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the undulations of this game, to jackal and hide, why

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Speaker 1: Welcome and former bucket getter and now doctor uh If

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Speaker 3: We got doctor Skyler Halford on the line. What's up, Doc?

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Speaker 4: What's up? Ben?

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Speaker 3: How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic man, appreciate you talking some ball with

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us today. What's uh, what's the latest in the Halford household?

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Speaker 3: How's work gone? Give us all the updates.

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Speaker 4: Oh, everything is great, man. You know, we got four

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kids running around, trying to keep them under control, and

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you know, trying to help as many athletes and motivated

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adults as we can stay you know, healthy and develop

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that skill in basketball area. We love that and always

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have and always will. But it's been good. It's been

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a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: Love it man, Glad you're doing well.

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Speaker 1: Uh, this bou basketball team, it's hard to diagnose, it's

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hard to treat. What would the doctors say about this

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basketball team?

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Speaker 3: What ails it? Uh? What?

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Speaker 1: What is it good at? What do we need to remedy?

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What's going on? Where are the muscle you know, imbalances

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Speaker 3: What do we got to address.

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Speaker 4: Here from a basketball perspective? Okay, Yeah, So it's it's

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interesting you say that because I get it's really it's

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kind of hard to read sometimes, right, because of you

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get a game like Iiowa State where they play, you know,

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arguably their best game of the year, and then we

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you know, drop a goose egg against UCS and I

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get it, like they're you know, they've gone through their

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ups and downs this year with their fair share of

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injuries and two key, key guys, and you know that

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that does make uh it's challenging, you know, to adapt

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to let alone. They have so few guys that came

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just a new group overall being together and then having

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to lose some key guys. It's just tough to figure out.

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do the best, I mean, they're they're athletically gifted. I

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honestly think that they're athletically gifted. You look at guys

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just athletes all around the floor that are long. I mean, Boskovich,

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you know, fine tuning that I think would be interesting

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you know, that that sense of urgency coming out and

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you know, hitting somebody in the mouth, letting them know

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it is hard to diagnose, it is hard

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to treat. It's it's the Jekyll and Hide, the peak,

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the Valley. The peak is Iowa State. The next game

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Speaker 4: The worst performance, right, yeah, yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 3: So how do you how does this team find its identity?

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Speaker 1: Look aj S in the post game, He's like, look,

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we're going to be fine and Marked, are you buying

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Speaker 3: They're going to be fine.

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Speaker 4: In Mark, I'm buying it. I mean, honestly, if you've

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got guys as good and as talented as Aj and

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Rob Bright are. Uh you can. I mean, it's a one,

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one game at a time tournament, right, It's a it's

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not a best of three, best of five, best of seven.

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advance and that's all that's all you need. And when

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you got guards that are capable of playing to the

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level that Rob and Aj are capable of, I'm buying,

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I think, and you know hearing. You know, Aj is

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a confident player and I love that about him, and

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so when the when the lights shine the brightest, I

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feel like he's going to be able to perform really well,

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and that leadership from him hopefully spills through the rest

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of the team as well, so they can kind of

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Speaker 1: So I'm buying, so ceiling and floor for this team,

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do you think what is it?

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Speaker 4: I mean ceiling is I mean, is a national champion

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Speaker 4: Still absolutely absolutely, I mean, as as hard as it

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may be to believe and feel with Richie gone, and

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throughout the season when you've got a guy like AJ,

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who's gonna be he's the next generation talent that as hard.

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as much as AJ has personally, I believe. And then

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you've got a point guard like Rob who who has

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the ability to be a top, if not the best

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point guard in America. When you have guys like that

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and you enter a tournament like March Madness, I mean,

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we've seen crazier things happen. I don't think it's it's

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by any you know, there's there's no reason why these

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guys couldn't go that far. And again I see them

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going into the tournament depending on how they do in

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the Big twelve tournament, you know, anywhere from a seven six, uh,

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a little better. So with that being said, I do

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think that the ceiling is the national championship. Still, we've

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got a lot of things to figure out over the

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next three regular season games and into the Big twelve tournament,

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that's for sure. And if we can do that defensively

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and figure ourselves out, I don't see why that can't

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be the case. And then you know we're gonna get

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into the tournament. The floor, anyone's floor going into this

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tournament is to lose in the first round. You know,

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Purdue against the sixteen seed. It's it's just the most

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beautiful tournament in America because anything can happen.

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Speaker 3: No doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: Do sometimes do you envision yourself what you would be

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doing on this team, Like how you'd be like weaving,

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you know, into the corner, you know, like what role

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you could play on this team? We could use the

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Skylar Alford right now, is all I'm saying to A

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and three point shots.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we do need some three point shooting. I

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will say that, and I would just I mean, I'm hopeful.

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I've been hopeful from the beginning with Alexei Kostitch. He's

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a guy that I've just been hoping can fill that

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role somehow. I mean, he was four for nine from

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three at the last game I've watched, where previously he

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had six threes in a game or five. I might

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be mistaken there, but like he has the ability to

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be that guy that can draw more attention to him. Yeah,

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he's a little undersized still is Tyler Moruss right, those

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you know, from Russ and Kastitch, And we're gonna need

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those type of role players, you know, in the Big

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tournament into March, to be able to help us win

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some crucial games. So I really hope that they can

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fulfill that role. I noticed they go to, you know,

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that zone, which is what they used to do when

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I played, because I was undersized and wasn't able to

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pick up you know, players defensively one on one, so

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sometimes you got to go to that zone to you know,

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help manipulate that a little bit. And I don't know

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if we've played a lot of zone this year because

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get those guys integrated could help help us. So hopefully

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they can fulfill that role that I think we do need.

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Speaker 3: All Right, I got a tough question for you. I'll

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be honest.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen this many injuries on a basketball team, Skyler.

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Speaker 3: I've never seen this many injuries.

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Speaker 1: This is like like I begin to wonder, Okay, when

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there's this many injuries, like, hey, are these freak accidents

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or is there something with S and C, nutrition, rest, biomechanics,

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what we're doing as far as potentiation prior to tip off?

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Speaker 3: Like, what are you seeing? Man?

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Speaker 1: There's been some like kind of sort of contact, but

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it's really more non contact like jump stop, jumps, plant.

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What do you see in man Brody Koslowski's out, Xavian

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Staaten's out. I know you don't have all the details

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on these injuries, but what's what's a rye here? What

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have you seen so far that you're like, uh, is

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there an issue? Is there not an issue.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's it's reasonable to I mean,

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people are going to naturally raise concerns, But honestly, I

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of ACL studies, systematic reviews and things on just ACL

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risk factors, and to be honest, Ben, it's really you know,

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research suggests that like, it's not caused by one major flaw.

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been inside the facilities. I've seen what they've got. They've

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and I don't doubt that they're doing a fantastic job.

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in particular, the very first line of the study says

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that it's as basketball players are a high risk group

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for antier cruciate ligament injuries, and that's just the nature

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of it. No matter what you do I mean you can.

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I do believe that they're the more we do, the

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more we preemptively, like are trying to identify risk factors,

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treat risk factors, You're gonna have a better chance of

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not having injury. You know, people talk about injury prevention

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that that is just not even I don't even know

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why we even say that. I mean I get it,

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but like, there's no such thing as injury prevention in

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high risk sports like basketball. There's just no such thing.

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And it's injury reduction. We're just trying to reduce the

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chances of having an injury. And by yes, working on

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a symmetry's monitoring workload. I mean I remember going to

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a pre practice, you know, as an alumni, watching these guys,

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and they handed out that these sheets that had like

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how much workload each individual player had, like by to

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the decimal point, and like, I mean they're tracking all

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these things. It's a high level institution. They do an

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amazing job. It's just, yeah, we have gotten bit by

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that bug this year, and I can't say what it's

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exactly attributed to. I mean, I would love to get

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in there and and like just do my own research

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and stuff, just because I love this stuff, and I

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love BYU's program because yeah, it's it's very interesting. But again,

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like I said, it's not one major flaw, it's not

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one major thing. And yeah, most most of these acls anyways,

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I mean I was looking at articles of NBA players

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like they did studies over you know, beyond a decade

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of time, where they're looking at video analysis, and and

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most of them are these non contact injuries or where

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they're getting bumped in the air and they land on

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a single leg and then you know, they get that

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force that's just too much for the need to handle.

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And there's just so many contributing factors. You can't just

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point to one thing, so I might not address it

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the way you wanted to answer that question to be answered.

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But that's just kind of like what I'm seeing I

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would love to go. I mean, there's you know, quad

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hamstring ratio, there's seeing biomechanically how these players move with

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video analysis, and I'm sure there's some really cool stuff

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and technology that BYU has that I would be loved.

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I would love to even just learn about and learn from.

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It's just it's super unfortunate in sports that sometimes those

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things just happen. If I were to say one other

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thing about that, Ben, I think what we don't maybe

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talk about, or actually has been talked about to an extent,

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is how much basketball is being played, how much basketball

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games are being played, tournaments are being played while these

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kids are growing up, you know, like the mileage and

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how much mileage they're putting on their bodies, to the

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point where when they get to college, when they get

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to pros, we're seeing definitely an increase in these injuries

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from before. And you know, there is a question of

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like how much sports should these youth be playing, how

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many games should they be playing, versus like how much

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more do they need to be focusing on their bodies

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at a younger age to help prevent some of these,

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you know, workload spikes and issues. But that's another question.

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I don't have the answer for it, but it is

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something that I think has been brought up in the

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past about youth sports in general that I think continually

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we all as healthcare professionals want to try and identify

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ways to help so that we don't have these kids

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getting to these moments in high school college and professional

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sports where their careers ultimately can come to an end

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because of some serious injuries that maybe could have been

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avoided had they learned how to take care of their

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bodies earlier on. So anyways, I'm passionate about this stuff, Ben,

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don't keep me going. I'll be on here over time.

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Speaker 1: No, Well, I now have to follow up because I

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had this this same conversation. Look, I got young kids,

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so I'm pretty far away from specialization. I'm pretty far

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away from kind of having to address some of these things.

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Speaker 3: And I'm sure it'll be even more.

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Speaker 1: I mean, who knows, maybe uh you know, I don't

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know how crazy it's going to get in the next

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decade or so. But you bring up some really valid

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points here. Specialization. We're seeing overtraining, right, I see it

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all the time in my industry. The the the the

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amount of games, the amount of practices, and a highly affluent,

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highly competitive environment that we're living in here in the

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United States and in particular here in the state of Utah.

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Speaker 3: Kids are specializing.

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Speaker 1: Way earlier, and they're they're they're playing in all manner

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of tournaments, whether it's baseball, basketball, I mean, football now

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is having a lot of offseason stuff with with seven

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on seven and then you strength and conditioning.

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Speaker 3: That's that's also a big part.

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Speaker 1: Of of the youth movement.

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Speaker 3: You're seeing that. I mean, you do specialize basketball training.

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Speaker 1: You're seeing kids come in, they want to get better,

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their parents want them to get better. You're sitting there like,

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well we got to load manage a little bit here.

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You got some teller ten to tennis. You're going through

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a ghosts burt. You know, you got a little os

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good slotters, you know. Anyway, like you know a lot

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of money is being allocated to it too, so there's

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like there's there's an economy behind it. And anyway, give

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me a little bit more here about what you're seeing

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and what you recommend to your youth as they're coming

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in to be balanced at multi sport athletes too.

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Speaker 3: Like that's what I did. I did everything so I

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didn't get as much loading. Like football and basketball are different,

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Baseball was different, track and field was different.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I'm all for multi sport athletes and youth athletes.

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I mean, I don't think it's it's a horrible thing

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to do. I mean, for me, I started, you know,

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quote unquote specializing in basketball in ninth grade. When I

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made my varsity high school basketball team at ninth grade,

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I was like, all right, this is what I'm doing

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moving forward, this is what I'm gonna specialize in, quote

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unquote right like and I but I think all the

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other sports and things that kids can play are going

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to teach them so many great movement qualities because these

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kids need to learn just how to move like and

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these various sports can teach them that. And then also

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on top of that, it's like, yes, you know, I'm

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biased as a skills trainer. I think that skill development

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is extremely important. Our game is important. Absolutely is being

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able to understand your body right and when it's telling

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you that maybe you're doing a little bit too much,

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versus pushing through and thinking, oh crap, I'm gonna you know,

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I'm gonna get kicked off this club team that's gonna

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get me to you know, college or the NBA. Like

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and having a strength and conditioning program. I mean, there's

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research that suggests that kids need to get started with

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strength training so much earlier than a lot of people

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really understand and believe. And that's to really fortify and

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help protect these kids as they're moving forward and my

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the word I would use for this is balance and moderation.

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Those are the two words that I would use. And

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you've got it because I see a lot of kids.

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So I see a lot of kids who will come

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to skills training with me and they'll do they'll play

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on a club team, and that's great, but they have

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nothing on board for some sort of exercise program, strength program,

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conditioning program as well. And I find that that lack

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of that strength and that lack of just just building

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out their body from a performance standpoint can be extremely

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hurtful for these kids in the future because it puts

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them at a higher risk of these injuries. I want

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these kids to play sports. I know all the wonderful

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things that sports can teach kids, not just for sport

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but for life that are are extremely beneficial for life.

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But you know, it's and and that things happened. Don't

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get me wrong. People are gonna get injured. It's gonna happen.

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But I just think there needs to be more education

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to all the use of America. I mean, and obviously

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it's very like you said competitive here in Utah of

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having that balance, having a skills trainer, having a team

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that you play on that doesn't necessarily play literally every

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single weekend four or five games a weekend, and right

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and a strength coach or or a performance coach of

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some sort that can help you on a weekly basis

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to develop your body, right Like, and I get it,

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It's it's an economy there. There's there's costs to these things.

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So I'm I guess I'm speaking from just like a

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perfect scenario, if you know, costs and things were out

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the window. And I don't know what the answer is

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to that, but those are the things that kids need, uh,

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in the competitive environments that we live in to give

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them the best chance of being safe and healthy, I

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guess moving forward and into their you know, potential and

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future careers.

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Speaker 1: Love your respective doctor Skyler Halford. For anyone that wants

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some basketball training or they need some physical therapy, hit

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Speaker 3: And uh we'll catch up again soon.

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Speaker 4: Thanks so much, brother, absolutely, thank you, Ben.

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