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at the Tabernardiy on the line JT for three?
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Speaker 2: Hey, man, you just tell me when and win and
I'll be there. You know what I'm saying. You know
I You know that I've never shied away from from
being very open and very vulnerable in social media because
I think that's the way the world needs to be
amen And so you know, I've shared about my struggles
with my weights, and but you know I can tell
you that I'm on the right track. I'm under three
hundred and eighty pounds now for probably you know, only
the second time this year. My goals to be three
seventy five by the end of the week. And so
you know, little by little, but I you know I will.
I will take all the help you can give me.
Then you know me, and you know part of being
christ Like you also have to accept help. And and
I know that I need it. So gosh darn it,
let's set it up and let's do a journey of
of losing weight. I would love to do that, love it.
Speaker 1: It's more than that too. There's there's other things that
they do. So I think you'll be impressed. At least
get the blood work done and we can see kind
of what they think we should do.
Speaker 3: So JG.
Speaker 1: Let's break down this victory. What stood out to you?
Speaker 4: What did you love?
Speaker 1: It's the good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly.
With Jonathan tavan Awi the most utiful bracilient on Cougar Sports.
Speaker 2: Well, let's go with the good, right. I think the
good I would say is Keba Katum. Okay, let's go
with Kepa. The way that he played that sequence band
of the pullback dunk and the hen of the block
and that my guy does a salute. Uh my goodness, gracious,
you know that that was incredible. The reason why I
have him as the.
Speaker 5: Good is because Keba last year nothing more of a
complementary player in terms of a rebounding and blocking and
then making sure that his uh, you know.
Speaker 2: That his teammates are you know, just just helping and
he's more of a role player right now. I'm not
saying that, you know, b Yu is gonna throw the
ball to him and say, hey, go get us a bucket.
But what I am saying is that b Yu will
very very much count on him on having a level
of consistency of Ay, I need to rebound, I need
to block, but I also need to make sure that
I'm scoring, you know, book back guns, I'm being aggressive.
All of these things are part of Keva being able
to get everything done. And so to me, the good
of the game yesterday is gonna go to Keba.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, that's the good of the game. JT.
Speaker 6: Run up the three man weaver here with the people.
What were something that you feel like they need to
work on? Obviously, I feel like people are nitpicking JT.
To me, to be able to have a close battle
like that, to not shoot well from the field, to
miss a couple of free throws. Look, it's the first
game that got it done. You saw aj take over
down the stretch, you saw Rob do that. But there's
still some fans nitpicking from your standpoint, what's something coming
out of this game that they need to work on?
Speaker 4: Because I do agree with some people.
Speaker 6: If you blow a lead like that in the second
half in conference play, you're gonna get beat by fifteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and so I would say that the bad,
you know, from the good, the bad, the ugly, and
the beautiful. I will probably say that the bad is
exactly what you said, is the fact that the lead
was lost. You know, there was about a five minute
span over there that it was Robert Wright, it was Baker,
it was I think uh Kadeem and Mahi Low and
it wasn't Kevi, was somebody else I don't remember now.
And that's when they lost the lead. And and so
I you know a little bit concerning now again, people say, wow,
the bench needs to do this. I don't think it's
on the bench guys, right, I think there are a
few things that need to happen. For instance, I was
a little bit if how can I put it this way,
I didn't understand why Kevin Young took out Baker when
he did because Baker came in and knocked down at
three was doing great, but he pulled him out right
after that, and I'm like, my gosh, you're shore. He's
you know, just knocked down a shooter and a shot
and just let him keep having momentum. Kevin Young didn't
do that, obviously, and so but then Mahilo missed quite
a bit of open shots, you know what I mean,
And to me, Mihilo is gonna be the the the
shooter for this year, maybe even Tyler. I think. Once
Mahilo missed two or three shots, Kevin Young decided to
go with Tyler to see what he could get from him.
Obviously yesterday didn't get a ton. But you know, my concern,
honestly is not the bench because by U has probably
one of the best big three in the country. And
so you know, if the good is keV, the bad,
I will probably say, is the fact that Richie and
AJ and Robert Wright cannot be on the bench at
the same time effort, and you know, through the one
of them cannot be on acord for longer than a
TV timeout. That's probably my bad run.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 6: When I was looking at it, I was looking like,
are all three of them on the benches at all?
That's not that's not doable. Like I think they exposed
a little bit seeing some Dawson Baker or Rob right, Like,
when you're that good offensively and maybe the defense is
one of your weaknesses, not all of them, and shots
aren't falling, I feel like teams can attack that.
Speaker 4: But can we just go back to Kaba?
Speaker 6: He was great defensively, like that was the good But
and we discussed this yesterday on when you because you
do a great job every time. Guys, if you want
to give a plug for JT after every home game,
most likely after he does his space this thing, please
join on his Twitter. It's a great time to join him.
Eric Mika did it yesterday and I had a phenomenal job.
It's a good time to join. But the way Cable
was sealing, they teach that in the pros. That's a
professional thing to do. He did everything. I felt like
that you needed to down the stretch to win the game,
and that's the type of player you need, JT. I
feel like to get to the elite to win a
Final four, and I just got to give And I
posted on my Twitter saluted the cap to Chris Burgess
and that staff and Chris liked the tweet that I
put out too, because the development of this man has
been phenomenal. Like I know, AJ is gonna get the
hype Richie Rob, but Kabacada, a big part of their
success is going to be built around number thirteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I will say this, you know,
if the good was Keba, if the bad was you know,
just the rotation, I'll probably go with the ugly being
Probably the shooting okay, b Yu was atrocious from shooting
yesterday BYU shot thirty nine percent from from from the field,
twenty nine percent from the three point line, sixty six
percent out of the free throw line. I mean, you
and I talked about this yesterday. Ron AJ going two
per seven from the charity stripe.
Speaker 4: That can't happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that man could have had The man could have
had twenty five points on a college debut, and my goodness, gracious,
right now, he had only one. BUYU won the game.
That's totally fine, But I think when you look at
the numbers and the way that you know, buy you
left a lot of points on the floor by missing shots.
There has to be an issue. And you know what,
I'm gonna do a bonus, a bonus ugly as well.
Seventeen offensive rebounds giving up that's about that's about ten
offensive rebounds too much, right, I think that if you
give up you know, five, between five and ten offensive
rebounds already, think that's a lot. Five is the you know,
anything more than five is atrocious. Seventeen offensive rebounds, it
is just it is just not okay, it is just
not It is just not a good a good situation.
And so to me, those are the two uglies you
know that that I saw in the game, and so
those things just cannot happen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree with you, those two things definitely cannot happen.
But again, first win in the books, do exactly what
they need of two to go down in Villanova. And
I think you and I we've talked about it all
off season, seeing what AJ did. They're like BYU and
people been raving and waiting for a player like ag
to take over the ball game. He did that, seeing
him down the strets like, okay, he's going to be
able to close out games. Richie will knock down threes,
He'll come together the chemistry will come along. But the broadcast, Jtam,
I have never heard of BYU broadcast more raved about
go back to the Alamo Bowl football and I'm sortching
topics and still you know, basketball season and football season,
but they would they were raving about prime Colorado. And
this was the first time I've heard of broadcast since
covering BYU and being a student there, or I heard
pretty much all of it, Taylor towards BYU, AJ De
Bonce and Kevin Young.
Speaker 2: Well, and I will say this, you know, if the
good was Keba, the bad was the player rotation, the
ugly was the shooting percentages and defensive rebounds. The beautiful
cannot be anything other than aj de Bonsa. Let's make
sure that Ron, you and I have talked about this extensively.
We have yet to see the hype that this man
is going to bring. And one of my favorite parts
of the broadcast is he's all about by U, right,
and so now are their business motives for him to
being about by U with the collectives and and il
and you know all of the things that the reasons
why he chose by U. And that's totally fine, right,
That's okay. Now, AJ being the big BYU guy and
and becoming one of us right again. There, to me,
the most masterful thing that that Tom Holmo and Brian
Santiago have done is maintaining that high level of of
commitment to the things that matter most with the church
standards and so on. But I think it's very interesting.
Aj is the type of player that by U has
never ever had ever and for AJ to be performing
at the level that he is as a freshman, I mean, Ron,
that was his first collegiate game, right now, I completely
understand that people say, well, but they're now getting paid
in this and then I'm like, that's fine even if
this is a pro league, because let's be realistic, college
basketball now it is a professional league. He still is
the first time that he's playing at that level. Right
and again, Villanova, you're not playing against you know, Booboo
State University, Central College, you know, of of the Woods,
I mean Villanova in the last ten to fifteen years.
You know, you could arguably say that they are what
maybe a blue blood because of how you know, how
consistent they had they had been under J Wright and
such and so Aj is, you know, he is there
is an incredible hype around him, and nonetheless he is
better than advertised, and he keeps getting better and he
keeps delivering, and what an amazing thing it is to
see him play.
Speaker 7: Cougar Nations should be, should be should feel lucky that
we all get to watch him play up and close,
live and as often as we will do by him
being a BYU Cougar.
Speaker 6: Yeah, AJ again, I said nothing against Jimmer, and the
landscape has changed right in college basketball. While we talked
about Jimmer had to play all four years. You know,
it's a different era now. If you do everything in
a year that adds up to it with the hype,
with how much you're paying you one season does equivalate
to that because if you don't do it, then you
get ripped. So I think all of that's fair, that's
on the table, and I think he will. What I
saw yesterday, I'm like, dude, if you scored twenty one
points and they all were missing bunnies, for crying out loud,
but if AJ miss four bunnies, which you mean to
be add that's another eight points.
Speaker 4: So there you go.
Speaker 6: You give him about almost thirty and he missed five
free throws like bro could almost drop forty his first game.
Speaker 2: If you go back and look at it and Ron
something there is something that you alluded as soon as
as soon as we started a conversation, and I want
to touch on that, and I want to be the
one that touches that, you know, just because obviously you
have to try to be as neutral as you can.
And I don't care what people say about me. Here's
the thing. Run the amount of people criticizing Robert right
or saying, hey, he needs to do this, he needs
to do that, the ball needs to move. There were
multiple times on where Robert initiated something fasketball to aj
Org Ritchie and those guys extra pass to the corner
for a wide open Kadeem, a wide open canard, you know,
and it was just a beautiful ball movement right a Baker.
The three point shot that he made, he was wide open.
Defeats that Mahilo. We have a lot of extra passes
as well, and so b Yu will get there right
by you will very much get to where they need
to be. The other thing that I think it's it's
unfair is to say, well, Robert Ride needs to fast
first point guard. Well, then sounds like you're asking Robert
Right to become a different player than he is. Sounds
like you're asking Robert Cope different persons because that's not
his game. Okay. He is a scoring, attacking point guard
and that's okay, right and so and and you talk
about missing bunnies, Rubbert Right missed a whole lot of them. However,
big However, here when he came time to deliver, and
when he came time to execute and get the job done.
At the end of the game, A j and Robert
Wright were doing the snake screen attack where right after
the screen that Keva sat and he was a fantastic
screen Robert would get in front of the defender and
and he would almost guide him right, keep him on
his back. And so, to me, it was a great game.
It was a very great first game. Probably the only
negative things I can say about this game is I
would say Kevin Young rotations. I did not like it,
but I understand what he's coming from, right, I don't.
I don't like it. I didn't like it, but I
definitely understand his motives and understand why he did it.
Shooting was atrocious, and so was offensive rebounding, giving up
so all inough byus want to know coming home to
play a game on Saturday. That should be a very
exciting game and uh, you know, eager to see what
this team is going to do next.
Speaker 4: I agree with you. Let's finish up on a couple
of things.
Speaker 6: As we have Jonathan tavinar are esp and the fan
college basketball analyst. You can also catch JT when he helps
out with bou TV basketball pre half and postgame show.
They take care of all of that down there in
the great building of BYU broadcast. JT, you mentioned a
game on Saturday, holy Cross. I want to turn my
attention to what do you want to see on Saturday
from this team? Obviously holy Cross not the formidable opponent
that Villanova is, but instill the game still the vision
on opponents that you need to pay attention to.
Speaker 4: What do they need to correct?
Speaker 6: What do you what would you like to see maybe
from some of the other guys outside of aj Rob
and Richard, even from them going into this Saturday.
Speaker 8: I would like to see, in all honesty, a few
metrics that I would like to see is less than
five offensive rebounds giving up right, I think that would
be a very that.
Speaker 2: Would be something.
Speaker 8: And then one thing that I would love to continue
to see is BUYU only had four turnovers, which is incredible.
Speaker 2: Right, they took care of the ball. They were very good,
They were very efficient doing that.
Speaker 3: And so I would say that what I would like
to see is improve overall shootings. Right, I would say,
shoot above fifty percent from the field, above forty percent
from three, shoot above seventy you know, seventy five percent
from the free zone line.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, Ron, We're not asking much, right I.
Speaker 3: You know, it's as my father in law says, you know,
these are these are free you know, free shots for
crying out right, And so it's to me it's something
that they have to do.
Speaker 2: Those would be the metrics. Star And obviously to win, you.
Speaker 3: Don't want to have a Boise State situation where you
lose you know to Boo Boo State college, you know,
community college.
Speaker 2: Uh, and you don't want to have that situation.
Speaker 4: And uh.
Speaker 3: And then but the metrics I would say is, you know,
shooting above fifty percent from the field, above forty percent
from three, above seventy five percent from the free throw line,
no more than five offensive rebounds, and you know, keep
turning overs under ten and I think if BUYU does that,
you know, you start seeing the the developing and uh
and you know, the improvement from a team that is
going to be the talk, not the talk to the town, uh,
mister Ron Weaver the third, but the talk of the country.
And aj is an international superstar at this point. We
have to we have to call a spade a spade.
In my gosh, you know, he is an asa spades.
What a phenomenal player, the way he moves Robert right,
you know, we all bet I get a custom that
we're only going to see him in Pro Bowl also
for just one year. And you know, lots of lots
of lots of great things happening for YU basketball right
now and BYU football coming up with a massive game
in Lubbock, and you know, just a great time to
be a Cougar fans.
Speaker 6: Definitely a great time to be a Cougar fans. Saturday
is going to be great for all fans. You got
b YU kicking off at ten am and Mountain eleven
am Central for those that will be in Lubbock. Number
eight b YU football taking on number eight numbers excuse me,
number nine Texas Tech. Number eight BOU Basketball in action
on Saturday. All happened on November eighth. Just realize that too.
Tip off for the Holy Cross game will be at
seven pm Mountain to excuse me, Mountain Standard time. And
now that game is going to be tipped off on
ESPN Plus. You can catch it there. B YU according
to the matchup Predictor, ninety eight point eight favorite to
win this game. According to esp Analytics, I believe what
JT says. If you limited turnovers, you shoot above this amount,
you limit offensive rebounds, definitely bo He's come out not
only with the dub, but a twenty point victory.
Speaker 4: Be a good opportunity to bounce back. JT.
Speaker 6: Before I let you go, what's the best way We
here at ESPN, the fan and the listeners can support you.
Speaker 4: What you're doing, how you do it?
Speaker 3: Hey, today is election day and so a lot of
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Speaker 2: Have your voice being heard.
Speaker 3: You know. Ever since I became an American citizen, voting
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Speaker 2: I went now, I voted.
Speaker 3: I had a couple of options, a couple of different
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Speaker 4: Hey, you heard JT.
Speaker 6: Look at the end of the day, one thing I
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If you want to change something, if you want to
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