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Speaker 3: Welcome to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 3: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me today is
Speaker 3: mister Blake Eager from the Southern Arizona Sports Tourism and
Speaker 3: Film Authority. Are those gonna beat? Those look like they
Speaker 3: were going to defeat you right there?
Speaker 4: I mean I always put them on backwards, but I
Speaker 4: was looking for a countdown, but it didn't even give me,
Speaker 4: like a quiet countdown. I need a five, a four,
Speaker 4: and then send it off.
Speaker 3: Man, it's Tuesday. We don't we don't need no steaking countdown.
Speaker 3: Are you a rookie year or what?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I gotta figure you should be a KG veteran by now. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm outside just you know, complaining about everything anyway. So
Speaker 3: we're good, are you well? You're up against it man
Speaker 3: working for the WBC.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're good. They're in most of them or some
Speaker 4: of them are in town. Some of the players of
Speaker 4: the teams.
Speaker 3: Germany's in town right now, and then some of the
Speaker 3: front office from Major League Baseball and World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 3: I just left there.
Speaker 4: Nice, nice, and thank you for the weather. Yeah for now.
Speaker 4: Do you see what's Monday and Tuesday. It's supposed to
Speaker 4: be cold, so like seventy two. Yeah, we'll be fine,
Speaker 4: we'll be fine. Yeah to audio, I gotta say that
Speaker 4: the field looks absolutely amazing, like we've had a big
Speaker 4: league club here for the last ten years.
Speaker 3: It is so nicely, So tell me. They're gonna play
Speaker 3: at TEP right, is that what.
Speaker 2: They call it?
Speaker 3: Ke veterans stage veterans, so veterans. Then they're going to
Speaker 3: use the other parks to practice or get ready or what.
Speaker 3: Now they've got an all day workout on Saturday. All
Speaker 3: the teams have a workout Saturday, and then games start Sunday,
Speaker 3: so they don't really don't turnaround, Yeah, because most of
Speaker 3: the players are coming in from spring training and so
Speaker 3: they're they're already going at it. Germany came early to
Speaker 3: do some scrimmages. So who did Germany? Yeah, So they've
Speaker 3: been playing some of our local teams. Agarsota put together
Speaker 3: a two on all star team.
Speaker 2: That was nice. Yeah, they've they've done really really.
Speaker 4: Good, Like, tell me like, what do you mean they
Speaker 4: took you guys that were either just out of pro
Speaker 4: ball or just out of college and put them together
Speaker 4: on a roster and played Germany twice and in Irish
Speaker 4: this other Irish Wolfhounds, which is a traveling independent team.
Speaker 3: Oh nice, nice, Okay, cool, No, you guys, you get
Speaker 3: this thing going.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean for the most so far, so good.
Speaker 4: It sounds like it right now, but just ask me
Speaker 4: in twenty minutes.
Speaker 3: Twenty minutes when you get a call and says, help
Speaker 3: me here, get Edgar on the phone, let him do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, no, good for you guys and your team
Speaker 3: minus five days, I think, yes, Sunday Sunday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to figure out the schedule.
Speaker 3: Eleven am and six pm Sunday Monday Tuesday, by the gap,
Speaker 3: by the big gap between games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got to turn the field over. Okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I mean you every ticket is for one
Speaker 4: game and all the games, or you can buy a
Speaker 4: group ticket are all the games like MLB tims and
Speaker 4: all that stuff, so you'll have pitch clocks and everything,
Speaker 4: just like Major League Baseball. What they I don't believe
Speaker 4: and don't quote me on this, probably shouldn't bring it up.
Speaker 4: I don't think they're they're using the robots right now. Okay,
Speaker 4: what do you think about that? You know, I had
Speaker 4: this conversation earlier. From a pure standpoint, I don't love it.
Speaker 4: I think from a hitterer standpoint right now, with how
Speaker 4: hard pitchers are throwing, I think it helps them a
Speaker 4: little bit more helps the pictures helps the hitters hitters, right,
Speaker 4: So you you you actually know your zone and you
Speaker 4: can stay in that zone, like you know, like Tito
Speaker 4: when I've talked to Tito in the past, quite a
Speaker 4: bitter chip hill. Like they used to plan, pre plan,
Speaker 4: game plan around the umpires, so whoevers they're behind, whoever
Speaker 4: is behind the dish that day on plate. They would
Speaker 4: they would plan how to attack hitters from a pitching standpoint,
Speaker 4: knowing that you might get six inches off the plate
Speaker 4: one way or another.
Speaker 3: Wow, that makes sense. Yeah, with all the analytics and
Speaker 3: the it's crazy.
Speaker 2: We're all human. We're all human.
Speaker 3: We have tendencies, right, Yeah, spin rate, you know X
Speaker 3: of velocity, do that with you. I was still little,
Speaker 3: I was still a little antiquated at that point. Yeah, No,
Speaker 3: because you're you're twenty how many years out of the game.
Speaker 3: Ten twelve, O nine was the last year for me,
Speaker 3: so sixteen. Yeah, we don't need to say the actual
Speaker 3: number on their Yeah, okay, well like to carry the five.
Speaker 2: If you asked me to do math, then I'm just
Speaker 2: going to say a couple of years ago. No math.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's fine. Hey, welcome to the show. We got
Speaker 3: my guy here, Kobe handling the machine. Here, I'm here,
Speaker 3: Bike's here. Who's what's your name? So we're gonna have
Speaker 3: Troy Hanson, Troy Hanson, Troy Hutchinson here at three seventeen
Speaker 3: talking more about what's tomorrow's game gonna look like, what
Speaker 3: Saturday's game looked like. What Tommy said today, very stepfast.
Speaker 3: I still believe it was a bad call, he says,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna hold to it. He was disappointed in the
Speaker 3: fans student section, per se, and that's where it came from.
Speaker 3: And apologies came from Desiree as we said yesterday, And
Speaker 3: I didn't know this at the time, the Zona Zoo
Speaker 3: apologized to so good for them, Damn them for starting
Speaker 3: this mess. And you can't put the toothpaste back in
Speaker 3: the tube because it's it's already been said, yeah, but
Speaker 3: I think the first step is acknowledgement.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: Sure, that's a big thing you're asking for young men,
Speaker 4: young women, young people in general. You know, one thing
Speaker 4: that we've always talked about was just trying to own
Speaker 4: up to your mistakes. And once you can say that
Speaker 4: I made a mistake, things become a lot easier.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And there's a group a lot of mistakes.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 3: Well, Kobe, you didn't go to the game, right, but
Speaker 3: you surprised that happened? An't surprised a little bit because
Speaker 3: the Zona Zoos section. They Yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: bad chance a lot of young kids, so define like
Speaker 3: that can happen, right, Yeah, well you said yesterday he
Speaker 3: was not surprised at all. It's happened before, maybe not
Speaker 3: to that tone.
Speaker 2: Are you surprised? Uh no, No, I'm disappointed. Again. Who
Speaker 2: am I to say? Right?
Speaker 3: Who am I to say? But but they they have
Speaker 3: to know actions have consequences. Yeah, and whether here's my thing.
Speaker 3: Pretty smart kids, pretty smart kids, they should no better.
Speaker 3: One and two you have bigger concerns. You're gonna get
Speaker 3: out in a couple of months. You need to find
Speaker 3: a job. Don't be stupid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but if you're asking, I mean, Kobe can answer
Speaker 4: this better than Night can. But if you're asking twenty
Speaker 4: if twenty year old Blake would have been in the
Speaker 4: middle of that, I'm gonna say would have been, and
Speaker 4: would be. I would have been disappointed with myself at
Speaker 4: this page, and I'm still disappointed for the actions I
Speaker 4: made at that age. But you have to make those
Speaker 4: actions to learn from them. Yeah, but no, yeah, no,
Speaker 4: you don't have to. Okay, it's an eight pm game
Speaker 4: on a Saturday night. Do you think those kids were
Speaker 4: coming straight from their dorm rooms.
Speaker 3: I don't care how many drinks you've had. Don't be stupid, like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I agree, they win the game. Guess what that doesn't happen? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're probably right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And whether the b YU team or ASHU are you
Speaker 3: EIG guys had to fight little tet ted there. Really,
Speaker 3: it's not that big idea. You lost a name, move
Speaker 3: on from it. I'm not involved, of course, I'm not
Speaker 3: hated either way. You a fan, you're a fan of sports? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm not. I know we've talked so great.
Speaker 6: Good.
Speaker 2: You're a good fan. Do you get crazy when your
Speaker 2: team loses, I get really depressed. Depressed, so what you
Speaker 2: you like?
Speaker 3: Shut down?
Speaker 4: You go see the therapist on Monday. If I have
Speaker 4: a therapist, it would be great. Yeah, I'll take it.
Speaker 4: If anybody's list there right now, that is a good therapist.
Speaker 6: Let me know.
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Speaker 3: You can't get a better thing than that, right you
Speaker 3: want saying it's how crazy would you have gotten? You
Speaker 3: throw the stuff at the TV or you you rag,
Speaker 3: you tweet, you call it a show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we were you know, I can imagine
Speaker 4: at those stages like the I remember losing in the
Speaker 4: Elite eight to Yukon and we were at O'Malley's watching
Speaker 4: the game. I mean we were, we were upset about it,
Speaker 4: but when you were twenty six years old, this y Yeah,
Speaker 4: but we weren't. We didn't go out and do anything crazy. No. No,
Speaker 4: it's a wild response though, when you choose violence, whether
Speaker 4: it's a win or loss. Yeah, yeah, I mean the
Speaker 4: fact that they have to grease light poles so people
Speaker 4: don't climb on them is still like it's crazy to me,
Speaker 4: Like I would never want to climb on a lighthole, yeah,
Speaker 4: especially greased, Yeah, maybe more so greecous.
Speaker 3: That's all people get and it's not because they're happy
Speaker 3: or sad.
Speaker 4: It's because they just want to be stupid. So I
Speaker 4: mean the question is I mean, I guess it's more
Speaker 4: of a statement. I mean, you're trying to look at
Speaker 4: sports as an who's any viewership?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: As a fan?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I take I take complete responsibility and ownership
Speaker 4: of this. Uh, you're looking at as an outlet of
Speaker 4: your personal life, right, So I don't get like on
Speaker 4: the show we talked about it, I don't have to
Speaker 4: concentrate on what's going on in my immediate life for
Speaker 4: the next two hours. And I'm grateful for it, Steve,
Speaker 4: and I'll never be able to thank you enough, especially
Speaker 4: with what's going on. Like I'm very happy, and I'm
Speaker 4: very I'm very short, but it is it allows me
Speaker 4: to come on as a sports fan. It's the same thing, right,
Speaker 4: You're you put so much stake into these teams because
Speaker 4: it gives you an outlet. And so when something like
Speaker 4: that happens, especially that U of a game where that
Speaker 4: last call to my Still, I don't know how you
Speaker 4: make that last call, right, I don't know how you
Speaker 4: make it as as a referee, Like there's a I
Speaker 4: think there's a breaking point. Now that game doesn't cost
Speaker 4: us a season. It probably doesn't cost us. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: seed too much. But it is like you build up
Speaker 4: to that week, so you don't know what's happening in
Speaker 4: people's lives. And that's and that's to the extent that
Speaker 4: they're taking it out right and going a little overboard,
Speaker 4: going overboard and you mix in alcohol and whatever else.
Speaker 4: I mean, things are gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, even when they didn't sell alcohol there, they were
Speaker 3: kind of you know, yeah, kind of crazy. It is
Speaker 3: what it's okay, we're gonna move on. So as Tommy said,
Speaker 3: that's what the team has done. They're moving on and said,
Speaker 3: you know, the only things I don't dis disregard or
Speaker 3: regret is the comments that the students did. Uh. They
Speaker 3: moved on. They had good practice yesterday and probably today
Speaker 3: getting ready for Utah to come in circumstances are that
Speaker 3: Utah coaches is no longer the coach, right, you got
Speaker 3: to let go yesterday, So they're gonna have a different
Speaker 3: beast to deal with here. Should be winnable, obviously.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think it's a real possibility going
Speaker 4: to the stretch that you're three and one in the
Speaker 4: last four games.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: I don't want to get I don't want to get
Speaker 3: a headway in the last four games. So the two
Speaker 3: and three yeah, yeah, See you've got Utah A s
Speaker 3: U and then Iowa State and you've got Kansas.
Speaker 2: Who are they beating? Who they beating?
Speaker 4: I think you're beating Utah A s U. And I
Speaker 4: think you're beating Kansas. Am I crazy in Kansas out?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: But that's a whole that's okay. I won't I won't
Speaker 3: fight with you. I think they're one of the I
Speaker 3: mean and vulnerable. They're vulnerable. That's a much better way
Speaker 3: of saying they're overrated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're vulnerable. They're at home.
Speaker 3: They're also gonna have to play out of their mind
Speaker 3: to get a halfway decent seedy. Then a week later
Speaker 3: or a few days later, I guess what's the big
Speaker 3: twelve tournament?
Speaker 4: You're so you're really you're we're fighting on for dear
Speaker 4: life to be in that top four, right.
Speaker 3: And then so is Kansas, you know, to just get
Speaker 3: a good seed. I mean, this is not the Kansas
Speaker 3: we know. No, it is just the Arizona you know. No,
Speaker 3: but it's I mean we've had this conversation. It's a
Speaker 3: different Arizona that I'm it's in a weird way. I'm
Speaker 3: I'm happier with really, yeah, I mean, in what sense
Speaker 3: our expectations do you have to know?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see if he accept it, right, I gotta
Speaker 4: I If you don't, I've got a diner's card that
Speaker 4: you'll find over.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: I in the sense that, look, our expectations the last
Speaker 4: three years were so high and rightfully so right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you're kind out of the Pac twelve. I just haven't
Speaker 4: seen a team like this that just doesn't. They constantly
Speaker 4: get punched in the face and they punch back. There's
Speaker 4: there's grit in this team. Plus you see, Uh, there's
Speaker 4: there's grit in this team. They understand. I think they
Speaker 4: understand the task at hand. Now, they still to your
Speaker 4: point and many varied points that you've made, I still
Speaker 4: think they played down to teams attimes, and you play
Speaker 4: different styles depending on the team. I just I like
Speaker 4: this team more going into March than I have.
Speaker 3: And primarily because And the funny thing is, before Saturday,
Speaker 3: I was already had a couple of questions to Tommy says, uh,
Speaker 3: would you believe or would you think that this is
Speaker 3: the best defensive team he's had there he would have
Speaker 3: said probably, yes, they've been very good with it, blah
Speaker 3: blah blah. And I said, aren't they the most physical
Speaker 3: team you've had?
Speaker 2: Also?
Speaker 3: Yes, and the defend well on the perimeter. All those
Speaker 3: three went to the crapper that night that Saturday. It happens,
Speaker 3: and and and exactly it happens. And I've always said
Speaker 3: one of my philosophies, I should put it on the hat,
Speaker 3: it's how you play that day. Yeah, it's how you
Speaker 3: play that day and against who you play.
Speaker 4: If you would have told me we would have scored
Speaker 4: nineties ninety six points, I'm like we would have controlled,
Speaker 4: just like we did at their home right right.
Speaker 2: You just caught b Yu.
Speaker 4: I mean in a fault is on defense and some
Speaker 4: too many turnovers, easy turnovers. But for us to match them,
Speaker 4: I mean, b Yu, they're good. B Yu can shoot.
Speaker 4: They're a good, flat out shoot. Now that's going to
Speaker 4: be a troublesome thing when they get in March, because
Speaker 4: if they go cold, they're probably not true win.
Speaker 3: But that's Arizona. The Zonaly gets hot, they get really hot.
Speaker 3: They don't guess what happens. But we've shown we can
Speaker 3: win games. If we play in the fifties, we can
Speaker 3: win a game. If we're playing the nineties, we can
Speaker 3: win a game. And that's what I think I mean
Speaker 3: by this team's a little bit built differently, and they
Speaker 3: are and they are. How many times as a former
Speaker 3: player and a coach, you go into to a game
Speaker 3: and you're the favorite and you lose half everyone was this?
Speaker 3: I mean, there's this team people don't understand. I think
Speaker 3: in sports, just general public debt, the other team is
Speaker 3: pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh they're not right. That doesn't mean anything. It
Speaker 2: doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 3: You've got against pictures that were lesser than you, better
Speaker 3: than you, and outcomes probably totally not expected.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I always said the mindset the guy
Speaker 4: I was going against that day was never going to
Speaker 4: be better than me. But in retrospect, most of those
Speaker 4: guys had. Some of those guys had fifteen year careers
Speaker 4: right and got them and you had and you had
Speaker 4: to figure out a way. Yeah, I mean I knew
Speaker 4: I could do I could do different things with the
Speaker 4: ball by just scripting it. I mean, yeah, so you're
Speaker 4: you're absolutely right. You look across and you look at
Speaker 4: the lesser let's call it the lesser athlete. That lesser
Speaker 4: athlete can win, especially when they understand how they know
Speaker 4: how to play their game to the best ability.
Speaker 3: Exactly, how would you explain the first round losses at
Speaker 3: this program that I cover. Yeah, you're playing down to
Speaker 3: an opponent. I mean you've said it over and over again,
Speaker 3: and you look back on it. It's enough fault of
Speaker 3: anybody but themselves for themselves. You're exactly right, and the
Speaker 3: other team that wants to keep the crap out of you, and.
Speaker 4: That there's some motivation there, right, I've I've used that
Speaker 4: kind of motivation on the national without questioning. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: probably I probably caused some by country problems for some
Speaker 4: other countries.
Speaker 2: No, but there's no better there's no better.
Speaker 3: Explanation or instruction that that those guys are good too.
Speaker 3: They want to beat the crap out of you. I
Speaker 3: don't care who you think you are. You're not who
Speaker 3: you think you're not as good as you think you
Speaker 3: are and not as bad either.
Speaker 2: But you're not as good as you think you are.
Speaker 4: And you also, as a coach, have to identify with
Speaker 4: that engine and what's going to make that team move
Speaker 4: and go and and sometimes it's a chip on the shoulder.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's a recognition that you know, I don't want
Speaker 4: to say it, to play dirty, but you have to play.
Speaker 3: You have to play aggressive and physical. Yeah, we're already over.
Speaker 3: We gotta go. Were you flashing me? Say let's go,
Speaker 3: let's go. Okay, so we're gonna go. Uh, We're gonna go.
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to myn on the ball here on
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Bavera. In with me
Speaker 3: today is Blake Eager. We got Kobe at the controls now.
Speaker 3: We have Troy Hut you send from goisycats dot com. Troy,
Speaker 3: how are you good?
Speaker 15: Good?
Speaker 16: How are you guys doing today?
Speaker 2: We're doing fine. Thank you.
Speaker 3: I know you didn't go to Press COVERERCE today. What
Speaker 3: did you take away from Tommy's Press COVERERCE today?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, talking about in terms of having a
Speaker 6: team that's hungry.
Speaker 15: I mean he talked about it during the.
Speaker 6: Post game when he went into what did he use
Speaker 6: that word casual? Just being more up and ready and
Speaker 6: wanting to see a focused team on Monday.
Speaker 15: I think he got that out of them.
Speaker 6: Of course, the Goats is always going to say that.
Speaker 6: But you know, as you look down the final stretch here,
Speaker 6: it's going to be a big four last games for Arizona.
Speaker 6: If you're able to go three and one, you're gonna
Speaker 6: be one of those top four teams in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 6: If you go to and two, maybe in everything below that,
Speaker 6: I think you'll fall out of the top four. So
Speaker 6: they really got to get ramped up here for the
Speaker 6: twelve tournament.
Speaker 3: I don't think I all counts. I don't know, Blake,
Speaker 3: if you believe this, I know I believe this. It
Speaker 3: was gonna be that way going into the second half
Speaker 3: of the season because they it was pretty easy in
Speaker 3: the first half. They didn't have all the quality teams
Speaker 3: in the back end, and we knew it was gonna
Speaker 3: at least I did, that was gonna be this tough
Speaker 3: because you hadn't really played that many people.
Speaker 2: They played the good people.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, you got the kind of lighter half
Speaker 6: of the Big Twelve schedule Cincinnati didn't live up to
Speaker 6: its expectations. West Virginia has been up and down, but
Speaker 6: you know, you have a nice win over Iowa State,
Speaker 6: very competitive against Houston. They're sitting in a nice place.
Speaker 6: I think overall when you look at the start of
Speaker 6: the season, from that four and five start, I think
Speaker 6: they're in a better spot and maybe a spot that
Speaker 6: most fans and most people didn't.
Speaker 15: Expect them to be in after going for and find
Speaker 15: to begin the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 4: I mean we were talking about you said it multiple
Speaker 4: times that first half of the season was a bit lighter, right,
Speaker 4: and you're going into let's say it was a training
Speaker 4: going to heavyweight battle, and that's what you're getting almost
Speaker 4: every game, game in, game out, even with a sure
Speaker 4: they're gonna play you as hard as they possibly can
Speaker 4: because the su there's no easy there's really no easy
Speaker 4: team on the schedule at this point, and you're you're
Speaker 4: gonna have to go punch.
Speaker 3: Did you watch last night's game, well, Houston and Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: I didn't, and I'm watching it. I'm thinking this is
Speaker 3: how it is every every week, everywhere. It's just a
Speaker 3: brutal survival type of game and a heavy if not
Speaker 3: a heavyweight fight, it's a welterweight fight, it's something fight.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean what separates the third the third seed in
Speaker 3: the Big twelve compared to the ten seed, is you know,
Speaker 3: an inch? It's it's a sliver.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, every every weekend you're going to have an
Speaker 6: opponent that is going to push you to.
Speaker 15: Your brink in the Big twelve.
Speaker 6: And you know Arizona yesterday, have you talk coming up?
Speaker 6: It's going to be a highly competitive game. But then
Speaker 6: all of a sudden, you're on the road at Iowa State,
Speaker 6: a team that's gonna be hungry to beat you, especially
Speaker 6: after how the game went in Tucson. So it feels
Speaker 6: like every night is an NCAA tournament level game twelve.
Speaker 3: So like to your point, and I think one of
Speaker 3: the reasons you feel good about this team better than most,
Speaker 3: if not the same, that they're capable of beating the
Speaker 3: Iowa States, the Houston's, and the tougher teams because they
Speaker 3: hadn't shown that, but now they're showing it.
Speaker 4: I think the question to both of you guys is
Speaker 4: when the last time you saw a U of a
Speaker 4: team this battle tested?
Speaker 3: Moving into March. That's a good question.
Speaker 6: I would say Sean Miller's Stanley Johnson team, maybe even
Speaker 6: the Aaron team.
Speaker 4: Do you think the PAC twelve was was comparable to
Speaker 4: what you're seeing in the Big twelve rounds? I'm saying
Speaker 4: from a battle tested No league play where you're going
Speaker 4: in the game, That's what I'm and I think that's
Speaker 4: what the stance I'm taking on it.
Speaker 2: Maybe you guys can.
Speaker 4: Tell me I'm wrong, You're right, You're right, I mean,
Speaker 4: you're you're seeing You're seeing guys literally come in with
Speaker 4: different game plans, different approaches, trying to beat you in
Speaker 4: different ways, and U A's finding a way to pivot,
Speaker 4: evault and moving it in a positive direction.
Speaker 6: I think in terms of that, this is probably the
Speaker 6: most bally testing.
Speaker 15: Team since they're in Gordon.
Speaker 6: Yes, the PAC twelve wasn't as tough as the Big twelve,
Speaker 6: but they played in.
Speaker 15: Michigan on the road in a tough game.
Speaker 6: Uh, San Diego State in a tough game. I think
Speaker 6: they played Gonzaga the following year they had they had
Speaker 6: a couple more non confidence games, but a lot of
Speaker 6: different styles during that season. But outside of that, the
Speaker 6: PAC twelve has been. I don't want to say a
Speaker 6: cake walk, but it's it's definitely not the tough, tough.
Speaker 15: Night night in the night out. Yeah you've seen in
Speaker 15: the Big Twelve.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question, I think Blake even with me. But
Speaker 3: since January January something like that. Okay, So throughout the
Speaker 3: whole year and I've had Bruce Anna, I got all
Speaker 3: these guys on and we've said, Uh, the great thing
Speaker 3: about the Big Twelve is it's going to prepare you
Speaker 3: for what's ahead, right because we hadn't seen this. It's
Speaker 3: gonna get you ready for something that Arizona has never
Speaker 3: had before, because when it comes to March, they always
Speaker 3: get beat up physically or something happens, right, they don't
Speaker 3: they hadn't seen before. So here they have it. Well, no,
Speaker 3: this really works. But here comes the catch. The catch
Speaker 3: twenty two is that how beat up will they be
Speaker 3: come three weeks from now when they've played Iowa State
Speaker 3: or Utah issue, Iowa State and Kansas The Big Twelve tournament.
Speaker 3: Now the tournament tournament when it really matters. You're talking
Speaker 3: a juggernaut of five, six to seven games. If you
Speaker 3: go to the finals and you turn around, you gotta
Speaker 3: pay again, how physically tough are you gonna be or
Speaker 3: have left in the tank?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think that's where a roster when we
Speaker 4: were talking about it off there, right. I mean, you're
Speaker 4: looking at a guy like Townsend and I'm not trying
Speaker 4: to knock a guy. I just don't know if he's
Speaker 4: a full fit for this offensive or defensive scheme and
Speaker 4: how he plays. But you really would hope and wish
Speaker 4: that you had nine guys that could take up minutes
Speaker 4: so you can get some of those breaks where you're
Speaker 4: not getting beat up day in day out.
Speaker 6: I think another question is how important is the Big
Speaker 6: Twelve Tournament to a team like Arizona, Iowa State, a Baylor.
Speaker 15: Or Houston.
Speaker 6: How much can you really move up in seeding from
Speaker 6: the start of that tournament to the end of that tournament.
Speaker 6: I think if you look at Arizona, if they finish
Speaker 6: out the year second in the Big Twelve, they're probably
Speaker 6: gonna be that three or four seed. Even if they
Speaker 6: win the Big Twelve tournament, they're not moving into that
Speaker 6: number two or one seed. They're gonna stick in that
Speaker 6: three seed range. So how important will the Big Twelve
Speaker 6: Tournament be for this team?
Speaker 15: Really?
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, but what do you tell you guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't know. I mean that's going on.
Speaker 15: You can't give up.
Speaker 16: But maybe you play this guy a little less minutes
Speaker 16: to get.
Speaker 15: Him some ress.
Speaker 6: Maybe this guy plays a little bit more minutes. You
Speaker 6: can do some things in terms of getting guys ready
Speaker 6: for the NC Double Tournament that you went into during
Speaker 6: the regular season.
Speaker 3: It's funny and I like having you hear blake for
Speaker 3: a number of reasons. One of this year, coach and
Speaker 3: your player people say, well, we don't want to play
Speaker 3: them because you could get hurt. This is what they've
Speaker 3: been doing all their lives. Either you get hurt or
Speaker 3: you don't get hurt. You know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 3: when you're going to guess what happens get.
Speaker 4: You know what, every time I try to not play
Speaker 4: a guy or put him in a position where he
Speaker 4: wasn't gonna get hurt, he got hurt. And like badly,
Speaker 4: we lost guys for a full season because we were
Speaker 4: the guest. Yeah, your second guest the whole time. So
Speaker 4: you lose and you lose a little bit of that
Speaker 4: clubhouse respect. I did this and just to we're speaking
Speaker 4: to this point, I one of my Sweden junior national teams.
Speaker 4: We went into it knowing that we were going to
Speaker 4: move on, no matter what right we had.
Speaker 3: We had moved on.
Speaker 4: But we were playing France and the semi championship game
Speaker 4: where it was I think a semi championship game, and uh,
Speaker 4: we took a different route, like you guys are talking
Speaker 4: and started different guys and it changed our clubhouse the
Speaker 4: mentality because we had taken we had taken a mentality
Speaker 4: of f you, like we were going to go shove
Speaker 4: it down your throat and we're not going to stop.
Speaker 4: And I got coaches got in my face because it
Speaker 4: was European coaches. They didn't know what we were doing.
Speaker 4: And I said, hey, if I can beat you by
Speaker 4: ten in the fifth inning, I'm saving arms, right, So
Speaker 4: I'm going to beat you by ten by the fifth inning.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna save my arm. And we took a different
Speaker 4: approach and the semi championship game and we lost our
Speaker 4: championship game.
Speaker 2: Ye yeah, no, I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 3: So let's as sumer second, he does that which I
Speaker 3: don't think he will do, kind of pull pull pull
Speaker 3: therings a little.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: The chemistry on this team. I don't really know. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you, Troy, does anybody, because we're not
Speaker 3: with them a lot. We'll find out eventually. But I
Speaker 3: think it's okay, it's pretty good.
Speaker 15: I think it's grown from the start of the year.
Speaker 6: I think during that four and five stretch, it wasn't
Speaker 6: working with the guards.
Speaker 16: I didn't think that the cohesion was.
Speaker 6: Working out there. The offensive rhythm wasn't working. But as
Speaker 6: they got familiar with one another, and I know they
Speaker 6: played basketball together before, but they weren't in the starting
Speaker 6: lineup together before, so I think not familiar with each other.
Speaker 15: He saw that developed. He saw the.
Speaker 6: Classic Tommy Lloyd high assist, low turnover games start to
Speaker 6: pile up, and the offense found its rhythm throughout the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll give you that. I agree with you.
Speaker 3: Can I ask you guys a question though, because we
Speaker 3: I don't know if it was last week, because we
Speaker 3: before we started talking about m vps on this team, right,
Speaker 3: and so you look at the b YU b YU game, who,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, who was the only player for you
Speaker 3: guys that didn't show up for you guys, Arizona for
Speaker 3: sorry again, I apologize for being a fan for the
Speaker 3: University of Arizona. Who who do you think was the
Speaker 3: only player that didn't truly show up for that game?
Speaker 2: Who didn't Townsend? Yah, but he was not very In
Speaker 2: the conversation of m v P, I think too.
Speaker 6: I think so Townsend is winded, but we're not talking
Speaker 6: about him. I'd say Jaden Bradley, which is my concern,
Speaker 6: my concern about him being worn down. His numbers have
Speaker 6: him bet as what they were the last couper.
Speaker 2: I would have to go back to.
Speaker 6: That around eleven, around eleven twelve, game of fives, one turnover, okay,
Speaker 6: hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, go ahead.
Speaker 17: And all first b y U eight points four for
Speaker 17: nine oh of two from three with three turnovers.
Speaker 3: Okay, what assists were five? So five to two okay,
Speaker 3: not not a broad of the game overall. But he
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, but I think.
Speaker 2: We're I mean, TROYA. I hope you agree.
Speaker 4: The eye contest or the the eye test right during
Speaker 4: that game that was not Bradley like. That was a difference.
Speaker 4: He wasn't attacking. I thought defensively, he wasn't a stopper
Speaker 4: at all. And Troy, you're to your point, I think
Speaker 4: you do wear it down, you might need to find
Speaker 4: especially when you get in the term, you're gonna have
Speaker 4: to find some minutes for Martin.
Speaker 3: And that's what we were talking about those it's a
Speaker 3: guntlet of the schedule coming the rest of the way,
Speaker 3: and then you need.
Speaker 4: A two point guard system, a true two point guard
Speaker 4: system in the Big twelve. Sorry, I didn't mean to
Speaker 4: cut you out.
Speaker 15: No, yeah, you know.
Speaker 6: I think the problem with that is and I might
Speaker 6: get a little flake for this, but I don't know
Speaker 6: if you can give Martinez.
Speaker 15: That type of those.
Speaker 16: Type of team minutes.
Speaker 15: I don't know if he's ready for that.
Speaker 6: And I think that's the hesitation with Tommy Lloyd and
Speaker 6: his staff is yes, he's developing, but is he ready
Speaker 6: for MCA a Big twelve basketball?
Speaker 15: And to me the answer is no.
Speaker 3: Guess why, it's not November, it's not December, January, March.
Speaker 3: When you got to get you guys going.
Speaker 4: You saw him when he when Tommy put him against
Speaker 4: I think the one that stands out for me is
Speaker 4: UCF Like there they were a really first, real physical
Speaker 4: team and when Conrad got pushed around a little bit,
Speaker 4: he was out right. I think maybe b why use
Speaker 4: a different A little bit different. They're not a truly
Speaker 4: physical guard play team, but it's very clever.
Speaker 3: Again, So so to both of you real quick, because
Speaker 3: I asked this Jay on Friday. Uh, who is the
Speaker 3: X factor? I already said mine, So I'll say that
Speaker 3: to mine after you guys say yours because I already
Speaker 3: said it. Who's your X factor of Troy for the
Speaker 3: season for the rest of the way.
Speaker 6: Yeah, kJ Lewis Again, I think kJ is the best defensive.
Speaker 15: Player in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 6: He had a horrible game against the BYU and that
Speaker 6: wasn't a kJ Lewis game. But when you want to
Speaker 6: stop somebody, especially an individual opponent on a team, it's
Speaker 6: kJ Lewis time, and he locks in, creates the steal,
Speaker 6: gets a lock, gets that energy going. It isn't always pretty,
Speaker 6: but I think he's by far the best defensive player
Speaker 6: on the team.
Speaker 4: I would say, Brian. I mean, I'm not disagreeing with
Speaker 4: Roy and that's what Brian. That's a good one because
Speaker 4: give me the reasons. I think he does so much
Speaker 4: when he's on the floor, and if he's in a
Speaker 4: confident mode and mental state, he can take over a game.
Speaker 4: At times, especially, I've seen it when we have lost
Speaker 4: our offensive rhythm, we just take it over and take
Speaker 4: it over. And defensively he's our he's arguably our sex
Speaker 4: second best, second best rebounder.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so let me tell you, and you guys might
Speaker 3: levet this, but I'm very confident in saying this. This
Speaker 3: is even before the b Yu game. I think Delorso
Speaker 3: if he can comes on and he had a very
Speaker 3: good game against Bayu, he fit right in right because
Speaker 3: no one's nothing's expected of him. But if he comes
Speaker 3: up with twelve points and a little of this and
Speaker 3: a little of that, okay, because you know what you're
Speaker 3: gonna get from Caleb. You don't know what you're gonna
Speaker 3: get from Caleb. You know what you can get from
Speaker 3: the other guy's either is gonna be good or not.
Speaker 3: And Delorso if he comes on, if he I hate that,
Speaker 3: we're if because if I win the lottery, I'm out
Speaker 3: of here, you know.
Speaker 5: If.
Speaker 3: But if Dolorso can do some of the things that
Speaker 3: he's capable of. In fact, you saw the clip on
Speaker 3: Delriso from Tommy Today, Right, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3: Can you make him do this? And he says Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell me three threes. You know, you just
Speaker 3: need to play better and be more confident with his
Speaker 3: shot because that's what he's doing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he can create his own shot at times too.
Speaker 4: You forget he's six six.
Speaker 3: And he and he's got a trigger.
Speaker 2: He's got trigger.
Speaker 4: I do think another piece too is how long can
Speaker 4: a walk in and Vistar stay on the floor together? Right,
Speaker 4: because they they're able to feed each other. They're a
Speaker 4: little bit like Ballo and Tubella's in the past, not
Speaker 4: and nearly at that level. But when you have a
Speaker 4: four and five that are able to find each other
Speaker 4: and we can score in the post, we score well
Speaker 4: in the post, it gives you that option.
Speaker 3: Gives you an option, right.
Speaker 4: The problem is when you have to have one of
Speaker 4: those guard a guard in a four spot, Yeah, you lose,
Speaker 4: You lose a little action there.
Speaker 6: Well, I think that's the brilliance to guard Brian And
Speaker 6: kind of going back to that, I think.
Speaker 15: Carter and kJ there.
Speaker 16: Is something special because.
Speaker 6: You could put Kate Carter at that four and all
Speaker 6: of a sudden, Carter can guard a small four.
Speaker 15: You can guard guard out there, and.
Speaker 6: You can get smaller and have Henry Vassar or Tobya
Speaker 6: walking out the five position.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you, this is maybe a dumb question, Troy.
Speaker 3: I know you're there every now and again. I'm there
Speaker 3: every now and again too, not as often as that,
Speaker 3: Like you, has your perception of Tommy changed at all
Speaker 3: in the last oh this season.
Speaker 6: I think you've seen a little bit more of a
Speaker 6: fiery edge than Tommy right than in past seasons.
Speaker 16: Maybe that's with the.
Speaker 6: Expectations of making it past a sweet sixteen and knowing
Speaker 6: that the fan base is kind of getting tired of
Speaker 6: losing and a sweet succeeeds and when.
Speaker 16: The expectations previously were.
Speaker 6: A lead a final four and kind of getting back
Speaker 6: to what Arizona basketball has been in in the past,
Speaker 6: and it hasn't been that way in a while.
Speaker 16: But I think it's a little grown frustration from that.
Speaker 6: And you're in a conference and I think you've seen
Speaker 6: there was play more physical, and with more physicality comes.
Speaker 16: Hiring us, and I think that that starts from off
Speaker 16: on everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I think that I feel the same way.
Speaker 3: He's become not so much defensive with the responses, but
Speaker 3: more aggressive with the responses. Yeah, I can understand his
Speaker 3: mindset there.
Speaker 4: Tell me, I mean from a coaching standpoint, you're you
Speaker 4: feel that pressure from the outside, right from the fan base.
Speaker 4: No matter what you do, it's not going to be
Speaker 4: good enough.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: You come in the first three years, you tie the
Speaker 4: most wins with the fastest one hundred wins with your
Speaker 4: predecessor or I mean at Gonzaga, mark few. And then
Speaker 4: you feel this pressure that you're not doing enough, and
Speaker 4: you're like, I'm winning, I'm winning league championship, I'm bringing
Speaker 4: you championship five percent. Like yes, I can't what else?
Speaker 4: Oh you want me to get to the lead, Like
Speaker 4: that's that easy? And you start feeling this and now
Speaker 4: you get in choice. Right, you get into an aggressive conference.
Speaker 4: You get into aggressive conference, and now not only are
Speaker 4: you feeling that pressure, but now you're taking on the
Speaker 4: same personality as a conference.
Speaker 3: They didn't make this an analogy real quick for both you. So,
Speaker 3: so Arizona beats Duke last year, right in the first
Speaker 3: few games. What happens The expectations for that team gets elevated,
Speaker 3: probably unrealistically blah blah blah, and they play and they
Speaker 3: don't do so well. But everybody has that oh, they're
Speaker 3: capable of doing this. I think a lot of people
Speaker 3: out there in the real world think, oh, they they're
Speaker 3: so talented, but they can't put it. Well, that's every team, right,
Speaker 3: it's every team, especially with Arizona fans. Yeah, and here
Speaker 3: we are. They they won eleven and eleven and one,
Speaker 3: twelve and two whatever it was. Oh, they're back and
Speaker 3: they're really good. And then they run into this. Oh
Speaker 3: what the hell's going on? You know, what the hell
Speaker 3: it's it's crazy, it's it's just crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're losing in the last thirty seconds of the
Speaker 4: game and your whole experience good team to good team.
Speaker 2: Sorry Troy gohey, oh.
Speaker 15: No you're good.
Speaker 6: No, I've noticed it from Arizona fans the last couple
Speaker 6: of years is every loss is life or death.
Speaker 15: Every loss is man.
Speaker 16: This coach can't coach. This coach is terrible.
Speaker 15: Tailor love camp.
Speaker 16: Shoot, he's not good.
Speaker 15: I don't know why they have him on the team.
Speaker 15: What are what are we doing?
Speaker 16: We turn over the ball too much.
Speaker 15: It's like the guys, that's one game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it loss to be at the Buzzerah, Like they
Speaker 6: swore ninety five points. If you would have said they
Speaker 6: swore ninety five points. You can't be complaining.
Speaker 15: About the pompense.
Speaker 6: They should have played better defense. Yeah, but lonsins are
Speaker 6: going to happen. And they start off four and five,
Speaker 6: and at four and five there's a lot of u
Speaker 6: of a fans wondering is Tommy Lloyd really the right
Speaker 6: guy for the job.
Speaker 16: Who's going to be the best coach?
Speaker 15: With the conversation at that point, Yeah, and now you're
Speaker 15: at this point.
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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball with Steve Ravera on
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Speaker 2: I'm Steve Rivera. Your like that, Yeah, that's what people
Speaker 2: tell me.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you something because you just said something
Speaker 3: to me that kind of flattered me.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna ask you something more.
Speaker 3: You listen when you're not on and before you ever
Speaker 3: we ever met, you listened to the show all the time.
Speaker 2: What do you think of the show? Will be entertaining?
Speaker 2: Do and know? I too negative?
Speaker 4: No, I mean you're I mean there's a reason why
Speaker 4: somebody with my personality wanted to listen to the show
Speaker 4: every day. I mean, yeah, it worked out into my
Speaker 4: time frame because I was always driving the field at
Speaker 4: the same time. But it was something that kept me
Speaker 4: back because I think you change up even when you
Speaker 4: guys are talking about the same subject from a day
Speaker 4: to day standpoint, like you have a basketball now we're
Speaker 4: in the season, or you a football during good season.
Speaker 4: There's always a different take on the conversation. You're able
Speaker 4: to mix in, Like we talked about the last week,
Speaker 4: you know about the best Mexican food restaurant, like and
Speaker 4: there's no way you asked me point point, There's no
Speaker 4: way I can name one. But I try to name
Speaker 4: a couple. But it's just an it's an added take.
Speaker 4: It's a difference to a fresh I don't want to
Speaker 4: hear the same mundane over and over again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so at least we're trying to be entertaining
Speaker 3: and maybe final a little. I know, Jay and I
Speaker 3: did a little uh with the blue blood stuff.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 3: I was reading I was reading a story on Indiana,
Speaker 3: and I guess, did you see Decas? I guess he's
Speaker 3: been on Indiana University for a long time and the
Speaker 3: blue bloods blah blah blah. And I think they're legitimate
Speaker 3: blue bloods and they were there forever for a long time,
Speaker 3: a long time ago, Bobby Night stuff. They haven't been
Speaker 3: there in a long time there was one hasn't been
Speaker 3: there a long time, and they talked about the banners
Speaker 3: being dusty and people still living in the past. Do
Speaker 3: you think that's the case here? You're in the house too,
Speaker 3: I know. And this is hard because I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: to separate. And I am a fan. I mean, I've
Speaker 3: been a diehard fan since I was literally since I
Speaker 3: was like eight years old, right or younger. I think
Speaker 3: it's different. I've never I haven't.
Speaker 4: I didn't live through that era at Indiana basketball and
Speaker 4: maybe the tail end of it a little bit. And
Speaker 4: they're still in the same conversation. It's like Nebraska football, yeah, right,
Speaker 4: Like actually that was that was the compare. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: was the compare. You've a'sed not in that conversa. You've
Speaker 4: as better than that. I mean, you've gives us every
Speaker 4: single year. We've had way more up years than we've
Speaker 4: had down years. And that's not talking about March madness.
Speaker 4: That's talking about seasonal overall. Right, there's been excitement around
Speaker 4: the program. We've we've pulled in. It's hard to maintain
Speaker 4: that same approach when you lose a Hall of Fame
Speaker 4: coach like Ludelsen and you're able to pick up a
Speaker 4: guy like Sean Miller instead of who are we trying
Speaker 4: to get Tim Floyd? Right, I mean saying goodness, I mean,
Speaker 4: no knock on Tim Floyd, but thank goodness we got
Speaker 4: Jean Miller. And then now you're moving into Tommy Lloyd,
Speaker 4: which Tommy Lloyd was a complete unknown outside of from
Speaker 4: a head coaching standpoint, maybe arguably the greatest assistant coach
Speaker 4: in the country. But you're looking at what he's doing
Speaker 4: with this program and it's it's I just I don't
Speaker 4: know if I would say we're a true blue blood
Speaker 4: a good program, Oh, very good. We're more purple than
Speaker 4: we are red when it comes to that.
Speaker 3: Well, it's funny because the Houston Reporter talked about and
Speaker 3: he said blue blood, and Jake gives me that I
Speaker 3: told you anything.
Speaker 2: Just because you say it doesn't mean it's true.
Speaker 3: And then he says, Okay, maybe a lighter shade of blue.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think the national perception is that we're
Speaker 4: always overrated because we don't live up to what we're
Speaker 4: supposed to do in March, which that's very refreshing from you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean it's true. And what's your argument,
Speaker 3: you're right, you're right. What's your argument like, oh yeah, well.
Speaker 4: You're like, okay, well sorry, we beat up on Pack
Speaker 4: twelve teams, right exactly, So when you look at the
Speaker 4: Big twelve this year, I'm like, I mean to do
Speaker 4: it in a different way then we've done it. Since
Speaker 4: I can remember the program, you know, going to see games.
Speaker 4: It's refreshing to me.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you guys want to call, please do five
Speaker 3: to two oh four, one, six, seventy four forty if
Speaker 3: you guys believe what we're saying or not believe. But
Speaker 3: I think that perspective is spot on. I mean, what's
Speaker 3: your argument, Well, we've been to the well, you haven't
Speaker 3: been to the final four a long time, you haven't
Speaker 3: won a title but one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's true. It's a it's a great art.
Speaker 4: You can't be a true blue blood I what let
Speaker 4: me ask you guys this, You of a sports, right
Speaker 4: and not Olympic sports, because I don't know enough about those,
Speaker 4: and that's that's unfair, and you guys probably know more
Speaker 4: than I do. But what you of a sports are
Speaker 4: true blue blood sports that you go know that that
Speaker 4: program deserves to be. There's only two. In my mind,
Speaker 4: there's two in what are they? Softball and swimming? I
Speaker 4: think you got to throw baseball in there. Okay, I
Speaker 4: mean how do you not? Yeah, it's four national championships.
Speaker 4: Yeah okay, I mean think about the Major League baseballlayers
Speaker 4: they put out. Okay, you didn't have swimming on that list,
Speaker 4: did you?
Speaker 2: I didn't. But again I can't swim. So you're on
Speaker 2: the air nine of the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 3: Hey, I was thinking about you. I needed you to
Speaker 3: call right on cue. What are you talking about? What
Speaker 3: do you want to talk about?
Speaker 19: Well, I want to agree with your partner. There at
Speaker 19: least the Cats, and this is what I was trying
Speaker 19: to kind of say yesterday. At least they give you
Speaker 19: something to root for in March where you're not out
Speaker 19: of it in January, right, And that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 19: So, And you know sometimes, I know you say about
Speaker 19: the fans and stuff, but you know, coming from LA
Speaker 19: it's so cool. I've been here three years now, and
Speaker 19: you know everybody has the A on their car window.
Speaker 19: You go in a bar and you're talking about you
Speaker 19: of a softball or tennis or something, and it's it's
Speaker 19: kind of refreshing. We're being in La. Nobody went to
Speaker 19: None of my buddies they were all UCLA fans, but
Speaker 19: they ever went to one single game.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, uh, vict I mean to that point,
Speaker 4: like I didn't go to the uv right, and I'm
Speaker 4: a Homer. Still I come back and I root for
Speaker 4: mostly all the uv A sports. My wife went to
Speaker 4: as U, but still she's a diehard UFA basketball fan.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's a community, it's a it's a it's
Speaker 4: a way of living that we can all come together with.
Speaker 4: And I think that separates to some for a lot
Speaker 4: of the other big cities. But that's a great point, Vic.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I and I truly believe like I said, and
Speaker 19: I'm a Dodger fan and everybody, Hey, they didn't win
Speaker 19: for twenty.
Speaker 16: Some years, thirty three and but yet.
Speaker 19: You know what, you can root for them at least
Speaker 19: in October. You're not you're not out of it in
Speaker 19: thirty eight Ril or whatever.
Speaker 2: You're swimming and riches right now.
Speaker 3: So I don't want to talk about the Dodgers, you guys,
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 19: So, but it wasn't that way for a long time.
Speaker 2: Though, let me evict before you go.
Speaker 3: Uh, Arizona can know. Uh, let's see what's the worst
Speaker 3: thing can go this year for how far that you
Speaker 3: won't be disappointed.
Speaker 19: I'm honestly rooting Sweet sixteen. And then if they can't,
Speaker 19: you know how is Steve? You said it a million times?
Speaker 19: Then you catch a break, you hit a couple of shots,
Speaker 19: Caleb gets hot or or or Jayden drives of the hoop,
Speaker 19: and uh, you know, you get to the Elite eight
Speaker 19: if you're really really lucky. Yeah, really really lucky. And
Speaker 19: I want to be on that lucky side. And I mean,
Speaker 19: look at Sean. Those teams went to the late Elite
Speaker 19: eight and we missed it by what two points three points?
Speaker 19: And so and you you just got to have that.
Speaker 19: And that's what I was trying to tell you yesterday
Speaker 19: with Jay's buddies, they you have to play good because
Speaker 19: with this thing, it's one and done. And those turnovers
Speaker 19: make you cringe and stuff. And you know, if you
Speaker 19: have one of those turnover games, you're gone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that turnover game that happens yesterday or the
Speaker 3: day before has no correlation to March.
Speaker 2: It's how you do that day.
Speaker 19: Too, I agree with you because it's I that's one
Speaker 19: thing I haven't learned from you. It's how you play
Speaker 19: that day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, thanks vic, Hey, VIXI the WBC, the World
Speaker 3: Baseball Classic.
Speaker 19: I'll be there. I'll be there for sure.
Speaker 2: Okay, we thank you, man.
Speaker 4: Uh So to that point before we move on, like
Speaker 4: we talked about the last three years in March, there's
Speaker 4: only one game that I look at out of the
Speaker 4: three losses that we had that I go, we were
Speaker 4: we should have won that game. No, no, again, we
Speaker 4: from my standpoint, they were so well coached. Prince Princeton
Speaker 4: was so well coached, and they were so well organized
Speaker 4: when they came into that game. I think Clemson. Clemson's
Speaker 4: a game that I think. You look at that game
Speaker 4: and we beat ourselves so many times. And I mean
Speaker 4: Bradley had a coming out party too, but I mean
Speaker 4: I think we beat ourselves so many times. The Houston game,
Speaker 4: Houston was a better team than they should never have
Speaker 4: been a five season anyway.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but you gotta beat those teams matter, and
Speaker 3: Houston's Houston's good, They've been good for a while. I
Speaker 3: think Arizona's in a little bubble. The fans and what
Speaker 3: they see, what they read, and what they tellent. The
Speaker 3: teams so talented, why can't they there's other teams. You're
Speaker 3: not playing tennis, They're not. This is not just you
Speaker 3: against me. It's a bunch of guys against a bunch
Speaker 3: of guys who are pretty damn good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're looking at the talent at that level is
Speaker 4: I mean, you're gonna have a couple and every time,
Speaker 4: but you're looking at any person can beat the person
Speaker 4: across the court from you.
Speaker 3: And we've talked about this and I'm glad you noticed
Speaker 3: it is if you play down or you play up,
Speaker 3: and every team wants to beat the crap out of
Speaker 3: Arizona because what they think they're Arizona.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you look at the you're walking into
Speaker 4: Michale and you're looking around, you're like, okay, like this
Speaker 4: is a place. Yeah you know like b yu no knock.
Speaker 4: I mean that was That stadium is incredibly large and
Speaker 4: it's very loud. But you don't walk into that stadium.
Speaker 4: You look around and you go, okay, there's some history
Speaker 4: here and that's the problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you think, oh oh we got this. Yeah, one
Speaker 2: hundred guys, that's what they made.
Speaker 3: I thought Arizona played one of its better games there
Speaker 3: when they got that win. I thought both games should
Speaker 3: have been flopped. Yeah, they lose that game like this
Speaker 3: over the went at home and you went at home
Speaker 3: with that game. Yeah, it wasn't Listen, I haven't said
Speaker 3: he had many chance. It was a miserable call. It
Speaker 3: was an awful no. No, it was a terrible And
Speaker 3: the previous one with the cabub love driving, I get horrible.
Speaker 2: We gotta we gotta go, all right,