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are going to be upset with me, maybe for this
first segment, because I am a PI chart of accountability guy.
My codes do I welcome in momentarily. He knows how
I feel. I hate when I make mistakes. I hate
when I let people down. I don't like repeating the
same error. But look, I'm not a perfect individual, and
things happen three times. You have to make a change.
You gotta lock in. And the three game losing streak
now is something that people should be should pay attention
to and b YU basketball right now, it's at a
point of where it gets corrected or it's gonna turn
into a disaster. Now. I trust that Kevin Young and
the staff will. They did it last year, but with
the way it's looking, some people might be losing faith.
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the Believe Network, your former Salae reporter for b y
U TV as well. We are both as in disarray
and as shocked about last night, I think as anybody.
We got Brett always bringing the hammer. Brett. How you
doing today?
Speaker 2: Ron? Are you just are you aware that we just
had an earthquake?
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 4: I didn't feel that I had. I didn't feel it
at all. Yeah, you know, I didn't even notice.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I felt that. I was like, oh wow,
that's crazy.
Speaker 4: My wife, who's this? Who's a second grade teacher over
in Saratoga. She just texted me all caps. She goes, dude,
we just had an earthquake. I said, how bad? She said,
three point four. It's actually scary. There's lots of crying
kids and then my in laws they're texting pictures. Nothing crazy,
but like there's like cracks in like the wall, and
there's a real Again. I don't think anybody in the
area has been hurt.
Speaker 2: It's only three point four, but there's a couple of
kids crying, so.
Speaker 4: Not a nobody shake.
Speaker 3: And I was like, that's interesting. But we sit in
a trailer trailer like this d moves.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, it's just the wind.
Speaker 4: I didn't notice that at all that we had an
earthquake just now.
Speaker 3: No, I did, because I got the I got the
same notification on my father, Like, wait, what would you
got an earthquake? I said, that is interesting because you know,
Vic walks in, he's sturdy, he's got the girth, you know,
and he walks in and boom, Gurnie walks in and
does shake. But yeah, we have an earthquake, so everybody
please be safe and hopefully you don't have to. I'm
sorry wife's having to deal with that. Crying kids. I
hope they'll be okay, because like, that's scary for kids
they don't know they're learning. But yea, earthquakes are crazy.
You imagine those people like in California who have to
deal with that, you know, with higher ones like a
four or five. Never want to wish that, you know that.
I remember the movie Twister. You know, obviously a couple
of people. You never want people to deal with tornadoes.
I was in my mission. Look, I told the story before,
but I don't know if I told it to you,
and if I do, I apologize for reiterating this. But
it was gonna be a bad one. It was supposed
to wreck everybody, and it was supposed to go past
the church, the churches in that property. So we were nervous.
We were as only leaders at the time. I said
that because we were delegated the responsibility of going to
check the church. Sure, so we getting our car, We
wake up six thirty, as we normally do, we leave
at seven thirty. We're like, all right, we'll leave earlier
because we're just we're both nervous. We get there. Could
you not on everything on my Mama on on on
the seven seven three bro. Everything around the church was demolished,
the Church of Jesus Christ. A lot of the stents
was not. We went to our investigator, now we went
to the Lord's investigators to choose me the people who
we were teaching. All houses destroyed, everything was destroyed, back neighborhoods.
I couldn't believe it. And that is where I finally
and it's crazy. People gonna be like Ron you have
I had a testimony. That is where I say I
don't play with the man above because the man above
don't miss. So just wanted to give people that little
titbit as well. Check out the rest of our esp
and the fans start lineup. We were gonna try to
get Kevin Young sound in the nitty gritty, but look,
it is bad. It's not good. It was not so
we can't play that for you. We're gonna recap it though,
Bred and myself we're gonna get into our question of today.
We're gonna play some Kaline Media availability sound from yesterday.
He addressed the twenty twenty six mid year signing class.
We had him on the show yesterday, only had him
for ten minutes because he has to make his round.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was doing the rounds yesterday.
Speaker 3: He does the rounds every year. With that, we appreciate
by you shut up to Kenny Cox and crew and
getting that for us. We always appreciate BYU being there
get us these guys. Time is precious, so we take
ten to twelve whatever we want. Even though Klinnie would
love to go thirty with everybody, he just doesn't have
that time. We'll get into Aaron Roderk and K pop
sound at three thirty we're gonna get into Coach Walker,
Coach Warren, as well as three forty five in the
little inside of report, Welcome in Brandon, the CEO ofod
On Men's Wear a four oh five. Welcome to Casey
Lonquisz at four thirty for a cougar beat and attempting
to get hopefully a Houston writer on in that five
oh five segment. Before we turn it over to UVU
basket Ball, just want to give a shout out to
all of you NBA fans. Jazzer's other people been multiple
trades going around, so hopefully you were happy. Are they
setting up to draft aj if they get the number
one pick? You have no idea or Cam Boozer we'll see,
we'll see. Just give a little plug there. Look, before
we get into the nitty gritty, I was really trying
to think of bred of what could I mention today
that can make people laugh about, you know, cause my
wife always gets on me. I make jokes when they's paying.
You know this, You've known me for a little bit
time exactly because like I, crying just hurts too much,
and I don't cry as a journalists. But just like
after my dad passed away, and you know, you and
I have talked about it, it's really I really don't
want to get emotional like that. So I make jokes.
I make jokes that laugh. I do stuff like, ah,
you know, maybe stuff, maybe they might be a little crude.
I won't lie, but I do that to not have
to deal with the you know, the unfortunate situation. It's
maybe it's a trauma response. But I found this video
from yesterday, and this is the only way I could
describe how BYU fans and this three game losing street
for BYU basketball, and what we all thought they were
gonna get back on track. Ben and I predicted it.
We thought ten point win. It was basically it should
have been a fifteen point loss. But AJ was knocking
down threes, doing this thing, staying into it. Started. The
game was atrocious like it always is. Twenty I got
outscored twenty to nine. I'm pretty sure, Brett, is.
Speaker 4: This the shallowest EOU basketball team you've ever seen, like
in terms of like you have basically three and a
half four guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this might be it that I have seen. Yeah,
maybe not in history, but right I don't know about history,
but like I'm just but that I have seen that
I've covered in my time on hundred.
Speaker 4: I think any bench guy from probably the last ten
years is getting buckets on this.
Speaker 3: Well, you think about when Alex Barcela was young and
McKay cannon, who was a senior that wanted to take
those roles. Those guys could help to seem so much
right now, you know if Alex Sell will be one
of the best shooters in the country when he played
in McKay cannon elite defense wanted to play and lock
you up. Look, it's it's tough. Now. I have to
give credible credits due end at the half on the
sixteen or four run, and it ended on the dunkey.
You were thinking Okay, Bo's gonna play and pull away. No,
Oklahoma State was going bucket for bucket, and I said, okay,
the defenses is atrocious.
Speaker 2: It is. Well what I told Ben the other day.
Speaker 4: I think I said this on this program was when
I was in high school and maybe you were like this.
And honestly, even when I was in college, I lived
under this mentality where I was like, oh, you know what,
I do my homework better when I'm under pressure, you know,
like I do my best.
Speaker 3: Remember this when the assignments due the next day.
Speaker 4: Now I don't know that that's true, but I'll tell
you this I and I know my parents told me this.
They said, okay, FAFO, like, you'll mess around and you'll
find out. And guess what came days where I was like,
oh man, I'm too tired from practice today. I don't
think I can. I don't think I can get this
assignmon Dunne. And you know what, the next day didn't
get turned in. When you play with fire, you will
get burned. When you play this many close games and
you say, hey, we're a second half team, not a
first half team. We start slow in the first half.
You play around this many times, stuff like this happens.
Games that you should win you don't because you didn't
take things seriously early on. It's sure you bring up
a very valid point. Can I be honest with you?
And this is different and obviously the talent is different,
it's a different league. But to connect it, I always
got to drop a Kansas City Chiefs thing, and it
seems like last year with the Chiefs, not this past season.
You play that many one score games and you bound
to lose something. What happened this season just unraveled. And
I bring up that to fit the notion I think
is a good analogy. You would agree because the bad
guys get hurt. And I granted the quarterback was the
main one, but you have your fair share of injuries.
The lineman got hurt. So look, this team is really
going through it right now. Ben calls it the refiners
fire and there's no silver linings. Don't try to tell
me those are silver lining. Look, I don't want to
hear from you, Brett. I't want here for any the
b d YU media person. There's no civil liners you
can tell you know. I I think they can figure
it out. I'll hear that. But like silver linings that's gone.
I think I was the number one pessimist on this
show over the last week. I'd just like to say,
and I don't enjoy being right about this. Justice you don't,
I'm not. I don't like that this is a situation.
Every day I wake up hoping for a better tomorrow.
I don't like being right about what the day looks like.
But I've felt pessimistic about this and I've not been
proven wrong so far.
Speaker 3: You haven't been look bred always bringing hammer don't miss
when he's a little pessimistic. We're gonna continue this discussion,
but let's before we do that, let's get into the
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ESP and thefan dot Com. I'm gonna before we go
to the positives, let's start with the negatives. Because I
end on a positive note, but I have to address accountability.
I said I had a video queued up for you guys,
and I do, and I'm getting it prepared right now.
But this is how I felt yesterday. It's a Steven A.
Smith video, but this is kind of how and this
is tongue in cheek. This to be funny again, Brett,
and I just said it early. If you're tuning into
the show, we laugh at pain like Kevin Hart laugh
at my pain. So yes, it's unfortunate that you're laughing
at you all these basketball pain. But I bring this
up to make make a situation that's tough, like hearted.
Let's tune into the video. I have keed up.
Speaker 2: Oh we have been hoodwicked, bad, boozled.
Speaker 4: Let us stray, run a monk, and flat out the sea.
Speaker 2: It's bad.
Speaker 3: This is bad.
Speaker 4: This is very very bad.
Speaker 2: Mean, damn it. It never ever ever goes our way.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no.
Speaker 2: This can't be happening. No, I am having a very
bad day.
Speaker 4: I mean no, this today, having a long time.
Speaker 3: Now. I want to yell, but I don't feel well,
so I'm not going to. But I'm having a very
very bad day. I played all that to be funny,
Brett's but you love that very very bad. I've had
very very sorry. Actually I'm having a very very very
bad day. This is bad, Steven, this is bad. This
is very bad. This is very bad. Look and I
said it's tuck a cheek. But I'm being serious, Brett.
This is very very bad. This is very very bad. Brett.
You saw what I put on Twitter. You saw the stats,
the stats I put out in Look, when I give
constructive criticism, it's based on the game, it's based on
what I see. It's it's the data points right. I'm
not just gonna be like I'm not gonna go in
motion with fans and say a B, C or D.
But look, body language is a lot to me, Brett.
You played high school sports. I played them. I played
on the rugby team. Here, guess what I can tell
you about my body language at times when I was frustrated,
whether that be coaches, teammates, myself played not good and
it reflects and people don't hide it too well in
this entire team's body language. Look, that's the first thing
I look at Darius lass Er, Jay Gresslow. Body language
did not look good. And it's safe to say that
the body language does not look good, doesn't It's it's
very unfortunate because I'm gonna bring up this in a second.
But you wonder about last year's team what they would
have done. And I'm gonna give you some insight for
some from from someone that's already spoken about it, but
from some source information that I received. Check this out.
This is what I said. Bau's guards not effective tonight.
That was last night. You lost a turnover battle. Rob
Ritchie and Canard combined for ten of the sixteen turnovers.
That can't happen. Out of the twenty fourteen fouls, Richie,
rob and Canard were one foul away a piece from
fouling out of the game. Richie already filed out against Arizona.
Maybe that could have caught. Maybe maybe maybe talking could
have been open. Breaden Berrys doesn't blits off the weak's side.
Maybe Rod's able to kick. That was the issue. They
shot multitudes of free throws, Brett, and they missed them,
and you lost the game. When a team shoots that
ballet from the free throw line, you're telling me you
lose that ballgame. I cannot believe it. So, yes, it
is a very very very very very bad day in
Cougarnation for people right now, for this BA basketball team. Brett.
I was shocked because when I looked at when I
watched the game, and I looked at the numbers, I'm like,
how and you thought that BA was gonna be in
make a late push because Oklahoma State was not. They
were bricking the first free throw. I said, man, they're
leaving it to wide open. They are, but they shot
thirty four free throws a twenty two. But to me,
that was a difference maker. It was the personal fouls.
It was the turnovers. You let them push and transition.
The defense was non existing. Brett.
Speaker 2: What's crazy is the offense?
Speaker 4: Actually, offense look great, but like your contextual lie is it? Like, yes,
your offense versus their offer, And when you look at
it from that perspective, you think, because I think there's
a lot of people you know.
Speaker 2: Wait, man, they.
Speaker 4: Played bad, yesster, Well, actually they played really good offensively.
The thing I bring up was defensively they they shot run.
Speaker 2: They shot forty three percent from three.
Speaker 3: When was the last time we did that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: They shot thirty, they shot fifty percent from the field,
and they shot seventy six per.
Speaker 3: Games when they do that.
Speaker 4: The problem was to your point, yep, you doubled them
in turnovers. They had eight, you had sixteen. They scored
twenty one points just off of those turnovers. Well, you
tied on the rebounding battle, you tied in second chance points.
Now they had twenty eight points of the bench to
your twenty nine. You have thirty six paint points, which
isn't too bad except you gave up fifty to a
fifty barger in the paint run.
Speaker 3: Oh that's that's tough. And they and k but that's
a disappointment.
Speaker 4: And that's like kind of part of my question is,
like how to thing like this happened.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: We've been asking for the offense just to like step
up insistently and when they man, they played incredibly offensive
last night. However, I thought I think it was Casey
Jacobson was the analyst at halftime, which this is exactly
what he said said, Oklahoma State wants to get in
a shootout with you. They want to do this. They're good,
they're good not playing defense. They thrive in situations where
you don't play defense because they're not gonna play defense either. No,
they're gonna go problem is they know exactly they know
they can outscore you. I do believe this is a
top three scoring offense in the Big twelve, the one
of the worst defenses in the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: But that's why they get to the team. In transition
to yep, so played and Roy who is what to
see the nation's leading score a year ago at Green
Bay bucketed he gave you buckets. Look, I'm gonna be honest,
he gave you buckets. He did, he did, He said,
AJ wants some come get cooked. Gnar, you want some,
come get cooked. But Todd King, I'm gonna cook you.
I'll give you some tots. I'll give them to you.
Well done, Rob Right, you're gonna get some too. And
this is where I'm gonna be a little bit more
critical about the deeds. I did some numbers, and I
went back and I had and I had to because
I want to bring data. I want to bring it
the right way. Kevin Jung says, not gonna make a
lineup change. I disagree now, I'm not. I don't get
paid all the millions of dollars to do it, but
right now is not working. And you got Houston coming
in on Saturday and two days what you saw the
other night. If you think you're gonna put ninety two
pints up against us and you're winning the national championship, yeah,
that ain't happening. Kelvin Sampson. Just you hear they did
the UCF who, by the way, can beat you? I
think at the crib who should be a top twenty
five team? By the way, who got Texas Tech by
the way, Ye, Texas A and M by the way.
Just I'm giving you numbers of things that have happened.
This is all data, This is not me all. You're
being emotionalron No, Rob Wright, I think in this losing
streak is fifteen of forty two thirty five percent. He
gotta play better. From two he's twelve to thirty forty percent.
Not terrible, right, not great. You could take that though
he's forty percent. I'll take that, But then the three
point shoot is you gotta be better. And it's not
that Rob's twos are bad, it's when they come when
they got that offensive rebound. Do you know you need threes?
And aj and Richie you're cooking, and not that it's
not going your way, right because he had five or
ten that he misses twos. And I know he's trying
to attack to the basket, but he has a bad
habit of trying to drive on dudes bigger than him.
I went back and I watched a lot of tape
last night. I didn't go to bed till like one thirty,
which I should not have done, being sick, but I
was just I wanted to get actual tape. He is
in the Arizona game in other games and he feels
contact and throws up and this is where I'm about
to rip this team. If I see AJ or Rob
or another player do some NBA try to draw foul
type stuff and don't try to finish through contact to
the basket, and he just capable of doing it. It's
gonna blow my mind. You're trying to get You're not
getting that foul called in the Big twelve. You're not.
It's just not happening. They can run them up, they
can be physical with you, they can press and do everything.
You have to understand it. You have to adjust to
the officials. Doesn't matter if Kevin Young's yelling, it doesn't
matter if they're not giving AJ calls. There's a pivotal
moment where AJ went for a turnaround. He clutched, clutched,
and then shot a yeah, I'm gonna say it, a
terrible fade away and it just it barely hit the
front of the room. Like that's how, that's what, That's
what a scouting report.
Speaker 4: What do we say about boxing? What do we say
about UFC? Don't let it go to a judge judge decision. Ever,
you cannot say, hey man, if we get the calls,
we win the game.
Speaker 3: Okay, Look I feel for aj a little bit because
he played.
Speaker 4: Great well that and the fact that, like the last
couple of games, he should be getting more calls than
he does.
Speaker 3: However, seven Throws look at it.
Speaker 2: From the officials perspective.
Speaker 4: I think the way that the officials look at it
is you were trying to game the system without playing
basketball fully.
Speaker 2: And and the only.
Speaker 4: Reason I say that is because basketball, frankly has been
said a bad precedent because of what Oklahoma is that
he did, which is they figured out the most efficient
way for us to score is by getting to the
free throw line. And while I agree it's efficient, I
also believe that it's disingenuous. And so I think when
officials see, hey, I don't know that you're trying to
play basketball, I think you're trying to game the system
and get to the rim. Then when it does become
a fifty to fifty situation and they're like, is it
a foul?
Speaker 2: Is it not a foul?
Speaker 4: I think they lean on the side of you're not
gonna gain me into giving you points, even though I
think objectively you should call whatever is a foul called
a foul.
Speaker 2: Don't look at it that way.
Speaker 4: But I do think officials are saying, hey, we're not
just gonna give you the basket. Like again, to your point,
you gotta finish.
Speaker 3: Their contact period like you and then you'll get the
call like and that's the point. You cannot draw the
foul at the top. You gotta finish her. If Rob
is trying to fake and these get in contact and
going through and getting that, you'll get that, which he
did get towards the end the game. When he started
doing he just you got it. I know they're very creative.
He's so dynamic when he gets down heel, but there
are times where I feel like it's forced. And look,
he as well as everybody, gets their fasher of defensive
things some more than another. Part chart of accountability. Entire
defensive team is terrible. You're giveing them ninety points the
blast two games nainety Kansas ninety nine to Oklahoma State.
You've gotten yo, you know what kicked? Yeah, you got
your donkey kicked. And I know it's ninety two to ninety.
I know you came back in those games. But the
way it's look, you never felt like they were winning
the game in the second half after the timin and
Marcus said, I don't know if they have a chance,
I'm like, oh, they've done it. But the way they
were playing it just it seemed like defeated. It seemed
that way, and it was tough, and they were in it.
And I'm not saying I'm not when I say defeated
of oh we have to battle back again, not the
the energy of that. They dodn't want to play. They
were trying to, but it's they're getting exhausted because they
keep putting themselves in the same situations.
Speaker 4: And the unfortunate part is this is one of their
best offensive performances of the season.
Speaker 3: I think I agree with you.
Speaker 4: I have con I have such a hard time understanding
what to make of this team because, yes, you've been
in a close game on the road with Kansas, you
were in a close game at home, made a comeback
against Arizona, but then you give up one hundred points
to Oklahoma State, and and I just like, there's fifty
eight points in the second half. I go back and forth,
and I say, is the offense not scoring enough? Well,
that's clearly not the problem. They score fifty one points
on the second half, as they normally do. You you thought, Okay,
this is gonna be typical Bo. You hold them to
thirty something outscore and they're gonna win.
Speaker 3: This game. Never happened.
Speaker 2: Put up sixty points in the second.
Speaker 3: In a college basketball game. R at sixty points in
a college basketball game.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 3: Defense is not there, Bro, Defense is lot existent. And look,
I'm gonna say it because I know basketball little. I
don't know what the best and I have to, you know,
be careful about how I go things. But they hide
Rob right in the corner. And you know what these
teams are seeing on tape. Your perimeter defense struggles, and
they bringing Rob to the top. And when Canar gets
in foul, trouble is cake.
Speaker 4: And what was the biggest issue the team had last year?
Amplified in the.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent perimeter defense every and it was reversed yesterday.
It was in the paint. They had Alabama type performance in.
Speaker 2: The paint fifty two points in the paint run.
Speaker 3: They scored fifty eight in the second half of fifty
two of them came to paint. Think about that they
could have beat you in the second half by just
scoring paint points. Think about that. I want you to
think that through logically. Bill let's talk about stats you
brought to by Benner, wild Brett and Vickis next week.
Think about that they scored fifty eight points, fifty two
of those in the second half. They just decided to
go into paint with no threes day to beat you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty yessa, crazy twenties. So how many points you
already scored in the second half?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: They scored fifty one.
Speaker 4: So the bench points just second half bench points or
points in the paint, sorry, second half points in the paint.
Speaker 3: Twenties, So.
Speaker 2: Like you didn't even have a better half.
Speaker 4: Hope, they scored twenty six in the f first half
and twenty six in the second half.
Speaker 3: Bright, I just did the math. Okay, let's say that
they only scored the fifty two points in the paint
minus to fifty.
Speaker 2: I did the math.
Speaker 3: They still beat you by one. They beat you ninety
three to ninety two. I highlight that point to let
you know of how bad the defense was protecting the rim.
That's the following cab aske to fall. But and then
you gotta understand now, granted, I want to say this
Oklahoma state, stop flopping. They have about three different dudes
with haircuts, you know, I mean looking like they were
all A G League players and all star players at
the time. But they was flopping some of them to
get these calls. But again, you have to jest if
your canard, don't put hands on them. If you know
that they're gonna do that, if you know that they're
gonna call a foul of you are able to go
down the line, then just stand there with your hands up.
And it got tough. Is it was really tough yesterday
and I really feel bad, but that's just the way
it goes. It's a bad day and in cougarnation. And look,
I'm gonna say, you need a lineup change. Need a
lineup change. Excuse me, it needs to happen. And the
guy I think will discuss that more and the question
of the day who I think it is, and get
Bread's comments as well. But it's just and it's tough.
I have to have Patchotdoff accountability. Though this team right
now is not playing like a good basketball team. I
trust k Why that he'll figure it out. I really do.
I really believe that Kevin Young can figure it out.
I believe this bou basketball team can turner around. They
got nine games left, but this is not the start
that you want. It not the starters you needed, and
they needed to get a real gut check. That's why
I posted on my Twitter, I hope you post that
picture of oklah Oma State celebrating. I hope that's played
at the beginning of practice before Houston every day because
you need something going into the Houston game. Because if
you thought Oklahoma State was physical bread, I can't even
imagine of what it's going to be like when you
have to play Houston. So we got to go to break.
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one O three nine, and that the fan red always
bringing the hammer by my side, Rode. We're feeling the
infra bank Crittal. A lot of people like, why are
you coming back so somber? Well, first of all, I'm
hurt by the sickness. Nothing wants to sit down on
the stomach first of all and in the brain. But
also are you hurt by this BOE basketball team lose
the streak? It hurts.
Speaker 2: It does, especially when coming into the season.
Speaker 4: The expectations and narrative from everybody was this is maybe
the most talented ever had.
Speaker 3: That wasn't there if I said that?
Speaker 2: John Rothstein said that he did. So it's it's hard
sitting with reality. Again.
Speaker 4: The silver lining is that you scored ninety two points,
but you couldn't keep Oklahoma State from scoring ninety nine points.
Speaker 3: This is also true.
Speaker 4: And the way that they did it, man, were there
There were a couple shots that I felt like were
luck infews, But there were also some of them where
I mean, like Curry in the first half where he
goes coast to coast full court, euro steps his way
to the rim and then does a little Derek rose
up and under and it just goes in and he
beats all five defenders on one play, and I'm just like,
makes everybody look bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So and.
Speaker 4: Then you know, we haven't even talked about the elephant
in the room, which is what happened towards the end
of the game while Tyler Moruss was shooting his free throws.
That's a whole conversation that needs to be had in
it of its own. I don't even know if I'm
sad about that. I told my wife because usually that
stuff usually doesn't bug me. I told my wife this
morning though, I was like kind of starting to bug me.
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Question of the day, you know, do you have faith
that BAU basketball can turn it around with nine games
left in the season, because right now it's not good.
It's not And I got a couple of questions I'm
gonna ask. That's one of them, you know, that's the
main question. But then my basketball question of the day
is who needs to be moved out of the starting lineup?
They need a lot, they need a lineup change. Look,
I'll be the one to bite the bullet. I'll be
the one to bite the bullet. He did it last year.
I granted, you know, it's a little bit different. I
think Cannon's body language and other things were different. And
then when things seemed was deep deeper last year too.
But I'm gonna hit on at that. I didn't get
too in the last segment before we get into our
question about that, and I want to get your thoughts, Bratt.
But I also had posted this and I'm not playing
and I'm serious. I'll say it. Let me take the
fire for it. I don't care who gets mad. Shouldn't
have let Dallen Hall go, Brandon Gurney and Sean Walker
or right when they said that everyone we said it
was an upgrade. I did. I'm dying on that hill
right now now. Granted, things can change it. But February fifth,
not Thursday, not good. I said this first. This team's
defense is non existed right now. Back to back games,
re Bo gives up ninety plus points. Second, the absence
of Yegor Dimen. Now we take are out of it.
He was going to the NBA lottery pick that and
Dalla Hall, who were past first has I said, I
has spaced its face goodness type of when you get
it together wrong, has shaped its face. That's what I
was trying to say, shaped its face. You need ball
movement and stops some basketball. This team is struggling with
both of these right now.
Speaker 4: You know what's interesting about Aja and Yegor is like
last year, last year, how do I say this, Aj
is what we wanted Yegor to be, and Yegor is
a little bit of what we want, not necessarily Aj
to be, but someone to be right, Because last year
you had fans saying, well, why isn't yegor Or going
for thirty points a night? Like, why isn't he just
being ball dominant and scoring at will? True?
Speaker 2: That was that wasn't who he was. And he was
a point guard.
Speaker 4: He was a distributor, He was a facilitator and yes
he could score, but he wasn't the go get me
a forty piece guy that Aj Debonta was. Well, this
year we're like, who's distributing the basketball? Who's sharing this
thing who's moving it around can't be robbed because Rob's
to focus on getting into the rim.
Speaker 2: I think as he should be.
Speaker 3: I've defended that, but like as they brought him in
to do.
Speaker 4: This year, you have the guy who can score you
forty if needed, but you don't have the distributor, the facilitator.
Now again, granted, scoring the basketball is not the biggest
issue on this team, No, it's not exactly.
Speaker 2: Slowing people down is the biggest issue.
Speaker 3: And they still need a lineup change because of that.
And that brings me to my point of.
Speaker 4: Who do you feel like on offense is like a
defensive liability?
Speaker 3: I know, besides Rob, but you're not subbing Rob out,
I mean the next person. Look, I'm gonna keep it real.
If Dalen Hall was on this team, and look, I'll
take a hot take. I believe Rob Right would be
benched in games. I will say it. What the game
he had last night of turning the ball over like that?
Speaker 2: I mean my bench, define bench? Okay, sitting out the
whole game?
Speaker 3: No, he's but there remember Iowa State. Okay, yegor, we're
gonna sit, We're gonna bring down in let him run. Gay,
You're it's it's not working for you right now at
this moment in time. You're not done for the rest
of the season, but this game, the matchup you it's
not it's not your moment from a point in time,
like he says, feed the hot hand, feed the guy
that I believe that, and if it's not Rob, you're
gonna say no. And the reason why I go Rob
is because of point guard, because Dallan distributes, and I
just I don't know how Dallen and Rob would both
work on the court because both struggle at defense. That's
why I say Rob. That's my points because when people
are gonna push back on me and say, well no, no,
Rob will be on the court to be Canard. Okay, Well,
when you got two guys to struggle with defense, Like
the reason why Dallan could be on the floor with
Mo What and Trey they had to elite definish in Trevin.
The reason why they could run that offense with Kiba
was in fos right, because that's what they did. They
had fus Dallan, Trey and Mo What Trevn like they're reading,
you know, Dawson Times. They could run that because Dallen
was passed first, slow you try to get you on
your hip, puts you in jail. Lay the ball up,
get the ball to fos slowed down, Fus could even
pass out of the post. They haven't seen that passing
ability from Kaba. I believe it's capable of it. So
that's more of the issues. Is the deep team that
you had, the guys that played together, the guys that
were maybe as first. I don't want to say on
selfish because because I feel like that's not a skill set,
is what it is, guys of that the skill set's
not there. I feel that is what's hurting this team
currently at a moment in time, because they need someone
to slow this pace down and set this offense up.
And sometimes it's not because of rob Right's ability. When
he goes so fast and it doesn't and the team's
on the back heels and they get a transition. Now
that's his fault. I'm sorry it is. Whether that's blaming
on Robert the coach staff, it is like when he
doesn't get the foul call when he misses it, when
he goes too fast and you shoot, it's the thirty
what thirty second shocklock? When you shoot the thirty to
thirty five second. When you shoot the ball too fast
five to ten seconds into the shocklock, that's not a
good shot or trying to draw fout and it's not
late in the game where you should be doing that.
And the team goes the other way, that is on you.
Not in sync. That team's cutting to the basket. You
look at him, oh yeah, and you pass the ball.
I get he's hit a three, but come on, man,
you know he plays below the basket there rebound. You
know what he's going to do, and you throw it
out of bounds. You put your head up, like when
you're not a pass first guy. Guys aren't looking to
stay on the perimeter. Friend, that's I'm being serious. That's
why he cuts to the You drive and shoot you
know me, just pass the ball. They're like, that's not
normally what happens. And his skill say is that he's
dynamic going downhill. So to me, it's it if Downd's
on this team, I believe robin games they would put
down in and it was slowed down. But that's not
the case. So for starting lineup changes, here's my answer.
You need to replace Canard with Dominique. They need something
even try it out for a game. Dominique who doesn't
play Dominie, Dominique who doesn't play Dominique. Because everybody gonna say, oh,
how about Hidien Boob. Yeah, I hear where you're coming from.
But it's like, I think Dom the guy that wants
to lock in on defense, play the wing, and that
can do that also, and that can still shoot the three,
even though Dean can do it too. People don't give
me a push back, and I'm okay with that. Give
me your taking your point, but I think Dom is
the guy that hasn't played crazy.
Speaker 4: Stat of the game Kadean Boom scored. He made one
field goal, the three pointer again back to back games.
Speaker 2: What okay?
Speaker 4: So, because like when I think of a guy who's
a big who doesn't shoot, I immediately think of like
guys like Dwight Howard. The reason you don't shoot is
because you can't shoot. The reason you're open is because
they want you open. My guess is if it even
could shoot the three, we would be seeing him shoot
more threes. True, but it's is now back to back
games where he hits it wide open and I'm not
even gonna lie his stroke doesn't even look bad, like
it doesn't look like a.
Speaker 3: Development, looks nice.
Speaker 4: So I'm so confused of what to make with a
name when he shoots the three, because I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, that doesn't look like it should work, but when
it's still so different. He can guard one through five
as well. I don't want to make it seem like
he can't because he can't. But I just feel Dominique
is a six to nine wing player. That's his role,
you know, like getting out and that I and he
can't play on the wing too.
Speaker 4: I don't want to He made more threes this year
than Dominique, I believe, Yes, that was not on my
twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Well, let's check that, let's fact check it. Let me
not you know, give false information. Let's go right now,
Dominique Diamonde. I don't remember the last time Dominique hit
a shot. And I'm not saying that like it's like, oh,
he can't shoot. I don't now he's taken two, he's
made to Dominique dia Monde. Going to the stats right now,
and I believe this is wh Kyle Collinsworth was talking about.
I really do. I believe this is the guy year
by the year. Here we go, red trick freshman. That's
who he is. Remember he's a retro freshman, just like
that EAM last year. And we don't have any stats
on him on BYU dot com. So I'm going to ESPN.
So if they get upset with me, that's not me.
I went to the website, I could not find it.
So now I'm gonna type in Dominique Diamonde.
Speaker 2: Dominique has taken he's probably taking this season and.
Speaker 4: He's made none or sorry, he's taken twelve this season.
Speaker 3: He's made to okay, so they both have made the
same amount of peace. Chicking out your pick of poison.
The reason why I'm going with Dominique is the guy
that has bought in defense into the boy Magan doesn't
care if you touch the ball, not saying hadem dust here.
I don't want people think I'm saying that, but I
think this is a guy that says, if I play
defense for fifteen minutes, I'm okay. This is a guy
that says, I'm gonna go score and grab a rebound
and dunk back on you. I'm gonna run in transition
when you're seeing in the game. Is he not done that,
and Boop has done that too, Adiem has done that,
So I lineup change needs to happen. Brett, I'm saying
it right here. It's coming from me. Kevin Young said
he's not gonna have it. Okay, Well, then are you
gonna play Dominique Moore because you need him when the
offense is not moving? And granted, and let me give
some facts because people a gonna be like, well, you know,
Rob Okay, who do they have? Eight? Was gonna be
the guy that was gonna be able to run the
offense a little bit injured? Dawson also injured. So I'm
gonna tell you this for the offseason. This is more
offseason talk. You better next year. If you bring in
guys where one of the roles is not they don't
have that skill set or that's not the main thing
you bring him in for. Let's go there a better point.
They need to make sure everybody on your bench after them,
if they were to get hurt, has that skill set
opposite of that, because let's be honest, if they bank
on both of those guys going down, no they did not,
and now they don't have it. But you know what,
you're accountable for the roster. You put it together, you
and that robust stass, and that's why this is hurtful.
Shout out to Bandonai, Johnny Cash. You're hurting. Fans are
and they are the resource allocation, robust roster, coaching staff,
PI chart of accountability. They got nine games to figure
it out. They do, But this might get ugly. You're
playing Houston on Saturday. Do you think automatically the problemses
are gonna go away? I don't believe. I am not
confident this team to beat Houston. I am willing to
go on record right now and say that this team
would lose to Houston and have a four game lose
the streak five of the last six.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 3: What do you want me to say? You want me
to say, yeah, no, no, I'm sorry, I have not
seen it.
Speaker 4: I feel like usually when we come on and we
do this, like if it's fifty to fifty, I'll usually go.
Speaker 3: Be I don't even think it's seventy thirty.
Speaker 2: I'd probably put it at seventy thirty.
Speaker 3: Thirty said, okay, you're seventy thirty, I'm seventy five to
twenty five. So so so we're both right, there at
the same point. Yeah, this one, I mean, this one
hurts because you could have got back on track.
Speaker 2: And here's the other deal, Ron thee B. Houstonton's being
in the league tax tecond Houston.
Speaker 3: I don't think so, I don't think.
Speaker 2: You tell me right now, you're telling me this is
the year you do it.
Speaker 3: I shouldn't laugh, but I laughed because I don't. I
don't know. I don't know. I don't believe it. I'm
not confident.
Speaker 2: This this was supposed to be the year Man and I.
Speaker 3: People are gonna tell me, Oh, you're saying that, Oh, Iran,
we're fine, We're fine. A It's okay. But no, there's
no don't hit me with the good loss that went
out the window last night. Oh but it's a Quad
one team. Stop it, just stop it. This Oklahoma State
team gotta win. It puts them back into bubble consideration.
You're telling me that's a good basketball team. This is
where numbers lie. Yeah no, because honestly, if you got
that one against Oklahoma State, would you be satisfied? Would
you be like, oh, yeah, cool, No, You're like, Okay,
they gotta go be Baylor. You should beat Oklahoma state,
you should be a bad Baylor team. The only win
that you have in last is you beat a Utah
team that is at the bottom of the conference. So
you're telling me you're going to lose to Houston and
then go be Baylor. By the way, stat of the day,
I think Kevin on this eight and six in his
time in Big twelve row games. Team's going through right now. Man,
they're going through it. So your question, your question to
you is they need to start a lineup change who
would you said, boy the starting lineup?
Speaker 4: Would I sub out who you're bringing in? They because
they need they need a lineup. So that's like to me,
the easy part is whom I bringing in. The hard
part of that question is whom I bringing out? Okay,
so let's start with who you're bringing it about.
Speaker 3: I'm not taking out Richie. I'm not taking out Rob.
I think Richie and AJ off limits and KBA those
three are so yeah, I'm not taking out the other
two are on the table. I'm not taking out Rob. Okay,
so that I feel if Dalla Hall was on this team,
then there are moments where Rob would go in and
out lading games for dalling because he can slow it down.
And maybe I'm wrong and that may people gonna get
pushed back round. You don't know a ball. You're wrong
on what you talk about. But we saw them do
that to Yegor, who was a lot of right. You're
telling me that they're not gonna do that to Rob right.
That's why I believe that.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, there is a part of me that
sits here and feels like.
Speaker 3: Bernard's gonna shorten the stick. But I feel like it's him. Yeah,
and he he's the reason why it's him is there?
Let me give you accountability, give you data. He's been
playing bad for a minute. Yes, how do we feel
about Cannard? Defensively? Though it's hit or miss, it's honestly,
you can't put your finger on it. Would you agree
that it's hit or miss? It's not what I thought
it was gonna be. I agree. I I expected a
little bit better.
Speaker 4: I mean, Kevin Young called this guy a potential All
Big twelve first team.
Speaker 3: I agree with him on that, and I have not
seen it yet. I've seen flashes of it.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I feel like, is the light just too bright
for Kinnard?
Speaker 3: Maybe it might be the first year playing you know
in the Big twelve, like, it's definitely don't have the
ball in your hand. Bennis mentioned that before. Was it
Ohio Valley Conference. I think he came from I can't run. Yeah,
he was an SIU down where you know what, like
four hours away from me now SYU Carbondale.
Speaker 4: So Lukies I, I agree with you. I want to
bring in Dominique. But here's the other issue.
Speaker 3: Dominique can't come into FAU the way he does though.
Speaker 2: No I know, but.
Speaker 4: One of the things that I hate doing in sports
media is pretending like I know better than the coach.
Speaker 3: This is true, So people listening don't think I'm safe.
Speaker 4: If I'm gonna make a take like this, I want
to be very careful and say, am I sure about
this that I feel like I know better than the coach?
Speaker 2: Because let's be honest.
Speaker 4: Ron, If Kevin Young knew that putting in Dominique would
fix issues, I believe Kevin Young would.
Speaker 2: Have done it.
Speaker 3: And maybe that lose to the comment maybe not allowed
to change but switching things up.
Speaker 4: To me, if Kevin Young's not changing the lineup, it's
because that's not what's best for the team. Yeah, Like,
which then leads me to say, do you have anything
that's even worse?
Speaker 3: Maybe, which because I'm trying to say, spike things up,
maybe you can get something different.
Speaker 4: But my point is, like I think, if they're not
moving in Dominique to the lineup, and if they're not
giving Dominique more minutes, why is that. It's not because
it's not because Kevin Young doesn't like what color shoes
he's wearing. It's because there's clearly an en court, statistical,
tangible reason Kevin Young hasn't.
Speaker 3: Changed the lineup and honestly three point shooting when he
comes in a game of fouls.
Speaker 4: I've said, I think the reason they keep running ISO
ball with this team is because that's Kevin Young's way
of telling everybody, this is what we got.
Speaker 3: Well, this is also what I did in Phoenix with
oh that's an interesting way with Kevin Booker and Kevin Durant,
this is what I did, and that's why Chris Paul
got traded and DeAndre Ayton. I'm stretching it, but think
about how it was running book was they tried to
have dal I said this last year and Ben is
like no one wanted to agree with me, and it's
not Ben. But they were trying to have Kevin Gung.
I felt I was trying to have Dallan do the
Devin book a role of getting the paint below it,
and it just didn't work out the way. And I
was like, that's not Dallan's skill set. He can, but
he he's way better in the pick and roll. He's
a three point shooter, that's what he is. He's not
really a midi guy, which is also when he got Elijah,
you know, and these other people and they got robbed
because those guys can't hit the mesa. But and you know,
Aj and even Richie have to get the media and
he doesn't have the photo like Trevin did you know,
going to the basket or Richie. So it was tough.
But look, you and I think if you're going to
the point of analytics and why he's not on the court,
the only possible thing I could think of Brett the
reason of why he's not is one thing and one
thing only, and that thing is because he's not he's
two or twelve from three because you have to come
in three and d right. And then also because when
we saw him in the Utah game, three quick fouls.
Maybe it was two, but immediate the impact was not that.
Remember when Kevian said, Alexi earned himself a couple of
minutes win the Kansas game because what he do? He
had two threes. You come into you foul that don't
argue more minutes, that keeps on the bench. I feel
like the archetype with a lot of these guys the same. Dominique,
what do we want him to do? We want him
to play defense or shoot the three ball? Alexi Coastitch,
what do we want him to do? We want him
to shoot the three ball and he can't. What do
we want Kennard Davis to do? We want him to
shoot the three ball and play defense, but he can't.
Speaker 4: All the guys that you want to play, I mean
it's I mean, it's not really a trio because Dominique
hasn't an Alexi haven't played as much as Canard. Dominique
definitely has it. I mean, same with Tybler Russ, Kelen Russ.
What do we want him to do? We want him
to shoot the ball, three ball, play defense.
Speaker 3: It's true.
Speaker 4: All these guys, we have four guys, we want one
of them to.
Speaker 2: Be able to hit the three ball.
Speaker 3: And play, and they've had moments. Milo had his moment,
Tyler had his moment, Alexi had.
Speaker 2: Have even we haven't even talked really about my highway.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, that's why JT keep saying this is
a disappointment, because you would think a guy that played
overseas with that high level of an IQ, with those
leagus in the most hostile environments had him on the
show for him. He says that the Big twelve has
some but not like that, and I agree with him.
If you watch your league basketball, you would think that
dude would have not I don't want to say since
the verse he has the wrong word, but you would
think he would understand the moment and show up in
it because he's been there before. Not seeing that he's
taking the drawback year two, I think more than year one,
and it's tough right now, it's very, very tough. I
don't know what it turned to. And look, I don't
know better than they coach. I'm not saying that, but
I'm saying something he's to change, agree, because whatever's working
ain't been working.
Speaker 4: But again, we say change like they can swap something
in and swap something out. This isn't like, hey, my
phone battery died. I have another battery over here. They
may not have another battery.
Speaker 3: And that's tough if that's just what it is and
looks If not, why.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't they have switched if they clearly had that worked,
Because like, legitimately, think about it, it's so easy for
us all to say, well, why don't they swap somebody out? Okay, cool,
So then let's think, let's say that dominique in practice
is just raining threes and dunking on everybody and play
incredible defense. What reason would Kevin Young have to have
to say still not playing you?
Speaker 3: None?
Speaker 4: Again, unless it's just like for some reason, he's just
like I don't like you as a person and I'm
not playing, which we know that's not the case. So
then you have to think, why is it doing itause
he doesn't believe that that is a solution. Now, the
only other possibility is well, and maybe it's so simple
as like because mag did. It doesn't necessarily make sense
on paper, but it kind of just gives everybody a
shock to the system so much that it gives everybody
a little jumper cable jolt, And statistically, again, it doesn't
makes sense. And that's why that's the only reason I
think Kevin Jung said that in media availability the other day,
because he concedes production wise, it doesn't make sense. The
only reason we would do it is to give everybody
a change of routine, and maybe that wakes everybody up.
But again, it's easy to just say, why don't we
switch the lineup. I'm sure that's what fans are saying.
Why don't they play somebody else? Think about it. Why
wouldn't Kevin Young play him if he knew it was
going to make a difference.
Speaker 3: This is true, and it goes back to this comment.
It's not necessarily lineup change because he probably already thought
of that, but can he play himself into a situation?
But it was different, and I brought him a what
and I thought about the point of speaking, what had
how many years of playing college basketball? Dominie's good but
fresh up? That's tough.
Speaker 4: You can't because I had this conversation with fans the other.
Speaker 3: Day with the guy that's that has played.
Speaker 4: You cannot just say, why don't they do what they
did last year where they bring it for Cannon? No, yes,
what both Boet and Cannon. I hate to say it,
are more talented than anybody else you have on the bench,
both of those the way they're playing. Yes, So it's
it's not as simple as well, why don't they switch?
You had a deeper team. I don't know how many
times I have to say this to fans. You had
a ten times deeper team last year than you have
this year. Now, your ceiling is higher this year because
you have more top heavy this year, but you were
one deeper last year than you were this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Ben brought up to the point like, are
guys really more talented? Are they more? You know what's
the word? If I got the word that was, you
say more? You know, like basically seasoned? Are they more?
And sure you can say that, but then that's on
the coaching staff to go get guys at a season.
Speaker 4: I mean, you thought you did, right, Like we thought
Jennard was seasoned. We thought Tyler Russ.
Speaker 3: Was season I mean, and they had season guards, they
had Dawson, they had Nate and they lost them. They
did they had because guard plays the most important tournament,
played down a stretch and they lost it.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be like the white flag surrender guy,
but but I also think like you just may not
have any tools left in the belt and look.
Speaker 3: At the calls that they're not getting right now they're
gonna get for sure. When the NCAA turned We talked
to David Hunsinger. Yes, the Devoid of Cowboys. He doesn't
like that. Actually, the Big Twelve allows you to be physical,
and then in the tournament they actually switch it up
and they call those right check because they're going to
do that. Ben is right, and David, they are going
to do that. I don't necessarily know if I like
that either, but it is gonna bold well. But you
need to get in momentum so you can make it.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this does it.
Speaker 4: Let's say they officiated the games the same way they
do in the tournament as they do in the Big Twelve.
That makes that makes you automatically feel great about this team.
No no, no, no, no, right, that doesn't solve the issues.
Speaker 2: It doesn't, So I agree, But what is that? Okay?
Speaker 4: So let's say that's five six points a game more
from aj who's already scoring out of his mind. That
doesn't solve your solutions on this team, in fact, may
get other guys even in more foul trouble.
Speaker 3: It can't. We gotta go to break but Pollar the
day I change, I change it. We'll have Brett put
that out on Cridal Benjamin all over day ken BYU
still turn it around with nine games left? Yes or no?
I believe they can. They still got time, but you
gotta start on Saturday. But it's gonna be so tough.
They're gonna have to show me. And then question of
the day, do you want to see a starting lineup? Change?
Yes or no? Why or why not? And who would
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