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Speaker 2: The good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball
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Speaker 3: Yep, you didn't like the super Bowl, you were telling me. No,
Speaker 3: I mean I did not expect that coming at all. Blowout.
Speaker 2: Who'd you have?
Speaker 3: I had the Chiefs winning because I couldn't bet against Mahomes.
Speaker 2: But yeah, then now you realize you can bet against Mahomes, right,
Speaker 2: I felt the same way.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 2: Went to Phoenix watch a game and put a little
Speaker 2: number on it, just as small because I wasn't too
Speaker 2: cofugh and I didn't really care. And yeah, from the
Speaker 2: from the kickoff to the end, it was like, holy crap,
Speaker 2: what happened?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but Philly was a better team. Yeah, Philly is
Speaker 3: a better team. I was supprised how Mahomes had no
Speaker 3: time to throw. I mean, his old whole line is
Speaker 3: getting dominant, and when he threw it looked like he
Speaker 3: didn't know what he was doing. Yeah, it was just
Speaker 3: one of those games. Looked like the Buccaneers Super Bowl. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, and let me try to put some perspective
Speaker 3: on this. I do with you kids all the time.
Speaker 3: So there's three hundred and sixty five days of the year.
Speaker 2: Your life is going to school, right, I don't know
Speaker 2: what you do in the summer, maybe find a job
Speaker 2: or maybe. Yeah. How many bad days into three hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty five days do you have? Are bad? Like bad?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean there's definitely a few and a few give
Speaker 3: me a number twenty, Yeah, like like ten, twenty.
Speaker 2: Okay, so guess what Mahomes had one of his ten
Speaker 2: or twenty? Yeah, you know, and he's had a lot
Speaker 2: of good gays, a lot of some somewhat bad days.
Speaker 2: He's been able to survive some of those bad days,
Speaker 2: especially doing a football season. Yeah, and you thought that
Speaker 2: maybe if even I don't know, maybe after the first
Speaker 2: orders half you're thinking, hmmm, they still might have a chance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, only ten to nothing. She's a comeback from this before, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: but it was but not even a half. You're thinking
Speaker 3: didn't have to pull out a miracle. Yeah, it's dominated
Speaker 3: from the start.
Speaker 2: Right, did you watch are you are you you're not
Speaker 2: a Lakers fan?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Did you watch your game?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I didn't watch the game. What did you see, Luca?
Speaker 3: He looked, He looked great, the same. There are people
Speaker 3: saying he was too overweight coming in, but he looked fine.
Speaker 3: I mean, they're gonna be agreed to.
Speaker 2: It was funny thing. Uh, people in general were saying
Speaker 2: that he's overweight nose. Yeah, I think even the Dallas
Speaker 2: ownerships are saying this. But can he still play basketball?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean I think yeah, I think he'll be fine.
Speaker 3: I mean, Luke, that may be that weight maybe big
Speaker 3: for you or me or whatever by the naked eye,
Speaker 3: but to him, Yeah, it's called Tuesday. Yeah, it's called Wednesday.
Speaker 3: I mean he plays that way. Yeah, he's He looked
Speaker 3: like that last year in the playoffs and he was great.
Speaker 2: And he was he was wasn't the leading scorer of
Speaker 2: the league last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So your your weight and my weight in somebody
Speaker 3: else's weight, that says you're overweight?
Speaker 2: What does that mean? Not a damn thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it's how he plays, It's how he plays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, would he be better? We may never know,
Speaker 2: but he's pretty damn good at the weight he's playing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, unless it becomes an issue where he misses games
Speaker 3: like Zion, I don't see him like a problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right right, And that's different because saying it's like
Speaker 2: when you ask some of the running backs that have
Speaker 2: come through Arizona and you see other backs in the
Speaker 2: league who are five to six, five seven, even nooah,
Speaker 2: he's too small, he's too short. He's do this, do that,
Speaker 2: but they get the job done. He says, don't you
Speaker 2: think you'd be better bigger? Well, this is all I know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I am who I am. Yeah, and guess what I
Speaker 2: do pretty well because you accommodate for who you are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't change that. You can't change that. And
Speaker 3: you've played this way pretty much all your life. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you've done pretty well for sure. Otherwise you wouldn't
Speaker 3: be there. Yeah, you know, so we'll see. I didn't
Speaker 3: see the game. I read about it that he had.
Speaker 2: He didn't have a fantastic game numbers wise, but he
Speaker 2: I guess Lebron had thirty two or something like that.
Speaker 3: He was on mint restriction and they did play the
Speaker 3: Utah Jazz. But they look great and they're gonna be
Speaker 3: a great team, like there are contenders easily Lakers. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so the world is going to be okay now, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know for people who are Lakers fans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm not a big Lakers fan. As
Speaker 2: that people know. I want to wear my goal to
Speaker 2: State Warriors. I think that that.
Speaker 3: The New Warrior tell me I'm Nicks No, no, no, but
Speaker 3: the New Warrior guy got Jimmy Butler. I think today
Speaker 3: or whenever they play next, right, he's gonna be on
Speaker 3: h he's gonna be playing. Yeah, he's been played the
Speaker 3: last two games. I think they're two and zer with him. Okay,
Speaker 3: so he started to play two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a fan. I don't even pay attention to that.
Speaker 2: So so we'll see. I think they're going to be
Speaker 2: better too, Yeah, for sure. And we'll see how Steve
Speaker 2: handles him and then the rest of the guys. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The NBA, there's a lot of good teams out there.
Speaker 3: The West is loaded, so shall see.
Speaker 2: Right, you see that the Super Bowl averaged a record
Speaker 2: of one point seven one point two seven million US viewers. Wow,
Speaker 2: and the game was a dud. Yeah, the game was
Speaker 2: a dud pretty much from start to finish. Did you
Speaker 2: watch your halftime Yeah? I did you get the halftime show?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I liked it. I thought it was good, not great.
Speaker 3: A lot of people didn't like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh for whatever reasons, right when they didn't get
Speaker 2: it because they didn't get it. Yeah, yeah, they didn't
Speaker 2: get it whatever the message was. Yeah, and I saw
Speaker 2: it from a distance because I wasn't paying attention. Uh No,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't I don't get into that
Speaker 2: little rivalry stuff with Drake and oh yeah and Serena
Speaker 2: and all them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Serena Willing did not expect Serena Williams.
Speaker 2: There right right, And okay, so you're gonna have breaking
Speaker 2: news later, right yeah, okay, so let me tell her everybody.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to ask you callers to maybe get
Speaker 2: us through today because Dave Silver couldn't come in today
Speaker 2: at the last second. He might show up at four.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. We wish him well. Everything's okay though,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna have Reggie Geary at three seventeen. I
Speaker 2: think he's on the road with the team in Kansas
Speaker 2: and Big Old Manhattan, Kansas. So we'll talk about what's
Speaker 2: going on with the team before they played tonight against
Speaker 2: Kansas State. If you guys heard yesterday, we have the
Speaker 2: beat writer from Kansas State on yesterday, Arnie Green. So
Speaker 2: we're kind of getting ready for tonight's game, a big one,
Speaker 2: the one they could lose. Did you could you check
Speaker 2: the line?
Speaker 3: Do you know Arizona minus three and a half.
Speaker 2: Minus three their favorite on the road minus three and
Speaker 2: a half. Well, okay, in Kansas State is one five straight.
Speaker 2: So I think there's gonna be some some tug of
Speaker 2: war here. Should be a great game. And then they
Speaker 2: get ready for Houston on Saturday. Do you go into that.
Speaker 3: I did not get tickets at the time, but I
Speaker 3: may be paying for tickets.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's the game of the year. Last night we
Speaker 2: were checking with my buddies, uh some some of the
Speaker 2: price of two thousand dollars in the prime seats. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess they're gonna they're gonna go higher by that
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Speaker 3: The cheapest one is ninety dollars right now.
Speaker 2: Oh you're already because you've already looked right, Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: The hills yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah, you got it.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we'll see again if you'd like to help
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Speaker 2: six seventy four forty again Reggie Geary in the first hour,
Speaker 2: and then we're gonna have Aaron Crowley between the Color
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Speaker 2: the big tournament here in about two three weeks here
Speaker 2: at at La Paloma, the annual event that's a pretty
Speaker 2: big one here in town. I want to also get
Speaker 2: some people maybe this week about the Rodeo one hundred
Speaker 2: year anniversary of the Rodeo coming in this week with people.
Speaker 2: I think kids are going to be out of school
Speaker 2: and all that. So two sign is bustling right now
Speaker 2: with sporting events all over the city that time of year,
Speaker 2: and the weather I guess is not gonna be favorable.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a little rainy. Really is it windy?
Speaker 3: Was it wendy coming in in outside? Oh? It was
Speaker 3: per It was good. It was like perfect from New York.
Speaker 3: This weather's okay, it's probably snowing like crazy, like crazy
Speaker 3: it is back in New York.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you talk to the parents. Yeah, see, thanks mom
Speaker 2: for sending me out.
Speaker 3: Here, Yeah, exactly, keeping me out here.
Speaker 2: Okay again, if you want to call five two zero, four, one, six,
Speaker 2: seventy four forty Uh, let me know what you think
Speaker 2: about tonight's game. Will they win? Will they cover? We'll say, see,
Speaker 2: I don't think that Townsend is expected to play, at
Speaker 2: least I don't. I don't know that for sure. But
Speaker 2: Bruce kind of assumed that he was not going to
Speaker 2: start and today starting lineup, uh, and then did well
Speaker 2: without him against Texas Tech. What did you think about
Speaker 2: that game?
Speaker 3: On that game, they look they look great. Trying to
Speaker 3: think who's the leading score.
Speaker 2: That Henry had fifteen? Oh, Caleb had sixteen. Uh, Henry
Speaker 2: had fifteen sixteen season high twenty nine minutes. A walkout
Speaker 2: was fantastic. Oh yeh je and Jy and Bradley had some.
Speaker 2: It was a it was a team effort. But the
Speaker 2: most impressive thing in the game for me was Henry's performance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was That was a great game. It was
Speaker 3: wire to wire. Basically, they look great.
Speaker 7: Love.
Speaker 3: Bradley played well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well sorted kJ after he stopped turning the ball over.
Speaker 3: Yeah in the first half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we gotta call Yeah, please Hello, Hello, you're on
Speaker 2: the airline the ball who says, hey, Steve, this is done.
Speaker 8: Hi.
Speaker 7: You guys doing it?
Speaker 2: Are you all right?
Speaker 9: I got I got two things. When Arizona went to
Speaker 9: BYU Airic that one, this is the one when they're
Speaker 9: gonna lose.
Speaker 7: This is gonna be a tough one.
Speaker 8: And then Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: Did you feel that way against b YU?
Speaker 7: Not really.
Speaker 9: I figured, you know, b YU to me athletically, like
Speaker 9: across all sports, is they're gonna come and they're gonna
Speaker 9: get after it. They're gonna play you, They're gonna play
Speaker 9: you hard. They remind me of the Stanford Athletic Department
Speaker 9: across all sports. They're gonna you know, they're gonna come.
Speaker 9: They're gonna come, and they're gonna come to ready to play.
Speaker 7: But I didn't.
Speaker 9: I didn't think. I figured, you know what, we're gonna
Speaker 9: out athlete them, and I think at the end of
Speaker 9: the at the end of the day, Arizona's gonna win.
Speaker 9: And the same thing with Texas Tech. I'm going that
Speaker 9: one was close the first time and we ended up
Speaker 9: they ended up losing at the end.
Speaker 7: So you know, all things you know.
Speaker 9: Being equal, what what what is always The common thinking
Speaker 9: has always been home court advantage is worth ten points.
Speaker 2: Ten point. I thought it was like six to me, but.
Speaker 9: Well, to get the point it used to be it
Speaker 9: used to be ten. I think maybe the talent pool
Speaker 9: is spread out more because I mean I was always
Speaker 9: I've been the last couple of years, you know, with
Speaker 9: a ten point win, I've always been kind of frustrated
Speaker 9: with that, Like they only beat them by ten. But if, okay,
Speaker 9: if if a home point home court advantages were somewhat
Speaker 9: between six and ten points, Arizona had Iowa State by
Speaker 9: twenty for a while, Yeah, they ended up winning by
Speaker 9: what what was that one?
Speaker 7: Fourteen? Take away six?
Speaker 9: That means that means they have they should have the
Speaker 9: ability to win over there.
Speaker 7: By eight or so? No six or eight? No, why not?
Speaker 10: Why not?
Speaker 9: They didn't know Iowa State?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, sometimes numbers right now.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 9: So in that, by that thinking, Arizona has absolute zero
Speaker 9: shot to win in names are if they if they
Speaker 9: win there, that it would be the most colossal upset
Speaker 9: of college basketball history.
Speaker 7: That's what you're saying. Arizona has no shot.
Speaker 2: Let me say no, no, let me talk for myself.
Speaker 2: Senor if they beat Okay eight, if they beat Iowa
Speaker 2: State up there, that would be a nice win, not
Speaker 2: a surprising win. But I was assuming that Iowa State
Speaker 2: would probably be a four point favorite if they went
Speaker 2: on the road. In that situation, I'm sold on this team.
Speaker 2: It wouldn't be a colossal No, this team is fairly good,
Speaker 2: now that I can say this publicly. But no, just
Speaker 2: because he'd beat them by fourteen or whatever, No, No,
Speaker 2: it's how you play that day I away, it's still
Speaker 2: a heck of a game, a heck of a team. No, No,
Speaker 2: So don't don't go and put words on words are important.
Speaker 9: Well, well, and that's that's like Kansas State. Now, I mean,
Speaker 9: what are they won game over five hundred, But they've
Speaker 9: won five in a row. They've won five in a row,
Speaker 9: so so they have that one word we don't talk about.
Speaker 9: The thing is is the five games before that they
Speaker 9: lost all of those?
Speaker 4: Sure, sure, so you know, and and and the funny.
Speaker 9: Thing is is like everybody you know before the season started,
Speaker 9: we're going, you know, if Arizona goes fifteen and five in.
Speaker 2: The league, huge, they're gonna be good, huge.
Speaker 9: Top four, top five, whatever.
Speaker 7: But Okay, so.
Speaker 9: There what are they now? Ten and one, eleven and one?
Speaker 7: Where's the four? Where's the four losses?
Speaker 9: I mean they're gonna be I think they're gonna be
Speaker 9: in every game and like the Iowa State game should
Speaker 9: be close because they're two good teams. Right now, Arizona's
Speaker 9: played the Arizona has played their way into being considered
Speaker 9: a good team. Yes, are they great? Are they great team?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 9: Are they a great team? The next eight or ten
Speaker 9: weeks will tell us.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 7: So, so there's that.
Speaker 2: You know, so you had two points, So what was
Speaker 2: your other point?
Speaker 9: The other point is Luca has never been a madonnas.
Speaker 7: He was never godlike.
Speaker 9: He came into the league with baby fat and to me,
Speaker 9: I'm going, he just looks like an older baby.
Speaker 4: Now, so what's the difference.
Speaker 2: Well, it's like him and then and the guy from Denver. You,
Speaker 2: I mean, these dudes, aren't they' but you know what
Speaker 2: they do? They played basketball very well. They just played basketball.
Speaker 9: They're you know, it's funny because they look like they're
Speaker 9: like what you know, call like like like farmer strong
Speaker 9: or farm strong whatever they call that.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 9: They just they come in and they play and so
Speaker 9: I don't know why people would say that he was fat, well,
Speaker 9: because it's I don't pay attention because I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's kind of like our definition of what that is.
Speaker 2: But I'm sure you saw white man can jump a
Speaker 2: number of years ago. This dude with his hair that
Speaker 2: and he looks like this slub and all of a
Speaker 2: sudden he plays with this other guy. I forget snipes
Speaker 2: and they pull off wins. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Looks matter, but they really don't. But they really don't.
Speaker 2: It's like when Jay and now when I Jay and
Speaker 2: I used to get in these fights. You know, uniforms
Speaker 2: and how you look. Crap. Hell, no, give me a player.
Speaker 2: I don't care what the hell he wears.
Speaker 7: He No, that doesn't matter.
Speaker 9: Now if he's does he is he getting injured because
Speaker 9: of stress on his knees. Well, he's a big man,
Speaker 9: and it doesn't matter if he's you know, a few
Speaker 9: pounds slider. Is that going to make the difference on
Speaker 9: those big, big joints on a on a big, you.
Speaker 7: Know, strong person.
Speaker 9: Probably not.
Speaker 7: It just might be that you know, he can't take
Speaker 7: the stress.
Speaker 2: And he's he is twenty five years old.
Speaker 9: Luca's only twenty five. I don't pay attention to the
Speaker 9: NBA game, so not these uh, these uh European players.
Speaker 9: I have no no clue as to.
Speaker 7: Any of them.
Speaker 6: Years.
Speaker 9: I know that that when Banyama guy is, I know
Speaker 9: that wehen Banyama guy is.
Speaker 7: Like fifteen or something.
Speaker 9: But in five years, in five years, I'll forget about
Speaker 9: it because I will have heard his name so often
Speaker 9: I would have go, oh, I thought it was thirty two.
Speaker 2: Hey, don we gotta we gotta go. Thanks for arguing
Speaker 2: me for the first happy of your question. All right,
Speaker 2: thanks Matt, I appreciate it. Thank you, Ben, You're too
Speaker 2: I would go to take care. We gotta go because
Speaker 2: we're gonna get a hold of Regigary here for the
Speaker 2: next ten to fifteen minutes. Thanks.
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Speaker 2: Now we have former U of A guard Reggie Geary,
Speaker 2: now on the color analysts for the radio show on
Speaker 2: twelve ninety Reggie, how are you? How are you?
Speaker 3: Reg?
Speaker 2: Did you Trumphy Tom? Reggie? You there? I am okay,
Speaker 2: great date. How you doing.
Speaker 8: I'm good man, I'm good.
Speaker 2: How the to going flaying?
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 2: How the road's up in your area?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 8: Clear, right now, clear, right now. It's called out here
Speaker 8: a little little little snow. But uh just like like
Speaker 8: you know, intermediate you know, light droppings or whatever.
Speaker 2: That's called snow. I know we don't see it very
Speaker 2: often down here.
Speaker 3: So you you, uh you you were an athlete here
Speaker 3: for did you did you like the schedule?
Speaker 2: The Thursday Saturday? Maybe an occasional long day. These games
Speaker 2: are long waits.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, you know obviously as a player and
Speaker 8: as a coach, you know, you kind of want to
Speaker 8: kind of want to get to the games, and so
Speaker 8: the Thursday Saturdays seemed to be a nice rhythm back
Speaker 8: in the day. But yeah, we have longer breaks in
Speaker 8: between now and so, uh it just it just makes
Speaker 8: you be patient and gives your body a little more rest.
Speaker 8: But I know players and coaches they want to get
Speaker 8: to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, is it a I don't know, is it
Speaker 2: a benefit for the individual because they can get some
Speaker 2: rest or is it more anxious, like you say, let's
Speaker 2: just play?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I think it's a little bit of both.
Speaker 8: I mean, obviously, coming into the Big twelve, we know
Speaker 8: we're going to do a more physical league, which it
Speaker 8: has been, and so that extra day of rest has
Speaker 8: been good. And so yeah, you kind of can look
Speaker 8: at it both ways. But I'm sure staff wise, you know,
Speaker 8: I'm sure they're happy that when guys are banged up
Speaker 8: a little bit, they got that extra you know, twenty
Speaker 8: four or forty eight to kind of get them right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think you and I have had this
Speaker 2: discussion Pebbe on the show not too long ago, maybe
Speaker 2: two months ago, and I said, in my time, and
Speaker 2: I've been here before you got here, a little before
Speaker 2: you got here, the Arizona teams aren't normally known for
Speaker 2: being physical. And if I were to go back, and
Speaker 2: I would say one of the last ones. And I'm
Speaker 2: not saying this because you're on the show maybe ninety six,
Speaker 2: you REOs JB. You know who else was the back
Speaker 2: court with you and that group, that group was like
Speaker 2: to mix it up, And since then, it hadn't been
Speaker 2: too many mix it up teams until now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I think I always we always kind
Speaker 8: of go back and forth with that a little bit,
Speaker 8: you know, I definitely think it's a little bit of
Speaker 8: West Coast bias that since we since we're out here
Speaker 8: with all this son and that we're all just kind
Speaker 8: of at the beach and we just don't want to
Speaker 8: play physical, And I don't necessarily believe that's the case.
Speaker 8: I can't even go back to twenty you know, two
Speaker 8: thousand and nine, twenty ten, when I was an assistant
Speaker 8: coach for coach Olsen and we had Chase Budinger and
Speaker 8: Jordan Hill and Nick Wise and that gang, and man,
Speaker 8: there was plenty of tough guys. But I do remember
Speaker 8: specifically that year it didn't matter what Chase Buttinger did,
Speaker 8: and he was going to be considered soft in San Diego.
Speaker 8: So I think it's more perception than reality. You know,
Speaker 8: we've been in a league program for four decades, and
Speaker 8: we didn't do that by playing Patty Cake like. We've
Speaker 8: been physical. We've played big time schedules, and I think
Speaker 8: I think we've had physical teams.
Speaker 2: So how do you like the toughness of this team?
Speaker 8: I like the toughness of this team. I think it's
Speaker 8: taking a while just for maybe for coach Lloyd to
Speaker 8: kind of have these guys understand and realize what exactly,
Speaker 8: you know, what being physical is what Big twelve basketball
Speaker 8: looks like. And you know, ever since we can go
Speaker 8: back to Lubbock, the first time the team went through
Speaker 8: Lubbock and lost that game up there, their last loss,
Speaker 8: you know, that was a teachable moment where we got
Speaker 8: pushed around the gym. TJ. Toppin obviously was dominant that night.
Speaker 8: I believe he was like twenty and sixteen, but just
Speaker 8: controlled the game from a physical standpoint to now looking
Speaker 8: at you know, our last game versus Texas Tech, where
Speaker 8: we were the dominant team, we were the more physical team,
Speaker 8: and so I'm really liking you know, obviously they Sar
Speaker 8: and his attitude and what he's bringing to the game.
Speaker 8: That's been fantastic. Toby Alwaka is the strongest guy on
Speaker 8: the court almost every single night, and he has been
Speaker 8: absolutely fantastic. And then when you look at the guards,
Speaker 8: you know, you look at you know, Bradley and love
Speaker 8: kJ Lewis, you know, these are physically imposing guys that
Speaker 8: can really physically impose their will on people, and they're
Speaker 8: doing a better job of that.
Speaker 2: It's funny your guard and historically here at Arizona. You know,
Speaker 2: Lootstans were a guard oriented. You guys ran ran the show.
Speaker 2: If you guys were good, the team was good. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to say that that's the case with this one,
Speaker 2: because if Henry's good in Milwauka is good. This team
Speaker 2: has been fantastic.
Speaker 8: No, they really have. And so you know, the nice
Speaker 8: thing about Arizona's wins and the street they're on a
Speaker 8: six in a row and thirteen in the last fourteen,
Speaker 8: has been it's been a team effort. You know that
Speaker 8: they've got really good contribution to that of some of
Speaker 8: their starters, but the bench has been spectacular. You know,
Speaker 8: kJ Lewis and Henry Basari and Carter Bryant making up.
Speaker 8: You know, the heavy minutes from the bench have been
Speaker 8: really good. But for Arizona to be successful, they need
Speaker 8: all eight guys to really play well, and we're getting
Speaker 8: that right now. So it's just been really nice to see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, no question, it's been no And I
Speaker 2: called it the last two games, the last two big victories,
Speaker 2: a sprinkled game, because you get sprinkles from everybody, you know,
Speaker 2: little this, little, that, little that from.
Speaker 8: Everybody exactly exactly, so it makes it. That's what makes
Speaker 8: it so dangerous. You know, you know what Caleb's going
Speaker 8: to bring, and he's been He's been great, you know,
Speaker 8: the last four games, averaging nearly twenty one points, fifth
Speaker 8: of the league in scoring. So you know, as the
Speaker 8: former player of the Year, and you know, going back
Speaker 8: to last year in the Pac twelve and now you know,
Speaker 8: probably projecting out as a first team All Big twelve,
Speaker 8: you know what you're going to get there. But you know,
Speaker 8: Jaden Browley's giving you some card, of Bryan's giving you
Speaker 8: some night Basar. You know, it's just it's, like you say,
Speaker 8: it's sprinkled around, and when it's like that, you can't
Speaker 8: really focus on one guy. So it makes it just
Speaker 8: makes Arizona so much more dangerous.
Speaker 2: Let me make this comparision, and it just kept popped
Speaker 2: into the mom I haven't really thought about it much,
Speaker 2: but either comparison or comp with you and kJ kJ
Speaker 2: is not that much of a score. You weren't because
Speaker 2: you didn't shoot that much. You were more of a
Speaker 2: of a ball handler, kind of defensive guy. Do you
Speaker 2: see does do you see a little of you and him?
Speaker 8: Most definitely, especially in both our ability to kind of
Speaker 8: affect the game without scoring.
Speaker 17: You know.
Speaker 8: Having said that, kJ, at this point his career is
Speaker 8: probably a little bit better.
Speaker 3: Score.
Speaker 8: Keep in mind kJ is a two. I was a
Speaker 8: one who could play the one, two and the three,
Speaker 8: so and so we're a little bit different in terms
Speaker 8: of position wise, but our ability to get hands on
Speaker 8: balls to take certain individuals out of games. I see
Speaker 8: a lot of similarities there. So you know, he's somebody.
Speaker 8: Obviously as a defender, my eyes gravitated to really quickly
Speaker 8: when he first got on Campra's like, whoa, this kid
Speaker 8: has a chance to be an elite leat defender and
Speaker 8: uh and panning out that way.
Speaker 2: So so when you're when you can play the one, two, three,
Speaker 2: but mostly a one, and he's kind of like a one,
Speaker 2: two more two. He's a kind of bowl like you
Speaker 2: do you is there an emphasis or you just kind
Speaker 2: of just play? You know, I got a score or
Speaker 2: I got a defend or their you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: Yeah, No, I think we just I think he kind
Speaker 8: of has the same mindset I do. We just play,
Speaker 8: you know, we just play and what happens happens. The
Speaker 8: main focus is winning and I and I and I
Speaker 8: see that with him. You know, he he's a winner.
Speaker 8: He's a guy who wants to win, so he'll do
Speaker 8: whatever it takes. Dive all loose balls, you know, have
Speaker 8: maybe twenty points or one game, have four points. Whatever
Speaker 8: a coach Wooden Staff needs from him. He seems to
Speaker 8: be that guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think I've already asked you you like
Speaker 2: this team, can you talk real quick because you're with
Speaker 2: the team now. Uh, the job that kind of Tommy
Speaker 2: has done and turning this thing around from two months ago.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, there was obviously two months ago we
Speaker 8: were sitting i believe maybe even one game under five
Speaker 8: hundred or maybe one over, and there was a lot
Speaker 8: of concern ncies on about you know, just the makeup
Speaker 8: of this team and and kind of how how were
Speaker 8: things gonna go. Everyone's talking about maybe this is going
Speaker 8: to be.
Speaker 3: A long season.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, to Tommy's credit, you know, they made
Speaker 8: some adjustments in terms of you know, u of starters
Speaker 8: and coming off the bench. Obviously moving kJ Lewis from
Speaker 8: from a starter onto the bench really seemed to kind
Speaker 8: of be that that magic term for the team where
Speaker 8: you know, you had you had a guy like Anthony
Speaker 8: del Orso in the starting lineups a comfortable natural position
Speaker 8: for him. He had Trey Townsend he was starting, and
Speaker 8: so these guys are a little bit more comfortable. And
Speaker 8: now we found that. We found out uh oh, hey,
Speaker 8: we got a bench here of kJ Lewis, Carter, and
Speaker 8: Henry they saw with combined them with Jayden Bradley and
Speaker 8: Katab Love as a second unit. Man, there's not a
Speaker 8: better second unit in the country than that. And so
Speaker 8: we were able to see that. You know, after the
Speaker 8: first five ercent events, we were able to extend on
Speaker 8: leaders or get back in the games, and it's just
Speaker 8: been a lot better chemistry. I think the guys have
Speaker 8: fed off that and they're just playing very, very good
Speaker 8: basketball right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, there's lots of Like I totally agree with you.
Speaker 2: I asked this question of most of the people that
Speaker 2: come on. You have some experience, not something you have
Speaker 2: a lot of experience. Okay, So, and I don't remember
Speaker 2: ninety four, you guys were standouts with Damon and Kalid
Speaker 2: and yourself and JB those guys. So you guys were
Speaker 2: pretty depth. You know, you had some good depth. Okay,
Speaker 2: So now they're in the rough and Double Big twelve.
Speaker 2: We all know what's physical. We've seen it firsthand on
Speaker 2: the road and at home, and you've gone through eighteen
Speaker 2: nineteen twenty games of this. Then you go to the tournament,
Speaker 2: the Big twelve tournament, maybe get physical in that thing.
Speaker 2: Now you have to get ready for the big, big dance.
Speaker 2: Do you think that physics over the time takes its toll.
Speaker 8: It definitely takes this toll, you know, without question. And
Speaker 8: I think that's universal throughout all the lease. I'm sure
Speaker 8: an the SEC they're beating each other up right now
Speaker 8: and AC and Big East, and so everybody is kind
Speaker 8: of going through it where you know, we kind of
Speaker 8: laugh as players, like no one's healthy at this time
Speaker 8: of year. But that's the million dollar question. Is Ken
Speaker 8: your program or Ken Arizona withstand that you know we've
Speaker 8: already seen last game, Trey Townsend was out with a
Speaker 8: concussion from the BYU game. A couple other guys were
Speaker 8: nicked up, and so it's forced Tommy to adjust, you know,
Speaker 8: the pretty harder Brian the starting lineup. So you definitely
Speaker 8: you're definitely feeling it right now. Can you get through
Speaker 8: the season. You know we're gonna find out. You know,
Speaker 8: we still have nine games, nine really tough games here
Speaker 8: in the Big Twelve, still have the Big Twelve Tournament,
Speaker 8: as you mentioned, and so you know, you really have
Speaker 8: to take stock of kind of where you're at all
Speaker 8: the time, just because you're constantly getting beat, You're causing
Speaker 8: these physical battles and it's just you know, it's kind
Speaker 8: of a wait and see, you know, if it's going
Speaker 8: to be too much or just an right.
Speaker 2: Well, that said, I want to put some perspective on
Speaker 2: it because you know, guys like being on radio or
Speaker 2: in the media, we're overweight dudes who don't play the game.
Speaker 2: We write about it, We asked, ask questions, get reactions.
Speaker 2: You guys are the players eighteen nineteen, twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: years old. This is what you do. I mean, you
Speaker 2: play basketball, right, whether it's physical or otherwise. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: is there is there is there a bad question in
Speaker 2: there where? Okay, it's it looks rough for us, us
Speaker 2: normal people, but you guys aren't normal people playing basketball?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 8: No, I mean these guys are built for this. You know,
Speaker 8: if I go back to my own career, I play
Speaker 8: you know from sixteen to thirty two, right, you know,
Speaker 8: I never took off two weeks and so I was
Speaker 8: constantly in shape, constantly, you know, just staying prepared. And
Speaker 8: these guys are the same way. The young kids have
Speaker 8: come through AU ball where they're playing just as country,
Speaker 8: international and everything, and put the weight on and just
Speaker 8: the rigors of every day college being in the Division
Speaker 8: one athletes, so that, as you mentioned, they're built for this. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and so yeah, you just kind of keep your head
Speaker 8: down and realize that's what it's all about and just
Speaker 8: enjoy the ride.
Speaker 2: Well, enjoy the ride, stay warm, we'll see. I think
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a great game tonight, No.
Speaker 8: It really is. You know, Kansas State really quick, you
Speaker 8: know this is a good basketball team. Yeah, that you know,
Speaker 8: Kim Palm saying is one of the best, is one
Speaker 8: of the hottest teams in the country, along with Arizona.
Speaker 8: They've they've kind of figured some things out, shortening their bench,
Speaker 8: you know, they're playing better on both endo the floor.
Speaker 8: So tonight tonight, and I think it's gonna be sold out.
Speaker 8: I'm anticipating that it should be. It should be electric,
Speaker 8: and it should be a really good game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, enjoy enjoy what you do I'm sure a
Speaker 2: lot of people will be listening to you guys.
Speaker 8: Thanks man, awesome, Steve, thanks so much. Man, always a
Speaker 8: coming on.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to win the ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me today
Speaker 2: is Kobe Ricking Machine here you go on to call
Speaker 2: five two zero, four one six certay four forty. If
Speaker 2: you want to be like don go ahead and argue
Speaker 2: with me. I'm a cool then. But as my boy
Speaker 2: Merced said, don didn't know what he's talking about. But serious, Uh,
Speaker 2: just Iway State. We'll get to that when we get
Speaker 2: to that game. But Arizona's gonna have a bumpier road
Speaker 2: than it had in the first ten eleven games, having
Speaker 2: to go to Iowa State, having to go to Kansas
Speaker 2: Houston plays this weekend tonight at Kansas State.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: But but they're starting to convince me that they're a
Speaker 2: pretty good team.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 2: Crevious going out may have been a blessing in disguise.
Speaker 2: Henry has been bonkers good. Uh not all the time,
Speaker 2: but most of the time. And a Waka has been
Speaker 2: pretty consistently good, and everybody else has kind of filled
Speaker 2: the holes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean everyone stepped up. Lasking versus tuxt Tech
Speaker 3: really a balanced win. Yeah. If Creevous doesn't go out,
Speaker 3: we don't get this great season from Vasar.
Speaker 2: We don't get it right.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: Sometimes things happen for a reason.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Sometimes that girl you're not gonna meet tonight is a
Speaker 2: good thing. Yeah, so listen to my advice. Son. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh so we'll see The game starts at six o'clock
Speaker 2: on ESPN plus. I should be a packed crowd at
Speaker 2: Kansas State, even though the whether there's gonna be what
Speaker 2: it is up up there. So we'll see, and then
Speaker 2: Houston comes on Sunday or Saturday, I'm sorry, at noon,
Speaker 2: which would be an easy sellout. Kelvin Sampson returns. I
Speaker 2: hope to get him on the show here, but they
Speaker 2: practiced at the same time the show was on, and
Speaker 2: he's not able to come on. I wanted to talk
Speaker 2: to him about the google days of the PAC twelve
Speaker 2: or PAC ten at the time when he was at
Speaker 2: Washington State and doing fairly well to get a job
Speaker 2: somewhere else and then go to Oklahoma and then Indiana
Speaker 2: and now Houston getting a little trouble with the NCAA
Speaker 2: at Oklahoma and Indiana I think it was. So we'll
Speaker 2: see them on Saturday. We get a call, cool, got
Speaker 2: a call, Hellho, you're on the air, andine the mall.
Speaker 2: Who's this Hi, Steve? How you doing Howard? What's the word?
Speaker 3: The word is?
Speaker 4: I just went to the casino to get my really
Speaker 4: crumbs of of winnings for betting in Philly. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: of course I saw the spot and I remember the
Speaker 4: guy that called yesterday, the guy that covers Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: he said five and they're definitely winning. If I had
Speaker 4: a bunch of money, I would put a I would
Speaker 4: put up to a dime otherwise, not a nickel. You
Speaker 4: know what, there's a code word for that's how that's
Speaker 4: how confident that I am.
Speaker 2: You would take the Wildcats, you would take the Kansas State.
Speaker 2: I would take the u of a Yeah.
Speaker 4: And by a minimum of what that guy said, and
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say I would say even that it's going
Speaker 4: to be closer to eight.
Speaker 8: I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, the one reason. Okay, they're on a little roll
Speaker 4: and they beat a couple of teams, but Kansas is nothing.
Speaker 4: They're they're not even in our top five in this conference.
Speaker 4: They're not playing that great. But they do have a
Speaker 4: good defense. But their offenses and is really miserable. It's
Speaker 4: like thirty eighth in the country. But they have a
Speaker 4: good defense anyway, And also, uh, what was I gonna say?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I also wanted just to jump to Houston.
Speaker 4: I just and they've lost you know, they lost six
Speaker 4: games in a row before that. Yeah, so yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: the bottom line is there. They're fifty five hundred in
Speaker 4: the conference and they have won over five hundred.
Speaker 2: So you're saying the Arizona by eight, Yeah, and.
Speaker 4: I got I got another big, big one. I think
Speaker 4: it's a possible thing that they're gonna put the Houston
Speaker 4: Arizona might move to the National Game maybe, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't heard that. I haven't heard that. You
Speaker 2: know that more tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I haven't heard ab.
Speaker 8: I'm just guessing that's all.
Speaker 2: I Well, it's a twelve o'clock game. I'm assuming it's
Speaker 2: gonna be on CBS. I haven't really checked the schedule,
Speaker 2: but I know it's gonna be a big game. The
Speaker 2: ticket prices you have, you have you have access to tickets,
Speaker 2: don't you I have.
Speaker 4: Access to tickets, but I don't have this one. But
Speaker 4: if it's on the regular TV, I'm I don't even
Speaker 4: know what I'm gonna do. But I actually want to
Speaker 4: get in there because it's going to be electric like
Speaker 4: the Iowa State. It's I don't think it's gonna you know,
Speaker 4: let let let you down.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, it's gonna be a fantastic game. Like
Speaker 2: I said earlier in the show that I saw some
Speaker 2: tickets going for like two grand right in the middle.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but you get but you could get cheap tickets.
Speaker 8: Still on cheap tickets, you know what I mean, looked
Speaker 8: about four or five days ago.
Speaker 2: Tell me what a cheap ticket is to me.
Speaker 4: A cheap ticket is under one hundred dollars up high.
Speaker 3: I think you had said that, right, What do you say, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I saw one, but it's expensive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were, Actually they had some. They had some
Speaker 4: available in the sixties, seventies and eighties too.
Speaker 2: Better get it now because he's going to be sixty
Speaker 2: seven or eighty in a couple of days.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Anyway, okay, okay, Well it's going to be on
Speaker 4: national TV though. Okay, well, that'll be.
Speaker 2: Even more Congress on your winning with the Eagles.
Speaker 4: Everybody I've been, sixty percent.
Speaker 8: Of people were on them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not so much in Philadelphia, but they just didn't
Speaker 2: want to see Kansas City win.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, but the people of the wise guys, Yeah,
Speaker 4: like Steve Rivera, No, I.
Speaker 2: Went with Kansas I went with Kansas City on a
Speaker 2: whim and then a dumb prayer. Yeah, so it is
Speaker 2: what it is. Okay, Okay, thank you, thank you having
Speaker 2: a good day. Yeah, Okay, has got a funny message.
Speaker 2: I can't do that. Sorry, I can't do that. We
Speaker 2: got about ten minutes. If you guys want to keep calling, uh,
Speaker 2: if the guy wants to call who just texted me,
Speaker 2: that's fine too. Let me know how you doing. I
Speaker 2: haven't heard from you in a while. I haven't heard
Speaker 2: from Gabe either. Gabe has been kind of missing in action. Nico.
Speaker 2: Did you go to the game last time? Nico and
Speaker 2: anybody else who went to call? You know, Money, mister Money,
Speaker 2: Team Money, whatever. What about tonight's game? I really don't
Speaker 2: know if I feel good or bad for this game
Speaker 2: because I just don't have I just don't know how
Speaker 2: good Arizona is. They proven me wrong a lot, although
Speaker 2: I did have them to be to Texas Tech on
Speaker 2: Saturday by eight or nine, and I think they won
Speaker 2: by nine. In fact, at orosperg gassed me. What did
Speaker 2: I think I was gonna? I was gonna? I said,
Speaker 2: they've been between eight and ten, and exactly what happened happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean a lot can happen in this game
Speaker 3: on the road versus a hot team. Yeah, well see,
Speaker 3: I expect their on it to win to cover what
Speaker 3: has to happen for them to win, what has to happen.
Speaker 3: I think Bradley needs to have a good game and Love.
Speaker 3: I think the backward has to play well, especially on
Speaker 3: the road.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they've been kind of doing that. Love Love
Speaker 2: is so hot and cold that you almost don't even
Speaker 2: want to factor in because you don't know which side
Speaker 2: you're gonna get exactly, and if kJ kind of shows up.
Speaker 2: He was hot and cold on Saturday, you know, the
Speaker 2: first three possessions or first five minutes, he had three turnovers,
Speaker 2: his hand looked at whatever the hand was, and then
Speaker 2: he comes up with fifteen points on a few baskets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, I hope the Loreso plays well. He's
Speaker 3: been Yeah, he's kind of like not the X factor,
Speaker 3: but he needs to be a factor. Yeah, he has
Speaker 3: a been a factor in the big games. He struggled
Speaker 3: for sure. Yeah, especially the physical games. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 3: non factor.
Speaker 2: I still like the way Henry Henry to me last game,
Speaker 2: and I didn't ask Reggie this, but he was fantastic
Speaker 2: because he looked beat. He looked beat tired, and he
Speaker 2: still came up with huge plays even though he looked
Speaker 2: like he couldn't go anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and when he gets tired, you can put a
Speaker 3: walk in.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well they were playing together, so you know. And then, uh,
Speaker 2: Brian didn't have a great game, but he had a
Speaker 2: capable game to fill in for Townsend and and he's
Speaker 2: pretty much replaced Townson anyway. Yeah, got one another call.
Speaker 2: Who's there? This is Design the Ball.
Speaker 5: Hey, it's Bill. Hey, Bill, you said you couldn't do
Speaker 5: what I wanted you to do, so he was asking
Speaker 5: me to call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a good observation though on your text.
Speaker 2: So what do you think about tonight?
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 5: I think we're gonna win. I really do, because I
Speaker 5: think it's gonna be closing. Think it's being a great game,
Speaker 5: because I think our bigs are playing great. I think
Speaker 5: Katab's got some more confidence. Our defense is gonna be good.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a tough environment, it's gonna this is
Speaker 5: what we've been looking forward to going into the Big twelve,
Speaker 5: right right.
Speaker 2: It's funny. It's funny because you've been following the Cats
Speaker 2: for a long time. You're a native I think you're
Speaker 2: a native. The buzz now has been escalated to a
Speaker 2: great degree. I can't remember it like this the last
Speaker 2: couple of years, because that expectation was big. For the
Speaker 2: last two years, you know what I'm saying, they were
Speaker 2: already expected to do well. Yeah, because they didn't do well.
Speaker 2: And now here you are, the expectations or the buzz
Speaker 2: is great.
Speaker 5: I agree, I agree completely. We got like you said,
Speaker 5: we've been sprinkling really well, you know, and for years
Speaker 5: and years and years we required our guards to play
Speaker 5: good or Brian Williams to play good or something like that,
Speaker 5: you know, Derek Williams to play good.
Speaker 6: But you're right.
Speaker 5: We have many people that can have a game and
Speaker 5: really get us over the age. So that gives me
Speaker 5: a lot more confidence, right.
Speaker 2: Right, my guy. Yesterday Quinn was talking about in my story,
Speaker 2: I didn't even mention Caleb Glove. I didn't have to
Speaker 2: mention Caleb Glove and they won.
Speaker 7: Right right.
Speaker 5: So I'm excited on my way home from flying so
Speaker 5: I'll be home in a couple of hours, gonna watch
Speaker 5: the game, excited about it.
Speaker 2: Okay, did you have did you have the winner in
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl or no, did you bet it.
Speaker 5: You know, I didn't. I didn't play so bet this year.
Speaker 5: I kind of didn't care. I was kind of rooting
Speaker 5: against the Chiefs just because I was ready to see
Speaker 5: somebody else. But the Eagles have been there recently too,
Speaker 5: So yeah, I was. I was in New Orleans close
Speaker 5: to the Super Bowl and it was crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So uh, I'm glad it turned out the way it did.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, Chafe travels back enjoy.
Speaker 8: All right, thank you?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, Bill follows he's the one that texted you earlier.
Speaker 2: So cool. Anybody else we got we had about five
Speaker 2: minutes before we have to say goodbye for this hour,
Speaker 2: and then you're gonna do breaking news, probably short breaking news.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm kind of short.
Speaker 2: And then we're gonna go with Aaron Crowley, uh, the
Speaker 2: color Guard Classic Tournament director. It starts hearing about three weeks, one, two, three,
Speaker 2: About three weeks you're at La Paloma. The annual event
Speaker 2: brings some of the top older golfers in the country. Okay, anyone,
Speaker 2: anyone else want to call, Just give us a quick
Speaker 2: shout out here in.
Speaker 3: The next minute or so so we can get you
Speaker 3: on what else, anything else?
Speaker 2: What do you think that happened.
Speaker 3: I have I asked you, I think we went and cover,
Speaker 3: but anything happen, said, and you said, what three and
Speaker 3: a half? Three and a half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not a big number. I don't know which
Speaker 2: way to go with it. I wouldn't know which way
Speaker 2: to go with it. I did have, like I said,
Speaker 2: Arizona over Texas Tech minus the points. I just thought
Speaker 2: they would be in the home game. It's just so
Speaker 2: tough to overcome, especially here. And did you go to
Speaker 2: the game, so it was rocking? It was it was
Speaker 2: rocking and you went to the game.
Speaker 3: I went to the Duke and the Iowas say.
Speaker 2: And those those games were rocking until they weren't for Duke,
Speaker 2: you know, right, because they were in it until they weren't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think this is more expensive than
Speaker 3: the Duke game right now in Houston.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which doesn't make any sense, but that's how it
Speaker 2: is this late in the year. Yeah, because what's today
Speaker 2: for eleventh twelve?
Speaker 3: So like that eleventh in a month, in a month,
Speaker 3: four straight, four short weeks. The tournament's gonna start, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, the big Big twelve tournament and then the
Speaker 3: n C Double A tournament. I'm hoping they get sent
Speaker 3: to Denver so I can be able to get to go.
Speaker 3: Otherwise I'm not going. Yeah, so we'll see.
Speaker 2: Okay, anybody else, anybody else want to give us a
Speaker 2: quick call? Got like four minutes left in the hour.
Speaker 2: You were talking about Luca, anybody somewhere? Funny texts coming in?
Speaker 2: Then you sure what they say? See the waste management?
Speaker 2: Yeah that was I watched. I went to Phoenix this
Speaker 2: weekend to to watch the game and to play a
Speaker 2: little and and h yeah I watched. I wasn't too
Speaker 2: much into it. I know it's crazy. You said you
Speaker 2: wanted to go but you couldn't.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Very expensive. Yeah, it was Debtree one. He was plus
Speaker 3: six thousand.
Speaker 2: To win right after the Sunday, right after the after
Speaker 2: the Saturday, from the beginning. Oh was he six thousand
Speaker 2: at the beginning? Oh wow, yeah, Oh that's a good number.
Speaker 2: Ten bucks on that gets you what? Yeah, a few thousand.
Speaker 3: I heard the security was like harder this year, like
Speaker 3: you couldn't do as much stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because of what's happened in the past. It's
Speaker 2: crazy on the mud fun and yeah, drunkenness.
Speaker 3: Yeah, would you hear that? One of my friends told me,
Speaker 3: great vine, your kids drinking so much. I don't know
Speaker 3: if he's a reliable source.
Speaker 2: Okay, by the way, the color who says I am
Speaker 2: and I am gonna go to the to the Cold
Speaker 2: Guard Classic. Maybe we can hook up to the person
Speaker 2: who texted me, so we'll see. Yeah, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: what day though, Saturday, probably that Saturday, maybe Sunday, Okay. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a lot of fun, especially if the weather's great.
Speaker 2: It's a great day to be out watching golf, uh,
Speaker 2: walking the greens and then you know, maybe get into
Speaker 2: a tent or two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have you been. You haven't been this show on
Speaker 2: your second year?
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I haven't been. Definitely one to go. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is a casual thing.
Speaker 2: You can get a ticket. Yeah, and then they have
Speaker 2: the concerts after. They're a big sponsor of mine now
Speaker 2: on the show, and we're gonna have Aaron Crowley here
Speaker 2: on the other side, so we'll talk a lot about that.
Speaker 3: I know we can't go early, right, it could be
Speaker 3: we can always time we have about a minute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little less. Okay, let's just go. Then we'll
Speaker 2: come back maybe about three fifty nine. On the other side, okay,