Streaming live on the iHeartRadio WAPP. This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back toning the ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, he's Jay. Now we have at Lisa with breaking news. This is I on the Ball Breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. All right, so let's start off with the most pressing news we have right away. kJ Lewis earlier today declared
he is said he's declaring for the NBA Draft. Yeah, sorta sort you know the funny thing, I'm not hiring, not with the chance to come right, with a chance to come back, just like Caleb love the funny thing about it. Okay, So in today's world, like the kid from the Duke, the guy who signed, who's the number one guy? You know this? No, no, no, the recruit. Okay, So he's he's hired c A. A to represent him, he's got an agent. He's going in gonna get paid millions or whatever. And how could you
not hire an agent like kJ? It's all backwards now, It's like you have an agent, now, how could you declare to come back? With a hier agent for Cooper Cupp or Cooper whatever his name is. Well, I don't know, it's I don't know what the answer, what the rule is there? I mean, if you can, if you can have an agent for Nil, if I can't, you have an agent for them. Maybe he does exactly. But whatever whatever step that's taken that he can't knock
back to, he's not going to take. But you understand what I'm saying, there's a lot of craziness in this fine line of walking the fly line. Oh I can't do this, but you can do this and still get money and get paid. Five years ago, you couldn't do anything. No, you couldn't. Yeah, exactly nothing you can do any of that. But whatever, Steve, this is all happening so fast. We don't know if they've changed that rule. That's true. Okay, probably already got an
agent, So that's that's not what keeps you from coming back. But whatever it is, you know, you take a next step that says I'm not coming back. I don't know what it is. Do you guys think he'll get picked up by a team. Here's what you brought up in that two years ago. Two years ago, almost to the day, right, daylan Terry declares, and what do you and I think? We said, well, he'll be back, he'll be back. He's not ready. Yeah,
he's not ready. He's not you know. And then he went in there and lit it up in the combine and stuff and the next thing, you know, and not only did he stay in the draft, he was the first round draft pick. Right so, and I'm thinking kJ Lewis is better than Dayling Terry and we were talking about it in the break. He's probably the most NBA ready guy. Yeah, and you wouldn't think that because he
doesn't start. He maybe he just didn't fit into the team in the steps starting five as well, but he does have that he would be the one to go. The funny thing about is in the final game against Clemson, and he did it in a couple of other games. He was the reason when he came back. He's the one that brought the team back before the other guard, Dayden Bradley. Those two dudes kept him in the game.
KG brought him in and Bradley kept him alive. But there's no question in my mind that kJ Lewis is the most well an NBA ready got yeah, he's what we know. What we know is that it's something that's always said to me by what by one of my friends. The NBA drafts on potential, right, if they say, okay, this kid is ultimately going to be in the NBA, then they'll say, then let's take him now, right, and let's get him before somebody else better and get him ready.
And they believe they can get him ready more than another year in school. It would not shock me. I thoct I'm going to change my fifty to fifty to forty sixty that he stays because he's that good. I mean, he is that good. Well, he's got the attribute certainly, the body of the athletic ability and the things that you can't teach your right, you can't teach that size for the type of player he is. Both of you. The question you're taking you're taking kJ lewis you're taking Caleb Love as an
NBA player today? Yeah, I'm taking no question right there? Yeah, right there tells you. No, I don't say Caleb Love is ready at all. You're right in my mind, right, he's gonna make a lot of money, just not that at the NBA level. Yeah, yeah, I don't think he's ready at all, Caleb Love. If you're not ready, how consistent? If you're not ready, now, you're not ready. Yeah, and it's almost like he's hit his peak. Yeah, look at you taking notes. It's a great it's yeah, you're right. No.
I don't know how much better he can get. But kJ lewis I could see him getting developed and it's all about being athletic, and he's exactly that. Yeah, more consistent. Yeah, and only eighteen nineteen years old. Yeah, how old. Yeah he's a sophomore. He'll be a sophomore. Yeah, he was a fresh Yeah, the true freshman. Good for him, all right, So moving on PACKED twelve Women's golf. So Gila Beata Star Starcute is a golf player at the U of A. She was named
the Women's Golf Scholar Athlete of the Year for the PAC twelve. So that's pretty cool. Your name. Stop stop getting that for us so quickly. Hope we got it. We still hope we got it right it right? Hopefully today? Yeah, today's the final day, the final round. Let me see how how they're doing, because they they were kind of in the middle of the pack yesterday. So let me, let me look them up and see where they are. Okay, no, great, you got the
name. Yeah, but she was named Women's golf Scholar Athlete of the Year. Yeah. You guys come for academic right. Yeah. And then sticking on the golf note, Arizona women's golf player Charlotte Back posted a Pack twelve championship record of sixty four on Monday, so she was eight under par in
there tournament. Well that's quite a thing. Let me say, this is the final round, I guess, and it looks like they finished in sixth place, So what does that mean isn't over Well, they had there's a committee, so Stanford won won the thing, so they're in and uh, you know, because there's an one automatic bid and then after that, you know, there's a committee that determines who the rest of the the the teams in the in the tournament are. Arizona finished sixth. Actually they shot for
into part of day, so that's that's pretty good. Moved up from seven to sixth. But it was Stanford, USC, Oregon, U C l A, Washington and then Arizona. Stanford ran away with a twenty eight under. Yeah they killed it today. Okay, Well, she wrote the record, So all right, and then I know I kind of wanted to talk
about this with you guys. So this in this article by Arizona Desert's Worm, Elijah Arena, who's the son of gilb Arenas, is a top high school prospect coming to got an offer from Arizona and he's a top high school prospect. I think they have him as like third in his class right now. He's a sophomore, and he I think when he's already got his offer from here, he's gone from u C l A too. Yeah. You think in Arizona the top two right now? Yeah? Right. I thought
he was older than that. But that's great because and you know he's gonna be good. You know he's gonna be good. Yeah, And he said, the question is is he's going to be a nut? Like that's what I want, because that's exactly it's just that means that we have three years left to deal with Gilbert coming in and being a nut, because let me tell you, when he was here, he was a nut. He was
a nut. He drove Louke crazy. And next time we have Geenet who said, Wilves have some stories about Areas when he was nut in the NBA too. Oh he was squelling. Come on, how many times you take a get into a nutting and that's got him out of the NBA locker room. You know, That's why Vid loves his Ketsunes. But I didn't listen to Gilbert when he was in school. Here, I quoted him because I had to. I ain't gonna listen to him. Now do we know anything
about his kid? He's fantastically. He's fantastically Gilbert talent. Yeah, and Gilbert, if you remember, Gilbert went under the radar for everybody. I remember when he declared, I'm like, what are you doing? You know? And then well you know how he got him right. Luke goes into the room and he's living with his dad in la in Hollywood wherever he was that and Luke, you know, being the state. The guy has his championship ring, national championship ring, and Louke with his big fingers, it's
knocking on the table like purposely to make some noise. Yeah, and then there what's the noise? It's obviously what's the national championship? You know? That was enough? Yeah? Do you think he'll go here? I think there's a good chance, he said the staff. Yeah, how much does Gilbert care about Arizona? Though I think he does that, I mean, will he want his kid to come here? Well, wasn't he pretty critical
of Tommy Lloyd? Most of them were? Most of them were. In fact, you you had a clip about Oh you didn't use the clip at the this luson n CUA a tournament where some guy the first question was, you've been here for three years and nobody really wanted you as the class You remember that you didn't use it. But he says, well, I understand they didn't know me. I'm not from here. I understand the ex guys had no idea who I was, but they love me now or Yeah.
I remember him saying, you know, I had to prove myself here and then I did that. I don't think you did because you and it was kind of it was a weird question, the first question. It was. It was weird for that to be the first question out of the box, right, like, Okay, nobody liked you in Arizona, so what do you think now or whatever? But I kind of remember Tommy Lloyd saying, I appreciate the fans for making me earn their respect. And earned their attendance.
Sure, sure, and now everybody loves him, of course. Yeah, Richard was one of the guys too where they says Damon should have been the guy or my you know whatever, and then no, that changed pretty quickly. Yeah, so yeah, I forget that a lot of people were pretty critical of him. Yeah, but because now you just think of him and he's done a good job. So all right, So now we're going to switch over to the NBA. I don't know if I know you said you saw some of it, Jay, but the Lakers lost in a butter
in a buzzer beater to the Nuggets. Crazy. They were up by like twenty in the second half, and the Nuggets came back and now lead the series two to zero. I don't know what's going on with these Lakers. They suck, Yeah, what it is? They suck? At home? We came up, we came up with a new turn. Well, I don't think it's a new term. My son said, he was he was surprised that I had never heard the term. But we were using it. We were playing golf the other day. We were in a scramble. We
were sucked. I can't wait, Oh my, my, son and a couple of friends of mine. It was just my high school had a their foundation had a golf turnament. You know what's turn Embrace the sock. Okay, I don't know if we were sucking and we and well, actually we weren't sucking. One of the guys in our group was sucking and he was getting upset that he he is not a good golfer. In fact, he's a very very bad golfer, and every time he hit a bad shot, he would cuss. And I say, dude, you're not any good.
Quit expecting to hit a good shot. You suck, So just embrace the sock. Embrace the sock. I feel like to hear that. My son asked me stop, he goes, He goes, did you make that up? I said, well, yeah, you've never heard that before and I said no, he said I've heard it for years. I hadn't heard it. And I'm like, he said, so you didn't hear that somewhere And then I said no. I was just telling him you're you're a terrible golfer. You suck at it, so just embrace it. See eventually you become
cool. Yeah, you know, my son was cool that he was impressed that I came up with that without hearing it from somewhere else. So what it's our tagline. We have a few tags on great guests, great interviews, good sports, Embrace, Embrace, so that we used it the whole because this is like on the third whole and I'm like, you got to stop getting pissed and you're hitting bad shots because you're not any feel about that.
He embraced it, and it's like he's like he realized, Okay, you're right, I'm not any good, so I'll just play and we just played and we had a great time. He embraced the sock and it made for a great day golf. Who do I know him? Yeah? Dale, my friend. I would be Dale because I'm horrible. Yeah, but that's why I don't. But you know, look, I'm not. I don't suck, but I'm just a little bit above suck. You don't embrace it. Yeah, I think that's called for me. It's it's embrace the
almost sock. Okay, okay, because I do embrace it. I mean yet, if I hear about you know s or whatever, but I don't get upset at myself because I'm not any good you know I'm not good enough. I'm going to shoot ninety four every time. You're self aware, I know where you are, you know where you lie. Right. I stopped throwing clubs years ago. I stopped throwing my bag in the trees. I
stopped supposed to be fun. It's supposed to be fun. And I get mad at myself if I feel like I'm not having fun because it's supposed to be fun every time I play. Yeah, So if that works for you, I embraced the almost suck. Yeah, be self aware and look at you with a quick shot. On Caleb, someone told him that at the door. So what about stop shooting? Talk if we have a a few
seconds. I wanted to talk about this too, that the NBA I admitted the last two minutes, the last few calls of the games of the Knicks versus the seventy six Ers, that the calls were wrong. They missed the calls. Yeah, two big calls that they they would have at the at the very end where they they just mauled, uh, you know, a player on the inbounds and then Sixers lost the inbounds and lost the game. So yeah, but what are you gonna do? And then the Knicks lost
by three one. Oh well they were up they were up five with twelve seconds left or something like that, and they were up one at that time. I went to do you have anymore? One quick thing? So this is breaking news. This is real breaking news. Uh, Team Mac practice today with a moot and a scooter. I'm just seeing Troy's tweet here, so we'll get them on the phone right now. All right, we'll take our break. When we come back, Troy Hutcherson with the latest on what's
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w app just search I on the Ball A Welcome back to Islam. All here in Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Oh, Steve, he's day. You've got to at least with us. Now we have Troy Hutchinson from Goasycats dot com. Troy, what is what's going on over there? A lot of heat and you know t Mac coming out in a scooter and a boot on his left ankles. So no t Mac today practice after suffering a little tweak, it seemed like Saturday's practice. Oh did did did everybody see that?
Did you see what happened on Saturday? And so I mean did you yeah? Yeah? Did you guys know he was going to be out? Yeah? You know, I didn't know he would be out today. But Saturday, at the beginning of practice, he just went on a one on one route versus Nacario. Davis made the catch, just seemed to land a little bit awkwardly, walked off fine, but it kind of stepped away from everything,
got looked at and then take it to the locker room. And today you know, at the start of practice he rolls out and a scooter and a boot on the left leg. I don't know if it's anything too serious, but it definitely is not anything in the knee area. So that's always good to hear. That's good. Then maybe he won't be available on Saturday, just to keep him safe. My guess is not. You know, you never know with these situations. But if I was a coach and you
had a player like that, why risk it? I just you know, heel it up and get ready for training camp. We know what you can do and we need to do for training camp in the season. Exactly. Yeah, but nobody they didn't say anything. They didn't give you say it was just a tweak or anything like that. Did they just say, Okay, you saw him. He's in a boot. That's all you get. Yeah, we saw that he's in a boot. That's all we get.
This coaching staff, they have been pretty adamant on not talking about injuries during training camp or practices. They would like to keep those more in house. That makes sense. How has it been We got three four days we haven't been there because of the show. So you know, does it looking good? Looking sharp? What do you what do you see? Flocking good? Offensively, a lot of different formations, a lot of motion in this offense from Dino Babers to tight end sits, so you're going to see a lot
of tight end usage for Arizona. Defensively, very aggressive. You know, Duynea Keena talked about bringing the desert swarm defense mentality back to Tucson but keeping the four to two five system. He really likes that defensive base. But you know it's been as promised, a lot of blitzes, a lot of zone blitzes. So two things are clear. There's gonna be a lot of
motion on offense and defensively they're going to attack the football. Interesting. Interesting again over the last couple of weeks, standouts that you've seen in particulars. Let's start with the defense. You know who who's been sticking out that you guys have seen really Genesis Smith, you know, safety that came from the Chandler area in his second year with the program. So far this spring he's actually lined up more in the nickel position, so you might see a switch
there later on come training camp. But he's had a great spring practice, very athletic and made a couple of plays on some balls, so that's good for Arizona there. And then on the offensive line really has been Windell mo. You know, he had a rate season last year, but he looks a little bit more mobile. I don't want to say he's trim weight, but it just looks like he's carrying it maybe a little bit better, you
know. Right now some of the offensive line is beamed up. But he's been very consistent and one of the more consistent guys outside of obviously Jonas Savnea. So some of the guys have left of as you guys have written about it, talked about it, and one's going to Texas right any of the other guys settled on where they're going, And I think it's not a surprise to you guys. No, right now, the guys that have recently entered the portal, like DJ Warnow, you had Howkins entered the lawn snapper and
then also another safety as well. His name's escaping me right now. But they're actually at practice, practicing. They're going to practice with the team and make their decision at a later date if they're going to even come back to the team or not. And then Borgeon Joseph Borjon It looks like Washington State, Colorado State, Preslo State are interested in him. So those are the
ones to watch right now. And you know, as this window remains open, you could see more names either go in or it was going to add more names to its roster. But until that window closes, which I think is about fourteen thirteen days. That can't do math right now. But in the short amount of time that we have, you're gonna see a lot of movement. Okay, Troy, you just mentioned some schools for Borjon that are let's just say, a notch below Arizona. Why why is he leaving then?
I mean he's playing right? I mean is he playing? I mean isn't he Does he have a chance to start or does he not have a chance to start? No, on the offensive line right now, if nobody leaves again, I always say that because of this portal situation. Right now you have Jonas salvne on right tackle and then left left tackle is Raymond Palito, So the tackle positions are pretty much sad and Borjeon for most spring has
been working with the third unit. This is guy that was, you know, with the second unit and even played in some games last year and uh, Rhino and I'm not even gonna try to say the last name right now has been more of that second string uh left tackle slash whee tackle for Arizona. So right now, this coaching staff clearly didn't favor Borjon like the previous staff got it. Okay, So so how safe is Polluta for Arizona? Is he safe to be stayed? You know, I think it's a day
to day situation. Obviously he hasn't put his name in the portal, but you never know with other programs interested in offensive linemen and relationships that players have built with other coaches throughout their time. But as of right now, he is an Arizona Wildcat. He's had he's had a pretty good spring practice. He's been out a couple of times, but in general it's been a solid practice for him. But until that portal closes, he can't say for sure
if somebody is going to be on the roster coming twenty twenty four. All right, what's happening in the running back room? You know, we're saying, you know, we know who they've got, But now you've got Damien Martinez possibly coming here. You had a guy that was coming here? Who's not coming here? What does it look like so far? And are you hearing anything about the Oregon State kid? Yeah? So right now, you know with Klawley Connley, he looks like the number one back with what they
have on campus right now, very steady. Right now, he's dealing with some stuff, so he hasn't been at the last couple of practices. Nothing major, but he'll be back. And then after that it's ray Sewn Luke. You have Jordan Washington and Brandon Johnson. Those guys have a lot of speed, very physical backs. In terms of Brandon Johnson and Luke, he's
put on the weight so you're seeing improvements from him. I think you need to add another back like you just saw that they tried to do with Corey Merritt who just left for Ole Miss. You need a back like that be what is, you know, the workhorse in today's college football. So Martinez is going to be a big question mark for Arizona. Are they able to get them? If not, where do they go from there? And right
now with Martinez, I would say it's coming down to Arizona Miami. Is it going to be nil or potentially you know, being an offensive weapon in what might be one of the better offenses in college football. So we go to these practices, especially in the fall, Jay, you know, we kind of do a little pack routine with the with the with the beat guys and whatever, and I'm sure nil comes up. Has nil come up a lot with you guys that are going to this this, uh, the spring
practices because it's important obviously, and every everywhere. How much do you talk about that? Is Arizona actually doing a good job with that? Do you know? You know, Arizona's NIL situation has improved from the last couple of
years. I think Jad did a great job of starting that. And then Brennan once he has hirt, once he was hired, Arizona got a lot of or from boosters and donors and alumni that new Brennan very well, and we're excited about the hire, even though seeing a head coach leave and a great situation is always tough. So their NIL numbers have gone up for football during that time. But is it going to be enough to get a guy like Martinez right, that's the question. But they're still in a much better
situation than they were let's say two years ago. Even a year ago. Yeah, interesting, interesting stuff. You know, We've had a lot of conversation about this, and I hate to keep kicking this can down the road, but I mean, you know, how much of you hearing that it's such how big of a deal is If some coaches say it's the first thing people talk about, other coaches say, well, if that's the first thing
you talk about, I don't want them. Do you have any idea where Brendan sits in all this and how he's handling that as far as that goes, You know, I think it's somewhere in the middle. He's more of a coach that realizes it is the state of college football, but he doesn't want that to be the determining factor for a player coming to his programs. He wants players that want to be there, that want to compete at a high level and want to win and care about that first more than nil.
Because at the end of the day, and you know, he said this, and a bunch of coaches on airson a staff I said this as well, if you're winning and you're all doing well, everybody will you know, move on to the next level and play at the next level and make more money. So you know, having the short term money now compared to the long term money later. Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense.
So what are we going to see on Saturday? We were talking about grunk coming, but that's not going to happen, right Are they going to have special activities coming Saturday? You know that? I really don't know. I know Brennan said it's going to be mostly run like a practice with some scrimmaging. But they're not going to have a complete scrimmage game right now.
They don't have the numbers on the offensive line with some players out, and you know, they're just going to write like a normal practice with half of it being practiced and then the other half being a scrimmage. That's no fun. That's no fun. Troy, can you can you go have a talk with him and say we want Dane gain, we want to gain. I get it. You guys know it's not in the heat. Well that's true. I'll give him, but dang it, there's no fun. I'm not
gonna go. Yeah you can, I'll see you there. Yeah, you know, I'll be there. Dang it. All right, I'll think on my Saturday, not going is this spring practice? This is his first, you've been to maybe three four years of these, any different than the than the previous ones with fish or something, you know, I think in terms of energy from the coaching staff, it's a little bit of a difference. Obviously you have Duwayne Aquina and other members of the coaching staff that are very
vocal, but in terms of Brennan, it's not the same. Like you sense his presence on the field like you did Jedge. It was right in the middle of it and you could hear him from all the way across the field. Brennan's more laid back, trusting businessses and coaches to do what they
do. You know, Dino and Aquina have a lot of experience and he trusts those guys where I don't say, I'm not gonna say Jed Dinnon, but he was definitely involved with a lot of parts of the football program and compared to someone, to be quite honest, Jed and Brennan, these are just much more well ran practices than what we've seen in the past, and there's a purpose to the drills. There's a purpose to what they're doing, and you can see their vision and what they want in terms of culture and
their program as you're going throughout this practice. Well, you would almost expect that, you know, with Brennan being you know, hiring the guys that he hired. Uh. I mean, if you're not gonna let those guys coach, then don't hire those guys, right, I mean those you know, and I'm talking about you know Aquina and Uh and Uh and uh Babers. If you know, if you're not gonna let guys coach, then those aren't the guys you want to hire. So I'm not surprised to hear that
he's actually letting them do that. And not only that, but you have a guy like Danny Gonzalez, who were going to talk to you on Thursday, who's the new Mexico head coach. Has been a defense coordinator at ASU and San Diego State, and although he is a special teams and linebackers coach, he's helped out on the defensive line. He's helped out in the secondary. These coaches kind of move round. Obviously they stick to their one position,
but all of them give pointers to every position. They know what they're doing. They've had coaching experience on the staff and it shows because they're able to give pointers even to guys that aren't in their position group. So at the end of the day, the guy who came from from New Mexico to Arizona then he left. UWA, what was the real story behind that? Did he think that, I turn Martinez is gonna come here, so he
was going to lose some time? You know? I think with that he was he was command its Arizona. But when you have a transfer that commits well before spring and they're not at spring practice, that usually means that they're probably still looking for a better opportunity, whether it be nil or whatever it is. And I think ole Miss just came in and offered a lot of nil. Again Merit is a very good running back, one of the top backs in the portal, and ole Miss is going to be good with him.
And I think it was just came down to that where, you know, there was a better opportunity for him in terms of nil. Okay, okay, anything else that we missed, get about a minute, you know, No, I think fans should watch this spring game coming up. Watch to see how the offense moves and the tight ends on the field and all the motions on the field, and then defensively, watch who's in the nickel position. You're going to see a lot of rotation there, but it will
be interesting to watch from a schematics perspective. Okay, thanks a bunch. Appreciate you. Joy, have a good one, guys. I see you Saturday. Joy, Thank you. Okay, no fun. Well, we got to go. We haven't been there. I know we have to go. I'm not saying I'm just saying you can bring party favorites. I'm going to take something to read. Actually, you know that's not true because I don't read. Well, let me ask you this, because we talked about
this forever. Did you read the book The Molkey Story? You did not. I still haven't read that. It's it's ancient history. Now you're gonna get an f this semester. You're supposed to curiosity because I called you. I know, I know, you know, maybe if I go, you know, if I know I'm going to be in the bathroom for a long time, I might take it in there. That's where you have my book? Yeah, my grandson had it again. He keeps ripping the cover, you know. Yeah, it doesn't look it. He was he was gonna
take it to my sister to have her read it. Okay, yeah, what's up at the time? Exactly? All right, let's take our next break, our last break. We'll be back. We'll take your calls. Five twos. There are four one, six, four, one, six, seventy four forty. So you were analysas going, what the hell am I doing in this room with you? It's pull it out? Okay, all right, we'll be right back. If you're an Arizona men's basketball fan, you know it's been successful for nearly forty years. Now take a look
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today at a team security dot net. Steve Rivera and Jacob Salles they have their eye on the ball on Tucson's sports stage Chat Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to the ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve. He's jay Analis went best for fifteen minutes. It goes by fast, guys, It's already fifteen minutes, and I can't. I mean, we're like fifteen minutes and the whole show is all this left. Don't you feel like we've been here that long? Today went really fast? Yes,
yes I did so. Let me tell you. I got a text just about twenty minutes ago. Both of you guys, us too need to adopt Atalisa's attitude because she's so happy and I'm happy. I said, well, what are you talking about? She finds the bride slide and everything. Give it time there. At least you'll get graty like that's at some point it may take you sixty years open, but you might so. So I run into listener Bill right. The first thing he says to me beat It's the
first thing he says, at ast hardware. He's stuck, he is, man A, you're on the air and eye on the ball. Hey man, no f bombs today? Okay, I had to beat that out from our podcast. Hey man, my bed with the jet lag? Okay, okay, what's going on? What's up? Hey man? I didn't listen yesterday because I was working. Man, See what's wrong with your voice? Went out Friday? I think it's allergies are pretty bad because I had my yard worked on and it's not good. It's not improving. Man, I
thought you I thought you did. It's funny because it was four twenty one and I said, oh it was everyone missed fortune. I didn't see ye didn't hear anything about it. Yeah, it's funny, though. No, I don't do that that that stuff. Unfortunately, you probably should, Man, It would it would relax, Nico would know you're right. Nico would know that would be less less stressed out. You're probably right. How you doing? What's up? Man, is that that work? Is that what
you called about? Just to wish to ask Steve what's up with his voice? And Nico? That throw me off? But plus, what are you hoping for from the Cardinals Thursday? Right? Draft? The draft? You gotta trade that pick? Trade that pick. Wow, that's a lot of people are saying. I mean that's next year. Yeah, so you can be patient enough for all this team to get better. The Cardinals. I've
been a fan for years and they've been what they sucked for years. You know what we say, you know what we say to that, Nico, embrace the suck. I just don't even watch anymore. You you need to embrace it, Nico. You need deo man, all right, I sound like him, honestly, don't don't cross that line. That's a legend in the radio. So I'm about to say right now, okay, now, yeah, okay, all right, nego, thanks much. It's good to know Nicos alive. I'm glad. I'm glad, and we got out of
the way out of that. People ask about people ask about Gabe Gabe A lot of I think those are our two most I hear a lot of requests for how's Gabe doing and you know all that kind of stuff, right right right, Yeah, just drop that. I did drop that. This is a new one there and I'm blinking it is no. You gotta hit no, just hit the drop. But there you go, there you go. We got open line now, yeah, we do have one open line for
you called five zero four one six seven four four zero. And remember to be positive like ye be positive, unlike unlike Steve and I gorgeous, grouchy. Right, bring something. Okay, here's a personal question. What do you tell your parents about us? Well, my mom met Steve. Oh your mom met where Yeah, she looks like an older, older version of Yeah. People say like, I look exactly like my mom that they could tell they knew if they didn't even know she had a daughter and they saw
me, they y, I can open her phone. We do you have a cock hold that thought hold. You're on the air and I on the ball. So, guys, who was the best point guard? You've seen it the U for five years? Jim in my time, it's not even a question. When was the last time you won a national championship with Bibby? So well? Yeah, well, of course, yeah, we know that. I know you want to kind of expect yesterday's conversation. T J
McConnell was fantastic. They had every chance to win the national title with that team right for two years, and that and that team that the you know, the team that Brandon Ashley got hurt could have You know, I had a really good chance. You twitter, No, I know, uh, Jim, But TJ McConnell was that quality. He wasn't Mike Bibby, but he was the last really really good true point guard that Arizona had and they could have gone to the final four two times with him. Yeah, nobody
questions that. And that's and that's how and why they won their last championship, no question. In fact, I've said this publicly for years that Bibby should have been the m o P for the final four and the tournament because he was much better than Miles. Yeah, no, no doubt, nobody's gonna nobody's gonna argue with you on that one. I mean, we we do know that. And again, you know, I got all kinds of arguments yesterday about my suggestion, and the truth is X marks the spot.
Who was fighting with you? I heard a lot of none. No, that's not what it was no. No, I mean no, there was a whole lot more to why Arizona didn't go any further than the point guard. That's the that's the point we were making four other players, that's the point we were making that it wasn't all I mean, yes, you needed a better book point guard than Colin Boswell, at least a point guard who
played better than than Boswell. But there were other you know, Caleb buff couldn't you know, couldn't shoot out of his way out of a paper bag at the end of the day. So your point guard takes care of the distribution set on the floor and he overcomes a lot of those whatevers and what happens and and externalities that don't even come about because he just made a pinpoint pass under the basket. Okay, but let me say, let's say it
this way. I guarantee you, all other things being equal, if Caleb Love is Mike Bibby's shooting guard instead of Miles Simon, they don't win the national championship. So you know, it was more more to it. Say that again, how far would this team this year have gone in your estimation if you trade Mike Bibby in and Boswell out maybe one more game because Caleb Love could not. They did not have a guy, a shooting guard who could shoot those last few games of the season. Although you would have taken
up some slack, he would have. But that's why I say one more game they would have lost. They would have lost eight games. They would have lost probably three games. Four games. Been very, very good, But at the end of the day, you still need Ballow to hit pree throws and and and then you need Caleb Love to hit shots. No matter who your point guard is, you could add, you know, Magic Johnson
is the point guard. Jim, do you at the at the end of the day, did you think Arizona had any chance I'm winning the title? No, exactly, for probably the reason we're talking. Yeah, I guess I have different reasons than you. But I didn't think they would win. I thought they I thought they I thought they would. Yeah, I thought they wouldn't want more game, I really did. I was they would, but I did. I didn't break my heart. I mean I could see what was going on. Yeah, Okay, Jim, thanks a bunch for
calling as always. Yeah, appreciate it. Yeah, Jim hadn't call in a while, So that was good. Two days in the right yet before Yeah, we still have time for another couple of quick calls. Six and a half minutes left. Uh, it's when it's Tuesday. We will see you for until next week, right as you get ready for graduation. And then we have some more interns coming in, so we're gonna be busy though we already have our right we have for tomorrow. Matt Reynoldson, he's the
uh semi you sports guy over at kV away hold that toot? Do we have a call? Okay, not the call? Holy cow, Hi, you're on the arm and I on the ball. I just want to get a quick call in on Arizona. What's your name? Malick? Malick? Give us what do you got? So one thing I've noticed it seems like for quite a while, Jove seems to get a lot of great talent coming in. But it seems like every year the team is playing four on five,
there's always it's usually the point guard. It's a small point guard, not a shooter, not a scorer, more defensive, and when it comes down to the tournament, that's what really comes back to by this, when we need that extra funt right, extra shooter, the extra score. Eve doesn't tend to do that. I don't know if that's by design, but it just seems like if they could get a team with five players that actually contribute consistently, they can go all the way. No, that's that's a
really good point. And that's why you see that the teams that have the great point guards that when needed can score and and you know, pick things up like that's what Mike Bibby did. That's exactly what he did in that ninety seven tournament run. Is that he contributed not only by by as dealing the ball, but he made some big shots, particularly in the final four. And I agree with Steve he was he was the key to why they won. I know, I know Myles Simon scored all those points, but
Mike Bibby was the best player on the floor in all those games. Absolutely, no one agree with you on that. And and those are the teams that win the tournament every time you go back and look at it. Every time they've got a great point guard. That's right. Thanks for calling. This's your first time calling us. I think it was my second time calling in like the last five years. Thanks for you appreciate your calling, but I'm always driving home from all right, thanks for listening. Feel free to
call more. Put us in your contacts. You can do in auto dial. We don't get there as many sensible callings, did you. Yeah, I'm putting this in my contact with today. All right, appreciate it. Thanks for colling. Say great, Malik, Yeah, that was great, No, Steve, I mean yeah, look I agree with Jim. You know. The thing of it is is that, you know, Colin Boswell looked like he was a really good point guard for a while and then it all went to got another call to poopy. All right, let's take this
one. Hi, you're on the aaron I and the ball? Hey, Jay, this is done. How you guys doing? How are you done? What's up? All right? Hey man, we got to get off of the basketball thing, Jim. It's twenty twenty four. Nobody has their true point guard anymore. That yeah, get over it, Arizona. For years since t J. McConnell was gone, and before he got here, whoever had the ball brought it up. If it's Caleb Love, it's Pelly Larson, it's Kylin Boswell, whoever. So that's that's a moot point anymore
going forward? Yeah, okay, but but the real reason I'm calling is somebody is lying about the football team. Okay, in what sense? In the Wildcaster, when Damian Martinez was here on his visit, he was quoted as saying that he's not transferring over ni L. He's trying, he's playing the long game. He was looking for the best situation for the next level. And then your guest just said, if the nil money is there, we'll see if he comes back. Which is it's it's probably both. It
could be both. What are you going to say, I didn't marry her because she's pretty or you know, what are you gonna say? What's the right answer? Do you like Santa Claus? Oh? Yeah, I love Santa Claus. Of course he's gonna say it's not nil at the end of the day, are you well he could I'm he didn't have to say that. It wasn't if he's looking, if he's looking to get to the league, do you want to play an Arizona schedule or do you want to play
I don't even know who Oregon State is going to play next year. Well, he's not going to Oregon State. He's he's he's going, He's going somewhere. And what what Troy Hutchinson said is he thinks it's between Arizona and Miami. Yeah. I heard that part too. And the one good thing that that Croy did say was that, which I thought was funny, was as soon as they hired Brennan that a lot of a lot of the boosters started chipping in more. Yeah. Yeah, then when than when Fish was
here. I think that I think that I could be totally wrong that Fish was overbearing. I want to say that in a sense of that's what he coaches do this. Now they're out there chasing the money because they have to. And I'm not too sure if that may be in too much. You know what I'm saying, asking for too much? Well, he may have been demanding for the moneys of asking for it. That's it. That's it. That's a good good word to say. And and that's that's what I
took. You your your your statement to me, and Steve was he was probably a lot more Hey, I need this, yes, instead of I'd like to have whatever you can give. No, I think exactly if you want us to be this program, you need to give, right, you know exactly, Dog you thanks for coming. All right, Don, we got to hit the road. Were at the end of the show, so hey, thanks for the call, as always, appreciate it. Have a
good evening, guys. Okay, before we said it, so is Matt Reynoldson tomorrow and and Pat Finley Patrick Finley Chicago Sun Times covers the Bears. He'll be in here. We'll talk about the draft as a whole, and then if the Bears really are going to pick Caleb Love so not Caleb Love, Caleb Williams. All right, thanks for being here. We'll be back tomorrow. We hope you'll tune in, follow the podcast and we'll catch you tomorrow. Thank you. Ales.