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Kevin Reynolds of the Salt Lake Tribute. Kevin, how that

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are you?

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Speaker 4: I'm good man, how are you doing?

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Speaker 2: Fantastic? Appreciate you joining me. This is a bittersweet Kevin.

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I want to say congratulations on your call up to

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cover the Utah Jazz.

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Speaker 3: But I'm angry.

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Speaker 2: I'm not happy about it either that you're leaving the

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Cougars forwards the b YU beat brother, But give us

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a little breakdown what's going on.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, first of all, thank you, and I also

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won't be leaving the YU entirely. I'll still be covering

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the NCAA tournament and I'm sure I'm going to be

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around quite a bit in the football season two before

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the NBA and the jazz season ramps up kind of

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in October, so and I think I don't think there's

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a world where I don't cover at least parts of

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YU football and kind of BYU Utah for sure in

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the college space. But yeah, moving moving to cover the

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Jazz and completely going to be a new experience. I've

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never really been around the NBA, didn't really watch the

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NBA growing up, so I think it'll be fun to

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just learn something different, do something, do something a little

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bit new for me.

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Speaker 2: So you'll do some Utah football, b YU football, but

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the majority of your bandwidth will be allocated to the Jazz.

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Speaker 4: Yes, that is the plan.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, man, that's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Well, congratulations on the next step and can't wait to

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read all your content there at the at the Salt

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Lake Tribune covering this jazz tamed out.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's you.

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Speaker 2: You penned your first piece, right was it? You know,

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what was the title? What would what did you break down?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I mean to get into it. I have a lot

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of room to grow in terms of understanding what's going

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on on the Jazz, obviously, but started out talking a

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little bit about Ace Bailey, the the rookie and kind

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of his development where he's at. Obviously came into the Jazz,

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and he had quite a chaotic draft process where people

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had him trying to be ESPN reported that he was

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trying to manipulate where he wanted to go in the

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draft and whether it was him or his his agent

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Omar Cooper at the time, and but the Jazz really

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didn't have any concerns. They didn't really they felt like

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they were drafting a guy who wanted to be in Utah.

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And so I kind of talked to him about that

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process of you know, working out for not working out

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for the seventy six ers, not working out for the Jazz,

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and then landing in Utah and what the first couple

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of months of his career have looked like and why

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he thinks that Utah and the Jazz are the right

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fit for him right now in his career, and she's

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kind of playing better ofly. I know he's had some

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nights where he's been really good, had some nights where

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he struggled, but averaging I think almost sixteen points of

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games since the early February kind of time caraing and

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went to the Right and Stars game. So yeah, I

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think it's just the guy trying to figure out who

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he is while everybody else also had their had their

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own opinions of who he was that weren't necessarily accurate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's interesting what's going on with the Jazz

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right now? Should they tank? Should they not tank? They

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got fined. Now they have to play kind of this

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game of public relations and optics, this optics game. What

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route will they? Will they go down?

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Speaker 3: In this?

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Speaker 2: Uh, this NBA tanking game that everybody has participated in,

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in it. And they get cast gad, they get reprimanded,

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they get their hands lapped.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think that's a story that I'll

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definitely be working on over the next few weeks of

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reporting that out and what it looks like and what

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the Jazz's play ins are moving forward, of how they

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will approach the last two months of the season and

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what the pick is and trying to keep their top

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eight protected pick in this next draft. But I still

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have a lot to learn ontaf front, and you know

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this is this is an unknown territory for me. I

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can talk about college football, I can talk about college basketball,

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but the NBA is still something I really need to

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definitely need to ask questions on for me and and

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for our readers, but definitely for me too.

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Speaker 2: Love the breakdown, Kevin, Let's talk some BYU football here

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for a moment. We have Camp Killani right around the corner.

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I know it's basketball season. We'll get to that here momentarily,

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but Camp Killani right around the corner. What are you

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keeping an eye on during springball? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I think the the development of where this offense goes

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with Bear under a year two is something I think

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that will definitely be center stage and where this offense

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can grow from last year where I thought they did

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take a step up from twenty twenty four. You know,

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in that season, I thought they took a step up

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in a lot of different areas, but I think there's

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still room to grow. I mean, we saw the Texas

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Texas Tech games. Both of those games, you kind of

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have to think that, you know, if you just have

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a little bit more offensive firepower in certain areas, then

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maybe the Big Twelve title race shakes out a little

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bit differently for BYU because I thought the defense was

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strong in both of those games for a large part

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of the game. You know, it's just they kind of

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wore them down both times that they played the best

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team in the conference. So where do you kind of

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make up that firepower? And the things I look for are,

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you know, receivers first of all, Like I thought they

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missed Darius, I thought they missed Kilan Marian. I thought

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they missed the ability to kind of just make big

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plays and make plays out of nothing. I thought they

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missed that a little bit last year. So where did

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they go this year? And also at the tight end

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position as well, like how do you replace Carson Ryan

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because that was such a security blanket for Bear Bachmeier

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and we haven't seen by You really utilized that tight

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end spot in the passing game very much Over the

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last few years, finally they had it. So ken Walker

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line step right in? Is it seamless? You certainly think

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it will be. It's definitely definitely a big transfer portal

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pickup to pick up a guy from USC who was

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very highly recruited, and he also had BYU ties before

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even going to USC because he was recruited there amongst that,

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you know, really highly touted recruiting visit right before they

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went to the Big twelve. So can he step in seamlessly?

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l J. Martin coming back is a huge deal, but

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how do they use him and how do they get

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him some help because he's been injured quite a bit.

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you know, his usage is extremely high in this offense.

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so you don't have a situation where you're going into

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Lubbock where you know l J. Martin's a little hurt

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and it's just like what they had no answer for

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where the running game goes from there. So those are

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the big things. And then defensively, obviously to replacing J. Hill,

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Kelly popinga should be pretty similar defense. But what are

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the tweaks? What are the intricacies that Kelly Popinka brings

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that maybe J Hill did not bring? And what does

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that mean to this defense moving forward?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're great storylines that we're going to definitely be

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keeping an eye on, no doubt about it. Give me

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your thoughts on this b what you're coming off of

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two very successful seasons the last time this happened, there's

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a little bit of a dip. Do you see a

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dip occurring in twenty twenty six?

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Speaker 3: Yes? Or no? Why are why not?

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Speaker 4: I My answer says no, And the reason is because

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I think this team is far more talented and they

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have a lot more depths in the team that you know,

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last time tried to defend essentially you know, to back

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to back double digit win seasons, right like this, This

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team is more talented, it should have more depth as

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the Big twelve team, and they also have a lot

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of continuity on the coaching staff. I know J Hill left,

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but I mean you BYU did a really good job

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retaining pretty the offensive staff for sure, but also limiting

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the fallout after J.

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Speaker 3: Hill.

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Speaker 4: It's not like you saw a mass exodus in terms

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of the roster. First of all, I mean you bring

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back pretty much every single impactful player that did not

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graduate or ran out of eligibility is back on this defense,

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So you figure there's a lot of continuity there, and

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most of the coaching staff too. I mean, Kelly Papa

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is an in house guy. He learned under Jay Hill.

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He's he's been around this by U and kind of

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the BYU Utah, Kyle Whittingham, Jay Hills type of defensive

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scheme for a long time. So if there's anybody that

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is going to kind of pick up the mantle of

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pick up the place where Jay Hill left off, which

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I'm not saying is easy, but if there's one person,

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do I think Kelly Papinka definitely is. You know, Hashole

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has all the things on the resume that you would

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that would indicate to you that he's going to be

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able to do it. So that to me is why

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this team doesn't take a huge step back. Although you know,

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I will say I'll preface it or a little caveat

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to say, it's hard to win ten games three years

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in a row, well digit games, no matter who you are,

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So I don't think it's a shoeing, but I don't

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think it's going to be a huge step back now.

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Speaker 2: Well, and to that point, it's like, you know, the

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injury bug really hasn't crept in and bit BYU.

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Speaker 3: The last two years.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's it's always predicated on health, especially

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in your key.

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Speaker 3: Positions, right.

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Speaker 4: I mean we also said two years ago, I think

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before the Jake Reslaft and that twenty twenty four season,

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it was your quarterback is never healthy throughout the whole time.

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Keen Slovias didn't make it through the full season, Jaron

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twenty three or twenty twenty two year, I think it was.

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But the last two years, you know, Jake Reslaft played

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every single game and then Bachmeyer played every single game,

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and Bear Bachmeyer runs quite a bit. And I know,

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I'm not even talking about the other injuries. I'm just

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talking about quarterback. They've had a lot of successive quarterback

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and it's been you know, how long can you have

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this run. I'm not wishing injuries on anybody. I'm just

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saying it's very abnormal. If you look throughout college football,

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teams and even BYU teams in the past, have a

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quarterback play thirteen fourteen games, you know, I mean they're

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playing fourteen games now, So yeah, it's a lot.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot, no doubt about it. Kevin Randall Suggs reviewing.

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Speaker 2: He we're on ESPN the Fan for a little Cougar

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bee Kevin Bau basketball. Have they righted the ship? Are

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they on the right track? After getting their best win

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of the of the basketball season over Iowas State, They've

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won three out of the last four, the only lost

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to U of A. They've had some close ones during

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that time. But are they on the right track or

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still to be determined?

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Speaker 4: I think I'm in the still to be determined camp.

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But I think the game on Saturday was a huge

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step in the right direction in terms of finding what

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the post Richie identity of this offense looks like. And

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and you know, I was talking to some people after

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that game and I thought, honestly, it's it's weird to say,

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but it does start to feel like a little bit

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like twenty twenty five and that twenty twenty four twenty

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five team and that run that they made where they

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kind of just hit their stride at the end of

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February early February. You remember they beat Iowa State last

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year on the road, and it kind of translated into

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them playing really good basketball for the last little bit

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of the regular season and then obviously come turning in time,

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they were the best version of themselves. And I think

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it's I still think they're reinventing themselves. But the offense

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was so much more like what it did a year

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ago in terms of a lot of guys contributing the

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bal movement. You know, it didn't look as static as

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sometimes I think it's looked throughout throughout the Big Twelve.

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how statific addicate looks. And also I have to say,

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I mean aj debonds. I know a lot of people

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have said it that was the best game I thought

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he's played since he's been at BYU against Iowa State,

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and I think, to me, it's how much can he

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also contribute on the defensive end. I mean, if he's

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giving you that effort on the defensive side, I think

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it definitely changes the feeling of this team. And we've

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also seen the number I look at is the assist

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number too, is can he get Cannard Davis going from

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you know, you have to make up eighteen nineteen points somehow,

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some way from what Richie Saunders gave you every night,

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and can Oar Davis gets you seventeen and he's driving

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the basket. Now he looks a lot more comfortable in

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this role instead of just being a strict three and

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D guy. He looks a lot more comfortable in this role.

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And then you can look down the bench. Finally again

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some bench scoring too, which has been a huge problem

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throughout the entire season. Is the bench just really didn't

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really contribute much offensively, and now all of a sudden

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you're seeing that. So I still need to see more

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in terms of can you replicate that for foremance, I

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think it starts to night, but I think it definitely

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is trending. I would say, for the first time in

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over a month, trending in the right direction.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I was looking at last year's final ten games, right,

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and so they went on a nine game winning street

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West Virginia, Kansas, Kansas State, Arizona, Arizona State, West Virginia,

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Iowa State, Utah, Iowa State, and then they lost their

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final game to Houston, and I was looking at you

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know what they what they've done so far in their

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final ten, right, and you gotta you gotta win.

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Speaker 3: Versus Baylor.

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Speaker 2: You know, they they very well could almost replicate what

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they did last year if they went out. They got

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a win versus Baylor, They got a win versus Colorado.

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They lost to U of A. They they beat Iowa State.

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Now they got what four games remaining, they they could

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end up, you know, eight and one in their last nine.

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Speaker 3: Not too shabby to end the season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm not saying the end of season

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schedule is difficult, so I'm not saying they're gonna win

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out either, But I do think there are very similar

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parallels to what they did to last year. And I

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think the most important thing, too, is can you get

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Mihaila Boskovic going offensively or just really contributing, because I

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think a lot of the time we've seen from him

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last year. I thought he was really good down the

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stretch of last year. And it's not like, you know,

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he was a knockdown shooter last year, either, but he

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picked his spots and he was playing. I mean, he

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brings so much length on defense, but if you can

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get him going offensively just a little bit, then I

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think it changes the kind of the trajectory of the team.

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I mean, it wasn't like he had an overly efficient

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shooting night. I think he was two of seven still

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from three. But you know, he does give you, you know,

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five plus points, and he can help you out defensively

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and and and if he can do that, I think

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he gives BYU a very different look on the defensive

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side that maybe they didn't have with Ritchie. And I'm

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not saying this is a better team without Ritchie Richie

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Richie Saunders I said after the Kansas team he might

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not be they's best, most talented player, but I think

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he might be be what be the team's best or

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most valuable player. But at the same time, you can

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you can find ways, you can kind of find silver

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linings in how you reinvent yourself and you become a

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lot a lot bigger on the front line with mihiele

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Boskovic out there, and maybe that just gives you something

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that the team did not have and it kind of

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lacked for the first two thirds of the year.

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Speaker 2: Love the breakdown Kevin Reynolds Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 3: Final thing before we let you go?

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Speaker 2: Kevin, Uh, what's the ceiling and what's the floor of

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this BAU men's basketball team?

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Speaker 3: Do you think this year ceiling?

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Speaker 4: To me sweet sixteen, I think that's I guess I'll

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go back to what it was last year. I think

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it's still a huge ask to to to think, Okay,

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the ceiling has to be an Elite eight or a

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Final four right now without Richie Saunders, I don't know

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if I've seen enough to say that at this point. Obviously,

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you're one really good aj Debonds the game away from

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beating anybody, as you've seened with Iowa State, but I

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don't know how good Iowa State is still. Like to me,

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it's I was going to say the ceiling was final

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four lead. I'd have to see this team really really

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compete against Houston, or really really compete and not be

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down twenty against Arizona. You know, like I'm I'm not

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taking away anything, but you know, I don't know how

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much I put into that. If you're making miracle comebacks

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to the last second of the Marriott Center, so that

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to me is that and the floor to me is,

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I think it's still possible first round exit just because

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there's no depth on this team right now and you

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still have to build that up. But I think you

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feel a little bit better about the depths than if

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we were having this conversation three weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: Kevin, always appreciate our time, great content, great insight. We

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appreciate you, brother. Don't be a stranger now. We'll still

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have you on for Cougar beats right every now and

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again with.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, still around. I'm still around and we'll talk

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to them, and I know it all right, brother, guys.

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with a Cougar Sports press release.

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Speaker 6: This is Ronald the three and Mail Weaver bringing you

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the Cougar Sports Press Release number nineteen. BAU wraps up

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a brief two game stretch at home tonight Tuesday, February

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twenty four, as the Cougar's host the UCF Knights at

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the Marryout Center tip off a set for nine pm

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Mountain Time. The matchup Errol on ESPN two and Mike

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Monaco and Miles Simon provided the commentary. Tonight marks the

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fifth all time meeting between the two programs. BUYU owns

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a four to zero advantage in the all time series,

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including the victory in.

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Speaker 5: DCF's only prior visit to Program Nights.

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Speaker 6: Head coach Johnny Dawkins is zero to six against the

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Cougars during his tenure at Stamford and UCM. After facing

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three times during their inaugural Big twelve seasons, each matchup

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falling on the thirteenth. The teams met just once in

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twenty twenty four to twenty five that contest and in

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eighty one seventy five victory for YU. At the addition

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of Financial Arena in Orlando, the Cougars trailed by two

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at the break before using a forty three to thirty

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five second half time edge to full away, earning their

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second row win in that build.

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Speaker 5: The top King Richie Saunders let Byu with twenty two points,

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shooting eight to fourteen from the floor in six to

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nine from three point range.

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Speaker 6: Mo what Mack added nineteen points five assists, connecting on

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five of six threes from b as Byu finished fourteen

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to thirty two from bye.

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Speaker 5: Ark aj De Bons is chasing a little bit of history.

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Speaker 6: He's totaled six hundred and seventy nine points to season,

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matching Chase Fisher for the twelve highest single season score

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mark in program history. Fisher reached that in thirty seven

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games during the twenty twenty five to sixteen campaign.

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Speaker 5: If Deboncea scores twenty seven points tonight.

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Speaker 6: He would surpasses seven hundred point mark, becoming just a

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sixth player in BYU history to do so in a

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single season. The freshman has already set the program first

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to your scoring record Eclipse and Danny Aingels mark and

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BYU's game in number four Arizona.

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Speaker 5: Twenty four to thirty five points.

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Speaker 6: A seven hundred point season would also pays Devonsa amongst

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just twenty freshmen nationwide this century to reach that milestone

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and make him the first non duke player from a

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Power five conference to achieve that since Oklahoma's Trey Young

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scored eight hundred and seventy six points in a.

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Speaker 5: Twenty seventeen eighteen season.

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Speaker 3: Let's get out to the hotline. Welcome in.

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Speaker 2: Jamie Shaw, Senior, National recruiting analysts for Rivals and on

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three Sports.

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Speaker 3: What's up, Jamie?

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Speaker 7: Then, man, I'm good.

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Speaker 3: How you doing living the dream?

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Speaker 2: Man? Appreciate you hopping on you know Jamie, I gotta

500
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give you a tip of the cap.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: You know you'll you'll post things on Twitter and you

503
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will get all manner of conversation brewing, and you are

504
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responding to all of these comments. Jamie, I salute you man,

505
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you're you're I used to do that, U and I

506
00:23:25,759 --> 00:23:27,440
just gave up because I felt like I was just

507
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spinning my wheels. But man, you were engaged over the

508
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last few days, engaging with the fans.

509
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Speaker 7: It's the fans of what makes it go. Fans are

510
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the fanatics. They're what there would kind of drop the

511
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whole sport. You know, if the fans weren't engaged, if

512
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the fans weren't there, you know, we wouldn't be able

513
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to watch these game little TV like we do, and

514
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we won't be here talking about them on the radio

515
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with people listening. Man, fans of the absolute best. So

516
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it's always good to engage in conversation, see where their

517
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mindsets they're at, and kind of talking away through things. Yeah.

518
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Speaker 2: The one that I'm referring to is you put out

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this question the freshman class continues to be special. This

520
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,599
was on February twenty third, just a day ago. AJ Debonza,

521
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Cameron Boozer, Darren Peterson, Caleb Wilson, Darius Acuff junior or

522
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someone else.

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Speaker 3: Who do you pick?

524
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Speaker 2: What was the feedback that you got on the best

525
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freshmen right now? But one game, one win today? Who

526
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you take and what's the feedback you got?

527
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Speaker 7: It was all over the board. I think maybe those

528
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guys are there. There's a lot of Darius A Cup love.

529
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There's a lot of Ajent advanced love you know in

530
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there as well. So yeah, I think that that's one

531
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thing that's beautiful about college basketball this year, both the

532
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,759
teams and individually, there's a ton of parody. There's a

533
00:24:39,799 --> 00:24:41,680
ton of guys that are just really good. There's a

534
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:43,160
ton of teams that were just really good. So that

535
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,240
feels can't make it exciting from here on, allens, because

536
00:24:45,839 --> 00:24:48,000
getting down the stretch and in the tournament playing all

537
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:49,599
that stuff is the parody that we have within the

538
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game right now is incredible.

539
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Speaker 2: So who do you pick? Who would you pick to

540
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win the games right now?

541
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Speaker 3: For you?

542
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Speaker 7: Well, I put out my number one, my player of

543
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:07,079
the year Tali earlier than player in college basketball, also

544
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a freshman. So right now, week seventeen, I'd have to

545
00:25:10,559 --> 00:25:12,440
lean on Cam Boozer to be that.

546
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Speaker 2: Cam Boozer is a great player. How would you describe

547
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,079
Cam Boozer? You know, individuals who tried to do player

548
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comps of him. What's his ceiling in the NBA? Who

549
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do you compare him to?

550
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Speaker 3: Who is he like?

551
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 7: I think the archetype is there. I kind of like

552
00:25:28,559 --> 00:25:30,680
the Kevin Love talk. I kind of like that his dad,

553
00:25:30,759 --> 00:25:33,759
Carlos Boozer. You know, obviously his range extends a little

554
00:25:33,759 --> 00:25:36,160
bit further than that. What can is as a grinder,

555
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He's somebody who just understands the game. His feel for

556
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,480
the game, his IQ for the game is so high

557
00:25:41,799 --> 00:25:43,839
in his understanding of angles and leverage and all that

558
00:25:43,839 --> 00:25:46,599
type of stuff in order to continue to make plays

559
00:25:47,039 --> 00:25:49,000
but also have an offense run through him as a

560
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power forward.

561
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Speaker 3: He's truly a fantastic player.

562
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Speaker 2: He's great fundamentally, He's he's well rounded, no doubt about it.

563
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He's he's producing at a high level.

564
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Speaker 3: For Duke right now.

565
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Speaker 2: What's the It's the curious case of Darren Peterson though

566
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like he seems like he's the best scorer in college basketball,

567
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and other times it's like, well he's got flu he's

568
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got cramping, he's got injuries. What do you make of

569
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the whole saga surrounding Darren Peterson right now?

570
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Speaker 7: Oh, you know, it's one of those things that's where

571
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when he's playing, he's unbelievable to watch. It's a situation

572
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,359
that's where Kansas can beat anybody in the country whenever

573
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he's on the floor because he goes down and he's

574
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had stretches of games this year. You know, you'll follow

575
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in the first half of that Yu gave where he's

576
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just simply unguardable, you know. So you know when he's

577
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on the court and play and he's super exciting to watch,

578
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super exciting to play, and he gives Kansas legendary coach

579
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Bill Self a chance for an opportunity, you know, to

580
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make a run.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's crazy. What's happening in college basketball this year?

582
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Aj Devonso over the last six or seven games has

583
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been pretty elite. How would you evaluate AJ thus far

584
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this season and especially in the last five or six games,

585
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ay j.

586
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Speaker 7: My first time seen AJ was eighth grade going into

587
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ninth grade when we debuted our rankings with on three.

588
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At the time, he was number one in his class.

589
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And he stayed double one throughout the entire high school year,

590
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his career, even through the reclas and he stayed number

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one coming into college this year. Aj has been the

592
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number one player in my eyes, in this class, in

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this cycle, throughout the entire duration of his career, and

594
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he keeps getting better, which is which is the thing

595
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:36,240
about it. High school incredible flashes, three gold medals with

596
00:27:36,279 --> 00:27:40,599
Feeble USA Basketball, put up incredible numbers. But now you're

597
00:27:40,599 --> 00:27:43,480
seeing him, You're seeing him streamline his game, You're seeing

598
00:27:43,519 --> 00:27:46,480
him put things together. You're seeing him play efficiently, seeing

599
00:27:46,519 --> 00:27:49,440
the floor better, hitting his spots when that's not there,

600
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getting off the ball, fighting teammates, the passing. These last

601
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three games, I think it's seven or more assists in

602
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three of the last four games that he's played. Slart

603
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with the triple double, which would have been a second

604
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one of the of the season this past game against

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Iowa State, the game is just looking very easy for him.

606
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,160
He's playing very confidently, and it seems to him and

607
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,119
Kevin yall were really really playing on the same accord

608
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right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it. They're getting on the right

610
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track right now. At By He's winning three out of

611
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last four. They had their best win of the season

612
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over Iowa. Stayed and definitely going to help them in

613
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,160
the seeding in the Big twelve Tournament as well as

614
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the NCAA Tournament in my opinion.

615
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Speaker 3: A couple other.

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Speaker 2: Things that you've broached on Twitter. Dean Rukert has been

617
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an intriguing prospect on the recruiting front, and I know

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you had a recruiting this is what you do all day,

619
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every day. Jumped one hundred spots in the latest Rivals

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one fifty and you've broke down the six foot seven wing.

621
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What do you see from being How did he jump

622
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so aggressively into your top one hundred? He was kind

623
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of a borderline top one fifty. Now he's right smack

624
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in the middle of some of the best in the country.

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Speaker 7: For sure, He's all He's a guy who's had who's

626
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been able to play. He's always been a lanky six

627
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to seven player who can elevate the floor.

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Speaker 3: Of a team.

629
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Speaker 7: He played as a cohesive piece. Now all of a sudden,

630
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he's becoming the He's being okay with being the guy.

631
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He's on the top of the opposing team scouting reports.

632
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He's the one that's taking the shot, he's the one

633
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,000
that's making the pass, has the ball in his hands,

634
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and he's the one getting downhill dunking on kids. The

635
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,559
upside is incredibly massive with him when it comes to

636
00:29:24,599 --> 00:29:26,400
the athletic fluidity, when it comes to the links that

637
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,279
he has, when it comes to the ability to scale

638
00:29:28,359 --> 00:29:30,640
up or down the lineup, both being able to play

639
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,400
and initiate on the ball or finish plays off the ball,

640
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shooting and stretching the floor and all that. More than

641
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,640
just a floor spacer, he's somebody who can actually run offense.

642
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,759
He's one who can actually lead offense as well. So

643
00:29:43,039 --> 00:29:46,200
he took a huge step when it didn't like he grew.

644
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:47,799
It isn't like he all of a sudden came into

645
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some skill set. He's always had the skills that now

646
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,839
all of a sudden, he's turning it on in order

647
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,720
to instead of being able to dribble shooting pass, now

648
00:29:53,759 --> 00:29:57,400
he's dribble shooting and passing toward an advantage consistently throughout

649
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the course of the game. And that trajectory. It's very

650
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,240
intriguing when it comes to the scalability of what he

651
00:30:02,279 --> 00:30:03,319
brings to those to a team.

652
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you wrote a nice piece on him.

653
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Speaker 2: We invite everyone to read it on three dot com

654
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and Rivals dot com. YBA, you committed Dean Ruker jumped

655
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one hundred spots in Rivals one fifty top one fifty. Uh,

656
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,920
do you got a player confor Dean? What does he

657
00:30:18,039 --> 00:30:19,559
look like? What does he feel like? For those that

658
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haven't been able to watch him, he's a b YU recruit,

659
00:30:21,759 --> 00:30:24,759
obviously hard commit for for the Kug's gonna be a

660
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b YU cougar and uh, but what what is it?

661
00:30:28,039 --> 00:30:30,359
What's in store for Cougar fans?

662
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Speaker 3: Uh? In the future.

663
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Speaker 7: Man, I'm just trying to think, because there's a he's

664
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got a lot of stuff to his game. I'm not

665
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entirely sure. I haven't. I haven't thought of a player

666
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,000
comp when it came to him. But yeah, again, somebody

667
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who's six seven, six eight, lengthy, athletic fluidity. He can

668
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shoot the ball in to pass the ball, and he

669
00:30:49,279 --> 00:30:51,440
can also get downhill and put it with two hands,

670
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go chest to chess with your big man. So there's

671
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a lot there's a lot of stuff there that's intriguing

672
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and I'm fascinated to see what Kevin Young does with him.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and indeed b yu uh Is has done well

674
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,799
in the two seasons under Kevin Young. What's the buzz

675
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,759
like on the recruiting front surrounding BYU? What are prospects

676
00:31:10,799 --> 00:31:13,799
saying about b Yu? I know there's been a few

677
00:31:14,119 --> 00:31:16,960
high profile players that have taken a visit to Pro

678
00:31:17,039 --> 00:31:17,720
Bowl recently.

679
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Speaker 3: Give us a little breakdown for sure.

680
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Speaker 7: Well, BYU has been very selective with the high school

681
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:27,799
guys that they're going after, you know, So the buzz

682
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:32,359
is is there intrigue, especially with what Aj Yegor kind

683
00:31:32,359 --> 00:31:34,680
of opened the door of this past year. Now getting

684
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,200
Aj is seen what Aj is doing, seeing that he's

685
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,839
continuously getting better now all of a sudden, it's almost

686
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,960
helping in their advantage that he started to season outside

687
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,920
of the norms talk for number one. Now of a sudden,

688
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,160
he's becoming the consistent number one type guy in that conversation.

689
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,759
It's almost helping BYU, especially when it comes to those

690
00:31:51,799 --> 00:31:54,880
linkedy wings like an agent that bands like Yegor David

691
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,359
Is lots of positive buzz. They're there are a place

692
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:03,240
now as a square where if they call, every profect

693
00:32:03,319 --> 00:32:06,359
want to take a call. But they've also been very

694
00:32:06,359 --> 00:32:08,680
selective with guys who spit what they're trying to do,

695
00:32:08,759 --> 00:32:12,400
what they're trying to build and bring in in place.

696
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,839
So it's the Yeah, what they are now is completely different.

697
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,599
What they wore two years ago is very different what

698
00:32:17,599 --> 00:32:18,519
they were five years ago.

699
00:32:18,799 --> 00:32:24,319
Speaker 2: It seems like BYU's targeting aggressively. Bruce Branch the third

700
00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:28,359
of five star at a prolific prep in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

701
00:32:29,119 --> 00:32:31,079
I don't know if he's got a top five a

702
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,920
top three right now, the six foot seven, two hundred

703
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:37,160
pound wing small forward first Branch, but they give us

704
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,079
in the latest on Bruce Branch's recruitment.

705
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 7: Yeah, so so b Yu has taken an approach with him.

706
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,680
Who's they've got his first official visit Kansas and USC

707
00:32:46,839 --> 00:32:49,839
or throw other schools that are in the midst there,

708
00:32:50,119 --> 00:32:54,160
schools that you hear mentioned. Bruce opened his eyes again

709
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:55,559
with the AJ stuff. You know, you got a six

710
00:32:55,599 --> 00:32:58,839
with seven long armed player out out there on the wing,

711
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,720
and it's intriguing to him to see the development of

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a Jay's brought. Been told that his decision is not

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necessarily close. To play it out and how the season goes,

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then maybe dip its toe into the portal a little

715
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bit and see how things are starting to line up

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as people declare for the NBA Draft and the portal

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and and do all that on his end. But he yeah,

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b B YU squarely when they you had him on campus.

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They were the first ones to get him on campus.

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And they're still in the.

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Speaker 2: Conversation Jamie Shaw Rivals dot Com on three Sports here

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on your Utah ESPN Radio network talking some excuse me,

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college basketball right now, senior national recruiting analysts for Rivals

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and Uh, Jamie, want to get your thoughts right now

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on the approach that BYU is taking. Uh, they've been

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very strategic about the high school players that they're taking

727
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and who they're recruiting. They've they've definitely got the transfer

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portal route. What's the right I guess ballants for these

729
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college basketball programs and teams, the vipercation of and splitting

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up of high school recruiting and also the transfporter recruiting.

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Speaker 7: Well, talking to most coaches out there, a lot of

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them appreciate Rockster continuity, So being able to have guys

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multiple years, maybe not even four or five like they

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used to be, but you know, having guys multiple years,

735
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a year two and being able to grow within the

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system like that. But also I'll starting to a coach

737
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the other day that said that they were they still

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recruit high school players because the high school players are

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the guys that can be pros. You know, you come

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in one and done and all that. You're not getting

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that out of the transferportal. If they were a pro

742
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and the transporportal for the most of love, they probably

743
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would have gone. Now you're able to get a guy

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because they have to go to college for a year.

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So you're seeing a lot of talent and you're seeing

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that this year in the college ranks as the guys

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I think what the first eight, nine, possibly ten projected

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players in the draft this year is going to be

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one and done freshmen, you know, so they won't roster continuity.

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They want to passwork at through the portal, and they

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want to be able to get the best freshman possible.

752
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If they can get a pro as a freshman, you

753
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know they're gonna look to do that. But also you

754
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know you got the Nile price tackle on that and

755
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everything too, So it's not as easy as it sounds.

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Speaker 3: No, it's not.

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Speaker 2: Right Now you're looking at the the talent though, that's

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coming through college basketball. Uh, that's coming back to college basketball.

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G leaguers they try to come back, yeah uh uh,

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you know, really qualified players. Uh, maybe staying a little

761
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bit longer rather than going to the G League or

762
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going overseas. Are we seeing the product of college basketball

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improved over the last two years as a whole?

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Speaker 7: I mean, I think it's watching these games this year,

765
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the stakes they have, and then following it on Twitter,

766
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and following on the social media impressions and people that

767
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are writing about it, covering it and see it on

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TV and the news and everything. It seems like college

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basketball is an incredibly healthy point. You know, anytime you

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can have talented players playing in the game, whether guys

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five ten years ago would have gone pro, would have

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made their way through the G League and work their

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way up, guys that are possibly coming back now to college.

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You know, anytime that you're able to have more talent

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on the floor, it's good for the game. You know. Now,

776
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obviously they're gonna have to get their hands around the

777
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rulings and figure some some premers out and all that

778
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type of stuff, but not to get all track the game.

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It seems looking at what everybody's talking about, looking at

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all the ratings, and looking at all the you know

781
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what leads in the news and everything, it seems the

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college basketball game is that is high right now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like it's at an all time high.

784
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Real quick, Jamie.

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Speaker 2: But you know, let's talk a little NBA though projected

786
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Draft big board. I know you put up your twenty

787
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twenty six AMBA Draft big board, it's live, you publish

788
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sit on February and I tea. I'm sure he's made

789
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maybe a few updates as well. Uh, what do you

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stand right now in the twenty twenty six NBA draft?

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Speaker 3: Do you take? You know, who do you take first? Overall?

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What does your sequence look like?

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Speaker 7: Aj Di Vast has been number one for me the

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beginning of the year through the year, haven't moved off

795
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of that. I think that he's kind of in a

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tier of his own, continues to be in a tier

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of his own. I don't think that. I don't think

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right now that the I don't think it has been

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all year a conversation for number one. Now, I think

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the number two pick is going to be an interesting conversation.

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You have Darren Peterson there, you have cam Buza there, candleb.

802
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Wilson has had a very good year. I'm there as well,

803
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and a couple other guys too. But I think the

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race for number two is going to be a very

805
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interesting one to see how that plays out. I think

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Aj is in the tier of his own at number one, though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's He's definitely showcased that. I think in the

808
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last six games. He's a well rounded player. I mean

809
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in this last I Was State game, I don't know

810
00:38:02,639 --> 00:38:04,880
if you were able to watch it, but I mean,

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he almost had a triple double. He probably should. He

812
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,159
should have had a triple double. There were plenty of

813
00:38:09,199 --> 00:38:12,440
missed opportunities that his teammates just didn't drop, wide open

814
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:16,079
shots that they just didn't hit. But a rebounding effort,

815
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a defensive effort, a distribution and scoring that is unparalleled

816
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in college basketball.

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Speaker 7: One of the things about Aja, even going back to

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being able to watch in the USA Basketball training camps,

819
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those close practical and stuff, it's the competitive nature that

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he brings. He's very vocal and he wants to win,

821
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and you're seeing that. Obviously, Richie goes down, there's a

822
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couple of injuries, throw out the lineup, obviously the bigger

823
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one being Richie. But he's adapted. The whole team's adapted,

824
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and now he's running through the offense of that and

825
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he's and he's making plays for the team, not only himself.

826
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Obviously he had the twenty nine, but then you had

827
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the nine assists with a couple of them mill less

828
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on the table. Aja's competitives as incredibly competitive that he's

829
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incredibly talented, and that's an awesome cross road to be at.

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Speaker 3: No doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: Uh, there's uh with with the high quality college basketball

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that's being played right now because the high quality players. Uh,

833
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,920
it seems like there's more parody in college basketball than ever.

834
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You asked the question, only one team can cut down

835
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:18,320
the nets. Who's your pick right now? No hedging? Who

836
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,920
do you got? Is it Duke Arizona, Michigan? Ioways stayed

837
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someone else?

838
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Speaker 7: Man, I gotta tell you, I think there's about ten

839
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teams out there that could win it. And as we know,

840
00:39:29,199 --> 00:39:34,000
it all comes down to the massups. Whoever you get

841
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,760
matched up with and paired with. An NCAA tournament can

842
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,039
go a long way, you know, making it all the

843
00:39:41,039 --> 00:39:43,880
way through injuries and and just riding the hot wave

844
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and everything too. But I do think there's about ten,

845
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eight to twelve teams in college basketball who could end

846
00:39:49,079 --> 00:39:51,880
up winning the national championship, and that's gonna be that's

847
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,679
gonna make for an incredibly exciting march.

848
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's gonna be a fun one, no doubt

849
00:39:57,519 --> 00:39:58,239
about it.

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Speaker 3: Is the do you have a.

851
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Speaker 2: Like a favor like like from a personal standpoint, who

852
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,519
you're rooting maybe to win it all out of those

853
00:40:06,639 --> 00:40:09,480
nate like ten teams, Is there's like a storyline You're like,

854
00:40:09,519 --> 00:40:12,280
it would be really cool to see this storyline play out,

855
00:40:12,599 --> 00:40:15,400
uh in the uh in the finality of the of

856
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:16,679
the college basketball season.

857
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Speaker 7: Not really, you know, it's there's there's a storyline anywhere

858
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,400
if you just look for it and tell the right

859
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,360
put the right set of words together. You know. So

860
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don't really pull for anything outside of just really great matchups,

861
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like competitive matchups, and you know, just the best basketball

862
00:40:37,519 --> 00:40:39,239
we can possibly see. I want to see somebody break

863
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:40,360
a scoring record every night.

864
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Speaker 2: Yeah, love that real quick evaluating great out for me.

865
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The twenty twenty six by U basketball recruiting class, they

866
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got Dean Ruker kJ Perry Abdullah Achmed and will open chobously.

867
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Abdullah is already there from the G League coming in,

868
00:40:54,559 --> 00:40:57,440
you know, kind of an interesting acquisition. kJ Perry is

869
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red shirting this year, coming out of Citrus College. Dean's

870
00:41:00,679 --> 00:41:03,000
finishing up his senior season and will open shop finishing

871
00:41:03,079 --> 00:41:05,679
up his senior season. And what's crazy is two guys

872
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on the same team, same high school team getting recruited

873
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to a particular school.

874
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Speaker 3: Kind of crazy, no, for sure.

875
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Speaker 7: And we talked about Dean earlier. I think Dean's got

876
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incredible upside him. Fascinated to see what he does. You know,

877
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:18,760
once he gets in the strength and conditioning program at

878
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,639
the collegiate level and learns how to really streamline his

879
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,719
game and get his footwork right and do all that well,

880
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,519
will open. Saw is a is a is a big

881
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that you need in college. He's somebody who who's a

882
00:41:31,079 --> 00:41:33,480
big that plays big, you know, going over the days,

883
00:41:33,599 --> 00:41:37,360
the you know, the dewn on the block, guy who

884
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,000
just plays out on the block and bruises and sump

885
00:41:40,039 --> 00:41:42,039
show around a little bit and all that. And that's

886
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what will open. Shaw is going to need to get stronger.

887
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,119
We're going to need to continue to grow his game

888
00:41:48,199 --> 00:41:49,320
and all that type of stuff. But he's the guy

889
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:51,719
who's not afraid of the physicality. And once he again

890
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:55,239
gets to the strengthen conditioning program eighteen years old, turns

891
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,519
twenty years old, twenty one years old and starts to form,

892
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:00,480
there's there's a lot of life there with what he

893
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:05,079
can bring. His contributor u kJ Athletic downhill guy, one

894
00:42:05,079 --> 00:42:09,480
of the best players this past year. Lots of lots

895
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of injuring us not there. You might have let usism

896
00:42:11,519 --> 00:42:14,360
that he breaks to the wing potential two way type

897
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,679
stuff and we're seeing what the big guy is doing

898
00:42:17,679 --> 00:42:18,800
now in the rotation.

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Speaker 2: Jamie, I always appreciate your time. Best way to support

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you what you do, how you do it, and teesus

901
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,360
with any content you're going to be dropping you shortly,

902
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:28,880
no for sure.

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Speaker 7: On three dot com is the website on three but

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rivals earlier this year. So on three covers the college side,

905
00:42:36,639 --> 00:42:39,880
Rivals covers of the high school recruiting side. You'll see

906
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:44,480
my biolows on both. So yeah, that's the best way go.

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Jamie Shaw five is the Twitter feed at Jamie Shaw

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five J A M I E. You know, go check

909
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it out there working on a top transfers list right

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now that will probably come out tomorrow. I'm actually working

911
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on a j devance the piece that I'll be working

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for the game tonight, so hopefully be able to put

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that out as well.

914
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Speaker 2: Love your content, man, love conversating with you as well. Brother,

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00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,239
Thanks for hopping on today. We invite anyone everyone to

916
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follow you and rejaed on three and rivals.

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Speaker 7: Then, thank you so much. Maank you doing a great job.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Jamie Shaan, Ladies and gentlemen, great segment under our belts.

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