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I want to start off here for a moment, Like
we've talked so much about DNP this this year. That's
Darren Peterson of Kansas. Many felt going into the season
that he'd be the number one overall pick in the
NBA draft. He has continually caused controvert and I may
delve into that a little bit here in the nitty
gritty before we get into all the Cougar Sports news
and notes, So stay tuned for that he's causing controversy
once again, and I wonder it's, you know, a little
bit of a conspiracy there is he just setting us
all up for a little rope a dope come the
nc DOUBLEA tournament. He's load managing, load managing, load managing
getting to the NCAA tournament. That it's gonna go off
in the tourney and take the Kansas Jayhawks to glory
and victory in the NCUAA tournament for a natty. We'll
discuss that we do need to delve into the loss
versus U of a BYU going on the road and
filling short once again versus a formidable phone, no doubt
about it.
Speaker 2: But they were.
Speaker 3: Short handed as was BYU. Many BYU fans are wondering
what will the answer be. Will BYU be able to
find their groove? Will they be able to find some
role players to support and booy up? Aj Devonsa and
Robert Right the third Ken Cannard Davis Junior continue to
step up.
Speaker 2: Is he going to be good enough as a.
Speaker 3: Holistic, you know, multi faceted basketball player or do you
get to rely on somebody else. Many people, as we've discussed,
want to see better defense. The offense is actually one
of the most if you look at the offensive efficiency,
Ken Palm versus everybody else is still an elite offensive team.
I know there's a lot of people out there that
are critical of the offensive, the sets and some of
the actions that they're running, and a lot of the ISO,
but like, let's be honest with the defense is the
the glaring weakness, whether they're in zone or man, they
just they find it difficult to slow down these elite
and these are elite offensive teams that are getting buckets
and some of them and some of them are not.
Speaker 2: Elite either, and they're still getting buckets on BYU.
Speaker 3: So we'll de into that and much more here on
your Utah ESPN Radio Network. Quit without further ado, let's
fire up the ESPN the fans starting lineup, and I
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producer of the show.
Speaker 2: We got Ronald the three man. We were behind the
glass behind the micros ap Ronnie, what's up?
Speaker 4: Then I'll save my thoughts on d and pizza later.
But we got a lot of clips that we will play.
Speaker 2: But it's very interesting. I will just give you this tease.
Speaker 4: The national media now is aware of it, Ben, and
I'll save my my thirty second to a minute take
for later. But I got something that I think that
might change the perspective of everybody listening.
Speaker 2: If they already don't feel it, let's go.
Speaker 3: Let's also bring in Hammertime show Brett always bringing the hammer.
Speaker 2: What's up Hammertime? I'm a little irked. You're always a
little bit hitty. I you know what, I am a
little bit of a curmudgeon.
Speaker 5: I like the good I love all that is holy,
I love the positive. But look every time you if
you do something stupid, I'm gonna be.
Speaker 2: Here for it. And we don't have to pull it
right now, Ronnie.
Speaker 5: But I just want to tease the people and tell
them I heard maybe the dumbest question. I want to
give this guy a kudos to quote to quote the
great Big crowd it.
Speaker 2: I want to give this guy last night at kudos.
Speaker 5: He was an Arizona media person, so I don't feel
bad saying this over the air, But I heard maybe
one of the dumbest questions I've ever heard in a
postgame media availability. So I'd love to make Cron and
give him some kudos. Gosh, I just I don't I
don't understand.
Speaker 3: Was it a talk about no, no, no, no, it
wasn't a talk about Ron.
Speaker 2: Did we cut it or were we planning on playing
it for the post game? Okay, I was gonna save it,
but I can't do it.
Speaker 5: He's like, because I know because Ron and I had
talked before, and he was because we were both because
I was cutting the video and he was cutting the audio,
and I texted H and I was like, dude, this is
the dumbest question.
Speaker 2: I've ever heard.
Speaker 5: And he goes, which one was it? And we were
talking and he was like, yeah, I cut that one.
I was like, yeah, so did I.
Speaker 6: It was.
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last night? I mean, did you go into this game
thinking that BYU was gonna go to Tucson and knock
off the U of a wildcatch?
Speaker 2: Maybe you did.
Speaker 3: Maybe you thought because copeat they were a little bit shorthanded,
they had a few guys that were missing out of
their lineup, their rotation, and but maybe you thought they
were gonna come away with a dub. There was hope,
there was hope down in your bosom that that BYU
could figure it out.
Speaker 2: What did we learn about BYU last night? Though? Think
about that.
Speaker 3: Despite a late rally, the number twenty three Coups fell
seventy five sixty eight to number four Arizona on Wednesday
evening at the mckill Center in Tucson, trailing by sixteen
with five twenty five remaining that is That is BAU basketball.
If there's one thing that we know about Bayu basketball
is they are down in the teams in the twenties
going into the second half or towards even the end
of the second half. So that is b Why if
you're gonna describe Byu this year, it's like they don't
really keep it close in the first half. They get
down and then they come roaring back somehow someway and
make it respectable.
Speaker 2: That's what they do.
Speaker 3: So Canar Davis junior agent de Bonce has sparked that comeback,
feeling an eight zero run and following it with a
seven to zero, seven to zero surge less than a
minute later. Aj len Boll teams with thirty five points,
marking a sixth career a thirty point game, setting the
program all time freshman scoring record.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to him.
Speaker 3: It was expected he's met the bar of scoring, prowess
and potency, surpassing the goat. Danny Ames, it's a forty
eight year old mark, But wasn't it expected?
Speaker 2: To an agree, I think it was freshman.
Speaker 3: The freshman went thirteen of twenty eight from the field,
and his twenty eight shot attempts set a second freshman
record for most field goal attempts in a season. Pretty
crazy to see that, but you know, not so crazy
we expected, I think volume and points from Debonsa. He
also added seven rebounds to assists and went seven to
eight from behind.
Speaker 2: The charity charity stripe.
Speaker 3: Robert Right the third, Davis Junior combined for twenty three points,
six rebounds, five assists, and two steals, and marked the
seventh time this season that Davis Junior has reached.
Speaker 2: Double figures this season.
Speaker 3: And you like some of the action that they employed
to get Kennard Davis off screens and getting towards the
rim and he can finish. You know, something that we
have not done well, the dis service that has been
done to Cannard Davis junior. K why admitted to it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: He's not a catching shoe guy. He's not a picking
pop guy. He's more of a get to the rim
and on occasion, you know, I think once he gets
into a rhythm getting to the foul line, finishing at
the rim, then he can take some three point shots
and hit and we've seen that. We've seen that a
little bit over the last two games with the Canard
and so hopefully we can figure it out.
Speaker 2: There's still time. There's still time, right, there's still time.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: What did we learn about BYU basketball last night? Ronnie,
you chime in first and then Hammertime Show.
Speaker 4: I really was thinking, because I knew you're gonna ask
me this question. Maybe the thing that you think that
they're not good at, don't try to force them to do.
They played two games. Let's try to take away the
the you know, the the paint. Force him to shoot threes.
They still got inside the paint, you know, Okay, make
him take threes, go all in, keep them out and
then they hit them. And I just would like to know,
like what the scout report, if you know CoA Pete's out,
and if you know Ben that they had a guy
that played last year that was in the starting line
that mind you, by the chance, and that guy can
shoot threes, wouldn't it be maybe in a good good
thing to have him on the scouting report. I have
a feeling that he probably wasn't on the scouting report.
You know why, because when I look at Bradley having
ten assists, that was the problem because Dolorso just went crazy.
He went cycle And now I get it, people are
gonna yell at Dominique. You can't let a shot happen.
It was a moving screen. He got pulled by Braden
Burry's that's all the stuff you can do in between
the lines that you get away with. But that still
wasn't The catalyst was that you don't have defenders, Ben,
you don't have someone that could have gone on Doloro,
that could have stopped them. That was the problem. That
was the biggest catalyst. Like that guy had not gone
off all season, you know, even last year struggled a
little bit. And it's been the Cougar Stats that put
this out. Everybody has like their season or like career
day pretty much against BYU, everybody, everybody that they played,
and that was the same thing last night again, someone
else went for a season high.
Speaker 2: And that's the problem.
Speaker 4: And I know that you had this conversation a couple
of weeks ago if a J shouldn't take Darren Peterson,
but I'm sorry you might have to tell AJ you're
gonna have to score thirty five. You're gonna have to
lead the team in all categories minus one assistment, like
that's what he had team highs and all of those
he led at BYU, and you're gonna have to take
the best defender probably too, or take the guy that
that is cooking. And I think that was the biggest
thing is you gotta count for everyone on the scouting port.
So I think looking at Iowa State, you gotta account
for Tam and Lipsey. You gotta count for a melan.
You can't just say, oh, Joshua Jefferson. But that's the thing.
Who do they have defensively? That's what I'm learning is
that this team all around is struggling defensively to stop
people from the perimeter because everybody is having their season
highs and that that's written in the stats been that's
not fake.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And honestly, I don't even think telling Aj to
score thirty five is enough. Like at this point, it's like, hey, Aj,
in order for us to win, you basically have to
score forty plus fifty plus and you can only miss
like six or seven shots because they really don't have
a whole lot of offensive production. And to the point
that you just finished with Ron, they can't slow teams
down enough where just AJ and Rob can get the
job done. Because that would be a path to winning
if you could play defense and just Aj and rob
could average fifty points between the two, and you could
get ten to fifteen from somebody else. But you could
play not Houston level, but like a tier below Houston
level defense.
Speaker 2: You could win these games.
Speaker 5: The problem is you're just getting into shootouts, and as
good as your two guys are, you're just missing those
ten to fifteen points from literally anyone else.
Speaker 2: I will say.
Speaker 5: Last night, I felt that bou played better than I
thought they were going to. I thought first game without
Richie Saunders was going to be a struggle because usually
what we talked about with the team is Okay, go
target Richie and then let the other Tids do what
they do.
Speaker 2: Well, this game, you didn't have to target Richie.
Speaker 5: You could just you could go after Robin Aj, and
Robin Aj did a really good job. I also feel
like to the point of Arizona's three point shooting, the
Dominique miss at the end of a half was tough.
I do feel like though Byu was in some good
positions to defend some of those threes. It kind of
felt like Arizona was in a flow last night shooting
three point wise.
Speaker 2: They were they everybody was sitting.
Speaker 5: There like, I don't even think by you played that
bad defensively. For at least the first half when they
were knocking on those threes, they were in position shar
Tchenkov and and adel orso they were just they were
just knocking them down. And again with this Arizona team,
it's like they just have a plethora of options.
Speaker 2: Now what's tough is this is a.
Speaker 5: Team that the the big criticism was, well, they don't
shoot enough threes. Well, their argument back was, it's not
that we can't, we just don't have to. That's not
something we have to pull out of the tool belt.
So what I learned about BU last night is they
played better than I thought they were going to without
Richie Sanders. And I waffle back and forth of is
this a moral victory because you came into Tucson without
Richie Saunders and you were very close to beating a
top five team in America. Sure, However, when you get
to the tournament, there's no moral victories. There's no if
would have, could have, should have. It's just did you
win or did you not win the game. And unfortunately,
not having Richie Saunders, like they don't give you extra points. Oh,
you lost your best player, here's a couple extra points,
like they don't give you that. And the issue last
night was the same that the issue has been all season,
which is you can play close with the big dogs,
but you can't beat a single big dog. And so
I guess you could say, well, maybe this gives you
confidence if they played this close with Arizona, that they
could beat some of the bad teams they'll see in
the tournament.
Speaker 2: Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Defense is on an issue, Ben, I think that's what
you'll take away, that the defense is the problem. Ben,
I mean and Robbie Macombs that put this out and
I went back and I looked at it. What Bau
was averaging and doing offensively would have led the NCAA
I think once or twice in the last couple of
years in offensive production. But defensively is that's that's the issue.
And I did learn this about Arizona two beIN and
I think we have to tip our cap. Arizona proved
why they can win a national championship and why they
might do it, ye, why they might go to their
first final four since what two thousand and one? Because Ben,
you don't have Coe Pete. That's a that's a lottery pick.
Burry's shot terribly. You know, Brawley didn't get off, he
was facilitating. He showed why he's an NBA player, and
they had two guys cook like that's what happened. You know,
in BA, you couldn't stop it. I was watching saying, Okay,
Tommy Lloyd is a very good coach. He he does
really well. And this Arizona team is that you you
should fear Arizona. And I say that you didn't believe
that earlier, but what you saw last night Ben proved
why Arizona I think will be in the Elite eate
competing for a Final four opportunity.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, look, this is the thing.
Speaker 3: There has been, I believe, over the last two years,
a bit of a conglomeration of talent at the highest level,
at the highest schools.
Speaker 2: Like some of these teams are are stacked.
Speaker 3: They are some of the best teams collectively that have
ever been I think showcased in college basketball.
Speaker 2: They're stacked.
Speaker 3: Why because you know, some of them have a robust
nil offering. Some of them have a combination of that
with great coaching, instability and brand and culture. And all
of that allows you to aggregate talent, and I think
there's some good continuity in some of these elite teams
as well. So to your point, you brought up some metrics,
how Bay's offensive metrics would be some of the best
in college basketball for the last few years. It LAIDs
us down the path of Okay, we know we can
score buckets, but we're also going to get some elite
teams in the Big twelve, so our defense is still
an issue. What did we do in the off season?
What did be what you do in the office. They
went out and tried to get more defensive centric players,
and then they went out and find They tried to
find some shooters because they knew that AJ was going
to be able to penetrate draw doubles, Richie was gonna
be able to penetrate and draw doubles. Rob was going
to be able to penetrate and draw doubles. That's what
they went out and tried to do. Kudos to Justin Young,
Doug Stewart, and and the rest of the staff for
going out and putting together the good staff. What I
know about this team is and I'm not trying to
give them any sort of like leash here. There needs
to be accountability, because there needs to be accountability. But
you got like five season ending injuries. Yeah, it just sucks.
It's like like I said, like I want BAU to
be meet the standard, but when you look at it objectively,
it's like you got five season ending injuries. Dawson would help, Okay, Hey,
Dowson would help a lot.
Speaker 2: Richie.
Speaker 3: I mean even with with Richie, you could still kind
of at certain things, say defensively or offensively, the ball
gets a little sticky defensively, don't close out quick enough,
all those things. I get it, But you're still like
you're you're still competitive. Like I'm wondering how competitive b
why you can be with the upper rational on of
college basketball when they're on in full force. Obviously they're competitive,
they just were competiti versus you of A. But you
know when we get into MC doublea play and will
Ky why be able to figure it out. So taking
it all into account I'm not fretting. I'm just sad
that b why you had so many injuries, and many
of you are going to point out the weakness systematically,
and maybe you can make an argument that the defensive coordinator.
Speaker 2: Whoever is now overseeing that.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they've been open and forthright about
who's really managing if it's Tim Fanning.
Speaker 2: Or Will Void. Will Void was.
Speaker 3: Was initially dubbed like that that peel and switch guy
the defensive coordinator. I don't know if Tim Fanning is
now operating over the defense. Remember when Ky came in
as the head coach, He's like, I'm excited to do both.
I've typically been the offensive guy. Remember that. Remember k
Y came in and remember and he said, Hey, you know,
I'm excited to like look at all of it and
manage all of it.
Speaker 2: I want to be on the defense side of the wall.
Speaker 3: Maybe we just you know, is it a personnel thing
or is it a scheme thing? Is it an effort thing?
Is it a culture thing defensively? Is it a managed
load management thing? Is it conserving energy type of thing?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: We went to a two three zone, and I've been
asking for it. You Vey was, as you pointed out,
hammer time they were hitting, Dude, like they're hitting, there's hitting, man,
I mean anything.
Speaker 2: It seemed like they were hunking up and they were hitting.
So they was like, oh you get a three, You
get a three.
Speaker 4: It was NBA jams, NBA jam last it was what
b YU was last year.
Speaker 2: Man, you just feel like they couldn't miss.
Speaker 4: But to your point about Tim and Fanning and Will Void,
you know, talking to Tim on the pregame show, if
he's in charge of the coverages, but Bill Voyd is
overseeing that still charge of accountability, both of them still
is not getting done. So not the police.
Speaker 3: Yeah, his primary we do know that his primary schematical
assistance are his professional acquisitions, which are Will Void and
Tim Fanning.
Speaker 2: That's who he brought in absolute to run the scheme.
You know, John, I feel like John's more of the
the on ball technique. Ball technique guys. Yeah, he's trying
to he's trying to. I mean, he's.
Speaker 3: He's trying to get the most out of Rob right
the third, He's trying to get the most out of
Cannard Davis from a ten Richard that's what. Yeah, he's
trying to get those guys really dialed in on how
to get just close out to adjust to ball screens. Yeah,
you know, and in discussing the techn within the scheme
to maximize it does that make sense to maximize efficiency?
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe you can put it on him, maybe
you can't, But you know there, do you see a
cardiovascular issue with this team?
Speaker 2: Do you see a wind issue?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: I just frankly, there's some guys who defensively, they can't
keep a body in front of him, and that's why
they get in foul trouble. And I don't want to
name names or anybody, but like, there are some guys
on this team who, like, my athleticism is just better
than yours, and I'll always get ahead of you. And
that's why you saw a couple of times last night
certain individuals got beat and then wrap up foul go
to the free throw line Like I they're just because
the depth has been tested.
Speaker 2: So much more than we thought.
Speaker 5: Like some of these guys, I just don't think are
the defenders that you would you necessarily want.
Speaker 3: Even when you did, like defend well, block shots for
really highly contested shots. Another glaring issue is just you
can't get defensive. Hadeem Boop got foul on that final rebound,
like he got demolished, but like he looked like a
little baby deer just getting pushed over by a moose,
like a full grown moose in the paint.
Speaker 5: You know, is a big he looks like he looks
like he should be playing football, Like he looks too big.
Speaker 2: He's got a zachy kind of feel to him. Done,
he's just big.
Speaker 4: He's big, and he was the strongest, if not stronger,
like that's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean so it sucked. I mean, like we're
right there to get the rebound.
Speaker 2: It's like a five to six point game.
Speaker 3: We get possession a minute left and we can't get
the damn rebound. Hadiem's right there. I mean he's right there,
and yeah he got foulded. But like big boys put
on the big boy pants and come down.
Speaker 2: With that rebound. They just do. I go back to that.
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, we got an opportunity here, and then
what do we do? We get the ball bag, we
still have a chance, and aj gets lack a daisical.
He throws it with his left hand after kind of
getting stymied coming off the off the bounce to the
right wing.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was stupid, youth, you know what I mean?
Can I rip someone? Okay? And I look and look
a thirty five I'm sitting there. It's like, these are
critical situations.
Speaker 4: With the one you get stripped by the seven foot
like you got.
Speaker 3: When you're when you're that small, you have to be
very judicious. You got to be a really good you
got to be really good at carrying the ball in
a quick and efficient and like very fast.
Speaker 2: Manner so it doesn't look like a carry, does that
make sense? Or you have to literally lower your.
Speaker 3: Ass to six inches above the court and dribble like
like in centimeters, like you know, like you're quick dribble
when you're growing up, you're just like with a fingertail,
You're like, you gotta get that low because most of
those wings they struggle to bend at the waist and
lower centigraph and get down that low. It's one of
two things when you are the Tim Hardaway style point
guard that is rob Wright that and he's been ripped
too many times this year when he's in that traffic versus,
in my opinion, you know individuals that probably shouldn't be
ripping him as much as he has been ripped.
Speaker 2: But look like I'm nitpicking here.
Speaker 3: I'm nitpicking, but these are critical times and it's it's
happened too often during critical times. Also, let me critique
Coastick Coastic. You got to be very jenicius about where
you're passing the ball and a j you need to
maybe wall off and seal off when you're calling for
the damn ball.
Speaker 2: Goodness gracious does that?
Speaker 3: I mean, hey, Coasting, I'd rather have Coast to shoot
than than probably passed. If you get a wife, if
you get it like a semi good looking I mean,
you're better off just hucking it up.
Speaker 2: Especially he got pulled right away. I felt bad for Coasting. Coasting.
You're a shooter, man, shoot shoot.
Speaker 3: Maruss can't hit a shot right now, Mihilo can't hit
a shot.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, I mean they all get pulled.
Speaker 3: Man, that you can see there's so much distrust between.
Speaker 2: K Why and his bench. Mihilo had some wide open
looks the three that he missed. Anyway.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what I'm saying is like, there's absolutely no trust
that kay Why in his in his bench, because when
you get pulled so quickly, they's like, geh, I need
somebody else, I need somebody else, somebody somebody, Please, for
the love of all that's holy.
Speaker 2: Someone get out there.
Speaker 3: It make good decisions I mean, have you seen that
how quick the leash is.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's like, oh yeah.
Speaker 4: It's I could tell you Mark Pope. Remember the game
against Utah Noel Water when it was oer seven. I
think Trevor Nill didn't hit a three, and at least
Mark Pope left him out there, right, Ben to just
keep trying, Like I hate to bring that point up,
but I mean think about it, remember that game, Like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mark Pope would let some guys go. He would
just let guys go, like I'm not trying to.
Speaker 4: Maybe look, I don't know right, Kevin's making the big bucks, Ben,
but I'm kind of feeling like, all right, I know
they missed three, but just let him keep going. Remember
Canard been in the first half of I can't remember.
Speaker 2: What game it was. He it was a Houston game.
Speaker 4: He missed his first three and then he made what
his last five shot? Like, you gotta let him keep
going sometimes. But you know what that does Because you
talk about distrust, You're right, there's distrust, But you know
what that does, Ben is having someone that played a
college of sport, you get pulled like they're like, oh
a coach, don't trust me. Confidence shattered shattered through the
roof that young You're like even Mihilo who's played at
highest level, Like it's not just.
Speaker 3: You can when Behila, when Coastick turned the ball over,
he just he looked and he kind of clapped his
hands and he just ran to the bed.
Speaker 2: I'm out.
Speaker 3: He didn't even go he didn't even really go after
the ball, like he didn't like scrambled, like if I
turned the ball over. Guys, I'm running as fast as
I can. I already know I'm probably gonna get pulled.
I'm gonna go foul somebody.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go make it worth it, even if you
know you have no shot at catching.
Speaker 3: I'm following that ill advised passed that probably should have
been walled off by.
Speaker 2: A j bumping into you know what i mean, Like,
you know I'm.
Speaker 3: Running hard because I know how coach is gonna view
that on tape. I'm at least getting bot number. I'm
throwing his shoulder into somebody. I'm put it right under
the chin. You know, I'm gonna go foul somebody. I'm
gonna make it worth it. I'm gonna make that turnover
worth it, you know what I mean. I'm gonna make
you buy that turnover. Anyway, this is not a bad
basketball team. Once again, happiness is determined satisfaction in life
and in BYU basketball is determined by our expectations, ladies
and gentlemen, boys and girls. That is the nature of
it all. The problem is the bar was said extremely high.
It was aj preseasons like Natty, We're like, yeah.
Speaker 2: We're just like, hey, possibly, let's get to a final four.
Let's get to an lead eight, Let's get to a
sweet sixteen. That is our quota. Yeah, we gotta get
back to the sweet sixteen.
Speaker 3: Now, we're like, let's just not embarrass ourselves in the
round of sixty four. Let's get to the tournament and
let's not embarrass it. Let's get to the round of thirty.
We're to the point where we're like, are we around
a thirty two team?
Speaker 5: Which team did you have more confidence in winning game
one of the tournament?
Speaker 2: This year's team.
Speaker 5: Or Mark Pope's last year, because I think it's a
lot closer than.
Speaker 2: It should be. Yeah, huh are you talking?
Speaker 3: You're talking about Jackson Robinson and that team that lost
the first round. Yeah, to the shame to your Yeah, yep,
and Lebron brand new shoes.
Speaker 2: And I think this team is probably the pick.
Speaker 5: But I'm telling you, I think that is a closer
debate than it should be.
Speaker 2: Can we have a real debate?
Speaker 6: Ben?
Speaker 2: Yeah, would last year's team be able to beat this
year's team? Yeah? Oh yeah?
Speaker 4: Right now, He's like, it's just it feels like, you know,
it's just it's it's just tough.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 4: But I'm with Brad. I'm not gonna lie like I
am more worried. And I never thought I would say
this about this year. And look, I'm saying, based on talent,
coaching and everything that they even invest in it, they
have that should they should be in the sweet sixteen.
But what I feel in what I'm seeing right now
is that I'm worried that this team might they might
not work out well even in the first round game.
Like I'm gonna be honest, like they because March Madness
teams get hot. Ben, if they get a guy that
gets hot shooting and they can't stop him, as I think,
and I still believe there'll be a sixth seed, or
let's say they dropped to a seventh. A ten seed
can upset a seventh seed. We've seen it before, or
could they be a first round exit? That's not hyperbole,
like your concern now if they don't win on Saturday
at Iowa State. By the way, you want to hear
this one and six against a p poles top twenty
five teams this year, I think or if that's absurd, right,
But I'm nervous. I'm more nervous for this year's team
than the twenty twenty three team because we thought the
twenty twenty three team easily been will win at least
one game this seat. Now we're wondering can they even
win the rest of the season. That's what worried about,
Like can you been like can they beat Iowa State?
Speaker 2: They got a gauntlet on the road.
Speaker 4: They gotta go to West Virginia then Cincinnati, like they
lost the Cincinnati last year when they went there.
Speaker 2: West Virginia's knocked off some pretty good teams. I know
Utah got them right.
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna get points. I think they can
continue to score. They're two good offensively between I think
those three. Now the new Big three I think is
actually gonna step into a bigger role offensively and begin
to get downhill, get to the rim and finish. And
I'm excited about that, Actually, I really am. I think
he can Cannard's Cannard's a good basketball player. He is,
he can be, and he was last year. There's a
reason why they went out and got him. And so
Canard is gonna have to fill some bigger shoes at
six six two fifteen. He can handle, he can he
can shoot when he gets into his groove, he can finish,
he can hit free throws.
Speaker 2: He was a good player last year at SIU.
Speaker 3: He really was one of the He was one of
the better players in the transfer portal.
Speaker 2: Remember he was averaging.
Speaker 3: I want to say he was almost at like twenty
points a game at times, like towards the end of
the season. I mean he had twenty six, twenty one,
twenty four, nineteen twenty two, and in the final game
versus Drake he had he had only ten. But he
can be a volume guy. He just got to get
into his groove. He's got to get to the free
throw line a little bit more often. And by the way,
some of his best games las ye when he was
getting to the charity stride right, some of his best performances.
I mean, he was averaging you know, at least four
to six free throws per game. So he's getting to
the line a few times and that's what we need
to see from Canard. Anyway, that segment, guys, we're gonna
get into some sound, so stay tuned.
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these corporate sponsors that have given the the the cash
in order to bring in some really good basketball players.
Are are they disappointed in their ROI right now? Or
are they giving grace to k Why and the Cougar
basketball team because of the season ending injuries to Dawson,
to Richie, to Brody, to Nate Pickens. To save you
on Stton Kaba has a concussion and hand issue.
Speaker 2: He's got all these injuries.
Speaker 3: Is there grace or are they like, man, you have
not met the standard Ky and this Boe basketball team.
Speaker 5: If you order something from a company, that might up
a little bit more. If you order something from a
company and it gets delayed. Do you care that they're
having an HR crisis? Do you care that Joe Johnson
wasn't in the office and that's why it didn't come
on time?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't.
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these high performing people, they don't give a McK cronin
about whether or not you're having injury issues like they
That doesn't give them more dollars back. There's there's not
an insurance policy to say, oh, you know what, well,
we gave X amount of dollars to so and so
they got injured, so you're gonna get to recoup some
of your money. They're out wins and they're out their money.
So they have no ROI on this at all. And
my guess is as much as they as a human
feel for Kevin Young, they're probably upset because they feel
like their money didn't do.
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b Yu fell short. This is ky and ag de
bonds and postgame versus u of A. Why does your
team have the ability to shrink leads at the end
of the games. Isn't this the mantra of BYU? Isn't
this the motto of BWAU basketball? Get down late or
get down early and come roaring back late. Why is
it that your team has the ability to shrink leads
at the end of games.
Speaker 2: But not so much at the beginning.
Speaker 6: I don't think that was the case in this game.
Speaker 8: I mean, I thought it was a neck and neck game,
and they got a little spread by getting a few
offensive rebounds where they got that lead. So that's a
fair question because it's happened. I didn't think what you're
referring to. I didn't think was the case tonight from
a from a standpoint, Oh why didn't you do that sooner?
In terms of our ability to not quit? We just
got the competitive guys, you know, and you know, I
think we have a lot of belief in ourselves no
matter the situation that we find ourselves in, and that
was the case tonight. But but again, I mean, that's
a really good basketball team, right, So it's not like
you can just say, oh, go do this and then
it's gonna work.
Speaker 6: Right. You got obviously.
Speaker 8: Give them a lot of credit because they had a
lot of guys that stepped up.
Speaker 3: A Greer disagree with that assessment. He said, Look, I
thought it was a neck and neck game. They got
a few offensive rebounds and we got it to sixteen.
Was this same similar to what we've seen this season
from BAU basketball.
Speaker 5: I don't think so, because I think what the reporter
was referring to is BYU struggles it in first halves
and then shows up late in the second half. I
don't feel like BHYU struggled in the first half. In fact,
on the contrary, I think that's one of the best
halves they've played offensively and defensively all season. So while
I think that statement is true as a whole about
the team, that's not The reason that BYU was down.
Speaker 2: In this game is because they struggled in the first half.
Speaker 3: Your thoughts, Ronald three Man, we were real quick agree
or disagree with that assessment from ky.
Speaker 4: I agree with Kevin Young's statement right there, as like
Brett said, Look, I understand as a whole in games, yes,
that's been kind of their mantra, but they weren't. I
mean what, they went down seven and a halftime and
probably should have went down four. If we're gonna be honest, no,
I think that's an inaccurate statement for this particular game,
But in totality that is the identity, but no, not
for this game.
Speaker 3: Five minutes remaining. What they were down sixteen? Right, sixteen?
Five minutes remaining. I don't care how you get there.
I'm gonna all push back here. I was like, you're
still down sixteen with five minutes remaining. Sure, I don't
care about the halves. I care about the margins. And
when you're you're in the second half and you're down
sixteen and you come roaring back to make it respectful,
that's Ba basketball.
Speaker 2: So I would say that he's still be Away basketball.
Speaker 3: How you get down, whether it's in the first half
or in the second half, doesn't matter to me. You're
down sixteen, okay, sixteen points with five minutes remaining, and
you did. You got it within a couple of possessions
to possessions.
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 2: But couldn't get a defensive rebound.
Speaker 3: Couldn't get a defensive rebound when you needed it most
after a really good defensive effort, a really good contestant
shot from Keba. Keba had a few nice, really nice blocks.
You know, I don't cay Keba had a couple of putbacks.
We're beginning. One silver lining is I think with the
increased minutes of Keba. We did see a little bit
more of that put back Keba and that shot blocking
Keba when he was healthy, strong, nourished and strengthened. Did
you see flashes of that Keba Keda last night? I
think you did, and that got me a little bit
jazz and I saw Kennard put it on the bounce.
You know, it takes you to take to the rim finished.
That should have been an and one, by the way,
should have been an and one with the body body blow.
Speaker 2: It is what it is. AJ.
Speaker 3: Let's get to your sound bite. AJ, you had a
great night tonight. What did you see on the floor
that allowed that.
Speaker 2: To be aggressive early?
Speaker 10: Obviously Richie's out when he brings a lot of scoring,
a lot of aggressiveness. So I just tried to mimic
what he gave us and try to dis instill in
the meet because with Dona.
Speaker 2: Guy trying to do as Richie would do. AJ was
really smooth with it. He was nice.
Speaker 3: He was very smooth with it for both of you.
How are you dealing with Richie being heard and getting
around that?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I mean it sucks, there's no getting around it,
you know, Richie Saunders.
Speaker 8: I think epitomizes everything that's good about college basketball.
Speaker 6: Hate that he's not out there with us.
Speaker 8: You know, texted him on the way to shoot around,
just you know, just thinking about him and missing him.
So but this is a resilient group, you know. I
just told the guys, you know, I've been doing this
for I don't know. I think this is my either
twenty first or twenty second year in coaching. I never
had four guys get hurt for the season, you know.
So we're going through it, and that's that's part of
going through That's sports, you know, that's life. You hit adversity.
And so I'm proud of our guys for their effort
tonight and their effort and practice the last couple of days.
We're trying to reinvent ourselves kind of on the fly,
and I think there's a lot of good things that
happened tonight. You know, super disappointed we weren't able to
get to win, but you know, we gotta We got
a locker room that's not gonna go away. I can
tell you that right now. And that's gonna be a
dogfight every time you play BYU. And we're gonna we're
gonna keep pounting that rock and then until it breaks,
and it will break for.
Speaker 2: Us even.
Speaker 3: We're gonna keep on pounding that rock till it breaks.
How much optimism do you have hearing those words from
k Y Brett and then Ronnie.
Speaker 2: That's the second time he said that.
Speaker 5: By the way we heard him say it, I think
a week ago in media availability.
Speaker 2: I don't know how.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know how much I'm believing in it
because at this point I haven't been shown it.
Speaker 2: But I will say that's a hell of a quote
to say, every.
Speaker 5: Time you play dB YU, it's going to be a dogfight.
And to his credit, b YU has yet to be
blown out this season. Now, sometimes they've basically had to
blow out and then push the lead. But this isn't
a team that ever has any quit in it, And to.
Speaker 2: That I respect.
Speaker 5: And it's hard because I feel like everything negative we
say I have to qualify with. But they have four
to five season ending injuries, so you have to take
some of it with a grain of salt. But at
the end of the day, I think you have to
adjust your expectations if you're a b YU fan. You
talked about earlier expectations that can be the killer or
the believer. This is a team that we expected to
go to a final four. Now, this is a team
that we didn't expect them, but we believed that they had.
Speaker 3: What was the what was their floor to start the
season with every thing healthy, everything strong, first round tournament win.
I feel like the floor was probably, yeah, probably a
round to thirty two. Yeah, right, that's kind of what
it felt like. Sure, I felt like the floor was
round to thirty two. Seedling was Final four.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So you have to adjust your expectations because the
team that you started the season with is not the
team you're currently looking at today. And if these were
just temporary injuries and you knew guys were coming back,
then I think you could waffle a little bit and say, well,
they could do this, but also you could do this.
It's hard because you want to live with the same expectations,
but you have a new team that you have to
set those for. And that's where it gets really tough.
As someone who watches this buoy basketball team.
Speaker 2: Without Richie, it was still the AJ and Rob Show.
Speaker 3: Offensively, guys, do you have any concerns with the lack
of scoring elsewhere?
Speaker 8: Of course, you know I thought thought Move had some
nice plays. We were running some actions for him that
were advantageous. You know, Tyler and Alex got to come
in and knock shots down. My Highland's got a knock
shots down. But you know, A J and Rob have
been our catalysts all year and will continue to be.
And you know, we'll try to continue to examine where
we can get help other guys, put them in, put
them in positions where they can.
Speaker 6: They can also be effective. But uh, it's just a
hand we're delt right.
Speaker 3: Now, he mentioned Move, I actually saw My other silver
lining in this game is probably Moo.
Speaker 2: I think he's trending in the right direction right now
with more action.
Speaker 3: Like I loved that final finish of his coming off
that that high screen, putting it on the on the
on the on the wood, and and just in finishing
versus a seven footer bro that was impressive in crunch time.
That's a that's a massive bucket and it should have
been an and one. It should have been an and one.
They're letting him play whatever should have been an add one.
I actually, I think it's a silver line to me.
I I I saw some some good from Keva and
I saw some good from MoU It made me a
little bit more optimistic, I'll be honest moving forward, How
do you get more out of Canard in these late
game situations with Saunders being out?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I thought tonight, you know, we we
it was clear we were running stuff for him, you know,
which is uh, you know, I give him a lot
of credit because in a lot of ways, you know,
he was brought in here to do a role that
was a lot different than the role he had last year.
You know, we were trying to use him as a
three and D kind of catch and shoot guy, and
really he's got a lot more to offer than that.
So in a lot of ways I've kind of you know,
held him hostage, and now he's uh, you know, he's
free to to make a lot more plays and we're
gonna need every bit of it. I think the way
he's handled things and has been good.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 8: To answer your specific question, I just think is trying
to run a few more things for him like we
did tonight.
Speaker 2: There you go, that's k why discussing, Uh are you
guys at all? Are you guys more optimist about Canard
and his role offensively? Now?
Speaker 3: That he's getting actually point blank looks and able to
do a little bit more than just pick and pop,
catch and shoot.
Speaker 5: I mean, if I see it, Yeah, I still haven't
seen it yet, and I'm this far and honestly, like,
even if I did see it, does that now make
this like I don't.
Speaker 2: Feel like that fixes all the issues?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So again, I still need to see it, and even
if I do see it, I still have other questions
that are not Kennard Davis.
Speaker 3: Coach, Were you surprised how well they shot the three
ball because they have so much strength in the pain
that's not necessarily their thing as of late in the season.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, look, we said that they were going
to have to make threes to beat us, and they
did and so.
Speaker 6: And we want to make other guys beat us. You
have to give del Orso credit.
Speaker 8: You know, he hasn't had a great year, and statistically
he shot the heck out of the ball tonight, so
you have to give him credit.
Speaker 6: And was I surprised by it?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 6: I was, Well, that's life.
Speaker 8: Shots go in and you got to keep competing and
and uh, you know, like I said, you just have
to give their guys credit for stepping up and knocking
them down.
Speaker 3: Congratulations, UFA, you did it at the McHale Center. You
hit a bunch of reeves you mentioned you did, uh,
you did like a lot of things from your team
last night.
Speaker 2: Can you expeund on.
Speaker 6: That for sure? Just our attitude number one.
Speaker 8: You know, you're playing against a storied program who's having
a fantastic year. Obviously they were down guys too, but
you're in their house. We know how tough it is
the player. You know, at least you know for me
coming back my second time, it's a great venue. So
just our our our response, our our compete, our want
to I thought was very high. You know, in a
matter of two and a half days, we kind of upheaving,
you know, upheaved our offense where we started doing things
we haven't done all year. And I thought some things
that we did tonight were executed extremely well. Just get
in the situation we're in, so you know, those are
things that we'll look to build on.
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, I do think there were some good things
last night. Look, there was times of optimism in my
heart and in my mind. Kevin, your thoughts on Arizona
losing p JG toppings out. Your guy Richie Saunders is
out little unusual in your opinion, what's going on in
the Big Twelve.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's unusual.
Speaker 8: But I mean, you know, we've all followed and played
sports our whole lives, and unfortunately, injuries are part of
the game, so and so is adversity, and so you
just have to you have to figure it out and
you gotta find ways. And you know, I thought AJ
did a lot of good things to night trying to
carry our group. You know, when you have guys go down,
you know, like they had guys step up too right
and and and to the top end point like Texas Texas,
and I have to have guys step up, and.
Speaker 6: You know, unfortunately that's uh, you know, sports can be
can be brutal.
Speaker 8: But but that being said, that being said, what one
thing I do want to say quickly is just I've
really appreciated like the brotherhood of the Big Twelve coaches.
You know, I got I got several really heartfelt texts
from several of the head coaches in our league about Ritchie.
I shot a few out myself to Texas Tech and
just really.
Speaker 6: Appreciate like the just the brotherhood. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: A band of brothers in the Big Twelve. If you
will your thoughts on those comments, Brett I was bringing
the hammer.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So when I tease at the beginning of the show
that that was one of the worst questions I'd ever heard,
that was the one I as a frank two. Now,
what I will say is I want to give a
lot of credits Kevin Young for not taking it as
a dumb question, and I want to give him a
lot of credit for turning a not great question into
a really positive answer with saying like, hey man, everybody
has reached out to me, all these coaches, the band
of brothers here in the Big twelve's incredible. I want
to give Kevin Young credit for that. But let me
just everyone who's listening. If I were to ask you,
as a head coach in the Big Twelve, hey man,
everybody's getting injured season ending injuries. What do you think's
going on there? You think that's unusual? What conclusion could
you possibly come to? Yeah, man, there's just this conspiracy
among the Big Twelve conference. There's this weird drink like like,
I don't I don't know what connection you could draw
to say, oh, that's why so and so's injured? That's
why so and so's injured because the Big Twelve is
like I think the.
Speaker 3: Better question would have been to focus on b YU,
like why is it that BYU has five season suries?
Speaker 5: And that, to me, you has been asked yet I
don't I bet it hasn't that to me could actually
speak to is.
Speaker 3: It a strength and conditioning issue? Is a nutrition issue?
It's something that's occurring, pregame, what's going on? How is
Kevin Young supposed to speak to? Why Coop and JT
Toppin are injured?
Speaker 6: What? Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, there's a substation at Big twelve headquarters and
when we all go there, we all contract this virus
and that's why all Like what could he possibly have
given you as an answer that would have popped and
make you been like, yeah, man, I'm the one who
asked that.
Speaker 2: I just think that was a really dumb question.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I like I like the criticism from hammer time sometimes.
I love it when he gets constructions constructively critical.
Speaker 2: In fact, it's my favorite bread. In fact, I just
again like I.
Speaker 5: When you learn, when you do sideline, you learn to
ask good questions because if you and I was interviewing
Amber Whiting when I first started. And Amber Whiting is
not a woman who like she's She's very straightforward. If
you ask a dumb question, she's not gonna be rude,
but she's not gonna like make it up for you.
Kevin Young turned that bad question into a good answer,
and I just think as media, as media professionals, we
need to do better about asking good questions. That was
the one thing when Spencer Linton was training me to
be a sideline reporter. That was the thing he drilled
and drilled the wax on mister Yadi. It was ask
good questions. And and every day after after every game,
I called the Spencer Linton. We would say there for
thirty minutes and talk about the questions and why I
asked this question and whether and I sometimes I thought it.
Speaker 2: Was Spencer would say that was a stupid question. He'd
be like, why are you even doing? You're an idiot.
Speaker 5: I could give give up, I could give a rat
about what the other team's student section.
Speaker 2: Thanks Bratt so so yeah, I think that was a
dumb question.
Speaker 5: But good on Kevin Young for being patient, not being
mick Ronan, and forgiving a shout out to the.
Speaker 2: Rest of the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: Coach, I've never in my entire media career ever asked
a stupid question. Yes, some of them are just amazing,
just on point bat one thousand, imperfect in everything.
Speaker 4: Oh man, look, I'm invincible now because I asked how
Whittingham been the perfect question? So I have a leeway
forever if I ever asked a dumb question because I
got that.
Speaker 2: You can hang your hat on that one for a
long time. Are you talking about your your your Kyle
Whittingham questions? I owe it to you. But I'm the
goat now I can. I can ask whatever dumb question,
like what type of what type of feedback have you
gotten about that question?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Everybody loved it. Okay, Look, I gotta be very careful
what I say. I'll just say this. I like to
tease the fans.
Speaker 4: I received information for someone close to the program saying, bro,
you the goat for asking that question.
Speaker 2: Close quote. That's all I'm someone close to b y you.
That's all.
Speaker 4: I've gotta say that, very close to the program. They said,
you're the goat for asking that question.
Speaker 2: Leave it?
Speaker 4: They say, is this this is your voice at it? Yeah,
it's you yeah you would ask that. Noah, you so,
but but there you go. But then you know you
don't ask dumb questions. You asked Mark Pope sometimes about
Trey Stewart not check into a ball game without trying
to do it, and all your colleagues say, Ron, do better,
don't ask that question.
Speaker 2: Asked it an oppressor? All right? So that all follow
that the person that that that gave you love on that?
Did you say? Actually, Ben scripted that out for me?
I did, yeah, absolutely, yeah, all right, we live died,
we live and die. I just said, I you say
you script of the question? Did I not say that before?
God said? Did you respond that way? Right?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 10: You know me?
Speaker 2: I get bet and no question, no, no, no, And
I said, I I like to ask on his questions.
Speaker 4: But I said, Ben and I chatted about it for
like fifteen minutes and then and then I really told him.
I said, I gotta stop talking because I don't reveal
too much, but I'll tell you A been in private.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was it was funny. That's awesome, man,
it was a good it was a good question. We
we handled that quite judiciously.
Speaker 3: Ad Let's get in a couple of sound byes here
a j How do you balance scoring and playmaking for others,
especially as you're ending the season with the NCAA tournament
around the corner.
Speaker 10: I'm a natural playmaker. I believe I grew up actually
like playing the point, so it comes pretty natural to me.
Just you know, just learning how to do it quicker.
Now on at the next level. One guys, yoble me.
Just try to get off a quicker so guys and
get easier shots, and the just spread it out from
all of us.
Speaker 3: By the way, I was talking about the h the
season ending injuries. My guy, your bloodshe Utah protected film.
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background is physical therapy, uh and also human performance. He
was training guys at his facility for protas and combines
and off seasons, trying to maximize their athletic ability, range
of motion, forceouth's output, pliability, elasticity. You know, he was
really a game changer in that field nights with BYU
brought him in. Killane was like, I need this guy.
I want this guy, got him in and now he's
part of the bou football program.
Speaker 2: You wonder is there a gap there? What's going on there? Now?
Speaker 3: K why has built a robust I mean their strength,
the conditioning coaches Milwaukee Bucks coach right, I mean their
nutritionists is from the Phoenix Suns and they got a
great athletic training staff. But you wonder, like, okay, well
maybe we need to implement that director over human Performance
and physical.
Speaker 2: Therapy titled as well.
Speaker 3: We'll see if they they acquire a doctor Skyler Maine
type in the off season.
Speaker 2: Now, last couple of things here before we go to break.
Speaker 3: Does the prospect of changing the lineups the rest of
your way give you optimism with the tough slate the rest.
Speaker 2: Of the way?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it does give me optimism because I thought our
execution I was. I was pleasantly surprised at how well
we executed some of the new stuff we tried. But look, man,
everything's on the table, you know not. And I won't
sit here make it story time, but like this is
something I'm a lot very used to. I got a
coach in the minor least for nine years. You know,
I've had I had two of my best players called
up right before a game before when I was a
coach in that league.
Speaker 6: And you gotta you have to reinvent yourself.
Speaker 8: You have to keep things really simple when you're going
through that, and uh, and then you got to rely
on talented guys like AJ and Rob to to have
an understanding of what the kind of the new things.
Speaker 6: Are and why you're doing them and to go out
and be able to produce.
Speaker 3: So Mahilo got the start. I don't know if that's
the answer. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, But yeah, man,
it's uh what he got, pulled what six seven minutes
into the first half. But Mihilo he was ineffective. Like,
I don't even know how good Mohilo was defensively. So
I think kid knows his team and he doesn't have
much confidence in any of them. He doesn't have much
confidence in any of the guys coming off the bench,
any of the role players. Right now, he has trust
and AJ, Rob and Canard and it's it's obvious, and
I think he's showing like he wants Keba to get
more minutes, and he just wants him to be healthy.
Like and Keva showed like he can be a guy.
Speaker 2: He can be a dude. He's just he's just limited.
He's just very limited.
Speaker 3: So he doesn't He's got three guys that he loves,
a fourth that he would love if he was healthy,
and then nobody else that he trusts. He doesn't trust
anybody else besides.
Speaker 2: Those four guys. That's it.
Speaker 3: Tell me I'm wrong. Who else does he actually like
on his roster? He's over there looking at Justin. He's like, look,
I don't know how all the strengthing decid. I don't
know how all my best players got injured. My support
players got injured. But you know they're the rest of
this team is boo boo.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna plead the fifth on this one. I'm gonna
plead the fifth because I I yeah, I'm pleading the
fifth on this one. He doesn't like any of his
is his support uh players, I guess's bench.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Kepa was more impactful silver lining here down the stretch.
How big was this uh this game for him getting
back into the swing of things.
Speaker 8: That's a fantastic point. I think it would be huge.
You know, he's a guy, you know, he's going through
a lot. You know, he's had some injuries, he's had
some stuff going on, and for him to kind of
battle through it, I thought he just you know, lost
himself in the game tonight.
Speaker 6: Which was good.
Speaker 8: Made some huge plays that were very Caba esque that
we're used to, you know, and we're gonna we need
every bit of that. He's a he's a big time competitor, competitor,
beautiful young man. And I was happy that he was
able to have some success tonight, and I really hope
to your question that it is a springboard for him
for the rest of the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's that was my takeaway through watching it.
I was like, that's Cape, that's capa. Didn't he have
like four block shots four block shots. He had a
couple of putbacks where he just rim rocked. It just
looked fantastic there. If he could hit free throws and
if he had any like a a semblance something that
would resemble a back to the basket offensive game, even
if he every time, even if every time he got
the ball in the low post he just just faced
up and had a jab step and then tried to
get to the rim and put like and put it
up there like. He could probably get to the free
throw line a bunch that little jab. You know that
because he's got twitch and shake. That's one thing if
I had one thing that I would have worked on him,
if I was if I was the developer of talent
at Byu, I would have worked on his back to
the basket game. But it was not back to the basket.
He would literally get back to the basket and then
front up, face up. Every single time that little swing
leg comes out.
Speaker 8: Jab.
Speaker 3: You either go baseline or you take it into the
paint and you you try to get as close to
the rim as possible. Elevate, be an athlete, be bigger, stronger,
and faster than in those guys, try to get fouled
and put it in.
Speaker 2: I'd be fine with that. That's all.
Speaker 3: That's all I need from Kampa, That's all I would need.
Give me that Blake Griffin front facing type of game.
He doesn't even have to You don't have to have
that that that you know, that little uh jump hook
or none of that stuff.
Speaker 2: None of it. We'll go to break, don't go anywhere.
Let's talk stats.
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