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Speaker 3: Breaking news.
Speaker 5: Ohio State defeats Notre Dame thirty four to twenty three
Speaker 5: in the National Championship, giving the Buckeyes their ninth national championship.
Speaker 5: They are now tied with the sixth most national championships
Speaker 5: in college football. Also, Ohio State has won both the
Speaker 5: first four team College Fall Playoffs and the first twelve
Speaker 5: team College Football Playoffs.
Speaker 2: Don't even think about that, no, and they so when
Speaker 2: was that twenty fourteen?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, that long ago already. Yeah. Wow, that's Myers team, right, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: They had a lot of dudes out the game in
Speaker 2: history of course, which of course is not you know,
Speaker 2: Lebron and Myers and I had a bunch of dudes.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Eric Rhodes, I work with with the Arizona bull Snoop Bowl.
Speaker 4: Yeah was there? He So, yeah, they get to go
Speaker 4: to the national championship the year, So that's your Kim
Speaker 4: and their executive director didn't go this year and Eric did,
Speaker 4: so I get to see them tomorrow and pick his brain.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Nice, nice, I didn't know that all. Have him on,
Speaker 2: I should have him on. Yeah, we talk about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Arizona looks to bounce back after the lost of Texas Tech,
Speaker 5: which Arizona went without a field goal for the remaining
Speaker 5: seven thirty four of the game. The last time Arizona
Speaker 5: faced Oklahoma, State saw Lee Stottamayer made the game when
Speaker 5: he saw in two thousand and five, Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could tell you're years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're gonna somebody's gonna be outside of waying to
Speaker 4: beat you up in the party live you say that,
Speaker 4: it's yeah.
Speaker 2: Selim Salem one of the cranky guys, one of my
Speaker 2: guy friends who had a pretty good career, cranky career,
Speaker 2: best shooter ever, you've uh, I'll I'll argue with Steve Kerr,
Speaker 2: but maybe second, okay, and I would take Curb first,
Speaker 2: I think, just because but but he was good and
Speaker 2: loot that year. Argued, what what do you argue all
Speaker 2: that year? I don't know that he was better than
Speaker 2: JJ Redick. Oh that's right, you're right, yeah, but Selim
Speaker 2: being the better shooter that JJ Reddick just J J
Speaker 2: Rider had a Reddick had a longer NBA career. Okay,
Speaker 2: this is that was well, that was the year of
Speaker 2: the Illinois year that you were talking about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the most disappointed less I think I've seen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this news came out a few days ago. Arizona's
Speaker 5: corner cornerback Marcus Groves Killerbrew withdraws from transfer portal he
Speaker 5: committed to Nebraska but never fully signed.
Speaker 2: Didn't didn't want to go there for the cold weather
Speaker 2: that we're experiencing now, this is not is this cold too?
Speaker 3: It's cold, but it's not cold. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean it's chili, but it's not cold. I mean,
Speaker 4: if you've been to the Midwest in the winter time,
Speaker 4: that's cold.
Speaker 3: You played, didn't Kansas? What did you play? Didn't you play?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: I mean I played in some cold places, like I
Speaker 4: remember being in Cleveland and starting a game when it
Speaker 4: was snowing, and I was in Denver for college. But
Speaker 4: I mean that Midwest cold is a different brutal college. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so we weren't.
Speaker 3: I went on some baseball stuff to recruit in Kansas. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was the worst snow drifts I've ever seen. Said,
Speaker 2: how would anybody want them? Why would anyway?
Speaker 4: Okay, here's here's a conversation that's been had multiple times
Speaker 4: with my dad and I is that you've got you've
Speaker 4: got the start of the season right April.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, why are you college season no baseball?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: Why why are you having let's say Minnesota is playing Miami.
Speaker 4: Why are they playing the games in Minneso? Why aren't
Speaker 4: they playing in Miami. How do we not figure that out? Sorry,
Speaker 4: keep going, because you're not there, you would have figured
Speaker 4: it out.
Speaker 3: How I know?
Speaker 4: I'm not smart. I had my headphones on last time,
Speaker 4: the wrong way. Don't don't put me in that kind
Speaker 4: of conversation. I think I'm a single man. They were
Speaker 4: both ways.
Speaker 5: The Chiefs and the Bills will face off in the
Speaker 5: AFC Championship.
Speaker 3: This is what's spread. Did you see it's a pick them?
Speaker 3: I think Chiefs might as well. Oh, I saw I
Speaker 3: saw that. I think I did see that. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: gonna be a great game.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a great game against two teams that
Speaker 4: figure out a way to win.
Speaker 3: And I just my money's always so I had.
Speaker 2: My money on Baltimore Baltimore just because I figured that
Speaker 2: it was time, right whatever, and they should have at
Speaker 2: least gone to overtime.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you, But but.
Speaker 2: The Bills are damn good and Kansas City has been
Speaker 2: like riding that edge. Riding that edge, yeah I do.
Speaker 4: I watched them, and I question if they're even a
Speaker 4: good football team sometimes, but they find a way to
Speaker 4: win and that makes them a great team.
Speaker 2: Well, some people would say they find a way to
Speaker 2: win with the guys in the stripes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's very good.
Speaker 2: I don't see that, but I'm not a I'm not
Speaker 2: a conspiracy guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jaden Daniels passes Andrew Luck for the most offensive
Speaker 5: yards by a rookie including playoffs in NFL history during
Speaker 5: Saturdays win over the lines, setting up an FC championship
Speaker 5: versus the Eagles.
Speaker 4: You talked about that with Detroit. Yeah, I mean, just
Speaker 4: I listen. Personally, I've turned into Detroit fan. Not that
Speaker 4: I am a Detroit fan, but I love that team
Speaker 4: and I think Campbell's a phenomenal coach. We were talking
Speaker 4: about it a little bit earlier with Notre Dame. Same
Speaker 4: kind of aspect that you root for. If my team's
Speaker 4: not even on room for that team, I did not
Speaker 4: see them getting essentially blown out of the water that
Speaker 4: they way they did. And Washington's a good team, but
Speaker 4: they their last three games of the season, they look terrible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Daniels has been fantastic. If he's done something's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: But you know, all to the Detroit game and they
Speaker 2: had and they didn't have the lead, and Washington had
Speaker 2: the lead, and I'm thinking, Okay, they're just getting them.
Speaker 2: They're playing with their food, right, they're playing with their food.
Speaker 2: They'll come back and they'll scored two touchdowns, no problem.
Speaker 2: And then they started playing stupidly, the interceptions and the fumbles.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking they ain't gonna come back.
Speaker 2: No, that was their worst game of the year. I thought, yeah,
Speaker 2: no question, no question, And they're good. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they're gonna be good anymore. Everyone's jumping ship to
Speaker 2: other jobs. I think didn't their defensive or offensive coordinator
Speaker 2: took the job at Chicago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I think when you have Campbell the lead position,
Speaker 4: I think he creates that culture and people fall in.
Speaker 3: So you're saying they'll find another OC and yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean I think you had the same thing in
Speaker 4: Kansas City. People were questing that Kansas City wouldn't been
Speaker 4: Jimi left. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5: Ten time Australian Open Championship champion Novak Djokovic defeats Carlos
Speaker 5: Alkraz in the Australian Open quarterfinals. As Djokovic was an underdog, was.
Speaker 3: He well, so that's almost over right by the end
Speaker 3: of this week.
Speaker 7: I don't really follow to Yeah, he's in the Semis now, okay,
Speaker 7: anything else, Nope, just Ben Johnson to the command of
Speaker 7: the Bears, which was kind of expected.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's gonna be up to Dallas. Who's Dallas gonna get?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I hope it's not left I hope it's not a
Speaker 2: retrad what's gonna be? It's you know, it's gonna I know,
Speaker 2: but it's just you. Who's your team?
Speaker 4: I mean, I grew up as a Niners fan, but
Speaker 4: I am now a Packers fan because my dad.
Speaker 3: You were a Pakish fan because your dad before No,
Speaker 3: I was. I was a child of the eighties, so
Speaker 3: I got like I had.
Speaker 4: Rice and so I grew up in that little Steve
Speaker 4: Young is my dad. Yeah, yeah, he gets lost a lot,
Speaker 4: so but yeah he's still Well that's that's that's what story. Yeah,
Speaker 4: why won't you be your dad's son back then? But
Speaker 4: now you are?
Speaker 3: I don't know. How do you change allegiance because your dad?
Speaker 4: But you're never thing because when I started getting into
Speaker 4: the NFL, it was Niners, right, that's hell with you.
Speaker 3: Dad, and hell with you dad. No, no, no, I
Speaker 3: was never like that.
Speaker 4: My dad's an Oakland A's fan and I'm a Cubs fan,
Speaker 4: and now he's a Cubs fan. Die Hard cut so
Speaker 4: you so we flip flop for each other. That's the
Speaker 4: amount of love that we have for our families.
Speaker 2: At what point did this happen? That's an Irish love, right,
Speaker 2: the new champion? I do take blue class seal. I
Speaker 2: got an ARP card yesterday. So what are you going
Speaker 2: to do? I know it came in the mail this identified.
Speaker 2: What are we gonna talk about? You're done right, You're
Speaker 2: done with We're gonna talk about something.
Speaker 4: I think we were just gonna hit on that Lion's
Speaker 4: piece because we had a chance to.
Speaker 3: It's just such a disappointing loss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, But I was talk to you about
Speaker 2: something else. Go ahead, they lost you move on? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: then we're gonna talk about something else. We have the time.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this question because we haven't talked
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 4: We talked about playoffs, right, playoffs for all the sports
Speaker 4: we're talking about playoffs. What's your favorite playoffs set up
Speaker 4: for all professional sports? Like, what's your one that you're like, Okay,
Speaker 4: I might not watch a lot of during the season,
Speaker 4: but I'm watching playoffs.
Speaker 2: You well, I only watch NBA. I watched little NBA until.
Speaker 4: The playoffs, so you watch at the start of the playoffs,
Speaker 4: because to me, any playoffs is like three months long.
Speaker 3: I covered it, so it was a long last summer
Speaker 3: a season, and.
Speaker 4: Now they have a tournament in the middle of the
Speaker 4: season too, so it's like, I don't it's almost too much.
Speaker 3: I don't pay. NHL is almost that same way.
Speaker 2: That's a good question, and that it doesn't affect me,
Speaker 2: so I'm the bad guy to ask.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, and then I'll ask covery my favorite NFL
Speaker 5: because it's one game so you can't miss it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's more dramatic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like this series more though, and I I'm
Speaker 4: a baseball basically, I'm a homer. I mean, you've got
Speaker 4: series in other sports too, but I like I like
Speaker 4: the up and down factor and be able to make
Speaker 4: adjustments throughout. I like the one like super Bowl to me,
Speaker 4: is the greatest game just because everything's on.
Speaker 3: The line for that. Yeah, but I like it.
Speaker 4: I like a series, but for me, it's hard to
Speaker 4: get in the NBA and NHL because it's just so long.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, I hear.
Speaker 2: So the question we were talking about too off the air
Speaker 2: was Donny sent. The team that excelled without really being
Speaker 2: any good was the Russ Penal mug Dunlap year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they went to the Sweet sixteen, you know, beat Cleveland
Speaker 2: State in the second game and beat Utah I think
Speaker 2: in the first game, and then get their butts handed
Speaker 2: to them by Louisville. Yeah. Absolutely, in two thousand and nine,
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight, So that was I guess the
Speaker 2: other team that was okay, But.
Speaker 4: You put that whole year into perspective, I think you're
Speaker 4: there's an argument to me there. I still think my arguments.
Speaker 4: You still have two NBA players on that team, and
Speaker 4: you've got Kyle Fogg that ends up having a long
Speaker 4: career as well, and Nick Wise. I mean, so yes,
Speaker 4: but it's hard for me to say that you outperform
Speaker 4: when you've got to NBA guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is that wrong with me to.
Speaker 2: Say, Well, in hindsight, you don't know that well, you
Speaker 2: know that Chase, well, the Chase and Hill.
Speaker 3: Yes, you didn't know Hill was going to be that
Speaker 3: I mean, is a highly rated game, yeah Hill. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he's lasted fairly long in the in the league.
Speaker 2: Maybe, I guess to your to your point, yes, but
Speaker 2: every year they've had people that expect that with the
Speaker 2: u of a correct So I mean, I guess that's
Speaker 2: a that's over achieving team.
Speaker 3: That's a counterpoint.
Speaker 2: But again, I mean the only thing you measured Luke
Speaker 2: teams were the underachieving teams because they either flamed out
Speaker 2: or they did really well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we you know, we talk about a
Speaker 4: bad loss with Tommy Lloyd, and we went through a
Speaker 4: lot with with lou the Boston things. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: that was a bad loss, but you you know, Santa
Speaker 4: Clair was a really bad loss with a great team.
Speaker 3: It was East Tennessee State, East Tennessee State, that was
Speaker 3: before Santa Clara. Yeah, in Miami, Ohio, Aden's lost. I mean,
Speaker 3: would have stopped.
Speaker 2: Torture because I can get this inside. It is what
Speaker 2: it is, and we'll see, we'll see how far Tommy goes.
Speaker 2: Right now, I think there'll probably be a six or seven,
Speaker 2: maybe eight seed.
Speaker 3: I'm okay with that though, because they're in no.
Speaker 4: I just I think that's I think there's some motivation
Speaker 4: to be had there, right. I mean, you're maybe not
Speaker 4: better matchups at the start, but as you go through it,
Speaker 4: I mean we've been through it. My biggest thing right
Speaker 4: now is I'm watching Tommy coach, right, and people will
Speaker 4: argue with me in and out and we had this conversation.
Speaker 4: Tell me, yeah, we had this conversation already. But you
Speaker 4: had an offense that was built through two guys, Mo
Speaker 4: and Love. Okay, right, you lost Mo Loves not playing
Speaker 4: like an All American. So you've had to watch Tommy
Speaker 4: evolve his whole game plan and structure and execute it
Speaker 4: on the floor with players that maybe weren't put in
Speaker 4: that position earlier.
Speaker 6: This year.
Speaker 4: This year, I think it's I think whether people agree
Speaker 4: or disagree, I'm going to stand by it. I think
Speaker 4: he's a really good coach to be able to do
Speaker 4: that now, his in game coaching I still question at times.
Speaker 4: I think everybody's going to as a fan, you should,
Speaker 4: We're all going to be back seat quarterbacks, right Uh.
Speaker 4: But I mean he has. He has got a lot
Speaker 4: out of this team from the starting point to now,
Speaker 4: even with the loss of Texas deck.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So you're you torture yourself and I do from time
Speaker 2: to time on Facebook reading what people write in game
Speaker 2: and outside games. What was the underlying theme when you
Speaker 2: went to the websites on Saturday.
Speaker 3: So I mean have gay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't go on it to Saturday, like I know,
Speaker 4: if why did you? Why did I? I went on
Speaker 4: it last night? Oh to just to you know, to
Speaker 4: torture myself. Okay, yeah, it's an Irish martyr thing, right,
Speaker 4: so I want to go on it just so I
Speaker 4: can say I did it. Uh, It's but I just
Speaker 4: I'm kind of I have a tough time grasping how
Speaker 4: people view him as a coach. And when you goes see, well,
Speaker 4: you're you're going from when he wins, unbelievable, great team effort. Right,
Speaker 4: guys played incredible and as soon as he loses, it's
Speaker 4: Tommy's fault. Now, you know, I've been on both sides
Speaker 4: of the ball. Players play coaches coach, right, So you
Speaker 4: come up with a game plan, those game and those
Speaker 4: in game adjustments. You can tweet to a point, but
Speaker 4: those guys still have to play the game.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: So we were talking about a culture like that culture
Speaker 4: has to shift, and when you don't have a defined
Speaker 4: leader on the floor or on the court, it's really
Speaker 4: hard to ingrain that situation in those players.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's assume for a second you had a
Speaker 2: leader you had a leader, and I think the leaders overrated,
Speaker 2: kind of like momentum to me, what do they do?
Speaker 4: Can I ask you this question? We'll get to that
Speaker 4: in a second. You really think momentums overrated? It's it's
Speaker 4: doesn't exist. The word itself doesn't exist. And I'm going
Speaker 4: kind of literal because we're not talking about a physics standpoint. Okay,
Speaker 4: well that's we are. So that's what momentum is. It's
Speaker 4: it's a physics standpoint.
Speaker 2: It's a used word because no one knows what other
Speaker 2: word to use. But it's a run. If you're on
Speaker 2: a run and you're run, you run a run because
Speaker 2: eventually that run.
Speaker 3: Is going to end.
Speaker 2: Momentum is like me walking to the to the door
Speaker 2: and I lose my momentum.
Speaker 3: Well I never had momentum. I just walked to the door.
Speaker 2: You don't saying, but there's no other really word to
Speaker 2: use in the in sports that makes sense except for
Speaker 2: a run. He had a run ninety seven, they written
Speaker 2: they had a run. It's not they had a momentum.
Speaker 2: They didn't start with momentum when at the end of
Speaker 2: the year they were the one zero two in the bay. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess I can understand that.
Speaker 3: I think. I think. My question to you is, and
Speaker 3: I is.
Speaker 2: That, Well, if you go zero three, if you go
Speaker 2: three and zero, and you go and lose the next game,
Speaker 2: what happened to that momentum?
Speaker 3: You have momentum? You hat a blocker. Yeah, you had
Speaker 3: a nice run. You had a cooler that came to
Speaker 3: the table. There you go.
Speaker 2: If you have momentum, guess what it should last a while,
Speaker 2: doesn't I mean, yeah, if you were talking from a
Speaker 2: specifically physical physics standpoint, yes, you're correct. Yeah, so's he
Speaker 2: had a great run. That's how I use it.
Speaker 3: Instead. All right, let's get back to the other question.
Speaker 3: What was the other question? What the hell? What the hell?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I've I've had to fill in so much on deck there, Steve,
Speaker 4: I got nothing else to do.
Speaker 3: What were we talking about before? We said?
Speaker 2: Just before we go there? Oh, no, we gotta go anyway,
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Speaker 2: Sports fourteen to fifty. I'm Steve American with me Blake Eager.
Speaker 3: From Southern Arizona Sports Tourism and Film Aathoria.
Speaker 2: Now we have Ryan Hanson, who is with the basketball programs,
Speaker 2: just not today. Not have a question for you, Ryan,
Speaker 2: What the hell is going on with this team?
Speaker 6: Oh, Steve, it's you know, you go on a great
Speaker 6: winning street right and it feels like all is right
Speaker 6: with the world, but when you dive in a little
Speaker 6: bit deeper, all was not right. They fixed a few things,
Speaker 6: they play a little bit better, got some good wins,
Speaker 6: and then some of the same things that bard Arizona
Speaker 6: in their losses reared their ugly head against Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this funny.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you get this often because of how you're
Speaker 2: connected to the team, and people ask me this question
Speaker 2: because maybe for the same reason. Oh, they won seventh
Speaker 2: street games five in the league. Says, Oh, everything's back.
Speaker 2: They're really good. They're playing really well, and I'm thinking
Speaker 2: be careful here because they haven't really played anybody.
Speaker 3: Yes, they beat Baylor, but it was at home. Let's
Speaker 3: talk when they go on the road.
Speaker 2: And then here we go. That's kind of how I
Speaker 2: said it. They're playing Okay, but.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I agree with you.
Speaker 16: And what's interesting when you dive in.
Speaker 6: Right, you can get excited with the win at West
Speaker 6: Virginia when you stack up that same team just beat
Speaker 6: Iowa State at home. Yeah, and so you start to
Speaker 6: look at some things. Look at it. UCF, it's been
Speaker 6: in some games. TCU is now won some games. So
Speaker 6: you say, well, those are actually not bad wins. But
Speaker 6: were you correcting the issues? And I've used the phrase
Speaker 6: here recently. We can't be a prisoner of the moment
Speaker 6: when things are good. Let's not be a prisoner of
Speaker 6: the moment when things are bad. But Steve, I'll point
Speaker 6: out things that you I know you've already got on
Speaker 6: your list and you've talked about. There are three major
Speaker 6: issues with this team, starting with outside shooting. The lack
Speaker 6: of consistency of three point shooting in their losses. Arizona's
Speaker 6: shooting twenty three percent from the three point line. What
Speaker 6: did they do at Texas Tech three of eighteen? Okay,
Speaker 6: don't need to talk more about how important outside shooting is.
Speaker 6: We know that Arizona has now under Tommy Lloyd for
Speaker 6: the first time since he's been a coach as a
Speaker 6: concern about rebounding. They have not been rebounding it that
Speaker 6: well as of late. That was a major concern against
Speaker 6: Texas Tech and can be moving forward is not figured out.
Speaker 6: So let's that's number two. Number three. You know where
Speaker 6: I'm going here. Trey Townsend and Caleb Love's lack of consistency.
Speaker 6: Two of your top three scoring weapons when we came
Speaker 6: into the Sea and I think I was on with you,
Speaker 6: Steve at the beginning of the year, and at that
Speaker 6: time we might have said option number one offensively Caleb Love,
Speaker 6: option number two. Maybe Trey Townsend. He's probably the third
Speaker 6: best option coming into the year based on what you
Speaker 6: had seen in his years at Oakland that he should
Speaker 6: be more of an offensive weapon. Unfortunately, his lack of
Speaker 6: consistency is now almost made him a detriment to the
Speaker 6: team if he can't just hold his own let alone
Speaker 6: be a force.
Speaker 16: Those three areas for me.
Speaker 6: That's what it reared its ugly head against Texas Tech
Speaker 6: and could be some concerns for the rest of the year.
Speaker 6: If those things are off, Arizona has a hard time
Speaker 6: coming and winning.
Speaker 2: Games right, and Arizona has very little wiggle room to
Speaker 2: deviate from anything bad. You know, they have to play
Speaker 2: well to win, especially on the road.
Speaker 6: Especially on the road in this conference, tough environments. Now,
Speaker 6: you know, I'm probably gonna sound bipolar here. That being said,
Speaker 6: the Wildcats didn't play very well on Saturday, and what
Speaker 6: let's look, Oh, it was a three point game, that's
Speaker 6: five minutes to go. They could have stolen a game
Speaker 6: that they didn't play that well because other guys have
Speaker 6: consistently been bringing in But you're right, the margin for
Speaker 6: air is difficult with the rotation where they're at now
Speaker 6: and who needs to play the most minutes. You know,
Speaker 6: It's just it's not as the margin for error is
Speaker 6: not there, and that's difficult on the road in a
Speaker 6: tough conference to have to play at a certain level
Speaker 6: to get the w.
Speaker 4: Hey Ryan Blake here, Yeah, when we were talking about Townsend,
Speaker 4: it's surprising because you're watching in preseason, you're looking at
Speaker 4: highlights at Oakland. I mean, he was arguably one of
Speaker 4: the best transfers for us to get at that time.
Speaker 4: But it doesn't look like it's almost like fitting a
Speaker 4: square peg into a round hole. When he's on offense,
Speaker 4: like he wants to slow it down, he wants one
Speaker 4: on one and if it's not going in, it's almost
Speaker 4: like he's a detriment winning's on the floor.
Speaker 3: Do you think they can fix that in the timeframe
Speaker 3: that we.
Speaker 6: Have, great question. I'll spin it back a little bit.
Speaker 6: The first what dozen games of the year, it was
Speaker 6: working some and not working some right Blake, So you
Speaker 6: could see some promise there, but you at least were
Speaker 6: willing to say, it's going to take time for Tommy
Speaker 6: to figure out how Trey Townsend can get his offense
Speaker 6: because the system that Arizona has run under Tommy Lloyd
Speaker 6: was not suitable, maybe not conducive to Trey Townsend's way
Speaker 6: of scoring right, free flowing, read and react, get your
Speaker 6: offense in the flow of the set calls. It really
Speaker 6: needed to be like this is a call for Trey.
Speaker 6: We're going to isolate him at the elbow. We're going
Speaker 6: to put him in a position to be able to
Speaker 6: back down smaller defenders, take bigger defenders onto the perimeter.
Speaker 6: I still think there's time for Tommy to tweak the
Speaker 6: system to get the most out of Trey Townsend. But
Speaker 6: I think the question remains, is that playing twenty eight
Speaker 6: minutes a game, or do we need to potentially look
Speaker 6: at more minutes for other guys, namely for me, Carter Bryant,
Speaker 6: I think needs more time, and I think he's getting
Speaker 6: it and he's earning it. I think Tommy may need
Speaker 6: to pick his spots a little bit more with where
Speaker 6: Trey Townsend can help Arizona, because I do think Tray
Speaker 6: can help us. I don't think the verdict is in
Speaker 6: and we know he can't play at Arizona.
Speaker 16: Let's not go there.
Speaker 6: That's unfair to the kid who's put in great years
Speaker 6: of college basketball, and that's unfair to Tommy Lloyd to say, well,
Speaker 6: Tommy can't figure it out, because I have more hope
Speaker 6: and confidence in Tommy than that. But I think Tommy
Speaker 6: is looking at that and I think he's still deeper
Speaker 6: in the year than any year we've seen with Tommy before,
Speaker 6: still trying to figure out the rotations and the combinations.
Speaker 3: No, no, I totally agree with you.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if he's already done this with
Speaker 2: kJ moving him off the free of the sorry lineup
Speaker 2: to move him to the sixth guy. That maybe he
Speaker 2: Townsend gets a recalibration coming off the bench with Bryant,
Speaker 2: who's played very well in the last month or so.
Speaker 2: More confidence, more aggressive with himself, and maybe that happens too.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I like the phrase recalibration because part of why
Speaker 6: why has Carter Bryant all of a sudden figured it out?
Speaker 6: Some of it is confidence, no doubt, right, the freshman
Speaker 6: grew into himself throughout this freshman season. But I also
Speaker 6: could argue part of why Carter's playing better is he's
Speaker 6: more comfortable in the position he's playing and the players
Speaker 6: that are guarding him because he's at that power forward slot.
Speaker 6: College basketball in twenty twenty five, power forwards are not
Speaker 6: what we remember see from nineteen ninety four, right, it's
Speaker 6: not ninety four anymore. But what we know is Carter's
Speaker 6: being defended by guys that might not be able to
Speaker 6: handle him on the perimeter as easily as a smaller
Speaker 6: forward or as a perimeter oriented guard. That's helped Carter
Speaker 6: be more effective, be more productive. So that recalibration worked
Speaker 6: beautifully for Carter. Putting him in the starting lineup. Does
Speaker 6: that work for Carter? It's not just does it? Is
Speaker 6: it better for Tray to be recalibrated? Does that rotation
Speaker 6: do you want more time with Tobey and Carter together?
Speaker 6: I mean, that's that's where Tommy's paid a lot of
Speaker 6: money to be the head coach in Arizona because he
Speaker 6: knows these things better than than us talking heads of
Speaker 6: how what the ripple effect? Does that need more minutes
Speaker 6: for Carter? You got to look at the bigger picture.
Speaker 6: It's not just more minutes for Carter. How does it
Speaker 6: impact the rest of the combinations?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ryan, we were we were talking off the air,
Speaker 4: and this is a question that I think Steve wanted
Speaker 4: to ask you. But I'm a steal a front. Yeah,
Speaker 4: this is the last time I'll ever be on air. Sorry,
Speaker 4: might as look at it up. Who do you think
Speaker 4: do you think there's a true leader on this team?
Speaker 3: And if so, who do you think this is? This
Speaker 3: is the question we wanted to ask you.
Speaker 6: To, uh additional leader? I don't know if I see one?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 6: That is, typically you look at your point guard. That's
Speaker 6: where you normally would started with a guard position, balls
Speaker 6: in their hands. They're at the top of the offense,
Speaker 6: the top of the defense. Very rarely is your leader
Speaker 6: as center right, just it's not Bill Russell. Days from
Speaker 6: the sixties throwing. I'm in my throwback conversations here with
Speaker 6: you guys. I do think that that could be a
Speaker 6: potential challenge because Jaden not overlead vocal as just a
Speaker 6: human being and a person. I think he leads by example.
Speaker 6: I think you could argue Caleb Love at moments in
Speaker 6: his year and a half of being a Wildcat could
Speaker 6: be dubbed the leader because he's the alpha on offense.
Speaker 6: But his inconsistencies make it difficult I think for him
Speaker 6: to be the leader right when things aren't going well
Speaker 6: and he's not producing. That's a little more difficult to
Speaker 6: lead when you're not on the floor in critical moments
Speaker 6: where Tommy's done a good I think of taking Caleb
Speaker 6: out when he has been ineffective in big moments. It's
Speaker 6: hard to be the leader when you're on the bench,
Speaker 6: right you'd expect that leader to be on the floor.
Speaker 6: So I do think there is potentially a void there
Speaker 6: from the traditional leadership role. I think that's a very
Speaker 6: viable question in what the end of January here is
Speaker 6: still searching for combinations and rotations and who is the
Speaker 6: on court leader. I don't know if there's a defined
Speaker 6: one from my mind either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, we asked go ahead.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 4: I was just going to say we were having that
Speaker 4: conversation because I think, you know, you're looking at the
Speaker 4: breakdown the last five minutes of games with us right
Speaker 4: now and without I think there is a lack of
Speaker 4: leadership or a leader on the court that maybe disrupts
Speaker 4: that a little bit and says, Okay, give me the ball,
Speaker 4: get out of the way, we'll figure it out. And
Speaker 4: when you lack that, things tend to speed up on you.
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, and at least leading by example if anything. Right,
Speaker 6: let's look at last year's group. I wouldn't say Pela
Speaker 6: Larson was an overtly vocal guy, but he was fiery,
Speaker 6: He had passion. He kind of took guys by the
Speaker 6: jersey when crunch time hit. Keisha Johnson had been through
Speaker 6: the fire, so he was a leader because he was
Speaker 6: tested and people knew it. Even Umar Ballo. I think,
Speaker 6: you know, we can have a whole other segment on
Speaker 6: where Umar's at in his career right now and all
Speaker 6: of that. We won't go there, but I think those
Speaker 6: three guys had been through, you know, many many trials
Speaker 6: as college basketball players. Who's stepping into that role this year.
Speaker 6: I think you could argue there's there's a gap in
Speaker 6: that role from last year to this year, just in
Speaker 6: a comparison standpoint.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you've been around almost as long as
Speaker 2: I have and covered a lot of games and teams.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure that this team frustrates you or whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't get frustrated Ayore, because I'm not attached to
Speaker 2: him like you are. But but does this team because
Speaker 2: I don't know if it has that that level of
Speaker 2: you know, we're going to be as good? Is this
Speaker 2: yet or if it'll ever get there.
Speaker 3: I don't know how.
Speaker 2: Good this team is. It could be a six to
Speaker 2: seven eight seed at best. And don't even know where
Speaker 2: I'm going with this question. But do you feel the
Speaker 2: same way where I have no way to identify this team?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think you're I think you're accurate in your thought
Speaker 6: process of there's head scratching moments. I mean, in the
Speaker 6: Texas Tech game, did we throw the ball to the
Speaker 6: first row of fans two times or three times?
Speaker 16: I mean that I'm even asking that.
Speaker 3: Question is the point right?
Speaker 6: We just literally threw the ball into the stands. No
Speaker 6: one even in the in the area is that head
Speaker 6: scratching on January twenty first that we're even referencing that, Yes,
Speaker 6: has this team shown the ability to put their foot
Speaker 6: on the throat of an opponent. No, historically, Steve, how
Speaker 6: many times have we talked about the runs of death
Speaker 6: Arizona goes on runs? To be honest, I don't know
Speaker 6: if I can remember a lot of those runs. There's
Speaker 6: been handful here and there. We've had some nice runs.
Speaker 6: If not the traditional boy, Arizona is far better than
Speaker 6: this opponent. When they're right, they're dominant. When this team
Speaker 6: is right, they are very good. They're not dominant. I
Speaker 6: don't think they're going to physically overwhelm teams with their
Speaker 6: size or their quickness. But when they're right, they're very good.
Speaker 6: We've seen it. They've won games that we can have
Speaker 6: proven our quality wins. But I agree with you, the
Speaker 6: ceiling of this team may not be what it is
Speaker 6: it has been for an Arizona fans expectation coming into
Speaker 6: the season, this was supposed to be chalk it up
Speaker 6: another one, two or three seed in the NCAA tournament
Speaker 6: because of the perceived talent and the physical nature and
Speaker 6: the holes that everybody plugged well, unfortunately, the individuals and
Speaker 6: the collection has not come together. And will it? Is
Speaker 6: there enough time, Blake, you asked it earlier on the
Speaker 6: leadership question and on some of the things. There are
Speaker 6: enough time in the season to generate that to garner it.
Speaker 6: I do think so, because college basketball is it's a
Speaker 6: finicky thing, you know this, Steve momentums finicky. When you
Speaker 6: get on a role in college basketball, it can come
Speaker 6: and go quickly. And I do think there's still plenty
Speaker 6: of basketball left for this team to get right more
Speaker 6: often than not. But is it ceiling a one seed,
Speaker 6: two seed, three seed. I don't think so. I think
Speaker 6: they've demonstrated it's not in their losses. But is this
Speaker 6: a team that could get hot at the right time?
Speaker 3: I think so, I think.
Speaker 6: And that's I guess the point you're making too.
Speaker 16: I think so not.
Speaker 6: I know so right.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, because this is from one
Speaker 2: of the listeners of the frequent listeners. Ask him if
Speaker 2: there's any of the players that get visibly upset after losing.
Speaker 2: Do they try to inspire each other when they to
Speaker 2: play better?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And let me tell you this, absolutely, because you've
Speaker 2: seen you've seen thirty some teams. The one thing that
Speaker 2: I don't think that this team has is the killer
Speaker 2: in stat think of you know, extreme teams like eighty
Speaker 2: eight who just wanted to show up and kick the
Speaker 2: crap out of you, the ninety fours of the ninety eight.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, where they show up and says,
Speaker 2: let's just for fun, beat the crap out of them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I agree. You know what's interesting with that comment.
Speaker 6: I think there's an over and this is not anything
Speaker 6: against the listener, but I think it's overstated that because
Speaker 6: I visibly see a an athlete get mad after a loss,
Speaker 6: that makes it better. I think they're going to be
Speaker 6: better for it. Well, that's a slippery slope. When Seline
Speaker 6: Stademayer missed a shot, he got visibly mad, and how
Speaker 6: did the fans react to that? They thought that was wrong.
Speaker 6: So it's a slippery slope. I get the listener's question, though, right,
Speaker 6: do they care enough about losing in the era that
Speaker 6: we're in is it's a viable question, and I transfer portal.
Speaker 6: I can just leave whenever I want. I can go
Speaker 6: get paid. I'm getting paid more now than I might
Speaker 6: get paid in an overseas contract in yesteryear. Right, So
Speaker 6: is there a perception of do I care enough because
Speaker 6: I'm transient. I just moved here, I just got here.
Speaker 6: Do I know the history of Arizona basketball as a
Speaker 6: brand new player? Do I care enough to do whatever
Speaker 6: it takes? Having been around these guys? They care? Having
Speaker 6: been around them. I was in the Bahamas with them.
Speaker 6: I was at the Battle for Atlantis. I was in
Speaker 6: the breakfast room the day after they lost to Oklahoma
Speaker 6: preparing for West Virginia. Right, I'm not patting myself on
Speaker 6: the back, but you have me on the air because
Speaker 6: I can give you this type of insight.
Speaker 3: They care.
Speaker 6: I walked in the breakfast room an hour before breakfast,
Speaker 6: and every single coach was already in the room and
Speaker 6: they were knee deep in discussion. Right. This was a
Speaker 6: coaching staff that didn't sleep, and these were players that
Speaker 6: got there and were dialed in. They were upset and
Speaker 6: leaned in. So I would not question this team's air
Speaker 6: and passion for the game of basketball and for Arizona basketball.
Speaker 6: I saw it first, and they walked away with great
Speaker 6: disappointment in the Bahamas when I was behind closed doors, right,
Speaker 6: that's where you see what really matters. I don't care
Speaker 6: if you're crying after the game on the court. Who
Speaker 6: cares that? To me? That's overblown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let me throw one last question at you.
Speaker 2: You know again, I'm here. You're here for that reason.
Speaker 2: You have some insight that a lot of people don't have.
Speaker 2: I had Brian on last week. We talked about the
Speaker 2: same type of things. I've been here a long time historically,
Speaker 2: and probably ninety nine percent of the time, when Arizona
Speaker 2: has something at stake, they're not good enough, they need
Speaker 2: to prove something. It's the you know, us against the world.
Speaker 2: They always show up Baylor. He tested them against Baylor.
Speaker 2: They came back and played some good basketball. But when
Speaker 2: it's you know, just one of those games, they don't
Speaker 2: show up. I don't think I'm speaking out of turn.
Speaker 2: You've seen it up next in the next two to
Speaker 2: three weeks, they're gonna have some big, huge games. I
Speaker 2: think they'll show up for those games.
Speaker 6: I think that's a great point, Steve. When Za is
Speaker 6: playing with house money, When nineteen to twenty four year
Speaker 6: olds are playing with house money, right, not just Arizona
Speaker 6: get do you get their best Iowa State at West Virginia.
Speaker 6: These guys lost to Arizona at home by twenty We
Speaker 6: got this right?
Speaker 3: Do you don't think?
Speaker 6: I mean, the same questions are being asked in names Iowa.
Speaker 6: How in the world did Iowa State go into West
Speaker 6: Virginia and lose? Those guys are bums. They were playing
Speaker 6: without Tucker DeVries, they were down a man, and they
Speaker 6: still be this. Come on, what's wrong with us? They're
Speaker 6: asking the same questions. But I do see your historical
Speaker 6: reference point, and I think this team is no different,
Speaker 6: primarily because you're dealing with young kids here relative to
Speaker 6: you and I, Steve, who are quite a bit older
Speaker 6: than these young kids. Is there wasn't Their character wasn't
Speaker 6: questioned in the Texas Tech game. They weren't battling from
Speaker 6: coming off of a loss. Look at Tommy Lloyd's revenge games.
Speaker 6: He's in revenge games in the same season in the
Speaker 6: game right after a loss right West Virginia is the
Speaker 6: exact example to use there. So Texas Tech was kind
Speaker 6: of a throwaway game relatively speaking. They had lost three
Speaker 6: games at home, they had won games on the road.
Speaker 6: These guys aren't that good.
Speaker 16: That's a perception.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and we you and I have seen that with
Speaker 6: the college athlete. I think their characters tested going tonight
Speaker 6: against Oklahoma State. Do they want to get swept on
Speaker 6: the road against what's perceived to be one of the
Speaker 6: bottom two or three teams in the conference. I think
Speaker 6: they will rise to that occasion. And you're right, Iowa
Speaker 6: States coming around the corner, Houston's coming around the corner.
Speaker 6: I think they will rise to the occasion more often
Speaker 6: than not saying they're going to beat those teams. I
Speaker 6: think they'll play better though in those games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I totally agree with you. We've seen it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like the Death and Texas and the
Speaker 2: Sunrise and Tucson. It happens for whatever reason it happens.
Speaker 16: Tell you, how about this that once that before you
Speaker 16: let me go.
Speaker 6: Arizona's played Oklahoma State only three times in its history.
Speaker 6: There's only a handful of people on the planet that
Speaker 6: were at all three games, and you're talking to one
Speaker 6: of them. Well, just so you know, Brian Jeffries was
Speaker 6: there for sure. But when you especially when you throw in.
Speaker 6: One game was in Phoenix, one game was in Chicago,
Speaker 6: and the other game was in Anchorage, Alas.
Speaker 2: I was there I was there, so I was I
Speaker 2: saw we were there. I was there because you might
Speaker 2: be one of them big Country, Big Country, right.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: They lost Big Country. The lost Minnesota. And then the
Speaker 2: second one, the Phoenix game. Tell me who, I can't
Speaker 2: remember that game ninety four?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was that was an America West Arena.
Speaker 2: America wes Okay. And then of course the the the
Speaker 2: Rosemund game.
Speaker 16: We know that one.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately we're not talking about the game after that. We're
Speaker 6: talking about the win at at Rosemont.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you Ryan, of course, great stuff, Thank you.
Speaker 6: Man, Thanks you guys, thanks for gat having me on.
Speaker 2: Great stuff, great stuff. I love you because he's seen it,
Speaker 2: he's seen and and you know this. We'll talk about
Speaker 2: this on those side. Let's not forget just the the
Speaker 2: the human nature of the game. You can't do it, man,
Speaker 2: you can't do it, and I know you can't do it.
Speaker 2: And guess what you do?
Speaker 3: Do you do it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you've been tested mentally not physically. You've been tested.
Speaker 2: You can't do it, man, I know you can't, and
Speaker 2: then you prove them wrong.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And you've got great access along with yourself to these
Speaker 4: people that are around these teams on a deeper connection
Speaker 4: so they can understand. That's a great question by the
Speaker 4: listener that came to you. But and he said he
Speaker 4: liked a good answer. Yeah, you I mean this team cares.
Speaker 4: I think you see that on the court, you see
Speaker 4: it off the court. They care about it. I just
Speaker 4: don't know if they find that they found their true identity. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 4: we got to go a little over. We'll come back.
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Speaker 1: Live on the Ihearts Radio WIP. This is II on
Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports sporteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to al the Ball here at Fox
Speaker 2: Sportsports fIF fifty.
Speaker 3: Omsk Ribera, you o mis Blake here.
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Speaker 2: We got COBE working with the phones is getting the
Speaker 2: hang of it. If you guys want to call.
Speaker 3: Please do so.
Speaker 2: Let's go real quick before we go to your business
Speaker 2: in the World Baseball Classic Uh, intestinal fortitude Uh.
Speaker 3: And I'll just use you as an example.
Speaker 2: How many times did you go into a game that
Speaker 2: no one expected you to win?
Speaker 4: A new one percentage wise? Yeah, I mean probably. I
Speaker 4: mean it's difficult to say. I mean it happened, ye five.
Speaker 2: And the games that you won that no one thought
Speaker 2: you'd win, is it the same question?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's similar. I get what you're saying, though.
Speaker 2: Because like we were saying with Arizona, I'll use it.
Speaker 2: Use this as an example, Santa Clara. But it was
Speaker 2: East Tennessee State to me, and no one really talks about.
Speaker 2: They were over confident, they show up And how else
Speaker 2: do you explain these things?
Speaker 3: You're playing down to your competition.
Speaker 2: Santa Clara, Same damn thing. How do you beat Kentucky?
Speaker 2: How do you beat North Carolina no one thought you can?
Speaker 2: Or is Arizona show up when they you can't? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're gonna tell Richard, You're gonna tell these guys they
Speaker 2: can't win. And Arizona does this all the time. Princeton Princeton.
Speaker 2: It's Princeton to show up and play. They couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: They had a twelve point lead and lost it. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's confidence in this place. It's thinking that you're better
Speaker 2: than you are and you're really not because the other
Speaker 2: team wants to show you they're not that good.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're I'm talking to a perfect example.
Speaker 2: Because you're an athlete and you're a coach, you have
Speaker 2: to as a coach, have to tell them you have
Speaker 2: to guard against this. And then how do you tell
Speaker 2: them that even though in their mind they're already predetermined
Speaker 2: I'm better than them. I don't have to really play hard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean sometimes you have to do with smoke
Speaker 4: and mirrors, right, So it's gonna take multiple, multiple areas
Speaker 4: where you kind of have to do that, and you
Speaker 4: also have to I mean, listen to me. For some
Speaker 4: times in my life, I had to lie to myself
Speaker 4: that I was better than what I was. So I
Speaker 4: wouldn't look at stats, I wouldn't look at you know,
Speaker 4: spend rate. We didn't have that really when I was
Speaker 4: coming in, but I but mentally, I was never afraid
Speaker 4: to be put in that situation. And I think as
Speaker 4: an athlete. That's where that there has to be a
Speaker 4: lack of fear to some degree to what to fail
Speaker 4: or to what to fail. You can't eat once that
Speaker 4: that eats inside you, and once you get and you
Speaker 4: can look at love a little bit like I think,
Speaker 4: there's that has creeped in and crept in a little bit.
Speaker 4: And once that mentality sets in, man, that is difficult
Speaker 4: get rid of.
Speaker 2: You know how, I agree with you. There too many,
Speaker 2: it's too big of a sample size. Yeah, because okay,
Speaker 2: one game, two games, it's one off, too off.
Speaker 3: But now you're going a lot of games off. You're
Speaker 3: thinking there's something going on multiple multiple time, all American,
Speaker 3: right at.
Speaker 2: Least one time you have two times and you're thinking, okay,
Speaker 2: that's just a one off to it's too many things
Speaker 2: that have gone like this for too long. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: really strange. Listen, go back to your your situation with
Speaker 2: the World Baseball Classic. You got almost a little more
Speaker 2: than two months right before about six week weeks six less,
Speaker 2: just let's say six weeks.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know better than me. No, you're right, I
Speaker 3: know exactly. So you you you have.
Speaker 2: Something going on this weekend and it's kind of like
Speaker 2: the tickets are available.
Speaker 4: No, I mean, we're just doing a It's Friday. We're
Speaker 4: gonna be the Monica Downtown. Ray Flores has been our
Speaker 4: community leader, has been amazing for us. So we're gonna
Speaker 4: do a WBC kickoff event World Baseball Classic Qualifier kickoff
Speaker 4: event from five to seven. People can come out kind
Speaker 4: of hang out. We're gonna have people fly in so
Speaker 4: you can meet some front office staff, some of our
Speaker 4: regional partners, our national partners are going to be there. Uh,
Speaker 4: and then just hang out and then we would love
Speaker 4: everybody after that to go to the Tucson road Runners
Speaker 4: hockey game.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know, we we we want.
Speaker 4: To support everything we can, but it's phenomenal that we
Speaker 4: have to play a hockey here and Bob Hoffman's phenomenal.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: One, and who's invited to the the five to seventh thing.
Speaker 4: Five to seven is open for everybody, so yeah, so
Speaker 4: they'll be uh, there'll be food until it runs out,
Speaker 4: and there'll be some gen and juice there as well.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah snoop dogs still leaguers here with our
Speaker 3: partners with Arizona, we're happy to have it.
Speaker 2: And you talked about Ray and talk about road runners.
Speaker 2: I mean you've and you guys, uh and you talked
Speaker 2: about this when I think the first time you were
Speaker 2: on the show, how the community kind of all intermingles
Speaker 2: with itself to promote the city and the sports event.
Speaker 3: Okay, here's a perfect example.
Speaker 4: Last week we have an all hands meeting, so we
Speaker 4: had all the people that are working on the WBC
Speaker 4: at the same table. There's twenty four people and nine
Speaker 4: different entities working on one thing. And it's just for
Speaker 4: the greater good of the community that we support. That's
Speaker 4: that's important that we continue that. And I'm not going
Speaker 4: to say it to your face. I'll say in the mic,
Speaker 4: don't look at my lips. The momentum that we've created
Speaker 4: so far and the partnerships that we've created, because everybody
Speaker 4: at the table wants something better for the community that
Speaker 4: we represent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, And that's that makes two song, two songs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's who we are, right, It creates our identity,
Speaker 4: our soul, right, and that's what we have. We were
Speaker 4: just talking about another city up north that maybe doesn't
Speaker 4: have a soul.
Speaker 2: Well because it's too it's too big. This is I
Speaker 2: get grief by calling this Jay does, at least with me.
Speaker 2: It's a a very type of place. I don't think
Speaker 2: you have to explain that too long because people, the
Speaker 2: neighbors help the neighbors. At least it looks like that visibly,
Speaker 2: visually and in actions too, because it's a giving. You know,
Speaker 2: someone's down to help without complaining, and that's what you
Speaker 2: guys have done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've done that personally multiple times with the people
Speaker 4: that are in my life, gone to them and been
Speaker 4: vulnerable and just said, listen, I need some help, I
Speaker 4: need some guidance here. And I think that's what two sons,
Speaker 4: two sons, a million and a half people town, right,
Speaker 4: it's almost we treat ourselves almost like a rural area,
Speaker 4: and our rural areas are great, but we're metropolis when
Speaker 4: it comes to that. So before I forget March second
Speaker 4: to the six yes, right, tickets, we're gonna have double
Speaker 4: hitters eleven am six pm on Monday or on Sunday.
Speaker 4: Monday Tuesday Wednesday's off, but that might change with weather permitting.
Speaker 4: And then Thursday is a playing game, big game. That's
Speaker 4: a college night we're gonna have. It's still gonna need
Speaker 4: to be confirmed, but I believe we're gonna have two
Speaker 4: dollars beers and dollar hot dogs on Thursday night at
Speaker 4: six pm. So go on to World Baseball Classic dot
Speaker 4: com for tickets, or you can go to our website,
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what is there like a watermark or like a
Speaker 2: benchmark of what you're hoping to people to attend and
Speaker 2: will there be those countries coming in to see people
Speaker 2: from the countries.
Speaker 4: Coming in and see Yeah, I think you're definitely gonna
Speaker 4: have visitors, especially from Columbia coming in. Uh So, we're
Speaker 4: hoping for the for China and Germany and Brazil as well,
Speaker 4: the benchmarks for it to be successful as a community aspect.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to put a number on there. We
Speaker 4: want the best show week possibly of course, of course
Speaker 4: we got to go.
Speaker 2: Thank you for joining me by Steve so Fast right,
Speaker 2: good good show, Thank you coming.
Speaker 3: Take care