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Speaker 2: All right, let's get out to the hotline and welcome

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Speaker 3: Great.

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Speaker 2: He's on the BYU Sports Network alongside Greg rue Bell.

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Always on the call, and he's lying from Adam on

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Speaker 3: Was up, Durantela, Well what's up, Vanie.

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Speaker 4: I'm looking out at the beautiful valley as we speak.

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I thought, you know, what better way to ask for

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some divine help for the cougars tonight than to go

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out and one of those most sacred spots in the world. So,

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uh yeah, I couldn't miss being out here. It's a

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beautiful place. I love. I'm a church history guy. Man.

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I went we went to Liberty Jail. I just love

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everything about it. Those those early saints were the real deal, man.

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They were amazing amazing peace people of faith, and it's

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just an honor to kind of follow their path and

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see where they did their thing and think about what

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the future holds for this place.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, Well, look, I read through the President's report,

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Shane Reeves's report today, and you know one thing I

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love about Shane rees just to kind of circle back into, like,

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b WHYU and the why of everything?

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Speaker 3: Why we doing this, why we're playing hoop?

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Speaker 2: It's got to be an ambassadorial tool mark basketball, football, sports, academics, spirituality,

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paroselyting all the things, they all have to be ambassadorial

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in my opinion. So I appreciate you being out there

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and understanding the real why of it all.

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Speaker 4: Well, thank you. I mean I it's you can't separate

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BYU sports from the mission of the school. And I

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don't think you should. I think it should. You should

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be crowd and wear that on your chest and say

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this is who we are. And and I do think

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that sports success can open some minds and hearts to

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the greater, more important message. And sports is obviously fun.

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It's a huge part of my life. I love everything

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about it. I've dedicated a lot of my life to it.

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But it's just a little part of life, and it's

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just that there's a lot more important things and that's

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kind of what we're about as a people and as

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a church. And so anyway, I don't want to get

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up here preach, but you know, I am an Adam

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on diamond, So I feel a little preachy right now.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: Well, hopefully the BAU basketball team will continue to play

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inspired basketball at the Big Twelve Tournament because this third

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iteration of the BAU men's basketball team, Man, this is

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that was quite a performance offensively game one, defensively Game two,

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we're seeing phenomenal effort. I remember seeing a tweet from

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you in the middle of a game not too long

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ago saying like, I don't know what to tell you, guys,

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it's a mess. Wow, how things have might change over

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy. Man, that was just a week or

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two ago, and it was a mess, and there was

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no sugarcoating it.

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 4: They looked terrible, particularly on that that road swing. They

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just dropped the UCF at home and went on the

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road and just laid eggs on the road, looked lost,

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looked uninspired and whatever. Coach Young and the team has

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done has been miraculous, and the coach Young deserves a

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heck of a lot of credit for finding what this

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team needed, inspiring them Guys like Moo Davis who had

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his best game yesterday, Hadeen Boop Kbaketa, I like I say,

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Kostitch now Dominic Diamande has played terrific in this tournament

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out of nowhere. Credit those guys for stepping up, finding

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another gear, finding some passion and effort. Credit the coaching

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staff for kind of simplifying things to it. Sometimes what

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looks like a lack of effort ben is a lack

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of knowledge and understanding. And sometimes guys just didn't know

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exactly what they were doing and so you're lost. But

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look at the on ball defense right now. It's so

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much better. And they've said, listen, your job is to

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stop the guy with the ball. You're not going to

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get a lot of help. We've been over helping. You're

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not going to get a lot of rotations. Your job

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is to take a challenge and stop your guy. And

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even and Rob Wright has done that. And I talked

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about the other guys. You watch them they're not needing

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a lot of help. They're stopping their guy on their own.

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in any level of basketball. But in college, just if

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you have to help every time, then their teams are

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too good. They're going to get to the open guy

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that if they're if if you have to help from somewhere,

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that means someone's open. And teams are too good and

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they find the open guy and they're knocking down threes

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and and and then everything's good for them. So it

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starts with the point of the spear.

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Speaker 3: On the ball.

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Speaker 4: He's doing a better job of that, and then just

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playing harder and with more enthusiasm and aggressiveness. I think

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MoU is a guy that's he sets the toughness tone.

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the basketball team. He's the tough guy. And when he

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sets the tone and says I'm I'm playing today, guys,

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they they follow him. And anyway, that's a long winded

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answer to say this is a completely different team that

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than that tweet referenced. It's just been a short period

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of time, but they've managed to do great things in

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that in that short period and and I'm now much

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more excited about the future prospects even against the great

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team like Houston and tonight, because of how they played

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and then going forward in the NCAA tournament, I feel

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a lot better about the chances for this team going forward.

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Speaker 2: There is something to the sense of urgency of tournament

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play in March madness. And I'm not trying to say

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that these guys weren't trying, they didn't want to try.

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They were just kind of even regular season mode. But

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like we all know, in the NBA, for instance, right

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we're all trying. We're trying to be provo, right, p

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r O capitol, p r O lokvo. No one's playing

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defense until you know, the playoffs anyway, no one's playing

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Speaker 4: Right, Well, it seems that way. I'm pretty sure that's

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not the message that Kevin Young was communicating to his guys,

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but it's just it's played out that way. And and

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play well and to play hard, it's better to do

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it in the in the playoffs type setting. And certainly,

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you know, you know, effort is, like most things, is

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about momentum and contagion. And and once you start playing

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hard and kind of catch the spirit of it and

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see the fruits of success and the you know, the

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turnovers and the steels and the layups and the windmill dunks,

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and that gets guys pumped up. And and I think

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that's what they're seeing right now. They're seeing some fruits

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of the success. And because working hard is I mean

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hard work, and it's not easy to do or else

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everybody would do it. But when you work hard and

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see some success from it, then it, you know, kind

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of helps you to keep working hard. And I think

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we're seeing that from this team, no.

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Speaker 3: Doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: Mark Durant here on ESPN the Fan talking some BYU Basketball,

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Little College Basketball and Cougar Sports, brought to you by

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Devil Pros of Utah devilprosoutah dot com. Speaking of of

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dental care, how about rob Ry getting a lip laceration,

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getting tooth knocked out and still playing and balling out

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doing well in the following game. I'll be honest, I

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was at concern k wyhead for us.

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Speaker 3: I was like, is he going to be limited? Will

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he be as aggressive?

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Speaker 2: Will he be as you know, as physical as we

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saw him in the game prior, in some of the

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games prior your thoughts on Rob right the third he

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also mentioned He also mentioned that he's coming back to

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be He's either going professional or he's coming back to Provo,

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which I think is great news.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's awesome to hear. Of course, a lot of

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things can happen, but I love Rob. He's just a sweet,

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happy guy, always fun to see and and a tough

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cent of a gun. I mean that I've had my

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lip cut open, I have a loss of tooth. But

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that stitches, and that's painful to play the next day,

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and it throbs, and you've got he's probably got an

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appliance in there to protect his mouth, and I don't know,

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if you're not used to playing with that, it's hard.

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that has to go over the top of screens with

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seven footers NonStop, and their elbows are right near your face.

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And he got hit a couple of times in his chin.

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and there's a lot of contact in there. I mean,

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he's not a player that's avoiding contact and able to

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avoid contact. So that's really impressive how tough he was

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to go out and play, and I think he got

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more comfortable with it as it went and had a

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nice strong finish to help the what You pull Away

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last night. But yeah, I love the guy. His game

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is so fun. He's just he's like Curly Neil, I

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mean the Globetrotters. Well, you watch him out there and

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he goes through his legs about ten times every possession

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and back and forth, and imagine having to guard that guy.

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It's pretty crazy. But he's fun to watch and is

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a great kid. And if he wants to come back

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to BYU, that is great news and Cougar fans should

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just rejoice that we have a guy like that thinking

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of that thinks highly enough of BYU, wants to be

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there and and we'll see what happens. He might go

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pro he's good enough, but if he wants to stay

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another year, I would love to have him in Cougar Blue.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, I think everybody would like to have He's tremendously talented,

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a really good player, no doubt. There has been issues

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with the defense, but he seems to be mongoose. Like

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in the Big twelve tournament, what do you think the

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ceiling is for this BAU team. If they're playing the

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way they're playing right now, they keep you know, this

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is sustainable. Let's say it's sustainable through the Big twelve

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tournament into the NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 4: It's hard to say. I think today it will be

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a good indication of how they compete against like Final

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four Elite eight caliber teams. Certainly they can beat, you know,

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I would expect him to win a game or two

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if they play like they have been playing. But then

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you get some really really good teams, and I know

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BYU beat Texas Tech at home, but on a neutral

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floor against a team like Houston, we'll we'll see. Like

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I mean It's not all depends on one game. I mean,

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b what you has played a couple of games, their

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legs maybe get a little tired, and anyway, the games

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like this can actually get away from you. But so

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I'm not going to pin all of the way use

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future hopes against the game tonight, but it will give

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us an indication of can this team without Richie Saunders

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and others compete at the very highest of levels. And

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I'm excited to see what they can do.

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Speaker 3: More.

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Speaker 2: I had a knee jerk reaction about a week ago.

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I said, you know what, It's true, b WHATU is

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a football school. I thought they would become possibly maybe

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a basketball school, but no, they're a football school. And

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now I'm I'm teeter tottering. I'm like, wait, wait, do

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I have to change my mind again? I'm being tossed

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to and fro by every win, every whim of this

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Bway basketball team. I want to believe that we're a

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basketball scol because we have all the state centers, all

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the basketball courts around the world, around the country, and

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it just seems like that.

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Speaker 3: Would be the best ad to either that or.

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Speaker 2: Once upon a time in your era, a softball school

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it could have been that too, or baseball school, because

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we got all the all the you know you you

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probably played church softball once upon a time, the slow pits.

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Speaker 3: Didn't you.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that was a big part of my childhood,

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all the the Ward and state softball and basketball. That

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was big time stuff back then.

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Speaker 3: It's massive.

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Speaker 2: I know it's a liability issue now, X, Y and Z.

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I'm sure there's all manner of of litigation that occurred

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because of the thing. But hey, are we a football

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score of basketball school?

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Speaker 3: Are you? What are you feeling right now? I mean,

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are we a both school? I mean, look, we're doing

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a great both.

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Speaker 4: What's the meme ban? Why can't we be both? I guess, well,

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how about we split it up? Basketball school during basketball

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season and football during football season? I guess the good

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thing is it's hard to decide because they're both have

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been so successful. That's that's fun. I mean, b Yu,

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I guess historically, I mean, you think about football. But

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hopefully in the future, b Yu is going to be

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a contender each year for you know, basketball titles, and

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we'll have a chance at some of those, and so

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let's let's be both. We'll split time for now.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, give me a prognostication, give me a scouting

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report on Houston. How do you think this game plays

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out tonight? What challenges does this Houston team pose for

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the BYU Cougars.

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Speaker 4: Well, I just think depth and sperience. You know, they've

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been able to keep a lot of guys and coach

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Sampson is a terrific coach and has built a culture

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of great defense, and so it's going to make everything

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more difficult on the offensive end. I'm sure they'll have

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a good plan for Aj who's been just phenomenal in

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this tournament, and there's been a lot of ways they've

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tried to stop him and no one has really been

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able to do it yet. So we'll see what Houston

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can do. But I'm not worried about a J and

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Rob so much. Is the part of the success bo

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he's had is because of the bench play and and

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Hadiem and MoU and Kaba, and it's harder for those

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guys to really excel against excellent defensive teams. If they can,

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then I think you have a really good chance. But

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Houston has so many weapons, such a great defense, great coach,

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You're always going to be up against the bo He's

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yet to beat them in Big twelve play, and uh,

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it's going to take one of their best games of

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the year to do it today. But we'll see. I mean,

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like I said, I'm my glasses are a lot bluer

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as I look at this team now with what they've

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put on the floor of the last three games.

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Speaker 2: Is uh, is Kepa due for a big game? Is

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Alexi maybe do for a big game versus Houston? Alexi struggled.

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Speaker 3: He struggled a little bit in the Big twelve in

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Big Tell tournament play thus far.

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Speaker 2: We know he can get hot. We know he can

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he can shoot it with the best of them. Who's

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due for a big game versus Houston?

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Speaker 4: Do you think, yeah, well, it would be nice if

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Alexi could do it. He has struggled. You know, he

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was the one guy on the road trip that was

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actually playing really well and his numbers went skyrocketing from

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three and now when everyone else is playing well, he's

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kind of one guy that hasn't. But he's going to

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get open looks. If he could hit some, that would

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be nice. Sometimes I think he hurries his shot a

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little bit. Just step into it, you know, get comfortable.

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You got time, you know, find the rims, shoot your shot,

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and he's I think he'll be fine. But yeah, I

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think he and I think Caba has actually been playing

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really well. I wish they'd look for Kaba Moore on

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the block. I mean, they're so concerned about a Jen

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Rob that he's Roman free down there, and I think

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you could find him a lot more than they do.

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And I trust him, you know, to dunk it or

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catch it and score it. He's actually developed some good

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offensive skills. So I hope that you know, when teams,

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when teams are are are helping with their big man,

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you've got to punish him. You got to get it

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down low a k But he could have a big game.

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But really everybody's got to contribute. It can't be a

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two man game for BYU that they need to have

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five or six seven guys that have really good games.

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Speaker 2: Mark durant, Ladies and gentlemen, live from Adam on Diam

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and give us the spirits the thought before we leave,

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before we bid you farewell, and let you get to

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your important workout there, not only on the court, but

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off the court as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we better head back, I hear there's a game

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going on in Kansas City tonight that I need to

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get to. But I love man, Listen, I love the

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church so much. I love the Saints, I love the pioneers.

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These two humble folks, the elders and elder and sister

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from vernal Utah out here on a mission in their

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late seventies, given us tours of liberty, jail and independence Missouri.

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Elder and Sister Tacker from vernal Utah. I mean, they're

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just the best people in the world. The Gospel makes beautiful, kind,

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faithful people, and so I'm grateful to be a part

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of it. I'm grateful to be a part of BYU

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that represents that church. And this team that plays hard

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and plays is fun to watch and it's all good.

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I'm here with my sweetheart merrily, and I'm a blessed man,

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and so I've got a lot of blessings and a

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lot to be grateful for. And it kind of puts

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it all in perspective when you come to places like this,

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what's really important. So I'm going to cheer for the Cougars,

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help they get the victory, but if they don't, that's

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all right too. We're blessed in a lot of ways

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and anyway, so I love you too, Ben, You're a

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great man. Ronald's a great, great guy too, and you

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do great service for BAU fans and do a great job.

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I admire and respect you guys. So thanks for all

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you do. And I guess I better get back on

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the road.

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Speaker 2: Hit the road, get over to that game. We got

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to hear your commentary on the radio. Mark, We salute you,

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appreciate you, We love you. Always a pleasure, always a blessing,

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talking ball with you. Thanks for the live report from

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Adam on Diaman and talking ball with us today.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much.

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Speaker 4: All right, my friend, we'll talk to you later.

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Speaker 3: Really good football player for Brigham a