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Phil Gould has posed a hypothetical question implicit the enactment of Bradman Best and Keaon Koloamatangi for the NSW Blues aft their barnstorming games successful Origin III led to victory.

"If it had of been a decider I wonderment whether they'd spell that way, I wonderment if Koean and Bradman Best get a tally successful that game," helium declared connected Wide World of Sports' Six Tackles with Gus podcast.

The 2 men were immoderate of NSW's champion successful crippled three, and breathed beingness into a broadside that suffered 2 defeats, including an embarrassing 32-6 nonaccomplishment successful crippled two.

Best was outstanding with 2 tries portion Koloamatangi toiled hard and played a manus successful Brian To'o's try.

Gould was highly complimentary of Best post-game. 

"He's been coming done the strategy for years and years and years - it's not casual for a centre, it's benignant of the presumption that takes immoderate players a agelong clip to maestro and they get amended with property implicit a longer play of time," helium said.

"I deliberation Bradman Best is going to beryllium 1 of those players, he's a subordinate that's ever had setbacks with small injuries, he's ever fractional pulling done tackles and radical are ever falling connected his legs and he's ever conscionable being dragged down from down and he's had immoderate different issues, speechmaking defence and those benignant of things.

"But he's truly maturing into the benignant of subordinate we each expected was connected the skyline each those years ago, helium was a precise ascendant kid coming done property radical football, I'm gladsome helium excessively got a chance.

"The mode helium combined with Cody Walker and Addo-Carr to get Addo-Carr distant a mates of times, the archetypal clip successful the series, it was rather peculiar and of people his ain efforts, not lone successful the scoring extremity of the tract but successful the backmost extremity of the tract too.

"I thought immoderate of his charges coming retired of occupation were truly adjuvant and you request those players that are consenting to get successful determination successful the mediate of the field."

Gould added the centre's quality to not beryllium overawed by the juncture was admirable. 

"Bradman Best is simply a beast, he's a carnal beast, helium truly is and he's a determined young antheral and he's not frightened either, his archetypal interrogation for Origin was 'I hatred Queensland' and helium fto them cognize it too," helium said.

Newcastle Knights manager Adam O'Brien believes his cardinal dollar antheral Kalyn Ponga hasn't reached the heights he's susceptible of up of his side's clash against the Tigers.

Ponga has shown glimpses of signifier passim this season, but injuries and positional switches means his nine haven't seen the champion of him.

"I don't deliberation he's reached his ceiling, he's played immoderate precocious prime footy, particularly of precocious but I conscionable deliberation guys similar him volition continually strive to amended successful their crippled and similar I said I don't deliberation he's anyplace adjacent his ceiling yet," O'Brien said.

The coach's proposal for Ponga to scope that ceiling is simple. 

"Continue connected the trajectory that helium is astatine the moment," helium said.

"His grooming (is good) and this hasn't been since helium moved to fullback - he's different example, precise akin to Bradman (Best) with what helium did implicit the summer, helium had a week disconnected and that was it, helium came backmost successful and trained.

"(Keeping) a steadfast body, and a large happening for Kalyn is his determination, he's a precise determined young antheral and that's fractional the battle, if you privation to get amended past that's the archetypal portion of it."