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man weaver, Brett always bringing the hammer by my side.
Kind to get into the little world of bou sports.
A lot of news and notes that came out today.
Got to give you guys an update on all of it,
not just with what's going on with aj De Bonsa,
but also boy women's basketball.
Speaker 3: Just want to take the time to hoil a lot
of stuff.
Speaker 2: Going on as we are trending towards the end of
basketball season and then you know, April it will be
become NBA Draft and combined and then Brett before you
know it, look it's gonna be main and then the
offseason will have hit and you get towards those dog
days of summer. I know, people like ron what are
you saying like once you get to We're three weeks
away from the National Championship Game happening, you know, knowing
who that is. And then after that, man, it's like, wow,
here we go once again, like we were here.
Speaker 3: It feels like we were just here. Like last year.
Speaker 2: I felt like it it's gone by, Like for the
fact that twenty twenty six just started. You tell me,
I remember you were talking about Christmas with your family.
You put me on with Shabu, and now all of
a sudden, I'm like, dang, is it gonna be April May?
Speaker 3: Dude, we're almost a quarter through twenty twenty six. That
is crazy to think about. Yeah, I almost three months
into twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Look, I mean I turned thirty this year, and obviously
we're going to be doing an extravaganza with my family
for my thirty birthday.
Speaker 3: My brother in law.
Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna throw a funeral when I turned thirty.
I'm not ready to turn thirty. You got some time?
You got what two years?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, you chilling, bro, You chilling the joy. But
it's just downhill from he makes himself so the brig.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, I'm trying to be positive wrestler,
like it's like, yeah, my my v line Bengo Man,
I'm slower.
Speaker 3: I can't keep up with you no more. Yeah, you're
not wrong. Recovery takes.
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the other day. I'm like this, this, this is not
how this works. My body's good. This is not I
don't do this. I'm in shape a way today. Start
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had to hold her. Now she's running everywhere. It goes
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five six zero three six zero. We are almost to
the quarterway through a twenty twenty seven season. I guess
twenty twenty five really, but yeah, twenty twenty six edition
of Cougar Sports Springball still happen. And give you as
a reminder, we're gonna be down there. Ben is going
to be interviewing Pockey fenw and I'm going to be
interviewing Evan Johnson, two big contributors I think for the
twenty twenty six twenty seven season. Brett, let's get into
some of the news and notes we already talked about
if you live under a rock. Yes, AJ De Bonser
was named to an AP First Team All America.
Speaker 3: We're gonna move past that.
Speaker 2: How about this though, Three Cougar's earn in a BC
All District Honors obviously one agd Bonce is one of them.
Richie Saunders and rober Right the third earn in a
BC All Mountain District Honors, the organization announced Tuesday morning.
Boa was one of three schools to have multiple players
on the first team, the bon Saunders making the list,
while Rob Wright was one of four players from the
Big Twelve selected to the second team. All District honors
are voted by the NA by the NABC member coaches
across In a excuse me, NCA Division One men's basketball,
the bonds is we know led the nation in scoring
with twenty five points per game entering March Madness. AJ
has eight hundred and fifty nine points in our third
most in the single season in program history. Sits eight
points away from passing Devin Durant per second. Your thoughts
on that break, He's gonna break it.
Speaker 3: I'm sure, Devin.
Speaker 2: Salute to you, Devin, but it's gonna be a demolished yeah.
For Now this is in a single season. This is
not all time, my people.
Speaker 4: But it's I mean, it's it's honestly kind of crazy
given the season and he had that he didn't I agree,
Just like the way we think about it, it's like, oh,
he scored this many, scored this man, he scored this man,
he had this many twenty point game, like all that stuff.
It's kind of crazy that he didn't already pass yeah
that record and become the all time single season leading
scorer by b are you cougar.
Speaker 3: But it is what it is.
Speaker 4: The other thing that I thought about while you were
bringing that up, because you said it was Rob, Ritchie
and AJ that were all in that awardless.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So if you go back and you just look at
the history of big threes in basketball, it always feels
like they never live up to their potential, whether that
be for personality reasons allah the Brooklyn nets are for
a number of other reasons. But it does feel like
with big threes you never see it for a long
period of time because somebody always gets injured. True, and
in this case that was the case in Richie Saunders
getting injured. But what's weird is that AJ and Rob.
Neither one of them missed the game all season.
Speaker 3: No they didn't, You're right.
Speaker 4: Which is a pretty big deal that you never had
to go without them. And you think about aj and
he had a couple of sick games that he played
through and you never would have known he was sick
unless somebody told you so.
Speaker 3: Pretty big deal, incredible season.
Speaker 4: I just hope this season gets capped off with a
good end, given the type that it started with, the
dive that it took in February and then the shots
to the gut that you took the last week and
a half of the season and then took a shot right,
and then to get like a little bit more on
the uptick through the Big twelve tournament. I don't need
them to win a national championship, but I I hope
they can make a round of thirty two and go
out like a fighting champ against Perdue. Like in a
way that feels satisfying because you're not getting the ending
that you thought you were getting to this movie, but
I hope it's still a good ending.
Speaker 2: Nonetheless, Yeah, you have to wonder if Richie doesn't go
down as being able to split that road trip, you know,
on top still beating Texas.
Speaker 4: But also, if Richie never goes down, do they ever
really convince themselves to play defense?
Speaker 3: No, they probably don't.
Speaker 4: Like their Their mentality was, we can get in a
shootout with you and we feel confident we can win.
Sometimes it but it never forced them to learn to
play defense. And I'm not saying it's a good thing
that Richie went down. I'm just saying, no, yeah, I
was cause the other Yeah.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: Different identities are built based on the circumstances, and this
definitely caused that for sure. Because the Riverton Natives scored
in double figures twenty one times this season, you know,
and for the second straight season, he is named first
District All Accolades and he was he averaged eighteen point eight.
If you told me Richie would average eighteen point eight
points per game, six rebounds, two assists per game and
not be heard. And he was shooting from the field
forty nine percent, thirty seven percent from three, and eighty
one point seven percent from the free throw. Linem like
oh BoA's in the Elite eight competing for a Final four.
Not the case though, but you want to check them out.
Speaking of the guy who told j Drew. It's either
go professional or come back to BYU. Listen to this right.
The third is averaging a career high eighteen point two
points per game as a sophomore. He scored twenty points
thirteen times this season, ten more than he had as
a freshman Blaler, and he ranks first on the team
in assists with one hundred and fifty nine helpers, which
are fourteenth the Monks, excuse me, which are fourteenth most
in a single season in pro history. Think about that
for a second. Brad rob turned it on in the
tournament for Baylor, really helped them. How will that help
BYU in the tournament?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 2: I caught up with Jordan Bay. Let's go back last offseason.
What are you projecting from Rob or projecting everything? For
him to score more, give more assist and for him
to shoot better from the field. All of that has occurred.
So let's give Jordan Brady credit. Union might put a
request room and get him back on the line because
they knew what they were getting. Now, all of this,
I feel like can be validated if bo he gets
to the sweet sixteen with the circumstances to the cap
because Richie's entered, they mess around or if Purdue or
Missouri whoever FAFO fa F five into the Elite eight
and BYU's there is definitely validated one hundred percent and
Rob is gonna be a big part of that. Let's
continue to move on into the world of beuse sports.
Let's give your former team that you covered. I want
to give them some love. It is hoops season. A
lot of people feel like they should have been picked to,
you know, to be in the tournament. They were not,
of course, I know that hurts. But by Women's Basketball
Brett does have a game also on Thursday. They are
the number one overall seed in the w b T
not a number one seed, thats selected as the first
team because they were the first team out. They will
host Alabama and A and M Bulldogs Thursday at the
Marriott Center because they were selected to the WBT Wenesday Night.
Spencer Lynchen and Christian Kozlowski will be on the call.
Love both of them. They do a phenomenal job to
people you respect the most. Spencer, was your mentor. Game
time for a Thursday has not been announced yet. I
think it will be probably you know, six or seven,
depending on the probably seven. Your thoughts on Bill Yamen's
basketball getting to the wb T under League. Kmark first
year as a head coach also beat Utah three times
in the season.
Speaker 4: And and that's the big deal right there, is what
Lee Kamard was able to do in his first season.
I truly hate comparing it to I Know what You're
gonna saever widing ye by New York, because that woman
was always so good to me.
Speaker 3: I never actually is so funny.
Speaker 4: I never even introduced myself to her the whole season,
and then at the end of the season, she went.
Speaker 3: Up to.
Speaker 4: Austin and she was like, who does this guy keep
doing halftime interviews with? And anyway, like and I question
the point being like what Lee Camard has done in
this first year, given what the last couple of years
looked like and the fact that Lee could have left
and said I'm not I didn't get the job, so
I'm gonna be somewhere else. His heart was always in it,
especially with these players, and that's why you saw a
lot of them stick around is.
Speaker 3: Because of who Lee is.
Speaker 4: It's a major deal round that this is where we're
sitting a team that was on the bubble to get
into the NCAA Tournament. They didn't get in, but they
were really close in league. Cammard's first year and the
last two years bigs Will play was not easy.
Speaker 3: It was hard to watch it times.
Speaker 4: Facts they had a fighters chance in almost every game
this season, and it went, look, you don't need to
win an out of your first year, Nope, just show
signs of life, proof of concept. They did that this
first year, Lee Kamard his squad. They deserve a lot
of credit for what they did and I'm sure they
will be running it back with a trip to the
NCAA Tournament next season.
Speaker 2: Look, that's the best part is they got a young team.
If they beat TCU, we know that they're in. They
would have been in no doubt about it. But you
have to like look at them. They West Virginia and
they won in the Women's Big twelve tournament. If they
beat them at the crib, maybe they're in. Maybe they're in.
But maybe this season and showing their competitive nature and
beating Utah three times, a program that was great on
the Lynn Roberts, maybe that will get them better matchups
scheduling and to the twenty twenty six to twenty seven season.
Speaker 3: We will see what the Cougars are making the program.
Speaker 2: Second appearance to the wbiit the way you face Santa
Clair on the road in the opening round and they
dropped that six to fifty nine. That was Lauren Gust's
last season under first year head coach. As we mentioned,
he was twenty two eleven, nine to nine and Big
twelve play. It's their most wins since twenty twenty one
to twenty two season and best conference finished since entering
the league in twenty twenty three. They closed out on
a winning five of his last six games with wins
on the road against Utah, Arizona at home, over Colorado,
over Houston in Utah, and the Big Twell Tournament only
lost as the number ten TCU. Maybe they can get
a few more recruits that can help push him over
the hump. But I love what everything Delanney gave. Is
an all world player. What would the all season look like?
Though I hate to bring this up. This is gonna
make people mad, Brett, it always will. But you have
to retain your players. If you do not retain your players,
you know what is going to happen. Other people are
going to get them. But I think Delaney will stay.
Speaker 3: No problem.
Speaker 2: Let's let's finish up in round out with some baseball news.
How about we do that. BAU Baseball hit South to
Saint Georgia take on Utah Tech at bruce Hurst Field
on Tuesday, March seventeenth at six or five pm tip off.
Speaker 3: Well, excuse me, first pitcher.
Speaker 2: Later tonight the game will be on live on ESPN
Plus and will also be available on BAU Radio and
the BYU Radio app. I don't know if the shep
is doing that one or if it will be Matt BYAMATAP.
I have to double check both. Uh, both do a
wonderful job in Matt Biomante, Friend of the program.
Speaker 3: You can do that.
Speaker 2: You can follow stats along at Boa Cougars dot com,
slash news slash BYU.
Speaker 3: Just a week of review.
Speaker 2: The Cougars are coming off a successful three on one
week that included a big twelve Conference series win over
Cincinnati two to one in the opening conference play.
Speaker 3: Week. BYU began the week.
Speaker 2: On Tuesday with the nineteen to two home victory over
Utah Tech that included twenty two hits and six home runs.
That's a lot of hits. Twenty two hits in a
baseball game. Did you play baseball all growing up? It's
totally fine, but you've watched it. Yeah, twenty two hit,
twenty two hits alot, nineteen nineteen to two, nineteen to two,
win six home runs. Over for the football game, I
didn't even think about that, oh man, nineteen points.
Speaker 3: So what I'm trying to do? The matt touchdown three
field goals? Right?
Speaker 4: Wait, you could do two touchdowns, a field goal and
the safety to get way too much.
Speaker 2: Safety for the other team. So a tuddy and then
three field goals? Is that what happen? Because seven to ten?
Uh four or four four field go see this one
bad at map. That's why I'm a journalism. So yeah,
tuddy in four field goals or a two tudies a
field goal in the safety, which everyone take your pick
with that. Over four game, four home games, bau rolled
up forty one runs on fifty one hits. Batcats coming out,
that's for sure. Look, I know people like the football
and the basketball, and look, we're gonna discuss the baseball
during the time, but you should get out to a
game like the weather is bright and even if it's
not Billie baseball, get to a bas game, do something
like it's enjoy the spring. Sports don't don't do that.
But yeah, including thirteen home runs, seven doubles and a triple. Man,
I love to see triples in base ball, But yeah,
b Yu on the offensive side is a point three,
five to two as a team last week. And then
the pitching is really what's doing at BYU really dueling
up and because of all that, working really hard, because
of their wonderful games last week. You have Robinson who
is named the Brooks Wallace Player of the Week, the
nation's most outstanding shortstop Writer Robinson.
Speaker 3: He was named that the shortstop today.
Speaker 2: The Brooks Wallace Award is presented annally to the nation's
most outstanding shortstop by the cf excusing by the cb
F and the College Baseball Hall of Fame. He had
now standing week at the plate, leading BA to the
three to one record that already mentioned. The shortstop from
American FOK was eight of sixteen.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: With the five hundred even batting ara with three home runs,
a triple, four RBIs, four walks and six runs scored.
On the Eurobinson is hitting point three to two one.
That's a great hitting percentage. People, I would know with
five home runs, eleven RBI sixteen runs scored.
Speaker 3: Through eighteen games.
Speaker 2: This dude is on record for an all time great
season if you keep that up, and not just that offensively.
He was also flawless in the field, handling eighteen chances
with twelve assists and five putouts while not committing an error.
It's hard to not compit aras in baseball, especially at
the college level, So shout out to him, Robinson, L
buy you lead to a midweek victory over Utah Tech.
As I mentioned earlier, the sophomore was named Honorable Mentioned
All Big Twelve and was a CSC academic audistric Henery
and was.
Speaker 3: Ten weeks as the Big twelve coal Player of the Week.
Speaker 2: One year, Robinson hit a point to eighty one and
was eleven home runs in forty six RBIs while fifty
two runs were scored. So shout out to him and
doing world. Let's finish up with some football news before
we do, we will be going down to practice.
Speaker 3: Brett.
Speaker 2: Just get your final thoughts on the I think this
is the only practice a week and then Pro Day
on Friday. I get your thoughts there. What do you
and we'll start with Pro Day, because that's what's most important.
What are you expecting from those participating in Pro Day?
Are you expecting certain guys that maybe didn't get invited
to the Combine to make a name for themself. Remember
Caleb Hayes years ago ran like I think it was
a four three four and got himself on an active
roster who maybe didn't get an invite that should have.
That could maybe turn some heads on Friday.
Speaker 4: I think there's a world where Chase Roberts plays himself
up a little bit. I know that's not that you
asked about, but that's okay. And you know what, maybe
it's not even about the Pro Day. Maybe it's just
that he gets to the league and shows up and
shows out. I know he had a really great gauntlet
drill at the at the NFL Combine. I think what
you're gonna get out of Chase Roberts is not the flashy,
sexy four to three speed, but I think it's gonna
be the consistent, possession receiver, every down type of guy
who's strong enough to block and could be really helpful
in an offense like a play action specific offense like
RAMS or something like that.
Speaker 3: I think Chase Robert.
Speaker 4: It's going to get a lot more respected the next
level after he gets drafted. So I hope he does
some more things at his PRODA that show NFL teams I'm.
Speaker 3: Worth a look.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I think that's a definitely a big
piece Chase. I think we'll run a better forty time.
I believe at the at the Bau Proda, wasn't the
best of the combine had Hintley Platt of the raz
you know, metrics on he does like the RADS score
for the Boa players and wasn't the best, but everything
else was on point.
Speaker 3: I think you can do that.
Speaker 2: Remember Puka tested well, you know, in certain categories at
Bou's pro day. So all of those things happen. So
you hope that Chase gets it. We'll see, We'll see
if Will Farren comes and does some kicking. I'm excited
to see what all of these former Cougars are able
to do on Friday. I will miss it, but I
definitely will be tuned in as I will be in
Chicago and Ben and Andrew Peters will be covering that.
I believe that's gonna be Friday morning, and if you
want to catch it live, you know if you're like
you're not gonna be allowed to attend, which most people aren't.
It will be on BAU Sports Nation. I think the
two hour live broadcast. Spencer and Jerem will have that.
Jerrem will have it from I believe it is Portland
and Spencer will have it. Will be there or vice versas,
whichever it is. But they do a wonderful job there.
But yeah, what are you looking forward to at pro Day?
Who will stand out all that? I'll be looking forward
to what those people are able to do. It is
unfortunately sad. You would wish that Jake retz Laugh would
have been able to stay. You would have loved to
see him participate in pro DA at BYU, but that's
not the case, and we wish him well. Once a Cougar,
always a Cougar, and Harrison Taggart and the formers Keiland Marion.
It'd be nice to see Keiland run routes, but that's
just the way it works. To state you're in college football,
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BYU Women's golf just recently completed play and the Betsy
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leading the way for BYU, sending it tied for twenty
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place today is the BYU baseball team, who's in Saint George, Utah.
He's in the Utah Tech Troe Blazers in game two
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course of the regular season. In Game one last Tuesday,
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set for six OZHO five pm. Some other events BYU
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BYU cutting down the nets in Indianapolis Overduke. The Cougars
will start that path on Thursday, and we'll face the
winner of today's matchup between Texas and North Carolina State,
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ESPN The Fan, Ronald the three man Weaver. Here, I'm
gonna get into a little bit more of a college
basketball segment. More excuse me, more college of basketball here
on your Utai, ESPN Radio newro Look, it's March Madness season.
BAU men's basketball will find out who their opponent will
be tonight. Will it be Texas? Will it be the
NC State wolf Pack. Let's go to our question in
Paul of the Day. I told Brett that I was
gonna do this. A few people have chimed in. Let's
go ahead and look a little bit further on to
it before we get into some of the college basketball
news and notes.
Speaker 3: Just want to pick up. I put the pole out,
I put the.
Speaker 2: Question out in the beginning of who do you think
BYU will face? And I'm scrolling to it. Man, there's
a lot of stuff that's went out. Sorry, I apologize,
but yeah, I think it's gonna be Texas. Brett is
thinking the same thing, that's going to be Texas. Some
people says it's hard to beat a team twice in
a year. I think I saw one comment that was
picking the here it is. Finally got it, finally scrolled
into it. A few people are chimed in Texas. I
rather see a team I know a little bit about.
That is what bj Hodge says. Hunting Cougar says n
C State hard to beat a team twice in the
same season. That was a two that I was just
alluding to. Timothy says the Texas better team than NC State.
Excuse me, some fools are even picking U T to
beat b What excuse me? BYU Thursday, My goodness, got
the hiccups. I apologize. Yeah, there are a lot of
people that are picking by you to lose this matchup,
which is, uh, it's a little surprising. Texas, you know,
is a what is it? I think they're a minus
one and a half. I think open up as a favorite.
But a lot of people think that BYU is not
going to move on regardless of whether they play Texas
or if they play in C States. So kind of interesting,
no doubt about it. So I don't know. I don't
know if I agree. I think BYU it's going to
be a tough matchup, but I definitely do believe that
the Cougars are going to be able to come out
with the victory. Nonetheless, I trust that Kevin Young and
his staff will be able to get BYU to the
second round, which will be on Saturday, and I believe
they can even get them to the sweet sixteen. That's
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couple of sound clips in this segment around college basketball.
Kevin Young joined BAU Sports Nation just to talk about
the identity where the team is at, how confident they
are Before we get into that. I really believe it's
gonna come down to the other people that BYU is
playing with. Alexi Coast and Canard have been harping on
that all week long, and I'm gonna continue to do so.
I think those are gonna be the difference makers. Those
have to be the guys that step up. If they
don't step up, I don't believe BYU is going to
be able to get it done, but I believe that
they will so without further do let's tune into this
is what Kevin Young said on Sports Nation with Spencer
Linton and jam Jordan about the defensive success heading into
the term. Man, it's gonna come down to not just
Binard's offense, but his defense, but also Alexi as well.
Speaker 3: Let's see what Kevin Young had to say. It's been
a wild ride.
Speaker 4: But what have you figured out over the last couple
of weeks that make you feel good about where your
team is heading into the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3: Well, like I.
Speaker 6: Said, I mean, we feel like we've kind of simplified
things on the defensive end. I know there's been some
talk internally with the guys too about that. Just feel
like it's allowed us to just hold them accountable for
just playing a little bit harder. What I like to say,
just do it harder, longer, faster, stronger. That's the adjustment
instead of scheme. Now, obviously you have to have some
scheme in.
Speaker 3: There, but we're not. I don't think we're.
Speaker 6: Dizzying the guys less with a lot of scheme. We're
keeping a lot of that to ourselves as coaches and
employing it when we feel like we need to, and
just trying to streamline everything and make that message of
playing harder more the forefront of the messaging. And then
the guys were playing, you know, that's what they're good at.
You know, guys like you know move and guys like
Hadeem and Dominique being mindy, you.
Speaker 3: Know, their energy.
Speaker 6: Guys, they play hard and in a lot of ways,
it's free those guys up to go out and make plays.
And I think other guys have fed off of it.
I think as you see it, a lot more emotion
out of him. I think it's it's turned robed right
up a little bit. You know, Cabe is pretty steady,
but I think it's kind of energized him as well.
Speaker 3: So that's been good. You heard it there from Kevin Young.
Speaker 2: It's really energize AJ Dominique and guys like Kadem and
I agree. I definitely think it's definitely energized AJ, No
doubt about it. When you get a lob dunker, when
Dom is going in the full court and then win
meals that gets guys type. You see AJ bumping chess
with the teammates pushing them, it does get those guys juiced.
And he said, you know, they're simplifying, they're not overdoing it.
And I think that's exactly maybe what the coaching staff
was doing per them. When you look at it and
when you go back on tape of it's just simple
going back to the basics.
Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong. Look in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: What is that You have to have faith which leads
you you excuse me, you have to have a knowledge
of it which leads you to faith and wanting to repent, baptism,
receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and then the
enduring to the end that sick of repeats the basics.
Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with the basics.
Speaker 2: The basics keep you align, they keep you balanced, and
you never can go wrong with them. They won't because
that's where everything builds off of. And the advanced schemes
Kevin Young set maybe it was a little bit too much.
Maybe it was for this BAU basketball team, and it
showcased itself. And maybe with Richie going down and not
being able to play, can't throw those things. Maybe guys,
that's not their skill set, that's not their fortee. But
credit to the coaching staff on recognizing that and being
able to pull back a little. Sometimes you know, coaches
want things to work, They're gonna keep pushing. No, I
want this to work. I want this to work. And
credit to Kevin Young and the staff. They didn't force
it right, they pulled back on it, and you have
to give them credit about that. I really would like
to know the double scout. Who has two scouts? And
maybe you know I can ask that off record, not
that it really matters, but when you're preparing for two teams,
how does that work?
Speaker 3: And they have you know, it's two to one.
Speaker 2: Ben always says it's two to one, So I wonder
how would this who's doing what?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: You see Will Void getting a little bit more involved
in the defense. I talked to Tim Fanning at the
start of conference playing Tim was the one that was
helping Kevin Young with the defensive coverages. You see more
of Will helping out. Talking to Kevin Young.
Speaker 2: Now you see obviously Chris burg is getting a little
bit more involved. See Nate Austin behind the bench, Brendan Dunson.
It's all hands on deck. It's everybody and maybe you
know because coaches take certain scouts, but it's do or die,
it's win or go home. So you see that. So
you see everybody involved. And what will happen is the question.
So we'll see who has what scout when the game
is all over and the BA he's able to move on,
which I believe they will, but I'm going to be
interested to know how they prepared and who did what
going forward.
Speaker 3: Let's get into the next sound clip. Let's go this one.
Speaker 2: So we wanted to know about the CEO of the
company that built the led court. Does players have the
same grip, if not more consistent grip than the wood floor.
This is what the CEO had to say about the floor. Right,
There's been a lot of controversy. I know we moved
on to March Madis, but giving him an opportunity to
speak about the floor, it's still it wasn't the best idea,
but this is what he had to say on the map.
Speaker 7: First and foremost so you're on glass and you can
see there's a little grittiness right here, or there's dark.
This is a ceramic coating. All these dots are burnt
into the top surface of the glass, and that gives
me that grip when I'm landing. Also, you're going to
feel a little bit of a vibration to the floor.
That's lighter on the athlete's body. It's lighter on their knees,
it's lighter on their ankles. And now athletes feel more
comfortable when they're running and they have that same grip,
if not a more consistent grip than a hardwood floor.
Because this is all done by computer. The ceramic coating
on the glass, the two pieces of safety glass, all
that spring action metalwork, all of it together creates the
ASP glass floor. It's the same technology that all the
arena boards are. The LED is something that's used in
every single arena, but in combination with the metal work
underneath it and the spring action metalwork with the glass,
it becomes a new surface. Anything that you see on
any LED boards we can do on this floor as well.
We can put video, we can change the designs, I
can add I can adjust the brightness up and down.
I have full control. As an example, we're sitting on
the big twelve court. But if I want to change
this to Arizona the top of the iPad, it goes.
Let's go to Arizona State. We always make it look
like wood when they first start, but the players and
the teams all like to play on the darker designs
and change out the courts.
Speaker 3: Here's Iowa State.
Speaker 7: Here's Iowa State's secondary court. Anything you can imagine, we
can create and also make it completely colorful.
Speaker 3: I can also do a full play strategy on the court.
Speaker 7: As a coach, I can make up an entire play
right here.
Speaker 3: That's been the goal.
Speaker 7: Here is to get players on the floor, because you've
never had another surface at all in basketball for over
one hundred years. So getting them on and then saying
that glass is the surface. It's been a really fun
conversation over the past year with NBA players and college players.
But the fan experience when you see the light, when
the lights are down and you're seeing the court have
some movement on the floor, it's a complete wow moment
as soon as you see this when you walk into
the building, right, So fans have never seen anything like
this before. It's going to completely change the fan experience, going.
Speaker 2: To completely change the fan experience. So look, that was
a video that they had on TikTok. The reason why
I wanted to play that is, you know, you see
the little dots that are built in. He's just the
vibration coming down and we'd have to ask the players, right,
but that, I mean, that's his breakdown of that. It
has the same grid consistency, but still players slipped and
maybe what they should have done was tested a little
bit more. I mean, I know that Chris Thorton, you know,
the CEO of the ABS Glass Floor, is taking us through.
They're not saying that it's not working and that's not right,
but it just it didn't seem like that was the case.
You still have players slipping left and right all over
the place, and Manual sharp I go back to doing it.
But that is interesting and I do think the one
cool part about all that video, and you have to
go watch it, it's Greg Welch at art director BYU
has to on his Twitter page. The most important thing
that I found interesting was that by should not be
a you, but that coaches could draw plays on that.
So if they drew it up on the iPad, and
if it was on the court like for practice, you.
Speaker 3: Could run this.
Speaker 2: So I do think there are advantages of having this.
They will have to go retest it. But to start off,
it wasn't the It wasn't the best. Like I said,
let's get to one last SoundBite and then we will
go to break. This is actually Kevin O'Connor of Yahoo
Sports saying that BA needs to hand the keys to
aj Debonsa to have any chance of making the deep
madness run. Watching Rob Wright run, you know, the offense,
he said some things, Let's hear what he has to say,
and he was frustrated that BYU point guard Rob Wright
was running the show and out AJ. Let's see what
he had to say about that. B YU, give ajd
bonds to the keys.
Speaker 8: Because I'm watching that BYU Houston game and last five
minutes the game, Debonca shot only four times. Rob Wright
dominated the ball. There's a two minute stretch where de
Bonsa didn't even get a touch and I'm like screaming
at my TV, like.
Speaker 9: Kevin Young, did you see de Bonza creating off the
dribble in the first half against pressure? This cross court
whip pass bullseye to rob right from the right wing,
De Bonsa to the left wing, rob right, bullseye have
passed for an open spot up three? Did you not
see this guy put the ball in his hands and
let him create against this elite defense in Houston? And
then I watched Duke and Boozer did not have his
best game, But what did they do?
Speaker 3: They put the ball in Boozer's hands over and over
and over and over.
Speaker 8: Down the stretch. Every single possession he got a touch.
And that comes from the coaching staff. And so I'm wondering,
you know, byus missing guys they have injuries, will they
empower their freshmen, their best player, the potential number one
pick in Ajd Bonsa, and let them let him guide
them to victory. Live and die with Ajd Bonca because
that game against Soon to Me was not encouraging for
the abiu's chances of going far.
Speaker 3: I think that's a very powerful point.
Speaker 2: And the reason why I bring that up is aj
only touched the ball four times, and we were waiting
to know what the number of touches were, and there
it is.
Speaker 3: Four times.
Speaker 2: Aj got to touch the ball every single time down
the court. You live and die with their j debonds.
So none against Rob Noney, even if against Richie views
on the floor, you die with that guy on That
guy is making the most in nil. I know a
lot of people are going to say, Ron, what do
you mean that? Why are you bringing up the money now?
When someone's getting paid more? It means more responsibility, does
it not? If your boss is your job as a director,
and then make more by nature or their title or
whatever it is, they're responsible for more. Therefore there should
be more responsibility dedicated and the scriptures to him much
as given, much as required a hed to go spiritual.
Speaker 3: What did it bring it up?
Speaker 2: But I'm being serious when I say that as the
oldest sibling, you have a right to set the example
just how it goes on a mission. If you've been
out longer, you've been trained and not saying that it's
an end all be up, but you have a little
bit more experience. All that takes into ecconom using these
things to bring up right, If someone's resume, if they
have fifteen years of experience compared to the person that
has five, it's not that the person that has five
is bad. You got a guy that's been you know,
an assistant manager or a CEOA, all of that in
company's trust. Ajd Bonsa should have the ball in his
hands down the floor of every single time because he
has the most trust I think out of everybody on
this BOE team, and you let him go create. That's
what it should be. And nothing against Rob right now,
I'm not as frustrated as that. I do think there
are times will Rob Wright should pass the ball and
he's like, oh, I'm going to go score and do
this that he needs to take a step back. But
to mitigate that what Kevin said, put the ball in
AJ's hands and let him go make a play and
if it doesn't work out, then you went to your
best player. It goes back to BAU football a few
years ago when they were a playering Notre Dame Jay
Drew the Dejigh News asked a question of Kilanie, why
did you run the ball with the Lapini cotoa and
not putting your playmaker's hands Jaron Hall, you know pook
Nakula and Kilanie was stumped. I think I'm be honest,
I think that was the first time I'm seeing Klonie
like okay and then after that, I don't think it
ever was a discussion. You have to at least attempt
to put the ball in the best player's hands or
the playmaker, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't go. Now,
if AJ's double team and he gets the ball to Rob,
then that's fine. But run the play for agent and
let AJ creed. Don't let Rob run the play and
then go to AJ. It should be vice versa. Because
you saw it at Madison Square Garden. Try to go
to AJ Richie.
Speaker 3: They covered it up.
Speaker 2: Rob was the third option. If that's how it ends,
then let that be. And they told us and that's okay.
So we'll see what happens. But I do agree Agent
needs to touch it down the stretch last three minutes.
Agent needs to have the ball every play. Nope, should
not be robbing all less you know he is opening
AJ draws a double. That's just for what I firmly believe,
and I do believe that the ball will be in
the future number one overall NBA pick. I think it
will be in de Bonsas de Bonsa's hands, no doubt
about it. We'll find out on Thursday that we got
to get to break. We're gonna get into Sean Walker
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