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3 Guys Before The Game - Houston, We Had A Problem (Episode 519) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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That's our cue. Welcome in everybody. It's time for three guys before the
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game. It's the five hundred and nineteenth episode show title Houston. We had
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a problem. It was an ouch game. Don't happen often, but when
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they happen ouch. We'll get into that. Plus, the WV women's basketball
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team no longer undefeated. They have fallen from the ranks of the undefeated Senator.
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Was there analyzed it. We'll get into that as well. Three guys
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the season when the W two start coming out, people go, oh,
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I gotta do this again. Yeah you do. Otherwise you go to the
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big House, Big house. Maybe. Yeah, at least you get it.
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You've forgotten it. You forgotten it. Put your microphone up or put
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headsets on. Put your microphone and put it up to your mouth. You're
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off mic? Are you new? I'm sorry? Okay, what's this deal?
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Okay? All right? I just you just did two hours by yourself.
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I mean I gotta come in here and walk you through like a toddler.
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Sorry, well, I often don't wear your headsets for this show.
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I should That's You're right. I'm between you and Greg Hunter. I mean
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right, Brad, I mean Brad and I. We've got a great mic.
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Addocate. We're on top of the mic. Hunter's back. There is
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back at Morgantown high yelling in the mic. You know, pretty good player,
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pretty good? You got a red shirt four five? Yeah, they
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like them a lot. He's got a chance and I'm not Hunters. Hunter
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is, by the way, is the great qualifier. Yeah, you ever
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noticed that? Yeah, the great he's now you know, I'm not saying
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it's this, but it could be this. I mean he is he qualifies
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his tail off. He's been in a long enough. Yeah, he knows
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that it always comes back to bite you in the rear end one way or
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the other. All right, fellas, do we have with the exception of
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the basketball results? Do we have good weekend? Yeah? I mean good?
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Yeah, Yeah, everything behaving, Everything's good? Okay, good Senator.
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You were tended the women's game, right did Yeah. Someone sent me
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a picture you were propped up there holding court. Picture made when he was
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at the game during the game Saturday. I mean he's someone sends me a
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picture of the senator posted up right at the entrance to Club thirty five.
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Was an autograph sessional. Yeah, was it an autograph session? Talking to
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Julia friend Julia. It was a guy might have been Tony from here in
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Morgantown. He was a big fan as well. He mentioned that he listens
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to show Julia was an interesting conversation. Yeah, she came right up.
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She was wonderful, said right out of the game. Listen, I'm the
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one into my household that listens. I don't think you guys are idiots.
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Thank you. So it's a huge upsode appreciate that her husband does not listen.
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He may think we're idiots, although she didn't say that, but he
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may. She does not. So that was nice. It's good. That's
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a good conversation. We'll take anybody says you're not idiots. We'll take that.
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She led with that, So thanks Julia. It was a you know,
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here's what I walked away with. And the score was not pretty for
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West Virginia seventy to forty nine, obviously, but this is and I know
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we're all going to giggle and laugh and snicker. Just didn't make shots.
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That's what it. Didn't make shots. That's what it came down. Dude,
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didn't make shots that make a difference. I'll give you some numbers.
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Ready, From three, are you jumping right in? Well? From West
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Virginia from three hoppy, the two wings at the top of the key.
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West Virginia attempted twenty nine threes from those those spots made three. Ouch made
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three. So that here's what I did walk away with. West Virginia's pressure
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defense is going to work in the league. Twenty four john over they forced
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against Texas. I went like, that is something to build a thirty percent
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turnover rate against Texas, who's number ten in the country. So that was
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the If you can pick something up positively. And Mark won't say anything positive
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coming out of this, I understand that. But I looked at that,
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and I watched that, and and it seemed to me outside of just simply
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making some shots and some nights that happens. We talk about three point variants
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a lot. We're going to talk about it in the K State Preview.
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Sometimes when you need threes to fall to help you win games and they just
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don't sometimes. Now, Texas was very difficult to get a shot off of.
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That's a long basketball team. That that team has some size. Mean,
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they're bringing size off the bench everything in Texas, and that lineup was
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big. But I West Virginia's got a shot, guys. I know,
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again that score doesn't look it, but that game wasn't far off make some
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shots. Whistle wasn't very favorable either. I heard that sum Now again,
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you get beat twenty one, you're not going to come here and scream about
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officials. It wasn't a great whistle. So didn't make shots, didn't get
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a great whistle. Put you BEYHD the eight ball a little bit. You
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know, well, Coach Kellogg said, I mean all the things you said,
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but also I think he did see a positive in that you did get
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shots. Okay, you just didn't make them. You know, everything else
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was was not bad. So I mean sometimes that happens, right, Sometimes
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it happens. I mean it'd be difficult. It'd be different if you're like,
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oh my gosh, couldn't even get off a shot, couldn't but you
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did, just didn't just didn't fall. Let me give you an acronym,
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A right NCS. What NCS? What's in that stands for no call season?
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Texas and Oklahoma should get no calls this season. They're on their way
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to then you're in Morgantown. You're in Morgantown, Texas is leaving the league,
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Like, what are you doing? Well, I mean, you gotta
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call the game. I understand, but you said there were bad don't call
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me in a spot to have to defend Texas and Oklahoma because I don't want
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to be in that spot. But what I got to call the game?
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I'm saying this, if there were some fifty to fifty calls that you just
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said a moment ago didn't go West Virgin's way. There should be no fifty
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to fifties. Yeah one very favorable. Yeah that's what someone else that was.
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Okay, okay, but you still get be twenty miss contact. That's
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what I'm sitting shot. Get that. Get those calls. When it's a
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close game, you have to make shots. Although the argument they're hoppy.
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The reason you bring it up because here's the thing, and I know you
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get text their basis. I can't talk about the deficials, scream about fissles,
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winding about the fisical here's why. And don't text us that, by
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the way, because I'm when they don't text us. Don't wind about the
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officials because when the officials aren't goo, we're going to talk about them,
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right because you know why sometimes the game gets away from you because you don't
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get the right whistle right now. Again, I just gave you the three
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point numbers. So if you want a reason why the women didn't win,
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it didn't make enough. Three are probably took a few too many more than
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Mark would like and they didn't make enough. Okay, fine, but sometimes
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you fall behind because you're not the game is not being officiated the way it
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should be, and that makes it difficult to get back in and make a
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close game. So if the officials have if that's if that's a part of
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the game, they we're going to talk about that. So don't text you
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wonder how bad a weekend it was. You want to know how bad of
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a weekend it was for shooting for the Mountaineers men and women. I did
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some ciphering. Okay, now this is not qualify spreads on stats, but
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this is what they did. West Virginia's men hit seventeen percent from three thirty
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two percent overall. West Virginia's women hit thirteen percent from three and twenty seven
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percent overall. That means for the weekend, Mountaineer basketball teams shot fifteen percent
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from three and twenty nine point percent thirty percent overall on the weekend. Can't
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win, can't win. I like to find quotes that I think are relevant
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to the sporting events. So I looked up a couple. I found a
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couple and it probably applies to both games. So four this was good.
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It probably applies more for the Houston game than the Texas game. But uh,
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stone Cold Steve Austin said leading up, what Stone call this is?
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This is the pregame quote. Stone Cold Steve Austin, obviously promoting upcoming battles,
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said, somebody's going to get their ass whipped. And I think we
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kind of knew that going into the Houston game. And you did, you
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know, you we You look at the numbers, you go, okay,
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that we probably, but you hope it's going to be different. But then
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the game starts, Tony, you're sitting here going, oh, okay,
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I see how this is going to go. And that's and that's how it
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went for two and a half hours. Yeah. The thing they kept coming
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back to me while it was happening was as good as advertise. And then
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the postgame quote is from the Great Northern General William To comes to Sherman who
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said it is a disagreeable thing to be whipped. So it was disagreeable.
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Yeah, I mean that's what it was. It was. It was disappointing
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and disagreeable, but not terribly surprising. So you thought, Tony, that's
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you thought, that's probably what's gonna happen. But then it's different when you're
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in it and seeing it happen. You go, okay, I see,
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I'll this is going to go. So you know, cutprint, move on.
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What are you gonna do? Cut print, move on because you got
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a game coming up that you have a winnable game coming up. So that's
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what I think the focus is on, not what happened at Houston, because
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I tell you what you pay, you're playing five times, you get beat
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five times. They were locked and loaded. They were like they were locked
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and loaded. The situation didn't help you either. Walking in their first big
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twelve game, you didn't make shots said, there's a reason why we spent
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so much time on Thursday going through their defensive numbers that showed up there.
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We don't need to spend a lot of time on this. They just flat
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wouldn't give you any shots that we said going in. That's gonna be the
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problem. Scoring against them is going to be the challenge, hobby. They
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were number one in all of those different categories in West Virginia's offense just couldn't
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generate any easy shots. In fact, I'll put a number to that.
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You're ready, Yeah, So it just kind of spreads on stats. That's
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not really it's a preview. Just w no, that's not it's a nugget,
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all right, it's a nugget. West Virginia had twenty catch and shoot
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jumpers on the day. Okay, okay, nineteen of them were guarded,
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So stop, I mean, you just don't need to go any further.
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Just you didn't make shots. And part of why you didn't make shots because
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they made you take difficult shots. You were guarded, hand in the face
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or body on you on every shot and you couldn't run anything else to get
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any easier better shots than what you did. And then ray kwon Battle gets
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in foul trouble early, he's out the whole first half. Then he goes
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one of nine. He didn't have a game. So just and and look,
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they have a lot to do when you don't do things well, Brad,
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the other team has something to do with that, typically, right,
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Yeah, no doubt, there's no, absolutely no question. Why did they
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have to take so many threes because they couldn't get the ball inside, that's
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why. And obviously West Virginia's playing without a true big right now. Right
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A cook, a cook is really a four man made a nice three?
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Yeah he made did didn't he? He did? You know it was.
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I don't want to be a prisoner of the moment, but I'm going to
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be extremely interested to see what Houston's defense does in this league for the rest
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of the season, because just first hand, looking at it, face to
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face, right across from it, Yeah, feeling it about as good as
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I've ever seen. Really. Oh yeah, I mean it's one thing to
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double a guy who's got the ball. Yeah, they doubled everywhere. Yeah,
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And it was And someone said this to me, and it kind of
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is true. It looked like if you're in high school, the twelfth graders
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played against the ninth grader. Really, oh yeah, they just literally forced
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West Virginia. They pushed them out. They just continued to push them out.
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And that's one of those games that if you go in looking for a
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whistle, you'll be you'll be sadly, you'll be you'll be sadly bumming out
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because they weren't going to give you a thing. Well, you did get
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to the line, I mean you got there twenty times. Yeah, but
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not until late later, not in the beginning of the game, when the
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thing was still in the balance. You got nothing. It was I'm not
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sure it was ever in the balance. Well, yeah, I mean at
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first three four minutes, you're you're kind of feeling the thing out, and
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there was nothing to be had. And if that's one of those games where
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you're looking at the official for a call, you were going to get nothing.
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You were going to get nothing. We talked on Thursday. There a
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lead against the pick and roll, which is something that West Virginia likes to
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do. So it was a double whammy. You got eaten up by their
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pick and roll and they didn't allow you to do anything off the pick and
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roll. You were point five points per possession off your own pick and roll,
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which is not good. They were one point four almost one point five.
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Were you sick? No, okay, just was hard to talk about
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the numbers there. It was breaking them down. Thank you for asking.
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He was breaking them. So one of the things Western he likes to eat
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off of his pick and roll and just went there, just won there,
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couldn't do it. I was incredibly impressed by it. I really was just
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incredibly impressed. Just men, those those are those are men. That's the
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one guy who's the guy that has looks like he's thirty, has a beard.
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Who is that guy? Oh? Done? He plays played a temple
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for four, played a temple for four. He just coming from the G
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League and they brought him with something. That's what I was just going to
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say. Their dude's body wise, Brad remind me of a TBT team.
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There didn't look like there were any kids out there. Yeah. Men,
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they had They had men, like like developed men. I talked about that.
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Coach told me before on Thursday. We talked about that. I had
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coach tell me, what do you say? I said on sports Line?
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Sat on the sports line, grown bleep men. He said, you're going
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on to play grown bleep men. Yeah, and they are the environment.
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All right, move on. I was impressed. Move on. I had
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never been in that building before. It's kind of like Lloyd Noble that there
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is no upper deck. It just kind of goes, it spreads out,
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seats seven thousand and some. They were totally into it. Things full.
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Yeah, they got to go on a little bit. Yeah, hey bet
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how about this on their wall? They had some players there. They got
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like five jerseys, maybe just four. Drexler, elijahwon Otis Bird's Song,
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Elvin Hayes, oh yeah, and Michael Young. That's a that's a good
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five Elvin does color on the radio network. Did you meet him now?
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He was across, he was on the other side. But that's pretty cool
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that Elvin Hayes is doing there doing the radio. Yeah, seventy eight years
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old, is he really? Yeah? Seventy eight years old. Saw some
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former members of the Mountaineer football staff there, Casey Smithson, Casey there,
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Yeah, getting retained on the new staff. Good. Kevin McCadam, who
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was on our strength staff, retained Darryl Bauer, who was Dana's strength coach,
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going to Troy. Correct, So those guys have found their way.
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How about Dana We were talking about him last show, like what's gonna happen
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Nebraska? Talking to interesting? Talking to him? Now? My right run?
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Their offense was horrific, Yeah, my right wrong? Is ain't A's
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agent the same agent as Matt Ruhle Oh, I don't know that. I
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believe that. I believe Alex Hammond trying to find it, you remember Alex,
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I do. Yeah, I believe that. I think he represents both
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of them, So that might be a little synergy in there. Efforting I
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probably said a whole lot there with probably should have confirmed a little bit of
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that, But hopy'll check that my last number, last number I'm giving you.
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On Houston, they also did a great job of attacking the basket.
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Forty four percent of Houston shots were at the rim within four and a half
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feet. Yeah, they just went inside. New West Virginia was down.
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Bodies inside, just said we're just we're going right at you. Great,
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great penetration and distribution in that lane. Absolutely all right, lussh it move
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on next. Like copy said, Hey, no time to feel sorry about
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yourself. You gotta go, and you got to go really really quickly.
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So it all happens again tomorrow night. Are we getting close now to spreads
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on stats? Uh? Yeah, we can go into I'm ready. How
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you feel about your numbers? Uh, there's there's a path there. There's
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a path. Might be in a nice situational spot too. We'll see how
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that plays out. Kirch l you like situational spots. I love situational spots.
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the coliseum. West Virginia closed the regular season last season against Kansas State.
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If you remember, that was an incredibly emotional game. West Virginia needed the
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victory, which got them to seven league wins. That was the last game
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of the regular season, so they finished seven up and eleven down in the
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league. Basically, that was the game that got him into the NCAA second.
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Yeah, and great crowd that day, just very emotional. It was
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good. So that game. So, boy, I tell you, what
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do you talk about changeover in a roster, not just West Virginia k stay
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got a lot of new faces on that roster they do. Let's dive into
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some of their team numbers. First, here, defensively is what's leading the
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way for them. We mentioned the numbers against UCF, so they're thirty third.
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Are the Wildcats in national defensive efficiency? They're a top thirty team when
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it comes to opponent two point field goal percentage, so that matters in this
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game. West Virginia's been doing a nice job from two. They do not
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put teams on the free throw line very often, tenth nationally in defensive free
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throw attempt rate, so you probably won't steal points at the free throw line.
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You're gonna have to get some along the offensive glass. Wildcats are only
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two hundred and eighth in defensive rebounding, so can you get some second shots
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back and fill? Now? They've been very good against the pick and roll
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as well. But here's something to watch hoppy. Yes, in their three
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losses, each of those teams had success with the pick and roll. Two
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opponents had success with the ball handler being the one that would score. The
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other team used the role man in that. So they're very good. But
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if you can if you can get them on the pick and roll, that's
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generally led to a favorable outcome for the opponent offensively. Here's what to watch
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with them. We just talked about some nights you don't make shots. They've
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had a ton of three point variants when they play. In fact, how
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about this, they've had some clunkers from three at times. Five of Kansas
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State's fourteen games, they've shot less than twenty five percent from three, almost
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well more than a third of the time they've shot less than twenty five percent
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from three. They're third in the Big twelve and three point attempts per game,
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but thirteenth in three point field goal percentage. So they're gonna shoot some
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threes, and this is one of those nights. Apply some pressure, guard
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them, try and get out on them. Make those difficult shots. Hop
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they're going to keep firing. If they're missing, you're in good shape.
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If they're making it, look out. They have turned it over a bunch
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three hundred and eighth nationally out of so what is that. That's a bottom
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sixty group three hundred and sixty six teams, I think now three sixty two.
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Okay, three sixty two, so bottom almost a bottom fifty team in
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turnovers. So they'll give you the ball. But here comes another I feel
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like I've said this now a bunch another really good offensive rebounding team, eleventh
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nationally on the offensive glass. So you're going to have to find a way
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to keep them off. Here's some keys for you to look ahead. You've
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got to force some tough shots. West Virginia is seventy fifth in opponent two
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point field goal percentage, which is actually pretty good, top one hundred in
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that category, but as I just mentioned, that probably doesn't apply much here.
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You're going to have to get them off the three point line. So
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three in two of Kansas State's three losses, they've really struggled to make shots.
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That has been the part of this that has been the variance for them.
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They're twelfth in the Big twelve in shooting percentage on guarded catch and shoot
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jumpers. So if you guard them, they're not hitting those. That would
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make some sense, but some teams are very good at hitting those. Guard
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them specifically from three you got a chance, just mention, you got to
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get on the offensive glass on them. They'll allow you to do that.
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And their three losses, their opponents had the three highest offensive rebounded percentages of
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the season. The challenge for the Mountaineers is what who's going to rebound?
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That's not a strength two hundred and seventh nationally an offensive rebounder percentage. Okay,
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can you get some of those turnovers that they are giving other teams and
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convert them into points? The challenge for West Virginia bottom twenty nationally in opponent
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turnover percentage, but this is a night where that should change. You should
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be able to get some from them. Can you push the pace on them?
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Keep talking about this. West Fring has been pushing it more with this
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new fangled lineup that they have with the guards. Back in the three losses
23:53
for Kansas State, three of those teams had one of the three of the
23:57
four highest trends pansition points in their games. So you can run on them
24:03
a little bit and when you beat them. That's what teams have done.
24:06
They've pushed the pace on them. They haven't faced much zone, So will
24:10
that zone come into play? Here. In fact, six of the last
24:12
ten games they have not faced a single possession of zone. They only have
24:17
thirteen total possessions against zone in the last ten games. So there's some things
24:22
there you can do. What should concern you is just what happens from three.
24:25
If they're making shots, it might be a long night again. But
24:27
situational. We were talking to Hobb. They come in off a big,
24:30
huge blowout loss and have to go on the road. West Virginia comes in
24:34
off a huge blowout loss. There should be some regression both ways. Kansas
24:40
State should hopefully come back to you a little bit. You should give a
24:41
better effort returning home, coming off what you just saw against Kansas State,
24:45
albeit against a very good defensive team. It's not Houston's numbers, but this
24:49
is the top what I say, thirty third defensive efficiency. Ken Palm gives
24:53
West Virginia a thirty nine percent chance of winning, which means he has Kansas
25:00
sixty one percent chance of winning. His computer says Kansas State wins sixty nine
25:04
sixty six. What's the what's the line? I mean? I know k
25:10
State's favored. What is it brand? You know it'll be right around there.
25:12
Three it's right right off. Look, it might be a little bit
25:15
less because you're at home. This is this isn't Houston. You're right,
25:21
this is a good defensive team. But this you put in the category of
25:25
a winnable game, right, I mean, it's not a slam dunk and
25:29
it's not. But but but you have you have an opportunity. You should
25:32
have a crowd there, and this is one of these kind of games Tony
25:36
that you got to You gotta win a couple of these, right, and
25:38
you got them at home, and so I think it looms big for that.
25:42
For that reason, try to win a couple of these before you get
25:47
Jesse Edwards back these wins and then you got Texas coming in Saturday. But
25:49
it's the crowd's going to be excited Saturday. It's going to be crazy Saturday.
25:52
But you know, can you get can you get one of these these?
25:56
Are you got to get these games? Just telling you what's coming?
26:00
You got to get these games. Is it going to be easy? No,
26:02
it's not going to be easy. You need to play extremely well.
26:03
If you play extremely well, you'll be right there to win this game.
26:07
Because next week, well obviously, as you said, Texas Saturday at Oklahoma,
26:12
then the Kansas Oklahoma Kansas. Hello, Yeah, it's yeah, And
26:18
that's why you've got to get some offensive rebounds and puts back putbacks. You've
26:22
got to get some steals and easy baskets. You've got to get transition,
26:25
easy baskets. This team just at times really struggles in the half court.
26:30
In fact, here's a number to back that up. Guys, West Virginia
26:32
faces the most guarded catch and shoot jumpers in the league. Percentage wise,
26:37
sixty five percent of West Virginia's catch and shoot jump shots are being guarded.
26:41
The next closest in the league is at fifty six percent, So it's quite
26:45
a bit. So you've got to find ways to get some shots and make
26:48
it easy transition, offensive rebound and can be two of those. Because you're
26:52
not going you're probably not gonna get points at the free throw line here.
26:53
You're at home, so maybe you get a couple more calls, but they
26:56
haven't been putting teams on the line. Yeah. Well, Josh talked a
26:59
lot after Saturday's game about the ball sticking. So when you get jumped by
27:03
a double team, the ball can't stick, someone's gonna be open right,
27:06
if you're getting doubled, someone's gonna be open and you can't hold onto the
27:08
ball, and they did. So maybe one of the reasons why they're getting
27:12
guarded on those opportunities is because they're not making that extra pass. I would
27:18
agree with that. Yeah, I would agree. Get some movement, try
27:19
and get some movement and motion in the offense. We talked about cutting to
27:22
the basket the other day. You just couldn't. You couldn't get there against
27:26
Houston physicality wise in passing. Why see, well, you're gonna have to
27:29
move it there. You're right, I get the ball to the open man.
27:32
But man, when there are four long arms and four legs around,
27:36
Yeah, I mean it was just hard. No, I don't. It
27:37
was just really really hard Saturday. Correct, Correct, I know what you're
27:42
saying. What you're saying, But at the same time, you have to
27:45
find a way. Yes, you have to find a way. They bullied
27:51
them, They bullied them. Yeah, they big boyed them. Now.
27:52
The one thing I give them credit they did. West Virginia did not fold
27:56
it. They played hard all the way to the final gun. But at
28:00
the same time, the game was the game was decided, and you have
28:04
got to in this league. The great ones play great defense, and you're
28:08
gonna get that. You're gonna get bumped. You're gonna get banged. You've
28:11
got to find a way. This isn't soft, this is hard, and
28:15
you got to be ready to go. Tell you what you got to be
28:18
ready to do this time of the year, Well, you gotta stay warm.
28:22
So may be getting cold outside, but at Gomart the coffee it is
28:27
always toasty, warm and fresh brood at Gomart. So when you're in need
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to stay warm this winter season, head over to Gomart. They are ubiquitous,
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when you say that, hoppy across the state. Yes, they're all
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over, yeah, everywhere on one hundred and twenty plus, all across the
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state of West Virginia. Visit them, get yourself one of those the rewards
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cards and start racking up those bonus points because eventually you get free fuel or
28:57
huge discounts on your fuel. If you go into a mark, you'll find
29:00
another goal Mart. That's how many there are. You walk into a door,
29:04
so I open this door, is another, go another. Flatwoods,
29:07
there's basically two right there there is that that's kind of true. In Flatwoods.
29:11
You walk in the one go out the other side door, there's the
29:14
other one. What is I stop at the one on the east east side?
29:18
Okay, the pressure using questions, Yeah yeah, all of a sudden
29:23
he became a Kansas Farmers, became a Kansas on the north southwest. Yeah,
29:29
I just did the quick you know geography. It's on the east side.
29:33
Gomar keeps you on the road with just one stop. You know where.
29:34
Everybody knows what I'm talking about. I know. Yeah, that's good.
29:37
You're right, you're right, having a strong show so far, up
29:41
doing well. I can't find the I can't find Dania's agency. I'll try.
29:47
I'm still trying. Spreads on stats brought to us by the Conley CEP
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A group value beyond the numbers. All right, so did you did you
30:00
have Pat Somnick leading the Mountaineers and scoring on set? It's nice back to
30:03
games for Pat. It is I'm hoping that, like the intangible light bulb
30:08
that goes on above your head, that he just could you see every time
30:11
he scored looking at the bench. Yeah, like, give it to me,
30:15
I got this. Give it to you. How many? How many
30:18
we down by thirty? I'll take care of it for you. Just give
30:21
me the ball. I hope No. In all seriousness, what did he
30:25
have? He had five boards as well. I'm just really hoping that that
30:29
turns his switch on. He just goes out there and because we've set he
30:33
just needs to be a brawler. Yes, not a basketball player. He
30:36
needs to be a brawler. Just go in there and stick your face in
30:37
there and just bang away, get put backs. Do you use a little
30:41
jump hook, grab reboundaryoun that's all you gotta do. Just do that.
30:45
Just do that, you know, just do that. I was talking to
30:49
an NBA guy saturday there and we were talking about, Okay, how many
30:56
of these guys on this floor playing in the league. What do you say?
31:02
He said, answer may surprise you. Job. He said, there
31:04
might be one. And he's really young right now. And I said,
31:08
okay, so break it down. He goes, here's the deal. Here's
31:11
the deal. All of these young people that have these aspirations to play in
31:15
the NBA, they think they think that they get there by scoring. He
31:22
said, that's not how they get there. The league has enough scores.
31:27
You get there because you do you provide a service that is at an elite
31:33
level. And then when the time comes every once in a great while.
31:38
You have to be an absolute marksman sharpshooter to make a shot. If you
31:44
can do those things and you obviously this is all of the prove equises you
31:48
have to have in a level of athleticism that's just above the chart. So
31:51
he said, yeah, there might be one guy. Well, I looked
31:53
at in preparation for the Houston game. I looked at the expected draft for
31:59
the didn't see one Houston player. Yeah, I thought i'd see a no,
32:04
not one no. And the guy he was talking about was a young
32:07
guy on the on the Houston's team. But already he said maybe something may
32:09
he said he might. He gave me the old might have a chance.
32:13
Gave me might have a chance. It's hard, man, Yeah it's hard.
32:17
Yeah, it's real, real hard, it's real real. That's the
32:20
message there. Because Houston is a very very good basketball team. There'll be
32:22
a factor come March here. Yes, yeah, they will be. But
32:27
they he Sampson has built a culture that is built on that. Or come
32:31
in and play defense, right, even LJ. Cryer, who that wasn't
32:35
his Fortene that's why he went there. Yeah, offense was not his offense
32:38
is his deal. And he's still an elite offensive guy. Now he's now
32:42
he's playing eleite defense too. Yeah, because he wanted to build his brand
32:45
for the NBA to say, hey, I can do more than score.
32:47
I'm gonna go play for Kelvin Samson. I'm gonna lock people down. Look
32:50
at me, Look at me. I want to go in the league.
32:52
And he's still obviously he's not being mentioned. He d D D D do.
33:00
But what you say is rules. Agent Alex Hammond, right, his
33:07
name's got to be in some stories when I'm working on when they fired them
33:10
at the Carolina Panthers, I'm sure they got some story and there's got a
33:14
quote from agent Alex Hammond. There's a lot of stories that just say things
33:17
like so and so's agent and don't see because they liked, you know,
33:21
they liked to me and I remember when you're able to be a good,
33:22
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this evening, six o'clock Eastern. I came Monday, Jan eight. Yeah,
34:43
I have to stop because I can't participate in the show. I'm gone
34:45
everywhere I can. Because it doesn't matter. Just move on, che Laft
34:47
really doesn't matter. We're gonna miss you, by the way, when you
34:51
go to the legislative session. Well, I'll be here. I mean,
34:53
if you'll still have me on like a Monday or a Friday. Yeah,
34:57
probably not anyway, long long line of people have been waiting for that seat.
35:08
You'll just have to contact my agent, Alex Hammon. Oh boy,
35:16
three guys. ESPN recently released its top one hundred players for the football season.
35:22
No West Virginia players on the list, putting my Homer hat aside,
35:29
I would now say that again, no, and top one hundred college players
35:32
from this past season, ESPN did not have a Mountaineer on there, and
35:37
he says with that being said, what really took me off was in the
35:39
follow up article, which listed things like honorable mention and just missed the list,
35:45
I still could not find Zach Frasier, Garrett Green spreads. Is my
35:50
Mountaineer cap on too tight? Or should someone from this nine win team be
35:53
alongside the one hundred best of the season? Thanks Greg and Pittsburgh. Yeah,
35:57
I would think, But I would also just say who cares? Yeah?
36:01
Who cares? There's a list last year that had Garrett Green listed as
36:05
the single worst quarterback in college football. Excuse me into the season, really,
36:08
I mean, come out with the list. Here's here's the thing about
36:12
right, don't get too upset, don't worry about it. Keep winning games
36:15
that stuff follow yous? But should Fraser and Green? Yeah, for the
36:16
seasons they had. Sure, lists are Why does everybody? Why does every
36:22
website do lists? Clicks? It clicks that right there, because it clicks,
36:27
and we'll go all my guys on, all my guys not on it.
36:30
Okay, but what does it mean? Doesn't mean anything? I mean
36:32
it literally and look, I'm part of the great media machine. Doesn't mean
36:36
anything, means nothing zero. You know what means something? W's wins,
36:42
w's wins wins and stats spreads on stats stats. Charlie from Midlothian Guys,
36:50
I just finished listening to parts of Thursday's podcast. I apologize if this has
36:53
already been corrected, but as the pre eminent Kroger fuel points of Ficiona oh
36:59
I can can from is documented in this text that Hoppy was once again correct
37:02
in his pronunciation of Kroger. There's no s on the end, Tony,
37:08
look up the next time you stop by the Gucci Kroger. Good luck to
37:12
the guys and gels this weekend. Charlie, I don't know how to break
37:19
this to you. I'll look right into the camera, but you know,
37:24
Charlie, there are times on this program where we intentionally mispronounce a word for
37:31
comic relief, Kroger Krogers might be one. The Walmarts might be one.
37:38
The Krogers, the Youtubes might be one. Cincinnata might be another. We
37:45
intentionally mispronounced words. But Charlie, I thought a guy of your great acumen
37:52
and steel gas stealing acumen, that you would have caught that one. But
37:59
yes, one of these days, the Kroger's going to come see him,
38:01
you know, Charlie. I also have hosted a program for about eleven years
38:06
now do it on a daily basis called The Mountaineer Report, sponsored by Kroger,
38:13
the official grosser of WVU Athletics. So I did have that, Charlie,
38:17
thank you, please yell this Tony Hello, longtime listener, approximately eighteen
38:28
time Texter P one listener Mitch in Buchanan. I know it's been a while
38:35
since I've texted, but after listening to both episodes from last week, I
38:37
felt needed to chime in a couple of topics. First off, if we're
38:39
going to point out Tony's mispronunciation of Marlington, then we should also be discussing
38:45
as blatant disrespect for Fabio Fabio, Tony, it's pronounced Fabio. What did
38:52
I say, Fabio? I don't know. Second, you all discussed Hoppies
38:55
pending retirement as if it meant he would just immediately be removed from this program.
39:00
Could he not continue to be part of this illustrious clown show even if
39:05
he's not doing his coffee clatch? If anything, it would give him less
39:07
of a reason to miss so many days since only works three days a week.
39:15
Third, can we get back to the original idea of podcast being primarily
39:20
long form audio content and not primarily thought of as video content For those of
39:24
us who don't watch your podcast, which feels like an oxymoron, just saying
39:30
when you're showing pictures that have been made, it would be helpful to have
39:32
a brief description of what's being shown to us traditional audio podcast listeners, you
39:37
know, the ogs anyway, just wanted to text in my rants. Hope
39:42
this gets red and not skipped over like the Hershey lawsuit controversy. By the
39:46
way, the home version of thanks for having us is simple, thanks for
39:51
coming, Chippy crowd today you're coming after fire and darts aer last tough,
39:58
Yeah exactly, Yeah, I mean you make a good point. And what's
40:02
interesting since we started this podcast six years ago plus it did, it did,
40:09
used to be an audio medium and I just stunned here in the last
40:14
couple of months where YouTube has now superseded Apple as the place where the most
40:20
podcasts are listened to. Really so they have transitioned to primarily visual although you
40:27
know so, Yeah, it's pretty wild, I mean because Apple owned the
40:30
space when we started, and now YouTube has more podcast listeners than any other
40:37
source. Yeah, blew me away. But I will try to describe all
40:40
the pictures in detail. Three guys speaking a witch. This is a picture
40:47
of my son Archer, Please describe. Look at this kid after he received
40:52
a three pound Hershey's chocolate bars a Christmas kid, he said. The smile
40:55
on his face says it all, even though he looks like squints after the
41:00
Wendy Peppercorn gave a mouth to mouth in the sand lot. The chocolate bar
41:06
is purchasable at the Cracker Barrel in Mineral Wells for those interested interested. The
41:10
second photo is from the Charleston Fire Departments C Shift Platoon at fire Station Number
41:16
two on the west side. Our firehouse happens to be one of the busiest
41:20
in the state. While it may not be Revkev's barbecue, it's still mighty
41:24
delicious. This particular Saturday, we smoked that meat for eight hours with hickory
41:30
chips and apple wood rough We share a lot of stories, talk a lot
41:35
of sports, enjoy a lot of laughs around that table. Many do not
41:37
realize the importance of the kitchen table in a fire station. Some say this
41:43
where old firefighters teach the young firefighters how to become old firefighters. This is
41:47
where we critique our calls and talk about how to do it better the next
41:52
time. This is where we drink too much coffee and help us get ready
41:54
for the upcoming shift. This is where a game of cards is played while
41:59
waiting for the next emergency. When you work in a high stress environment,
42:02
like we do for many of our shifts, the kitchen table is the one
42:06
place where you find some peace and laughter. We're gone for twenty four hours
42:08
at a time at a minimum from our families, and many of our knights
42:13
are not RESTful, but we love our job in helping others. Hoppy,
42:15
I know you will be in Charleston for legislative sessions, so swing by enjoy
42:20
some home cooked firehouse meals with us. I promise we won't keep you out
42:22
late. Signed Stephen Hoppy. I think you should do that west side.
42:28
It's west side. Okay, what did he say? It's number? What
42:31
station is it? Here? Is number two, number two shift platoon at
42:36
fire Station number two on the west side of Charleston. What if I'm there
42:38
and they get it called out? It works? Steven jump on the dog
42:42
on truck that grab that Dalmatian dog and you don't have truck. Do you
42:45
think seriously you should go over there? You really should? And then I'm
42:50
wondering out loud if they'd let you slide down the pole. Always wanted to
42:54
slide down to get hurt. Yeah at his age. Yeah, Tony,
43:00
this is Kathy from Marlington. Tony, this is Kathy from Marlington with a
43:07
totally non sports related follow up. Unlike Matt from Dunmore, I won't criticize
43:12
your pronunciation of my town using the G because that's probably how JR. Spelled
43:16
it in his text and you were just reading along quickly. However, you
43:20
will not be excused in the future. I'm sending you this poem from where
43:23
we get the phrase as a reminder. The name of this poem is there
43:28
Ain't no G in Marlington by Andrew Price, the first mayor of Marlington.
43:31
He served from eighteen seventy one through nineteen thirty, or maybe he lived then.
43:37
Would have been a hell of a long mayorship. May I read hoppy
43:44
please. A smart and stylish man was he. He had a college bought
43:50
degree. He wished to buy some timberland, and so he took his pen
43:53
in hand. But when it was all said and done, he hurt his
43:58
friend in Marlington. He did a capital crime. You see, spelling Marlington
44:04
with a G. There ain't no G in Marlington. There ain't no G
44:07
in Marlinton. There ain't no G in Marlington. There ain't no G in
44:12
Marlington. Jacob Marlin, a hunter bold, settled here in days of old.
44:15
He camped in a hollow tree and spelled his name with narig. His
44:21
partner, a hunter, also came Stephen B. Sewell was his name.
44:24
The year was seventeen fifty one. They founded the town of Marlington. While
44:31
they dwelt in solitude, sool got in an ugly mood. He took his
44:36
knife and on a tree caught m A R L I n G. Then
44:42
Jacob Marlin mighty quick fell on him like a thousand brick, for it was
44:47
always riled his family for folks to spell the name with g old. Jacob
44:52
Marlin died in bed soool. The Indians killed him dead. It was an
44:57
awful fate, but he was prone to use the extra G. Let all
45:01
take warning from his fate and one in our town they designate they sure must
45:07
mind their p's and q's. This awful G. We can't excuse no G
45:12
in Marlington. I'll never make that mistake again ever, Nor will anybody that
45:15
listens to this show. No. I bet that's one of those things that
45:22
just will. They'll never get past it because there'll still be a lot of
45:23
people that still say Marlington. I mean, we know it's Marlington, but
45:29
that rings up there with the West by God Virginia, Like I come from
45:32
Charlestown. Yeah, sure, Okay, two words and my father would get
45:37
infuriate, like they spelt it with one word, not Charles Town, not
45:40
Charleston, It's Charles Towns. Sure, So you know we're very prochy about
45:45
things like that. Me. Heck, well, you guys out there like
45:46
like brands from West des Moines. Yeah, but you guys always in the
45:51
Eastern Panhandle felt that Charles Ston got way too much attention to begin with.
45:55
So you guys are just pumping up on that thing. Yeah, we were
45:58
always sure about that, still are understand. Three guys passed kudos to the
46:05
elder Statesman who is probably now at the state Capitol addressing the state's business.
46:08
The hoo segment was very well done. So will I propose contacting composer producer
46:15
extraordinary David Sob for an ho jingle, perhaps with an owl who theme.
46:22
I'm just sure there were some loud owls and hoppies Eastern Panhandle Homeland always loved
46:28
the show. On to eight hundred and beyond steven in North Carolina normally or
46:31
formally from Parkersburg. Obvious observations my strong suit Josh and Charleston writes. Over
46:40
the holidays, my family traveled to New Zealand to visit my brother who lives
46:45
there with family. I told my kids, I bet we were the only
46:46
people from West Virginia visiting New Zealand for Christmas. Hell, here we go.
46:51
While at a park, two women came up to our group and asked
46:53
if we were from West Virginia. They said they were driving by and noticed
46:58
my nephew's mountaineer football jersey. Turns out their students at the WVU School of
47:02
Dentistry. One of the women is from New Zealand and she was taking several
47:07
of her classmates on a tour of her home country. She pointed to a
47:10
sixteen passenger van on the side of the road, packed to the gills with
47:14
WU students and two smiling parents in the front seats. There really is a
47:20
mountaineer connection wherever you go. Not only were they not the only family that
47:25
was the largest number of visitors apparently to New Zealand were from Western really the
47:30
most representatives in Union texter re see Bells with an intricate design, no lawsuit
47:38
here. He that that's exactly what was in the back. Big guy in
47:44
Mullins Rights, Hello, they're fellers. Could someone come up with an NIL
47:49
deal pertaining to rebounds five to ten dollars per rebound per game a potential twenty
47:54
five hundred dollars or more with an average of eight per game? Are we
47:59
heading in the direct where players get paid for performance rather than potential. A
48:02
potential based business model is not a successful business. It has to be based
48:08
on performance. Ps hopster, I will buy a hanky, Thank you,
48:12
Bren. What do you think about that? Because I was watching one of
48:15
the pro games over the weekend and they said so and so is three yards
48:19
away from getting his million dollar bonus. So what do you think about that?
48:22
Concept? Going fullard probably comes into play, doesn't it. Yeah,
48:23
Befo, we're moving towards a pro model. I would think that's so you
48:27
start to put some performance clauses. Yeah, like here's a base, but
48:30
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with the Fusion with AMP six lighted speakers, easy to use power steering power
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assists, slate teak flooring they got it. Plus that bad Boy at Night
49:10
exterior led lighting nice. It looks like a peach contact Lou Wendel Marine Seals
49:17
or that is available to you as a three guys special mess that you mentioned
49:23
that aunting It does have an auning, Yeah, which you wouldn't need today,
49:29
hoppy, but in the middle of July when they we want the awning
49:31
it, Yeah, absolutely, Texter. I chuckled when a Texter brought up
49:36
the Feast of the Seven Fishes. A few years ago. I saw the
49:38
movie and I was intrigued. So I mentioned this to the three friends of
49:42
mine too, who have Italian backgrounds, and we did it. We did
49:45
the full seven course meal during the holidays, delicious and fun with friends.
49:50
However labor intensive, so we didn't do it again. But I recently saw
49:57
an easier way to do the feast. All right, there you go.
50:00
Can you show us a picture that's the Feast of the Seven Fishes? Well
50:06
done, Tony. For those who aren't watching the video, please explain.
50:09
So they sent us a picture of seven bowls that have the Pepperidge Farm goldfish
50:17
of different flavors and about what five bottles of wine behind them, and that
50:22
is the Feast of the seven fishes right there, goldfish. That's a good
50:25
sort of economical that gets it done a lot quicker than that. Yeah,
50:31
we're the straight original in our house. Really. Yeah. My kids really
50:36
haven't gone for the other We've tried to mix in other kinds. It's straight
50:38
original. The orange one there, third from the right. I had never
50:42
had any idea they made that many flavors. Brad, So win a bag
50:46
of the PEPPERIDG Farm because pepperdch Farm. They tease you because they never give
50:50
you a ton because it's so good. So when you open a bag,
50:52
how long does it last? Well, we go the institutional bags, hoppy.
50:57
We don't do those little ones. I mean we're the big zip lock,
51:00
big containers. These things were good, aren't they. I think Pepperick
51:06
Farms does that with Mulano cookies. You get all fired up for the bag
51:10
of those and then you get in there's like six Yeah. Yeah, you
51:13
got to be careful with those. Those are yeah, those are the top
51:17
of the line. Yeah. Waverley from North Carolina here by the way of
51:22
the historic Hillbilly Highway and Hurricane West Virginia has always been an unappreciated blue collar
51:27
underdog. What are the top three Power five schools that mostly closely mimic that
51:31
profile signed Mountaineer for Life, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and maybe maybe maybe
51:42
uh Texas Tech. You went all big twelve. You didn't have to,
51:50
No, but those are the schools I'm about. Nebraska, No, no,
51:53
No, Kansas State's a good one. That's Iowa State State center hard.
52:02
I guess what the question is is what are hard like? What's hard?
52:07
West Virginia is hard to do it at this level? Remember underpayire blue
52:10
car under the Remember Iowa State was just so god awful for so many years
52:15
that they they didn't qualify because you gotta win once in a while. Yeah,
52:21
inconsistent winning. They've been whinning since your guy got there's the a D.
52:25
Right, Yeah, but I mean there's one hundred years before that they
52:30
didn't. Uh, thank you. Here's another happy list to elite. They
52:44
got enough. They got enough people around them, you know what I mean.
52:47
They got enough people around them, they got enough resources around them.
52:51
All that tobacco money all these years shouldn't be that hard. They just happened
52:55
to be surrounded basketball wise by two of the blue bloods. Makes it harder.
53:00
Yeah, okay, it's thinking out loud. Sure. Watching this basketball
53:06
game with Houston, I'm wondering what excuses we get to hear this week.
53:08
Will it be they need more time? If so, how much time?
53:13
I know Edwards is hurt, but when he comes back, it will be
53:16
they are not used to playing with him. I have stood behind Eilert and
53:20
was hoping he got a chance. But I'm beginning to think the coaching staff
53:22
does not have a clue. Oh you got it. You you have to
53:29
give you must give this coaching staff the year. I mean, remember remember
53:36
year zero, Brad, Yes, remember your zero. This is beyond your
53:39
zero. This is this is beyond your zero. Yeah, meaning tougher than
53:45
your zero. Yeah, I'm not Yeah, I'm disregard that one. I
53:51
mean, you're gonna get what are you gonna coach up against Houston? I
53:54
mean, Brad, you get him in the huddle and say, Okay,
53:59
here we go, here's what we're going to do. Move on to the
54:01
next game. That's what you do. Q The fifty thousand recommendations on what
54:07
Hoppy's new segment should be named. I like Hoppy suggestion of ho but we
54:09
just need a corporate sponsor. Maybe Hooters. No, I'm not going Hooters.
54:14
Who can be brought to you by Hooters. Addition, I'd like to
54:16
vote for a T shirt you got sound alongside. I was on a bus
54:21
in Equity. I agree. I was on a bus on Equador. Had
54:22
somebody at the women's game come up to me about that. One final thought,
54:27
Two things are more important to me than wins when it comes to being
54:30
a Mountaineer fan. Effort and attitude. Wins in this league are the result
54:34
of effort, attitude, and talent. And even though we may not have
54:37
the talent tude of the many factors to get enough wins to make the tournament,
54:39
this team's attitude and effort on the court makes me proud to be a
54:42
Mountaineer fan. I hope coach Eilert can keep a winning culture in the locker
54:45
room and gets another chance next year. Let's go Texter. I'm sorry,
54:52
but Josh Eilert is not a coach. If we had John Beeline, we
54:57
would have been back cut. We would have backed cut them to death.
55:02
I already responded to this, Texter. I sent him a note because here's
55:07
the deal man, and this is what you won't want to acknowledge at this
55:10
moment, but they played thirteen teams before West Virginia, so thirteen other coaches
55:17
had a chance to backcut them. Well, guess what, that's not the
55:22
answer. You got to have better players. And at this point they're an
55:29
elite defense. They're number one in the country and scoring defense. They're the
55:31
only remaining undefeated team in the country. They're just really good. If it
55:36
was as simple as back cutting someone in the first thirteen game, some would
55:38
have back cut him to death. It's not that easy. Hey, Tony,
55:44
what Josh Eilert, And we don't know whether he's a good head coach
55:47
or not. It's hard to know. Because of all the curve balls,
55:51
Number one, number two, that was the right higher because he had been
55:54
with the program. He could keep the players that were there. He is,
55:59
as he pointed himself off, the words were the letters were very big
56:01
an interim head coach. Okay, So West Virginia did not have time in
56:06
the middle of the summer to go out and find maybe who Rin Baker exactly
56:10
wanted for that position. So there's a coaching search that's underway. Maybe it'll
56:14
be Islet, maybe it won't be Island. And you're in this position because
56:16
of Bob Huggins's behavior, because of the things he did. That's why you're
56:22
there. This ain't on Josh Eilert. Okay. In fact, Ilert is
56:25
Ilart is taking the slings and arrows for the actions of others. He's stepping
56:30
up and being a head coach and being a stand up guy and trying to
56:34
carry you through a difficult time that you were left in because of the actions
56:37
of Bob Huggins. Get off, Ilert copy set a heater out there.
56:44
Huh he did. We're going to miss you when you go to that legislative
56:45
session. You're gonna bring it like that to the legislators. It depends on
56:50
what it is. I just but well I said it. That's calm down,
56:55
seriously, calm down. Who's with me? Am I alone here?
57:00
No, you're absolutely right. No, And I think I just said on
57:05
the last show from my standpoint this year, you look back at this year
57:07
and I think you owe the staff and these players that have decided to play
57:13
a debt of gratitude for a year. That's an absolute mess of a year.
57:16
And it began as a mess of a year and so it's difficult to
57:19
win games when you begin in this situation in which they began. So I
57:22
give them a tremendous amount of credit with unknown futures, for showing up every
57:28
day and put in the work in I really do Texter. Hello guys.
57:32
Always a treat to see you, Tony, even if the beatdown by the
57:35
Houston's was pretty brutal observation. If we would have had this version of Pat
57:38
Sumnick in last Springs Tournament game against Maryland when he was forced into duty after
57:43
a dirty play against Emmitt Matthews, we would have won that game handly.
57:46
Oh well, so far this season though he's given us valuable minutes. Pleasant
57:50
surprise. I hope the round Rock Donuts were enjoyed and that you got a
57:55
kick out of the Austin Spurs promotional poster somewhere, Buddy Joe, MOI there
58:00
it is hoppy. They had the Eric Stevenson game poster November the twenty sixth,
58:05
and there's Eric and it was they do those. It was Princess Night.
58:10
So Eric is doing well and uh playing there for the Austin Spurs.
58:15
You found out you got to pop up in the league for a little bit
58:19
this year. That would be well, heck, I mean he should because
58:23
so don't you think you get at some point you get a call up?
58:25
Yeah, Tony, thanks for the movie. Tip, the wife and I
58:30
enjoyed Feast of the Seven Fishes on a snowy Saturday evening. Always enjoy seeing
58:35
West Virginia featured in Anything. Sorry to see that they did not have a
58:37
basement kitchen in the movie. Signed by Matt and Martinsburg Texter. Dear three
58:44
guys, whatever happened to the Mansion Whisperers intro music? Has it been retired?
58:47
Thanks Jeff from Jane Loew. I need to get that back. I
58:52
have to find it. I was I was never the whisper. Just clarifying.
58:57
Oh he said to you, they call you the man whisper, and
59:00
you well, that's what the is that what the questioner from CBS asked you.
59:05
They call you the Mansion Whisperer. But no, I wasn't. I
59:08
mean, what do you mean? Well, I don't have any particular I
59:15
know him and so I can get him on the phone. He'll come on
59:16
the show, but I don't have any particular insight into I mean, he's
59:20
not listening to me. I mean, Brad, I don't go up to
59:23
him. You want to run for president, really get in at it.
59:28
You will be fine. Go ahead. Oh okay, I mean I'm not
59:31
got a horse whisperer. I like calming the horse. No. I think
59:36
the context of it was when Joe speaks, he comes to you. That
59:40
was a context of Sometimes, not all the time. Sometimes he goes on
59:44
a bigger name show sports line texting from New Zealand on our way back to
59:52
the United States. What's this whole New Zealand connection? Huge? There,
59:57
thought you'd enjoy some of our highlights. Photo number one the Australia Airport.
1:00:04
There while we're in Australia just before Christmas, we found a small gift for
1:00:07
our favorite three guys, three hankies down under. The delivery is coming soon.
1:00:13
Charlie rockin his three Guys shirt us. So that's Martha and Charlie.
1:00:17
Huge three guys. I mean they've attended our events. They're wonderful. Picture
1:00:22
number two Melbourne pronounced Melbourne Airport. Christmas Day. They found this guy with
1:00:28
the West Virginia had in the airport while waiting for our flight from Melbourny to
1:00:34
Auckland. We met doctor Sabbatino Dino Silveri, who was wearing the West Virginia
1:00:39
hat. Dino from Melbourne was on his way back to West Virginia as a
1:00:43
finance professor at the Chambers School. Crazy photo three. Here's our son Robbie
1:00:50
decked out in his West Virginia shirt. That's in front of the Mountaineer Building
1:00:54
in Queenstown, New Zealand with his new Country road bag. We found that
1:00:59
Country. It is a well known clothing store in New Zealand and Australia.
1:01:04
Good lord. Quote to number four. Look at this one, Martha,
1:01:07
Charlie, Robbie and Hillary Mitchell on top of Tuaku Glacier in the is that
1:01:16
you say that we Ordland is National park in New Zealand. So they got
1:01:22
to take that helicopter? Sure, why wouldn't they? There are three guys
1:01:24
listeners. Goodness, I brought the helicopter up there. Jeez, I have
1:01:31
I mean, that's pretty impressed. I didn't leave the zip I haven't left
1:01:34
the zip code in a month. They're on top of him Glacier helicopter.
1:01:40
I have relatives who took a fifth wheel and went to Florida. They've been
1:01:45
there for like eight days, and I texted him. I said, how
1:01:49
many West Virginias have come across? They said none. I said, it's
1:01:51
not possible, not in Florida wearing any West Virginia. I gotta wear something.
1:01:57
Yeah, if you're going, if you go fishing, you got to
1:01:59
put bait on you hook. Yeah, I mean you got you gotta fly
1:02:00
to the WV and then they'll come. They'll just he'll come right after you.
1:02:07
Yeah, you crack it up. Hey, I got one, probably
1:02:15
not flying the Colors Texter. This is Robert from Bridgeport. I'm better known
1:02:21
as Ross's dad. Been a busy last week with year end. Not all
1:02:23
accountants and CFOs due taxes. As Tony learned West Virginia connection story in Charlotte
1:02:30
Christmas night, they go to this restaurant called two or four North Kitchen,
1:02:35
Kitchen and Cocktails. Our waiter sees our West Virginia gear. See how they
1:02:37
baited them? Yeah, asked if we're from West Virginia. He says he
1:02:40
used to live in Morgantown. Family in Greenbrier County had a family member that
1:02:45
played for a girls state championship team there, Greenbrier East beat Uh. They
1:02:50
beat Bridgeport by the way. He asked us if we knew Governor Justice who
1:02:52
was the coach to the bad then, and he told him yeah, hop
1:02:55
he talks about him all the time. Then on game day, a few
1:02:59
drinks at the French quarter, three younger people sat down beside us. One
1:03:02
guy and a girl had on a West Virginia number thirty one Jersey ended up
1:03:07
they were cousins of Pat Lasier. With the pub fill with West Virginia fans,
1:03:13
we asked for country Roads to be played, but they didn't quite understand
1:03:15
and they put on country music. Anyway, we get up to leave.
1:03:19
I told the Lasier cousins and their non mountaineer friend to help me out.
1:03:22
As I gave a let's go. It took about one second for the entire
1:03:27
pub to shout out my news. Think their friend was stunned and might have
1:03:32
thought he was caught up in a cult. The rest of the day,
1:03:36
of course, was great. After the game, I thanked every usher I
1:03:38
saw at the stadium, told him thanks for having us. I will end
1:03:43
with the with saying that the talk of basement Italian kitchens brings back fond memories
1:03:47
of my mom and dad. Lots of peppers, canned tiella, and other
1:03:52
great foods, as well as the baking of cookies such as gallets, Frieties,
1:03:55
and Peta piatas. Keep efforting to number eight hundred. Isn't that the
1:04:01
second reference we've had to Lasier's relatives. I think it is somebody earlier like
1:04:09
it might. I think you might be right, Lasier. Lasier's got people
1:04:15
around, you know. By the way, speaking of people just coming.
1:04:19
J D. Collins came up to me at the game. You put that
1:04:21
picture out there. It was awesome. Yeah, I saw that you talked
1:04:25
about one of an underrated favorite. I love that dude. He was a
1:04:29
great dude. So here's a deal, hop you'll know how this feels.
1:04:30
So I'm doing the post game. So I'm sitting here and I'm doing the
1:04:34
stats agree d DA, and I feel someone like right here and sits down
1:04:41
next to me in the empty chair, and I just kind of like give
1:04:44
a look over and I can't tell because I got to keep going. I
1:04:46
look and it's just like some dudes sitting here. I'm going like, while
1:04:48
I'm finishing the set, I'm going like, I can't wait to find out
1:04:51
who this is. And then I looked up and there he went to break
1:04:55
and there he was. JD so lives in Houston. Told me some inches
1:05:00
told me something I didn't know. Quinn Sleznski went to his high school there
1:05:06
in Houston. Didn't know that the Francis guy, one of their bigs for
1:05:11
Houston. J D trained them, and j D Trent's what he does.
1:05:15
He trained works people out, including pros. And you remember they were here
1:05:19
last summer. Came in and he's going to come back in again. He's
1:05:23
gonna well, he's doing great. It looks good, looks good. See
1:05:28
now, attitude wise, he could have played in that game Saturday. M
1:05:33
h his style because he wouldn't back up an inch. She's a bulldog.
1:05:38
Yeah, but he wouldn't say anything, nor would his face change, no
1:05:43
at all, No, which is yeah, just fine. Just but he
1:05:46
was a hard nose. He was a hard nose fire plug is what he
1:05:48
was. He just stick his face in there. So he would have been
1:05:50
all right for that game on saturday't it wouldn't have made him go backward.
1:05:58
Boy, I tell you what, I'm gonna miss you. I'm gonna miss
1:06:00
you. Well, I'm not disappearing I mean, I'm well, now we're
1:06:04
going to record again Thursday. Yeah, I'll be gone. I know.
1:06:08
That's why I said it. If you want to wait, I mean,
1:06:12
now we're not waiting. How can we wait? Then? The show only
1:06:15
has twenty four hours of shelf, Like, okay, the game's okay,
1:06:17
I'm sorry, Well, maybe someone could come back earlier. Well, I
1:06:21
got by Thursday. By by Thursday, you've rattled enough, don't you have
1:06:26
it? Don't you have everything in by then? I mean you've rattled What
1:06:28
do you mean everything in? Like, hey, in the barn? What
1:06:30
are you talking about? Everything in? What does that mean? Haven't you
1:06:32
rattled enough people by the time Thursday rolls along? But you can hunt?
1:06:35
Head back up this way? Okay, let me ask you this. Do
1:06:39
people get nervous when you go down there and you start interviewing them? Let
1:06:42
me ask you this. Go ahead, okay, So I get there early,
1:06:45
I get there very very early. What's that mean? Six uh seven?
1:06:50
Okay? Six thirty seven? Yeah, something like that? How long
1:06:54
brad over under on time before somebody makes a three guys reference? God,
1:07:00
I'm gonna let's say let's starting at seven o'clock. Starting at seven o'clock.
1:07:04
How long before somebody makes a three guys reference before a twenty because a security
1:07:10
guy is gonna come around. I was gonna say even before eight o'clock,
1:07:13
before eight, yeah, Tony, Yeah, I'm right in there with him
1:07:15
in that same window. I'd be surprised if after nine o'clock someone doesn't say,
1:07:18
three guys. Okay, you have all new clothes that you're going down
1:07:21
there with? Or what do you? What do you wear? No,
1:07:24
it's it's actually the same clothes I've had for a couple of years, but
1:07:27
they're from Daniels from Final looking Phil. But you've had those pressed and cleaned
1:07:30
before you go down. Yeah, start the session. You gotta be clean
1:07:33
and squeaky. People. People dress nice at the legislature, they do.
1:07:38
They dress up, So you got it, Like I've got your jacket and
1:07:41
tie, I'll be all right. Yeah, I mean I'm not. I
1:07:45
wish I had, like something really stylish, but I'm a little bit old
1:07:46
for something really stylish like Brad could wear, or maybe you could, Tony.
1:07:50
You always look nice. No I'm not now, but I ain't you
1:07:54
happy? No? Like on the when you're at court side, Well,
1:07:57
yeah, you d you look good. All you got to do is go
1:07:59
see Phil. Phil. I know, but I'm just thinking about I think
1:08:00
given fill a whole lot to work with him. If Phil can make me
1:08:02
look decent and he can make anyone look really good, No, I think,
1:08:05
but I think that's important. You take pride in how you look,
1:08:08
and you're representing university. You're doing to play by play, you look good.
1:08:11
Yeah, So like you'll go tie every day down there? Oh yeah,
1:08:15
absolutely, yeah, tie every day. That's good. Yeah, when
1:08:17
I dress down it's just a sports shack at the time, right, Yeah,
1:08:19
that's cool. Well, we're gonna miss You'll be back here, though,
1:08:26
We're gonna miss you. I just hope someone don come to steal that
1:08:30
seat. You'll be back next Monday when we do the post game of Texas
1:08:34
and great, yes, sir, cool, I'll be back Thursday, late
1:08:40
afternoon. So he's trying to bait us in the holding off. You see
1:08:43
what he's doing if you want to wait till four four thirty five, and
1:08:46
then he gets you know, OCD Man over here getting off the nervous and
1:08:51
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Jack Carlson has a return. He's on winter break from the school. When
1:09:45
did they go back ahead? January's half over, he goes back thirteenth,
1:09:49
okay, thirteenth, twelve thirteenth, He's gone, So this will be the
1:09:51
last time you'll have them here for till till school years old. Too quick
1:09:58
of a break makes are too short. It seem to spring break back in
1:10:01
my day. I think we take three four months off, all right,
1:10:06
thanks for being with us, Houston. We had a problem. Episode five
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nineteen over and outsee it.