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get his thoughts, especially on this LJ. Martin not participating

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in the Pop Tards Bowl matter.

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Speaker 2: Is this a big dealer? Not a big deal?

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Speaker 1: Let's welcome in Jay Drew of the Desert News. Jay,

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thanks for joining me today.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my pleasure. Happy Holidays to everybody out there.

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Speaker 1: Happy Holidays to you as well, I guess pre Christmas

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Eve of the Eve anyway, Jay Klaudia announced it said

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that LJ. Martin, the status of him had surgery on

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his shoulder, will not play. He had to make a

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decision between that small window and he still has a

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decision to make if he comes back or if he

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goes to the NFL Draft. But is this a big

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deal for BYU already limited in the run game the

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entire season now without the big twelve offensive player of

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the year.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's huge. It's maybe the one player that b

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YU can't play without, aside from probably fair Bachmeyer. But yeah,

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it's huge news. Also, they just came out with the

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depth chart I'm sure you mentioned, and Moa is also noted.

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Speaker 2: Yes, uh so.

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Speaker 3: He's probably It sounds like he's out, So uh they

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go back to Enich Nawaheeny and Jovessa de Mooney and

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Preston Rex's probably the three guys. But this is huge.

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Anytime you lose the offensive player of the year in

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your conference, it's you just don't replace a talent like LJ. Martin.

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And not only is he a great running back, he's

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great out of the backfield catching passes. He's a good

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pass blocker as far as pass pro walking, picking up blitzes.

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Just a great player. And uh, it's uh, it's gonna

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be tough for BYU. It's tough sledding to go without

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your your top running back. So you know, I don't

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know how to sugar quote this at all for BYU fans.

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tough blow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have it.

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Speaker 1: We didn't sugarcoat it in in our second segment in

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Speaker 2: I didn't sugarcoat in our question of the day. You

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just you can't.

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Speaker 1: I know somebody had pinged me and said, but Ron

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the Iowa State game, It's like, yeah, but LJ started

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in that game, and I think it's different when you

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have to make a one time adjustment JA on the fly,

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you can scrap a game plan, but when you've been

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when you build your entire offense per Aaron roder By

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the way, this is not us speaking around LJ. Martin,

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and you've had three weeks to know if he's not

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going to play. Maybe the game plan they have something

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that starts everything for you. And then Bear And you

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asked us, right, Bart, maybe don't want to be declarative

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of how healthy he was to give anything away to

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the opposition, but you have to be concerned of what's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sure does. And you know everybody's been calling for

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BYU to open it up and and they're probably going

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the tight End. All those guys are going to have

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to pull it out. Georgia Tech doesn't have the greatest

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defense they've got to It's okay, it's good. It's I mean,

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start good. But you yeah, yeah, anything can happen in

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those and teams get conservative and all that. But but no, BYU,

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be able to play. I don't know about what about

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his mobility, but open it up, throw it downfield. They've

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have a really good game plan and give BYU's best

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chance of winning as possible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you go.

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TCU game West Virginia, they can a rock can scheme

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it up and let it rip, and you mentioned you

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one thousand yard season. He could actually honestly achieve that

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Jas since Austin colleague. So that could be a phenomenal achievement,

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which we all thought it would be Chase Roberts.

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Speaker 2: We thought Parker would have a good year.

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that it would it would be you know, Parker. We

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game before the UCF game. But all of it here

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we are into fruition. But is there anybody else that

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had a moment to showcase themselves BYU Potentially J next

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season could lose three of their top pass catchers. They're

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gonna lose Chase out of eligibility, gonna lose Carson out

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of eligibility, could also lose LJ. Depends what he decides

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to do. And he left with Parker. You'd bring in

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Jaron Poula bringing Terrence Sirion. Those are freshman though they

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might have to go work the portal. Who on the

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roster right now in the receiver room would you like

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be Jojo Phillips. He's kind of just had a really

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rough year. Of course, he was injured and missed the

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big chunk of the year. He came back. He's had

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a few costly drops he had, he has had a

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few good catches. I mean, everyone's always talking about how

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the sky's the limit for this guy, and you know,

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converted basketball player and really athletic and fast, and you know,

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now it's the time to shine. And I think this

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is a huge game for Jojo Phillips, to be quite

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honest with you. And I don't know what his plans are.

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some film out, he's really has to have a great

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game to kind of to boost his value. And if

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not at BYU, then wherever he ends up, So he

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is he's got the skills, he's got the talent. I

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if he gets it together and has a game that

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Speaker 2: I hate to be the DeBie downer and go back

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Speaker 1: You just go back to the loss of keel and Marion,

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why you're not getting in could be why you have

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Speaker 2: All the Shuda could have would is right, Jay?

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Speaker 1: But looking back now, how would you evaluate And I

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know that they got the Pop Tarts Bowl, but it's

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the Pop Tarts Bowl game, It's not the season. How

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would you evaluate that loss? Because I feel like it's

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still a successful season. But I feel like in the

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most critical moments, that is to beat teams like Texas

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Tech to get to the college football playoffs, that's where

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players like Keithan Marion I felt I could have made

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, you need to have a guy that

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can stand up to Texas Tech speed in the in

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the secondary and on the linebacker cor well really even

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the front seven. All the front seven are guys that

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are faster than you know, their size would indicate that

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they should be. So I mean, b why you just

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edge on that Jet sweep. We didn't see a lot

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of the Jets sweep as the season went on. Parker

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Marion was really good at that play. So yeah, I

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to contribute, and then linebacker position, uh and him going

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you know, which other defensive guys, if any opt out.

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there about some other guys that or might last minute

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decide not to play that, Yeah, to to Bowl Senior

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Bowls and that sort of thing. So yeah, it's it's

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gonna be really interesting to see what happens on the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be definitely interesting to see that. Jay

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got to ask you about your plans. When do you

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plan on leaving? When do you plan on arriving in Orlando?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna leave Christmas Day or in the afternoon.

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and then hopefully catch the press conferences with the coaches

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on Friday morning at the media hote hell there in Orlando,

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and then obviously hit the game on Saturday and write

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a couple of stories off of that and just watch.

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This has been a pretty special group of Cooters, a

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special season they put together, and you know, here's hoping

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that they equit themselves well in this last game together.

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Speaker 2: Give me the stat again, I care.

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Speaker 1: I think it's been what be twenty years since the

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last time they would have accomplished twelve wins in the season,

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if I'm right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, two thousand and one. Gary Croton was the coach.

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his first. I can't remember when Lavelle retired. But yeah,

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they won twelve games. I think they got beat in

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the bowl game if I remember right, and I think

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they lost their last season game at Hawaii, but so

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kind of a tough ending for that group. But that yeah,

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twelve games in the season.

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Speaker 2: It would be spectacular.

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Speaker 1: Look, double digit win seasons in football hard to come by,

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yet alone getting twelve wins really to complain about. So

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I guess I'll ask you this not to necessarily defend

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a rod, but give your pitch of a rod.

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Speaker 2: Look this the team has gone what plus whether.

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Speaker 1: Twenty four I think now maybe twenty three, still at

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two of those losses coming this year to a top

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that you know, a Rod, this, a Rod that, oh,

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this particular play call. But I mean to have a

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too freshman to throw over twenty seven hundred yards fourteen

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touchdowns in the air and can get another eleven on

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a lot to complain about it. I feel like, and

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maybe that's because we're in the media and we understand it.

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are grateful for a guy that has this team eleven

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and two and they got to the Big Talk title

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game this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you're right, that's the sense I get. I

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think the majority of BAYU fans understand and appreciate what

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a Rod's done. I think there's a small, all maybe

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vocal minority that have kind of expressed some displeasure. I

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think everybody needs to step back and look where this

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program was last July. Basically a three way competition for quarterback,

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and with one of them was a freshman and basically

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he had the guts, he had the courage to basically

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say we're going to start this kid because he's the

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best quarterback on the team, true freshmen. And the kid

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didn't even go through spring ball. He got Aaron and

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Matt Mitchell and others got him up to speed and

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all that they by you did, I mean they're playing

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in the Power for Conference. People, they're playing one of

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the best defenses in the country twice and you're you know,

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with a freshman quarterback. I banged up running back LJ.

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So to do what they did is pretty phenomenal if

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you ask me. And A Rod was up for the

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broils of War. Is one of the top assistant coaches

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in the country for a good reason, and so I'm

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a big A Rod fan. I think he's great. I've

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think he's the best coordinator they've had. And they've had

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some good ones. They've had Robert and I and they

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had Brandon Doman had it going for a couple of

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years and others and I and Jeff Grimes is good,

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don't forget about him. But I think A Rod's is

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the best coordinator they've had, probably since Norm Chow. So,

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you know, props to A Rod in my book, I

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take from.

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Speaker 2: Jay Drew love the declarat the statement.

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Speaker 1: That's something that we've debated and pontificated on this show

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a lot. And I've had people, you know, be mean

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to me and rip and say you're wrong, Ron, and

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it's just like I like that. You said this is

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norm Chad. I mean, look at the quarterback development, Look

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at the guys that have gotten to the league under

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are I for crying out how you had a quarterback

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come in from Juco do what he did and you

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know what, probably a season in four games and then

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goes to two LANEA leads that seem to call football playoffs.

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I mean, for crying out loud. And Matt Mitchell is

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now at Colorado State and is the quarterbacks coach and

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past game coordinators. So this is all coming under a rod.

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So I agree with you. I think he's the best

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coordinator at by You's had has been phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: I look at the facts.

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Speaker 1: I go facts over emotions, So thank you for being

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declared of about that. Let's transition Jay to a little

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bit of basketball. I know you're doing mainly on football,

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but you still keep ties in the thirty point triple

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double first ever in BYU program history thirty three, ten

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and ten. The last guy to get that close was

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Ganny and she at twenty seven, ten and thirteen. Just

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your thoughts on aj debonce accomplishing that. I mean, we

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all probably thought that he could do it, but we

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saw it truly yesterday night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we did. And he didn't have to go

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hunting for it. I'm not saying that like Kyle Collinsworth

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and some of the others that did had to hunt

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forward either at Kyden natural. And you know, obviously we're

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looking at a generational talent or more. We're we're probably,

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when all of a said and done, the best single

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season uh performance in BYU basketball history. I know, you know,

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he's a one and done guy. Uh So others will

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have you know, Jimmer and Danny Ainge and Crestomaerchukositch and

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others will have bigger stats because they were here for

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a while. But if you just look at one single season,

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aj is on track to be to put in the

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greatest single season for BYU basketball player ever. Uh you know,

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knock on wood, he's on that track.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: It's just you know, you can think of all the

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superlatives and they're probably not enough. And uh, I you know,

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I think the word good is advertised is often overused,

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or that phrases off overused. But really he's been better

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than advertised. He's been and that was some pretty lofty

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expectations that we're really unfair to the kid, but he's

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even surpassed those. So it's been it's I hope everybody

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he just takes a step back and just enjoys it

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and just and just said, this is probably a once

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in a lifetime thing for a lot of BYU basketball fans,

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and so hopefully everybody enjoys it and sulks it all

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in and uh and just realizes just really how fortunate

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YU was to get this kid.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, to get this kid is phenomenal. I mean, look,

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it sounds like even you know, a better person.

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Speaker 2: Jay.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what deal he had, but to get

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everybody a pair of shoes on the staff, the managers,

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you got Greg Rebella a pair. I took a picture

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of that last night. I mean, he was He just

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doesn't deliver on the court, deliver off the court. I wish,

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you know, you could take off the media cap for

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a little bit and been a manager in that room

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for a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Those are some nice shoes. I don't know if you

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saw that.

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Speaker 3: I know you're a shoe guy, Ronnie.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm a shoe guy.

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Speaker 1: One of my friends is one of the managers, and

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I was telling him, hey, congrats it and he told

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me is like, I know you, I know you feel

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the subte It was like I do, I like basketball

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shoes lie to you. Nonetheless, I just think that's great, right.

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quarterback at Ohios that you see these big time athletes

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give back to that teammates. So I just I look

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in a world where a kid has every right to

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be entitled, where maybe they're paying and I've added this

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conversation Jah, I've taken this a step further where they're

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maybe help paying the bills at home, the income has

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relied on them. They have every right, I feel like

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sometimes to act entitled because of you know, circumstance, maybe age,

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and AJ has not been liked. I think the biggest

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moments that I've noticed is when he's playing the game

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and Kevin Young wants to tell him something or someone else.

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He listens, he's locked in, he says it, then he

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goes and does it. He doesn't argue, he doesn't bad

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and I think that it speaks proudly to what's going

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on in the new era because there are people that

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can get their market rate Jay, that can perform at

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the high level that are high level athletes that can

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play at BYU. I know that's still a concern with

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those maybe of the older generation that don't think that

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kids getting paid and how much you're getting paid in

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that that's all they care about. But I'm looking at

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the number one in the twenty twenty five class, who

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I think is the number one picking the twenty twenty

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six NBA class, And I don't get a sniff of

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that at all. And we've been around aj enough, you

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and me. I don't feel like he's speaking that at all.

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Speaker 3: Oh No, he's genuine. It's genuine, and I think we've

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noticed that he's an authentically a good guy. You know,

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credit to his parents raised him really well. With all

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the opportunity for entitlement or everything, he remains really well

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grounded from everything I've seen, And yeah, kudos kudos to

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him and for taking care of his teammates. You know,

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when all said and done, that's who you're gonna remember

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is the guys that you played with. I mean, you

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can ask Ben, and I know you played college sports too, Ronnie.

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That's who you remember is the guys that you went

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to battle with, the guys in gals and if it's

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a winnen's sport obviously, but those are the people that

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are going to be there your whole lives and you're

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going to remember. So if you're a j why not

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take care of the best you can and leave everybody

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feeling really good about you and about themselves.

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: And he's done that, So Sard shout out to Chelsea

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and Ace de Bonds and making sure they keep it down.

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Speaker 2: It's always about the home and where you come from.

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The parents. Shout out to them, Jay, We'll get you

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out of here.

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Speaker 1: And a couple of last things concerns going in the

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conference play. They added a Doulah Ahmed to the roster.

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Hopefully he'll back up kPa Cata. I know he was sick,

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Caba coming off of illness, So maybe not their best performances,

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small portion size, maybe don't judge them off of that.

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Off of that, but going in the conference play they

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take on Kansas State in ten days from now, a

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big time off but start the road on the road

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in Manhattan. Your concerns though, going in the conference play

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with this BAU basketball team that needs to shaping.

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Speaker 3: Up, Yeah, I think I have two to kind of

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standout one is the slow starts. They played January third

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at Kansas State, who's pretty better, probably better than people

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think it, and they get off to a slow start

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in Manhattan, the rackas crowd. They could be in trouble.

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So they gotta get They got to figure out this

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and get off the better starts. To the defense, the

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perimeter defense, Eastern Washington scored eighty points on them. If

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they give up eighty points in most Big twelve games,

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they're going to lose. And so and that's you know,

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Eastern Washington was what I know, they probably better in

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their record, but two and ten coming into the game,

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So I think that's a concern. I know obviously Kevin

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addressed it a little bit last night, and I know

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he's working on some things and rotating some players, and

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obviously they're down to two key backups with Dawson Baker

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and and I don't know what was his name, Nate Pickens,

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and so you know that that could be a concern.

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But those are the two things. They just got to

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figure out how to start quicker, and they got to

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figure out a little perimeter defense. They got to just

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play a little bit better defense. And I think they'll

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be okay.

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Speaker 1: Definitely will be Uh, definitely will be okay. Jay, don't

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want to keep you for too long. I do need

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to ask you this. Don't know how much downtime you'll

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have because I know they want us to try some

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pop tarts at the the Camping Ground stadium, and I

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know they're gonna cook us a meal from what I've seen.

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Are you gonna try to golf in Orlando? That's the

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hard hitting question that I got to ask j. Drew

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loves golf.

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Speaker 2: I know he does.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to get out. Don't have anything solidified. Yeah,

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I'm not sure if I'm gonna take my clubs. It's

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a long way to pack some clubs for you know,

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one round of golf rough country. But yeah, I'm trying

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to get something worked out where I can hit the

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links either before or after the Bowl game.

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Speaker 1: Definitely, you might need to hit up Moose Bingham, who

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lives in Tampa. Now, him and I were discussing trying

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to make that happen. Maybe we might have to add you.

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If I solidify that and go golf, I'm down to

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definitely hit the courses in Florida. I've never done that.

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Before and it's beautiful down there in or Lando for sure.

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Speaker 2: Jay.

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Speaker 1: What's the best way we can support you here at

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ESPN the fan and our listeners.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just go to desert at dot com, backslash,

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backslash BYU Sports usually to see my work and that

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with some of my colleagues Jackson, Paane, Dick Harmon, Dave McCann.

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And then if you want to follow me in Twitter,

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it's at Drew J on Twitter and I'll have a

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lot of updates coming once i hit Orlando in a

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couple of days, and that's where you can find me.

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Speaker 1: Find him at those places, guys, Jay mayor Christmas to

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you first of all, hopefully I can see you before

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the new year starts, and if not, Happy New Year

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to you and the rest of the Drew family as well.

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Speaker 3: Same to you and all your listeners, and I appreciate

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your support of course.

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Speaker 1: K We'll let you go. Jay's Jdrew. Guys of the

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Desert News, We'll let him go. Let Jay get out

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of here. He'll be taking off and arrive in Orlando

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on Thursday. You can follow all of his work at

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Desert News Slash, Desertnews dot com, backslash slash Sports. You

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can also follow him on Twitter at Drew Dre.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate Jay.

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Speaker 1: Joining us and the biggest thing and then he've been

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social media. Gotta pull that quote a rod the Best

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O Seasons, Norm Chow. He thinks that he's declared of

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about that. Uh love that, love that from Jay. We'll

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go to bray guys, don't go anywhere. Don't go anywhere again.

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Don't make me Judo chop Ya. I don't want Judo

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chop ya. Just two minutes, just two minutes and thirty

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seven seconds. Take a quick bathroom break, grab grab a

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little snack from the fridge. It's not that long. Come back.

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If you're in the car, you just you know, don't

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go anywhere. Don't touch the FM dow only a little

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bit here on the one O, three, nine and ninety

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eight three part of your Utah ESPN Radio network station.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back in a moment right here.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, let's get into some postgame sound from

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Kevin Young, maybe some Richie Saunders and Rob Right as

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well Bred Hammer. I'll welcome him back in on the flip.

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You're listening to Cougar Sports, part of your Utah ESPN

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Radio Network on one O, three, nine and ninety eight

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three ESPN, the Fan Welcome back to Cougar Sports here

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Speaker 2: We hear Brett always bringing the hammer by my side.

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Speaker 1: Gonna get into a little reading between the line segment

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with Kevin Young, Gonna talk the postgame what happened yesterday

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00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,640
recapped this Billia men's basketball victory. Bou eclipsed one hundred

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points for the second time this season. But Eastern Washington

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Man they were putting it on them. Brett, they did

504
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not disappoint. They made sure that they put up a

505
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lot of points. I agree with Jay Drew, who just

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joined us in the last segment. If you missed that,

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you can get on the podcast here momentarily.

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Speaker 2: It will be uploaded.

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Speaker 1: But Jay said, if you give up eighty plus points

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in conference play, you're not gonna win a lot of games.

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And I do have to agree with them. The defense

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was not locked in the last night the way it was.

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Kevin Young discusses a little bit of h He just

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believes it was an effort thing because of it being

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the week of Christmas.

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Speaker 2: We'll hear of their momentarily. I agree. This has happened before.

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It happened in the Mark Pope.

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Speaker 1: Air happened last year, I think, and as well when

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it gets to around the holidays, after school is over,

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even the human nature element were already bred. Even myself,

521
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like right there, I did not hit the stop thing

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in the merged thing. Sometimes you get in the mindset

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of the holidays and you get a relaxed days ago.

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But you gotta refocus though, So those things just happen

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anyway without further ado. I'm gonna excuse me. I didn't

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even do the read. This is what I mean exactly

527
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that thinking about Christmas already because my wife just texted

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me a picture of my daughter.

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Speaker 2: Not focus.

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Speaker 1: See when you get distracted, will you let distractions creep in?

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Other things happen? You drop the ball, you fumbled the bag,

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debonsa was phenomenal last night. If you live under a rock,

554
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then it sucks to be you. But my goodness, what

555
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can this kid not do? He's everything that's been advertised.

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I don't know what else you want from AJ, And

557
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I'm gonna to get caught up with Mark Durant tomorrow

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to give you a little tease for.

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Speaker 2: Our Christmas Eve edition.

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Speaker 1: But this man has done it on us soil, He's

561
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done it on international soil. I mean, he's done it

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in different states, different cities. I mean, what else do

563
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you want from this guy? I mean, he's accomplished so much.

564
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And when I see AJ constantly work the way he's

565
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working and be unselfish and look for his teammates first,

566
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early and often and then go get his I just

567
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don't know how you can be upset. I don't know

568
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how you can say that this guy is not gonna

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be the number one recruit. I really don't know how

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you say that, But I think AJ is definitely gonna

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be the number one excuse me, the number one pick,

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not the number on recruit.

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Speaker 2: I think A J.

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Speaker 1: Debons is gonna be the number one picking the twenty

575
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twenty six NBA draft. And then I think it's just

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gonna propel by you even more in recruiting.

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Speaker 2: I know that they didn't get the likes of Austin.

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Speaker 1: Gooseby, but look, I believe that BA is gonna be

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the home and will be the home for a lot

580
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of people down the stretch. Well, I'm gonna stop talking

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without for the dude. Let's get to Kevin Young. This

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is the post game sound all of it from yesterday.

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Will stop and discuss after Kay comments on a couple

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of things, but this is Kevin Young reacting to BYU

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defeating Eastern Washington last night.

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Speaker 4: Glass not finally, but something we've talked about though, and

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him doing that more and more, which he you know,

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when he goes he gets them because he's so athletic.

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Speaker 5: So just a great night all around for him.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, Tyson was hitting me with some crazy historical stats

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about what he just did, so it was pretty cool.

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Speaker 5: I think it was like the first.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to misquote the guy, so let me

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just I'll let you guys look it up.

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Speaker 2: But you know what, Okay, stop it right there.

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Speaker 1: So the first triple double, first triple double since Kyle

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collins Worth. I think it was March sixteenth if I'm correct,

598
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twenty sixteen against you a B.

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Speaker 2: It's the first thirty point triple double ever. Excuse me.

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Speaker 1: In BYU history, Danny Ainge came close twenty seven, ten

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and thirty, so miraculous thirty three, ten and ten is

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what AJ had, thirty three points, ten rebounds, tennisist. I

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we didn't ask Kevin this question or Robert Ritchie, and

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we should have, but I would not have wanted to

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be my high Loboskovich in that situation. That's probably the

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biggest shot of his career to make, because if you

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missed that, ooh, the Rock fans, everybody's gonna remember that

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call for your name, tell you to get in the portal,

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run you out of provo.

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Speaker 2: Looking.

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Speaker 1: I'm being tongue in cheek when I say it's but

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I'm also being somewhat serious. You have the ball and

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the shot on your hands to hit the tenth assist

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for AJ Debonsa, and you were wide open. If you

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don't knock that down, Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 2: People are people.

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Speaker 6: West Virginia last year for Mahilo or the AJ shot

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last night?

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Speaker 2: Oh it's a tough one.

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Speaker 1: Uh, the conference wins, the conference win, it is and

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it's and it was on the road, and it was

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on the road and one that propelled the nine game

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winning streak.

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Speaker 2: I'm thinking, I'm thinking out loud right now.

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Speaker 1: That's tough MAILO is in the look just what I mean,

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Milo's in the most crucial moments because of his IQ

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and because of the way he plays. Not a bad

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00:29:39,559 --> 00:29:42,599
basketball player, right, All the numbers might not always back

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it up, but he's in the game for a reason.

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I think I think I'm gonna have to go with

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for AJ's career. Obviously it's it's what happened on Monday,

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But I think overall, I'm still gonna go with last

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00:29:54,079 --> 00:29:56,680
year because you needed that win and that propelled be

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what you dude, We're talking about Trey Stewart getting heavy minutes,

635
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cann catchings, you know, started to you know, change himself.

636
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It started to work himself out of the rotation because

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of not hitting shots.

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Speaker 2: Attitude right or is always joke.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you watch Morgan forty coach thirty on Instagram,

640
00:30:13,039 --> 00:30:15,799
he always has pissed down your leg. That started to happen, right,

641
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And I'm trying to be funny, and some people might

642
00:30:17,759 --> 00:30:18,400
take offense to that.

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Speaker 2: I apologize.

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00:30:19,039 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to offend anybody, but that happened, and

645
00:30:21,559 --> 00:30:24,000
Trey and Mahilo got more minutes. But what mag did

646
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,200
Kevin made a serious, like NBA like change of Okay,

647
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:27,920
I'm gonna go this way.

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go last year and say the West

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Virginia game.

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Speaker 1: I'll answer your question and say that last night was

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good because it gave the triple double.

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Speaker 2: But AJ could do that again.

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Speaker 1: I think I think AJ could get another triple double,

654
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maybe not a thirty point one. But I'm gonna take

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what happened at West Virginia last year. Now, maybe once

656
00:30:43,279 --> 00:30:45,960
this season plays out, I might change that, but right now,

657
00:30:46,039 --> 00:30:48,000
take Mahilo West Virginia last year, because that was a

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crucial moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would go with the same one.

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Speaker 6: And if I remember correctly, there was still a little

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bit of time left on the clock last night, right Like,

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if he had missed.

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Speaker 1: That, it was yeah, yeah, he could undred percent and

664
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,960
he was gonna get subbed out. Kevin Young had the

665
00:31:03,119 --> 00:31:05,799
whole hockey line change ready to go, but he could

666
00:31:05,799 --> 00:31:07,519
have kept Agane and we never know if he'd subbed

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00:31:07,559 --> 00:31:09,359
him out, subbed them back in. So I'm with you,

668
00:31:09,559 --> 00:31:11,279
let's rock with the Mihilo for now and then we'll

669
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come back and address it. But if he gets another

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triple double, it's like, all right, then at that point

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it's obsolete.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. But AJ phenomenal player. Can't take anything away.

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Speaker 1: Mihilo did get him that triple double with that make

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we can't take that away. Both of those, as you say,

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00:31:25,839 --> 00:31:28,480
two things are always true, and both of those are

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Let's get back to the post game. This is Kevin

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Young addressing the media yesterday following ba's went over Eastern Washington.

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Speaker 7: When he signed you you kind of remember you noted

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when he signed out of high school that somebodys wanted

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to see him his takeover games. So he challenged him

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at all during this non compas kind of step it

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up and just take take over games.

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Speaker 4: At times, not so much in the non conference, but

684
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like if you you know, are close games, he's he's

685
00:31:52,119 --> 00:31:54,079
the guy who has the ball, you know, and he's

686
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been able to walk games down, you know.

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Speaker 5: Pretty much in every close game we fat, So you know,

688
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I know he can go to another level. I do

689
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know that, you know.

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Speaker 4: I think he's uh, he's he's positioned himself well to

691
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you know, be super aggressive. But that doesn't just mean scoring,

692
00:32:12,519 --> 00:32:14,559
just making the right play. As we as we kind

693
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of shift gears now into the conference.

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Speaker 5: Schedule, coach would make your defense over first half, I

695
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,240
thought we were as disconnected as we've been all year.

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Speaker 4: You know, I tried really hard to get ahead. I'm

697
00:32:25,519 --> 00:32:28,160
very much like elephant in the room. Just address it, guy,

698
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,440
you know, I talked a lot about you know, there

699
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was I think that I counted three high highest major

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teams last night that lost to teams they probably should

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have beaten.

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Speaker 5: So I said that to the players.

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Speaker 4: I thought Eastern Washington came in and played extremely free

704
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and aggressive in the first half, you know, shot twenty threes,

705
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which we don't really give up threes at that rate,

706
00:32:48,119 --> 00:32:50,440
made eight of them, and we were just disconnected. We

707
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,759
were lazy, and it was just it was just poor effort, honestly,

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which usually we don't do.

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Speaker 5: So we called the.

710
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,799
Speaker 4: Guys out at halftime, showed up some clips and had

711
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,000
made them kind of hone up to it, and I.

712
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 5: Thought we were now.

713
00:33:02,079 --> 00:33:04,039
Speaker 4: We did switch the scheme a little bit in the

714
00:33:04,039 --> 00:33:06,359
second half. That allowed us to be a little bit

715
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,720
more connected and less aggressive, which I thought allowed us

716
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,400
to regard the three point line better. You know, they

717
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,160
only went two to twelve in the second half and

718
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,119
that kind of changed it.

719
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 5: So it was definitely a tail of two halfs on

720
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:16,839
the defensive end.

721
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 8: Playing four games and nine days factored into the defense.

722
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 5: At all or is that just no, not really.

723
00:33:23,519 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 4: I just think it's Christmas is in four days and

724
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,799
everyone's excited about that. You either have family in town

725
00:33:28,839 --> 00:33:31,039
or you have a trip on the horizon. So look,

726
00:33:31,079 --> 00:33:33,960
it's some of it's human element. But again, I mean,

727
00:33:34,279 --> 00:33:36,240
you know Eastern Washington. You have to give them credit.

728
00:33:36,279 --> 00:33:38,440
They've played, They've played a lot of high major teams

729
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,599
down to the wire, so you know, coach Monson knows

730
00:33:41,599 --> 00:33:43,279
what he's doing. He's been that of a long time,

731
00:33:43,319 --> 00:33:46,480
and he had his guys ready.

732
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,759
Speaker 1: Before we get into my question, I asked Coach Young

733
00:33:48,759 --> 00:33:50,720
about Abdullah's debut.

734
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,119
Speaker 2: Brett just got to comment there.

735
00:33:52,119 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: I think this is a good point of emphasis, and

736
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,440
I like this that Kevin Young brought it up.

737
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 2: You were just honest, Uh no, not necessarily.

738
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,039
Speaker 1: I think you know, with Christmas being there, people having

739
00:34:02,119 --> 00:34:06,119
family holidays, everybody you knows just maybe ready to get

740
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,000
out of here. I like that Kevin Young mentioned that

741
00:34:08,039 --> 00:34:10,000
because sometimes you try to mess up. Look, I forgot

742
00:34:10,039 --> 00:34:12,599
them merge the change a break to a stop and

743
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,239
merged a little bit into the next spot block. I

744
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,800
stopped it. I brought that up because, look, we all

745
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,079
are ready for the holidays. Sometimes people get distracted. You

746
00:34:20,079 --> 00:34:21,960
don't have your best day, but that's a part of it.

747
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,159
And it doesn't mean that you're not good at your job.

748
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,079
Doesn't mean it's not a good team. But sometimes you know,

749
00:34:26,119 --> 00:34:29,679
the human nature element sneaks in, right, it sneaks in.

750
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:35,159
Speaker 6: Yeah, And wouldn't you rather them maybe not you up

751
00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:38,280
on the defensive end, but show up massive on the

752
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,119
offensive end, because like, let's be real, Ron, they scored

753
00:34:41,159 --> 00:34:43,320
one hundred and nine points. They were on pace to

754
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,280
score even more. A j I texted you at halftime.

755
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:47,960
I'm like this, you didn't gonna have it. I said,

756
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,760
this guy's gonna have a fifty point triple double. And

757
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:56,079
if he does, yeah, so it is. I guess a

758
00:34:56,159 --> 00:34:59,519
little unfortunate. They gave up eighty one to Eastern Washington,

759
00:34:59,679 --> 00:35:04,000
But I I don't know that. I felt like by

760
00:35:04,079 --> 00:35:07,320
you played horrible on the defensive end. It certainly wasn't

761
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,400
up to par with what we're expecting. But like, let's

762
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,840
be real, they shot forty percent from three in the

763
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,679
first half. They shot forty six percent from the field

764
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,440
on the game. But BYU shot fifty four percent from

765
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,320
the field and thirty eight percent from three. So I

766
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,800
think I don't know that it's it's as simple as out.

767
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:28,280
Speaker 2: They're just not focused.

768
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,519
Speaker 6: I think part of it is Eastern Washington kind of

769
00:35:31,559 --> 00:35:36,280
shot the lights out. Hue was just going to town

770
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:38,880
down there on the block, and in the post, I

771
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,199
think Eastern Washington man like, sometimes you just have one

772
00:35:42,199 --> 00:35:44,639
of those games where you don't know what you don't know,

773
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,320
and I think Eastern Washington didn't know last night that

774
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,639
they were two to ten, and so they played like

775
00:35:49,679 --> 00:35:51,480
they were better than it, and they shot the lights down.

776
00:35:51,559 --> 00:35:54,480
You saw them especially in that first half, hitting threes

777
00:35:54,559 --> 00:35:58,639
from deep from way downtown. So there are things by

778
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,840
you can clean up. But I also feel like Eastern

779
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:06,320
Washington just had kind of the game of their lives.

780
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,039
And if you think back to the last time bo

781
00:36:09,159 --> 00:36:11,159
you played someone who had the game of their lives,

782
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,280
it was Alabama, and in that game, Boi, you couldn't

783
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,599
keep up offensively that different team, different scenario, different type

784
00:36:18,599 --> 00:36:22,000
of game. But in this scenario, Eastern Washington I think

785
00:36:22,039 --> 00:36:24,599
offensively kind of shot out of their minds and be

786
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:26,400
what you said, Okay, if you want to make this

787
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,519
a shootout, We'll match you with it.

788
00:36:28,599 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 2: And they did, Yeah, one hundred percent.

789
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,039
Speaker 1: And look, I said this in a pregame show, and

790
00:36:33,039 --> 00:36:34,480
you can go back and you can listen to it.

791
00:36:34,679 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 2: And I think you would agree, Brett.

792
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: When you play a bad basketball game the first time

793
00:36:39,039 --> 00:36:41,639
that you've been playing teams very closely and you as

794
00:36:41,679 --> 00:36:44,840
a group, you know has continuity, you're very confident. The

795
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,360
shots that Eastern Washington was making last night, they took

796
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,559
in the Utah game, they just didn't make all of them.

797
00:36:49,599 --> 00:36:51,679
Speaker 2: You know, they held some of their best players. They struggled.

798
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,199
Speaker 1: But when you get adapted elevation and you just literally

799
00:36:55,199 --> 00:36:57,760
go forty five minutes north to forty five minutes south,

800
00:36:58,360 --> 00:36:59,400
I think it's the same thing.

801
00:36:59,599 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 2: And I think that's the tough.

802
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: Part is they had already I feel like, had played

803
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,599
at elevation. They didn't play the well last time they

804
00:37:05,639 --> 00:37:08,400
came to Utah. They misshots, and they were just confident.

805
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,719
They were just confident more. And then when you allow

806
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,480
Division one athletes at any level to hit shots like

807
00:37:13,559 --> 00:37:15,559
Moses hit a shot over a JM, Like that's not

808
00:37:15,559 --> 00:37:18,159
supposed to happen in the real world. You know, even

809
00:37:18,159 --> 00:37:20,320
though it say, but they get balled out though, right,

810
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,480
Hughey was going to work, and I look at Moses

811
00:37:22,519 --> 00:37:24,480
and Hughey and Hamilton of like, these dudes are not

812
00:37:24,519 --> 00:37:26,880
gonna be at Eastern Washington and look that that's what

813
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:28,239
it's supposed to be. I know they're supposed to be

814
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,679
about Buyu. But those three guys, with the way they played,

815
00:37:30,679 --> 00:37:33,760
you would hope that they can play, you know, and

816
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:35,679
not in the big sky. I think all those guys

817
00:37:35,679 --> 00:37:37,679
that played can play in the mountain west of the Whack.

818
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,519
I think they can play, you know, maybe at the

819
00:37:40,519 --> 00:37:42,679
pack towel. Maybe they're in a rotational role because of

820
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,880
the way they looked. So sometimes guys playing at other

821
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,039
teams and bowing out his opportunity for them to showcase.

822
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,400
Tyler Maruss, where did he come from? Where did Nay

823
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,280
Pickens come from? You know, right, there's guys on this

824
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,800
bo roster that are playing at other schools that are

825
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,719
now playing high Division one level basketball. So I expect

826
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,960
those three guys to go to somewhere else. Hugh we honestly, Brett,

827
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,960
and tell me if you agree. When he looked like,

828
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,480
what is Osaka down there from?

829
00:38:06,599 --> 00:38:07,199
Speaker 2: Uh?

830
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 1: What is it Arizona. My goodness, the way he was punishing.

831
00:38:10,599 --> 00:38:13,559
He was giving Hadem the business, gave Keba the business,

832
00:38:13,639 --> 00:38:16,519
Abdullah was getting some. It didn't matter. And I mean

833
00:38:16,519 --> 00:38:19,000
Easter Washington to push BYU to the bring. But I

834
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,159
think this is good because, like Jay said, can't give

835
00:38:21,199 --> 00:38:23,320
up eighty points like that. And again they corrected it

836
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,760
in the second half. In the first half they made

837
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,800
eight threes out of twenty, they shot forty percent or

838
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:28,639
somewhere around there.

839
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 2: In the second half.

840
00:38:29,519 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: They were two of twelve, two of twelve, shot sixteen

841
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:35,280
point seven percent. So that's the defensive efver you need.

842
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,519
But you got to do that from jump because if

843
00:38:37,559 --> 00:38:39,840
you let big twelve teams get away with that, you

844
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,960
might not be able to come back. But let's get

845
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,280
back to the sound Kevin Young postgame from yesterday following

846
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,239
the BYU's one hundred point well not one hundred point win,

847
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,440
scoring one hundred points eclipsed in it for the second

848
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,880
time to defeat Eastern Washington.

849
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:57,760
Speaker 5: I liked it. You know, he's big.

850
00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 4: I think he's gonna help us on the glass for sure.

851
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,280
You know, the shot blocking right out of the gate.

852
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:04,519
You know, he's just a grown man. In there so

853
00:39:04,639 --> 00:39:06,840
as he gets in shape. You know, he's been sick.

854
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:08,639
You know, he's been sick, So we thought about not

855
00:39:08,679 --> 00:39:10,559
even playing them, but we want to get at least

856
00:39:10,599 --> 00:39:14,320
some minutes under his belt. But and once he figures

857
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,880
out a little bit of how his teammates like to play,

858
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,000
I think he's going to be really really helpful. And

859
00:39:20,039 --> 00:39:23,280
then the thing that stood out was the defensive and

860
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,519
offensive rebounding and the rent protection.

861
00:39:27,039 --> 00:39:30,119
Speaker 5: Right now, just like what he knows scheme wise versus

862
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,119
uh not high. Yeah, he's practiced one and a half times.

863
00:39:35,199 --> 00:39:35,559
Speaker 6: You get it.

864
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,760
Speaker 1: I stop it there because I want this. That's crazy.

865
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:44,800
There needs to be grace with this. Yeah, that's crazy, bro.

866
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,559
Speaker 2: He's practiced one and a half times.

867
00:39:47,639 --> 00:39:49,639
Speaker 6: And in Rob's interview, he's like, yeah, we haven't even

868
00:39:49,679 --> 00:39:50,960
had a full practice.

869
00:39:50,599 --> 00:39:54,119
Speaker 2: With I know, saying I had a full practice. That's crazy.

870
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,280
Speaker 1: So he's just working out with Chris Burgs and k

871
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,880
But that's what's going on. Oh man, I laugh at that,

872
00:40:00,079 --> 00:40:02,480
you know, because of I know they're gonna be b

873
00:40:02,599 --> 00:40:04,159
au fans of we.

874
00:40:04,039 --> 00:40:05,679
Speaker 2: Added Discard to the roster.

875
00:40:06,119 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: First of all, we didn't add anything you did. And

876
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,440
you're a fan by you did just to correct you there.

877
00:40:10,639 --> 00:40:12,400
Then number two to go to the most important thing

878
00:40:12,559 --> 00:40:15,000
is I poke you a little bit. This guy is

879
00:40:15,039 --> 00:40:18,360
gonna need He's gonna need a full month. So you

880
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:22,639
really can't jump up Judge Abdullah until February. I know

881
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,679
that that's gonna be like, well, Ron, he's out there. Yeah,

882
00:40:24,679 --> 00:40:28,480
but Kevin Young just said it. He hasn't even been

883
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,199
in provo long enough to pass gas for crying out

884
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:33,440
loud like come on, like, so you have some.

885
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:36,039
Speaker 2: Grace with the kid. He also was sick, as Kevin

886
00:40:36,079 --> 00:40:40,159
Young mentioned, so, man, everybody's getting sick. Man around.

887
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 6: My wife and I we were both sick. It's going around,

888
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,800
but it's just crazy that it's making its way through

889
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:45,440
the team like that.

890
00:40:45,519 --> 00:40:46,199
Speaker 2: Well, I could tell you this.

891
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,039
Speaker 1: Look, I'll go back to this, and you know, Jay

892
00:40:48,079 --> 00:40:49,800
said in the last segment, I did play college sports.

893
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:51,800
If you live under rock, what you don't Some people

894
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,079
were tired of me always mentioned this.

895
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 2: I played rugby.

896
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: I remember when COVID first started and I hung out

897
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:58,719
with my friend Britton Hale. Brittain got it and within

898
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,880
like a week I had got it, and so forth

899
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:02,400
and so forth. My wife never got it, which is

900
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,480
crazy strong immunion system in our family, but no, like

901
00:41:06,039 --> 00:41:09,320
I got sick because of it. And dude, look when

902
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,440
you're sweating around guys and you spend a lot of

903
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:13,559
the times. I talk to the information directors all the time.

904
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,440
They see the team more than they see their own family.

905
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,840
That becomes their family through the season. So I bring

906
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,519
all of that up to say, I'm not surprised Adula's

907
00:41:21,559 --> 00:41:23,960
been here. He might have been in practice, but traveling,

908
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,599
being around with the team, we've seen him Bread, I've

909
00:41:25,599 --> 00:41:27,360
seen him up at the Delta Center. He's been I

910
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,719
think around the team the last three weeks, but I

911
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:31,360
think he hasn't been able to practice because you have

912
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,480
to get certain things cleared. So I think finally once

913
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:36,280
he did. It doesn't take that long to get sick, Bread.

914
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,519
It takes one time, and you can honestly get it

915
00:41:38,559 --> 00:41:41,840
from anywhere. My little one just got over a virus

916
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:44,800
that normal ones get between six months to two years.

917
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:46,519
So yeah, it's just that time of the year. You

918
00:41:46,519 --> 00:41:49,440
get sick in the winter months around the holidays. But look,

919
00:41:49,599 --> 00:41:51,360
I rather this, I told you, and this is not

920
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,480
possible because you never want to say four or fit games.

921
00:41:53,679 --> 00:41:55,920
But let everybody get sick a little bit here there.

922
00:41:56,079 --> 00:41:58,239
Hopefully they get sick over Christmas, and I'm not praying

923
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:00,199
for that. I bring it up of two year years

924
00:42:00,199 --> 00:42:02,480
ago when b what you was sick on the road

925
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:06,360
in West Virginia and Noah Waterman was like dying because

926
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,079
they literally didn't have bodies and he had to play sick.

927
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:10,559
Speaker 2: Is you don't want that.

928
00:42:11,519 --> 00:42:14,519
Speaker 1: So hopefully everybody gets over it within the next couple

929
00:42:14,559 --> 00:42:17,199
of weeks and then you're good to go. The biggest

930
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,639
thing is if AJ got sick, what would happen? I mean,

931
00:42:19,679 --> 00:42:21,559
AJ might just play it constantly. He might drink that

932
00:42:21,599 --> 00:42:23,840
special herbal tea. You know, they got that special Parker

933
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,360
game this year. Somebody Parker Gangston had flu poison and play. Look,

934
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,320
the greats have to have the flu games, so they

935
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,119
have to drink that that nasty green shake that builds

936
00:42:33,159 --> 00:42:35,440
the immune system back up. So I would love to

937
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,519
see an AJ fifty point flu game. I would love

938
00:42:38,519 --> 00:42:40,039
for him to do it at the Delta Center. Shout

939
00:42:40,039 --> 00:42:42,639
out Chicago Bulls, shout out they're still offended that Jordan

940
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:43,159
pushed off.

941
00:42:43,199 --> 00:42:43,760
Speaker 2: Get over it.

942
00:42:44,119 --> 00:42:47,280
Speaker 1: But no, look, sometimes you have to play sick and

943
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,559
go grow reform. But Abdullah was sick, has only played

944
00:42:51,519 --> 00:42:54,280
what it's only practiced, Yeah, one and a half times, hey,

945
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,199
robbing them having he had a full practice. So it's

946
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,599
been stints. So give the kids some grace. That's what

947
00:42:58,639 --> 00:43:01,400
I'm trying to really bring up this point. Give him grace,

948
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,199
don't get upset. Let it all come to fruition, and

949
00:43:04,199 --> 00:43:06,440
then eventually, I think in a month, you know, maybe

950
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,159
even three weeks. I think he'll pick it up pretty

951
00:43:08,199 --> 00:43:11,360
quickly because he is a pro. But let's get back

952
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,639
to the sound Brett. Let's finish up Kevin Young post

953
00:43:13,639 --> 00:43:16,440
game from yesterday this tonight.

954
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 2: That volume has been a little lower at times this year.

955
00:43:19,039 --> 00:43:20,599
Was that a point of coming to get.

956
00:43:21,559 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 4: The biggest point of emphsis was, I mean, that's the

957
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,840
team that changes their defenses up quite a bit. They

958
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,159
throw the kitchen sink at you, and they played man,

959
00:43:28,199 --> 00:43:30,239
they played a two three three two one three one,

960
00:43:31,039 --> 00:43:33,119
so they're throwing different things at you. So the big

961
00:43:33,159 --> 00:43:35,760
point of emphasis was like what we call point five,

962
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,559
making quick decisions which usually leads to good ball movement,

963
00:43:38,639 --> 00:43:41,400
oftentimes for a lot of threes. So we had twenty

964
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,039
three assists, uh fifteen of those were in.

965
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 5: The second and a half.

966
00:43:46,039 --> 00:43:48,280
Speaker 4: But I love I told Mu the other day that

967
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,199
I love the threes that he took when he went

968
00:43:50,199 --> 00:43:51,960
oh for seven, I thought all of them were awesome,

969
00:43:52,519 --> 00:43:54,360
And so tonight he took the same ones and goes

970
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,679
five for eleven. So if he can shoot him out

971
00:43:56,679 --> 00:43:59,039
a high volume for us, I think it really opens

972
00:43:59,079 --> 00:44:03,760
things up for for everybody else. But but again I

973
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:05,679
think teams sometimes with us, you're gonna have to kind

974
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:07,280
of pick your poison if you want to try to

975
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,800
reguard the paint. You know, you're gonna have guys that, uh,

976
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,320
you know, can knock down shots. And tonight hej was

977
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,559
finding them. So is so is Rob what she always

978
00:44:16,599 --> 00:44:17,360
does now with.

979
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:22,679
Speaker 8: This four game home stand complete, you know, added to make.

980
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:24,159
How do you feel about that second Union?

981
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:25,039
Speaker 5: Just your role?

982
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 8: You know, your depth that you have going into Big

983
00:44:27,039 --> 00:44:27,639
twelve playdown?

984
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,599
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean on the front line for sure, Peel

985
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:31,840
feel you know, just more.

986
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:38,199
Speaker 4: Equipped. I think for the Big twelve. You know it's

987
00:44:38,199 --> 00:44:39,440
gonna impact other guys.

988
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 5: It's not done this. It's a lot in the NBA

989
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:44,719
where you bring somebody in midyear. I think almost every

990
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:45,840
year I coach in the NBA.

991
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 4: We had a midyear edition, so it's harder than people think.

992
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,400
You know, it impacts uh, you know everything, you know,

993
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,119
you just it's not just the on court stuff, right,

994
00:44:57,159 --> 00:45:00,239
it's team chemistry. Now there's the bus seedings different, the

995
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:04,039
plane seating is different, the locker room seatings, different, scripts

996
00:45:04,039 --> 00:45:06,239
are different, and I shooting right, I could just keep

997
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,800
going on and on, right. And so he's a great guy,

998
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,280
which I think helps. I think the guys will embrace him.

999
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,320
We have some really good guys on our team.

1000
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:17,079
Speaker 5: But it will it will impact other guys.

1001
00:45:17,079 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 4: And you just hope guys stay ready and continue to

1002
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,679
work on their game and already when their numbers called.

1003
00:45:21,679 --> 00:45:24,280
And you know, is that something that I'm super excited

1004
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,000
about doing going into conference play?

1005
00:45:26,079 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 5: Not really, but we still feel like.

1006
00:45:28,199 --> 00:45:30,079
Speaker 4: In the big picture, it's gonna make us the best

1007
00:45:30,159 --> 00:45:31,000
version of ourselves.

1008
00:45:31,039 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 5: What they will?

1009
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 8: Everyone get bad from Christmas break? Now, I mean twelve days?

1010
00:45:35,079 --> 00:45:38,159
Speaker 5: I'm sure, yeah, no, it is.

1011
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 6: It is.

1012
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:42,559
Speaker 5: Honestly, this you're gonna laugh at me. I'm not even sure.

1013
00:45:42,639 --> 00:45:44,079
Speaker 4: To be honest you, I was trying to really just

1014
00:45:44,119 --> 00:45:47,480
get through this game. My assistants gotta get me up

1015
00:45:47,519 --> 00:45:48,159
to speed.

1016
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 7: With that give twelve days off until the twelve starts

1017
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:53,960
coming to the noncofs, where which you says the readiness of.

1018
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 4: This team in your opinion, Yeah, I mean, there's definitely

1019
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,960
things we can get better at, but you know, I

1020
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,360
think we're I don't know, B plus I would say,

1021
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:05,519
you know, there's definitely things that we want to sharpen up.

1022
00:46:05,559 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 5: But you know, we've played some good teams. We've been

1023
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:09,239
in a lot of different situations.

1024
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 4: I think we've played you know, stylistically, you know, for

1025
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,280
the most part, big twelve ish styles.

1026
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:18,760
Speaker 5: I think the a lot of teams that we've played against.

1027
00:46:18,519 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 4: So I think there'll be a lot of you know,

1028
00:46:20,039 --> 00:46:22,239
I'm big on reference points, you know, I think there's

1029
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:24,079
a lot of things we can refer to from the

1030
00:46:24,119 --> 00:46:26,920
non conference that we can implement with our game plans

1031
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:27,559
in the conference.

1032
00:46:27,679 --> 00:46:30,800
Speaker 8: From what you've seen around the conference, you had time

1033
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:32,280
to check in on some of these other teams, which

1034
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:34,719
what do you make up the whole kind of conference?

1035
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:36,920
How they performed at non con. It just is just

1036
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:38,199
a leak tougher this year, you.

1037
00:46:38,159 --> 00:46:39,559
Speaker 5: Think, but potentially.

1038
00:46:41,639 --> 00:46:44,079
Speaker 4: Hard to say if it's tougher. I think, you know,

1039
00:46:44,679 --> 00:46:48,039
big twelves had a great non conference. You know, Texas

1040
00:46:48,039 --> 00:46:49,920
Tech had a big one the other night against Duke.

1041
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,719
And not to single them out, cause there's been a bunch,

1042
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,920
but look, it's a great league. You know, it's a

1043
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,360
great league, great coaches. I think the I think the

1044
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:00,000
talent levels higher.

1045
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:01,039
Speaker 5: You know.

1046
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 4: I don't know if that'll make the schedule any any

1047
00:47:05,039 --> 00:47:06,880
tough as hard as it is, you know what I mean.

1048
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:10,039
So I know all the coaches in the league, you know,

1049
00:47:10,039 --> 00:47:12,039
when we're at the Big twelve media day where just

1050
00:47:12,079 --> 00:47:15,599
everyone's very complimentary of the how hard our league is.

1051
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:20,840
For good reason. Yeah, so we got the we got

1052
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,800
the in law in town. I got my mother in law,

1053
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,000
father in law, a couple of brother in laws and

1054
00:47:26,079 --> 00:47:28,440
cousins at the house tearing up all kinds of stuff,

1055
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:31,480
I'm sure. So it'll be nice to take a couple

1056
00:47:31,519 --> 00:47:33,440
of days off and get some family time.

1057
00:47:33,519 --> 00:47:40,079
Speaker 1: And that's Kevin young post game sound from yesterday. You

1058
00:47:40,679 --> 00:47:43,920
love the honesty from k from k Y gave all

1059
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:47,679
of us media members cookies to bred I put it

1060
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:49,800
on my Twitter. You can go look at I know. Yeah,

1061
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:52,440
shout out to Samantha Younger. There's no relation there a

1062
00:47:52,599 --> 00:47:56,519
his assistant but mayor Christmas to media from ky so.

1063
00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:00,159
Speaker 2: Fat Fat cookie. Uh that was delici is.

1064
00:48:00,199 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: Luckily I got to bite before the hungry hooligans that

1065
00:48:04,039 --> 00:48:07,079
I call at my house decided. You can't eat food

1066
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,920
in front of your kids and not expect something, especially

1067
00:48:11,119 --> 00:48:12,840
a kid that's one years old who would just look

1068
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,559
at you go ah and like will demand it because

1069
00:48:15,559 --> 00:48:18,559
they can't speak cat So but no so cute. Gave

1070
00:48:18,559 --> 00:48:20,880
her some chocolate chip cookie and then decided that she

1071
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:24,079
wanted to bite the entire cookie, and then after that

1072
00:48:24,199 --> 00:48:27,559
went to the bathroom. Told the wife watcher, I come back,

1073
00:48:27,599 --> 00:48:29,599
half the cookie's gone. I said, so who he'd have

1074
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:31,679
the cookie because the baby can't eat after cookie, and

1075
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:33,400
I said, I don't know. I'm like, well, if you

1076
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,639
want to hide it, the chocolate chip cookie that's underneath

1077
00:48:35,679 --> 00:48:38,639
your lip would be better to hide next time. So

1078
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:40,760
shout out to you, Kevin Young. My family enjoyed the

1079
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:42,679
cookie more than I did, but at least I got

1080
00:48:42,679 --> 00:48:44,760
the first bite, which is what I always care about

1081
00:48:45,079 --> 00:48:48,440
in general. But yeah, I thought there was some pretty

1082
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:51,360
good stuff from there, you know. Going into Big twelve

1083
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,199
conference play Brett, I guess you know I'll ask you

1084
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:58,559
what's your biggest concern that you have about this team?

1085
00:48:58,599 --> 00:49:00,960
And you know, I guess I be a basketball question

1086
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:04,320
of the of the day as well. BAU basketball twelve

1087
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:06,920
and one accomplished a lot in this non conference play,

1088
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:08,599
But what do you feel like you need to improve

1089
00:49:08,679 --> 00:49:10,679
on outside of the slow starts?

1090
00:49:11,679 --> 00:49:13,599
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, that's the big one, right, that's the

1091
00:49:13,599 --> 00:49:15,960
big one, and that's the big one.

1092
00:49:16,039 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 6: But they they kind of they dealt away with it

1093
00:49:20,079 --> 00:49:23,800
a little bit against Eastern Washington, but then they showed

1094
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:29,239
up slow defensively, So I guess it goes both ways

1095
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:30,480
on both ends of the floor.

1096
00:49:30,519 --> 00:49:33,199
Speaker 2: But at least they didn't start slow both ways, because.

1097
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,639
Speaker 6: I feel like usually with this Boa basketball team, they

1098
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,719
start slow, but they usually bring one thing, so they

1099
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:41,239
either bring the offense or the defense in the first

1100
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:43,559
half and then it takes them to the second half

1101
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:45,679
to get up to speed on the other one, like

1102
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:48,840
with Pacific, they were slow on the offensive end, but

1103
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,199
they were solid on the defensive end of the first half.

1104
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:55,800
So that's obviously, I think the obvious one. But still

1105
00:49:55,840 --> 00:50:01,599
the biggest one to me is who what's the identity

1106
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:06,559
of this basketball team outside of a Jed demonsa, Richie

1107
00:50:06,559 --> 00:50:07,480
Saunders and Rob Wright.

1108
00:50:08,199 --> 00:50:11,679
Speaker 2: What's the identity who's.

1109
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,159
Speaker 6: Scoring the basketball if it's not those three guys. And

1110
00:50:14,519 --> 00:50:18,480
I hope the answer to that is, you know what, Brett,

1111
00:50:18,519 --> 00:50:20,960
You'll never have to find out because no team will

1112
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,920
ever be able to slow down all three of those

1113
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,199
guys in a way that makes, boy, you lose. If

1114
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,960
that's the answer, again, you know me, I'm happy to

1115
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:31,840
eat cro breakfast, lunch, and dinner if that's the case. However,

1116
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:36,000
I'm a man who lives in reality, and I'm a

1117
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,000
little bit of a pessimist, and so I look at

1118
00:50:39,039 --> 00:50:41,719
it and I just say, I don't know that that's

1119
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:45,360
sustainable every game. I certainly don't think it's sustainable when

1120
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:47,119
you're playing teams like Texas.

1121
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 2: Tech, Iowa State, and Houston.

1122
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:52,079
Speaker 6: When you're in those situations, you've got to find other people.

1123
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:55,199
What I will say is, as a great nugget, a

1124
00:50:55,199 --> 00:50:57,559
little easter ripe, we've seen the last couple of games,

1125
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:01,679
Tyler Moruss looks like he's in the words of Gus Johnson,

1126
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:05,400
he's got his jayback, folks. He looks like he's bringing

1127
00:51:05,519 --> 00:51:10,000
it back in. We never questioned his hustle or defensive mentality,

1128
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,480
but he was also brought in to be a three

1129
00:51:12,519 --> 00:51:14,599
and D guy, and the three didn't show up as

1130
00:51:14,679 --> 00:51:17,800
much as the D and So it seems like over

1131
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,920
these last couple of games, small sample size, Tyler Moross

1132
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,599
seems to have his jayback, which is a great sign.

1133
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:27,199
But I also need to know, like, what's the consistency

1134
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:31,159
with Kennard Davis. He looked great last night, but what

1135
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:33,039
will he look like going forward? Because he's been a

1136
00:51:33,079 --> 00:51:36,079
little bit up and down. Maybe this Christmas break is

1137
00:51:36,119 --> 00:51:38,880
a good time for them to get rest, even though

1138
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:43,320
I don't feel like their non con dictates them being

1139
00:51:44,639 --> 00:51:47,800
this out of place. So for me, I think it's

1140
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,760
just what's the identity of the team outside of your

1141
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:52,000
main three guys?

1142
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 2: And Frankly, can you keep Keba healthy?

1143
00:51:55,599 --> 00:51:58,679
Speaker 1: Yeah? Uh, keeping Kevan the rest of the team healthy,

1144
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,559
all of that. So I guess we'll find out sooner

1145
00:52:02,039 --> 00:52:05,800
rather than later. But that was Kevin youngsound guys, And

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1154
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some ward bou sports. We'll play the Rob Wright and

1155
00:52:29,639 --> 00:52:32,159
Richie Saunders sound coming next on the Flip before we

1156
00:52:32,159 --> 00:52:34,639
welcome in Blaine Anderson in our four to thirty segment,

1157
00:52:34,679 --> 00:52:36,960
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