damn good. It's 153 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:34.800 like obidding on a horse that's that's a very very 154 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:37.480 very good horse, but doesn't fire that day and and 155 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:40.120 you know, finish his third and then you know the 156 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:41.600 next race is to kill it. 157 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:42.079 You know. 158 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:44.240 And watching some of these teams, the Cats, you know, 159 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:46.560 they like we talked about Baylor. Baylor played in tough 160 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:49.560 last night against BYU and lost on the road. You know, 161 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:51.959 Arizona took care of them also, you know, on their 162 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:56.079 home court. But they've got Kansas coming up next. Yes, 163 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:58.560 I mean it's at Baylor. 164 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:00.680 Okay, I mean I would venture I guess that Baylor 165 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:04.000 beats Kansas. People don't understand and did you didn't go 166 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:07.480 very much onto the road games right now? And if 167 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:09.560 there's one thing I learned that was it it's tough 168 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:11.399 to win on the road, no matter where you're at. 169 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:13.399 It was great though, whenever when I was there. There's 170 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:15.199 a few times I remember I went to UCLA one 171 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:17.360 time in Arizona one. I went to San Diego State, 172 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:19.759 and I think it was one of the loots last 173 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:22.399 years when Luke Walton was still there. It was kind 174 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:24.079 of a big deal for him to be back in 175 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:26.839 San Diego and Arizona one there, that was a big one. 176 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:29.480 Yeah, you'd have to be very very good, Uh, to 177 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:31.279 win on the road, Wasn't. 178 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:32.759 That kind of Loot's thing, you know, like try to 179 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.560 go five and five in fact ten those years, you know, 180 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:39.680 win half your games and stay you know, perfect at home. 181 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:41.600 And which are the ones that gave him the most grief? 182 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:44.360 It was the Washington States, the Oregon States. It was 183 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:46.519 the teams that his guys didn't get up. 184 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:49.000 For and there usually be some kind of gimmicky defense 185 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:51.040 or something that those teams were almost desperate to do. 186 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:52.959 It seemed like, you know, when they went had to 187 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:55.319 have with Stanford, those were some classic games. There were 188 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:56.959 so many, you know, I'm sure. 189 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:00.839 But Stanford was on their par with with Mike Montgomery. 190 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:02.439 You know, they were in the park. It was the 191 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:05.519 Oregon States, it was the Cows. It was those teams 192 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:07.839 that you have to say, come on, guys, you gotta play. 193 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:11.079 Better combination of the team and the environment. And yeah, maybe, 194 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:12.879 oh he just knocked off UCLA. Now you got to 195 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:14.800 go play usc There's gonna be three thousand fans in 196 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:17.160 the stadium, and it's just not the same. 197 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:19.759 And then some dude that you've never heard of comes 198 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:22.879 up with a thirty two point game, you know, and 199 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:24.199 then you never hear from him again. 200 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:25.439 Who was that guy? 201 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:28.600 Oh he's selling you know, he's a salesman now, yeah, 202 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:33.759 so insurance. Well he was actually selling the shurts that day. Yeah, yeah, okay, no, 203 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:37.240 thanks for being here, Dave. Sure another day, another dollar here, 204 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:39.759 We're going to have Pete Williams here. In about ten minutes, 205 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:42.279 we had him here about a month ago. I think 206 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:45.159 I wanted to talk to him just about the situation, 207 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:48.480 what's going on with the team and Awaka. I know 208 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:52.759 that they're not similar players, but they're similar players, but 209 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:57.279 they're not similarly built. But Awaka does what Pete Williams 210 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:59.720 did many many years ago. Yeah, their stat lines are 211 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:01.039 probably very similar. 212 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:03.399 Especially a walk would last what three or four games, 213 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:05.480 all of a sudden, there's a little more offense there. 214 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:08.399 He you know, basically he'd been just kind of cleaning 215 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:10.559 up on the boards and doing some putbacks, but he 216 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:12.840 was hitting a little get a little bit more outside 217 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:13.360 of his range. 218 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:16.320 If you get maybe eight ten from him, eight ten, 219 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:18.960 guess what he's doing, and then he's getting like twelve 220 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:20.960 to sixteen and rebounds. 221 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:23.679 That's a double bonus. That's a big game, Yes, a 222 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:26.519 huge game. Henry's kind of been up and down really 223 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:29.200 in the last I don't know, three weeks. Sure, sure, 224 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:33.080 but you know the Knights there, they've they've complimented each 225 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:37.200 other in some ways. You know, Owaka will play, come out, 226 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:39.360 Henry will come in. I mean, back and forth they go, 227 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:40.279 let's see who can. 228 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:43.279 Produce right and if it's and what the game before. 229 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:44.960 I think it wasn't when they did that story with 230 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:51.200 the talents and Owaka and and and on, they'll dill 231 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:54.080 or so because if those three dudes show up and 232 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:56.919 then you have the other guys, you know, the Uh, 233 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:01.600 the uh, the TJ, the kJ, the Jaden's and the 234 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:05.120 and the loves, those three come together, this team could 235 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:07.399 be very very good. So but now you're asking for 236 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:10.279 six seven, you're asking for the team to play very 237 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:12.480 very well. Yeah, and you know that's not gonna happen. 238 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:15.480 I mean again, looking at those box scores, and I 239 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:17.919 don't know, I can't always tell just by that, but 240 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:20.200 I mean even Love wound up with over twenty points 241 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.279 the other right, and it was he was not very 242 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:26.000 good until the last had six eleven eleven in the 243 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:29.000 last five point one seconds exactly. 244 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:32.600 Yeah, you know he made what threes and those two 245 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:35.639 free throws? I think, yeah, yeah, so you know he 246 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.399 can and he's capable of that. The thing is, it's 247 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:41.279 funny because I asked him that question, how could you 248 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:44.480 be really good? No, no, really bad, really bad, really 249 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:46.240 bad and missing those shots and then all of a 250 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:48.159 sudden be really good, really good, really good. 251 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:51.559 You know, there's no rhyme or reason to it sometimes 252 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:53.320 and you just have to let him play and see 253 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:54.440 what kind of what happens. 254 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:57.679 Especially especially from a god that came who who missed? 255 00:10:57.679 --> 00:10:59.840 Who missed a bunch? He was one and one for 256 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:03.240 ten right before you hit that. Every who are who shooting? 257 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:07.039 Maybe twenty one footers, twenty two footers, nineteen footers, YadA, YadA, 258 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:09.559 And then he only hits one of those and then 259 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:11.120 hits the fifty five foot shot. 260 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:13.919 That's amazing, amaze that happens sports. 261 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:17.399 Let's take a quick call here, Let's see what happens. Hello, 262 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:19.039 you're on the air and eye on the ball. Who's this. 263 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:21.679 Is this? 264 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:24.200 Hey buddy, it's Rick? 265 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:24.759 Rick? 266 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:27.480 What's going on? But Donald or something? This is two 267 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:28.320 days in a row? 268 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:32.759 Wait a minute, Am I listening to yesterday's show on 269 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:33.279 the radio? 270 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:36.679 I think we talked about this on Monday? Didn't what's up? 271 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:40.120 Oh? 272 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:41.080 Are you guys live? 273 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:45.200 You called us? You called us? We're live? Are you alive? 274 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:45.960 Okay? 275 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:47.039 Hey Dave Hi. 276 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:50.480 The only thing about. 277 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:54.000 That game to impress me other than the final shirt, 278 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:59.159 you know, shot it before the regulation. So the defense 279 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:03.440 that Arizona played, I haven't seen them play with that 280 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:07.919 much intensity and then in overtime, if they were to 281 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:13.600 play that way for forty minutes, that is one heck 282 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:14.720 of a basketball team. 283 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:18.759 Okay, so they have about they have about fifteen eighteen 284 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:22.039 games left. I bet you you don't get seven of 285 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:23.799 those games. 286 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:31.519 Well even you know, they played faster with the ball, 287 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:34.960 moving around location when they had the ball. They weren't 288 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:37.480 walking up and just start a lot of ganging around. 289 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:41.360 And number two, but the defense for the whole game, 290 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:47.279 but that overtime defense, that was just very, very impressive. 291 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:52.960 Yeah, thirteen steals yet I mean at thirteen steels, which 292 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:54.360 is a pretty big number. 293 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.840 Yeah, I mean, it's just but they were in those 294 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:03.840 guys grill even without a steel, those guys, they didn't 295 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:08.200 look like the same Iowa was eighteen. They played in 296 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:12.279 the first five six minutes, I think Arizona showed that 297 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:15.480 they could play up in their chest, they could play physical, 298 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:20.840 and they weren't intimidated by anybody. And I have tipped 299 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:23.519 my hat off to coach for getting them defensively in 300 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:27.440 a position to be so good. Like you said, if 301 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:29.919 they'd lost the game, they'd have lost to a top 302 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:34.919 final fourteen. But the fact that they more important. They 303 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:38.720 played defense like they're willing to do what it takes to. 304 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:41.679 Get to the top. So yeah, yeah, no question they 305 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:44.120 earned it. Yeah all right, Rick, thanks so much. Your 306 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:49.399 live You're thank you, I'm alive. Goodbuye. 307 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:53.159 No, he's right, he's right there. They were in their faith. 308 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:56.919 There was definitely a definitely a feeling of intensity on 309 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:59.799 defense that you haven't seen often with the u of A. 310 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:03.120 And they played strong on the defensive side of the ball. 311 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:06.519 They had sick like I said, thirteen steals. They didn't 312 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:08.440 have a whole time of fouls. You know the game 313 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:10.919 maybe that's big twelve officials, although they were saying these 314 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:15.159 officials were from everywhere, Yeah they are. The broadcaster said, like, 315 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:17.200 this is a Final four type crew. I mean there 316 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:19.559 were some names yeah there the I even recognize. 317 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:21.440 So you know, the game is called well right, and 318 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:26.120 it's it's one big pool now of refs. Let me 319 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:27.679 let me say this. The one thing that was kind 320 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:30.840 of maybe understold in the game was Love's defense on 321 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:33.879 their best scorer. He didn't do a good job. I mean, 322 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:37.320 the guy didn't do a good scoring baskets. Love did 323 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:38.519 a pretty good dog defensively. 324 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:41.159 Yeah, defensively, it was pretty good. I mean Bradley had 325 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:41.960 how many steels? 326 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:42.519 Seven? I think? 327 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:43.159 Yeah. 328 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:44.759 But the thing is, how many times have you said 329 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:47.279 Love did a pretty good doug job defensively? Yeah? 330 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:51.120 Ever, kJ you know coming off the bench, he paid 331 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:53.440 thirty seven minutes. You know that was he's not a bench. 332 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:54.840 I mean, he doesn't like what. 333 00:14:54.879 --> 00:15:00.360 Is dill orso barely three fours non factor, no not factor. 334 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:03.200 Well didn't score, Yeah, you might be taken maybe two 335 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:03.639 three shots. 336 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:06.519 I mean after what he had twenty Yeah, the game before. 337 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:09.039 Right, well, it kind of shows there's no retrue leader, 338 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:12.600 which is I guess fine. Uh, but they're all kind 339 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:13.759 of stepping up in their own way. 340 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:15.879 I mean, again, as I said a few minutes ago, 341 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:18.000 I think the fact that Colorado played that zone defense 342 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:19.919 kind of opened things up for him. 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