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Murray: “To me it feels like this is the  DEREK KOLBABA                      Brazilian rope he uses, if he has his
                 first year that he believes he ought to be  Lambert: “Kolbaba is the real deal, and  hands too close to the middle, and his
                 a World Champion. Before it was just  he has been for a long time. He had a  rope isn’t tight enough, he will sit down
                 some of us guys believing it. It doesn’t  couple of minor things. His riding style  and  pull  his  knees  up  too  high. If  he
                 matter if you are a boxer, a runner or  fits all kinds of bulls unless he has his  pulls his rope in the right spot and gets
                 whatever, you have to believe it first. If  bull rope too loose, which causes him  it to stay in the right spot he is capable
                 you don’t believe it, you will not even  to pull his knees too high. With that  of riding everything.”
                 get the opportunity. It seems like he is at
                 that point where he is thinking I can be
                 that guy.”


                 KAIQUE PACHECO
                 McBride: “Right now, his fundamentals
                 are off away from his hand. It is not a
                 big deal. It is one inch. That one inch
                 is screwing him every time something
                 turns back to the left right around the
                 corner. It really surprises me, but that
                 has been his Achilles heel all along.
                 Every now and then it rears his ugly
                 head and he sits down away from his
                 hand. When he sits down, nobody can
                 ride a good bull away from their hand
                 flat on their butt. That being said. I
                 don’t want to make that into a huge
                 deal. That one inch difference, and he
                 is getting around the corner and he
                 rides everything from here on out and
                 another bull doesn’t buck him off. He is
                 more than capable of that.”


                 Lambert: “I think Kaique has an injury.
                 I ask him about it all the time and he
                 says no he feels great. He hasn’t ridden as
                 consistent as I expect him to be because
                 he is just about as good as anybody we
                 have ever seen. I don’t know. I can’t put a
                 finger on it. I think he is fighting through it
                 and not wanting to make an excuse. I can
                 definitely respect him for that.”






                                                                                                 DEREK KOLBABA has qualified for three
                                                                                                      consecutive PBR World Finals.



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