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Speaker 3: Don't screw it up. Starting with some Arizona athletics. The
Speaker 3: men's tennis team, after losing to Central Florida, got back
Speaker 3: on the right track.
Speaker 2: Over the weekend. They had a win against Utah State
Speaker 2: l MU.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what that stands for, but then number
Speaker 3: twenty five Pepperdine on Sunday Maryland Marrimount.
Speaker 2: It'll get you outside of two Saturday. Are they are
Speaker 2: they ranked? Are they ranked?
Speaker 3: Pepperdine, They're like the top ten, number ten, number ten
Speaker 3: tennis they be number twenty five, Pepperdine four zero, it's
Speaker 3: a tennis school. Then eight and one. Yeah to the
Speaker 3: softball team. They had the Kendrea Classic over the weekend.
Speaker 3: They lost on Friday to Washington.
Speaker 2: They lost on Friday to Washington. They lost from two
Speaker 2: to six.
Speaker 3: They ended up beating Western Michigan about two hours later,
Speaker 3: fourteen to six. Saturday, they run ruled Alabama number eleven,
Speaker 3: Labama nine to one, and then they got revenge on
Speaker 3: Sunday yesterday, beating Washington for zero.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you have you don't have tickets? See, we
Speaker 2: talked about that, and it's like they had they had
Speaker 2: two tickets season tickets available next to each other, you know,
Speaker 2: the only one. There's only one two seats next to
Speaker 2: each other. Really you looked in and I looked into it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like going. They did like maybe five individual seats.
Speaker 2: That place is packed. Oh yeah, because I was gonna say,
Speaker 2: I'll go, I'll go for a year, go in, go
Speaker 2: go you get yeah, go yeah go in ninety ten. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, I know how you go in. No, it's
Speaker 2: like there's you just can't keep good seats. It's like
Speaker 2: the night you and I lost two thousand dollars playing Roulette.
Speaker 2: You know, I lost it with Buck and you lost
Speaker 2: a thousand nights or night exactly exactly. I hope my
Speaker 2: wife's out less the No, it's it's it's impossible. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's like one of the hottest tickets in town is
Speaker 2: trying to you'd exaggerate, I'm exaggerated. Yeah. I think they
Speaker 2: were like there were just like five years Ken Dan
Speaker 2: was the coach. Now this year, this year, trying to
Speaker 2: get I looked in the season two really, I looked
Speaker 2: in the season tickets. Ryan Haystings, who's my guy? Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: in the in the A club okay club that makes sense. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And he sent me a thing it's like, okay, there
Speaker 2: is one opportunity for two seats together. And uh, you know,
Speaker 2: way down the first eighty books per season like one
Speaker 2: hundred bucks. This season it was like three undred bucks.
Speaker 2: I oh, really, yeah, you get fifty to fifty. How's that?
Speaker 2: But it's like, hey, you know what I mean. There
Speaker 2: it's a hot ticket. Yeah, it really is hot. I
Speaker 2: didn't watch. I did watch the Arizona Meet the meet
Speaker 2: the team in baseball. Okay, I say go ahead, you
Speaker 2: want to take your thunder.
Speaker 3: Softball plays again starting Thursday in the Beardown Fiesta. They
Speaker 3: got South Alabama on Thursday.
Speaker 2: That's there they're hosting again. Yes, ma'am can dread Classic
Speaker 2: Beardown you know hot Dogs, and then the son or
Speaker 2: In Dog Classic Friday.
Speaker 3: Friday they got the cal State Fuller ten and South
Speaker 3: Alabama showdowns and then Ohio State or in Ohio State
Speaker 3: Ohio on Saturday, finishing up with cal State fullar ten
Speaker 3: again on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Okay, softball season started back. Baseball is going to start too,
Speaker 2: has started? I think, yeah, Well, they had their squad
Speaker 2: Texas here a few in a few.
Speaker 3: The women's team, after a tough road trip to the
Speaker 3: Mountain Schools, beat rival Arizona State six fifty nine and
Speaker 3: McHale Center. I was getting ready for softball fifteen to ten,
Speaker 3: now six and six in conference.
Speaker 2: Still looking at are Yeah, but if they're up and
Speaker 2: down big time. So they ask you, so you were
Speaker 2: at softball, which softball game did you cover? Alabama? So
Speaker 2: I'm sure they're optimistic about that game. How did how
Speaker 2: they look? How they look They looked real fast. Offensively,
Speaker 2: they run the bases really well. Defensively, they get they
Speaker 2: got a strong outfield where they can cover a lot
Speaker 2: of ground.
Speaker 3: Quick pitching looked pretty good. So I mean that's the
Speaker 3: key to be successful. Yeah, only I've also only seen
Speaker 3: one game they didn't.
Speaker 2: Uh well, they certainly hit the ball. Yeah, they hit it.
Speaker 2: She's she I don't know if she's up against it,
Speaker 2: but this is her fourth year. They got it better.
Speaker 3: I think I think there's a lot of expectations to
Speaker 3: come with true because of camera. But of course I
Speaker 3: think I don't know. There's a that's true, that is
Speaker 3: very true. Not a lot of patience. I forget the
Speaker 3: X factor there, but uh I know, yeah, number eleven Alabama.
Speaker 3: You you shut him out through I think almost three
Speaker 3: four and a half innings and then only get one
Speaker 3: run on the night. And that's obviously because they're they're
Speaker 3: Arizona's offense caught fire.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh.
Speaker 3: So we'll see it should be it should be interesting
Speaker 3: season for them.
Speaker 2: Is a consultant. He's still kind of in the office.
Speaker 2: You ask, you know what you're saying, Well, I am,
Speaker 2: I'm saying that he is, but I don't know that
Speaker 2: the coach softball coach, and I don't have her name,
Speaker 2: but she was picked by care Yeah. So it's like,
Speaker 2: does Careas say you're done? No, no, no, no, no
Speaker 2: no no, not up to him. Yeah, I know it's
Speaker 2: not up to him. But my point is, I bet
Speaker 2: he has some influencer. Oh sure, of course they're gonna
Speaker 2: ask him. Of course, of course. Yeah, I think that
Speaker 2: I think that helps her. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So after the road went at BYU and the home
Speaker 3: win against Texas Tech, oh tobay O Waka was named
Speaker 3: the Big Twelve Conference Newcomer of the Week.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh, pretty good performances back to back. Yeah, no, he
Speaker 3: was fantastic. He's fantastic.
Speaker 2: And then they didn't play without Townsend and and who
Speaker 2: knows if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Speaker 2: So I think till the death at some point's gonna hurt.
Speaker 2: It's gotta play a part. Maybe I'm wrong, but okay,
Speaker 2: so Newcomer of the week, Well, next week it's gonna
Speaker 2: be like, you know, what is best right handed player? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I know, it's like newcomer. It's like, okay, everyone on
Speaker 2: the Arizona squad is a newcomer. Okay, the it's like
Speaker 2: I'm gonna sure, how I guess it used to be
Speaker 2: freshman now you know, I'm sure they do. It's like
Speaker 2: on six player of exactly be third guy down on
Speaker 2: the bench. I got going for Steve best to wear
Speaker 2: their jersey, best looking jersey, exactly looking hot there. I
Speaker 2: will say, you know, you talk about the you know
Speaker 2: the impact of six playing six or seven deep, I'll
Speaker 2: tell you that they used to go right. So it's
Speaker 2: it was one of those things where it's like fine
Speaker 2: to do that. Let's talk about next year, you've got
Speaker 2: you play six seven deep. Previously it's like going, okay,
Speaker 2: your other guys they're coming back next year because where
Speaker 2: you're gonna go, yeah, okay, you're just going to develop
Speaker 2: and eventually you'll be part of the six seven deep.
Speaker 2: Now there's coaches going a little bit deeper, trying to
Speaker 2: give these guys a little playing time so they don't
Speaker 2: hit the transfer portal. But we talk about this long time,
Speaker 2: like you have kids. I have kids, but they're gotten
Speaker 2: mine or old enough. How do you make them happy?
Speaker 2: How do you keep them happy? You got to you
Speaker 2: got to keep them happier, they're going to leave, and
Speaker 2: then if they leave, then you got okay. Then we're
Speaker 2: not developing it. It's like going. So it's like, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm going six seven deep, I'm out of here. I
Speaker 2: gotta go, gotta go, and then I'm not party. I'm eight.
Speaker 2: I'm not part of your plans. But yeah, exactly, I'm
Speaker 2: number eight. Guess what I could be? Number four? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 2: I know you saw it. I mean ones and Philip
Speaker 2: is in New Mexico. I really don't know how well
Speaker 2: he's doing with the kid that went to Saint Mary's.
Speaker 2: I think it is Ascus whatever his name is.
Speaker 4: St.
Speaker 2: Mary's or Santa Clara, one of those.
Speaker 3: I know the ball he's gone, he's gone.
Speaker 2: He went to a bunch of.
Speaker 3: He went to Santa Clara, right, yeah, yeah, there's a
Speaker 3: couple of the one he's playing really well in California.
Speaker 2: I think it's Santa Clara. Maybe Saint Mary's one of those. So,
Speaker 2: you know, but how do you keep these guys? These
Speaker 2: kids are good. I mean they came here for a
Speaker 2: reason because they're good. There's some deficiency's on defense or whatever,
Speaker 2: but then they leave and then they shine. No Doug
Speaker 2: they're good. That's why they came in. There's just no room, right,
Speaker 2: And that's the thing about it. It's like, you're not
Speaker 2: gonna okay it was it used to be less. You're
Speaker 2: not gonna play this year. We're gonna go with a
Speaker 2: seven man rotation. You're number eight, But I'm telling you
Speaker 2: something right now. Next year you're gonna be number three
Speaker 2: and you're playing the full time. That's that's like going,
Speaker 2: I'm out of here. That's how Luke got it. You know.
Speaker 2: Then they left on loot too. But you know you're
Speaker 2: playing against a top five. That's a pretty damn good
Speaker 2: top five. Guess what you're getting better by doing this?
Speaker 2: Right in a year or so. It's like you ever
Speaker 2: have a Volkswagen? Do you ever travel on a Volkswagen?
Speaker 2: Like lot? How big was your trunk? You can only
Speaker 2: fit so much into that trunk? You only have five, six,
Speaker 2: seven people? You can kind of play? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: you try, but you can. Yeah. Yeah, that's the thing
Speaker 2: about I mean, you can't play everybody. But then you
Speaker 2: got to think about it. It's like, what are we gonna
Speaker 2: do now? You know, we really want to play you,
Speaker 2: but you gotta make sure you'll be your next year.
Speaker 2: We'll coach you. You know you said that, you promise
Speaker 2: me this. No, okay, sorry.
Speaker 3: No, so obviously Arizona beat Texas tack on Saturday eighty
Speaker 3: two seventy three, some good breaking news. Well maybe no, no,
Speaker 3: so Dick by Tel returned.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, two sons. Not too keen on, mister, but
Speaker 2: who knows. He might be.
Speaker 3: He might be a good luck chron for Clemson because
Speaker 3: they ended up upsetting number two Duke. Yeah, flag falls down,
Speaker 3: he did that. He did one of the early early
Speaker 3: game I think against Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Another top top team went down, number one Auburn at home.
Speaker 2: It's number six Florida, who's number one? Now? Did you stay?
Speaker 2: They said that they should stay even though they're pretty
Speaker 2: damn good. Yeah yeah, I mean that's saying. But I
Speaker 2: mean you're gonna lose games. You're gonna lose games. Yeah, sure, Florida.
Speaker 2: You don't team that. I don't know. Florida's very Florida.
Speaker 2: All these teams, there's there's no definitive top five or
Speaker 2: six es. And Arizona like or he said, Erizone's probably
Speaker 2: the hottest team in the country right.
Speaker 3: Now, right, Yeah, they're not one Alabama to college game.
Speaker 3: They will be there in Tuscaloosa this weekend. Florida moved
Speaker 3: up to number three. They're kind of I think, tied
Speaker 3: with Duke for a number that third spot. Tennessee following
Speaker 3: up five, and of course Arizona moved up to thirteen
Speaker 3: from twenty, right right behind Texas Tech at number twelve.
Speaker 2: And no fault on Texas Tech. They played a fantastic game.
Speaker 2: It did your team on the road here, they were
Speaker 2: shooting like crazy. I mean some un believed that kicked
Speaker 2: him in there.
Speaker 3: So one commentary there came back. Another one called his
Speaker 3: final game to be Brown at ninety one.
Speaker 2: That I didn't really he was ninety one. Neither did I.
Speaker 2: But I was working at ninety one, believe work at whatever?
Speaker 2: What's that? Just a long career for yeah, you think? So?
Speaker 2: Why did I didn't read the stories and all that?
Speaker 2: Because I just didn't. Why did he quit? Now? When
Speaker 2: did he just wait till the end of the year.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It doesn't it doesn't, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. It's like ESPN's dilemma with uh, of course
Speaker 2: of courso, I mean, at some point you got to say, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're you're done here son. The I don't know, I
Speaker 2: don't know. It's kind of tough there. I don't know
Speaker 2: why he would leave. I mean in the middle of
Speaker 2: maybe maybe I don't know. Maybe, I don't know why
Speaker 2: would he leave now? I don't know that.
Speaker 3: To the NBA, be honest, I think will be missing
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks with a left calf injury.
Speaker 2: He'll be ruled out through the All Star break. What
Speaker 2: about the big trade injury? Yeah, so I was gonna
Speaker 2: get to that.
Speaker 3: Because Jannie is missing the All Star Game, Trey Young
Speaker 3: has been added as his injury replacement.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: He's been pretty vocal about not getting the initial nod,
Speaker 3: but he'll he's settling for the oh now you want me, Yeah,
Speaker 3: settling for the for the injury.
Speaker 2: Lucas another another heartbroken multi multi millionaire.
Speaker 3: God, I feel bad for him. I don't cry for Argentina.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what so Uh to that trade big
Speaker 3: trade from about to week two weeks ago, about ten
Speaker 3: days ago, Luca Dachas is prepared to make his Lakers
Speaker 3: debut against the Jazz tonight.
Speaker 2: Okay, what about the other side, About the.
Speaker 3: Other side, Uh, Anthony Davis is on multiple weeks with the.
Speaker 2: You knew what you're getting into to say, it's like,
Speaker 2: didn't see that coming at all, not not one thing
Speaker 2: that I did. You see the quotes from the Dallas
Speaker 2: Mavericks owner about Luca He's fat, he doesn't try hard,
Speaker 2: he's over. What the hell the dude the leading scorer
Speaker 2: last year And we don't accept those things in Dallas
Speaker 2: at the Mavericks, No wonder, Dallas sucks basketball. Football's like
Speaker 2: it's great. Well, you know, Mark Cuban's not making any decisions.
Speaker 2: That dude would never have walked out that door. Yeah
Speaker 2: that that Uh, that GM would have been the.
Speaker 3: First that they've upgraded their security at the business office.
Speaker 2: Lived there, I covered some games. It was it's crazy
Speaker 2: out there. The uh. But Anthony Davis, man, it is
Speaker 2: so unfortunate that they can't stay stay healthy. And he
Speaker 2: had a good game, a very good game. Yeah, twenty
Speaker 2: six points in the third quarters. Load management, baby.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: So to the NFL before we get to this, before
Speaker 2: we get to the big game. Uh.
Speaker 3: Some slight news, uh, but maybe not surprising. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 3: don't likely to return to the Jets.
Speaker 2: And it's gonna happened to him to work for ABC.
Speaker 2: What he's gonna do. He's gonna play again, obviously, someone
Speaker 2: start his own healthcare line.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: He's he's like one of those psychadelic people. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's gonna go off into the you know, sit on
Speaker 2: a hill and smoke peyote. He uh yeah, he's he's
Speaker 2: a bit different. Play again. I'm sure you think so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got he's got one more go out on
Speaker 3: his terms.
Speaker 2: You won't let Okay, but who's going to start him?
Speaker 2: Because he's not coming in and battle Jacksonville, jackson some Eveland. Yeah,
Speaker 2: something already be.
Speaker 3: If you're Cleveland, why not bring in a lengthy veteran
Speaker 3: to to.
Speaker 2: Teach your because he's the lever you draft. He refuses
Speaker 2: to teach. That's maybe he's maybe maybe he doesn't have
Speaker 2: that choice anymore. Well maybe, but that's not him. But
Speaker 2: he comes in as a prima donna. Of course, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: We need to we need to pop up, We need
Speaker 2: a pop up to second Steve you're in.
Speaker 3: And of course Super Bowl Sunday yesterday, the Eagles dominated yesterday.
Speaker 2: That was just a sad That was a sad game,
Speaker 2: you think, so, I'm just you're watching for entertainment value.
Speaker 2: There was no entertainment. Anybody who sits there and says
Speaker 2: like going, hey, we don't need an offensive line. We
Speaker 2: got we just got all that, we need all the
Speaker 2: tools there. This is like, hey, you're an idiot, because
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. That's all it was. It was there.
Speaker 2: The Philadelphia Eagles defensive line should have been m v
Speaker 2: PS for that. I was wondering if they would do that.
Speaker 2: So what entertaining about it for you? Was it entertaining
Speaker 2: to you?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: I think maybe just because I'm a Broncos fan to
Speaker 3: see the Chiefs get well, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, I mean your team, the team you wanted one, okay,
Speaker 2: but doesn't make it. It's not even the.
Speaker 3: Multiple times last week I wanted the comment to come
Speaker 3: and hit the earth before that game.
Speaker 2: Well, what's that? What's the German?
Speaker 6: German?
Speaker 2: Yeah, shading freud? You know, yeah, my neighbor has a
Speaker 2: new car. I help here, Yeah, right, exactly.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things like we used to root
Speaker 2: for the Patriots to lose, you know, because they want
Speaker 2: so many times and that's and that's fine. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's okay to be like going, hey, you know, they've
Speaker 2: done it enough. There's a lot to be said for that.
Speaker 2: The you know, it's like there's people today. This is
Speaker 2: the dumbest thing. It's like Ken mahomes bounce back and
Speaker 2: proven himself, prove himself? What the hell? I mean, you
Speaker 2: gotta be kidding. That is the dumbest thing I've ever
Speaker 2: heard of. It was on ESPN. It's an article on ESPN.
Speaker 2: These knuckleheads, I mean, come on, prove himself. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, he's only been there like what five of
Speaker 2: the last six years. I was a phrase from from Loot,
Speaker 2: Not that I quote little all the time, but he
Speaker 2: how many big games you have to prove to win
Speaker 2: the big Game? Yeah right, It's like, come on, yeah, look,
Speaker 2: mahomesomes for sixty Yeah. Sorry, last things I got.
Speaker 3: Eagles will be celebrating, obviously their Super Bowl parade a
Speaker 3: set for Valentine's Day, so.
Speaker 2: Some brotherly love on the brotherly Day or whatever.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: And the Chiefs and the Ravens are co favorite to
Speaker 3: win the Super Bowl next year. I don't know if
Speaker 3: you saw this, but there was a protester during the
Speaker 3: halftime show. He won't be facing charges for his display
Speaker 3: of whatever you want to know the life time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that chief will be facing any penalties for their
Speaker 2: display of exactly not being competitive. We gotta go.
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Speaker 1: Tucson Sports station Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my I on the ball here
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In today
Speaker 2: with me is Mike Quinn, got a plan at the keyboard,
Speaker 2: and now we have Michael from the Arizona Daily Star. Michael,
Speaker 2: how you doing pretty good?
Speaker 9: How are you guys, ask.
Speaker 2: You a question. We've been talking a lot about this
Speaker 2: last hour. What impressed you the most on Saturday night?
Speaker 7: I would say that it's a carryover of what's impressed
Speaker 7: me for several weeks about this team, and that is
Speaker 7: that they just seem to have a different kind of
Speaker 7: a different DNA than previous Tommy Wood teams, uh in
Speaker 7: that they're physically and maybe also mentally tougher than any squad.
Speaker 9: That he's had.
Speaker 7: I have a column that went up today saying that
Speaker 7: they're his toughest and greddiest team.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and kind of get into all the reasons why
Speaker 9: that is.
Speaker 7: But yeah, they you know, they they face this challenge
Speaker 7: entering the Big twelve. They had to become that or
Speaker 7: I think they would have been successful, and they've met
Speaker 7: the challenge.
Speaker 5: In a big way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, no question, I think I think that's a
Speaker 2: good number one that you said. In fact, I've been
Speaker 2: covering the team for a long time, obviously, and I
Speaker 2: don't remember even before the season started. I couldn't maybe
Speaker 2: point out but maybe one or two physically tough teams
Speaker 2: that I covered since ninety one, and this is one
Speaker 2: of them. And I even asked the question about to me,
Speaker 2: it's the peskiest that he's had. He kind of debated
Speaker 2: that a little, but I would I would say that's true.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I like that term that you used because that's
Speaker 7: how I would definitely describe the way that Jayden Bradley
Speaker 7: plays defense the way that Caleb Love plays defense. kJ
Speaker 7: Lewis is probably on another level beyond pesky. He's he's
Speaker 7: a force onto himself, and Carter Bryant is a very
Speaker 7: good defender also, hands just all over the place.
Speaker 2: All the time, but follow but he's not using him
Speaker 2: to Yeah.
Speaker 9: Sometimes yeah, sometimes he's a little bit out of control.
Speaker 7: Henry Bassar has been a major difference maker on both
Speaker 7: ends of the court, you know, not just with his scoring,
Speaker 7: his dunking, his shooting, but his rebounding, his ability to challenge.
Speaker 9: Shots, affect shots.
Speaker 7: That's been a huge, huge factor for his mobility too,
Speaker 7: is another thing, like he's not just a statue in
Speaker 7: there on either end of the court. And then Tobya Waka,
Speaker 7: you know, he's just it'd be immovable object down there,
Speaker 7: the guy that you need to have to pull down
Speaker 7: a rebound kind of whenever you need it.
Speaker 9: So I think.
Speaker 7: I listed all top of their top six guys. I
Speaker 7: mentioned in the column that they all kind of have
Speaker 7: an impact on the defensive end in one way or another,
Speaker 7: whether that steals, blocks, rebounds, whatever the case. And yeah,
Speaker 7: you know, hopefully this will mean that they can last
Speaker 7: longer in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 9: That's that's that's the obvious question.
Speaker 7: That the one thing that Tommy Wood hasn't done since
Speaker 7: he's been here.
Speaker 9: Maybe maybe this team has this stuff.
Speaker 5: We'll see.
Speaker 2: Well, we have the beat writer from the Kansas State
Speaker 2: team here last hour, so I asked him, Okay, Kansas
Speaker 2: State is going six to seven deep. Now Arizona's going
Speaker 2: seven deep. Maybe if Talenton doesn't come back for a while,
Speaker 2: can can Tommy sustain this level given that the depth
Speaker 2: is going to be very slight and then we're what
Speaker 2: maybe two months away from the tournament or I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I don't like.
Speaker 9: I don't like. Yeah, yeah, I don't like the seven
Speaker 9: man rotation.
Speaker 7: They've they've flirted with that in the past, they've been
Speaker 7: in that situation. I don't think it's ideal. I know
Speaker 7: that a lot of people are down on Trey Townsend,
Speaker 7: and I think he can definitely can play better I
Speaker 7: think he might need to kind of, you know, take
Speaker 7: this time away to reassess what his role should be
Speaker 7: on this team. I don't, you know, it's been a
Speaker 7: difficult transition for him from kind of being the man
Speaker 7: at Oakland to just being a role player here. But
Speaker 7: there's a kind of a domino effect of not having him,
Speaker 7: you know, you just you're down one guy and it's
Speaker 7: just more minutes for everybody else, and then you're kind
Speaker 7: of one injury away from having sixty six guys. So
Speaker 7: I would love to see him sprinkle in a little
Speaker 7: bit of Emmanuel Stefan, a little bit of Conrad Martinez,
Speaker 7: even if it's just five or six minutes in the game,
Speaker 7: that makes a difference. You don't want Caleb Love and
Speaker 7: Jayden Bradley to have to play thirty nine.
Speaker 9: Minutes every game, which is what they played in this
Speaker 9: last game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So what what changed in our you know, in
Speaker 2: in what we've done and I and probably defensively is
Speaker 2: the best way, Well what change that got us going
Speaker 2: on this stuff? I mean it can just be like twelve.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a great question, Like is it just a
Speaker 7: mentality that's changed?
Speaker 9: Is it a you know, sort of.
Speaker 7: A prolonged coaching emphasis or is it just that they
Speaker 7: the guys that they have, that they're those types of players,
Speaker 7: you know, they're kind of they got some junkyard dogs,
Speaker 7: you know, like kJ Lewis and Carter Bryant and Henry Vassar.
Speaker 7: Their their tone setters, you know, just the way that
Speaker 7: they attack people. And kJ of course had a pretty
Speaker 7: big role on last year's team, but not as not
Speaker 7: as important of a role as he has now. And
Speaker 7: Carter Bryant wasn't here, Henry Vasar wasn't.
Speaker 9: Part of the mix.
Speaker 7: I think those guys have really changed the nature of
Speaker 7: this team in a big way. And you see someone
Speaker 7: like Caleb Love kind of the contagious nature of it.
Speaker 7: Caleb Love is playing that way now whereas maybe he
Speaker 7: wouldn't have before because you kind of see everybody else
Speaker 7: doing it, you know, it like becomes It's this mentality
Speaker 7: that that kind of takes over and permeates everything.
Speaker 2: So one of the things the reason why I asked
Speaker 2: what really impressed you? I thought you might go the
Speaker 2: way I went. Uh, And that's Henry v how he played,
Speaker 2: you know, he looked like he was on his last
Speaker 2: leg and then he found another leg. But it's like,
Speaker 2: here's this dude, could I buy you a sandwich? Because
Speaker 2: you look thin? And then he comes up, he comes
Speaker 2: up Like I even asked that question, is how does
Speaker 2: the seven footer looking like him become a beast? And
Speaker 2: he was a beast he was.
Speaker 7: And he's listed at two hundred and thirty five pounds.
Speaker 7: They have these, you know, if you go on there
Speaker 7: on their roster page and if someone's been there for
Speaker 7: a few years, you can click on this button called
Speaker 7: historical right, so he's listed at two hundred pounds as
Speaker 7: a freshman, two twenty five as a sophomore two thirty
Speaker 7: five currently as a red shirt sophomore. But you know,
Speaker 7: compared to Tobya Waca, like he does look skinny, right, Yeah,
Speaker 7: I think he's you know, probably stronger than he looks.
Speaker 9: And he just like he just plays.
Speaker 7: Like you would not expect a European whose name people
Speaker 7: might mispronounce as Henri to play, you know, like he
Speaker 7: is a menace out there. He had that kind of
Speaker 7: like this ball is mine kind of mentality. It was
Speaker 7: one there was one coming our way, Steve where he
Speaker 7: just ripped the rebound away from his teammates, you know,
Speaker 7: and like you're almost worried that he's going to swing
Speaker 7: an elbow into one of his teamates faces, Like he
Speaker 7: wanted that ball really badly, and.
Speaker 9: That's what you love to see. And the threshold that
Speaker 9: he kind.
Speaker 7: Of crossed in this game was playing more minutes, because
Speaker 7: we've seen him play really really hard for four or
Speaker 7: five minutes at a stretch and not you know, not
Speaker 7: being able to sustain that, but he kind of had
Speaker 7: to because of the shortened you know, the shortened rotation.
Speaker 10: That they had.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, no question. And you talked about you
Speaker 2: talked about four guys. I don't know if I paid
Speaker 2: enough attention to uh they don't have talentsend and they don't.
Speaker 2: They're not getting much or haven't been getting much from
Speaker 2: uh Delorso, which, of course you need him every now
Speaker 2: and again to sprinkle a three pointer or two. But
Speaker 2: they're playing with kind of four dudes that are playing
Speaker 2: out of their mind.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, Deloso is an interesting one. He has
Speaker 7: his moments, yeah, and then he does. But there are
Speaker 7: certain games, Yeah, in certain games where he you know,
Speaker 7: he doesn't really he he's different from the other guys.
Speaker 9: He's kind of just a specialist to me, you know,
Speaker 9: like he's I mean, he's a pretty decent playmaker.
Speaker 7: He sometimes will surprise you with some of the stuff
Speaker 7: he's able to do in the lane or around the hole,
Speaker 7: but really he's out there for floor spacing and to
Speaker 7: make open threes if they present themselves. And this is
Speaker 7: not a great three point shooting team, as we know,
Speaker 7: and you know he is I think probably the worst
Speaker 7: defender out of the eight. Yeah, who play the most,
Speaker 7: but you need shooting and they don't have a ton
Speaker 7: of shooting. So I bet I bet you there will
Speaker 7: be a game, whether it's down the strets and the
Speaker 7: regular season, or maybe you know, in the Big twelve
Speaker 7: tournament or the NCAA tournament where he had the big
Speaker 7: game and everyone is seeing his praises and and the
Speaker 7: big game is a bunch of three pointers.
Speaker 2: Well he knocks down. I wouldn't bet you on that.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't bet you on that, because I do agree
Speaker 2: with you, in the next few games you all have
Speaker 2: that game. The thing about it is, I think you
Speaker 2: need more of that from him, more than just one
Speaker 2: game or two. But you know what, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: I owe you a beer or you owe me a beer.
Speaker 2: On the lead from Bruce on Saturday, I.
Speaker 7: Think we both thought he was going to use the
Speaker 7: fire alarm as his lead and he did not know.
Speaker 9: I don't know if we should just go hang out
Speaker 9: together and wallow in our misery or.
Speaker 7: Right, maybe he should buy us about that.
Speaker 2: Well, this was proved that Bruce is not predictable, which,
Speaker 2: of course the shocks the hell out of me.
Speaker 9: So there was a couple of not predictable.
Speaker 2: There's a couple of times that you know, you know,
Speaker 2: early in the game, I mean, Love was not on
Speaker 2: fire to say the least. I mean there are sequence
Speaker 2: there where he had but three or four shots that
Speaker 2: he missed, and some of them weren't weren't that good,
Speaker 2: weren't that close. Do you think that he is not
Speaker 2: letting the game come to him? And I don't know
Speaker 2: if I like that term, but he seems to be pressing,
Speaker 2: especially early in games. Do you sense that ors? What
Speaker 2: does he need to do to turn around his offense?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 9: He's streaky.
Speaker 7: He just I think we have to accept that this
Speaker 7: is how he is. He's a streaky offensive player, he's
Speaker 7: a volume shooter. He's gonna have some amazing games, and
Speaker 7: he's going to have some games where the ball is
Speaker 7: just not dropping. To me, the difference with him is
Speaker 7: you can he influence the game in other ways if
Speaker 7: the shot isn't dropping. I mean, I feel like, especially
Speaker 7: down the stretch of last season, if he had a
Speaker 7: game like this, Arizona would not have won.
Speaker 9: And now they can.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 7: And he had six assist in that game, and people
Speaker 7: were keeping a lot of praise on him for the
Speaker 7: job he did defensively and he got to the line
Speaker 7: they're you know, they're leading, uh the most free throws
Speaker 7: attempted I made on the team. So, you know, like
Speaker 7: we're just talking about with del Loriso. I don't know
Speaker 7: if Delorso has other elements to his game besides the
Speaker 7: outside shooting.
Speaker 9: I think Caleb does, and.
Speaker 7: The more he kind of emphasizes those, the more impactful
Speaker 7: he can be, regardless of whether his shock goes in.
Speaker 9: Now, if he gets on a hot streak at the right.
Speaker 7: Time, that could be the catalyst that you know, sends Arizona,
Speaker 7: you know, deep into March.
Speaker 2: So so we got to call less hour by one
Speaker 2: of our regular callers, and I'll throw this at you,
Speaker 2: and I know what my answer. My answer was easy
Speaker 2: to him. Uh so it's a Twitter poll question created
Speaker 2: by him just on the radio. What's more impactful the
Speaker 2: the Laura, the Fafida replaces Laura or Henry replaces Crevas?
Speaker 7: Oh well, I guess you could say that it sort
Speaker 7: of remains to be seen how the rest of the
Speaker 7: season plays out, right, because we have the proof of
Speaker 7: what Fafita was able to do in twenty twenty three, like,
Speaker 7: you know, leading them to a ten and three season
Speaker 7: victory in a bowl game, all of that stuff, things
Speaker 7: that don't happen in for Arizona football very often. But
Speaker 7: I love the comps A great call. I you know,
Speaker 7: I don't think we all We also didn't have as
Speaker 7: much of a read on Crevis as we did to Laura.
Speaker 7: Like Laura played off full season plus for Arizona, Creavias
Speaker 7: was never really like in a prominent role here and
Speaker 7: was just about to have that, so we don't really
Speaker 7: know how that would have turned out. He definitely doesn't
Speaker 7: seem like the same type of player as Henry though
Speaker 7: right more of a traditional like low post center.
Speaker 9: Don't think he's as mobile defensively.
Speaker 7: I think it's been one of those Wally Hit type
Speaker 7: situations for them. But yeah, great question, and I think
Speaker 7: we'll have a better answer in a month or two.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you. Okay, so two months ago
Speaker 2: that would get us where to maybe late December, early
Speaker 2: January or you know, mid mid you know, six seven
Speaker 2: weeks ago, what did you think if Arizona gets this
Speaker 2: far it would be a good thing in the tournament
Speaker 2: in the n C Double short What it matters now
Speaker 2: now as you look at it, what's the what's the difference?
Speaker 2: How further will they go?
Speaker 7: Like, Yeah, I feel like when they were four and
Speaker 7: five and kind of around five hundred that we were
Speaker 7: talking about whether they would make the.
Speaker 9: Tournament at all, and now I think anything.
Speaker 7: Short of the Sweet sixteen would probably be deemed a
Speaker 7: pretty big disappointment. You know, expectations change, they go up
Speaker 7: and down. They can change within a season, and they
Speaker 7: most definitely have.
Speaker 9: I was one of.
Speaker 7: Those people who wasn't panicking, felt like they would figure
Speaker 7: it out to some degree.
Speaker 9: But I also thought that it.
Speaker 7: Was, you know, maybe the least talented team that Tommy
Speaker 7: Wood had, but they have a different talent the one
Speaker 7: we talked about at the top of the interview. They
Speaker 7: have this toughness factor that maybe some other some other
Speaker 7: of these teams didn't have.
Speaker 2: No, Yeah, I think you're exactly right, because it's not
Speaker 2: as talented as he said the last three years, but
Speaker 2: they did find something within themselves to be who they
Speaker 2: are now. Uh, and it is you. You're exactly You're
Speaker 2: exactly right.
Speaker 7: I I keep I keep I was gonna say, I
Speaker 7: keep expecting them to lose, like have a trap game,
Speaker 7: a letdown game, or something. It might very well be
Speaker 7: tomorrow night against Kansas State. I mean it's logical. But
Speaker 7: I thought the same thing about b YU and.
Speaker 9: They beat them.
Speaker 7: So that's that's the mental toughness aspect that this team
Speaker 7: also seems to have.
Speaker 9: That you need when times get tough. Pason.
Speaker 2: With that said, uh, uh and your potential trap game,
Speaker 2: and I totally believe in that thing. What's gonna happen tomorrow?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I could see them losing. It wouldn't
Speaker 7: It wouldn't shock me. But I don't think if they
Speaker 7: do lose.
Speaker 9: That it'll be because they.
Speaker 7: Got out rebounded or were bad defensively and give up
Speaker 7: a bunch of wide open layups. You know, it might
Speaker 7: just be that they're their offense is off you know,
Speaker 7: uh defense. What I love about kind of a defense
Speaker 7: first team is that that should be a constant, like
Speaker 7: there's no excuse, no reason that you shouldn't be able
Speaker 7: to to play good, hard defense and rebound well all
Speaker 7: the time because that's mostly efforts, right whereas you know,
Speaker 7: sometimes the shot is just not going to fall. That
Speaker 7: the nature of basketball, you know, hit or miss league
Speaker 7: as they say about the NBA, And so I like
Speaker 7: that aspect of the team. If they do lose, I
Speaker 7: don't think it'll be because their defense faltered or the
Speaker 7: rebounding faltered. Eye, but I could see them losing, like
Speaker 7: they're not going to go nineteen and one in the
Speaker 7: Big twelve in their first year. But then again, I
Speaker 7: keep saying that and they keep winning, so we kind
Speaker 7: of keep moving that bar a little bit higher and
Speaker 7: higher of you know, what their final record is going
Speaker 7: to be when the twenty games are up.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks, thanks for the non committal answer, Specialty dismissing
Speaker 2: the just not trap game or or or thinking that
Speaker 2: they're going to have a trap game and then them
Speaker 2: not because of what you're saying about the mental aspect
Speaker 2: of it. Does that help us when our trap game
Speaker 2: is a fifteen verses of two.
Speaker 9: Oh man, that's a great question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't see river at me. It's because that's
Speaker 2: why I don't come back every month.
Speaker 9: There should Yeah, there should never be a trap game.
Speaker 7: In the table, right, you should be completely locked in.
Speaker 9: There should be no such thing. You should be taking
Speaker 9: every game seriously.
Speaker 7: And I say that this team has no excuses for
Speaker 7: not taking an opponent seriously considering how many times they've
Speaker 7: been upset. They you know, as a two or three
Speaker 7: seed versus a fourteen or fifteen or whatever.
Speaker 9: So you're right, they should be very much prepared for anything.
Speaker 7: And like I said, I think defense and rebounding can
Speaker 7: be constant that can help you to win games when
Speaker 7: the ball is not going through the hoop in the
Speaker 7: way that it usually does.
Speaker 2: I'll leave you with this, Michael, So since nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 2: I think you just created a logjam a few crashes
Speaker 2: by saying that, because that's how it's been the tournament.
Speaker 2: You know, they're playing against lower seeds and they get
Speaker 2: beat and for unexplainable reasons, yes.
Speaker 9: They have. It's happened. I mean, you know, it's happened.
Speaker 7: Too often, right, You don't want to be the butt
Speaker 7: of that joke, right, So that's what that's what is
Speaker 7: maybe maybe different about this team. It's still speculation at
Speaker 7: this point, but it's something to kind of hang your
Speaker 7: hat on that, you know, maybe this maybe this time,
Speaker 7: it will be a little different when it comes tomorrow.
Speaker 7: So of course you have to have luck, you got
Speaker 7: to have health, you have all those things. But I
Speaker 7: like what I've seen so far.
Speaker 2: Okay, and with that, we'll leave you with the halftime
Speaker 2: show of they're not like us. Yeah, they're not like us.
Speaker 2: They're not like us. I like, thanks, Michael, we'll talk
Speaker 2: to you again. Thanks, I thank that. Yeah. Sure, maybe
Speaker 2: this team is different than the book. Maybe, But the
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rovera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to ying the ball here a Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty obvious Rivera. You're Mike quick, Mike U
Speaker 2: one here. We got about seven minutes. We went long,
Speaker 2: We went quickly with the Michael good stuff, very good stuff.
Speaker 2: People don't talk about the mental part of the game,
Speaker 2: and that's going to come to fruition here pre soon.
Speaker 2: When you're playing twenty to twenty plus twenty minutes or
Speaker 2: twenty twenty plus minutes, you know, and thirty plus minutes
Speaker 2: a game, you gotta be you gotta be tough, be
Speaker 2: mentally tough in there and physically tough. Right yeah, An
Speaker 2: he calls me, Okay, you got a good chance. You
Speaker 2: can call us five two, four, one, six, seventy four forty.
Speaker 2: You've gotten a few calls already. Yeah, good show today,
Speaker 2: Good show today, Thank you, Mike. Thanks Monday. Your manic
Speaker 2: Monday turned into magic Monday, Magic Monday. Yeah, magic Mike. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a good thing. It's this isn't a video call. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So you know, I was gonna say something. I heard
Speaker 2: that Texas coach was yapping a little bit at Caleb,
Speaker 2: you know, all in his ear. When did you hear this?
Speaker 3: I saw a little bit of it. It's very little.
Speaker 3: I didn't I don't know what they said. I just
Speaker 3: I know they were when you were changing.
Speaker 2: What you saw. Yes, yes, I heard the official kind
Speaker 2: of called in. We got a call. Okay, oh you're
Speaker 2: on the air and one on the ball. Who's this is?
Speaker 5: Brian?
Speaker 2: How's it going?
Speaker 5: After watching that game, I think we should probably be
Speaker 5: talking about giving Tommy Lloyd a lot more credit than
Speaker 5: we've been giving him.
Speaker 2: Yes, do you know, Brian? Oh?
Speaker 5: Okay, the people, a lot of the people who.
Speaker 2: Call yeah yeah, no, well a lot of people who
Speaker 2: were on the internet ragging him in December and January.
Speaker 5: Yes, oh, now they love him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know you know how they love him. They
Speaker 2: don't say anything.
Speaker 5: Yes, all right, right, but you know also too, you know,
Speaker 5: I mean after the big injury, you know, and to
Speaker 5: basically revamp your whole team, he's done an amazing job.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, you know. And my my biggest critician
Speaker 5: about the game the other night was, you know, I
Speaker 5: thought they played great games. kJ Lewis. I mean, he's
Speaker 5: terrific athlete. Can't take that away from him, but boy,
Speaker 5: does he make some terrible decisions offensively? Well, you know what,
Speaker 5: this guy should this guy should never be able to
Speaker 5: pass the ball.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, something that we failed as a journalist
Speaker 2: to ask was what's up with that hand? Because because
Speaker 2: we saw videos of him being niced blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: and then it looked like the hen was affecting him. Right,
Speaker 2: he couldn't get to the basket, he couldn't pass the ball,
Speaker 2: to your point, Brian, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 2: he was hitting jumpers and doing these.
Speaker 5: Things right, you know. And and it's not just this
Speaker 5: last game. There's been a lot of games where you know,
Speaker 5: it's just like he just didn't think when he passes
Speaker 5: the ball. I mean there was a pass toward kind
Speaker 5: of toward the end of the game that he basically
Speaker 5: handed the ball to the guy and the guy went
Speaker 5: in for a layup. But you know, but he plays
Speaker 5: great defense, and you can't you can't can't criticize his
Speaker 5: commitment to play. The guy gives you one hundred percent
Speaker 5: all the time. He's busting his butt out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no doubt about that, Brian. I got to
Speaker 2: ask you the do you think that's a function of
Speaker 2: the fact that he Tommy Lloyd wants him to go fast,
Speaker 2: because he definitely Tommy Lloyd definitely says, I mean you
Speaker 2: can tell him this, go go go fast, fast fast.
Speaker 2: So that's how he starts as a difference, which is
Speaker 2: a change from what we had before, where was stop
Speaker 2: stop stop, let's not have fun. Right.
Speaker 5: But one thing to I know about Taylor Love, and
Speaker 5: you know he did not shoot well the other night.
Speaker 5: We know that, but boy, I tell you one thing
Speaker 5: he made up for it on his defense. One thing
Speaker 5: that's one thing he's done this year has quite an
Speaker 5: improvement is his defense, you know, and he's taking upon
Speaker 5: himself to take their number one player and basically trying
Speaker 5: to shut him down. It's done, and it's done a
Speaker 5: very good job most most of the time this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're only your criticism was mentioned. My only criticism.
Speaker 2: I'm into. The whole game was up two and a half,
Speaker 2: two minutes whatever, it was, up by eight ish. They
Speaker 2: get the rebound, rebound, the second rebound and Caleb Love
Speaker 2: takes as open three with about five seconds out into
Speaker 2: the You know, you get that.
Speaker 5: But that's one thing they done. If you watch the
Speaker 5: U C. L a game they did the same thing.
Speaker 5: You know, Baso, I went down the court and tried
Speaker 5: a three three pointer with like twenty eight seconds left
Speaker 5: to go on the shot clock and wait a minute,
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, let's you know, let's use the clock to wordvantage.
Speaker 5: That's you know, that's one of that's like having an
Speaker 5: extra player out there.
Speaker 2: Right. Well, they survived that, you know, in a good way.
Speaker 2: It was just some little things. And that's not a
Speaker 2: credits critique, but it's not a big one.
Speaker 5: Big but you know, but those little things come back
Speaker 5: and bite you, right.
Speaker 2: You know, guess what you might be calling me in
Speaker 2: mid March saying, Steve, remember that time we talked and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Going back to your comment about Lloyd being a coach
Speaker 2: his you got to believe that when at four and
Speaker 2: five he did an assessment of what this team needed,
Speaker 2: and I think that he sat down and said, Okay,
Speaker 2: these are the things that they needed, and one of
Speaker 2: them was kill love playing tenacious T. And I think
Speaker 2: that that you know, as you point out, that has
Speaker 2: been a big difference, right you know, their you.
Speaker 5: Know, their their defense has gotten much better, and you
Speaker 5: know this is and also trying to adjust from the
Speaker 5: Pac Twelve to the Big twelve, and the type of
Speaker 5: basketball played in the in the Pac twelve compared to
Speaker 5: the Big twelve is night and day. And it took
Speaker 5: him a while to figure this out. I think, you know,
Speaker 5: they you know, one thing, scheduling these teams that we
Speaker 5: did early in the season, even though we lost a
Speaker 5: lot of those games, for most of them, we basically
Speaker 5: made us a better team because we understood, we understood
Speaker 5: we got to play some really physical basketball, no question.
Speaker 2: And that's why you played these games. Lout believes in that.
Speaker 2: Sean not so much because he didn't play many games
Speaker 2: like that. But at least you find out who you
Speaker 2: who you are, what you need and here we are,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 5: And it's you know, I mean, if anybody would have
Speaker 5: said back on December tenth that you know, we would
Speaker 5: be in type for first place in the Big twelve,
Speaker 5: they probably thought you were crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Well they do that with me anyway. So
Speaker 2: what the hell there you go? Thank thank you man,
Speaker 2: thanks By. That's probably give us. So we got one
Speaker 2: more call. We got about a minute, and he give
Speaker 2: us some quick quick thoughts. We got only got about
Speaker 2: a minute.
Speaker 6: Biden shut up and drinking in sure talking about you'll
Speaker 6: never ante Hey, dude, dude talking about kJ kJ was
Speaker 6: hurt and anything. But I like the way we're attacking
Speaker 6: the basket.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Like it's like Brian attacks the toilet because of his
Speaker 6: prop day.
Speaker 2: Let that old man talk like that shipped me out.
Speaker 6: And anyway, as far as far as the super Bowl goals,
Speaker 6: Pat Patrick Maholds gave up the gold discussion. He had
Speaker 6: his Lebron James versus the he heat moment and and
Speaker 6: Brady is the dude you gave me a minute.
Speaker 2: I gave you a minute bare down.
Speaker 6: I like the way we played that basketball baby.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Miguel, appreciate it. Perfect timing. Soone's to get
Speaker 2: to who we can't. So thanks everybody for listening today.
Speaker 2: A good show. We'll hear from you guys tomorrow. Thanks