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victory over the TC horn Frogs. It's beautifully ugly. No
matter how you win, a win is a win is
a win, and a good team a great team.
Speaker 4: Has to figure out multiple ways to win.
Speaker 3: When guys are out, when guys are injured, when guys
are a little bit sickly when your stars just aren't
getting buckets. They lacked efficiency, they weren't in the groove.
But we know that this team is a second half
team and they were gritty. I feel like AJ deserves
a ton credit for just how gritty and competitive he is.
Sustained a right shoulder injury in this game, and you
know that can be pretty devastating. Somehow found a way
to push through that, didn't even pull himself out of
the game. So I like this team a lot, and
I think this team, although you know, there are frustrating
elements about this team, whether it's uh, you know, I
don't know what you're most frustrated by. Maybe it was
the rest last night. Maybe it was the fact that
that that by you just couldn't buy a bucket. They did,
they didn't shoot the ball all that efficiently, but they
somehow found a way to win. So you gotta celebrate that.
We're gonna delve into all the knicks and credits, all
the news and notes coming out of Brigham regarding this
particular game, this particular victory. Always recruiting news and notes
coming out of the transfer portal and the acquisitions and.
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Behind the Glass up in Salt Lake City. It was
down at the BYU basketball game and covering fish gritty,
beautifully ugly win over the TC horn frogt Let's welcome
in Ronald the three man weaver to the show was up, Ronnie.
Speaker 5: Ben, how are we doing it?
Speaker 6: I was, I was live president down there at the
Marriott Centers nine pm.
Speaker 5: Timpball Lake Timpoff got the bedleid.
Speaker 6: That's just how it is when you work in the
field of sports. But it was a great opportunity for
by to pick up a gut check win. Per Kevin
Young in the post game. Look, Ben, I'm gonna give
TC a lot of credit. Derek top six defensive team
in the Big twelve. So I want to give the
horn Frogs credit. They made that tough for BYU. It
wasn't just BYU struggles. They did some good things last night.
But that's good to get tested because I think their
biggest test is gonna come on Saturday. Is now they
turn their attention to Texas Tech. They haven't beaten them
since they've been in this conference. But you need a
good type of win like that with people under the
weather being down a body or two.
Speaker 5: I think that all helps the team at the end
of the day.
Speaker 4: I love the breakdown.
Speaker 3: Let's also welcome in Hammertime show Brett always bringing the
hammer Hammer Time.
Speaker 4: How you feel about them? Koog's right now.
Speaker 7: Look, I love Kevin Young, I love aj De Bonsa,
I love BOU basketball. I don't love nine o'clock tips.
I'm I'm just being real with the people. And look,
I'll stay up to do it. I'll stay up to
put out the content that the people want. But I'll
tell you what, man, By the time I got in
bed yesterday and it felt like the longest day ever,
Like get home and we're sitting there kind of waiting
for the game to start, and it doesn't start until nine.
And then they got pushed back because of the I
think it was Texas Vanderbilt, right or even though somehow
Vanderbilt jumped to BEOU in the polls, just for Vanderbilt
to loose to unranked Texas A different story for a
different segment. But uh yeah, when that thing was over,
I was I was ready to go to bed.
Speaker 4: And obviously I'm putting out content. Ron's putting out content.
Speaker 7: We're all still working So I love BOU basketball, don't love.
Speaker 4: Nine o'clock tips.
Speaker 7: But you know what, if it means that by you
gotta win, it's worth it.
Speaker 3: What were you most frustrated with last night during the
bo U TCU game? Was it the first half inefficiencies?
Was it the zebras, the reps? Was it the nine
pm tip off?
Speaker 4: With it? Something else? That is what got your goat?
Speaker 3: What got your te o't what's got you in a
bad mood last night?
Speaker 7: I honestly didn't feel like the officiating was atrocious.
Speaker 4: I honestly thought it was worse in the Utah game.
Speaker 7: But if you do it quantitatively, you had guys closer
to fouling out in the game against TCU than you
did in the game against Utah. And I think, like connotatively,
it's just like it looks worse in the Utah game.
Speaker 4: A because it's the rivalry game. B because Tony Padilla.
Speaker 7: Happened to be in the building, Like I think had
Tony be but yeah, been in the building last night.
Speaker 4: I think they were in a riot in the city
of Provo.
Speaker 7: So I I mean it was unfortunate that Keba and
Richie put up so many fouls I guess and were playing.
I think they both had four fouls in the final
five minutes, and the fact that neither one of them
fouled out, I think speaks a lot to just how
talented those guys are. But I also think you have
to keep in mind that BYU's rotation was even smaller
than usual because you had Beato, because you had Zavian out.
Because of all the guys who were out, more guys
had to play more minutes, and I think that just
got some guys in trouble, so the rest probably.
Speaker 4: I'm probably in the minority on that.
Speaker 7: I think a lot of people were upset with the
officiating last night.
Speaker 4: I wasn't.
Speaker 7: I honestly am not that upset with the game from
last night. I don't have that many gripes. I think
last night was an example of what happens when teams say, hey,
we're gonna do everything to make your big three not
be able to beat us. Now the big three still
showed up at the end. I don't think last night
was a bad game. I think TCU just played good defense.
Speaker 3: Ronald the three man Weaver, what were you most frustrated
with last night?
Speaker 4: And why?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: When I look at this one with Brett Benny, And
look I did put this out there right covering the games.
I did get frustrated at a moment with the officiating,
like the stretch, because to me, basketball is a game
of momentum. It killed the momentum for BAU at times,
but it wasn't the whole thing. So if people feel
that I felt the way because I was saying some
things and said I didn't like this stretch of officiating,
not as a whole.
Speaker 5: You know why, because the numbers back it up.
Speaker 6: When you shoot twenty nine free throws, you can't really
say the officials were a problem.
Speaker 5: You can't. That's just that's that's a lie per the numbers.
Speaker 6: But I will say this, I was more upset at
player execution and in coaching staff because at some point,
and I mean it's in the nicest way, and this
is noticing basketball. Tanner Tuilson was in the game, good
basketball player, But when the entire roster has assists, fouls
and he only has five points and nothing else, I
felt like they did not attack him defensively, then maybe
they needed to. TC did a good job of hiding him.
I know he guarded aj I know ITJ wasn't feeling well,
but I felt schematically at times the execution wasn't there
for the players. And then what I wanted to see
from the coaches was to a target and go at
certain guys on the TC roster, which they did down
the stretch, but that was I think what was more frustrating,
because when I see Rob pushing transition and throw the
ball over Cape's head as they're on a run, that's
not coaching staff, that's player execution. So to me, I
would go players first and guys not stepping up maybe
when they needed to, and then the second half coaches
schematically needing to attack certain players. I don't think the
officials had anything to do with it. I felt by
you just put themselves in bad situations and officials aren't
going to help you out. But when you shoot twenty
nine free throws, that's not officiating in my opinion.
Speaker 4: Thank goodness BYU.
Speaker 3: You can find a way to win when you are
out shot out efficiencied if that's even a word. I mean,
they really like you didn't win this game. From a
shooting standpoint, I guess you can say the twenty nine
free throws, yes, because you were at seventy nine percent
from the charity stripe. That was nice, That was glorious,
That was wonderful. It is hard to blame Zebras right
when you when you get to the line twenty nine times,
and I feel like they called it If you want
to say they called it bad, I think they called
it bad both ways.
Speaker 4: I don't feel like calls went in favor of one
team or the other. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: To me, I like, I think the most frustrating thing,
like it's and it's not the favorite in my poll.
To me, it's just like when are we going to
figure out how to play a first half?
Speaker 4: Like to me, it's like.
Speaker 3: We are down or or tied during are these first
half runs all season long?
Speaker 4: And I really can't.
Speaker 3: I can't think of any time where I came away
from a first half and like, man, we are dialed today,
we are we are thriving today, we are game plans
working out in the first half. Imagine what this BYU
basketball team could be if we put two halves together.
Speaker 4: That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Refs are gonna ref and sometimes shots will fall, sometimes
they won't.
Speaker 4: You got plenty of looks that you liked.
Speaker 3: I just would like to see a little bit more
efficiency in the in the first half.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 3: I would love to see it. That's what I'm most
frustrated by. But guys, we're gonna delve into this. We'll
get into some sound with Ky what he thought about
the game, what he took away from it. Check out
the ESPN the fans starting lineup. We'll get to Ky
here in the nitty gritty Richie Saunders following that.
Speaker 4: The Todd King he struggled in the first half.
Speaker 3: You know, he he struggled a lot in the first half,
but found his groove maybe in the second half. We'll
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in this BYU men's basketball game? Well, number eleven basketball
was led by aj Debonsis twenty five points as they
took down TCU seventy six to seventy on Winston Night
at the Marias Center.
Speaker 4: After trailing thirty six to thirty at the break.
Speaker 3: BYU several dominant second half runs and a thirteen second
chance thirteen second chance points to secure a six point victory.
Speaker 4: Offensive rebounding has been a boon.
Speaker 3: For BYU in these beautifully ugly games where you're trying
to figure out creative ways to win, and second half
point or second chance points have been I think one
of the biggest benefit benefits of this b YU men's
basketball team. De Bonsa finished with twenty five points, as
I mentioned, seventeen from the second half, so second half
team continues to be the theme for this Cougar basketball team.
Along with six rebounds one assists, the freshman also went
seven to seven from the free throw line.
Speaker 4: That's that's nice to be perfect from the line.
Speaker 3: As I mentioned, ba as a team was at about
eighty percent shooting at an eighty percent clip from the
charity stripe. His twenty five points move him past Devin
Durant and Eric Mika to the number nine overall spot
on the freshman all time scoring list for BYU men's basketball.
Does he become the number one all time freshman score
It seems like it's trending that way. He's gonna have
to continue to produce, but it seems like it's trending
that way. Richie Saunders went nine of eleven from the
charity stripe, totaling eighteen point, six rebounds and one assists.
Robert rob Right third added fifteen points and six rebounds
as well as six assists. Keviketa contributed ten rebounds, seven points,
three blocks to assists in one steal. And then Mihailo
Boskovic and Hadim Boop combined for twelve rebounds off the bench.
While baout rebound at TCHU fifty one to thirty six
and outstole them five to three. The horn Frogs outshot
the Kougs forty one to thirty five percent and out
assisted sixteen to eleven. Let's get the commentary from Ky
postgame and get into this. Richie got his fourth foul
early in the second half. Then Aj scored seventeen points
in eight minutes. Was anything said to him to inspire him?
Speaker 4: What was that like? Watching him take over the game?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Now means a gut check type win for our group.
You know, it felt like anything that could go wrong
would go wrong. I felt like our whole team at
four fouls, dot AJ was going to die out there,
and they just found a way to.
Speaker 9: Make place.
Speaker 10: You know, he's obviously a great player. You know, we
needed him, and he stepped up. And then Richie, you know,
not being his night, hits that huge three also got
a couple Richie style offensive rebounds that helped.
Speaker 3: So Richie always is on the glass man, That's why
you keep him on the floor. That plus mind is
always in the plus with Richie, even when he's not
hitting shots from the outside. So one thing I was
talking to a number of individuals today about AJ.
Speaker 4: I feel like.
Speaker 3: The best quality of AJ is not necessarily his his length,
his athleticism, his skill set, his polished scoring ability, all
that matters, Like all of that matters. The clay is amazing,
the amount of work that he's put in his meeting.
To me, it's the gritty like competitive mindset that he has.
Speaker 4: Like not everyone is competitive, guys.
Speaker 3: There's two types of competitors too, those that like to
win and those that hate to lose. AJ hates to lose.
Most of us just like to win. Let's be honest.
We just like to win.
Speaker 4: It's fun to win.
Speaker 3: It's fun to do things that we're good at, and
we like to win. It's fun, not everybody. Very few
people hate of whore cannot live with losses. It keeps
them up at night, it makes them angry. They're not
fun to be around. Like they're special humans and they
hate to lose mentality. It works in sports, it doesn't
always work in like business, because you have to create synergies.
Whether you're in the corporate America or entrepreneur like, you
have to create synergies. And even when you lose, stay
positive rights, stay positive, stay positives, stay positive, keep everyone
bought in, body in. But like dude, AJ hates to lose,
suffers the shoulder injury, doesn't want to take himself out.
Speaker 4: I think that's his best quality. I really do.
Speaker 3: So when we're talking about Darren Peterson versus AJ to Bonsa,
I'm looking at who's injured and who has grit, competitive fire,
and who's willing to go out there and play this
fight injury and find a way to win, find a
way to take over the game. That's why I think
AJ's the best player in this next year's NBA draft.
And everyone's gonna say, well, what about the efficiency, what
about plus and minus? What about Darren Peterson? Darren Peters's
such a score he looks like he's at eighty percent.
Everyone's at one hundred percent. He can just get anywhere
on the floor and score at will, all those things,
and I'm like, look to me the competitive fire of AJ.
Speaker 4: Trump's Darren Peterson.
Speaker 3: If I'm an organization in the National Basketball Association, if
I got the number one overall pick, I'm taking AJ
because of the work ethic, but also because of the
gritty competitive Mamba MJ mentality. I see what I saw
in Kobe and MJ in AJ.
Speaker 4: That's what I see. I'm seeing the competitive mindset.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm seeing the due diligence to put in the
work necessary.
Speaker 4: Like Lebron has superb work ethic, but he's not a killer.
Speaker 3: Lebron is one of the greatest, if not the most
physically gifted basketball players ever to play the game.
Speaker 4: No one's gonna he's from a skill set.
Speaker 3: Athletics say he's like a combo of like Shack, and
he's a combo of KG and Kobe and Magic Johnson.
His ability to destrip at the basketball like he's a freak,
but he's not a killer.
Speaker 4: He's a flopper.
Speaker 3: He's weak, like he doesn't like the physicality of the
game necessary because he's always been the biggest. Anyway, I
see a special thing in AJ and that needs to
be celebrated.
Speaker 4: Let's get back to it.
Speaker 3: Ky rebounding seemed to be a bigger difference in the
second half. Was that a conservative effort or a message
at halftime?
Speaker 9: Now, it's been a message.
Speaker 10: Since I got here a year and a half ago,
and it's been a constant message in the last week.
You know, Mike Tomlin, who I have a lot of
respect for, said something after their playoff loss the other day,
and obviously just step down. But I love guys like
him because they say, how it is, you either do
or you don't.
Speaker 9: Was his message, either do or you don't.
Speaker 10: There's people that do in life, they are successful, and
the people that don't aren't.
Speaker 9: And so, like, I don't really.
Speaker 10: Go philosophical too much on you guys, but like, that
really struck me. And so I'm getting tired with really
getting tired of talking about any followed up by saying
there's too much talking in our business, and so I'm
getting tired of talking about rebounding. Usually, you know, defensively
we talk about it, but offensive we talk about a nauseum.
And so tonight we had twenty one offensive rebounds. You know,
that's how you sustain shooting thirty five percent from the field.
Speaker 9: You know, we had.
Speaker 10: Plus seven on field goal attempts, plus eleven on free
throw attempts.
Speaker 9: You know, that's how you're able to stay in a
night like that.
Speaker 10: Where not every night's going to be your night on
the offensive end. So you got to find different ways,
you know, to win the ball game. And I thought
our guys, I told them they should have confidence because
we can win a lot of different ways. And you know,
that's a tough team. Coach Dixon is a great coach
and hit. They just play really hard, and so that
was a dog fight.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 10: I'm just proud of the guys for pulling it out
because of the rebound.
Speaker 4: I'll be honest.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a couple of things I want to
take away here. All you Star Wars fans are just
loving that do or or not there is no try,
either you do or you don't. You know that brings
true obviously to everyone in the that it's played sports.
You got to get it done and and be way
You've haund a way to get it done. Awesome, you know,
towards the end is I was kind of listening to
you know, Khy close out those comments. It just made
me think about, you know, this collective team and this
culture that he's built and who he's attracted strategically with personalities,
guys that want to buy in and do the dirty work.
And that's special in the transfer portal era, that's not
an easy thing to do. Why because when you when
you include so much money and prestige, and everybody wants
like to be featured and wants to be highlighted.
Speaker 4: Ego Ego.
Speaker 3: Ego is at the forefront of a lot of these
acquisitions via the portal. It's hard to find buying just
is and culture is winning out too on this basketball team.
Speaker 4: So I love that.
Speaker 3: Let's get to number three, coach. You guys go down
nine in the second half. Was there a definitive moment
where the momentum shifted back in your favor?
Speaker 10: I have to I'm have to watch the film to
really give you a great answer on that. So I
don't know definitive, but I thought, you know, the execution
of that full court play where Rob got all the way,
I got fouled right before halftime. I thought that was
big to give us a little bit of momentum, cut
the lead a little bit. So I'd probably say that
for me without watching the tape.
Speaker 4: Without watching the tape, that's what he said.
Speaker 3: Guys, your thoughts, your commentary, anything stand out to you,
Ronald the three man weaver than Brett.
Speaker 4: And then I'll bring up the caboos.
Speaker 6: I really don't know if there was a defining moment.
I just thought, to me, Ben, this is very simple,
like having played in a college game before, I don't
know where a thing shift that. Yes, you can say
the Rob thing at the end, and to be honest
to talk about that play, it look like Rob got
rolled up on two because he was limping, and I
was like, you can't have.
Speaker 5: Rob or I get hurt. You really just can't have that.
Speaker 6: But to me, no, I just thought, if anything, it
was just I think it was AJ's mentality of like
you said, I'm not gonna lose this game, and I
think sometimes look mentality, people can say what they want.
Speaker 5: There's trash talking and sport.
Speaker 6: There is a guy that's better than you, but there's
a guy that is like give me the dang ball.
I'll say that because their kids listening to this program
and get the you know what out my way and
I'm gonna go to work.
Speaker 5: And I felt like AJ did that.
Speaker 6: I mean, if he doesn't score been seventeen of twenty
five points in the first half in an eight minute stretch,
he doesn't do that, they don't win that game. I mean,
you could talk about the free throws they left, you
could talk about Richie getting in foul trouble. I don't
feel like there was a defining moment because even with
the officiating being up and down, I felt like BYU
just say, you know what, We're gonna play our game.
We're gonna rebound, we're gonna block shots, we're gonna have
a mentality of like, we're not letting you beat us.
And sometimes as that does carry you because this team
is already talented enough. So as I really think about
that question, I was really trying to give you a
best answer. I don't think it was anything in particular.
I just thought it was their will of we're not
losing the TCU and AJ's ability to be like I'm
gonna put the ball in the basket and I dare
somebody to stop me, and you could argue that AJ
had his flu game type moment.
Speaker 3: Look, I mean, as a media member, we're all trying
to figure out, Okay, what did you say?
Speaker 4: Coach? Who said what? Who inspired?
Speaker 5: Nothing? Really?
Speaker 4: What was the definitive moment? Brett? Did you see something.
Speaker 7: When you first ask what shifted momentum in this game?
The first thing that comes to mind, and I'm not
even being sarcastic or facetious, but four minutes and thirty
four seconds left to go in the game, you know
what happened? That whole stadium got chicken because that dude
missed two free throws in a row. And I think
there was an energy that just shifted just a little
bit because it was tied I think sixty three all
at that point, it was a wash. You had Richie
and Keba both playing with four fouls. It was basically
who wanted it more. At that point, the whole game
didn't matter who's gonna win the final four and a
half minutes. When he missed both those free throws, I
think TCU felt like they lost the little momentum. I
think the building gained a ton of momentum, and I
think BYU fed off of that.
Speaker 4: The rest of the way.
Speaker 7: I think the final three minutes of the game, I
want to say they only missed BOI only missed one.
Speaker 4: Shot, so they really didn't. They just didn't make a
whole lot of mistakes.
Speaker 7: I think down the stretch and you saw TCU miss
a couple of bad shots, turned the ball over at
the end of the day. I think it was energy
and who wanted it more, which kind of goes back
to what Kevin Young was talking about with the Mike
Tomlin and the rebounding. Like I think it was just
a mentality thing. When the energy shifted at four thirty
four left to go in the game, I like.
Speaker 3: That take a lot, and you know it's uh, there
were plenty, plenty of ebbs and flows in this game.
There's there was a lot of competition back and forth
throughout it all. And uh sometimes chicken, it's delicious. Who
doesn't like chicken. I love chicken, You love chicken.
Speaker 4: We all have chicken. That gets everyone hiked.
Speaker 3: All right, guys, A couple of last things before khy
Let's just go here.
Speaker 4: Did you say anything to aj at halftime by chance? As?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: Was that just him realizing he was needed at the moment.
Speaker 10: I think it was just AJ realizing what's needed. You know,
he's I don't have to say a whole lot to AJ.
You know, AJ's a great player. Even on an off night.
The guy still looks like an all world guy, generational
type guy, even when he's sick. He threw me off
with the long sleeves. I'll be honest, that threw me off.
So I was like, li, boy, I don't like when
guys just do random stuff like that. I'm very I'm
so routine driven. I was like, what's happening right now.
Speaker 9: With the sleeves. But you know, he's a tough minded kid.
Speaker 10: Hedn't really say a whole lot to anyone about him
not feeling great, So you know, he just got in
that mode that great players able to get into.
Speaker 3: So once again, this leans into what I went off
on in that first segment of like this competitive mindset,
no complaints, no female caneining. You just go out and
get it done, and you go out and win. You
hate losing, so you go out and find a way
to win. AJ, by the way, had zero points with
the long sleeve on. He had zero points with the
long sleeve on. Boy had missed five straight going into
that break. When they came out of that break, Aga
had taken the shirt off and that's when he scored
his first buckets to the night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do think it's like, yeah, that's exactly what
it is.
Speaker 7: However, when Ky says that, I do want to push
back a little bit because keep the same energy the
whole time, K why you didn't really have anything to say.
Speaker 4: AJ wore a headband for what like the first five
games of the season. We've seen a headband.
Speaker 7: Since I don't think so so, so I was a
little curious about why.
Speaker 4: Did he stop wearing the headband.
Speaker 7: We Spencer Linton said pregame the reason AJ was wearing
the shirt was because he was feeling under the weather.
And I don't I don't know the psyche there, but
that was the correlation there.
Speaker 4: But I don't want to say clearly, but.
Speaker 7: All I'll say is BIOI was not playing well while
he had the shirt on. I think it was maybe
a little bit of a psychology a mentality thing where
he's like, you know what, I don't do this every game.
Let me just do what I do every game, even
though I don't feel how I feel every game. Maybe
I'll talk my body into it, and clearly he did
because he popped off.
Speaker 4: Yes, indeed, and look.
Speaker 3: Just aj don't wear your signature shoe ever again, that's
just don't wear that shoe and no more.
Speaker 7: Where we haven't seen him wear it since that game. Yeah, Ronnie,
any thoughts there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought it was pretty funny about just the superstition.
That's I'm not figuring. Oh boy, no, take that off.
And there's another question coming up next. I will discuss
a little bit more about that. But Brett and now
we're talking a few weeks ago about this, and Kevin
Young is very superstitious. He only like wears the Janowskis
when he coaches, doesn't wear any other black Janowski so
he is very much that way. I think even wears
the same black joggers like he is. He is a
very routine guy. Kevin Young is meaning it, so if
he sees that, he doesn't I even joke, which hopefully
we can get you later. Richie Saunders in the post
game at the end of it, I don't know if
if it was cut out, I was like, never, uh,
never show up to a game without a headband, Richie,
And he just chuckled and shook his head. But that's
the thing. Kevin Young doesn't like you getting outside you
know what you're doing. But I agree with Brett. He
did wear a headband, so I don't know if that's interesting.
Speaker 3: Was it a j's choice to take the long sleeves off?
Speaker 9: Then?
Speaker 10: Like again, the sleeves threw me off. And that's why
I hate stuff like that. You do you either wear
or you don't wear it. Okay, right, And so I'm
gonna have to do a quick story.
Speaker 9: I know it's midnight and everyone wants to leave, but
since we're here.
Speaker 10: Dating back to my high school days, shout out to
Brian Flanging and my teammate got a chipped front tooth,
hadn't worn a mouthpiece the whole season, shows up to
the state tournament wearing a mouthpiece, and my coach is.
Speaker 9: Like, planning it. Your too's already chipped.
Speaker 10: So that's how I feel about that.
Speaker 3: Close a couple last things.
Speaker 4: We'll try to wrap it up.
Speaker 3: Going into the game, you wanted to see your team
attack their defense. How do you feel like the execution
went in the second half?
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, I thought good.
Speaker 10: You know the stuff that we spent a lot of
time on I thought paid dividends. I thought the execution
was was good, was impressive with our Rob for the
most part, was very surgical against their aggressive defense. You know,
I'm sure you wish he could have that pass back
he through the Caba in full court, but that wasn't
a coverage base thing. So I thought our guys handled
it well.
Speaker 3: On that note, was it What was it about Rob
where he knew he needed to score in the first half,
Then in the second half he had six assistants.
Speaker 4: Was just distributing like a mad man.
Speaker 10: No, it's a great point, you know, Like and even
the coaches were like, hey man, it's not AJ's night.
Speaker 9: We need Rob to get going. And he was in
the first half.
Speaker 10: And then when AJ, you know, got into his mode,
Rob kind of started to facilitate a little bit more.
Speaker 9: And so I say it a lot.
Speaker 10: But you know, like particularly and I would actually throw
Caba in there too. You know, we got a lot
of you know, Richie, AJ, Rob get a lot of
attention for a good reason.
Speaker 9: But they're just very smart. They're smart players.
Speaker 10: They know how to play the game, they know how
to play together, and I think every night they're kind
of growing their chemistry.
Speaker 3: Finally, how do you feel like, uh, how do you
feel like reverse did Reverse did stepping up with the Sorry,
I don't know if it's just like reverse did stepping
up with Beato being out of the lineup.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Now, I thought they were tremendous. We don't win that
game without me high and hadim.
Speaker 9: You know, I just you know, what was it? They
for one?
Speaker 10: They combined for you know, twelve rebounds, you know, nine
points and a block. So I thought their activity was good.
I thought I thought Hadeen was really good. You know,
the guy can't rebound. Man, he's got a nose for
the ball.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 10: Me I hit the big three when we were kind
of struggling, So it was great. It was really good
to see guys coming off the bench and be able
to give us a lift.
Speaker 9: Everyone go home and get some sweep thank you.
Speaker 3: I'll be honest. I k nodded off a few times
in the game. I had to, you know, shake myself
a little bit. Some people were frustrated with an IPM tip,
I hopefully we don't have any more.
Speaker 6: Nope, you're wrong, because I knew you were going to
go there, so I was already prepared to step on.
There's going to be two more laid tip offs that
I'm going to be dealing with Saturday, February seventh against
Houston eight thirty pm, and then nine pm against UCF
February twenty fourth to Tuesday. That's gonna be a tough
one too.
Speaker 3: Well, how much does it cost to get in that
five on five game with you know, all of the
big wigs of what you ask I.
Speaker 6: Don't want any problems with coach Kamard What is it?
Ryan Smith, Bissant. I am good. I will I will
happily observe if they decide to play again, but I don't.
Speaker 5: I probably couldn't afford ben.
Speaker 7: I will keep at the Marriott Center because they're like,
oh I got to be at basketball.
Speaker 5: Well, that's normally a Thursday morning crew.
Speaker 6: Lee Comarda addressed the media earlier today for women's baskets,
say normally has some morning group, but they just sail
with all the schedules and everything coming back of hey,
let's just play.
Speaker 5: You know, right after so b Someon was delok.
Speaker 6: I saw how Biston played, and anybody that doubted I
see why he's passionate. He can get bucket. Steven still
at at fifty he divulce.
Speaker 5: That's not me knowing.
Speaker 6: But yeah, they were going at it. If you check
some social media for some media members, they were posting it.
But there were some buckets, celestial buckets happening last night
after after the game.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, bad just likes to sit in
that corner three spot right oh oh.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, he wasn't just doing that. He
was doing it all because he had a crowd. He
was like Steph Curry ended the game on like a
dirt Novinsky like step back, and he was like.
Speaker 9: He was talking.
Speaker 6: He's like, Ron, I need you, I need to celebrate
with me. So I dabbed him like he was doing everything.
He was driving to the basket, getting and ones doing
other stuff.
Speaker 5: He was, look, Besot's a competitor. It was good to
see that.
Speaker 6: You love to see people out of their element because
sometimes you just think older the athletic director.
Speaker 5: But no, it was nice to see that he was.
Speaker 6: He likes to play basketball, and the coaches and these
other guys like to see Ryan Smith shooting his his
family and friends. Look, these guys are normal people than
the day just because they have a job doesn't take away.
So it was a lot of chirping from everybody. It
was a very fun environment last night to watch, so
if you stayed around, you were entertained.
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Speaker 4: Don't stand so close to be That's what the Todd king.
Speaker 3: That's what AJ was saying last last night was they
were getting fouled and get to the free throw line
and uh, collectively the team had twenty nine attempts, so
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I asked the question what we were most frustrated by last
night in the bau TCU game the Zebras the refs
coming in at fifty four point three percent. I picked
first half inefficiencies that have continued throughout the long and
arge was college basketball season for the Cougars. Nine pm
tip off also coming in at twenty two point nine percent.
And so, but buy fans are not like the refs,
But look, twenty nine attempts from the charity stripe don't
stand so close to me than opponent because the refs
were at least getting something right by allowing AJ and
the crew to get to the charity stripe, which begs
the question right now, Okay, one of the things that
we've been debating for it seems like a year. You know,
last year we were talking about who the best overall
recruit was in the two thousand twenty six basketball class,
twenty twenty five basketball class, it was a Jabotso or
Darren Peterson. Again, we're having the discussion Agent de Bonsa
versus Darren Peterson to become the first overall draft pick
in this next year's NBA draft, and everyone's chiming in
on it. I want to play a sound by Ronnie
I said to you last night. I have people saying
that there's no offsens or butts about it that Darren Peterson,
when healthy, is the best player in the country by
a mile.
Speaker 4: Yes, his stats are nice.
Speaker 3: Twenty one point eight points per game, four point eight
rebounds per game. The Kansas product right now is looking
good when he's actually playing two assists, one block per game,
one point one steals per game, forty six point seven
percent from the field and forty percent from the three
point line, eighty six point four percent from the charity stripe.
Many believe that he is the first overall draft pick
in this next year's draft. But I'm like, guys, like,
are you guys not seeing what I'm seeing?
Speaker 4: Like, Look, I have been.
Speaker 3: Highly highly uh just complimentary of Darren Peterson throughout this process,
highly complimentary. But this man has only played it's in
instagram Instagram.
Speaker 4: Eight games this season.
Speaker 3: He has sat out half of the season already. I've
been taught since I started competing in sports, your best
ability is your availability. If you can't stay healthy, how
do you play if you can't stay these soft issue
injuries and other things they go back to like high
school too. It's interesting because I've been delving into like
Kirk Signetti's commentary and the lead up to the college
football Championship game, and he says he looks at two
things when recruiting, your productivity and your availability. If he sees,
especially coming out of the portal feces, that you can't
stay healthy. And I know football is maybe a little
bit different than basketball, but to me, it's it's a
baseline foundational element of why you acquire certain players. If
they aren't available consistently to play at that level, you
can't win consistently. The biggest red flag to Darren Peterson
is that his health is not wealthy. It's not good.
It's not good for long term winning. And for me,
if I'm an invest in anybody, I want someone that
can fight through injuries. I want somebody that can fight
through adversity time and time again and find a way
to win a j To me, his stats are better collectively,
and on top of that, he's playing and competed in
every single game while suffering through sickness, under the weather
and almost dislocating his right shoulder last night versus TCU.
Did you guys see that he fell down? He gets
completely demolished by one of TCU's big men right to
the back of the shoulder and he's writhing in pain.
Obviously it hurt the shoulder and it looked like it
almost subluxed. It didn't dislocate, but it looked like it
could have sublux came back fout away. That was in
the first half, and he had one of his best
performances in my opinion, the second half taken over that game,
Let's listen in CBS Sports, pontificated on this, comparing the
contrasting and discussing and highlighting Darren Peterson.
Speaker 4: Let's sun it in. There are people who work in
the NBA.
Speaker 5: They do this for a living.
Speaker 11: Their careers revolve around it, selecting players, and we have
seen aj Debonsa be awesome.
Speaker 5: We've seen it like a game after game after game.
Speaker 11: Like nobody's done this in the Big Twelve as a
freshman other than Tree Young.
Speaker 5: We've talked about that just the other day.
Speaker 9: He's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Caaron Boozer, unbelievable, Darius A.
Speaker 9: Cuff Like you go through this.
Speaker 11: Freshman class like it is locked and loaded, arguably the
best freshman class of all time. And yet when you
talk to anybody who works in the NBA, even while
Darren Peterson was sitting on the bench coming out of
games holding his legs, they said, that's the guy.
Speaker 9: You don't pass on him.
Speaker 5: He's the number one pick in the draft.
Speaker 11: And though last night Tuesday Night, wasn't the best example
of that, there were still moments in that game. A
little floater at the elbow, a pull up three in
somebody's eye, that like, you don't even take that, and
he took it confidently and buried it. There were so
many moments in the game where it was just like, Okay,
that's that's that's.
Speaker 4: It, that's that's Gary Parrish.
Speaker 3: His sources are telling him that Darren Peterson is the guy,
the dude, the individual that will be taken first in
next year's NBA draft.
Speaker 4: Last two games, yes, he has looked good.
Speaker 3: Sixteen points, twenty three points, twenty seven minutes, thirty one minutes, respectively,
shooting about forty percent from the field, thirty percent from
the three point line, five and six rebounds respectively.
Speaker 4: One assists, two assists. He's a score. There's been times
where he.
Speaker 3: Distributes for assists, three assists, for assists, three ass his
but to me, he's more of a score than anything.
Kenny rebound. Yes, he's six foot six, two hundred five pounds.
He's pretty robust, But I love the frame of the
point forward. AJ debonsa that frame to me, and the
athleticism to me. I see the quick twitch as AJ
puts on more muscle mass and lead muscle mass in
the weight room. Guys, that freak is gonna be unstoppable.
He's gonna be unstoppable. Darren has a ceiling, okay, but
he'll be He'll be a premier scorer in the league
if he's healthy. He has consistently had soft issue injuries.
How do you expect him all of a sudden to
play in the NBA where guys are bigger, faster, stronger.
You're playing more games. You think high school is tough
on your body. You think college is tough on your body,
Try playing eighty plus.
Speaker 4: Games in a season.
Speaker 3: You think Darren's all of a sudden going to be
able to be healthy for eighty plus games? How does
not that devalue him? That alone should devalue him? Am
I off base? If I am I off kilter? Here,
Roddie set me straight if I'm wrong here?
Speaker 5: No, you're not.
Speaker 6: I mean, I've been the one that's been harping on
this for a long time and really irritated actually.
Speaker 5: That you had this complain.
Speaker 6: I hadn't heard it from Gary Parris, and I respect
Gary a lot. I know that I got sent but
hearing that it just like it made me frustrated because
it's just so we're gonna take the game in Iowa
State in which he played well in a game where
he wasn't even the best player, and Breton I talked about,
see he was not. He did not shoot excellent from
the field. He did not light it up. It was
the other guy, Trey White, actually looked lit up the game.
I understand that he facilitated, but it wasn't like last
night where guys got in foul trouble. Like I watched
that game, you know, I watched it entirely, and it
just daring to me. Wasn't the best player on the floor.
You could see that he's the better athlete. I won't
argue that. And then it's okay, So we're gonna take
a guy who's had moments but who can't stay healthy
and a guy who's been consistent.
Speaker 5: It's like, so when do we get credit for being
consistent in our lives?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 6: And one elder Hollins said, you get credit for trying yet,
but this is not your jobs on the line, your
career is on the line.
Speaker 5: You're not taking a chance.
Speaker 6: You want to take a chance on the guy that's
injury prone, go right ahead, Like and as much as
I love this guy, I'm about to bring up and
I hope people don't think he's catching astray. It's I
felt like this was Andrew. This is Andrew Wiggins and
Jabari Parker. Both are talented, both are greg coming out.
But one guy started to deal with injuries. One guy
you know, had his moments of that. You keep investing,
It's like, Okay, you can and then what happens Eventually
it's like, well you move on from it. And to me,
I'm gonna be honest, it might be an extremely hot take.
If Darren Peterson continues to struggle with injuries in college
and at the NBA, it has to be both. It
just can't be one because he can get to the
next level like Pooka did and they got the best
doctors and it could go workd out. But if he
struggles now and getting to the next level, if he's
struggling in the first five to seven years with that injury,
he's going to fall off. He just will, Like your
health is the best thing. Like you have a dollar
sign on your head.
Speaker 5: That just sucks. That's the way it is.
Speaker 6: These guys are an attraction and if you can't perform,
you become less valuable. So to me, it's the same
thing with the draft. Darren's a good player. He's still
a top three player, but the more the less he
plays and checking himself out of games and not shown
up and just having quote unquote moments and not being
consistent like AJ, to me, his value drops. And now
I'm just say that as someone who covers BYU, I
legit believe that. Like I'm being honest when I say this,
I would take AJ and camp Before over Darren because
I haven't seen enough. I need him to stay healthy.
I don't want to bring in an injury prone guy
into my organization.
Speaker 5: It has that ability.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 6: Granted, I know I have to spend the money and
do that because if he does turn out well, I
lose my job. But I'm being serious. I don't think
he deserves to be picked over those other two guys
until he can stay healthy and showcase more.
Speaker 5: I can be wrong. We've still got a lot of
time left.
Speaker 6: But if you can't beat AJ and you're checking yourself
out of the game and losing. That to me, is
that's enough as a guy, as an NBA scout, when
you play by you at the end of the month.
If you can't play the full game beginning to end
healthy and play well and you're checking out and you're
not playing well, the is done. Like to me, that's
why I say been that game determines I think who
the number one.
Speaker 5: Overall pick would be.
Speaker 6: If ag goes up there and balls out, takes care
of business and Darren doesn't, and Darren can't ball out
and he's doing the same thing and he's he's under
the weather with his health and other stuff, it's just
like it's it's over. I think at that point that
determines it. So I just feel like NBA scouts and look,
I don't care what Gary has to say, but I
know him on a tangent. Everybody said diegoor can't shoot
the three. That's all I heard. That's all I heard.
I'll know where those people are at.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 6: I don't know Brett. Brett can checked it, but you can.
I want to know where those dudes are at because
I tried to tell y'all multiple times that he would
get fixed, and no one wanted to listen to me,
and everybody was yelling as people, that's a bad draft pick.
Now everybody loves him. He wasn't a lottery pick. I
sat next to a scout at the Utah game and
I asked. He said, he's a lottery pick. He will
get developed with that shot in the NBA.
Speaker 5: Don't worry. I think the same thing could happen.
Speaker 6: I think all the noise in that and when it's
all said and done, people will look at it and
be like, AJ's the freak, He's the kid, He's the
most consistent. The upside, the lebron ability is there. We
shouldn't lose that for this guy, especially if his health
is not there every single night.
Speaker 4: In my opinion, to me, Darren Peterson reminds me of
Grant Hill.
Speaker 3: Grant Hill was going to be a superstar in the
NBA and he was for a time, but just had
injuries battlefoot, ankle injuries, eventually.
Speaker 4: You know, knee issues. You know Penny Hardaway, another guy
was a star for a moment. Injuries.
Speaker 3: Okay, There's been plenty of these situations right where injuries
derailed careers. You have to be very judicious about this,
and I'm sure they're gonna MRI. They're gonna scan them
up and down to figure out what's wrong with him,
why it's wrong with him, etc. Before they draft him
at the combine. But I'm telling you, during that process,
you wonder does AJ get elevated because of his freakish athleticism,
because of what he's produced at BA in the run
that he's gonna, I believe, lead by U two in
the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 4: I'm intrigued.
Speaker 3: Many are saying Darren Peterson is the best player in
the country. I'm not buying it, and nor do I
think he's going to be the number one overall pick.
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the first half, not his best showing, but Ry rose
and shouted in the second half and balled out for Brigham.
Speaker 4: Really liked what I saw from Richie.
Speaker 3: H and the Todd King continues to impress or much
about it. Most recently the mock draft from Jeremy Wu
put him at fifty first overall in the next year's
NBA Draft at the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 4: Is he gonna be good enough? Is he gonna produce enough?
Speaker 3: Is he gonna be popular enough through the NCAA tournament
like he was last year to elevate his play, elevate
in some way shape or form his draft stock to
become a first round pick. What's his ceiling? What's his four?
Real quick, guys, what do you make of it? Do
you think his ceiling is end of first round? Is
that a ceiling for him? Or is it more, you know,
second round, middle of the second round type of deal.
Speaker 7: I don't think Richie is going to play himself into
being any higher than he is. And that's not necessarily
a commentary on Richie. That's just a commentary on A
the fact that this is a loaded class and B.
I think he's already so far outperformed what people thought
he would be. I don't know what else he could do.
I mean, the guys has multiple twenty point games this season. Like,
I think the other hard part is you're playing with
AJ and Rob and so you're never gonna look like
Superman in the Justice League on the team because you
have two other guys that are right there, and so
I think there's a couple of things I don't even
want to say working against him, because I think I
think where he is and where he's gonna go in
the draft somewhere between that.
Speaker 4: Forty five to fifty spot is awesome. It's excellent.
Speaker 7: I'm sure the competitor in him says I want to
be a first rounder. Obviously, I think where he is
right now, I think that's probably his ceiling, probably just
a couple of spots higher. But I don't think he'll
be an early second round, late first round guy.
Speaker 3: I was looking up Gordon Hayward again and just kind
of see where he was at, you know, six foot
six and three fourths inches is what he came in at,
you know, in the combine, and he was to eleven
two hundred eleven pounds, so a little bit thicker than Richie.
But like we were talking about ceilings and floors yesterday
as far as his his you know, I as an
NBA prospect, and I was like, can't he be a
Gordon Hayward if he gets you know, some muscle mass
on him, can he get up to two ten.
Speaker 4: Can he gadd up to two fifteen?
Speaker 3: I mean Gordon was playing out two twenty when he
was at his bouncies two twenty five in the NBA.
Does does Richie have the frame to do that? Does
he have the work ethic in the weight room to
do that? Is he taking enough creating and protein to
get there? I would like to see him shoot for
that is what I'm getting at. And if we see
that ability to take on maybe a little bit more
body weight, good body weight, that that's where it could
be a possibility for me. But obviously we're in the
middle of the season. At the end of the season now,
obviously he's not gonna put on additional weight and he's
coming in at maybe two hundred pounds still spelt, still
still slight. But I would love to see, you know,
him continue to pack on some good lean muscle mass.
Speaker 4: Anyway, let's talk about his stats in this game. Nice production.
Speaker 3: Not as efficient as he would like from the field,
but at least from the free throw line thirty three
minutes of play, eight of twenty two from the field,
thirty six point four percent from the field two point
two of seven, and twenty eight point six percent from
the three point line, seven of seven from the from
the charity stripe, six rebounds, one assist, and two personal fouls.
Speaker 4: Uh and or.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I have I have sorry, I have AJ's stat
up there. My bad, I got that one wrong. Twenty
six minutes of play, four to twelve from the field,
thirty three point three percent from the field, one of
six from the three point line, sixteen point seven percent
from the three point line, nine good nine of eleven
from the charity stripe, but eight eighty one point eight
percent from the charity stripe, six rebounds, one assist, and
then he had four personal fouls and one turnover. Let's
see what he had to say in the post game.
Richie s Sonders the King, Richie the message time.
Speaker 9: You guys, I think that rebounded him like plus eighteen in.
Speaker 12: The second half.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean that was a big focus.
Speaker 1: But the biggest thing that ky I was saying is
he showed the clip of KBA like a minut and
a half a game where he just uh he do
on the floor, got the ext possession. He said, that's
why we're gonna win this game. Is plays like that
just all like just an attitude of toughness.
Speaker 4: Was you the told AJ to change out of the
long sleeves?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean just I just had no part of that.
I was wondering why he didn't have that all, but
you know he wasn't. Maybe I just feeling the best,
but he just came out hooped saw a lot about him.
Speaker 12: What does it do for this team to win a
game where stylistically it's up and down?
Speaker 1: Then yeah, I mean it just it just shows that
we can win in different ways, right, like you know,
some and lows in different categories, but also some really
good stuff with offensive rebounding twenty one oh boards is
is huge and like I'm sure is gonna come in
and talk all about but like that is how you
win games like that. And the guys for for final
ways to win?
Speaker 12: How much of a grind and physical physical was it?
The physicality of this game? How much of a crind
was this one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean just from from the very jump, it
was just it was just a grind. Like, yeah, there's
games like that you just got to figure out where
to win and it's just not pretty.
Speaker 9: But yet end of the day it's come out with
a win. We're good.
Speaker 12: Is there any like a rivalry, you hangover type of
reason for you guys to come out the way you
did an house for that.
Speaker 9: Or no, I don't know, I don't think so.
Speaker 12: Were you guys aware that j was a little bit
under the weather at all or did he let you
guys know going in?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 1: I mean just bit. But we we know that we're
we're team. We gotta figure it out together and final ways,
would you pick up.
Speaker 5: Your fourth with just under fifteen to go?
Speaker 10: How difficult is it to kind of have to sit
through that?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What'd you think any.
Speaker 9: Other guys kind of Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean it sucks, there's no way around it sucks.
Just everything's just stickier, everything's hapens. But you know, I
mean just really happy for for that run that those guys.
I mean, for example, me Hi came in and hit
a Hilo came in and hit a huge shot. During
that time, different guys just stepped up and that's what
the team's about.
Speaker 12: He also played most of the final eight minutes without
four of those fouls.
Speaker 9: How do you do something like that? I mean, that's
that's tough for anybody to do.
Speaker 1: I'd be figured out. I don't I don't have a
great answer. For you, But I'm glad to pick up
that last woman.
Speaker 9: Ritchie.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts heading out to Texas Tech of
nationally ranked team on the road.
Speaker 5: What kind of challenge is that gonna be for you?
Speaker 1: Do mean it would be a great one, Just another
opportunity to grow, another opportunity to work towards our our
end goal. And I mean I love playing that. I
think it's a fun atmosphere and they do a great
job of packing that place, and I think those are
the some of the some of the funnest games is
playing when you can't even hear yourself think.
Speaker 9: I'm excited to go there and go get a win.
Speaker 1: Last question, what was it like to play against Janney Us?
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's that's one of my one of my really
good friends. Man.
Speaker 1: He had some some really good stuff in that game,
and you know, problems to him and for just his
overall just career of finding ways how to to keep
moving forward and through setbacks and all that. But he's
a stud and just got nothing but good stuff to
say a boy him.
Speaker 3: Thanks me, Hi, I haven't heard that nickname before from
behind low Hi.
Speaker 4: Well, I thought it was my highlight. That's the only
thing I've ever heard my highlight bucket fit? Yeah, I don't.
I don't know.
Speaker 6: That's the one gave Yeah me highlight bucketing, Shane.
Speaker 7: They actually actually take twelve big twelve Boscovich.
Speaker 6: I made it up, but yeah, but yeah, I've been
told to not tell him any of these nicknames because
his head's already big, because he doesn't, you know, not
take a shot he doesn't like. Uh, So I've been
told by by U players to not give him these nicknames.
Speaker 5: So I guess we'll call him me High.
Speaker 3: I was really hoping me Hi was going to get
that block on the defensive end and then transition it
into a three on the opposite end.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was that was tough travel bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, come on, dude, just take the shot.
Speaker 5: He put me high. It was me highlight, but a
bad one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just take the shot.
Speaker 9: Just take it.
Speaker 4: It was you're right there, you know it's it's yours.
Take it. He did have that one block that caught
was called a foul.
Speaker 7: However, ball don't lie, as we know throw he did,
so he did get that block, which.
Speaker 9: Was also nice.
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