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into a little college basketball talk, gonna get caught up
with Kevin Young in the post game. B Yu had
a phenomenal phenomenal, the phenomenal one.
Speaker 1: The phenomenal.
Speaker 3: Kevin Young and the fighting BYU men's basketball team took
down a former full last night, the PUSA Civic Tigers
ninety three to fifty seven.
Speaker 1: What a game this is?
Speaker 3: Where when I said in the first hour, a game
within a game within a game within the game showcase
itself last night.
Speaker 1: But look, how else do you do?
Speaker 3: You really ask a lot of your team when they're
blowing out people about thirty plus when the cover and spread,
is there really thing that you can even even netpick?
I mean the trio had a twenty point performance, Ritchie
the bucket, get of the top, King aj debonsa Rob Wright,
and I mean it led to the I mean, how
many ninety point wins is by you have this season?
Speaker 1: We might have to go look at that. Brett, you
and I discussed this yesterday.
Speaker 3: What is the point margin BAU needs to have going
in the conference play? Arizona and BYU have been dominating
people with these eighty five.
Speaker 1: Ninety point performances.
Speaker 3: So I'm excited as the team gets in the conference
per bred if Brett, if they keep this up, look
and you're not gonna score at that high of level,
because it's gonna get more physical. But if you're dropping
consistent eighty point wins in the Big twelve, you have
to think that BO is going to be on the
w end of that rather than the l end of
that every night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they'd beat UC Riverside one hundred and fifty three.
Speaker 5: Pacific was ninety three fifty seven.
Speaker 4: Cal Baptist was ninety one sixty and BYU. Wisconsin was
ninety eight seventy BYU eighty five sixty eight over Delaware,
and ninety eight fifty three over Holy Cross. So that's
I mean, Wisconsin's almost a thirty pointer.
Speaker 5: Holy Cross is a thirty pointer.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: Cal Baptist is a thirty pointer. U see, Riverside's a
thirty pointer, Pacific's a thirty pointer. So almost half their games,
half their games are thirty point wins. Again, those are
the games you're supposed to win by that big of
a margin. Honestly, if you're not, then that's a real problem,
in a real conversation that we have to have, and
fortunately we're sitting here in a scenario. I mean, let's
be honest. Ron first ten minutes of that Pacific game yesterday,
that one felt like, Hey, I don't think b YU
is gonna lose, but they're gonna have to get into
a slugfest in order to win this one. Now, they
ended up turning it on at the end of that
first half and at the end of the second half,
but the first ten minutes to start both of those halves,
slow starts kind of a recurring theme, but great finishes.
That's kind of been the story with this BYU team
all season. Even in that Yukon game, slow start, finished
fast at the end, but wasn't good enough to get
to win.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's gonna be something that we have to
watch out for in.
Speaker 4: Terms of poor themes that could sneak up and bite
them as we go into conference play. But as far
as total confidence in this team headed into conference play,
I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 3: Gotta feel pretty good about where this team is at
on what they did yesterday. Yes, you probably thought in
the first couple of minutes of the game, man, what
is this going to be? Is it going to be
a Delaware type game? Slugfest? And I think Bau's defense
was the key last night, just eventually started to smother Pacific.
Speaker 1: Will you force the team into a ten.
Speaker 3: Second violation early first play that that was the biggest deal.
Caught up with Chris Burgess yesterday morning in preparation of
that game on the Cougar Pregame basketball show, and he said,
having the defense intensity carrying over, That's why I made
the take of want to see the defense keep it going,
and they did, held them to only fifty seven points.
I think my score prediction was ninety one to fifty eight.
So look, I think it's tough, you know, to win
games in college basketball, but it's tough to win that
margin a whole team's under sixty percent.
Speaker 1: And BAU they took that early lead.
Speaker 3: I mean they got out to the forty one to
twenty lead at halftime, and they forced twelve turnovers and
that really I don't want to say it was a difference,
but that's set the tone, right Brett, because in the
second half, Pacific made a second push, but then BAU
turned it on and you know, they outscored him fifty
two to thirty seven the second half, and the Big
three definitely led the way. Richie was the catalyst of it.
The River to Native as we know, he dropped twenty four.
Speaker 1: That was nice.
Speaker 3: He was five to seven from the field. Eleven to
twelve at the free throw line. Richie was in attack
mode getting downhill and then he added a couple of
rebounds and a couple of assists to go along with that.
Speaker 1: And in AJ eight does AJ things.
Speaker 3: He had his first career double double with ten boards,
was on the glass, was active, and he was eight
to fourteen from the field, and he added to assist
along with his transition scorners, which is just phenomenal that
we know what Rob Wright does. You know, anytime rob
Is gonna drop, you know, twenty plus and have four
or five assists, I think when I saw the stat
when Rob Is has five or more assist I think
that's what it is.
Speaker 1: It has to be five, it's five or six? Is
one of those two BYU?
Speaker 3: I think they were when margin is like severely, you
know over they just completely blow teams out. So you
have to think, if rob is being able to drive
and kick, what is that gonna look like in the
Big twelve? Because like when you're we weren't that prolific
like you did last nine And granted is pacific, but
they're a good basketball team and you shoot forty six
point eight percent from the field. I really think that
when you're pushing transition away to do and you clamp
down defensively, it's gonna give you an opportunity to really
win games, but be what you got it done. Now
they're turning their attentions. They return to the Mayrits and
it will be Friday, and two days from now the
nineteen tip off. The schedule for seven thirty pm Mountain
Standard time, and it is a matchup against Abilene Christian.
The game is going to be televised guys on TNT
and it's gonna be live on the BAU radio as well.
But without further ado, we've talked enough. Let's get into
some post cans out. Let's hear from what Kevin Young
had to say about his squad picking up their tenth
victory of a season as they improved a ten and
one on the season. This is Kevin Young addressing the
media post game following BYU's ninety three to fifty seven
win over Pacific.
Speaker 6: So, when Pacific claude within nine, you guys went on
a thirty five on after that?
Speaker 3: What kind of led to that?
Speaker 1: What do you think was working there?
Speaker 7: Our defense was phenomenal during that stretch, and then we
had a hard time making open threes for the most part,
but in that stretch, I feel like we started making
a couple and then I don't know if it all
came in that same stretch, but you know, Rob got
hit in the mouth or whatever and kind of woke
him up and he went on that flurry and then
you know, but again shot making. I think Tyler made
one or two. I think he made one and got
fouled on one in that same stretch.
Speaker 8: But I think it was all really fueled by our defense,
which has been really good, nice.
Speaker 9: Little luxuries, and though on the offensive, didn't have three
guys that can just.
Speaker 8: Carry the majority of the love.
Speaker 7: Yeah big three score over yeah no, which I think
Tyson just hit me with the statt first time. I
think since like twenty twenties. You said, since that's happened,
which is a cool stat But I mean, those guys
are rock solid. You know, obviously we rely on those
guys a lot. I really was happy with what Richie did.
I thought him and I have been talking a lot
about you know, we've really been studying like his analytics
and different things where we can get him different.
Speaker 8: Play types offensively. You know, he had a couple of
what we call get.
Speaker 7: Games where he was playing off and off and stuff,
which I thought was pretty good. You know, AJ was
AJ and that flurry that Rob had, you know, I
thought he really showed his his speed and quickness.
Speaker 8: And then obviously they played well.
Speaker 7: But I thought, you know, after what Alec Alexey did
a couple of nights ago for and he was sick tonight,
that's why he wasn't here.
Speaker 8: And then Tyler to come in base he do the
exact same thing.
Speaker 7: Was was uh, it was huge. Look if those guys
can come in and be that those types of shooters,
which they can be and we know they are, which
is why they're here, you know, that's going to open
up a lot of things for everybody else.
Speaker 3: All Right, I want to bring it back here because
I think that's a you know, a great statement right there.
That's a big thing. Ben and I talked about this.
We thought that Alexi being out is a big deal.
I still think it is because look, remember Britt two
years ago into Mark Pope when Noel Waterman was sick
in the rotation with Slim and you know, you just
didn't have the bodies in Oklahoma. You just get steamroll
because guys are just tired and people are sick.
Speaker 1: For is sick.
Speaker 3: No Water was sick, you know, Rich, It just he
had a bunch of dudes that had the flu and
that happened now in non conference, so it didn't bite you.
But you don't want guys getting sick.
Speaker 1: Excuse me. That's just a part of it.
Speaker 3: You know, with the nature of the world and the
weather changing and the holiday season, that happens. But I
thought that it was gonna maybe have a little bit
of a different outcome when that got announced, but it didn't.
And Kevin Young just mentioned in there, Alexi, what he did.
Tyler comes in, does the same thing, has an and
one to three didn't miss And like you said, they
brought them there for that reason. They just hadn't showcased
that into the last two games. And maybe that's what
it took, you know, Maybe what it took was for
them to be on the road trip, play bad, being
the Marriotte, get some confidence. Maybe it took Rob right
to get knocked in the mouth to be like, all right,
let me wake up. Sometimes it does take this. Sometimes
you need to face a little adversity to get it going.
But no, for the most part, it's like what he said,
the defense led to the offense getting there. But I
loved what I saw from Tyle last night, and I
was wrong, I said, I thought he worked himself out
of rotation very much still in the rotation. Happy to
be wrong, right, Brett. Happy when a guy proves me
wrong and when I make a take. Totally okay with that.
But with the way he was playing, is like, well,
is this guy gonna show up? JT said yesterday? You
know you didn't trust him, and I don't think after
one game you could make that statement. But this is
enough to build off of going forward, because if they
do that in conference play, Brett, if alexis able to
hit shots like that, if Tyler's able to hit shots now,
they might not get as many minutes, but if they're
able to do half of that with the minutes that
they do get, that's gonna help BYU and take the
load off of the Big Three. Because as much as
you like, for the first time since twenty twenty for
the Big Three to do it, it's nice, you don't
want that constantly through conference play, through physical battles where
they have to score sixty points a night.
Speaker 5: No, you don't want to see that.
Speaker 4: The guy I'm looking at right now that I'm a
little bit worried about.
Speaker 5: And I know we're talking bench here.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's reasonable for aj Rob and Ritchie
to have to carry Kindard, and I think that's a
conversation at some point. He's hit one three run in
the last three games. He's one four fourteen in the
last three games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he struggled to Clemson against Clemsony.
Speaker 4: Averaging three points. Sorry, averaging four points a game over
those last three games, five against Clemson, five against UC Riverside,
and two against Pacific.
Speaker 5: Went zero for seven from three.
Speaker 4: So that's another one that I'm keeping my eye on
and saying, I'm I'm a little concerned about Canard at
this point in the season and just this this BAU
basketball team.
Speaker 5: As a whole.
Speaker 4: I love watching things that I feel are sometimes anomalies,
and I just don't know.
Speaker 5: We'll have to go and look.
Speaker 4: At the stats, because when was the last time someone
in the Big twelve had had three players averaging over
fifteen points or more with one of those guys averaging
twenty points or more. I just don't know, And it's
honestly pretty incredible. I've talked about this before, but like
the drop off on points with this team, you go
from twenty one to eighteen seventeen to dropping off to
Canard and then Dawson and then Keba and then Alex.
So it's great that we've now seen it from Tyler,
and it's great that we've now seen it from Alex.
Another guy that's got to find a way to make
minutes matter in this rotation is Mihailo, and frankly, he
doesn't really have very many excuses because he was an
effective part of this offense last year.
Speaker 5: So I think you're just.
Speaker 4: Kind of sitting here wondering, and I wonder what Kevin
Young would say if he if he just had full
license to say whatever in terms of what level of
confidence does he have in terms of guys doing their
job and doing.
Speaker 5: What's expected of them.
Speaker 4: I don't know what the answer is that, but it's
good to know now that we've seen the big time
superpower night from both Alex and Tyler and to know
that those are slumps more than they are indications of
who they are as a basketball player. So we'll have
to see kind of how that works. Into the rotation.
Are these guys going to be a regular staple in
terms of their three point shooting ability in that rotation
conference play? I don't know, but I do think Kevin
Young has some interesting decisions ahead of him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is very interesting because you bring up a
good point, and I'm in between on it. Canard's role
was to come in here and play defense and take
out the best defender on the other team, and that
was the role. But in the same breath, it's he
needs to hit more threes. And the reason why I
bring it up is why I say in between, I'm
still figuring it out.
Speaker 1: What mag did that? Right?
Speaker 3: So I can't make that excuse and say, oh, Canard
just go play defense, because what when you saw development? Now,
granted I always go back to, you know, January, I
think it was twenty three when Kevin Young said nineteenth
Kevin said, all right, gonna switch cannon catchs and what
in the start lineup and see what happens. Cannon folded,
you know, pissed down this leg as they say, ended.
Speaker 1: Up somewhere else. That's just a case to what it is.
Speaker 3: And looking that's not a shot, But this is this
is professional this is a mini NBA G League team
in a way, this is what's preparing you for the league.
You do that at the highest level, that's gonna happen
when they make a change. You got to accept your
role and do your job and keep it put your
star bringing it up. Of what was given an opportunity
in Trey Cannon folded out and ended up being the
best thing for this team. I think in this propelled
the momentum to this point of Canard is not gonna
have that same excuse because what did it. Trey even
did it? And remember people, all Trey's he shoots a
carrillo under twenty percent from three, don't let him shoot.
You were like begging him. And I shouldn't say begging.
That might be too that might be a little, you know, hyperbolic.
But you were totally confident in Trey taking a three
last season, which is still this year. Crazy to think
about Brett and you knew that he would make it.
When Trey would shoot threes to be open, I said,
it's going in. I felt more confident when it happened
compared to what was happening maybe before under the old
coaching staff. But Kannard needs to do the same thing.
Canard needs to be giving them. Doesn't need to be drastic,
but eight to twelve points, maybe eight to fifteen.
Speaker 1: He has to pick up the low like.
Speaker 3: You said, because his points, although they're not going to
be bench points, anything outside of the Big three I
consider to be bench points. So Keb, I consider that
to be bench points. I consider Canard and I know
that's not the official title, but big three minutes, non
big three points, they need to happen. Caba has to contribute,
Canard has to contribute like the two other starters, and
even if Kaba's not going crazy, Keba needs to give
you eight to twelve. Canard needs to give you eight
to twelve, and the bench like I mentioned on our
podcast earlier this morning, they need to give you somewhere
between eight to twelve. The bench points needs to be
fifteen to twenty five a game between between Hadem, Alexei, Tyler, Dominique,
what however who else is whoever's getting time Mahi loo.
They all need to do that. And then the starters
outside of the Big three, they need to be giving somewhere,
but in my opinion, between twelve to eight like that
has to happen. It has to be a different guys night,
you know, helping out and coming along the way. So
I think that's a phenomenal take, Brett. I do think
that Kunard has to help them out because shooting that
way from three just not gonna get it done.
Speaker 1: Now he will.
Speaker 3: There's not gonna be any changes with him defensively because
they're down bodies and his defense his defense makes up
for but he has to start hitting shots from the
corner to be able to add to this offense.
Speaker 1: So I like that take.
Speaker 3: I think that's a good thing that you pointed out
as well, and Mahilo that the bench production needs to
continue up. But look, thirty points fifteen a piece from
two guys, one guy who didn't play yesterday because of
the illness.
Speaker 1: You like what you see.
Speaker 3: Hopefully they keep it up now the last two games
against Abilene Christian and Eastern Washington next Monday. If they
do that, you need them to do that because you're
gonna have ten days off before you travel to Kansas
State after the New year to start off conference play,
and it's gonna be on the road in a tough
environment in Manhattan, and these guys have not played that
level of physical basketball.
Speaker 1: They're up for it. They brought him here for that reason.
Speaker 3: But if you can't do it against the Q three
and Q two Q four teams, what makes you think
you can do it against the Q one in Q
two teams. I believe that they can. We will see
what happened. Let's get back to the post games now
before we go to break. This is Kevin Young, addressed
in the media following by US went over Pacific last night.
There's something in this matchup you saw the Pacific that
you made you want to go.
Speaker 5: With that press defense early in the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys had a ten second violation on them.
Speaker 6: What was something that made you want to bring that
out for a lot of the game at night today?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So, I mean we we've kind of we went
to that against Riverside, you know, we've gone to it in.
Speaker 8: Second half Yukon game.
Speaker 7: We did it Clemson game obviously, and so you know, again, I.
Speaker 8: Think it's you know, when you when you.
Speaker 7: Have a team for a short period of time, you know,
then you're not playing other games. Right, We've still only
played how many games did you played?
Speaker 8: Eleven? So eleven game that we're still learning.
Speaker 7: Our group, you know, and we've we found a little
rhythm with some of the pressure.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 7: It's like when Aj played with Team USA, they would
do some of that with him and that was interesting,
and we just hadn't gotten to it until we needed
it right to come back from some games, and we
felt like, because of some of the slow starts, maybe
that's the way we can kind of jump start our guys.
And you know, maybe we tripped on something.
Speaker 10: Hows Richie gone from a bench three D guy before
you got here too, Now he's one of the best
plays in the country.
Speaker 8: How do you see him grow in that sense?
Speaker 7: He I said this the other day on a different form,
But he's.
Speaker 8: Just a maniacal worker.
Speaker 7: And so when you work as hard as he does
and you're as competitive as he is, you know, a
lot of good things can happen. And I've said this
before about him as well. You know, most guys with
that kind of energy aren't great shooters. But like you
tack on his shooting prowess and now people are running him.
Speaker 8: Off the line.
Speaker 7: He's able to get to the to the rim with
simple drives and stuff.
Speaker 8: So I think it's just a combination of you know.
Speaker 7: His work, you know, his mentality, his competitiveness, but the
shooting piece, you know, for us, you know, I do
think it's coincided with our style of play, which is
a lot of five out. Creates a lot of close
out opportunities for him, and we try to plan transition
in an area where he's really good. We had, you know,
I think twenty nine fast break points the other night,
we had twenty six fast break points to night.
Speaker 8: So he's phenomenal in transition.
Speaker 7: So I think it's a combination of a lot of things,
but led by you know, just how hard he works.
Speaker 6: I was gonna ask about the transitional offense. Obviously you
guys are really productive with fast break points. What do
you think leads to that? What makes for a.
Speaker 1: Successful area there?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well number one defense you got to get stopped
to run. But even last game, you know, and you
guys know, I'm big into analytics, and I think maybe
different actually than what I think. When you hear analytics
means like I use it mainly to self.
Speaker 8: Evaluate and are we doing the right things? Are we not? Where?
Are we sick? And not know it?
Speaker 7: That's how I use it, right, I get the shot
values and all I could write.
Speaker 8: A thesis on that, but where we use it the
most to just.
Speaker 7: Trying to identify areas that again, are are we doing
the right thing?
Speaker 8: And if we are, let's keep doing that.
Speaker 7: If we're not, why and let's either stop doing that
thing or fix that thing. And so like let's say
all that to say last game, you know, Butkash, our
analytics director, was like, hey man, we had we had
we had four possessions after they made a shot that
we turned into transition possessions, which sounds minuscule, but that's
a big deal because we're super efficient in transition and
so stops number one, but even after makes and this
is where it bleeds into the kick ahead passes what
we call it, like we really love playing with the
pass and transition. I think it puts teams on their heels, Like,
if you're not ready to get back on defense against us,
I think you could be in for a long night.
Speaker 8: And when we're playing that way is when we're at
our best.
Speaker 3: I think this is a good point right here their defense.
So when they get stops, I do think and again
might be the level of talent or the flashy dunks
and in transition.
Speaker 1: But even then it's different.
Speaker 3: When it played against Clemson all Clemson was able to
get back because they're athletic and transition, Brett, you saw
them break down defensively and fundamentally down the stretch when
aj was able to attack them because they got tired.
Speaker 1: So this is true. So although it.
Speaker 3: Might not be against the the Yukon's of the Villanova's
where they're just able to get out in transition, like
the Pacifics of the UC riverside of the California Baptist,
at the end of the day, it still doesn't matter.
I still think that at the end of the day,
when it comes down to it, if defense leads to
stops and allows the other team to push, it's not
a turnover, but it's like a turnover. Okay, you forced
to batch out, you get the rebound. The defense now
has to go execute and adjust on the fly. It's
kind of like Utah football, how they like to see
what you're throwing at them and then they like to
make adjustments, you know, and move last minute. And how
Kansas State did a great job of not coming out
of huddle till late. I feel like that's a good
example in football terms of where you gravel rebound. Will
you show up just right at the line of scrimmage
when you break the huddle with like like ten seconds
left and you can't maneuver. That's transition basketball. You're like, oh, shoot,
this guy's got the ball, Well where's my man? Oh
do I just pick up this guy and say hey, switch,
got mine? And then b why you can get the
match they want. And that's where Rob is so phenomenal
in transition. That's where Aj puts so much pressure on
the ball and he draws so many fouls. It's BOE's
defense and bred I think that's what's gonna be the
key to them maybe winning what you know, twelve the
minimum is twelve, but winning fourteen, maybe that fifteen non
conference game, like we think that they can do to
be in the conversation with the Houstons to get that
number one seater a first number two. Winning fourteen fifteen
games in conference play is going to start with their
defense and then pushing. They have to defend the perimeter,
they have to grab boards and not get out rebound
and then push. Now, look, you think this team Brett
can do that this year compared to last year. Last
year's team under Kevin Jung was up big on Iowa
State had to go in a double overtime and.
Speaker 1: Get it done.
Speaker 3: But this level, this group, this level of talent, is different.
They are gonna need the bench production. But I love
what I'm seeing from Bo's defensive intensity, the pressure that
they're putting, how they're rebounding the ball. I think that's
gonna help them tremendously. And that's gonna need to showcase
against Kansas State January through.
Speaker 1: When you go on the road.
Speaker 5: This team is so weird, man like.
Speaker 4: Their defense is obviously elite and we know that, and frankly,
I think their defense is going to be what keeps
them in a lot of these Big twelve games when
some of their depth scoring doesn't show up. But it's
just funny because last year we were having a conversation
about how deep should the rotation be, and this year
we're having a conversation about how dap does the rotation
need to be very different. This team have three guys
who can go out in any given night score as
many points as they want to.
Speaker 5: They can.
Speaker 4: Again, last night, three of them go over twenty plus points.
Last year, you didn't really need that and this year
you have it, but you'd probably trade some of those
points to scoring that comes from other guys. But to
you point BYU's defense is gonna carry them this season.
Speaker 5: Like if you just go and look at last night.
Speaker 4: I know we talked a little bit about how this
game wasn't super pretty.
Speaker 5: I mean they held.
Speaker 4: Pacific to felt like I think four points to the
first ten minutes of the game and then only twenty
points total in the first half.
Speaker 5: It was forty one to twenty at the end of
the first half.
Speaker 4: Their defense, I think, frankly, is going to keep opposing
offenses down for long enough until they can reach in
their bag and find what works. A little bit like
the analogy you used, there's a lot of college football
teams who do this where they kind of hang around
just enough and then once they make those adjustments, then
they just kill you. I think it's a little bit
of an inverse with this team, where defensively they can
hold on and hang on for long enough, but the
offense seems to find slow starts until they can really
click into high gear.
Speaker 5: Find their offense.
Speaker 4: AJ finds the spots that he likes, Ritchie takes into
the basket doesn't force things. I felt like with Pacific
last night, they dictated the pace of that game, whether
it was playing fast or playing slow. And when BAU
played fast in the first half, it was because Pacific
wanted them to play fast, and you saw them make
a couple of mistakes as a results of that, because
they felt like they've been sitting in a cage for
so long. The Pacific kindly said, okay, here's we're opened
in the gate, and they went so fast that they
stumbled a little bit. I think Bou needs to find
a way to dictate the pace and play at the
pace they want to play at, not at the pace
that their.
Speaker 5: Opponent wants them to play at.
Speaker 4: And then defensively, you're gonna really have to hang around
for a while in some of these first halfs, especially
in conference play, before you find ways to get this
offense to early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you definitely want to get in that's the pace well,
and that's the pace that they want to play it.
Kevin Young's team wants to play at that pace.
Speaker 1: But you bring up a good point.
Speaker 3: Getting someone to play into the hands that you want
to scheme in it that way, making the adjustments is
going to be difficult, right, because you're gonna have high
level talent now, other four stars, three stars, five stars
now that you're going to be playing against in a
matter of you know, you know, almost two weeks now,
So you got to get prepared for it. And look,
if there's any coaches that's going to get these guys right,
is Kevin Young.
Speaker 1: I remind people of a small tidbit.
Speaker 3: Remember when the free throw shooting was bad, It's like,
why are their front rim team ben and mentioned that
all the time.
Speaker 1: Guess what happened?
Speaker 3: They I think shot like eighty plus or eighty eight
percent down the stretch, and I think in the tournament
at one point they were shooting ninety one, but I
think they finished shooting eighty eight. Kevin Young demands it
like we were asking, Hey, what about the free throw shooting? Yeah,
it'll get figured out.
Speaker 1: Then Kam and much on it.
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the point and then gets it done. This coach and
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Richie's excuse me, Tyler Morss, Robert Wright, and aj Debonsa
yesterday addressing the media following Bau just went over Pacific.
Speaker 8: Yeah, just great win.
Speaker 1: Finally some shots fell for me.
Speaker 11: Shout out my teammates, though, but we got two more
before break, so you know we're gonna get back to
the film and get right back to it.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Tavier World And for questions, Tyther, what do
you think changed for you tonight making those shots and
did you see things better on the.
Speaker 11: Older Nah, it was just the cam offense to my
teammates gave me. You know, they kept passing me the
ball and just you know, keep telling me keep shooting
the ball and just instilling confidence in me. So yeah,
I think it was just like my confidence today when they.
Speaker 1: Cut it to nine in the second half. Coach was
talking about defense turned it around.
Speaker 8: Did you get us to feel that? Yeah, we definitely did. So.
Speaker 9: We was just trying to be the aggressors and just
uh get stops and get out in transition and try
and score.
Speaker 8: Some easy ones. And I feel like we did that
and open the game back.
Speaker 10: Up, which he had five steals in that first half.
I did his defensive intensity help you guys out for.
Speaker 9: Any of the years, It was great for us. Uh,
he got us the lead early. I think we was
up twenty, so it was great. I mean, he's super
active on the ball. He's been the last couple of games.
And we definitely gonna need that going to the conference play.
Speaker 6: Is your first stubble doubled at the Jet deal too.
Speaker 12: So yeah, Uh, Coach is been on my head that
I should be averaging, you know around tell me to
my athleticism. I think I've been stuck out like six,
six to eight for a couple of games, so just
trying to be more.
Speaker 1: I had to win the boys first time.
Speaker 2: You guys, are you on?
Speaker 1: Richie and Rob score twenty each? And what's the ceiling
of what you guys can do when that has you can?
Can you guys kick anybody when that happens.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think it's I think it's gonna be hard
for teams to like pick their poison, and it's like
a game like this kind of like exemplified that if
you wanna go steal out on Richie, then Rob has
open lane or vice versas any one of us. So
I think if we, you know, can keep doing that
and continue doing that, then we're gonna, you know, blow
teams up.
Speaker 6: Sort of off topic, but Robo last week, a week ago,
actually you've hit that three pointer?
Speaker 3: Nice square?
Speaker 6: How was your life changed?
Speaker 4: Instead? If you got.
Speaker 9: Should I still had to take my finals the same.
Speaker 1: I just think that's funny. Still had to take.
Speaker 4: My finals, truly, ron I had a friend text me.
I'm in a group chat with a bunch of my
buddies and last night my buddy or my cousin, Jackson,
he texted in the group chat and he goes, Hey, uh,
should we all run to chili tonight for a little
late night post finals celebration. And I was like, dude,
I haven't taken finals, and I don't know how long
I forgot that there are people who are still literally
going to college and taking tests.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude. When I hear that, I'm like, yeah, don't
know what that's like anymore. Very grateful. Don't ever have
to do that again either. So couldn't be me. Couldn't
be me.
Speaker 3: But yeah, look simple to the point, right, And Tyler
gave the open a statement and said shots fail for me.
And look, I love the mindset of Tyler of Okay,
I hit shots, but back to work though. I love
that it's get back right into the gym, back at it.
That's the shooter's mentality. Honestly, when you think about it.
He smiled for a little bit, but I think he
understands that hey it's one game, Hey it was over Pacific,
that that's really not the first goal. Their first goal
is to win the conference title and then you know,
get to the NCAA tournament and then keep doing that.
I think that's their goals. And I love that how
focused they are. So celebrated for a moment, but they
can't be pushing. So yeah, nobody's life has changed from
the buzzer beater. I think that's also interesting from AJ
two that the coaching staff is pressing him, saying, yeah, bro,
you should be averaging, like, you know, ten rebounds a game.
I think that's funny that they're pushing him to get
on the glass. But I think that's a good thing. Look,
you're gonna have to rebound when it comes to conference playing.
I do agree A has been stuck in at six
to eight range, but with the waight, with how athletic
he is, I agree with him, Brett, and I mean,
who's going to disagree with AJ? But when you see
him rebound the ball, you're kind of surprised, like you
only finish the game of five, only finish the game,
but eight. It feels like how Kevin Young says and
he could have had fifty. It felt like he had fifty.
It feels like AJ's grabbing ten bounds easily every single game.
It really does feel like it's idle Kevin Durant because
when you look up at the box, you're like, huh,
that's not right. But it definitely feels different when you're
watching it in real time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, at one hundred percent does feel different.
Speaker 4: But they man, they really showed up and just showed
out yesterday in a slug fest that Pacific really wanted
to come in there. Remind you, hey, I know you
think you're big because you left the WCC, but we're
gonna remember. We're gonna make you remember what the d
WCC is really about. And they couldn't do it to him.
B YU was no longer what the WCC thinks they
used to be. The BYU was something special. There's something new. AJ,
Rob and Ritchie all were able to get there is
frankly pretty easily last night, and it's a big deal
that they were able to do that. I loved hearing
AJ talk about getting the double double.
Speaker 5: And his rebounding. I don't think we're gonna get to it.
Speaker 4: But there's another clip from a from Kevin Young talking
about AJ's ability to rebound, which I think is a
very underrated part of his game. Right, Like, we know
he's capable of scoring, we know he's capable of being
a backup point guard, a ball handler, and assisting the basketball.
But I also think what doesn't get talked about enough
is the fact that he literally can do it all.
He can rebound the ball, get out and transition, kick
it out to you. Kevin Young actually in his post
game goes as far as to compare Aj Debotsa on
that level to Ben Simmons when he coached him in Philadelphia,
which I know is not a cop that you want
to hear at this point in the game. But when
we're talking about what Ben simmons potential was, to get
that comp to Aj DEBONSA, Ben Simmons was a guy
who literally his potential in the ceiling was he can
do everything. He's essentially a six to nine point guard.
So for AJ Debonton to get that comp from a
guy who actually coached Ben Simmons.
Speaker 1: That's big, definitely big. Look.
Speaker 3: I know that does not who people want to hear,
but at the end of the day, still anytime you're
compared to an NBA grade a guy that got there
when most guys don't. What the well, I don't know
what the percentage is bred of guys actually making it
to the league, but it's so difficult, so to actually
be able to get there, to actually have a moment
where you come that close, I think speaks really high
volume to a lot of it. So to me, at
the end of the day, it doesn't it doesn't. It
doesn't matter who you get compared to, if a guy
got after if you got there. The hard part is
getting to the league. The harder part is.
Speaker 1: Staying at the end of the day.
Speaker 3: But that was a little postgame sound. That was Rob
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An impressive win over a former wc FO that didn't
let him down. But I want to play a sound
bite not that long, and this is something I caught
wind of Dawson Baker out for the season right injuries
has really derailed at the last two to three seasons
because of it. But this is what I talk about
in the spirit of Christmas. Brett, you've probably seen this,
and if not, then I'll tell y'all tell the fans.
Students from the Rock to Rock decided to write him
notes because he's out for the season. They decided to
do that and Richie Saunders, the top King, delivered to it.
They're showing love for the bucket. Get the guy that
don't know what his future is gonna be. He might
be able to come back for another season, he might
call it quits.
Speaker 1: I know that. You know he He's played what.
Speaker 3: Four or five years of college basketball already, so we
don't know what the future is for Dawson Baker. But Brett,
I think this was a great thing to do, especially
with Christmas. I'm gonna go ahead and play the SoundBite.
Then we'll react to it because I know you got
to take off. But this is Richie Saunders delivering gifts
to Dawson call cards that were written by the b
au Rock to Dawson Baker. Appreciate feel the love, feel
the love, appreciate it. That's what he said. I know
they were reacting back. It was hard to hear.
Speaker 1: Uh. That might have been recorded on the phone and
not the camera. Anyway.
Speaker 3: The point is Dawson Richie says, they love you man.
Look you got gifts Christmas, mayor Christmas and Dawson all smiles,
all goes No, this is something a little bit different.
But I think this is something that's impactful. I really
think it's something that does matter, you know, because sometimes
when you go through an jury, brother in the holidays
come around, you can get down. Hey, I'm not playing.
I can't help my team contribute, but to write notes
and it's a thick of him. It's a lot when
you look at this stack. If you go to Jackson
Payne's uh you know twitter. Uh he put it because
Dawson Baker put it on his Instagram and he I
think took a screenshot but it posted it did a
good job of doing it.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of notes.
Speaker 3: I think this is probably over what I'd have to say,
fifty notes, but thick stack. It's a thick stack, bro,
But shout out to the rock Bread just your thoughts.
I think this was something really well I'm not saying
do this for everybody that gets injured, but I think
this was a very kind hearted thing to do, especially
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especially that he got injured.
Speaker 4: I think it just reminds you that, like BYU is
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Speaker 5: Are going through.
Speaker 4: And I don't know, like, I just think that's so
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It doesn't cost you anything, I guess is what I'm
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Speaker 5: It costs you nothing to write up a note just
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Speaker 4: It doesn't cost you anything to write a text message
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But yeah, shout out to the Rock for putting this on.
This is a great opportunity to show love around the holidays.
Speaker 3: Definitely show love around the Hall for sure, Guys. That's
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