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former by great, the Brazilian bomber. We got Jonathan Tabinari

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j T four to three. What's happening, brother?

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Speaker 1: It's basketball season. We don't hear much about football, and

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you know it's happened to me.

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Speaker 2: Ben No, it's uh, it is not the most wonderful

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time of the year. I feel like the most wonderful

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time of years when football and basketball come together. And

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I know you're more of a proponent of March madness.

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I mean, we're not too far away from March madness

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right now, and this billion basketball team seems to be

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trending in the right direction. It's it was fun to

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watch AJ go off and we see his ceiling, we

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see his potential. Let's break down his performance from your purview,

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from your from your pulpit, if you will, What stood

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out to you about that forty burger that AJ dropped

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on the utes.

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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, if you can see his ceiling,

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you're a better person than I am, because I don't

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see a ceiling yet. Yeah, I uh, you know, as

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Michael Jordan eloquently said at North Carolina, the ceiling is

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the roof to an open uh to an open stadium.

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J And uh, you know, I don't think he's even

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scratching the surface of everything that he's capable of. I

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think he has flashes flashes of greatness, which is beyond scary,

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which means that he's still getting better, right And uh,

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you know, he hasn't developed a great three point shot.

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that's his personal record of you know, going four for

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five in a game. And uh, you know, I don't

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think that he is anywhere near being, you know, to

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a situation where he's just head and shoulders consistent with

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his dribbling, his playing to pick and roll, and so

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if anything, right now, you know, it's scary because AJ

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is only getting better, right and so, but that performance

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was incredible. You know, it reminds me a lot when

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Kobe dropped eighty one. And I don't know how much

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you remember of that band. I know that Ron and

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I have talked about it a lot, but like when

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he comes to that game, like the Lakers needed every

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single point of Kobe's eighty one because they were losing

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to the Raptors. Raphael or Rougeo, our homeboy, was actually

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at that game with the Raptors when Kobe was going off,

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and so, you know, fun, fun little tidbit over there.

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But like just like that, b why you needed AJ's

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every single point to win that game. Now, they probably

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could have subbed him out a little bit sooner, but

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again with the way that Utah was just shooting the

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lights out. I mean, Utah shot, you know, around sixty

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percent from the three point line, and so you needed

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every little bit of AJ that you could get. And

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you know what an amazing player. You know, My favorite

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thing about him is just how humble he is, and uh,

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you know, I think he's going to accomplish a lot,

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and uh, you know, it is amazing and a blessing

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that that he is a cougar, no.

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Speaker 2: Doubt about it. It's good to send the Utah with

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another loss to and over season. What does it mean

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to beat Utah this year on their court and on

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Speaker 1: Not much? And so, you know, I think aside from

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the fact that you know, you beat Utah and you

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fact that by U played Utah and was able to

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win that game and win I don't want to say handily,

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but one of the you know, one with a fair

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amount of a fair amount of uh of success. They

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were able to do it with Utah, you know, having

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an incredible shooting night. He Usually when a team shoots

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that well for the three point line, it's difficult to

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beat them, and so but Buyu was able to do it. Uy,

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you played well, played great, you know, uh. It was

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incredible to see, you know, Hadem uh Hadem played the

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way he did for him to be able to get

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their reps the way he did. And you know, he

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literally and essentially in essence locked down one through five

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at that game. He was that good defensively, and so

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you know, I there was a lot of positives from

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that game. But I think Utah is one and six

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in conference, and yes it is the Big twelve, the

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best basketball conference in the country. But nonetheless, you know,

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that's a team that that it's getting better if they're

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able to retain some of the talent they have this year.

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I think Utah, you know, has uh had the chance

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to finish in the top top half of the league

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next year. And so, you know, but onto bigger things,

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and you know, let's reveal this this game of Arizona tonight.

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Speaker 2: Look, by U basketball is talented, they are deep, Uh,

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they are well coached. What has to happen denied in

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order to beat the U of A Wildcats.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Ben, I'm gonna disagree with you. They're not deep.

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And so they are very very very very very talented.

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This team is not deep, right, I mean we've talked

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about at length with you know, Nate Dickens and Dustin

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Baker going down. You know, Alexei Costitch has been very

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much disappointing this year. You know, Mahilo just hasn't shown

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up and progressed the way I think we all hoped

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he would. And so you know, the the the you know,

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the the burden is heavy on Robert Ray the third

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and Richie Saunders and Ajd Bonsa and so you know,

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I mean those guys probably gonna need to combine for

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seventy five points or more for by U two wins

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to night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this, uh, this team is is facing Is this

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gonna be their toughest challenge or do you think I

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still think it's the Yukon game or the Texas Tech

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game on the road.

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Speaker 1: Uh? No, I would definitely say you just put me

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on the spot. Well, because here's.

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Speaker 2: The thing, right, I mean, the number one team in

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the country, right, it's on your home court though.

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Speaker 1: And that's the thing, right. I mean, you know, could

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we really say that they lost of Texastack was a

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fluke when Texas Tack played the way they played against Houston.

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Tech because again, you know, they they truly you know,

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gave Houston the business. And so you know, it's definitely

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a bigger game than Yukon on a neutral site, that's

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for sure. Let's split the difference, Ben, And let's just

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say that it's probably you know, the most important game

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in BYU history at the Marriotte Center.

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Speaker 2: It's massive, all lies on BYU US versus U of AID.

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And I what was the biggest game in the regular

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season that you played in and what was the crowd like? JT,

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how do you get up for a game like this

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when or how do you kind of stay composed rather

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in a game like this when you know that like

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all the pressure and all the eyeballs are on your

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team to win.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, so I would say that the biggest game

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in my career was probably you know, the round of

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thirty two of the NCAA Tournament, right, I mean, we

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had a chance to go to the sweet sixteen and

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we weren't able to beat Kansas State. You know. Aside

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from that, I'll probably say that the second biggest game

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of my career was probably my senior night when we

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lost to New Mexico by one or two points. You know,

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almost twenty three thousand people were at that game, and uh,

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you know, had we won that game, I would have

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been the first player in BYU history to win four

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consecutive conference championships and now I have to split that.

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You know that that that title. We have a couple

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of guys from the nineteen thirties who won you know,

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the Mountain Conference back then and thirty thirty one and

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thirty two, and so you know, that was probably the

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big the second biggause gear of my career. But the

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one that I remember the most, man, and I think

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you you might as well, is the one we played

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wake Forest at home. And you know, that game was surreal,

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you know, twenty three like almost twenty three thousand people

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at that game. It was deafening, and you know, we

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had a chance. And the one thing that I that

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number seven in the country and we were like seventeen

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or nineteen or something like that. You know, the one

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thing that I will say is, you know, we actually

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had a seven point lead or a point It wasn't nine.

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to what buy you had against Texas Tack. But it

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was on the road. But we headed at the Marriott

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Center and then we had four empty possessions in a

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row with getting with us also getting a stop that

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we could have pushed the lead to over ten, and

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we just didn't capitalize on that. And then waite Forest

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made their run and they tied the game, and literally

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three possessions after that with us, you know, we hit

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about five or six possessions without scoring. And so that's

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the biggest thing, right, I mean, Arizona's good, Arizona's great,

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Arizona's solid, Arizona's Buyu is going to have their runs.

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able to contain Arizona's runs and then be able to

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capitalize and maximize the runs that buy you go through? Right?

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Tommy Lloyd is an incredible coach, and so you already

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know that if Yu makes one three in a row

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or have a couple of five points in a row

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and Arizona's just having empty possessions, He's gonna call a

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time out. And you know, the Merrick Center is like

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a kicking bomb right now, right, it's just waiting to

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explode and go off. You know, I think it is

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probably the biggest basketball game in the world today. Big

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Monday's back from France Sheila's in the house live game

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on ESPN. You know you're probably gonna have about fifty

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NBA scouts over there at that game today. You know

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which kind of rivals, Uh, Jimmer senior year when Jimmer

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played uh San Diego State at w U y U

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and my junior year when we played wait Forest at home.

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And so you know it is going to be one

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for the ages. And uh, you know, I'm I'm happy

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that I get to be a part of and watch

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it live over there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Uh, it's gonna be a special night at

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the Mary Center. BAYU fans is gonna show up, show

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out and be loud and proud and rise and shout,

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no doubt about it. Jonathan Tebinar here on ESPN The

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Fan a little college basketball segment, Uh and uh discussing

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some of the keys to the game. You mentioned a

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number of them. Rob Wright has been I think tremendous.

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Speaker 2: He's been so consistent. The Todd King has had some

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What role do you think Rob Wright plays tonight? You

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a good guard line as well. It's not that don't.

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a team tonight, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, like I here's the thing. I

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personally think that you know, U B YU just needs

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all three of them, right I you know, I don't

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want to take anything away that just wob but I

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feel like, I kids, you're not being I've been looking

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at the numbers all day. I'm excited for the game,

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got a little bit of a you know, a cold,

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cold feeling in my tummy. I you know, just excited

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to be there and just the crowd go wild. I

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think DYU not only against not only would Robert Wright,

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but I think they just by just needs the big

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three to break three. You know, I think that if

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if Rob scores less than twenty points tonight, then you know,

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he needs to have at least ten to twelve assists

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because that means that AJ and Richie are both getting

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twenty five thirty plus between both of them, and so

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you know, I think Rob is figuring out that he

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can impact the game in different ways rather than scoring.

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But nonetheless, I think he's scoring, especially on transition and

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getting to the rim is going to be key. On

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a half court I'll probably you know, be a little

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bit more deferring to AJ and his ability to score

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with Richie's ability to catch and shoot and attack off

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the dribble. To your point, you know, like this team's

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this Arizona team, it looks like a low level NBA team,

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extremely high level euro League team right where they're along.

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They're athletic, they played the right way. You know, they

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just have some players that are in contention to be

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Player of the Year. I mean, it's an incredible team, right,

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number one in NET, number one. I don't know if

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you guys have from the top of your head, but

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it's number one in NET, number one in ranking. And

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there's another stat that they are number one as well.

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And so you know, when you look at that, it's

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it's it's a scary team, right and and BUYU just

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historically has never gotten those teams in the Marriott Center

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into now. And then let's thing that I will share.

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Before the season started, we were all talking about Houston

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being the number one team in the country at that point,

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you know, and it just goes to show how strong

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the Big twelve is.

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Speaker 2: B YU basketball. You mentioned I you corrected me. This

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team is not deep. It has the potential to be deep.

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I really like Mihailo Boskovik, I like, I really like

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the potential of Abdullah Akhamedbidu.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: This team can find some depth. I think down the stretch,

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I'm looking at those two bigs tonight and saying, Hey,

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if you're gonna have a breakout night, now is the

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time to do it. Mihailo or Abdulah. What do you

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expect from those two guys tonight?

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Speaker 1: Well, from Abdulah, think it's gonna be a big game, right,

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I mean you're gonna have to fight fire with fire

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and uh and then be able to you know, be

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able to get get get Keba in a position where uh,

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you know he is not the only one, you know,

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just kind of being asked to do so much, right

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because you know he's very athletic and very very physical,

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but none of the last you know, height matters, right,

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and that's kind of a big thing, right, Height really matters.

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And so will you know beat O be a be

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a factor? I definitely hope so, because I think Buyu

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needs it a lot. Mahilo, I still keep wishing that

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Mahilo would figure out how to be able to score

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more right, And what I mean by that is I

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wish Mohilo would be a little bit more consistent with

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his catching and shooting, you know, as just an area

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that BUIU is lacking. They are you know, they are

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needing it like manna in the desert, like water in

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the desert, and nobody has really stepped up to the plate.

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You know. I would love for Tyler Maruss to kind

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of have a breakout game today and be able to like,

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you know, just have a lot of success against against

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this you know, against this U of a team. I

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just you know, it has been a while since either

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of those two have had a three to four uh

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you know, three point shots made game. Today would be

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the perfect day to kind of break Collager slump. You know,

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like Tyler marrass shotting around thirty percent on last ROM three.

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That's just unacceptable. He was literally brought here to be

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a shooter and not to do it. It's it's difficult

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not to have that. And so Halo has been very

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consistent on defense, which you know, it's again it's a

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great thing. It's a it's an it's an incredible thing,

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you know, but it's definitely one of those things that

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b YU needs more of it, especially during the offensive end.

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Speaker 2: Do you feel like they they misevaluated Tyler Morass a bit,

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maybe missed on that particular acquisition.

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Speaker 1: No, No, I don't think that they've done that. I

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think this is I you know, as much as I

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hope it's not a controversial thing for me to say,

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I think this is more on Tyler than anything else.

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You know, like you can see almost like the mental

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blocker of it. When he getses the ball. It's not

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a Hey, I'm gonna get my shot off. I'm gonna

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shoot shoot, shoot shoot, you know. To me, it's more

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of a you know, Tyler just hasn't found his groove,

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which is you know, which is again, it's unfortunate because

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this team needs exactly what he does.

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Tabnari, Ladies and gentlemen talking BYU basketball, It'll be

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a sold out crowd tonight, all eyes on b YU

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versus U of A, and should be one for the ages.

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Right now, ag De Bonsa is trending past Danny Ainge,

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arguably the goat of BYU basketball as a as a freshman,

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broke his record of a single game performance by a

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freshman versus Utah and a rollery game. And I know

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Danny's a competitor, but I'm sure he's happy to pass

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the baton to AJ to Bonsa.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, I would argue and say, look,

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there's a lot of things to consider, right you and

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I talked about this last week. You know, I would say,

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you know, jim Or could be considered a growth the goat.

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I would say, Krashiman Chilsch as the only hall of

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fame you know, could be considered to go. And so

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I think, uh, you know, Aj is you know, AJ

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is literally one in a one in a million. The

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fact that he got to come to BUYU, I think

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we should all just be excited that we got to

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witness this, you know. And and it's one of those

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things that flat that he's on our team.

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Speaker 3: You know, he he rises to the occasion, and uh

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interested to see how he's going to rise to the

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occasion tonight, because buy U certainly needs him to be really,

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really good and.

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Speaker 1: To get to the level that they need to be.

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Devenard, Ladies and gentlemen, see you down there at

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the marriage Center. JT. Thanks for hopping on for another

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b YU basketball segment, and you know what, let's get

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a like.

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Speaker 1: Let's see we can get together this game finally, you

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know what I mean? Like you me and Raw Raw

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like we you know, I know that I have my

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duties on pre and post game. But you know it's

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been a minute because I've seen you man.

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Speaker 2: I you know, you never want to ever since COVID,

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Ever since COVID, and we haven't been hanging out as

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much in person. COVID ruined our relationship.

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Speaker 1: Since Covids, we both got married, you know, like our

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priority you know, you know, we gotta get a tag

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team backs again.

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Speaker 2: My guy, Yeah, buddy, no, I'm gonna I'm gonna try

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to make it down my wife during My wife says,

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you know, oh, football season, you yeah, go to all

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the games because there's only six of them. Basketball season. Uh,

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She's like, yeah, let Ronald go, let Ronnie. I'm like,

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all right, you know, let let Ronnie go. Ronald loves hoop.

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Uh go ahead.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it sounds like it sounds it sounds

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like miss missus Criddle forgets that she comes from Vegas,

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where it's a real basketball town.

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Speaker 2: So it's true.

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Speaker 1: She's got she's gotting doctor Nada with Yu with Yu football, So.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about it, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: J T.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you, man, love you. Thanks for hopping on.

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