AJ Dybantsa's 'confidence' is the BYU freshman's greatest asset
Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz are joined by NBC college basketball analyst and former Baylor guard King McClure to discuss BYU freshman AJ Dybantsa . Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV .
Video Transcript
It's the confidence for me.
When you watch the game against UConn, all right, that, That first half, it looked like he tried to force the issue.
It was almost, if you watch college football, it was very similar to what we saw with Marcel Read when A&M played this past weekend.
That first half, he was terrible.
In the second half, he was phenomenal, right?
So, when you look at AJ Debans, In that first half, He was horrible.
It almost looked like the moment was too Big.
They got down big; they got down by 20.
But in that second half, he flipped the script.
And mind you, They didnt have KaNard Davis due to a DUI, so Kevin Young sat him out.
They didn't have Kaba Kada because he went down early in the game and got injured.
So you're down, you're, you're, you're with.
Without two starters, Your defensive anchor and one of your, probably your second best or third best offensive guy.
So now, AJ Deban has flipped the script from having a horrible, Horrible first half to now taking over the game in the second half, and truthfully pushing it, Propelling his team to make that comeback, uh, despite not winning the game.
I mean, you know, Rob Wright had that turnover toward the end of the game.
But for AJ Thebanta to just flip a switch mentally, to see that out of the, Out of, out of an 18-year-old kid, especially When you're on the road in TD Garden at the Celtics Arena, that was extremely impressive and I think for me, it's the Confidence.
No matter how bad he's playing, no matter what.
What's going on, he still knows that he is him.
He knows that he is the best player on the Floor, and he's willing to go show it.
