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up number five nationally in average home game attendance at
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percent capacity. Who's ahead of Brigham Kentucky nineteen point seven
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Speaker 4: Thousand on average.
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Speaker 5: People wanted a lot of fans wanted that in the
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But yeah, I remember those times been.
Speaker 3: We were trying to get I remember Frederick King as well.
We lost that big man to uh Creighton going head
ahead against Creyton and they got it.
Speaker 4: They got it.
Speaker 3: They got some dubs against us in the recruiting right.
Speaker 4: So dude, they're a basketball program.
Speaker 3: That's what they do, that's their identity, and uh, that's
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Speaker 4: They're in the Big East.
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Kansas in Wisconsin. How about Indiana obviously more than a
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Maybe Vanderbilt right there next to him historically, but it's
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Speaker 6: No fan, Well, let me let me start off by saying,
we have zero tolerance for that. And I speak to
you both as the commissioner of the Big Twelve but
also as some one that has high integrity. And you know,
I've had those conversations in fact with my kids because
I think it's a lot of education that needs to
happen with some of the student athletes. It's because there
student sections, because that's where it's coming from. And I
told my kids candidly, you're not coming home if you
ever those words ever come out of your mouth, regardless
of what they are. And I take it very seriously,
and it's a very personal thing for me. You know,
I'm Jewish. I grew up in a very diverse background.
I felt hate as a young man.
Speaker 4: And I didn't like it.
Speaker 6: And I'm here based on those experiences and in my
position to try to bring about change and change behavior.
And that's what I'm trying to do along with my colleagues,
the presidents and the ads, and we have spent quite
a bit of time and We're going to spend more
in our spring meetings and how we can be better.
And I'm working very closely with Shane. Shane reached the
president BYU. We talk often about it because he knowes
it's a very personal thing for me and I'm embarrassed
by it and not happy about it.
Speaker 4: But we need to do.
Speaker 6: Something about it, and we got to change behavior. And
I think we are going to roll up our sleeves
and dig in in our spring meetings and address it
as a group, the presidents and the ads, and I
know and I'm very confident we will get to a
better place.
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Sean Walker. Sean Walker, how are you, sir, Ben.
Speaker 7: It's always a pleasure to join you, even if we
are roughly the length of our ancestors peers. I think
between one another, You and Gloria's ion that is Salt
Lake Valley, Me and the others. I in just outside
of Independence, Missouri, but I'm so happy to join you.
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, Sean, you were there at the Brett yor
Mark press conference.
Speaker 4: You've already written about it.
Speaker 3: We invite everyone to check out the the the penned
pieces of one Sean Walker. But give me your initial
takeaway from the Brett your Mark press conference is a
big twelve basketball tournament.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean there's there's a lot of stuff I
think that Commissioner your Mark talked about that he touched on.
He kind of came in maybe wanting to touch on
like some national conversations, and then he got into some
other local ones as well. But I know where you
want to go. But I think one of the big
things that that he tried to talk about and trying
to hammer home was just his support for the Score Act,
which is, uh, it's the House bill that's currently in
Congress that certain Power Conference commissioners and other members of
the NCAA are trying to get pass that will provide
them limited liability protections to enforce rules around name, image
and likeness eligibility concerns, that kind of thing and give them, uh,
just legal protections in those sort of matters. That's that's
sort of one of the one of the main things
that he wanted to talk about with then he got
into and it's just a lot of other things like
the Big Twelve and kind of it's standing in college basketball.
He reiterated the point that he still believes the Big
Twelve is the second best basketball league in America, behind
only the NBA. He threw his support behind AJ Debonsa,
saying he should be in the conversation for National Player
of the Year even though league coaches didn't vote AJ
League Player of the Year, which is interestingly, we can
touch on that sum there as well.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 7: And then he also he he addressed the the He
called them unacceptable. Chance geared towards the members of the
church at De Scres Lottery, sayings that have once again
started popping up their ugly heads. In response to a
question from by US student newspaper at The Daily Universe.
He called them unacceptable, he called them deplorable. You heard
his full response. He made it really personal, which I
thought was meat. Talked about how he's experienced hate before
as a Jewish Man in America and this situation, this
particular situation really kind of hits home for a commissioner
your Mark. I thought that was really cool to hear
that this isn't just a rule violation, and it's not
just you know, they're the conference isn't just dishing out
a slap on the wrist like they're following their protocols.
They're following their rules according to the way that they're
ryan with regards to this situation as a sportsmanship violation.
But I would expect these chants to be a very
very hotly contestit or holly debated topic at the Big
twelve Athletic Directors, Presidents and Chancellors meeting this next spring
to try to do something more to kind of to
just take kurtail these chants, to curb what is dry
being these chants, these excellent of laced chance geared towards
members of the LVS church. Like, I think the commissioner
is very serious, and I think he wants to address it.
He wants to address it soon, he wants he wants
to be done with it, because again he used words
like unacceptable, zero tolerance, deplorable, like like this is I
think this is something that he's taking very seriously. I
kind of like the focus that he was able to
put on it today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I know that it's a sensitive subject for
many BYU fans and they feel like it needs to
be addressed. Was there any follow up? One of the
questions that's been asked after the the Big Twelve levies
fines to these respective institutions. Does the do the fifty
thousand dollars fines just go back to the conference in
the uh the pot of money that brett rnwork, pot
of money that they can I guess continue to distribute.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think most fines are managed by
the conference and then they're divvied out for other things.
Some of them also go to a charrible organization. The
Big Twelve is very active with several pet charities that
they have, and I know they use some of the
conference funds. I don't know about that fund directly, but
they use a lot of the conference funds for some
of that stuff as well. So and I know, like
I know some YU fans have talked about, well, if
you're gonna find ste thousand dollars, who have two thousand
dollars could go maybe to BYU, and if students knew
that they were funding BYU athletics or the university as
a whole, maybe that would maybe that would stop them. Yeah,
I mean the reality has been, like I don't think
a fine necessarily does much when it comes to college
students making very uh collegiate not collegial, but collegiate, And
by collegiate I mean uh, sometimes abrasive and immature decisions,
like they're not really thinking about finds by their university
are thinking about They're thinking about how they can have
a good time, and what their buddies are are thinking
of them, kind of in that heat of the moment
right there. So like it's I would fully expect and
I'm speculating here, but I would fully expect that these
types of situations lead to something more than simply a
fine by the institution because very clearly these fines aren't
changing behavior. And I think what Commissioner your Mark wants
to do is he wants to change behavior and not
just the immediate action. He wants to kind of get
to the cause of the behavior and try to change that.
Speaker 3: Give me your analysis really quick of the AGA Botsa's situation,
per Brett, your mark, you know this, this player's you know,
he's an all world player. Obviously, he's the potential maybe
eventual number one overall pick in the NBA draft. How
is it that he can't be he isn't the big
fell Player of the year, but can be the best
player in the NCAA.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well it should. It should be noted that the
the big Tuvel awards that were announced just yesterday by
the conference, or the awards voted on by the league's coaches.
So sixteen coach, sixteen men coaches in the league. Each
one of them has a vote, I believe, I know
it used to be the case. I'm pretty sure. So
the case, coaches are not allowed to vote for their
own players, so league coaches are, so they're they're sixteen votes.
Each league coach is basically allowed to smit kind of
their roster of awards. And that also includes Player of
the Year, defensive Player of the Year, Freshmen of the Year,
Coach of the Year, and all those other superbatives as
well as quite frankly, way too many when it comes
to first, second, third team, an all Freshman team and
All Defensive team. Uh, and then an honorable mention. So
so those were all voted on by the which is
the coaches picked Arizona Jaden Bradley as player of the Year.
I thought it was a little bit of a head
scratching move, although I do agree with some Arizona fans
that were sort of applying it that Jada brad does
some things for Arizona that I don't think it notice
like in the box score or on paper, or you
maybe don't immediately see them. I think he's a very
good defensive player as well as being a significant one,
probably one of their two or three best offensive players
there as well. But when you talk about what aj
Debonsa has done, I know, he's on a team that
finished five hundred and the Big Twelve player that struggled
down the stretch. You know, they're playing today literally Tuesday,
on the first day of the Big Twelve tournament. But
I think when you have a player that is so
clearly among the most talented in the league, and I
won't necessarily say most talented, but he's definitely one, up, two, three,
maybe four, I think that inarguable right there. I think
that's where you start to feel maybe peaked a little
bit by some of the voting processes, is player of
the year is supposed to be the best player on
the best team, because you and I will know Ben
aj debonce is not bad BYU wasn't the best team
in the league this year. Aj Debonsa was the best
player on his team most nights. But if you're rewarding
the best player on the best team, then yeah, like
Arizona won the league with two games to spare the players,
so the player that you probably should come from there.
Then you can have other arguments about what is Player
of the Year versus MVP if you want to talk
about most valuable player, I think Texas Text JT. Toppin
has shown that even since he went down a couple
of weeks ago with an ACL injury. Like the difference
between Texas Tech with JT. Toppin and the difference between
Texas Tech without JT. Toppen is pretty significant when you're
talking about the number one or number two team in
the league compared to like the number four number five
teams since then. So I think there are just a
lot of definitions that maybe are getting lost or mixed
up in translation right now. And again I will also
add this is a coaches vote Conference Player of the Year,
All Conference First Team, Second Team thirteen, et cetera. Coaches
don't always look at things, and again I say that
saying that they're not allowed to vote for their own players.
But even with that caveat, coaches don't always look at
things with shall I say, the most objective were the
most critical eyes as well, so I would be more interested.
I'll just give a little bit of a plug for this.
The Associated Press will release They're all Big twelve team
here either later this week or maybe first thing next week,
but coming up here pretty soon, and I would definitely
pay attention to see how much these two all conference
teams who line up before you make too many raft
decisions one way or the other about who the best
player in the league is.
Speaker 3: A yeah, Eric Mee could shout in from the BAU
great playing the NBA, playing the G League. I don't
think I've ever fully understood this award, he states, This
makes me feel like it's the best team's player or
the best team's best player, not the league's best player.
James Bradley's phenomenal, but I'm not buying that he's the
best player in all of Big Twelve hoops, so that.
Speaker 7: You can argue, you can even argue that Jayden Bradley
is the best player on his own team in Arizona,
because I think there's definitely been nice when Kobat was
the best player at Arizona. I think there were nights
when Brandon Burrays even was the best player on that
Arizona basketball team. There are probably three or four guys
that just got to put in that position. And that's
that's why I think Tommy Lloyd maybe had one of,
if not his best co some jobs overall this season.
I fully agree with that pick, by the way, if
Tommy Lloyd is as coach of the Year, But I
just I do think there are a lot of question
marks around jan and Bradley, not that he's not a
great player, like he is very clearly a great player.
It's just a matter of what your definition for player
of the year. It truly is when you're talking about value,
when you're talking about overall excellence, when you're talking about,
you know, play on a team like do team results matter?
And very it appears that according to the Big Twelve Coaches,
team results do matter for individual awards.
Speaker 3: Apparently so Sean Walker boots on the ground at the
Big Twelve Basketball Tournament talking some BYU basketball how deep?
How far can this BYU basketball team go on the
Big twelve Tournament? Would you say yeah?
Speaker 7: I mean, I think if they played like they did
the other nine on Senior Night against Texas Tech, this
is a team that can challenge those top four. You know,
I think they should be able to get by Kansas
State here in the opener, I think that West Virginia
game gets a little bit tricky depending on how they play.
But if they played like they did against Texas Tech
with kind of the same attack, the same intensity, the
same peat, the same attention to the defensive game plan
in particular, then I think you've got to like the
YUS chances in there as well. I worry about them
going up against really any of those top four teams,
but in particular having to go up against the team
like Houston, I think that's a that's a pretty poor
matchup for b YU. Even a dialed in b YU
wants to motivate it and muster like Houston's that good.
I think Arizona is that good as well. Certainly, I
think any of those top four teams should be and
probably rightfully are favorite against a team like BYU. So
I don't know if I would have this team going
all the way to like a Big CLUK tournament championship.
Go ahead, prove me wrong, Kevin Young loves love for
you to prove me wrong. But I think this is
a team that can certainly win two or three games
on the way there if they're dialed in, if they're
if they really give that same attention to detail that
they did about Saturday night in the Marryout Center against
Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: What was the difference in that game specifically? What stood
out to you? I know you were down there covering it,
watching it and discussing it post game with the coaches
and players. What was the difference and can it be
replicated in the Big twelve Tournament and the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 4: Do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I think it absolutely was, because the biggest difference I
saw was on defense. Defensively, it was the way BYU attacked,
the way they switched off of players, they used Kbaketo's
links in particular, in an absolutely masterful way. It was
also pretty simple there weren't you know, three four or
five different decisions to make whether or not to switch.
It was basically just switch everything, switch defense, everything go
over not under the screen. It's just really basic basketball
fundamentals that You've got to wonder if maybe the game
plan wasn't a little bit overly complicated for part of
the year, because Kevin Young even told us afterwards that
he just they kept things really simple.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 7: They made things really simple. They made plays and reads
really simple to make. Uh And and it's very clearly worked.
So I would expect another very simple game plan here
in the Big Club Tournament. Uh by us just got
to go out and execute it.
Speaker 3: Sean Walker KSL dot com. What can we read on
your platform? How can we support you what you do,
how you do it?
Speaker 7: Sean, Yeah, no, appreciate that just yet. Go go check
it out KSL dot com. I'll be uh here for
as long as Kansas City will allow me.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 7: So we will be covering all of the all of
the Utah teams in action, that includes the University of Utah.
I know the four letter word, sorry by fans, uh,
but we'll be here with them. Uh. Tanner Trulson is
going to be opening up with TCU Tomorrod. So we
love a little bit of truly. Uh in there. Well,
we'll be here all week or as long as by
you gets us to be here.
Speaker 3: Let's go Sean Walker. Make sure you're following Sean on
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your time.
Speaker 7: Thanks man, appreciate it.
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Speaker 8: You start to stay off in the pool as BYU Divers,
Marty Yacht and Ashton Sparks competed in the three meter
event at the NCAA Zoni Championship in Flagstaff, Arizona. Yacht
made it to the final round and place seventeenth overall.
The women's set of Things Brooklyn Gekkerates competed in the
one meter event, placing eighteen. Today, the women will compete
in the three meter event, with the men competing in
platform diving in sunny San Diego, California, and BYU men's
golf finished yesterday tied for fifth with keyhe Keena in
third place overall. Simon Quan has two strokes behind a
Keenette four under part in seventh place. The final round
began this morning at nine am. Today, the men's basketball
team faces Kansas State in the first round of the
Big Twelve tournament in Kansas City, with the winner facing
West Virginia tomorrow. The game tips off at five o'clock
on the ESPN Plus. Sticking with the men's team, the
Big Twelve awards were announced yesterday and A. J. D.
Bonsa took home the Freshman of the Year, a spot
on the All Freshman Team, and a spot on the
All Big Twelve First Team to where the Cougar were
featured as Richie Saunders was named to the second team
and Rob right the third to the third team. He
Bonce is the first Cougar since Jonathan Tabernari in the
two thousand and six two thousand and seven season the
win Freshman of the Year at His spot on the
All Big Twelve First Team marks two years in a
row with BYU having a member on the first team.
Other games today will feature a home game for the
BYU baseball team against Utah Tech at three o'clock because
they look to get back into the wind column after
having lost their last four, and softball has their home
opener tonight against Aplene Christian at six o'clock.
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Speaker 8: From the pros we're in the NFL. Former BYU running
back Tyler Algiers signed a two year deal with the
Arizona Cardinals for twelve and a half million dollars. In
defensive tackle, Kirostanga joined Kingsley Suamataiya and Andy Reid on
the Kansas City Chiefs on a three year deal worth
twenty one million dollars and in the NBA, Yegor Joeman
has been shut down for the year with increased plantar
fatiatis in his left foot. Yegor finishes his NBA rookie
season averaging ten point three points a game and shooting
thirty eight.
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Speaker 3: Arizona's Jayon Bradley was named Player of the Year, highlighting
obviously the U of A Wildcats and their iconic Big
Twelve season. After winning its first Big twelve regular season title,
Arizona's Toby Awaka was the name to the sixth Man
of the Year and head coach Tommy Lloyd Coach of
the Year.
Speaker 4: It completed a trio.
Speaker 3: Of Wildcats that earned their Big Twelve superlatives no doubt
about it. Kansas is Forrie badunga EARNS Defensive Player of
the Year, Melton Council junior, a Newcomer of the Year,
along with Iowa State Stamond Lipsey scholar athlete Blay's agent
debansa Freshman of the Year in Texas Tech Christian Anderson
has most improved that completed the Individual of the Year awards.
Bradley's the third Arizona player in the past five seasons
be named conference Player of the Year, but the first
to earn the honor in the Wildcats two seasons in
the Big Twelve. He's a senior from Rochester, New York.
He averaged thirteen point four points per game four point
six four point six assists to lead the team to
an eighteen to two overall record. He had key twenty
five plus point performances and wins at BYU and Baylor,
which proved key for Arizona's title chances. So that's maybe
the most controversial storyline coming out of this particular public
relations press release coming out of the Big Twelve in
a year where the storylines center around deep and talented
freshman class, obviously de Bonsa members as the Big Twelve's best,
becoming the first from BAU to earn the award in
the programs three seasons in the league. The Brockton, Massachusetts
native averages on an NCAA leading twenty four point seven
points per game, which is on track to be a
top five I mark in the history of the Big
Twelve and so definitely a great season.
Speaker 4: For a j The question is do you feel like
aj was robbed? Yes or no? Why or why not?
All Big Twelve First Team.
Speaker 3: By the way, Jaydon Bradley, Braydon Bury's of Arizona Crebus
was also on that squad from Arizona to Bonsa from BYU,
Sharp from Houston, Flemings from Houston, Joshua Jefferson from Iowa State,
Badunga from Kansas Christian Anderson Texas Tech, and then JT.
Speaker 4: Topp in Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: That's your all Big twelve First Team, All Big Twelve
Second Team, Richie Saunders, Baba Miller, Cincinnati, Tim and Lipsey
Iowa State Mom lists Man, I always get this one
on Melan Iowa State, Darren Peterson Kansas. That's your All
Big twelve second team, and then third team co of
Pete Arizona, Cameron cor Baylor, rob Right the third by
U folks from UCF, and then Edmunds from TCU, and
then you have a whole slew of honorable mentions as well.
Speaker 4: Question though, is this okay? Did a g Deponta get robbed?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 3: Or no?
Speaker 4: Why or why not? Ronald the three man Weaver? What
do you stand in this debate?
Speaker 5: No, I don't think he got robbed. I definitely think
there was an argument for Jade and Brawley. I know
people are gonna say, well, he was the third leading
scorer on his team behind Coed Pete and Braiden Burr's.
But Drayden, excuse me, Jayde and Bradley. That role of
how they rely on him as the same role of
how they were allow on AJ. Now, obviously things are different, Ben,
because Ba's more injury injured than Arizona. Is Arizona's fully healthy.
They have everybody. Even when Coleed Pete went down, that
was one player. Even when Braiden Berrys are sick, he
was still out there, Sir, Jayden Bradley is arguably, you know,
just as important Arizona in that role, not what they
do an impact, but role of that. And look, it's
not because the coaches gave it away. Jamie Dixon, you know,
got caught up. Who was a friend of the program,
Chancell Johnson, the Big Twelve analyst and content creator.
Speaker 1: Jamie Dixon joined him.
Speaker 5: And what did Jamie Dixon say, the men's basketball coach
of TC, You've been winning, winning matters. That's how I
determined MVP of that. So that's what the coaches voted for.
They obviously, and again Ben I said that yesterday. I
want to see the coaches ballot. I don't like to
see these, oh this player one. I want to see
how many people voted for agen who did Now, obviously
the coaches can't vote for their own player, which means
Kevin Young couldn't have voted for AJ. So I want
to see Ben what coaches voted, because maybe Bradley only
wanted by one. It wasn't obviously unanimous because they have
the asterisk there, so I'd have to think that some
coaches probably voted for AJ. I just want to know
which ones so I can see in them. I think
we can have more of a discussion. I think that
would be easier kind of how they do for the
NBA Finals, NFL.
Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 5: See who voted for which person to determine it, because
that would give me a little bit more insight. But no,
I don't think he got robbed. Obviously impact he's the biggest.
But this is what they do been They've been doing
this for a very long time. They're not going to
give it to the best player on the till where
they finished tenth in the league.
Speaker 4: Not gonna do that.
Speaker 5: They're gonna give it to the best player and the
person's role that was the biggest for the top for
the winner of the conference or the top three, and
that was Jayden Bradley, because obviously you couldn't give it
to Kingston Flemy because of Impact. You couldn't give it
to Iowa State in Mitland, Mont Chilovich or you know,
Joshua Jefferson. It just it wasn't and AJ had beating
them head to head. So when it came down to it,
when you X had all of the factors, the only
factor left was Okay, they're gonna give it to the
best player on the on the the highest finishing team,
and that happened to be Arizona. Do I disagree with
it one hundred percent. At the same time, I understand
the logic of why they picked it. I do also
have questions because you know, we just got off the
line with Sean Walker. I don't believe the Commissioner Bank
can push for AJ to be the National Player of
the Year when he didn't even win Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: In his own conference. That's not how that works, unfortunately.
Speaker 4: So it is what it is.
Speaker 5: It sucks, no one's gonna like it, but AJ is
still a great player, and it doesn't matter because I
still think he's gonna be the top pick in the
NBA draft.
Speaker 3: I think the biggest issue is, like, and we discussed
it briefly yesterday, the tenth best team in the Big
twelve can't have the best player, and I think that's
where the coaches stood on the matter, the voters stood
on that matter.
Speaker 4: You can agree or disagree with it, but.
Speaker 3: At what point at what like ranking does AJ get
the nod? Is it top six in the conference? Is
it top five in the conference?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 3: Because you have you of a Houston, Kansas Tech, Iowa State.
I think if I think if you're number six, if
you're in that TCU slot and you are eleven and
seven in conference, then I think AJ probably gets it.
I mean possibly it's a much closer top five. I
think he gets it because.
Speaker 1: Of his top six I think he gets it. I
think if they finished sixth.
Speaker 4: That's the Teeter Totter p that's.
Speaker 2: With you, so.
Speaker 3: Know I put it on I look by you. They
had five season ending injuries.
Speaker 4: It sucked.
Speaker 3: They they struggled in Big twelve play, couldn't find a
way to get get proficient in the first half of
games at rebound play, great defense. They they became a
little bit turnover prone in some highly critical competitive games.
It is what it is, and unfortunately AJ doesn't get
to be the Big twelve Player of the Year.
Speaker 5: They lost it against US where that's where he lost it.
After the Iowa State game, right then AJ's back in
the conversation.
Speaker 4: Is his to lose?
Speaker 1: And then he lost.
Speaker 5: You know, they could get blown out by UCF and
then the road trip that's where that's where lost.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, he's a part of the All Freshman team for LAICI.
That is, there is not a BYU player on the
All Defensive team.
Speaker 1: That's not good.
Speaker 3: I mean, the only the only individual that had, like
I think the potential to make the All Defensive team
was probably Keva, right we red with that.
Speaker 4: I think it was probably Keaba with shop blocking ability.
Speaker 3: If he was getting if he was earning, you know,
a thirty minutes per game type of outing day in
day out, game in game out, you could have seen
something like that where Keaba becomes with between his rebounding
and shop locking ability. If his putbacks were a little
bit more proficient, if he had a mid range and
even an extended perimeter game, it would have been nice
obviously to pick and roll lob Lake City Freak. But
with injuries they kind of derailed him a little bit.
But I think he could have been in that mix.
There were times where Aj was really good defensively but
not consistent enough to enter into that state.
Speaker 5: If I think AJ could have had a shot because
AJ got more steals and deflections and things. When Richie
was on the court because Richie plays defense, right, you
know that losing that I think her aj little bit
defensively been.
Speaker 4: No doubt about it.
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