Speaker 1: Steve Rivera, He's got his Eye on the ball on
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Speaker 2: And welcome back to line the ball here on Fox
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Speaker 2: you have some breaking news.
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Speaker 3: Happy Wednesday, everyone out there, yours truly, mister Goody two shoes, Mihitolindo,
Speaker 3: all the nicknames on a Wednesday, I'll probably come up
Speaker 3: with a different another one at some point.
Speaker 4: There are times to.
Speaker 3: Charm into some breaking news for Arizona football. A little
Speaker 3: bit of a kind of a slaps to the nuts,
Speaker 3: slaps the face, but kind of a payback for between
Speaker 3: Arizona Washington. Arizonas signed former Washington offensive line sine Peter Longi.
Speaker 4: Teorg Troy kind of talked about that.
Speaker 3: So after all the Arizona d commits going to Washington
Speaker 3: or transfer portal pickups, Arizona kind of give them the
Speaker 3: taste of their own medicine by signing Peter Longi.
Speaker 4: To some softball they got.
Speaker 3: They got their first game in the Andrea Classic against
Speaker 3: Michigan State five o'clock and then again at seven today
Speaker 3: tomorrow tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I try to get Kendrad to come on
Speaker 2: the show on Friday, but he has obligations.
Speaker 4: He told me obligations.
Speaker 2: Didn't realize that was the first end of the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, they got the Conrea Classic all weekend long,
Speaker 3: Michigan State tomorrow to a doubleheader at five and seven.
Speaker 4: They got the Washington House.
Speaker 3: He's at five on Friday, and then Western Michigan at
Speaker 3: seven o'clock on Friday. I'll be at the Alabama game
Speaker 3: on Saturday five o'clock and then Sunday they finished off
Speaker 3: with another game against Washington.
Speaker 2: Eleven thirty is going on now right before the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Before the super Bowl game on Saturday is a late game.
Speaker 5: Another game.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Men's basketball just came off the win at BYU, like
Speaker 3: we've talked about. They host Texas Tech this Saturday. Was
Speaker 3: scheduled for eight o'clock. I saw a tweet that said
Speaker 3: it got pushed back to thirty late tip off when
Speaker 3: she loved Steve. Yeah, I need my beauty. Sleep man,
Speaker 3: who's sleep?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I need my beauty all right, I need to
Speaker 2: get beautiful. Well, this is sleep. He helps me get beautiful.
Speaker 2: I'm a long way away. I do radio.
Speaker 3: You need had a little bit of hibernation, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: and then so it's women's basketball. They got a game
Speaker 3: tonight at Colorado seven o'clock, YESPN plus.
Speaker 4: Okay, see what happens that.
Speaker 3: I won't be back for any analysis until next week,
Speaker 3: but we'll see. They also got a game Saturday. Who
Speaker 3: covered the game yet from early on, very early on.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen him in a while. But then they
Speaker 3: also have a game this Saturday, very very event filled
Speaker 3: for Arizona Athletics. On Saturday, they play Arizona State Saturday
Speaker 3: two o'clock here, So what's a double header? Another one
Speaker 3: the triple header, triple header if you want to count
Speaker 3: softball between a lot of activity, A lot of activity
Speaker 3: going on for or Arizona Athletics. Today they had the
Speaker 3: Arizona Football twenty twenty five signing class press conference, which
Speaker 3: heard a little bit of.
Speaker 4: That with Brett Brennan.
Speaker 3: Fifty three new players during this recruiting cycle, twenty three
Speaker 3: from high school, five community college, twenty five fourth year
Speaker 3: college transfers overall, twenty on the offense and twenty five
Speaker 3: on the defense.
Speaker 2: I think I wouldn't know the number, but I'm going
Speaker 2: to estimate if you have at least sixty percent of
Speaker 2: those kids who are capable of playing, that that's a
Speaker 2: good recruiting class because you're gonna hit and miss on
Speaker 2: most of a lot of them, right, you can hit
Speaker 2: on a lot of them. You're gonna miss on a
Speaker 2: lot of field. So maybe sixty percent are doable or
Speaker 2: usable or whatever.
Speaker 3: You had twelve offensive linemen when when they're trying to
Speaker 3: figure out that situation from last year, you got six
Speaker 3: wide receivers trying to replace probably lottery pick Tetaro McMillan,
Speaker 3: five new running backs, and two ten ends. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: a lot of tools for new offensive corners, said those
Speaker 3: to work with. To the NBA a little bit of
Speaker 3: a surprise trade last night, Bucks traded way Chris Middleton
Speaker 3: to the Wizard for Kyle Kuzma.
Speaker 2: I saw that good shooter. Good shooter in Middleton helped
Speaker 2: him win their title a few years ago.
Speaker 3: Against the Phoenix Suns. I truly thought it was a shock.
Speaker 3: I thought he was gonna end his career as a
Speaker 3: as a bug. Maybe he still will. I thought it
Speaker 3: was going to be a start to start. I think
Speaker 3: he would start to finish with them.
Speaker 4: Uh, but.
Speaker 3: Not not a bad return in Cayl Kuzma. He's a
Speaker 3: little bit of a younger player. Yeah, he's able to
Speaker 3: stay healthy for the most part, which I think was
Speaker 3: the biggest biggest concern between the Bucks and Chris Middleton.
Speaker 3: And you also had recently today about an hour ago,
Speaker 3: the Kings have acquired Jonas Valentiunas from the Wizards.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: And then it's about.
Speaker 2: As they traded away uh City Cisco that they just
Speaker 2: got in between the Jonte Murray, not Dante Murray, the
Speaker 2: Aaron Fox trade with the Spurs.
Speaker 3: So a little bit of movement. What's more than likely
Speaker 3: not going to be moved. Thing is Kevin Durant. There
Speaker 3: was a little bit of they're not gonna move him
Speaker 3: swirling or going around with his name is in the Warriors, right,
Speaker 3: and he just says, he said, there's no interest in
Speaker 3: the Warriors return.
Speaker 4: We'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: But if if you have your star players saying he
Speaker 3: wants to stay, why not keep him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that is it's a business man, it's a
Speaker 2: business that is very true. We thought Luca was a
Speaker 2: lifetime averick. Yeah, So we'll see what happens. I think
Speaker 2: Kitty will be moved. And that team is not very good.
Speaker 2: It's not championship worthy. You know, for whatever reason, you
Speaker 2: get all these good players together and it still doesn't work.
Speaker 4: It's Kentucky is the problem. Durant.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. It's uh, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I couldn't say yes, couldn't say no. That's I guess what.
Speaker 2: That's what I don't know in it. It kind of
Speaker 2: give you hypothetical year.
Speaker 3: If they do trade away Durant, did they go after
Speaker 3: Jimmy Butther?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, But is he the solution to this?
Speaker 2: Probably not. No, I wouldn't think so. I think one
Speaker 2: perpetulant guys for another.
Speaker 3: You'd have to go if you trade away Kevin Durant,
Speaker 3: go get Jimmy Butler, But then more than likely trade
Speaker 3: away beal.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what the big deal is, and they trade
Speaker 2: him to someone who want him with a no trade
Speaker 2: class what he will don't want to go to and
Speaker 2: then to have that trouble when you're making millions and
Speaker 2: millions and millions of dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see, we'll see what happens with the Phoenix Sons,
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant and all their players but return. Last night
Speaker 3: in the NBA, Joel Embiid posted a triple double in
Speaker 3: his winning return.
Speaker 4: I think he had a game winner as well, he said.
Speaker 3: He talked about his situation after the game, saying his
Speaker 3: knee has been his biggest frustration. The room will throw
Speaker 3: his entire career, and that he hopes he's put it
Speaker 3: behind him.
Speaker 2: Okay, and see you'll take the day after tomorrow. Yeah,
Speaker 2: load management, right, load management? Uh, and then you got
Speaker 2: some good games tonight.
Speaker 3: The The Aaron Fox will be making his San Antonio
Speaker 3: Spurs' debut tonight against the Hawk there.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 3: I believe they're on a six game road trip, so
Speaker 3: it'll be a while before the fans the San Aatunia
Speaker 3: get to see him. And then you have the Suns
Speaker 3: going up and playing the Thunder, the top the top
Speaker 3: team Thunder seven thirty ESPN. Durrant was ruled out, so
Speaker 3: I think there was a lot of that added to
Speaker 3: the speculation.
Speaker 2: Right right, so that Tail is going to come back again.
Speaker 2: He had been originally slated to come back. Now it's
Speaker 2: the Duke Clemson game from his cancer diagnosis. And then
Speaker 2: something else happened recently, so he's coming back though. Good
Speaker 2: for him, Good for him.
Speaker 3: The NFL Player Association as Santa, kind of talked about
Speaker 3: the eighteenth eighteen game schedule that they were kind of
Speaker 3: throwing out there. They don't don't want any part of it.
Speaker 3: They wanted to keep it at seventeen. Okay, but I
Speaker 3: think it's smart at the I believe it makes for
Speaker 3: better football in the postseason. Sure, the Rams are going
Speaker 3: to host the first ever NFL game in Melbourne, Australia
Speaker 3: come twenty twenty six, another international game.
Speaker 2: What do you think about those games? Well, okay, if
Speaker 2: you like them, I don't know. I'm either. I don't
Speaker 2: like waking up that early to watch it. Oh, yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: you do that. I wouldn't say sleeps. Beauty sleep topic
Speaker 2: topic of Wednesday, beauty sleep. I can't have just good
Speaker 2: hair days that I need to face that goes with it.
Speaker 2: Please call in for tips on beauty sleep for Steve
Speaker 2: Makeup makeup Blindness.
Speaker 3: Ron Rivera said he's returning to Cal Football to help
Speaker 3: their program. It's gonna be their GM.
Speaker 4: Their gm M.
Speaker 2: What do you what do you think about that? It's
Speaker 2: a job it probably pays. Well, you're back in the game,
Speaker 2: you probably won't be a head coach in the NFL anymore.
Speaker 4: No, what about the college level, No, how.
Speaker 2: Old is he's probably got about sixty five ish, probably
Speaker 2: sixty five No, yep, okay, what's the boy?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And then of course Super Bowl Sunday coming up the
Speaker 3: Chiefs and the Eagles.
Speaker 4: I'm excited for this game.
Speaker 2: I meant, like the last game it was going to
Speaker 2: be good.
Speaker 3: Is against closer and closer. I'm getting a little bit
Speaker 3: more excited. I might I might actually watch it. I've
Speaker 3: said numerous times, I want to comment to win and
Speaker 3: wipe out the earth before this game fits.
Speaker 2: I don't want you a team to win. I felt
Speaker 2: that way about somebody else.
Speaker 4: But uh, I'm getting excited, how about you?
Speaker 2: No, not really, that's another game to me. You know,
Speaker 2: I was looking at some Evan Mayakawa stuff. Arizona is
Speaker 2: now eighteenth in the overall power rakings of his very
Speaker 2: smart guy obviously very uh into it in terms of
Speaker 2: the teams. So if they're in eighteen, that's like a
Speaker 2: five seed. But one of the first five seeds they dropped,
Speaker 2: didn't they they were fourteen? Well, that might be a
Speaker 2: different standing for ken Palm or something like that. But
Speaker 2: the Maricwa hasn't been eighteen. Is Arizona a five team?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. If they're a fourteen, may can
Speaker 2: be a four or five they're playing. I still believe,
Speaker 2: and I said this on the air with the other
Speaker 2: place in Phoenix. Who had they played outside of Baylor here? Right,
Speaker 2: they beat Baylor. Baylor's not as good as we thought.
Speaker 2: They just gotta beat last night Texas Tech should be
Speaker 2: a return. I think they're going to kill Texas Tech here?
Speaker 4: You think so?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And then when we play or what we see, uh,
Speaker 2: these guys play, uh the Houston's, Iowa States on the road,
Speaker 2: the Kansas on the road. That's when you kind of
Speaker 2: gauge how good this team is. But I agree with
Speaker 2: Donnie in the call from previous I didn't think that
Speaker 2: they were pretty good. I think they're they're good now
Speaker 2: with a lot a lot of improvement still.
Speaker 4: To come at a lot of a lot lot to play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, left right, and I and I still say, and
Speaker 2: I've said this on the show a number of times.
Speaker 2: Those who follow me or at least listen to me
Speaker 2: regularly that as Caleb goes, the team will go eventually,
Speaker 2: but you definitely definitely need them in March.
Speaker 4: Definitely.
Speaker 3: You can't have Yes, you can't have six for sixteen
Speaker 3: in March.
Speaker 2: No, that's the number. I mean, do you like those numbers?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: They want with six for sixteen. Okay, but what if
Speaker 2: go six for sixteen again against the in the second
Speaker 2: round or the third round or the tournament. You're thinking,
Speaker 2: oh no, here.
Speaker 4: We go again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I also think that that's a credit to
Speaker 2: the defensive side to the basketball team.
Speaker 4: Right now.
Speaker 2: They're they're playing, they're playing much better. Really well, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: he didn't feat those playing defense, b Yu. You said it
Speaker 2: was contested. Some of those shots, some of them weren't
Speaker 2: They just missed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had towards the end of the game, especially
Speaker 3: when they were trying to come back.
Speaker 4: But they had a lot of good looks and they
Speaker 4: just weren't falling.
Speaker 2: Well, that was Arizona. That was the Arizona game against Texas. Heck,
Speaker 2: where they were down, they were just throwing up stuff
Speaker 2: just to try to get even. And that's that was
Speaker 2: by you last name. Yeah, okay, anything else some good
Speaker 2: games today Texas, Arkansas, Arkansas at Texas, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois
Speaker 2: plays and can Boswell. I guess the Michigan, Michigan coach,
Speaker 2: the Indiana coach, what's his name, what's in whids in
Speaker 2: just ripped his team. They're not very tough, no dub uh.
Speaker 2: They're not in good borows part of that group. So
Speaker 2: we'll see. We're getting down to the degree we're gonna
Speaker 2: call this. Let's take the call. Hello, you're on the air,
Speaker 2: nine on the wall. Who's this? It's team money, Team money.
Speaker 2: What you got?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I like to let your sidekick know that I'm
Speaker 7: with him as far as rooting for the comment to
Speaker 7: come and destroy the.
Speaker 2: Earth before the Chiefs in Philadelphia.
Speaker 7: You know, it's been weird like this whole NFL postseason
Speaker 7: to me has been like like the World Cup when
Speaker 7: you're forced to root for for idiots and total jerks.
Speaker 7: You know that you normally wouldn't couldn't stand, and all
Speaker 7: of a sudden.
Speaker 8: The one's left.
Speaker 7: So, I mean, Nick Siriani is the NFL's most punishable face,
Speaker 7: but I'm gonna have to root for him in order
Speaker 7: for the you know, the catchup and Mustard franchise not
Speaker 7: to destroy the tradition of the whole league too money.
Speaker 2: Did you have money on any team before the playoff started?
Speaker 7: No, No, I'm a I'm a Niner fan, but you know,
Speaker 7: we just to take the year off.
Speaker 2: That's accurate that you were the cat. You can watch it?
Speaker 2: Who can watch it?
Speaker 4: Who franchise?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I might, I might.
Speaker 7: You know see what happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're a sports fan. I know you're gonna spend
Speaker 2: some time with the beer and in the hand.
Speaker 7: What I really wanted to talk about wash No, no beer?
Speaker 7: Uh speaking of no beer b YU. Yeah, yeah, those
Speaker 7: guys are just chucking up stuff. Man, I love it.
Speaker 7: People don't realize math wins. Math always wins. I don't
Speaker 7: know why people don't realize this anymore. Like I don't
Speaker 7: care if you play basketball, maths always.
Speaker 2: Wins the three versus the two.
Speaker 7: Well, no, I mean, as far as a law of averages,
Speaker 7: it's always going to average itself out. And you're shooting
Speaker 7: from further away and you're tired, and you play for
Speaker 7: b YU and then you think you're gonna just chuck
Speaker 7: up a bunch of threes and you know it's it's hilarious.
Speaker 7: Last night was amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, did you think that that was the best
Speaker 2: game of the year for the Cats? Which one was?
Speaker 2: Which was?
Speaker 7: I think the a SU win was the best just
Speaker 7: because it was a SU and the way it ended
Speaker 7: as far as like like like a technical like a
Speaker 7: technical performance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I mean, you could make the case that the win
Speaker 7: at West Virginia, you know, was the best win of
Speaker 7: the year as far as the will put together game
Speaker 7: and going on the road and doing what they have
Speaker 7: to do.
Speaker 5: But like you said, they.
Speaker 7: Are they live and die with Caleb Love, and I
Speaker 7: wish somebody else could step up and be there for him,
Speaker 7: like a Bibbian Simon or Simon and Dickerson type thing.
Speaker 10: But uh, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's there.
Speaker 7: kJ Lewis is always on the cuff, but I think
Speaker 7: he's about a year away.
Speaker 2: Right to many, you sounded like maybe you've been thirties,
Speaker 2: thirty forties, so you saw that. I saw at the
Speaker 2: beginning of the year that these three kJ, Bradley and
Speaker 2: Love could have been the Biby, Simon and Dickerson three.
Speaker 2: Someome No, they've fallen short.
Speaker 7: Well, you know what we didn't know, you know, this
Speaker 7: time in ninety seven. We didn't, you know, never with
Speaker 7: the fifth fifth place of the Pac ten and they
Speaker 7: should have lost in the first round again, So yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean, hey, that's that. That that weird memory always
Speaker 7: kind of gives me hope.
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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 1: We want to take part in the show call out
Speaker 1: Steve now went five to two oh four one six
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Eye on the ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve your one, and we're
Speaker 2: waiting for John and actually he's just sticks, so he'll
Speaker 2: be calling us. Call us anytime now five two o
Speaker 2: four one, six, seventy four forty we'll have John on
Speaker 2: talking about what's going on at the old Kino Complex.
Speaker 2: I think we're using a lot of different things going
Speaker 2: on right now.
Speaker 3: But I believe there's a possibly a softball softball thing
Speaker 3: going on.
Speaker 4: Well, let's see if he said what he says?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, John is issue? It was today, Jonathan,
Speaker 2: how are you? How are you fine? Thank you? You
Speaker 2: guys are going to be busy here. I saw some
Speaker 2: stuff on the old internet. You have teams coming in,
Speaker 2: you're trying to accommodate and all that. What's going on?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we just got a bunch of teams doing preseason
Speaker 5: here again. You know, we've got the USL defending champions,
Speaker 5: we've got the Eastern Conference champions, the Western Conference champions.
Speaker 5: We've got some games going out, we've got some open
Speaker 5: training sessions, and you know, we're just excited that the
Speaker 5: Portland Thorns we're here. They just left again. We're just
Speaker 5: trying to bring teams in and great soccer here and
Speaker 5: giving people opportunity to watch them train. Fortunately, the Super
Speaker 5: Bowl is on a date, you know where a lot
Speaker 5: of the teams want to play games in the morning,
Speaker 5: so it's really not perfect for us in terms of
Speaker 5: games for attendance, and we're really excited about the teams
Speaker 5: coming the opportunity for people to come watch them train
Speaker 5: and see, you know, all the great soccer that's here
Speaker 5: in this time of the year.
Speaker 2: How long will they be here.
Speaker 5: They're gonna be here for the next two weeks. In
Speaker 5: Mexico played Louisville today in the closed door game. It's
Speaker 5: a great match. They're gonna be here training, hanging out
Speaker 5: and get a bunch of teams all over the city,
Speaker 5: you know, going out and joining to something. The weather
Speaker 5: this week is phenomenal. Next week also very good and
Speaker 5: just an exciting time obviously for sports here. Obviously I
Speaker 5: watched the game last night. The basketball game was fantastic.
Speaker 5: So yeah, you know, it's really great having them here.
Speaker 2: You couldn't have picked a better time, or somebody above
Speaker 2: it couldn't have for your weather because you know, it's
Speaker 2: eighty six. Should be a little cooler in the coming
Speaker 2: a week a week or so, so perfect and where
Speaker 2: are they from?
Speaker 5: So Louisville City's from obviously Louisville, Colorado Springs. The Switchbacks
Speaker 5: won the USL Championship, obviously from Colorado. New Mexico United
Speaker 5: the Western Conference champions. We also have Detroit City from Detroit. Obviously.
Speaker 5: These are some of the top teams, top drawing teams
Speaker 5: in all of the USL, before best teams, really just great,
Speaker 5: great sides, and they're all here preparing, playing each other
Speaker 5: and making sure they're ready again to go for make
Speaker 5: a run at their respective conferences and the USL coupan.
Speaker 5: We also got some former SC Tucson players, you know,
Speaker 5: on a number of these teams, some former Tans rising players,
Speaker 5: and some former Arizona you know, great's like Danny Cruz
Speaker 5: is coaching Louisville City. He played for me as a youngster.
Speaker 5: He played me MLS as well, so really sort of
Speaker 5: the whole full gamut. Stan Glio played today for Louisville
Speaker 5: City at top player out of Phoenix. You know, he's
Speaker 5: really had a great USL career, and just just a
Speaker 5: lot of guys getting thick, getting ready, some exciting young
Speaker 5: players as well. You know, uh, you know, Louisville just
Speaker 5: sold a player that had loaned for US, Elijah Winder,
Speaker 5: to the LA Galaxy for a record fee for a
Speaker 5: domestic transfer from the USL to the MLS. It's again
Speaker 5: a lot like we saw when we're in spring training
Speaker 5: here when we saw the Chapille teams playing. You know,
Speaker 5: we're we saw the guys before they were famous, you know,
Speaker 5: moving up to the diamondback. So it's real great opportunity
Speaker 5: to see young talent and see some young young coaches.
Speaker 5: In New Mexico lost their coach to FC Dallas because
Speaker 5: he had such a great year' quill the guy I
Speaker 5: coached against in the USL League one. So again, you know,
Speaker 5: you get to see them, you know, before they're they're
Speaker 5: super famous. You get to see them as they develop.
Speaker 5: And it's really an exciting time to observe some great
Speaker 5: soccer here in Tucson.
Speaker 2: You so this has continued for a number of years.
Speaker 2: Is it the same? It's not the same as before,
Speaker 2: right when you had some of the big MLS people here,
Speaker 2: but you've continued to bring teams in. Are you in
Speaker 2: charge of this or who is?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 10: I am.
Speaker 5: We've been doing this since obviously twenty twelve, and obviously,
Speaker 5: you know, for us, you know, that was an incredible time.
Speaker 5: You know, Tucson was really first to the table and
Speaker 5: understanding this business. But you know, the challenge again is
Speaker 5: something that we're working really hard on competing here with
Speaker 5: the MLS is obviously Delance Hutto owns the La Galaxy,
Speaker 5: you know, he owns you know, the Pole fields and Coachella.
Speaker 5: So MLS now a lot of teams go to Coachella,
Speaker 5: so us figuring out where we can time teams coming
Speaker 5: in here, but at the field availability. We obviously some
Speaker 5: major events here like the Port Bowl Shootout during the
Speaker 5: time where we would we would now really be targeting
Speaker 5: teams to come here. So we are some things to shift.
Speaker 5: We had a bunch of MLS teams interested, but you know,
Speaker 5: we really have done a number of things to make
Speaker 5: ourselves more competitive, and obviously with the Gem Show here,
Speaker 5: you know, it's challenging with the hotels. I mean, the
Speaker 5: Gem Show is amazing event, so important to Tucson for
Speaker 5: its tourism, but you know, hotel availability, hotel pricing, this
Speaker 5: is obviously the high time, the highest season for you know,
Speaker 5: really tourism here in Tucson, Arizona, and so we're trying
Speaker 5: to figure out how we can best fit the team's
Speaker 5: needs into that period of time and with the varying leagues,
Speaker 5: obviously we're bringing in some of the thorns or you
Speaker 5: know at the top of the table of NWS all
Speaker 5: the highest you know of you know, women's soccer in
Speaker 5: the world. You know, where we have a number of
Speaker 5: national team players on the women's sides that are coming
Speaker 5: in here, and to figure out how to get those
Speaker 5: teams here and to get games and timing where are
Speaker 5: our fans here can see them, their fans can come
Speaker 5: and joy the beautiful weather we're you know, obviously for
Speaker 5: us that's big. I mean, we've had you know, pro
Speaker 5: teams here. This is the first year we haven't at
Speaker 5: MLS teams come here. It's certainly something we're looking to
Speaker 5: rectify next year. But it's not because of the performance
Speaker 5: of two songs. Just there's just a lot of people
Speaker 5: with a lot of competition, you know, with MESSI on
Speaker 5: the coast and new teams popping up in San Diego,
Speaker 5: which is all great for the for the global game
Speaker 5: and overall here, but it makes us have to, you know, really,
Speaker 5: you know, invest it's not easy to feel like you
Speaker 5: talk about competing, you know, with all the things that
Speaker 5: are going on in college sports here. You know, Nil,
Speaker 5: you've got to throw a lot of dollars to compete
Speaker 5: with phil Anshoots and the LA Galaxy in those relationships.
Speaker 5: So we're gonna figure out where our niches. We love
Speaker 5: the game, we'd love all our relationships. So we have
Speaker 5: great ones in the MLS, in the NWSL, in the
Speaker 5: USL Super League. And so the timing of that, you know,
Speaker 5: puts me onto the planes to go see some of
Speaker 5: the people I've seen, to see how it can make
Speaker 5: sure that we're you know, putting ourselves in. Pema County
Speaker 5: has done an incredible job and visit use on and
Speaker 5: you know, reinvesting in the facility to improve it because
Speaker 5: everybody's notching up a level and we're doing the same here.
Speaker 5: So we're working that out. We have a great group
Speaker 5: coming here. We're incredibly excited that the Thorns were thrilled
Speaker 5: with the experience they had here. All our feedback has
Speaker 5: been massive and of course the weather doesn't hurt Steve,
Speaker 5: but really most importantly for us, we need to make
Speaker 5: sure that we're we're delivering you know, great stocker here
Speaker 5: during this time of year and taking care of those
Speaker 5: clients and taking care of our fans and sc two,
Speaker 5: so our fans in Tucson and fans that come here
Speaker 5: in winter and come see Collar Guard and see all.
Speaker 5: We've got the world baseball class coming here and we
Speaker 5: were just part of a larger you know, sports infrastructure.
Speaker 5: And obviously it's even better, you know, when the Cats
Speaker 5: are playing well on the men's side as well. So
Speaker 5: it's just it's a great time for sports here and
Speaker 5: we're we're tinuing to work hard and obviously for us,
Speaker 5: we're preparing for our season in May and see if
Speaker 5: we can duplicate another Western Conference championship and hopefully in a
Speaker 5: national championship.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So you said that you're realistic about Sunday's attendance
Speaker 2: because of given in the Super Bowl, So can they
Speaker 2: go see them otherwise other times other days?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So that's why we're focused on the open training
Speaker 5: session on Saturday, and that's really where we think are
Speaker 5: it's the best situation for people to enjoy seeing these
Speaker 5: teams and getting an idea of watching them train, watching
Speaker 5: that piece of the puzzle, you know, for us to
Speaker 5: close games, they can if you're a fan from the
Speaker 5: of the cities or NFT to some fan, you can
Speaker 5: reach out to us, you know and see about any access.
Speaker 5: You know, we have limited access availability to close games,
Speaker 5: but there's certainly some opportunities if that fits. But and
Speaker 5: so through the teams, if you have a contact through
Speaker 5: those teams, you can reach out through their their channels.
Speaker 5: But for us, obviously, you know, the usual you know
Speaker 5: mlscated matches we have, We're we're not producing this year,
Speaker 5: but our plan is to return to that in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty six and making sure that you know, we have
Speaker 5: the kind of matchups that are really you know, fitting
Speaker 5: the uh the demand for here in Tucson.
Speaker 2: So you talked a little about to about you guys,
Speaker 2: When does that start again?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: You know, what can we expect this year?
Speaker 5: Single DeMaio, We can expect a team again that's gonna
Speaker 5: buy for a division championship and for a you know,
Speaker 5: a national championship. Obviously, getting the final four was the
Speaker 5: first we've ever gone. We fell a little bit short,
Speaker 5: but again, the team isn't rebuilding, it's reloading. That's what
Speaker 5: we do. Here and obviously for us, we feel very
Speaker 5: shortly on both the men to women's side. You know,
Speaker 5: we our schedules are we're gonna start leaking them out.
Speaker 5: We got incredibly great dates. You know, almost all of
Speaker 5: our games are on weekends, so easier for people to
Speaker 5: go to. We really knocked it out of the park
Speaker 5: in terms of the scheduling and and some great new
Speaker 5: partners and some great new twists to the events you
Speaker 5: know that we're going to have. So we can't wait
Speaker 5: to announce all those those opportunities and those team nights
Speaker 5: to see you see your team and support local charities
Speaker 5: and all the things we do all summer. So starting
Speaker 5: on the Synca Mile that opens our men's season. The
Speaker 5: women open at the end of May, and we're incredibly
Speaker 5: excited for a robust summer. It's a great summer here.
Speaker 5: We've got the Cold World Cup, which is the first
Speaker 5: time it's happening at the level what's happening here in
Speaker 5: the US. So it's again another great summer of soccer
Speaker 5: and Tucson and across the United States. So we're incredibly excited.
Speaker 5: Year before World Cup, I mean, what can you say,
Speaker 5: And obviously we're working very hard to try to host
Speaker 5: the team here in Tucson, Arizona to train before that
Speaker 5: World Cup.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you're just part of the landscape, not just
Speaker 2: but you're part of the landscape athletically. You got golf
Speaker 2: coming up here in a few weeks, so three weeks,
Speaker 2: maybe the rodeo, you guys, the UA stuff. That's just
Speaker 2: a number of things that people can do and go enjoy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and don't forget don't forget the road bars and
Speaker 5: sugar golls coming up again. We love our local teams,
Speaker 5: we love partnering with them, and you know, I'm just
Speaker 5: always going to be an advocate for Tucson and everything
Speaker 5: Tuson's trying to do to improve, you know, sports in
Speaker 5: the community here and on the youth side and the
Speaker 5: professional side. So I enjoy my role on both sides here.
Speaker 5: We enjoy developing not just players here but also the
Speaker 5: sports executives, which we've done at a great clip in
Speaker 5: u of A does the same. So you know, I'm
Speaker 5: really just excited for all the teams that are going
Speaker 5: now and let's let's all throw our support by them.
Speaker 5: We'd love to see everyone out on Saturday enjoying the
Speaker 5: beautiful weather, watching the team's train and work out, and
Speaker 5: obviously we've got an incredible super Bowl coming up, and
Speaker 5: I think we all have a great appetite for the way,
Speaker 5: you know, both both our teams are competing, the men's
Speaker 5: and the womens, and the on the hoops side. Uh
Speaker 5: you know, I know you you must be excited. What
Speaker 5: to run. We're on with the men's team since the
Speaker 5: half court shot, which I was able to enjoy in person.
Speaker 5: So really just a just a great time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, perfect soul. People want to enjoy Saturday. Where
Speaker 2: do they go in time?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Just all you need to do is check the
Speaker 5: times out at FC twosun dot com or on our
Speaker 5: Instagram or on our Twitter. It's all there, and uh.
Speaker 4: You're welcome to come.
Speaker 5: It's free for all ages. You can come. You can enjoy,
Speaker 5: uh you know, you yourself. You can bring in whatever
Speaker 5: you'd like to uh to drink or to eat, you know,
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Speaker 5: you know, see some high level soccer and uh, you know,
Speaker 5: really you know, for those kids, those young people and
Speaker 5: those coaches, one see what everyone's doing the most innovative stuff.
Speaker 5: And also for kids to dream where you want to
Speaker 5: get to and see the levels of players that have
Speaker 5: come even as former FC two some players, and see
Speaker 5: where they are now. So really great time. We hope
Speaker 5: to see everybody else Saturday.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jonathan, appreciate it, Take care, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: To talk to you soon. Yeah, thank you. Jonathan Perlman,
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Speaker 1: Streaming live on the iHeartRadio app. This is I on
Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Raverra on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to any of the Ball hero Fox
Speaker 2: Sports sporteen fifty Oder. Steve, You're one and I think
Speaker 2: we're gonna call already. Who's this? Hey, Realdy Rick Rick?
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 15: Well, a couple of things. You know, I'm back in December?
Speaker 2: Okay? Well down?
Speaker 4: Oh we did yeah?
Speaker 2: Accidental Always go to have old friends he's not who
Speaker 2: operate the phone?
Speaker 10: Rick?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see, we see if he comes back. Yeah,
Speaker 2: ris My buddy, uh so, uh cool. We'll talk more
Speaker 2: about basketball here. They're they're playing well. They're probably gonna
Speaker 2: move up in the polls. We'll see what I'll make
Speaker 2: my early prediction, which I was wrong last night, but
Speaker 2: I think that they'll handle Texas technical problem. They were
Speaker 2: in the game for the first thirty five minutes and
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden the final five, they just
Speaker 2: kind of went to crap, Rick, are you back?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 4: There goes again.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, we's just gotta give them a better phone. Rick,
Speaker 2: are you there?
Speaker 15: Yeah? This dam this car phone is not working right anyway.
Speaker 15: I don't know where I left here, but what I
Speaker 15: was saying is they were moving like in half speed
Speaker 15: on offense, just setting the ball around. And then I
Speaker 15: also I also said that they're on defense, they have
Speaker 15: to get much uh more physical. They have to get
Speaker 15: into the guys real and they have in the last
Speaker 15: several weeks. I think Tommy Lloyd has made the message
Speaker 15: very loud and clear, and I think when you get
Speaker 15: good defense and you're.
Speaker 5: Moving forward, And I.
Speaker 15: Said they would also learn from their mistakes, and I
Speaker 15: think they've done that, particularly the Texas Tech game, and
Speaker 15: I think that if they keep moving forward and they
Speaker 15: keep playing physical, they're going to be a very tough
Speaker 15: out in the tournament. This is a very talented team.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree with that, but there's still a lot
Speaker 2: of games to be played with very good teams up ahead,
Speaker 2: So we'll see how good they're going to be when
Speaker 2: the when the competition, you know, gets steep.
Speaker 15: Well, the you know, the growth cycle they have increased
Speaker 15: week to week, and I think now it is part
Speaker 15: of the habit of the way they play instead of
Speaker 15: just a one off and I think you've seen seen
Speaker 15: that in the let particularly January and into February, and
Speaker 15: I think you're going to see more of that and again.
Speaker 15: And every one of these kids can shoot. And I
Speaker 15: think Gayle Love, you know what, he was going to
Speaker 15: keep hearing six for sixteen whatever it was. But at
Speaker 15: the end of the day, people will realize this team
Speaker 15: is they're no joke and they're going to be very
Speaker 15: hard out and I think there's talent as anybody in
Speaker 15: the country. And I've been watching a lot of college.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to hold you to that. I'm going
Speaker 2: to hold you to that.
Speaker 15: Yeah, the only the only Florida is tough, Auburn and Duke.
Speaker 15: I think you're going to see those three in the
Speaker 15: final four, depending on where they're seated.
Speaker 2: So you're going going shock yummy, all right, but okay
Speaker 2: later interesting Florida, Florida, Auburn, and who I think he said, Duke? Duke? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: Duke usually flails at some point. Florida. Who knows how
Speaker 2: good they've been playing? Pretty well. Auburn, of course, is
Speaker 2: probably the betest team. Kentucky has kind of flailed a
Speaker 2: little lately. I think they lost last night.
Speaker 4: I think so too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Arizona, Okay, maybe Gonzaga has kind of flailed too.
Speaker 4: I haven't heard a lot about them, no, because.
Speaker 2: They haven't played well recently, which is kind of strange.
Speaker 2: Kansas hasn't played well. Who's the best team in the
Speaker 2: Big Twelve?
Speaker 3: Well, I was you said Arizona's gonna handle Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: I don't think that'll be the case. I think Texas
Speaker 3: Tech really is the best team in the Big twelve.
Speaker 2: Really why.
Speaker 3: I think they're very similar to the Houston team Arizona
Speaker 3: ran into in Tommy's first year where they're just they're
Speaker 3: very athletic, they're very tough.
Speaker 2: Houston's the same team as they ran into three years ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but well, I don't think so. I don't think
Speaker 3: Houston is the same. I think they're still a great team.
Speaker 3: They're they're different.
Speaker 2: They're not the best team of the conference.
Speaker 4: I don't think so. Wow, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: But they're if if you if you want to post
Speaker 3: it this way, it's it's Texas Tech and Houston one
Speaker 3: A one B.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I'm not I'm.
Speaker 3: Not trying to say Houston is a bad team or
Speaker 3: they're they're missing something. I just think Texas Tech is better. Okay,
Speaker 3: you're entitled, you're entitled. You're gonna come back.
Speaker 2: Well, I need you as my guy here, so you're
Speaker 2: not gonna fire you. No, no. I someone said last
Speaker 2: like that they're a final four team. Okay, I didn't
Speaker 2: see that in the first meeting. But you know what
Speaker 2: do I know? I think Houston is still very good.
Speaker 2: Kansas is something to wrow up with Kansas because they
Speaker 2: haven't played well at all.
Speaker 3: Be Iowa State. But you knows who I was staying?
Speaker 3: Who knows who I was stating.
Speaker 2: That i State, Rightyona kind of hurt them. So we'll see.
Speaker 2: The league is just kind of good, but it's not,
Speaker 2: you know, it's kind of you can't tell, you can't tell.
Speaker 3: And I think I think the next two weeks you're
Speaker 3: gonna see those teams start to separate themselves, such as Arizona.
Speaker 2: Even then, because Arizona has to play so well Texas Tech,
Speaker 2: they've gotta go to Baylor. I think Baylor's gonna rough
Speaker 2: them up over there. They got to go on the
Speaker 2: road to Iowa State and then the Kansas so they're
Speaker 2: on the back end. It's all on the back end.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna learn a lot about this team over
Speaker 3: the next two weeks, and for the better or the worse.
Speaker 4: Right, I'm really excited about that Houston game.
Speaker 3: I think that'll be another We talked about the Iowa
Speaker 3: State game being the kind of test to see where
Speaker 3: this team's at, especially after you know you're gonna play
Speaker 3: Texas Tech on Saturday, then you're gonna go to Kansas State,
Speaker 3: which isn't guaranteed. Right, they're not that they're not a
Speaker 3: great team this year, but there is still Last night, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's still the Big twelve. So then you have Houston
Speaker 3: right after that, and I think it'll it'll show where
Speaker 3: this team is at at that point. You're coming off
Speaker 3: to games and uh, we'll see, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 5: Is.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be interesting. It's gonna be fun to watch. Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 2: last night, the issue lost to Kansasity. I think it
Speaker 2: was the guy the kid missed two. Yeah, and Tommy Tommy.
Speaker 2: Bobby at the end says, I don't know. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to get to the kids and I'm not getting to them.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 4: And you can kind.
Speaker 2: Of sense that this is it for him, that this
Speaker 2: is it. He's kind of.
Speaker 3: If you were to ask me after the Arizona game,
Speaker 3: I probably would have said, no, it's it's it was
Speaker 3: a back and forth game and they just didn't go
Speaker 3: their way. But which one last night or you after
Speaker 3: after Arizona's game, Uh, when you know, I went to
Speaker 3: that one. I went to Bobby's press conference after. I
Speaker 3: just thought most just got the better of them, and
Speaker 3: it showed. But then you see a game like last
Speaker 3: night and they just did something. They just can't pull
Speaker 3: it out. They can't win these close games, and you know,
Speaker 3: they're one of the first four teams out probably dropping
Speaker 3: by the minute.
Speaker 2: You saw that, because they are one of the first
Speaker 2: teams out in the bracketology, and and.
Speaker 3: They're dropping by the minute with these close losses. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but if they can go and beat maybe.
Speaker 2: In I wes A or Kansas, who knows it's over,
Speaker 2: what's over? They once it starts happening, it spirals into
Speaker 2: this and you start kind of looking pointy fingers, YadA YadA.
Speaker 2: There'll be a lot of work for them to get
Speaker 2: on the right side of it. Yeah, especially when the
Speaker 2: coach is saying that, Yeah, you know, when you can't
Speaker 2: when you can't get to the kids, and that's your
Speaker 2: one job, you say it publicly, Yeah, publicly that that's
Speaker 2: where it's It's it's similar to them, I have a
Speaker 2: vote in the All Conference players and you know who's
Speaker 2: not going to get my vote? And right, it's kind
Speaker 2: of like petty stuff. I mean, Sean did this when
Speaker 2: the team went to Bahamas with a very good team,
Speaker 2: some thought maybe the best team ever. At you they
Speaker 2: got beat three straight games, came back and he later said,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but
Speaker 2: I can't get to these kids. He walked it back
Speaker 2: and they played better. Uh, they played better, but they blew.
Speaker 2: I lost to Buffalo that first round game, and it
Speaker 2: was very obviously he couldn't get to these kids. Kids
Speaker 2: were just here to play and get the hell out
Speaker 2: of town. And that was probably the start of his end. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the beginning of the end, because I believe that was
Speaker 2: what twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen I want to say. I
Speaker 2: want to say it was the twenty eighteen nineteen season,
Speaker 2: and you get another recruiting class come in and maybe kind.
Speaker 3: Of saved by the bell with the COVID situation. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you never really got to see where that team was,
Speaker 3: but you know, they weren't.
Speaker 4: They weren't heading in the right direction.
Speaker 2: No, it's funny you say that because everyone thought that
Speaker 2: they'd be in the play in the tournament then, because
Speaker 2: if you remember, and I'm sure you do, because you
Speaker 2: were just maybe a senior in high school whatever, that
Speaker 2: they lost to Washington here, to Washington here, and Washington
Speaker 2: was one of the worst teams in the conference. Yea,
Speaker 2: and then they beat them in Vegas and they were
Speaker 2: gonna get ready for the second rate and then didn't
Speaker 2: play it, and they were thinking, oh, they're back back.
Speaker 2: Just because you beat Washington after beating them or losing
Speaker 2: to them the week before, it doesn't mean you're back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was I think that Washington game was my
Speaker 3: second game ever in michallon.
Speaker 2: It was horrible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I sat front row and I figured out why
Speaker 3: because it was you don't want to go and yeah
Speaker 3: you never saw Sean Miller again.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, or in it with a full Becale center. Right,
Speaker 2: But anybody want to call, We got maybe a couple
Speaker 2: of minutes. We can take a call. Five to zero,
Speaker 2: four one, six, seventy four forty. What were your impressions
Speaker 2: of last night's game? Maybe even if you want to
Speaker 2: tag football and the recruiting class that they have coming in.
Speaker 2: Everybody's hopeful. I think obviously this is the time to
Speaker 2: be hopeful. Spring game, oh, spring practice hopeful. Well, we'll
Speaker 2: see what happens with that. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: saw this, but Nebraska this is more than likely going
Speaker 2: to cancel theirs. Yeah, so we'll see what happens. Don't
Speaker 2: be looking at my players, yeah, I don't want to
Speaker 2: show them off. Don't look at my maybe that could
Speaker 2: be the side of the future. Given the circumstances of
Speaker 2: what going on and the Ohio States and the and
Speaker 2: they pack it up Nebraska packed it up Ohio states
Speaker 2: to Alabama's and the Texas. We just say, now, we
Speaker 2: don't do this, but you those guys, okay, you want
Speaker 2: our guys, pay them, we'll go get yeah, pay them
Speaker 2: because they're getting paid here. Yeah, a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of money being thrown around. I said that Arizona's
Speaker 2: a fifth seed, right yes, right now, I think that
Speaker 2: should be up. What's what's their ceiling? What's their ceiling?
Speaker 2: Ceilings A three? But they don't have to make a
Speaker 2: nice run, like a really nice run, because their damage
Speaker 2: has already been done earlier.
Speaker 4: In the year. But three are they three? I think
Speaker 4: their ceiling is a four?
Speaker 2: I think they're I think there are five right now.
Speaker 2: There are five right now. And if they can knock
Speaker 2: off some teams that they people don't think they could,
Speaker 2: it could be a three and then maybe win a
Speaker 2: game or two in the in the Big twelve because
Speaker 2: they do they have the pieces. I mean, v starts
Speaker 2: playing well, he's a good big man. Get everybody walk
Speaker 2: is playing out his mind.
Speaker 3: If if they're going to stay a five or four seed,
Speaker 3: or even maybe go up to a three, they can't
Speaker 3: have an ugly loss. Though, they can't have a surprising loss.
Speaker 3: It has to be the teams like Houston. The team's
Speaker 3: like at Baylor. Yeah, where you lose by five or
Speaker 3: last second shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tommy's teens don't get really beat badly.
Speaker 4: It's very rare. So it takes.
Speaker 3: It takes a team's best performance usually, and that's what
Speaker 3: we saw against Texa.
Speaker 2: Attack right, especially in the last five minutes or whatever
Speaker 2: minutes it was. But they're finding their way. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think that the guys are finding their roles better
Speaker 2: more defined. V Star's playing well a lot, is playing
Speaker 2: out of his mind. The only one that's kind of
Speaker 2: not doing or pulling his way is the kid who
Speaker 2: got hurt Townsend. I text you, I asked you this
Speaker 2: at the beginning here. I called somebody and they said,
Speaker 2: he's fine, he's fine, he's back, he's fine. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a lot of fans are calling for him to play less. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and put Bryanton there.
Speaker 4: Put Brian or Orlan Lewis.
Speaker 2: Brian's not a secret weapon anymore. But he's he's he's
Speaker 2: a guy that he's continuing to surprise. Yes, he's kind
Speaker 2: of like the straw that stirs, but he's kind of
Speaker 2: like a nice addition to the drink, you know, because
Speaker 2: he's not the only things that he's flatting in his
Speaker 2: foulas these guys too too handsy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and that's probably something that the scouts are
Speaker 3: looking at.
Speaker 4: Uh and probably Tommy. Tommy talks about the time.
Speaker 2: He's just kind of too he's still young and not
Speaker 2: knowing what's right and what's wrong regard when you with
Speaker 2: regard to that.
Speaker 3: He he also has some of those plays where it's
Speaker 3: it's the I guess antsiness of being the freshman trying
Speaker 3: to make those highlight plays. You saw a couple of
Speaker 3: passes over the last two games where you're just slow
Speaker 3: it down, you know, just bringing up the court.
Speaker 4: You don't have to hit the home run every time.
Speaker 2: You still when you're watching games, are you still kind
Speaker 2: of nervous when you see Henry take the three he
Speaker 2: did last night and he hit it. No, you know
Speaker 2: you're fine with it. I get nobody was UCLA. I
Speaker 2: get nervous when he goes straight to it, straight to
Speaker 2: the basket.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, straight into the shot. Okay, you know he
Speaker 3: gets at the top of the key and he's looking
Speaker 3: straight for it. Usually you're able to tell when he
Speaker 3: should be shooting it, and he's gotten a lot better
Speaker 3: at knowing when to. But when he calls his own number,
Speaker 3: I I get nervous, and you know, you don't. You
Speaker 3: don't know if he's going to rattle off three or
Speaker 3: four of those, and like he did against U. C.
Speaker 5: L A.
Speaker 2: And to this point he hasn't, which is credit to him.
Speaker 2: That's maturity. Right, We'll see what happens. Maybe you don't
Speaker 2: be picking your spots. Everybody has to do that. Okay,
Speaker 2: with time, you got about a minute.
Speaker 3: Last thing I'm gonna say on this team is, uh,
Speaker 3: something I've noticed that's kind of been under the radar,
Speaker 3: and some people will agree disagree.
Speaker 4: I think k J.
Speaker 3: Lewis is a great distributor of the ball and execution
Speaker 3: executioner of the offense, especially in that I would stay overtime.
Speaker 3: Those two big threes from k Love only came off
Speaker 3: of kJ Lewis passing.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, he's a very good defender. They need aim defended,
Speaker 2: they need him to score a little bit more. He's
Speaker 2: not a great shooter, he'll have to work on that
Speaker 2: this next year, but but perfect for whatever's gonna needs
Speaker 2: defensively and athletically because he gets the basket games.
Speaker 3: He's a little bit of that glue guy where, yeah,
Speaker 3: most of the time you can ask him to do something,
Speaker 3: he'll he'll get it done right.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks one, I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Talk
Speaker 2: more about one last thing. Super Bowl prediction. Oh, because
Speaker 2: you're not here.
Speaker 4: I won't be here for the rest of the week. Philly,
Speaker 4: Philly by three, Philly by a touchdown.
Speaker 2: Here we go.