Jimmer and Team USA start off pool play in the Olympics tomorrow! Get up to speed on what the 8 team field looks like, more familiar with the rest of Team USA, and some quirks of 3x3 that you'll see as you watch the BYU legend go for gold.
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Alex Barcello got the longest run he's had in the Raptor's last Summer League game today. Made the most out of his 22 minutes by putting up 10 pts, 4 assists (1 TO), 4 rebounds and 2 steals. Excited to see what's next for him
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Coach Few when asked post game "Are you gonna miss this environment?"
"This has been so great for our program and it's been -- I don't think we make Final Fours without BYU coming in our league. I just don't. I mean they've challenged us...it's been a treat to come in here and
BYU just dropped 58 points in a half on the Kenpom 29th ranked defense while holding the Kenpom 36th ranked offense to 27 points and 0.879 PPP. What an unreal half from the Cougars
REPORT: Indiana State forward Robbie Avila will enter the NCAA Transfer Portal, per
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The All-MVC 1st Teamer averaged 17.4 points, 6.6 rebounds, and 4.1 assists per game this season.
Team USA claims gold to go back to back at the Pan American games. Jimmer with 7 pts as the US had to go on a 9-0 run after a fired up Chilean squad went up 12-8 early. Second international gold for Jimmer (Americup 2022 was 1st). Finished 18/36 from distance
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ICYMI BYU used this set three times for three Trevin 3's. TCU was guarding the staggers well until BYU moved it to the second or third side. That opened up the first Trevin three but then they had Dallin drive the action to further confuse the TCU defense and
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Coming into the season, Seneca Knight had 13 blocks over 66 games. So far this year he has 7 in 8 games putting him third on the team. He's done a nice job being aware as the weakside helper
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Team USA is headed to the Pan American games semifinal after dispatching Uruguay 21-10. Jimmer with 9pts and the game ender after things got a little chippy towards the end of the game.
Semifinal tomorrow at 2pm MDT and Final at 4:30pm
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Since this team is doing things that haven't been done since '10-'11 wanted to take the audio from my favorite
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promo and throw some clips together from this year's team. Obvious big s/out to
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and his team for the fantastic source material.
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"KYU."
Devin Booker on
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assistant Kevin Young going to BYU.
"I'm excited for him and his family. Somebody I developed a great relationship with. Somebody I wish I could've played college basketball for."
Young was Booker's player development coach.
"He got a good deal."
This was BYU's bread and butter on their big run and is just really good stuff. Dummy action to set up the staggers on the third side. Real goal is to empty things for Dallin to drive. TCU is loaded up on the stagger but Dallin's drive triggers help principles and
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Jimmertime in Abu Dhabi as he goes for double digits in the Final for a 21-13 win that was close before Jimmer took over. He takes home MVP for the event (his second of the tour)
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Man I love this for Jax
”... shaping up to be the 2024 NBA Draft’s top senior prospect … Projected as a possible mid-first round pick, but will need to show consistency throughout his senior year to prove that he’s really flipped a switch"
BYU continued to manipulate the low man on Dalllin drives w/ Trevin in the game for another three here. They put Trevin low in the ballscreen action, essentially like a 4 man to run roll and replace action. Worked to perfection
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Game was tight early before Jimmer got loose and gave Team USA some breathing room. Eventually closed things out now onto the final at 10:25 (MDT) against Serbia (best team in the world in 3x3)
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Richie Saunders was 3-3 last night with all his looks coming at the rim. Really love his dedication to getting downhill and how he injects pace into the game. Per he's shooting an absurd 91.7% at the rim (33/36) so far this season.
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battle...We're gonna miss em big time and we do so out of great respect and just tip our caps, we wouldn't have made those National Championship Game runs without 'em"
With the football blackout being dropped seemed like a good time to share a jersey I've been fiddling with off and on since last year. A bit of a fauxback for the old "Cougs" jerseys from 97-98 season. Felt like a prime opportunity to throw the beetdigger in too
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Jimmer was up to his hijinks in team Miami's first game of the day against a team out of Spain, scoring 13 points and throwing in a couple key assists and steals.
2nd game at 8:10 am (MDT) against another US team, can watch here:
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Not sure why the defense gave him this much room but Jimmer sends Team Miami to the Finals of the Abu Dhabi Masters on his 7th point of the game. Only team besides the
#1
team on the tour to go to three straight Masters finals. Game coming up at 10:15 am MDT
Heck of a fight to erase multiple double digit leads against the best defensive team in the country. Had our opportunities and couldn't connect but don't let that take away from the work it took to be in this game. Margin of error slims when you drop a home game but lotta ball
Yoeli Childs put up 14p/11r today to go with 3 blocks. Second leading scorer on the team at 13.3 ppg as they've cclimbed their way up to third in their division
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Jimmer and Team Miami finally got over the hump and won their first event of the World Tour. Jimmer had 5p, 11p, 9p in the elimination rounds en route to an MVP and helping a US team win their first Masters event since 2019
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Saw this play live and was curious how Fouss was so wide open. Great recognition of knowing what OSU's coverage meant for an empty side ballscreen but what really springs it open is Trey's "45" cut completely taking away the low man help. Love to see Trey impact the
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Yoeli was dunking almost everything today. Ended up with another double double, 19 points and 10 rebounds, in a blowout to help his team get back to .500 on the season.
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Shoutout to Noah for his effort on the boards so far through the first two games. Even when he hasn't gotten the ball himself, consistent effort goes a long way and often opens up opportunities for others. 2nd on the team in rebounds per game last week
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Just smh that it took us until the last game of the regular season to hit 7 wins in conference last year and we're there with 5 to go. Just a fantastic job by everyone in the program to make the kind of strides they did this year!
K, I lied, one more cuz shoutout to Dallin for handling this late game action on his own. It's tougher than it looks to guard this down hill pitch and he almost fouls but gets his hips around enough to contain, good job keeping his hands out of the equation too
This was a really fun game to revisit the film on.
How did BYU scheme KJ Adams out of rim help?
How did BYU's def switching allow them to limit the Jayhawks?
What did BYU do to effectively attack Kansas' switching scheme?
Check it out!
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One of the subtler things Aly does well is the pacing/timing of his passes. It's one thing to make the right read, another to get the pass there to take full advantage of it. Not coming down w/ the ball on this first pass to Trevin is great, gives him more time
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Big three from Jimmer to stretch the lead and it eventually turns into a 21-16 win for Miami in their first game of the World Tour Final. Got that all important first win to put them in pole position to move onto the elimination round tomorrow
Jaxson Robinson is only shooting 26.5% from three his last 7 games (7 att/g) but despite that has increased his Big XII PPG from 11.4 ↗️14.3. He's removed the hesitation from his game when coming off actions and is attacking the rim like he's Richie Saunders
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Multiple sources have told me BYU is targeting Chris Burgess and Barret Peery as assistants to Kevin Young. BYU is working to bring in a top flight staff to go along with one of the brightest young minds in basketball.
Didn't get to turn the game on until later in the first half, can't believe I missed this beautiful Jaxson finish in transition. He's grown in his feel of what playing downhill looks like for him
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Finally able to get around to the SDSU game a bit. 1 thing that's starting to come through defensively and overall is a bit of a choas element. Richie feels trusted enough that he completely breaks off his assignment to go for the steal here for a pick 6
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Jimmer hits the game winner and wraps up a solid first outing, scoring 11 of his team's 21 points and dishing out 4 assists. Next up at 11:20 against Australia. Didn't catch the audio but on a replay the commentator said "The man from BYU saying C-YU" lol
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Here's a fun one, Noah Waterman set a career high tonight with 10 three point attempts. In his career, when he's shot 8 or more attempts (5 games before tonight) he was a blistering 52% (22/42). Hit 5 tonight so a very slight bump down but pretty on line for his career mark
One of my favorite buckets from last night. Don't like that we gave up the oreb but trade off of a tough 2 vs a 3 was a huge piece of the game. The dedication to pushing the pace was great to see, I always love to see pace after makes and you can tell Dallin was
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Jimmer averaged 6.6 p/g in his three elimination games today. Did some work on the glass too, adding two games w/ 5 reb but did his best work in the clutch. Scored last 3 pts of the game in QF and Final while scoring/assisting on 3 of last 4 in semifinal
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Fun to go back through Kansas game, some high level hoops played the other night, here's a quick 🧵 with just a little bit of the fun stuff.
Here's a set BYU runs when teams are top locking hard on their zoom/stagger action. "Horns" into the stagger on weak side
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Second clip is on the offensive side, as BYU put the ball in Dallin's hands to take them home and he didn't disappoint. Long time readers will recognize "Pitch Wildcat" here back to back to help close the game but the second set is really what's
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All right, definitely will try to dig into i more but got a couple clips for ya before calling it a night.
First up great stop to basically seal the game. Good screen navigation from Dallin on the initial action looking for a three then by Spencer on the
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Quite the defensive possession from Caleb here. Anticipates the ballscreen and beats his man to it to get over then uses his athleticism to recover and force a tough shot. Then to top it off, finishes the possession with the rebound.
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Jimmer had an up and down day (4/16 from two) but came up big in Team Miami's second game, posting 11 pts with six of those from downtown. Miami wins their pool and and starts their quarterfinal 11pm MT. Winning team of the event takes home 50k
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Real fun to watch BYU get out and run, 2 to the rebound since Richie has the big engaged, solid rim run by Fouss to pull the low defender in. Once Dallin sees that low defender's feet at the paint it's a quick reversal, extra pass, and Jaxson doesn't need much space
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Another shoutout to Noah Waterman last game, set new career highs in FTs attempted (8) and made (7) in a game as well as offensive rebounds in a game (5). Has done a real nice job rim running and crashing the glass creating those FT attempts.
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Houston's previous margins of victory when shooting 43% or better from 3:
vs Penn - 39 pt win (43.8%)
vs Stetson - 31 pt win (45%)
vs Tx Tech - 23 pt win (47.1%)
vs West Virginia - 34 pt win (50%)
Usually when they shoot that well it's a blowout so great fight by BYU tonight
20 days to
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Trevin Knell's career high of 20 points came against the Zags in the conference tournament his Sophomore year. Trevin went 5/10 from three and 2/3 from two in the game.
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One of the things I've really liked about the increased pace is running off of makes. Ball goes in and 6 seconds later Jaxson is shooting a wide open three. Good early up by Dallin and kudos to Richie for the rim run drawing two defenders. Running off makes can be a
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Not the finish Team USA hoped for but a good showing for Jimmer in the final. Led all scorers with 10 points and ended the tournament as the leading scorer and on the All-Tourney Team
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Been really impressed with Richie's determination to put rim pressure on the defense. Moreso than others seems like he's really intent on quickly attacking gaps to get to the rim. This sequence pretty emblematic of a key piece of BYU's success so far: crash the
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resident chaos agent doing his thing last week. Richie checked in around 12:50 in both games and within two minutes made his impact on both ends of the floor, ratcheting up the energy level with his high end motor. Excited to see his first stint tonight
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Jimmer back on the 3x3 World Tour circuit in the Amsterdam Masters. Just hit the game winner en route to what I believe will be a "double five" w/ something like 8 pts / 5 key assists. Strong start for him and his team as they win 22-12. Next pool game is 2:25 MDT
After the offensive display last night BYU jumped 10 spots in Kenpom Adjusted Offensive efficiency (24 --> 14).
Defensively they were solid but fell one spot to 8th but getting back into top 15 in both metrics is obviously good stuff
Hats off to Trey Stewart for maximizing his limited time on Saturday, was able to make a positive impact to the tune of a Net rating of 63.1 in one of the lineups he appeared in and 14.3 in the other (allowing only an adjusted 40 points per 100 possessions). Caveat being
AB dropped 25 of his team's sixty-seven points in his most recent game and came away with the W. His team, Gipuzkoa Basket, is in a four way tie for 2nd in Spain's second best league and will qualify for the upcoming promotion playoffs
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Check out Dallin on defense for this whole possession. Fights the ballscreens before conceding the peel switch.Navigates the off ball switch with Noah to get out of the mismatch but is ready to pinch down on the big when the ball is driven. Then gets around to two
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Always fun to see the BYU offense flow from one action to another. Try to set up second side staggers but OSU is on it, pushing curlers above the screen. Flow that into ballscreen and on the switch it's go time, flow into quick release hit, attack closeout, then
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Brett McMurphy just told
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and me that you can put the football-only talk to bed about BYU joining the B12. If/When BYU is invited, it will be for all sports.
Props to Dallin Hall, did a great job orchestrating against UCF and once again hitting the right spots tonight. Really impressed with him controlling the pace, getting downhill pressure, and hitting the windows on the corner pass. Defensively always really solid too