Speaker 1: Steve Rivera.
Speaker 2: He's got his Eye on the Ball on Tucson Sports
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to the ball hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivera, He's Tim Bentley. Hello. We have Henry
Speaker 3: at the boards and we're gonna make a change here
Speaker 3: this springing news. I think that Jay will be here
Speaker 3: at the final segment, so we're gonna make our picks
Speaker 3: public the final week.
Speaker 4: Sounds like Jay realizes he's a half a game ahead once.
Speaker 4: Come on and talk about it.
Speaker 3: That's probably right, probably accurate. But Jay, he hates talking
Speaker 3: about himself.
Speaker 5: I hate that about him.
Speaker 3: Come on, yeah, go ahead, Henry.
Speaker 2: This is Eye on the Ball breaking news on Fox
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Speaker 6: The NFL Divisional Round is this weekend. On Saturday at
Speaker 6: two thirty the Texans at the Chiefs and at six
Speaker 6: the Commanders at the Lions. And on Sunday the Rams
Speaker 6: at the Eagles at one pm and the Raiments at
Speaker 6: the Bills at four thirty.
Speaker 3: Sunday game is gonna be huge Sunday night game. It's
Speaker 3: a Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 5: I think it's a Sunday after the afternoon ye, it's
Speaker 5: it's Sunday. It's Sunday night for the last game.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 6: Legendary broadcaster Dick Vitel will return to announcing on January
Speaker 6: twenty fifth for the Duke Wake Forest game after he
Speaker 6: announced he was cancer free last week.
Speaker 3: Of course, he's coming back for a Duke game.
Speaker 4: I of course, I think I think that's in his contract. Yeah,
Speaker 4: is that he has to come back for the just
Speaker 4: for the Duke game.
Speaker 3: No, No, but that's good. He's coming back for a while.
Speaker 6: Cancer survivors, you probably know what he's got.
Speaker 3: Or what he had or whatever was.
Speaker 5: I don't know, because you're you're in that. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: don't know. I do know that.
Speaker 4: You know, he's such a he's such a just a
Speaker 4: part of the fabric of college basketball last forty five
Speaker 4: years that you know anytime he makes a comeback, is
Speaker 4: is going to be good for the game.
Speaker 6: The Arizona Board of Regents approved on Thursday a contract
Speaker 6: extension for Arizona State head coach Kenny Dillingham through twenty
Speaker 6: twenty night, with a salary increased to five point eight
Speaker 6: millions starting this year.
Speaker 3: He was making like three ways. He was making four
Speaker 3: point one last so that's pretty good money for that
Speaker 3: twenty thirty two to thirty three year old. No five million.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I don't know what is the particulars are,
Speaker 4: but he's setting himself up for a nice run, you know.
Speaker 4: I mean, if he has a couple more years, you know,
Speaker 4: he puts himself in the line for the next gig
Speaker 4: on the way up.
Speaker 3: I don't think he I don't, that's the whole thing.
Speaker 3: I don't think he wants another.
Speaker 5: I've not talked to him. Have you talked to him?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: Who to the as you car?
Speaker 3: No? No, no, But all the word is from up there
Speaker 3: is that he's at his dream place. And everyone has
Speaker 3: the dream place, right until you don't have a dream place. Uh.
Speaker 3: But he went school there, he's he's there, he's from there,
Speaker 3: He's at where he wants to be. It's like we
Speaker 3: talk about leaving Tucson. We like it, right, And only
Speaker 3: if if Elie started calling, I ain't going, Well where
Speaker 3: am I going to live?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: I know, people go I you know he's going to
Speaker 4: go there because he's from he's from that city.
Speaker 5: I'm like, he doesn't want to go back home. I
Speaker 5: mean that's why he left. Yeah, so no, I like
Speaker 5: that hometown guy.
Speaker 3: Let's go yeah.
Speaker 6: South Carolina Women's basketball today made don Staley the highest
Speaker 6: paid women's hoops coach with an extension through the twenty
Speaker 6: twenty nine twenty thirty season.
Speaker 3: How would she make?
Speaker 6: The total valuabile over those years will be twenty five
Speaker 6: point two five million over how many years?
Speaker 3: Six? Like six four millions four million. That's about we
Speaker 3: could coach asu. Well, yeah, that's about right. I know
Speaker 3: the DM makes one when one a little maybe a
Speaker 3: little more than one. Okay.
Speaker 6: Jimmy Butler will return to the heat lineup tonight after
Speaker 6: a seven game suspension by the team for contract detrimental
Speaker 6: to the team.
Speaker 3: That's gotta change, right, eventually, he's got to change. The
Speaker 3: deadline is like in a week or so. When's the
Speaker 3: week trade deadline? I think two weeks? Two weeks? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: and he wants out. Yeah, how he plays seems like
Speaker 3: he's still gonna get traded.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah. And then the the INDI are the the Cavilers.
Speaker 5: They just got crushed, didn't they.
Speaker 6: That's under last I mean back who won the first one?
Speaker 6: The Calves won the first one, thunder one the second
Speaker 6: one because they're both pretty good, I mean, both best
Speaker 6: two teams. But yeah, they crushed them. The Cavaliers they
Speaker 6: will be by thirty much.
Speaker 3: So how would you feel about seeing the Cavaliers Thunder Finals?
Speaker 3: Doesn't doesn't strike fear in your TV watching June.
Speaker 5: TV station is gonna make a lot of money on
Speaker 5: that game. I'm telling you those sales guys at the.
Speaker 4: TV stations in Oklahoma City and Cleveland are ready to go.
Speaker 5: Yeah so much, you know, not so much.
Speaker 6: Arizona Basketball announced today that the Houston game on February
Speaker 6: fifteenth is sold out, but the other six remaining home
Speaker 6: game self tickets available to be sold.
Speaker 3: Which which which is unbelievable because arizonmost that hasn't been
Speaker 3: this meaning since the end of Sean. But people think, oh,
Speaker 3: you can get a ticket, you can get a.
Speaker 5: Ticket all the time. I look it up. You're going time. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean you really, you really can.
Speaker 6: So Iowa State neither right, there are six hundred tickets over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so there's a lot of Aloway. State's a
Speaker 3: bigger game than the state game. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I guess coming into the year they probably thought Houston
Speaker 6: would be. And then the last thing I got Arizona
Speaker 6: Gymnastics will have their home opener meet today at seven
Speaker 6: pm and the Kale against Air Force.
Speaker 3: Are they doing okay? They? I think they had their
Speaker 3: their season started right obviously. Yeah. I think they're better
Speaker 3: on the road. But they've done well. I think at
Speaker 3: least a couple of individuals. Yeah, I saw some individuals.
Speaker 3: And the softball and baseball and all the spring.
Speaker 5: Sports, and the spring sports is trying to roll around.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Track looks good. You know, We've talked about many times.
Speaker 4: But I think a lot of those athletes they should
Speaker 4: share in this money too.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, and they do. Just the percentages are unbelievably
Speaker 3: low though to me, did you see did you have
Speaker 3: last night that the women's team lost, uh the Kansas
Speaker 3: State Yeah, yeah, I think they lost by fifteen yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: So now they're struggling obviously, we say Wildcats. Yeah. They
Speaker 3: play Kansas later this week or next week on the road.
Speaker 6: I think, yeah, they play Kansas on Sunday, Sunday, Okay,
Speaker 6: so we'll see, we'll see what happens. Okay.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's all I got. What else? What else
Speaker 3: is going on in the world the sports? Where we
Speaker 3: take a couple of calls if you want five to zero, four, one, six,
Speaker 3: seventy four, forty. So we're not going to take many
Speaker 3: calls at the end of the show because Jay and
Speaker 3: I are going to give our picks. I got to
Speaker 3: catch him. He took the lead. Sadly, I've been sad
Speaker 3: about it for a week. You have no idea because
Speaker 3: this is not supposed to happen.
Speaker 4: What are you gonna do after after college football is
Speaker 4: done and after the NFL? What's what's your m what
Speaker 4: do you do after the with two big seasons?
Speaker 3: That's it. We just got it's it's vacation time. In fact,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to be on the show one Monday
Speaker 3: because I'm gonna just MLKDA. I'm not gonna come in.
Speaker 3: My boss is Steve.
Speaker 5: So what do you do in mid February when the
Speaker 5: big sports are done? College football?
Speaker 3: And I felt like, oh yeah, yeah, oh no, no.
Speaker 5: No, on this show title, this is it for me,
Speaker 5: the masters it, this is it for me.
Speaker 3: He does all that stuff I don't pay attention to. No, No,
Speaker 3: we just kind of it's called Monday, it's called Tuesday. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so you know, and he might be coming back for
Speaker 3: a day or two a day a week. We're trying
Speaker 3: to talk about it.
Speaker 5: You're still doing the casino. I listened to you right.
Speaker 3: Till one more one more time we have that Friday
Speaker 3: before Super Bowl, do it okay, and then that's it.
Speaker 3: That's it for this, for this, for this cycle, Yeah,
Speaker 3: until next year.
Speaker 5: I listened to the Bob Elliott conversation. I mean what
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 4: You know, we've been talking about loyalty and throwback and
Speaker 4: stuff like that. That what some some great stories there
Speaker 4: from but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right from his days. Yeah, and he could probably
Speaker 3: talk a bunch of bunch. I'm sure he wrote about
Speaker 3: a bunch in his book Basketball Book a few years back.
Speaker 3: And I've had a few of those in the book
Speaker 3: as well, because you know, Dave sitting right. I did
Speaker 3: traveling partner with him, and the times we almost got
Speaker 3: killed what he drove us to.
Speaker 5: I loved those. I couldn't get out of the car.
Speaker 5: I was like waiting, Yeah, what was gonna happen?
Speaker 3: Man? I was just I was in the back seat
Speaker 3: like please get me there, please please, And and he
Speaker 3: did obviously, you know, Portland, Arkansas, all these places I
Speaker 3: didn't want to drive, especially in the weather. Eight weather.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 4: I'm gladly and proudly from Kansas, where there is a
Speaker 4: lot of weather. The witch Tak, Kansas. I grew up
Speaker 4: there until I was ten, and I and I lived
Speaker 4: back there. I lived in ta Peka, Kansas, and then
Speaker 4: my whole family's from Kansas. My uncle played college football
Speaker 4: at k State in the Hall of Fame there, played
Speaker 4: with Lynn Dickey in the sixties and they were like
Speaker 4: one in thirty.
Speaker 5: Two for three years.
Speaker 4: Okay, And my uncle Danny Lancas is the last three
Speaker 4: year three sport letterman.
Speaker 3: What happened to you?
Speaker 5: I don't know, man, I you know, it gets lost.
Speaker 4: Danny probably would have lettered in track too, if they
Speaker 4: are basketball, if they would let him play. But he
Speaker 4: lettered in wrestling football, and he was tough dude and
Speaker 4: and and people were scared of him. Oh yeah, they
Speaker 4: were scared of him. And he was six two twenty two,
Speaker 4: so he was a big, huge guy. He was, you know,
Speaker 4: sixty years ago he was the biggest man they'd ever seen.
Speaker 4: And today he wouldn't get a sniff, you know, he
Speaker 4: would be well yeah.
Speaker 3: Well you though he would because he talented. Wrestlers, to
Speaker 3: me are the biggest toughest dudes out there.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so a lot of Kansas in my I'm
Speaker 4: I'm the first person in my family that went to
Speaker 4: college that did not go to k State.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was, Uh, I was on recruiting ship baseball
Speaker 3: a small school. See a recent playing sure, Oh and
Speaker 3: that went through a went through a weekend of visiting.
Speaker 5: And was like a harper or Salina, Kansas.
Speaker 3: It was the worst snow I've experienced, those drifts. I said,
Speaker 3: you couldn't pay me, you couldn't give me a scoll.
Speaker 4: Every year I lived in Kansas, it was every winter
Speaker 4: it was like, Oh, this is the this is the
Speaker 4: one hundred year store.
Speaker 5: And then the next year, oh, this is the one
Speaker 5: hundred years store. Like every year is one hundred year.
Speaker 5: I got to get out of here. I have not
Speaker 5: shoveled snow in twenty five years, and I do not
Speaker 5: miss it.
Speaker 3: I hate that stuff. I grew up in Santa Fe
Speaker 3: and I hated that stuff. It's nice for a weekend,
Speaker 3: but that's it, and then we'll come back for another year.
Speaker 3: That's funny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But when we lived in Tepka, was I was
Speaker 4: close to Kansas City, so I got to go to.
Speaker 5: Some some Royals games and some Chiefs games.
Speaker 4: And and I worked at a TV station and we
Speaker 4: had tickets to.
Speaker 5: KU basketball games.
Speaker 4: And I mean Allen field House is you know we
Speaker 4: talk about atmosphere.
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3: So I was just going to ask you did you
Speaker 3: when you went? Were you impressed with it? And then
Speaker 3: I'm going to be whatever.
Speaker 5: With Allen field House.
Speaker 4: I was more impressed with the traditions, yeah, that were there,
Speaker 4: and they didn't feel stale to me, and they didn't
Speaker 4: feel stale to the crowd. You know, the Rock Chuck Jayhawk,
Speaker 4: all those things, you know, and and I you know,
Speaker 4: we were talking about McHale and it it feels a
Speaker 4: little old and stale there, but you know, Allen field House,
Speaker 4: those fans.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So the best places I went to. I've been
Speaker 3: there like two or three times. It was okay, it
Speaker 3: was okay. Yeah, I maybe had my expectations were too high,
Speaker 3: but it was nice. Arizona, Rea, remember beat with Slim
Speaker 3: that was the Candygate game and came back after being
Speaker 3: down by fifteen or whatevers, and they didn't want the game.
Speaker 3: I know, Caron o'no, what took a team there got beat?
Speaker 3: So I've been there a few times covering the teams,
Speaker 3: so it wasn't even duke. Last year when I went,
Speaker 3: it was okay, it was it was okay.
Speaker 5: You know a lot of those places look better on TV.
Speaker 3: Yes, and that's why the people fans when they see
Speaker 3: them on TV, they want Arizona to have the skis
Speaker 3: on the sideline. Blah blah blah. It's just made for TV.
Speaker 3: It's not reality.
Speaker 5: It's a TV show.
Speaker 4: And for the first time I went to the old
Speaker 4: Cowboys Dallas at the stadium, you know, like.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, this.
Speaker 4: I know, and so it's you know, it's all it's
Speaker 4: it's a show we talk about.
Speaker 5: You know, it's an event.
Speaker 4: People want an event from the time that they buy
Speaker 4: a ticket to the time they get home.
Speaker 5: They want an experience.
Speaker 3: The best places I loved and I Matt Court is
Speaker 3: my favorite place in Oregon, a fantastic place. It felt
Speaker 3: like it was going to fall down, break down during
Speaker 3: a game because it was so old, so rickety, and
Speaker 3: then if anybody lit a match would burn down in
Speaker 3: a heartbeat. But Stanford, when Stanford had my Montgommy, there
Speaker 3: was always out there and the floor would bounce and
Speaker 3: it would go crazy. To me, that was ten times
Speaker 3: better than Duke's place because it was crazy good, crazy good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just a different time.
Speaker 4: You know, you'd have three four year kids playing, you know,
Speaker 4: you could you could really buy into them. I mean,
Speaker 4: I know it's cliche, and I know it's you know,
Speaker 4: we sound like old guys, but it's you know, there
Speaker 4: was there was something there.
Speaker 5: Things will change. I really believe that.
Speaker 4: You know, this twenty million dollars is getting infused to
Speaker 4: each each institution. Well, hopefully even things out so some
Speaker 4: kids will stay, they won't seek the payday, they won't
Speaker 4: they won't leave. They might commit to two or three
Speaker 4: years and then hopefully it gives us some stability.
Speaker 3: Right well, I think what it's going to do is
Speaker 3: going to affect the high school levels because now you
Speaker 3: have high school kids from their parents. Are you know
Speaker 3: a little Johnny, you got to go to college because
Speaker 3: you're going to make one hundred and eighty two hundred
Speaker 3: thousand dollars and you're going to help the family. I
Speaker 3: know I probably would have been that way, even though
Speaker 3: I wasn't that way. I'm not a helicopter dad. Just
Speaker 3: wanted the kids to have a fun time. And enjoy
Speaker 3: their lives.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: The number one thing I told parents when I was coaching.
Speaker 4: They said, hey, you got to help my kid get
Speaker 4: a scholarship to college. And I said, well, let's let
Speaker 4: them hit the books, because right.
Speaker 3: Right, right right, make sure they get a kid. Yeah,
Speaker 3: people don't understand how important that is.
Speaker 4: You know, Let's make sure they do that because then
Speaker 4: the rest will followed, you know, because most kids, you know,
Speaker 4: it's a percentage game.
Speaker 3: Yea.
Speaker 4: The kids that play high school sports, three or four
Speaker 4: percent of them playing college, then three or four percent
Speaker 4: of those play in the NFL or professionals.
Speaker 3: So that's what I was going to ask you because
Speaker 3: we know the number, so we kind of know the
Speaker 3: numbers for the NFL and NBA. What about for running
Speaker 3: in scholarships?
Speaker 5: You know, so you talk about Title nine.
Speaker 4: You know a lot of schools cross country and track
Speaker 4: and some of those low maintenance sports are an easy
Speaker 4: way for them to have a full fledged athletic department.
Speaker 4: Not a lot of money to run a program, but
Speaker 4: you can have twelve fifteen kids, you know, boys, men
Speaker 4: and women, and so it's a nice way for some
Speaker 4: Total nine golf, cross country, yeah, swimming, not swimming so much.
Speaker 4: But some of these these Division two schools, you know,
Speaker 4: it's a nice place because running, you know, you don't
Speaker 4: have to go to a huge program to be a
Speaker 4: great runner.
Speaker 5: You go to a good coach. You know. Then a
Speaker 5: good coach.
Speaker 4: Might be at like you know, you see Santa Cruz,
Speaker 4: which is maybe Division two, but they're a great coach.
Speaker 4: They're going to help you achieve your dreams because your
Speaker 4: pro is not playing in the league, might be qualifying
Speaker 4: for the Olympics or yeah, you know right right.
Speaker 3: In fact, I have friends with Randy a set that
Speaker 3: who you are. And then his son is going to
Speaker 3: a Division two or three.
Speaker 4: He's going to Colorado colorad Springs, and you go for
Speaker 4: a coach, you know, so you know, Eric his Randy's kid,
Speaker 4: you know, as a talented high school runner, you know,
Speaker 4: but if he went to a big school, he'd get
Speaker 4: you know. Yeah, that's why I wasn't coming out of
Speaker 4: high school. You know, I wanted to go to the UVE,
Speaker 4: but everybody had been the number one runner in their
Speaker 4: state at the UV, you know, and so going there
Speaker 4: you can get overwhelmed. You go to a place where
Speaker 4: you can shine, and I think that helps kids. So
Speaker 4: a little bit of money, you know, some some personal
Speaker 4: attention is going to help.
Speaker 3: Me if you can get some academically and.
Speaker 5: So yeah, academically.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and those minor sports and now they're not you
Speaker 4: know they're not minor to you, but you know those
Speaker 4: minor sports, you know you you probably need a little
Speaker 4: academic help.
Speaker 5: Scholarship boys.
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to my on the Ball here on
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Speaker 3: me is Tim Bentley. Hello, Hello, and now we have
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Speaker 15: That's right?
Speaker 1: That's right? How hey guys, how are you?
Speaker 3: Who are you working with more than ESPN or.
Speaker 1: Fox A well?
Speaker 15: And by the way, and the pack to the PAC
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Speaker 5: That's an easy schedule to follow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you're out. You're actually still a lawyer? Are
Speaker 3: you an attorneys? That still going on?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 15: That's the announcing is my my night fun gig that's
Speaker 15: walking around beings like being a DJ.
Speaker 5: That's hammer go money makes it extra few extra.
Speaker 3: Bucks wiki wiki buck here.
Speaker 1: That's that's right. That's right.
Speaker 3: Hey, how was how was your night meeting Doctor J?
Speaker 1: You know it was I'll tell you what it was.
Speaker 15: At my age, after all the things I've done in life,
Speaker 15: you know, things like that rarely surprised me or rarely
Speaker 15: you know, are something that's you know, super new and interesting,
Speaker 15: and that was I'll tell you that I was special
Speaker 15: and true story, I mean, he was. He was, you know,
Speaker 15: like it's not hard to understand, like millions, you know,
Speaker 15: he was my favorite player of all time. I you know,
Speaker 15: I was the first game I ever remember as a kid,
Speaker 15: ever was the was the nineteen I'm gonna say, I
Speaker 15: think I have it right, seventy six Sons Celtics series
Speaker 15: and specifically the triple overtime game. And that was literally
Speaker 15: right when Doctor J was, you know, at his highest powers,
Speaker 15: and right when he was coming from the ABA to
Speaker 15: the NBA, and so I was just becoming a basketball
Speaker 15: fan and you know, the most probably you know, arguably
Speaker 15: the best player in the world was doctor right around
Speaker 15: that time, and but he was if you he was
Speaker 15: close because then Magic and Bird came, Jabbar was there.
Speaker 15: But he was also by far the most interesting person.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 1: He was the coolest cat on the planet, you know,
Speaker 1: just to look. I mean, you know the style.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it just the dunks and the way he dunked right,
Speaker 15: you know, the palming of the ball. And I was
Speaker 15: telling I was talking to somebody about this who today
Speaker 15: actually who didn't really grow up with him, And I said,
Speaker 15: you know what was amazing about the Doctor was he
Speaker 15: when he dunked on guys. It was the first that
Speaker 15: really put guys on a poster. And but he would
Speaker 15: do it with incredible grace, but combined with this crazy power,
Speaker 15: like when he dunked on a guy, like it was
Speaker 15: he dunked hard. It was it was not just a
Speaker 15: you know, he went after guys and and uh, it
Speaker 15: was that combination of grace and power that I just
Speaker 15: fell in love. I loved the Sixers. My dad loved
Speaker 15: the Celtics. So we would sit in the you know,
Speaker 15: in the family room and literally like have like drag
Speaker 15: out fights over these games.
Speaker 1: And it was it was awesome.
Speaker 3: I considered you'd be like a Kyle Macy guy.
Speaker 1: I hated.
Speaker 15: I hated every single Boston player possible, but I loved
Speaker 15: In fact, I loved Andrew Tony. I love Yeah, you know,
Speaker 15: all all the gritty guys on the Sixers, those were
Speaker 15: those were my guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mine too. I was a six Yer guy because
Speaker 3: of Doctor J and then Barkley showed up and.
Speaker 5: Bar and Malone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those are the good of you. Better be physical, baby,
Speaker 3: Are you going to get kicked in the curtains?
Speaker 16: My good?
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 15: One of my favorite, one of my favorite all time players,
Speaker 15: top top ten for sure, was World Be Free. And
Speaker 15: I was a guard.
Speaker 1: I was a guard and would watch.
Speaker 15: You know. And I moved at the time when I
Speaker 15: was eight, So I lived in Kansas City, and my
Speaker 15: family got transferred to the Bay Area about a year
Speaker 15: or two later, and and and I, you know, I
Speaker 15: became a diehard Warrior.
Speaker 1: Fan because the Kings, Kansity Kings had moved.
Speaker 15: To Sacramento, and and so at the time, you know,
Speaker 15: at one point in those years, World Be Free was
Speaker 15: actually traded to the Warriors, and so I became a
Speaker 15: World Be Free just fanatic and just love he was
Speaker 15: you know what was amazing about. Look, I'm you know
Speaker 15: in era, every era we have personalities, but there was
Speaker 15: nothing like the seventies and eighties those personalities because now,
Speaker 15: you know, guys could damage their personalities. And you know,
Speaker 15: when you talk about personalities in this day and age,
Speaker 15: what you typically get is more people that are outspoken
Speaker 15: about actually really important things, you know, social issues, political issues.
Speaker 15: But back then it was way more personality driven. Like
Speaker 15: you you know, wildb fre is a guy that like,
Speaker 15: show up and they all had crazy nicknames. Yeah, show
Speaker 15: up in a fur coat and you know, just they
Speaker 15: were wild.
Speaker 1: You know, it was just it was a different time.
Speaker 15: And and I'll say this too, I know I'm not
Speaker 15: really shutting up, but Doctor Jay was in that movie,
Speaker 15: one of my favorite you know, cult movies ever, The
Speaker 15: Fish That Save Pittsburgh. And you know, it was a
Speaker 15: different time, man, and it was it was just it
Speaker 15: was funky. You know, it was the seventies, it turned
Speaker 15: into the eighties.
Speaker 3: Are your Buddies? What are your Buddies? Was part of
Speaker 3: that movie too. I think who was that Sean Miller
Speaker 3: as a kid, I was a little kid dribbling the balls.
Speaker 16: Yeah that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, thank you for reminding me.
Speaker 3: I did not.
Speaker 1: I totally forgot about it.
Speaker 5: You know, Matt, this is Tim Bentley. How you doing.
Speaker 4: We were talking with Steve Lynn earlier speaking of personalities,
Speaker 4: and he was talking about the Bankwan Valley commercials with
Speaker 4: Loodolson and Bill Frieder, and I think that they ran
Speaker 4: in your era.
Speaker 5: You probably remember them.
Speaker 4: What do you remember that that time and Bill Frieder
Speaker 4: and those personalities.
Speaker 15: Well, I will say I think the coolest part was,
Speaker 15: you know, I when I got to Arizona. You know,
Speaker 15: I remember the football rivalry and Chuck Cecil and I
Speaker 15: think my first year at Arizona. I've told this story
Speaker 15: a thousand times, but we were up at the Great
Speaker 15: Alaska Shootout playing in that tournament. Yeah, And I got
Speaker 15: on the bus and Steve Kerr was in the back
Speaker 15: of the bus with you remember back in the late
Speaker 15: eighties those mini TVs. Yes, And he was trying to
Speaker 15: watch the asu U of a football game and he did.
Speaker 15: We were watching it in the back of the bus going
Speaker 15: to the game. It was either Michigan or Syracuse and
Speaker 15: and the punter dropped the ball for ASU Arizona. I
Speaker 15: think maybe kicked the fieldal to tie it and kept
Speaker 15: their streak alive. And so I remember just how how
Speaker 15: intense that rivalry was for football, and I thought the
Speaker 15: I really thought what Lout and Frieder did was give
Speaker 15: it some levity, and you know, say, hey, you know,
Speaker 15: kind of remind everyone this is sports.
Speaker 3: You know, It's it's.
Speaker 1: Great to have a rivalry.
Speaker 15: I love the rivalry. It's great to really get after
Speaker 15: each other. But at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 15: you know, we're talking about sports. So yeah, the good
Speaker 15: old days. I got your nickname, by the way, before
Speaker 15: he moved on to the basketball team. You talk about
Speaker 15: world before I got Matt b priceless. Matty what priceless? Exactly?
Speaker 17: Sure you go, I want to get another hat jacket
Speaker 17: Hatt be priceless. Hey hey, Sleepy, Hey, Sleepy Floyd remember him?
Speaker 3: Hey the iceman? What about the iceman.
Speaker 1: Jack ice Man?
Speaker 15: How about Darryl Dawkins and all of his Doctor frank
Speaker 15: think of there's nobody like yeah, yeah, doctor Frankenstein. Was
Speaker 15: Daryl Griffith, remember him? And then Doc Darryl Dawkins.
Speaker 1: There's no there's never been a personality like him.
Speaker 15: Probably ever did David that one? I think he was Skywalker.
Speaker 1: I think it was David Skywalker, Thompson, Admiral.
Speaker 3: There's there's so good ones. Yeah yeah, hey, let's go
Speaker 3: to basketball. You've seen it was gonna play probably enough.
Speaker 3: He've done them in person a few times.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, what what?
Speaker 3: And I get this question asked all the time, and
Speaker 3: here my IUA because it's a Steve Rivera evaluation and honest,
Speaker 3: uh so they've played in their seven in a row.
Speaker 3: They played better. I'll say they played better, give you that,
Speaker 3: but they haven't really played the teams that are going
Speaker 3: to give them trouble or equally in the tournament. So
Speaker 3: they haven't played the Houston's, they haven't played the Iowa States,
Speaker 3: they haven't played the Kansas and teams like that. So
Speaker 3: they're able to beat the teams they're beaten. Wait till
Speaker 3: they have to play those teams and maybe even this weekend.
Speaker 3: So they're playing better to me, But what do you say?
Speaker 15: Yeah, well, I say this that is correct. They haven't
Speaker 15: played the class of the Big twelve yet, which is
Speaker 15: except they played one of them, Baylor's one of the class.
Speaker 1: That's Big twelve.
Speaker 15: Now, yeah, I know one of one of them was hurt.
Speaker 1: And there was you know, it was at home, but
Speaker 1: they played really well.
Speaker 15: So I think, you know, they knocked off I think
Speaker 15: there's I think there's a top.
Speaker 1: Five in the Big Twelve, and it's it's Baylor.
Speaker 15: You know, it's Baylor's in there. But it's Kansas, Iowa State, Houston, Houston, obviously, Arizona,
Speaker 15: and bayl And I think that's the class of the
Speaker 15: Big twelve. So if they played one of them, they
Speaker 15: beat one of them. I would say this, though the
Speaker 15: counter I would say, and they still got to prove
Speaker 15: it against those top teams and they'll they'll win. I
Speaker 15: think they'll win something. They're gonna lose some for sure.
Speaker 15: They're not going twenty and oh. In fact, I think
Speaker 15: you know, they went.
Speaker 1: Fifteen to five.
Speaker 3: It would be incredibly one of the.
Speaker 15: Best teams in the nation if they did that.
Speaker 1: But I'd say this, they've beaten a lot.
Speaker 15: Of the mid teams in that conference. They haven't really
Speaker 15: played the lower teams, you know, So winning you win
Speaker 15: two games, I don't care. You know this Steve as
Speaker 15: much as anyone in the world. Winning a college basketball
Speaker 15: game on the road, I don't care if it's a
Speaker 15: bad team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you go play bad teams.
Speaker 15: And then when I played you know, if there's a
Speaker 15: bad team at Washington State was a final and we
Speaker 15: were like top five in the country. So you know,
Speaker 15: you go play Cincinnati, top fifteen, top twenty team, you
Speaker 15: play West Virginia, top twenty team, top twenty five team
Speaker 15: on the road. You win those and a couple of
Speaker 15: them were up by huge margin. Baylor you up by
Speaker 15: twenty eight. I mean they played really well. So I
Speaker 15: mean they and by the way, they weren't doing that
Speaker 15: in the middle. In the beginning of the season. They
Speaker 15: lost to West Virginia, they lost to Oklahoma, they lost
Speaker 15: to Ucla. You know, they were losing to kind of
Speaker 15: those teams in the in the kind of kin Palm
Speaker 15: fifty if you will, top fifty, you know, thirty to fifty.
Speaker 15: So I think they've they've turned that around. I think
Speaker 15: they're playing immensely better. They still can play better, but
Speaker 15: you're right, they haven't played they haven't played Kansas or
Speaker 15: Iowa State or you know those Houston yet. That'll be
Speaker 15: a challenge, Matt.
Speaker 5: What do you attribute that turnaround to the last seven
Speaker 5: games or maybe the last ten games that they weren't
Speaker 5: doing in the beginning of the season. What do you
Speaker 5: what do you attribute that to?
Speaker 15: I think I think there's a few things. I think
Speaker 15: the number one thing they're playing better as a team.
Speaker 15: I don't think they have a dominant player. Even though
Speaker 15: Caleb can be dominant scoring, they don't have They don't
Speaker 15: have historically, you know, Derek Willilliams or you know.
Speaker 1: Mike Bibbie or Miles Simon, Jason Terror, they don't.
Speaker 15: They don't have that guy necessarily. But they're a team
Speaker 15: and I thought early on they were they were weren't
Speaker 15: doing enough as a team to to to be able to,
Speaker 15: you know, to win. And they've un Tommy used the
Speaker 15: quote unlock our passing game one of the last games
Speaker 15: I did, and I thought they've passed it better that
Speaker 15: The insertion of Delhi at the two or three, I
Speaker 15: guess has been a huge thing, to put one other
Speaker 15: three point shooter in there, spread the floor. I say
Speaker 15: this too, I said this on Twitter. I think they're
Speaker 15: tougher than people.
Speaker 1: Give them credit for him.
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, and and it's probably i'd say who
Speaker 15: gives them credit. I'm probably the strong man, because I mean,
Speaker 15: I think of Arizona's teams over the years, they've always
Speaker 15: been tough.
Speaker 1: You know, not but they've never been basically, they've been much.
Speaker 15: Yeah, they've been more of a race horse than a pretty,
Speaker 15: you know, junkyard dog.
Speaker 1: And I think this this team.
Speaker 15: Has some some real grit in him, maybe even more
Speaker 15: than we've seen the past few years. And I think
Speaker 15: a walk is a big part of that. And look,
Speaker 15: let's i mean, I'm just saying obvious, Henry Vsar has been.
Speaker 1: Been a monster.
Speaker 15: He's been a he was blown up and you know
Speaker 15: you got to give him a ton of credit for
Speaker 15: having that opportunity with Greaves hurt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you on the physicalness at least.
Speaker 3: I guess when eventually Arizona teams who you know, historically
Speaker 3: haven't been tough physically when you guys get pushed, the
Speaker 3: eventually showed that they can be tough. And I think
Speaker 3: the thing that oppressed me, maybe first or second on
Speaker 3: the list on Baylor was that they were tough in
Speaker 3: that first half. They matched them physical physically, I think,
Speaker 3: and they beat him up physically in fact, to take
Speaker 3: that big lead. I'm thinking, where did this team come from?
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, there's a there's a thing called there's
Speaker 15: an NBA player, I forget his first name, maybe Gorge
Speaker 15: on Gor Todd.
Speaker 1: There's an NBA play named Gor Toad.
Speaker 15: I think he was.
Speaker 1: I know he was a europe and player.
Speaker 15: There's a there's a famous thing he has called the
Speaker 15: Gore Top screen. I don't know if you know what
Speaker 15: that is, but it's a What he used to do
Speaker 15: is he would create position in the paint. And he
Speaker 15: was super physical, and and when he would duck in
Speaker 15: the paint, imagine him ducking in, the defender would have
Speaker 15: to kind of duck in with him, and it gave
Speaker 15: guards like like just a it was almost like setting
Speaker 15: a screen against the guards man. So he would duck
Speaker 15: in create space for him to get a pass. But
Speaker 15: if they didn't get it, he would screen like.
Speaker 1: The point guards man, you know, coming down the lane
Speaker 1: and and guys like a waka does that. You know?
Speaker 15: He creates the Gor top screen because he's so physically
Speaker 15: takes up so much space. I think I think all.
Speaker 3: Of the bigs do you know pick and roll? That's
Speaker 3: a good question on the s at What the hell
Speaker 3: you talking about?
Speaker 16: Hey Matt?
Speaker 1: What look at Google it? He Hey Googles?
Speaker 5: You know, Matt we talk a lot.
Speaker 4: These are these are kids that are playing basketball for us,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean really in the in the scheme
Speaker 4: of things and you live that life. What happens in
Speaker 4: the locker room to make this change? I mean, does
Speaker 4: it does a does a does a teammate step up?
Speaker 4: Or is it the coach? What happened to this team?
Speaker 4: Was it somebody in house or was it a coach?
Speaker 5: What happened?
Speaker 15: Well, I think it started with Tommy. I really think
Speaker 15: Tommy took you know, he didn't take blame necessarily. He
Speaker 15: just said I'm responsible for this, and he said I'm
Speaker 15: gonna dig in and I'm gonna embrace it. I remember
Speaker 15: what he I think almost his quote was I'm here
Speaker 15: for it. You know, we're not playing well. I texted him,
Speaker 15: actually was doing a game up at Washington State and
Speaker 15: texted him, text him a picture of the Spokane Airport
Speaker 15: just for funny. It's like, hey, back in year old
Speaker 15: stomping grounds, and you know, he said, I gotta get
Speaker 15: this team better, you know, and they just lost the
Speaker 15: U c l A and He's like, I gotta get
Speaker 15: this better, you know, I got to figure it out.
Speaker 1: Like but I think he I think.
Speaker 15: He really took it on his shoulders. But I think
Speaker 15: what they did the back to the original comment, the
Speaker 15: unlocking of the unselfishness and the passing was the key.
Speaker 15: Like they live, they're they're coachable, and I think he
Speaker 15: told them, hey, we got to we got to become
Speaker 15: better as a team. They reminded me a little bit.
Speaker 15: Although the Warriors have you know, Steph. They clearly have
Speaker 15: a superstar, but it's almost like Steph and.
Speaker 1: A ton of role players, you know.
Speaker 15: And when the Warriors were playing well early in the
Speaker 15: season before they had a ton of injuries and they
Speaker 15: struggled a little bit, but they played almost like a
Speaker 15: college team, you know, just tons of guys. They played
Speaker 15: together about up and down. And that's what this Arizona
Speaker 15: team they're they're really playing well together. And every team
Speaker 15: I've ever been on, the two best teams I've ever
Speaker 15: are three best teams I've ever been on since I
Speaker 15: was when I was a little kid. That last year
Speaker 15: in college, they were the ones that had the best chemistry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course they always are always they always are right. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: before we go, there's a couple of things I wanted
Speaker 3: to say to you guys. Well, one question, because have
Speaker 3: you sent me the question. I think it's a good one.
Speaker 3: We're talking about big guys earlier this week. Who do
Speaker 3: you think that Henry most resembles in the time that
Speaker 3: you've come through Arizona is not known for a center place.
Speaker 3: Someone mentioned maybe Hill Hill, not Hill, Jordan, Yeah, Jordan Hill.
Speaker 3: I want to say there's big men have not come
Speaker 3: through here often.
Speaker 18: You know.
Speaker 15: The two names that came to mind, and they're not
Speaker 15: perfect cons by any stretch, would be would have been
Speaker 15: Jordan Hill and Channing Fry Channel Channing Fry.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 15: You guys can look this up and I bet I'm
Speaker 15: pretty close. I remember at one point I knew this
Speaker 15: and I've forgotten the exact number, but I was shocked
Speaker 15: to find out that Channing Fryan is four years at Arizona,
Speaker 15: got like twenty three three pointers or twenty four is
Speaker 15: like eight for twenty three in four years. And you know,
Speaker 15: but he was a good shooter. He didn't shoot that
Speaker 15: We all knew he would shoot that little seventeen sixteen
Speaker 15: footer eighteen footer, but he didn't really shoot threes. He
Speaker 15: was a good picking pop guy, and he was he
Speaker 15: was a little bit. He was further along than than Henry.
Speaker 15: But remember when he came out.
Speaker 3: He was nothing, skin skinny.
Speaker 1: Guy, yeah, skinny project.
Speaker 15: And he moved well though, like Basar moves well. And
Speaker 15: Basar has a little bit of some guard skills in him,
Speaker 15: but he but he jumps well, he's athletic.
Speaker 1: Channing jumped well.
Speaker 15: Not I'm not talking about you know, Aaron Gordon. That
Speaker 15: not that type of athleticism or power, but but skilled
Speaker 15: and and Channing of course became one of the greatest
Speaker 15: places eleven three point shooters in the history of the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he he reinvented himself. But you know, we also
Speaker 3: remember that I remember Channing tell me this, or somebody saying,
Speaker 3: this is Luke talking Channing. Don't you think we did
Speaker 3: you closer to the basket the basket, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 15: Well, And now, as you know, even like when I played,
Speaker 15: we rarely ran pick and rolls. It was like we
Speaker 15: had it in our system. In fact, everyone used to laugh, like, oh,
Speaker 15: Loot's running all this new offense with Damon. I'm like
Speaker 15: we had the same offense. He just didn't run it
Speaker 15: with me and.
Speaker 1: Matt often he ran it with game.
Speaker 5: To come in.
Speaker 16: That's right.
Speaker 15: We spread out through it into the big guys. That's right.
Speaker 15: We had no shot clock, set shots only but no,
Speaker 15: he we had those plays. But nowadays they run so
Speaker 15: much pick and roll, and Channing probably was a little
Speaker 15: of both. He probably ran more pick and roll than
Speaker 15: I ran in my day. But he played a lot
Speaker 15: of just post and high low post. And that's what
Speaker 15: Henry does now. He runs a ton of pick. He's
Speaker 15: very good at it. He go, he can move really well.
Speaker 15: And let's face it, he's long man. He's he's a
Speaker 15: good seven flour.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, no question. I like that. I like that
Speaker 3: about Channing. Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're you off to next, Matt. What's what's next
Speaker 5: on your schedule?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think.
Speaker 15: I think I've got one in a few weeks at
Speaker 15: I've got some Fox stuff coming up. I've got some
Speaker 15: Mountain West. I'm at Utah State. I got a really
Speaker 15: good game at Utah State. I've gotten You're they're awesome, man,
Speaker 15: like nineteen and one.
Speaker 3: I think, Yeah, great facility, too, great atmosphere to was.
Speaker 15: Yeah, great facility. I did one last year there, I've
Speaker 15: got another one this year. I've got a UNLV game
Speaker 15: coming up, another Mountain West game that should be great.
Speaker 15: So I think it's Nevada or something.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so I got a couple.
Speaker 15: I got a couple of those coming up and looking.
Speaker 3: Forward to the great Matt. Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 3: Good to talk to you.
Speaker 1: Thanks, guys, I have a great weekend you too.
Speaker 5: Thanks for the weekend.
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Speaker 2: The Ihearts Radio app. This is High on the Ball
Speaker 2: with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Line on the Ball here on
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in today. Is
Speaker 3: Tim Bentley have Henry with us? No, we's got a
Speaker 3: butt dial or something from Jay.
Speaker 16: I swear to God, you asked me to call.
Speaker 1: Jay.
Speaker 5: He's been down in the domps. He's down. He's he's
Speaker 5: losing to you for the first time. And he said,
Speaker 5: like seventeen years.
Speaker 16: You can't stand the fact that he's losing.
Speaker 3: No, No, you're You're guiltiest charge mood here is bad?
Speaker 5: I mean Charge Gilbach. We talked to Steve. Lenny's has
Speaker 5: been down in the domps over here.
Speaker 3: I wanted to have a therapist as my guess, but
Speaker 3: I couldn't fight one h Steve, you're first born. You're
Speaker 3: a first born person.
Speaker 5: How many how many siblings do you have?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Okay, so you're gonna have to go first,
Speaker 3: Go ahead and go ahead and paint the picture.
Speaker 5: Okay, So is this the last week for you?
Speaker 8: Both of you?
Speaker 3: This is this?
Speaker 5: What are the standings?
Speaker 3: Are you up?
Speaker 5: A game down, a game.
Speaker 18: Half to I'm half a point ahead of Steve. It's
Speaker 18: sixty one to sixty and a half, all right, And
Speaker 18: so first of all, there's not going to be a tie.
Speaker 18: Because we have to pick, you know, all the games
Speaker 18: when we're picking all the same games.
Speaker 16: So there's not gonna be a tie, we know that.
Speaker 3: But I'm up by half a point.
Speaker 16: It's the first time I.
Speaker 5: Have led, No, yeah, in your life this season.
Speaker 13: No no.
Speaker 7: I led early in the led early in the season.
Speaker 7: But Steve took the lead in week nine and he's
Speaker 7: been leading since then. And we're in week twenty one.
Speaker 16: So you know, just three weeks ago, Steve, you're up ahead.
Speaker 16: You're up in me by four and a half.
Speaker 5: This could be the greatest come back all time.
Speaker 16: We're talking like this, I mean, we're talking like miracle
Speaker 16: on ice.
Speaker 5: You're going to make a movie about this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, who's going to play? It's gonna be like.
Speaker 7: The other thing is we bet five dollars a week, right,
Speaker 7: we bet five dollars a week, and I'm ahead of
Speaker 7: you nine to eight on weeks.
Speaker 16: Yes, so as of now you only five bucks on that.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, we get paid for last year first, okay,
Speaker 3: so you gotta go first, exactly, you gotta go first,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 1: So I'm going for this is tough.
Speaker 16: We got it said.
Speaker 7: We got to pick the same five games. Our special
Speaker 7: game is the CFP Championships. We both got to pick. Obviously,
Speaker 7: we both got to pick it, but Notre Dame.
Speaker 16: I'll have State.
Speaker 7: So I'm gonna start. I'm just gonna go to chronological order.
Speaker 7: Steve so NFL games, I'm taking against everything that I
Speaker 7: believe in terms of what the Chiefs have been doing
Speaker 7: this year. I'm taking Chiefs minus eight and a half
Speaker 7: against the Texans. Uh. The Texans are an indoor team
Speaker 7: and they're going to play out in the freezing cold.
Speaker 7: I think they're gonna run. I think it's gonna be
Speaker 7: tough for them. So I'm going Chiefs. Even though the
Speaker 7: Chiefs have not been very good at covering the spread
Speaker 7: all your life, there's something like I've got to here,
Speaker 7: there's seven and ten against the spread this year. Yeah,
Speaker 7: but the Texans are eight and ten, so it's kind.
Speaker 5: Of eager as far as that goes.
Speaker 7: But I just think indoor team playing out in the
Speaker 7: freezing cold, it's gonna be tougher on them.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I'm going with that game as well. I
Speaker 3: think it's like eight in a half in and half, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I agree with you. I'm taking Kansas City and see
Speaker 3: here's another bad thing. We could think of the same
Speaker 3: games and pick the same team, which I would be
Speaker 3: totally screwed. But I like Casey even for the reasons
Speaker 3: you said they haven't been that good. But Texans aren't
Speaker 3: that great either on the road. So I'm going with
Speaker 3: you on Texas. I mean, it's Casey, Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 7: On Commanders and Lions, I'm not going to push my
Speaker 7: luck and go for the ASU guy again. I'm taking
Speaker 7: the lines even though it's a big spread at nine
Speaker 7: and a half. I just feel the Lions after what
Speaker 7: happened to them last year in the NFC Championship when
Speaker 7: they gave up a twenty plus point lead, I think
Speaker 7: they're taking no prisoners. They're not gonna take any chances.
Speaker 7: I think this game is big, and it's bigger for
Speaker 7: for Jayden Daniels than it is for Jared Goff. I
Speaker 7: think the Lions will. I actually think the Lions are
Speaker 7: gonna cream them. I'm looking at im thinking of like
Speaker 7: a forty to ten game or something like that. Hang,
Speaker 7: the Lions are just a stopic. What happened to in
Speaker 7: the last year.
Speaker 3: Well, it's Washington that put me in this situation because
Speaker 3: you had Washington last week, I had Tampa Bay, and
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay just kind of just gave it to me.
Speaker 3: So this is what So I'm going with the Lions too.
Speaker 3: You think that they're just probably the best team in
Speaker 3: the NFC. We'll see how they play the next week
Speaker 3: or so. So I agree with Lyons at home should
Speaker 3: be good. It's a lot of numbers, but but I'm
Speaker 3: going with Leons.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think if they don't have to play the Chiefs, Okay,
Speaker 7: if it's anybody but the Chiefs and the Super Bowl,
Speaker 7: I think they win the Super Bowl. I think they
Speaker 7: can beat the Ravens. I think they can beat the Bills.
Speaker 7: Where's that anybody can beat.
Speaker 5: The Chiefs in Orleans?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 5: New Orleans. And I think that the Lions played home
Speaker 5: the rest of the way, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, okay, next all right, next game.
Speaker 7: I'm really mad at the Rams because they screwed my
Speaker 7: perfect week last week when they rolled over the Vikings,
Speaker 7: and because of that, I'm pissed at them, and I
Speaker 7: think the Eagles are going to crush them, also for
Speaker 7: the reason that the Rams are essentially an indoor team.
Speaker 16: Eagles or not, it's gonna.
Speaker 7: Be freezing cold, again over there, I'm taking I'm taking
Speaker 7: the Eagles and giving the.
Speaker 3: Six Okay, okay, I'm taking Philly as well. I'm making
Speaker 3: them my lock your lock.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 16: Oh, I haven't decided on the lock.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you.
Speaker 16: I'll figure I'll figure going out by.
Speaker 4: The time there's two games left, and so somebody's gonna
Speaker 4: have to make a different choice here, right, I think
Speaker 4: we're gonna have.
Speaker 7: I think I think I think there's one come maybe
Speaker 7: two coming up there we're gonna be doing.
Speaker 3: I don't know, to see what you think, Steve, Yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I totally totally agree. Okay, so they're my lock, you
Speaker 3: might we must want with your locked now unless it's
Speaker 3: Baltimore or Ohio State.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm gonna yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3: Going to lock the Lions. Okay, Okay, So this is
Speaker 3: there's the difference. This is what I would hope this is. Well,
Speaker 3: the thing is, if you lose the lock, I use
Speaker 3: the lock, do I take it? I take it?
Speaker 7: No, I lose a half of point and you just don't.
Speaker 16: You just get zero on it.
Speaker 3: Right, So that would be maybe a tie that could
Speaker 3: be the type we'd come come.
Speaker 7: Through equally on the not because we both have the special,
Speaker 7: so we're both going to have an even number of points.
Speaker 7: So you know we're not gonna we can't tie. So
Speaker 7: what can happen is let's say you don't that I
Speaker 7: don't hit the Lions. Okay, so you get a zero
Speaker 7: on it, but I get minus a half. Right, So
Speaker 7: even though we might have all the same picks, we
Speaker 7: can So that's my point.
Speaker 3: And that's my point because I have a half of
Speaker 3: the game, I gotta I gotta find a half a
Speaker 3: point somewhere, and that you could be there, could be there.
Speaker 7: You've got the Eagles, So so I am now rooting
Speaker 7: against the Eagle, right, and you're rooting against.
Speaker 3: The Lions, even though you picked the Eagles right right right,
Speaker 3: and I'm picking I'm hoping the Lions don't cover, and
Speaker 3: I have those taking the Lions. Okay, okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 3: so now you.
Speaker 16: Go, Okay, I didn't what you're doing here, but I'm
Speaker 16: taking the Ravens.
Speaker 3: Oh see, that was my game. That was my game, Okay,
Speaker 3: go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 7: Explain only because only because I've seen a lot of
Speaker 7: discussion that sharp money has been on the Ravens. The
Speaker 7: wise guys is seemingly no more than you.
Speaker 16: And I know.
Speaker 7: That the line opened at with the bills of the
Speaker 7: favorite slipped to the other side because people are all.
Speaker 16: Over the Ravens.
Speaker 7: So I'm i'm I'm I'm going to listen to them,
Speaker 7: and I'm going to take the Ravens. Yeah.
Speaker 5: See, he listens to too many people that it sounds
Speaker 5: like somebody.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, okay. So so I really like the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3: I really do at and but I picked Baltimore to
Speaker 3: win the Super Bowl months ago, right, They're one of
Speaker 3: my pre games. So this is all I thought today.
Speaker 3: So I said, what's JA going to do? He's gonna
Speaker 3: go with Buffalo. I know he's gonna go with Buffalo,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna go with Baltimore because I have a
Speaker 3: lot of steak with Baltimore and I don't want to
Speaker 3: pick against them because I have money on them to win.
Speaker 3: Well no, no, no, no, that's that's what I was
Speaker 3: thinking about doing. But you were definitely gonna take the Bills.
Speaker 3: I knew you were going to get the Bills, so
Speaker 3: I had no problem with that. I was until this morning, right,
Speaker 3: So you you I outthought myself in a Jay world
Speaker 3: and I should have never done that, but but I
Speaker 3: think that's my only hope. That's my only hope is
Speaker 3: going with Buffalo Buffalo. So I'm gonna go with reluctantly
Speaker 3: going with Buffalo.
Speaker 13: I have to.
Speaker 3: I have to because I know you're gonna go to
Speaker 3: the house date. I know you're going with the Ohio State,
Speaker 3: do you yeah, go ahead and say your son of
Speaker 3: a son I was cussed? Wait oh no, no, no,
Speaker 3: And that's fine, and that's fine. You can go to
Speaker 3: no name. That will help me too, that will help me. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm cool. I'm cool with that.
Speaker 4: I'm taking a house state, all right.
Speaker 7: Okay, well there we go.
Speaker 1: You know what I think.
Speaker 16: I just think it's gonna be. It's gonna be.
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be a great wait wait wait
Speaker 3: wait wait that said Jay. Can I go back and
Speaker 3: go to get Baltimore.
Speaker 5: The way you guys have made these rules, you guys
Speaker 5: can do whatever that whatever, you.
Speaker 3: Don't care whatever. So I'm gonna jump back on Baltimore
Speaker 3: so I can don't not pick against them, and then
Speaker 3: our difference will be the ohouse teak game. Okay, you
Speaker 3: know it depends what. Okay, we gotta go okay, all right, okay, okay,
Speaker 3: all right everybody, but that's perfect. Okay, So Monday night
Speaker 3: will be determined our championship final.
Speaker 5: I'll bring my cycle, okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah all right, Jay, Yes, I see you start out thinking,
Speaker 3: you know, okay, cool. Thank you Henry for coming in.
Speaker 3: We gotta go. Thank you, Tim, see you next week
Speaker 3: for me next week. Okay, thanks everybody,