Speaker 1: From Chicago to Trovo, from dodging tackles on the rugby
hitch to covering drives on the Marriott Center baseline. He's
traded in scrums for stat sheets, cleats for courtside coverage,
and somehow he draws more contact than half the Big twelve.
Key's Ronald the three Man Weaver. He'll break down the
matchup storylines and give you everything you need to know
before tip off of Lease. It's the Cougar Basketball Pregame
Show on one oh three nine ninety three ESPN The Fan,
part of Utah's ESPN Radio Native.
Speaker 2: Who Welcome back. I know we're just getting started. I
should say welcome in, but it's welcome back. Welcome in
to the Cougar Pregame Basketball Show here on one O three,
nine and ninety eight three esp and the Fan. You
heard the intro, your host, Ronald the Three Man Weaver,
holding it down, taking you up until tip off. I
say welcome back because it's been a week off. Man,
I'm so sorry. The schedule, well, that's just how it goes.
But hey, look at the end of the day, basketball
is a privilege to be able to for those that
are on the court to play. It's a privilege for
us to be able to watch, and it's a privilege to
be able to cover this wonderful BYU basketball team, Top
fifteen team in the NET, top fifteen team in AP Pole,
the coaches poll, top fifteen, and Ken Palm, you name it,
they got it. Second year head coach forty two and twelve.
It's a great record led by one of the best,
aj D Bonza D's bonds today. I got to write
that time so people don't have to come from me,
but aj leading the troops today. The top King will
also be an action and rob right the third I'm
predicting not only a victory, a glorious victory. It will
be a big victory. We'll get it and we'll break
it all down for you here on your Cougar Basketball
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your wife might be like, you're not going to the game. Hey,
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that you're here, in present and doing what you need
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and I have my duties because it'll be a full
damn action of basketball. The men's game tipping off at
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B way, you knocked off number nineteen Texas Tech earlier
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further ado, Let's fire up the Cougar basketball starting lineup
and I'll introduced my coast. He's here all season for
me as well. Might give him another opportunity to the
Cougar basketball perget show other duties. We got our running
back here are sharp shooter by You needs sharp shooting
off the bench today, not from the Big three, And
I'm gonna get his thoughts on who it needs to be.
We got Ansthrew Peterson with me.
Speaker 3: Ap.
Speaker 2: How are we doing today? Brother, I'm doing.
Speaker 3: That's a good day.
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tap on your turn up, char at Liana's like turn
there we go.
Speaker 3: I picked up pretty that's a hobby at this point.
Speaker 2: Oh, I would dust that first. And I did duck
like oh okay, I.
Speaker 4: Did not get a duck, but I did have that
idea of.
Speaker 3: Actually really football. I think the hunter could be an epic.
Speaker 4: Nickname for the leading and for the leading safety or cornerback.
Speaker 3: He gets the most sixty.
Speaker 2: Year Oh hunting ducks, runt ducks.
Speaker 4: I don't obviously, but yeah, I found a hobby that
will take.
Speaker 2: Okay. Duck hunting, the hunter, the hunter of safeties. They
come down and they hunt in one fallow to house.
Satuala he likes to hunt, Tommy Priss likes to hunt.
Raider Dumoni likes to hunt. Will the Pula twin hunt
and Will Kawe a Kana hunt as well. Matthias Leach
and Joe Douglas. That's a nice safety room. I appreciate that.
I like nicknames. See, look, if you're gonna get a nickname,
you can't give it to yourself. It must be given
to you, must be given to your right. Ronald the
three man Weaver bing Crodo gave me that. It's used.
It's popular, people picked up on it, people like it.
I like it too. That's why I go buy it.
That's why I use it. You can't give yourself the
nickname ap you know, that's what it is. And really
his Twitter name. Want to call him a petty because
he's gonna be petty to you Utah fans today. He's
gonna get you on Twitter watch and this is very true,
this is one hundred percent. He's gonna get you. That's
why I say a petty. You can't call yourself that though.
People have to give that to you. It has to
be annointed unto you. Hopefully people don't think it'd being sacrilegious,
but it has to be given and bestowed upon you.
I'm being serious when I say that the top king
was given to him. You can't give yourself the nickname
people called me Tray and the hood that is because
I was a third Ronald Weaver. My dad was junior
and my grandpa was senior, has to be given. Like
being given the nickname the mongoose, you know, the crittle stick.
That has to be given. So hope you out there
understand the nicknames that are given. So just why we
That's why we say A j D's bonzas just kidding.
That's not gonna be a nickname. Got him, That's just kidding.
That's not gonna be a nickname. Guys, I'm completely joking.
Someone's gonna clip that in Senata texts Ben and I'm
gonna get in trouble. I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking.
I'm joking. Anyway, appreciate ap showing up and showing out.
We're gonna discuss that that's gonna be our question and
poll of the day outside of the Big Three. What
who who needs to be the guy today? Who will
be the guy? It could it could be Bay Committee.
I would love nothing more today than to see Canar Kaba,
Beato Hadim and my and me highlight Buckovich. We have
on the show as well on Thursday. If you missed
that interview, you can download on the podcast. I would
love to see those guys play today and look anytime basketball. Look,
there are those of you out there that watch the NBA.
There are those out there like a bo fans around.
I hate the NBA. Stop talking about it. I don't
care if there are those out there that are listening
that do I have to touch. I have to hit
on every person and everybody listening in right now. The
point that I'm trying to make is if you've watched
NBA basketball, even if you watch yegor at some point
in time, when playoff basketball happens, you see when the
role players, the guys on the bench, when do they
play well ap you know this. They play well where
at the crib, they play well at home at home.
We're gonna get into it in our next segment. From
Kevin Young and maybe some score predictions. But did you
see that Houston, Texas Tech game where you're entertained? The
Big Twelve is something else. I tell you, it's really
really nice, and I enjoy I truly and I thoroughly
enjoy watching Big Twelve basketball because you don't get an
opportunity to see the best basketball conference in America. It
was a ninety to eighty six win for the Red Raiders.
They beat BYU. Now they beat Houston even though Houston
got it earlier in the season at their crib. That
Sha'll let you guys know, as fans BYU is in
a good spot, very good spot. This game was thoroughly entertaining.
Kingston Fleming, my goodness, is gonna be a first round pick,
dropped forty two fifteen of twenty six from the field,
four of nine from the three, eight of ten from
the charity stripe in thirty eight minutes. He did have
like he did have four fouls, But this entire game
was physical if you watched it, no doubt about it.
But guys play better at home at well, he's gonna
starting line up, not knowing really always for a score,
but he dropped eighteen. He was five of eight from
the field. He hit all and all of those are threes.
He hit five of eight threes. Jalen Petty he was
five of eight, he was four six. They shot forty
one percent from three twelve to twenty nine JZ toappoz five.
Lets you know that he is he can get lucky
against BYU. Those bank threes don't work all the time,
do they now, Brother Haa. Nonetheless, he's still a good player.
You dropped thirty one twelve to twenty, but that's what
I mean. Like Lawan Wats was pretty much held scoreless
from the field. He had three free throws. He was
zero of eight, but that's what I mean. And then
the bench guys mostly gave him six. He hit those
two threes, and that's what I'm getting at. We need
to see the three pointerers fall today. We're waiting to
see them come. Mahilo's have moments, He's had up and downs.
Has been like a rollercross for Shaky, But I think
this should be the game for him. This should be
the game where the minute he gets in the first
set should be run for him off the bench and
he should be pulling. You should be extremely confident. You
should be relaxed. You sat on this game for a
week and apl asking because you know the game and
we've talked about this and prep for this before the show.
What was the last game BYU had to sit on
for a week after they lost? And what happened to
that team?
Speaker 4: I think Wisconsin got their lunch handed to them, already
eating with a hole in the bottom of their paper bag.
Speaker 2: Yes, the lunch was stolen. They took the lunch money,
it was stolen from us. Were happy to be here,
Wisconsin was, and then you know, at the start of
the season they worked. Sorry, that's taking them shots at
a certain athletic director up north. It's it's the rivalry game.
So I have to I have to make sure I
mix it in the poking and the pettiness wherever I can.
It's all jokes, So I could. I could, Honestly, I
don't care, but I just have to for this radio
network to do that. But no, ill and look, if
I get Mark Carlin and tweet at me, I am
doing something right. That's a victory. That's a victory. If
I get the athletic director, someone eclipses or posters or
screen re courses and sends this to him and he
DMS me and does that. That is bad for him,
because I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna do. You
want to talk about petty. Oh, I've had my run
ins with certain people and with youth athletics. I will
screenshot that and I will put that on Twitter. So
don't try me. Today's not the day to try me. Oh,
Today's not the day. I got a good night sleep,
we didn't have anything early. I got to play with
my daughter. Like if you really want to try roun
up the three man Weaver, Saturday, January twenty four to
two forty two pm, trust me, brother, you're gonna get
all that Chicago energy anyway, which way about it, I'll
promise you so please make my day. It won't happen, though,
but I'm just kidding. Uh. Anyway, getting back to the
top of your hand stand on business playing at home,
I want to see Mohilo just go off. I would
love to see him just like light it up today,
give numbers like that. It doesn't need to be exactly
like Texas Tech, but I would love to see him
shoot somewhere between six to ten threes and make five
or six of them if he were able to go
five of eight today ap if he was able to
do that and not just mihilo.
Speaker 3: Thirty.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm being honest. I'm not saying that Boi's gonna
win by thirty. I think they cover. Just to give
you guys some updates of the spread, I want to
give you guys what the numbers are. It opened up
as eighteen and a half. Right now it's nineteen and
a half. We're gonna get to a peace point. The
over unders on one sixty six and a half. Bau
Per matchup predictors predicted to win this game ninety four
point three percent. They do give Utah a five point
seven percent chance. So Ba, you favored in this matchup,
heavily favorite. Like I said, game is gonna be on Fox.
I think this is the first game to bo he
plays on Fox this year and maybe in conference. Bau
interest the matchup sixteen to two, four and one and
Big Towel player that only lost coming to Texas Tech
the only two losses on the season, which are both
Pot one losses, which both were not at the crib.
By the way, just reminds you true road environment against
Texas Tech and basically a true road environment. It was
a neutral It was a neutral Wisconsin in their backyard.
What they're only seventy miles from the TD Garden out there.
Come on, like, stop playing. That's like the Red Raiders
who playing BYU in the Big Toe Championship in AT
and T Stadium down in Arlington. It's a home game
for crying out loud. Don't tell me this neutral site nonsense. Look,
Utah is nine and ten. They're not a good basketball team.
Won to five. And when I say not a good
basketball team, I mean the metrics. I mean how they play.
I don't mean how they're coached. I do think they
have guys that can play. I do think Keanu Dass
is a good players to got rebounder. I do think
Terrence Brown is he is. He is a guy that
can truly truly light it up. I always keep joking
about this, but in ap laughs, I think he's gonna
look great next year in the BYU uniform. I seriously
mean that Brown. Yeah, I'm serious.
Speaker 3: Mentioned don m returns. Brown.
Speaker 2: Look, okay, we'll take my look. I'm not arguing now
then anybody. We'll take both. They look, hey, there's a
place for everybody, and with the injuries that have occurred,
you need guard depth, you need you don't know what's
gonna happen. If Nate Pickens is gonna come back, they're
probably gonna wait till the end of the season. Dawson,
I don't know if he's gonna have another year, but
that's a big rehab. So he's not gonna be good
to go because he he toured what probably probably a
month ago, right, maybe I may actually a little bit
before now, two months ago, I apologize, you know, So
he's still gonna be a ways out from recovery, and
you have to think what's gonna happen. So you got
two guys that would be coming off potential injuries, one
earlier that was a little like right before the season,
one during the season. Tell you'll take both these guys
and both these guys can play. You don't know if
is Rob Right gonna go to the NBA draft? Can
you get Rob Right to come back? That's the conversation
that's gonna be off season. Can you convince Rob Right
to come back for a third year? Rob Right as
the NBA player I believe next level. Now, whether he's
the first or second nd that depends. This draft class
is loaded. This is a loaded draft class. So I
would love to hear AP's voice of a certain someone
say loaded, because it's gonna sound way better than me
saying it. But absolutely loaded. There it is, and it is.
It is absolutely loaded. Uh, but no, this draft class
is nice. I brought up Fleming earlier from Houston. Aj
d aj De Bonsa playing today Darren Peterson most anticipated matchup.
If if if Darren Peterson does not play in the
game against b YU next week, can be upset. Look,
I know this is gonna sound bad, and they give
me your thoughts and then we'll get back to the youtak. Yeah,
I know I'm on a short tangent. Will you please
tell the viewers that Darren Peterson should sit out the
game today gets kans State to play the game against
BYU next Saturday, he should not play. I am in
favor of It's gonna soun terrible that I'm saying this
load and it is my load management in college basketball,
load managed, Darren. There are fans out there that agree.
Now there might be fun. Some fans say, oh, don't
make it easier for BYU. To win. I pushed back,
and I say nay. I say nay to you what
I always say, beat the team when they got the guy. Now,
if they're in a sitting out, that means he might
not be healthy to play anyway next Saturday. But my
point is, you want to beat the guys when they're
there the most anticipated matchup. This is a great this
is a great hoop. Next week of hoops for BYU.
You got BYU TA today and he got Arizona BYU
on Monday, and you got next Saturday a week from today.
Right now, we're gonna be watching the game at this time,
BYU taking on Kansas. Man, it's gonna be it's gonna
be glorious. It's gonna be great. But we need to
not look ahead. Let me not jump. Don't want to
overlook anybody. Go back to the task at hand. This
Utah game. AP, you said it. You think if Mihilo
hits five threes there winning by thirty, like I said,
spreads nineteen point five. I think Bou does cover. I
think they do win. I don't know if it's thirty,
but I definitely think BOU twenty p is the uth
today of one.
Speaker 4: Here's my opinion on the difference between BYU and UTAH
right now. And I'm gonna be objective. I'm not gonna
go my typical bash Utah. It will bash Utah, but
it will be objective. Utah has two good power for
players that you should worry about, right Don Mchkenry, Terrence Brown,
everyone else.
Speaker 3: They're good athletes. I don't know that they're good players.
Speaker 4: On BYU side, you have three good NBA prospects that
are playing for BYU. You've got three NBA prospects versus
two good players. That's the difference between BYU and UTAH.
And I think it's gonna show up at home. BYU
should absolutely pound the Utes into the ground.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the jokes decide to get back to be
an objective. BYU should win this game by the by
the spread of what it is at home. They sat
on this game for a week, and I really mean
it to not have to play. I'm gonna ask it
in the post game and Kevin Young, what did you
like about the guys? What did you see from this
them this week having a week off, not having any
opportunity after sitting on a loss for a week. Look,
I can give you a little bit of insight. No
one cares that I played rugby, but I can tell
you normally, you know sometime in rugby you play games
every single week. But when you get a bye a
week in rugby, it's a great chance to recover, by
the way, But when you don't play for two weeks
and you lost and you have to sit on that,
you're so And I feel bad for your teammates because
no mad the off week you're tackling. You're tackling or scrimmaging.
Next Saturday and you're doing thought contact, but you're tackling
one days out of the week. I remember when we
lost to Saint Mary's and it wasn't bad, but it
was a close ball game. Everything's just done rabbled in
the second half the way it shouldn't have been werown
down by five at half time. How angry guys were
in practice that next Tuesday morning. Lighting dudes up myself
included getting lit up hitting other people. You're frustrating, you're
po so programs network for children, so I won't say
the word, but you're very upset. You're very frustrated. But
it also helps your health. So I think the combination
of lost of Texas Tech couldn't play back at home
now week off, AJ gets healthy right. He was on
the Coaches Show with Kevin Young talking about shoes. Looked
happy with Spencer Lynch and shout out to those guys.
They always do a good job over there. On the
Kevin Young Coaches Show. It looked to me as if
this team is calm, cooled, collected, well rested, and they're
gonna go out there and they're gonna put it work.
Now we'll have to see what adjustments are made, but
I would I could predict, and I think that they're
gonna put this game away, not necessarily early, but I
think in the second half is gonna be very clear
that there's a discrepancy. Very fast they are going to
So we got to take a brief time out, but
we'll be back. We're gonna give you some scoreboard updates.
Then we're gonna get into the Kevin Young sound. Kevin
Young actually addressed the media in preparation for the Utah game.
We're gonna hear from him. Did they overlook you? Maybe?
I don't think they did. He was asked that question.
The Robberie games are tough. Utah plays bau will at
the Hunsome Center they have I think the last five times.
That's just the way it goes in college basketball robberie games.
It's close. It's different here in by U, Utah. But
today it will be different. It'll be like last year.
We'll b a you will get a big dub. We'll
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Number thirteen BYU is an action today opening its two
game homestand today Saturday, twenty fourth, as they try to
look for the season sweep against the Robbie, Utah might
need to look up some stats that might be the
j T era or his last time BA sweeped Utah
in the season series. I don't think well, and that's
really gonna have to go back to conference days. So
tip is scheduled for three thirty pm Mountain Time at
the Marriott Center, as I've already said, and the broadcast
today is gonna be on Fox with Aaron Goldsmith and
Casey Jacobson on the call. But if you're driving around
you can get the game on the radio as well.
It's gonna be on BAU Radio with Gregor bel and Margren,
who do a phenomenal job both friends of the program
as well. BYU. They spread opened up at eighteen and
a half. It's now nineteen and a half. Someone's gambling
down there in Vegas, because when I put this together
this one and it was eighteen and a half, it's
jumped up to nineteen. So someone's throwing some filthy lucre
out there, that's no doubt about it. As well. BYU
comes into the season averaging about eighty six points six
points per game. UTA eighty two point two points against
Utah gives up eighty one. It's a lot of points.
And when you're in this conference, you give up eighty
one points and you score eighty. That showcases by a
nine to ten record, just gonna be honest. One in
five in conference play, BA only gives up sixty nine
points six That favors the kookas very well. That defense
has been phenomenal this season. And then both are shooting
above forty seven percent from the field. BA you leads
that shooting forty nine and BAU has rebound advantage forty
point three to thirty five, assists BYU fifteen to fourteen.
And then blocks of course Kiba and adding the addition
to Beato, which tremendously helps the Bou's blocks, they're averaging
about five blocks per game. That's BYU in eight point
eight steals phenomenal numbers. We'll go through maybe some injury
updates and who's gonna be out in the last segment.
After this, we'll we'll just stay with us though Momentarily,
Agy Debond's a leading this crew with twenty two point
five points. We predict a big game from AJ. I
don't want to I've been known to vi perbley. I
don't want to say he's gonna do what Kingston Fleming's
gonna do. But I think AGA could thirty today, maybe
thirty five. If you were to drop forty two, that'd
be crazy. I think he can. Don't know if this
is the game. Remember he was in the twenties when
he played against Utah the last time he did shoot
eight to twenty two from the field. Then made him
take really tough shots. But again, when you're playing at
home and you've seen this team on tape, they all
know how better to attack this team going forward. But
AJ nice numbers twenty two point five, six point eight boards,
three point six sists per game. He's the second person
on this team behind Rob Wright leading this team and
a sists. Rob is averaging five point three assists per
game in an AJ one point four steals. Those are
phenomenal numbers. Tak King right behind him with nineteen point two.
Rob Wright there as well with seventeen point Akbaka leads
this team grabbing eight boards a game and then cable
on the offensive side of the balls. Give me a
seven points as well. If Kiba can give you maybe
fifteen to ten in a day, give you a little
bit more, maybe twelve and ten. That's going to help
along with I think Mihilo is showing up and showing out.
But I want to bring up an interesting point here
before we get to the Kevin Youngsu. Do you think
that we need to see more dominic Diamonde. I pay
attention to social media and what these guys post, and
I always am looking. I'm looking to see what they post,
how they post it, why they posted it tells you
a lot. Sometimes they give injury updates themselves on their Facebook,
on their Instagram. But to me, I thought, this guy,
you know, when he first got here, was going to
see a lot more time than he was because of
how well he's able to defend the perimeter being a
part of the United Seen France team. But we haven't
seen him and he posts this six days ago, Xavion
Xavion Staton said in due time, Rob Wright said, fingers
crossed my guy. And it's been like about plet through
of the BA managers who I know. I'm not gonna
get into that, but he says, even when it doesn't
make sense right now, God has a plan and sometimes
we all can do is all we can do is
trust his timing. Your thoughts ap. First of all, just
you know in general about Dominique not being in the rotation.
I know he struggles maybe a little bit from the
three point nine, but this is a guy I feel
like that can change the game defensively now.
Speaker 4: I The post to me just sounds like someone who
wants to play.
Speaker 2: He wants to play. Everybody wants to play. That's why
they're in college to play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that to me, that's all. That's that that's about.
I don't know if he's necessarily unhappy. I think he
just wants to play, wants hoop. But I I like Dominique.
Speaker 3: I want to.
Speaker 4: See more of him when he's come in. I felt
like he's made some really big plays. He's the guy
that's gonna get the steal and the breakaway slam.
Speaker 3: Like he's got more speed.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he's got more speed than anyone else,
but when I watch him, he just looks really really fast.
He's really good on the defensive end. He's got good eyes,
he can read the ball.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I would like to see him take some minutes when
your team's in a slump, when I'm just gonna be
straight up honest, when Tyler Maruss comes in, when Alexi
Kostitch comes in and goes over from the floor shooting
threes from the corner. I want to see Dominique because
those guys haven't been hitting threes. Had They've both had
one game where they popped off and we kind of went, oh, yeah,
here we go, and we haven't really seen it since.
I want to see what Dominique can do because I
think he can be a little bit like Tray Stewart
was last year where Tray Stewart at the beginning of
the year and for most of his career, did not
get minutes. He just didn't and we all thought he's
not that, he's not that good offensively, maybe he can't
do it. He came in and he was a huge
part of making a sweet sixteen run. He was a
massive part of the nine game winning streak.
Speaker 2: He took the commandans away from Cannon.
Speaker 4: Catchens, and I think that Dominique maybe could have that
kind of potential.
Speaker 2: Who are you still in minutes from? It's so hard
to get minutes on this team. Cab Young is shortened up,
the rotation not like what it was last year, rightfully so,
but man, it is so tough to get minutes on
this team. I would look, I would want to play
on this basketball team, but I would have to be
completely okay with my role in not playing. It's so tough. Yeah,
I'm serious, you laugh, but I'm serios. It'd be so
fun to play with this team, to watch it. They're
allowed to be in practice because you would get you
would become a better basketball player. Like I want to
make this very clear, and this is not hyperbole. I'm
this is what I'm sitting at, being factor right even
though with the guys like Dominate that is struggling, Tyler
might be struggling a little bit, even with Mihailo shooting
lesson it might look that way. If those guys went
to a Oklahoma State went to a Utah, they're gonna
play better it's better coaching staff, better players, better resources.
Right now. A lot of that is what Bayu has
just the truth. So when a guy maybe not might
be playing well the United I see him, don't get
on them too much.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think they're bad players.
Speaker 2: What I mean saying people courtly bad players are bad
player Sometime Oh he's a bad player, not a bad player.
A well, he's playing bad. It's like, well, you gotta
be careful what you say. But I think the reason
you might be seeing that is because of the dynamic
of just how hard it is to perform in the
limited roles that you get. Like we're asking guys to
do them what mag hit the three point shot? When
you take it three to five times a game and
they go lock the other, that's tough to do well.
It's tough to stand rhythm.
Speaker 4: It's hard to go from being one of the guys
on your smaller team, which is where most of these
guys transferred him from.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: They went from being the guy to coming in and
you're expected to be a role player, yep, with very
limited some possessions of the ball is not going to
touch your hands.
Speaker 3: You need to be a role player.
Speaker 4: Be ready to shoot on those rare possessions that the
ball does touch your hands. On a team with three
NBA guys, that's not something that's that's not an easy
transition to make. So when I'm saying that these guys
have struggled, I'm not saying they're bad players, and I
don't think I'm not saying that they can't transition into
becoming good at their roles. I just want to see
what Dominique can do, because I think that he could
play that role.
Speaker 2: He's gonna have to steal Tyler's minutes. I'm looking at
the roster right now. Hadim played in seventeen games, Dominiqu's
played in thirteen, Tyler's played in thirty. Excuse me seventeen.
My apologies, HOWI Boop is playing fifteen minutes a game,
Dominique's playing six point eight just round seven, Tyler's spent
eleven minutes game and seventeen games played, and look, all
the numbers are the same. My team is gonna play
because of how he rebound, so you can just x
him out. But I'm giving you just to where he's
at with the forward of how big they are and
how Hadem can guard the three two five.
Speaker 3: I think I think he's gonna play a big role tonight.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. He's gonna play a big role. He
I Mexican out, but I'm just giving the fans and
just breaking it down. Yeah, he's gonna be on count
of downs or a j I'm just giving it that
because of that. Look, two point six points per game.
Dominique is two point three and then Tyler's two point three.
The reason why I put him in that conversation just
FORWDS and matchups. The guy that he's probably gonna need
to steal minutes from, he's gonna have to steal it
from Tyler. When I look at this, of what the
flip is, it's Tyler it is. Now. I know Dominique
is not the best three point shooter, but to me,
it's if Tyler gets in foul trouble or just goes
straight cold, which happens in basketball. Everyone goes cold. Look
as de Bunce a little cold last game. That's how
it goes. Richie did in a a in a sprint,
not overall in the game, but in a certain part
of the game when you needed it the most. That happens.
But the point is with these guys that are playing
roles that aren't rob right Richie and aj If you're
not coming to make an impact, how quick does Kevin
Young go? This is a game where Dominique, I feel
like I can make a big impact. This is this game.
I believe this is the type of game you could,
you can get a big you can. I know how
Deimus put his hand up, but I feel Dominique is
a guy raising his hand right now. He's just not
being called on. So to me to that, keep keep
your hand up, dom keep. I think there's a big
role for him on this team. And I think if
Tyler's not showcasing that, Kevin Young likes defense sometimes better
than the likes offense.
Speaker 4: Well, and to your point, I don't know that he
is a bad three point shooter. He's two of twelve
on the year. He hasn't really had a lot of
chance to shoot good threes, agreed to be honest. So
I don't know if we've really seen what he is
as a three point shooter. But I tell you he's
a game. He's he's an energizer because when he comes
in and he can get that steal on defense, he
He's got some rimrock rocking dunks that he can throw
down to energize the team. And I think that's something
that this team needs because to your point, they go
on cold stretches that Texas Tech game the last five
or so minutes b YU went cold, and they needed
someone to energize the team.
Speaker 3: And I think Dominique plays that. Well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. Look play Dominique, like we say,
I'm from Free Dominique, Free Dominique. And I'm just kidding
when I say that. All jokes. But we'll see, we'll
see if dom plays. Anyway, Let's get to it. Let's
get to the sound. This is Kevin Young earlier in
the week addressing the media in preparation, I say earlier
the week yesterday, addressing the media in preparation for this
ba Utah game in about twenty six minutes.
Speaker 5: Hey, Kevich, I just kind of want to get your
thoughts on what you learned from the first Utah game.
Do you think the team maybe underestimated him a little bit?
I mean it was tight throughout, and what do you
expect from.
Speaker 2: Them this time around?
Speaker 6: No, I don't think we underestimate him, even I know
the coaches said didn't.
Speaker 3: I don't think the players did either.
Speaker 6: I think they knew, you know, rivalry game on the
Roads is gonna be a tough game, and they played well.
I mean, look, they've you know, those two guards man,
they've been they've been torching the entire Big twelve. You
know that they're doing it to every team, and so,
you know, I have a lot of respect for coach
Jensen and what they're trying to do there. And they
played good. You know, they played good, and we had
to really gut it out. But I thought it was
good for our guys to have to be in a
hostile environment, come away and find a way to win.
Speaker 5: There was a lot of players first taste of the rivalry.
Speaker 2: Look, I want to just stop it right there, because
I know that's kind of been the thing AP is
people think that BA didn't play hard enough, and it's
that narrative driven to questions. Look, I know we have
to ask the questions of media members, but those type
of questions present maybe a narrative at all. You know,
you know the buy didn't Utah played well? You heard him?
Do I need to pull up the numbers like I
will pull up the numbers right now, how are you
cause in front of me, Terrence Brown and Don McHenry
are both combining for over forty points for this Utah team. Now,
I want to go back to you how many points
Utah scores. They score eighty points, so half of their
points that come up from those two half. You know
who's after that count of dolls. He's giving you about
twelve a game, So that's all your points to come for.
Those two guards have towarded everybody twenty two point two
from Brown and eighteen point one from McHenry. So it
has nothing to do with underestimating those guys hit shots.
They played better at home. They were doing it. That
was the best game they played thus far. Have to
give them credit, you have to. And then if you
look at their last five games after the BAU game,
you know, yes, they had lost to Texas Tech. That
was gonna be a tough game. But they beat TCU
at home.
Speaker 3: They did.
Speaker 2: They lost a tough ballgame on giving the ball to PJ.
Haggard who dropped thirty four on them. He had the
last shot. So yeah, this team is Excuse me, I
said one five, one to four, you know right now,
But just in the last five games. But look, it
doesn't matter. At the end of the day, Robert, games
are gonna be tough. It doesn't matter, especially when it's
your first one. It was early. Later this season might
be a different store. But to me, that game, I
think as long as it's played every year and played
at least once up in the Huntsman and whether it's
early or midseason, it's always going to be a tough
game because this rivalry is different. These players get up
for it, and you bring your best game when you
want to play against your phone. That's just how it goes.
Happens away in baseball basketball, Tennessee see some amazing games,
and we were entertained when bau played Utah not too
long with eighty nine to eighty four was a thriller.
I was hoping for overtime as a selfish fan, ap
but that was a good ball game, whether you were
in person or you watched it on TV.
Speaker 3: Oh. For surely, there's a reality that.
Speaker 4: I forgot about when I made my predictions for that game.
It's that the Hopsman Center is a nightmare of a
place to play.
Speaker 3: When fans show up.
Speaker 2: Facts.
Speaker 4: The unfortunate thing for BYU is that BYU is the
only time fans show up for that team right now,
which is really unfortunate because objectively speaking, they used to
have really good crowds in It used to be a rude.
Speaker 2: If they showed up like that in every game, this
team might be in the top eight team in the
Big Twelve.
Speaker 4: That's what I play they they would they would be
a lot better than they are. I'm not gonna say
top eight, but they would be better, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's just it's always been very tough
for BYU to play in the Huntsman Center. I'm not
worried about how we played in that game. Now, should
BYU only win by five tonight, there needs to be
a conversation about how BYU's just squeaking by in the
Big Twelve. Because this is a team when they're they're
coming on the road, this is gonna be the most
hostile environment that they are going to play in all year.
The Marriott Center will be absolutely rocking. If that does
not intimidate Utah, I think it's gonna intimidate Utah.
Speaker 3: I don't, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think they're gonna play well in this environment,
if BYU can't win by by double digits, if they
can't win convincingly, then I think there's a real conversation
about what's going on outside of the Big three, and
to a point where it's not nitpicking. It's a real
worry for me when you get into March.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be a real worry if this team
only wins by five today. Don't think that will happen.
But that's why the boys go play. It's to see
if if we can predict the not really predict, but
to see if excuse me, this team is who we
say it is, but we're gonna find out. Let's get
back to the sound Kevin young meat availability from yesterday obviously,
but did.
Speaker 3: They communicate to you just the intensity.
Speaker 5: Of it and what kind of atmosphere you expected tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think you look man as a competitor, man, you
love planning games like that where there's maybe a hint
of bad blood and a hint of not a hint,
but just full intensity with the fans. So you know,
I know b YU fans will want to return to
favor and make this an amazing atmosphere. You know down
here given what they did up there, and I know
our guys are looking forward to playing in that.
Speaker 7: Mitch Kevin the last night on your coach to show,
you know, they kind of treat this week like an
NBA All Star break and it's an opportunity to re
evaluate where.
Speaker 3: Things are with your team.
Speaker 7: Was there any points of emphasis with you and the
coaching staff that you really want to do address.
Speaker 2: With your team?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean we just looked at some stuff offensively
from an execution standpoint, you know, do we have the
requisite things we need to you know, walk a close
game down, which generally speaking, I think the answer was yes,
but you know, want to look at that specifically and
see if there was things we want to tighten up
ad or throw away. And we did all the above,
and they worked on executing the things that we ultimately
kept or stamped off on. And then defensively, you know,
just making sure we have things dial in with our
what I call our tool belt, being able to make adjustments,
which we didn't do a good note job in in
that Texas Tech game. And you know, sometimes you got
to learn the hard way, and that was certainly ky.
Speaker 2: But we feel like we've got.
Speaker 6: Uh some answers there moving forward and it was a
good little mental reset.
Speaker 7: And just to follow up, how would you maybe describe
how this week's practices have been from the guys after
coming off a loss.
Speaker 6: You know, Henri, you know, led by me, I think
some of the guys as well, And that's kind of
what you want. I thought we've today was great, you know,
a couple of days it was a little bit more
of a grind out, but uh, you know, it's a
long season, and I think, you know, getting through a
season mentally just as much as physically, is a challenge
in every year because there's this there's so much that
goes into it. So you know, I thought our guys
found a way to help themselves get better and be focused,
but still kind of be ticked off that we didn't
get a win on the road.
Speaker 4: Transition from coaching in the NBA to coaching at YU,
what's it like coaching at a school where there is
a prayer before every game and every class?
Speaker 6: I love it, man, We did that in the NBA,
believe it or not, the whole the whole time. I'm
outs with MANI wins. We opened every single coaching meeting
with the prayer, set a prayer in the locker room
before every game. So, uh you know, I'm a god
fearing man, and uh you know I owe everything to
him and I love the fact that we'll get a
chance to remind ourselves about that here at b Yu Man.
Speaker 2: I'm glad if he stopped it there, and we are
going to have to take a break for our last segment.
But this is the what a narrative And with the
point that I'm trying to get across, sometimes I feel
like when Kevin Young because of the whole distraction. It
is a distraction of how great these players are and
that people worry about what's in their pockets, Like you're
so worried and look and this is no shot any
fan or anybody it is. Talk to me, But why
do you care so much about it? What a girl?
Another girl man's making? Not even growl man, I don't
want to be generally specific. Why do you care about
another adult, grown man, grown adult, a grown woman. Why
do you care? I hear that all the time. That
bugs me. I hate when I get asked that question.
I'll be honest, why do you care? You're not making it?
What do you just want to feel sad about yourself,
like boring, like you know he's making more money to you.
I don't ask that question. I don't want to hear
somebody else and find out what they're making to a
few words like oh man, which I maybe if you know,
my parents would have you know, given me more vegetables,
forced me to eat him. Maybe if I would have
got surgery to give my malegic plates, maybe I could have,
you know, caught a few touchdown passes. This is all
tongue in cheeking away but also being serious. If that's
a distraction for what I'm saying of who Kevin Young is,
I feel like people get blind of Oh it's all business. No,
it's more than that. Kevin Young is a is a
god fearing man like this man gave cookies to the media,
very heartfelt. I'm telling you, it's seeing him interact with people.
Are the Redman's Farm event. It's not just all about basketball,
but people believe that it's not. He's mentioned his wife
and a newborn a couple of times and other things
showing his personality. And it might take a coach to
open up like that. It might take some time, and
it has you know, He's like, oh, it's a grumpy guys.
You know, like seeing Kevin Young's personality come out more,
seeing who he is, seeing the spiritual side. Watch the
cut when BYU wins the only do when they win,
which is great. Watch the cut. Watch it tell you
Kevin Young has led I think two prayers in that
he leads to locker room and prayer, and he loves it.
He loves it. They open up with that God fear man.
I wish I'd had the sound clup ready for this,
and this is bad production on my part. Should have
had ap pulled up the sound. When shaneer Reice first
introduced Kevin Young is a new basketball coach, he said,
we've hired a new basketball coach. First he is a
faithful member of Disciple of Jesus Christ. First thing, he said,
not though you know he's a he's got this resume.
He can go out and get this robust staff and
get these play No, none of that, None of that.
First thing was god fearing man, disciple of Christ. Look
at BYU. You guys think I'm tripping serious. This is
the coach for BYU for the future until he's ready
to leave. This is your Kalanie Sataki of football, of
football for basketball. It's different. Don't give me wrong. People
gonna restle around your wrong. It's different. He is not Kilani.
There are things are different. But Kevin Young in that
same way does it that Kevin Young way? Maybe, But
Kevin Young loves the gospel and cares about it. You
want to know how I know? Okay, I'm at a
devotional for our boys because Richie Saunders is speaking for
the Utah or Mission. This is all off record stuff,
and I'm telling you I'm not gonna go too deep
into it. And we're waiting for Richie because it's for
kids at are priests sixteen and above preparing and I'm
a priest coorn advisor, so I'm never with some of
the boys and their parents right there as a youth leader.
And I see Kevin Young walking the door and I
spot and he makes our contacting me and I see him.
He stands up and dabs up and he's like hey.
He's like, I appreciate you being here. He's like, hey,
how you doing? Was good? How you doing? He brings
his boys meet his boys, and I'll leave it at that.
Saw Richie Saunders speak. He didn't have to be there
on a Sunday night from six d eight. He could
have been with his family. He did hen't have to
be there. He got a new born. He could have
been with his wife, Melissa. No chose to be there
with his boys and brought one of their friends too.
By the way, so when you think that's just about basketball,
want to remind you that it's not. It's more than that.
It's bigger than basketball. So if you ever get blinded,
I think it is when you get blinded by these
stars and talents and this and that, and you know,
donors and all this other stuff. A no, one second,
I'm gonna give you pushback. I'm gonna give you pushback. Indeed,
appreciate that question being asked. Kevin Young appreciates to the
start with the prayer. Hopefully you started with the prayer today.
I know idea. If you've forgotten no prop at all,
guess what you can pray right now. I talk to
my dad all the time with a prayer, open art,
something that goes to the South roots. My dad's not
here anymore. I talk to them often. Pray often is
what you teach on your mission that can be on
your knees, but sometimes it can just be heavily found.
I'm grateful for this day. I'm grateful that Ben has
worked hard and that I have the opportunity to be
here with you on the airwaves today at three sixteen
pm to do this Cougar Basketball pre game Show. Grateful
that I have a good job that supports my family
and the privilege to be at a cover on the full
basketball team. More gratitude, More gratitude, and change your attitude.
For sure. We need to go to break because we
got to get into our last segments. Score predictions, keys
to the game from me and Ap coming up next.
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Bay to take on Utah.
Speaker 4: Okay, so my keys to the game, it's gonna come
on the defensive side because Utah Utah is not good
at defense on their end, They're really really not. They're
they're an offensive based team. So I think BA is
gonna be able to get whatever they want offensively, to
be honest, tonight. Defensively, I think the keys is going
to be for Canard Davis to take Terrence Brown or
Domic Henry. Just choose one of the two take them
out of the game. And I want Boop taking Keanu
Dawes out.
Speaker 3: Of the game.
Speaker 2: Ooh boop.
Speaker 4: Okay, those are my two guys that I think are
gonna allow BYU to get stops on the defensive end
and get out and build a lead. I think BYU
will cover tonight, and I think I think still Utah
is still gonna score. I think they're still gonna get
like a decent amount of points. But I think by
is gonna be able to do like I said, basically
anything they want offensively. My score prediction is gonna be
ninety six to seventy five.
Speaker 2: Okay, ninety six to seventy five. Ab taking ninety six
to seventy five, what's the score prediction? Eighty TEXTA bens
So you can put that out there, so you can
get some roll ARMI braand gear. Ninety six to seventy five.
That is what he's taken. Anytime you hold the team
under to eighty points, that is a good victory. I
do believe BYU gets into the nineties. I do believe
it will happen today. Mine is a little bit different.
I'm gonna go twenty twenty five point victory. I think
BYU keeps them to seventy. I think they shut them
down a little bit more. I do think they'll get
to the seventy mark, but I'm gonna go ninety five
to seventy. Ninety five to seventy I think gets a
twenty five point win. I think they'll extended wood free
throws at the end down to stretch with their evering.
But I think BOI gets a twenty five point victory.
They improved to seventeen and two. Overall, they improve in
conference as well. It's tough to win in the Big twelve.
That's just the way it goes. But this BA basketball
team is no joke. They got a lot of good players.
They improved the five and winning Big twelve. As I mentioned,
I gave you guys all the numbers in the first segment.
If you miss it, download on the podcast. I think
AJ does go for the plus thirty. Now how much
he goes for it, I don't know, but I think
he will have a thirty point performance. His shoulder the
narrative of all they turned off his water. That's what
I've heard. I've seen. Oh first time I've seen AJ
shut down. People don't want to take the factor that
he could have been sick and in practice two days.
Guess what he's practiced the whole week. He looked healthy.
The Coaches Show the other day we heard from some
sound from Kevin Young. In the last segment, I think
you're gonna see AJ Demonster remind everybody why he should
be the number one overall pick in the twenty twenty
six in be a draft, guys that will do it.
From us, We've enjoyed our time here on the airwaves today.
Grateful to be back here. We'll be back. We won't
be back on Monday. Need to remind everybody. Unfortunately we will
not have a pre game show on There's some other
things that are going on the network, so I know
it will be another long week. I apologize. I'm sorry.
Maybe I can figure out how we can do maybe
just a recap show throughout the week to maybe highlight
how the program is doing. But by you taking on
Utah tonight and then Monday, number one, Arizona will come
into town. We talked with Jason Sheer Wacotta Authorty. He said,
Arizona is not gonna go and defeed it and you
can pencil in that that will be their first loss
against bo You how gloriou would that be you defeat Utah?
That you going to beat U of A. But we'll
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