Kyan Evans

They did it for a couple of NCAA tournament runs, you know, and like that Isaiah Stevens Roddy stretch.

And then you kind of had the Stevens Neat Clifford and then it was Neat Clifford and Kyan Evans, who's now at Minnesota with Medved, which should be fun to see kind of how that plays out.

But I think that's the hope if you're CSU going into this year is like a couple years ago, you've got a lot of young guys who got to play together, learn to grow in this offensive system, which especially as a point guard or a big is not easy.

There's just a lot of variations and it's a lot of spacing and it takes guys a little bit of time to get used to it.

It was encouraging to me to see them come back and not kind of lay down, even though it's an exhibition.

Kyan Evans goes down with...

What sounds like was just precautionary reasons to hold him out in the second half, but he did have a little bit of a hip injury.

But what that allowed the Gophers to do is we got to see 30-point explosion in the second half in overtimes from Isaac Asima.

Can you tell us where we stand right now on the injury front?

So Kyan Evans, yeah, he went out later in the first half, didn't come back to start the second half.

It was a hip injury.

If it was a game that mattered, they would have played him.

RJ, let's talk about rotation here.

We talked about it last week in the first exhibition game, how we kind of have a pretty clear picture of who we think the starters are going to be.

Isaac Osma and Kyan Evans is your two guards.

Bobby Durkin on that wing three-point shooting threat.

It's not from a lack of skill.

This isn't Kyan Evans.

Kyan Evans' point-blank period was not good enough to play point guard in North Carolina.

And that's okay.

Not many point guards are.

I didn't sit down and break down the numbers, but just the eye test told you that as you watch the game flow.

And so I think there's a role definition aspect to this where he is getting used to what he's going to be asked to do.

And will it continue to be what we've seen to this point where Neo is the key main point guard? I think the other thing with Terrence Brown, is he just needs to slow down take a breath settle in you're great bro you're here for a reason i like because there's nothing in in summer stuff there's nothing in the lead up to this point that tells you that he doesn't have it at the same level as what we looked at with a kyan evans or whatever it was with last year or other players that might not have hit in the portal Terrence Brown's got all the athleticism you need.

Cade Tyson averaged over 20 a game last year at Minnesota.

Minnesota brought back Kyan Evans to the Nico Medved system.

Jalen Crocker-Johnson is awesome.

And if you're able to get Cade Tyson eligible, you could be looking at an at-large team.

I think he's got a chance to be able to do something pretty good here.

It'd be nice to see if he can get the Kyan Evans reclamation project the same way that he did with Kate Tyson.

So my power rankings, I have Illinois and Michigan State one and two in that order.

If you want to argue Michigan State over Illinois, I'm probably not going to argue against you, but I think they're both top five teams, both national title contenders.

I think Nico is a hell of a coach, and I think that no one is going to be talking about them, especially if they have Kate Tyson eligible.

Give me Kate Tyson.

Give me the Kyan Evans reclamation project.

Anybody that doesn't do well in North Carolina is going to go to Minnesota and average 20 a night.

He limited Stubblefield to two baskets.

And so that wasn't – Kyan Evans, he – okay, so when he was digging, which means helping off to the post, helping off to wherever the – helping off your man to apply a little pressure.

When he was doing that, he accumulated four steals and constant harassment.

So you could just keep going throughout the lineup.

They were well-timed.

And you can tell.

A guy like Kyan Evans has been working this offseason to get to a point where he can take advantage of that.

He had some really nice lobs to Malik.

He's back for another year for Minnesota.

If you get those two together, plus Kyan Evans, I know it didn't work out great once again at North Carolina.

Seems to be a common theme for, uh, you know, Hubert, under Hubert Davis unfortunately.

Um, getting him back in Niko Medved's system.

Niko Medved, in my opinion, one of the better coaches in all of college basketball.

Now they've got Kyan Evans back after he didn't see a lot of run over at North Carolina last year, but two years ago in the same system was good.

Jalen Crocker-Johnson, after he was banged up last year, he's back and fully healthy.

They may or may not have Cade Tyson back, and if they have Cade Tyson back, [laughs] look out below.

Lots of familiarity with a coach that I really respect in Niko Medved going back to his time over at Colorado State.

Getting him healthy is gonna be huge.

And they reunite Kyan Anthony, or Kyan Evans, who was over there at North Carolina last year, two years ago in this Medved system.

He was able to do a really nice job with about three assists, shot 44 and a half percent from three, 10-plus points per contest.

But yeah, it definitely feels different and, you know, more player led, uh, which is what you want.

Um, and then I, you know, I tell people, too, you have Kyan Evans coming back.

Yeah.

That's like having another guy who, you know, understands, you know, you and, and kinda what this looks like.

He's playing 100% every single time he's on the court and it just, that definitely helps him.

Let's talk a little bit too about, um, some, uh, another, well, all the newcomers, but one of the newcomers also is familiar with this system.

Kyan Evans, a guard who was at Colorado State, teammate of yours a couple years ago.

Uh, detoured to North Carolina and then took the Cade Tyson route and the Dawson Garcia route from Carolina to, uh, uh, to be a Golden Gopher.