Speaker 1: This is on the ball, breaking news on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I mean, before you start that one, could you do
Speaker 2: me a favorite or maybe raise as you do odds
Speaker 2: to win the title now if you can find them
Speaker 2: for me? Okay? Cool?
Speaker 3: All right, starting with some breaking news coaching carousels happening
Speaker 3: in college basketball right now.
Speaker 2: You know Texas hired Sean Miller Boo, I have a
Speaker 2: question to you after.
Speaker 3: The and Iowa hired Drake's Ben McCullum as their.
Speaker 2: Coachah, yeah, I thought he was a he's a good coach. Yeah.
Speaker 2: There was another Who's going to Minnesota?
Speaker 3: Did we Colorado State's head coach Nico med Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is that official or is that just to mention it
Speaker 2: says it's a Minnesota named him? Okay, well, I'm do
Speaker 2: you have a good year or two? What about in
Speaker 2: NC State? Who's who's wait wait that's what we talked about?
Speaker 2: Yeah right yeah he uh well, I tell you what,
Speaker 2: I was impressed to that guy. Yeah. Well he's he's
Speaker 2: got some you know, background, but he's a pretty good coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. Anyway, yeah right yeah, Arizona no, no, all
Speaker 2: of them, all of them.
Speaker 4: Looking at Duke to win the national championship plus two
Speaker 4: twenty five twenty two point two five to one, Okay.
Speaker 4: Right after them is Florida with three ten plus three
Speaker 4: ten three ten Okay, Houston and Auburn or Houston at
Speaker 4: five hundred, Auburn at five point fifty, Tennessee sixteen to one,
Speaker 4: along with Alabama twenty and one goes to Michigan State
Speaker 4: and Texas Tech thirty three to one, Maryland Arizona forty
Speaker 4: to one, Kentucky fifty to one. You got Ole Miss
Speaker 4: and Purdue sixty to one, saxty six to one BYU
Speaker 4: Michigan seventy five and one in Arkansas.
Speaker 2: Also, so Arizona might be the tenth best team. And there,
Speaker 2: you know, because you talked about them being thirteen. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there was a there was an article that they listed
Speaker 2: him as the fourteenth best team. Oh yeah, yeah, thirteenth
Speaker 2: on ESPN.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah. Keeping it with coaching news, Duke's head coached,
Speaker 3: John shape Shear was named a finalist of the Naismith Award.
Speaker 2: Oh. I had to vote for that, Okay, I messed up.
Speaker 2: You vote for you vote for that. I was the state,
Speaker 2: the rep bro I was. There's no state I didn't
Speaker 2: want to write my many in. I totally forgot that
Speaker 2: today was the day.
Speaker 3: Also, something that I noticed over the weekend there was
Speaker 3: only out of the fourteen you know, big story, SEC
Speaker 3: got fourteen teams, there was only one team that had
Speaker 3: a negative conference record that made it past the first round,
Speaker 3: and it was Arkansas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they went. Yeah they We could talk
Speaker 2: about that later. I mean I had I had Cali
Speaker 2: party getting crushed by Patina to me the night and
Speaker 2: day and coaches and surprising Patino could the team couldn't
Speaker 2: hit anything, couldn't do anything. They missed, bunnies they missed. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I couldn't buy a basket fortunately for my bracket.
Speaker 3: But we'll keep it going.
Speaker 2: Here's what everybody else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, switching over to some U have a Baseball won
Speaker 3: the weekend series against West Virginia the one yesterday, eleven.
Speaker 2: To four, so they're pretty hot. Still.
Speaker 3: Softball unfortunately lost up in Tempe yesterday two to three.
Speaker 3: The Suns played a night against the Bucks at seven
Speaker 3: on NBA TV for all the Arizona Sun or Phoenix
Speaker 3: Suns fans sorry. Also keeping it in town and keeping
Speaker 3: it with college basketball, the women's PEMA team lost in
Speaker 3: the national Championship yesterday seventy five to six. Saturday, Saturday,
Speaker 3: Oh yeah Saturday, sorry sowars to score again, seventy five
Speaker 3: to sixty seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah what what a fantastic ground fantastic grun come on,
Speaker 2: and then the manfl I didn't know that this happened
Speaker 2: on Friday. I guess they lost in the semi finals,
Speaker 2: right they lot they got kind of crushed, Yeah, going undefeated.
Speaker 3: Ninety five to seventy four, only loss of the season.
Speaker 3: And then yeah, bounce back on Saturday to a third year.
Speaker 2: For the school for basketball. Yeah wow, wow wow. Yeah
Speaker 2: too bad. Too bad to men because they were they
Speaker 2: were doing so well, and then them too second place.
Speaker 2: Nothing to sneeze that, No, yeah for both of them.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah you got you got the medals.
Speaker 3: You know, you're standing on a podium figuratively, I don't
Speaker 3: know if literally, but.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: Audio Barnes still still naming the coaching and the coaching
Speaker 3: hiring hat switching over to the NFL uh Phoka. Nakuwa
Speaker 3: said he aims to be retired by thirty and cites
Speaker 3: Aaron Donalds kind of as his inspiration. I feel like
Speaker 3: it's kind of been a trend, like you're starting to
Speaker 3: see people retired.
Speaker 2: Get you get enough enough reports of the CTE. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I got a I got a buddy of mine played
Speaker 2: football with him at Army. He's uh uh got that.
Speaker 2: It's like it's not good. Yeah, doctor will Smith. He
Speaker 2: I forget the guy's actual name, but different Will Smith.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Not too much. Apart from that. A lot of
Speaker 3: it was the tournament stuff. But I got a question
Speaker 3: for you, Steve. Yeah, who who is the most surprising
Speaker 3: upset for you this weekend?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: There were very many, right, that's not a lot of
Speaker 2: big ups It was kind of like Cinderella's Little Chalky.
Speaker 2: I thought that Colorado State had had a huge game
Speaker 2: with Maryland and and and lost. It was that was
Speaker 2: a yeah, well, I tell you, I love that coach
Speaker 2: talking about It's like going, yeah, we're not you know,
Speaker 2: we're here, We're real. Yeah, no, no, we're real. But
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go we are so real. I'm going somewhere
Speaker 2: else exactly right, right, And you know it's who off
Speaker 2: the top of my hand, ray I, I don't have
Speaker 2: to help me with this, Yeah, yeah, because you know
Speaker 2: what pull disclosure. In fact, I rarely bet these games anymore,
Speaker 2: but I did put some money down on Saint John's
Speaker 2: because I thought Saint John's would kick the crap out
Speaker 2: of Arkansas. And it was just a bad matchup. It
Speaker 2: was just a bed because Arkansas was too big toot
Speaker 2: and they finally showed up the play game. You know,
Speaker 2: the one thing that I wanted to talk about, you guys,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Two years ago, there was a big
Speaker 2: story and a big bruja about the basketballs. Right there
Speaker 2: are different color? Have you seen? Have you noticed that?
Speaker 2: Have you noticed the basketballs? I remember that? And the
Speaker 2: same thing this year? Have you you haven't noticed? So
Speaker 2: last year time he brought it up at the tournament,
Speaker 2: he brought it up that he talked about being different.
Speaker 2: There's the same this year. And I watched every game
Speaker 2: and it's notice how they can't handle the ball, and
Speaker 2: notice the free throws are missing. Notice the free throws
Speaker 2: were missing, and how they bounce off the rims and
Speaker 2: and notice just the bouncing it. The thing is nobody's
Speaker 2: written about it, and it's the same ball. To me,
Speaker 2: I would bet my life it's the same ball and
Speaker 2: they're having a hard time controlling it and it's a
Speaker 2: sponsoraball because they give a ton of money to the
Speaker 2: If you google it, you'll find from the last a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago, there just hasn't been a story
Speaker 2: about it. I'm gonna ask Tommy about it. It's a
Speaker 2: stupid question because it doesn't really matter now. But if
Speaker 2: you notice that ball, Yeah, so the response back is that, oh,
Speaker 2: we both played the same ball. Sure, but that's not
Speaker 2: the case. No, no, but both the both teams are
Speaker 2: struggling with differently. Yeah, they played different The teams play differently,
Speaker 2: and uh and they and they and they both are
Speaker 2: struggling with the ball. If you know, if you go
Speaker 2: back and you watch some games kind of just out
Speaker 2: of curiosity, watch how that ball balances. It's just really
Speaker 2: strange to me. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, I saw I think
Speaker 2: Tennessee guy at the airport.
Speaker 3: There was like a sound bite, oh like an official
Speaker 3: sound bite, but he said the the air pressure is
Speaker 3: like a bit more inflated.
Speaker 2: So he actually said that, he said over the weekend. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think someone just like asked them about it at
Speaker 3: the airport or something like that, and it just like
Speaker 3: happened to like someone got.
Speaker 2: A clip of it, right, Yeah, okay, because it's to me,
Speaker 2: it's it's the same problem that was two years ago,
Speaker 2: same problem that Timmy brought up last year. And then
Speaker 2: there was a story if you google the ball, they're
Speaker 2: getting a ton of money for the use of that ball,
Speaker 2: but they don't play with it during the year, which
Speaker 2: makes no sense. Yeah, right, exactly why would they. It'll
Speaker 2: bout now they'd be used to it. But even then,
Speaker 2: if you watch the games and watch some of the replays,
Speaker 2: you can kind of say, that's interesting. The balls bouncing
Speaker 2: kind of strange and they're mishandling it a lot.
Speaker 3: It kind of reminds me of how there's always a
Speaker 3: special ball for the World Cup, and especially it reminds
Speaker 3: me of the twenty ten in South America.
Speaker 2: Do they do that too, Yeah, they make us They
Speaker 2: make a different ball every year. And how was that different?
Speaker 2: The twenty ten one?
Speaker 3: It had like a knuckle, more of a knuckle effect
Speaker 3: kind of than like most of some other soccer ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so there was I mean, there was greaty.
Speaker 3: If you go back and watch some of those goals,
Speaker 3: I mean you just look at them and you're like, man,
Speaker 3: that's insane.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Other big college basketball news in town. Jada Williams put
Speaker 3: her name in the transfer portal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we were talking about out the air. Yeah,
Speaker 2: guess what it's that time of year. Yeah, well that's
Speaker 2: that's an interesting thing though. The transfer portal opened up
Speaker 2: right in the middle of the tournament. Yeah. So you've
Speaker 2: got people that are hitting it, hitting the portal now
Speaker 2: instill in the tournament. They gotta go. You got to
Speaker 2: fix that a little bit. So the kid from Arizona State, uh,
Speaker 2: Jason Jason Sam Yeah yeah, yeah, so he's in the
Speaker 2: in the portal too. And where was he going to
Speaker 2: come last year? Arizona? It's signed here or committee here,
Speaker 2: signed here and decided not to When when when when
Speaker 2: Caleb decided to come back? So now it's there's the thought,
Speaker 2: there's a thought, who knows? And do you want to
Speaker 2: go after him?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: And everywhere I saw a tweet do you want it
Speaker 2: to go after issues rejects or whatever? People? You know,
Speaker 2: they have differently they have to unlearn blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: If he can play and he's good, hell yeah, well yeah,
Speaker 2: if the guys got telling him. Christy Brinkley, if she's
Speaker 2: calling for me, get get her on the phone. I'll
Speaker 2: talk to her. Exactly, she needs a transfer portal. I
Speaker 2: have no nil money. Exactly, He's got my good looks man.
Speaker 2: You and Billy Joel. Hey, if Billy Joe can do it,
Speaker 2: I can do it too. Yeah, you're as ugly as
Speaker 2: Billy Joel. Exactly. Look I'll take that. I look like
Speaker 2: hell uh yeah. Well, and well that's the thing about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, all these guys are coming from from somewhere
Speaker 2: else on the transport. But I want to go back
Speaker 2: to the fact that the deal I was I was
Speaker 2: reading something about the transportal. They they you can't really
Speaker 2: push it to the end of March madness because schools
Speaker 2: have to and I know this is crazy, but there
Speaker 2: they have to accept them for academics, which which I
Speaker 2: know it's like academics. Who's talking academics? Okay, but they
Speaker 2: have to up him into the school and the acceptances
Speaker 2: are going out now in all this talk of nil
Speaker 2: and in athletics, how many times you hear the word academics? Yeah? No,
Speaker 2: I mean today today you said you saw what you
Speaker 2: did today? I'm sure. All how many classes you have?
Speaker 2: I got six? Six? How many of them are online? Two?
Speaker 2: And right? Kind of same five and three are online online.
Speaker 2: So nowadays the team went from Seattle Junior Jersey today. Yeah. Right,
Speaker 2: so if they had class today, they didn't class. Yeah,
Speaker 2: not taking an under And I'm not criticizing eight because
Speaker 2: that's just the way the life is. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: it's been that way. Yeah, it's been that way. And
Speaker 2: that's been that way from class. I mean, guys who
Speaker 2: are going to commit to the NBA, they don't register
Speaker 2: for the second semester. No, yeah, it was Shirkurs Sanders said,
Speaker 2: you know, it's like going he didn't go to any classes. Okay,
Speaker 2: you know some of these guys are not not in
Speaker 2: school for school. Okay, but it's been that way the
Speaker 2: whole time.
Speaker 4: It's funny you mentioned that one of the seven week classes.
Speaker 4: I just started last week and with Trade Townsend, and
Speaker 4: I did a week week's worth of homework.
Speaker 2: And stuff last night.
Speaker 4: So it's it is beneficial when you can put it
Speaker 4: to where you're if it's in your schedule.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's it's a self paced, right, self pace.
Speaker 2: I did that. I did that forty years ago when
Speaker 2: I was in school, and I probably did it incorrectly,
Speaker 2: but I did it because you know I could, I
Speaker 2: could knock this up in the final week of school. Yeah,
Speaker 2: get it all taken care of. Well, that's they shooting.
Speaker 2: Didn't recognize me when I went to classes.
Speaker 5: You're in.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Yeah, kind of piggybacking off that.
Speaker 3: I remember last year I had I had a class
Speaker 3: with Bassar actually like before he started or anything, and
Speaker 3: it was a cool guy. Never really talked too much.
Speaker 3: I always kicked my stands, you know, seven feet you
Speaker 3: know you need you need some legspace down.
Speaker 2: So I ain't mad about it. Herd to fit in
Speaker 2: the chairs. So so I get a text from out here.
Speaker 2: He is not an ah she reject. He rejected the issue,
Speaker 2: but he is probably going to try the NBA we're
Speaker 2: talking about. So so yeah, yeah, not an and not
Speaker 2: an assue reject. Just he wants to leave. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sure that if he wanted to come here, Arizona
Speaker 2: would welcome him. I don't know the situation, but but
Speaker 2: the threat that I saw, do they want to this
Speaker 2: Arizona wan to get his reject And to Huger's point,
Speaker 2: he's exactly right fit fiteah location location location, absolutely, I
Speaker 2: mean he was like a five stars coming. Yeah he was, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: he was the perfect dude to come in every place,
Speaker 2: you know, and everybody in November December saying Ketlum should
Speaker 2: have left, We should have got this guy, you know. Oh,
Speaker 2: let me ask you to we'll talk about this with
Speaker 2: with with with Brian, but let me ask you Okay, So,
Speaker 2: isn't Arizona supposed to be where they're supposed to be?
Speaker 2: They're a good program. Uh, they started the season tenth
Speaker 2: that tenth, I think it was maybe eleventh during the
Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen. Isn't this where they're supposed to be? Yeah,
Speaker 2: anything less would have been what well, I think I
Speaker 2: think anything less would have been a big disappointment for
Speaker 2: the for the seam. So now, but well, anything else
Speaker 2: is gravy, you know. I mean, look, look, we go
Speaker 2: out there and we beat Duke. It is we've got
Speaker 2: to be living on cloud din. We are playing beyond
Speaker 2: or beyond what we had. But also before we go
Speaker 2: the week the week, So if you if you're you're
Speaker 2: a fan long time, find all you guys, if they
Speaker 2: go to the Sweet sixteen for the next ten years,
Speaker 2: are you gonna be happy with that? Come on, guys,
Speaker 2: this teason I'm happy with it, but I will tell
Speaker 2: you I would really of course we're going for going
Speaker 2: to the final four? Is an Arizona part of that
Speaker 2: now before the discussion for the final four?
Speaker 5: No, no, no no.
Speaker 2: If they go to the sweet sixteen for the next
Speaker 2: ten years, is that good enough? You're Arizona. Oh you played.
Speaker 2: That's like people saying, well, they did well, they won
Speaker 2: the Pac twelve title championship. What you don't they don't
Speaker 2: play for that. You don't. You don't.
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Speaker 4: sweet sixteens. Right, you go for championships, right, point blank period. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Streaming live on the Ihearts Radio while this is Eye
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Vera, and today
Speaker 2: with me is Mike Quinn. Now on the phone, we
Speaker 2: have Brian Peterson from Azy Desert Swarm. Brian, how are
Speaker 2: you doing?
Speaker 5: Hey, thanks for having me back.
Speaker 2: Yep, all right, Brian.
Speaker 4: I get the opportunity and the once in a lifetime
Speaker 4: opportunity to ask the first question for the guests.
Speaker 2: I could ask.
Speaker 4: You know, we saw a little bit of an interaction
Speaker 4: between the Azy Desert Swarm gang and Caleb Love when
Speaker 4: he came went crashing into the media section. I got
Speaker 4: to make sure you're okay and are you doing it
Speaker 4: all right?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 5: It wasn't the first time my life flashed in front
Speaker 5: of my eyes court side at a game. But I
Speaker 5: was more worried about him that he kind of slid
Speaker 5: really hard into the side of it like that it
Speaker 5: could have bruised his hip. But I think Caleb loves
Speaker 5: one of those players that wears the the padded shorts
Speaker 5: underneath his game shorts. So I'm sure he was fine,
Speaker 5: and I mean he showed he was fine after that.
Speaker 2: So let's get to some questions here real quick. And
Speaker 2: we've been talking about this every now and again, and
Speaker 2: Corey explained his thought on what happened. But why wasn't
Speaker 2: the question or maybe he was asked on the side
Speaker 2: to Tommy why Owaka wasn't in a game late?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it didn't get asked. I'm just assuming that he
Speaker 5: felt that the defensive approach with the other guys against
Speaker 5: Biddle was better than Owaka, that Owaka was going to
Speaker 5: get that fifth foul. I mean, I guess at some
Speaker 5: point you have to put those guys at risk because
Speaker 5: you don't want them sitting on the bench with fouls
Speaker 5: to give.
Speaker 2: So to speak. But I guess it.
Speaker 5: I mean, usually when Tommy is asked about that stuff,
Speaker 5: he just mentions something about the guys we had out
Speaker 5: there worked force. But there was something that started to
Speaker 5: go on after that where they were put Ouaka in
Speaker 5: there for when there was free throws to get the
Speaker 5: rebounds and also having gal orso to to foul. But
Speaker 5: before that, yes, he wasn't out there, and I think
Speaker 5: it did contribute a little bit, but I don't think.
Speaker 5: I mean, they were doing well on the boards even
Speaker 5: when he wasn't in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I was just a question. Corey explained it
Speaker 2: offensive that it was more about offense because because of
Speaker 2: the Caleb love able to rub off on on Henry.
Speaker 2: The he explained that way he doesn't ye, he said.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean Henry Henry space is the floor
Speaker 5: better and and Caleb has has really been able to
Speaker 5: create a good connection with him on give and goes
Speaker 5: and whatnot and and o waka. It's constantly has been
Speaker 5: referred to the season as kind of a below the
Speaker 5: basket player. You don't run your offense through him. There's
Speaker 5: no high lows. His scoring is almost always going to
Speaker 5: be off putbacks, and as valuable as those were, uh,
Speaker 5: it's also risky that you get that fifth foul trying
Speaker 5: to go up for a rebound and on the offense,
Speaker 5: and then you don't want to kill a possession in
Speaker 5: that respect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I guess YEA. That was so nice. You
Speaker 2: stayed there a little longer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm still here I'm heading back tonight. I had
Speaker 5: been considering going to New Jersey, but life happens, and
Speaker 5: I'm going to come back to Arizona and follow that
Speaker 5: game remotely. And yeah, if they go to the Elite eight,
Speaker 5: same but if they go to the Final fours, that's
Speaker 5: an easy drive, Steve, we can do another road trip.
Speaker 2: Well aware, I'm getting ready. I'm getting ready. If that happens.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. Is twenty fourteen hours. So Bucky's
Speaker 2: here we come. So what do you think? I mean,
Speaker 2: what did you think about the game itself? Very strange
Speaker 2: when it started and the way you finished.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Oregon played a really great start to that game.
Speaker 5: They were hitting shots, and they weren't necessarily wide open shots,
Speaker 5: they were just hitting the shots. Arizona had a couple turnovers,
Speaker 5: three really early that led to seven points. It's just
Speaker 5: kind of one of those nothing could go right situations.
Speaker 5: But as has been the case so many times with
Speaker 5: Tommy Lloyd teams, he doesn't call that quick time out
Speaker 5: to stop the momentum. He doesn't lay into the team.
Speaker 5: He's just kind of like, all right, well now we've
Speaker 5: built the hole, so now the goal is to not
Speaker 5: let it get worse, just try to chip away with it.
Speaker 5: And it took them ten minutes and one second from
Speaker 5: when they were down fifteen to take the lead. So
Speaker 5: he clearly wasn't worried, and neither were any of the players.
Speaker 5: And he had said kind of after the game that
Speaker 5: he's been involved in games like that so often, but
Speaker 5: usually on the other end, that you know, the other team,
Speaker 5: if they're good, is going to make a comeback. So
Speaker 5: he went with this approach of he wanted Oregon to
Speaker 5: be like, wait, why aren't they calling time out?
Speaker 2: What are they?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 5: Wait, they know they're coming back, and let's let's get
Speaker 5: them stressed a little bit. And I mean, Arizona was
Speaker 5: up by six in the first half after being down
Speaker 5: by twenty one, okay, or down by fifteenth season.
Speaker 2: You don't let me ask you, let me let me
Speaker 2: jump on that. Why didn't they just why didn't they
Speaker 2: maintain that momentum?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the thing, you know, that's the thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just kind of like we kind of
Speaker 2: threw it back into third gear the same light. That's
Speaker 2: not what they do.
Speaker 5: I know, that's not what they do.
Speaker 2: Why don't they do that?
Speaker 5: It works both it works both ways. Oregon was a
Speaker 5: good team. Arizona got up by eleven, and then Oregon
Speaker 5: started playing with a little bit more of that intensity
Speaker 5: that we have to do something or this game is
Speaker 5: going to get away from us. And yes, Arizona, it
Speaker 5: does let teams back into it. They don't really put
Speaker 5: their foot on the gap. They started to make a
Speaker 5: couple of mistakes, but they never gave up the lead.
Speaker 5: And I think there's there's a difference between turning a
Speaker 5: twenty of ten to twelve point lead because they got
Speaker 5: to eleven into a one score game or or giving
Speaker 5: up the lead. Those are two very different things. As
Speaker 5: long as they were staying in front, and they started
Speaker 5: to have that answer. Every time Orgon got within like four,
Speaker 5: Caleb hits a three, Oregon gets within three, they make
Speaker 5: a putback, or they get the free throws. They kept answering.
Speaker 5: They didn't have the collection. They only had one period
Speaker 5: in the second half where they went more than two
Speaker 5: minutes without scoring. So you do have to give credit
Speaker 5: to the other team for kind of getting that sense
Speaker 5: of urgency and doing something and you're not going to
Speaker 5: stop them. Every single time. They weren't making a lot
Speaker 5: of their own mistakes. It was just a matter of Oregon,
Speaker 5: I think, just really starting to push it because they
Speaker 5: knew this was the only way they could get back
Speaker 5: into the game.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming you were in the room when this question
Speaker 2: was asked to Tommy on Saturday. His final question actually
Speaker 2: Michelle from The Athletic to ask him, probably didn't word
Speaker 2: it right or well in terms of with Henry, were
Speaker 2: you in the room.
Speaker 5: I was not. I had some vehicle trouble, so I
Speaker 5: missed the press conferences that day. But watching the video
Speaker 5: of it and hearing about it beforehand, it's the kind
Speaker 5: of question that I think you're probably better off asking yes,
Speaker 5: no question, no question, because that way, first off, you're
Speaker 5: going to get a more honest answer, and secondly, if
Speaker 5: it does elicit the kind of reaction that it did
Speaker 5: from Tommy, you're not putting anybody.
Speaker 2: On the spot.
Speaker 5: And I mean, I give him credit for not blowing
Speaker 5: up when he could have. And I know there's a
Speaker 5: lot of other coaches that probably would have, especially yeah,
Speaker 5: like particularly Dan Hurley with his hating the national media
Speaker 5: type stuff right now, he probably would have laid into
Speaker 5: her on that, which is not really what you do.
Speaker 5: He's just like, no, that's not what I'm doing, and
Speaker 5: it's it was a bit of a ridiculous question because
Speaker 5: he's clearly not hiding him. I mean he's just playing
Speaker 5: him as part of the rotation. And you know, when
Speaker 5: they've got two different bigs that they're using in a
Speaker 5: rotation along with other players, I mean other than the
Speaker 5: two guards of Love and Bradley, no one plays over
Speaker 5: thirty minutes, just how the rotation works.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to say, outside of anybody not
Speaker 2: named Caleb, who would you say is the second best
Speaker 2: player playing right now? Because I asked by mine Mine's
Speaker 2: k well, okay, Theresa. I was going to say most important,
Speaker 2: as opposed to the play the best unless they're the
Speaker 2: same thing.
Speaker 5: I mean, they need Bradley's consistency. What they need from
Speaker 5: Lewis is to not make too many bad mistakes. He
Speaker 5: didn't have any bad fouls in this game. He I mean,
Speaker 5: he had the situation where he tried to dunk his
Speaker 5: own put back by holding onto the rim and he
Speaker 5: said afterwards he had no idea that that was a
Speaker 5: technical hurry would not have done it. But I I've
Speaker 5: kind of made the joking reference throughout the season that
Speaker 5: he has one or two of those WTF turnovers every game,
Speaker 5: and he didn't have that in this game, so I
Speaker 5: guess it was It's one of those He a lot
Speaker 5: of times he'll have a game where he makes three
Speaker 5: or four or five like what are you doing plays,
Speaker 5: but then also three, four or five really great plays
Speaker 5: and it evens it out, And I guess I just
Speaker 5: because he didn't have the what are you doing plays,
Speaker 5: the good ones just kind of flowed with everything. And yes,
Speaker 5: it was a very solid game for him, but he's
Speaker 5: still the I just I think that he's got to
Speaker 5: be very, very very selective with the taking the shots
Speaker 5: from outside because it's just not his thing.
Speaker 2: Totally agree with you, But he's hitting them. I mean
Speaker 2: he's hitting shots now.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, but his shot is the one where he
Speaker 5: catches it on the perimeter and immediately starts heading into
Speaker 5: the paint and either gets to the rim and Ben
Speaker 5: puts it in or get draws a foul, or just
Speaker 5: pulled up for a nice mid range. Him and Bradley
Speaker 5: the same. I just Bradley has just been so concerns
Speaker 5: that he he just whenever they seem to need a shot.
Speaker 5: He just he dribbles in and he hits like a
Speaker 5: ten footer and it kind of cools everything off, and
Speaker 5: he doesn't have There's been some of those end up
Speaker 5: game mistakes which you'll you'll remember because Okay, there was
Speaker 5: a turnover on the last possession, but before that he
Speaker 5: had been great, and I think it's unfair to rank
Speaker 5: the game based on that last play because everything else
Speaker 5: had been so good about him. I think if he
Speaker 5: were to have a bad night, it would really throw
Speaker 5: everything off, and it would cause Caleb to try to
Speaker 5: do too much, and it would cause a lot of
Speaker 5: other people to try to do too much. So that's
Speaker 5: why I think he probably does fit more into the
Speaker 5: more important player aspect of it, that he needs to
Speaker 5: have that consistency throughout.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that. I mean, we want our way
Speaker 2: back by those mid rage jump shots. We started going
Speaker 2: back going to that, and that's when we started really
Speaker 2: you know, we'd come down court. We did majoria and
Speaker 2: jump shot.
Speaker 5: But see here. And the thing is is that Arizona's
Speaker 5: three point shooting has gotten so much better. The last
Speaker 5: seven games, they're shooting like forty three percent and that
Speaker 5: includes a five of eighteen against Houston during that stretch,
Speaker 5: and they're not taking a lot of shots, they're just
Speaker 5: taking good ones. I mean against Akron Love only took
Speaker 5: four to three point attempts. This when he was was
Speaker 5: he five for seven, but first half I think he
Speaker 5: only took two three point attempts. It was a lot
Speaker 5: of getting into the lane and they're trying to set
Speaker 5: up those shots and make it so that the right
Speaker 5: people are taking them and it's working out. Well, they're
Speaker 5: all still taking shots, but they're taking them at the
Speaker 5: right moments. Dell or So hit a couple that were important,
Speaker 5: Bradley had one that was important. I mean, even vs
Speaker 5: are still taking the shot from the top of the key.
Speaker 5: It does something to how an opponent has to guard
Speaker 5: you because they know that that's there, whether it goes
Speaker 5: in or not. And I think after so many games
Speaker 5: year where it just looked like they didn't have an
Speaker 5: idea of how to shoot from the perimeter, they have
Speaker 5: figured it out. And it's coincided with Love now also
Speaker 5: making more of his because he doesn't have to take
Speaker 5: so many of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's that's a great, great insight because
Speaker 2: you're right, I mean, they were taking a we were
Speaker 2: taking a lot of what I call hero threes, where
Speaker 2: it's like I just want to be the hero here.
Speaker 2: I gets the ball and I want to I want
Speaker 2: to be the three pointer right now. But we're taking
Speaker 2: the three pointer when it's there, when when it's given
Speaker 2: those and that's great.
Speaker 5: The last seven games, Klea Love is twenty one of
Speaker 5: forty three from three point.
Speaker 2: Except just and that's exactly what you get from him,
Speaker 2: and we need from him. I shouldn't so on your site.
Speaker 2: You you're the dude that comes up with these crazy numbers,
Speaker 2: which is great because I would like to see him,
Speaker 2: But the odds of the odds are they're nine and
Speaker 2: a half point dogs, and you came up with all
Speaker 2: these history stats.
Speaker 5: Could you repeat, well, the nine and a half point
Speaker 5: spread for this game against Duke is the same spread
Speaker 5: that it closed that in twenty eleven for the three sixteen,
Speaker 5: So it is it's kind of funny that it's that
Speaker 5: same situation, and that was supposed to be a team
Speaker 5: of destiny. Duke one out in the West Regional. That
Speaker 5: was also the last time in the tournament that they
Speaker 5: were an underdog all the way back then. It was
Speaker 5: not that. No, the last time would have been Ohio
Speaker 5: State in the Sweet sixteen and twenty thirteen, but this
Speaker 5: was the biggest that they've been there. They haven't actually
Speaker 5: been a dog, they just don't. They're usually not an
Speaker 5: underdog in the postseason, but they've won a lot of
Speaker 5: those games going back to like ninety six. I think
Speaker 5: they're like, yeah, six and five or something like that,
Speaker 5: straight up right when an underdog.
Speaker 2: And the reason I'd say that is because I've said
Speaker 2: this a number of times recently, and you know this
Speaker 2: because you've been around a long time and I covered
Speaker 2: them for forever that anytime you tell Arizona they can't
Speaker 2: do it, they play well. And when they're a dog,
Speaker 2: they play really well.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, and see now as opposed to the previous
Speaker 5: three years when Arizona was a one and a two
Speaker 5: seed and just getting to the Sweet sixteen wasn't good
Speaker 5: enough because by seed alone, you're supposed to go further. Well,
Speaker 5: they're supposed to lose this game. Duke is the one
Speaker 5: that has the pressure on them. Duke is the one
Speaker 5: that has the number one pick, has three first round picks.
Speaker 5: They've lost one time since Thanksgiving, and they they've looked
Speaker 5: pretty much unstoppable, just a straight wagon during all that time.
Speaker 5: They're the ones that can't afford to have a bad
Speaker 5: game because they're playing against a team that essentially is
Speaker 5: on house money.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You, so they have been on a role. They
Speaker 2: have been winning their games, but they'ven't beaten the ACC.
Speaker 2: Is there a.
Speaker 5: I mean they haven't. They haven't had the best competition
Speaker 5: in that conference. And I do think that that the
Speaker 5: no they that was way early in the season that
Speaker 5: I think they played that like their long.
Speaker 2: Running through their schedule at thirty two and one, but
Speaker 2: only beating up Saint Mary's.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean there is something to be said
Speaker 5: about that. There. It was that the ACC had three
Speaker 5: or four good teams at the top, but then nothing
Speaker 5: else whereas the Big Twelve, which is kind of like
Speaker 5: how the Pac twelve was most years, where there were
Speaker 5: a couple of good teams at the top, but then
Speaker 5: after that you had to make sure that you kept
Speaker 5: your focus or you would get picked off by somebody
Speaker 5: who was treating it like a Super Bowl. And I
Speaker 5: think that the Big Twelve has really helped. kJ Lewis
Speaker 5: said something about that after the game when he was
Speaker 5: asked if this game against Oregon felt like an old
Speaker 5: Pac twelve game, and he said no, it didn't because
Speaker 5: it felt more physical. And he thinks Arizona moving to
Speaker 5: the Big twelve and Oregon moving to the Big ten
Speaker 5: forced both of those teams to learn how to play
Speaker 5: a different way. And if you think about it, when
Speaker 5: Arizona played Duke the fourth game of the season, it
Speaker 5: had yet to play a Big twelve game and hadn't
Speaker 5: faced that. They also just had no idea what kind
Speaker 5: of team they had at that point. That was the
Speaker 5: one and only game Ota It's crebus started, uh and
Speaker 5: he wasn't able to do much, nor was a Loca
Speaker 5: or vsar kJ had a very good game, but it
Speaker 5: was a game where they they really didn't know who
Speaker 5: they were and they didn't really start to trigger that
Speaker 5: out until I mean, they got into the Big twelve
Speaker 5: and really identified themselves and put the rotation and the
Speaker 5: roles and everything together. So whereas Duke has been rolling,
Speaker 5: Arizona has been developing. I guess it's a good way
Speaker 5: to put it.
Speaker 2: Last quick question on have this question after the after
Speaker 2: we get off with you two, who's gonna win the
Speaker 2: national title or get to the national title first, Tommy
Speaker 2: or Sean?
Speaker 5: Oh wow, how about can I say neither?
Speaker 2: That's a good choice too. That's a good choice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's the safe choice considering how hard
Speaker 5: it is to get there. Sean Miller going to Tech
Speaker 5: that's just such a wild ride. I guess he's like
Speaker 5: I thought going back to Xavier was so good for
Speaker 5: him because he didn't have to have that pressure and
Speaker 5: he could just win there and they could make the
Speaker 5: tournament most years and just have. But he clearly has
Speaker 5: ambitions for higher than that, and and he's he's definitely
Speaker 5: aiming high with a school like Texas that you know,
Speaker 5: hired a guy who was an interim after going to
Speaker 5: the Elite eight, and he goes to the tournament both years,
Speaker 5: and they're done with him after two years. I mean
Speaker 5: there's no time to to just you know, to settle
Speaker 5: in there. Yeah. Yeah, he could. I mean one bad
Speaker 5: year and that's over. But I mean he clearly he
Speaker 5: feels that he wants that challenge again, and and good
Speaker 5: luck to him. I would love it if we could
Speaker 5: see some sort of an Arizona text. I mean some
Speaker 5: of these projections, some of these projections leading up to
Speaker 5: the tournament, had the possibility of Arizona Xavier in the
Speaker 5: first round, and that would have been wild And yeah,
Speaker 5: we'll never know. I mean, it's funny because he got
Speaker 5: hired now at Texas by a guy who used to
Speaker 5: be in the athletic department at Arizona in Crystal content.
Speaker 2: Right, who wasn't when he wasn't here when Jim hired him.
Speaker 2: So you know, but in a full circle.
Speaker 5: Correct.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks Brian, enjoy your chef back, Bran. Great insight,
Speaker 2: says all rights.
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve run There on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports worteen fifty. I'm Steve Vera, You're Mike quinn. I
Speaker 2: am Mike Quinn. We got one with us, We got
Speaker 2: ray with us, So real quick with the Shawn, Who's
Speaker 2: gonna do Who's gonna get to the championship first, Tommy
Speaker 2: or Sean? Who's who go's to jail for? You're the Yes,
Speaker 2: I'm a I am a u T Grad. I'm also
Speaker 2: a universe Arizona grad, uh which which I and a
Speaker 2: Notre Notre Dame grad and a West Point Grad. You
Speaker 2: got more I could just so I could root for,
Speaker 2: you know, a winning team. And I'll tell you what
Speaker 2: I couldn't have been more sad, disappointed, upset to find
Speaker 2: that freaking Sean Miller is taking the job at U T.
Speaker 2: It's terrible. I mean, first off, we do as bad
Speaker 2: as we got a brick grunch. But my god, what
Speaker 2: the hell are we thinking there? Okay? One, in my
Speaker 2: very unbiased opinion, Tommy Lloyden right got to be.
Speaker 4: He's got to I think he's he's as a foundation
Speaker 4: for a path to championships.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't have to go the same way. I'm
Speaker 2: the delusional fan on the show. So you know, we
Speaker 2: don't know you enough to call you that, But okay,
Speaker 2: I think that I think that you know, based on
Speaker 2: what I saw Sean Miller coaching here and the teams
Speaker 2: that he coached that he held them back. No, but
Speaker 2: he's changed. He's changed, which which is very funny because, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was watching him this weekend after Texas or whatever,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, because I talked to him every year
Speaker 2: about this, are you gonna go fast? And he would
Speaker 2: give me that look like, shut the hell up, Steve,
Speaker 2: I played the way I play the pack line defense
Speaker 2: and blah blah blah blah blah blah. And I'm thinking, Okay, well,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna argue with you again. But we talked
Speaker 2: about that all the time. And then he got to
Speaker 2: got to his Zavy Xavier and he changed. He changed. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't change year, he'd still be coaching here. Oh,
Speaker 2: he definitely still be coaching The year we had Treer.
Speaker 2: It was one of those things where it's like going, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: let's slow this down. Yeah and don't passy. Yeah we
Speaker 2: have a you have a four on one fast break.
Speaker 2: Let's pull it out and work the offense. And yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I think he's self destructive. I think he won he
Speaker 2: wanted to make it all about his coaching won the game,
Speaker 2: not the player. Well, you're you're a utra. Good luck
Speaker 2: with that, Yeah, I know, here we go. We'll see,
Speaker 2: we'll see who he brings in. I mean, well, he's
Speaker 2: always been a good recruiter. Well he can he can do,
Speaker 2: and he's a pretty good coach. I mean, he's a
Speaker 2: he's a he's the old school coach. He's the old
Speaker 2: school coach. Unless he's changed with that too, but you know, uh,
Speaker 2: he looks happier. And then Xavier, you're you're they gave
Speaker 2: him a second chance, right, and I gotta go sorry.
Speaker 2: I really would have liked to have seen Texas go
Speaker 2: for a you know, one of these young upcoming coaches
Speaker 2: that are really tearing it up. This may sound. I
Speaker 2: was talking to a U T grad from Texas over
Speaker 2: the yesterday when all those start the start came, is
Speaker 2: who do you think? I said, well, they got to
Speaker 2: do exactly what you just said. And I said Patino
Speaker 2: and he said the old one, And I said, no,
Speaker 2: the young one. If you could do what he's done
Speaker 2: at New Mexico, and he's got the name, his dad's
Speaker 2: gonna retire pretty soon. He might have some help with
Speaker 2: him down the road just in name alone, and you
Speaker 2: give a recruit you can and win there. And they
Speaker 2: have the most resources outside of what Ohio State. Maybe
Speaker 2: New Mexico gave Michigan State all they wanted. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: so here we go. Let me let me I want
Speaker 2: Twitter and I want to make you guys laugh a little.
Speaker 2: But we can talk about this, and anybody wants to
Speaker 2: call please do us five two o four one four forty.
Speaker 2: So one of the guys on Twitter who covers you,
Speaker 2: they kind of these things. There are the things that
Speaker 2: Arizona leads in the nation. Fouling three point shooters. Did
Speaker 2: you ever see this goldading goldenating on shots that weren't
Speaker 2: going to go in? Yes, right views during timeouts to
Speaker 2: go against the Cats, shots beyond the half court real
Speaker 2: or otherwise, you know, good or otherwise. And trash talk.
Speaker 2: Do you do you notice the trash talk? Because I had,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe maybe Caleb, maybe Caleb. Yeah. But you know,
Speaker 2: the interesting thing is this is that Caleb was getting
Speaker 2: a little chippy with some of these cats right right.
Speaker 2: And I sat there and focused, I'm like, okay, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna watch his lips and he didn't really say anything. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: well okay, yeah, but he but yeah, well that's he's
Speaker 2: certainly yeah, well you don't say anything important, nothing insightful.
Speaker 2: But Caleb said, you know, I know he was trash
Speaker 2: talking these guys. Boy, he was getting a little chippy. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: hey you're on the iron nine on the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 15: Hey, Steve, this is done, don let's get into another fight.
Speaker 15: I'll settled down a little bit. Yes. The thing is
Speaker 15: is the point I was trying to make you guys
Speaker 15: started to defend your the point against what I was
Speaker 15: trying to say. Okay, So that's because what I would
Speaker 15: would go ahead, Well, because in the advertisement for your book,
Speaker 15: you state it right there, if you're an Arizona Wildcat fan,
Speaker 15: you know it's been successful for forty years. Yes, and
Speaker 15: I don't think that that is acknowledged enough by the
Speaker 15: current regime. I'm not saying that he's a bad coach.
Speaker 5: There are some.
Speaker 15: Things that you know, we can all pick apart these
Speaker 15: coaches as we go, because I think I think Sean
Speaker 15: Miller is going to do great at Texas. I think
Speaker 15: that his second time around in the big time is
Speaker 15: going to be is going to be the one that sticks.
Speaker 2: I really do. Yeah, No, I don't. I would. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't argue that because I think he's a good coach.
Speaker 2: He'll have more resources, uh and they we'll see. I mean,
Speaker 2: come on, he's he's a good coach.
Speaker 15: He's a good coach. I think when he was here
Speaker 15: at Arizona, it always seemed like he was coaching like.
Speaker 2: He wanted he wanted to be the point guard. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he wanted the ball in his hand, right, you know,
Speaker 2: and that's all he knew. I mean, that's all he's known.
Speaker 15: Yeah, and now he's you know, it shown to him.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 15: The man had a roller coaster last night.
Speaker 2: Holy moly. Yeah, would five minutes I asked this question
Speaker 2: to the guys here on the phone. Five minutes in.
Speaker 2: What are you thinking it was over?
Speaker 15: It's baseball season, baby. The Cats are ranked twenty third,
Speaker 15: They're won eleven out of twelve, they won a sixteen
Speaker 15: inning game on Friday night, they got blown up on Saturday,
Speaker 15: and then they came back with a big win yesterday.
Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 15: It's baseball season. It's still baseball season, but it's still
Speaker 15: the end of the basketball season. And the basketball season continues,
Speaker 15: so aime and.
Speaker 2: A halftime, you change your mind.
Speaker 15: At halftime, it looked like, okay, okay, so we're gonna
Speaker 15: win this thing by fifteen or sixteen, and then went wha,
Speaker 15: well wait a minute, look who you're talking about. And
Speaker 15: I knew it was gonna get close, and it got
Speaker 15: too close for comfort there at the end. But I mean,
Speaker 15: these guys, they're mentally tough. They don't shake they you know,
Speaker 15: it's it's like like they said in the in the
Speaker 15: in the post game, was you know, we knew we
Speaker 15: still had a lot of game to go. You know,
Speaker 15: we knew we just had to keep stay the course
Speaker 15: play our game. With the motion offenses, it's kind of
Speaker 15: hard to see that they're running plays. It's kind of
Speaker 15: hard to recognize that because I'm not in the gym
Speaker 15: every day and and all that stuff, So I don't,
Speaker 15: you know, the the high handoff that Henry would kept
Speaker 15: giving the caleb and then he makes a decision to
Speaker 15: shoot it or drop give it down to give it
Speaker 15: to Henry and that stuff. When that was pointed out
Speaker 15: during the telecast, and going, man, we run that a lot.
Speaker 2: Right right, okay? And final question, because we can run
Speaker 2: out of time here. Uh is Sweet sixteen good enough?
Speaker 15: This is Arizona. Okay, So we get out of the
Speaker 15: round of sixty four, we're playing with house money. Baby,
Speaker 15: It's all good as long as we get out of
Speaker 15: the first As long as we get out of the
Speaker 15: first round, you're gonna be playing somebody good in around it,
Speaker 15: you know, in around the thirty two, you're gonna be
Speaker 15: playing somebody good. And the same thing goes with you know,
Speaker 15: getting to the Sweet sixteen, and the same thing goes
Speaker 15: to the Elite eight. No matter what, you're gonna have
Speaker 15: to play her tail off. And these guys, I think
Speaker 15: these guys are primed just to keep on doing that. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 15: And I think and it looks funny that Alwaka didn't
Speaker 15: get back in the game until the vin we end
Speaker 15: when he was there to rebound and pick up that
Speaker 15: last that fourth file, because he was he sat.
Speaker 2: Down with four or three four four we gotta go.
Speaker 5: Oh he was sick.
Speaker 2: Yeah done, man, Thank you man, Thanks for the call.
Speaker 2: Thanks thanks for the calling. Great show today. Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised as you are with you here exactly.
Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: We'll see you guys tomorrow,