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  Speaker 1: Tech Recap, our TCU preview with the boys. The Senator
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  Speaker 1: comes down to the numbers, and Mountaineer basketball team did
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  Speaker 1: not have the numbers on Saturday in Lubbock, Texas, had
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  Speaker 1: them for the first fifteen minutes. Problem is game last forty.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if they were to just say, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 1: we got things to do. We're gonna call this thing
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  Speaker 1: off at you know, five minutes to go in the game,
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia would have been up fine, okay, up nine
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  Speaker 1: at that point. Then yp Tech closes fifteen to three
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  Speaker 1: run and they go up three at halftime, and they
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  Speaker 1: outscore West Virginia. Just pounded them by nineteen points forty
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  Speaker 1: three to twenty four in the second frame, and they
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  Speaker 1: win the game seventy three fifty one. What's it mean?
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  Speaker 1: Why did it happen? We'll break it down pretty simple.
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  Speaker 1: Why it happened? Meanwhile, kind of almost an identical result.
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  Speaker 1: So West Virginia men get beat by the Red Raiders
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  Speaker 1: seventy three p. Fifty one. That's twenty two points. TCU
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  Speaker 1: women beat West Virginia seventy one fifty by twenty one points,
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  Speaker 1: which makes me want to say, let's get the hell
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  Speaker 1: out of Texas. That was not a good weekend at
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  Speaker 1: all in the lone Star state. Gotta make shots, man,
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  Speaker 1: gotta make shots. Here we go final totals. This is
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  Speaker 1: not by the way spreads on stats. This is just
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  Speaker 1: like an appetizer Like this is kind of when the
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  Speaker 1: weight staff comes over and says, can we get your
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  Speaker 1: water to get you started. I'm just gonna give you
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  Speaker 1: a little water to get you started. West Virginia shot
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  Speaker 1: thirty three percent against Texas Tech from the field, twenty
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  Speaker 1: two percent from three. WV women shot thirty one percent
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  Speaker 1: for the game, seventeen percent from three. That is, can't win,
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  Speaker 1: almost impossible to win. So we're not sitting here today
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  Speaker 1: going like it was the officiating. It was the whistle,
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  Speaker 1: although there are some bad calls.
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  Speaker 2: Although yes, in the men's game.
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  Speaker 1: On the women's side, they did go eleven to thirteen
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  Speaker 1: at the foul line. Tech went thirteen to seventeen, so
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't a massive thing. But anyway, we go on
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  Speaker 1: to the point. Hello, mister Hope, how are.
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  Speaker 3: You good afternoon? Folks? Are you ready for obvious observation.
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  Speaker 1: Well, sure, I mean, obviously we.
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  Speaker 3: Are obviously well first. With this West Virginia team, you
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  Speaker 3: go into every game thinking you got a chance because
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  Speaker 3: of the way they've played this season. So but you
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  Speaker 3: knew this was going to be a tough out, right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Texas Tech is one of the best, if
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  Speaker 3: not the best team in the league. You'll find out
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  Speaker 3: more tonight when they have the rematch with Houston. But
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  Speaker 3: here's a team braand they were averaging eighty two points
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  Speaker 3: a game, West Virginia averaging sixty nine, So he knew
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  Speaker 3: it was going to be a challenge. There, you're on
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  Speaker 3: the road, and like you said, Tony, you got off
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  Speaker 3: to a good start. Hansbury was really good early for
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  Speaker 3: that first fifteen minutes. Then Javon gets the two fouls
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  Speaker 3: in West Virginia at the end of the first half.
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  Speaker 3: Cold shooting in the second half. They start out missing
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  Speaker 3: sixteen or their first twenty shots in the second half. Ouch,
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  Speaker 3: and you're just and as you said, Tony, shot thirty
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  Speaker 3: three percent from the game. You're not going to beat
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  Speaker 3: Texas Tech. You're a going to be anybody shooting thirty
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  Speaker 3: three percent for the game. You got it out rebounded
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  Speaker 3: by ten and then toppens a dude, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: projected first rounder, and he has twenty two points out
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  Speaker 3: of sixteen shooting. And after the game, McCaslin was really
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  Speaker 3: complimentary of Anderson, Christian Anderson, the freshman who had twenty
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  Speaker 3: one points and had a great defensive efforts. So that's
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  Speaker 3: a really good team. And look, sometimes it just when
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  Speaker 3: the shots aren't falling and you're playing a really good
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  Speaker 3: team on the road, gets away from you. And that's
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  Speaker 3: what happened in that game. And now you got to
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  Speaker 3: regroup and rebound and get even with TCU because you
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  Speaker 3: owe them, and they're coming in and you owe them,
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  Speaker 3: and you got a chance to get right and you
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  Speaker 3: owe them after what happened in Fort Worth.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll talk about that biggest game of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh agree, Okay, well agree, just because that's it
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  Speaker 2: and then there will be another biggest game of the
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  Speaker 2: season if you win that. But you're you're kind of
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  Speaker 2: survive in advance at this point, right, March has already
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  Speaker 2: started if you're West Virginia in terms those home games. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I agree with most of what you said there, guys,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just another one of those. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: Texas swing this month was not good to us. The
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  Speaker 2: TC two games should have been a win, right, you
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  Speaker 2: walk out of there, a team that can't shoot a
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  Speaker 2: free throw makes one hundred and forty two percent from
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  Speaker 2: the line. Yep, they were outstanding. You go to Baylor,
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  Speaker 2: you have them beat, except that giant lake appeared under
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  Speaker 2: the basket and you can't get a finish, among other things.
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  Speaker 2: And then on Saturday, so it's too bad too, and
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  Speaker 2: it's the end score is not really indicative of how
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  Speaker 2: that game went. In my opinion, the second half got
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  Speaker 2: away from you. And that's a very good Texas Tech team,
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  Speaker 2: there's no doubt. But you were and I'll talk more
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  Speaker 2: about this later. You can see how close this team is,
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  Speaker 2: and I think you always have to remember you're doing
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  Speaker 2: this without what would have been your best player going
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  Speaker 2: into this season, Intuckertive Reese. But yet you watch that
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  Speaker 2: first half and you talk about preparation being on point
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  Speaker 2: and then execution being on point for the first Really,
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  Speaker 2: it was eighteen and a half minutes that you led
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  Speaker 2: that first half until they caught you with a minute
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  Speaker 2: and a half to go. In that game, the execution
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  Speaker 2: was perfect, Hopy. The defense was doing exactly what you
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  Speaker 2: wanted it to do. You were forcing Tech to settle,
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  Speaker 2: you were forcing their ball handlers to come off screens
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  Speaker 2: and have to be a scorer rather than lobbing or
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  Speaker 2: finding topping. Toppin was out of it, went over his
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  Speaker 2: first six. You were controlling him and you were you
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  Speaker 2: were slowing the pace to where you wanted it to be,
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  Speaker 2: yet running in a couple opportunities. It was right there.
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  Speaker 2: It just simply came down to you just missed too
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  Speaker 2: many shots. And I know we giggle and laugh all
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  Speaker 2: the time and we say it's you got to make shots.
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  Speaker 2: This is a make shots sport. And when you're West
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  Speaker 2: Virginia and you rely on the three, like you do
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  Speaker 2: nearly fifty percent of your shots, if you shoot what
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia shoot from three, it was not It was
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  Speaker 2: not pretty.
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  Speaker 3: I realized twenty twenty couple.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty two percent. Yeah, So if you take fifty percent
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  Speaker 2: of your shots or threes and you only make twenty
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  Speaker 2: two percent, that's probably not going to be the outcome
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  Speaker 2: you want against a very good team. So you can
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  Speaker 2: see it in there. You can see the promise that's
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  Speaker 2: in there. You can see the game planning that's there.
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  Speaker 2: You can see the execution by the guys for a
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  Speaker 2: good chunk and then just didn't have it on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: for the second half and they got going in again.
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  Speaker 2: That's a very good team, and you let them get
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  Speaker 2: going and score one point five ish points per possession,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have a tough night.
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  Speaker 1: Reality is this, although people don't want to say it,
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  Speaker 1: you're getting out. You're playing teams that have better talent.
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  Speaker 1: Playing it simple, they have more better players. I'll go
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  Speaker 1: back to that my MVP. There are teams that we're
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  Speaker 1: playing that have more better players. Now, there are ways
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  Speaker 1: to beat them, right, there are ways to beat them.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. The most talented team doesn't always win.
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  Speaker 1: It's the team that plays the best that day. That's
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  Speaker 1: what West Virginia's trying to do. They're trying to be
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  Speaker 1: the best team that day. But they know that you're
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  Speaker 1: dealing with fire because you're playing against some really talented players.
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  Speaker 1: There's probably a really good chance that at some point
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  Speaker 1: topping Darien Williams and Christian Anderson who you mentioned, Hoppey
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  Speaker 1: are probably in the league, probably in the league, and
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  Speaker 1: so you have to have like no margin for air,
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  Speaker 1: and to your point, when you get open looks, you
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  Speaker 1: have to put the ball down and then you'd be
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  Speaker 1: right there. So that's going to be the situation for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of this season. Now, going forward in this program,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get more better players. They're coming right
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  Speaker 1: as soon as you put Tucker back into the mix.
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  Speaker 1: Next year, you go like massive jump. And then who
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  Speaker 1: else you also get in this recruiting season that will
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  Speaker 1: be coming up in the portal. So you're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: there and you're gonna line up some of these days
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  Speaker 1: in this league and you can go, guess what, West
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  Speaker 1: Virginia's got more better players than this team. But at
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  Speaker 1: this point because of situations and you just got to
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  Speaker 1: be the best team that day.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and some of it's going to be these guys
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  Speaker 2: that you currently have are going to be the more
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  Speaker 2: better players. You're going into battle with babies here. Amani
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  Speaker 2: Hansbury really hasn't played at this level. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: him because he's really coming on. Jonathan Powell has not
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  Speaker 2: played at this level. You're playing Jonathan Powell a lot
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  Speaker 2: more than you would ideally like to to give him
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  Speaker 2: a chance to acclimate now there's a payoff down the road.
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  Speaker 2: So you would think those guys, in particular, since your
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  Speaker 2: Harris hasn't played a lot of college basketball, you're relying
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  Speaker 2: him a ton kJ Tenner. You've put him right into
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  Speaker 2: the fire. You're relying on him more than you would
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  Speaker 2: have intended when you first started. So that's the other
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  Speaker 2: part of it too. You're just going into battle with
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  Speaker 2: guys that just haven't played at this level, and they're
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  Speaker 2: hanging around in most of these games. You start to
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  Speaker 2: go through this, guys beat Iowa State, you beat Kansas
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  Speaker 2: at the FAG, you beat Arizona. Those are three teams
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  Speaker 2: right there that are going to contend deep into March,
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  Speaker 2: two of which are probably going to be number one
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  Speaker 2: seeds right in. I'm sorry, and I was stated that
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say the second half of Houston,
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  Speaker 2: you had them be You played right with them there.
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  Speaker 2: You had Texas Tech in the first half, you were
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  Speaker 2: right there with them. You had Baylor for almost the
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  Speaker 2: entire game. You had BYU that's ahead of you in
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  Speaker 2: the standing. So I continue to say, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty remarkable they're doing what they're doing, having to rely
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  Speaker 2: on guys that just haven't had to do it at
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  Speaker 2: this level and you're seeing That's why I say you
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  Speaker 2: can see behind the curtain, you can see what's coming
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  Speaker 2: down the road. It's just sometimes frustrating in the moment
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  Speaker 2: that you can't get over the hump when you're right
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  Speaker 2: there and you're right there playing with guys and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: those shots don't fall, and they didn't on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Totally agree, Yeah, totally agree. You know, you want to
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  Speaker 1: use a football analogy here. West Virginia's offensive line really
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: struggled when Zach Frasier was a baby and that gang
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  Speaker 1: was a baby, right, and they had to play early on,
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  Speaker 1: earlier than you normal happened. By the time they had
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  Speaker 1: all matured, right, they're among the nation's best teams and
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  Speaker 1: running the football, and the same thing could be here
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  Speaker 1: if you can keep these guys together over the next
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  Speaker 1: couple of years, Yeah, that can be the case. Now,
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  Speaker 1: football is a lot more or basketball is a lot
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  Speaker 1: more I think fluid maybe than football as roster wise,
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  Speaker 1: who knows nowadays. So you're going to have the whole
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  Speaker 1: retention conversation, which I'm sure we'll have going forward. But
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  Speaker 1: if you could keep the majority of these guys together
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  Speaker 1: and then go get others, which they will. Then you'll
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  Speaker 1: be in really good shape.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the other part. I was going to use this
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  Speaker 2: unspread on stats. We'll throw it on now. It's because
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  Speaker 2: it's the number that we're watching most closely. West Virginia
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  Speaker 2: still again, as we sit here with what two weeks
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  Speaker 2: to go in the season, now four games left, three
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  Speaker 2: games left on how many we have four games left?
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia continues to be solidly in the NCAA tournament field,
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  Speaker 2: which again I will say, is absolutely amazing given everything
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  Speaker 2: we just said. Sitting in a nine point six y
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  Speaker 2: two average bracket number, you're on the ten seed line,
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  Speaker 2: but you're the lowest ten of all the brackets on bracket.
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  Speaker 2: Not a single one has you out of the tournament
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  Speaker 2: field as you sit today.
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  Speaker 3: They did take a pretty significant drop in ken Palm.
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  Speaker 3: They've been hovering at forty six, forty seven, forty five,
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  Speaker 3: even with even with losses, but they dropped to what
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  Speaker 3: fifty one?
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  Speaker 2: They were forty seven, they went to fifty and they
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  Speaker 2: fell another one after games last night, so they'ret fifty one,
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  Speaker 2: But that doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're onto the brackets and the projections of that.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean that is what it is. You're not
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  Speaker 2: going to move much in the Ken Palm analytic numbers
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  Speaker 2: because your games are going to be close. The only
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  Speaker 2: way you move significantly there is to have blowout situations,
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  Speaker 2: and you're just not going to have many of those,
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  Speaker 2: so you won't move much out of there.
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  Speaker 1: Then to your point, the margin for air, Now you
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  Speaker 1: got two at home and you got two on the road,
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  Speaker 1: and your margin for air at home is guess what. Zero.
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  Speaker 1: Can't lose to TCU, and you can't lose the UCF
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  Speaker 1: unless you go beat Utah and go be BYU. But
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: you're playing with fire, So get what you can get
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  Speaker 1: taken care of at home and then just go take
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  Speaker 1: your swings when they go to Utah, and that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be that's gonna be a long trip. It's a
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  Speaker 1: Saturday late game, it's a Tuesday late game. It's hard,
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  Speaker 1: but you're gonna have to go out there and find
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  Speaker 1: a way to get her done.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, there's been hard games all year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what.
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  Speaker 2: Take your swings.
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  Speaker 2: They got two things going.
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  Speaker 1: Hey you should have seen your boys Saturday hoppy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when you turn your seventeen computers on and caused a
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• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Well, again, this is one where we can keep this
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: segment fairly short. I think we just went over the
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: key ones. You make shots in this game. You hit
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: some of those three, especially in that first half, if
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: you get that thing up to twelve or fifteen, which
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: was not unreasonable given how your defense was playing and
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: how much they were struggling to get their own shots.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Then maybe you could hang on. Then I think you
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: could have made it really tense. That building was dead quiet,
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: hoppy for the first eighteen minutes of that half. Then
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: it got cranked up. That's a big arena in there,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: and they got going once Tech got rolling a little bit.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: But you would have been in some better shape if
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: you had made shots. And I just look around the
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: arc for West Virginia. One of six from the left wing,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: two of nine from the top of the key three,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: and one of six from the right wing. That's usually
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: where West Virginia makes its Heay is right around that
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: called above the break threes in those three zones just
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: didn't get him.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: I know you're going to get to this. I bet you.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: In the uncontested open look category, we're gonna want to
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: punch ourselves in the head. Get a bunch of open looks.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: I was wondering about that too. Here we tested versus
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: on content.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: See I know here he comes. He clenched his fist together,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: So this is he's got something.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: He's not good.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: You had twenty total catch and shoot jumpers against Texas Tech. Yeah,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: fourteen of them unguarded. So that again, that offense was
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: working the way you wanted to work. The motion was working,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: you were getting guys involved, the ball movement, the pick
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: and pop for Amani fourteen on guarded jump shots, you
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: got just twelve points out.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Of those, so seventy percent or open shots.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, last three games you've had twenty nine on
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: guarded catch and shoots out of fifty total catch and shoots,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: almost sixty percent. Last three games you're one and two
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: over those games. So again, I know, we giggle and laugh.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: You got to make shots. It really is that easy
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: on the offensive and easy to say, not easy to do,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: I know, but just make make some baskets.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: So that's good question about that.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Let's see you raised since you did raise your hand. Yeah,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: go ahead.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Well, well to both of you in that. Again, we
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: talked about it as obvious you got to make shots,
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: but you never hear rarely your coaches talking about making shots. No,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: is that because is that because you're doing all the
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: things you're supposed to do and you're getting the shots,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: they're just not following.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: He's the best I've ever been around at just simply
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: taking that for what it's worth. That that's part of basketball,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: and he's the he handles it better than anybody I've
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: been around in terms of there are some nights when
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: you make shots that you're probably not supposed to make.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: You'll hit them with guys in your face. You'll hit
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: him in the last four seconds of the clock. And
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: you also don't apologize for those, right, So he doesn't
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: dwell when you don't make shots and there's just nothing
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: else you can do. You've got guys that can shoot
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: and can make it, that are in position to make it,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: and sometimes they don't go down and some of that guys,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: it's it's you're at the end of the season here.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: This is a group that has played a lot of
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: high leverage possessions. There's gotta be some fatigue. And I
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: know Darren won't say that. None of these players will
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: say that. This has been a grind for these guys
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: for a long time, going back into June. And sometimes
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: that shows up more on your shots than it does
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: anywhere else. So I can sit up here and it's
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: really easy to say, oh, you got wide open shots,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: make shots. That's really easy to say when you're the
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: guys grinding and you're huffing and puffing and you're guarding
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: and you're banging. It's physical. Sometimes they do not go
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: in and that generally shows up more this time of
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: year than in the beginning of the year.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: It just does thousand percent, thousand percent right, four to
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: four running backs, four to four running backs in September,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: four to four running backs in September, run four to
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: eight in November. You you wear down, you wear down.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure some of what's going on there. And
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I think Darren's really good. He's not a blamer at
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: guys that miss shots because why because he knows they
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: want to make the sh so if they see something
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: that they can correct, they'll make a suggestion. But they
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: know there's not a whole lot you can do. And
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: if you blame and you get up in on them,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: then a lot of times it turns out to be
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: a negative and they really tighten up well.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: And there's a big difference between a shot that doesn't
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: go down and a bad shot. Okay, and Brad, you
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: probably have a stat on this, but I don't see
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: this team taking many bad shots.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Very few. It takes very few. I mean it occasionally
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: it will or a quick shot or shot you didn't
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: watch thought, but it very rarely does that. That's what's
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: impressed me so much is not just the X and
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: o's in the system that's been developed, but again how
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: quickly these guys have bought in and understand and understand
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: their roles and they just very rarely step outside of that.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: It's just sometimes they don't go and Tony, your analogy
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: to football there may be similar to how often guys
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: down the stretch of the season do we start talking
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: about is Garrett Green one hundred percent healthy? Is Jehem whitehaw?
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Dang it?
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Your without CJ. Donaldson today? You know what remacs out
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: of the lineup? Whytt Mylin's not playing in this game?
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: The tiredness and the missing of jump shots probably is
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: the equivalent to the dings that show up in football
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: where guys miss games. Are they playing games but they're
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: not one hundred percent? That's probably similar to this, right,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: you have similar similar less injuries, but more fatigue from
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: these guys, and that shows up in the skill part
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I would think, No, I agree with you. I agree
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: with you, and I think also older guys, you know,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: you take a look to someone nationally had a good
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: story out last week about how they're really good teams
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: in college basketball this season, right the Auburns and those Alabamas.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: They're really old teams. They're really old teams, and so
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: they are guys that are more mature, that are used
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: to this, that are used to the grind, and they
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: get through it. And I think younger guys, it takes
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: a while for some of these guys like an Amani,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: like a Jonathan Powell, that haven't played in these types
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: of games. Now, a year from now, it's going to
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: be a and they're done. That for those guys won't
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: be as big of a deal. But first time through
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: it's hard.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Here's the other thing, guys, you go, you have to
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: go back to January fourth against Oklahoma State, and you never,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: because it was early in the season, never felt comfortable
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: that they weren't going to come back and make a
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: run at you. That's the only blowout game since January fourth.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: When I say high leverage games with high leverage possessions,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: it's everyone since then has been an absolute battle that
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: takes its toll, especially on guys that aren't used to
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: having to play thirty plus games at that level of
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: intricacy and that level of physicality that is going to
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: take a toll, whether you say it or not. Yeah,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: here's another point to you on Darren. Here's the other
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: part why he doesn't focus as much on missshots because, yes,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: to your point, you can only do what you can do.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: You design the offense and then you run the offense
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: and you get the open looks and you're going to
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: make the shot or you're not going to make the
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: shot where he gets really bummed out and the focus
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: goes to defense so often as you saw on the
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: second half against Texas Tech. Now some of this is
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: credit to Texas Tech. They went from so mettling in
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: the first eighteen minutes, which is what West Virginia wanted
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: them to do, to they said, you know what, we're bigger,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: We have bigger bodies here, and they're not going to
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: call fouls on us in our building. They're going to
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: be called on West Virginia. So we're going to drive
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: and get that contact and we're going to take it
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: to the rack and make the officials make a decision
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: or we're just going to score. And that worked in
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: their favor. That was a very nice switch the last
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: couple of minutes, and I thought that showed up rather
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: rather clearly as you then went in the second half,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: they just put their head down and went to the
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: basket and got almost one point five points per possession.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I say this all the time. If you average one
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: point one, you're going to lead the country in efficiency
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: in points per possession. Texas Tech was one point five
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: in the second half. Coupled with West Virginia not making
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: it shots, that's how you get a twenty point loss.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: It's simply those two things.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, your one opportunity to take advantage of them,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: because they had a start of that was out and
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Chance McMillan was really really good, like sixty five threes
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: going in the season. Well, here comes Christian Anderson, and
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: we've got an NBA buddy who told us about three
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: weeks ago everyone's talking about Williams and topping at Texas Tech.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: He said, I think this guy is the next pro.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Is a pro and he's a baby, I mean a baby.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: And you could just instantly tell anyone that watched that
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: game on Saturday. He does things that NBA players do.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: He makes tough, contested shots, he's absolutely just undaunted by anything.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: And he's a freshman. A freshman, So again they got
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: a really super good player, and he came through and
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: had a career day.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Made sure they have several good players.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean what you needed, what you need is
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: one of their reserves to come in and go like
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: two for eleven. That's what you need. You don't need
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: a guy to come in there and almost have to
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: call the Lubbock Fire Department to put out the nets
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: because he went absolutely stupid. He goes seven to thirteen
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: from the field, five of eight from three, He gets
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: four rebounds, four assists in thirty eight minutes, and he's
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: got twenty one points in a spot start.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Mccaslyn couldn't stop talking about Anderson in the post game. Yeah,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: just in the jobs he did. He did say really
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: good things about West Virginia's defense, which comes back to
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: the point about West Virginia struggle off, struggles offensively, and
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: you know, Brad and Tony, you guys say this all
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: the time. It's hard, if not impossible, unless you have
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: all NBA guys to do everything well right. And Darren
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: DeVries is defense first, and he talks about defense all
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: the time. And this is a very good defensive team.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: You know, game in and game out, they are you
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: look at the stats they are and how they play,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: But boy, doesn't that make it harder on the offensive end? Sure,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: you're playing your butt off on the defensive end.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: So here's so here's some final defensive numbers. Shire to
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: wrap up this segment to illustrate my point. You held
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: him to thirty four percent field goal shooting in the
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: first half and sixteen percent from three, and that's a win, right,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Those are wins if you could. You knew that wasn't
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: going to continue at that level, but it flipped all
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: the way to fifty nine percent field goal percentage in
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: the second and fifty percent from three. Now, I know
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: they made a couple of those threes late when the
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: game was decided and they kept attacking at you, but
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: that's so be it. The first half was where it was.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: You couldn't continue that on in the second. Number two,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: they had the sixteenth best tech did transition offense in
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: the country in terms of points per possession. They didn't
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: get their first fast break points until four minutes left
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: in the first half. I mean, you were executing right
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: where you wanted to be. And then again for every
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: single road gamesher has had, it's been called for more
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: fouls than its opponent, so that street continues as well.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, one last thing, we'd be remiss if we didn't
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: mention once again. Sharpshooter Jake Hour comes in the game.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: He was in the game for less than a half
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: a second and sticks a three from the corner.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I think he was out there maybe more than a
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: half second.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Well not much. I mean he wasn't two dribbles through
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: it to him. He made a three.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: He wasn't out there for thirty.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: It was thirty. It wasn't three.
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  Speaker 1: It was mighty mean more than three.
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  Speaker 2: I heard that thing up. I think he's eight of
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's good.
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  Speaker 1: So now we go to the TCU game, which the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: nine o'clock start. Okay, I could shit a nine o'clock
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: start when you're on a road, getting nine o'clock on
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the road because right, difference in time it's.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Usually Central time zone, right, mean yeah, but like a
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: time wherever we are is at nine o'clock.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: I don't have an answer, CBS. CBS just said you're
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: gonna play at nine.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Right, I guess you're right. So the TCUs were on
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the road at Cincinnati on Saturday and got beat in
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: that game. Cincinnati has certainly been mercurial haven't they They
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: go up, they go down. So now TCU did not
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: go home to Fort Worth, so they've been on the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: road since Friday. So now they come in here on Tuesday,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: and you should have got them at their place. Should
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: have got them at their place. You got to get
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: a win, playing and simple, all right, what has to
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: happen a.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Couple things here with them, and you were up twelve,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: You were in control of this game. The first thing
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: that has to happen is you're back home, so hopefully
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: the fouls switch back over. You're not on the road
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: where I just mentioned, every single game on the road
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: this year, you've been called for more fouls. Hopefully now
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: there'll be some defense without getting called for all these fouls. Secondly,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: when you put TCU on the line, they need to
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: be what they are, not be Rick Barry esque. For
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: all old listeners made every almost this shot.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: You might want to update that.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know ifbe younger listens this podcast.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know who listens eighty eight percent from the
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: free throw line against westter Friny the first time they
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: are First of all, I only shoot sixty five percent
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: on average, and that includes that game against West Virginia.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: That's three hundred and fiftieth out of three hundred and
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: sixty seven teams. It's one of the worst free throw
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: shooting teams in the country. And they were blistering hot
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: with a lot of attempts against West Virginia in the
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: first game. So that's first and foremost. Hopefully the whistle
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: goes your way. The style of officiating matters, as I
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: say every week, it matters big time in this one.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: The second part, and this will be a really interesting
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: This is kind of nuanced how we're going to ge
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: down in the weeds here a little bit. But in
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: the first half of the game at TCU, TC was
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: trying to pass the ball around the perimeter and West
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Virginia feasted, like deflected. It felt like every single ball
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: went the other way on transition, got layups, and that's
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: part of what built the twelve point lead. Again, you're
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: getting a really good coach and Jamie Dixon, so he says, well,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: that's not sustainable. This isn't working. So what are we
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: going to do? So they changed and went to more
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: ball centric ISO heavy screen, don't pass it. We're just
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: going to run you off screens and we're going to
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: take over, and those two guards had a really good
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: second half. Both of them had really good second halfs
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: and it limited West Virginia's ability to get turnovers, which
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: was leading to a bunch of West Virginia points. So
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: that's something I'm watching again. Jamie's really good, so he
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: knows that. So I would expect them to go back
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: to that to start. West Virginia's going to have a
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: counter ready for that, and which of those counters works
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: best and who gets the adjustment right. That's something I'm
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: going to watch early with this.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, that's a good point. And both both of
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: guards were big numbers in the first game.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, No Reynolds. No Reynolds averages twelve points a game.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: He was six of nine shooting a game for twenty
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: points in that first game. Yeah, and eight above his
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: average in that game.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you expect I mean, he's he's good. He's
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: in that middle ball screen, he's tough to defend. All
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: that was the one that was surprising. He went off
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: for a double double. He only shoots forty three percent
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: from two and he's only twenty two percent from three.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: He had a really good game in that first meeting
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: and was a double double guy in that game. So
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: you've got to contain those guys. He did a pretty
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: good job on their bigs and their size because they're
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: they're a decent offensive rebounding team, as you expect with
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Jamie Dixon's group. They also defend the three pretty well.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: So the fact that your home does that help you
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: get some comfortability with the rims, with the arena. I
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: know the crowd may not be what it's been on
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: some Saturdays, but can get some energy boost and get
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: back to making some open looks from three.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Well, you've got to and you guys said this at
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: the outset, you have to get this one, right, I mean,
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: you have to get this one because this is this
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: is your best opportunity, I think, given the situation, given
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: the revenge factor, given you're going on the road, this
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: is your best opportunity of the last four games I
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: think to get.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: A Yeah, man, you wish you would have had them
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: after their Texas Tech win, don't you? You knew there
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: was a give back, I mean, and they lost to
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Cincinnati on the road. So this will be another fight.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: There's no question this will be another rock fight. I'm
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: with Tony though you you had this team in Fort Worth.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: It was simply the free throw line changed the whole
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: tenor of this game and got them a win. I
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: gotta hope that's not the case this time. You shoot
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: it a little bit better. You got to come out
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: and bring it though, no question I was go ahead.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say they made four times as many
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: shots at the line as West Virginia took.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're well aware.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I had to watch it, had to live through it
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: at the end, and they made them all on this.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: So the good news is there's only three big twelve
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: games Tuesday night, which means that you only need nine
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: officials in your league, which means that the experience level
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: of your officials will probably be better than it is
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: on a Saturday when you have as many as six
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: seven league games going on. So you have more experienced
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: officials potentially on midweek Tuesdays than you do on weekend games.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Does that make sense? You get what I'm saying. Yeah,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: so that's good. That's a good thing.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: You don't need to whistle to swing back the other way.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: You just need it to be yeah, even ish.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, West Virginia still ahead and swing back the other way.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Two of five is what West Virginia was at the
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: fall line. Excuse me, they were two out of.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Five at the vers twenty of twenty three.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: I won't rehash the numbers from the last podcast after
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: this game, but it was outrageous.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I'll leave that.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: I'll leave it at that. Not good, So go get them,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: go take it to them. Start with defense. That's the
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: other thing too, guys. It's funny how this works, and
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: that's part of why Darren talks about this all the time.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: When West Virginia's defense is bouncy and engaged and getting
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: deflections and getting steals and runouts, it's funny how the
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: three point shooting follows that.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: You wouldn't think one has anything to do with the other,
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: but that really is true for this team. Their energy
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: is derived from the defensive effort and production, and then
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: the offense generally follows behind that.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Or on the other if they make a three, they
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: come down and they're bouncer on defense. Right, works both ways, it.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Does, but immediately driven by the defense, this team and
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: energy and Darren on the sideline gets cranked when the
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: defensive intensity is there. That's generally what drives it?
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: You know a time as one of the all time
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: great scores in Iowa history. Would you admit that your
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: defense was better after you tinkled the twine and ran
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: back down to play d Maybe you just didn't play
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: defense at all.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: That's untrue. I'm asking, It's totally untrue. No, you weren't asking.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: That was a declarative statement, and I'm not accepting your declaratives.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Do you think did you think that you're when you scored,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: you played better defense.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: I think I brought my defense the whole game. What
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I heard, I wasn't there coasting.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: Speaking of defense, I should have shot more.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: I've told you that all the time. I played too
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: much defense and didn't shoot enough.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Yes, I know you passed too much shot taking the shot?
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Is that that the crowd gets into it when the
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: team makes a runder scores. The crowd also gets into
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: it when Sincere Harris is on a guy like like
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: a pit bull. Okay, so that brings the crowd into
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: it too. Is when Sincere Harris is guarding a guy
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: like like one hundred percent of the court.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: He did he did that in the crowd. He did that
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: at TCU and was one of the all time greats.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: They inbounded and the guy said I don't want it
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: and threw it to the other guard to bring it up,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: and Sincere jumped over to that guy, picked him and
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: laid it in. That's why that tco. I thought, you
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: do that. That's a ballgame. That was early, but I
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: thought ball game right there. So yeah, and that's why, guys,
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: that's part of why I always talk about the officiating
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: and the style matters and how they want to call
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: it matters, because you're right, hop that does. That's that's
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: the head of the snake for this defense, and that's
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: what drives the energy, not just in the stands but
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: on this team. And if they're whistling everything, that makes
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: it harder for him to get up and play like
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: he plays. So you want some even if it happens
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: on the other end. I'm fine with some physicality on
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: the other end, as long as you let West Virginia
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: do that. It's when it's both ends where you're getting
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: the opposite call of what you should be getting that
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: makes it difficult. Style of play. Let it be physical,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: that's fine, let it go, but you need to do
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: it at both ends.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: It's been a real winner. I don't need to tell
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: you that. I mean, it's been a real winner, old
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  Speaker 2: It's been so cold out this today feels like a
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  Speaker 1: Had a lot of cold and it gets to like
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: forty three degrees, if all of a sudden it feels
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  Speaker 2: Awesome we're above forty three, though it's it's warmer than that.
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  Speaker 3: It's fifty.
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  Speaker 1: It's fifth currently fifty two degrees.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's roll.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty two, I think. Yeah, fifty tes sounds about right.
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  Speaker 3: Fifty two.
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• 38:30
  Speaker 1: As far as the WV women go, that was an ouch.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Huh yeah, tough one. Same thing didn't make shots.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Didn't make shots. Man, they've got the surprise team of
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Big twelve women's coming up Wednesday at the coliseum that's
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Utah and then they uh go to Sincy this weekend
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: and then that's it. This is our last game at
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: home on Wednesday. They're done.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's wild.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Do you hear that? Hop They're done?
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: It goes it goes by fast. I mean you get
• 39:03
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• 39:07
  Speaker 3: playing in October, November, just something, and then it gets
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: like mid February and it seems like everything picks up dramatically.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Tc We mentioned this going in the game. TCUs women
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: seems really really good, added Hayley van lydth to that
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: team that was already good in the offseason. They I
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: thought they did a great job of having an answer
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: every time West Virginia even tried to make a little push.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: TCU answered and then went on a run of its own.
• 39:29
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• 39:32
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• 39:43
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  Speaker 2: runs of six nothing, a run of seven nothing, and
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• 43:32
  Speaker 1: enjoyed listening to three guys, and please tell Hoppy that
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: prunes really do work. But I had suggested that Hoppy
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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• 44:27
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• 44:43
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  Speaker 1: Sure wherever it needs to be hoped if you say so.
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  Speaker 1: So here are a young chicken compared to those guys
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  Speaker 1: hop compared to those guys. You know, Texter, I want
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  Speaker 1: to ask, why do these so called shows who claim
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• 45:29
  Speaker 1: game until he threw up. Well, the next thing you
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: see is a headline that says Coach Rodd said he
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: threw up watching last year's team. He clearly did not
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: say that. He actually bragged on Garrett Green even said
• 45:39
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  Speaker 1: My other rans, these so called fans can't get over
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  Speaker 1: him leaving. I don't like it either, but I do
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: believe in a second chance. Honestly, after the last six seasons,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: I'm all on him coming back. I will not name names,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: but I saw players on the sideline laughing, cutting up
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: when we were losing. I guarantee we won't see those
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: undisplin actions under the staff. Winner lose, opposing team will
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: know they've been in a dog fight. Lastly, I say,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: welcome home Coach Rod and his staff. Coach Rod and
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Staph begins spring ball tomorrow.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: That is right?
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, that is tomorrow.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, February twenty five. They started tomorrow. Hello Texter. This
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: goes back to Friday when Hoppy dropped a hot bomb.
• 46:24
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• 46:27
  Speaker 1: have the wojhbombs. Sure, Hoppy dropped the hot bomb on Friday.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: You announced to the new president of the university was
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: going to be Hoppy. And this Texter says, Hoppy bested
• 46:37
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  Speaker 3: It went from about five six seven thousand like two
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  Speaker 3: Pete and I work together.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Hi, guys, Brian from Williamstown. Here yet another West Virginia
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: connection story. My wife and I were at a conference
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: in Seattle, decided to fly down to San Francisco to
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: end our trip. We go on a trip to Muera Woods,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: that's a redwood forest just north of the city. We
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: ubered there. Well, turns out we didn't have cell service
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: once we got dropped off, leaving us not knowing how
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: in the world we'd make it back to the city. Meanwhile,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: another couple behind us gets dropped off too. They looked
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: as confused as we were. We go up to them
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: asked if they had just taken an uber They go, yeah,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: and we're basically in the same boat. Luckily, one of
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: them able to keep cell service long enough to get
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: us an uber back to the city. Well, they were
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: the nicest people. Turns out they were both researchers at
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Pitt though the man was from Huntington, and it has
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: had family in Parkersburg. Now, this guy's from Williamstown, Brian's
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: from Williamstown. My guy's got family in Parkersburg, which is
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: just basically a stone strow. We end up walking with
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: them and had a blast. Luckily neither of them were
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Pitt fans, but just happened to work. There always a
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: West Virginia connection about boys.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: Did you you want to tell the uber story from Lubbock?
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: That was coral.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Always a West Virginia, Always a West Virginia connection.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: I should I'm sure Tony was was like immediately interrogating
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: the guy right now.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: He didn't have to, It just came right. Guy. We
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: were in there about the same amount of time Jake
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: was in the game before the three hit.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: So we pop into this dude's car and it's a
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: student at Texas Tech. All right, and we pop in
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: and how I don't know if I was wearing anything
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: West Virginia.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: I said, where are you from? Yeah?
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: He said, where are you from?
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Why you in Luck?
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Why you in Lubbock? I said, we're here for
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: the basketball again, That's all I said. He said, I
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: was watching Tavon Austin's highlight tape last night, last night,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: last night, not like, hey, I've seen that Tavon Austin thing.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: I go, excuse me? He said, yeah, he said, like
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: my girlfriend and I said, some guys we were sitting
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: there and I said, you ever see the Tavon Austin
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: highlight film? He says, you know it's got twenty five
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: million views?
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Oh worldware?
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: And I said, uh yeah, And then we just chatted
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: him up, brought us to a very nice Mexican restaurant.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: It was very good, very good.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: But how about the opening line, hot, hey you're from
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: West Virginia. Really was just watching the Tavon Austin highlight
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: film last night.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: That checks about four boxes for his luber driver West
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: Virginia connection. Tavon Austin watching it last night.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the only reason he was driving was to make
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: enough money to go drink, right, Yeah, because he got
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: a text while we were driving. His buddy's his buddy's
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: calling him, and he's going like he just wants me
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: to go to the bars. I said, I'm just going
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: to raise.
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: Money gain So whatever, how was your text mix?
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: It was very good. It was good. Yeah, very good.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Hey, Tony and Senator. This is Brady Ladeleyfield nineteen ninety
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: two DuPont Championship press box Colleague. So apparently I was
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: with him in the press box in nineteen ninety two
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: when DuPont was playing for a World's championship. Okay, but
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: I'm addressing the scoring issue in the Cincinnati game. So
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: you guys were making this big deal last year.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, good, I'm glad I read this. I'm glad
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: he sent this. He's right, go ahead.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: So when the basket was made, they only gave him two. Yes, right,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: they had it right the whole time. The announcers got excited.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: They weren't paying attention. Watch it back if you can, peace.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: He's right. Someone texted me that the other night too,
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: after the podcast. I did go back. He's exactly right.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: The score was correct, the play by play was correct.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: The guys got excited that they missed it. So I
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: stand correct. I apologize.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Texter says end game text. Illegal screens
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: have gotten out of hand. Since when is it acceptable
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: for screeners to seek out contact, especially with shoulders, elbows, hips.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: The amount of times our guards have been chicken winged
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: or hip checked by an on ball screen is unfathomable.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Solution start Aiden tagaloa Nelson let him go Kobe Bryant
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: at the Olympics, straight through the big man's chest at
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: the tone early. I do think that's something Aiden would
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: be up for. When you bred.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Kobe did that to teammate Paul Gasol.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right right there his chest, one of his best buddies.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Great Kobe story.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hello there, Fellas. Tell me something. When is the
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: right time for a coach to get a technical? Javan
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: gets killed on one end, no call, They do the
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: same on the other it gets an and one. I
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: know you never want to give the other team two
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: free throws, but come on, refs are so inconsistent that
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: you can't adjust to the play. I feel better now
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: that I've gotten that off my chest. Love your show,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: and hope Hoppy is in the house today. Yeah, he's good.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: He's in his house.
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: That was one of those moments right at the end
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: of the first half I thought really had an effect
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: on the game, Javon went one way. There was contact
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: at the rim, no call. They came back the other
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: way topping against Hansbury. It looked like Hansbury even had
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: less contact. No call either way. Not a technical on Darren.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: That's not his thought. He was hot in that moment.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: It wasn't for lack of expressing his displeasure to the official.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think if he is gonna pull the technical,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: he's gonna do it at home.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: You have to do it at home. There's no there's
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: no reason to do it on the road because you're
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: not gonna get the benefit. You're just gonna get the
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: crowd more cranked up. You do it at home, where
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: you can get your coat, crowd cranked up, maybe you
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: get some help. But listen, guys, as we've said, it's
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: not as if there's not complaining going on and there's
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: not explaining what's going on. There's not. It's not as
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: if he's not alerting people to things ahead of the game.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: You know, I was watching last night. Here's something, and
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: I know I know this came up before West Virginia
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: played Utah. So if you want an early something to
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: watch in that Utah game, they have a tendency see
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: to lean on you quite a bit when the rebound
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: is in the air. The utes on the offensive end
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: that that had been pointed out, they'll lean on you. Yeah,
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: and they'll yeah, they'll they'll they'll get you coming across
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: the lane too.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: You think that's that Josh Eiler teaching him how to
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: do that.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't think that's Josh, But I don't know. Maybe
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: he's not for physical play. But at the game here
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: hop This is why I always go back to who
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: the crew is and how they call the game matters.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: They were on that early against Utah. One player in
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: particular got flagged early on a couple of things and
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: never got up off the mat. They saw right through
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: that early. Was watching Utah play last night doing a
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: little advance scouting that same player. And then there was
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: one time he went up and he just had his
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: arm pinning the UCF guy went straight in the back,
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: straight in the back, and then down. UCF guy goes down.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: He was down for a couple of minutes after the
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: play cats the offensive rebound, layser back and no call.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Those are the kind of things that can change games
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: if if you miss that. Those matter. Hmm, hopy that matters.
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course it matters. Of course it matters.
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: But things like that all the time, and every team
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: does it. There's constantly clips being sent in saying look,
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: explain this, explain this, explain this, watch for this that's
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: also happening here.
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: And I think as has been said, you know, devrees
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: to me. What I've observed is he works the officials
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: when he's got a legitimate argument and a reason to
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: work the official Okay. I mean there are coaches that
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: just are on the officials all the time, and I
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: think it when you do that, I think it's like
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: yelling at the kid all the time. After a while,
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: it just is, it's just noise. But if you make
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: rational and passioned arguments in legitimate cases, I mean, and
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: also that that's who he is, so got to be
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: who you are. You know, the best time for a
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: technical it is probably if your player unjustly gets a
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: technical and you got to have his back. Then sometimes
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: you get whistled because you got to have your guys
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: back if it was an unjust call against your guy.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, do you think he gets one before the season's over? No,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: he's never had one, right, right, yeah, well he was playing.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: The odds he doesn't have one by now, yeah, what
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: God says?
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: What could says?
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: Do?
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Three guys before the game is proud to have the
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  Speaker 1: folks at Tutor's Biscuit World is our official biscuit of
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• 55:42
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• 55:47
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• 55:52
  Speaker 1: the Dotty, the Peppi, the sausage biscuit, or the hash
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: brown by either one of those, and then the next
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: one either is like, let's say I go buy a Dotty,
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: then I can get a soft biscuit for a buck.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Go by a Dottie. I can get a hash brown
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: for a buck, buy a sausage biscuit, I can get
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: a Dotty for a buck. You know how that works?
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: There's four three guys biscuit. Weren't we working on that?
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: I think the culinary staff is still in development. But
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: you need to start your day the homemade way, regardless,
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: with a Tutor's biscuit from Joe who's been all over
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: the state of Texas. Great seeing you guys in Lubbock.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: I'm going to stop wearing my thanks for having a
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: shirt because we keep losing road games when I wear it.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: Two quick observations. The game against Tech was a true
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: rock fight. Despite this, the foul total on the Red
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: Raiders fail to reach double digits. That is absurd. Our
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: seats allowed us to have a wonderful vantage point of
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Tony and Brad during the game. Every time I looked
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: their way, Brad looked like he was having to explain
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: something to Tony. You see right there, just kidding love
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: you too. Well.
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: He's got a good camera there.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: I think he's also getting in or personal space. But anyway,
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: he must have been his internet work. I take a
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: look at that picture, and I think I got to
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: compliment our guy Rex Hartley because I do not see
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: the back of my head. He does a nice job
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: boxing the back up there, I think, don't you that's clean.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: That's clean box.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: Right, super as you know, been going to him for
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: thirty years.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, Rex is terrific. Yeah, if we had an
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: official barber'd probably be Rex. I mean, you go and
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: I go and Hoppy there was the flow be so
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: it really doesn't matter anyway. Sure, yeah he So there's
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: Joe right there. That was was that pre post post
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: post game yeah, post game. Uh, that was post post
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: something now. He then he went over to the TCU
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: women's game last yesterday. He did because I talked to
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: Junior and Junior said, yeah, Joe was there at the game.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: So he was from Lubbock. He got over to Fort Worth.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: He's been bouncing.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: Thanks Joe.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, guys, I've.
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: Gotten really quick too. He brought us some true.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm sorry. Let me finish the text by fight.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Uh he said, preshtrates. I mean he said, he said,
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: have you enjoyed the over bites? So that was a
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: chocolate with recy What was that thing?
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: Was like an off brand recy peanut butter cup? Yeah,
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: here's the here's the story about it. Here's the story.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: Joe's the guy that would bring all that food for
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: the three guys to Tony over the years, and he
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: would never make him back here and we'd never get
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: any right, So I'm just confirming it was.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: What did you think of the peanut thing he gave you?
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: I haven't tried it yet, saving it too sweet?
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: Too sweet, and chocolate's too hard anyway. Wow, Texter says,
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: I'm meeting the customer at work the other day customers
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: wearing a pit sweatshirt. I asked him to go to
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: pitt He said, both he and his wife. What did
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: I told him, I graduated from West Virginia, And after
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: lamenting the fact that we don't play in the same
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: conference anymore, he mentioned to me that not only did
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: his nephew go to West Virginia, but his friend's son
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: played football at WUV. It was a defensive back. I said, oh, really, well,
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: what's his friend's son's name. He told me Brian King,
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: one of the al timers.
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, great players.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: And now you know the rest of the story. That's
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: Dan and Maryland. Now, if my memory is correct, Brian
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: is from Damascus, Maryland. He had an interception I think
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: or about a bunch and uh maybe one against the
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Hokies down there down there, sealed it in the end zone.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: I believe it slid down onto his knees.
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: Uh ok this year, last year, any year, any right,
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: any year.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: See, he's one of those guys, even though it's been
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: a long time. Like if you just plugged him in today,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: he could play to day. Not even Brian. Yeah, I
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: put Brian King out there.
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna check his stats.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Rich is probably one. Rich is probably like got an
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: a PB out give me Brian Kings. So I mean
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: He's successful real estate guy. Now he's doing come back.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: And doing a good kid, good kid, bring an old
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: man now, Okay, so someone this is helpful here this Texter.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: All he said was is all it is all about
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: the angle. Take a look at this if you would.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: So that is the angle of the sun during the
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: month months. So you see what happens like in December, Brad,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: that's a very right, that's a slight angle. And then
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: it just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Watch what temperature does,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: goes thirty one, fifty four, seventy seven. So we are
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: fricking climbing. Sun's climbing figuratively and literally and just getting nicer.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: On Texter king is from Damascus.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Thank you. This will be a fun quick hypothetical for
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: you guys. I must give credit for this idea to
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: my friend Joe Cook, who's also a Mountaineer fan loyal listener.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: Now for the question, if you could add one and
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: only one player from any WVU basketball team since two
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: thousand and one to this current team, who would it be?
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: I want to hear from all three of you. You
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: can change your answer once within sixty seconds. Obviously, the
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: player you choose should be able to elevate this year's team,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: perhaps filling in the void where deficiency currently exists. You're
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: loyal listener Linn Bergh from Lout, So how do you
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: say that? It said looks like LUCKA do lucky?
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: That's not a real place?
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: Is that okay? Anyway, it's made up? I give you mind.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: I don't need to change my answer, all right, Dayshaun Butler,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: that's my pick.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: I'll give you mine.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Tucker Dvrees, I'd taken Yeah, it's pretty good, pretty good, Yeah,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: pretty good one, pretty good. I'd take a Kevin Jones
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: right now, take a little kJ. I'd take a little
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: Oscar shebwe right now. Doesn't have any rebounding issues, So
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: I'd take any of those guys.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: Just mentioned all a plus, I know this is hoops.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: It's a fun exercise. You know what you could do
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: with that? You know it would be fun. Change your
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: answer once in a sixty second period. You just go
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: round robin like you name when you name, when we name,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: Then you try and name three more. Then you try
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: and name three more and be a fun uh m
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: hm party train.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: I know your second pick would be Jake Hour. Uh.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: I know this is a basketball season, but you guys
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: see JJ Weatherholt's opposite field home run in his first
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: season up in spring training.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: Keep it going, Jj, Not only did I see that,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: he was also in the starting lineup along with Victor Scott,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: two Mountaineers in the lineup for the Cardinals.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: How about that and the Fighting Sabans. There are seasons underway.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're playing as we tape my name? Can we
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: get a live update? Yeah, get a live update on that.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: Just go to see what they're doing. They're going to
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: go for the sweep.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: They're just lining up beating people.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: Of the Lipscombs. Maybe. Yeah. So there's six and o
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: going into today's final, final and fourth game against the Lipscombs.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: And with weather breaking soon, we'll have our tailgate out there.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: They're supposed to be they're supposed to play at home
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: this week, right Wednesday, they're supposed to open it home.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: Is that the did it move? Or was that that
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  Speaker 2: was supposed to.
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  Speaker 1: Be tomorrow and now it's going to be Wednesday? Uh? Hey,
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  Speaker 1: three guys, Madden Towson, Maryland, home of Leyton Beck. The
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  Speaker 1: other day, I go for a late afternoon coffee after work.
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  Speaker 1: I'm backing out of my spot and I see someone
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  Speaker 1: who had just pulled into the lot motioning me to
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  Speaker 1: put my window down. I rolled my window down and
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  Speaker 1: the gentleman says to me, I'm a mountaineer. I played
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  Speaker 1: basketball for WVU. He must have seen my flying WV
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  Speaker 1: on the back of my truck. I said, what's your name?
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  Speaker 1: And he replied, Daxter Miles Junior. We talked a bit
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  Speaker 1: still in our cars about some of the players he
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  Speaker 1: competed with at West Virginia, where he attended high school.
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  Speaker 1: In hindsight, I should have asked Daxter if he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to have a picture made. I looked Daxter up, not
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  Speaker 1: realize what an incredible career he had, including registering the
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  Speaker 1: second most starts for any mountaineer ever over one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty four. What are some moments for you that
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  Speaker 1: to find Daxter in the old Golden Blue. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: Matt Klass in ninety three.
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  Speaker 2: That game's played a good one, because I was about
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  Speaker 2: to say he played in a lot of games here.
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  Speaker 2: That was a dude that played a lot of ball.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: What'd he say, Yeah, Dayshawn's got all times before you
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  Speaker 2: could play for seven years.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you a just no real order. Daxter as
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  Speaker 1: a freshman, hooked up with Javon Carter. West Virginia stole
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  Speaker 1: the game from TCU. One of those two guys threw
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  Speaker 1: the ball. I think Daxter threw it down the floor
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  Speaker 1: to JC and there was a phantom foul called against
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: TCU that put Javon, I think, on the line. When
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: those guys were freshmen, made the foul shots and beat them.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, I think that was huge. And
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: then Daxter got himself in all kinds of trouble in
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: the day before West Virginia played Kentucky in the NCAA
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  Speaker 1: Tournament when they were undefeated and became a national lightning
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  Speaker 1: rod because he said, I give them their due, but
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: tomorrow they'll have a loss. And they blew that thing
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: up like you could not believe. But he was extremely athletic.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: I'd like to ask him what his regrets are from
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  Speaker 1: playing here. I think he would say, I wish I
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: took it more seriously, hmm, that's what I think. Not
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: going to comment on the game, on Saturday, I moved
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: on to TCU might need a cup of coffee to
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: stay up for the nine pm tip. Speaking of moving on,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: I thought i'd share you this picture from my breakfast
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: I had yesterday. I crushed both biscuits, and I had
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: to include my recent Three Guys purchases. So he's got
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: the coffee, the popcorn. He's got like Tutors containers, travel mugs.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: He got the whole deal. Connection three four, connection three
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  Speaker 1: oh four.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, you have a three or four for breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: He's just what he's got.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: So thank you. That's our boy, our boy Jennings in
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: the Canau Valley. Thank you very much. He said he
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: ate both those biscuits.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: He crushed both.
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  Speaker 1: He a lot man, took the two start your day
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  Speaker 1: the homemade way.
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  Speaker 3: You guys always claim you can eat too.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if he got the three Guys biscuit withou
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: which may or may not, which may or may not
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: have cheese?
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: Hey he did, do you hear what he said? He
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: just tried to taunt me, he goes, you guys always
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: claim that you could eat too. Let me ask you
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: a question. You think I could eat too?
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: Brad?
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you've got an issue. I had to
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: help him in Texas with all the snack, like I
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: had to say, now, don't eat that, now, just wait.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: I felt like I was with one of my girls
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: when they were little, like hold on, just don't eat
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: that now, just give it to me. I'll keep that
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: for you. I'll give it to you on the plane.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: Then he sound asleep, right, he again, as fast as
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: Jake Auer hit the three. He that's how fast he
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: goes to sleep on the plane. So I'm still awake.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: The snack comes through, the snack basket comes through. He's
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: still asleep, So I grab one for myself, have to
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: grab one for him, drop it over onto his seat.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: Well, if you're handling food advice for Tony, he must
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: be in bad shape because you're a new toyous bad
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: food manager.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: He thinks I have a tape for him. I don't
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: think so. Anyway, Just responding to your call to action
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: regarding bingo information. Remember I brought this up a while back,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: like what's bingo?
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: This is good because I've got one after this.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: This is good. My mother is a professional player on
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: the senior bingo circuit in the Middle Ohio Valley tour
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: stops include destinations like the Pennsboro fire Hall, the Smithville
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: fire Hall, and the Knights of Columbus Perfect There used
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: to be another location, but it appeared to be some
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: sort of a speakeasy that was shut down by the state.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't have mentioned that on this program. Anyway,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: she takes it seriously and she seems to enjoy yourself.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: Unclear if that is from the love of the game
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: or she's getting high from the bingo dobber fumes. Here's
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: the Love of the Game PS and the always a
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia Connection Department. Travis Brayden, WV grad is an
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  Speaker 1: engineer for Hendrick Motorsports. They own the car that just
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  Speaker 1: won the Daytona five hundred driven by William Byron. Love
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: the show. We've had Travis on the pass. He was
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: a racer, he was a driver, and he's a very
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: super I mean, obviously you graduated from engineering at WVU.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: I did not realize that he was now an engineer
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: for the Hendrick Motorsports team. Pete and Pennsboro got himself
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: a world championship.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah he did, Okay, real quick. I got one bingo
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: thing too. You do yeah, Okay, you guys will find
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: this interesting because you know the person well, okay from
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: our guy Duka over at the wine park. And no
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: it's not about a Jerry baumachamis Zuca says, catching up
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: on the podcast to the question of bingo being profitable, Yes,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: exclamation points, Yes, it's very profitable. Really, if you'd like
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: to know the ins and outs of the game, we
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: can crack a couple of roop beers open or connection
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: three or fours, and I can tell you some stories.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: Here's the kicker. Remember, Duca says, I was an assistant
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: cruise director on cruise ships. I've called more games than
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: most people have played, Duka lining up making Elk and
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: Colin Bingo.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: With a roopier reduction. So he was a Bingo caller.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: On a he I do know that before. Yes, it's
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: the cruise director. I mean he'd give you some good ones.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: Everything we gotta. We got to talk to him about that.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: I got you he's got Can you imagine the crazy
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: stories coming out of cruises? Oh lord, So.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: There you go, there's something. Ie been gonna get some
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: tracks and Duke a weighing in.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, So let me leave it at this. Let me
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: leave it at this.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: So also, if you go over to the wine bar
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: to have a little meal, you can ask Duke about Yeah,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: bingo away there.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: His kid's still working over there, yeah, will Yeah, good kid,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah good both.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: Elisee as well, she's working.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: That's all way kids should work. So we're making progress.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: We've brought you the situation in Martinsburg reguarding Mountaineer Popcorn
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: and that sign. So they moved and have a new location.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: They've got the Shepherdstown location and the Martinsburg location and
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: the Martinsburg location. The pre existing building was a seafood place.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: So there's a seafood sign on the above the entrance. Okay,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: and there seems to be some issue.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: It's still there as the popcorn place is open and operating, right,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: that's the issue.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: And it says like fish World or something like that
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: on there there.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: It is there. It is season's best seafood.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: But yet there's not seafood in there. There's popcorn in there.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: So here's the deal, man. So we've been incrementally making
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: some progress to allow the people at Mountaineer Popcorn to
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: simply put something on that same frame that says Mountaineer
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: popcorn right, because they don't sell seafood.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: So the structure's in place.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So the good news is this, there has been
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: a scheduled hearing for a variance on for March coming
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: up here, March the fourth. Okay, good, and so like
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: there it is. The public hearing is set for March fourth.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: We're making progress. Listen. I'm not trying to lead a
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: ton of people to run into this hearing and just
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: screaming yet, because that's not the three guys way. But
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: if by chance, you know, maybe like Gail for example,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: who's a great listener out there in Martinsburg, Gail will
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: say she might show up, just say hey, let them
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: put the popcorn sign up and we can get this
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: thing finally done so we can help people get that
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: unbelievably good popcorn.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: I would think to find folks over there making that
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: decision would say, this seems really common sense unless we're
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: just missing something completely right.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I keep doing business is there?
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you be allowed to put the name of
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: the actual business on the sign? Are we missing something? Hoppy?
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: You've done chores about business for a long time, and
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: they just want to put the name of the business
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: on the sign. Why don't we have to keep the
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: name of a business up there that is not the
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: name of the business, Like.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: We must be missing something I don't know, or or
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: hear me out, or we can ask our popcorn people
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: to have crab flavored popcorn. It's just an idea throwing
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: it out there.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just like to put the name of the
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: So maybe if if a couple of diplomatic listeners to
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: three guys might have something. If you're not doing anything
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: on the fourth of March, head over and say, hey,
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: we strongly believe that they should have a sign on
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: the above their building of the product that they are selling.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: I'm sure we can get this resolved without any issues.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: I just think everybody would want that. I can't possibly
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: imagine what the objection to that would be.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: And let me just tell you this homeless Day brought
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: me a big bag of that caramel with the nuts
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: in it popcorn.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: Is this that one that we crushed?
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, every single thing I've tasted from there is absolutely
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: like you can't stop eating it.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: I agree, that's the problem. Actually, that's the problem with it. Yeah,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: the problem.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So anyway, Yeah, you should have seen what we
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: did to the bag in his office.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: Oh really killed Yeah.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: It was almost eight the paper. It was really really good.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us. We're back Thursday. We'll recap
• 1:13:04
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  Speaker 2: And if you're at the games and say hello, hope
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  Speaker 2: I feel like this is Houston's turn. Really well, Tech
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