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We got a great show for you as always. Hopefully
he had a wonderful weekend and you enjoyed the dub,
the big dub that b Yu was able to obtain
at the marriage center. I thought it was a fantastic game.
I've heard from everyone that was in attendance that it
was the loudest they'd heard them out the Marriage Center
in a long time. And so the Cougars continued to believe.
The Cougarnation continued to believe that this team could find
its way. I don't think that Kugarnation had given up
on this team. I just think that the ceiling wasn't
as high and the floor was much lower than than
they would have liked. But they Cougarnation does not give
up hope. In my opinion, they show up, show out,
They stay loyal, strong and true.
Speaker 5: We saw essentially a sold out crowd storm the court.
Speaker 4: Whether you agree or disagree with it, some people are
gonna hate on the Cougars and the fan base, the
student body for.
Speaker 5: Storming of the court.
Speaker 4: It was a big win because yeah, there had been
a you know there. This Cougar nation was incredulous that
this team could start off with such high expectations and
maybe not fulfill on those after so many season ending injuries.
And as k Y pointed out, there's been three iterations
of this team, the team that they started off with,
the team that they adjusted to become, which was still
a top twenty five team and then the current iteration
without Richie Saunders.
Speaker 5: You lost late in the season.
Speaker 4: So it's tough for a coaching staff to adapt to
injuries and rotations and keeping the culture and keeping the
mindset of like of of belief in oneself and belief
as a team. And that was the thing that he
brought up in that and that lost prior to Texas Tech.
I just need this team to believe in itself again,
and I think it is. I think they are believing
in themselves. And they put forth a great effort defensively,
rebounding wise, and they did enough offensively versus the Texas
Tech Red Raiders. So we're gonna break it all down
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this Monday, March ninth edition of Cougar Sports. Behind the
Glass up in Salt Lake City. Are our executive producer,
our point guard. Let's welcome in Ronald the three man weaver.
Speaker 5: What's up, Rodny?
Speaker 6: What's up?
Speaker 7: I got a way for later in the show for
us to talk about it because Cougar's and the pros
aren't yet. But I was disappointed. You know, Friday had
a rough day. It's been a glue this weekend, you
know BYU one Ben, And there's some Cougars in the
pros that got some pay days as well.
Speaker 6: We'll discuss it in the second hour, but there's been
a way better money.
Speaker 7: It's beautiful day outside, Ben, if you notice my goodness,
I'm in a short sleeve shirt. I do miss the snow.
I'm a Midwest boy. But it's a great start to
the week.
Speaker 6: Ben, what a great way to open up Big twelve
tournament week.
Speaker 4: The sun is shining. All manner of optimism is abounding
after Buyu beat the Texas Tech Red Raiders to break
it all down. Let's welcome in, Brett. Always bring the hammer,
hammertime show what's up?
Speaker 5: Brett?
Speaker 8: Look, I hate to burst the positivity bubble that I disagree.
Speaker 5: It is not a glorious day.
Speaker 8: The Monday after Spring Daylight Savings should be a federal
holiday because I feel I just feel like my whole
day is thrown off. I feel like I woke up
at six it felt like five am. I've just not
feeling myself today. We got a whole bunch of federal
holidays that can get moved around. We need to put
one of them right after the super Bowl and one
of them the day after Daylight Savings. Outside of that,
it was a great weekend. Yeah, I'd be open to
the Daylight Savings.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I do think voting day, you know, election Day, Yes,
that also needs to be a federal holiday.
Speaker 8: People are going to work and they can't vote because
they got stuff to do.
Speaker 4: No, like they need to make that into a federal
holiday and like really promoted as such, like your vote
counts engage in your community. Uh, it's I think it's
an imperative.
Speaker 5: I really do, so I'm with you. I'd be open to.
Speaker 4: The Daylight savings holiday, especially as you move forward.
Speaker 5: To move forward, we don't need that.
Speaker 4: We do at least a half day, right, at least
half day. I'm down with that. I think I think
we could get on board with that. You can only
you know, you'd have to only work in the afternoon.
So yeah, nobody has to come until noon. No one
comes until noon. I'm up for that. Hey, sleep is
a good thing. You need your sleep in order to
keep that immune system high and staying healthy, healthy and
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got a star set of cash.
Speaker 5: As always, we're going to.
Speaker 4: Get into the k Y Kevin Young postgame commentary. Also
maybe the head coach for Texas Tech as well his compass.
He has some great things to say about this BU
basketball team and as well as as well as the
environment the marriage center, and we'll discuss maybe the attendance
for BYU men's basketball this year. Also in a following segment.
Little let's talk about statsg BA one of the best
at attracting loyal, strong and true fans that are willing
to buy tickets here and then you out and show up.
So we're gonna get into Jared McGregor, Kepacata, b Kilo,
Bucket Witch, and Rob Right the third post game sound
as well from Texas Tech. We'll break it all down. Also,
welcome in U to the show. Well, we'll have some
reading between the lines with Kaladie Satake. Kyler Casper, BAU
wide receiver, who's the transfer from Oregon. Big expectations for
him stepping into a much long role. He's large and stature.
I mean he is all of six foot six, two
hundred and twenty pounds and he moves extremely well. One
of the faster guys on this team. Kyler Casper gonna
necessitate a much bigger role than he's experienced in his
collegiate career that has been somewhat derailed by I think
some injuries there at Oregon as well as a depth
chart that is full of five star recruits just like himself,
so he didn't get to see a whole lot of
pet there at organ at four or five. We'll welcome
in the creator of the relative athletics score, Kent Lee
Platty himself. He's aggregated data that I think you'll be
intrigued by. Data that goes all the way back to
I believe the seventies, all pro days, all NFL combine
scores and you compare and contrast performances and you get
a rating. And look, both Jack Kelly and Chase Roberts
I think had great outings. I think Jack Kelly had
an eating and I think he really improved his draft stock.
We'll get his comments on that, and uh and and
and compare and contrast some of those numbers. Brady Papinga
keeping up with the Cougars at five o five and
then Jonathan Tebinari at five thirty. All that and more
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Let me just break down a little bit of the
the eighty two to seventy six victory over the number
ten team in the country, Texas Tech. The glorious thing
was you wan on Senior Night right. You did it
for your seniors. You did it for the guys. You
did it for Richie, you know what I mean. And
it's like that whole that meme of Froda or excuse me,
of Aragorn running towards the Black Gates and the Lord
of the Rings is like for frod that was for Richie, baby,
that was for your seniors, right, bringing out the nerd
and me there right, So like, you did it for
your seniors. You did it for your guys. You did
it for Jared mc gregor. You did it from a
hi low bucket, bitch. You did it for kebec keta
kebec Ketta did it for.
Speaker 5: K the Coubs.
Speaker 4: Dude, man, that guy had a nice performance in this game.
So yeah, you won for for your seniors. And it
was awesome. And after trailing by eight at half time,
BA outscored the tenth ranked Red Raiders forty four to
thirty over the final twenty minutes for its second top
ten win of the season eighty two seventy six. The
Cougar's held Texas Tech to just twenty five percent from
behind the arc in the second half, despite giving up
a season high sixteen three pointers.
Speaker 5: Not good.
Speaker 4: The Cougars also have twenty offensive rebounds, the second highest
the season for BYU. Just allowed the Cougars to double
the Red Raiders second chance points with Boy scoring twenty
to Texas Texa nine. And that's been a standard for BYU.
Quite honestly, when BYU's win, when BYU has won games,
it's not because they've been the most efficient scores. It's
because they get second chance points. One of the devastating
things losing Richie Sunders. Yes, it was the scoring element,
but I would actually make an argument for all the
second chance points that Richie Saunders created. He wasn't always
getting the rebound, but he was tipping it to his
teammates time and time again. He had great vision, he's
got His tracking ability on the offensive glass was awesome.
And that's why you won ultimately second chance points in
my opinion, B, why you recorded and defense great defense
to B, why you're recorded a season low three turnovers
that was beneficial while forcing So the poor passing that
we saw remember in that that game, the game that
shall not be named, that game leading up to Tech,
really poor passing, really poor defense, and poor poorly uh,
just subpar efficiency from from the offensive offensive side of
the ball. All of those I think were to a
degree remedied in this game. The only one you can
maybe complain about is the offensive efficiency, but the other
two fantastically done, well, well executed. Rob Wright had twenty
seven on nine to seventeen, shooting nine to nine from
the charity stripe. Really nice work from him. The sophomore
transfer hauled in six rebounds as well and recorded a steel.
Speaker 5: Aj I think had a.
Speaker 4: Solid night twenty one points, added six rebounds with two assists.
The true freshman has now scored in double digits in
every game the season, and twenty plus in the last
ten games. This is also the fourth time the product
out of Brockton, Massachusetts product has played a full forty
minutes on the floor. So Cannard Davis Junior solid out
and scored in double digits for the first time since
the Cougar's beat Iowa State. Obviously, you need Cannard Davis
Junior to pick up the pace and score and fill
the shoes of Richie Sanders on the offensive end. Sixteen
points against the Red Raiders and the junior had four
three pointers and grabbed two offensive boards, recording two assists
and his steel.
Speaker 5: So maybe the best.
Speaker 4: Thing that happened though, kebe Keta getting a double double,
almost getting a double double, nine points, four or five
shooting while picking up eleven rebounds and was fantastic defensively,
six of those coming on the offensive glass. Alexikostik did
get his first career start that is a note note.
Scored five points, want to have three rebounds and assist.
Adem Bou added four points and six rebounds in was
a defensive stopper. Let's get in to some of the
sound bite, shall we, head coach of the Texas Tech
Red Raiders gave some love to Cougar Nation and uh,
we want to read between the lines here in this segment.
Speaker 5: Let's get to it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, credit to BYU.
Speaker 5: What a great what a great environment.
Speaker 9: I mean, it's not like they've been playing, uh their
best basketball, and I thought they had a second half
where they played they played great and this environment really
made a difference in this game. I love our team,
I love what we can be, but when you give
up twenty offensive rebounds and you get crushed in the
paint like we did today, it's gonna be hard to
win any real games. And this is a real game
against a great team. That I thought found their edge
tonight in a physical way and didn't. They didn't shoot
it great early, but they didn't look discouraged. And I
thought their defensive grit was better and their switch ability
really caused us problems.
Speaker 5: H Cada on the on those.
Speaker 9: Switches late in that second half. I thought he was tremendous.
I thought he was great, and then his ability to
offensive rebound and and what they did as a team
on the glass really was the was the difference?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 5: Question Okay, So let's level set.
Speaker 4: East Texas Tech a top ten team in college basketball
right now? Ken Palm right now says they're seventeenth. I
believe net ratings somewhere similar to that. A people has
it had them at ten prior.
Speaker 5: To this game. The reason why I bring this up
is just how good are they without JT.
Speaker 4: Topp and what are their strengths of weakn Why don't
you start off with this yere hammertime and then Ronnie
and then I'll bring up the caboose.
Speaker 5: Are they a top ten team? I don't think so.
Speaker 8: And what's difficult in having this conversation is like I
don't want to yuck the yum of this win. Because
it is a good win, especially when you consider the
other bad Big twelve teams that BYU lost to.
Speaker 5: This is a good win. Is it a top ten win?
I don't know. But you look at a lot.
Speaker 8: Of these games over the course at BYU season where
they maybe had a lead with ten minutes to go
and then they lost it and they gave it up,
and like the emotional battle just became too much for
them and they gave it up.
Speaker 5: Is Texas Tech a top ten team? I don't know.
Speaker 8: I do know that not too many weeks ago they
beat Arizona they like they had they beat Iowa State.
Speaker 5: I believe it last week, but yeah, they were so.
Speaker 8: Like, this is still a Texas Tech team that is
very very good. Without JT. Toppin are the top ten? No,
But without JT. Toppin, Like you don't look at this
Texas Tech team and go, oh, well, you know that's
an easy win. It doesn't mean that much paper Tiger
like top ten win. No outside the top twenty five.
Absolutely not. Now, they did fall six spots in the
AP poll today. They fell from ten to sixteen, which
I found really interesting. BYU didn't they actually last week
were the team with the most received votes outside of
the top twenty five. They are not the most receiving
votes today, which I found really interesting. We know what
it is with Texas SEK Losing JT Toppin means their
bigs have to play their more minutes.
Speaker 5: Their bigs are not very good.
Speaker 8: However, they shoot the three ball incredibly well because they
shot forty six percent on the game. Not a top
te ten team necessarily, but still top fifteen, which to
me is a massive win considering the teams that you've
lost in research.
Speaker 5: So you believe they are a top fifteen team. Yeah?
In college basketball, yes.
Speaker 4: So their ceiling in the NCAA tournament is sweet sixteen.
Speaker 5: Is that what you're correlating it to. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4: I don't know how to guarantee, but like, no, no, no,
but I'm saying their ceiling, Yeah, I'm saying their ceiling
is is it? Elite eight is at sweet sixteen.
Speaker 8: I if they went through LADEA that I think would
push past, Like that's over quotes it, I'd be like, Wow,
I'm really impressed.
Speaker 5: I think this team will win two games into the
nca believe. Okay, Ronnie, give me your thoughts. On this.
How good is your Texas Tech without JT topping? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I thought about this a lot in a level with
Brett said, I'm with their their top fifteen team. If
you look at the AP Top twenty five ball of
the last of it, you know, I'm looking at Okay,
who are these teams between ten and fifteen? Okay, they
can compete with the Lights of Kansas without JT. I
think they can do that, right, They've done that, improving
that Saint John's. That's a tough matchup, right, Might not
get that one, get Zaga?
Speaker 6: Maybe not? Maybe they can compete with the Nebraska, you know.
Speaker 7: Or Virginia type and you look at Okay, they can
with the Alabama, Arkansas Purdue. But when you talk about
Elite eight, Ben, you're talking about your best player being
able to take you to that place. Darian Williams who's
at NC State, he did that for him last year.
Like they're playing against Florida, Like that's so tough, Ben.
In order to get to the Elite eight, you have
to have your best player on the floor. Neither Texas
Tech nor BYU has that. So to me, the ceiling
is sweet sixteen. If they mess around and they get
in the Elite eight, then two things are true. One,
it means they're truly overachieving. And the guard play that
we saw against BYU really got going. They got great
guards ben and these are young guys like they're gonna
be a problem for the future.
Speaker 6: Just want everybody to know that.
Speaker 7: But that also means that Christian Anderson is a true,
legitimate not just All American for the future, but NBA
pick because he's a problem and like he can shoot
at lights out and look, any player can win you
one game in the tournament. Now you obviously have to
get it earlier rather than later because it gets difficult.
But to me, I'm taking Texas Tech top fifteen team.
There's an argument if you want to say top twenty
out here, but I don't got them above fifteen band
and I think that they will be in the sweet sixteen,
competing for an Elite eight like b YU ceiling. I
think that's where they're at, but I don't think they're
going past that.
Speaker 4: I look at what they've done since losing JT toppin right,
that's the objective data that we have. You lose to
Arizona State at Arizona State Okay, it's in away a
game at Arizona State has been kind of a bottom
feeder this season, but they've shown some great beat Kansas.
They beat some teams well, they showed some great on
the back end. They're trending in the right direction and
that's awesome for them. They end up beating Kansas State
at home in Cincinnati home both. You know, the Kannasate
win not as impressive as the Cincinnati win. Cincinnati win
was a twelve point win at home.
Speaker 5: It's great.
Speaker 4: But then you go on the road and you beat
Iowa State at Iowa State, that was a good win.
That was a great win in fact, a nine point win,
and you're like, okay, they but I also look at
Iowa State. Iowa State doesn't have the bigs they are.
They played small ball versus small ball shooters versus shooters
with like that tenacious doubling, blitzing defense of Iowa State.
And quite honestly, I mean Texas Tech guardline is fantastic
and they can they can go tit for tat with
any any defense like Iowa State. So they match up
well as soon as they win against some bigs that
that would rebound against them. And Texas Tech doesn't cause
a whole lot of turnovers. They're one of the words
that creating turnovers defensively, they lose to TCU and then they.
Speaker 5: Lose to BYU.
Speaker 4: To me, this is a top twenty five team with
a ceiling of sweet sixteen.
Speaker 5: It's similar. They're very similar I.
Speaker 4: Think in some ways in their ceiling and potential of
that at BYU. Like if BYU played Texas Tech on
the road with the you know, kind of same similar
it would it probably go the other direction.
Speaker 5: Quite honestly. It's it's gonna be.
Speaker 4: Predicated I think off of home court advantage between BYU
and tex Sex. So still an awesome win. Yeah, you
don't want to undermine the win. This is massive for
BYU's resume because so many people had jumped off the
vandwagon and thought they can't win without Ritchie. They are
in a death spiral and some Bway fans had lost.
So but it's more of the the the the you know,
the the the metrics generators, the the the voters, the analysts.
Like everyone was off the train, now you're back to Okay.
The ceiling is sweet sixteen, especially if AJ is playing
good basketball, if he's playing great basketball.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: I don't know what the true potential is like right now.
I'm like, with what we know about this team, it's
still it's it's the the ceiling of Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 5: They could possibly get there. They can't.
Speaker 4: They can't be a one and done though. If they're
they got to hit quota. They gotta win one game
in the NCAA tournament. And listening to Grahama Castle and
discuss this BAU basketball team, it makes you a little bit.
Speaker 5: More optimistic that they can do such. Let's get back
to the sound.
Speaker 4: Listen to head coach of Texas Tech in the post game,
given some love to the Cougars.
Speaker 6: What do you feel like.
Speaker 2: In the second half? Give you guys.
Speaker 5: First half you were twelve nineteen seen from outside.
Speaker 9: Second half the forces, Yeah, they switched a lot more,
you know, they they were fine with the switch and
you know, and then.
Speaker 6: Playing in space.
Speaker 9: Uh, we had more confusion in the first half from them,
and I thought we got loose more and got more
paint and then got them behind and then they were
kind of chasing us and we were shooting inside out threes.
In the second half, we had to shoot more off
the bounce until we had that one possession where I
think we got four offensive rebounds and couldn't get any
of those to go, And I thought that was a
pivotal play in the game where we just needed one
of those to go to kind of give us life again.
But you know, I don't know what the number we
got down by was about ten, and just loved the
loved our team's ability to stay in there and get
the game back to a number that we could possibly
win the game. But their ability to get to the
free throw line it fouled and make free throws was
effective too, on top of their ability to rebound.
Speaker 5: Switching with.
Speaker 6: Did you expect that was an adjust.
Speaker 2: Spoot you guys?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean we just haven't seen it a time.
But I mean it's one thing to switch, but it's
another thing for it to be effective. I mean, I mean,
you know, Rob on the ball, Agent on the ball.
I mean, those guys are good, but Kada on.
Speaker 6: The ball causes problems.
Speaker 9: And we you know that that early in the game
they were getting stuck on the ball screen and couldn't
get over it, and late they just said screw switching it,
and that that created it. We just didn't have any
paint touches out of it. You know, that's kind of
what you want to get, is you want to if
you get the mismatch. I mean, obviously you can settle
for a three, and that doesn't mean that you don't
want to shoot some of them. But really it's like,
get that guy to pass it and then play the
next action and make him be in help and have
to chase around somebody bigger, and felt like we just
got into a dribble mode where playing one on one
with them out there, and that wasn't as effective as
it needed to be.
Speaker 4: Look, I mean, the only way that BYU is gonna
probably be able to stop great guard line play, perimeter play,
great shooting is probably to have the ability of a
head deem and Keva on the on the court that
and you just switch it all and and they close
out well and they use their length and athleticism in
lateral ability to stay in front of highly touted, highly athletic,
highly proficient guard line play. Now, I will say this
much in the NC DOUBLEA Tournament in the modern era,
guard line play wins basketball games. In the NC Double
A Tournament, the era that I grew up in a
lot of big men, a lot of big men balling right, dominating.
That's what the nineties in the early two thousands was
about in college and to a certain degree into the NBA.
Speaker 5: That's why so many big men were taken like first overall.
Speaker 4: That's why Sam Bowie back in the day got picked
in the eighties over MJ. You know what I mean,
Like you look back at those those eras and and
big men still matter.
Speaker 5: They totally do.
Speaker 4: But in the NC DOUBLEA tournament, I always feel like
in college basketball's kind of like running backs in college football,
they're just more valuable than they are in the NFL,
especially when they have a fantastic running back. In the
NC Double A that especially in March Madness, it's all
guardline play.
Speaker 5: It really isn't.
Speaker 4: So it gives me hope that b YU can figure
it out and play great defense. Ronald, your thoughts on
you know, Grant mccaslan's postgame commentary.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this comment was made and it really intrigued a
lot of the media members.
Speaker 6: In post game we all have the discussion, you know about.
Speaker 7: It being because been everybody can switch one through five,
but it being effective like your work, Yeah, and I
brought this up and says, guys, remember this reminds you
of last year when because Ezra Sar for Utah, remember
last game and year was doing the same thing, was
cooking them and and they switch Kaba onto Ezrasar. Now
it's not a guard, right, but it slowed him down.
And it was the same thing that happened with Christian
Anderson slowed him down. But then this was the point
they got pinged. I didn't say this. Someone brought this
up to me was well, that's working because they don't
have a rim protector and someone in the paint.
Speaker 6: And I said, oh, that's a good point. This can
this can work.
Speaker 7: Probably in stretch has been against teams, but I don't
know if BYU is going to be able to go
sell out fully and do this, because if you match
up against the Houston, who has a tuggler who can
beat you inside, when you have Arizona and you just
think of all the other top teams ben as you
get deep in the tournament again, Zaga or whoever, you
might get matched up with the Duke, you can throw
Cabean hideim out there. But now you're asking them to
really guard one on one and you have to be
very quick if you switch, because ben if Keba has
to be occupied with someone in the paint.
Speaker 6: Okay, do you trust a dean with that?
Speaker 7: Like, and now you're truly leaving them on the island,
like I think we're missing in fact, and we'll get
to Kevin Youngstown in the next segment. It worked with Kaiba,
but it also worked because you had a dean, But
it also because J. T. Tappa wasn't on the floor
and he didn't have any big and no post game guy.
They put it back to a basket. You put it
back to your basket. Guy, that's not working, Like Cable's
gonna get either eaten up in foul trouble or they're
gonna cook you. So I just want to I want
to give the ejective, right, give some pushback of it
work because there also wasn't a certain big on the floor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no no bigs that that were a threat
with their back to the basket. That that's that's one
hundred percent accurate.
Speaker 5: And so.
Speaker 4: This is where, like I said once when Richie went down,
the immediate declaration that I had was Kevin Young's gonna
earn his paycheck. This year and what he came out fighting,
Like you remember what kay White said, He's like, you know,
my back's against the wall, it's against the ropes. This
is where I coach, Like, this is where I get
my best coaching out of myself. And I don't know
if we've seen it until like I want to say,
like we saw it, and I was staying we saw
it in Texas Tech, but it was small ball. So
you better hope that we don't go up against any
big stem of rapport of prominence because we may be Yes, So, well,
do you feel like this team had more pride in
their work on Saturday?
Speaker 8: Because I felt like there's been a whole conversation about effort, right.
Speaker 5: We have that conversation, yeah, every day on the show.
Speaker 8: And it's hard to quantify when it's down when it's
up because it's really an eye test thing. The one
place you can quantify here is you say, be all,
you beat a top ten team again. I can't truly
quantify it, but second chance points are a great way
of looking at it.
Speaker 5: Offensive rebounds are a great way of looking at it. Rebounds
in general, great way we're looking at it.
Speaker 8: It just felt like on Saturday whatever the attitude issue
may have been, whatever the slump was. For a couple
of those games, I felt like on Saturday, they took
pride in their work, they took pride in the name
on their chest, they took pride on the name of
the back of the chest, and they said, look, this
is basketball. It's you versus me, and I'm not giving
it up, so if you want it, you better come
take it. And I felt like everybody, even though not
everybody played perfect, I felt like everybody wanted to give
their best effort purely out of basketball pride in just
not wanting to get beat. And then on top of that,
man Hadeem was a fire to these guys, clapping at
Christian Anderson thirty feet from the basket as the possession starts.
There's still thirty seconds left on the shot clock. I'm like, okay, Deem,
if you're gonna bring that, you better back it up.
Speaker 5: And he did.
Speaker 8: Got He's falling guys, and then he's looking at the
stands and hyping people up.
Speaker 5: I felt like.
Speaker 8: There was just a renewed energy in this game, And
to your point, I think that comes with the coaching.
But the coaching can only get you to the floor.
Once you get on the floor, you have to believe
in the energy yourself and they did. And that wasn't everything,
but it certainly felt like a major key to this game.
As to why they want it is because they just
had pride in themselves this one.
Speaker 6: Can I give a hot take and yeah, and Brett
you know, can give his push. You know, he told
me this morning. I think this is their best win
of the season.
Speaker 7: I do, And if you don't want to make that argument,
is definitely their most competitive win. They had a ten
point lead, Bin and Texas Tech fought back and we've
seen by you let those slip. But and I know
people are gonna be wrong in the Iowa State game,
totally hear you. The difference in that game was you
need AJ to play well all the time. AJ one
didn't play well in this game, and they still want
If I'd told you a J would have shot eight
of twenty four, you probably think they lose. If I
told you they'd have been down at halftime, you probably
think they lose.
Speaker 6: That didn't happen against Iowa State.
Speaker 7: Ben that didn't like Bredg just said that you have
a guy clapping in a guy's face, walking him down
and packing him up and sending him home in the
second half like I didn't think. And then when Byu
let him back into the game and said, oh yeah,
Christian Anderson's gonna go on a tear and end him,
he hit his last couple of shots and it didn't happen.
So to me, if you don't want to say best win,
this is definitely arguably their most competitive win of the season.
They both had the best players out. It didn't matter.
Tough opponent throwing a three game skid. They've been playing very,
very bad non effort defense, and I mean they came
out like when you're turning dudes over in their end
in the first ten seconds of the play coach, and
look the game I felt like change. And I've been
saying this for a long time. Christian Anderson was on tear.
It was wasn't until Alexi said you're not getting by me.
I'm going to body you and knock you behind half
cord and get physical where it slowed Christian Anderson down.
And then Kevin Young capitalized off of that and said
let's get hadem. So I'm gonna say this and this,
I hope this isn't hyperbole, but I think Alexi, with
his shooting ability and toughness and throwing his chest into people,
I think he needs to start. And then I think
Kadeem can come in and keep that tone going. But
this was their most competitive win.
Speaker 5: I'll be honest.
Speaker 4: Did you guys start off Monday like Hadem plays defense?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, face that gay face getting wide clapping?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Did did you? Did it get you going? Daylight
Savings did that to me this morning? Get you? It
had the Hadi energy for me when I woke up.
You're like, no, it was more Christian Anderson when I woke.
Speaker 7: Up, licking his lips being in front of people, you know,
like bro Ben he's got I love social media, He's
got his tongue out, Ben looking and Brett not talking
about this. He did just enough to not get a
technical because been the refs told him to stop and
he kept going and.
Speaker 6: I'm like, dude, you're gonna get a technical. And what
does he do.
Speaker 7: He turns around, doesn't get in trouble because he's like,
I'm not giving a ball up. Now you're not taking
it from me. The ref gotta take it from me.
And then he turns around and hypes up the card.
If you do that, Ben in front of the Texas
Tech player, that's a technical And he did and I said, Okay,
that's the edge guy. That's the more what Matt guy.
I have been waiting for to be like, I'm gonna
knock you on your butt. I'm gonna take you out
the game. And I'm serious. If they can play like that,
it's a big if, right, But if a deem can
play like that without fouling, I think Alexi starting is
the way to go. If they do that, then they
got a good shot. But I'm gonna be honest, and
this again might be hot. Take this team, with the
level the talent, even with the struggles, this team should
be playing Houston Ben in the quarterfinal on Thursday. They
should be. They really should be. They should be able
to get Kansas State tomorrow and get West Virginia the
day after with that momentum, and they should lose to Houston.
That's what should be. And if that happens, I think
they could be a six seed again. But right now
I still think they're a seven.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna ask.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna text Evan mia Kawa to give it kind
of give us a rating of who is Texas Tech
without JT topping because right now, so because I'm trying
to kind of just trying to ingest this win while
not being overly optimistic about everything. I'm wanna be a
pragmatist about the win, is what I mean, and I
want to underscore it, but I want to be a pragmatist.
Evan Miakawa has Texas Tech right now at twenty three,
Ken Palm is at seventeen. NET rating is fifteen. Obviously,
ap Pole is is you know, a top fifteen team
as well. So you know, I'm gonna try to get
a better, better visibility on this for Kugarnation. I'll get
back to you later on the show Kugarnation. But that's
kind of where I stand with his great win. I hope,
I pray if AJ plays great ball in March Man
Quite honestly, anything's possible, really almost anything is possible if
AJ can hit.
Speaker 5: I mean, remember he was like eight of twenty four
in this game.
Speaker 4: Okay, if he can do some magical things in March,
you can get to sweet sixteen.
Speaker 5: That's where I kind of stand with his squad.
Speaker 8: What's interesting about this idea that AJ didn't play exceptional.
Guess who didn't play exceptional against Siloa State. I don't
know if you guys remember Rob Wright had six points.
Speaker 5: In that game.
Speaker 8: He's So you've had two top ten wins, both in
which one of your duo did not play up to
their standard, and again AJ still got twenty points. It's
above average for a regular college basketball player. I think
we'd say it's an average for AJ Debontsa. But the
point still being AJ didn't play exceptional, Rob didn't play
exceptionally inside of State. If you get both of those
guys shooting lights out, playing exceptional together, and then you
have everybody else doing what they're supposed to do, that's
I think what makes the team dangerous offensively. However, we're
not worried about their offense. Well, we're worried about is
the defense. We saw it against Silo State, because look,
Texas Tech and Iowa State, those are some of their
lowest points allowed all season. What sixty nine I think
was what they held out of state too. Yeah, seventy
six over their last eleven games. I think they're giving
up I think eighty four points per game.
Speaker 4: It might be higher than that, eighty point threshold is
just like that would be worse.
Speaker 5: Than the Big twelve.
Speaker 8: So for them to bring that number down against two
top ten teams, and again you may not feel that
Texas Tech is elite, but again you're giving up eighty
five point performances to the ucfs of the world. So
to do this against a ranked Texas Tech team, whatever
you think they should be ranked, is still very impressive.
Speaker 5: From a defensive standpoint, Let's just be liked is possible?
Speaker 4: Hey, you know what, I as soon as I watch
AJ playoffs, like he just he reminds me of like
a Kevin Garnett body.
Speaker 5: Like quite honestly, if you ever.
Speaker 4: Watched Kevin Garnett with the USA team, like when he
wasn't forced to be you know, a big man four
or five and he could like handle a little bit internationally.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you just like to.
Speaker 4: Pull up Kevin Garnett when he's when he's got the
rock in his end, he's handling it like full court.
Speaker 5: He's got a little AJ vibe too.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying, you know, he's got a he had
a smooth hand over Timberwolves KG Man.
Speaker 5: He's silky smooth.
Speaker 4: That high point that high release too kind of reminds
me of of AJ Let's take a time out, We'll
be back. Don't go anywhere more comments from Ky Kevin
Young in the big win over Texas Tech.
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Red Raiders.
Speaker 5: Let's see what he had to say. Let's get into it.
Speaker 4: Kevin describe the preparation this week to get the win
over Tech.
Speaker 2: Goods good, It's good.
Speaker 11: Some of our best days this year on the practice court.
And you know, large large reason was we just we
really had I mean, look, it's collage space of space
has been it's been a tough year, you know, coaching
basically three different iterations of the team.
Speaker 2: The team.
Speaker 11: We thought we were going to have a couple of
guys get it done for the year than Richie and
that group, and then he gets hurt and now you're
on your third iteration. So you know, you never stopped
learning as a coach, particularly when your team's constantly changing.
Speaker 2: And so, you know, after.
Speaker 11: That, that trip out east was difficult. It was it
was a tough trip, and so we had to do
some soul searching.
Speaker 2: I had to do a lot of you.
Speaker 11: Know, just thinking and the kind of the what the
conclusion of that was, Now, we just got to simplify
things and just dumb it down and just not try
to get cute on defense with scheme and this and that.
Just make it pretty solid and simple for the guys
and to just hold them accountable, to play a little
bit harder, rotate harder, rotate longer, stronger.
Speaker 2: Things like that.
Speaker 11: And so that's really what our message was over the
last two days. And you know, I thought that it
really came to fruition. Now, obviously it took forty minutes
for it to happen based on what they did in
the first half, but you know, our guys stuck with it,
and I think it's a credit to what they did
to your question in terms of the preparation.
Speaker 4: So best practices all season long is what he said.
It's the third iteration you got to give the man
and this Cougar basketball team a little bit of grace.
That being said, it is still a very talented team
and BWA fans have high expectations for this team despite
the five season ending injuries and losing Richie late in
the season. Uh, still still high expectations. But uh, congrats
Ky making his money this year. There's no doubt about
it earning that paycheck with two top ten wins essentially
UH to to end the season Iowa State and Texas
Tech the jekylin hiding the ups and downs.
Speaker 5: Uh and UH.
Speaker 4: Now the question is is this team do they do
they continue to put forth the same similar effort you
know what I mean? Do they put forth that same
similar effort that got them to win versus Tech to
tach or they fall back to their their complacent ways
thinking that they can just show up and win based
off talent.
Speaker 5: That's my question. Like, and I I don't know.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm not convinced of, Like, cause the mentality
is is.
Speaker 5: One of like, we're good enough to beat anybody.
Speaker 4: It's you know, AJ says what like, oh, we're gonna
be fine in March is kind of a laid back guy.
We're gonna be fine. In March, We're gonna be Okay,
We're gonna be fine. I do think Richie being there consistently,
having presence at practice, having presence on the bench is important.
Speaker 5: I do think hadem boops energy.
Speaker 4: And his effort is something everybody else can feed off
of and should. Right, you need that Keba even like
Keba brings energy sometimes it's not that he doesn't want
to bring it. I just think like his personality is
also kind of a little bit more laid back.
Speaker 5: Does that make sense?
Speaker 4: But if if those three guys are involved and everyone
else can kind of feed off of them and these
energy spikes within games, does that make sense?
Speaker 8: Yeah, you asked me this morning when you came in,
you said, how good of win was that on Saturday?
I said, I'll tell you tomorrow, because again we saw
them beat Iowa say, and then the next day they
fell flat. Yeah, I think that was a great win.
I think they had a lot of effort.
Speaker 5: But it's.
Speaker 8: My mom always told me, you want to marry someone
who's like this, who's just always even killed. You don't
want to marry someone who's up and down like you
just want to marry someone who was always online with
that and.
Speaker 5: Shout out to my wife because she always is that.
Speaker 8: But and that's why you have to look at some
of these teams in general, BYU being one of them
where it's like, okay, do they have high highs and
low lows? Because if so, like, yeah, it means you
have a high ceiling. But it also means if I'm
betting on you, I don't know what I'm getting out
of that. So with this Texas second win, great win,
I'm love that I'm here for it. But what will
say more to me is what you look like when
you show up against Kansas State.
Speaker 5: And I don't even need them to shoot the lights
out to start the game.
Speaker 8: But because if you watch the Texas tecond, they didn't
shoot the ball particularly well to start that game, but
they played well defensively and they got rebounds and they
didn't turn the ball over.
Speaker 5: They just played smart basketball.
Speaker 8: And know they didn't jump out to a ten point
lead early in that game, but that game was a
one or two possession game for majority of that first half.
They just stayed even killed. They just stayed online with
Texas SEC. And that's all they have to do against
Kansas State tomorrow to win that game. So how good
was it a win on Saturday? We'll find out tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Kevin, what was the difference in switching? Keepukeda on Christian
Anderson specifically.
Speaker 11: All the difference in the world. You know, he Anderson's
is a very, very skilled basketball player. I think he's
one of the most skilled guards in all of college basketball.
Speaker 2: He's a tough cover.
Speaker 11: So you know, they were getting us a little too
strong out on the pick and roll when we weren't switching,
and so.
Speaker 2: We we basically had to go to it, to be
honest with you, and Kiva answered the call.
Speaker 11: And obviously what Hadeem did to the combination of those
two guys with their size to be able to move
their feet and contest, you know, it changed the game.
Speaker 5: Oh no, we got some breaking news. Hopefully this can
you this be good news. Last time we did this
we had bad news.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 5: All right, who's giving me the breaking news?
Speaker 8: You know they say that journalism is dead, that nobody
does real boots on the ground, big jay journalism anymore. Well,
friend of the program, Jackson Payne has done some big
j journalism today when the Big Twelve put out the
press release for Big twelve Men's Basketball Weekly Awards. Unfortunately,
the image they uploaded was not the image that you
will see if you go to that website today, which
is yes ifu from Baylor.
Speaker 5: The image that.
Speaker 8: They uploaded was their Big twelve Yearly Awards allegedly. So
if you go and it's on Jackson Payne Twitter, you
can see it as Jaden Bradley's Player of the Year,
which means it's not Ajdabonsa. AJ is Freshman of the Year,
and it has the rest of the awards. Now, we
will not officially have this confirmed until tomorrow, but the
fact that website.
Speaker 5: About ten.
Speaker 8: So we probably got the news early, which is a
little bit interesting.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 8: It's a shout out to Jackson Payne for catching this
and putting it out.
Speaker 7: Ben, I want to know what intern is going to
lose their job because I was I was told that hey,
three pm, the awards will drop Mountain time, and somebody
actually schals that, Ben Bretton, and I know we all
schedule stuff for two pm.
Speaker 6: I don't worry.
Speaker 5: I've done it too.
Speaker 6: I've had type those too. But that's uh.
Speaker 7: Some someone gonna get a talking to Ben because you
weren't supposed to reveal that until ten minutes.
Speaker 6: But I think that's confirmed because they took it down Ben.
Speaker 5: So the Big twelve just changed the photo.
Speaker 4: Looks like those yearly awards are going to be real,
and if they are, a Jada Bunton will not be
the Conference Player of the Year.
Speaker 8: I think we may have to run the tape back
because I believe last week when you asked me who
was big tall Player of the Year, I said, hey,
jayde and Bradley might get it, just to give it
to the whole team for how.
Speaker 5: Unbelievable they're undefeated.
Speaker 8: Ron was and I will say I take no pride
in being correct because I wanted it to be Ajdabonta. However,
it's pretty hard to argue with twenty six and er
or whatever they were, and Jaden Bradley really is he.
Speaker 6: Is good and I need to find a sound clip.
Speaker 7: Did you hear what Jamie Dixon said when it came
to this voting for MVPs Chancellor Johnson's video? And this
is the sad part. And I'm losing if this is true.
In nine minutes, I've lost some respect for some of
the Big twelve coaches. I want to see the polls
and who voted for who. But Jamie Dixon obviously revealed
who he is.
Speaker 6: He's like wins. That's what it comes down to.
Speaker 7: MVP is wins, and I'm just like, okay, but that's
like that's at the NBA when everybody's at the same
like a team was plagued by injuries.
Speaker 6: I get it. Like him.
Speaker 7: To Brett's point, Jayden Bradley's not better than aj Like
Jaydon Bradley is probably gonna be a two way, might
not even make it to the NBA, even though I
believe he has the talent to do so. But I mean,
that's what they're voting for, Ben, They're voting off of
the wins and doing it and not And this is
why I get upset with the wards.
Speaker 6: Is it truly player or is it oh that?
Speaker 7: Because I don't believe always the best player who wins
the award. Just because they come from the best team
doesn't mean they're the best player. And I don't agree
if this is true. I don't think Bradley's the better player.
I just think he was on the better team. And
like Brett said, they're giving it of congratulations Arizona men's
basketball team.
Speaker 4: Yep, Hey, look, I understand MVP of the best team.
He's the he's the most valuable player of their team,
right and yeah, and they're the best team in the twelve.
Speaker 5: That's why they gave it to him.
Speaker 8: And I believe he is top five in betting odds
right now for point guard of the Year in the
whole country.
Speaker 5: So, like, he is good.
Speaker 8: But to your point, Ron, no one is sitting here
legitimately saying he's a better player than aj De Bonsa.
And if he was, then I think we would be
good with this or if he was in this Like,
but like, that's not Jaden Bradley is not your Hey,
put the team on my back, MVP. I'm gonna drop
a forty point game. Like, that's just not how Arizona's designed.
That's just not who Jayden Bradley is. So to your credit,
run That's kind of where I take a little bit
of an issue with it. I understand their logic. Their
logic is what we saw Arizona do we rarely see
in college basketball, which I get, but that like, we
don't need an award for that.
Speaker 5: Guess what, you're the number one team in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 8: That there's your award, you won the regular season whatever.
Speaker 4: So well, is the most valuable player the best player
in the tournament or in your in your conference? Like
to me, the most valuable is like I don't know, Like,
is AJ the most valuable player to.
Speaker 5: His to in to his team?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: Is Bradley the most valuable player to his? I think
it's hard to give the MVP to the tenth best
team at the Big twelve.
Speaker 5: Agreed, That's where I.
Speaker 4: Stand with it. Like I wanted a j to win.
I think he's obviously he's the best scorer in the league.
He would have been even more up early effective in
points production if he would have got more fouls generated
off of him and he didn't always get those calls.
Speaker 5: But I just think it's very difficult to to put.
Speaker 4: Your the tenth best team and elevate AJ is the
most valuable player at the conference as the face of
the conference. So I think if BYU was a top
five team in the Big Twelve, which that's where they
were trending early in the season and even into mid season.
Speaker 5: He probably he probably would have gotten it. I think.
Speaker 8: So what you're saying is the Big Twelve told their
officials don't call fouls on ages because then he'll have
too many points and he'll be.
Speaker 5: For the award.
Speaker 4: At thirty points a game, then you're the guy. So
like you could probably be tenth, but you're probably they
wouldn't have been tenth. They probably would have been more so,
like you look at those they would they would have
been closer to them, you know what I mean. And
at that point AJ gets it. AJ gets it, but
he got it.
Speaker 7: If they beat UCF, if they beat UCS splitting a
road trip and beat Texas Tech, I think they are
a six man if nine to seven, and I think
he gets ste award, Like I really do. I think
he does. I think the coaches would have no choice. Okay,
top six team, that's the best he could have done. No,
Richie Saunders, they beat this team two top wins. He
had they win on a road trip. I think they
would have no choice, but because they're the ten team,
Like you said, I agree with your point.
Speaker 6: That's why he.
Speaker 2: Didn't get it.
Speaker 5: Here's the other weird part.
Speaker 8: If I would have told you preseason, Jaydon Bradley's gonna
win Player of the Year, you would have said, no way.
Speaker 5: There's a list of guys in front of him.
Speaker 8: Kingston Flemings would have been on that list, Richie Saunders,
I don't know if he would be pers j T.
Toppin would have been on that list. Like this incredible
class of athletes in the Big Twelve, unfortunately due to
athletes or injuries, cramping and other things kind of fizzled out.
Speaker 5: And like, I don't want.
Speaker 8: To say it's a consolation price because Jane Bradley is
that good, but there's other guys on the list. I
don't know what the preseason odds were, but my guess
is Topping Fleming's Debonta Peterson all would have been higher
on betting odds than Jaden Bradley. It just so worked
out that their seasons fizzled out and it fell to Jeni.
Speaker 5: And maybe that's the argument as well.
Speaker 8: Maybe they're like, well, none of these guys definitively won
it because their seasons didn't end the way they thought
that we're going to, So we'll give it to Jaden Bradley.
Speaker 5: Maybe that's the logic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, I mean this is We've brought it up
a few times. This is BYU's most difficult schedule that
they've ever faced in the Big Twelve. This is their
third year as of right now, well end of season
twenty twenty three, two over sixty eight. Their their strength
of schedule per Ken Palm twenty four, twenty twenty five,
forty third in the nation right now twelfth in the
nation twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: Five, twenty six.
Speaker 4: Obviously, the Big Twelve has elevated their play and elevated
their athletes, and you know they got great coaching as well.
Let's get into a few more sound bites and then
we'll call it a segment. Kevin Young, can you discuss
Hadim's edge and how he contributed defensively against Christian Anderson.
Speaker 2: It was incredible.
Speaker 11: You know, we honestly, we've you know, we've missed it though,
like we've missed that energy in the last few games.
You know, I started him in Cincinnati, you know, didn't
have the same impact, right and so tonight and again
going back to you know, just continuing.
Speaker 2: To learn about your group.
Speaker 11: You know, when he's able to, you know, get out
on certain guards like that, particularly ones that like to
play off the shoot, off the dribble, he's able to
use his length to contest and you know, he's a
he's a major spark plug for the rest.
Speaker 2: Of the guys, you know, similar to Richie. You know
what I mean, when.
Speaker 11: You have a guy that plays that hard, you have
no choice but to play hard as well.
Speaker 2: And that has a major impact on the rest of
the group.
Speaker 4: Need that energy, need a little bit of that catalyst,
no doubt about it. A couple of other things here, Kevin,
how was it having Richie on the bench? How about
that catalyst coaching his teammates up.
Speaker 2: It was amazing. He is amazing.
Speaker 11: Richie's just you know, he wants to see us win.
You know, he just wants to do anything he can
to help, you know. And I thought he was a
steadying kind of voice over there during the game. And
you know, his leadership, you know, is a reason we're
able to get to win.
Speaker 4: Richie needs to be present. Richie has to be communicative.
I do think, like we've brought this up before, obviously,
I think k Y gets after the players, right. We
can all agree about that, whether it's in the post game,
what he says in the post game, it has to
be it's got to be more aggressive when he's in
the locker room, right, We kind of agree on that.
I don't know how many of the other coaches get
after the guys though. I always kind of felt like
there's a lot of players coaches on this squad. They're
all professional coaches type of deal. It's a little bit
different when if Richie, your peer is getting after you.
Peer run organization, it's peer run accountability.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: Broncomenen Hall Kolone has talked about it. When you have
players holding other players accountable for performance, for doing the
little things right, It's it's just different because it's your peer.
You don't get his butt hurt, you don't get his
like emotionally tied into it as you maybe do with
a coach for whatever reason.
Speaker 5: So I think it's an imperative.
Speaker 4: Kevin, Uh, what did you think of Canar Davis's performance
after missing his first five shots and then still remaining
confident down the stretch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, he was great.
Speaker 11: You know, I've really been impressed with with Mu's approach
in a lot, honestly since since Richie went down.
Speaker 2: You know, he's he and even even.
Speaker 11: In practice, like he's a guy that you know, he's quiet,
right and so but his his level of competition is
not quiet, like he his his care factors high. He's
very competitive and you know, I think what he did
was a was indicative of what the rest of the
team did where it wasn't going his way and he
didn't blink. He just stayed with it. Found you know,
he had that little cut and dump off the cave,
I found other ways to impact the game, and then
he started to make shots, right, and so it was
it was good to see for him and that'll be
a big, hopefully confidence booster for him as we uh
head to the next phase of the season.
Speaker 5: That next phase.
Speaker 4: Uh, it's you hope this is this third iteration of
the the BA basketball team can reach its potential and
it's gonna take tremendous coaching from k Why to do
it and then maybe from Richie too. What was the
difference where you guys dominated how'd you guys dominate the paint.
Speaker 11: Kay, Why, Yeah, just just a determination.
Speaker 2: You know, you know we we got we have guys
that can get downhill.
Speaker 11: You know, we got guys who can can offensive rebound,
and so you know, I thought it was we imposed our.
Speaker 2: Will on them. You know, they're a team.
Speaker 11: It's obviously a prolific three point shooting team, and so
that you know, that's their style of play, and and uh,
you know we've been able to you know, do a
decent job getting to the to the rim all year, honestly,
and so I thought that, combined with the rebounding effort,
was was tremendous. And you know, to play any basketball
game and only turn the ball over three times, you
know you're gonna give yourself a really good chance to win.
Speaker 5: Got to give that chance.
Speaker 4: Uh look without those offensive boards or second chance points,
just b whay you win this game?
Speaker 5: Probably not?
Speaker 4: I don't know if they win this game. So great
job on the offensive board. Offensive boards?
Speaker 5: What got Rob Wright going against Texas Tech? Do you think? Ky? Why?
Speaker 2: I mean? Rob?
Speaker 11: I mean that's twice now against these guys that Rob's
played really well. So you know him and him and
Christian Anders and have grown up playing against each other.
Speaker 2: You know, I think that it's a you know, just a.
Speaker 11: Friendly level of competition in respect between the two of them.
And I think Rob feels like, you know, you can
get to his spots, and when he kind of gets
in the mode, you just try to just stay out
of the way or just try to put him in
position to you know, do what he's good at, which
is get downhill. And I thought he made some good
reads tonight. You know, you know, we did all that.
You score eighty two points and you go, you know,
you go six to twenty six from three Madge. If
we were able to knock a couple of those down,
then you know, the we would have been able to
put a bigger spread. But I thought Rob's decision making
was was was really impressive.
Speaker 4: I mean Rob, Rob getting buckets, no doubt, tremendous offensive
performance from him.
Speaker 5: A couple less things from K.
Speaker 4: Why what's your message, K, Why two guys that haven't
played in March Madness?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, just my experience of just postseason basketball,
whether it's March Madness or NBA Playoffs, is you just
you just have to rely on your habits, right. You
can't come out and do something uncharacteristic. You got to
rely on what's gotten you to that point. You know,
rely do what you're good at. You know, do your
job ultimately, and if you do that, you know then
you're able to you know, execute and hopefully you know
that leads to wins.
Speaker 4: And then finally, how does this win help the team
going into the postseason?
Speaker 2: Obviously it goes without Sam.
Speaker 11: I it was, it was huge, but just you know,
just in terms of I'm just proud of our guys
because you know, like I just said, it has been
an adversity field season and you know something, and I'll
actually share this with you guys. I shared it with
the team. Like something Richie's said several different times since
I've been with him is just how much adversity brings
teams together and how much it brings groups closer. And
obviously we've faced a lot of it, and so to
be able to get on the other side of that
and beat a really good team, given where where we
currently are, coming off that road trip and that ucf fiasco,
like to have the grit and the fortitude to beat
a really good team.
Speaker 2: I do think it can be some and that we
can bottle up. You know as we head into, uh,
you know, to the postseason.
Speaker 4: What did you guys make of the storm? Stort stort,
court storming? I combine those two words court storm. Are
you guys cool with it? You're good with it? Or
do you think it's embarrassment?
Speaker 8: Usually I feel like I'm pretty critical of court storming.
Speaker 5: Hot cold, neutral, hot cold neutral? Where are you at?
Speaker 8: This one's hard because my number one rule for court
storming is unless it's a rivalry game, you can't court
storm if it's ranked un ranked. B YU wasn't ranked
in this games and it was a top ten team.
And also you never beat Texas Tech in Big twelve play,
which is the other thing we haven't talked about now.
The pushback is, yeah, you're not ranked, but you basically
are because you're like the first team outside.
Speaker 5: The top twenty five.
Speaker 8: I don't know that the court storming was so much
of hey, we beat a top ten team. I think
it was more of it was more for BAU getting
a big win than it was for BAU beating Texas Tech,
if that makes sense. It was like, hey, emotionally, we
feel like we figured something out. This is a big deal.
It's the last game of the season. We want to
celebrate it. I think it had less to do with
oh my gosh, we beat Texas Tech than it did
with hey, this has been an emotional wild season.
Speaker 5: Look what we just did. Yeah, I'd agree with that wholeheartedly.
Speaker 4: No, we have answered, But the Bett it this was
more of an emotional reaction to.
Speaker 5: A big win, no doubt.
Speaker 4: But you had many of Kugarnation, including those within the Rock,
had maybe lost a little bit of hope that they
could win a game like this.
Speaker 5: A lot of people didn't think they could win it.
Speaker 4: That's how they felt, and so uh, they were in
maybe a mental state where the emotions of a win
took them over the edge and had them storm the court. Hot, colder,
neutral on the stort, on the court, storming a Ronald
the three man weaver, Hot.
Speaker 7: Colder, neutral in the stort. Let's stay with that bag
and I combined words all the time. Anyway, No, I'm
I'm pretty much you know, I would say hot or cold.
I'm cold. If like Brett said, you're ink throw rank,
why are you storming? But I'm all hot about this?
Speaker 5: Do this?
Speaker 7: This was an emotional reaction, right the Iowa State them storming.
Speaker 6: I was like, no.
Speaker 7: But outside of that, like they were on a three
game skit like fans again, and Ben I revealed I
was coming back from you know, doing the pregame show
for Cincinnati last week with people from Bou students doing
classes at the Salt Lake Center. They're throwing phone, slamming laptops,
throwing hands up. All right, don't want to play defense.
I can't reveal everything that was said because there's some
guidelines that will be broken, but it was it's an
emotional reaction. Fans were like po they were upset, very furious,
so this was great for them to storm. Hadean boop
in the middle with it been fan favorite. People are
gonna love him for a long time if he's back
next season. But no, I thought it was okay, and
this is just a third court storm. I think in
in program history, Jimmer for that San Diego State. Ben
I'm pretty sure wrote about this in my post a Marcle.
You can check it check it out on espnfan dot com.
Gonzaga when they beat Gonzaga right and then now Texas Tech,
so they.
Speaker 5: Go way third third in the modern era.
Speaker 6: I think I think, I think I might be wrong.
I'm pretty I would.
Speaker 4: I would be text to to to maybe the s
I D on that, Well, that'd be interesting and.
Speaker 7: I would have to ask there was a different s
I D before Gonzaga, But like those are the three
that I remember.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man. Uh.
Speaker 4: Also in other news, uh Yegor Gentleman will miss the
remainder of the season due to increased plench fasciais in
his left foot. Gentleman is expected to return to Basketball
Tipic early in the off season due and and to
be a full participant in the summer development program. Speaking
of tanking, you know, is the NBA gonna send out
a uh independent physician fasciitis?
Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Because I mean they're in the bottom wrong of the
I mean they they've won sixteen games, and Joeman in
many ways in shapes and forms, is one of their best,
if not their best player right now. So they're just
shutting them down. Can't win any more games, don't win
any more games taking I mean, we.
Speaker 8: Already know that Ryan Smith is working out a deal
with Adam Silver to make sure he hits the number
one overall.
Speaker 5: Pick my conspiracies.
Speaker 8: That's why Adam Silver is going so hard at Utah,
so that when Utah suddenly gets the number one overall pick,
no one will say, oh, Adam Silver is buddies.
Speaker 5: With Ryan Smith. They'll be like, oh, well, I mean
it must.
Speaker 8: Have worked out organically because Adam Silver was going hard
after the Jazz.
Speaker 5: Oh, how's that they ended up with a Jada Bontson
number one pick.
Speaker 4: I'll give you my conspiracy theory about a couple of
things coming up next as it relates to the NBA.
Speaker 5: Don't miss it.
Speaker 4: We're gonna break it all down here on your Utah
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