WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.560 --> 00:00:04.639 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on 2 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:09.279 Fox Sports fourteen fifth Day, powered by Nova Insurance Services. 3 00:00:09.599 --> 00:00:11.839 In sure your most prized possessions. 4 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:15.439 But good afternoon, everybody. 5 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:17.440 Welcome to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports 6 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:21.039 fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me today is 7 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:26.000 mister Blake Eager from the Southern Arizona Sports Tourism and 8 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:28.920 Film Authority. Are those gonna beat? Those look like they 9 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:30.320 were going to defeat you right there? 10 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:31.879 I mean I always put them on backwards, but I 11 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:33.880 was looking for a countdown, but it didn't even give me, 12 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:36.640 like a quiet countdown. I need a five, a four, 13 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:37.840 and then send it off. 14 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:41.039 Man, it's Tuesday. We don't we don't need no steaking countdown. 15 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:42.240 Are you a rookie year or what? 16 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:42.560 No? 17 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:45.840 I gotta figure you should be a KG veteran by now. Yeah. 18 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:48.799 I'm outside just you know, complaining about everything anyway. So 19 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:51.119 we're good, are you well? You're up against it man 20 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:52.679 working for the WBC. 21 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:55.280 Yeah, we're good. They're in most of them or some 22 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:56.920 of them are in town. Some of the players of 23 00:00:57.079 --> 00:00:57.560 the teams. 24 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:00.719 Germany's in town right now, and then some of the 25 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:03.359 front office from Major League Baseball and World Baseball Classic. 26 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:04.120 I just left there. 27 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:07.840 Nice, nice, and thank you for the weather. Yeah for now. 28 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:10.599 Do you see what's Monday and Tuesday. It's supposed to 29 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:13.879 be cold, so like seventy two. Yeah, we'll be fine, 30 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:18.560 we'll be fine. Yeah to audio, I gotta say that 31 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:21.959 the field looks absolutely amazing, like we've had a big 32 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:23.519 league club here for the last ten years. 33 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:25.959 It is so nicely, So tell me. They're gonna play 34 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:27.200 at TEP right, is that what. 35 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:27.480 They call it? 36 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:31.840 Ke veterans stage veterans, so veterans. Then they're going to 37 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:34.040 use the other parks to practice or get ready or what. 38 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:37.040 Now they've got an all day workout on Saturday. All 39 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:40.359 the teams have a workout Saturday, and then games start Sunday, 40 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:43.159 so they don't really don't turnaround, Yeah, because most of 41 00:01:43.159 --> 00:01:45.680 the players are coming in from spring training and so 42 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:47.920 they're they're already going at it. Germany came early to 43 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:51.200 do some scrimmages. So who did Germany? Yeah, So they've 44 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:54.519 been playing some of our local teams. Agarsota put together 45 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:55.480 a two on all star team. 46 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:58.040 That was nice. Yeah, they've they've done really really. 47 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:00.319 Good, Like, tell me like, what do you mean they 48 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:02.000 took you guys that were either just out of pro 49 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:04.359 ball or just out of college and put them together 50 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.040 on a roster and played Germany twice and in Irish 51 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:10.120 this other Irish Wolfhounds, which is a traveling independent team. 52 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:12.520 Oh nice, nice, Okay, cool, No, you guys, you get 53 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:13.360 this thing going. 54 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:15.719 Yeah, I mean for the most so far, so good. 55 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:17.240 It sounds like it right now, but just ask me 56 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:17.879 in twenty minutes. 57 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:19.919 Twenty minutes when you get a call and says, help 58 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:22.360 me here, get Edgar on the phone, let him do it. 59 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:23.240 Yeah. 60 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:26.120 Yeah, well, no, good for you guys and your team 61 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:28.879 minus five days, I think, yes, Sunday Sunday. 62 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:31.240 Yeah, I got to figure out the schedule. 63 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:34.319 Eleven am and six pm Sunday Monday Tuesday, by the gap, 64 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:36.319 by the big gap between games. 65 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:38.120 Yeah, you've got to turn the field over. Okay. 66 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:40.840 Yeah, So I mean you every ticket is for one 67 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:42.439 game and all the games, or you can buy a 68 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:46.560 group ticket are all the games like MLB tims and 69 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:49.039 all that stuff, so you'll have pitch clocks and everything, 70 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:50.960 just like Major League Baseball. What they I don't believe 71 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:52.719 and don't quote me on this, probably shouldn't bring it up. 72 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:55.680 I don't think they're they're using the robots right now. Okay, 73 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:58.680 what do you think about that? You know, I had 74 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:01.599 this conversation earlier. From a pure standpoint, I don't love it. 75 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:04.479 I think from a hitterer standpoint right now, with how 76 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:06.560 hard pitchers are throwing, I think it helps them a 77 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:09.319 little bit more helps the pictures helps the hitters hitters, right, 78 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:11.280 So you you you actually know your zone and you 79 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:14.080 can stay in that zone, like you know, like Tito 80 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:16.120 when I've talked to Tito in the past, quite a 81 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:18.719 bitter chip hill. Like they used to plan, pre plan, 82 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:22.159 game plan around the umpires, so whoevers they're behind, whoever 83 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:24.680 is behind the dish that day on plate. They would 84 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:27.360 they would plan how to attack hitters from a pitching standpoint, 85 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:29.879 knowing that you might get six inches off the plate 86 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:30.599 one way or another. 87 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:34.360 Wow, that makes sense. Yeah, with all the analytics and 88 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:35.599 the it's crazy. 89 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:36.719 We're all human. We're all human. 90 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:40.280 We have tendencies, right, Yeah, spin rate, you know X 91 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:43.240 of velocity, do that with you. I was still little, 92 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:45.680 I was still a little antiquated at that point. Yeah, No, 93 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:48.080 because you're you're twenty how many years out of the game. 94 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:50.919 Ten twelve, O nine was the last year for me, 95 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:53.479 so sixteen. Yeah, we don't need to say the actual 96 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:56.439 number on their Yeah, okay, well like to carry the five. 97 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:58.240 If you asked me to do math, then I'm just 98 00:03:58.240 --> 00:03:59.719 going to say a couple of years ago. No math. 99 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:02.240 Okay, that's fine. Hey, welcome to the show. We got 100 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:05.800 my guy here, Kobe handling the machine. Here, I'm here, 101 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:10.879 Bike's here. Who's what's your name? So we're gonna have 102 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:16.680 Troy Hanson, Troy Hanson, Troy Hutchinson here at three seventeen 103 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:20.240 talking more about what's tomorrow's game gonna look like, what 104 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:24.600 Saturday's game looked like. What Tommy said today, very stepfast. 105 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:26.959 I still believe it was a bad call, he says, 106 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:29.920 I'm gonna hold to it. He was disappointed in the 107 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:35.360 fans student section, per se, and that's where it came from. 108 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:39.879 And apologies came from Desiree as we said yesterday, And 109 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:42.319 I didn't know this at the time, the Zona Zoo 110 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:48.240 apologized to so good for them, Damn them for starting 111 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:51.800 this mess. And you can't put the toothpaste back in 112 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:55.040 the tube because it's it's already been said, yeah, but 113 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:56.560 I think the first step is acknowledgement. 114 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:56.839 Right. 115 00:04:56.959 --> 00:04:59.079 Sure, that's a big thing you're asking for young men, 116 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:03.199 young women, young people in general. You know, one thing 117 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:04.839 that we've always talked about was just trying to own 118 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:06.319 up to your mistakes. And once you can say that 119 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:08.199 I made a mistake, things become a lot easier. 120 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:09.759 Yeah. And there's a group a lot of mistakes. 121 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:10.279 I know. 122 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:12.199 Well, Kobe, you didn't go to the game, right, but 123 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:16.720 you surprised that happened? An't surprised a little bit because 124 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:19.680 the Zona Zoos section. They Yeah, there's a lot of 125 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:22.519 bad chance a lot of young kids, so define like 126 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:24.879 that can happen, right, Yeah, well you said yesterday he 127 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:28.639 was not surprised at all. It's happened before, maybe not 128 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:29.319 to that tone. 129 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:36.680 Are you surprised? Uh no, No, I'm disappointed. Again. Who 130 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:37.480 am I to say? Right? 131 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:41.040 Who am I to say? But but they they have 132 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:46.480 to know actions have consequences. Yeah, and whether here's my thing. 133 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:50.319 Pretty smart kids, pretty smart kids, they should no better. 134 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:53.399 One and two you have bigger concerns. You're gonna get 135 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:55.319 out in a couple of months. You need to find 136 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:56.720 a job. Don't be stupid. 137 00:05:57.120 --> 00:05:59.480 Yeah, but if you're asking, I mean, Kobe can answer 138 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:01.560 this better than Night can. But if you're asking twenty 139 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:02.920 if twenty year old Blake would have been in the 140 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:06.600 middle of that, I'm gonna say would have been, and 141 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:08.720 would be. I would have been disappointed with myself at 142 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:11.040 this page, and I'm still disappointed for the actions I 143 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:13.000 made at that age. But you have to make those 144 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:16.639 actions to learn from them. Yeah, but no, yeah, no, 145 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:19.639 you don't have to. Okay, it's an eight pm game 146 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:21.360 on a Saturday night. Do you think those kids were 147 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:23.600 coming straight from their dorm rooms. 148 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:27.279 I don't care how many drinks you've had. Don't be stupid, like, Okay, 149 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:31.759 I agree, they win the game. Guess what that doesn't happen? Yeah, yeah, 150 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:32.519 you're probably right. 151 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:33.920 Yeah. 152 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.079 And whether the b YU team or ASHU are you 153 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:40.879 EIG guys had to fight little tet ted there. Really, 154 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:43.120 it's not that big idea. You lost a name, move 155 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:45.480 on from it. I'm not involved, of course, I'm not 156 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:50.560 hated either way. You a fan, you're a fan of sports? Yeah, okay, 157 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:51.000 I'm not. 158 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:53.600 I'm not. I know we've talked so great. 159 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:53.759 Good. 160 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:56.319 You're a good fan. Do you get crazy when your 161 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:59.439 team loses, I get really depressed. Depressed, so what you 162 00:06:59.439 --> 00:06:59.839 you like? 163 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:00.439 Shut down? 164 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:02.480 You go see the therapist on Monday. If I have 165 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:04.360 a therapist, it would be great. Yeah, I'll take it. 166 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:06.480 If anybody's list there right now, that is a good therapist. 167 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:06.920 Let me know. 168 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:08.839 By the way, if you want to sponsor this show. 169 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:11.439 Yeah yeah, listen, two for one you get me and 170 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:12.879 you get a sponsorship on Steve show. 171 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:14.720 You can't get a better thing than that, right you 172 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:17.279 want saying it's how crazy would you have gotten? You 173 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:20.279 throw the stuff at the TV or you you rag, 174 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:22.240 you tweet, you call it a show. 175 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:25.480 Yeah, I mean we were you know, I can imagine 176 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:28.079 at those stages like the I remember losing in the 177 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:32.079 Elite eight to Yukon and we were at O'Malley's watching 178 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:34.920 the game. I mean we were, we were upset about it, 179 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:36.680 but when you were twenty six years old, this y Yeah, 180 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:39.920 but we weren't. We didn't go out and do anything crazy. No. No, 181 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:42.839 it's a wild response though, when you choose violence, whether 182 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:44.519 it's a win or loss. Yeah, yeah, I mean the 183 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:46.879 fact that they have to grease light poles so people 184 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:49.199 don't climb on them is still like it's crazy to me, 185 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:51.879 Like I would never want to climb on a lighthole, yeah, 186 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:54.879 especially greased, Yeah, maybe more so greecous. 187 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:57.560 That's all people get and it's not because they're happy 188 00:07:57.680 --> 00:07:57.959 or sad. 189 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:00.720 It's because they just want to be stupid. So I 190 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:03.839 mean the question is I mean, I guess it's more 191 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:06.120 of a statement. I mean, you're trying to look at 192 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:09.439 sports as an who's any viewership? 193 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:09.680 Right? 194 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:10.279 As a fan? 195 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:13.720 Yeah, and I take I take complete responsibility and ownership 196 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:17.319 of this. Uh, you're looking at as an outlet of 197 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:20.040 your personal life, right, So I don't get like on 198 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:21.600 the show we talked about it, I don't have to 199 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:23.879 concentrate on what's going on in my immediate life for 200 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:25.839 the next two hours. And I'm grateful for it, Steve, 201 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:27.920 and I'll never be able to thank you enough, especially 202 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:30.120 with what's going on. Like I'm very happy, and I'm 203 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.000 very I'm very short, but it is it allows me 204 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:35.440 to come on as a sports fan. It's the same thing, right, 205 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:38.519 You're you put so much stake into these teams because 206 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:41.440 it gives you an outlet. And so when something like 207 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:43.559 that happens, especially that U of a game where that 208 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:46.440 last call to my Still, I don't know how you 209 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:48.519 make that last call, right, I don't know how you 210 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:51.440 make it as as a referee, Like there's a I 211 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:53.840 think there's a breaking point. Now that game doesn't cost 212 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:56.879 us a season. It probably doesn't cost us. Yeah, I 213 00:08:57.039 --> 00:09:00.759 seed too much. But it is like you build up 214 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:02.240 to that week, so you don't know what's happening in 215 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:04.919 people's lives. And that's and that's to the extent that 216 00:09:04.919 --> 00:09:08.039 they're taking it out right and going a little overboard, 217 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:11.000 going overboard and you mix in alcohol and whatever else. 218 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:12.159 I mean, things are gonna happen. 219 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:14.440 Yeah, even when they didn't sell alcohol there, they were 220 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:17.559 kind of you know, yeah, kind of crazy. It is 221 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:20.759 what it's okay, we're gonna move on. So as Tommy said, 222 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:23.399 that's what the team has done. They're moving on and said, 223 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:27.679 you know, the only things I don't dis disregard or 224 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:32.039 regret is the comments that the students did. Uh. They 225 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:34.879 moved on. They had good practice yesterday and probably today 226 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:37.799 getting ready for Utah to come in circumstances are that 227 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:40.240 Utah coaches is no longer the coach, right, you got 228 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:42.799 to let go yesterday, So they're gonna have a different 229 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:46.519 beast to deal with here. Should be winnable, obviously. 230 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:49.240 Yeah, I think I think it's a real possibility going 231 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:50.600 to the stretch that you're three and one in the 232 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:51.639 last four games. 233 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:52.840 That's right. 234 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:53.960 I don't want to get I don't want to get 235 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:55.960 a headway in the last four games. So the two 236 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:58.159 and three yeah, yeah, See you've got Utah A s 237 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:00.480 U and then Iowa State and you've got Kansas. 238 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:03.080 Who are they beating? Who they beating? 239 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:05.919 I think you're beating Utah A s U. And I 240 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:09.200 think you're beating Kansas. Am I crazy in Kansas out? 241 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:10.399 Yeah? 242 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:13.159 But that's a whole that's okay. I won't I won't 243 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:15.960 fight with you. I think they're one of the I 244 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:18.960 mean and vulnerable. They're vulnerable. That's a much better way 245 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:19.879 of saying they're overrated. 246 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.039 Yeah, they're vulnerable. They're at home. 247 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:23.919 They're also gonna have to play out of their mind 248 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:27.639 to get a halfway decent seedy. Then a week later 249 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:29.360 or a few days later, I guess what's the big 250 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:29.960 twelve tournament? 251 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:33.519 You're so you're really you're we're fighting on for dear 252 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:35.039 life to be in that top four, right. 253 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:38.279 And then so is Kansas, you know, to just get 254 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:40.440 a good seed. I mean, this is not the Kansas 255 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:46.840 we know. No, it is just the Arizona you know. No, 256 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:49.480 but it's I mean we've had this conversation. It's a 257 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:52.679 different Arizona that I'm it's in a weird way. I'm 258 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:55.799 I'm happier with really, yeah, I mean, in what sense 259 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:57.840 our expectations do you have to know? 260 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:00.480 Uh? 261 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:03.159 Yeah, we'll see if he accept it, right, I gotta 262 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:04.960 I If you don't, I've got a diner's card that 263 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:05.759 you'll find over. 264 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:07.639 No. 265 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:10.639 I in the sense that, look, our expectations the last 266 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:13.399 three years were so high and rightfully so right, Yeah, 267 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:15.240 you're kind out of the Pac twelve. I just haven't 268 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.000 seen a team like this that just doesn't. They constantly 269 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:20.279 get punched in the face and they punch back. There's 270 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:23.240 there's grit in this team. Plus you see, Uh, there's 271 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:25.919 there's grit in this team. They understand. I think they 272 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:28.519 understand the task at hand. Now, they still to your 273 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:32.360 point and many varied points that you've made, I still 274 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:34.840 think they played down to teams attimes, and you play 275 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:37.600 different styles depending on the team. I just I like 276 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:39.679 this team more going into March than I have. 277 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:44.200 And primarily because And the funny thing is, before Saturday, 278 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:47.519 I was already had a couple of questions to Tommy says, uh, 279 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:50.600 would you believe or would you think that this is 280 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:53.360 the best defensive team he's had there he would have 281 00:11:53.399 --> 00:11:55.759 said probably, yes, they've been very good with it, blah 282 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:57.879 blah blah. And I said, aren't they the most physical 283 00:11:57.919 --> 00:11:58.480 team you've had? 284 00:11:58.519 --> 00:11:58.799 Also? 285 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:02.879 Yes, and the defend well on the perimeter. All those 286 00:12:02.919 --> 00:12:06.480 three went to the crapper that night that Saturday. It happens, 287 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:09.279 and and and exactly it happens. And I've always said 288 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:11.000 one of my philosophies, I should put it on the hat, 289 00:12:12.600 --> 00:12:14.440 it's how you play that day. Yeah, it's how you 290 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:16.440 play that day and against who you play. 291 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:18.159 If you would have told me we would have scored 292 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:21.759 nineties ninety six points, I'm like we would have controlled, 293 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:23.720 just like we did at their home right right. 294 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:25.360 You just caught b Yu. 295 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:27.639 I mean in a fault is on defense and some 296 00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:32.960 too many turnovers, easy turnovers. But for us to match them, 297 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.559 I mean, b Yu, they're good. B Yu can shoot. 298 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:37.200 They're a good, flat out shoot. Now that's going to 299 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:38.840 be a troublesome thing when they get in March, because 300 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:40.440 if they go cold, they're probably not true win. 301 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:43.399 But that's Arizona. The Zonaly gets hot, they get really hot. 302 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:45.679 They don't guess what happens. But we've shown we can 303 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:47.679 win games. If we play in the fifties, we can 304 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:49.000 win a game. If we're playing the nineties, we can 305 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:50.519 win a game. And that's what I think I mean 306 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:53.639 by this team's a little bit built differently, and they 307 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:57.480 are and they are. How many times as a former 308 00:12:57.519 --> 00:13:01.679 player and a coach, you go into to a game 309 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:05.879 and you're the favorite and you lose half everyone was this? 310 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:08.879 I mean, there's this team people don't understand. I think 311 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:12.360 in sports, just general public debt, the other team is 312 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:12.840 pretty good. 313 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:15.519 Yeah, oh they're not right. That doesn't mean anything. It 314 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:16.240 doesn't mean anything. 315 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:19.679 You've got against pictures that were lesser than you, better 316 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:22.600 than you, and outcomes probably totally not expected. 317 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:24.879 Yeah, I mean, I always said the mindset the guy 318 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:26.440 I was going against that day was never going to 319 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:28.879 be better than me. But in retrospect, most of those 320 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:31.200 guys had. Some of those guys had fifteen year careers 321 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:34.399 right and got them and you had and you had 322 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:36.159 to figure out a way. Yeah, I mean I knew 323 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:37.799 I could do I could do different things with the 324 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:39.840 ball by just scripting it. I mean, yeah, so you're 325 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:41.720 you're absolutely right. You look across and you look at 326 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:44.279 the lesser let's call it the lesser athlete. That lesser 327 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:48.559 athlete can win, especially when they understand how they know 328 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:50.240 how to play their game to the best ability. 329 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:53.240 Exactly, how would you explain the first round losses at 330 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:56.799 this program that I cover. Yeah, you're playing down to 331 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:58.759 an opponent. I mean you've said it over and over again, 332 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:01.080 and you look back on it. It's enough fault of 333 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:04.279 anybody but themselves for themselves. You're exactly right, and the 334 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:06.519 other team that wants to keep the crap out of you, and. 335 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:08.720 That there's some motivation there, right, I've I've used that 336 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:11.919 kind of motivation on the national without questioning. Yeah, I 337 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:16.200 probably I probably caused some by country problems for some 338 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:16.799 other countries. 339 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:19.000 No, but there's no better there's no better. 340 00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:23.360 Explanation or instruction that that those guys are good too. 341 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:25.480 They want to beat the crap out of you. I 342 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:27.360 don't care who you think you are. You're not who 343 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:28.879 you think you're not as good as you think you 344 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:30.399 are and not as bad either. 345 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:31.759 But you're not as good as you think you are. 346 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:33.480 And you also, as a coach, have to identify with 347 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:35.240 that engine and what's going to make that team move 348 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:38.320 and go and and sometimes it's a chip on the shoulder. 349 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:42.440 Maybe it's a recognition that you know, I don't want 350 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:44.240 to say it, to play dirty, but you have to play. 351 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:46.879 You have to play aggressive and physical. Yeah, we're already over. 352 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:48.799 We gotta go. Were you flashing me? Say let's go, 353 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:51.840 let's go. Okay, so we're gonna go. 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