Speaker 1: Silbert and now we have Henry with breaking news.
Speaker 2: This is Eye on the Ball, breaking news on Fox Sports.
Speaker 3: Fourteen fifty Suns forward Kevin Durant will be out one
Speaker 3: week with a left ankle spring.
Speaker 1: The thin man continues to get injured. Unbelievable.
Speaker 4: You can pretty much count on him being out what
Speaker 4: quarter of the season usually.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're pretty good when they're together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they've been great. They're in the midst of this
Speaker 4: what this NBA Cup thing, right, So I don't know,
Speaker 4: it's disappointing because when they do play, when those three
Speaker 4: guys play together, are pretty tough to beat.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The college football playoff ring games came out last night.
Speaker 3: Oregon remains at the number one spot. SMU, if they
Speaker 3: win the ACC championship game on Saturday, would be the
Speaker 3: number three. Ohio Satom's moved down to number six and
Speaker 3: Miami has moved down to number twelve.
Speaker 1: So SMU plays Clemson. Yeah, yeah for the tunnle. So
Speaker 1: if they don't win, they're out. So there were a
Speaker 1: three year out.
Speaker 3: Uh, there's a lot of speculation whether if sm loses,
Speaker 3: could they still make it, could they still whether they're
Speaker 3: losing a conference championship game.
Speaker 1: Would the committee take that against it and if an
Speaker 1: issue doesn't win, they're out, right, Yeah, they would be out.
Speaker 1: The winner of that game goes in and as a
Speaker 1: twelve losers out and the losers out. So it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty crazy.
Speaker 4: They're really sort of seems like they're trying to get
Speaker 4: rid of these conference championship games because you're right, I mean,
Speaker 4: if you lose, you're almost better off not playing in
Speaker 4: one of those games.
Speaker 1: Well you kind of already who hated the conference more
Speaker 1: than look? Oh yeah, it's more forever, more games, more games,
Speaker 1: and what do we have to prove we already played
Speaker 1: eighteen games? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well this is really I mean, you know, up until
Speaker 4: this year, this is kind of how it worked. But
Speaker 4: now all of a sudden, it's like, whita, wait a second,
Speaker 4: what if we what if we don't play? What if
Speaker 4: we're one of those teams that just is, you know,
Speaker 4: sit on the sidelines this week. We're still going to
Speaker 4: get in the top twelve, right, Yeah, what's more important?
Speaker 1: Right then the tournament saying talking to you Alabama things
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jack's quarterback Trevor Lawrence will go to the i
Speaker 3: R after suffering the concussion last week.
Speaker 1: What did you think about the fine? It's so debatable.
Speaker 1: What was the fine total?
Speaker 5: Three?
Speaker 3: It was three three games suspend.
Speaker 5: I don't know what to find.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's appealing it now, of course. Yeah, any apologizes,
Speaker 1: so so I that rule obvious obviously favorites the offensive,
Speaker 1: and it has for a long time. Right. Have you
Speaker 1: ever been a car crash, and I use this example,
Speaker 1: you have been that bad no no kar crash where
Speaker 1: you're driving and somebody else driving and you see it's happening.
Speaker 1: You can't and you cannot avoid it. You're gonna get
Speaker 1: hit or you're gonna hit somebody, Right, That's what this is.
Speaker 1: Because it's so bang bang, How are you going to
Speaker 1: contort your body otherwise? I know he's done this in
Speaker 1: the past and all that stuff, but you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, it's just like, oh crap, I'm stuck and
Speaker 1: I have to go hit him, Like I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hit him. You're talking about the defensive defensive, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: see it all the time. How do you change your
Speaker 1: body when you've already the missile's already been launched.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean I guess as part of the
Speaker 4: training you go through as a defensive player knowing you
Speaker 4: can't do that, and you got to figure out, you
Speaker 4: know the best way to slow down stop, Well, turn
Speaker 4: your body, get away, don't go head first into the game.
Speaker 1: Well, i'll give you another example. And you see the
Speaker 1: games a few times with Patrick Mahomes runs with the
Speaker 1: ball right and pretends he's gonna get out of the
Speaker 1: sideline and then he stays in and he gets another
Speaker 1: ten yards. Yeah, and you can't touch him because well
Speaker 1: he's right there, Patrick Mahomes, Yeah, you can't do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. That was pretty brutal. Oh yeah, no question,
Speaker 1: very brutal, no question. I feel for the guy, but
Speaker 1: I guess those are the rules, right. It was like
Speaker 1: when was it Umanu who got kicked out? When you yeah,
Speaker 1: and what are you gonna do? I mean, he was
Speaker 1: already kind of going that way to hit the guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he didn't intend to, but that's what happened. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So Oklahoma quarterback Jackson Arnold, the number three recruit last year,
Speaker 3: has entered the transfer portal today.
Speaker 1: Crazy, No one's happy anymore because he wasn't gonna play.
Speaker 1: I mean what, I don't know. He didn't play right,
Speaker 1: he sat out.
Speaker 3: No, he should played. He did play this year. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but he was the he was he was a part
Speaker 3: time showter. He was the starter, but then he got
Speaker 3: benched and then he like on and off.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be so much good talent out there. Maybe
Speaker 1: if you get benched to play, it's that's well, Caleb,
Speaker 1: who is the guy he replaced it? He's a New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints now up right?
Speaker 4: So you know I couldn't keep track of his career.
Speaker 4: Wasn't he at South Carolina?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean he's from Phoenix, Phoenix area.
Speaker 3: Ravens wide receiver Deontay Johnson has been suspended one game
Speaker 3: by the team for refusing to enter the game Sunday
Speaker 3: versus the Eagles.
Speaker 1: What did he do?
Speaker 3: I guess he wasn't happy about the snaps and then
Speaker 3: they told him he could come in and he didn't
Speaker 3: want to get He.
Speaker 1: Was unhappy that he wasn't playing, so that he refused
Speaker 1: to go play. Yeah, what the hell? Hey, Henry, go
Speaker 1: write this story. I don't want to why because you
Speaker 1: don't get me enough signments? What conduct detrimental to the team?
Speaker 1: They say, no, crad that means almost said, I almost
Speaker 1: said the n sport refusing to enter our game. That's
Speaker 1: what GM said. Would you he's the guy? If you
Speaker 1: were Jay right now, guess what Jay would say, Cut
Speaker 1: the guy. Cut the guy if he doesn't want to play.
Speaker 1: He's making millions and he don't want to play. He
Speaker 1: played only thirty nine snaps so far this year, being
Speaker 1: traded from Guess what how many snaps you played next year?
Speaker 1: He put out, you be traded next year? Well, he's
Speaker 1: a leading receiver for Carolina's going one catch for Well,
Speaker 1: he's a wide receiver. Well you diva wide receivers. That's
Speaker 1: all they are. Diva white receivers. Throw me the ball.
Speaker 1: And the good news is he's the free agent coming up. Well,
Speaker 1: he won't be playing for that. No one wants them.
Speaker 3: The Pelicans announced that Zion Williamson will be out at
Speaker 3: least two more weeks to rehab a left.
Speaker 1: Gosh, David, what do you think he's on the Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant train? How many of these gets? I mean? When
Speaker 1: is he's never had a healthy season? No, No, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. What a talent? Too too big? Well,
Speaker 1: I think he's well, I was going to be a joke,
Speaker 1: A load management but no, he's lost.
Speaker 3: Wait, the sec ACC Men's Challenge as well as the
Speaker 3: Big twelve Big East Challenges continues tonight. We've got number
Speaker 3: five Marquette versus number six I was state, number one
Speaker 3: Kansas versus Creighton, and number two Auburn versus number nine Duke.
Speaker 1: There's another one. There's another one too. I think the
Speaker 1: Swisses seven. Who is?
Speaker 3: There's Alabama, North Carolina that's it and Baylor Yukon.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There's some great games tonight all tonight, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: fantastic games.
Speaker 4: Not only that, we've got Big ten action with Oregon
Speaker 4: and USC football.
Speaker 1: Well, no, that's but that's a Big ten. Isn't that
Speaker 1: the football game this weekend? Who's playing this weekend? State? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: that makes Duke should be good. Aubert, yes, domination. Yeah
Speaker 1: in Kentucky lost last night. Yeah they lost to Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw something that game great, they were Okay. It's
Speaker 1: a road game though, yeah whereas it that's in Omaha. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. It's a great game to watch basketball.
Speaker 3: It's big, like do we know how soon until Arizona
Speaker 3: is allowed to play in these like the Big twelve
Speaker 3: biggest things?
Speaker 1: No, No, that'll be fun, that's right. Yeah, why that
Speaker 1: should be happening. I would think there's too many teams.
Speaker 3: Right, I probably scheduled it too long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because a big twelve, big East things going Baylor
Speaker 4: or Yukon tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you kind of cold lose again. We do want
Speaker 1: to get him upset explosion, that's all I got. Okay,
Speaker 1: we mentioned that speed Lucas decided to leave. Have you
Speaker 1: checked anything lately? But maybe go go to a speedy
Speaker 1: deserts no deserts warm anymore else? Jump ship in the
Speaker 1: last a couple of hours, h Taylor Like this was
Speaker 1: another guy who left who yesterday? So just you know
Speaker 1: they're going to be coming and going throughout the throughout
Speaker 1: this next probably a week or so.
Speaker 4: I mean you go to those websites and you see,
Speaker 4: I mean they've got these like defensive linemen have video,
Speaker 4: you know, clips of themselves.
Speaker 1: So there's no surprises.
Speaker 4: Three three three year starter get out of Hawaii six
Speaker 4: foot four eighty pounds Jvan Goo g oo.
Speaker 1: What do you think the you got here in eighty three?
Speaker 1: I got here in eighty seven, and I'm I know
Speaker 1: people text me and said, well, you're the pragmatic one,
Speaker 1: and I'm I can't. People say I'm just the negative one.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. What do you think?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: And now that you're not selling for Arizona or whatever. Uh.
Speaker 1: And yesterday we had don calling it that Arizona's not
Speaker 1: Ohio State, they're not Notre Dame, they're not these schools.
Speaker 1: So stop thinking that. Uh, Hunley agreed. And you could
Speaker 1: think maybe you're that good, but you're not, so stop
Speaker 1: stop acting like you are.
Speaker 4: Right, we don't have the resources, we don't have the
Speaker 4: ni L, we don't have fan support. We're not you know,
Speaker 4: there's a ways to go, and it's it's kind of
Speaker 4: tough to just kind of watch. And now you're like,
Speaker 4: you know, we've talked about them moving into a new
Speaker 4: conference and trying to compete with some of these schools
Speaker 4: that do have established traditions and maybe you know, have
Speaker 4: a head start on on the u of A. But
Speaker 4: it's it's not the same. We just don't have the
Speaker 4: cash and.
Speaker 1: Don't have the you know, the players and the history
Speaker 1: and the history, right, you know, one hundred years of
Speaker 1: football couldn't get to the Rose Bowl, right, Well, there's hey,
Speaker 1: the Defense Rescue honer right there. But you know there
Speaker 1: are occasions every certain amount of years that something will
Speaker 1: happen good and they'll they'll act like they're the number
Speaker 1: one team in the country, and many times it happens,
Speaker 1: you know, so randomly, right, and Okay.
Speaker 4: There's always going to be like the Indiana's look what
Speaker 4: Indiana did this year?
Speaker 1: Doing it? Yeah, predict exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: You know, there's teams have broken through and some teams
Speaker 4: have stayed. Boise State by you, teams that were nobody
Speaker 4: or maybe not by you, but Boise State for sure,
Speaker 4: no one ever heard of them until you know, they
Speaker 4: kind of broke through years ago and got him on
Speaker 4: TV on Thursday nights and you know kind of established
Speaker 4: themselves that well.
Speaker 1: Well, looking now, Colorado the Darlings last year and again
Speaker 1: because of the coach. Otherwise no one would have given
Speaker 1: damn no. And now he's kind of proved people a
Speaker 1: lot of people wrong, well and maybe a lot of
Speaker 1: people right. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know, because that sounds like he's getting you know,
Speaker 4: five star quarterbacks and people like that to replace his son.
Speaker 1: I I don't know if I whether believed his situation
Speaker 1: or not. But I know a lot of people didn't.
Speaker 1: That was all smoking mirrors and you know, he was
Speaker 1: being Dione and all these things, and he was just
Speaker 1: doing it for the cameras. But but he's showing results.
Speaker 1: Arizona would kill for that. Let's see though.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's gonna be interesting because you know he
Speaker 4: kind of has followed his son and and Travis Hunter
Speaker 4: around the country.
Speaker 1: Well I think they followed him. No, yeah, because they
Speaker 1: were they were they were going to take chests. That's true, Okay,
Speaker 1: but big I was just gonna say, once.
Speaker 4: They're finished, you know, is Deion gonna feel like he's
Speaker 4: just stranded? They're in Boulder without the family.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's probably not well. And we'll see how
Speaker 1: long he says. That's right, That's kind of what I
Speaker 1: was getting. But I think you have to get say
Speaker 1: that he might be a pretty good coach, or at
Speaker 1: least a facilitator like Jet. Do you know how good
Speaker 1: of a coaching Jet is? Yeah? Who knows? Who knows?
Speaker 1: I don't. But he did a good job, you know, Hey,
Speaker 1: more power to him. He did a good job. And
Speaker 1: this is not the bag Jet He's done. He did
Speaker 1: a good job. Look look how bad they were three
Speaker 1: years ago.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I think as we talked about earlier too,
Speaker 4: is the coaches and the coaching staff you put together.
Speaker 4: And there was obviously something wrong this year with the
Speaker 4: football staff. And it didn't take long for him to
Speaker 4: make a quick change in that offensive coordinator, gig you know,
Speaker 4: pretty early in the season. So you know that had
Speaker 4: to kind of jolt in the offense, like, wait a second,
Speaker 4: who's in charge? Why are we making a change here
Speaker 4: in game four?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, jolts probably not the right answer, because there
Speaker 1: was no jolt in that offense. They were never jolted.
Speaker 1: Did they even realize it? That was like taking the
Speaker 1: batteries out of the car. What's wrong with this thing?
Speaker 1: And you kept flipping the batteries and turning it back on,
Speaker 1: and well, this is not working either. It's probably the car.
Speaker 4: Well, meantime, you asked me about the Sionees. They did
Speaker 4: get this four star wide receiver from Florida, Isaiah Myzelle.
Speaker 4: I'm sure we could talk to Matt Mourno about Yeah,
Speaker 4: a number of three stars from all over Texas, cal California, Chandler,
Speaker 4: a handful from Texas, so kind of the unusual, usual suspects,
Speaker 4: usual locations for Arizona in the Bay area San Antonio.
Speaker 1: Also, did you know that rich Rod was doing pretty
Speaker 1: well Jacksonville State. I think he has a big game
Speaker 1: this weekend to get to the playoffs. I think he's
Speaker 1: eight and four.
Speaker 4: Was that not a rumor that rich Rod might want
Speaker 4: to come back in the offensive?
Speaker 1: You read Twitter putting that news out. Everybody they've seen
Speaker 1: rich Rod around, that's what they're where he was at market. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a bunch of craps. I hate I hate Twitter, right,
Speaker 1: all this stuff. Anybody could fill stuff on the wall,
Speaker 1: you know, But that's funny. That's funny. So someone's around
Speaker 1: to what then' his kid? His son played at point? Right?
Speaker 1: So you're talking about someone Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I
Speaker 1: think he's long gone. I think so. Yeah, because that's
Speaker 1: where you did. People would see him watching. I ran
Speaker 1: into him. We have the same dentist, I know three
Speaker 1: years ago and and I was was he was doing
Speaker 1: the mass he was doing COVID and I'm thinking, oh, hello,
Speaker 1: and we shook hands and I'm thinking, man, he lost
Speaker 1: a lot of weight, and I'm thinking we're all very massive.
Speaker 1: That's Kevin. Somebody looks really good. And I say Steve River.
Speaker 1: He says, yeah, I know who you are. It was
Speaker 1: like like really, yeah, I know what you wrote about me.
Speaker 1: I saw him out at a restaurant once. That's about
Speaker 1: that's about the old you know. I wasn't in the
Speaker 1: media those years, and I was saying, that's a coach.
Speaker 1: He was out, So it was good to see him.
Speaker 1: But it didn't last long. No, No, I wish that
Speaker 1: we have like let's go, we'll go, We'll get that one. Now.
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Speaker 1: I'm Steve Vevera, You're Dave Silver. Now on the phone,
Speaker 1: we have Matt Mordino of Goasycats dot Com. Matt, you
Speaker 1: must be busy today.
Speaker 5: Very busy, Steeve. It's the busiest day of the year
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Speaker 1: How did the Arizona Fair?
Speaker 5: I think I was expected. I mean it's interesting because
Speaker 5: you know, I think a lot of people are having
Speaker 5: this idea or this kind of feeling that you know,
Speaker 5: are in this business and cover these things kind of regularly,
Speaker 5: and you have covered them in the past. It feels
Speaker 5: very uneventful this year as opposed to other years, and
Speaker 5: I think that's just kind of everything kind of lining up.
Speaker 5: Where you have transfer portal. It's obviously a different time
Speaker 5: of year than you know, when the early signing period
Speaker 5: it's usually a little bit closer to Christmas, and so
Speaker 5: you kind of had have had some time to kind
Speaker 5: of digest the end of the football season. But you're
Speaker 5: just jumping right into it after you know, the end
Speaker 5: of the regular season last week, and so for whatever reason,
Speaker 5: it just feels kind of uneventful in a lot of ways.
Speaker 5: There wasn't a lot of surprises for many many teams
Speaker 5: across the country. There weren't a ton of big names
Speaker 5: that were you know, moving teams or anything like that.
Speaker 5: So it was pretty standard for most programs, and I
Speaker 5: think you could throw Arizona into that one as well.
Speaker 5: There was there weren't a ton of surprises that everything
Speaker 5: kind of went as expected, I think for Arizona.
Speaker 1: So so do you think that it's going to be
Speaker 1: the case moving forward given that I think the Christmas
Speaker 1: time the Christmas time. But this whole thing is the
Speaker 1: transfer portal, Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's it's gonna be really interesting. I'm as it was
Speaker 5: kind of playing out this week, and it kind of
Speaker 5: started last week where recruits start to you know, say
Speaker 5: I'm going to this school or I'm picking this school,
Speaker 5: and it was funny because I thought, it doesn't matter
Speaker 5: when you put this date, when you have this early
Speaker 5: signing period or whatever signing period, everything's going to kind
Speaker 5: of just shift with it. And it just felt like,
Speaker 5: all right, we've done this before, it's just a different time,
Speaker 5: and so I'll be interested to see kind of what happens.
Speaker 5: I know a lot of coaches are really in favor
Speaker 5: of having one in the summer and being able to
Speaker 5: get a lot of their fruiting done in the summer
Speaker 5: months and not have to worry about it at all
Speaker 5: this time of year and then can put their sole
Speaker 5: focus on either transfer portal stuff or just the season.
Speaker 5: And so I know there's a lot of coaches who
Speaker 5: would rather have that, and so that's one idea. We'll
Speaker 5: see if that comes to fruition. I know this was
Speaker 5: kind of thought of a little bit on the fly,
Speaker 5: and I think coaches were like, we just need to
Speaker 5: have some kind of change to this schedule because it's
Speaker 5: not working. You know, when you're trying to get recruits
Speaker 5: on campus, and you know a lot of the transfers
Speaker 5: they want to enroll midyear and so they need to
Speaker 5: get you know, enrolled in classes and so you're butting
Speaker 5: up against kind of the start of the winter session
Speaker 5: or the spring semester in a lot of cases, and
Speaker 5: so you know, I think for a lot of programs
Speaker 5: and a lot of coaches, it was about trying to
Speaker 5: find some kind of balance, some kind of way to
Speaker 5: make it a little bit easier on them. I think
Speaker 5: this does that in some ways. But I think I
Speaker 5: would still be fully in favor of just having one
Speaker 5: signing period and do it in February, when all the
Speaker 5: coaching movement is done, when all the transfer portal stuff
Speaker 5: is mostly done at that point, and then high school
Speaker 5: recruits can kind of figure out where they fit in
Speaker 5: and what it's going to look like. But I don't
Speaker 5: know that they'll get back to that point. That's kind
Speaker 5: of what it was originally before there was an early
Speaker 5: signing period, and it worked out pretty well then. But
Speaker 5: with so many schools and and you know a lot
Speaker 5: of this is coming from coaches. Coaches want these players
Speaker 5: on campus, these high school prospects on campus as soon
Speaker 5: as they can get there, and so a lot of
Speaker 5: them are pushing, you know, enroll at the media point,
Speaker 5: kind of for go your last semester of high school
Speaker 5: and then get on campus and get in practice, and
Speaker 5: so it's been pushed a lot by coaches. So it's
Speaker 5: interesting that a lot of coaches are pushing it, but
Speaker 5: they're also complaining that, hey, we don't like the schedule either,
Speaker 5: So it'll be interesting to see kind of how it
Speaker 5: plays out. I know, you know, back when you know
Speaker 5: Rich Rodriguez, Rich Rodriguez was the coach at Arizona, he
Speaker 5: talked about not having a signing period at all. That
Speaker 5: was kind of his grand idea was just to sign
Speaker 5: whenever you're ready, And so I know a lot of
Speaker 5: coaches have talked about that as well. So we'll see
Speaker 5: what it all kind of how it all pans out.
Speaker 5: But it's it's definitely something that's that's never perfect. It's
Speaker 5: never felt perfect, and everyone kind of just has to adapt,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 4: That being said, I would think Brennan and his staff
Speaker 4: you probably feel like they're kind of in a rhythm
Speaker 4: right now. They didn't have this this chance last I mean,
Speaker 4: obviously he wasn't even here until January, So, uh, do
Speaker 4: you think they feel a little more comfortable now kind
Speaker 4: of being you know, kind of in a routine.
Speaker 1: That's it could lead to a little more stability.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. I think that's one of the things is when
Speaker 5: you step into a job and when you have these
Speaker 5: coaching changes that take place, especially late, that one was
Speaker 5: you know, pretty late in the process. You know, the
Speaker 5: early signing period was already over, and so you're trying
Speaker 5: to figure out, you know, are you going to keep
Speaker 5: some guys and obviously Arizona have some guys that had
Speaker 5: just you know that we're high school players that were
Speaker 5: enrolling early and we're just on campus for a few days,
Speaker 5: and then they have to figure outkay am I going
Speaker 5: to go into the portal now, like how does this
Speaker 5: all work? And so I think now there is a
Speaker 5: little bit more stability. There is a little bit more
Speaker 5: of a flow and rhythm, like you mentioned to kind
Speaker 5: of this whole process. And you know, obviously, you know,
Speaker 5: Brent Brennan and his staff and these coaches have had
Speaker 5: a longer opportunity to get to know a lot of
Speaker 5: these prospects and it's not something that has to happen
Speaker 5: so quickly. And I think that helps, and it helps
Speaker 5: you kind of build some continuity, It helps you, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of build your team. And so I think that
Speaker 5: it's definitely helpful for them to have, you know, a
Speaker 5: year of really trying to get to know these recruits
Speaker 5: and getting the fill for them. And it's only I think,
Speaker 5: going to help them build their roster and kind of
Speaker 5: build it in the way they want to do it.
Speaker 5: And so I think you're starting to see that a
Speaker 5: little bit. I think there are some maybe some some
Speaker 5: things you can pick out like Okay, this fits what
Speaker 5: they want to do as opposed to kind of what
Speaker 5: they were given. And so you know, the portal helps
Speaker 5: that a lot. And you saw that last year with
Speaker 5: a lot of different teams. But you know, the portal
Speaker 5: can remedy things in a lot quicker fashion than what
Speaker 5: people were accustomed to, you know, before it was so popular.
Speaker 5: And so I think that helps when you're in a
Speaker 5: situation like Brent Brennan was in last year. But I
Speaker 5: think every coach would want to have an opportunity to
Speaker 5: kind of build their program through the high school ranks
Speaker 5: and have players that they develop over time versus just
Speaker 5: trying to get the quick six every single year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have no question. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, like meantime, you know, they've gone to kind
Speaker 4: of the usual places Texas, the Bay Area, Southern California,
Speaker 4: Santa Barbara, Phoenix, Chandler.
Speaker 1: It's it's you could you know, I do every year.
Speaker 4: It seems like it's kind of the same, the same
Speaker 4: geography for for you of a football don't you think?
Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's really interesting because you know you're playing
Speaker 5: in the Big twelve. Now you have some maybe some
Speaker 5: different areas you can get to, and maybe that's where
Speaker 5: you see someone like Isaiah and Miselle, who's probably their
Speaker 5: best recruit. Maybe they're well, maybe the top two recruits,
Speaker 5: best recruits in this class is coming from Orlando, and
Speaker 5: obviously UCF was one of those schools that was recruiting
Speaker 5: them and is now a big told member with Arizona,
Speaker 5: and so maybe it allows you to kind of expand
Speaker 5: your footprint a little bit more. I do think that
Speaker 5: with Brent Brennan and just where his staff is familiar
Speaker 5: with where their connections are, it kind of lends itself
Speaker 5: to being kind of in a familiar place. So I
Speaker 5: think that's why you see a lot of the Bay
Speaker 5: Area connections, you see some of those Northern Cali foreigner connections,
Speaker 5: and even in the Texas you know, obviously, I think
Speaker 5: that's I think that is maybe one of the clear
Speaker 5: connections you can make with the Big twelve, where they're
Speaker 5: a little bit more willingness to dive into Texas, a
Speaker 5: little bit more than maybe some previous stabs. And you know,
Speaker 5: I think the selling point is, hey, we're going to
Speaker 5: play a lot, you know, close close to your home,
Speaker 5: and so I think that's something you'll see them continue
Speaker 5: to do. But I think their bread and butter will
Speaker 5: always continue to be the Bay area, California and then
Speaker 5: obviously in state with Arizona players as well.
Speaker 1: Uh, you saw a couple of defections before yester or
Speaker 1: before today, significant ones before.
Speaker 5: Signing yes and no. I mean I think there was
Speaker 5: a few situations where it was like, hey, you know,
Speaker 5: it's a mutual partying kind of deal, where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 5: you didn't necessarily play the way we liked, you know,
Speaker 5: during your senior year, and maybe it's best if you know,
Speaker 5: you would have a better fit somewhere else. But I
Speaker 5: think there were some that were you know, difficult and
Speaker 5: not you want to lose, and so it was kind
Speaker 5: of a mixed bag. I think again, holding on to
Speaker 5: most of the class I think is a big deal.
Speaker 5: That's kind of what it turned into towards kind of
Speaker 5: down the stretch. For Brent Brennan and the staff, it
Speaker 5: was less about hey, can you add more pieces, but
Speaker 5: it was like, you need to just keep this group together.
Speaker 5: And I think you saw that in the bye week,
Speaker 5: the later bye week towards the end of the season.
Speaker 5: The focus was, let's go reach out to the players
Speaker 5: that have been with us, that you know, committed to us,
Speaker 5: you know in the summer, and make sure that they're
Speaker 5: still on board and and make sure that you know
Speaker 5: that they're going to sign with us. And so I
Speaker 5: think that was the priority for the staff and they
Speaker 5: did a pretty good job of that for the most part.
Speaker 5: There's gonna be de commitments if you there's not a
Speaker 5: program out there that doesn't have de commitments. It's just
Speaker 5: how it goes these days. There was a bunch today,
Speaker 5: a bunch of top programs that lost players. And so
Speaker 5: if you think that your program is somehow, you know,
Speaker 5: not doing its job because it's losing recruits, that's just
Speaker 5: not the case. It's just how it goes. There's so
Speaker 5: many different things in play you have nil involved.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: I mean, there there are a lot of different things
Speaker 5: in play that it's just going to happen. But if
Speaker 5: you're able to replace those players and if you're able
Speaker 5: to continue to keep guys that you know are getting
Speaker 5: recruited by other programs. Isaiah Azel being one of those prospects.
Speaker 5: He had Notre Dame was very high on him and
Speaker 5: they wanted They were recruiting pretty heavily. And I mentioned
Speaker 5: UCF was as well, and j Richardson took a visit
Speaker 5: out to Vanderbilt, and so there is you know, there
Speaker 5: are programs that are coming after these players that are
Speaker 5: on Arizona's recruiting list. And so you know, part of
Speaker 5: the job is trying to find anybody new that you
Speaker 5: can bring in, but also just you know, re recruiting,
Speaker 5: you know the guys that are already on your commitment list.
Speaker 5: And I think Arizona did a really good job of that.
Speaker 1: So they just real quick, where did they Where did
Speaker 1: they land in the rankings and for for over overall
Speaker 1: and in the big cop.
Speaker 5: For overall it's number forty three. It's kind of you know,
Speaker 5: it's pretty good. That's solid. I mean, that's that's that's
Speaker 5: it's better than what it was in years before, you know,
Speaker 5: not necessarily Jeed Fisher's. But prior to that, you know,
Speaker 5: those previous two coaching stats that they kind of lived
Speaker 5: in the fifties, which is not where you want to be.
Speaker 5: And I've always kind of if you look at kind
Speaker 5: of how seasons play out, and maybe we'll have to
Speaker 5: kind of evaluate this now that you know there's been
Speaker 5: such a big shake up with conference re alignment and
Speaker 5: all that. But if you can live kind of in
Speaker 5: the in the thirty to thirty five range, you know,
Speaker 5: you can do a lot of good things in terms
Speaker 5: of building a successful roster, building a successful team. Utah
Speaker 5: kind of lived in that range for a long time,
Speaker 5: that thirty to thirty five range, and there's a lot
Speaker 5: of three star recruits in that you know, in that level,
Speaker 5: and I think you know from the outside you ceo
Speaker 5: three stars that's kind of like an average player. It's like, No,
Speaker 5: those are some good players and if you coach them
Speaker 5: up and develop them, they can be a really good team.
Speaker 5: And so I think you saw that a lot with
Speaker 5: you know, a lot of different programs. But if you
Speaker 5: can live in that thirty to thirty five range, you're
Speaker 5: you're doing okay. And so Arizona's kind of a little
Speaker 5: bit outside of that, you know, it's not terrible. It's
Speaker 5: not terrible, especially when you consider the type of season
Speaker 5: they had, and you know, if if you're not winning games,
Speaker 5: it can be difficult to kind of make a climb
Speaker 5: up that list. So I think it's not horrible, you know,
Speaker 5: based on kind of where they're at and what, you know,
Speaker 5: the season that they had and kind of some other
Speaker 5: things in play. But in terms of the Big Twelve,
Speaker 5: I think they're probably middle of the pack. They're number seven,
Speaker 5: tied with West Virginia. So you know, it's not ideal.
Speaker 5: It's not where you want to live, but it's not
Speaker 5: horrible either, and it kind of gives you some place
Speaker 5: to kind of build from.
Speaker 1: And where did they finish in the Big twelve? Seven?
Speaker 5: So they're tired with tied with West Virginia for seven,
Speaker 5: right behind Colorado.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, take take us through the calendar a little bit.
Speaker 4: What can we expect and when will these things start happening?
Speaker 4: I guess the portal is is it really open? Or
Speaker 4: people they haven't done anything yet, right, right?
Speaker 5: And so yeah, I think people get confused, and sometimes
Speaker 5: I even get confused tracking all this all this stuff,
Speaker 5: but the portal doesn't open until next week. So the
Speaker 5: portal will actually open next week. But what we have
Speaker 5: is a lot of players just coming to a decision
Speaker 5: and saying I'm I'm going to enter the portal. And
Speaker 5: so that's what you're seeing a lot of right now,
Speaker 5: is players saying I'm going to enter the portal. I'm
Speaker 5: announcing it. And then once it opens, all of yourally
Speaker 5: go in and submit the paperwork. You know, if there's
Speaker 5: coaches that get that get fired, that opens immediately. So
Speaker 5: if your head coach gets fired or he leaves for
Speaker 5: a new job and you're left without a head coach,
Speaker 5: that'll open. The portal will open immediately for you for
Speaker 5: thirty days. And so you're seeing some of that too,
Speaker 5: because there have been some some coach firings and so
Speaker 5: those players can go in right away. If you're a
Speaker 5: graduate student and you're getting close to so you're going
Speaker 5: to graduate in December and you know that and you're
Speaker 5: on pace and on track to do that, you can
Speaker 5: go in right away as well. So you're seeing right
Speaker 5: now kind of a mix of everything. And so that
Speaker 5: will open for a couple of weeks and we'll have
Speaker 5: a dead period here pretty soon as well. They're in
Speaker 5: one right now, and so you can't take visits right now,
Speaker 5: and then it'll be open for a couple of weeks,
Speaker 5: and then as it gets closer to the holidays, it'll
Speaker 5: shut down again, and then it'll pick back up in
Speaker 5: January and you'll see more recruits, kind of transfer players, recruits,
Speaker 5: everyone kind of take visits again. And so it's kind
Speaker 5: of a kind of an uneven time of the year
Speaker 5: right now, just because the holidays kind of, you know,
Speaker 5: right in the middle of it, and so it kind
Speaker 5: of makes things a little bit more uneven. But it's
Speaker 5: kind of similar to what it's always been in a
Speaker 5: lot of ways, where December is going to be a
Speaker 5: lot about in home visits and taking visits to campuses
Speaker 5: and trying to get as many players as they can
Speaker 5: right now on campus and taking visits because the transferportal
Speaker 5: process has to happen quickly. It's one of those things
Speaker 5: that's different than high school recruiting, where you build relationships
Speaker 5: over a year or two. It's topping over a week
Speaker 5: or days at times, where it's you have to have,
Speaker 5: you know, a comfortable aspect of it. You have to
Speaker 5: have you know, some qualities about your coaching staff that
Speaker 5: really sell to these players and make them want to
Speaker 5: play for you. And then obviously the NL component is
Speaker 5: kind of the overarching thing that is kind of important
Speaker 5: to everybody in the portal right now, it seems. And
Speaker 5: so there's a lot of different things in play, but
Speaker 5: these decisions are made quickly, and so it's all about
Speaker 5: how can you get out on those visits and make
Speaker 5: those things happen quickly.
Speaker 1: So what do you make of the non fuffita FAFA
Speaker 1: news from yesterday. I still think it's gonna play out more.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we'll have to wait and see. I mean,
Speaker 5: that's that's my approach. You know, well, we'll kind of
Speaker 5: wait and see how it plays out. I think it's
Speaker 5: too there's just not enough there right now to say
Speaker 5: one way or the other. Obviously, there's you know, been
Speaker 5: a lot of people saying it's not gonna happen or whatever.
Speaker 5: I just there's too many things, and you seem too
Speaker 5: many things play out. I think over time to live
Speaker 5: in absolutes with the portal and with these decisions, and
Speaker 5: what can be true one day could not be true.
Speaker 5: The next day. And so it's just it's difficult to predict.
Speaker 5: I know, as soon as even before the season's over,
Speaker 5: a lot of fans are like, well, who's leaving, who's
Speaker 5: gonna be in the portal. It's like, you just don't
Speaker 5: know that. And coaches don't know that either, and so
Speaker 5: and I think coach people think that coaches are just
Speaker 5: kind of being fatious, facetious and being like playing koy
Speaker 5: or whatever, doing the typical kind of coach speak thing.
Speaker 5: But you know, I think a lot of times they
Speaker 5: don't know, and it's not until the player comes into
Speaker 5: the office and says, hey, I'm transferring that they know that.
Speaker 5: And so I would kind of live in territory and uh,
Speaker 5: you know, you never say never, I guess, and and
Speaker 5: you just you can't be surprised by anything because things
Speaker 5: that are true one day, it can be not true
Speaker 5: the next day. And that's kind of how I kind
Speaker 5: of view that situation.
Speaker 4: Probably be an obvious question, but the fact that Brad,
Speaker 4: that's Brad, Brent Brannan is is still here, what do
Speaker 4: you think that means overall to the program into recruiting
Speaker 4: in the future.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it's it's you have to let it
Speaker 5: play out. I've always been a proponent of you have
Speaker 5: to let coaches coach for a while and you have
Speaker 5: to see what it looks like. Because again, if you
Speaker 5: go back to Jetfish, it didn't it didn't look good
Speaker 5: that first year, it didn't look good early on, and
Speaker 5: then he eventually leads you took ten wins. And so
Speaker 5: I'm not a fan of firing coaches after one year
Speaker 5: unless there's something very egregious that you see as a
Speaker 5: you know, athletic director or administration that really is like,
Speaker 5: this does not line up with what we want to do.
Speaker 5: I don't think you know that we've seen that from
Speaker 5: Brent Brennan, and obviously we're not all in all the
Speaker 5: meetings and in everything, but you know, I think you
Speaker 5: have to give it some time. You have to give
Speaker 5: a head coach an opportunity to really kind of flesh
Speaker 5: out his program and figure out exactly what he wants
Speaker 5: it to be. And then if you decide in a
Speaker 5: few years, okay, it's not what we wanted, then you
Speaker 5: move on at that point. But it can be really
Speaker 5: dangerous territory. It costs a lot of money that if
Speaker 5: you're replacing coaches every year, because the thing is is
Speaker 5: if you replace him or you move on from him,
Speaker 5: like a lot of fans seem to be calling for
Speaker 5: what happens if the next guy isn't the right one either,
Speaker 5: and then you're kind of in a bigger hole. And
Speaker 5: so I've always been a proponent of just letting coaches
Speaker 5: kind of play it out a little bit and see
Speaker 5: what it looks like. And I think the continuity matters
Speaker 5: to recruits. I think you know, you saw some recruits
Speaker 5: join the class towards the end of the process when
Speaker 5: it was not going well, and so I think clearly
Speaker 5: they're not impacted by, you know, the way the way
Speaker 5: the season was playing out, and so I think you
Speaker 5: have to kind of just let it do its thing
Speaker 5: and see what you can, you know, build on and
Speaker 5: see if he can make it better and then kind
Speaker 5: of go from there.
Speaker 1: Okay, Matt, go back to work. I know, the fun
Speaker 1: time right now with me is over.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's my little break, stee.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, thanks man, Let's always appreciate.
Speaker 5: You absolutely any Thanks.
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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
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Speaker 1: Henry at the board. We got about fifteen minutes if
Speaker 1: you want to call zero four one six seventy four
Speaker 1: forty let's hear from you. Uh, let's see what do
Speaker 1: you think about recruiting? You a hoops? Whatever you want
Speaker 1: to talk about not to talk about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty good day for football. I think Matt kind
Speaker 4: of laid it out there that, you know, because the
Speaker 4: Brendon staff has kind of been in place now for
Speaker 4: a year, they're you know, they're in in a groove
Speaker 4: if you will.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's funny because the last question I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask him, but I know he would take five minutes
Speaker 1: for the answer. Don't tell him. I said that, Uh,
Speaker 1: it was okay, they get rid of a couple or three.
Speaker 1: What does that do coaches? Yeah, yeah, I know that
Speaker 1: that's going to be an issue because you know, the
Speaker 1: guys come for those guys too, right, They've.
Speaker 4: Been the ones in right, they've been the ones that
Speaker 4: are you know, in the living room with with Sham
Speaker 4: and Dad. So yeah, you're right if if those coaches
Speaker 4: start disappearing, it could be trouble for the recruits.
Speaker 1: Right right. And see, hey, you didn't tell me he
Speaker 1: was leaving. Yeah, right, Hey, you're on the air and
Speaker 1: I on the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 5: This is Ken?
Speaker 1: Ken? How are you? Sounds like that? Ken? Have you
Speaker 1: called before yourself like a new face, new voice.
Speaker 16: Well, we've known each other really long time, but I
Speaker 16: haven't got here lately.
Speaker 1: Okay, Ken, I want to talk about you a.
Speaker 16: Basketball please please, And since we sometimes send messages back
Speaker 16: and forth, you probably know what my topic is going
Speaker 16: to be, which is mister love. Okay, and I, I,
Speaker 16: along with a lot of other people, aren't sure that
Speaker 16: that it's in our best interest for him to get
Speaker 16: as much time as a starter, because I don't think
Speaker 16: we have the faith in him.
Speaker 5: Maybe we should, and.
Speaker 16: I'd like to hear your side of things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's a great, great question. I agree with you,
Speaker 1: but I don't agree with you. And I and I
Speaker 1: say that with hesitation because I understand completely what you're saying.
Speaker 1: But Tommy needs the guy. He needs him desperately to
Speaker 1: play well. For whatever reason, he's just not playing well.
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm not sure that we're going to have a
Speaker 1: press conference this week, and I was hoping to get
Speaker 1: to it if he did, and one of the questions
Speaker 1: I would ask, and it'd be a serious question. He'd
Speaker 1: looked at me like, you know, I'm a fool? Is
Speaker 1: that you know? As this team goes or, as Caleb
Speaker 1: loves goes, does this team follow, which would be scary
Speaker 1: as all hellcare you know, because he's inconsistent and so far,
Speaker 1: guess what, there's almost been inconsistent.
Speaker 16: Well, I totally agree with you, and I think and
Speaker 16: there's a whole lot of us that feel the same story.
Speaker 5: It's one thing to just have an off night.
Speaker 1: It's another thing.
Speaker 16: That continuously throw up bricks and not make the attempts
Speaker 16: to get the ball underneath, to not pass it as often.
Speaker 1: As you could.
Speaker 16: And you know, I know good shooters have to find
Speaker 16: their you know, find their groove or whatever. But basically,
Speaker 16: you know, last year, he totally let us down at
Speaker 16: the end of the season and I don't see any
Speaker 16: improvement at all at all. And I think most people
Speaker 16: would rather give somebody, maybe they've even a freshman, a
Speaker 16: little more playing time unless he really picks it up.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's always easy to be the seismologist
Speaker 1: after the earthquake, right and when he was when he
Speaker 1: decided to come back, I said, that's not going to
Speaker 1: be good. And there were a few people, a few
Speaker 1: people that I said, telling me, how could you say that?
Speaker 1: Because he was the pac ten or PAC twelve Player
Speaker 1: of the Year. He's got credentials. He's good, And I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: but there's more than that than it's team dynamic. He
Speaker 1: is who he is. Ken, You know this again? You
Speaker 1: know this. He's of the five starters or four, four
Speaker 1: in the five. He's the last guy for the NBA prospect.
Speaker 1: How does that happen when you're the PAC twelve Player
Speaker 1: of the Year. They must see something that I don't see.
Speaker 1: You don't see her, or we do see and we're
Speaker 1: just not gonna admit it because he is too consistent.
Speaker 4: Either and there and there's that, and you have to
Speaker 4: have some of that, especially when you get to the pros.
Speaker 5: I just I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you who it reminds me of.
Speaker 16: And it's the only player in Loot's entire coaching career
Speaker 16: that I never got.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait, let me let me let me
Speaker 1: take this guess.
Speaker 16: Uh oh, must Musta would have been one of those guys.
Speaker 1: Well, hey, Ken, you better listen because uh listen regularly
Speaker 1: because Mustava is gonna come on the show. He has
Speaker 1: agreed to come on the show at some point soon.
Speaker 1: But you know what I thought you were gonna say,
Speaker 1: Chris Rogers. Oh no, I.
Speaker 16: Didn't have an opinion about him, honestly, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because he wasn't really.
Speaker 4: I mean, Caleb is like one of the main reasons
Speaker 4: they're even on the court, and Chris wasn't really.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, but he was. He had he had
Speaker 1: that inconsistent You didn't know what you're going to extract
Speaker 1: from him. He was he was thrown off the team,
Speaker 1: and then he fought back to get back, you know,
Speaker 1: competitioned the u of a. Uh, but Yo, Mustapha was
Speaker 1: just inconsistent and he was in a scorer. He was
Speaker 1: just kind of just you know, Mustafa was not Mustafa
Speaker 1: ken Okay, I agree with you, but you know, to
Speaker 1: solve this problem, uh, maybe you do that. But then
Speaker 1: I think that that coach will lose him. I think
Speaker 1: he would lose him if he did that. Well, I
Speaker 1: think I don't know.
Speaker 16: I just kind of feel like he I don't know,
Speaker 16: I've already said it. I think he forces up shots.
Speaker 16: I don't ever find him in the flow of the game.
Speaker 16: And you know, we're going to be soft with our
Speaker 16: big man as it is, and man, I see it.
Speaker 16: Really maybe not even the ni t if things don't
Speaker 16: change cars Peronel. Yeah, honestly, I think it's that bad.
Speaker 1: Ken, WHOA, Okay, I'm sorry, Go have a shot at
Speaker 1: a cardi or whatever. People drink and relax a little.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks basically call that thanksually call I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: In defense of Caleb, he is still leading the team
Speaker 1: in scoring, well he is. What's the efficiency though he's
Speaker 1: not great, he's shooting you know, thirty. Yeah, here's the issue.
Speaker 1: Here's the issue I had, And exactly what I told Ken,
Speaker 1: I didn't like him coming back as good as he is.
Speaker 1: They've lost the kid to a issue who's having a
Speaker 1: pretty good year and you can't compare apples to apples,
Speaker 1: you know, the kid they they had, and then because
Speaker 1: he came back. I don't know if he could create
Speaker 1: chemistry issues or whatever. But he is a bit nonchalant
Speaker 1: on the court right for sure. And you can see
Speaker 1: that if you see that. I see that, and people
Speaker 1: see that. And when he's not on, he's just another dude.
Speaker 1: It's hard to watch sometimes. I mean it's sad, and.
Speaker 4: It's it's kind of interesting how the fans react, Like
Speaker 4: when he makes a basket, it's almost like, oh, he
Speaker 4: made a basket.
Speaker 1: But celebrate like it's crazy. So let me ask you,
Speaker 1: and I've said this a couple of times on the
Speaker 1: show this week, what's your one or two things that
Speaker 1: you see with this team that you don't like or
Speaker 1: what's the issue? Wasn't thrilled with the big guys? They're
Speaker 1: not previous? Is not the player that people think he
Speaker 1: is right now? Not yet?
Speaker 4: And maybe maybe the you know, his injuries have not
Speaker 4: healed completely.
Speaker 1: But I mean I saw that in Duke.
Speaker 4: In the Duke game, it was pretty pretty apparent that
Speaker 4: he was just not you know, the level of the
Speaker 4: Duke big men.
Speaker 1: And then the same thing's kind of happened in the Bahamas.
Speaker 4: It was just kind of rough to watch, and you know,
Speaker 4: the ball goes in there and you're not quite sure
Speaker 4: if it's going to be in there forever, if he's
Speaker 4: going to pass it, and you know, that's always been
Speaker 4: kind of a big man issue around this university's teams.
Speaker 1: It seems like, yeah, okay, that's your one two one,
Speaker 1: what's another one?
Speaker 4: Well besides Caleb's shooting woes, yeah, or that could be it. No,
Speaker 4: I mean I was pleased to see del Orso play well.
Speaker 4: I thought that was a good he's still a little shaky,
Speaker 4: but yeah, yeah. I mean actually in the West Virginia game,
Speaker 4: the last game, he kind of faded at the end
Speaker 4: of the team missed like three or four shots. But
Speaker 4: I mean he's pretty consistent throughout most most of the
Speaker 4: Bahamas after not even barely getting off the bench against Duke,
Speaker 4: has technical fouls.
Speaker 1: And hasn't played really to kj's expectations. Yeah, he's is
Speaker 1: he isn't he considered like the number one he's of
Speaker 1: all of them? Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he hasn't lived
Speaker 1: up to that at all. Okay, here are my two
Speaker 1: and I've said them before, so sorry, apologies if you
Speaker 1: guys have listened in the last couple of games. Number two,
Speaker 1: and I'll go with reverse order, is they're not defending
Speaker 1: the three point Yeah, and that's obvious, right they How
Speaker 1: do you not do that? If you know you have
Speaker 1: an ailment? Don't you take your medicine for that ailment?
Speaker 1: Hell I got of that too, But you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, You got a cough take coughs go defend
Speaker 1: the three point line. Well, they knew that.
Speaker 4: That kid from West Virginia, the coach's son, that's Basically
Speaker 4: all he did was stand out there and he was
Speaker 4: fired him up from thirty one.
Speaker 1: You, Dave, don't let him leave the room. Guess what,
Speaker 1: You're on top of him wherever he goes. And you
Speaker 1: know that cliche. If he goes to the restroom, you're
Speaker 1: going in there with him. Okay, that's number two. Number
Speaker 1: one is to me is the most obvious thing in
Speaker 1: my thirty five years of covering the team, twenty five
Speaker 1: with Lout, someone was shun but he didn't do this.
Speaker 1: They ran transition easily. They would get in transition and
Speaker 1: score fifteen twenty points a game transition. These teams aren't
Speaker 1: allowing that they're dropping back score in the half court
Speaker 1: what's been Arizona's Achilles shields forever half court defense. They can't.
Speaker 1: They don't have a shooter outside of Salem and Steve
Speaker 1: uh that would break that. They need a shooter if
Speaker 1: they haven't found one yet, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: they have one, But if you can't go and transition
Speaker 1: that Arizona used to do all the time, they haven't
Speaker 1: done that. And the thing is, if you're Dave, if
Speaker 1: I'm Arizona and that's what I do, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do to me, not allow it, right, So it's
Speaker 1: not a me thing, it's not an Arizona thing. It's you,
Speaker 1: not me, not allowing. And if you're very good at that,
Speaker 1: I'm screwed. I'm just screwed. Or find two shooters or
Speaker 1: a shooter that can get us out of that, and
Speaker 1: so far we haven't been able to find. So far,
Speaker 1: you haven't game, and who knows if you haven't through
Speaker 1: seven games? Yeah, well you are. I'll bet you two
Speaker 1: to one that they find a guy this weekend. Of course, exactly,
Speaker 1: someone's gonna exact.
Speaker 4: Shine and someone's gonna come off the bench, or someone's
Speaker 4: gonna do the big guys are going to be dominant.
Speaker 1: And I'll bet you in a month you when you
Speaker 1: come back that they'll they won't against the huge the
Speaker 1: teams that play defense, right and just say they have
Speaker 1: that problem again? Here we go. Yeah, it's it's been.
Speaker 1: It's been a tough watch. It really has been.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's because you're used to seeing.
Speaker 4: And like you you mentioned that the runs, I mean,
Speaker 4: that's always been Arizona's forte you know.
Speaker 1: In fact, other teams are having more runs on Arizona right,
Speaker 1: surprising because they don't expect they don't want to play defense. Henry,
Speaker 1: you see the same thing.
Speaker 3: I think the two main things that I would say, kJ,
Speaker 3: He's got to play better. That's the biggest thing I think.
Speaker 3: Obviously Caleb has been struggling, but kJ, he was kind
Speaker 3: of the second guy that was kind of Bradley's taking over.
Speaker 3: They expected from kJ, and they needed to learn how
Speaker 3: to get more defensive. They give them way too many
Speaker 3: offensive rebounds, sure, which has tried to so many threes.
Speaker 1: On the surface, though they have all the pieces. I
Speaker 1: told one of the assistant coaches two weeks ago, I
Speaker 1: really liked this team before Duke. I think it was
Speaker 1: really because the pieces seem to fit. Yeah, they seem
Speaker 1: to fit. Just you know, a waka can do the
Speaker 1: things that that that creevous can't. Previous to your point
Speaker 1: is on the money, he's not to me, he even
Speaker 1: looks more like it's Stokes. Sorry to say, he's not
Speaker 1: holding on the ball. There's losing a lot of the
Speaker 1: balls thrown inside or maybe more. Caleb, Yeah, used to
Speaker 1: drive me crazy with his holding the ball. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: there's that. There's a lot of little things that they're
Speaker 1: doing that you're not used to seeing in pieces, very strange.
Speaker 1: Towson hasn't been the guy that shot twelve three pointers
Speaker 1: that one night in.
Speaker 4: The first game. So he's been he's been pretty good.
Speaker 4: He kind of held the whole team together in the
Speaker 4: Bahamas basically the way he was playing. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: there's just it's just something right now, it's just not clicking.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's like you said, you know,
Speaker 4: the leadership of love not there yet.
Speaker 1: Who is it ever? I don't think he's I don't
Speaker 1: think he's a leader though. I just he's a scorer
Speaker 1: and leave me alone. You'll leave me alone. Trust I
Speaker 1: think a lot of it is going to ride on
Speaker 1: Jayden Bradley. I totally agree. So if I were, if
Speaker 1: I were to do something that he would be the guy.
Speaker 1: He has the ball in his had a lot, he
Speaker 1: knows how to score and get to the basket. Not
Speaker 1: sure when I criticized that just what you need now?
Speaker 1: You need that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you need that? Yeah, I mean because no one
Speaker 4: else is doing it. Because what do you want from
Speaker 4: your point guard? Do you want him just to be,
Speaker 4: you know, distributing or do you want him shooting a
Speaker 4: little bit more. Not with these guys, the second leading
Speaker 4: scorer on the team. Yeah, not with these guys because
Speaker 4: they're not getting much. I mean Townshend, yes, But after that,
Speaker 4: I mean the big guys are nowhere to be found
Speaker 4: on there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know the other guy that needs to show up.
Speaker 1: But I thought he would have a good year if
Speaker 1: creevious doesn't show. It was Henry because you can stretch
Speaker 1: him out and hit three. They need to start hitting
Speaker 1: perimeter shots.
Speaker 4: And you wonder if it's their lack of defense, lack
Speaker 4: of mettle like defense and they're having trouble there because
Speaker 4: he was in and out. I think as the West
Speaker 4: Virginia gaming, he was he really played hen Henry.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's just and that's and that's not that's coachable,
Speaker 1: but that's desire. That's you hadn't want to do that.
Speaker 1: It's just they haven't done yet. Yeah, especially from the
Speaker 1: three point line. Bring on UTAs others. Let's go, let's
Speaker 1: get better. The feel good game, the feel good game.
Speaker 1: And then you'll say Dave on Monday or and then
Speaker 1: next week I say, Steve, I told you so, Yeah, Dave,
Speaker 1: I told you so too. So we'll see.
Speaker 4: So then they get that, when do they they have
Speaker 4: a break to right, they go there and then they
Speaker 4: go to the game in.
Speaker 1: Phoenix, and the UCLA is another team that makes games
Speaker 1: look ugly. You know, you're not going to run against me,
Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens there. That's gonna be fun,
Speaker 1: I think, just the vibe. Yeah, the whole rivalry thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's going to be no students.
Speaker 4: True, you know, those Vegas games can be pretty dead.
Speaker 4: M So we'll see the Garzona fans will travel for that.
Speaker 1: Just the Phoenix. Yeah it was in Phoenix, never mind
Speaker 1: in Vegas, that's right, of course. Yeah, so they'll be fair.
Speaker 1: The school will be out, but they'll have fans at
Speaker 1: tings and this will be their red blue game that
Speaker 1: they didn't have. Oh yeah, that that the red blue
Speaker 1: Phoenix Phoenix exactly. If you miss that, you get a
Speaker 1: chance to see. Now that was always crazy. Where were
Speaker 1: they going to do that? Weren't they going to do
Speaker 1: that at the Yeah, at the at the hockey place?
Speaker 1: I think, no, the Desert Diamond thing. Okay, the Desert
Speaker 1: Diamond Arena. We're good ull be time, Yeah, we can
Speaker 1: go Okay, let's go. Hey Dave, thanks for thanks for
Speaker 1: joining me today anytime. I don't know. You're not here
Speaker 1: the rest of the week, right, I gotta'll see you
Speaker 1: Friday now, but maybe tomorrow, let me see. No, you
Speaker 1: can't do it tomorrow. Oh you're not in yours? I
Speaker 1: mean no, okay, well not tomorrow then, Henry, I'll see
Speaker 1: you Monday. Ye, your final week before you move to
Speaker 1: the casino tomorrow. No, no, not till the twentieth or smile,
Speaker 1: okay whatever. Yeah, thanks guys,