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Speaker 1: What's up, Roddy?
Speaker 3: What's up everybody?
Speaker 6: Happy Tuesday to you guys. It's game day, as they say,
games starting at five today, a kind of a weird
tip off time. We'll still take you through it, but look,
we got a lot of guests. We're gonna keep it
very tight today, but we're gonna I'm gonna when you
get to the start lineup. I'm excited for this line
of ban especially a particular basketball guest. I finally got
them scheduled. Sometimes the hard from people because they have lives,
but I'm excited to hear from this basketball guest who
played for the Cougar's back in the day.
Speaker 5: Boom shot a lock should be a fantastic show.
Speaker 1: Let's also welcome into the show.
Speaker 5: We got Brett always bring in the Hammer Hammer Time show.
Speaker 1: What's up, bro?
Speaker 7: Hey, guys, I.
Speaker 8: Think I'm feeling some like flu like symptoms or it
might be cramping.
Speaker 1: It could be a hamstring.
Speaker 8: Oh no, an ESPN stats guy's texting about it, and
now everyone's tweeting about it. Oh gosh, dude, this is
this is not a good look for me. But it's
okay because you're still gonna have a really good show today.
But yeah, these flu lipe symptoms. I know you don't
hear it in my voice, but they're just going crazy
right now. I have to load manage myself. See like
here at ESPN the Fan, we're built different. Ronnie pushing
through the flu game the flu show. You know, Bret,
I think you pushed through a little bit. You push
through a few flu flu a sinus infection shows more
than Darren Peterson.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you had two under your belt before.
You're like, I'm gonna do I'm gonna work from home
because it's getting pretty bad.
Speaker 8: And I was like, I don't want to get everyone
else sick. But the difference between me and Darren is
I don't.
Speaker 7: I don't.
Speaker 6: Brent has to have a couple this year, but Darren
has zero.
Speaker 8: You know, we're aj literally in the post game the
other day post and he's sick. And this was like
two weeks after he was already sick, and then Darren's like, oh,
you know what, I'm just not feeling like going today.
Speaker 1: So I dude, Bill.
Speaker 8: Self deserves like he are genius of the year because
he does these interviews.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know if you guys caught it.
Speaker 8: He did an interview with Scott van Pelt last night
and he's like, oh, yeah, man, we found out five
minutes before tip that he was sick and he really
wasn't able to play. I'm like, man, Bill, you do
these interviews and you do a really good job of
not letting it slip that he is bull bleeping everybody
right now.
Speaker 5: It's crazy, It really is that Darren Peterson saga continues
to like get headlines when I mean, all you have
to do is just, you know, just tell the truth, right,
Why do you have to get into this PR game?
And furthermore, right there was an ESPN staffer that was
doing stats that I apparently had received information about the
Darren Peterson situation, and he he was being filmed at
the time by someone behind them.
Speaker 1: They focus in on the text. I feel bad for
the ESPN staffer.
Speaker 5: He's just kind of communicating to whoever his internal team, right,
and and someone video records it and puts it on
social media.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 9: And the the the text, if I'm not mistaken, uh
kind of threw Darren under the bus and shows him
that shows that he's kind of entitled and not communicative.
Speaker 5: And Bill self is, uh probably had enough to hear
with with Darren Peterson. And it's not a good look.
It's not a good look for for Darren Peterson. And
it's going to it's going to impact your draft. It
has to write. If it doesn't, then you have a
lot of gms and scouts that just don't care about
mentality anymore. They care about potential, uh productivity.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: And like I said, this is a Kawhi Leonard thing.
Like I love Kawhi fantastic, but he got to the
point where he was load managing and he was just
not bought into the team. And he has leveraged that
and leveraged that and leveraged that that that that kind
of that one or two seasons of Great News into
a fantastic life of Monetary Blaze without having to produce
a whole lot afterwards.
Speaker 6: Man, can I jump in here and I just want
to say this in general of this, and I think
Brett would agree, and you would. We saw this happen
with a certain BAU social media person who got filmed, right.
Speaker 1: And this also happened Virginia Tech.
Speaker 8: Oh, I don't know how the James Franklin news got
leaked because there was a girl photo shopping the incoming
images of like welcoming James Franklin and so like, shout
out to people in athletics, y'all got to get screen
covers because.
Speaker 3: That's gonna say.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was gonna say, private privacy screens. You guys
gotta look text on your phone, not your laptop. And look,
I've sat next to the b A social media people.
They do a fantastic job. They're good people. But I
felt bad because yes, not a good look, but also
like that, like those are these are private moments and
you can't go anywhere now, Ben, everything's filmed. So to
everybody out there, ESPN staff people, if you're sitting at
the scores table, if you're close on the road, it
seems like it's happened on the road. At home, you
gotta watch out because people are looking to go viral.
Speaker 5: So he's he's sick and didn't tell anyone in practice,
and Bill said, don't half a it, half has it.
If you're gonna, if you're if you're gonna play, if not,
sit DP said f and I'm out. That's the text
that was essentially the text that was sent.
Speaker 8: And then you have the tweet from the Kansas ADP. Yeah, so,
Daniel Burke.
Speaker 5: Then seventeen hours ago quote tweets had said the person
texting in this video, who is a contracted crew worker
who handles official stats during the game for ESPN, he
does not work for Kansas and he's not affiliated with
the Athletic Department in any way. He has no insider
information and was speculating we are handling internally.
Speaker 8: I don't think you can guarantee and say he does
no because I so, because I had a time in TV,
I've sat on these rows, I've done the independently contracting
while you're working in a game at a university. I
don't think you can definitively say he doesn't have inside information.
Speaker 1: You can say he doesn't.
Speaker 3: Work for us.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but I'll tell you this, these guys are talking
to everybody on that row, and more times than not,
you've worked enough of these games before that you're friends
with a lot of these people, So you do have
inside information, you just don't tweet it out because that's
not your job and that's not who you are.
Speaker 7: He I don't.
Speaker 8: I mean, obviously we can't verify this, but I don't
think it's fair for them to definitively say and honestly,
it doesn't make Kansas look good to say he doesn't
know what he's talking about. And then your last quote,
your last sentence in there, says we are handling internally.
Speaker 5: Well, if you're not worried messages, if you're not worried
that any of that information is true or verifiable, then
why are you eternally unless you know somebody did, because
also that information has to be true, then if you're concerned.
It reminds me of Mark Carlin quote tweeting Dennis Todd
about the Big twelve or the bit Pac twelve crumbling
and that the Big twelve was ready to pounce, and
Mark Carlin says.
Speaker 1: Give me a break, And that's what it breaks up.
In my opinion.
Speaker 5: What's more absurd though, the fact that Darren Peterson pulled
h you know a d n P. That's a great
uh night that's a that's a great nickname. By the way,
for d the d N p uh and and Kansas
still won at fog Allen, still beat the number one
team in the country without their best player. You may
wonder if Bill Sell's like, look, we can do it
without them. I mean, this Kansas team is pretty gouch
stanging good. It doesn't make you feel maybe better as
a BA basketball fan, but pretty impressive. Nonetheless, what they
did versus u of a. Let's also welcome into the show. Uh,
the one the only g Man Brandon, see Gurney, what's up?
Speaker 3: G Man Man?
Speaker 10: If fans just knew what went on behind the scenes
with team the teams they love, I think it would
be a shock.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't want to know how the sausage
is made.
Speaker 10: There is so much stuff, and I'm not privy to
even most of it. I don't believe most years, but
I get a lot of inside information, particularly about the
football team. But I don't think I even know twenty
I think I maybe twenty percent.
Speaker 3: There's probably eighty percent.
Speaker 10: Phone calls from parents, fights, sid turmoil. There's a lot
of stuff, guys. I'm just telling you.
Speaker 3: It's coaches have a very very tough job.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of nuanced, there's a lot of subtlety,
there's a lot of you know, everybody wants to show
up to work and you have your SOPs like this
is all I do. To give me my job description
and I'm gonna cross off the to do list and
then I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna clock out.
Speaker 5: Very few jobs in sports, uh uh in athletic departments
are that way. And I don't even say corporate America,
like in general, like you have to be flee to
foot in like in typically like high paying, highly competitive environments.
Like if you have any anyone's working in the medical industry,
working clinic, like it's it's super nuanced. Sometimes yes you
have SOPs, but there's always something nuanced and subtle. You
know that the way in form and fashion what you
bill the diagnoses like it's a chaotic thing, and that
doctors are in the o R. It can get pretty crazy.
So like I would say, highly competitive, highly nuanced, you
know businesses, Uh, it's everybody wants like these like standard
SOPs and like be able to make a lot of
money in the world. It it doesn't exist, Like I
talk to these people all the time. They want to
work forty hours a week and I want to make
one hundred and fifty to two undred thousand dollars. I'm like,
I don't know, Like, you're not gonna be working forty
hours a week doing that, like you know you typically
you're gonna have to be working sixty eighty you know,
hours a week to be making that type of money.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you. As a gig like that is Gary Anderson.
Speaker 10: He's got his op right, Well yeah, yeah, why do
you think Gary Anderson is just like Nope, I'm good.
I've been I've been on the grind for thirty plus years.
I'm good with what Kilane lets me do. Clock in
I mean, doesn't even have the cla He basically shows
up at.
Speaker 3: Leaves when he wants. He's Gary Anderson, who's gonna tell what?
He's a genius.
Speaker 1: That's why, that's why I didn't go to Michigan.
Speaker 10: That's why he's still in provo and and this is
the I mean props.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he deserves all of it. Yeah, yes, indeed, crazy times. No,
I do think you're right though, I think it's important
for like Bayu fans. I realized, like, you know, you
probably don't want to know how the sausage is good?
Speaker 7: Me?
Speaker 6: Can I play a sound clip though of all of this?
Speaker 1: Didn't tell this from yesterday? But what's that? What do
you want to do here?
Speaker 6: Right, Tommy Lloyd? I want to play a sound clip
of this whole thing because I just remembered this from
last night. This is a great soundclipse. It's thirteen seconds.
I think it's great. Let's listen really quickly.
Speaker 4: About ten minutes for the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, got guys, Kansas is a hell of a team.
Speaker 1: Let's not make this about Darren Peterson.
Speaker 4: He didn't play because he was sick.
Speaker 1: They beat the number one team in the country at
home tonight. They did a hell of a job and
their coach did a hell of a job. That should
be the story.
Speaker 5: There you go, So he's reprimenting us. We're talking about DNP.
Shouldn't the story shouldn't be around DMP. It should be
about this team coming together in perfect harmony on their
home court, beating the number one team in the country.
You of a who has been in fuego doing something monumental,
doing something that rarely, if ever happens in college basketball,
being undefeated through twenty three twenty four games.
Speaker 1: That's insane. Last team to.
Speaker 8: Do it was that Kentucky team that we all remember.
Speaker 5: Yeah, one of the best, if not the best teams
in college basketball history.
Speaker 10: I think there's definitely a top tier for Big twelve
basketball this year, and b Way he's not in it currently.
It's you got Arizona, Kansas, Yeah, Houston.
Speaker 3: Are we put in Iowa State in that time?
Speaker 1: They're definitely trending that direction.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think those four and then everything else.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's more divided than I've seen since b Way
he's been part of the conference. Yeah, I think there's
a definite top four and I don't think there's any team.
It's like, no, no, no, that's your four teams at
least right now. I mean things can change. We'll see
b Way you can get in there. But yeah, there's
there's a definite top four right now.
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Speaker 1: I did ask this question to Kugarnation yesterday.
Speaker 5: We didn't delve into it too much, but it's gotten
some run, a lot of buevents chiming in on it. Jurney,
I'll ask you this question, Brett and Ronnie real quick
before we get into the sound. You know, it seems
like our supporting cast is is just not good enough
this year. Our brig three are triple combination. They are glorious,
they are tried and true, they are beautiful and look, yeah,
maybe one drops off one game, but you have two
out of the three that are typically getting buckets and
balling out. Okay, the supporting cast, which of these players
from last year's team does b way you miss the most?
Speaker 1: Is it Fu?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 1: What Mag? Is it? Dollen Hall? Is it Trey Stewart?
Is it Trevin? Now?
Speaker 3: Who is it?
Speaker 1: And why?
Speaker 3: I believe it's fos Loose really giving that different.
Speaker 10: It's just because of the deficiencies you've seen inside just
recent nothing.
Speaker 5: Nothing, absolutely no that that's been and you had to
go to the G League to find someone to help you.
Speaker 10: I know I know where you're gonna I know where
what's gonna be the popular answer on this, But I'm
going Foos because I think what Foos could do back
to the basket, change it up, give teams a different look,
have to account for something different.
Speaker 3: I think b WAYU is sorely missing that this year.
Speaker 10: Yeah, because Kevin hasn't even become close to giving it
to you.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1: Well, nor is it Doulah, nor is has anybody.
Speaker 10: I mean, you know those centers that are just there,
kind of those mark eating types that are just yeah,
just go clog the middle, dude and pick up the
garbage mark e.
Speaker 3: No, that's essentially what they've become, right.
Speaker 10: I thought I thought Kevin was gonna make he tries,
and he started the year very promising. I was like, yeah,
he's going to be a dude, and he's just falling off.
I don't know if he's heard or.
Speaker 5: Well, remember he just have missing cushions early and that
that'll that'll set you back.
Speaker 10: They need him to be a better presence inside. I
don't know if he can do it offensively. I don't
know if he has that game. But to me, I
think the way you miss his fos and I know
people are gonna go triven now, but I'm going yeah.
Speaker 5: I think the biggest qualm I have is like, there
hasn't really been progress in productivity from last year to
this year from the bigs, like you haven't seen progress,
and so I think that's a really good take.
Speaker 1: What do you got for me? Bred always bringing the
hammer hammer time show? Well, I'm not gonna pick this guy.
Speaker 8: But I do think there's a lot of people who
are now saying, oh, we miss Dallen Hall, and I
would like to push back at those people because when
Dollen Hall left, a lot of BYU fans were like, good,
so defend the perimeter.
Speaker 1: He thought he was going to be better. It's a
good thing he's gone now. I just feel that way.
But I do think there were a lot of I
was like, the.
Speaker 10: Only guy this that b way you it's probably gonna
miss you know what, laughed at Ronnie Criddle, everybody, even
mister old school basket.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have the check table one.
Speaker 3: Come everybody, everybody.
Speaker 8: I don't know who was in it, but the p
everybody was definitely yeah, we're gonna be better off, without doubt,
And I don't know that that's the case. Now, my
answer is not down Hall. My answer is mo mag
I do I mean his three deal was unreal. I
think he was the unsung hero of the team all
season long, never got the credit that he deserved until
he won that game for them in the tournament on
Tom Jay.
Speaker 1: I think part of.
Speaker 8: The issue with this team, man, is that team say, Okay,
we're gonna take away one guy, we're gonna guard the
other two. We're gonna double, and you're not gonna kick
to anybody else because we're not afraid of them, and
you don't believe that they can help you either. So
that's why you see Aj knows if he gets double,
he has one option. They go to that option, which
is either Rober Ritchie and then they'll leave you Abdullah
Ahmed or Keava or they they will leave those guys
because they don't think that you'll pass them the ball
because they know that you won't. And I think a
guy like Mowitt, I mean, if if Canards stepped up,
I think that really severely shifts how defenses guard you.
But I mean, man, Mowitt was as solid as it gets,
and I think this team misses him, especially dude defensively
that's one of the biggest issues with.
Speaker 1: This team is like they actually can score.
Speaker 8: The problem is they can't slow anybody else down enough
for those points to matter. I I think Mowitt to
me is my answer.
Speaker 1: I'm baddie who you got.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's a great take from from Brett. I
mean been I said yesterday and I'll repeat it. And
as I thought, I didn't looked at it because I'm
I'm looking at everything of okay, how could they stay
in games? The turnovers and everything. And I just want
to say, it was g Man and Seawan that said
that uh Dallen Hall will be missed. I didn't say
that BYU would be better off. So yes, you did.
I meane Sean does not like I'll just say it.
Sewan does not like when b YU guys leave and
go elsewhere. This whole nar like, you know, the nil
all of that. He doesn't like when they're gone and
be like all right, well that's it better. He does
not like that because he's like, you're that guy. You're
gonna you got that guy for a reason. Anyway, my
point of what I'm saying is I did say it
was gonna be an upgrade. Rob right, I did think that,
didn't say it'd be better off, because that's my that's
my pick is this team needs a Dallent Hall. This
team does not have a pass first point guard, not
point forward, pass first point guard. In the Oklahoma State game,
when Rob is turning the ball over, when he's struggling
to defend a little bit, yes, Dallon did struggle defensely,
but when you're six four, when you're two hundred pounds,
you can operate in the pick and roll even with
k buta Dallen was great. He could steal through that,
and they they don't have that like that would take
pressure off because you know what, when you got a
guy who's so dynamic and he his skill sets go
downhill and he can't really pass. When you have a
guy that's like slowed up, I'm gonna back it up, relax,
give the ball to AJ who's willing to defer like that,
you need to slow the game down. They had that
in Dallen Hall. They had that in three zero, who
could still hit threes, who was still big enough to
get you on this hip and get to the basket.
They're missing that, you know, in that combination of Fouso
to me, Look, they have no backup guard. So because
they have no backup guard, and you got a Lexi
coaches out there, you're telling me that Dallan couldn't put
more minutes and do better.
Speaker 3: Than Lexi coaches. Right now, I would have to disagree.
Speaker 6: I think Dallan could, so for me, I think they're
missing with the injuries right now, and that's obviously specific,
but I think it's Dallen Hall right now who I
think they could use big time.
Speaker 1: Then.
Speaker 6: I mean that would take so much pressure off for
Rob where he might be able to play a little
bit better and get a breather because he's playing thirty
five plus minutes a night.
Speaker 5: All Right, I'm gonna take the unpopular opinion here. I'm
taking Treppin down.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you why I knew you were going.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a bad answer.
Speaker 6: Of these answers are bad.
Speaker 8: Honestly, I would love to see how many minutes Trey
Stewart would play on this team.
Speaker 1: Like I agree, I think he'd be playing a time where.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he was in late in the season, he
was hitting the standing three much more effectively.
Speaker 1: Even though he is he looked like Bill cart right,
but at the point guard position. You guys don't know
Bill cart Right.
Speaker 5: You know Bill cartt right like one of the worst
forums I've ever seen, but could hit anyway.
Speaker 1: Trevinell from February first through.
Speaker 5: March twenty seventh into the season, Okay, I think that
was like sixteen games, right, You had thirteen regular season
in the games, and then obviously you had the Big
twelve and.
Speaker 1: Then NCAA tournament games.
Speaker 5: He averaged eighteen point nine minutes per game, eight point
one points per game. He shot from the field forty
nine percent. He shot forty nine percent from the three
point line during that period. Now, where he lost it
was a little bit with the free throw attempts. He
wasn't taking a ton of attempts. He was only getting
to the line on occasion one attempt per game.
Speaker 1: But he was sixty percent. But it wasn't it wasn't impactful.
Speaker 5: He was taking five and a half shots per game,
and four of those were from the three point line
during that period, So he shot fifty percent taking four
to three point shots.
Speaker 1: Okay, per game.
Speaker 5: You would have given him more about like you see
you take out Canar Davis right now and you throw
in Trevin an out. Is he as good a defender, No,
but he became a really good He became a much
better defender and a much better rebounder offensively and eventsively.
Speaker 1: And he was strong too, and he had some dog
in him too.
Speaker 5: If Tony Pidia didn't give him a tea, he could
have just you know, goodness great.
Speaker 3: Anyone of the worst technicals I've ever seen.
Speaker 5: Crevin Nell also averaged two point three rebounds per game
and one point sis per one point six is assists
per games, almost two sist and one steal per game.
So like I mean he had highs versus at ASU
of eighteen, he had fifteen versus Kansas. He had fourteen
versus Wisconsin in that NCAA tournament game. So bench scoring,
floor spacing. I mean, I think he had starts too
during that time. Trying to think how many starts he had.
I mean, he was starting for most of that too,
so I guess he wasn't necessarily coming off the bench.
But like right now you're looking at I know, Mowat's
also a great choice. Mowatt to finish the season was
was very affect of very efficient. He played twenty five
twenty seven thirty one twenty three minutes per game. He
wasn't a score though, he wasn't scoring a ton. He's
six seven six zero points versus Houston, six versus Iowa State.
He did have nine versus Utah, and he had ten
versus Iowa State towards the end of the season in
the regular season, and.
Speaker 1: That was a win.
Speaker 5: That was an eighty eight eighty five double overtime win.
And he shot the ball.
Speaker 3: He's okay.
Speaker 5: He was one of four from the three point line.
I'm actually picking Trevin on this. I feel really confident
that you know, he's not a bad defender, who's actually
above average to good defender most of the time. He's
picking off passes every now and again, one steep per game.
He's rebounding at two point three rebounds per game during
from February first to March twenty seventh, and he's shooting
fifty percent from the three point line. Trevin Noll is
the guy that you miss out of this crew in
my opinion. But there's no wrong answers. I love the
food stake and I love Mawatt like I really do. Dallan,
I think you know that there's something to be said
about Dallan. I think having another point guard off guard,
Dallan is maybe a better off guard than he has
a point guard. But he likes the ball in his hands.
I think he became a pretty good set shooter at
times last year. But he's only shooting thirty percent from
the three point line right now, by the way for Virginia,
so not great. So anyway, that's the take. Let's go
to break. We'll come back with some of the soundbites
from Kyan leading up we'll preview the BYU Baylor game
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Speaker 3: You know what I've actually thought about this?
Speaker 1: You have now.
Speaker 3: I hate to say it. I think spring balls can
be kind of boring this.
Speaker 1: Year because everyone's back. You bite your tongue, everyone's back,
got acquisition. There's some questions.
Speaker 10: I still think there is, but it's relative to other
years and what I'm saying, is that's a really good
thing that it's gonna be boring. You want boring, boring,
you want things locked in. But but what position?
Speaker 3: I mean two? Everyone's back QB two. Yeah, I mean yeah,
but you're you're you're stretching a little bit. But but
what I'm saying R.
Speaker 6: Two No, no, okay, now I'm up sat R two.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I'm not saying two is not a big story.
Speaker 7: QB QB two.
Speaker 3: You're leading with RB two. What else do you got?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, so let's switch a QB two.
Speaker 6: Then our offensive line, like you got to replace three guys,
like come on, like yeah, but yeah, four starters.
Speaker 3: Wide receiver after Roberts come on now.
Speaker 10: Okay, yeah, but I'm not saying there aren't storylines.
Speaker 1: That's what I heard. That's exactly what I heard.
Speaker 3: That's what I heard.
Speaker 8: Let's just run the tape back, let me go down
real quick, and said there's no story.
Speaker 6: No stories'll be boring.
Speaker 3: I heard boring, direct, relatively boring.
Speaker 10: Come on, you're looking at a guy that you used
to cover this in spring press.
Speaker 5: I know, like this is very convers We have another
we have another white defensive back.
Speaker 1: What are we doing with it? What are we doing here?
Is that what you said the TVs subscribers.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we're not gonna have to depend on on the
mongoose anyway.
Speaker 1: No, but talking about when you've covered me?
Speaker 7: Not after all?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Your line? Do your line? Well?
Speaker 3: You you were inadequate? Adequate?
Speaker 7: Adequate?
Speaker 8: Is there a bigger backhanded compliment than adequate?
Speaker 3: One of the most adequate quarterbacks that's ever played for
the y U right here? I did, I dare say
more adequate than Darris Darris Wilson. I mean Danny Phillips.
Speaker 1: Danny Philip?
Speaker 10: Yeah, who am I more adequate than even Andreburg?
Speaker 1: Come on, you gotta give me more than that.
Speaker 3: Danny Phillips. Here's the guy.
Speaker 1: Come on, I bet, come on.
Speaker 3: This is the most hated quarterback of you.
Speaker 10: I don't want to bring up his name because he's
a nice guy and I think you gotta got a
bad rap.
Speaker 1: You got a bad rap, right, we don't have to
go there.
Speaker 3: Then I want to mention him.
Speaker 10: I forget it yet, Remember I told you he was
like a flag barrel last year he brought it out.
I said, man, that is the most hated quarterback and
be Way football history, and I asked a media guy
who I will not mention it, and he went off
for about five minutes.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, let's talk some BAU basketball.
Speaker 1: Rob. Oh, Well, there you go, and there it is
to do it. I don't want to do it. I
don't want to say it. I'm not going to say it. Rodal,
I'm not.
Speaker 3: Gonna say it. It's because I forgot anyway.
Speaker 1: Now you know why? You know?
Speaker 5: Literally, like when I when I had classes and there's
a big game that week, I would tell my my teachers.
I'm like, I will not turn this project out of
the time. They're like, well why not? Like my name
will be had for good or evil, dependent up on
how I play this weekend. The last name Crittle will
be in the the Annals of Eternity for BYU Athletics.
And I will not fall short this week, So I
will not be doing this homework assignment. I will turn
it in late next week and you can doc twenty percent.
And they're like, Okay, thanks for the thanks for the Yeah,
we'll do that for you.
Speaker 1: That's what I tell him.
Speaker 5: I tell him, and I took a lot of c pluses.
I kept my GPA above three point I did. I
did graduate, by the way, with a three point five
from Brigham Young University, so I did keep it up
high enough. But I would take deductions many times so
that I my name was not had for evil in Cougarnation.
Good job, right, and I would be labeled.
Speaker 1: As a very adequate corner.
Speaker 3: I guess it could be worse.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like for like the Cougar board fans, like they
just think like Brian Keel who was playing strong side
linebacker whatever strong side outside linebacker was literally covering the
weak side for Ben Krittle so that he didn't give burned.
Was all over he was playing safety corner and like
Ben was just you know, fifteen yards off just playing.
So they really believe this hammer times, Like this is
what I deal with.
Speaker 10: You know what's funny about this is I've listened to
conversations between you and Cameron Jensen to know.
Speaker 3: Kind of did do that.
Speaker 1: He was kind of all over the place, not in
a good way.
Speaker 3: He just kind of did his own thing.
Speaker 1: He was he was very much a freelancer.
Speaker 3: He did his own thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was. He would he was not gap sound.
He would just run and do it.
Speaker 5: Everything just do it everyone and then we had that,
we had that, like every everyone behind him would have
to adjust to what he was doing freelancing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So anyways, but hey, great player, obviously an NFL talent
and one of the best, you know, one of the
best athletes I've ever played with, no doubt.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, great athlete. Well he got away with it.
Speaker 10: I mean, there's not a lot of players that could
get away with that, Yeah, but kill definitely could because.
Speaker 3: He's a freak athlete. Yeah, he was.
Speaker 1: He was fantastic NFL talent, no doubt about it.
Speaker 5: Let's get to the sound Sawi BYU versus Baylor BYU
basketball hits the road to face the Baylor Bears tonight.
Number twenty two BOUFL six spots in the A People
and is currently twenty second in Ken Palm as well.
Tuesday night, it's gonna be the fourteenth all time meeting
between the two programs. BYU's four trip to Waco, second
since joining the Big Twelve. The Cougar's lead the all
time series seven to six, including two straight wins, their
longest streak in the series since a four game winning
streak from nineteen sixty two to nineteen seventy nine goes
back far BYU needed an overtime, needed overtime to defeat
the Bears in their only meeting last season. Remember what
happened that was the cannon catchings game.
Speaker 1: And went off.
Speaker 5: He was perfect from the field twenty three points in
a ninety three eighty nine victory in front of a
sold out crowd there at the Marriott Center. The freshman
was perfect eight of eight from the field, four to
four from three and three to three from the charity
stripe to fend off twenty eight points from VJ. Edgecombe
and twenty two from Rob Wright third. Remember happened that that?
That's why Justin Young, Kevin Young's director of recruiting, was like, well,
if he's in the portal, we should go get Rob
Right the third. It does seem And tell me if
I'm wrong, Remember look at all the acquisitions of the
transfer portal. Justin Young and the coaching staff and Doug
Doug Stewart, they went out and got guys that played
well against by U, Nate Pickens, Tyler Maross, Rob Right
the Third, and you wonder, like, I'm not hating on
it by any means, but it seems like there's a
little bit of like.
Speaker 1: Bias towards like that one game. Yeah, you know, does
that make sense?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, for sure, Like okay, I get it, like awesome, no, no, no, no,
But I'm saying, but marouss and we never saw Nate
Pickens because he's injured.
Speaker 1: But you also yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Anyway, it's it's a critique, Like we're in critique mode
right now where we can we can constructively criticize the
acquisitions that were the supporting cast particular, Right, we can
do that, right, It's okay, it's not We're not trying
to bring down the entire basketball program just because they've
lost fortret.
Speaker 3: That's kind of what we do. Want to talk radio.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, but I you know, I'm just saying, like
it's okay to be constructive, you know, and say, hey,
maybe this is an issue anyway. So BYU basketball looking
to get a win, get out of the funk.
Speaker 1: Let's talk with Ky, shall we.
Speaker 5: By the way, the numbers right now BYU is b
what you favored in this game? I think yeah, they're
favored by one. It opened at one and a half,
now it's at three and a half.
Speaker 1: For the Cougs.
Speaker 5: ESPN Analytics gives Boa a fifty six point eight percent
chance of victory. The Cougars are seventeen and six. The
Baylor Bears are thirteen and ten. H thus far the
season in three and eight in the Big twelve, b
WAU five and five in the Big twelve. All right,
let's get to it, Khy the discussion from yesterday, just
to follow up from Saturday, K why I did anything
stand out to you after look at the tape?
Speaker 7: I mean the thing I was directly referencing on that
the question was asked about the rebounding. So you know,
Cable missed a blackout on the one segment where they
had multiple offensive rebounds. You know, one of them was his,
another one was a few of our guards leaking out,
and and that that was a moment that really hurt
us in the game. I thought we also should have
done a better job with just like swarming the ball
after the young man uh secured the offensive rebounds. So
that that's what I was making, uh that comment on
As far as any other things that I saw on
the tape, you know, nothing, nothing surprised me. I thought
we actually did a great job with a lot of
the things that we were trying to emphasize heading into
that ballgame, and and it's just more of the same
in terms of, you know, coming up short with the
miss free throws and those key offensive rebounds. You know
that we missed. I think the probably the one thing
that stood out was they ran a specific action three
times that hurt us. I wish we would have you know, yeah,
probably we could have adjusted better end game. I could
have called the time out and tried to fix that
so it didn't hurt us the two times following that,
and that's when they went on that they got a
little spread in the first half on us. In in
a game like that, you know, every possession is key.
So so that was something that I noticed on the tape.
But all in all, Matt, I thought we actually executed
our game plan well, but just obviously we're not able
to capitalize with the misfree throws and some of those
key rebounds.
Speaker 5: So good commentary from ky g Man. You want to
start us off there.
Speaker 3: He sounded a little tired to me, a little exhausted.
Speaker 5: Of course he's going to be standing up late, and
now's the time that I mean, it's late. It's in
February and you're losing games. Yeah, man, you're absolutely grinding.
And I think I think this is going to be
the big lesson for him. And and I've had this
thought and it's pretty relevant.
Speaker 3: You remember how.
Speaker 10: Mark Pope started his Bway coaching career on fires like
oh wow, yeah, we're glad on to this guy. This
guy's got this everybody in tune. Then what happened after
that kind of had to figure some things out. I
wonder if it's not the same exactly thing with Kevin Young.
I mean, last year's team there were some notable additions.
I grant that it wasn't so much the same team
that Mark Pope had his first year. Well he did
add guys like Toolsen and whatnot, But now he's kind
of out on his own. That foundation's gone. I mean,
Richie Saunters is literally well capplicated too. But Richie Saunders
really is the only guy that's returning. And you wonder
if that's going to be a process again where he's
gonna have to figure some things out.
Speaker 3: You hope it isn't, because I've just been.
Speaker 10: Looking at the pretext that that last season provided and
be when he came out ahead where they were last year,
and I just thought, boom, he's gonna hit it, and
you're just waiting, waiting and waiting. I think there were
positive things in the Houston game, and they can.
Speaker 3: And there's still time.
Speaker 10: That's the thing I just want to stress to everyone
is you fix a few things with that talent B way,
you can still do things this year.
Speaker 3: I really really do believe that. I believe that this
team could still be a Sweet sixteen team.
Speaker 10: A final ward. That's a little tough, right, but but
I have confidence in Kevin Young. But but he's figuring
some things out right now. It's it's as far as
roster composition, what's going to work. It's going to be
a process. It was to think it was just going
to be smooth running that first year was probably a
little bit of a mirage, much like it was with
Mark Pope.
Speaker 5: Let's get to number numero dos. I like those comments,
g Man, coach, could you would you like to see
Keva Cada more involved in the pick and roll lob game?
If so, how do you get him a few more
lob attempts?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Not against Houston. I mean we didn't. We were trying
to keep Tugler out of pick and roll in general.
So no against them in terms of on the whole, yes, uh,
you know that's where Jegor obviously was really good. I
mean the ones where we've connected this year is really
aj being the passer. Uh. You know, Rob puts so
much pressure on the defense. But obviously I think has
still more room to grow as a lob passer, which
is harder because he's smaller. So I do think there's
where areas where we can get a j and and
Caba more involved in that. But at the same time,
you know, CABE's got to finish her on the rim,
bottom line.
Speaker 1: Got to finish Keba.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: Look, I found it interesting that he went really hard
at Abdullah in Keba.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought it was interesting, like he's like,
you're being nice to those guys.
Speaker 5: You know they were they were bad, they were atrocious.
They got to hit more shots, they gotta.
Speaker 3: Have a They didn't make an impact, No, they.
Speaker 5: Didn't, unfortunately, So what do you do with those guys?
I've made this commentary like we haven't really seen him
priors that, we don't know how good Abdullah was before
you ride. Keba has not improved from last year to
this year. Has We don't know if Hadem has. I
imagine he's improved him, but he's he's kind of to me,
he's kind of a tweeer between the three and a
four with no ability to shoot the three.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense?
Speaker 5: Like, like he can be a great defender because he can.
He can, he can guard two to the four, but
offensively he's challenged. All he can do is like rebound
and putbacks. That's all he can do. That's all that
in his offensive arsenal, that's all he has. So it's like, Okay,
the development of our bigs is an issue right now,
and so why is that right?
Speaker 1: Why? Why is it?
Speaker 5: And like you're also willing to throw them under the
bus before anybody else. Like Canard was one of seven
from the three point line and shoots, you know, like
a broken Sean Marion, Like that's how he shoots. It's
just ugly and he's shooting thirty percent from the three
point line.
Speaker 1: He was dudo.
Speaker 5: Yeah, granted he was a good defender, but like it
would have been nice for him to hit at least
one or two more of those.
Speaker 10: I don't know, they need at least for from that,
and he's not even closed.
Speaker 1: Well, you're not gonna get forty percent.
Speaker 5: You need thirty five percent to stay in I take yeah,
forty percent.
Speaker 1: That's not like elite you need thirty five to stay
in games.
Speaker 5: You need you know, if you're gonna take seven and
picking five, I mean, they're it's not like they're they're
wide open too. It's not like it's not like Tuggler
was closing out on him and disrupting his mechanics in
any way, shape or form. Anyway, Let's get back to
the sound bites. Uh kay, why Kevin and Rob Wright
going back to Baylor. Have you talked to him about
about already? Have you talked to that about him already?
Or is he a mature season enough player where that
doesn't really phase him.
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm gonna I haven't talked to him about
it yet, but I will as we're getting ready here
to take off. Uh yeah, I just kind of see,
you know, kind of how he's feeling, you know what,
in terms of like, you know, people saying stuff to
him and him getting sideways. I don't see that. I
think he's you know, he's got a great demeanor, but
at the same time. You know, he poured a lot
of blood, sweat and tears into that program, and I'm
sure he'll have some kind of feelings headed back there.
But yeah, I look, actually I'm actually looking forward to
having that conversation with him.
Speaker 1: Uh. I believe rob was asked about this in the
post game and he was.
Speaker 5: Just like, nah, I don't know, because he doesn't have
any roots there. He's not from there. He's from the
East Coast and he comes out to Bailey. He plays
one year, balls out and he's a mercenary. Right, That's
what it comes out in his entire his entire team left,
so no ties there, none whatsoever. He's like, no, I'll
just go play for by U. Right, he probably allocated
and probably the corporate U n Io sponsors. They they
played a penny, pretty penny for for Rob Wright. They
in in in Justin Young remembers very well, right, very
well what Rob Wright did to b YU the year prior.
So all right, let's get back into this. What stands
out to you about the Baylor film.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, look, we all everyone understands what the
Big twelve is. It's a hard league. You know, they
go almost get a win at Iowa State, and they've
they've been in a tough start to the Big Twelve campaign,
but winning in that building, as we know, is very difficult.
So the fact that it was even a close game
is impressive. But they Yeah, I think they have clear
cut identity. You know, they do a great job of
offensive rebound, and they want to play fast and transition,
and they've got a couple of guards who are really dynamic.
And then the young the freshman Tune Day is a load.
You know, he's a he's a you know, an NBA
lottery level type of talent, and guys like that can
go off any night. But but in terms of Baylor,
specific to their team, I think we got to do
a good job on the glass and do a good
job with our transition defense.
Speaker 10: Thoughts there, g Man transition defense, Yeah, that's got to
be a thing. Uh, and to prevent transition to not
don't put yourself in a transition defense predicament, you know,
which often happens when you're missing three pointers. So, I mean,
it all works together. Everyone knows that with basketball. But
but yeah, b Way's got to get this. I can't
stress that enough. This has to be a win, absolutely,
has to be winn. I never felt that strongly in
this game. Baylor's get good team. Definitely gettable.
Speaker 3: You need to.
Speaker 5: Be Baylor hammertime show anything from you, anything you've been
thinking about as you're listening to Ky here.
Speaker 7: This feels like Oklahoma State.
Speaker 3: To me, it feels like, oh my goodness, transition.
Speaker 8: And that's what I'm saying. I'm not necessarily saying like, oh,
it's a gay garanteed loss. I'm just saying, you're coming
off a game against one of the best teams in
the Big Twelve. You're playing against the Baylor team who's
a little chaotic in that.
Speaker 1: It's not that they have an issue score in the basketball.
Speaker 8: They just they have a little bit of issue stopping
others from scoring the basketball. They're trending in the right
direction because of what they did with Iowa State just
not too long ago. And again, like Ron said, the
transition defense, they're very good in the transition game. This
feels and again it's like it's another trap game, it's
another must win. This feels like oh Baylor all over again.
But now the difference is you get an opportunity to
rectify that and put yourselves back on a good track.
Speaker 5: And by the way, Baylor is better rated in Ken
Palm than Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State Baylor's thirtieth in offensive
efficiency and their eighty eighth in defense efficiency. Oklahoma State
right now sixty first in offensive rating in eighty fifth
in defensive ratings.
Speaker 10: Well, one thing I do think that's going to be
different than the Oklahoma State game is I think the
team's can be.
Speaker 3: More engaged from the get go.
Speaker 10: That Oklahoma State game, it just seemed like they weren't
in it in this old blase. Yeah it was bad,
right then they close it half times like okay, they
figured this out, and then you know, we know what
happened in the second half.
Speaker 3: But I think BA is gonna come out stronger tonight.
Speaker 1: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, I've been told.
Speaker 3: I've heard Kelly say that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Kelly. Shout out to Kelly. Kelvin.
Speaker 5: Samson praised how the crowd was at the Marriage Center
in the Houston game. How much does the crowd play
into and factor into the game.
Speaker 1: On the road, You know, I don't.
Speaker 7: I don't really know honestly in terms of how it
affects the players. I mean, it's hard for me obviously,
to get in their minds. I mean, I I just
a million years ago when I played. I loved it personally.
There was nothing more fun than going into a pack
gym and getting a big road win. In terms of
how it affects kind of where I'm at now and
to see that I'm sitting in. You just have to
be more organized, thank you, and the point guard and
your play callers have to be a little bit more
in line. It's super loud in these arenas. You know.
When I first got into college, I would I could
not fathom that someone would write their plays on a
whiteboard and the show to players. I thought it was silly,
But I see, I see why people do it now
because it's so darn loud in these arenas. So I
think that that that actually it sounds silly to bring
that up, but that that does factor into it, uh
even at home, honestly, But you know, I just think
it makes for fun environments, you know, even I think
I think even the away team at times kind of
feeds off of it. Like I don't know, if it's
like an intimidation thing, I don't know. It just makes
for like a great college basketball atmosphere.
Speaker 1: For me, it's gonna be a great one.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know, everyone's gonna play some of their best ball
against BYU, it seems, and so expect that from the
Baylor Bears. We saw a lot of hand signs in
the Houston game.
Speaker 1: Okay, why was that.
Speaker 5: To get the attention of everyone on and get them
all on the same page.
Speaker 1: What was up with that?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 7: I mean Houston, I was calling a lot more plays
than I normally do. They're they're a historically incredible defense,
and I I just see teams. I mean, you have
to be extremely dialed with what you're doing to attack them.
And so that that's if you're referencing a Houston game,
that's why I was doing that in that game, and
then any other games, it's you know, it might be
specific to whatever is going on there in that part
of the game. Maybe I see something I'm trying to
get us organized with or something in that mindset.
Speaker 5: So what's interesting is that with this commentary from k
why like sometimes you let the your your your offense
just run right. You're not calling set plays in the
in your half court sets. He was much more involved
in the schematics in the architecture of the offense, and
I would say, versus Houston to me, and you guys
disagree with me if you guys saw something different. I
saw plenty of open shots, and I would say semi
contested shots. I felt like we got the looks that
we wanted, we just didn't hit. That's how I felt like, Ronnie,
did you were there, did you see something different?
Speaker 1: Like I felt like we got open looks now Richie.
Speaker 5: Just Richie was getting hounded, but that was still those
were the shots that they were looking for. They were
just contested. But Richie's hit those too. Richie can hit
contested shots. There's times where I would rather have Richie
maybe give a ball, fake a little pump, put it,
put it on the on the on the on the floor,
and then maybe step back. I don't think he's got
necessarily that in his arsenal right now. He's typically running
off screens and then he's pulling up quickly.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: He may like he may have to, you know, adjust
to that and especially versus high level defenders. But I
think for the most part, like we got looks that
we wanted, right, Yeah, b.
Speaker 6: A, you got the looks that they wanted. I mean, look,
we've been talking about it all season, and you gotta
give Houston credit. They they threw three four five of Richie.
They said they were not gonna let the top king
uh beat him. They packed him up and sent him home,
So you gotta give him credit for that.
Speaker 1: They got a little There was a lot of single
coverage on him though, they just they.
Speaker 6: That was on the drives, right. But when they but
they switched off, they did a phenomenal drop after screens.
They switched everything been they played great single coverage. They
weren't gona let him beat But I mean, Cannar two
of nine, one of seven, you gotta hit those, and
then I know that, you know, Kevin's going to the bigs,
which he should, but Kannar can't have seven threes and
only hit one. If he hits two, yeah, exactly, put
back three out of seven.
Speaker 5: I'll take that, you know, And then I'd put a
little bit of like if I'm gonna do Piet Trader accountability,
like Richie probably needs a little bit of a sauce
in his arsenal, a little bit of wiggle in his
in his game, and that's coming off screens, Like you
gotta be able to you know, it's hard like I'm
not like, I'm not like I'm maybe not a credible
opinion as it pertains like what he should and shouldn't do.
But you know, if you're if you if you're missing
your contestant shots, you know, maybe it's a you know,
you do something different than what you've showcased on film,
which on film, he's running off screens and he immediately
he gets the balls in hand, he's pulling up, he's
pulling up. So maybe it's like a you know, a
little ball fake step back cross and then you're hitting.
But that's you know, that's me being a little bit
too picky. I'm just trying to get wins. I'm trying
to get wins against desperate I'm like the top six
teams in the in college basketball.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm trying to do. I'm trying to figure
it out.
Speaker 5: How is the overall morale of the group right now? Tho, Okay,
why a couple less things.
Speaker 7: It's it's good, man, it really is. I I uh,
And it's a great question because for me and I'm not,
I'm not. I'm not a moral victory guy, never have been.
We should have beat Houston, should have, would have could
have against all these other teams. I shouldn't say should have,
we could have? Right they beat us, let me be
very clear. But you know, again I'm not a moral
victory guy. But I'm also a realist. I think I
think if you talk about Yukon, Arizona, Houston, and arguably
Texas Tech, I think any one of those teams could
win the national championship this year. And so the fact
that you know, we've we've been in that we've given
ourselves a chance to be all those teams, for me,
there's we're not there yet. You know, we're still pounding
the rock and that things is gonna break eventually. And
that's kind of what I'm trying to teach our guys,
where you learn from the losses, but you don't lose
confidence from the losses, and trying to, you know, even
even in the wins that we've had, you know, trying
to be a lot more you know, process driven as
as opposed to results driven. You know, you still have
to do that in losses as well. And so I
think that's the challenge of coaching, is the psychology piece
of it, where we're doing a lot of good things,
We're just not doing them long enough or or hard enough. Now,
the Oklahoma State game was a travesty on many levels
in terms of how we played. It was a disaster.
We played horrible. Our defense was a joke. But I
challenged a group a lot, and I think the way
they responded, you know, to a to a team in
Houston who you know, don't are they better than their
team last year who made it to the championship game?
Maybe they might be, you know, And so again, I
just want our guys to understand how close we are,
but close isn't good enough, Like we got to still,
you know, find ways to win. And it's my job
to tow the line of keeping them confident and then
having them learn along the way.
Speaker 3: Man Our defense was a joke.
Speaker 10: That's hers You won't hear a coach assesses team that harsh,
especially in publics.
Speaker 5: And it it begs the question, like there's a philosophy
out there that defense is more of a mentality than
it is a skill set.
Speaker 1: And so if that's the.
Speaker 5: Case, and you have you have built a culture around
professional basketball, is that reflective of the culture that you've
brought in? I think so, right, of Hey, we're offensive juggernaut.
Speaker 1: That's what we do.
Speaker 5: We we can serve on the defensive end to illustrate
our potential and our our playmaking ability on the offensive end.
And that that's what I said yesterday. It's like, all right,
if that's the case, don't even try to play man
and you may have to just go zone. Switch it
up between two three zone and one three one. It's
pick up a half court and let them rain down
threes on you. Let them do whatever, and like you're
just conserving energy, like and hopefully someone can find a
way on the supporting cast to hit you know what
I mean, Like, I'm I'm to that point. It's like
if you if you can't change a zebra stripes, you know,
they can't be happy as a hippopotamus, right, don't be
just be a hippo, Just be the hippo, be a fat, lazy,
zone defense hippo, and then be of an aggressive, you know,
monster like carnivorous hippo on the offensive end.
Speaker 1: You know that makes sense?
Speaker 5: Do you know that hippos kill more humans, more people
than any They are beasts, but you know what I mean,
And they're very fast, by the way, but I'm talking
about in lazy hippo defensively, you know, lazy hippo like
kind of sitting there in the muck, you know, but
offensively who they see a human, it's go.
Speaker 3: Time as a te full of hippos.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you could be happy as a hippo. Just
know who you are and what you stand for and
return with honor from all. Right, last thing is the
scoring right now?
Speaker 1: Sustainable?
Speaker 7: K Why? No? I mean that's that's uh something I
noticed for sure when I when I got into college.
It's like some of the I think more teams have
a tight rotation. And by tight, I mean they're playing
seven guys than then than the other way, like what
we did last year. So I don't think it's as
big of a deal, but I it's a bit. It's
a how should I say, It's definitely on my mind,
Like we call it for what it is. You know,
we miss we need another guard to step up, and
we miss Dawson, We miss Nate Pickings. Brody would have
had a shot to come in and play because he
can make shots. And so yeah, I mean we missed
those guys. I don't I've never been on a team
where three guys have been gotten hurt for the entire
you know, and been out for the year. So I'd
be lying to you if you said that we you know,
we we weren't sorely missing one of them, at least
Dawson or or Nate. And like I said, Brody would
have a chance too. But that's the cards we've been dealt,
and it's my job to figure out and build up
somebody off the bench that can come in and and
give us a little bit of scoring.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: The hard part is the skill sets that are that
are coming off the bench aren't necessarily exactly what we need.
You know. I think having another sort of ball and
hand guy who can do a little bit of everything
is probably what we need more than anything. But we
don't have that, and and that's been uh, you know,
it almost reminds me of when I was coaching in
the G League all those years, Like, you know, your
team changes and you got to be able to adjust
and figure things out. So yeah, that that's a that's
a I think for me, that's definitely a point of
stress and and uh mental bandwidth that I'm really trying
to figure out. You know, the staff trying their best
to offer suggestions, but you know, it's not a situation
you want to find yourself in. It's not ideal. But
to to to the tone of your question, no, I
don't think that that's the end all be all, you know,
and and maybe it's you know, Jay, you asked me
a really good question about when I took a j
out of the game the other day.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I mean, I look at Baylor. They played four three
guys for forty minutes the other night against Iowa State.
So is that something we should do right? So point being, Jays,
I'm looking at everything. Man, I'm beating my head against
the wall trying to figure out exactly the best way
to attack that. I think what would make it the
easiest is somebody off the bench just came in from
an offensive standpoint really and just made it very obvious
like that. That's the person that needs to play a
little bit more. So we'll see, we'll see where it goes.
Speaker 1: Champion, no excuse's playing the champion. K Well, I don't
hear about injuries.