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Speaker 3: Oh man, I appreciate it. Hey, I'm not large in stature,
but you know I got a big heart, big heart, JT.
And that's what truly matters.
Speaker 1: JT.
Speaker 3: BYU basketball did not have enough heart to finish off strong.
What happened? How did they lose? Why did they lose
with a nine minutes remaining?
Speaker 2: I don't think hart is.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think saying that they didn't have
any heart is the right thing to say here, Ben.
I think that they got out coached. You know, that
doesn't happen very often with Kevin Young. I think that
they got out hustled, out played, but not because of
elect of heart, you know what I mean. I think that,
you know, we do need to remember my friend BYU
lost to a top twenty five team that into a
little while ago, was borderline in the top ten. And
so it's not like they lost to a bunch of scrubs.
It's not like they lost to youthah, you know what
I'm saying. So like they lost to a good team.
Speaker 2: And so I.
Speaker 1: Think that as you look into the way the game was,
it was a Texas Stack. Texas Stacks had their momentum.
They never really had a run bit and like throughout
the whole game, it was just a very much a
back and forth battle and in Texas Tech never truly
had their wow wow moment when the crowd got into it.
They happened to have that in the last you know,
eight minutes of the game, which is unfortunate, right, It's
the worst time for it.
Speaker 2: To happen.
Speaker 1: But you know, like you could also tell, like AJ.
Speaker 2: Was run down.
Speaker 1: Richie was now himself only one that had a really
good game out of the you know, out of the
big you know, the brig three was was Robert Wright,
but everybody else, you know, it was just a little
bit lack desiring. You know, I have been very critical
of a few players from the.
Speaker 2: Beginning of the of the year. They're just not doing enough.
Speaker 1: Like it's you've.
Speaker 2: Got to have a support cast.
Speaker 1: You got to have a team that you know, knocks
down three pointers that is able to help.
Speaker 2: We've scoring.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about this, Ben, Like you know, between
the three guys of Richie, in AJ and Rob, I
mean they're scoring, you know, close to seventy percent of
the points and most of the time been seventy percent
of the points. It's coming you know, like eighty, you know,
seventy five points.
Speaker 2: I mean they're.
Speaker 1: Scoring you know, borderlines of like close to fifty five,
you know, sixty points.
Speaker 2: And so it's difficult when you have you know, almost.
Speaker 1: Six or seven other players that can't even score twenty
points are together, that's pretty difficult.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're the Big three of Texas Texas style played.
I think the brig three of BYU. That's what it
came down to. I will say this, we were discussing,
you know what's missing, what they need. You know, one
of the players, I think be he's missing right now
is what mag that dude's shot almost forty percent from
the three point line. Can we find someone that can
just hit a standing three when one of the big
brig three penetrates and dishes.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, one of the things that my wife gets,
you know, a ton of credit, Well she doesn't get
enough credit. As she's looking at me, you know, never
gets enough credit enough and so but it's the fact
that throughout my career she was always all my years
saying the law of averages, the law of averages, the
law of averages. And you know, I think right now,
you know, Canard Davis is just not knocking down enough shots.
But the law of averages at the end of the
day are going to true up. And so what do
I mean by that. I mean that at the end
of the day, you know it's going to work itself out.
To me, the issue right now, the alarming issue is
that aside from the brick, aside from.
Speaker 2: The Big Three.
Speaker 1: Canard is not a volume guy, meaning that you know,
he can't certainly can get ten, fifteen, twenty points in
a game. He's certainly capable of, but it's not something
that consistently he is going to do. And if the
Uyu just doesn't have that fourth guy, you know what
I mean, like because those three guys caused so much attention,
which is my bit my disappointment this.
Speaker 2: Year with Tyler Morass and Mahilo.
Speaker 1: I mean, the amount of looks that these guys can
potentially have and they're not catching and shooting. You know,
it's difficult, especially as I did that for a living
and I excelled, you know, playing with you know, Players
of the Year and MVPs and all of that around me,
it's difficult when you look at the role players not
doing what they're supposed to do. And to me, Ben,
you know, I understand you said, Hey, the you know,
the Big three from Texas tack over, you know, outplayed
the Big three from Buyu. That to me is not
the issue. The issue is that someone needs to step up.
Since you know, Uh, Nate Pickings, you know, uh went
out and since Dawson went out. Uy you just haven't
had anybody that can consist give them, you know.
Speaker 2: Ten fishing points a game.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm not asking them to do fishing points a
game because that's that's a lot, but ten points a
game been I mean ten points again literally is three
layup and a few free throws. I mean I need
someone to give them, you know, three layups in a
three point or every game aside from the Big Three.
I'm not asking for much here, my man, you know
what I'm saying, and do he just doesn't have that?
Speaker 3: You know, we need we need a six foot eight,
two hundred and forty five pound four man name named
Brazilian bomber just to sit in the corner and just
bomb three.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you literally looked at how I played,
especially my.
Speaker 3: FIE's so perfect, you'd be so perfect for the squad,
bro just sitting there that quick, that quick release, you
know what I mean, just hitting three after three after three.
Speaker 1: Well, and to your point, I mean, I mean, you know,
now I'm gonna I'm gonna put myself in the back
because you know, I broke a lot of records at BUYU,
I won a lot of championships. I want a lot
of individual accolades. Nonetheless, I will say this, you don't
even need an all time player.
Speaker 2: Like I was.
Speaker 1: Mowa Meg would fit in like a glove like you know,
like a cold lemonade. Or do you remember when we
used to do the show at at at.
Speaker 2: At the day give me point golf course and you
used to get an Arno Pullman every day. I never
forget that. I remember those days being.
Speaker 1: Listen, all we need we don't even need an all
time performance, you know, like Mowa Meg would fit in
like a cold Arnold Palmer in a summer day, you.
Speaker 2: Know, like he would.
Speaker 1: And and I don't know if that's a role that
Canard can excel him. Is he capable of I think
so because we've seen him do it.
Speaker 2: I just don't think that that's his cup of tea to.
Speaker 1: Consist simply do it game after game after game, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Hey, uh, I'm right there with you. I'm just wondering
who's gonna step up. I wanted it to be my
high low bucket bitch, right. I mean he's like he's
six ten, six eleven, and he's got a good mechanical stroke.
I mean, he's he can do it.
Speaker 2: He just I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, he just isn't that guy. I guess, isn't
that dude?
Speaker 2: He doesn't If you, I have a question for you.
Speaker 1: And again right, I'm not saying these, I'm not teasing you,
but like I'm a basketball guy that I pay attention
to all of the details.
Speaker 2: That minuscure, right, and the way.
Speaker 1: That you do when the football, like I you know,
you and I have texta doing football games where you're
talking about the secondary and the way that the backs
are dropped.
Speaker 4: I mean you you break down the game like crazy.
Speaker 3: Because I'm just talking about spacing here. I'm just talking
about spacing like there's got it, There's there's everyone. You
just gotta space it out and they're everywhere.
Speaker 2: My point on.
Speaker 1: This is because you're not a super detailed guy when
he comes to basketball in comparison to like, you know,
a coach or maybe me, does any feel for.
Speaker 4: You because you do you do see things.
Speaker 1: A little bit more than just a fin But Maheilo
was shooting way more threes.
Speaker 2: Last year than he was this year? Or am I crazy?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 3: Is he shooting more or less threes?
Speaker 1: This year?
Speaker 2: Is that what you said?
Speaker 1: I feel like he was shooting way more threes less
year than he is this year.
Speaker 3: Man, you may be right. I'd have to pull the
stats on this. I just don't think he's a confident shooter. Like,
I just don't think he is. I don't know why.
I don't know why he's not. Like maybe you can
diagnose that better than me, But.
Speaker 2: I got to look into this. I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: Let's see who gets it for as sure or me,
because it can be Ben, Like, I look at this, and.
Speaker 3: It is at one point, I pulled it up one
point nine three point shots attempted last year per game,
and he's at so it's not by much, not by.
Speaker 4: Much, but he does like so it's about a half.
Speaker 1: A shot, half a shot, half a three point a game.
It feels like way more. And I think it feels
like way more because he's getting more playing time, Ben,
So maybe that's another factor. Right, How is it possible
that he's playing more than he is and he was less.
Speaker 2: Year and he is shooting less, you know what I mean?
And so like to me, he.
Speaker 1: Was supposed to be the one, like the difference maker, right,
and that's what's spending right now, and it is it
is extremely it is extremely disappointing because he is someone
the BIU really needs. You know, Canard Davis can can
certainly shoot right, he certainly has a you know, a
discrete shot, right. But as you look, I mean, you know,
his minutes are slightly up this year, but he's shooting
significantly less. He's shooting better from but you know, I
mean he's making the same amount of.
Speaker 2: The same amount of shots. Uh.
Speaker 1: But it's you know, it's.
Speaker 2: Someone needs to step up.
Speaker 4: And to me, that's the bigger story, right.
Speaker 1: Kadeem is not going to be able to do it.
He's not that guy. It's not what they need. They
need another perimeter oriented player. And so which is a
shame that you know, Brody is is injured and he's
not able to play, because Brody Koslowski would also fit
in like a glove, you know, in this team.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 3: What needs to be done this week h for this
BOU men's basketball team to get back on the right track,
get back to their winning ways.
Speaker 1: I think they just need to realize that they look,
we just didn't play well, right. I think there's a
few factors here. Kevin Young says, first of all, listen,
I got out coached you know, he was able to
make adjustments and Kevin Young didn't really call it time out.
I mean, you and me and Ron were able to
look you through all of that, and you know, he
kind of just let things go a little bit, which
again it's it's a sign of a coach that really trusts.
Speaker 2: His team and wants his team to.
Speaker 1: Figure it out on their own right. And so it's
a fine line that you have to navigate. And so
that's that's number one. Number two is just say, look, guys,
we just need you know, Canard, you just didn't play well,
Like we need you to step up. We need you know, Mahilo,
we need you to knock down some shots. Tyler, you
need to start shooting more, right. I mean, you know,
even as you look into Tyler's stats, it's, you know, it's.
Speaker 2: A little bit disappointing to see.
Speaker 1: And yes, it's a different role, it's a different team,
but you know, like he is just not shooting enough.
Like last year he was shooting thirty eight percent from three.
This year, Tyler is shooting twenty eight percent from three.
I mean, you know, like that's that's almost like one out.
Speaker 2: Of every four.
Speaker 4: You know, even in baseball, those are not good.
Speaker 2: Numbers, you know what I'm saying, Like, and so it's
it's difficult, right.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing that I I would say is, look,
aside from the coaching stuff, aside from you know, a
couple of guys that need to step up and just haven't.
You know, aj is still coming back from a sickness.
You know, Richie was exhausted. And guys, it's not like
we lost to the last place team in the Big twelve.
They lost to the number fifteen team in the country.
Speaker 2: On the road.
Speaker 1: And so you know, like, yeah, I totally agree with
the with the ranking for this week would be why
you're dropping two spots too, you know, to thirteens. But
it is weird that they drop two spots after beating Utah,
you know what I'm saying. So this week's drop makes
total sense. Last week's drop make nonsense. And so it's
you know, it's it's what I would be telling you know, everybody,
you know in the locker room.
Speaker 2: You know, if I were.
Speaker 3: There, Jonathan Tabinari, ladies and gentlemen talking to some BYU
basketball here on your Utah ESPN radio network, Are you
at all concerned about this team right now, it sounds
like you're like, hey, this is this is you know,
just a road loss. A j was a little bit
sick and his shoulder was injured. Texas Tech is a
really good team. Maybe k Y got a little bed
out coached. I mean there's still you know, you got
five weeks until March madness essentially begins. Still a lot
to be accomplished and nothing to really worry about here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I definitely think it's the latter been.
I mean, it's just one of those things like move on,
you know, like it's one loss to a really good
team where we just we didn't play well. I taught
by you played think to be fair, BUYU played solid
for three quarters of that game, and then you know,
the last ten minutes of the game, they just weren't themselves.
And so I think there are positives that you can
take from from this. I think they're you know, lessons
to be learned. But again, you know, no way, shape
or form you should you know, go and say we
have a problem here. You know, you could even make
the argument that uh, you know, uh, Beatle is still
trying to get into the rhythm of things, you know,
Abdullah Ahmed And there's a lot of things that you
can say here to justify this loss. It's not a
terrible loss, but again, right after you win thirteen games
in a row, losing, you know, it's a little bit odd.
It will be interesting to see how they recover from this,
you know, especially with you know, the the.
Speaker 2: Games that they have.
Speaker 1: Coming up, you know what I mean, Like they as
you look at their schedule and you see that they
play you know, they have a break and then they
play Utah next Saturday, so they are able to get
healthy this entire week.
Speaker 2: Playing Utah at home.
Speaker 1: That's probably gonna get you know, probably gonna be a
game that you know, b YU wins, but they need
to play well. And then right after dead they have
Arizona at home, and then they go to Kansas and
uh and then they have anough and then they have
a tough game at Oklahoma to come back home and
play Houston, and so it's a loaded schedule, right you know.
You know, uh, the SEC in football, you know, is
the equivalent of the Big twelve in basketball, and so
you know, I think everything is going according to plan,
right If there was a loss that was quote unquote expected,
it's definitely this one.
Speaker 3: Jonathan Devnar. Ladies and gentlemen, JQ. Who you're rooting for tonight,
Indiana or Miami in the colleg Football National Championship Game.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, you know, I when I when when
college football came out and I was, you know, I
was playing a lot with Georgia because you know, my
wife is from Georgia. So a big XN of Carson back.
You won a lot of games for me on video
game against my son. But Indiana's story is really sweet,
right and you know the the head coach and the
way he put the roster together, you know, having the
Heisman winner. It's also really cool and so h plus
he's a Latino guy, so I got.
Speaker 2: A room for one of my own, and so you
know I'm going. I'm going for Indiana.
Speaker 3: All right, Let's go Hoosiers. JT for three four three,
j T appreciate your brother. Great segment.
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