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Speaker 3: We got a fantastic show for you, delving into the
massive duve.
Speaker 4: It was huge, It was huge, It was fantastic, a
massive win for the Cougar basketball team. They looked highly energized,
highly revitalized, and cohesive. Okay, they looked fantastic. Great defense
and offensive efficiency was through the roofs roof as well.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna break it all down for you.
Speaker 4: We're gonna talk BOU football, b what you're recruiting, spring
balls around the corner, So get your prep, get you
ready for that.
Speaker 3: But also we gotta.
Speaker 4: Talk about this revamp, remodeled, restructured BAU basketball team here
on your UTI ESPN Radio network. Why don't we fired
up ESPN and the fans starting lineup and I can
introduce you to my co host and the rest of
the star set of cast joining us for this beautiful
Monday edition, a little famil meeting edition of Cougar Sports.
Let's welcome in, first and foremost, our bucket getter himself.
Speaker 3: He was down at the game, got.
Speaker 4: To take it all in and report on it. Let's
welcome in Ronald the three man weaver to the show.
Speaker 3: Was a Ronnie look.
Speaker 5: A lot of basketball left. A lot will be discussed,
but I will say this grateful that AJ was able
to lock up the best player filewa State because I
was tired of narrative of he's only an offensive guy,
he doesn't like to play both sides of the ball,
Like that's not true.
Speaker 2: He does so much. But the national media now take
into account.
Speaker 5: Was forced to respect AJ, and I feel like they
weren't because the DNP camboose that is finding any narrative
because BAU hadn't knocked off for Premier team, but they did,
And now AJ is back in the conversation for Player
of the Year after Saturday.
Speaker 3: I loved it. Then, Yeah, what was most impressive to
you with Aj? Was it the fact that he played?
Speaker 4: He's played like ebsecutive forty minute games, like he's putting
in minutes, He's putting in work, He's on the.
Speaker 3: Court the entire game.
Speaker 4: Was it his defensive efficiency, how how he used his athleticism,
his length to his advantage versus one of the best
shooters in college basketball? Or was it his his offensive output,
Like I just his scored efficiency, his shot making ability,
or his distribution, his distribution, his playmaking ability getting his
teammates involved. How many missed wide open shots did his teammates,
you know.
Speaker 3: Just just fall short of it?
Speaker 4: Seemed like there was probably like six or seven other
wide open potential assists that AJ distributed. He was influego
with his playmaking.
Speaker 3: It was awesome.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna put that out as a poll in
a which element of a JS game versus Iowas were
you most impressed by? Okay, so think about that, search
ponder and playlist. Also welcome in hammertime show Brett always
bringing the hammer, Brett Hammer, how are you?
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what's crazier the fact that.
Speaker 6: USA USA, the fact that Team USA beat Canada in
what's like.
Speaker 3: Oh on our fourth best sport. That's the whole pride
of the Great Whites.
Speaker 6: It isn't even our fourth best sport, like well, one
is probably I don't know if football or basketball. I
could go either way for number one, and then number
three I think we would say is probably baseball, and
then it's it's gotta be hockey as four because we're
not that good at soccer. But you know what, like
now that we beat Canada in one gold, why don't
we just like go.
Speaker 3: Win the World Cup this year so we'll see.
Speaker 6: I don't know what's crazyer the fact that Team USA
beat Canada or the fact that the same day that
the nc Double A Division one men's basketball committee came
out and said, hey, you know what, Iowa stay they're
a one seed. If we started our tournament today and
Bou said, you know what, why don't we go have
our best game of the season against what.
Speaker 3: Would be really your best win of.
Speaker 6: The season, given that the committee said it's a one seed,
be what you beat them.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's better.
Speaker 6: All I know is that I had a fantastic weekend
between both of those.
Speaker 4: No doubt about it. Excited to break it all down
with a hammertime show. Shout out to vic ram on
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our ESPN the fans starting lineup should be a great show.
Speaker 3: To be a grand should be a wonderful one.
Speaker 4: We'll get into k y post game sound and breaking
down the win over Ioway state in the nitty gritty
and more content and sound from aj Debons and be
Highlow Bucketvich. Finally, Bucketvich became a bucket. He had to
take a lot of volume. He took a lot of shots,
but finally I think he did. He hit his first
and last three point shots. I think that's what it was,
front end and back end. He missed a slew of
him in the middle, but he still had his best
game of the season.
Speaker 3: With more volume. With what more.
Speaker 4: Opportunity comes some execution and you got a force feed.
I've said it time and time again. Hilo Boskovic has
to be force fed. If feel you is going to
win basketball games in March, and he's finally being force
fed and he's coming up with some productivity.
Speaker 3: Jonathan Savnard is going to join us at four h five.
Speaker 4: Don't miss that, the Brazilian bomber breaking down the win
and talking Bou basketball. Adam Eaton cost and executive producer
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and Cougar sports, getting his thoughts on the A javansa
Darren Peterson saga.
Speaker 3: It continues, and.
Speaker 4: We have possibly a few conspiracy theories to to uh
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All right, so let's break down this dub over by
or over Iowash State. It was great, it was grand,
it was wonderful obviously by us A.
Speaker 3: Jabotsa was named the.
Speaker 4: Big twelve Player of the Week after this fantastic performance.
And I asked the question, what was most impressive to
you his scoring, his distribution and playmaking, his defense or
what was.
Speaker 3: My other one? Oh, his endurance and longevity is Cardiova.
Speaker 4: He's on the court all forty minutes, which is most
impressive to you? In why Ronald start us off hammertime?
And then I'll bring up the caboose on this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's Stan Durrance. I mean, we're gonna hear from
Kevin Youngs. It's gonna be qualified. But this is why
his teammates been you mentioned earlier. They miss shots openly
all the time. So that's nothing new, right, But to
play against the best team in the country that turns
you over defensively, to play forty minutes, to have twenty
nine points ten or seventeen shooting from the field, ten rebounds,
one shits, oh excuse me, one assist, way of a
triple double. To do that with only two turnovers, that
does not happen. Nope, nope, no, I don't think people
understand basketball with that. Like Darien william Darien Williams and
NC State his usage went up last year and it's
pretty and it went down the number like that happened.
Kevin Young's staff like the way they're able to do that.
And this is why the NBA and the scouts, we
need to talk to them and not fans and even
maybe the national people unless they're really dowt to the
NBA executives and the scouts. Richie Saunders usage went up
last year, the production went up, AG's usage at a
high level. To do that, then that's just remarkable. That
doesn't happen. Not against Iowa State. Remember last year in
the Hilton when they tried to use more people than
the turnovers came. So to me, I think that was
most impressive. Impressive to Durrance play all forty minutes it
to only turn the ball over twice and not just
tim rob two even though he didn't have the best game.
That's phenomenal. You don't normally see that being guys get tired.
So to me, I think the endurance of AJ was
phenomenal on Saturday.
Speaker 4: And it's it's consecutive games now. I mean he's having
to play minutes. Okay, this is and look we're getting
towards the end of the year.
Speaker 3: You gotta win. There's a sense of urgency he's played.
Let me give you the minutes.
Speaker 4: Forty minutes, thirty nine minutes, forty three minutes, forty minutes.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: The last four games BYU has won three out of
the last four games, Baylor, Colorado and then Iowa State.
Speaker 3: They lost to U of A on the road. That's
to me.
Speaker 4: The four games prior AJ was playing thirty five, thirty four,
thirty six, and thirty five. See the difference. That could
just be the difference. And he's getting better, he's trending
in the right direction. So I get what you're saying, right,
I'm not gonna argue with you. I don't know if
there is a wrong answer here. There's no wrong answer.
It's subjectively how you feel about the most important element
of AJ's game.
Speaker 3: What do you got for me? Hammertime show?
Speaker 6: I feel bad because no matter what we say, we're
gonna forget something.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there was so like it is.
Speaker 6: It was an It's unbelievable how complete of a basketball
game that he played, because if you talk about the endurance,
then you know what else you forget? Like you when
you talk about the endurance, it's like, oh yeah, Like
it's impressive that he ran like six miles straight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what else?
Speaker 6: He also did the sprint because if you'll remember, he
had moves. He's crossing dudes up, hitting a step back,
he's shooting well from three, he's dunking, he's crossing over
the whole Iowa State team and then going up and
under to the rim and and oh yeah, on top
of it, Mom Chilovich was pretty quiet that night.
Speaker 3: The best shooter in the country, they called him.
Speaker 6: Multiple times, was a goose egg for a lot of
that game.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you pick just one thing.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with just the offensive production since you
guys eloquated how well he was endurance wise. But the highlights, man,
I mean it was highlight after highlight. At one point,
Sean Farnham said, like he shouldn't be able to do that,
Like the guys that big when he crossed over the
young man whose name I can't remember over there on
the side, like that gave me vintage Kevin Durant crossovers,
because you just don't see a guy who's that big
crossover that well and be able to move the defender
like that. And he doesn't do it all the time
because that's not his game. But the fact that he
did that at all showed me a lot. And then again,
like he shot well from three, he did really well
getting out in transition and getting his points that way
goes for all as a point shy of thirty. Honestly,
my other conspiracy, while we're bringing up conspiracies, I think
there's a conspiracy in the Big twelve officiating office over
there in Texas.
Speaker 3: Hey, we can only give Aj so many free throws,
like we just we.
Speaker 6: Can't send him to the line all the time, otherwise
it would be some Oklahoma City thunder cheating scandal.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 6: But like you just see times where AJ's getting demolished
on his way to the rim and he doesn't get it,
and then someone else drives to the rim gets touched
even less and they give them a foul. But it's like, hey, Aj,
we're basically saying we can only send you to the
line like six times, and we'd already given you three
at this point, so we gotta wait till later and
then gave him to give you more. So he probably
could have had forty if they sent him to the
line as many times as they should have.
Speaker 3: But the point being Aj never does too much.
Speaker 6: He never he doesn't take bad shots like he does
everything he has to for BYU to get a win.
And again, this is a team that the NC DOUBLEA
told you, the committee told.
Speaker 3: You we would put these guys, is a one seed.
Speaker 6: There's still a top ten team that it's it's unreal
to think about that this is BYU's best win of
the season, even given everyone else they played and lost to.
It's not better than beating Arizona, but it is right there.
And honestly, at this point, I think it's hard to
fully give Aj enough credit because no matter what you
talk about, you're taking something for granted that he does.
Speaker 4: Yeah, great thoughts, great comments from both of you guys.
It's hard to argue with with any one of these.
And like I said, there's no wrong answer. I love
the thought of endurance, cardio, your best abilities, your availability, right,
that baseline foundational thing that we've discussed between.
Speaker 3: AJ and D and P.
Speaker 4: The scoring and efficiency, like the form and fashion which
he scores right, the way that he finishes at the rim.
He's really he's really expanded his game to as a
as a shooter, whether you're mid range game where you
cross up and you're on the extended wing and you
hit from twenty after breaking ankles, or you're pulling up
in transition from the three point line, or you give
a ball fake, a shot fake and you put it
on the bounce and then you euro step three times
with those big ass long, skinny legs of yours and
then dunk yam it on someone's forehead, on his I mean,
it's it's really it's fun to watch obviously, and he
fights through contact actually quite well. And he did get
nine attempts for the free throw line. But you're you're
probably right, there could be something there's like, hey, he
I think one of the reasons real quick why Lebron
flops is because he's so freaking big and he didn't
get calls yes growing up because he's bigger and faster
and stronger than everybody else?
Speaker 3: Can you fight through contact?
Speaker 4: Like Shaq was kind of similar in how big and
strong he was, so he wouldn't get as many calls
because he can fight through contact.
Speaker 3: I think Aj, for how spelt he looks.
Speaker 4: He actually takes contact well and because of that he
is not de h derailed from his line. Does that
make sense anyway to your point? I want to make
that my most impressive element. When when we were talking
about Aj coming to BYU, it was all about, well,
Aj is just gonna have the ball in his hands
the entire time, and he's.
Speaker 3: Just gonna score, but he's not gonna distribute.
Speaker 4: He's not a playmaker for anybody. He's not an assist giver.
He's he's a me first guy. He's arrogant, right, everyone
thought he was. He's Red Bull, he's Nike. He's only
looking for the money. He's he's just chasing the millies,
chasing the filthy luker. And what we're seeing is that's
completely erroneous. That is fallacious commentary. That is a fallacy
that has disproven over the last few games.
Speaker 3: Why because Aj.
Speaker 4: Is not always looking to score, he's looking to pass
as much as he's looking to score and the ball
is not getting as sticky at times. Like all of
these lobs to Kaiba that are these are sniper lobs.
These are incredibly well timed passes. He is a distributor
of the basketball. He is a true point forward. To
take that that terminology point forward, you have to be
able to distribute the basketball. I grew up watching Steve
Nash and John Stockton and Ronald's favorite point guard, the
point god, Chris Paul. Right, these guys distribute the ball.
They get others involved. Aj Yes is an elite scorer.
He is efficient, he is he's phenomenal. But what's most
impressive to me is that he had nine assists and
he should should have had fifteen. He should have had
fifteen with how many wide open shots everybody got. So
and then shout out to k why for the scheme
employed versus i Always State's defense. I think that is unheralded,
unsung the way that they attacked the Iowa State defensive
scheme and limited their like chaotic doubles at the top
of the key and extended you know, extended.
Speaker 3: Three point line. It is.
Speaker 4: They are ferocious and tenacious, and that's why one of
the they're one of the best defensive teams in college battles. Anyway,
I'm going with playmaking. That's where I stand in this debate.
Like I said, there's no right or wrong answer, like
you could justify whatever you want. I'm putting it out
as a poll. Right now, you decide what you feel, cougarnation.
But real quick, let's discuss this game, shall we.
Speaker 3: What a great game.
Speaker 4: It was a monumental for this b YU men's basketball team,
in my opinion, because there was doubt everywhere amongst Kugarnation
that this team, that we thought that this team couldn't
figure it out. This is our this is the team.
This is who they are, this is who they've been.
They they can't change. They're a bad first half team.
They get down by in the teams and then they
they can't they they make it respectable, and then they
lose to better teams, deeper teams, better coach teams. We
just got some star town. We paid too much. We're
not getting the ROI. Our expectations haven't been met. And
enters Ky his backs against the rope. He's got five
season ending injuries. He said, this is the time, this
is the place where I actually coach my best ball
and he did.
Speaker 3: It and it was phenomenal. It was at home. Okay,
I'll put a little asterisk it's at home, but mare
it was convincing. Though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, i State fought back as they should have, but
this game felt like b YU was always in control.
Speaker 3: It was glorious. It was marvelous. Who was wonderful.
Speaker 4: Let's get into some of the sound bites from the postgame.
Let's start off with k Y Kevin. You said it
was going to be a dogfight playing BOI. What fight
did your team show against Iowa State?
Speaker 7: Phenomenal? You know, it was a thing.
Speaker 8: It just says a lot about the guys in the
locker room. You know, no one's really bad inan eye.
You know they understand that. You know, we've faced a
lot of adversity, and you know, no one's blinked. Honestly,
they've stayed uh, they've stayed together, and they've kept working.
And you know, even in that Arizona game, and obviously
you know, it's kind of two different season now with
Richie and when we had him, now that we don't,
but even like Houston Arizona, you know, I felt like
our guys took a step forward even though we didn't
win those games, and sometimes that can be a challenge
to just get down if you don't win. I thought,
I think our guys, if anything, you'd actually gotten more confident.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 8: I think our coaches have done a good job of
streamlining things where we've you know, we're learning the group
more and more and what resonates and what does it
and that kind of thing. So in terms of the fight,
you know, it's uh if you have to have the
fight clearly and then and then the belief behind the fight,
I think is where our guys are at right now.
Speaker 3: You gotta have the belief behind the fight. I love
that it's this team.
Speaker 4: Are you seeing the sense of urgency from every single
one of these players right now?
Speaker 3: Are you seeing the sense of urgency? Yeah? Well Canar,
I won't.
Speaker 4: Say from everybody, but well I felt like I saw
from Canard.
Speaker 6: I think that's Oh I'm not talking about Canar, Okay,
there's other people I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: There was someone who didn't play.
Speaker 6: What's interesting is Rob Wright didn't have a great game,
and it's not I don't know that it wasn't that
Rob didn't try but Rob went two for eight on
the game and had six points, which is so weird
because what we're accustomed to is, hey man, aj Rob,
I need you guys to get us like sixty plus
and then we'll see who else gets you guys a
couple buckets to help out. Yep, Rob had six points.
Ben Ron said this to me this morning. He was like,
bet Brett, if I would have told you before the
game Rob scores six points, you would have said, how
many points.
Speaker 3: We losing by? Because there's no way you can win
if Rob only scores six. But to your point, there was.
Speaker 6: A lot of hustle from absolutely everybody who played in
this game, and Rob did other things to get involved
in other ways. The person who, again I feel like
we say it every day and every week, the guy
who needs more minutes on this team because every time
he steps on the floor it looks like he had
He's hasn't played all season and he's playing for the
first time, and he's just got so many so much energy.
Speaker 3: He's ready to run through a brick wall. Is adem boop?
Speaker 6: I mean when that do dude walks out, he's like, oh,
ball's in the air, all right, I know where it's going,
and I'm gonna be there and I'm gonna get it
down for and we're gonna score. Like he he just
looks like he cares more than everybody else, and he
looks like he's having more fun than everybody else. Everyone
did an incredible job. Everybody deserves a ton of credit.
Mahilo deserves credit for playing better than we've seen, gets
the career high, all that, but like energy wise, having
fun wise, nobody is having more fun on this team
than Hadem Boob.
Speaker 3: You know, I love that commentary. When I watch shadem play, I.
Speaker 4: Try to put myself into his shoes, what he's thinking,
why he's doing what he's doing. There's two reasons why
you give phenomenal defensive effort and you give or you give.
Speaker 3: Phenomenal rebounding effort.
Speaker 4: I think it's based off of either Number one, you
were highly competitive and you're like you hate losing more
than you love winning.
Speaker 3: I think that's one component.
Speaker 4: Or number two, you are you are grateful for the
opportunity just to be freaking playing this game. You are
so grateful. And I look at him and I'm like,
he's from Senegal. He went to NBA academy. He had
to grow up playing on dirt basketball courts with broken
down rims, some of them not even ten feet high,
maybe eight feet sometimes I mean nine feet, maybe higher
than that.
Speaker 3: Other times they're dishoveled.
Speaker 4: They're just they're they're they're they're mouth figured. He's grateful
to be in provo balling out for Brigham.
Speaker 3: That's what I see.
Speaker 4: Those two things are are are are without a doubt
in my mind. I see it in the form and fashion,
even in his celebratory nature. He's grateful to have fans
rooting him on because he never.
Speaker 3: Had anything at in Senegal.
Speaker 4: He never had the country in which built him, the
opportunities that built him.
Speaker 3: He's grateful. He's tenaciously competitive.
Speaker 4: And but I think more than anything that dude is
just great, rateful to be here, and he wants to
show his gratitude through his play.
Speaker 6: So AJ led the team and it was tied for
first and rebounds, and we know AJ played forty minutes.
You know who else had ten rebounds and played less
minutes than anybody.
Speaker 3: Else hadem Boop he also.
Speaker 6: Had ten rebounds and he only played seventeen minutes. Because
I'd love to know I got to look up what
his per forty minutes are because I bet you it's
unreal him rebounding the basketball. I mean, it's a gift, right,
And like that's the way people used to talk about
Dennis Rodman, where it was like his favorite thing to
do is rebound the basketball. Like to some guys, that's
just like a byproduct of playing basketball.
Speaker 3: It's like, hey, you gotta go get a rebound.
Speaker 6: When he goes to get a rebound, it looks like
it's his favorite thing in the world to just do.
And I don't know how he knows where to be
because when the ball goes off the rim, it's like
he's playing two K and he sees the little target
on the ground of where the basketball is and he
goes there.
Speaker 3: I don't know how he does it, but it's a
gift for that man.
Speaker 4: Kevin evaluate ajh defense against Milan Malovivich' is unbelievable.
Speaker 8: I mean, when aj can do whatever he wants on
a basketball court, whatever he puts his mind to, he
can do.
Speaker 7: And you know that's their leading scorer. You know he
held them to one to five. I mean, let's just
put it into perspective.
Speaker 8: AJ played forty minutes, didn't come out at twenty nine points,
ten rebounds, nine assists, two turnovers against the team that
turns over everybody more than anyone in the country and
held their best player for one to five. The guy's
in absolute stud and you know, I think he's showing
people night in the night.
Speaker 7: Out how reliable he is.
Speaker 8: And what I liked about tonight was, you know, he
did it on both ends of the floor, and something
I've challenged him with from the second I met the
young man, so really really proud of his complete game.
Speaker 7: I thought it was his most complete game of the season.
Speaker 4: Boom baby, most complete game of the season. And everyone's
take notice, all of the pundits, all the analysts are
taking notice, and uh, you know, just real quick, our
conspiracy theories about d NP, so that everybody knows DNP
is getting.
Speaker 3: He's getting.
Speaker 4: He's getting ranked over the Cols right now for not
playing for load managing, and everyone's wondering what's going on.
And AJ the way that he's playing, he's elevating his
stock and now everyone's jumping on the AJ train saying
he's the number one overall.
Speaker 3: He's a dog.
Speaker 4: He's uh he's got more, he's got a higher ceiling,
he's got more upside. He can build a championship squad,
a roster around him because he's a leader.
Speaker 3: All those things right.
Speaker 4: And so Darren is UH has his pr campaign trying
to fight it. He's inviting national media members. I think
he's got his individual. UH development coach tweeted something out.
Oh he's the hardest worker and there's only one reason why.
Like you're seeing these tweets and like we know a
syop when we see it. We've we've experienced in a
siops over the last six years to know what a
siop feels like. You're not gonna fool us on this one,
d NP not gonna full us.
Speaker 3: We know what you're doing.
Speaker 4: Meron metcap putting it out this kind of this fluff
piece there.
Speaker 3: And anyway, Uh, I do think by the way, d
n P is gonna DP deep.
Speaker 4: He's gonna play in March madness and he's gonna do
some nice things in the in March madness. I think
he's going to ball out when the brights are lightest
and UH are are brightest and lightest, and so it's
going to continue. This is a good thing for college
basketball leading up to March Madness, having aj versus Darren
during March Madness. If they meet again, which I hope
they don't, I hope it's like a very end you know,
kind of like uh, you know, we're talking sweet sixteen elite,
a national championship type of deal.
Speaker 3: That's when you want to see it. Uh.
Speaker 4: If if it plays out the form fashion, which we
would like it to at any rate, I do think
dp's gonna be really good down this stretch, and we'll
have to continue to have this conversation about who's the
best overall pick in next year's NBA draft, Roddie your thoughts.
Speaker 2: Look, Look, Bred got his degree in journalism.
Speaker 5: I did, and I'm kind of disappointed in some of
these these journalists. Look, we're gonna have Aaron torres On
later to ask him, but he p said something that
was very very well I think constructed, and I'm gonna
reiterate it, you know, paraphrase it. There's another player in
the ACC that's a projected first round pick, Brown Junior,
mckail Brown Jr.
Speaker 3: That was hurt.
Speaker 2: People thought the same thing, you know, right with speculation.
Speaker 5: Because our job in the media, if you don't say
anything to speculate, right, what is this? Why this is happening?
We're allowed to ask that like that because you've put
out that narrative. It's not our fault, like you're the
one not playing Darren's camp.
Speaker 7: Ben.
Speaker 5: All they've had to do, like mckail brown Jr. Is
put out a statement, but they've refused to They've decided
to bring in Myran Metcalf and go fluff and you
know you've decided to go his trainer, his dad wants
to go cryptic messages.
Speaker 2: Is this is very simple.
Speaker 5: To me because what it looks like to me is
all you have to do is say, hey, he's not
this is what it is per evaluation, YadA gotta goada.
So if you're not doing now, what that tells me
is then he's not hurt. And you're having everybody.
Speaker 2: Show these clips of look at what he did in
high school and look at that.
Speaker 5: Like I don't want to hear that, Like if he's
really hurt, then let him speak and say it. And
players need to understand this. Now, with the platform that
they have, you're entitled to not say anything you want.
Then we're awesome titled to keep speculating this. We thought
the same thing in the media about Michael Brown Junior.
He put it out, it went away, It dies down
after you do that same thing. I'm gonna go BYU
status for you, Delaney Gibb. When coach Whiten got fired,
is she gonna go into.
Speaker 3: The portal this?
Speaker 5: You know what by you did a good job. They
put it in front of Sports Nation. Then two days
after and it was all gone away with the player.
You have the power to put it away, but you
decide to go a different direction with it, Like you
control the narrative, but you don't want to control the
right narrative. So that's where I look at Darren and
this campus whoever's in his ear. You could easily make
this go away, but you chosen not to. And I'm
not gonna feel sorry for you.
Speaker 6: Here's what's weird to me is that this isn't new,
Like we started talking about this really seriously like a
month ago, where we were like, hey, Darren's not playing
in games. Is it just because he has a chronic
injury or what's going on. Here's what's weird to me though,
and that's what this started this weekend, is you now
have journalists who come out of the woodworks and they're like, well,
it's not fair for us to speculate.
Speaker 3: It's not fair for us to do that to the
kid when we don't know what's going on.
Speaker 6: Sure, yeah, you know why we don't know what's going
on because they're not telling us. And it's not that
they haven't had the opportunity to, as Ron alluded to.
And it's not as though we're living thirty because that's
the thing that I was like, no, shut up and dribble.
Everyone has a platform now, everyone can speak. Darren could
tweet it out if he wanted to. I don't know
what the issue is. I do think there probably is
some legitimacy to the injury, but I also think this
is a guy who wants to get to the NBA
and I get that, and I don't have an issue
with that.
Speaker 7: Ye.
Speaker 6: What I think is happening is I think somebody in
this camp, whether it's at Kansas, whether it's Darren Peterson's agent,
they're reaching out to certain media members. And I don't
want to call guys out because I don't want to
pretend like there's people who don't have integrity, but there's
some certain high level guys, guys we would love to
have on this program, who all of a sudden are
now saying it's just not fair for us to do
it to this kid.
Speaker 3: You know what's not fair the fact that he's not
playing and not telling us why. I mean, there's a
lot of guys that have gone off on them.
Speaker 7: Steve n A.
Speaker 6: Smith have gone on and some of the j Billison
was out there today saying, well, it's not fair for
us dication. He's not fair for us to say that
the reason he's not playing is because there's something else
going on.
Speaker 3: Why is that not fair for us to say that? Look,
I think it was interesting.
Speaker 4: Carmelo Anthony chimed in on the whole d MP situation,
and he's like, look and any other in a different era,
he'd be a one and done. He alluded to the
fact that Darren does not even want to be playing
college basketball. The difference between Darren and AJ is AJ
is actually embracing the collegiate experience.
Speaker 3: What has he said?
Speaker 4: My favorite class is the Book of Mormon class. I
like being I like paving my own path. Why did
I go to BYU rather than a blue blood I
went to b YU because I wanted a different experience.
I wanted to create a legacy. I wanted to be legendary.
I wanted to do something. I wanted to walk down
a path that's different than other people have walked down.
Speaker 3: Remember what he said with Steven A. Smith.
Speaker 4: He's like, wait, you're not gonna watch Why can't I
play Duke at b YU? Why can't I play?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: It's all just being different in paving his own path.
And what's interesting is I felt like in many ways,
maybe not during the collegiate experience. You know, MJ the
goat in my opinion. You know, he went to collegiate route.
Obviously he was at UNC, which is fine, but he
went a unique route by going with Nike, right, like
trying to pave a different path than others before him.
Speaker 3: At that time, Converse was massive, the whole movie about it. Yeah,
I mean it was.
Speaker 4: Just massive, and it's like everyone was he wanted a
conference and luckily his mom.
Speaker 3: Was there, and guess what, Luckily Ace was there.
Speaker 4: In the ages, you're saying, hey, let's go do something different,
and we may it may pay some mask of dividends
for AJ right now. I think it is because Darren
doesn't even want to be in college because of whatever reason.
Speaker 3: I don't know why.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's his camp, I don't know,
if it's him, whoever.
Speaker 3: Is influencing him.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's really it's a really bad look he
he is surrounding himself with with consultants. And I'll give
a little bit of grace. Carmelo bring up, brings up
a good point. They should just let these guys go
to the NBA.
Speaker 3: They should. They should just let him go to the NBA.
If they're good enough, let him go to the NBA.
Speaker 6: Here's where I take issue with the injury argument from
Darren Peterson saying, oh, well, he really is injured and
they don't want to release it. Okay, first of all,
if you go out and you tell us, because I know,
universities have this weird thing where like if they I mean,
it's like it's like Curson over the radio if they
release what a guy's injury is. And well, in this case,
I think it would help because you'd have a lot
of scouts yep, who were like, because again, these scouts
are gonna figure it out when he goes to do
medical in a few weeks anyway. But the point that
really keeps coming to my mind when it comes to
Darren Peterson and the potential for injury.
Speaker 3: You guys remember Paalo ban Carroll.
Speaker 6: Yeah, remember when Palol Mncarroll was in college and they're like, okay, hey,
by the way, Palo has this really weird condition where
like he loses seven pounds a game because he just
has a weird condition and like a heavy sweater, right,
and he just it's a struggle for him. He's working
through it. But they were upfront about us, how's Palo
Bancaro doing. He busts out of the league, I don't
think so, he's killing it in the NBA. So I
don't buy the argument that it's like, well, it's a
really serious thing and we're afraid that if we tell
everyone that then he'll be looked at differently. Well, first
of all, he's gonna get viewed by NBA docks here
in a couple months anyway. And second of all, you
have a recent precedent for a guy who was open
and honest about his injury and nothing bad happened to him.
Speaker 3: So when then you again, and I'm.
Speaker 6: Inferring this, but randomly, all of a sudden this weekend,
now guys are setting well and not even that Bill self.
I don't know if you guys saw this, but Bill
self kind of broke a little bit last week when
he was like, hey, I thought Darren was good to go,
and then he subbed out of the game.
Speaker 3: That's what he said in.
Speaker 6: The game last I thought he was in on it
until that moment. That's well, I think he is in
on it. I think he's been doing the pr I
think he broke. What he said was we've had this
happen more than a couple times. I didn't anticipate that
at all.
Speaker 3: Tonight.
Speaker 6: I thought he was good to go. We only got
eighteen minutes out of him. That's disgusting. He could have
had a big night and then you had counsel a
couple of days later reference quote unquote odd energy in
the locker room. So like, there's clearly something happening. And
if it was just injuries, I don't think that either
one of the players or the coaches would have an
issue with it. But by not saying what's going on, whatever,
the real issue is, just come on, say man, hey,
college is just not my favorite thing in the world. Man,
I just want to go to the league. But when
you don't say anything, then it makes everybody guess. And
how about this, If I have to guess the guy
who has problems that I don't know about or the
guy who's absolutely killing it and played forty minutes a night,
I'm gonna take aj to bonds.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and even if you wanted to, you know, like
I said, I would have a lot of respect to it, Like, look,
we have a great team, and yeah, we're load managing.
I'm gonna tear this NC double A tournament up. I
am big shot Bob of college basketball. I'm taken over
the NCUBLEA tournament. Just wait, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
It's gonna be a show. It's gonna be a movie.
If you give me that, I'm like, all right, hallelujah.
The biggest tournament in the world by many standards, it's
gonna be driven by this conversation of DMP and he's
gonna come out and play a whole lot of minutes.
Speaker 3: So give me that.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm I'm down with it, I really am. But
the problem is he doesn't really have a good pr
PR team. He just doesn't let's go to let's go
to break. Great great segment there, huge win for BUYU.
Get you back on the right track. Now, let's hope
they continue to finish strong. Is this sustainable for aj
to play forty minutes a game? Is it sustainable? I
mean he's showing for like what four consecutive games, he's
playing forty minutes. Is it sustainable? To be determined because
he says if they need me to play forty minutes,
I'm gonna play forty minutes. We'll get to that sound
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Speaker 4: There's BYU AJ versus Darren Peterson, NBA Draft slot conversation
and DNP his situations is a bit tricky. Ronald thinks
that DNP is not even injured. He's never been injured.
He just likes to load manage for fun, for funsies.
I believe he has always had the plan to ball
out in March when it mattered most, when his payday
will be coming. Let's be honest, Kansas is a really
good basketball team without Darren Peterson, right? Can we all
agree on that? Are they a really good basketball team?
Are they a top twenty basketball team without Darren Peterson?
Speaker 3: I think they are.
Speaker 4: I think they're a top twenty five at worst team
without Darren Peterson. With Darren Peterson, that team Verrewell could
go to an Elite eight Final four, even a national
championship game and we'll see how please. I think he's
gonna play his best ball here in the final month
of college basketball, mark my words. And it will create buzz,
it will create propaganda, it will create debate, and you're
gonna see flip floppers. You're gonna see people that said
I'm all in on AJS number one flip flopped back
to Darren Peterson as the number one overall pick because
he is still the best scorer in college basketball per
minute played, just like Hadeem is one of the best rebounds.
You were pulling up a stat at that he by
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hadem Boom one of the best rebounders per minute played.
Speaker 3: What is he at right now?
Speaker 6: He's he has so again, I told you he had
ten rebounds and played seventeen minutes. If he was averaging
per forty minutes, he has thirteen rebounds. Unreal, how many
thirteen rebounds per forty minutes?
Speaker 7: That's crazy crazy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 4: Uh, phenomenal rebounder, Darren Peterson. Did you pull up Darren
Peterson's points per minute play?
Speaker 3: I didn't, but I won't pull that up.
Speaker 4: See, I bet you he's probably number one in college basketball.
I mean, Boozer maybe up there too. I know AJ's
up there, but permitted played, I think Darren's probably the
best in college basketball. And that's one of the reasons
why he'll still he'll still be number one on many boards.
But let's get back to the sound and get into
more questions running this bo U men's basketball team. Get
get getting back to k Why Kevin Young? Postgame? What
a win over I will stay. You could feel the juice,
the energy coming out of K. Why's answer is Kevin?
How impactful was that he's performance against the Cyclones?
Speaker 3: I mean had he is a warrior.
Speaker 8: Man, and he's got a knack for rebounder. He's an
unbelievable rebounder. He just knows, has a nose for the ball.
He's a he's a highly highly competitive young man. And
you know, sometimes you can't put a stat on energy
and how it permeates the group.
Speaker 7: You know, that's why everybody was losing their mind in
that moment.
Speaker 8: It led to the dunk I believe, and so you know,
when when having to re kind of like you know,
refined your group, When when something like that happens to Richie.
Now like I'm a Silver Linings guy. Okay, now we're bigger,
we're a little bit more athletic. We got we have
been a little bit uh you know, more length, which
really does a lot on the on the defensive end, right,
And so he's been a guy that's been able to
come in and give us some some some huge minutes.
Speaker 4: Everyone's a big fan Hadeem. How impactful was Sudim's performance?
Do you think, guys, uh, is this are people feeding
off him or teammates feeding off of him defensively and
on the rebounding end and then thus maybe transitioning that
energy to the offensive end.
Speaker 6: You thing, I wonder if Hadem is one of those
where like you're sitting there and Hadeem makes you want
to play.
Speaker 3: Better, because I think we agree if BYU.
Speaker 6: Loses this Iowa State game, I think morally, mentally, emotionally, like.
Speaker 3: I think the season's over.
Speaker 6: Had you lost that many in a row and then
you lose that one at home? Yeah, I mean it
even at the end of the game right before Arizona
State or Iowa State, they looked like they were pretty depleted,
even though again they came up close. But it Fatif
and it just looked like emotionally you didn't know how
much they were in it. I think when you see
Hadem play and you're in a fifty to fifty spot
of like should I give.
Speaker 3: That extra gear or should I just coast?
Speaker 6: You see Hadem and you go, man, if a Deem
can give it, I want to be right there with
him because he just makes playing the game look so fun.
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: Why what works so well with me Hilo and Knark's performances.
Speaker 8: I had to be said about opportunity, you know, and confidence, right,
and you know, those of the guys understand that you know,
with Richie out now that they're gonna their numbers are
gonna get called more. I think there's a little bit
of mental like I don't want to say Clairey, but
just a deep breath, lay, okay, Like I don't have
to press as.
Speaker 7: Much because I know the ball is gonna come to
me more.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 8: With my Hi Low, I think he understands he's going
to play more minutes, and so it's I think it's
a little bit easier to get into a rhythm when
you kind of have that mindset. But at the same time,
you know they they get all the credit because they've
stayed ready and they've they've been able to deliver.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my high low hit is first, and I think
his last three points out he was two of eight,
five rebounds.
Speaker 3: He's got to reduce the turnovers.
Speaker 4: He's still a little bit sloppy with you know, how
he distributes the basketball and how he handles the basketball.
Speaker 3: Can't turn the ball over, can't get tight up.
Speaker 4: You're too big, you're too strong. You can't get you know,
get get tied up. He's easily yet four fouls. He's
gonna get there. We need him to step up. Obviously,
you need Cannar Davis Junior also step up. He was
three of eight from the three point line and six
to thirteen from the field in thirty six minutes of play.
So you need good, good performances. You don't need great
performances from them in order to win. You need good performances,
consistent performances from them in order to.
Speaker 3: Win these basketball games.
Speaker 4: I think, well, you most impress collectively from the team
from a team standpoint, with their offense or their defense.
Speaker 3: Guys, defense is the reason they won this right game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because again you look at seventy nine points in
the last few games that they've played was not good
enough to win the game. But one of the things
that we said about this team after rich You went
down was, Hey, it's a big if, but if you
could find a way to play better defense, you actually
don't need all of these guys to go for twenty points.
You could just have Rob and AJ play the right way,
play defense and win the basketball game.
Speaker 3: And again, Rob didn't even play score that well in
this game.
Speaker 6: But because you played such great defense, so much more
improved from pretty much any other game you played this year,
That's why you won this game.
Speaker 4: I think both your two point and three point shots
defensively were way more effectively contest in this game. They
had their they and and when they had open looks,
it seemed like the contested shots maybe changed the mechanics
of their uncontested shots, you know what I mean. There
was a little bit of an effect there where they
they they just were off a little bit. They couldn't
get into a group, couldn't get into a rhythm at
the Merritt Center. So because they were thirty three, it's
not like they shot horrifically. They were forty three percent
from the field, thirty three percent from the three point line,
and seventy nine percent. They got nineteen attempts from the
charity stripe uh and and I guess those nineteen attepts
probably kept them in the game a little bit more
than they should have with so many miss two's, and
but not not a poor shooting night at thirty three
percent from the three point line. Let's get back to
the sound k Y Kevin Young, what were your emotions
after taking down the number sixteen. I was stayed you
pointed to some of the crowd and had a moment
with the rock after the game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, it's an emotional game. It is, you know.
Speaker 8: I try to stay even kill the best I can.
Speaker 7: But I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 8: It's been a long couple of weeks, you know, mentally
and trying to keep the boy in the boat and
trying to keep everybody focused on the task at hand.
I was pointing my son, actually, you know, I told
him before the game we were gonna get it, you know,
so I told you you know, it was fired up.
Speaker 7: But but man that I have to say that the
rock is UH is special.
Speaker 8: It really is, Like I mean, it's that was the
loudest I personally ever heard this this building.
Speaker 7: It was unbelievable. You know, they do so much for
our guys.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 7: The commissioner, your Mark was here.
Speaker 8: I believe it was his first time in the building,
and I said, buckle up, buddy, and get ready.
Speaker 7: And they delivered in a major way. So you know,
I know I'm the headed coach here. But at the
end of the day, and I'm a fan of basketball.
Speaker 8: I love basketball, and I love the passion that that
surrounds it.
Speaker 7: And I don't know if you find a more.
Speaker 8: Passionate fan base than b YU and they helped carry
us to a huge win.
Speaker 3: Ok. Why hey? Was that that was Hamberton?
Speaker 4: Was that the best question asked this entire press conference?
Speaker 3: Without a doubt? Who asked that question? Ronnie?
Speaker 2: Okay, you guys, go the gas me up, ibably appreciate you.
Speaker 3: That was a good question, my friend.
Speaker 5: Well, here's the thing, the reason why I asked, just
to let the fans know. You gotta pay attention to
the details. And I tell people this. You want to
if you want an answer, ask it, but you gotta
pay attention. I saw Kevin point up to the crowd,
you know, And I said, like, who's he pointing to me?
Then the students, by the way, been are trying to
storm the court and Kevin's telling him to come down, yea,
let us do it, and you got security and everybody
pushing him back up.
Speaker 2: I was like, what is going okay, I need to
ask that.
Speaker 5: And Kevin did the same thing last year where he
said he blacked out when Canon had cannon Catchers had
the A one layup. He like fires himself up, goes down,
dabs up a fan. I'm like, I've never seen that
before from a coach in a very long time, So
I think these are And he's pointing to his son,
you know, he's fired up, telling him, hey, we were
gonna get it, and he just said it. And the
information director not gonna say his name, but was nodding
his head when Kevin was giving his reply. And I
think you can say that this team has maybe have
a relief of they have finally a breadth of fresh air.
Been they were one in six against ap top sixteen
teams there now two and sixty. They couldn't get the
monkey off their back. That was a narrative evolved. They
can't win the big games. They can't hope they got
this great player, but he's supposed to be this great
coach and they finally did that. So I'm great buy
his thing. I'm grateful that we have Kevin Young beIN.
You know why he gives honest answers. I don't know
if any of the coach would have been that honest
about the emotions. And I'm and I appreciate him saying that.
Speaker 4: I think you could tell individually that Kaby took a
lot of pride in this game, and there's a lot
of motion invested. So I think that's why it was
a very good question because you could sense it, you
could see it.
Speaker 3: It was tangible.
Speaker 4: There was a ton of competitive fire bursting out of
him over the last four games, and he's like, I'm
going to I'm going to who's manifesting. He's like, this
is when I coached my best games, this is when
I coached my best ball, and he went hands on,
He's done a really good job.
Speaker 3: And honestly, we're gonna get to a couple of these.
Speaker 4: Last sound bites where he discusses how many more play
calls he got involved in. He was calm place, he
was way more involved schematic Lee in every.
Speaker 3: Single set, every single set.
Speaker 4: So let's get to number six real quick, coach, what
led to the thirteen to zero run at the end
of the first half.
Speaker 3: Stops?
Speaker 7: That's really it.
Speaker 8: You know, we our defense has been a little up
and down, you know, so I thought our defense allowed
us to get out and transition play a little. I mean,
their their half court defense as good as it gets
in the country, right, So we wanted to We want
to open the game up as best as we could,
and it's hard to do that if you're not getting
stops and rebounds.
Speaker 3: Got to get them stops.
Speaker 4: Kevin, was there an emphasis on getting downhill and attacking
the paint.
Speaker 7: I thought we were able to.
Speaker 8: You know, they make it really hard for you to
turn the corner and pick and roll because they're blitz
and everything. So thought, I thought we did a decent
job of bringing the right guys up in there so
we could turn the corner. You know, our Aj and
Rob did a good job of just manipulating their coverages
and stuff like that. But you know, AJ's ability to
cover so much ground I think was beneficial. And then
you know Rob was able to break the breakthrough that
coverage as well.
Speaker 7: Fine, guys, So you.
Speaker 8: Know one thing that I think deserves mentioning with with
Rob and AJAM mean again, they both played forty minutes
each and against the team who has the highest turnover
percentage defensively in the country, and they had thirteen assists
and three turnovers.
Speaker 7: I mean, that's that's why that and I mean that
in the rebound is why we.
Speaker 3: Won the game. Bottom line.
Speaker 4: One of the things I want to point out to
BA fans and I got. I got like some some
negative feedback when I tweeted out something effective. We have
never had a point guard like Rob right the third
and BAU basketball history. I remember, I got a bunch
of people saying like, yeah, we have, We've had even
better ones.
Speaker 3: I'm like, guys, you got to realize what I'm saying here.
Speaker 4: The blitzcheits those doubles from on the perimeter that Iowa
State was executing. There has never been a point guard
in BYU basketball history, nor a point forward in BOA
basketball is that is able to dribble through that. We've
never had that. That's why we won that. That's why
we're able to get through that because Aj and Rob,
how many times did you see them get pushed almost
to like half court, bending around that to get through
the opposide.
Speaker 3: Of the court.
Speaker 4: Nobody else in bo your basketball history could do that.
I don't care how name somebody. I'm like, maybe Danny, Okay,
I'll take Danny's one of those guys because he was
so athletic and so fast, Yes, But other than that,
like the other guy that maybe possibly because he's a
big body and he's pretty fast and athletic. Maybe Kyle Collinsworth,
the triple double king play in the NBA for a minute,
obviously had the athleticism. But like you have very few
to choose from. Rob Wright is literally like as close
to like a Tim Hardaway basketball player as you can find.
Speaker 3: He's very fleet of food, very fast, aj.
Speaker 4: Covers you heard kay Y say, he covers so much
ground and he's twitchy.
Speaker 3: That's hard to find, you don't.
Speaker 4: You don't get that, No, no, no, no, no no no
no no no.
Speaker 2: And Tyler was just physical getting into the paints.
Speaker 3: No no, no. Tyler was not a handler of the rock.
Speaker 4: He was a catch and shoot player, right hand dominant.
One of the best scores in by basketball history, not
off the bounce though not off that. Tyler was not
an off the bout scorer. He could get to the
free throw line pretty good because he'd get foul and
he's a big body, strong body, great great frame. But
they would run like Steph Curry type of sets. If
you go back and watch his mixtape, he's coming off
like three or.
Speaker 3: Four screens, just running everywhere.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Like no one is like AJ and and and
Rob in that regard. So anyway, I just wanted to
kind of point that out, and I think you heard
it from k Y there, Like it's just how unique
it was to you know, Rob didn't have a great
night offensively. I agree with the hammer, but how many
turnovers did he have? I don't know how many turnovers
did he He did dribble through those doubles a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was big time. That was big time.
Speaker 4: That was huge having those guys as much as they
handled the rock and not turn the ball over and
not get just completely gobbled up by those blitzes.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: Great job by both of them. Kevin, it looked like
you were call more plays against Iowa. Say was that
a byproduct of the opponent?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 8: No, great question and great observation they I mean there,
And I did the same thing against Houston as well,
because what I've noticed now that i'm you know, I'm learning,
I'm still learning on on on the college front, right
and and there's certain teams.
Speaker 3: Like the way they play, in the way Houston.
Speaker 8: Plays, and this blew my mind when I first got
this job, like you could never do that in the NBA.
Speaker 7: Ever, teams would carve it up.
Speaker 8: And so what I've learned is college players can't, right,
and so there's certain things that if you just do
what you normally do, IS's not gonna work. And so
they were very very specific things we were trying to get.
They took their credit, they still made it very difficult
for to get some of that stuff. But that's what
went into that. And I thought our guys for the most.
Speaker 7: Part did it.
Speaker 8: Did it you know, good, not great. There's definitely things
that we could have cleaned up. But that that's that's
why I did it like that.
Speaker 4: Schematically, man, Look, I think there's a fine line as
a coach calling plays, especially in a free flowing Obviously
in football you caught plays right like it's like very
few times. And in football do you just let a
two minute offense just run out and have your quarterback
run everything right. But in basketball there's a nuanced dance
to it. How often do you let guys play basketball
get into their motion offense? Uh, make plays be athletes?
And how often are you calling calling plays right? And
and that's a difficult thing. Ky decided in this game
he was gonna be much more involved, and that's that's
a tough thing to do because there's gonna be much
more accountab accountability on your shoulders in your head, especially
when you go back to the players. If they had
a bad night, an off night and they're not getting
those looks that they thought they would and it's not working,
all of a sudden, you kind of undermine your own
credibility as a coach.
Speaker 3: But right there after that game, you're like.
Speaker 4: Balloer, ball noer, Right, it doesn't always work out that way. Preparation,
that opportunity, and the opportunity was seized by this college
basketball team that Uh, I mean, look great, look fantastic. Lastly,
and Kevin, are there any silver linings from the Iowa
State game?
Speaker 8: I just think they believe right, And there's just so
much Uh, that's so powerful when a group believes in themselves,
you know, you know, I try to pour that.
Speaker 7: Belief into them the best that I can.
Speaker 8: And look, when you have you know, we have we
have toughness, we have we have rebounding.
Speaker 7: You know, we take care of the ball.
Speaker 8: You know, shot making is gonna be probably the thing
that that that ultimately makes or breaks this.
Speaker 7: But then you have dynamic guys like like a J
and Rob.
Speaker 8: So when you have all that stuff and you got
a chance to beat anybody in the country, you know,
and this this team is really good.
Speaker 7: I think they're They're a.
Speaker 8: Final four caliber team along with other teams that we've
been right there with. So I'm excited to see our
guys uh confidence level and how that builds on each other.
You know, I know every year is different, obviously, but
you know, towards the end of last year, you know,
we hit our stride kind of at the right time.
So you know, you're hopeful that you can kind of
do the same thing this year with this group.
Speaker 4: Great stuff from k Y and a great win, no
doubt about it, guys. Any of the final thoughts as
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