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Speaker 2: Been good afternoon, everybody.
Speaker 3: Welcome to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 3: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in with me today. Is
Speaker 3: kind of like my regular dude, I'm back, Dave Silver.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad you retired. You got This is kind
Speaker 2: of work now sort of, so this is fun.
Speaker 3: This ain't work. This is fun. It's like this is good.
Speaker 3: Bork is roofing in the mornings one hundred and ten degrees.
Speaker 2: No, I don't have to do that. No, this is great.
Speaker 2: Glad to be back. Good to be back. On Monday.
Speaker 2: I had a busy week. Are you had a busy week?
Speaker 2: And I guess with basketball at least observing? Yeah, we
Speaker 2: and you did too.
Speaker 3: How'd you do in your little try out there with
Speaker 3: baseball Baseball WBC.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess I hung in there, Okay, it was It
Speaker 2: was a challenge. You know, I've never really done public address.
Speaker 2: Of all the things that I've done kind of around
Speaker 2: a microphone. That was one thing I really unless maybe
Speaker 2: I did some little league games or through the years,
Speaker 2: and yeah, so not doing that. Plus you're the challenge
Speaker 2: of a couple different teams from different countries from you know,
Speaker 2: from China and Germany yesterday, so I don't know. I
Speaker 2: thought I did. Okay, they've invited me back at least
Speaker 2: for one more game, and good for you, and they
Speaker 2: can you know, get the professionals in there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, good for you. How was the crowd?
Speaker 2: It was okay. It was an early morning game when
Speaker 2: I was at was at eleven. I think they announced
Speaker 2: it somewhere around sixteen or seventeen hundred. I think they
Speaker 2: had more for the night game. It looked like I
Speaker 2: saw some of it on TV. It look like there
Speaker 2: are more people there. So the weather was nice. The
Speaker 2: weather's supposed to be okay, I guess a little warmer tomorrow,
Speaker 2: which is good. Yeah, since we have eleven o'clock and
Speaker 2: six o'clock games again, and then there's another one on
Speaker 2: Thursday at night. But that's it, so you know, quick
Speaker 2: and right, So it's it's tomorrow.
Speaker 3: So it's already three days, right, four days Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's it. Okay, No, good, good, good for them. I
Speaker 3: will see how the crowd is. I hope to get
Speaker 3: out there at some point sometime soon. You talked about
Speaker 3: the weekend EWA basketball. We're gonna have Troy Hutchinson coming
Speaker 3: in the first hour at three seventeen. I don't know
Speaker 3: if he went to Timmy Lloyd's press convin Did you
Speaker 3: go today to press comings? No, I didn't, so I
Speaker 3: didn't listen to it. I was too busy. So it's
Speaker 3: not a shock to me. I mean, maybe the maybe
Speaker 3: the way they played, not the way they played, the
Speaker 3: number of how once they got beat by right, was
Speaker 3: a little shocking, But I'm not surprised.
Speaker 5: I think people who listen to me.
Speaker 3: Know that I'm not too high on the team, and
Speaker 3: can you be, can you be given the situation and.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean late in the year like this
Speaker 2: and they give up you know, those kind of points
Speaker 2: and those kind of threes and you know, basically March already.
Speaker 2: It was pretty frustrating to watch that, and you know,
Speaker 2: kind of ominous knowing that we're really just a couple
Speaker 2: more weeks away from the tournament, and.
Speaker 5: That's kind of the same thing that happened in December.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the threes, the defense, the kind of lulls, And
Speaker 3: he even talked about it and his post game that
Speaker 3: he would he had wanted them to come out emotionally
Speaker 3: ready because it was the problem.
Speaker 2: Maybe a week or so, right, right.
Speaker 3: So the funny thing about it, David, and you've been
Speaker 3: in the business a lot of time, people like like
Speaker 3: General Public say well, they'll learn from this, they'll learn
Speaker 3: from this.
Speaker 2: How many times can you learn from that? Now, either
Speaker 2: you do it or you don't, after what whatever, twenty
Speaker 2: five games? Yeah, how much have you not learned or
Speaker 2: how much do you still need to learn?
Speaker 3: I've never spent my kids and they'll probably agree say
Speaker 3: the yes, but I give him a look. I gave
Speaker 3: him a look is don't do don't do this. That's
Speaker 3: kind of what he needs to do. Don't do this.
Speaker 3: You can't do this anymore. You can not if you
Speaker 3: want to have a future. In the march, usually you
Speaker 3: think about how is this all going to end? Well,
Speaker 3: that might have been a preview of it, Dave. No,
Speaker 3: you're spot on, man, You're spot on. You you can elaborate,
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna go with you.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 2: I was just thinking, I mean, really, how is this
Speaker 2: season going to come to an end. And that's really
Speaker 2: kind of what's been their downfall almost all year is
Speaker 2: just lack of intensity on defense, even though they have
Speaker 2: great moments on defense, which I think kind of turn
Speaker 2: their season around. Yeah, like in December, but you know
Speaker 2: when they you know, sit there and give up how
Speaker 2: many three pointers eleven or something in the twelve first
Speaker 2: half in the first half and just you know, most
Speaker 2: of them were pretty much clear shots. You know, that's good.
Speaker 2: That's going to what's going to end things against you know,
Speaker 2: another Princeton type team.
Speaker 3: Well, Clemson did that last year. Yeah, well, I totally
Speaker 3: agree with you, because you are who you are. I mean,
Speaker 3: just you are who you are, and this is kind
Speaker 3: of who they are, right the lax passes, the bad defense,
Speaker 3: on shooting, the bad shooting. I think those three are
Speaker 3: partly good enough to get your beat right any point
Speaker 3: in the tournament.
Speaker 2: Yeah, meantime, there's still twenty fourth in the country. The
Speaker 2: poll came out again today, which I know you don't
Speaker 2: you don't care about either, but it's the matchups. It's
Speaker 2: who they're going to be playing, right right.
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, when I was a little bit surprised they
Speaker 3: hung in there, but I think a lot of the
Speaker 3: voters still think highly of them.
Speaker 5: There ninth in the net really in the top ten, so.
Speaker 3: They I still think that they're pretty good, which could
Speaker 3: very well happen too. They can go on this one
Speaker 3: that we're not expecting. But I think a lot of
Speaker 3: people are kind of like poo pooing it because what
Speaker 3: they've seen. You know, how high can you be on
Speaker 3: this team given what you've seen, especially recently.
Speaker 2: What they're two and four their last six games, and
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, let's figure they're going to probably
Speaker 2: win this next game against Arizona State, but then going
Speaker 2: to Kansas who knows. Kansas lost at home the other
Speaker 2: day themselves, so they're not maybe the Jugger or not
Speaker 2: that we've all worried about, sure, but it's still a
Speaker 2: road game. It's going to be a big one for
Speaker 2: them no matter what.
Speaker 3: Well, look at this, they've they played tomorrow night here,
Speaker 3: which you say should be a win, and I agree
Speaker 3: with you. Kansas, who knows? And then they go to
Speaker 3: Big twelve.
Speaker 2: They don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to come home, but maybe
Speaker 3: they do. They will, and then they go three or
Speaker 3: two or one in the tournament and then you've got
Speaker 3: to go back on the road again to the tournament.
Speaker 5: It's not an easy thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll be stuck in the Midwest, you know, somewhere
Speaker 2: for sure, at least, you know, for a week basically
Speaker 2: getting through the Kansas game and then just kind of
Speaker 2: sliding over to Kansas City. So that's going to be
Speaker 2: a long time on the road. And we don't even
Speaker 2: know obviously who they're going to play. If they're one
Speaker 2: of the top four teams in the conference. There, they'll
Speaker 2: be off for a couple of days, kind of waiting
Speaker 2: to see who's who's you know available. Basically. It's funny.
Speaker 3: Before the game started, I was watching horse racing and
Speaker 3: the Bathrood horses getting ready for the for the derby.
Speaker 3: But there was a guy that came on the scene
Speaker 3: scene and he was talking about it. You know, if
Speaker 3: you have a weapon, if you have a weapon, go
Speaker 3: with that weapon, right, you know, you use that weapon.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, I don't know why I haven't heard that,
Speaker 3: but it's it was profound and very easy to understand, right,
Speaker 3: And I'm thinking, who's Arizona's weapon. It's a very easy choice.
Speaker 3: It's Caleb, right, but he's not really a weapon because
Speaker 3: you don't know when he's gonna go off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's you know, it's just been one kind of
Speaker 2: inconsistent run after another.
Speaker 7: Who do you trust?
Speaker 2: Who do you trust? Yeah, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: know if there's an answer to it. That's the problem. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean there's been obviously flashes of good stuff throughout
Speaker 2: the season, but then you know, games where he's just
Speaker 2: not even part of the offensive whatever results that the
Speaker 2: team is putting together, right, I don't know.
Speaker 3: And then we've talked about it. They need him to
Speaker 3: go deep into the tournament. They just they just do
Speaker 3: and maybe they don't need it to win all the games.
Speaker 3: But this ain't going to be easy. And I'd said
Speaker 3: in my story, I don't know if you read it.
Speaker 3: We knew that the second half, was second half of
Speaker 3: the conference season was going to be torture. It's been
Speaker 3: torture because they didn't play anybody in the first half,
Speaker 3: really pretty much played the bottom half of the league.
Speaker 3: Now the second half or a bunch of the tournament teams,
Speaker 3: the tournament teams that equal the other tournament teams are
Speaker 3: kind of just as good, right, right, Well, they're all
Speaker 3: tournament teams pretty much from here out except for tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Houston obviously, today, Ioway State, Kansas, Kansas
Speaker 2: is coming up. You're right, it's going to be pretty
Speaker 2: high competition, high quality competition, I would say, you know,
Speaker 2: the rest of the way. Obviously, even even when they
Speaker 2: get into the Big twelve tournament, that first game is
Speaker 2: gonna still be against somebody who's won two games and
Speaker 2: they're gonna have some momentum and all this and that,
Speaker 2: and now Arizona's gonna be an animey territory and things like.
Speaker 2: You know, it's gonna be an interesting dynamic just for
Speaker 2: that one weekend itself.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough.
Speaker 2: One.
Speaker 5: Give me your quick observation from Saturday.
Speaker 8: Saturday, Like you've talked about, it was disappointing to see
Speaker 8: the effort, especially on the defensive side. But that's credit
Speaker 8: to Iowa State. They're a great team. They if it
Speaker 8: wasn't for a miracle shot, they would have won in Tucson,
Speaker 8: they would have had the regular season sweep against the Cats,
Speaker 8: and it took a miracle to prevent that.
Speaker 2: Look at you, you've become more pragmatic than this sounds
Speaker 2: like me.
Speaker 8: But regardless, you can't play that way if you're Arizona.
Speaker 8: Because you play that way, like you said in the
Speaker 8: first round, you're going to lose another Princeton, another Clemson. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and where the Wildcats are projected right now? You don't
Speaker 8: like that? No, you don't like that?
Speaker 5: Where?
Speaker 2: Where? What's the lights of projection after today?
Speaker 3: And they still I think they're still a force, but
Speaker 3: I don't know if they've updated it since I don't
Speaker 3: think they're going to fall far anyway. Four or five, right,
Speaker 3: four or five, that's still respected. But let me also
Speaker 3: recall I was going to some memories on my Facebook
Speaker 3: that Arizona is the only program in the country that
Speaker 3: had lost to so many lower seeds. And I'm not
Speaker 3: being facetious and I'm being serious. They're the most the
Speaker 3: team with the most losses against higher seeds.
Speaker 2: Still haven't lost that one sixteen game, and that's not
Speaker 2: that's not kind of many times soon, but certainly the
Speaker 2: we've had the two fifteens a couple of times in thirteen, yeah, twelve, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the eleven's I think, so, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: So just another factor we talked about maybe a couple
Speaker 3: of months ago, we talked about them being on the
Speaker 3: road outside of tomorrow Kansas, the tournament, the tournament, what
Speaker 3: about being tired, what about being tired with a small rotation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's interesting because maybe they will come back
Speaker 2: if they're gonna if they're gonna play until whatever, the Thursday,
Speaker 2: third day of this tournament. Yeah, they probably will come back.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing. And I don't know where spring break falls.
Speaker 2: I think we might be approaching swing spring breaks, so
Speaker 2: you know, there won't be any classes and things like that,
Speaker 2: so i'd be maybe they will. I would think they
Speaker 2: would come back.
Speaker 3: I'm talking Okay, a good point, but I'm talking more tired,
Speaker 3: getting beat up, right, because they have to play beat
Speaker 3: up and I'm terms up, you're going to be really
Speaker 3: good defensively, guess what you have to do? Be physically defensively.
Speaker 3: They weren't the Saturday, and that kind of that's what
Speaker 3: it led to.
Speaker 2: And again like kJ did he foul out again? You know,
Speaker 2: I mean that's like two games in a row. You know,
Speaker 2: it's one thing to be aggressive, but you gotta be
Speaker 2: somewhat smart. Don't be fouling on three point shots again.
Speaker 2: I mean, those things like that are just frustrated. You learn,
Speaker 2: do you need to learn? We should look that one up.
Speaker 2: I look that one up. I'm just saying that it's
Speaker 2: happened a lot. I'm just kidding, but it has happened
Speaker 2: quite a few times, it seems.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And there's this team has little margin for error,
Speaker 3: just little Yeah.
Speaker 8: He talks about being tired and being beat up. That
Speaker 8: doesn't matter. No, no one's gonna feel sorry. March third
Speaker 8: and it's got check time. And that's what separates some
Speaker 8: of the great teams and some of those surprise teams
Speaker 8: that go and runs and watching the second round at home.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean everybody's everybody's beat up for sure,
Speaker 2: and so even when they get to the Big twelve tournament,
Speaker 2: they're gonna be facing teams that are either going to
Speaker 2: be injured or beat up. So you know, there's there's
Speaker 2: kind of that story with everybody. Yeah, but we and
Speaker 2: we're focusing on our team here, so we kind of know.
Speaker 2: But you're right, the teams are just you know, it's March.
Speaker 2: Guys have played a lot of games and those who
Speaker 2: can you know, survive some of this one of.
Speaker 3: The things I thought right away when kJ went down
Speaker 3: and he was down for a little bit, you know
Speaker 3: you're thinking, they can't. They can't little dude going out now,
Speaker 3: especially a guy like him or anybody, because those minutes
Speaker 3: are going to be gobbled up and the guy who's
Speaker 3: going to replace you isn't as good as the guy
Speaker 3: getting hurt.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean they're like one twisted ankle away from
Speaker 2: it being a really quick exit.
Speaker 5: You have to be they have to be careful with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The good the good thing for whatever you saw from
Speaker 3: him was Martinez. He didn't contribute anything offensively, but.
Speaker 2: It wasn't damaging.
Speaker 5: He so to say, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as long as the house is not on fire,
Speaker 3: you did a great job.
Speaker 8: Do you think this is and this is my personal question,
Speaker 8: do you think there's there's an issue with Tommy shortening
Speaker 8: that rotation and not having enough when it gets to
Speaker 8: March when when you have a player possibly like kJ Lewis,
Speaker 8: having four fouls and there's still ten minutes left and
Speaker 8: go to a good question.
Speaker 5: That's a good question. Who else do they have? They
Speaker 5: don't they don't?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and I'll say this yes, but every other
Speaker 3: coach does it too. Because it's who you trust, right,
Speaker 3: It's who you trust in tough situations. And guess what,
Speaker 3: March is tough situations. And he hasn't played enough. He
Speaker 3: just hasn't played enough. Whether he goes to him again
Speaker 3: or two Stephens, same.
Speaker 2: Kind of deal.
Speaker 3: Right. You could have kind of moved him in every
Speaker 3: now and again for three, four or five minutes. You
Speaker 3: let him get in for o'waka or whomever.
Speaker 2: But he didn't.
Speaker 3: It's the thing is how many softies did you have
Speaker 3: this schedule in the second half?
Speaker 2: And none? None? So what do you do? Yeah? But
Speaker 2: again I don't know who else you bring in? That's
Speaker 2: the problem you know they had they have. Stephens is
Speaker 2: the only one really played barely. You know, did he
Speaker 2: really want to bring him in in a situation where
Speaker 2: they need to fill a couple of minutes?
Speaker 8: I suppose sometimes how that's how great players are made too,
Speaker 8: And this is this is a different sport in a
Speaker 8: different atmosphere.
Speaker 2: But you think about Tua.
Speaker 8: He comes into the National Championship the second half and
Speaker 8: has a great game. Yeah, yeah, and sometimes you got
Speaker 8: to take that risk. Sure is there a two on
Speaker 8: the bench?
Speaker 2: We don't think so.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying there.
Speaker 2: Maybe we might find out, well, we might have to
Speaker 2: find out.
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Speaker 16: Breaking down all the xys it ohs. This is I
Speaker 16: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Winning the Ball. Here on Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in today's Dave Silver
Speaker 3: and now we have one at the lead here. Now
Speaker 3: we have Troy Hutchison from Goazycats dot Com.
Speaker 2: Troy, how are you good?
Speaker 7: How about you guys?
Speaker 2: We're doing fine.
Speaker 5: Did you go to the press commerce today?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 7: No, I did not. I've been busy working on suck,
Speaker 7: getting ready to fly al for Arizona Kansas this upcoming weekend.
Speaker 5: Welld you hit the lottery or something?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I wish, I wish I did.
Speaker 3: You'll enjoy fall Allen. It's a cool place. Whether it's
Speaker 3: a good game, I don't know. But so you didn't.
Speaker 3: What did you come up with Saturday? And I was
Speaker 3: hoping maybe we play some clips later about Tommy? What'd
Speaker 3: you come up with your dissection of the game?
Speaker 7: Well, you know, it really wasn't a surprise to me
Speaker 7: how Arizona performed on the road. I always felt like
Speaker 7: that was going to be one of the tougher games
Speaker 7: this season, especially how the game ended in the Kale Center.
Speaker 7: You're going to get the best out of I always say.
Speaker 7: And they're coming off of multiple losses back to back,
Speaker 7: so you have them with their back up against the wall,
Speaker 7: they get out to a hot start. Arizona was able
Speaker 7: to play better defense in the second half, but really
Speaker 7: by that point too little, too eight in Caleb Loff
Speaker 7: just too cold from the field to make any sort
Speaker 7: of comeback. But overall not a huge surprise in the
Speaker 7: result for Arizona.
Speaker 3: So they they play, they play tomorrow, they play Saturday,
Speaker 3: at least one game, let's say two games in the tournament.
Speaker 3: How many good games are you going to get from Killer?
Speaker 2: That's a good question. I mean, that's really kind of
Speaker 2: been the question we've been asking all season long, is
Speaker 2: we don't even know when that game is going to happen,
Speaker 2: then maybe one out of every four. It seems like,
Speaker 2: you know, I guess if you want to bet those.
Speaker 7: I see, I think you're going to get as a
Speaker 7: better game against Asu. I'm not going to say a
Speaker 7: classic Caleb good game, but I think you're gonna get
Speaker 7: a better game. I think you're gonna get a great
Speaker 7: game at fog Allen from Caleb seems he seems to
Speaker 7: feast off of those type of environments, although I always say,
Speaker 7: you can say it's that type of environment. But just
Speaker 7: going back to the Duke game. He had a good
Speaker 7: game at Cameron, so I think you'll he'll do well there.
Speaker 7: And then in the Big twelve tournament who knows Pack
Speaker 7: twelve not well Pack twelve NCAA tournament, I think you're
Speaker 7: gonna need to have a great game from him comes
Speaker 7: sweet sixteen if you want an advance. I think he
Speaker 7: can get away with him having a so so game
Speaker 7: advance in the first two rounds, but at that sweet
Speaker 7: sixteen point, that's gonna be where you're gonna need Caleb
Speaker 7: game in and game out to get.
Speaker 3: Twenty plus points to night. So I want you a
Speaker 3: game on Saturday like everybody else. And then one of
Speaker 3: my one of my good friends who knows basketball a lot,
Speaker 3: text me, but maybe in at the end of the game.
Speaker 3: What's evident about Arizona is they are so limited by love.
Speaker 3: I can't expect deep run when your best player no
Speaker 3: shows so often. I can't say I've seen a player
Speaker 3: at this level be so hot and cold like love.
Speaker 2: Yep, I think.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I think the one thing that Arizona has working
Speaker 7: for it, although it didn't work Saturday Night, is last
Speaker 7: year they didn't have this this type of defense. You
Speaker 7: have a defense that can at least keep you in
Speaker 7: a game, and maybe you can hit a few buckets
Speaker 7: down the stretch from Carter Bryant or Henry Vasart to
Speaker 7: overcome that again in that first couple of rounds. But yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean Cayleor Love is the offense and it's been
Speaker 7: that way ever since he got to Tucson.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you what I asked Dave earlier. If
Speaker 3: not Love, who are you going to trust on this team?
Speaker 3: Take your time?
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 7: Now that I would say Jayden, But Jayden looks a
Speaker 7: little worn down to me with the number of minute
Speaker 7: season been playing. I mean, you think about she a
Speaker 7: year ago, he was only playing twenty minutes a game.
Speaker 7: Now he's playing almost thirty four or thirty five minutes
Speaker 7: a game. I guess you would have to say, Henry
Speaker 7: Basar and Toba lock in just kind of pound the
Speaker 7: paint and get this go and do as much as
Speaker 7: you can in the paint to mitigate your your limitations offensively.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those seem to be the games that they've had
Speaker 2: pretty good successes. When those two guys, you know, if
Speaker 2: one guy's gonna score fifteen, the other guy's gonna score ten.
Speaker 2: And that seems to be a winning combination. So I
Speaker 2: would not be surprised if that's kind of the approach
Speaker 2: they take as I get, you know, into the postseason,
Speaker 2: play against maybe some teams that aren't as big or
Speaker 2: as tall, and you know, Henry's been able to take
Speaker 2: advantage of some teams just with his height.
Speaker 7: That and you're gonna have to have Anthony del Rosso
Speaker 7: take shots during the game. He passed up a couple
Speaker 7: three pointers in the second half wide open, and I
Speaker 7: think there was one when Arizona was down by they
Speaker 7: cut it to ten, and he passed up the shot.
Speaker 7: You need to take that shot. You're not going to
Speaker 7: get a better shot. I think the possession ended of
Speaker 7: I think Caleb Lover or Jayden Bradley dribbling the ball
Speaker 7: out of bounce. You're gonna have to take those shots
Speaker 7: and hope Carter gets you somewhere between ten to thirteen
Speaker 7: points a game. If Caleb isn't going right.
Speaker 3: So if you don't know me by now, you'll never
Speaker 3: never know me. And I'm saying this in reverse for
Speaker 3: tell also, if he doesn't know what to do that
Speaker 3: by now, you'll never never know.
Speaker 2: It's five months in.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, well, I mean he did it against Eyu
Speaker 7: and that's then pretty much the only game. I know,
Speaker 7: you had that twenty point game earlier in the season.
Speaker 7: I can't remember the opponent, but outside of those two games,
Speaker 7: that's that's been it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, they're gonna have to find some answers.
Speaker 2: And like you said, you know, the defense has been
Speaker 2: pretty good, maybe not so much the last five or
Speaker 2: six games, but they're going to have to rely on
Speaker 2: their defense as well. I mean, they can't be given
Speaker 2: up eighty five ninety five points.
Speaker 3: Even then that's like a sixty seventy deal because they
Speaker 3: didn't do it Saturday. Right, There's times when they they
Speaker 3: do things in like really not spurts, but whatever they
Speaker 3: want to and some of the I.
Speaker 7: Mean they're locked in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you know these teams are playing, they're
Speaker 2: you know, they're pretty good offensive teams too, exactly the
Speaker 2: United States not shabby.
Speaker 5: Nor is By and Troy.
Speaker 3: We don't and Day We've seen this a thousand times
Speaker 3: since we've covered the team this long. You go up
Speaker 3: against Houston, maybe not as good as Houston, but a
Speaker 3: team that's going to slow them down, limit the possessions
Speaker 3: they can play in the half court. That's a recipe
Speaker 3: for disaster. It's always been.
Speaker 7: It's a team like Saint Mary's that likes to slow
Speaker 7: it down playing that or good offensively and a very
Speaker 7: good Saint Mary's seen that that that would be a
Speaker 7: very interesting matchup, to say the least. That's say, I
Speaker 7: don't know, let's say, uh five four or three six? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: that's not a comfortable game, no, No, And.
Speaker 5: Who knows about the other teams that we don't even
Speaker 5: know about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I look at my ma alma mater,
Speaker 2: San Diego State. That's the way they play. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're lucky to get into the sixties sometimes, but they
Speaker 2: win a lot of those games too. So I mean
Speaker 2: those those teams dictate the tempo, and you know, you
Speaker 2: wind up in with a kind of an ugly game sometimes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And people say you can get out of it, No,
Speaker 2: you can't.
Speaker 3: If I if I choose to hold the ball with
Speaker 3: five seconds left every possession, you can't change that, right,
Speaker 3: That's just what they do now. Yeah, even if they're
Speaker 3: down ted, they're going to do it.
Speaker 2: Definitely.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah. And the only way you can really speed
Speaker 7: teams like that up is if you one get out
Speaker 7: and transition when there's a misshot and to press them.
Speaker 7: They usually those teams have a really good guard play
Speaker 7: and they don't turn over the ball because they're used
Speaker 7: to teams trying to press them and turn them over.
Speaker 7: So it's a tough task.
Speaker 2: What are you expecting to see in Kansas? Is this
Speaker 2: me your first time there?
Speaker 7: This is my first time there, you know, high expectations
Speaker 7: after seeing Arizona Duke and Cameron indoor last year. To
Speaker 7: be honest, that's the best environment I've ever been to
Speaker 7: is Camra an indoid stadium. So I don't know if
Speaker 7: he'll be at that level, but you know, I expect
Speaker 7: a really good game. I think it's going to come
Speaker 7: down to the wire, and I do think everyone's going
Speaker 7: to come away with the victory somehow.
Speaker 2: In Kansas.
Speaker 7: It's just not the same Kansas team. But you have
Speaker 7: you know, Bill self challenging his team and challenging the
Speaker 7: fans leading up to that game with the statement that
Speaker 7: he released after their loss.
Speaker 5: Against Sex Attack.
Speaker 3: Well, so that's not the same team that's been Kansas, right,
Speaker 3: This is not the same team it's been Arizona either, No.
Speaker 7: No, No two programs that are hovering around the top
Speaker 7: twenty five, that are usually in the top fifteen, top ten.
Speaker 5: So yeah, no, it'll be fun.
Speaker 2: It'll be fun.
Speaker 3: I was with you at Duke obviously, and I've been
Speaker 3: to Fog maybe two or three times, so you'll enjoy it.
Speaker 2: Stay warm. Were you with the Saline Stottam game?
Speaker 3: The thought that that was don't forget it was still
Speaker 3: the Candy Gate game. That's right, Candygate game. And they
Speaker 3: went back again, so it's it's been and that was
Speaker 3: when actually Kevin O'Neill took him in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3: I think it got beat there over that. But yeah,
Speaker 3: well I remember go.
Speaker 7: Ahead, well they went there, no way, because I remember
Speaker 7: nine they came to Tucson with penal and I think
Speaker 7: they beat them by like fifteen something like that. Something crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a return game. So it'll be fun.
Speaker 5: It'll be cold. But then you've got to get ready.
Speaker 5: Are you going to staying? Are you coming back?
Speaker 7: No, I'm coming back to two on of a break
Speaker 7: in between games. To stay up there for me in
Speaker 7: terms of, you know, the day to day stuff, not
Speaker 7: only with the website but just life in general. But
Speaker 7: I will be coming back and covering the Big twel
Speaker 7: tournament from home in Tucson. I know Arizona the plan
Speaker 7: is as of right now, to travel back and then
Speaker 7: travel back up to Kansas City. Uh. That way the
Speaker 7: team gets some rafts in between the games.
Speaker 5: That makes sense. It can't get rested in Kansas real
Speaker 5: real quick.
Speaker 2: What's your thought on this in the Auburn series, it's
Speaker 2: been put together as last week. Your thoughts on that?
Speaker 7: Oh, I think it's great. You know, it reminds me
Speaker 7: back in the day of Riddolson challenging anybody. Anytime you
Speaker 7: have Auburn, you have Alabama, you have Yukon on the schedule,
Speaker 7: you have UCLA on the schedule, it wouldn't be surprising
Speaker 7: enough they added something else. I mean, maybe they're done,
Speaker 7: but Tommy's not one to hide away from playing teams
Speaker 7: home and away and taking those challenges. And even with
Speaker 7: this challenging, big old schedule, he clearly wants to keep
Speaker 7: that up. And I think not only is it great
Speaker 7: for Arizona fans and for the Alburn fans, it's great
Speaker 7: for the game of college basketball, but you can do
Speaker 7: these home and home events instead of playing at a
Speaker 7: neutral side in New York or neutral side in La
Speaker 7: or Vegas. Just having the home crown environments is what
Speaker 7: college basketball is all about.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The thing is, you know you have to win some
Speaker 5: of those games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just do it.
Speaker 3: I don't know if do you guys have it's lost
Speaker 3: its luster. I cover Loot for twenty five years and
Speaker 3: everyone knows that. But there was a luster there until
Speaker 3: his maybe the last two years, sure, those last two years.
Speaker 3: But now even though there was almost been good the
Speaker 3: last three years prior to this with under under Tommy,
Speaker 3: it still didn't do well in tournament and it lost
Speaker 3: the luster. Every year it's kind of lost, and now
Speaker 3: this year is.
Speaker 2: Like what, there's there's still a brand. I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: there a pretty good brand. I mean TV is putting
Speaker 2: these games together too, so they look at the ratings.
Speaker 2: Is a people going to watch this? Yeah, you play
Speaker 2: a game in the West Coast. I mean there's there's
Speaker 2: a little vac that goes in the brand is yeah, go.
Speaker 5: Ahead to try.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 7: I know Sean Miller had a running with the two eliteates,
Speaker 7: three Elite eights in total, but honestly, it's lost its
Speaker 7: lusters since I would say the Illinois game. It hasn't
Speaker 7: been the same Arizona stay the same style, guard play,
Speaker 7: the uh you know, the NBA toughness and the point
Speaker 7: guard you mentality, that's that's long gone. And how you
Speaker 7: get back to that is winning NCAA tournament games. And uh,
Speaker 7: unfortunately for Tommy hasn't gone past the sweet sixteen. So
Speaker 7: everybody's like, well, you know, the last guy got to
Speaker 7: at least an Elite eight. So what are what are
Speaker 7: your standards of a program? Because in my opinion, Sean
Speaker 7: Miller didn't meet the standards of a program. Well, now
Speaker 7: you're saying, well, you know Tommy's not meeting the standards.
Speaker 2: Of what Shawn did.
Speaker 7: So are the standards down for you? Ovating it?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: What is the standard?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: Well, there's here's here's an interesting thing. So David and
Speaker 3: I are older. We know the history of long history, right,
Speaker 3: so we can kind of put things in perspective. You
Speaker 3: talked about Illinois. That's been like twenty years of just
Speaker 3: about give or take your twenty twoish.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So so one let me say one, you issue a
Speaker 3: twin I was thirty, right, I have well socks older
Speaker 3: than you. So one in your perspective. Do you agree
Speaker 3: what we're saying here with the team perception?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, one, Well, we I've talked about a lot
Speaker 8: how uh people around the city too. So I think
Speaker 8: Arizona's a blue blood within the sport of college basketball,
Speaker 8: and I've said multiple times that they're not, and that's
Speaker 8: because of the lack of winning going to final fours,
Speaker 8: leit eights. Yeah, you have one national championship on your
Speaker 8: belt for about to be thirty decades old, three three
Speaker 8: decades old, thirty years so it's lost his touch a
Speaker 8: little bit, right, Yeah.
Speaker 7: I'll even say that it's it's never been a blue blood.
Speaker 7: It's been close. I mean, Arizona was very good in
Speaker 7: the nineteenth and early two thousands. If they got that
Speaker 7: second title against Duke, you you get to a title game,
Speaker 7: getting over the Illinois hump, maybe you can still kind
Speaker 7: of talk about it. But it used to be a
Speaker 7: top ten, top fifteen program when Sean took it over.
Speaker 7: I would say at the end of that era, I
Speaker 7: went down to a top fifteen, top twenty, and that's
Speaker 7: where it's been hovering ever since.
Speaker 5: So it's not a blue blood.
Speaker 3: So hold on, let me get your grades. A plus
Speaker 3: for understanding it's not a blue blood. J Steele fails
Speaker 3: by quiz.
Speaker 2: You know, I have to go back to my TV
Speaker 2: roots and again, there is not a lot of West
Speaker 2: Coast powers basketball, and that's where Arizona has fit in.
Speaker 2: Even though maybe they're not a blue blood, but they
Speaker 2: still draw it and they still attract a matchup like
Speaker 2: we're going to see what these it's your Alabama schools.
Speaker 3: To your point, it was your your your your A,
Speaker 3: it was your symbol. What did you say you called
Speaker 3: it your brand?
Speaker 2: The brand?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's the brand. The brand is still there.
Speaker 3: But you're right, you know they're not with Yukon or
Speaker 3: even it's a brand. But let me say this, here's
Speaker 3: the brand. Uh. They still get issue and U eight
Speaker 3: mixed up. They did last week with the bridge and
Speaker 3: they still spelled Tucson wrong.
Speaker 2: So what the hell the brand? That's the UFA's problem. Yeah,
Speaker 2: really you Arizona, that's gone, I believe. Yeah, but you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, to change the name.
Speaker 7: Here's another question though the last twenty years, is that
Speaker 7: even a bigger brand than Gonzaga basketball.
Speaker 2: Now true, that's the only other one I can think of,
Speaker 2: or you go past Arizona. I don't think so.
Speaker 7: Historically, by for a young kid growing up, you've seen
Speaker 7: in the title game twice and Arizona not even close.
Speaker 5: You're the young kid, I would agree.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it used to be Ucla because they went
Speaker 2: to back to back final fours, but that was in
Speaker 2: ninety five nineties, in the nineties with what's the name, well.
Speaker 5: Twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, we all like to talk about
Speaker 2: the good ole days when I was Thinn bad hair. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Okay, well we gotta go. We go ahead.
Speaker 8: I got one last question. And we've kind of been
Speaker 8: talking about this for the last couple of weeks. Uh,
Speaker 8: and we've talked about it before we came on. H
Speaker 8: Is there is there a player that maybe the Arizona
Speaker 8: fans or even just in general, that Arizona can trust
Speaker 8: to go and win you a game.
Speaker 7: He was talking about, I mean in terms of to
Speaker 7: win you a game. Oh God, that's what I would say,
Speaker 7: bas Are. If he's going right for me, everybody that
Speaker 7: you talk about, it's if they're going right, if they're
Speaker 7: in rhythm. kJ Lewis can win you a game defensively,
Speaker 7: you lock eyes down. If he's not fouling too much.
Speaker 7: Carter can win you a game with his athleticism. Again,
Speaker 7: if he's not fouling too much. Thease are in love,
Speaker 7: if they're on. I mean, I just feel like they
Speaker 7: have so many pieces that are right there with the
Speaker 7: young players that are developing, but unfortunately for them, their
Speaker 7: top dog you can't trust. And at the end of
Speaker 7: the day, you're going to live and die by Caleb Love.
Speaker 7: So even though a player might be going right, you know,
Speaker 7: with the last couple of seconds of the game, it's
Speaker 7: going to be Caleb Love time. Whether Arizona fans like
Speaker 7: or not, it's going to be lived by love or
Speaker 7: die by love, come German time.
Speaker 3: So you just went with if if that, if that so,
Speaker 3: let me tell you, I'm going to be a few
Speaker 3: multimillion dollar winner here in the next couple weeks if
Speaker 3: my numbers all five of them right, and that if
Speaker 3: the red ball hits the nice knowing you because you
Speaker 3: ain't gonna find me if this there's too many years.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, But I mean again, the team,
Speaker 7: the team's talent enough to at least make in my opinion,
Speaker 7: sweet sixteen or a leader at the highest but in
Speaker 7: terms of winning the title. I do not believe this
Speaker 7: seam can win the title.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just got to, like you say, if yes,
Speaker 3: if that, and if that. Okay, thanks Troy.
Speaker 7: Have a good one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good luck in Kansas travels. Yeah, well he'll be
Speaker 3: he'll be there to morrow. But yes, uh, we're gonna
Speaker 3: take a break, come back, maybe take some calls.
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Speaker 3: got one at control, we get another intern here.
Speaker 2: Ray.
Speaker 5: I'm getting ready for what's up ahead. Good to see you, Ray,
Speaker 5: Thank you?
Speaker 2: But where are you from?
Speaker 5: Ray? From Monterey Junior? At U of a you? You
Speaker 5: U a fan or just a dude?
Speaker 4: I'd say I'm a fan.
Speaker 2: Kind of hesitated three times. I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: But it's because, you know, growing up in California, there's
Speaker 4: a lot of there's a lot of college schools.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, uh nor California.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, I was standing for guy growing up. What
Speaker 5: the hell are you doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: What are you doing in this boot?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: It was just like during the like I was going
Speaker 4: to high school when uh, Christ McCaffery is there, so
Speaker 4: they're you know, they're on that run and then coming
Speaker 4: off Andrew Lux So yeah, just ye, there's the there's
Speaker 4: the program around.
Speaker 2: Okay, and I've kind of disappeared. Now they're in the
Speaker 2: A c C. It's like, where who are they playing?
Speaker 3: And the coach from Washington State went there? Right, you
Speaker 3: know the coach there, Washington State? I think, yeah, pretty
Speaker 3: sure it's not how I gotta look it up. Jared
Speaker 3: has was just here, that's right. Yeah, yeah, okay, And
Speaker 3: anybody wants to call I've two zero four one six
Speaker 3: four forty. You could be more decisive than rate. It's
Speaker 3: what you saw, what you think is gonna could happen.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if people are just tired
Speaker 3: already from seeing what they've seen, or just not optimistic
Speaker 3: or whatever.
Speaker 2: I think this time of year, everyone's really kind of
Speaker 2: in the almost in the tournament mode. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 2: next week there's gonna be some postseason tournaments. I would assume,
Speaker 2: you know, we start popping up, and Arizona is going
Speaker 2: to be kind of swept into that news cycle with
Speaker 2: just the one game against Kansas on Saturday, and that's
Speaker 2: going to wrap it up. So all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: there's postseason talk and We're all used to that here
Speaker 2: around here. I would think, yeah, so who knows, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of looking to looking to see how long this
Speaker 2: thing's gonna last.
Speaker 3: Do you you follow Facebook? Right and twitterly all the
Speaker 3: mean stuff, kind of like the radio show. I'm not
Speaker 3: We're not being mean, We're.
Speaker 2: Not realistic, he said, pragmatic. What are people saying, Oh,
Speaker 2: it's been been I'm trying to find some stuff.
Speaker 8: Now, Tommy, he's supposed to be fired for about the
Speaker 8: fourth fifth time this season.
Speaker 2: Right, this is the worst game I've seen in a
Speaker 2: long time prom Arizona so far. I got to admit
Speaker 2: being who you know, I don't have to sit here
Speaker 2: like I used to watch those games. That thing was
Speaker 2: off like a couple of minutes into the second half
Speaker 2: for us were I had, you know, I was watching
Speaker 2: other stuff and I was kind of watching the score.
Speaker 2: But I'm sure a lot of fans just said, you
Speaker 2: know what this game is, They're not going to come back.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, And that's kind of the way people are.
Speaker 2: I think. You know, it's like said, you invest so
Speaker 2: much time and energy at some point, you know, it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, if they're not going to play defense, how
Speaker 2: much fun is this going to be to watch?
Speaker 5: Tree? Townsend has an undefined role on this team.
Speaker 2: Who is he? He was a guy that scored twenty
Speaker 2: in the tournament last year. He has no rule. Fortunately
Speaker 2: he's the only guy without a rule.
Speaker 5: I don't know about that. There's a lot of dudes
Speaker 5: without role.
Speaker 2: He seems to have had a hard time adjusting to
Speaker 2: the to the bigger conferences. I don't know if that's true.
Speaker 2: Or they're putting him position down low sometimes or he
Speaker 2: turns around and there's somebody, you know, six' nine that
Speaker 2: he has to try to jump. Over and you, know
Speaker 2: his offensive skills aren't the greatest unless he's either getting
Speaker 2: an offensive rebound or maybe it's just a quick put.
Speaker 2: Back what do you think about?
Speaker 3: That? Yeah, well the first thing that people, say you
Speaker 3: know him And doors so are not this level. Players
Speaker 3: they're more been majors because they played, This and people
Speaker 3: still say that because that's who they are or who they.
Speaker 3: WERE i don't know it's from. THEM i think it's
Speaker 3: just about confidence and they lost it right. Away the
Speaker 3: bad thing for everyone who saw talents and. Play remember
Speaker 3: that first, game but he needed three point three pointers
Speaker 3: and he, said oh, god he got a shooter and
Speaker 3: well you didn't get a.
Speaker 2: Shooter, YEAH i mean that was. Incredible he had LIKE
Speaker 2: i think six maybe that that exhibition, game and everyone
Speaker 2: was all hyped about.
Speaker 3: It well remember last, year he don't need shit like maybe,
Speaker 3: NOT i don't remember it. Was it was led like ten.
Speaker 3: Twelve there was a reason he didn't take him because
Speaker 3: he couldn't shoot. Them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you, know they obviously made some switches in
Speaker 2: the lineup and the playing time and things like, that
Speaker 2: and you, know they brought him in for the B yu,
Speaker 2: game AND i Guess tommy even kind of apologized, saying,
Speaker 2: well you, know he was on the bench the whole,
Speaker 2: game AND i bring him in for the fifteen seconds
Speaker 2: and look what. Happened so you, know maybe they're expecting.
Speaker 2: More he's in his last he's in his final, season, right.
Speaker 5: There's twenty eight year old players already.
Speaker 3: Playing who, knows who? Knows delorson needs to step. UP i,
Speaker 3: mean he just needs to be less hesitant with this.
Speaker 3: Shot any, shooters.
Speaker 5: They don't have.
Speaker 2: Enough we'll see anybody. Calling no one's. Calling everyone's.
Speaker 8: Off it's a Rainy monday after a. Loss as talk the, clouds.
Speaker 2: He wants to weigh in with their strategy on how
Speaker 2: this team is going to get better in the next two.
Speaker 3: Weeks twelve should be. Fun should be. Fun probably the
Speaker 3: last time we'll See.
Speaker 2: BOBBY i would think sounds like from what at least
Speaker 2: the reporting that we've been, seeing especially out Of, phoenix
Speaker 2: is they're looking for ways, to you, know separate him
Speaker 2: from his contractor wherever they put.
Speaker 3: It, WELL i know you're not a numbers, guy like
Speaker 3: in house numbers, guy but how how difficult does?
Speaker 5: THAT i don't.
Speaker 2: KNOW i, Mean arizona's got to be among, them you,
Speaker 2: know the leaders having to pay off coaches that they've let.
Speaker 2: GO i, mean there's some some huge ones around the,
Speaker 2: country But arizona has had those, issues had to do
Speaker 2: it as well a few times here and there with
Speaker 2: football and. Basketball it's got to be a, big a big.
Speaker 2: Number i'm sure he's got to be at least a
Speaker 2: couple of, MILLION i would, ASSUME i don't, know which
Speaker 2: which is almost a. Discount, yeah, no, no it. IS i,
Speaker 2: mean isn't his contract it's contracts? Probably oh?
Speaker 5: Almost.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah WHEN i saw the headline that they're looking into
Speaker 3: how to do it or, WHATEVER i think it's more
Speaker 3: of a pr move than a financial, move.
Speaker 2: Don't you, Think, well, yeah you, know and again they're
Speaker 2: one of these programs is you, know they've joined this
Speaker 2: new confer it's a new conference for, them and you
Speaker 2: know the arena we've talked about that how it really
Speaker 2: needs to be upgraded quite a. Bit and that's gonna
Speaker 2: be with a new coach coming in most likely who's
Speaker 2: gonna have to be part of the fundraising deal and you,
Speaker 2: know have the charisma and have the donors interested in
Speaker 2: supporting what he wants to. Do and that's it's not
Speaker 2: gonna just happen.
Speaker 3: Overnight, Right, well it's funny at least the philosophies where
Speaker 3: he's been their ten years at least ten, years, right
Speaker 3: and you've seen his results and you've seen his resume
Speaker 3: and they're not, sure well you'll use those in. Quotes
Speaker 3: And tommy's been here three almost four and has his
Speaker 3: results and there's talking about getting rid of him.
Speaker 5: Too that makes no. Sense it makes no.
Speaker 2: Sense that's that's that's not gonna. Happen BUT i, mean you,
Speaker 2: Know Arizona state has a ton of big donors and
Speaker 2: they just need to be you, know kind of, asked
Speaker 2: and you, know meet a coach who's gonna not embarrass
Speaker 2: the program and lead them to you, know more. Success
Speaker 2: it's kind of the way it's. Done and a lot
Speaker 2: of these, PROGRAMS i, mean weren't they's the. Same baylor
Speaker 2: had a new, arena put together a new, arena, right
Speaker 2: some of these other places are on the you you've
Speaker 2: gone To. Settle you're From San, diego So San diego
Speaker 2: the football. City that's.
Speaker 5: Nice wouldn't that be perfect?
Speaker 2: Here that's you, KNOW i thought that that was kind
Speaker 2: of what the plan was going to. Be there was
Speaker 2: always plan about doing something to kind of Shrink Arizona
Speaker 2: stadium seating. Numbers, now with with what's been happening on
Speaker 2: campus in the last three, years who knows where that.
Speaker 2: Stands but that was that was going to be a
Speaker 2: big push from the athletic. Department was you, know short
Speaker 2: and raising money for. That, yeah what's what's it going to?
Speaker 2: Like forty ye? For it would be nice and. Cozy,
Speaker 2: YEAH i MEAN i haven't been, WELL i don't know
Speaker 2: if you've been to The Stanford, stadium BUT i mean
Speaker 2: in the old, Days stanford had a, huge huge stadium
Speaker 2: and they shrunk that thing down to in the fifties
Speaker 2: and it's. GREAT i, MEAN i can't sell that out.
Speaker 5: Now, yeah study's.
Speaker 3: True is a tough, schedule of, Course andrew luck is
Speaker 3: putting together that football prole that's, Right he's, yeah, right
Speaker 3: that's gonna let's see what that mounts.
Speaker 2: Too. Right, so so If bobby hits the, road who
Speaker 2: do they go? After you, think give me a, second
Speaker 2: can they always you know it's hes gonna be somebody
Speaker 2: from mid. Major let's see how the tournament. Goes does
Speaker 2: Little Patina Richard? Patino, so m where is he Now?
Speaker 5: Mexico, yeah that's been on the, rise that would be
Speaker 5: a step.
Speaker 3: Up, well he was In, minnesota, right didn't do well,
Speaker 3: there has done really well At New.
Speaker 2: Mexico where does he get his players? From?
Speaker 3: Top, no he's all Over topping And. Mashburn mashburn's son
Speaker 3: used to was with them last year he left The,
Speaker 3: Temple topping left him To Texas. Tech now it's all about, this,
Speaker 3: Right so if you have that name and you have
Speaker 3: this like's you were, saying the, Money i'm going them
Speaker 3: with the. Money who, knows BUT i think maybe that'd
Speaker 3: be my first.
Speaker 2: Choice that's a.
Speaker 3: Good choice in my, Opinion, uh there's a he's at
Speaker 3: least made to the. Tournament The drake coach is pretty.
Speaker 3: Good they're doing very, well and you just don't win, It, drake,
Speaker 3: right you just gotta be you gotta be.
Speaker 8: Good so is there any worry if You're arizona tomorrow
Speaker 8: with the, game because we've seen it in the.
Speaker 5: Past, right it is supposed to be an.
Speaker 2: Easy game For, arizona you, know look.
Speaker 3: Ahead, circumstances circumstances like you talked About who's, who maybe
Speaker 3: destroy circumstances of your lost long. Shot they should have
Speaker 3: beat them. Here they were hurt and injured. Recently now
Speaker 3: they're not. Hurt i'm talking About iowa state. Circumstances. Uh
Speaker 3: issue pissed Off arizona there didn't shake their hand whatever that.
Speaker 3: Means they lost their best player Of, freeman he's no longer,
Speaker 3: there and why not just say goodbye with the.
Speaker 2: Crushing i'm sure they're gonna they're gonna fix that handshake
Speaker 2: thing as soon as the coaches meet at the beginning
Speaker 2: of the. Game don't you envision that like a hug or.
Speaker 2: Something i'm, sorry they will fix that right.
Speaker 6: Soon.
Speaker 2: After, YEAH i mean they'll be joking about. It bobby
Speaker 2: will take off his jacket and you got a spot
Speaker 2: on your assistant coaching. Spot yeah, really, yeah you know.
Speaker 2: WHAT i answered my own question looking At New mexico's
Speaker 2: roster With Richard. PATINO i mean it's literally international all
Speaker 2: over the. Place that players From, Tanzania. Serbia he's got
Speaker 2: the kid From, Arizona Philip. Boro last year he's there now,
Speaker 2: here but, yeah he always got a couple from From New. Mexico,
Speaker 2: yeah basically he's there from all over the of the.
Speaker 2: World do you think anything's gonna happen with the students?
Speaker 2: Tomorrow oh, gosh oh, yeah what do you mean the
Speaker 2: usual monitor anything similar to by? U, yeah, no, no.
Speaker 5: No, no, no it'll Be it'll be the.
Speaker 3: Dude the people right behind tom Why bobby are going
Speaker 3: to be the same because they get on him like.
Speaker 3: Crazy you remember when he hit the. Shot, yeah he
Speaker 3: ran and celebrated and then he came.
Speaker 2: Back do you remember that video he came back to
Speaker 2: tell them don't do blah blah. Blah it'll be it'll be.
Speaker 2: GOOD i think there'll be some energy in the in
Speaker 2: the for the last. Game it's, is IT'S i THINK
Speaker 2: i do the senior ceremony like at midnight or.
Speaker 5: Something that's pretty.
Speaker 3: Much you don't talk about that nine, o'clock nine, o'clock
Speaker 3: another nine. O'clock did they do it after the?
Speaker 2: Game before the? GAME i feel like as of recent,
Speaker 2: years they think they did before last.
Speaker 5: Year and they.
Speaker 3: HAVE i hope that some of the guys have already
Speaker 3: participated in the senior do it. AGAIN i Believe caleb
Speaker 3: was in it last. Year i'm pretty. SURE i believe,
Speaker 3: so and So Grant. GRANT i, think, YEAH i shall
Speaker 3: go down. There he'll probably get a start. Possibly oh,
Speaker 3: yeah in the past they will do.
Speaker 6: That you AND i can go.
Speaker 2: Start that's, right that whole the whole last section of the,
Speaker 2: bench one of the seven Walk ons or.
Speaker 3: Whatever, well, uh leam his son, TOO i think. SENIOR
Speaker 3: i think, SO i don't, know check that.
Speaker 7: Roster check the.
Speaker 3: Roster they'll all be out. There he's a he's a fiftieth. Senior,
Speaker 3: yeah of, course all, right we have a met a,
Speaker 3: minute so we can go down a. Minute, okay this
Speaker 3: is our first. Hour in the second, hour it is
Speaker 3: kind of get the breaking news, right and then we're
Speaker 3: going to have a person a kid actually who won
Speaker 3: The Tucson amateur golf tournament over the. Weekend, uh he
Speaker 3: is fifteen years. Old, Wow and we'll talk to Him John,
Speaker 3: JOHN i forget his last, name but we'll get ahold
Speaker 3: of him after AND i think Not matherin BUT, mathenyi,
Speaker 3: uh fifteen years, then, YEAH i have to beg on my,
Speaker 3: phone so we'll. See we'll talk to him about how
Speaker 3: exciting that was to win The amateur at fifteen years.
Speaker 5: Old