Trent Read

We do Mission and Life Prep at our home in Highland, UT most Sunday evenings during the school year. We are on for tonight at 8pm. High school age kids from anywhere are invited. We make shakes for all who come afterwards. DM if your teen wants to come and you need our address. Feel free to accompany them if you want to make sure we’re teaching good things.

Thank you @AJ_Dybantsa 💙🔥

@certopinion - Koz has promise - Isn’t Pickens supposed to be solid? - Staton could be great - I would love to see Diomande develop

KJ Perry Rob Wright Dawson Baker The rest can walk Dom, Mboup, and Kostic im happy to have back if they are good with a lesser role off the bench. If they decide to walk that’s just fine

Though I don’t disagree entirely, this same cast of characters but with Bosko playing like last year, Keba playing like last year, and either Kostic or Mrus being the high percent spot up 3 point shooter they should have been would have still been a sweet 16 team. But Bosko regressed, Keba regressed, and guys recruited just for spot up shooting, were not great spot up shooters. Bummer.

This is an injury issue. No team could withstand losing the players BYU has lost this year

@jackson5payne He just wasn’t the old Keba after the concussion. 2024/25 Keba would have been so helpful in this game. Post-concussion 2025/26 Keba was a shadow of his former beastliness.

Keba Keita fouls out. Potentially his last game at BYU.

@nurri30g @jlinehan9 Yep!

@TrentRead @jlinehan9 Final four team last year with aj

AJ is one of the greatest to come through BYU. Injuries impacted the team, yes, but incredibly disappointing that no one stepped up consistently to help. I expect a VERY different roster next year. There are no excuses in the NIL era. BYU underperformed.

@nurri30g @ByuSome Instead of a big step forward year over year or a maintenance of progress…dude regressed and it really hurt.

@TrentRead @ByuSome I was hoping more from Bosko

Good game. We really wasted the best player in basketball because our bigs are Downy soft and our guards can't shot a damn 3. Freaking embarrassing and pathetic, and I feel for AJ.

@For3JT Think how nice at least 30% would be right now. And with how many doubles AJ and Rob draw, spot up open shooters really should be hitting at 40%. But alas.

2/17 from 3. EMBARRASSING.

@BrandonCGurney Should counted as a clean block in his defense

may have not been going in, but Ahmed made certain it counted

@dryflyelk They seriously don’t understand the basic box out.

I wonder if our guys have heard of the “box out” theory

@CJRealHoops2 Can they just please go ice cold for the rest of the game and we go white hot? We are due for some luck to go our way.

On to next year

@joewheat27 And I swear they don’t understand basic boxing out. Keba just got a foul doing a front facing pushing box out. Turn your back to the guy and stick your butt out. It would create the space he needs to go up and get it.

BYUs bigs have 1 rebound combined. It’s just a heart issue man

@mvp30_curry Dude has one job. To hit open 3s. He airballs it.

I don’t care if we lose today—but if it’s a tight game late in the second half, the ball needs to be in AJ’s hands every single possession. I don’t want possessions where the ball doesn’t touch his hands and we write up a play for a Kostic 3. (No offense to Kostic)

@BrandonCGurney Whoever that small defender is, needs to box out. Do we have anyone we can trust to box out?

BYU needs to go small ball. I mean, Keba/Ahmed can't handle Vokie anyway, so...

@CriddleBenjamin None of our guys on this squad seem to understand boxing out. Fous would be boxing him out. Any past player who understands boxing out would be doing fine.

Which big man in BYU Basketball history could body up and rebound over / box out Matas Vokietaitis?

@GamedayByu @For3JT It is absolutely A problem. But yes so is allowing offensive rebounds.

@For3JT The 3 isn't the problem...

How do we make every single team look like a 3pt shooting machine???

@rhancoug17 His footwork is just so bad.

Bido… Shredded.🤬

@jlinehan9 He’s gone from SO tough to SO soft ever since his concussion.

Keba is an undersized big but he’s gonna have to step up or it’ll be a long night for the Cougs

Is there a reason we don’t like boxing out? It really does help.