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Speaker 1: Love it logan three by my side. Let's get out
to the hotline. What do you say. Let's talk to
some BAU basketball with a former BA Great. Now that's
seven foot from Texas, the Modus veticitas. Uh, he just
dominated us. There's only one man on earth besides my
brother in law that could sluslow that man down and
box him out. And we got him on the line
right now, former b YU Great, the bucket getter himself.
We got Mikelly Wesley on the line of Kelly, how
the heck are you, buddy Hey doing amazing?
Speaker 4: Ben hear from you. I'm excited to talk from Cougar Sports.
Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, appreciate you hopping on. He's also my insurance agent,
by the way. You know I do my insurance with him.
So if you guys needed some insurance plans evaluated and
bid it on, he'll get you covered, no sandsor butts
about it. Mkelly, watching this game last night, were you
as frustrated as I was watching Modus vetitas venicitis. I mean,
I always forget his name, dominate us on the boards
and dominate us in the paint.
Speaker 4: Definitely. I think the whole cougarnation as a whole were
pretty frustrated. And you know what, watching from the outside
in a couple of things that that kind of left
me scratching my head. Was you know, why didn't we
switch up after you know, after you let a guy
get fifteen and eleven in the first half, he had
as many rebounds to our whole team. You know what
you're thinking yourself, Well, maybe they'll come out and pack
in a zone and let's see if tex Us can
shoot and beat us from the three. You know, let's
let's start funning him, let's let's switch some things up.
And it seemed like no adjustments were made. He just kept,
you know, doing his thing. And you know, the interesting
thing is if you look at at our two centers,
you know, Cada, Cada and Ahmed, they played a combined
thirty three minutes, which is identical to what Volcatatas played,
and you know, the production was no nowhere near. I mean,
they combined our guy combined for four rebounds, he had
sixteen on his own. You know, our guys combined for
five points. He had twenty three and probably could have
had well over thirty if he made his frea thos. So, yeah,
I definitely frustrated, which ud have seen, you know, a
few few more adjustments in trying to disrupt him. But
you know, sometimes that's that's the way you can kind
of get locked in and ride with your system that's
been working.
Speaker 1: Look, this is a very talented team. It was it
was shorthanded compared to what we had going into the season.
Obviously Richie's out, Dawson Baker's out, but we didn't lose
any big men this season, right, These were the big
men that we that we had and that we signed
on in the middle of the year, we went to
the G League. We gotta go to the G League
to go find a big man. Like so obviously they
they expected more from Cava, they expected maybe more from
the high Low because he was more of like a
stretch four, maybe stretch five. Mahilo has been a bit
of a disappointment when I'm looking at the bigs. Hadeem
is maybe from an effort standpoint, love his defense and
his rebound, but he's not a true big. He's he's
he's probably more of a three to four than he
is a four man. He has no offensive skill set
besides putbacks, and so like they felt like they knew
what they had with their bigs and they went into
the season without it, and we we had plenty of
opportunity to you of a you could look at that
as you know, lacking some big man support. That was
a that was a loss and multiple losses Houston Texas
Tech with JT. Toppin we were we were out match
on the low block all season long when we got
into the Big twelve, and you wonder what they saw
on the roster that led them to believe, hey, we
got enough guys going into his season.
Speaker 4: Right, And I think that's gonna be a huge area
of concern for Kevin Younganon's staff and offseason and shoring
up that front line and when I say shoring up,
even finding the front line that they can give you
more than what we've gotten. And don't get me wrong,
you know, Cade has had his moments through the year
where he's you know, his help side is amazing. He's
had some spectacular uh block shots and some monster finishes
at the rim and uh uh. But it seems like
the good teams figure out how to expose, you know,
the lack of side, the lack of depth and the
last lack of skill that we have on those you know,
on those four and five positions. Uh and and it
gets more galarian that you know, the better the team
or the you know, the better the system they have
with with their bigs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, I mean Keba Keba is a freak.
I mean he's like he's our b y U version
of like Blake Griffin without like necessarily like a front
facing game like but like lobs and and rebounds and
bark backs and shop locking ability. He's a freak. But
you you know, his concussions hurt him as well as
the hand injury. We didn't we saw a drop off
from Kemba. We saw a drop off from Hilo, and
we didn't see anything from be Doo Ahman. Like we
really didn't have anything in the bigs. And so like
when you see lack of development, you see regression from
the bigs. You know, I tend to, I mean I
would look at the player, what have you've been doing
the off season? Uh? And I look at your health,
But I'm also looking at the coaches. I'm like, what
what's going on? What are we working on in practice?
And this scheme influenced that too, because everyone's just sitting
there watching aj in Iso throughout the entire year. The
teammates are watching them, TV viewers are watching them. The
fans in the stands are watching them, and even defenders
are just watching Aj play io ball.
Speaker 4: Right, you know, and that has a big part of it.
We don't have a guy that you can say, hey,
let me throw you the ball down here in the
low post or run this set for you. And it's
a unique situation because you've got a guy like AJ Debamba,
who's generational guy that of course you're going to be there.
So you know, let's give him a little grace and
in that aspect, because you know it's got it's got
to be tough too, you know, to be in the
right spot, and that's that's really all you can do
is be in the right spot and and be ready,
uh and then crash the glass. You know, I was
really hoping we have we would have developed more of
that two man game because everyone loves seeing you know,
Cable coming down the middle and catching a monster oop.
But again, when you when you're against these these these
better quality teams which you're seeing every other night in
the Big twelve, you know, they've got schemes and game
plans and they can they can take that away. And
so now it's well, I so I sow a j
because good things are going to happen and be ready,
you know for a kickout, and you know it's it's
tough on one guy. And then obviously you know you
never want to make excuses, but but the injuries, if
it's toll but you're right, we didn't really suffer very
many injuries on on the on our up front line.
You know, it's just a lot of games that that
you know, that were tough. We we kind of got
got out played on those positions.
Speaker 1: The other thing that k Y alluded to is maybe
finding some shooters this offseason. We really didn't have anyone
hitting shots for a J and Rob when doubles would come.
Our pick and pop game was lacking, and our corner
three and extended kind of perimeter wing three point shots,
these set shots that you get when blitchs come, when
doubles come, no one was hitting consistently for b Yuh.
They got to go find some shooters as well well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and especially when you factor in I think Dawson
Baker would have had a huge year. I think he
would have filled that role. He's a crafty guy, he's
a knockdown guy. And then obviously, you know we're quick
to forget that that Richie was a knockdown guy and
was shooting the ball very well. And so when you
lose who was, you know, shooting like that, you know
where are you going to find it? And we just
couldn't find another guy to step up and be consistent.
You know, we saw flashes of it, but they weren't
They weren't very often. They seemed like they were a
few and far between.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. Mkelly Wesley, former b YU great,
one of the best big men to ever play at
by You appeared one hundred and fifteen games. He had
one hundred and twelve starts, average thirty minutes per game,
bucket getor fifteen points, five rebounds, one point three assists
and one block per game, and one of the most
well rated stat lines at b WHATYU men's basketball history.
From a big man, I'm sure you would have loved
to play with aj little two man game. Oh.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. The way he draws so much attention, I mean,
you saw it. He was driving on he was double
teamed and monstered. Whenever he got the ball, he was
splitting double teams. There's help on the backside. I mean
it was almost like he was taking on you know,
you five guys from the Longhorns. But I would have
loved to play uh with the guy like aj because
you know, he makes the right read ninety five percent
of the time and honestly down down the stretch.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: Last night, I really thought he should have uh, you know,
he's such an unselfish kid that that he should have
kind of taken over him and been like, you know,
this is my time. No one else is shooting you
know here Rob Wright, and no, it would have been
It would have been absolutely a fun to play with
the guy like that because he does everything, you know,
he defends, he rebounds, and then obviously he's he's probably
the most dynamic score you know that that we've seen
at BUYU for for his size and athleticism. You know,
maybe you can make an argument that the gymmer you
know was a better pure fear score, but you know,
he's pretty elite, no.
Speaker 1: Doubt about it. M kelly, Uh, real quick, tell us
what you do during the when you're not talking cougar
sports with us. Tell us a bit about your insurance
agency and how you can support cougarnation with some insurance coverage.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I got into insurance in two thousand
and nine, so I've been I've been in an agent
with the same agency, Neil Dasher Insurance. My office is
right next door to Progo. I'm in North Warum, across
the street from Harman's. You know, these days, I play
a lot of golf and I brought a lot of
insurance business that I love helping people out, and it
was it was one of those things. I never saw
myself as an insurance guy, but you know, after seventeen
years or something, I'm an insurance guy. So I mainly
specialize in home, auto and business. So you know, if
you need if you shop your rates, we're a broker,
so we have about fifteen carriers that we use. We're
always shopping to see if we can get you the
best coverage at the lowest rates. So if you need
his help with insurance, I'm happy to talk BYU Sports
Utah je As. We're not going to talk about the
U because we don't like them down this way. But yeah,
happy to talk to sports with you and happy to
happy to.
Speaker 1: Help connect with them on LinkedIn. Follow him on all
of his platforms. M Kelly Wesley former b Way Right.
Thanks so much. Kelly will chat with you again soon. Brother.
Speaker 4: All right, brother, good good here from you. Take care
of then.
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the Brazilian bombers on the line? JT for three? What's up?
Speaker 4: Oh man?
Speaker 5: That is a loaded question, my friend.
Speaker 1: So yeah, how are you? How are you handling the loss?
The one and done? You said it on errors You're like, look,
I just want to get out of the first round.
You were much more pragmatic b WHATU fans and US
media members, We're like, no, man, sweet sixteen, we're playing
better basketball. We found our identity, were better defensively, we're
rebounding better. YadA YadA YadA, Dominique Diamande and Hadeem Boop
and we got this thing figured out, and we did,
we did. How are you handling it well?
Speaker 5: I mean, you certainly expected them to play better, I
think first and foremost, and I think what Kevin Young
said at the end of the game at the press
conference is true. Yesterday was a microcosm of how the
whole season was. Let's not cute ourselves here, right, you know,
I saw that you were tweeted a lot of other
thread that Elijah Bryant commented, and I will say.
Speaker 4: This, Elijah's down of the reason.
Speaker 5: Why BYU lost this spot on the I almost four
four for twenty two from the three point line, gave
up fourteen offense and rebounds. That's the game right there. Ben,
Here's the only thing I.
Speaker 4: Will How can I put this right?
Speaker 5: Because I don't want to say I want to be
with Elijah. I want to not disagree with Elijah, but like,
maybe you can help me with the right word here,
But like if that was an exception, and oh my gosh,
that's the only time that BYU lost the game because
of a lack of daisical effort on the glass and
because of poor shooting. If that was a one time thing,
I think that we could talk ourselves into you know what,
it was just one bad game. But then you and
I have been doing this for the entire year for
about two or three seasons now. And let's just look
at the way that this season was. How many times
this year have DYU lose a game because of a
lac of daisical effort on defense and offensive rebounds and
you know it was just a piss point or performance
on shooting the ball. Is that a one time thing
or you know that pretty much was every single game.
And so that's the thing that bothers me a nursing
more than anything, is, Look, this is not a one
time thing.
Speaker 4: This is not just all by.
Speaker 5: You lost because of these things and it was just
a one time situation. I know you wasn't. That has
happened all year. It even happened on wins.
Speaker 1: And so let's be honest with JT. Elijah has not
been watching this team all season long.
Speaker 5: And that's why I'm saying I don't know, and right now,
obviously that's why I'm saying, like I don't want to
like contradictum partly because his his his analysis is spot on.
The only problem is been like that has been the
whole thing the whole year. And so how am I
taking this? I you know, like as a former player,
I'm I'm pretty bothered because, you know, like Robbie McCombs said,
this is the most disappointing season in BYU basketball history,
because with all of the operation for basketball, you are
pretty close to twenty million between the coaches salary and
all of the infrastructure that is needed. Plus on top
of all the nil you are pretty close to twenty million.
Let's call us fat a spade. That's number one, number two,
you have the number one player in the country, number
one draft pick.
Speaker 4: You have all of that going on.
Speaker 5: And so you know, like when you when Eliza says,
if you're asking a role player to step up, I'm
gonna be humanly disagree because what is the opportunity? How
much exposure are these guys?
Speaker 1: They had seven weeks, they've had six weeks, they've had
six weeks.
Speaker 5: And you're telling me that if you are a shooter
like Costage or Mahi Loo or Dominique and you know
they're Richie is down, why are you not camping inside
the annex, shooting one thousand shots every day, because because
this is the opportunity of a lifetime that I don't
I don't understand that. I don't I don't get it.
And so because here's the thing, for whatever you say,
I did this for a living, probably very few people
in DYU basketball history. Trevin Nelle is probably the only one.
I would say, you know, maybe Chase Fisher. But like
as it comes to catch and shoot in DYU basketball history,
there's not a whole lot of folks that did what
I did. And so if that's all your role is
to be a catch and shoot guy into play hard
on defense, my gosh, how are you not doing that?
And so as you see this effort, in this lack
of you know, I'm gonna give myself an opportunity. I'm
going to put myself an opportunity to be better and
to have opportunity of a lifetime for me. It's difficult
for me to process the loss from yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I don't necessarily agree that it's the most
disappointing season in BAU basketball history. I do give the
grace right that I think is merited for the season
ending in of Dawson, Nate Pickens, and of course the
top king Richie Saunders. So like a one and done.
Although extremely disappointing, this is one of the most This
is one of the most disappointing seasons because of the expectation,
because of the resource application for the infrastructure, the organizational design,
because your athletic director is a basketball guy, like this
is his baby, the basketball program and everything that is
his that is his baby, okay, so everything like with
that being in you know, in mind, it is one
of the most disappointing seasons in buy basketball statters. But
the most disappointing season is the seasons in which like
apathy sets in for BYU fans when they don't show
it to the Marriott Center. And that was like more
so the transition from I think Roger Reid to to
the Steve Cleveland eric coach Ingle was there as the
interim coach. That was probably the most disappointing, I think
because no one was showing up to the Marriott Center
at that time and that was like me, when no
one's shown up to Merriy Center and we're looking like
the Huntsman Center, That to me is the most disappointing
thing because the fan base and the donor base and
everyone has given up on the team. We never had
that this year.
Speaker 5: Well and again, right, I mean, I just you know,
that's why I said, you know when I was and
I was, I was exchanging when I was doing something
for buff Sports Nation. How do you describe this season?
Am I? In this season I would described as would have,
could have, should have? Right, you know, well, Dallan Hall
is a would have could have shoot a situation. I
would even say, you know, Tanner Toulson instead of Alex
say Coastache is a would have could have shoot a situation.
So that's what I'm saying, like would I could have?
Should have hindsight? You know, it's twenty twenty, you know,
but like there is something to be said about the
culture of the program. And that's why I also say about,
you know, hindsight, because you know, if we knew that
Richie was going to get hurt, you know, we would
definitely may have made some different adjustments. But you don't
know these things. But maybe that's why it's important to
have more than just a one culture guy on the program,
you know what I mean. And at the end of
the day, Ben, we are all going to sound very
smart when you look at you know, when you look
you know, at the end from the beginning, where we
see all of that, right, I just think that first thing. First,
you have the perfect excuse and I don't want to
say excuse of the negative it. We have the perfect
way to rationalize it. Why this season was so bad,
and that's because of injuries, bar none, point blank simple.
You lost your face of the program two thirds through
the year, you lost your you know for a third
of the season, you didn't have Richie, and then you look,
you lost your six men of the year for eighty
percent of the season. You lost your backup point guard
for the entire season boom. But the thing that it
just irks me is when you look at the way
that the performance was, I just didn't see energy from
you know, from from Abdullah Amad, you know, like I
just he was playing in the G League, so not
like he was playing, you know, at junior college in
the middle of North Dakota on the on the you know,
the border with Canada. Like he was playing in the
G League. He was playing against guys that were getting
call ups to go to the NBA. That's number one, right,
Dominique Diamonde. Why why didn't he see the floor more? Right?
Because the way he played in a couple of games
at the Big twelve tournament, he looked really good. But obviously,
again this is not a knock on Kevin Young and
the staff because those guys have credit shows that can
travel the globe. But what was happening in practice was
he really not performing as well? And so that goes
on him. What why didn't he step up right coastache?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 5: Why was he so inconsistent from three? Well, but he
was just a freshman. I don't care that he was
just a freshman. I came in as a freshman and
I shot everything that came my way, and everybody told
us that he was going to be a shooter. But
to me, the most glaring one of them all was
Tyler Moruss. I'm Kyler Maruss literally came to buy U
as the undisputed, you know, anointed sniper right the the
the the Travin now the Jack Goler whatever his name
is from Oakland, that that, you know, knockout Kentucky before
Kevin before Kevin Young got here, when Mark Pope was
a coach and I I mean he shot thirty percent
from three for the season, like you know what I mean,
and so how did that happen? And so there are
a lot of question marks. You know, why was Kevat
being so up and down? Right? I felt like Kevy
actually had a better a better year less year than
he did this year. And you know, I think it's
obviously you have some bright points. You know, we're gonna
see AJ's jersey be retired at BUYU in about fifteen years,
you know from now, and that's going to be fantastic.
AJ is one of one and why year could it be? Well?
When is by You going to get another Aj? When
will there be another a J? I mean AJ is
being talked about like as the next you know. I
mean he was breaking Kevin Durantz and Trey Young's record,
and I mean, you know, talk at a level that
is lebron esque coming out of high school if you
get what I'm saying, right, I mean, when are we
gonna when is by You going to get an opportunity
to have that type of guy on the on the
roster again? And so you know you may not agree
with it, but when you start putting all these things
together and the potential that this season had, you know,
is in the most disappointing season ever. I don't know,
but it's pretty darn disappointing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So if you could go back and do it again, right,
because you bring up some names, If you could go
back and do it again, knowing what you know now,
would you rather have Would you trade Rober Right the
Third for Dollan Hall? Would you trade a Lexi Coostic
for Tanner Tilson? Would you trade Mihailo Boskovic for Jake Wallen?
All three of those you got to take all three?
Would you do it all over again that way?
Speaker 5: So that's difficult because I got to know Dallan really well.
I don't know if, if if I would have taken
Dollan over Robert Right the Third mainly because Dollan wanted
to be a starter, and I get it, I totally
get it right, That's what I said.
Speaker 1: Aj ended up becoming a point four down would still
be your point guard, but you could also hand that
off to Aj as as your kind of your backup
point guard. He ended up being that anyway.
Speaker 5: And so I'm gonna say this, I'm not gonna I'm
not gonna comment on on the Robber Right situation because
I just I just don't know, not because I don't
have an opinion, but well, I don't have an opinion
because I don't know. That's what I'm saying. I I
that's what I'm gonna say. I'm not gonna comment on
the Right situation because I can see it both ways.
I can see why you would keep Robert, why we
keep Dallan, and why we keep Rubbert Right, And so
I'm not going to comment on it because I don't
have I don't have a formed opinion. I have to
rationalize and think about that one. But coast it. But
Tanner tuwbson over coasted and Jaqui Leen over Mahilo on
a heartbeat, my friend, like you know. And so the
Dallan one is a difficult one because Robert Wright was,
I mean he them near had you know, forty points
a couple of games like he was, he was, you
know what I'm saying. And that's a difficult conversation because
there were massive pros and cons on both choices. But
the Tanner Toulson and Jaqui Leen come out. Tanner Twubson
was a massive, importantly key well not even just a
rotation player, but one of the you know, one of
the main guys that finished games for at CCU team
that has had it to the second round, a CCU
team that came to Pro Bowl and gave by you
a hard fit, right and Jake Qui Len. I was
always a big fan of Jake Qui Leen. I was
extremely disappointed when Jake Qui Leen went to went to Utah,
you know, let alone when he went to Clemson, and
so massive respect and shout out to Jake's mom, who
I got to know. I'm a massive fan of j
Qui Leen and I would say this. People are gonna
call me crazy. I would take, you know, based on
the way the roster is going to be, you know
it's going to be developed next year. I would take
Jake Quileen before I take col Him Chandlers. Not because
of I think Jake is better than Colin, but you
think about the fit that you need for the team.
You know, like you can find for for the amount
of nil that you're gonna have to pay for Collin,
you can find, you know, someone that may be a
little bit more of a scorer than calling this, but
Jake kwalyn Man you know, he has a he has
a prototypical basketball body, you know, and and you know,
but then the question is, well you do with Brody Koslowski.
We haven't seen Brody Kolslowski yet, right, is he going
to be able to stay healthy? How is he going
to perform next year as a as a you know,
uh uh freshman red shirt and a medical red shirt freshman.
I mean, you know, the last time that Rody Kolsowski
played basketball it was going to be three years ago.
And so you know, there are a lot of questions
to answer, and I will say, disband. This is the
most important off season of the Kevin Young era, of
the NIL era for Vuyu, way more important than when
Mark Pope left and Kevin Young came. Because Kevin Young
was able to retain a lot of a lot of players. Right.
You don't have a face of the program who becomes
the face of your program. You don't have you know,
the benefit of your best players returning, right. I mean,
even Robert Wright said, if I'm playing college again next year,
I'll be playing for Buyu. Well, there is a world
that he leaves, right, and and you know, again we're
all going to take his word at face value. But
he did have an offer sheet signed with Baylor and
he chose Buyu. And so again I'm just dating facts.
I'm not creating controversy. Did exactly what happened. There's a
lot of things up in the air, and and Justin
Young right, Uh, the wizard of the recruiting world has
his work cut out for him.
Speaker 1: Let's go. JT. Jonathan Tabnari. Love your comments, Love your commentary.
Appreciate you hopping on for a keeping up with the
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You're out working right now. We need you, We need
you back back home asaf you coming back this weekend?
When do you When do you come back to Utah?
Speaker 5: Coming back? Coming back tomorrow? Man, I'll be I'll be
back home tomorrow being I've been going for a while.
Not fun watching the Buyu game on. Uh, you know,
next to next to some great people. But you know,
definitely would wish that I could have been at home
with my family, and uh, you know, but it is
what it is, and it's I get it like it's
a it's it's a it's a sensitive subject for Uyu fans,
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a pro day today, you know, to kind of take
everybody's mind off of it, you know, but it's yeah,
it's lots lots happening the BYU world right now, no.
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