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get to know the Yukon Huskies. Ladies and gentlemen BAU basketball,

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taking their talents across the country and they're going to

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be tested versus a very talented, well coached Yukon Huskies team.

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out to the hotline. Welcome in the voice of the

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Yukon Huskies. We got Mike Crispino on the line. Mike,

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how you live it?

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Speaker 2: Looking good? Feeling good?

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Speaker 4: How about you doing fantastic.

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Speaker 3: It's a beautiful day here along the Wasatch front, and

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U can't wait to delve into all the knicks and

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crannies with this matchup BYU versus the Yukon Huskies. Let's

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give a little foundational approach here.

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Speaker 4: How do you see this game?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think both teams are off to really good starts.

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I saw BYU played Villain Nova. I was impressed. They've

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got some major talent there. Their coach, Kevin Young is

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NBA background, you can see some of his influences. Obviously,

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had a great first year, twenty six wins, got to

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the sweet sixteen. You know, very rare that a guy

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that takes a program over rises to that heights. I mean,

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we're seeing Richard Patino at Xavier, for instance, struggling to

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get the Musketeers off the ground after Sean Miller left.

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expect things to be bright. And Rosie Dan Hurley took

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over for Kevin Ollie eight years ago, couldn't get the

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five hundred in his first year. Second year he got

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over five hundred. Took him a few years to get

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it rolling, and then he won back to back championships

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three years ago and two years ago. So I think

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Dyu's got a great coach there now, and Yukon's had

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a great coach here over the last eight years. So

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I'm looking forward to it because this will be the

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first test for Yukon. They played three non conference games

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against mid majors and you know, scored and played well,

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but didn't overwhelm people. You know, they've won by twenty

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plus each time. You really want to see a team

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and how they match up against a team like BYU

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that's got major talent in so many positions. So we're

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looking forward to it. I don't know how it's going

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to come out. I think Yukon will be able to

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score with anybody. The question for them is can they

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defend well enough. BYU obviously has scored a bundle of

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points in their first three games, so is Yukon. But

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it comes down to how you can defend. Can you

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stop another team when you need to, And Yukon's averaging

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over ninety points a game, so teams have had trouble

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stopping them. But it really comes down to a Dan

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Hurley's been saying this, how good do we guard the perimeter?

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far they've done that, so we'll see can they do

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it again. BYU is not a strong three points FIO team,

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it looks like so far, I think they're averaging under

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thirty percent from three, so that might be might not

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be the major test. I think it's gonna be dealing

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with Aj Debonsa and Robert Wright the third. Both guys

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are prolific scorers already. In Richie Saunders and not another

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guy average at almost eighteen their guard. So those three

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Speaker 3: Last year, Yukon was twenty four to eleven. They lost

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in the NCAA Tournament second round. What what has happened

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since that loss? That makes you out to miss it

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that they can get back to the air Elite winning

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ways from twenty twenty three and twenty twenty three and

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Speaker 2: Well, they're deeper. They are much deeper. And we haven't

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even seen Braylan Mullins, who was a McDonald All American.

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one of the exhibition games against Boston College. He's six six,

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two hundred pounds. He's a guy that can fill it

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up from distance. But he had an ankle injury early

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on in camp and after playing one exhibition game, hasn't

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played now in the last four games. So and I

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one hundred percent healthy to ready to play, So he

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can't tell how good Yukon can be. And also they

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got another freshman guard that comes from Australia, Jacob Furfey.

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He's six six two oh five left handed, sweet sweet stroke,

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can really fill it up. He's been unable to play

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as well because he had an ankle injury, so Furfy's

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getting close. He may play Saturday, he may play tomorrow.

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a good look at him except in practice a little bit.

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But my point is they're deep. They go ten deep

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with quality players. So if Alex Caravan has an off night,

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a two time national champion, and he doesn't score his

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seventeen a game, or Solo Ball doesn't shoot lights out

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from three, he's averaging eighteen a game, overcome it. Because

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now they have Terrace Reid back. They're big center, and

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he's a double double waiting to happen pretty much every night.

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averaging the most twenty points and ten rebounds. He's a

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senior and a big dude, six eleven two sixty five.

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but they've got a lot of other guys that come

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off their bench that are really quality players. Silas Demery,

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guy that came from Georgia in the SEC after two years. Raleigh,

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North Carolina guy is their point guard and so far,

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so good with him. He's really played well in terms

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of assisted turnovers. Scored about ten a game, but had

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nine assists the other night in a game against Columbias,

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the role as a point guard. Malachi Smith is from Dayton.

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points a game, a legitimate difficult guy to guard and

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a difficult guy to play against when he defends you.

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but he's tough as nails. So I mean, you keep

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going down the roster, and we haven't talked about Jaln

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Stewart as a junior forward from Seattle in his third

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year with Yukon and Jayden Ross, another junior who lit

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it up the other night from distance. Those two guys

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are juniors in the program and they're starting to get

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their most significant playing time here this year. So and

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we haven't even got to the two other guys that

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came in from other schools that will help them on

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a given night. So my point is they're deep, they

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have a lot of answers. They can pick up the

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pace against you defensively and turn you over. And one

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thing they're doing better this year, much better than last year,

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is get out on the fast break. If they can defend,

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turn you over or rebound and run. If they do that,

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then they're going to be a dangerous team throughout the

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season in the Big East and maybe beyond.

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Speaker 3: Number seven taking on. This is a top ten showdown, baby,

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this is a big game. Saturday's game will be broadcast,

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I believe on Fox. And what's your broadcast like for

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those that are going to be at the at the

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game and maybe want to tune into a little play

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by play, how can they tune into you?

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Speaker 2: We're on the Varsity Network app yukon Sports Network every game,

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every football game, every basketball game, and our baseball too.

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So yeah, it's great people are on the country and

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Ukon with the success they've had over the years in

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the last twenty five years particularly, has a lot of

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folks around the country that root for them. So that's

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what a lot of people tell me they're in various

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parts of the country. Could be Florida, could be California,

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could be Texas, could be Utah, could be anywhere. Tune

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in on the Yukon Sports Network and listen to our games.

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So that's the beauty of that app. You can get

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it on your phone. It's a pre app, and you

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can hear every single game and the pregame in the

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post game, which you know, for fans who are really

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in tune to what's going on with these schools and

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this college basketball scene, that's what you want to do.

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You want to be able to hear what the coaches

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have to say, what the players have to say after

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the game, something you don't always get, you know, with

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the TV side, we were able to get into the

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locker rooms and talk to the coaches well in advance

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of these games, and it's always enlightening and it's always informative,

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and it's always interesting. When Dan Hurley starts talking about

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the Yukon basketball program.

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Speaker 3: No doubt about it. What is the scouting report on

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b YU right now? What did Dan Hurley as coaching

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staff at the players tell you about this BAYU Cougar

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basketball team.

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Speaker 2: Well, They've got talent, and they've got a lot of

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skilled players and they have a balanced team. We talked

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about Aja Devonsa and Robert Wright the third to stop

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more guard transfer from Baylor. But they've also, you know,

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got people like Kevakta. I think that's how I pronounced

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his first name. He's a senior from Molly. He was

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a Utah player last your University of Utah. And they

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have people who can come up to the bank like Cannard

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Davis averaging nine points. He transferred from Southern Illinois. They

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have let me kind of them up your six transfers

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on this team. They lost Agor Damon who was drafted

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eighth by Brooklyn and the NBA last year, so they

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lost him. You got to replace people like that, and

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looks like they're gonna they've been able to do it,

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and you know, I don't know, I expect they're gonna

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run and gun, they're gonna score. I don't know. You know,

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I think it looks like they're good one on one

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players too. They can isolate you, and that would be

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one way I think to attack Yukon because the Huskies

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are still figuring out, you know what their health, defense,

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can do, who can come over on the weak side

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and block shots and help on d because that's when

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they became dominant two years ago and three years ago

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and won national championships because people like Donovan Kling and

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Adamas Sonogo uh Andre Jackson, people who were immense defensive players,

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Stefan Castle and they were capable, you know, going one

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on one and locking people down. So until they have

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like a crew of lockdown type defenders playing together, I

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think that's what teams will try to do. They'll try

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to exploit them on Yukon's defensive end. Get to the basket,

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get to the free throw line. That's what teams did

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to them last year and put the Huskies in some

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tough spots. But I think they're a little better this

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year on the ball, I do, and they're getting to

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the line more frequently than they did last year, and

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that's always a big advantage. I know that this team

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YU shoots at fifty seventy three percent from the free

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throw line, and they had thirty seven free throws in

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their first three games. But that's an area that Ukon

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knows and Dan Hurley talks about it all the time.

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give them free points and let them control the game

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from the free throw line. So I think that'll be

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programs who only the only previous meeting took place in

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the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, where I actually

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Speaker 4: When I was on my mission. I was out in Spokane, Washington.

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Speaker 3: We actually brought this up twice now that I served

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stat of the day on our show, but I was there.

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he bawled out in that game. Was trying to d

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up Omecha Okafer and we're trying to slow down Ben Gordon.

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They had a really nice outing fifty eight to fifty

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three victory for the Huskies on March twenty of two

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thousand and three at Spokane Veterans Memorial.

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Speaker 4: Real were you at that game by chance?

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Speaker 2: No, I was not. I was in New York working

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for the Knicks at the time. I've been to Spokane.

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I think that's a cool place. I've been there obviously

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for Gonzaga, and we played Gonzaga in Seattle last year.

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It's a great college town, I gotta say. But Yukon

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three to four were pretty darn good all four. They

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ended up winning a championship with the back local Gordon.

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So yeah, BYU great, great organization over the years and

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always always plays great basketball. Danny Ainge of course comes

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to mind. I work with him in Boston when I

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was with the Celtics back in the eighties and early nineties,

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so he would tell great stories about BYU and the

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kind of hoop they played. So we're looking forward to

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this because Yukon needs a challenge. They got to get

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a big challenge, and they're going to get one on

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Saturday night, that's for sure.

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Speaker 4: No doubt about it.

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Speaker 3: What are are there any weaknesses that you see in

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this Yukon team?

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Speaker 4: Really?

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Speaker 3: I mean, they are personnel rich and they have a

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great coaching staff obviously.

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Speaker 4: Molding the clay. The culture there is very unique.

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Speaker 3: I mean I've heard Dan Hurley discuss how he does

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not bring in certain players that are not fits culturally because.

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Speaker 4: He likes to coach them up hard.

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Speaker 3: He likes to coach him up like grown men, and

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you gotta be willing and ready to align with the

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the culture that the championship culture he's built.

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Speaker 4: Are there really any weaknesses.

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Speaker 2: Well, of course, there's always a weakness with any team.

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We won't. I think we're really going to find out

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something Saturday night. Will BYU get to the rim? Will

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they get to the free throw line? Will they give

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you con trouble when they have the basketball? That's that's

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the number one thing in my mind. Will Yu can't

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take care of the ball? Last year they had some

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turnover issues? This year they seem to be tighter with

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the basketball. They throw it into the bigs a lot

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Terris Reid being the number one guy, the senior center,

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but there's also a freshman center that I think people

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are going to enjoy watching, especially as a season unfolds.

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Eric Raiba comes from Hanover, Germany, and he's played about

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sixteen minutes a game in the first three games, averaging

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about seven and a half points. It gets to the

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boards pretty well, ten to thirteen from the field. He's

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a freshman, but he's seven to one and he's a

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lefty and he can shoot from outside, not that he will.

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That's not really part of what Yukon does. They play

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the inside out game quite a bit when they're not

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running fast breaks and running patterned offense. But Eric Riba

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is a guy to keep your eye on because at

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seven one two sixty he's an unbelievable backup guy to

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Terris Reid, who is six to eleven two sixty five.

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So yu Khn's been feeding off this dual center thing

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now for four or five years. Used to be a

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Domasonogo Donovan Klinghen and it was Donovan Klington, Sampson Johnson

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and then last year Sampson Johnson, Terris Reid now is

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Terris Reid Eric Riba, So both of the centers are

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can be trouble. If they get in foul trouble, that's

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when yukonk and have their issues. Then they'll have to

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go small and they won't be able to control the

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boards as well and might probably won't be able to

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defend as well because they won't have weak side help

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with the bigs like Eric Riba and Terras Reid. So

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those are the things I think they got to be

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aware of the Huskies not getting fouled trouble. Don't put

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the other team on the line, take care of the

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basketball typical stuff. Sometimes if you don't shoot it well,

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you can overcome things with that kind of stuff. You know,

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the defensive mindset which Dan Hurley constantly harps on.

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Speaker 1: With these guys.

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Speaker 2: So BYU gets off they're a past start and they're

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filling it up and U con falls behind, then anything

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can happen. Then you don't know how your team's going

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to react. I think that's what Dan Hurley is looking

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forward to more than anything. What are we going to

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do when we get in a hole? When this team

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does what they're gonna do, they're gonna score it, and

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what if they get a lead on us? How are

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we going to handle that? So that's what we're looking

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forward to seeing on Saturday night.

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Speaker 3: Defensively, how do you think Dan Hurley approaches this game?

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You mentioned Bay who has not shot the three ball

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especially well. Although this last game versus Delaware maybe a

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defunct Delaware Delaware team, they did hit twelve three pointers.

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I believe under k Y when Bous hitting over ten

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three pointers, they're like twenty and three, So I mean

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they win when they get into double digit threes. Do

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you think Dan closes out on the perimeter? Do you

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think they try to maybe byu to hit threes early on.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think they got to defend the perimeter. He

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talks about it every game when they do. And again,

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this is a young this is kind of a young team,

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a team that hasn't played together very much. Are they

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going to be able to guard the perimeter? Are they

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going to be up on guys at that at that

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line and force them into difficult shots? Are they going

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to switch? Are they going to go underscreens? I think

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you're going to find out as the game unfolds. But yeah,

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if you know, I'm sure. Listen, when you scout a team,

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you don't look at just basic stats. You see that

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they scored twelve threes. You know they're better than what

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their averages say they are in terms of shooting percentage.

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So I'm sure that's he's got this huge chalkboard. Most

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coaches do, but Dan sets goals up for his team

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every game, you know, hold the other team under thirty

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percent from three, whatever it may be. And so I

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think that might be one of the keys because again,

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the way basketball's played now, and if you watch NBA stuff,

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you really realize it. I mean, they're shooting one hundred

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threes in a game in the NBA. Now, so the

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three point deiald goal, it's kind of money, right. It's

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the way you score big points in bunches. And if

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you let the other team get off off on you

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from the three point line start filling it up, that's

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a real issue. And so I'm sure that's one of

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the things they've been discussing big time. And when teams

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do shoot from three out there, guess what that opens

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up stuff in the inside for drives, more space to

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hit intermediary shots, get to the rim. Perhaps, So the

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three point field goal is always key. If you're making them,

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that's a real problem for the defense and for the

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overall opponent, whoever you may be playing.

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Speaker 3: What do you think the environment's going to be like there?

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I mean, is it going to be a rockis one?

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How many people show up to this game tomorrow?

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Speaker 2: I think? And I talked to some folks a couple

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days ago. They have sold over fourteen thousand seats. They're

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expecting another two thousand probably walk up. I think the

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capacity a TD Garden is about seventeen to seven. Whether

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they sell out the upper regions, I don't know, but

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I think a good sixteen crowd of sixteen thousand will

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make a lot of noise in that place. Although Boston's

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not a crazy college town as far as hoop goes,

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I do think there is a huge segment of Yukon

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fans that will get in their cars and drive seventy

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five miles up the highway to watch this game. And again,

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AJ Demansa is a Brockton kid, the Massachusetts kid. One

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of the reasons this game ended up here. I got

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to feel like his crew and his neighborhood and his

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folks from Brockton are going to show up in droves.

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Right had a great chance to see him in person.

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And I think that's why these games are so cool,

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because you're seeing two great top ten teams, You're seeing

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him in a big time arena with a great crowd,

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And if it turns out to be a fabulous competitive game,

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I think the place will be rock I really do.

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Speaker 3: The Big three AJ de Bonca, Richie Saunders and Rob

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Right third. They actually accounted for seventy of B's eighty

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five points on Tuesday. This past Tuesday's game, I think

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through three games, the Big three has accounted for almost

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seventy percent of the scoring for BYU. I imagine the

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scouting reporties very heavily focused on these three players.

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Speaker 4: Aj De Bonsa, Richie Sanders and Rob Right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it, because usually, you know, college

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teams have two primary scorers. Only the really good ones

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have three, maybe four people who can be dependent on

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to put points up on the board every night. And

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this team has three guys. We talked about it. Rob

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Wright is averaging almost fifteen a game, and De Bonsa

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is averaging almost twenty, and then Richie Saunder is almost eighteen.

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So all three are major threats, let's face it. So

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even though maybe the rest of the roster isn't a

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big time offensive problem, but they got three guys besides them.

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Dominique Diamonde I think he pronounced his name. Richard Freshman

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the French, a kid from Paris, France, transferred from Washington.

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He's averaging almost ten points and he's only playing thirteen

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minutes a game, so he's obviously kind of a microwave

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when he gets on the court. And Dawson Baker, another guy,

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senior guard, he transferred from UC Irvine. He's averaging eight

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and a half a game. You know, in seventeen minutes.

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So all those guys in Cannard Davis Junior is also

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a guy in minimal minutes averaging almost double figures.

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Speaker 3: Let me give you let me give you an update

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on Canard. I don't know if he's going to be playing.

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He was he was sided for a d DUI yesterday,

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so I don't know if. I don't know what his

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eligibility status is going to be and whether or not

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he made the trip out to the East coast.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well yeah, but the point is they have depth.

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Right Cada twenty minutes averaging six points, but he he

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can really throw his eight around six to eight. Dude

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was at Utah last year, so it's not like you're

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playing the team with three great players and a bunch

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of supplementary guys. This looks like to me and what

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I saw against Villanova a three man show, but seven

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or eight can really hurt you, and that to me

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is a sign of a good team. Right. He might

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have a couple off nights from Right or maybe by Saunders,

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whatever it may be, but the other guys can pick

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up the slack and that is a huge, huge advantage

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for Kevin Young because he knows no matter where they play,

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and they're in a tough conference. Now remember that, no

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matter where they play on the road, at least they

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have options, and you need options if you're going to

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have success in a really good league like they're in

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right now.

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Speaker 3: I was pulling up the numbers here. Yukon's favored by

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I think five and a half in this game. One

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point fifty four point five is the is the point total.

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ESPN Matchup Predictor gives the Yukon Huskies a sixty five

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percent chance of victory.

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Speaker 4: How do you see this game playing out?

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Speaker 3: It's at TD Guarden five pm November fifteenth, and I

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think it's going to be broadcasting on Fox.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is gonna be a great game.

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I mean, Yukon, if they play to their potential, can

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win the game. I mean, I'm not in the prediction business.

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I don't like to do it, but I think there's

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ways that you, certainly BYU could come in and walk

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away to victory too. Right, if they play up to

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their potential. It really comes down sometimes in these great matchups,

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who is able to reach the level of excellence that

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they're used to. Right, if aj Debonsa does his thing

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and comes up with twenty five or a huge Nike

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it's thirty. I mean, anything could happen then. So Yukon's

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got to be very aware as a team about guys

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like him. He's legit. He looks like a pro right

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now to me, and I've seen a lot of pros

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over the years coming out of college, and he's got

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the skill set right. So you CON's got to find

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a way to make it hard for him. And if

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they can do that, maybe they slow down Rob Wright

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or maybe they You're able to get Richie Saunders off

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his game somehow. You've got to be able to do

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that against these great teams. Otherwise you're matched up. Both

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teams are going to score eighty and who makes the

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last basket wins. That's the way these things go. Oftentimes.

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Speaker 4: Love the breakdown, Love talking ball with you.

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Speaker 3: Great segment, Mike Crispino, the voice of the Yukon Huskies.

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Speaker 4: Have a great call. Brother. It's great getting to know you.

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Speaker 3: Great getting to know the Huskies through your your rising

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voice today in a college basketball Know the faux segment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no problem, really appreciates you having me.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Mike Crispino.

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Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, and if you want to download that

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app and you can listen to Mike's call for the

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Yukon Huskies. As I mentioned way, you're not favored in

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this game. And you know, I don't know if you're

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going to see it as disrespect or what have you,

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but you need a lot from the Big Three this game.

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AJ Ritchie Rob You've been leading this team all season long.

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You may not want these guys off the floor. He

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may want to keep them on the floor of the

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entire game. If you want to beat the Yukon Huskies,

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throw out load management.

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Speaker 4: Let's knock off them Huskies.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to break guys, don't go anywhere more to

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