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Speaker 3: Living doing great? Just wrapped that football practice. It's pretty
hot out here, but that's that's pretty normal.
Speaker 2: Yeah man, Well we're March twenty six. How hot is
it down in Arizona right now? How hot is it
in Tempe?
Speaker 3: We just had five days in a row that were
one hundred degrees and that's never happened. There's never been
more than one day of one hundred degrees in March
in history, So we're setting records out here.
Speaker 2: Is there an idea that like springball could be moved?
I know the Cardinals used to you know, do their
their their camp up and flag Staff. Has there been
any talk about moving ASU's springball up to flag Staff
and have it like remote now?
Speaker 3: They do go to Pace in Arizona for about a
week in August to get out of the heat. They've
been doing that for since.
Speaker 4: The late fifties.
Speaker 3: But they also have an indoor facility where they have
the ability to go if it gets too high.
Speaker 2: When was the indoor facility built for football?
Speaker 3: Around two thousand and eight or two thousand and nine
is when it opened.
Speaker 5: It's a it's an.
Speaker 3: Inflatable but it's but it's climate controlled. They're actually going
to build a permanent indoor structure that's right next to
the stadium that's going to start being built next year,
so that's going to be in use in like a
year and a half.
Speaker 2: When So, what was the cost for the IPF, That
new IPF that you guys are going to be a building?
Do you know the number?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's it's it's like forty something million dollars
uh for the indoor But they're also going to have
as part of that a new volleyball facility like a
practice and offices and stuff. So that's also several million
of the whole thing.
Speaker 5: It's a it's a huge it's a huge.
Speaker 3: Building, one hundred and seventy yards. It's going to be
the biggest one other than Texas A and M that
I've seen in the country.
Speaker 2: Crazy times. Look, they there's a lot of buzz positive
buzz down there. How would you describe the momentum right
now for ASU football with your coach being extended? Dillingham
is a is an ASU alum. He seems bought in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3: The they sold out every game last season, which is
the first time that that's happened in decades, like five decades.
So the disappointment of a season for eight wins is
kind of tells you what the expectations are now for
AS and what they've been able to accomplish with their roster.
I feel like they added a whole bunch of very
high profile transfers that have looked good through the first
several days of practice. So a lot of positive momentum
going love that.
Speaker 2: Let's talk some basketball news. Big moves on the head
coaching front with Hurley essentially stepping down and new coaching
staff being hired. Give us the latest. Who's the new
head coach and what's the buzz like around the new
head coaching.
Speaker 3: High Yeah, Randy Bennett decided to come back to the valley.
He was born and.
Speaker 5: Raised in Mesa.
Speaker 3: His dad was a pretty famous junior college coach, six
time Coach of the Year in Arizona and and Randy Bennett,
after twelve instable A appearances in twenty five years of
Saint Mary's all time winning as coach, one of the
best coaches in West Coast Conference history, decided he wanted
to come back home. Sixty three years old, his parents
are getting up there in age now, and in the
opportunity to be close to them in this latter stage
of his coaching tenure was very appealing and a pretty
impressive higher for.
Speaker 5: A If you've given what Bennett was able to accomplish.
Speaker 3: And also considering that if he really hasn't been that
successful in basketball since Ned Wolke, which that was got
to go forty five years ago.
Speaker 2: What type of impact do you think Randy Bennett's going
to have on this ASU program? Do you think it's
going to be able to He's going to be able
to kind of build them up and get them into
a competitive mode and maybe even compete for a big
total championship.
Speaker 3: Well, that's the goal. Obviously, you got to have realistic aspirations.
I would say that ASU is still going to be
significantly outspent on its roster compared to a lot of
the operational on Big twelve teams. Ben At Saint Mary's
team this this year.
Speaker 5: Had six or.
Speaker 3: Seven losses only on the season and was at number
seven seed in the NBA Tournament and only had one senior.
That had three all conference players who are have remaining eligibility,
one of whom already entered the transfer portal. Probably others
will follow.
Speaker 5: It's a safe bet that some of.
Speaker 3: These guys will probably end up following Randy Bennett to ASU.
And there's several good players that are on the roster
who have the ability to decide whether or not they
want to stay or transfer what that's gonna look like.
Speaker 5: So I think the key thing with.
Speaker 3: Randy Bennett is a very high floor, Like you know,
you're gonna play great defense, and you're gonna be well coached,
You're gonna hunt for high quality shots. Are they gonna
all of a sudden be able to play in that
pop tire in the Big twelve? Well, probably not, although
maybe you know, some nights they will. And I think
overall the goal is just.
Speaker 5: Trying to get to more NCAA tournament appearances. To days
who's been able to accomplish in recent decades, it seems
like it's on average been like a once every three
to four year thing, And the goal will be to
try to make that more, like, you know, better than average,
Like more than fifty percent would probably be a goal.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And just to go along with that maybe a
little bit and put this in a maybe a BYU
type of perspective, YU and Arizona State start to get
a little bit of a rivalry on the football field
with Kenny Dillingham and bau fans obviously have some experience
against Randy Bennett teams and there was a rivalry there
between Bay and Saint Mary's for a few years. Could
you see this coaching move producing more of a rivalry
on the basketball court between BYU and Arizona State. With
the history between BYU and Randy Bennett.
Speaker 5: I think so.
Speaker 3: Already there were a ton of BYU fans in my
comments on my social media posts about the possibility of
Randy Bennett getting hired and then eventually him being named
the coach. So yeah, I think I think there's going
to be more attention to this. And as you know,
you know that the Arizona and the Valley have the
second highest percentage of LDS population of anywhere in the
in the country. So there's already a lot of b
YU fans that are here. There's a lot of people
that pay a lot of people that pay a lot
of really close attention to kind of what happens, and
that that rivalry between as U and and b YU
both at proximity the bordering states, you know, and the
latter the experance connection, and now you got Randy Bennett's conection.
There's a lot of things there that people are paying
attention to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm intrigued by this hire and I think it's
an awesome hire. Actually, b YU fan do not like
Randy Bennett one bit. Like he is enemy. He was
like public enemy number one in the West Coast coinars.
They did not like his demeanor, they didn't like how
he coached, They didn't like his like tirades on the sideline.
And look, Saint Mary's got their fair share of dubs.
There was a Dela Vedova dagger once upon a time.
They always had like these like Australian bigs that would
just dominate in the low post and rebound and like
double double machines. They did not like. They do not
like Randy Bennett. And if so, if any of these
these Saint Mary like teams are coming to Provo with
a little bit more nil behind them, there's maybe fear
in the hearts of the of the BYU fan right now.
Speaker 5: I gotta know about fear.
Speaker 3: I mean, YU really got it rolling and a lot
of money on the roster this year with you know,
arguably the top player in college basketball or one of
the top two. I just think that, you know, the
Big twelve is ultra competitive. Everybody understands that the teams
that haven't done as well are trying to improve their
standing and.
Speaker 5: Compete in this ultra challenging conference. And you can see
that AFU has not really had that much success.
Speaker 3: Under Bobby Hurley in the Big twelve in two years
and wanted to go a different route.
Speaker 5: His contract is basically ending in June, so not even
a need to fire him or anything. It's just, hey,
we're going to go in a different direction.
Speaker 3: Randy Bennett is the type of guy who's gone to
war against you know, Gonzaga and and BYU and other
Isantapira and other teams and over the years, and now
he's ready to do that at.
Speaker 5: As you.
Speaker 2: So, I mean there's going to be a rebuild of
the roster, right, this is going to be a completely
revamp brought Do you do you think there's going to
be any retention. Will there be a point of creative
strategic retention on this roster at all? Any key players
that that that Randy's going to really try hard to retain.
Speaker 3: Well, So a FU has one of the top big
men in the country who's a freshman Masamba job.
Speaker 5: I think what ultimately, you know come.
Speaker 3: Down to is the money. I've heard the job is
probably worth two million or more if he decided to
transfer or look at transferring. So you got to make
decisions based upon how much money that you have available to.
Speaker 4: Give the players.
Speaker 5: Now there's a positive thing, which is that they have
the same agent.
Speaker 3: Randy Bennett is repped by the former Washerman agency, so
is Masamba job so that might be able to help them.
Speaker 5: And then there's some other players that I.
Speaker 3: Think as you that would like to probably keep with
Randy Bennett. Noah Mayhusen was a good guard six to five, versatile, skilled, smart,
a lot of a lot of positive attributes. And Santiago
Truett is a forward who you know, he had a
lot of double doubles, somebody who's probably one of the
best rebounders and compete on the defensive ends. And Andreas
Gerbovich is a six foot ten guy. You can stretch
the floor as a stretch four man or five man.
So there's players that probably would like to try to
consider keeping. I don't think it will be that many
that will be on the roster from the season to
next maybe three or four, and then I wouldn't be
surprised at all if there were even more.
Speaker 5: Than that who transferred from Saint Mary's.
Speaker 3: To ASU or at least that many, and then probably
you've got to go out and get a third of
your roster from the transfer portal. They already got a
switch of a commitment or at least a signee. Jay
rob Croy, he's a four star recruit from California who's
a combo guard six foot five. Because he's ranked in
the top twenty combo guards in the country. He already
announced be switching from Saint Mary's as so, but yeah,
I think it'll it'll be mostly new players. I would
just say that a lot of them are going to
probably be from Saint Mary's. Remember Kurt Signetti when when
he when he you know, it's crossport analogy, but when
he was at.
Speaker 5: JMU, he went to Indiana.
Speaker 3: He brought like thirty guys on his roster and that
was a huge part of what jump started his success there.
And you wouldn't be surprised to see Randy Bennett lean
on his former players bring him over.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I want to just stick here with the
transfer port discussion. There's a familiar face that entered the
transfer portal from Arizona State that that by fans would
recognize and and Marcus Adams junior and or Marcus Adams
and and we'd like to keep track a little bit
of players that transfer away. But I mean, say he
transfers to a new school and he sticks in the
transfer portal, that'll be his fourth school in four years.
Is there anything that you any insight that you have
on why it's been hard for him to find a
place to stick around and really make his impact.
Speaker 5: Well, he was kind of unlucky at ASU.
Speaker 3: He had an injury that sidelined him for like the
months or more than a month before the season started,
and then even into the season for several weeks, and
then he wasn't really in great basketball shape. When he
finally you know, kind of got up to speed, then
you know, it just he wasn't playing, and then he
had another sort of a thing where he got dinged up.
So I think he had a bad luck time in ASU.
It's hard for me to really go back and look
at what happened in his three prior years. Obviously, he
had been very successful at cal State Northridge and that's
what enabled him to.
Speaker 5: Be a higher profile guy, one of the two high
profile guys that was added. So I no, no, we'll
have to see what happens.
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insider Chris Carman on the line talking some ASU football
and basketball. State of the athletic department. How you feeling about?
How is uh? How is the sun? How's sun devil nation?
Speaker 5: Right now?
Speaker 2: Feeling about the trajectory of the athletic department overall?
Speaker 3: Oh, well, things are a lot better than they've been
in in years. If you went to a really bad
demoralizing time with the and Souble investigation in the Foo
for recruiting violations that occurred during the covid UH period
that led to eventually the athletic director and head coach leaving,
really leaving in disgrace. And the synergy that's happened in
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coinciding with this success of Kenny Dillingham and Molly Miller
and basketball making the NA Tournament in her first year,
one of the best turnaround jobs in the country. ASU
Baseball is now ranked twenty second nationally and having what
maybe it's best season under Willie Bloomquiss in his first
four years. And now you got Randy Bennett, which I
think most people would agree is a somewhere between a
good and a excellent hire. So you know, generally speaking,
you have more fan buy in to what's.
Speaker 5: Going on right now in the flex department than anytime.
Speaker 3: In a number of years. Probably got to go back
to when Todd Graham had things really rolling in the
twenty fourteen twenty fifteen a time frame probably the best
overall state of the program in about a decade.
Speaker 2: Chris, we appreciate you talking ball with us. It sounds
like ASU is trending in the right direction. Can't wait
to see what they bring to the heart with this
next season with Randy Bennett. Thanks so much for hop
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Spencer Linton by u TV, BILLI Sports Nation the show
in the morning that you can catch it on the
also the sideline reporting for boa men's basketball and calls
the women's game as to play by play with what
is it? Christian Couslowski. They do a phenomenal job. I
believe they're going to be on the call tonight for
the BAU women's basketball game. They take on number two
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doing sideline for the game as well. If they're able
to get to Wich It's off. They win tonight, they
end up going to the semi final over there, so
we wish them the best of luck. But Spencer had
a mention to comment. Now it's the offseason, right Andrew,
Everyone's going to be talking about it, bench production? What
do they needs? What are their transitportal needs? Everyone says shooting,
But I'm looking at mor ofage than just shooting. I
think you also need to look at bench production. So
this is what Spencer had to say of offseason priorities
and how BA you can get back to the Sweet
sixteen because the expectation this year with the roster, some
people said final four. I thought that was a little
bit too long. But I think BA, you can be
back into Sweet sixteen competing for an elite eight. But
less you're at Spencer had to say on the matter,
BA also needs bench production.
Speaker 8: You gotta go eight deep in this conference. In the
Big twelve Conference, you have to have at least three
viable scoring options off the bench. How many guys that
by you have.
Speaker 4: On their bench? Where were they went in the game
and you.
Speaker 8: Thought, okay, they can get a bucket, they can get
a bucket. It was a one maybe you guys and
it was sporadic Alexi Coastitch can hit a three or
two if he comes off the bench. Maybe hedem Boop
can get a donk here there, or he can knock
down a little floater in the lane.
Speaker 4: You don't want to be thinking that way.
Speaker 8: You got to have eight viable players that can all score.
So some bench production now just bench players, bench production.
Speaker 4: Okay, that was Spencer Linton's bench scoring, bench players, not
just bench production, not just bench players. Ap your thoughts
on Spencer's comments.
Speaker 6: I mean, one hundred percent agree by you. One of
their achilles heels, one of the few achilles heels they had,
was the bench had players that had potential but didn't
live up to it very consistently. Like I think Coastitch
is a great piece going forward. I actually really like
the idea of developing Coastitch, and I think there's a
lot of potential.
Speaker 2: There, But I would like to see B why you.
Speaker 6: Pick some guys up out of the portal that have
proven to be consistent and productive at the at the
Power for A level. Look that the mid major transfers
are great, and I think there's a lot of potential there,
But if I'm BYU, and especially if I'm a BYU
fan that watched this last year, I honestly I want
to see more transfers come in from the transfer portal
that are proven at the power for A level. That's
where I think you can build a bench that can
be consistent, that can come in and produce, because getting
guys that work great at the mid major level is
a really hit or miss prospect.
Speaker 4: You bring up a good point of mid majors. I
mean it's hard for mid majors to schedule these schools.
And look, if they're going to the ones like the
Boston colleges, you know, in Boston University or whatever in
the ACC and they're getting paid you know, somewhere between
two hundred and fifty thousand, three hundred thousand, or maybe
on the high end five or six one hundred thousand,
they're not gonna play or they're gonna be the guy
that just tells you and yeah, I think it be
what he definitely does. Like the I like the idea
of coastage, like you mentioned, I think Kanar can play
in this. I think his defense truely is e laite.
I think Kevin Young did pigeon hold him to not
let him facilitate. But in the same breath, Knar was
out there. He's got a hit shots. Maybe he should
just shoot him from the corner and not at the
top of the keepment if that's his strength. I also
like Kadem. I think Kadem's done well. I think there's
a place even for Dominic Diamonde. But there's gonna need
to be some adjustments on this roster. I even think
you need to look at the big three that you have.
I even think looking at you know, should Rob Wright
come back? You know, I think all of that you
got too many guards ap and I haven't gotten your
thoughts on this, but you got Rob Wright, you got
Dawson Baker. You know, if he wants to come back, right,
we haven't heard anything, but you'd have to assume maybe
that he is because he didn't walk on senior day,
so it looks like he's in a good place. Nate
Pickens as well. Then you got kJ Perry, and then
Bruce branch is coming in, and I assume Bruce is
going to have the ball in his hands to maybe
play a little point forward he can handle. Can all
of those guys really they exist in the same room.
A lot of people have said, no, that's how I feel,
But what are your thoughts on that matter?
Speaker 2: Well, I think they can.
Speaker 6: The thing is, and here's where I actually like that
because Byu ran out of guards. Yeah, we we got
to the point where Aj was our point guard, which
Aj did phenomenal at it.
Speaker 2: That's not the position.
Speaker 6: He should be playing like he's a he's a forward.
That's not his natural positions, not point guard, and that's
not what he's going to play at the NBA. And
so I'm just fine with having all those if they're
willing to coexist in the same room. I'm all for
being loaded at that position. Just because you ran out
of ball handlers at the end of last year. What Byu,
I think it's a bigger concern is what's the big
man going into next year?
Speaker 2: Because Kbucaid is gone.
Speaker 6: And I don't know that you can trust Bido Amed
Ahmed to be a big man for BYU.
Speaker 2: I just I didn't see it.
Speaker 6: I understand there's a lot of difficult circumstances coming in
in the middle of the year, being asked to learn
everything and thrust in. But it just didn't. It didn't work.
If I'm being on, it didn't work for me. And
I know Zavian Stateton has a lot of potential, but
he was injured. So I want that's the position that
I want to focus on BAU getting more players and
more than than the guards.
Speaker 4: Let's do it. Let's have that discussion right now. I
mean Kiva Cada did the best that he could. Is
being undersized, you know big, but like you just mentioned,
he's not the Fus skill set of sixty six and
Fus was undersized, but Fus could once he got below
you in the low paying you know, back to the
basket was big. Fus was big, right two forty two
forty five, I do was thick. And then you add
Ali Khalifa, who maybe Ali wasn't the best in shape,
but when he was on from three in that passing ability,
it made the defense guart that BYU team differently. That's
why I think BYU in that the first year in
the Big twelve and last year under Mark Pope had
such a success because there are codes like, okay, how
do you scout the Egyptian yogic? How do you scout
a guy that can okay, stretch the floor and that
can pass and it has the ball in his hands
in the pick and roll. But now, okay, now we
have to adjust to this guy in the post and
wait a second, he's actually not bad at passing the
ball out of the paint, so b way he needs
that guy. They need to go get that guy who's
six ten six' eleven, Truly or if you're gonna get
a seven, footer you, know Like, volcatitis a guy that
you're playing or tuggler who is you know you can
jump out the wazoo and pin you, know shots off
the backboard From, houston then that's the guy you're gonna
need to go. Get you bring up a good. Point,
look if they're going to Keep, badu then what you
need to do is all, right if that's gonna be
the guy that's that big and granted the last like,
week week and a, half he learned to set screens
and not move because in THE nba and the you.
League you can get away with. Moving you can't do
that in. College if you're moving fee to bringing your
hands up and doing, that they're gonna call it every single.
Time the other, way they're not giving you that benefit of.
Doubt you can do, that which shows you not trying
to take any shots At. Kevin you, like that's not,
Basketball Like kevin always, Says, oh you're not allowed to
do it in THE, nba that's a. Foul, well guess,
what you can't have a moving, screen which is against
the ridden rules in a game of. Basketball but we're
not gonna have the. DISCUSSION i just want to point that.
Out if you're going to keep that, guy that guy
has no offensive game from B. Wo he does. Not
he is a guy that can clean up the ball
off the, paint grab a, board and then block really
is just a block and a rebound. Threat you need
to go get a guy in that can supplement that. Offense,
wise you mentioned Xavieron, staaten he's. HURT i don't know
what the ross is gonna look. LIKE i would assume you,
know between that the low and four guys hit the.
Portals six hit the. Highest but they got a lot
of scholarships. AVAILABLE i know people want to say shooting
because you're gonna Have, Kabus you're gonna have, Richies you're
gonna Have. AJ's i don't Think AJ's. Staying you're gonna
Have mihilo's out Of, YEAH i know everybody that conversation
just needs to, stop, like do not entertain bull drive,
guys that's bull. Jof but then the Fourth mahilo out
of those four, SCHOLARSHIPS i am jere, McGregor the fifth
one out of those. FIVE i really think that you
need to out of those five and need to go
get three minimum two if not, three big men that
you just have. Depth because you just mentioned the guard. Playoff,
okay all of those guys can they would have depth
at the guard. Position and you, know And alexi he's
not a ball, handler he's more like a. Two dawson
can also plan, Too so maybe it could work Between
Nate bruce excusing, Me, bruce who could have the ball
in his hands a little bit as a point, Forward
dawson not excuse, me Not, Dawson Nate, pickens and then
of course OBVIOUSLY kJ perry With. Rob so maybe it,
could but they need. MORE i would like to see
four or five guys that can play the big man
role next. YEAR i know a lot of people are
gonna say that's too, Many, ron BUT i, MEAN i
mean at least and look. DEPTH i know you have
to have some, debt BUT i don't even know if
the two guys on the, roster you, know CAN i
don't know if if they can make that impact next.
Year it's, like are you Expecting xavion ap to make
that jump from freshman to sophomore year to be that?
Speaker 6: GUY i THINK i Think Xavion stayton has the potential
to be a good big man off the. BENCH i
don't think he can be a starter next, year and
he's got to be up a little. Bit but you
need what B wy you need is they need a
big man that doesn't look awkward when the ball is
in their. Hands because that's something That foost did really.
Well you could put the ball in his hands and
he could back.
Speaker 4: You, down had a little bit of a post. Game
he didn't look. Uncomfortable that your.
Speaker 6: Point but this, year B, y if the ball was
in the big man tands FOR, byu it needed to
be a dunk or it looked like it was going
to be a. Turnover, yeah and that's worrying. You you
need somebody that can back, down post, up around and
and and get it done at the rim and b.
Way you just didn't have that this. Year and so
THAT i think is the Where i'm focusing because, look B,
YU i don't think B yu has a shortage of.
Shooters they just didn't put it. Together Like coastach can
shoot the, Ball Rob wright can shoot the. Ball Bruce
branch if you've seen his, highlights he can shoot the
ball like B why you gonna have some shooters They
what got them bounced in the attorney was they couldn't
stop a big.
Speaker 4: Man, yeah they couldn't rebound the, ball and it didn't
help in the moments That IF aj was the entire,
OFFENSE i think you need to have, That and they
had guys that were supposed to be shooters that just
didn't knock down. Shots that's gotta. Change If alexi And
canard are leading the, way then you're gonna need to
go get guys that were. That we played a sound
clip from. You ACTUALLY i don't know if you saw,
it But, bo you had seven guys last year thirty
five percent or better from three. Seven, yeah so you're
gonna need to have those, guys and, LOOK i think
you need split. Up go get a big man that
can pass or maybe they can shoot the. Three go
get one that can put his back to the. Basket
if you have one that gets. Solid, look you're gonna
have To you're gonna have to look at it like.
This there can be no more big three or big two.
Anymore it needs to be In arizona type where everybody's
getting paid. Split that's just what it has to. Be,
yeah exactly if YOU i get, it Aj worthreepene hund,
Percent Richie, Worth, Evypenny rob two. DEGREE i Think robert
and his. Paycheck BUT i think between those three guys
that maybe one of those rolls have been split up
a little bit more to add more. Depth and that's
What i'm, saying And i'm hounding this big man. Thing
if b what you does exactly what he did this,
season next, season it doesn't matter even out without the,
interest you're gonna get away with. It but when it's
time to match up with teams in the most critical,
moments because that's what we're talking. About Ap we're not
talking About, okay you, know going ten and eight in
conference player twelve and, six you're talking about making deep tournament.
Runs you need to have a guy that can do.
It AND i don't think B doo And xavion right.
NOW i just don't think that can a guy coming
from THE G league with the experiment didn't work this.
Year and then a guy that's gonna be a sophomore
who wasn't it to play in the second half down
the stretch that got dinged. Up that's a lot of.
Pressure so go get a veteran guy that can play,
basketball that's played basketball for three or four years as
looking for even if it's a one stop shop one, time,
like let it be that. WAY i know you want
to build excuse, me chemistry and, continuity but you need
to go get a guy that can help you and
that can do. That you saw that With, fush you
saw that With. Khalif if you can go get him
when he's young and bring him in and he can
play and make an, impact, Great But Will openshaw is
going on. MISSION i don't think He's he's not gonna
get back for two, years so you're not gonna have.
Him dean's gonna be able to help. You but that's
an eight man rotation guy that can shoot. It you,
KNOW i believe thirty five percent from the field and
play the three AND. D but you got your ball.
Handlers it looks like you got the guys and even
if you lose, one you'll be okay there with the.
Depth but you need now because when you can't throw
the ball into the paint and then get it to
go back out or reset or you can't do that
and you have to always play outside in and you
can't play inside out at. All that's just not the
game of college basketball. Anymore arizona when old school where
they beat you up doing that and by you can't do.
That not SAYING ba needs to be The arizona, Identity
that's not What i'm. Saying but you like a guy
like a Toobya waka who is the fuse where they
get the ball and then they can turn and. Go
if you don't have, that like you MENTIONED, ap it's
gonna be a, long long. Season once, again you have
to be able to slow the game down and force
your defense to collapse and then pass out of. It
and you just can't put the pressure all on one.
Guy so we're see what they're able to. Do But
i'm looking forward to. It but you say, two you
say two big man? Three you KNOW.
Speaker 2: I need three guys that three guys get.
Speaker 4: You to an exebu and aren't gonna do. It that's
What i'm. Saying you got to allocate two, scholarships didn't
for sure because those that's not gonna be their skill.
SET i don't think it's going to be their skill.
Set so then you're and then the other three you
have to go to. Shooters, then so that's what you gotta.
Do you gotta go get two big men and then
three shooters and hopefully that can fix the. Issue, YEAH i,
Agree so we'll. See that was a little cougar byte
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