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Speaker 1: I'm doing well man now. Whenever I get out to Utah,
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I gosh darn guarantee of that. You saw something that
not many people get to see. Aj De Bons almost
going off for a forty burger.
Speaker 4: What happened last night in Wake Up?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: What a special performance from the freshman. And you know,
I know for BYU fans out there, it seems like
you guys have been growing accustomed to seeing that. But
you know, it's just so such a special talent for him.
And I've got a chance to watch him obviously on TV,
but sing him in person and seeing his physicality, his athleticism,
his lengs and his just overall talent was just a
sight to see. And from early on at that game
in Waco against Baylor, and as I mentioned, you know,
kind of before I'll talk to some other people. This
was a game that you guys know, by you desperately need.
It was a four game slot that they were on
that were going in the wrong direction. And obviously, right now,
as we're getting into February and into March, you want
to be playing your best basketball, and overall BYU just
simply had not been doing that. And they had an
opportunity on the road against another desperate team like the
Baylor Bears, and they were led by as you Debos
who had thirty six. The Bears had no answer for him.
And then robis the third in his return. Now, let
me tell you, every single time he touched the ball,
foods rained down. From the moment they introduced him, he
was the clear building in the arena and he and
Aj Debossas certainly showed up and showed out, helping to
lead BYU to a victory, a great win for the
BYU couters.
Speaker 3: Well, what stands out to you about AJ's a skill set,
his playmaking ability, you know, his body type. Well, what's
stood out to you about Aj when you got eyes
on you know.
Speaker 1: What's funny is I feel like as we get through
this draft process and where there's so many great prospects
across you know, the country, it's easy a pick on
certain people, right and it's easy to pick on aj
De Bonson. I've heard some different things, but one thing
that is not lost on me is the fact that
this guy is eighteen nineteen years old and he is
able to get to his spots will and particularly at
the collegiate level, if you put a guard on him,
he's gonna shoot right over you. And talking to Kelvin
Sampson matter of fact, before Houston played BYU, he said
that the top four Frenchman he's coached against was like
Jason Kidd and Carmel Anthony and a couple of other people,
and he said aj Debosser reminds him of Kamarlo Anthony.
And we saw some of that even yesterday, where he's
just able to rise over smaller guards to shoot over you.
And then if you put a big on him, he's
just going to go right by you, use his athleticism
and get to the rim. And we see how he's
able to tear the rim down as well. So seeing
that up close in person, you just see how much
he's a mismatched problem Kevin Young certainly was hunting that out. Yes,
stay against the Baylor Bears, and then aj De Bonson
he came through and delivered, and just overall too his
ability to get to his spots and just be able
to live in the To me, once he gets two
feet in the paint and turns over that shoulder and
he gets it up, it feels like a layup and
you're a and if you're opposing defense, you're at the
mercy of aj Debance. And once again, that's such a
rare skill set to have at such a young age.
Speaker 4: Who do you think.
Speaker 3: Goes first overall in this next year's NBA Draft? There
was NBA scouts that were polled, twelve of them I
think there's twenty total, but twelve of them picked Darreon Peterson.
This is a couple of weeks ago. Eight of them
picked aj Debonce. Where do you think who do you
think is going to go first overall?
Speaker 1: As always to guess, I still think it'll be Darren Peterson.
I know that a lot of people have been disappointed
in the way that Dan Peterson has Singley has just
sat out in a number of games, especially in some
games where his team is frankly any of them. But
at the end of the day, I think scouts know
that when he gets to the next level at the
NBA level, that you know, the talent obviously speaks for itself.
We saw that when Cannas played YU and Darren Peterson
was absolutely sensational. I don't know how how much that
scout has actually worried about that because they know, like
you know, ultimately all these guys, for the most part,
these freshmen are won and done, and so their goal
was to get to the NBA level. But you know,
with that being said, if you look what what aj
Debosson has been able to do over the past, you know,
really the entire season, he's leading the country in scoring,
and one thing you can't teach. You can't teach the size,
you can't teach the athleticism. That's something that he certainly
does have over Darren Peterson. But you know, as I
mentioned DP, that the talent is certainly there, and so
I would not be surprised if still as of today,
Darren Peterson goes number one overall. But if this trend continues,
I wouldn't be surprised either if it shifts a different
direction and AJ Deboston bounces back to number one overall.
Speaker 4: Who would you pick and why?
Speaker 1: You know? It's funny If you asked me this last week,
I would have said Darren Peterson. But after getting a
chance to see AJ Debosa in person and then seeing
kind of what continues to off forward with with DP,
I like the competitiveness of AJ deboson what to get
in that leads of athleticism that you can't teach. As
of today, I'm going back to a J and the Boston,
especially after seeing him this week. Someone lean AJ as
of today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting because you got to know him a
little bit too, like personality wise, and and look, recency
biases real.
Speaker 4: We all know that.
Speaker 3: But you know I've always said, like I would, I
would take a J first because I know he's going
to do the lonely work.
Speaker 4: I know he's gonna he's going to continue to get better. Uh.
He distributes the ball actually really well.
Speaker 3: He's a great teammate. If you want to win championships,
you need a great team. You can just be a
one man scoring show, and he elevates others.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: I feel like uh, in a world of ego driven
narcissism and me first mentality, Aj uh Man.
Speaker 4: He's a great.
Speaker 1: Teammate, absolutely great teammate. And that's something that that I
got a chance to kind of even pick up yesterday
at the at the Baylor game. And you know, it's
interesting that once again we know that AJ is one
and done, and he made sure to shout out like
Rob Wright. He wanted to get him going early in
his return back to his old stomping grounds at Baylor.
And when when when Rob Wright made a shot, AJ
was his biggest cheerleader, and the guy simply loved AJ.
That the energy is certainly infectious that he brings that
team each and every night along with his talent. With
that being said, when I look at like a pair
of DP Daran Pearson to Ag Debonsa, I will say
that I do feel like Darrin Pearson's buckets come a
little bit easier than Bossa at times. He is able
to do it on ball off ball. He's a better
catcher shooter, but he's better at catch a shoot than
idiot Bassa's percentages. And on top of that, you kind
of see him, you know, working on some work cups
and he lets the game kind of cuts him a
little bit easier. One thing that I will say, but
if you want a nick tack on AJ, sometimes the
ball can stick with him versus Darren Pearson. He's able
to kind of get off of it a little bit more.
What's caam going back to that on ball off ball
that he's able to do as as a combo guard.
But at the same time, when the ball is in
AJ's hens at the end of the day, most of
the time the ball goes in the whole. And that's
the point of this of why you know, you played
the game with basketball, So if you want to be nitpicky,
that's the kind of the difference that I would say
between the two. But both of them when they all
in the floor, they compete, and we saw that, you
know when d Yu played played Kansas and frankly, Derek
Peerson went at a j De Bonsa and obviously he
got the better of him in that game, and so
did the team. But you know, you can't go wrong
with with either ones of those talents.
Speaker 3: We got Chancellor Johnson Big Twelve andelus Big twelve Insider
talking some college basketball here on your Utah ESPN Radio network.
Speaker 4: Chancellor Uh, the Big Twelve. Uh, you get to.
Speaker 3: See these guys up close and personal. Very talented. Uh,
there's great, great players for Houston, great player for Texas Tech.
B Y you obviously Kansas, you're watching it all. How
would you describe the Big Twelve right now and what
stands out to you about the product being played?
Speaker 1: An absolute monster, That's how I describe it every day.
If you better, you better put your your big play
b boy pants on him because you know you're gonna
be in for a ride. And the thing is, obviously
the Big Twelve is pretty top heavy when you look
at some of the top teams, starting with Arizona, the
team that's been the best team in the country all
season long, even in their loss this week on the
road to Kansas. But you know, Kansas, they're starting to
play some of their best basketball right now. As we've
been able to see Houston still right there now there's
still the champs back to back at that here in
the Big Twelve, back to Tech they have the best
pool in the country and JT. Toppen and Christian Anderson.
I don't want to forget io State either, who got
out to the best start in program of history at
sixteen or zero. They lost yesterday to TCU, but come March,
they're still team to be to be reckoning with. They
have Joshua Jefferson, who is on pace to be an
All Americans. I don't want to forget anybody, but like
once again, he can go on and on, and then
of course b Yu that you know, any given night
that are really most nights, AGI to Boston is going
to be the best player on the floor, and so
it's highly competitive and even a j. Debosakon joked about
it yesterday that you know he's not really he's never
really lost four games before, but that's just kind of
the nature of the Big Twelve. So or to win here,
even the teamy Baylor at they beat they have two
players that are particularly to be NBA guys and Tunda
Yesipol who had a big night with thirty seven points
and Cameron Carr who poured in twenty five plus points himself.
But you know they're struggling the season, and that's just
once again the nicture of how the Big Twelve is
this season.
Speaker 3: Pretty crazy to see just how deep this conference really is.
And even watching Baylor, I think Baylor's been playing some
of their best ball over the last four weeks, they
almost knocked out knocked off Iowa State, and they were
right there with BYU. They had two wins before that
there were you know, ten plus point margin victory. So
you never know what can happen on the back end.
If you're looking at BYU right now and looking at
that where they're trending, obviously they lost four in a row.
Speaker 4: They got to win versus Baylor.
Speaker 3: You're looking at the schedule, hopefully they can finish above
five hundred and Big twelve play.
Speaker 4: What type of seeding do you think BYU will get?
Speaker 1: Yeah, right now, I think they're probably floating around the
six seven range. And that's not trying to gate make
it make one of the you know, the popular jokes,
right the viral jokes of six seventh. But I think
they're floating around there. They certainly need to shrink some
some wins together because if you're you know, a BYU fan,
what you don't want to do is or what you
want to do is try to earn one of those
early buys. Come to Big twelve tournament. You'll get you,
get you some, get you some rests, and get some
get your legs underneath you to hopefully make a run
and compete for a Big Twelve tournament title. Because right now,
with as me and losses as BYU has, I don't
think that Arizona Houston Kansas now has the over the
head to head over BYU is going to drop that low.
So BYU is out of the conference regular season title race.
But there's still so much more to be played, so
much more to play for. That's the thing that even
if you don't win the Big Twelve, you still are
certainly in the running to go to the Final four
and potentially be a national champion. As I mentioned, you
look at Arizona, Texas Tech, Houston, b YU, Kansas, and
I'm missing another team as well. I hate that. I
think you know six teams that.
Speaker 4: They have a real state did you mention, yes, yeah, Iowa.
Speaker 1: State as well. The are teams that have would send
the chance of making a very very long run in
the in the tournament. So if I'm if I'm the
BYU Cougar's right now, my focus is how could we
get around to playing our best basketball. So that way,
let's you know, the calendar turns from February to March,
we are now playing.
Speaker 3: That Chancellor let's talk a little bit about the supporting
cast for b Yu Hadeem Whoop looked looked pretty good
on the defensive end, He's a little bit limited offensively.
We we know about the big three, right AJ, Rob
and Richie.
Speaker 4: If you were to put maybe ah.
Speaker 3: You know, a prognostication out there of whoo who's actually
going to be the supporting cast? Which players are gonna
end up helping BYU not only get to the tournament
but make a run in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 4: Who do you think it is and why?
Speaker 1: I think it's just led by the trio there Can Davis.
He's put together some nice games here lately. He had
twelve points last night. But once again, I think it
starts with you know your trio, Rob right the third age,
Debonsa and Richie Soners and Richie didn't shoot the ball
very well yesterday, but he still ended up with fifteen points.
He went six to fourteen from deep actually miss some
open jumpers. But you know what, some tournament time, I
don't know if there's gonna ben unlikely hero from BYU.
If I'm being honest with you, I think in order
to get to where the crews want to go, and
that's Indianapolis up the final four. Those three are will
have to have to carry the torch. Now once again,
Conar Davis has played some perimeter defense. He's usually checking
the best perimeter player for the opposing team. As they mentioned,
he poured in twelve points. He didn't shoot the ball
well from deep, but you know, if you can get
some more shots to go from the outside, I think
that will certainly help. But you know, once you get
to the sweet sixteen, if Yu is fortunate to get there,
it's going to be in the back. It's going to
be on the back of those three.
Speaker 4: Chancellor.
Speaker 3: Best way to support you what you do, how you
do it for all of our listeners.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir on Chancer two on Twitter and Instagram, and
I'm even on TikTok the for the kids out there
as well. So I do film breakdowns, story times and
well some behind the scenes AC access and and even
some exclusive interviews like I had yesterday with aj Debosa.
He was great with his time. He had some fun
with that. And uh yeah, certainly on social media at
Chancellor TV.
Speaker 4: Anything you got cooking now you can tease us with.
Speaker 1: I'm always working, I'm always working. I have some some
some more film breakdowns coming. I'm actually doing some some
more on aj De Bonsa. I just put out some
some content with him yesterday and I actually even kind
of go and get a little bit more in depth
about a first time seeing in person. But once again
you can see all that almost social pages. And then
I appreciate certainly all the support I've been able to get,
even covering BYU during the football season, the fans there great.
As I mentioned, I'm trying to get out to get
out there to provo and and now I'm gonna hold
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we'll certainly have to do that.
Speaker 3: We'll see and you here shortly. Let us know when
you show up. We'll get you hooked up. Chancellor Johnson,
Ladies and gentlemen, thanks.
Speaker 1: So much, Thanks you man, Thank you.
Speaker 4: They go.
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