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siineyas first, Jay Clifton, Kansas State linebacker six two two
twenty five, Pockey Fenale offensive lineman sixty five three ten,
Kyler Casper wide receiver sixty six two ten Walker Lions
sixty four to two thirty five, Roger Saliapaga the second,
six four to two forty five tight end, Junior Siya
offensive lineman, offensive tackle sixty five three twenty five, katou
Lewave linebacker six one two thirty five, and the Javin
Williams cornerback six two poet eighty five, Zach Yamauchi offensive
lineman six foot four three twenty five. Who is most
likely to be the most impactful next season twenty twenty six. Now,
it's hard to find a kind of a tangible statistic
apart from knockdowns in uh sacks u given up along
the offensive line. So you you kind of couple Pockey
fee now and Junior c and Zak Yamauchi all together
as like one unit to degree unless there is a
unless there's like a starting left tackle, that's just like
locking it down. Andrew Gentry most likely gonna be the
right tackle. He ain't moving, he's there. He could also
move inside. I suppose if you have a really good
set of of tackles that you've brought in or you're
gonna move. I thought Austin Leuzer could have moved out
by the way last year. I thought he was a
really good tackle. At any rate, I kint a couple
those guys together, I wouldn't be surprised if the most
impactful players are the offensive lineman. I'm definitely looking at
Pockey Fee now and uh and my guy Junior Sea
at tackle. Those guys are are really nice talents develop talents.
I've been impressed with those guys as I've checked tape,
great foot wear, good hands, and uh, just a solid
base from Pockey, very solid based. So I kind of
lean that way. Many of you are going to say, look,
it's it's got to be Walker Lyons or Roger Saliapaga.
Why Because the highest grated tight end in college football
last year per PFF was Carson Ryan and someone's got
to step up to replace that man. And if you're
a good blocker, you got experience and you can run routes.
Aaron Roderick's gonna find a way to get you the ball.
Where have the haters regarding Aaron Roderick gone? The haters
that said that b YU doesn't use tight ends? Where
are they now? Have they been silenced for the time being?
Are you a believer of Aaron Roderick now that he
when he has the right clay, when he has the
right tight end, he utilizes them at a at a
high rate. Carson Ryan not only he was he highly
graded in all facets of his game per PFF, he
was also highly productive as a tight end forty five reception,
six hundred and twenty yards, thirteen point eight yards per reception,
three touchdowns along of forty three. He was on the
field all day every day too, Like he wasn't really
ever coming off the football field because he was such
a great blocker. So some of you, when you're discussing
the most impactful players next year, you're gonna lean into
Walker Lions. And I can see why you would you
would lean that direction. Six four to two thirty five
can play in line, in flex and he's been highly productive. Uh,
he's been somewhat productive. Highly productive, maybe a little bit
too much of a stretch, but productive at the P
four level. So I would hear that as well. Kid
uluave highest rated player that BYU has acquired via the portal,
the four star All ACC player looking to fill the
big shoes of Jack Sack Kelly, who's playing quite well.
He's played quite well in the Senior Bowl. Okay, that
maybe is a favorite of yours. But as I dissect
these these players, that's where I lean. I lean either
offensive lineman, okay, and I and I kind of couple
them all together, but I'm leaning Pockey Fen now Junior
Sea Walker Lyons as a candidate, and then caid Ulauabe
now Jaydon Williams. Javon Williams could surprise me. He could
replace you know, a A Moury Bomba, No doubt he could.
He could be even better than Maury Bomba. You do
need some experience in that cornerback room. He could be. Uh,
the provider, the purveyor of picks pick sixes would be great.
And he's got good top end speed, he's got good
length and he's got experience at the highest levels of
college football. But I think most people are picking Kaid
as their favorite. Close second is probably Walker Lyons, and
then they may pick an offensive lineman or two as
their third. Now moving on, So that's your transfer sinees list.
December signees Cowbei, Akana sefani A Latini, Justice, Braithwaite, Adam
Bywater linebacker, Devon Ekka running back, legend, Glasker wide receiver.
He's down there right now. Midyear ty Getchee tight end,
Brock Harris tight end, Antonio Johnson safety, Okay neil My
defensive end, Braxton Lindsay defensive end, Graham Levison wide receiver,
Ryder Lions quarterback, obviously going on the mission. Matthew Mason safety,
he's coming in, Lopetti Moala defensive linean he's going on
a mission. And Bob Mulitalo is a favorite amongst fans
regarding the most impactful potential players. Parker Ord tight end,
Jared Pula, Ken Kennon Pula and Terrence Sarah and then
Jack center Jackson are gonna be serving a mission, I believe.
So a lot of these guys, you know, over half
of them are gonna be serving missions for the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. So who are
the players that actually are going to be playing. Devon
Eck is gonna be playing Legend, glasger is gonna be
playing Antonio Johnson's gonna be playing Braxton. Lindsay's gonna be
playing Okay, Matthew Mason gonna be playing, Bob Mulatalo gonna
be playing Jaren, and Kenn Pula gonna be playing playing
Terren Sarian gonna be playing. Out of those individuals, which
true freshman is most likely to make an impact? The
immediate answer, okay, is probably Bot Mulatalo along the offensive
lin but he has to get up to date, up
to speed along the offensive line one cohesive unit. You
are the tip of the spear in the as an
offensive lineman group. But you know, there's a lot of cohesion,
a lot of chemistry, a lot of repetition. You can
be talented, but you may not have the scheme. So
he's got to get up to date. They need an
assistant coach to sit down with him, make sure he's
got his technique and install done. TJ. Woods obviously obviously
going to be a part of that as well. But
bod is a favorite, no doubt about it. Which position's
going to be simple enough to have one of these
true freshmen make an impact. Another favorite that is on
the rise right now is Devon Ekka five foot eleven,
one hundred and ninety pounds. I imagine with an off
season under his belt, he will be more than capable
of putting on some lean muscle mass and becoming an
impact player. And if there's one position that has a
little bit of thinness, you know, a little bit of
male pattern baldness, if you will, it's the running back room.
We love Preston, we love Joe Vessa, we love Sioni Moha,
but there's just something missing there. They got to put
in the work. They have to earn it. If you
want us to talk about you, you gotta you gotta talk,
you gotta you gotta put forth a great effort and
great execution. We saw maybe a little bit of flash
frompression out of the backfield catching the football. Joe vesa
at times. He also had some ball security issues. He
got benched for a while. He looked good in the
in the bowl game when LJ was out due to
his uh his shoulder reconstruction, but we gotta find the
lightning to the thunder, and we haven't seen enough to
be overly conclusive. Simo has shown an ability, but he's
also shown an ability to be injured. So BYU offensive
coordinator Aaron Roderick said that Lehigh running back Devon Akers
already with the team. He's a midyear and he's already
standing out in offseason workouts. I never want to put
too much on a freshman, he stated, But if there
is a position where freshman can play at BYU, it's
the running back. He's very good as an aside, Jamal
swag Daddy, williams Okay and Luke Kahan, Jamal's trainer, have
been training up to von Ekka that look, mammals are
only as good as their mentors. We're only as good
as our mentors. He's got some pretty good mentors around him. Obviously,
Harvey Young is going to be coaching him up there
at BYU as well. But I ran into Jamal down
at BYU last week dat him up, talking to him
a little bit. He's very optimistic that Devon could be
a dude, and I don't think he's BS and me
I don't think he's blowing smoke, so I'm getting it
from multiple sources. We have Lukhn on the show as well,
and he went into depth about why he believes Davon
eka can be a guy, a dude, an RB two
for by you a little lightning to the thunder. Devon
has the good top end speed that you're looking for
as a as a solid. He's not a scatback. He's
a tweeter, you know, five foot eleven one nineties kind
of a tweener. He's not. He's scatty, but he's not
a scat back. He can run with power, he can
run with speed, one with quickness. Devon Ekkin just gotta
get up to the speed on the schematics. Obviously. I think
it's gonna be tough for any one of these other
guys to step in and make an impact one place
where I would look at. I haven't evaluated him. I
haven't got hands on I haven't got eyes on Justice Braithwaite.
When you're a defensive back and there's some there's some
depth issues in the defensive backfield, cornerback safety, you may
be able to make some hay right. You may be
able to make some hay justice Braithwaite, Antonio Johnson maybe,
and then the other one that I would look at
Matthew Mason. Okay, shout out to Matthew Mason. Don't want
to forget him. Jaron Pula wide receiver, maybe Kennan Pula
though defensive back. Maybe. The other one I would look
at is actually Braxton Lindsay. You saw new See tom
Waypeyo get a ton of reps this year as a
premier pass rusher off the edge in a stand up situation.
Braxon Lindsay's one of those guys that can step in
immediately and maybe find himself a niche in pass rushing situations.
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I don't know if you guys saw this or not,
but Joe Flacco recently put out a post on Instagram.
Joe Flacco says, full circle moment being coached by Steve
Young last night. This was me posted a picture as
a twelve year old in Steve Young's jersey playing backyard
football with my brothers, my brothers, and in my dad's
alma mater. And and and they're in bya football jersey
they got BYU football helmets, Hutch helmets, and BYU Cougar jerseys.
His other brothers got a Steve Young jersey on in
pads playing backyard football. They're dirtied up, nasty and they
were getting after it in their backyard. Which kind of
interesting because Joe Flacco became very close personal friends with
Dennis Pitta. They won a Super Bowl together. Dennis was
a baller for the Baltimore Ravens now in an era
by gone all time BYU great tight end, one of
the best to come through Brigham. Dennis Pitta and Joe
Flacco forged a bond that can only be forced on
the gridiron, through the blood, sweat and tears, through the practice,
the game's high level play. I find it interesting that
there was a full circle moment here that that occurred
recently and just over I want to say a year
ago or so, maybe two years ago, Joe Flacco, Dennis Pitta,
and Austin Colly showed up to a BYU basketball game
heading hanging out. It was a BYU versus Kansas State matchup.
I think BYU won. I have to go check the
box score. But pretty cool to see the connectivity the uh,
the full circle moments and Joe Flacco he looked. Everyone
grows up looking up to heroes on the gridiron or
on the basketball corner, on the on the pitch, and uh,
you hope you can live up to those those heroes.
I think Joe Flacco did a pretty guysh dang good
job of living up to his hero, Steve Young. Joe
Flacco had himself a career. Now did he do it
in a different way from that of Steve Young? Yes,
he did. He's a little bit he's built a little
bit different than Steve Young. But pretty cool to see that.
Shout out to Joe Flacco now officially as a as
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to ask this question to Cougar fans. I've been told
time and time again during the a Ride era that
BAU doesn't use tight ends. After this season, has that changed?
With Carson Ryanby and the highest graded tight end in
college football? You know he's gonna get a chance at
the NFL. We wish him well, hopefully he tests well.
He had forty five receptions, six hundred and twenty yards
and three touchdowns after the twenty twenty five season. Are
the haters of a Rod acting off? Are they saying, well,
you know what, maybe the determining factor on whether or
not a tight end is playing and being utilized has
more to do with the skill set of the player,
the coach ability of the player, the execution of the
player combined with his talent, rather than the coach. That's
all I'm saying. Okay, there has it takes two to tango.
Can't just be one? Lifting where they stand. You gotta
it takes two to tango, and it takes trust, It
takes cohesion, it takes uh the ability of the player
to to to earn that trust. So have the doubters
been silenced? Is the question? And I think I think
they have. And I'll tell you the key difference is, well,
not only is it the personnel, but it's the coaching
staff that surrounds Aaron Roderick. Okay, the coaching staff is
now constructed in a way that Aaron Roderick wanted it
architected in the first place, but was limited, in my opinion,
by resources budgets. It's nice to be in the power
force structure of the Big twelve because you're getting you're
receiving over the last year or two twenty, eventually thirty,
eventually forty million dollars. Additional, what can you do with
those resources, Well, you can go out and you can
hire and retain high level coaches. TJ. Woods, we can't
lose him. Kevin Gilbride, we can't lose him. Okay, you
don't want to lose those guys. The ability to run
the football this last season was predicated on, Yes, Lj's
ability to run, but it was the ability of those
offensive lineman and tight ends to block. The play action
game was then maximized through that ability to run, run,
to pass, pass to run, however you want to do it.
But BYU's play action game was fantastic. The only time
that they didn't have it was Texas Tech, and that
defensive front stopped a whole slew of runners and running quarterbacks. Okay,
so right now, the offensive the offensive coaching staff I
think is impressive. They picked up Tyler Hughes, who's got
NFL experience. They have Tyson McDaniel who's retained, Rayland Singleton
who's retained. This is a really good staff, Harvey Unga
who's retained. It's a good offensive staff. Is it the
best in college football? I mean, I'm not gonna go
that route, but I mean this is a top twenty
five staff right now. Why do I say that because
espnsp plus tells me as much consecutive years in which
you're in, you know, the top thirty, top twenty five
of college football inefficiency, an offensive efficiency. It's impressive. And
I think a Rod deserves a little bit of credit here.
And he went out and got some nice additions after
losing out on a few talented individuals that have made
a positive impact within the staff over the last couple
of years. Matt Mitchell being one of those. Let's go
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Doug Gottlieb, the current University of Wisconsin Green Bay basketball coach,
former sports talk radio show hosts uh and American Basketball
and louse. He went off on Ken Pom. We love
Ken Pop. Ken Palm's gonna join us later on the show,
and I think his work speaks for itself. He he's
he's dialed. Ken Pomp is fantastic. He's a great basketball mind.
Doug goes off on it does not like Ken Palm
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Doug Gottlieb in front of the media. He's the head
coach for the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. He goes
off right now on Ken Pom right now, by the way.
They're twelve and twelve and fourth in the in the
horizon right now, So they're not bad. It's a good program, right,
not too shabby. They've won, they've actually lost a lot
of games recently. They've lost four out of the last
five games. They got a doub versus Robert Morse, but
they did have a nice little five game winning streak
Purdue FW, Milwaukee, IU, Indy, Northern Kentucky, and Cleveland State.
Let's hear what he has to say about kempom metrics though.
Speaker 3: Let me help you out a little soundbout here. Okay,
ken palm is okay because it takes it takes into
account how much you lose mind, and it has no
context for who you have who the other team has.
So in our league, okay, it's like ken palm gives
you benefits because Oakland plays like seven by games, and
so if you get close in those by games, and
those teams that you play in a bye game have
great years, your numbers go up. Right, So you're like, okay, So,
like we get dinged because we got Kansas, doesn't really
hurt us, right, But we played Buffalo hard game, but
like our team is totally different than when we played
Buffalo just now didn't play a minute in that game.
Not a minute. Okay, we had a starter who like
doesn't play right now for us, there's no there's no
accounting for that in Ken Pom. Then we go play
Saint Thomas, right, they're really really good. Now, they pummeled us,
but some of it was Dontrell's ankle. It was an
open wound fracture. Okay it. Our team was completely screwed
up after that. And they're really good, and they're really
good at home. And then you know, I didn't say fit,
but we had a game and another night and I'm
trying to figure out my team. So we play everybody,
so it looks way worse than it actually was. Then
you play Minnesota and you nearly beat Minnesota. Minnesota has
these two really good way beat what Indiana, somebody else
at home whatever. They almost beat Wisconsin at their place,
But like that is no determination on us. So my
point is if you look at teams ranked ahead of
us in US or other teams in the like Cleveland
State for example, like yeah, they were terrible in the
non conference, but it's the whole new coaches to have
a whole new team, and they were like they can
really score. And Dianessa is a stud. He's been a
stud since last summer. So it doesn't take into account
the context of Northern Kentucky didn't have two starters last game.
You can't account for that. In Ken Palm ratings like
they're good, they are talented. Oakland's good, Oakanstown, Wright State
good talented. And I would challenge that if our league
gets a fourteen or fifth, or if we win it,
we're gonna get a sixteen. We'll be in Dayton. That's fine.
We're way better than the other sixteen seeds. Everybody knows
it because this league, everybody has some money, whereas some
leagues nobody has any money, and we have. And in
order to get that money, we play the guarantee games.
And that's how you kind of fund your your budget
that way. And so you'll look at teams you're like that,
that's not a sixteen seed, right, like not close. Conversely,
Miama of Ohio right, Minam of Ohio played three non
d ones, played four by games, and we I have
offered to play them next year at the Cress at
the Rush. Hey, they say they want to play, we'll see.
But that's a high major schedule. That's four at seven
guaranteed wins seven for a mid major, right, that's what
the whole MAC did. They just outside of U. Mass
have played a hard schedule right where they bought wins.
So again, I'm not. I understand that anybody who defends
Ken pumb like, hey, it's just numbers, you're not. I'm not.
It's not about Ken Pomeroy, it's about Pagua, it's not
about all these other forms. But understand that they lack context.
So I think our league, in all honesty right there
with the Mac. If we played a challenge with the Mac,
they played home and home. Right now, we do pretty well.
We feel really really good about Buffalo coming to our place, Miamia,
Ohio come round and they're good. Hey, I'm not taking away.
I think they're really good and they're super super confident.
So I don't even remember the question. But the point
was that our league is not a sixty. We're not.
Speaker 2: We can.
Speaker 3: I would tell you off camera who the sixteen seeds
are because those are the teams that everybody in college
basketball knows. That's who you want to play in the
non conference, And that's not us, right, it just is.
Speaker 2: Diego. Doug Gottlieb going off on a tangent there, what
is ken pom Though he doesn't like kim pob He
feels like there's not a whole lot of credibility behind it.
It's just numbers, who says. Kenpom dot com is one
of the go to analytics websites for men's college basketball.
The coaches use it, media members use it, fans use it.
It uses an advanced kind of tempo free stats rating
these teams, predicting outcomes, and a value on how good
teams actually are beyond just the wins and losses. Right, So,
ken Palm Ken Palm Roy He's gonna join us later on.
He's a well know college hoops statistician. He actually resides
here in the state of Utah. Tracks every Division one team.
Focuses on the efficiency metrics instead of like raw totals,
so fast teams aren't unfairly boosted, et cetera. Core metrics.
This is an adjusted offensive efficiency adjusted defensive efficiency points
scored per one hundred possessions adjusted for opponent quality, so
there's a strength of schedule component to it as well,
and then points allowed per one hundred positions adjusted for
opponent quality. And then you have the adjusted efficiency margin.
And this is the main ranking number that they have
so adjusted oh to adjusted D this is the main
making number. Tempo, how fast the team plays possessions per game.
There's a luck rating too. Okay, there's a luck rating.
And by the way, BYU is ranked two hundred in
luck rating per ken Pom. The ball maybe hasn't bounced
their way. Measures how much a team's record deviates from
what the efficiency numbers suggest close games, late game variants. Okay,
so not bouncing their way maybe late in the game.
Strength to schedule as well, how tough your opponent has been.
So why people use it or what people use it for?
Ranking teams nationally? Obviously in CAA tournament analysis, they're seeding,
et cetera. Sports betting, if you're into betting, and in
some context for fans and media, like we get into
this stuff, we geek out about it. And like I
said before, b wuse favored in nine of the last
ten games of their regular season schedule starting off to
night they got West Virginia. They're favored, which they should be.
Ken Palm is a predictive future performance metric right adjust
for that opponent quality us for pace uh separates offenses
and defenses clearly. Uh, so you can you can you
can be a team that can maybe win ugly, right
and and and hopefully Ken Palm can can maybe get
you know, sniff that out right. And so, what what
is it that people criticize ken pomp for. Obviously it's
a metric you can utilize as a tool in the
tool belt. Uh. But uh, you know, the most valid,
maybe commonly cided criticism of Ken Palm analytics, especially from
maybe coaches, betters, hoops, nerves, et cetera. Number One, it
can underrate teams that do win ugly. Okay, Ken Palm
uh cares about how you win, not just that you win.
The teams that grind out close wins, play slow, or
prioritize defense can look worse than their record. And and
I think that's what Doug Gottlieb was kind of leaning
into their uh a little bit with his tie rate.
A team can be what ten and one and so
outside the top forty and ken pom because they lose
or they win close games. Uh, fans feel like, hey,
we gotta, we gotta we're keeping winning, we keep on winning.
But ken Palm doesn't like our team. So once again,
ken Palm is predictive, not a resume metric. A lot
of these these new analytics s P plus with football,
et cetera, they're they're more predictive than anything else. It's
it's trying to answer how good are you? Not? What
have you earned? So what's gonna go go on going forward?
Early season data is a bit noisy, it's a bit convoluted.
First four to six weeks can be pretty janky. We
have a good sample size now though teams. We kind
of know who these teams are and it's playing out
as such. I don't know, I mean, I guess, I
mean we're I mean, look, it's it's February. We know
these teams, like, I don't know if there's any ill
rated malrated teams right now. Per ken Pom and ken
Palm always stabilizes over time with more data sets. So
and that's what we're seeing right now. You can use
it as a grain AsSalt early on the first month
or so, but then it gets better. It gets better
with age, like a fine why not that I would know?
It doesn't fully capture maybe injuries, lineup changes or growth,
right so you're not going to take into account attrition
of roster sicknesses, a flu game, a flu show like
Ronnie's experiencing right now with the what I call the
Corona flu influenza that's going around rampidly along the wahsatch,
running around everywhere. If you've gotten it, you know what
I'm talking about, it hits, make sure you're taking your zinc,
make sure you're taking your Vitamin D, your Vitamin C,
getting your sleep, getting your rest, getting hydrated, getting your
electrolytes in you, and if you get sick, get that,
you know, get them medicines in you. At any rate,
Ken traw Ken Pom's gonna treat a team like like,
you know, with a predicted rating, but a star player
gets hurt, a freshman breaks out, a rotation change fixes
a weakness. The model maybe could lag in that regard,
it's not going to count for that. So another thing
that that Ken Pom gets critique for is garbage time
skewing efficiency. That's another thing that Doug Godleep went into.
He's like, well, you know you get into garbage can
you went big or you know you let teams come
back in garbage time? You know, for instance, like BYU
came rolling back, but Darren Peterson was on the floor.
They're not accounting for that. They're just saying, okay, well, Bay,
you came back and made it a four point game.
Some people would think that Ken Pom does not accurate
portray who BYU is because Kansas is a much better
team than they are, and they should have got the blowout,
right whatever, U of A should have got the blowout.
You know, Clembs should have got the blowout. All those
teams should have blown BYU out. They would have just
played decent basketball in the second half. Anyway, close games,
execution clutches down. There's a number of things that people
criticize Ken pop for. We'll get into it with ken
Pom later on in the show, but I thought it
was of intrigue of note. Let's see how good Ken
Pom is, shall we? Ken pob predicts BYU is favored
in nine of their last ten games. Will by You
go nine and one? If they do, they're at worst
a three seed. They could be a two seed. Ladies
and Gentlemen, boys and girls going nine to one in
those last ten games, and triguing to watch, let's see
Ifken Palm gets it right, if they if Ken Bob
gets it right, it's time to dunk on Doug Gottlieb
and his tyrant tyrannical toddler tyrade. He just went off of,
by the way, a couple of things here earlier in
the show. If you missed it, my poll of the day,
chime in on it a cridal Benjamin. I think there's
gonna be a surprise step up, says Kyle collins Worth
yesterday on our show. I think there's gonna be a
surprise step up. I asked him a question, Hey, who's
gonna step up from the bench? Who's gonna step up?
He states, a surprise, I step up that hasn't got
a lot of minutes lately coming in. I'll let you
guys figure it out who I'm talking about. But someone
who's barely played this year is gonna step up coming
down the stretch. Who do you think it is? Gugrenation
seventy six point seven percent chiming in right now. State
Dominique dia Monde, Dominique Diamnde, very talented young man who
came to Brigham via u dub Dominique Diamande good length,
good athleticism. Why hasn't he played? Why hasn't he found
his way on to the court thus far this season?
How many games has he played in the six hundred
and ninety pound freshman from Buddy Friends. Fourteen games played,
zero game started six and a half minute. It's per
game thirty nine point one percent from the field, sixteen
point seven percent from the three point line. Maybe he's
found his stroke finally, sixty two point five percent from
the charity stripe one rebound, one point one rebound, point
two assists, point four steals, uh and UH two point
one points per game. That's what he's done thus far
this season. He's only taking twenty three shots. By the way,
Dominique number twenty four, Okay, is he gonna be able
to harness the mama mentality with that two to four
shout out to uh to Dominique if he gets his chance,
if he gets his his his call up. As I mentioned,
transferm Washington joined the Huskies in January and red shirted
last year. Played in twenty six games for eighty eight
Bloyse Bloy of France the pro am under twenty one
league average sixteen point six rebounds to assist in one
point eight steals per game for eighty eight boys, shot
fifty one point nine percent from the field, so he
has it in him to get buckets. Also SIGs in
fourteen games for the A d A Boys Senior team
in bett Click Elite, the top tier French basketball competed
for the Ivory Coast as well in twenty twenty one.
A little connection there with Ivory Coast and Charles Abuo
right in twenty twenty one FIBA Under sixteen African Championships
average twenty one point two points per game at twelve
rebounds per game. He's got rebounding ability in him as well,
and then made full international debut with Ivory Coast during
the twenty twenty three FEBA World Cup qualification. He's played
a lot of ball, guys. He's got the talent, he's
got the ability. Maybe he's the answer coming off the
bench to get some buckets and let's see how it
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