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is time for little college basketball talk. Yesterday, off the cuff,
we were talking bou Basketball most Talented Players and it
got into a poll, right We're like, oh, let's create
a poll out of it. We only got four slots,
and I was like, you know, let's put Obviously, you
gotta go with with Danny Ainge, and you gotta go
with you know, in the modern era, the Jimmer Fernetts,
and you go with Sean Bradley who was the second
overall pick in the NBA draft in went ninety three.
Speaker 3: Uh, And we were were.
Speaker 2: We were discussing like, oh, well, you know, should we
put in Chosets or Jimmer in the most Talented All
Time BYU poll, and we only have four slots, so
I'm like, let's just put Jimmer in because the not
a lot of people have seen Chosets and it caused
a bit of a crapstorm with some day fans that
apparently have, uh, you know, a love and appreciation for Chosets,
which I do as well. One of the most unique
players to ever come through BYU and had probably the best,
uh one of the best, uh I would say careers. Professionally,
he just played overseas, so not as many people got
to watch him, but I wanted to delve into it
with a former BYU.
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the hotline. Welcome in the Brazilian bomber, former BYU Great.
We got Jonathan Tabinardi. He talks to BYU basketball and
I JT how thatck are you?
Speaker 4: I'm good man? Hey, Ron? Can you tell how his
voice is?
Speaker 1: Not like Deli Obama one of my best friends ever?
And you know he'll like hey, and he is over
there just like Hey, we're gonna come in. You know,
just some dude that played at BYU. I guess we
went to school together.
Speaker 3: And what are you telling you about?
Speaker 2: I gave you it a former b YU Great BYU
basketball player, Jonathan Tabinari.
Speaker 3: I gave it to your heart. I gave it to you, good.
Speaker 4: Bet, Ben. I love you of all my heart.
Speaker 1: But how in the world do you leave out one
of the guys that has his jersey retired on the
rafters at BYU more.
Speaker 2: Look look so hard. Let's go baseline here. Okay, what
is talent? What's the definition of talent as you see it?
What's your definition of talent that you.
Speaker 1: Are naturally gifted and able to accomplish something, and you
see it, that is just it's a natural ability.
Speaker 3: Right, So natural inate ability.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I hope I'm explaining myself right, But like
you know, like for instance, you clearly have the ability
and you you clearly have talent to be able to
do this on air thing, right. I mean it's not
like you. I mean you work at it, you work
at your crap, but you just you started doing and
you did it. Our brother, because we're both very close
to him, Jen Georgeansen try to do this for a
living and he wasn't able to do it because it
didn't come to him naturally. And so like, like a
definition of talent is are you able to like do
something naturally and you're just so good at it that
even you know, when you actually start owning your crest,
you actually become something like really really good, right, And
so like are you just naturally able to do something?
And you know, like I don't want to take away
from like out of Jim or or Danny Ainge or
a j right, but like for instance, Sean Sean was
incredibly gifted to be seven foot what is he seven
four seven five? Right, I mean he was you know,
he was blessed to be seven to six, and so
now did he have natural talent syllabilities? Of course he did.
He was able to run. You know, the dunk that
you posted off him in the highlight is really good.
Speaker 4: But nonetheless, like you know.
Speaker 1: Chose had a natural talent with the basketball, you know
of understanding of high IQ and pass. I mean, when
you look at Crezo's entire legacy of basketball, right, because
then to your point, we're going to extend past the
b YU because if you do, then you know, he
truly becomes arguably the greatest BYU player of all time
because he's the only one in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: And so there's a lot to m back here.
Speaker 3: Right, there's no doubt.
Speaker 2: Look I told you, and look I wanted to put
Chosch on there.
Speaker 3: It was actually for me like.
Speaker 2: When you have a limitation afore, and like I said
in my follow up tweet, I probably should have just
kept it open ended. I should have just added the
five guys that I think are the most talented, right
and and included Chosich. The only reason why I didn't
I picked Jimmer was because of the modern era fan
on X and they're gonna probably click on Jimmer, which
I was.
Speaker 3: I was right.
Speaker 2: They're picking Jimmer more than they're picking Ashan Bradley there
in more than they're even picking Danny Ainge. Right, So
it's either a Ja Bons or Jim or why because
of the demographic that's on Twitter?
Speaker 3: Does that make sense? Like you can see it in the.
Speaker 1: Even And here's the thing too about Denny, right, I mean, Denny,
if you really want to stop and think about it,
Denny Age was the high school American in football, in
baseball and basketball. I mean, are you talking about your talent?
You know what I'm saying, like in me, actually be Denny.
Speaker 3: You know, bio mile, there's not a wrong answer in all.
Speaker 2: This is what I'm getting. Yeah, Like it's not meant
to be controversial. It's meant to kind of like it was.
It was off the cuff we were talking about it.
I was literally talking to Kevin Nixon and we we
started talking like talented players. And I was like, dude, like,
you know, it's interesting because Sean Bradley, I think is
one of the more I think he is one of
the more disrespected players in boa basketball teacher because he
was he was a true one and done. He was
he's our only one and done outside of Aja Bonsa.
And he went second overall in the NBA draft in
ninety three, and he would have gone first overall in
ninety one over Larry Johnson had he come out after
that nineteen ninety one season.
Speaker 3: Part of that has to do with Part of that
has to do a lot on his mission.
Speaker 2: He if he would have just decided after that first
year at BYU to go to the NBA, he would
have been the first overall NBA draft pick. When he
got back off his mission, which hurt him physically, was
not wise for him long term. He ended up going
second overall in the NBA draft, and I believe it
was I want to say Chris Weber went before him, okay,
which we all know Chris Weber an all time great
and one of the best coming out of Michigan and
had a long story career.
Speaker 3: In the NBA.
Speaker 2: But like, he's our only one and done besides now
aj Debonza, and so I was like, man, it's kind
of like the the disrespect that Sean Bradley gets is
crazy to me because he's literally one of five guys
I know his his his his BYU basketball career. I
mean they went to a round of thirty two and
he was good, and he was like labeled as like
a freak.
Speaker 3: I mean you watch him run.
Speaker 2: Obviously he can gallop, Obviously he can jump, and he
could actually handle for a seven.
Speaker 3: Foot six guy. I mean he does some freakishly.
Speaker 2: And this is nineteen ninety one, this is almost forty
years ago.
Speaker 3: I mean it was he was kind of an anomaly.
Speaker 2: But he's one of only five players in the NBA
to have twenty plus points, twenty plus rebounds in ten
plus blocks in a playoff game in the NBA. And
and like when I talk talent, I think ceiling, I
think tangibles. I think like these innate natural things that
you know can be developed, but they're more natural, right,
And I'm like, man, Sean.
Speaker 3: Bradley kind of gets discredited.
Speaker 2: So like when you chined to and said specifically that
Chosi should replace Sean, I don't know necessarily I agree
with that. What I would say is the debate here
is does Jimmer from a ten talent standpoint? And it
depends on how you determine what talent is? Is Jimmer
Fredett one of the four most talented players in BOE
basketball history. I think you for me, it was Jimmer
versus Chocich. I actually wanted to put Choseich just so
you know, I erased it have put Jimmer because I
knew b YU fans are gonna get kicked off at
me for not putting Jimmer.
Speaker 3: That's what happened with my poll.
Speaker 2: Just so you know, honest to goodness, one D transparency,
that's what I did.
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 3: JT is still there?
Speaker 4: I am still here?
Speaker 1: Yes, sorry, I guess I drove through a through a
black spot. So I guess you know, to your point, man,
there are no wrong answers here, Yes, none, you know
what I mean. And so there are no wrong answers.
And it's one of those things that it's you know, again,
it probably should be a poll that you could, you
could put in more people, maybe leave it all and ended.
I think recent bias might be something really really true, right,
I mean, you know, people were asking about you know, like, hey,
you know, is this person better than that person?
Speaker 4: Better than that person?
Speaker 1: And so to me, it's one of those things that
there's no wrong there's no right or wrong answers here, right,
I mean, it may be one answer may be statistically
more proven than the other, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: And so yeah, so like I took productivity out of it.
Speaker 2: It wasn't about production because from a professional standpoint, you
can really make an argument that Chosich is the it
had the most professional success as a basketball player because
he was a two time EuroLeague MVP. He's a Hall
of Fame or six time feet but your European selection.
He was an All Star right like he was fit.
He was drafted in the NBA. Okay, he was fifth round,
eighty fifth overall. He's he was one of the true
seven footers that could handle and hit hit, hit perimeter shots,
mid range and get to the rim and finish right
like he And he died way too soon at forty
six years of age, right, just crazy, uh that we
lost him too soon. So like uh, like I said,
I go back to like the talent of the the
natural inate ability. You can't teach six to eleven, you
can't teach seven to six. You can't teach a guy
to be an All American in three sports. And Jimmer
was wasn't like you can make an argument Jim is
the best scorer like in that skill set best score,
I if I was to leave one person out in.
Speaker 3: The top four, I probably, I probably.
Speaker 2: And this is controversial, and Jimmer's getting you know, Jim
or and his crew and and the jimmer Mania people
are gonna get mad at me.
Speaker 3: Don't do it.
Speaker 2: I would actually put I would actually put Sean In
over Jimmer.
Speaker 4: Oh he did.
Speaker 2: I'd put chose over Jimmer as the most talented one
of the top five four most talented players.
Speaker 3: And that's controversial. I don't want to say that, right,
I don't.
Speaker 2: It's there's not a wrong answer here, as we talked about,
but from a talent standpoint, like that's what I would
put it at.
Speaker 4: Well, so I gotta say this, guys.
Speaker 1: You know, Jimmer was very very talented. He was extremely talented,
you know, and and and maybe it's because I'm so
close to the situation, but like Jimer wasn't as good
as he became. Like he worked at it, which to
me is the thing that he deserves the most credit to,
you know what I mean, Like he worked and worked
and worked and worked and worked and developed. Now you
can say the same thing about all of these people
with talent, right, But like you really developed and improved
and improved and worked. And so you know, like when
we hear about Danny Inge and you know, like then
going to the Celtics, I mean, and if you really
want to think of about of bend, like Denny is
arguably one of the like five, you know, top five
top ten white boys ever to play in the NBA.
Speaker 4: And so you know what I mean, like he is
that good, you know, between his championships and his.
Speaker 1: You know, his the things that he brought to the
table to you know, to the Celtics.
Speaker 4: And so it's to your point, it's difficult.
Speaker 1: To come up with one single, you know, single super
bullet of four people will say this to you, Ben,
my personal my personal mount rushmore at by U, which
perhaps is something that you know can be a little
bit more explored. But my my mount rushmore for by
U basketball is Dress Marchosich first and foremost, because he
is the only former BUYU basketball player that is in
the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: That's number one.
Speaker 1: Number two, it's Denny Inge, right and uh and I
think that's self explanatory. Number three is Jimmer and number
four in my personal opinion, my personal opinion is Kyle Pollinsworth,
and I go with Bile Pollinsworth because he truly was well,
he truly is the all time record in NCAA triple doubles.
Speaker 4: And you know, I think a lot.
Speaker 1: Of credit can be given to Tyler Haws for being
the all time leader in scoring at b YU, But
you know, like or in terms of in terms of
just overall.
Speaker 4: Success, I'll probably.
Speaker 1: Say krasimir As one, Danny two, Jim or T three,
and Kyle four.
Speaker 4: That to me is by Malin Rushmore of b YU basketball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2: Like, I think many people are confusing the argument as
like the best player versus the most talented player. That's
where I think this is all subjective, because it's all
about how you how you define talent and how I've
always been brought up with, like the term talent is
like these are like natural innate qualities that you have,
and it's all about the ceiling, you know, the grit
and tenacity and hard work and repetition. That's a part
of like a skill set that you develop. But it's
not necessarily these.
Speaker 3: God given talents that you have.
Speaker 2: And so some people will say, well, you're just talking
about height here, Ben, I'm like, no, like, freaking Sean
Bradley was a freaking giraft that could gallop, dude, he
and he could elevate off one foot.
Speaker 3: He and I can go into it.
Speaker 2: My guy aps text and me telling me I'm an
idiot on this take.
Speaker 3: I'm like, look like, I don't know how you can
argue with with it.
Speaker 2: And he's the second overall pick in the NBA draft. Like,
you don't go second overall unless you have tremendous talent
and upside. And they were willing to take a risk
on Sean Bradley's talent even though he was a little
bit trim and thin. It's felt, but that dude could
he could jump, he could shoot in an era that yeah,
like and prioritize big men over maybe point guards and
maybe skill position guys front court guys, but or sorry,
backcourt guys. But I just think that Bradley's kind of
underrated as it pertains to like talent conversations and like
I'll go back to that that ceiling comment and innate
talent and these measurables and tangibles. He's one of five
players in NBA basketball history with twenty points twenty rebounds
and ten blocks a triple double in a playoff game.
That tells you about the ceiling that Sean Bradley had.
He had injuries in the NBA, he was not as
consistent as you would like him.
Speaker 3: To be, but his ceiling was was crazy.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, if you want to talk about that,
then you know Sean had a better professional career than
Jim or did. And so if you're just looking from
that perspective, you know John, you know Sean would would
be ranked higher than I just think that, you know,
when it's again right then when you start getting a
little bit more into the news and you know the
nuances and the details, are we talking about overall also
after by you career? Are we talking about just a BYU?
Speaker 2: But it's not even production. I don't even care about
like necessary production. It's about you know, the talent that
like I bet you if you you put Danny Ainge
on a live detector test and talked about what is
what was jibber for?
Speaker 3: That's talent?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: What was his talent like compared to his contemporaries. A
lot of people are gonna say he just didn't have
the talent to play in the NBA. He didn't have
big enough hands, he wasn't fast enough, he didn't have
a handle. He was a great score, great shooter, he
couldn't play defense. He had no lateral quickness and staying
in front of anything.
Speaker 1: That's not That's another reason why he couldn't play in
the NBA.
Speaker 3: I know, but that's what some people would say.
Speaker 2: I wonder what Danny would say about that, right, And
that's what I'm getting at, because Danny didn't go after him,
drapped him, didn't, you know? You know, those that were
supposedly advocates for him, you know, I don't know if
they really advocated for him.
Speaker 3: He never got a chance in the NBA.
Speaker 2: And everyone chalks it up to, you know, the the
Sacramento Kings ownership firing their head coach west Fall and
allowing for the interim head coach to take over.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, to me, you're spot on, and so
I think, you.
Speaker 1: Know, it's one of those great conversations.
Speaker 4: I'm actually pulling out to the barbershop right now.
Speaker 1: If if my new barber was like my former barber,
my former barber new basketball he was. He was a
great guy. Fortunately he went to jail and so I
had to find a new barber and true, sorry too,
I will text you and run afterwards, and uh, you know,
but you know it's uh, it's one of those things
that it would be a fantastic chat to have at
a barber shop, but you know, it's uh. It sets
the table really well for tomorrow's spanking of of Ukah.
Speaker 2: Hey, real quick, I want to know. I have no
disrespect for Cho six. I wanted to put Cho six
in and I know it's disrespectful to not put Jimmer
in there.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to be overly controversial with it. It's
my honest to goodness take and I will take the
shame that comes with it. I think Sean Bradley is
underrated as it pertains to the perspective that BWA your
fans have with Sean.
Speaker 3: That's my opinion.
Speaker 5: I'll give you the inside details because i'm the producer.
I get to listen in and I heard you battle
for fifteen minutes with this question before you put it out,
because you were going back and forth about names, like ah,
what should I do? And I'm like, do what you want,
but I was like, you know, whichever way you go
someone's going to have an opinion, so you battle with
about this for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: Trust me, man, I was I heard you.
Speaker 4: I was here.
Speaker 6: I'm like, I'm grateful I don't have to hit cin on.
Speaker 2: It sometimes, you know me my add eighty HD. I'm like, well,
that's a good question, you know. Oh, I'll put it
out there, like, and you don't.
Speaker 3: Really like this.
Speaker 6: I should have given more insight.
Speaker 2: You don't really always think through all the controversy that's
going to stem from it, that your friend is gonna
attack you and.
Speaker 3: Say you don't know ball and you're idiot, you know.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, tell you, I'm just having to try
and to have fun with this, and you gotta attack
my basketball like you. AP's getting after me too, saying no,
you don't know ball, you don't know ball.
Speaker 3: I'm like, look, I think it's an interesting conversation.
Speaker 2: I really do, I think, and obviously it strikes a
chord with a lot of people, So I think it's
a good combo.
Speaker 3: Brother.
Speaker 2: But love and appreciate you. You're my guy. Get a good haircut.
Can't wait to see what this Boe basketball team can
do tomorrow night versus.
Speaker 1: The Utes, Amen, amen, and uh yeah, he's gonna be
a great game. I look forward to seeing you guys there,
and I appreciate you guys having me on the show.
Speaker 3: Guys, I always appreciate JT.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Tabinari, the Brazilian bomber, one of the best to
do it in a BYU uniform. Ap did Clairefay says,
I never said you don't know ball. It's okay, You're right.
I put some words in there. But he says, make
Sean six one. What's his talent?
Speaker 6: Guys, we can't know that. This is where I get mad.
I give that Sean guy.
Speaker 2: Sean Bradley is not I brought this up earlier today.
Is not Zach Edy. Sean Bradley was not Zach Edy,
you know what I mean, Like not a Yao Ming.
Those are those are kind of different players. Sean was
unique in his athleticism. He's way more athletic than Yao
Ming and Zach Edy. Sean Bradley could run.
Speaker 3: Bro he could gallop. Look at that top end speed.
Speaker 2: He's seven foot six and he runs like a freaking
gazelle like and he elevates off one leg. Yao Ming
and Zach Edy could not run like that, nor elevate
in transition and yack it down, yam it down like
that in transition.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry they can't do that. He was unique.
Speaker 2: He there was a reason why, like everyone thought he
was a unicorn and took a risk on him because
of the talent. They saw the upside, They saw the ceiling,
They saw the the the neural muscular uh output, They
saw his coordination. That dude had a mid range. Sean
Bradley had a nice mid range. He had a turnaround.
He wasn't Hakeem Olajahwan, but he could do that little
you know you little juke and jive uh fade away
to the to the you know what I mean, from
to the to.
Speaker 3: The baseline, that fade away shot.
Speaker 2: He had a He had a really well rounded game
for a seven foot six, two and ten pound center
like he really was. Now, did he get banged around
a little bit? Did he have a dislocation in his
kneecap his rookie year? Did he have some back issues?
Did with Dallas one hundred percent? Did the mission hurt
him one hundred percent? He would have been the first
overall pick in the ninety one draft. That tells you
all you need to know. All the gms in the
NBA at that time said he was the most talented
upside player to draft, and in the ninety three draft
he was. He was the number two overall pick after
coming off a mission, and who knows how the mission
impacted him really, so I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's yeah, yeah he did.
Speaker 2: He's saying yah yao yao, Ming was a better basketball
player than Sean. I didn't say that there. He They're
two different side. There's two different styles of players. Sean
Bradley in many ways kind of looked and felt in
college that first year of college and coming out of
high school. When you watch his film, you watch his highlights,
he wasn't a primary ballhander like what like uh.
Speaker 3: Webbin Yama, Right, he wasn't that.
Speaker 2: But like he he's thirty forty years before his time,
before seven footers actually got to handle the ball. Look
at Sean Bradley in transition dribbling the basketball. There wasn't
a seventh footer at that time that could do that.
Maybe I don't know, maybe Wilt the Stilt could and
I just don't have enough film there. Uh, but I
think you guys disrespect Sean. I'll be honest BYU fans,
You guys do not give enough love and respect for
the athleticism, the freakish athleticism, the well rounded game that
he had. He could shoot the j too, He could
hit a three like if he was given the opportunity.
Speaker 3: But people pigeonhole.
Speaker 2: Guys in the nineties and the eighties and the early
two thousands too, being a back to the basket player.
But Sean could do a lot of that. He could
do not at all. But I mean he could do
a lot of great work on the court. Just watch
the tape. Okay, just watch the tape. I'm saying, you
guys have a tremendous amount of disrespect.
Speaker 3: For the talent that was Sean Bradley.
Speaker 2: You're only one and done, so you're saying that all
these other guys are more talented than Sean when he's
literally you're only one and done.
Speaker 3: Do you realize how absurd that is.
Speaker 2: He's the one of five players in NBA history that
has twenty plus points, twenty plus rebounds, and ten plus
block in a game. You're telling me that guy doesn't
deserve to be in the conversation as one of the
most talented players in BYU basketball history, a top four
talent and BO basketball. That seems I'm saying to me,
that's all I'm saying. You guys can call me an imbecile.
I'm an idiot. I don't know ball. I think you
guys are wrong, and I think you guys are doing
a severe injustice to the talent that was Sean Bradley.
Speaker 3: I think you guys need a check tape. He was
a freak. He was a unicorn.
Speaker 5: So what that being that the freak of unicorn that
leads us to the modern day right now, the freak
that we will see tomorrow. Does that mean AJ should
be the number one overall pick because of upside and freakishability?
Speaker 2: And with oh yeah, no, no, no, no no, that's exactly
why if he's Aj debonsa, if he is the first
overall draft thing, it will not be due to productivity
in being an elite, an elite scorer and all these
things that everyone loves Jimmer for. Okay, that's what the
the people are angry with me because they're like, well,
you're not giving Jimmer enough credit for being an elite talent.
Like if Jimmer was an elite talent. He could have
been a one and done, a two and done, but
he wasn't. Jimmer wouldn't.
Speaker 3: There's no day.
Speaker 5: But if he played in this day and age, absolutely
one season like that, i think he's done.
Speaker 3: Absolutely no, no, But like he had to, he became Jimmer.
Speaker 6: He did absolutely.
Speaker 2: By his senior year, he became Jimmer. But he was
not Gimo Dash and his freshman and sophomore year he
was a good player, a good college basketball player.
Speaker 3: There's no doubt.
Speaker 2: But there's no way that Jimmer would have been one
and done or two and done.
Speaker 3: He would never He'd.
Speaker 6: Have been three and done at the earliest most likely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he wouldn't have gone first overall tenth pick
in the NBA draft. And even then he never really
got an opportunity NBA in the NBA after Sacramento.
Speaker 3: It's true, never because why why why why didn't?
Speaker 2: It never was gonna say well, because of X, Y
and Z, either're gonna contrive things, and they just say, well,
you never fit in the locker rooms.
Speaker 3: He's Mormon. There's bigotry. You know.
Speaker 2: They didn't put him in the right role in offensive defensively,
and I'm not trying to hate on.
Speaker 5: Like defensively that anybody can play defense in the NBA.
Speaker 2: But like, obviously no one was willing to give him
a chance. Whereas all these other guys chose could have
played in the NBA for a long time, he chose
to go overseas, right back to his home.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Obviously Sean had a long story career in the NBA,
riddled with injuries.
Speaker 3: But still you saw the ceiling. Danny Ainge, Obviously a J.
Speaker 2: Deabons is obviously gonna be most likely a franchise player,
a Tracy you know, that's what he's supposed to be.
Speaker 3: That's his ceiling.
Speaker 2: So when we're talking talent, my terminology is based off
of ceiling potential. Okay, not due to productivity and individual
skill sets that have been developed over a lifetime. That's
not how I. That's not how I determine. Uh in
a Merriam Webster dictionary.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you kind that's off of upside.
Speaker 2: Yeah and even two four seven if you want to
take it off of what they do. A five star
football player is based off of potential NFL draft status.
Speaker 5: Well, that's because of that the top three pick, because
the lottery five star lottery.
Speaker 6: Look at it. Four and five stars a lottery. It talent.
Speaker 5: Even Yegor four star probably could have been elevated to
a five star. But that just shows he's been the
disparity because Yegor and what top ten.
Speaker 3: You can make an argument.
Speaker 2: Ronnie, you could make an argument that Yegor Deman there
is more talented than Jimmer for that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolute, one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: You can make that absolute with the versatility of triple
double and the shooting.
Speaker 6: Now, absolutely you can make that argument. I hear that
one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: You definitely can make that argument that Yegor was more talented,
you know, than than Jimmer for dead.
Speaker 6: And obviously people a gonna argue me, say, ron you're wrong.
Speaker 5: A body of work and nobody I love Jimmer for that.
That was how I got introduced to by U and
b A Basketball was watching him. So don't people think
being disrespectful. But when you watch Yegor and just the
to me, just the upside that because to me, Ben
is ten percent, that ten percent of impact Yegor is.
This is really gonna sound disrespectful, light years above jim
Or because of the IQ ability when you add the
pass to the fact that when you add that skill set.
But I know there are gonna be some people listening
right now, they're gonna roast me. But you can't make
that argument. Yes, you're correct that Yegor is more talented
than Jim A for that absolutely.
Speaker 3: Well you can. I mean I'm saying you can try
to make that argument.
Speaker 6: You can't try to know it's on the table.
Speaker 5: Well, look right in the NBA, I keep getting people
keep coming in my DMS at me saying why you
keep saying this is wrong? Because all I heard from
BYU fans I'm knocking on the table was he shoots terribly.
All I heard from not NBA draft and list from
other people from local things, looking, oh, he shoots twenty
three percent from the three, And it's like, do you
not understand that the mechanics are there that he can
develop a shot. John Morant was a terrible college three
point shooter. John Morn did not shoot a three point
basket that well in college. What happened when he got
the league way better because of that, because the upside,
you can shoot better in the upside when you have
the mechanics. And now now you see what Yegor is
doing like, man, we're talking about a guy that has
a potential to be a future.
Speaker 6: All Star and a franchise player for the nets.
Speaker 5: Like they like what he's doing now, like him being
back on the starting lineup, and if they ever do
move him to the bench in there they were doing
it's because of matchups, like Yegor is gonna play a
long time in the NBA, been long time.
Speaker 2: Sean Bradley, by the way, you know his his rookie season,
you know, I mean average, what was it? He started
forty nine games, sorry, he played in forty nine games,
started forty five like he every single season, his season
was cut short. I think ninety six ninety seven was
the only only year in which he played like an
entire full season. Maybe it was maybe later on with
the Dallas Mavericks too, But you know, averaging thirteen points
per game, almost a double double, eight point four rebounds,
almost forty five percent from the field.
Speaker 3: I underrated, underrated.
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Speaker 4: The