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Speaker 3: Let's talk to some BAU basketball with a former BA Great.
Now that's seven foot from Texas, the Modus veticitas. Uh,
he just dominated us. There's only one man on earth
besides my brother in law that could sluslow that man
down and box him out. And we got him on
the line right now, former b YU Great, the bucket
getter himself. We got Mikelly Wesley on the line of Kelly,
how the heck are you, buddy Hey doing amazing?
Speaker 5: Ben hear from you. I'm excited to talk from Cougar Sports.
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, appreciate you hopping on. He's also my insurance agent,
by the way. You know I do my insurance with him.
So if you guys needed some insurance plans evaluated and
bid it on, he'll get you covered, no sandsor butts
about it. Mkelly, watching this game last night, were you
as frustrated as I was watching Modus vetitas venicitis. I mean,
I always forget his name, dominate us on the boards
and dominate us in the paint.
Speaker 5: Definitely. I think the whole cougarnation as a whole were
pretty frustrated. And you know what, watching from the outside
in a couple of things that that kind of left
me scratching my head. Was you know, why didn't we
switch up after you know, after you let a guy
get fifteen and eleven in the first half, he had
as many rebounds to our whole team. You know what
you're thinking yourself, Well, maybe they'll come out and pack
in a zone and let's see if tex Us can
shoot and beat us from the three. You know, let's
let's start funning him, let's let's switch some things up.
And it seemed like no adjustments were made. He just kept,
you know, doing his thing. And you know, the interesting
thing is if you look at at our two centers,
you know, Cada, Cada and Ahmed, they played a combined
thirty three minutes, which is identical to what Volcatatas played,
and you know, the production was no nowhere near. I mean,
they combined our guy combined for four rebounds, he had
sixteen on his own. You know, our guys combined for
five points. He had twenty three and probably could have
had well over thirty if he made his frea thos. So, yeah,
I definitely frustrated, which ud have seen, you know, a
few few more adjustments in trying to disrupt him. But
you know, sometimes that's that's the way you can kind
of get locked in and ride with your system that's
been working.
Speaker 1: Look, this is a very talented team.
Speaker 3: It was it was shorthanded compared to what we had
going into the season. Obviously Richie's out, Dawson Baker's out,
but we didn't lose any big men this season, right,
These were the big men that we that we had
and that we signed on in the middle of the year,
we went to.
Speaker 1: The G League. We gotta go to the G League
to go find a big man.
Speaker 3: Like so obviously they they expected more from Cava, they
expected maybe more from the high Low because he was
more of like a stretch four, maybe stretch five. Mahilo
has been a bit of a disappointment when I'm looking
at the bigs. Hadeem is maybe from an effort standpoint,
love his defense and his rebound, but he's not a
true big. He's he's he's probably more of a three
to four than he is a four man. He has
no offensive skill set besides putbacks, and so like they
felt like they knew what they had with their bigs
and they went into the season without it, and we
we had plenty of opportunity to you of a you
could look at that as you know, lacking some big
man support. That was a that was a loss and
multiple losses Houston Texas Tech with JT.
Speaker 1: Toppin we were we were out match on.
Speaker 3: The low block all season long when we got into
the Big twelve, and you wonder what they saw on
the roster that led them to believe, hey, we got
enough guys going into his season.
Speaker 5: Right, And I think that's gonna be a huge area
of concern for Kevin Younganon's staff and offseason and shoring
up that front line and when I say shoring up,
even finding the front line that they can give you
more than what we've gotten. And don't get me wrong,
you know, Cade has had his moments through the year
where he's you know, his help side is amazing. He's
had some spectacular uh block shots and some monster finishes
at the rim and uh uh. But it seems like
the good teams figure out how to expose, you know,
the lack of side, the lack of depth and the
last lack of skill that we have on those you know,
on those four and five positions. Uh and and it
gets more galarian that you know, the better the team
or the you know, the better the system they have
with with their bigs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, I mean Keba Keba is a freak.
Speaker 3: I mean he's like he's our b y U version
of like Blake Griffin without like necessarily like a front
facing game like but like lobs and and rebounds and
bark backs and shop locking ability.
Speaker 1: He's a freak.
Speaker 3: But you you know, his concussions hurt him as well
as the hand injury.
Speaker 1: We didn't we saw a drop off from Kemba.
Speaker 3: We saw a drop off from Hilo, and we didn't
see anything from be Doo Ahman. Like we really didn't
have anything in the bigs. And so like when you
see lack of development, you see regression from the bigs.
You know, I tend to, I mean I would look
at the player, what have you've been doing the off season?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: And I look at your health, But I'm also looking
at the coaches. I'm like, what what's going on? What
are we working on in practice? And this scheme influenced
that too, because everyone's just sitting there watching aj in
Iso throughout the entire year. The teammates are watching them,
TV viewers are watching them. The fans in the stands
are watching them, and even defenders are just watching Aj
play io ball.
Speaker 5: Right, you know, and that has a big part of it.
We don't have a guy that you can say, hey,
let me throw you the ball down here in the
low post or run this set for you. And it's
a unique situation because you've got a guy like AJ Debamba,
who's generational guy that of course you're going to be there.
So you know, let's give him a little grace and
in that aspect, because you know it's got it's got
to be tough too, you know, to be in the
right spot, and that's that's really all you can do
is be in the right spot and and be ready,
uh and then crash the glass. You know, I was
really hoping we have we would have developed more of
that two man game because everyone loves seeing you know,
Cable coming down the middle and catching a monster oop.
But again, when you when you're against these these these
better quality teams which you're seeing every other night in
the Big twelve, you know, they've got schemes and game
plans and they can they can take that away. And
so now it's well, I so I sow a j
because good things are going to happen and be ready,
you know for a kickout, and you know it's it's
tough on one guy. And then obviously you know you
never want to make excuses, but but the injuries, if
it's toll but you're right, we didn't really suffer very
many injuries on on the on our up front line.
You know, it's just a lot of games that that
you know, that were tough. We we kind of got
got out played on those positions.
Speaker 3: The other thing that k Y alluded to is maybe
finding some shooters this offseason. We really didn't have anyone
hitting shots for a J and Rob when doubles would come.
Our pick and pop game was lacking, and our corner
three and extended kind of perimeter wing three point shots,
these set shots that you get when blitchs come, when
doubles come, no one was hitting consistently.
Speaker 1: For b Yuh. They got to go find some shooters
as well well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and especially when you factor in I think Dawson
Baker would have had a huge year. I think he
would have filled that role. He's a crafty guy, he's
a knockdown guy. And then obviously, you know we're quick
to forget that that Richie was a knockdown guy and
was shooting the ball very well. And so when you
lose who was, you know, shooting like that, you know
where are you going to find it? And we just
couldn't find another guy to step up and be consistent.
You know, we saw flashes of it, but they weren't
They weren't very often. They seemed like they were a
few and far between.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it.
Speaker 3: Mkelly Wesley, former b YU great, one of the best
big men to ever play at by You appeared one
hundred and fifteen games. He had one hundred and twelve starts,
average thirty minutes per game, bucket getor fifteen points, five rebounds,
one point three assists and one block per game, and
one of the most well rated stat lines at b
WHATYU men's basketball history. From a big man, I'm sure
you would have loved to play with aj little two
man game.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. The way he draws so much attention, I mean,
you saw it. He was driving on he was double
teamed and monstered. Whenever he got the ball, he was
splitting double teams. There's help on the backside. I mean
it was almost like he was taking on you know,
you five guys from the Longhorns. But I would have
loved to play uh with the guy like aj because
you know, he makes the right read ninety five percent
of the time and honestly down down the stretch.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: Last night, I really thought he should have uh, you know,
he's such an unselfish kid that that he should have
kind of taken over him and been like, you know,
this is my time. No one else is shooting you
know here Rob Wright, and no, it would have been
It would have been absolutely a fun to play with
the guy like that because he does everything, you know,
he defends, he rebounds, and then obviously he's he's probably
the most dynamic score you know that that we've seen
at BUYU for for his size and athleticism. You know,
maybe you can make an argument that the gymmer you
know was a better pure fear score, but you know,
he's pretty elite, no.
Speaker 1: Doubt about it.
Speaker 3: M kelly, Uh, real quick, tell us what you do
during the when you're not talking cougar sports with us.
Speaker 1: Tell us a bit about.
Speaker 3: Your insurance agency and how you can support cougarnation with
some insurance coverage.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I got into insurance in two thousand
and nine, so I've been I've been in an agent
with the same agency, Neil Dasher Insurance. My office is
right next door to Progo. I'm in North Warum, across
the street from Harman's. You know, these days, I play
a lot of golf and I brought a lot of
insurance business that I love helping people out, and it
was it was one of those things. I never saw
myself as an insurance guy, but you know, after seventeen
years or something, I'm an insurance guy. So I mainly
specialize in home, auto and business. So you know, if
you need if you shop your rates, we're a broker,
so we have about fifteen carriers that we use. We're
always shopping to see if we can get you the
best coverage at the lowest rates. So if you need
his help with insurance, I'm happy to talk BYU Sports
Utah je As. We're not going to talk about the
U because we don't like them down this way. But yeah,
happy to talk to sports with you and happy to
happy to.
Speaker 3: Help connect with them on LinkedIn. Follow him on all
of his platforms. M Kelly Wesley former b Way Right.
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1: Kelly will chat with you again soon. Brother.
Speaker 5: All right, brother, good good here from you. Take care
of then.
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