Tyler Kolek's Impact at Marquette & Potential NBA Success

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00:00Tyler Cole, the 2023 Big East player of the year. One of the

00:06best point guards in the country. So influential to

00:09everything Marquette wanted to do the last few seasons that of

00:13course, a season ago, not this previous season but now 2 years

00:162022-23 ended in a Big East regular season title and

00:20tournament title under Shaka Smart but they were still a two

00:24seed this past year in the NCAA tournament as well. I really

00:28thought Donnie and there was some other spots last night for

00:31our draft special that featured odds of Colic being the

00:34favorite to be the number 23 overall pick which is what the

00:38Bucks had. Maybe it was just the Milwaukee connection that

00:41made it seem like a natural transition for Colic but also

00:45the idea that Milwaukee needs backcourt depth and somebody to

00:48place behind Damian Lillard as that backup point guard.

00:52Instead, they go for AJ Johnson, the development project

00:55out of Australia. I'm not entirely sure why he has slid

01:00but many considered him on the cusp of the first round. If

01:04he's drafted in the first five picks tonight, I wouldn't

01:06consider it the greatest upset or the greatest slide we've

01:09ever seen in the NBA draft. Yeah, no and I just wanted to

01:11make that because this was one of the guys that with Marquette

01:14throughout the regular season, a lot of people are saying like,

01:16you know what? I might spend some money here on a futures

01:19wager on Marquette to win and then even more intriguing when

01:21he got injured was what are we going to get back because on a

01:24day-to-day basis when we're breaking down the Big East

01:25tournament, it's like, oh, I wonder if he's going to come

01:27back and even John Rolstein coming on the program. You know

01:29what? I think they're going to hold him out to the big dance.

01:31Yeah. And then you were still trying to say, well, if I get

01:33regular season healthy Colic, I might be getting a discount on

01:36that. So, he's one of those players that can certainly

01:38drive. They can score. It can distribute and also obviously

01:40shoot it.