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Speaker 1: Let's first post, Welcome in the five foot ten, one
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Speaker 2: Let's welcome to Ronald the three man we were to.
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Speaker 1: Let's let's also welcome into the show, Brett always bringing
the Hammer Hammer Time show was up, Brett Hammer.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to think if if they were asking for
my height and wait for the show, what I would
actually say.
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one will ever see me.
Speaker 6: I think I'm gonna go with six two, one hundred
and eighty pounds.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm rolling with. That's what I'm rolling with
on the ESP and the fan Ross I love it.
Vic cram in the house as well. Vic.
Speaker 1: Apparently, once upon a time you went four for four
at U see Irvine.
Speaker 2: You had a.
Speaker 1: Couple of doubles, a home run and the singles that correct?
How many ribes?
Speaker 2: Three? Three? Rivis? What's upon a time? When was this? Vic?
So everybody knows what what? What? What was this like?
Ten years ago? Five years ago? I want to say five?
And why five years ago? Why are we talking You
see Irvine? By the way, what's that? Why are we
talking about? You see Irvine?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: You see? Uh you see Riverside. You see Riverside.
Speaker 7: Koogs went out and spanked them. They they got eleven
runs on sixteen hits. Pitching was just awesome. Uh yesterday,
pitching staff, everyone came in through strikes.
Speaker 2: They look good. They really good. Yeah. But that lineup,
that lineup looks solid.
Speaker 1: So they just they just followed in the footsteps.
Speaker 2: That's it. Who were you playing for at the time?
Speaker 1: No, San, you say no, there it is sand Sanya
sent to a cento.
Speaker 2: Nice four for four baby. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We got the big stick coming in with Vic Kram
on our show. Appreciate Vic being here on the data
aggregation and social media. So got the rest of our
ESPN the fans starting line up. We're gonna get into
some Kevin Young media availabilities commentary. See what he had
to say about this Cougar basketball team and his preparation
for UCF A few nuggets there that you want to
tune in for, don't miss it. We'll get into a
few Cougar bykees as well. Tim Fanning joined by Sports Nation.
Tim Fanning, as we've discussed, has and Ronald caught up
with Tim Fanning prior to one of the games and
when was this? Which game did you interview Tim Fanny.
Speaker 4: As the startup conference playing the Kansas State game?
Speaker 1: Kansas State game, So the Cougar Sports Basketball pre game
show with Ronald the three man weaver, and he said
in essence that he is has taken over the defense,
the defense.
Speaker 2: Did we see an improvement?
Speaker 1: Have we seen an improvement over the last four games
from Bui's defense?
Speaker 2: Have we seeing an improvement? Are we getting better?
Speaker 6: I don't know if i'd say the last four games,
but I would absolutely a million percent say the Iowa
State game.
Speaker 1: And remember we struggled defensively last year when Will Void
was the DC.
Speaker 2: And so Tim has taking over those defensive.
Speaker 1: Calls along with Ky overseeing that. And you have to wonder,
is b what you a better defensive team this year
than they were last year.
Speaker 2: What you know, what's funny.
Speaker 6: I was doing the numbers actually the other day, comparing
like how good. So for context, the number one scoring
team in the Big Twelve right now is Arizona at
eighty seven points per game.
Speaker 2: But what's funny is if you go back.
Speaker 6: A year, the number one scoring offense in the Big
Twelve was also Arizona, but it was eighty two points
per game. So everyone in the Big Twelve is scoring
more this year than they were last year. So your
defense is not worth as much last year as it
was this year.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put this question out, is by you a
better team this year than they were last year? And
you have a you have a certain amount of well yeah,
but no, but I know, but like talent wise, I mean,
that doesn't necessarily give me a whole lot of like
give me an objective data point, right that that shows
that B ways better defensively, And you can only lean
on Ken Palm typically or even Evan Biakawa's defensive statistics.
I mean, you can look at some of the traditional
points per game given up right and in other things
like that, but steals per game, blocks per game, but
you need kind of an overarching analytic to tell you
whether or not they've actually improved or not.
Speaker 2: Just better as a whole or just better defensively. Are
they just better defensively? Oh?
Speaker 1: That I don't know, because that's been the biggest gripe
amongst Cougar fans, Like defensively we stink, which is not
good even. I mean, k Why went on record and
said things like this defensive effort is atrocious, and I
mean he was not all that kind to the defense.
He was not kind to his team regarding their defensive effort.
Speaker 2: Now he was, I mean, he wasn't in a great
mood at all now as a whole.
Speaker 6: Following he said, you're being too nice to these guys
when they were talking about I think it was Kemma
and abdullah Man. So yeah, he was clearly not happy
with the defense. The good news is defense showed up
against Iowa State big time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Has Bieli's defense one of my key questions that has
deep Beelius defense. We're getting Nindel march here. I mean,
we're right around the corner here. March madness is about
to begin. Has Bieli's defense improved, worsened, or stayed the
same Okay, I want you to search, ponder, and prey
on that one. Okay, just think about it as we collaborate,
and then we'll pontificate and we will listen to each
other and get some feedback from Cougarnation as well. So
Tim Fanning, we're gonna get into the Cougar Bytes three
or five year Blach former B White receiver interview. You're
talking some ball with some college football, spring ball conversations,
et cetera. Kevin Reynolds, uh in a Cougar beat. He
is no longer covering the Cougar beat, but we're gonna celebrate.
We're gonna give him a little bone vyage as he
covers the Utah Jazz for the Salt Lake Tribune. So,
Kevin Reynolds, I don't know if there's ever been a
Salt Lake Tribune.
Speaker 2: Has there been?
Speaker 1: I feel like there was maybe one before Kevin Reynolds
beat writer that like BYU fans tolerated.
Speaker 2: Wait, you're saying, buou fans, they don't love the news.
To me, I didn't grow up here, so that's that
that is just news to me.
Speaker 1: I had no anyway, Like I felt like they had
a love hate relationship.
Speaker 2: With Kevin, so we love him.
Speaker 6: Kevin asked the tough questions like say what you will
about Kevin. We obviously love him here, but like Kevin
was not afraid to ask a question that some people
might not like.
Speaker 2: He did the big Jay journalist them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what Jay Drew used to do before
he joined the Deseret News. You know, then you have
to kind of once you get into a new role.
I mean we got to play cader bosses right, make
sure that they're happy, healthy, and straws their bosses as well. Anyway,
I love Kevin Reynolds. I like uh, I like having
I liked having him at the the the Q and
as I enjoyed him uh you know, on the show.
And we appreciate Kevin joining us once again. At four
or five four Cougar Beat maybe his last boat, his
last Cougar Beat as he moves on to the Salt
Lake Tribune, Utah Jazz Beat at any rate. Kevin Reynolds
at four or five Jamie Shaw four thirty on three
Sports Senior National Recruiting adil space. He got into some
some some scuffles on Twitter. Did you see how many
comments he put out a ranking? You know National Player
of the Year. I think it was uh, you know,
best players in college basketball and people were just flying
too his DMS flying to his comments section.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get his thoughts on a J.
Speaker 1: Debontsa, who would take over one over overall number on overall?
Who should be the Big twelve Player of the year,
and more so, don't miss it. And then at five
or five, we're gonna welcome in defensive coordinator for bringing
me on university. We got Kelly Pepina joining us and
I can't wait to get to know him a little
bit better and what his vision of the defense will
be and what some of the storylines will be coming
out of spring ball in his opinion. So and maybe
get to know some of the new facers as well.
And who's he who he's excited about. What questions do
we want to ask K pop today, guys, what do
we want to know about this Cougar football team?
Speaker 6: Well, G Man's gonna want to know the whole four three, three, four, five, six,
nine twelve controversy or whatever it is that G Man's
always going on about.
Speaker 2: So you'll have to ask that for him.
Speaker 1: Is g Men's Uh, g Man's gonna be with us
as well.
Speaker 2: Right, he's gonna be at studio.
Speaker 4: He will be from the three to four hour.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, you go, he may g men may stay
for an editiontional hour just to interview K.
Speaker 2: Pop is Kelly and Kwi right now.
Speaker 1: No he's not not right now? No, okay, no, that'd
be nice though, I mean Springball. He may have taken
a vaca.
Speaker 7: Remember yeah, his sister in law's getting married.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, the whole group was going over there.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so uh at any rate, K Pop's gonna
join us at five O five. Mark Daniels, five thirty,
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get into a few sound bites K why addressed the
media yesterday. We got plenty of sound to get into
and read between the lines with. Let's start it off.
What's the key to continue moving forward? After a big
win over Iowa State yeah.
Speaker 9: I just talked to the guys about that. I just
think understanding the excuse me, the why behind that was
why we were able to win that game. You know,
in the bottom line, as we played, we executed for
forty minutes and we played extremely hard, and so I
think our guys understand, you know, how important that win was.
And I think that just the you know of a smart,
smart group of guys, I think they understand just how
important it is to you know, that time of year,
you know, to turn things up, and so you know,
you got a UCF team coming in that's you know,
tied with us in the standings. I think everybody understands,
you know, there's there's no time to wait around and
to build on what we did.
Speaker 2: No time to wait around.
Speaker 1: He's trying to communicate to his team, you know, certain messages,
certain mantras, certain mindsets, and I think k Why is
obviously a very very good coach.
Speaker 2: Has he struggled.
Speaker 1: Do you think with this particular I would call this
a mercenary roster more so than BYU has maybe ever experienced,
especially now that you've had so many season ending injuries.
It's less you know, BYU like tenure and most teams
are this way, although the high level teams, I mean,
I don't know how many new faces were on U
of A. Houston seemed to have some good continuity with
Calvin Samson and the squad. I don't know how much
turnover there was with Kansas, but it seems like there's
a lot more mercenary acquisitions than there has ever been.
Has he been able to manage that appropriately in this
new era?
Speaker 2: Do you think this year in particular?
Speaker 6: I realized this is a cop out, but I do
think it's always worth mentioning. Kevin Young got dealt to
bad hand this season with the four season ending injuries
that he's dealing with. So like, even guys that you
do bring in your losing guys that you would have kept,
guys that would have kept continuity in your Dawson Baker's
not there anymore to kind of keep the culture and everything,
and so you don't really I mean, who does Kevin
Young have in the locker room who's like a Kevin
Young guy? Given them it's only been here for two years,
it probably would have been Dawson Baker because everybody else
is gone, and obviously everybody's a Kevin young guy. Aj
we know is a big Kevin young guy, But as
far as like guys who've been with him for more
than nine months, yeah, there isn't one who's starting on
the floor right now. I know Mihailo has been here,
but Mihailo has not been at BYU for as long
as Dawson. So honestly, I think, all things considered, Kevin
Young's done a pretty good job, especially when you consider
like we're not talking about stumbling in the WCC, We're
not talking about stumbling in the Miami Ohio Valley Mountain Conference,
like we're talking about potentially stumbling in the Big twelve Conference,
which is about as elite as it gets. And the
fact that you could drop four straight and get back
on track by beating a team that the NCAA committee
told you would be a one seed in the tournament
speaks volumes that this guy is learning how to adjust,
which we saw him do last year.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 6: We had to adjust mid season because even though it
wasn't an injury situation, some of the things that had
worked earlier in the season weren't working towards the end
of the season.
Speaker 2: So he adjus, he changed, he figured things out and.
Speaker 6: We've heard him say that in media villabity, like hey, Canard,
having us plug him in to be a catch and
shoe guy, that's not what makes Canard the best version
of Canard.
Speaker 2: And we've had to adjust that. And so was Kevin
Young perfect all season?
Speaker 6: No, But to me, if you're someone who can learn
to adjust to improve, that to me speaks volumes.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the sound here with Ky addressing
the media yesterday, it's it's been interesting to kind of
follow this team and its progress and how they're needing
to adapt. But it it seems similar. Let me real quick,
remember how we struggled last year with this BAU basketball team.
That last year's basketball team, we didn't think they'd go far.
In March we were talking about the same thing. Now
they went on a nine game winning streak. Remember nine
game winning It was fantastic. And you're looking at the
remaining schedule for BAU basketball. Are we just a little
bit later to the crescendo?
Speaker 2: Right? You wonder is what I wonder if this team, despite.
Speaker 1: All the injuries, man, could they go on a.
Speaker 2: Six game winning streak? Here?
Speaker 1: Do you think they could? And take into account they
beat Baylor. They beat Colorado prior to that, and they
lost to U of A. So you look at that,
you're like, wait, out of their last ten, could they
go could they go nine and one, which would be
somewhat akin to what they did at the end of
the season.
Speaker 2: Is what I'm getting at. Last year, do you.
Speaker 1: Remember having twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five, they won
nine straight before losing to Houston, the number two team
in the nation. If they lose one game to U
of A, you may be the number one team in
the nation in their last ten. So what I'm saying is,
like we talked about this and like the lead up
to to the finality of the season, when we're talking
about these these final nine ten games, it looks like
they may be on trajectory. They played their best game
versus Iowa State. We were in a little bit incredules
because they didn't play all that wolversus Baylor, call rder,
but they got to win, and then they lost Arizona
and not looking great, they looked okay, and then they
played their best game versus Iwa State. Anyway, something to
chew on as we go through this. So much k
why was made earlier in the year about slow starts.
What do you attribute the recent stronger starts too. From
this new group.
Speaker 9: I don't know if I would point, you know what
I'm gonna say directly to that, but I just I
think overall, man, you know, as a staff, I think
we're giving the guys a lot more clarity. I think
there's a lot less guessing. Not that they were guessing before,
so I shouldn't even say guests.
Speaker 2: I just think the clarity.
Speaker 9: I think the guys understand exactly what the plan is
on offense, exactly what the plan is on defense. I
think that's allowed the guys to come out and play
a little bit harder and freer to start games and
continue it.
Speaker 2: Throughout the game.
Speaker 9: So I think that's been a big, you know, a
big difference between what we've done the last few games
and what we were doing earlier on in the year.
Speaker 1: And once again it's like, it's this stronger starts late
in the season.
Speaker 2: What do we attribute that to?
Speaker 1: Is it just k why, you know, peaking at the
right time, right, is it the team peaking at the
right time.
Speaker 2: It's just a part of the process. Playing your beds well.
Speaker 1: Remember in seasons past as long as I've been around BYU,
and even prior you look at BYU under Steve Cleveland
and Dave bro it seems like they win early and
then kind of slow down leading up to March, and
they don't make runs in the tournament. Everybody else is
peaking in March, and they peaked earlier in the year.
They can't survive in advance. Is the reason why they've
gone to more NCAA tournaments than any other team without
seeing a Final four. They've gone to two Sweet sixteens
now and on e Lite eight and every once in
a while, I'm trying to think of how many round
of thirty twos they've seen, maybe three or four. Let
me double check on that and I'll get back to you.
But what do we attribute this to hammertime?
Speaker 6: You know, it's so weird because you would have thought
more firepower, even if you don't play defense, gives you
the ability to at least hang in there with the
likes of Arizona and Iowa State. Sure, but like I'm
going through the play by play right now of Arizona
and Iowa State, and nine to thirty into the game,
it's sixteen eighteen Arizona on the road. Similar situation with
Iowa State, whereas early in Big Twelve play it was like,
I mean, they had twenty before you had ten, and
so you were kind of just hanging on for dear
life until you could get to the second half.
Speaker 2: And then you go and you look at the Arizona
in the Iowa State game.
Speaker 6: You'll go, wait a minute, they didn't have Richie Saunders,
they didn't have a guy to get them extra buckets,
they didn't have a guy to pull attention away from
Rob and AJ and again in that Iowas say game,
Rob didn't score that much. So I don't really know
that it's something that we can truly quantify. To me,
Kevin Young is more equipped to speak on that than
anybody else, So for him to say it's because they
have a better idea of the game plan and we've
made the game plan more clear to them, that makes
sense to me, because a big issue early in those
games was again a lack of defense, but they were
also turning the ball over and just kind of making
like stupid mistakes frankly, like just one or two that
I think threw them off mentally, and then they felt
like they were playing catch up they felt like, especially
in these last two games. And I gets they didn't
beat Arizona, but you can't tell me they didn't go
shot for shot with Arizona in that game, punch for
punch and then Iowa stay like they got on top
and they never looked back. So to me, it has
to be what Kevin Young said, which is we've made
the game plan more clear.
Speaker 2: And I think it also helps that like Mahailo's.
Speaker 6: Playing better, Hadem is playing better, like some of the
guys that may not have played their best basketball early
in the season, they're doing other things outside of scoring
to make the scoring easier on those guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's it's it's very interesting, and we
had teased it a little bit. I want to say,
like in January we talked a little bit about it's like, hey,
are they.
Speaker 2: In a crescendo like they did last year?
Speaker 1: But I don't know how many people really believed it, right,
I don't know how many, especially with all the injuries.
So it's even more impressive to me that it seems
like I don't know if it's for certain.
Speaker 2: As JT said yesterday.
Speaker 1: You know, you know once okay is great twice, I
feel a little bit better.
Speaker 2: Three times. Okay, that's a pattern.
Speaker 1: If they win three games in a row here, playing
really good basketball, then you're like, Okay, this is the
exact same thing that Kay Why did, and it may
be even more impressive considering all of the season ending
injuries that they've sustained. Now three, we all see what
AJ does on the court when the spotlighters and on.
Speaker 2: How impressed have you been with him?
Speaker 9: I've been very impressed. You know, he's a guy that
has a great personality. You know, he's he's friends with
a lot of guys off the court. You know, I
enjoy watching him, Him and Rob, you know, just be
able to you know, let their personality shine within the group,
you know.
Speaker 2: You know, Aj is.
Speaker 9: Just a likable guy, you know, and I think his
teammates enjoy being around him.
Speaker 2: You know. I do push him and Rob to try
to be.
Speaker 9: More uh not just vocal leaders, but leaders by example.
And I think they've answered the call there and I'm
gonna continue to push him to do that.
Speaker 1: We know how good AJ is and just how good
he's been all season long. In fact, statistically, let's talk
about stats.
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Speaker 1: He's been he's been ridiculous good and ridiculously productive, and
he's a much more holistic. I mean, he showed every
facet of his game. We asked the poll of the
day yesterday, was you know what you're most impressed by
in that iowast game. His his his cardiovascular nature, just
being able to just run and do everything. His defensive
lockdown ability is scoring, his efficiency, and then his distribution
and playmaking ability. And it was interesting, actually playmaking and
defense is what came in one, two and one, so
like distribution was number two, and then the defense is
what BYU fans were most impressed by.
Speaker 2: I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1: That that BYU fans were most impressed by his defense.
And by the way I put out another pole to day,
has BAU basketball defense improved, worsened or stayed the same
from last year and right now worsened is leading?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I would. I think I would, Well,
I know, yeah, And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's it's one thing to have a feeling about it.
It's another thing that's some objective data to and we'll
get to the objective data here momentarily.
Speaker 2: But but AJ.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that's in February, thirty point seven points
per game, seven point eight rebounds, five point seven that'ss
one point three steals, fifty four point six percent from
the field, forty three point eight percent from three point line.
That's two point three three pointers made per game.
Speaker 2: Pretty impressive. Did we expect him to average twenty five
points a game? Like?
Speaker 6: We knew he was gonna be good, but like Cooper
Flagg had a great year last year, and do you
know what he averaged last year nineteen, so even he
was not in the twenty range AJ like and again.
Speaker 2: That's not what I said.
Speaker 1: By the way, we said, you know, volume in productivity matters.
If if Byu doesn't go deep in the NCAA tournament,
which was still question marks how deep they go, then
he better have volume what would be considered the right productivity,
especially considering the supporting cast, right, especially considering the port
of gain day because Coopers had some good players around
him too, yes, one hundred percent and more more talent
than than is on Boa.
Speaker 2: He didn't have to do as much as Aga has
to do. Per so we were trying to equate what
that would look like.
Speaker 1: And I think we we came to a conclusion of like, yeah,
low twenties would be nice, you know, that'd be really nice.
Speaker 2: But I mean, has he met the standard? Has he six?
Speaker 1: Has he surpassed the standard that we set for him?
Has he underperformed for that standard?
Speaker 6: I think if I would have told you, hey, I
think AG is gonna average twenty five, you would have
been like, hey, buddy, I don't know if you understand this.
This isn't the NBA where guys go for It's like,
this is college basketball. Good college basketball players go for
like nineteen points. You realize that in AJ's last nine games,
he's been under twenty points one time, and he had
seventeen that game, so it wasn't even bad. And again
that's including a thirty five piece, a twenty nine piece,
a thirty six of forty three, Like it is where
they talk we talk about so much or we don't,
but we hear so much about Oh, Darren Peterson makes
it look so easy, and he does, and he's really
good at it. But I don't think we give AJ,
or at least the national media doesn't give AJ enough
credit for just how good he is. Purely as a
scorer and then oh yeah, add all the other layers
to that cake.
Speaker 2: Amen to that.
Speaker 1: Let's get back. Let's go one more sound, one more sound. Bye,
here we go. Kevin, Actually, all right, let's go to break. Ronnie,
you're you're the boss. We're gonna go to break.
Speaker 5: No, I just had a comment about the flag thing
to say that, you're right, I mean Coop okay, and
this is look again being we talk about usage to
I said my monologue yesterday.
Speaker 4: If you want to know, go listen to it.
Speaker 5: You don't see a guy do this with the usage
in the turnover eate anyway, to the point of Cooper
flag Ben he had two other teammates that were drafted in.
Speaker 4: The top ten. Yeah, exactly, like stop like stop playing
with me.
Speaker 5: Like, so when you want to talk about defense, which
I'll save that take for the next segment, I have
some stuff that's gonna bet like AJ is doing way
more with way less compared to all of these other
teams in the discussion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's doing great stuff. Let's go to break. We'll
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Speaker 1: A couple of things here I want to get into
in the segment more ky sound continue to chime in
on that pole of day. Has BOU Basketball's defense improved,
worsened or stayed the same from last year? And worson
is still top of the top of the voters right
now forty six percent, thirty five percent saying improved, nineteen
percent saying stayed the same. I think there's a reaction
emotionally to how obviously how BAU fans feel, and they
automatically think worsen. This is upset of BWA fans that
always checked data before posting their poll, and those that
have checked data are voting on the improved segment right
Because Ronald, you whispered in my ear, you said, hey,
now what the data says?
Speaker 2: Now what the data says?
Speaker 1: It's not worse, It's actually better than it was last year,
per up to this point, per ken pop correct, correct?
Speaker 2: You take a look at this?
Speaker 5: And well, yeah, I did, and while I went and
I did the research and looked at the number. Because
when you asked me these questions, what do you always
tell me being you need to object the data points
to prove your point of your take. And I want
to mention this to people as well, because here's my
take on it, to just get it out the way.
Speaker 4: First of all, the numbers are better. They are better defensively.
Speaker 5: They've also played better talent because of the talent on
which they got. And this is no knock on the
team last year, but were they playing the type of
talent until they got to the tournament? No, you weren't.
You didn't play Braydon Berry's. You didn't play a Coe Pete.
You didn't play a Darren Peterson.
Speaker 2: You didn't.
Speaker 5: So in the games of which they're two and six
and ap top sixteen teams, yes, defense has not been good.
Speaker 4: But I mean, may I remind you.
Speaker 5: That up until Texas Tech went on kind of like
a mini Alabama run that BYU was winning that game
by nine and Rob Wright looked like the you know,
the Isaiah Thomas then from the Bad Boy Pistons of
taking over a game. I didn't hear fans then, but
oh it's like, yeah, so all the fans listening now
that down with the podcast. I'm sorry for calling out
you have any jerk reaction, rightfully so not saying that
it's good, it's bad in those moments, but when they
lock in How about the game against Iowa State been
sixty nine points, so they gonna get credit for that.
How about the number one draft pick in my opinion,
that packed up the best player on the team to
send him home. Milan Mantelevision want nothing to do with
number three, he said, I'm good. So I just think
it is better. They're playing better opponents. They have not
played defense well in those games. There have been stretches
of it, but overall this team is better defensively, no
doubt about it at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they are better.
Speaker 1: And look after the NCAA tournament run, after the Sweet sixteen,
the lack of closeouts and the Alabama just going off
they hit like four thousand and three point shots on us,
what was the reaction? We got to get better defensively,
and I think we have, even though it doesn't seem
like we have in your feelings, Coubernation.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6: And the other issue is, like, go look at college
basketball as a whole. Everyone's scoring more points than they
did last year. Everybody has a freshman weapon more than
they did last year. Like, just objectively, we have more
points scored in college basketball than we did last year.
So if your only argument is man, it seems like
we're giving up a lot. That's true, but so is
everyone else in college basketball. See, you kind of have
to adjust for inflation, so to speak.
Speaker 2: Get no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the sound, Kay, Why Kevin Young
Chapman and on some of these these these poignant topics,
Kevin number four. Kevin, you mentioned being tied with UCF
in the standings as we prepped for this UCFGA. What
are your overall thoughts on the nights and the challenges
they present.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean what I see on tape is a
lot of really good one on one basketball players. I
think they're big and strong. They do a good job
of you know, going at matchups that they like, and
they you know, they get down, you know, to their spots,
whether that's you know, mid ranger to the basket, and
so you know, we'll have to do a good job
with our one on one defense and be you know,
prideful in that, but also being able to make sure
we have good help and guard guard the ball with
five guys. But again, you know, they they I think
I and we understand what it is for them. I mean,
this is a great opportunity for them. To build up
their resume, and so I'm sure it's going to be
a very intense basketball game and our guys are are
you know, ready for that challenge.
Speaker 1: A lot of one on one basketball players. You said,
guys that can score, and we see that on ken Pom.
I mean, they're a I believe, almost the top twenty
five team in scoring efficiency per Ken pomp. Pretty impressive,
impressive team, and they were solid last year. By the way,
they were a solid team. They had their thirty five,
thirty fifth in offensive efficiency. So just hovering it outside,
just outside of the top twenty five, they're in the
top forty of college basketball, so plenty of talent there.
Speaker 6: You have something to say, Brett, No, I'm just going
over just their best wins in the season.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 6: They haven't beat a ton of the best teams in
the Big Twelve. They have beat Kansas, and they have
beat Texas Tech. They didn't play anyone non con wise,
that moves the needle for you. They're they're in a
I don't want to say a similar situation situation BYU,
but I think they're a lot closer to BYU than
what you would assume, because I think BYU fans.
Speaker 2: When you come into the.
Speaker 6: Season, you go, okay, so who are our easy wins
in the Big twelve. It's these guys, and it's these guys,
and it's always Colorado, even though I wasn't close win
this year, But like I think, UCF is always one
of those teams that BYU fans group into that's a
easy on the schedule.
Speaker 2: This year, that's not this UCF team. There. They are
by no means up there with Arizona and Houston.
Speaker 6: However, they beat Texas Tech and they beat Kansas. So
this is a UCF team that while you may think
this is last year's UCF team, it certainly is not.
Speaker 1: Colorado, for instance, is sixty ninth and Ken Palm Baylor
is forty eighth, UCF is forty nine, TCUs fiftieth. So
you see all these these teams, West Virginia fifty ninth,
they're all there, Arizona State sixty fourth, in Ken Palm.
Speaker 2: So you get a feel a vibe.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, well, if Colorado can take you to
the brink and push into.
Speaker 2: OT, UCF can do that.
Speaker 6: And more ucs tied with you in the Big twelph
standings right now, yes, at eight and six.
Speaker 1: So don't don't get a twisted don't come in here
over confident and think you're just gonna dominate this game
against Iowa State.
Speaker 2: You said rebounding was one of the reasons you won
the game.
Speaker 1: What's your confidence level right now in sustaining that, especially
on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 9: You know, it's something we talk about, you know, all
the time, and so you know that was that was
and continues to be one of my major concerns without
Richie is is he was one of our best rebounders
on both ends of the floor, and so challenging guys
like uh, you know, me Hi Low and to be
more consistent on the glass, challenging Aj. You know, AJ
had one of his highest offensive crash rates of the
season last game. You know, obviously Hadeem is a rebounding machine.
You know, he's been able to fill that gap for
us a little bit. So, you know, just guys have
to continue to do more. You know, I think Cable
has been to come back to life. You know, it's
the Cable that.
Speaker 2: We all know and love.
Speaker 9: What we've seen in the last couple of games, and
so I think we're getting contributions from different guys on
the glass, and our guys understand that when that is
the strength of ours, you know, we're a very very
hard team to beat because you know, on the defensive end,
it really really allows us to get out out in
transition where I think we're very good, and then and
then on the offensive side, you know, it becomes part
of the possession battle, which I've been talked about a lot.
Speaker 2: Vic, you got a cool staff for me.
Speaker 1: Today we're talking about rebounding and how critical it is.
Who's the rebounding king right now?
Speaker 2: For Brigham?
Speaker 7: Well, the Cougars are four and oh this season when
Boop has double digit boards and he's there thirteen and
two when he has five or more boards. So that
tells you the more he's playing, better chance BYU has
to win the game.
Speaker 2: It's time for some bounding Boops. Baby. That's it.
Speaker 1: Just forty minutes, all right, Just play him all forty
He's got the energy in the cardiovascular nature.
Speaker 2: I bet he could.
Speaker 6: Obviously, I don't know if it works with like the
lineups and everything, but I bet you he could play
forty minutes.
Speaker 2: No doubt, no doubt about it.
Speaker 9: H K.
Speaker 1: Why does you SEEUS road victory over Utah Saturda night
heighten your attention, especially giving their ability to win tough environments.
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, you definitely respect their ability to
go on the road and get a win, especially cross
country like that. But I mean our look, I don't,
and I say this with all due respect to UCF,
I don't. I don't need to see anything for any
team to grab my attention. I mean, our league is
a bear. Everybody understands it. Any team can beat anybody
on a given night. They've proven they can. They can
beat any team in our league. They're well coached, they
have guys who are really talented, like I just said,
but more than anything, you just look at the standings
and where where they're at, you know, and what they're
saying in their locker room. You know, this is a
huge game for them as it is for us. It's
a massive game for both teams, and so you know
our guys will be ready to go for those reasons.
Speaker 1: He said bear, and I was like ringball, baby football,
foot bear football, bear, bacmar Blam's talking about football.
Speaker 2: You can say bear, bog bar spring ball right around the.
Speaker 1: Corner by whoa camp Kline twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Six underway anyway, Sorry, man, it was like I'm like
the dog on up squirrel Bear Bear. Anyway, isn't Bear
Bachmer pretty good at basketball? Yeah?
Speaker 6: He was playing in a I want to say junior Jazz.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it was.
Speaker 6: It was at the Delta Center and it was Bear
Bachmeyer and a bunch of other dudes playing basketball. I
think BYU may have put it out on their social
but yeah, Bear was hitting threes. He was miked up Bear.
Bear can hoop. The man can play ball. So I'm
sure that's probably not what Kevin Young was talking about. However,
I did love what he said as far as like
it doesn't like doesn't take anything for anyone in the
Big twelve to grab his attention.
Speaker 2: Everyone grabs his attention.
Speaker 6: And to his point, like UCF is saying everything in
their locker room that BYU saying in theirs.
Speaker 2: Because right now UCF is.
Speaker 6: A ten seed in the Big twelve in the NCAA
turn per Joe Lunardi, so like they are getting into
that spot where they could be out of the tournament.
This win would certainly bolster their tournament resume.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it love that perspective. Let's get into
a couple other things here. Let's talk about a deem boop.
We saw Hadem leave around the two twenty mark in
the game on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Is it okay? Is he okay to go tomorrow?
Speaker 9: Yeah, he was a little limited today in practice, but
he's He's a type of kid math that he'd have
to saw his leg off for him to not play
in the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you're always concerned about Like I was
concerned at the end of the game of Hadem's health
and then and then Kepa's hand right and I thought
it was his dunking hand, but then someone said to oh,
it was his left arm.
Speaker 2: I was like, wait, it was his left hand or
is his right hand? What's going on? What's what's injured on?
On Keva? Did we have confirmation if it's left or
right both?
Speaker 6: But I mean, if he did, look when he dunked
the ball at the end of the game, he looked
like he dunk it so hard that afterwards he was like, oh.
Speaker 2: Shoot, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was like his right hand
though that he injured, or if it is like offhand.
I don't remember which one has tape on it. I
think it's his right hand that has tape on it.
Speaker 4: So both bal ff are hurt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyways, yeah, we gotta get it. We try to
get some confirmation on that. But he was he was
hurting after that dunk, right, Yeah, A little lighthearted question
from the from the media base. I remembered you told
us when AJ had long sleeves, you said you're big
on routines. The team is going to wear blackout jerseys. Uh,
that's right there wearing blackout jerseys tonight. Did you have
to sign off on that because of a little bit
of this look and aesthetic on the court.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 4: That's that's news to me.
Speaker 9: But but that that that's a little bit different the sleeves.
The sleeves, definitely, we were in its own category. But uh,
I think our guys will be, you know, ready to go.
I trust our our crew that puts all that together.
Speaker 2: He does. He likes routines. I like it.
Speaker 1: I don't like any I don't like the blackouts anymore.
I don't like the distraction. I don't like anything.
Speaker 6: I will say if you watch him as he answers
this question, because he says this was news to me,
and then he goes and hops on his phone. I'm
sure he's good with it, but I do wonder if
there's a part of him he was like, wait a minute,
I didn't know about this. We're adjusting our routine. Hold on,
hold on, because again, like he wears, he wears all
black every game. He wears the same shoes and the
same pants every game. Only thing he changes to pull over.
And I'm with you, like, I'm I'm the same way.
I wear black pants and then I rotate my hoodies.
But outside of that, so I'm with him, I am
a little surprised. I'm a surprised that it's happening at all,
that we're changing the uniforms.
Speaker 2: Yes, and b.
Speaker 6: If it is happening, I'm shocked to learn that he
didn't know, because again, we we knew about this. I
think it was in the game notes from a couple
of days ago, so we knew about But I think
it's funny that Kevin Young is just now finding out.
Speaker 2: And I'm I'm a little surprised that he's cool with it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a great question, honestly, Yes, Like, like I
personally now hate uniform combination because I'm like every time,
I always feel like we get distracted by it and
like as fans and media were with it, but like
I wanna see Dubbs, I wanna see wins.
Speaker 1: It is a blackout. Uh, everyone's gonna be wearing black,
I guess at the game tonight. Yeah, all the fans
as well. We're supposed to wear black, right, us are
supposed to wear black?
Speaker 4: That is correct.
Speaker 5: They put it on the Marriott screen out of the
last two games, on all the socials. So look, Ben,
I'm gonna be honest. I need we might need to
get the guy that does the jersey thing. But I
don't know what their record is with black jerseys. I
don't Originally I was like, oh, blackout, and then I
thought about it. It's like they've had some heartbreaks. I
feel like with these jerseys. So UCF is the perfect
team been to give a heartbreak with black jerseys when
they're the team that normally wears the black and Old.
Speaker 6: If I'm not wrong, I will say as far as
changes go, aj Debontsa war Ahead band to start the
season took it off and has since brought it back.
Speaker 2: So that is a change as well.
Speaker 6: That we have not talked about, even though what I
will say is maybe he's bringing it back just for
just to represent Richie. I do have the numbers have
been Richie in black jersey.
Speaker 2: I have leave for you on the black So shout
out to bo a uniform tracker.
Speaker 6: Shout out to my boy Colson Kun's fun fact went
to uh Prom with my wife.
Speaker 2: Fun fact. Wow.
Speaker 6: So b YU in the black uniforms under in the
Kevin Young era BYU seven and six. This year b
YU is one and two and overall with the black
jerseys in BYU history twelve and fourteen.
Speaker 2: So it's about fifty to fifty told you.
Speaker 4: Fifty fifty six to seven. I hate that. I know
I just did that, but I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I like that.
Speaker 1: Ben, It's interesting interesting indeed, last thing here with the
final stretch, K, why do you make your team aware
of the big twelve brackets in there or NC double
a seating at all?
Speaker 9: I mean, I'm aware of it, you know, I try to.
You know, I know more about it now this year
than I did last year. So I talked to my
coaches about it, and so I'm I'm in tune with it,
you know, bottom line is, you know, regardless of where
you are, clearly you want to be in the best
situation you can be in in terms of you know,
whether it's seating for the Big twelve or for NC
Double A. But I think the most important thing is
just you know, playing at a high level, you know,
this time of year, and being able to just execute,
you know, for for for forty minutes, like I said,
But yes, I do look at it. I'm like I said,
I'm a fan of the game too, so I just
I like knowing the landscape and seeing kind of where
team stack up.
Speaker 2: So it's, uh, you.
Speaker 9: Know, we're incringing upon the best time of year in
college sports.
Speaker 2: So here we go.
Speaker 1: There you go, the most wonderful time of the year. Guys, Ronnie,
you want to chime in on this that final thing
from and also you have a little bit of the
bracketology update where BYU who b what you would be playing?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's really what I wanted to give was the
last update. Right now they would be playing. They're gonna
not play on the first day, They'll play on the Wednesday.
They're out of the question. I think for that double bye.
I don't think they're gonna go to the quarterfinals like
last year, but it's good. I think this team needs
to play as many games to get in the rhythm.
Game eight, they be the sixth seed. They play the
winner of game four, so that's the eleventh and the
fourteenth seed. So that would be the matchup between Colorado
and Baylor, who I believe they would both beat. And
that's an eight thirty pm game on ESPN two. Espnu, Ben,
you gotta love that. And in the quarterfinals, Ben, this
is why I gotta get down there. Do you know
who they would play? And I want to see this
matchup because we talk about narratives, we talk about YadA, YadA, YadA.
So the winner of game eight would play the number
three seed in game twelve in the last night game.
Do you know who that team is third in the conference.
Speaker 2: Right now, Mike, guess is Kansas?
Speaker 5: It would be d It would be Darren Peterson. So
Darren Peterson and aj D Bonsa. That's probably what fans won.
You probably want Kansas to finish third to see this again,
to get there, get back and being could you imagine
that at b YU is the sixth seed, which is
probably where they're gonna finish. If they win Kansas finishes
is three. They're gonna play them in the quarterfinal on
ESPN ESPEN two, the last game of the quarterfinals on
March twelve, Thursday, with the opportunity to go to the
semi final. Everyone wants to see that game, Ben, So
there you go. I think that's probably gonna be BYU's path.
Speaker 6: If I had to guess, yeah, I think that would
be so much fun, man, because again, according to Ben's conspiracy,
that Darren Peterson is probably gonna start showing up in
the Big twelve tournament. So if that is the case,
then yedd in as early as you can as far
as the NCAA tournament goes.
Speaker 2: You've done, pissed off DNP Yeah you done?
Speaker 6: And his daddy, Yeah, he's Bill's.
Speaker 1: Coaching them up now true. I think it was the
Myron Medcalf article. Yes, like you know, you said, I
haven't even coached this guy yet.
Speaker 6: Which is so I don't know in what contacts he
said that, But that is a weird thing because.
Speaker 1: If you're not practicing and you're not playing, you're only
playing half of anything, Like are you really coaching him up?
Speaker 6: That's why I think It's really weird that he told
Myron Medcalf that it went into the article.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. I haven't even coached him.
Speaker 1: And then you see him doing this little hand thing
like dee up, get back, get back, dear up. He's
finally trying to coach him up and hold him accountable
and try to get after him.
Speaker 2: A little bit. That's a weird look. I mean, yeah,
it's weird. I will say I love that. Kevin Young.
Speaker 6: Again, we talked about this all season, but every other
coach in America they goes, I.
Speaker 2: Don't pay attention to that stuff.
Speaker 6: They give you all the other like classic coach talkisms.
Kevin Young's like, man, we're kind of coming up on
the best time in college sports. Like, let's go as
far as the INCITABA Tournament goes, as far as Joe
Lunardi sees it, b YU will be a would be
a six seed going to Portland taking on the Indiana Hoosiers.
Speaker 2: But you know what's fun if the bracket goes like this,
obviously who knows.
Speaker 6: But on the other side, BYU, if they advanced, they
would take on their old wccfoe, those Gonzaga Zags. So
it'd be really interesting if they if we got to
see that. I mean, I don't know that I want
to see Gonzaga, but I think it'd be fun.
Speaker 2: For WCC sake.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be really interesting to see how they finish
the thing out and where BYU ends up as far
as the in silly tournament goes.
Speaker 1: Love that breakdown, gentlemen, Let's take a time out. We'll
be back, Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Great segment
there on your Utah ESPN Radio Network talking ky and
there's BAU basketball team.
Speaker 2: By the way, BAU is a hippie favorite.
Speaker 1: In tonight's the game, twelve and a half points, twelve
and a half ESBN analytics giving a Baun eighty six
point eight percent chance of victory. Remember you CF, if
you haven't looked at the records, they're nineteen and seven
BYU's twenty and U c F is eight and six
and Big twelve play. B YU is eight and six
and Big twelve play.
Speaker 2: It doesn't seem right to be that heavily favored. It
just doesn't seem right. That's where I'm at.
Speaker 5: Is it because of the injuries though, that's my thing
of their star players.
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe I mean Ken palm as UCF as the
forty ninth best team.
Speaker 2: B YU is at twenty one.
Speaker 1: So there you have it, Ronnie, I know you want
you for for for March Madness Christmas. You want to
see d n P and aj one more time because
we got the twelve.
Speaker 2: Yes I did the regular season, didn't we?
Speaker 4: I did?
Speaker 5: I do want that to be my Christmas gift. You've
given a lot of gifts. You're the You're the real
uh you know, gift of Christmas. You give so much.
But no, yeah, I would love to see that matchup. Well,
because here's the thing at the Big twelve thing, they
let you sit depending on the media who they give
access to court side. So some of the local media
got a chance to sit in, do their articles and
do their stuff court side. What could you imagine seeing
Darren and aj Ben that we for the first half
for the drench that's Brett's thing before it is, But
he might not even play.
Speaker 4: He might be d n P that game, We have
no dude.
Speaker 2: He might be getting ready for combat.
Speaker 1: Hey let me let me just give you because this
is all coming to a wonderful uh precipice Oh yeah, yes.
Speaker 2: And Ronnie, you teed me up for this. This is beautiful,
you know what.
Speaker 6: I mean By the way, I don't agree, but I
do hope you're right. That's not how I see it
going down, but I hope you're right. For arguments and narratives,
here we feel me out.
Speaker 1: If you're Brett your marre we go and you're a
puppeteer of monetization and celebritization, okay, propaganda. Aren't you puppeteering
another matchup in the Big Twelve tournament with.
Speaker 4: D Yeah, you're not wrong, b Yu.
Speaker 5: They get the foul calls in that game, they win,
and they go on to play in the quarterfinal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, here I buy that.
Speaker 2: What do you think you want?
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're the your your mark, filthy luke
or seeker.
Speaker 2: Right, this is what you want.
Speaker 1: Everybody's talking about the Big Twelve. Everyone's talking about D
m P. Now everyone's talking about how I take AJ
overall number one, A J A J A J. And
he just pulled off almost a triple double. M You know,
look at all of the the last six games with AJ,
and it's like, oh, it's all trending in AJ's but
well not so fast, says league Orse so not so
fast as Darryl Peterson, the dad of Darren Peterson. He
had an interview with CBS Sports. Myron metcalf is putting
out his stuff. Finally, Darren Peterson is getting out in
front of the media. You know, it wasn't very good.
It wasn't there what we were asking for it. We
asked for it, and they put him out there. So
I give him credit for that. I did send you
the sound bite, Ronnie. I don't know if I did
send it to you via DM. I belie leave. We
can play that really quick because I don't know if
it was a good thing. I guess we could save
it for a cougar. But no, but we're talking about
it right now. We got to talk about it. We
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play last night after the victory for Kansas, a great win.
By the way, we don't even talked about that over
Houston uh at fog Allen Darren didn't have his best game,
but it was still trotted out in front of the
media in order to ask, in order to receive and
answer a few questions.
Speaker 2: Uh, this is what one of his responses was. Uh,
had something to say probably for every game this year.
So I don't really patch it anymore. I don't know.
Speaker 9: I have been a anti social loner my whole life
kind of, so I kind of just deal with it
on my own.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a good thing to say
when you're a team player. I think what they're having
to fight the rhetoric of him being isolated, self centric,
self centered, and he goes centray, he just getting not
coachable and injured and and just separate. And then he
says I'm a loner, anti social, and it's like, ah,
wait a second here, Uh, maybe that's not the right
thing to say, especially too, like.
Speaker 2: What what it? What it it?
Speaker 1: He's on social media changing his avatar or his U
his profile.
Speaker 6: Picture the Lord Scissorhands, Like, bro, he's a unique dude.
Speaker 2: So also, obviously you are on social media because you
change your profile. He is seeing it. So again, the
same issue with coaches.
Speaker 6: Don't tell me you don't see it just don't say anything,
because when you say you don't see it, and then
we see you on social media, it's like, Okay, well
you're lying.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's better to have maybe some sort
of gatekeeper that feeds you the information, like, look, this
is what they're saying about you, this is what's going on,
you know, but you're not allocating bandwidth to it.
Speaker 2: You know, you're not seeking out anyway.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was the best response for
Darren Peterson in my opinion.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but now it kind of like, if you're looking
at this from Kansas's perspective, you're like, oh, I get
why you guys haven't been rolling him out here, because
he's like that, like doing media is just not his thing.
And there's like there's levels of not being great at media.
Speaker 2: There's like LJ. Martin and Bear Blackmeyer, where like.
Speaker 6: They have people skills, but media and giving media what
they want to hear, like that's just not their thing.
Darren Peterson like speaking to large groups of people, like
that's just not what he wants to do.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it's not a great look.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, this is the first time you've been able to
roll him out though, because you're never sure when he's
going to finish a game, and if he doesn't finish
the game, then you can't put him in front of
the media. You're like, well, it's getting as hot as
it's ever been, and he finished this game. I know
he didn't play well, but let's just put him out
there and it didn't go super well.
Speaker 1: Yep, there you go, guys, let's go to break. Coming
up next, we'll talk some more ball. We'll get into
a cougar byite Tim Fanning the new defense corner of
this BWAU men's basketball team.
Speaker 2: We'll ask the question.
Speaker 1: We'll go and review the poll his Bewiaves defense improved, worsened,
or stayed the same from last year. Will Devin and
welcome in the g man, Brandon Z. Gurney of the
Daily Herald. He is ready and willing to give hot takes,
fiery commentaries here on.
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