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3 Guys Before The Game - Texas Tech Preview (Episode 535) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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to the final three games of the regular season. Down to the final two
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games at home Saturday evening. The six o'clock tips started to become a little
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bit of a regular. Isn't it been a couple of times this year?
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Yeah, six o'clock tip West Virginia, Texas Tech. This is the Eastern
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time for those of you that might be watching in Central We do things in
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Eastern time. And six o'clock tip off for the Mountaineers and the Raiders.
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Then next Wednesday night, West Virginia closes regular season home games have the very
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questionable nine o'clock tip. Don't know where that one came from. Haven't been
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many of those. This is the first one. First home game at nine,
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could be I think it is, could be. I don't know if
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we had anything like really early in the season. Was there it was pitt
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nine. I don't think at nine o'clock. It need some extra game day
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grind coffee. Yeah. And then next Saturday, a week from this Saturday,
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West Virginia closes the season at Cincinnati, and it'll be obviously the first
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game West Virginia's played there since it's days as a member of the Big East.
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Believe women's basketball returning to action this week and huh, trying to get
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back onto the winning side. Yeah, they need to get that turned around
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here as they hit into March. Hit a little bit of a soft spot
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here. Well, yes, atually a hard spot because they played three games
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in six days, two of those on the road, but the two games
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were separated by a home game, which means you got to leave play,
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come back, play at home, leave play, come back in six days.
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That's that's hard. Well, and the way you lost that home game
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in between didn't make it an easier. That was a tough one. Yeah,
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So they'll try to bounce back. T see you up next. Yeah,
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do you if you go to the coliseum for the women's game, do
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you try to hide like in the bathroom after the women's games over and stay
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for the men's game? Like, how third do they check? Oh,
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I think they'll check. Was that like part of the detail when you were
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over there? I think they'll Yeah, they they'll They'll have bodies walking around
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there, they'll check. Usually people try to Like it's kind of like the
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old thing of guys in the movies. Do people do that in the movies
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and the trains, Like people would go into a train car and they try
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to get a free try to get it now? Is that true? Because
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usually when you bring up trains, we get nine emails disputing whatever you've said
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about trains. I feel very common one of your areas that you wade into
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that you seem to catch a lot of flak for your train information. I
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still say true. I'm still saying that I'm right. We should have a
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great train system in the United States. And you did well. You did
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claw back a little bit with the uh the bandana coming from the trains.
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You got a little you found a little support on that. Yeah, you
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were ripped early. Yeah, you made a nice second half comeback. As
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our listeners went out there and they said, wait a second, bandanas have
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always been associated with trains. Well, I just say this, don't necessarily
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wear your bandana Saturday, and don't try and hide in the bathroom like it's
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a train. Get two tickets. Just get two tickets. Okay, fine,
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that's fine. Mount Their baseball team opened its home schedule back on Wednesday.
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I guess that would be tomorrow yesterday, should say, and uh,
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well, I tell you what. Artificial turfs nice huh makes a big different.
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And in all seriousness, that's why you get it right. You wouldn't.
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You would not have played that game yesterday on a natural surface. If
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you drove around your town and looked at some some dirt surfaces, there were
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puddles everywhere. It couldn't have play correct. Not enough diamond dry to get
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you ready. No, not at all. So congratulations. They put another
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underneath the under the win column. All right, so let's jump in.
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It's West Virginia and Texas Tech. And although there are only three regular season
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games remaining, it is the first time that West Virginia will see the Red
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Raiders this season, the first time that they will face Grant mccaslin's the first
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year of Texas Tech coach. They faced them once before. That's back several
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years back now when he was the head coach at North Texas. He's totally
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familiar with the coliseum as a longtime assistant at Baylor for Scott Drew. So
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he's been in the building, he's been in the house. And you probably
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know that there's a former Mountain Neer in the house as well, and that's
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going to be Joe Tussunt, who left WVU in the off season. He
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was scheduled to return, and then with the turbulence within the program in this
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late summer, he hit the highway and made his way to Texas Tech.
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And he's having a very good year, really good year. He's second on
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the team in scoring, he leads them in steals at thirty four, and
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they're really super balanced. Remember when Baylor came in, I said, you
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know, you hardly ever see a team that's got six the average in double
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figures. Well, these guys do, with the exception of one tenth of
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one point. They got a dude, Warren Washington, who's at nine point
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nine points per game. Other than that, you can just say they've got
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six guys that are averaging double figures. They got a seventh guy that averages
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nine, so just great balance. They average seventy six, they give up
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sixty nine, and they get to the file line a lot. That's all
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I'm allowed to say legally, because Brad that's his world. We just let
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these numbers. They don't need a whole lot of lamb in Texas at uh,
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in Lubbock, they're more beef, a lot more beef people down there.
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Yeah, you mentioned Toussant. He gets to the line a lot.
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He's top two hundred nationally in free throw rate, which is out of about
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thirteen hundred players. He gets there a lot. He makes them to eighty
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six percent free throw shitt run there, Look at they've got three free throws.
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Well, yeah, they've got was just gonna say, they've got three
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guys in the top one, top one, sixty five in free throw percentage.
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Here I don't want to get on in your space. You're all right
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if I do so. How about these four guys eighty nine, eighty nine,
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eighty six, eighty four. We haven't played anyone this year that has
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had that among their top five players. Foul others not them. It's interesting
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though, because they're only one hundred and thirty first in the country and free
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throw percentage their nineteenth Yeah, they're making seven. They're making seventy seven percent.
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Now, so how could that be with four guys like that? They're
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making seventy seven percent of their free throws, don't put them online, and
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they've taken one hundred and twenty four more than the other team. Actually one
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hundred and fourteen more than the other team. Okay, I'm done, all
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right, dive in big picture. First, you mentioned first year coach Grant
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McCaslin. Great first year for them, however, uh oh, they have
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lost three of four and six of nine different team on the road versus home.
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I'll get into that here in a second. Very good offensively twenty second
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overall nationally and offensive efficiency. Couple of reasons why they don't turn it over
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much second best turnover percentage in the Big twelve, and they're really good from
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three about thirty seven percent, third best in the Big twelve. More on
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that coming up and some keys to the game. Here's the number to jump
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though right away. You want a positive right away for who them or us
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West Virginia. Okay, their defensive rating if you go by percentile, if
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the season were to end right this second, you went by percentile of their
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defensive rating, number of points they give up per one hundred possessions, maybe
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in the zero percentile. One hundred's the best. That tells you where zero
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is away from home. Away from home defensive rating zero percentile away from home,
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ninety eight percentile at home. How about that. That's a massive defense.
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That's about as extreme as you can get. Some of these home roads
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splits for them, And again not unusual if we went down the league and
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did this. It's been a home court league, so that's not a surprise.
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But that really struck me. And we say all the time, all
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right, I why like in West Virginia win at home but not on the
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road. Well, it's true for other teams as well. This has been
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a tech team that hasn't been great on the road. So if you're trying
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to build a little hope for a West Virginia team that could really use another
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win. That's what you start to point to. Couple things, Tony.
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A team that doesn't play as well defensively on the road, okay, because
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West Fray's offense is generally better at home. Number one. And a team
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that's a very good three point shooting team. Generally there's some variance with three
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players you put them on the road. We've seen teams come in here and
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struggle at less than thirty three percent in the coliseum from three. So if
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you're trying to build the case, which I like to do on the show,
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as you know, build the case for a path to victory, those
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are a couple things to look at. Let's look at some other keys West
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Virginia side of things. Tech does not turn the opponent over very much eleventh
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in the Big twelve, so don't help them and make bad turnovers. Protect
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the ball should be a game where you get some more shots, just like
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we saw the other night, you'll have the ball, shouldn't have many turnovers
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if Tech plays as it normally does. Question with West Virginia is always how
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do you score? This number may surprise you a little bit. West Virginia
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has now moved in to the top slot in the Big Twelve among three point
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shooting in conference games. Best three point shooting team in conference play. How
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about that. We've been mentioning. They've been steadily climbing here throughout the season.
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They're now number one in field goal three point field goal percentage. You're
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surprised. I'm stunned. They're number one in league play, conference only games,
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conference only. It's fine three point percentage. Just what's your percentage from
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three point land? Thirty seven and a half percent, so thirty eight percent
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from three It blows my mind been coming again to our point. Had you
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had guys for an entire season, Trust, I get that. I know
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you've just hit I know it's been a rough year. Number one in the
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league in three point shooting. Would you have said that in November? No,
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December. Probably wouldn't have set it into January either. Probably wouldn't have
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said it February twenty ninth unless you told me they keep coming. You think
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we can extend the season, run this baby out the way. I don't
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know about that, but I mean I think you can come into your building
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and make some shots, especially against a TECH defense that's ninth in the league
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and three point field goal defense. I like what you're you're bringing it today.
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Let's try to build a case. I mean you're building. Here's what's
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interesting about that Tech ninth and three point field goal defense. But no opponent
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has made more than seven threes versus Tech since TCU made eleven back on January
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thirtieth. So that's also odd because you think you'd have some team that we
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get in there with double figures. But teams have had success from two in
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Tech losses. In one third of their losses, teams have shot sixty percent
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or better from two point range. So I'm telling you that for a couple
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of reasons, West Virginia just do what you're doing from three. Continue to
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make some three point shots against a defense that's ninth in the league in that
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metric. Okay, good, But if you can get into that mid range
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game, specifically, Raekwon Battle Noah Fair, Kwon Cohn may be breaking it
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down. Kerr has started to drive by the primary defender at times and get
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to the basket a little bit. There might be a chance to get some
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twos in there. Too. Should be able to score right zero percentile defensively
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on the road for Texas Tech. Can you score here? Correct? And
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Jesse's not going to go one for nine? Think he bounces back? Would
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think offensive rebounding. Texas Tech is last in the Big Twelve in defensive rebounding.
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Now I realize offensive rebounding is not a strength for this West Virginia team.
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In fact, they're twelveth in the Big Twelve. But you need to
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find a way to get some and convert. You know what I always say
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on this, it's not just raw rebounding numbers. Get them and convert some
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second chance points. So West Virginia's overall season metric there conference games is not
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good, but we've seen moments where they've got rebounds and got second chance points,
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so that's possible as well. In this game, you think you're envisioning
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a little Pat Somnick, little Brahma bull banging out, getting a couple of
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loose blue fifty to fifty balls and putting them up, and ind I would
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think he gets a few, because you know he has a weird stat line.
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There'll be times when he has four offensive rebounds and no defensive rebounds,
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five offensive rebounds one defensive Yeah, now the other sneaky offensive rebounder. That's
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pretty good. Jojo Harris. You look at his metrics. He had a
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big offensive rebound the other night. So see if those guys can sneak in
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there a little bit. Wouldn't mind a sneak in there. How about you
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combine the two. You sneak in there, you get an offensive rebound,
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you kick it out for a three teams have been new in West Virginia.
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Pat rebounds it sends it out farside corner. Jojo drops one in nothing and
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waiting on the wing, Ray Kwon waiting outside. Little of that outBut tinkle
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the twine from about twenty nine two. Deal, let's continue building our case.
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Tech does not put the opponent on the free throw line much. We
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said they get there and make them. They don't put you on the line
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often, and some of that's because of that defensive side of things. Thirty
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first nationally and an opponent free throw rate that's second best in the Big twelve,
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but but great for the butt. Yeah, go ahead. In three
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of their six losses three of their last six losses, opponents have had a
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free throw rate of fifty four percent or better. That's above the magic forty
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four percent rate that West Virginia needs to win games. So not banking on
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getting to the line, but away from home, you should be able to
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get some shots. Three of their last six losses they put you on the
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line potentially there as well, So there's some areas offensively that you look to
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exploit. Defensively, let's look at what West Virginia could do defensively. So
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Tech good from three, as I mentioned earlier, third best in the Big
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Twelve in terms of shooting percentage, need some three point variants to come into
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play here, and that happens at times with teams that live by the three.
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It happens a lot on the road in this For this Tech team,
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in five of its nine losses, they've had a three point attempt rate of
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fifty two percent or more so more than half of their shots have been threes
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in more than half of their losses. Follow me there, So at times
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they can fall in love with the three, and if they're not going,
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then they're in some trouble. In four of those five losses, Tech may
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double digit threes and still lost. So what I'm saying there is, if
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you're West Virginia might have try and zone them a little bit and see if
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they'll fall in love with the three. Now again, I know this is
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the same key we talked about with k State, and in the first half
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they got there on you and it allowed them to win the game. Second
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half in overtime, came back to the field. Same thing here from Tech.
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But you're at home, Well, this team struggled to make some threes.
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Can you get them to take fifty percent or more threes and then miss
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them? On the year, overall, they're forty one percent of their shots
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are threes, So that's up. That's quite a bit up in those losses.
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All right, here's another one. They only have one win on the
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season, and that's against Sam Houston State, So only one win on the
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season when they have a three point percentage attempt rate of fifty percent or more.
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So if you're just trying to watch along in the game and you're looking
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for things that may start to point towards a West Virginia win. If this
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game is close and Tech's at fifty percent or more of threes, I think
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you got to like where West Virginia is at that point. So that's something
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if you want to follow along at home, I'd watch that fifty percent or
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more shots from three. West Virginia should be in it unless they're just having
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an unbelievable night making threes. Here's the challenge. Though they've been very good
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against zone. Now it's limited possessions. They're averaging one point one points per
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possession. To put that in perspective, that's against the zone one point one
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points per possession. Alabama leads the country an offensive efficiency at one point two
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percent overall or one point two overall, So that's a really good points per
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possession against the zone. But the UCF's really the only team that has zoned
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them. Baylor used it a little bit handful of possessions, but Tech was
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really efficient with it. Baylor did win that game, though, UCF just
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beat Tech on February twenty fourth, they split the series with them. They
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went pretty heavy zone in both games. It worked in the latest part of
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why it worked on the road and they shut off the rim, so,
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which we've talked about. UCF has the ability to do assize. Can West
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Virginia close off the rim? Remember that was a key against Kansas State and
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West Virginia did a nice job. Nine of twenty at the rim was Kansas
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State. Can you do that again? Here to Tech and here's why.
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In the last four Texas Tech losses, three of those teams, UCF,
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Iowa State, and Baylor all allowed less than twenty points at the rim by
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Tech and got the win. So there's another number to watch. How many
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layups are they getting at the rim. If there's not many and they're settling
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for threes, you absolutely love that game plan the exception in those four losses,
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so three of them shut the rim down. The fourth was Texas and
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they were up by something like one hundred at one point, so it didn't
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matter what they were going ninety eight. They were leading by ninety eight second
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half. Yeahah, So that was part of it there. So there's kind
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of your path to victory. Make some threes, should be able to hit
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some twos in its absence, find a way to get some offenses rebounding against
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a team that doesn't prevent that very well, get some putbacks, find a
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way to get to the line and then defensively close the rim, force them
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to shoot a lot of threes and get some of that variance in there.
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A couple of guys. In particular, their leading scorer is Pop Isaac's.
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He's a guy that's he can be explosive, he can be game changing.
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One of these guys. He just when he has that ball, there's like
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a sense of electricity about him. I think that he could just go anywhere
25:10
at any point, really good. He's he has no conscience, he just
25:14
he just balls out. He's got he's a baller, so you don't know
25:18
what you're gonna get there. Right now, he's leading them sixteen points per
25:22
game and sixty one threes. Now he doesn't shoot it at a grade percentage
25:27
twenty nine percent, but he'll let it fly and he's really good at the
25:32
foul line. Leads them in attempts one hundred and thirty three attempts he's made
25:34
one hundred and twelve, so he's at eighty four percent, ninety nine assists
25:40
seventy turnovers, so like he'll give it back to you some which is I
25:42
mean, that's that's kind of like that frenetic style that he plays with then
25:47
the other one and you just don't know. Most of the time it's one
25:51
way or the other. Joe Tussan, does he come in and try too
25:53
hard and have an off game, or does he come in and bust you.
26:00
That's always a concern as well. And as I said earlier, he's
26:04
second on the team in scoring twelve a game, leads them in minutes played,
26:08
leads them in steals, and is second as you said, getting to
26:15
the foul line where he's at eighty six percent, You don't know which way
26:18
that's going to go. Does he come in and say almost show you guys
26:22
something? Now, they wanted him here. It's not like they said,
26:25
hey, Joe, you have to leave right. This was a straight nil
26:29
deal. After Bob Huggins left, he was already on the roster to stay.
26:36
Deal was done. Then that happened, and then everyone has that opportunity
26:41
to bounce, and he did. And then Texas Tech did a nice job
26:45
with its payroll and its free acquisitions with a new coach coming in, so
26:48
they got more active in the free agent market than they'd been previously. Yeah,
26:52
got in before the deadline. He ended up making he three xd what
27:00
he was gonna make here. Hard to say no to that. And I
27:03
talked to someone today said I gave him the number that I had that I
27:07
had gotten from my Lubbock source and they said no, no, no more
27:11
more. And I went seriously and I went, oh, yeah more.
27:15
Well, he's having a good year. It's the world we're living. We're
27:18
gonna do. I'm not gonna fault a young guy. I mean, hey,
27:21
you can go make that much more, Go make that much more.
27:22
I get it. You're having a good year, dude. West Virginia had
27:26
a couple wins in that category. So yeah, absolutely is what it is.
27:30
Yeah, absolutely, And that's that's the way of the world. Real
27:33
quick. Here, As we continue down some of these numbers, I'm just
27:36
again, I don't know that this is that unusual if we go down a
27:38
bunch of big twelteen's, but some of these splits are just unbelievable and massive.
27:44
The zero to ninety eight percent split home and away is crazy. Well,
27:48
how about this one second chance points per game. They're in the first
27:52
percentile nationally if the season ended today, first percentile nationally away from home in
27:59
second chance point Okay, ninety second at home, ninety second to one offensive
28:06
rebounding in general, eighty eighth percentile at home, third percentile away. Yeah,
28:18
I can keep going, but you get the gist. Yeah, I
28:19
get the gist and credit to their fans, right, you think they play
28:25
a little bit better at home. I know you're going to come back and
28:27
say, what would they do against Texas? The other I mean, I
28:30
get that. You also see what they did against Kansas, right, No,
28:33
they have a passionate fan base. I'd give them a lot of credit.
28:37
Yeah, absolutely, But they got beat eighty one sixty nine against Texas.
28:41
That happens February twelfth. They beat Kansas if you remember to death,
28:48
seventy nine to fifty. Do not adjust your volume. They beat them twenty
28:56
nine in Lubbock, right, and then you lose at UCF last week by
29:02
fourteen. So to your point, home is oftentimes just a wonderful place,
29:10
and on the road is really super difficult. I'm just pulling up some West
29:15
Virginia's splits real quick, just to give us a quick comparison. There's there's
29:19
nothing that looks like that. The biggest one for West Virginia. We've talked
29:22
about this, not just this season, going back a couple of years.
29:26
The free throw attempt rate Home road splits are pretty massive, and that would
29:30
make some sense given West Virginia has not won a road game thirty one percent
29:34
free throw rate away from home just thirty fifth percentile at home, what's the
29:38
number I always tell you they need right about that forty four forty three point
29:44
three percent free throw rate at home ninety seven percentile. Why one of the
29:48
reasons why they've won more home than away games. Yeah, it all depends
29:52
on the whistle as well. Whistle matters, need to get a good way
29:56
style matters. Concern is I don't know who the officials are yet. The
30:03
concern is it's Saturday. Everyone plays. That is seven games. That is
30:11
twenty one officials. Twenty one officials hard to find, twenty one really good
30:18
ones hard to find. Yeah, I was gonna say they'll find them.
30:21
They'll get the other three guys in shirts. There's about ten to twelve after
30:30
that, cross your fingers, cross your toes. Well, hopefully they see
30:34
it with a lot of Texas Tech fouls and West Virginia's parading to the free
30:38
throw line for some points. YEA, hope you know, or if it's
30:42
the newcomer like you can I mean, if you follow this closely, there's
30:47
two guys that you know and there's one guy you don't know. As long
30:51
as the one guy you don't know just does his part, which is just
30:56
chill out and don't try to take the game. Don't, don't, don't
31:00
get out of your comfort zone. Just chill out. If you do that,
31:03
you're fine. But if all of a sudden, the third guy who's
31:08
normally not around this league wants to come in and show the supervisor that he's
31:12
ready to be a big boy, then it turns out to normally be a
31:15
crap fest. Here's the other thing. Make some of your threes turmarow too.
31:19
That will help Saturday. What I say tomorrow Saturday, I always get
31:27
you out of that. Tomorrow Today, that's a good one. I'm ready
31:30
to go. Let's go play it all right, So that's all my stuff.
31:34
Okay, cool TCU. They got their big girl back. You know,
31:41
they had been hurt a lot, a lot of injuries, a lot
31:44
of injuries. They're starting to get healthier. But nevertheless, it is it's
31:49
a golden opportunity for dou WV women to get back to it. That's it
31:52
for them, right, this is done. The regular season, they be
31:56
done, and then tournament play is going to start next week for them.
32:01
Back home, get back to doing what you do, great turnovers, get
32:05
points off those turnovers. Make some threes. That's that's the one thing.
32:08
When Westernam makes its threes, it's really hard to beat. So those threes
32:10
are going to come back up. I would think returning back home tomorrow in
32:15
the final game of the season Saturday. What I say tomorrow Saturday. Last
32:23
night women's basketball Iowa watched it defeated Minnesota one O eight to sixty. Lined
32:31
up, kicked them right in the teeth. So the reason I bring that
32:37
up is obviously Caitlin Clark just unbelievable, set the all time record for most
32:45
threes in a season. This is why I'm bringing us up. So I
32:51
was looking at the game, looking at boxes and things like that. I
32:53
went to Minnesota's website, so it's a Minnesota Gophers whatever, Golden Gophers dot
33:00
whatever. This was their game story. Sanders scores seventeen on senior night,
33:08
Gophers fall to number six Iowa. Story Amaya Battle, Janey Sanders and Grace
33:16
Gratcholski combined to score forty seven of Minnesota's sixty total points, but the Golden
33:22
Gophers fell to Iowa one O eight sixty at Williams Arena. In front of
33:25
a sold out crowd of fourteen thousand and two sixty five on Wednesday. Battle
33:30
led the Golden Gophers with eighteen points, four assists, and then following that
33:34
are five paragraphs. Never mentions the name Caitlin Clark, not once. She
33:44
only sold out the building for him, not once, And it says the
33:49
only thing it said was when I said lost to Iowa. That's the only
33:52
Iowa thing that was in the entire store. Didn't mention her triple double,
33:57
never mentioned her name, didn't mention that she scored the first fifteen points of
34:00
the game, did not mentioned her name. Didn't mention that in the first
34:05
half she scored and assisted on thirty five points in Minnesota only scored twenty six.
34:09
You wouldn't know that. You wouldn't know that Kaylen Clark played in the
34:13
game. And so that made me just go like, seriously, is that
34:20
how we're gonna play? This? Is that what we're gonna do? I
34:23
mean, these school sites, man, I mean I get it, your
34:28
year further school. You just have one of the most historic performances by a
34:32
player in college history. I mean, what are these like? Are these
34:37
the people that got furloughed from the old Task News Agency. I mean,
34:42
who was writing this stuff? It was unbelievable. Does someone go to the
34:45
person that wrote that and go like, hey, listen, whatever you do,
34:47
you don't mention Kaylen Clark. You don't mention Iowa at all? Is
34:51
that what they is? That how they tell them to write it? That
34:52
could have been That could have been an edict in that particular case. For
34:57
what reason? Because you're hoping that some people you're recruiting didn't actually turn the
35:01
game on and watch it, and that they don't look at the score byline
35:05
there because if you watched it, it was an absolute clinic by Iowa.
35:09
Minnesota couldn't figure out what to do offensively. They absolutely couldn't guard. And
35:14
I'm not just talking Clark. There were Iowa's shooters open all over that floor.
35:19
If if I'm Minnesota, I burned that tape. They got greased about
35:22
as bad by an offense as you can. But in that case, you'd
35:25
know what you do. You say, Hey, guess what, we just
35:28
played Pete Maravich. That's one of the all time great performers, and you
35:31
just go with it. Well, I would think they would know that literally
35:34
sold out the building. There are people waiting outside for three hours to get
35:37
in. I just thought it was wild. I woad Minnesota don't like each
35:39
other either. Oh that's a big that's a big thing. Really yeah,
35:44
like overall, not just women's basketball proms, but Iowa in Minnesota have a
35:47
thing. What's going on there? I just have a thing border states and
35:52
they played for that bronze pig called the Florida Rosedale and football. Now does
35:54
that also exist between Minnesota and Wisconsin? You don't like that? I don't
35:59
think they because they have something like Paul Bunyan axe or something on football.
36:00
So they don't like each other. No, sous, Iowa rolls into Minnesota
36:06
in that barn with that ridiculous raised court. I don't why do they still
36:07
do that? You talk about a hazard, it's raised, it's up in
36:13
the air. Iowa rolls in there and says, you know, if we
36:15
can beach at ten, beach twenty, beach at thirty, beach at forty,
36:19
how do you do that auctioneer thing? It's hard to do on demand
36:22
like that. Well no, I mean you could say, Kaitlyn Clark,
36:24
Kayln Clark, wh I'm gonna do twenty five and be twenty five. Kaitlyn,
36:28
I, co're gonna put twenty five down? Thirty Now she's got thirty.
36:30
She got thirty five and the go for forty. Anybody got a triple
36:31
double? She got a triple double now the first fifteen of the game.
36:37
Yeah, didn't matter where they were going over the screen to run to the
36:39
screen, over screen transition defense, get up on her did not matter anyway.
36:45
That just caught my eye. I'm going through the thing going how many
36:46
Kaylan Clark keV? How many Kaylyn clarkkev? How many? Cake said?
36:49
They don't mention Kaitlyn Clark in that thing? Oh, I was kind of
36:53
it was with their ticket office mentioned Kaitlyn ha I all took the money from
36:57
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Okay, so we've often talked when you go to Gomart you can get a
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pictures. Why don't we just put the pictures up? Put the pictures up.
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Maybe he doesn't have the pictures, did I don't send them? Can
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Oh there it is. Well heck, so look at that thing.
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Listen, that's a seventy two pound recyt cup. I've I've ever held one.
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Luckily, I've got an extra, not not a hanky, because if
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I had a hanky, I couldn't give it to you. But I do
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have a paper towel that's available that you're welcome to use. So anyway,
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that thing, that thing, it was filled, then you custom fill it
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and you went with what so you can custom fill it up to four things
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like you can get marshmellows in there. You can get recy puff cereal put
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in there, all kinds of things. There's a picture of the toppings and
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the mix ins two different categories. We went inside the peanut butter mixture,
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we chopped up some more recy peanut butter cups, added those inside the giant
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Recep cup, drizzled caramel topping and Hershey's chocolate sauce on it. Wow,
42:38
and then they put the chocolate layer on top to make one big giant recy
42:43
peanut butter cup. So the best way to describe it. The best way
42:46
I describe it is when I cut into it. It kind of it's like
42:51
Easter chocolate on a hollow piece and then you flip it over, you put
42:53
the spread on top. It's like eating a It's it's like eating a nacho
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chip made out of chocolate and peanut butter. That's the best way to describe
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a world in and out of sports that isn't all what I used to know
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and love. That's pretty you know what? You know what? That was
43:47
relatively short. That was just like one long sentence. Kind of hit a
43:51
lot there. I think you're exactly right. Tyler Texas checks in Gary to
43:57
answer Tony's question about the Iowa State Old Schools siren. I'm guessing that it's
44:02
a cyclone warning for the opposing teams. Hmm, hey, two guys,
44:13
Professor Vinnie here, I saw the Managin n Or football team hired Trey Bell
44:16
as a defensive analyst. From my understanding, huge pickup for the Mountaineers.
44:22
I'm starting to get my hopes up about this coming season. Really. February
44:25
twenty ninth, I did see that some sites have West Virginia at six and
44:31
a half wins for twenty twenty four. Let's make that their new number fourteen
44:38
when they were picked dead last last year. I can't wait. Ps,
44:43
where's Hoppy working? He's uh, he's efforting down at the capitol. It
44:51
was his birthday yesterday. I saw that. Where'd you see it? I
44:54
don't remember somebody wish him happy. Someone had it out there. Yeah,
44:59
Texan him called him, You just ignored it. Called him early in the
45:02
morning. Did he answer. He did. That's when he was like a
45:07
couple hours before he started his show. He's just sitting in that rotunda by
45:09
himself. I said, what's up, dude, how's it feel being seventy
45:14
nine? Not seventy nine, no, seventy five. Charlie from midloath Yeah,
45:21
we're looking at that, Charlie from mid Lothian. I also noticed that
45:25
young lady cranking that siren. Since there was no definitive answer given by the
45:30
three of you for its purpose, I would like to offer the following.
45:36
In some states, alert sirens go off with an approaching tornado. Oh wait,
45:40
what is Iowa State's nickname? It's the Cyclones. So I'm guessing the
45:45
purpose of the siren is to let the opposing team know that they are about
45:49
to be annihilated by the cyclones. Yea, we everybody knew that, right.
45:52
I think Charlie might be onto something there. You knew that that's what
45:57
they do. Yeah, we have tornado sirens in school. No, we
46:02
did it every week. We would have had snow sirens and we had those
46:07
two. So you had it, you would have a tornado, we'd have
46:08
torn You know, you have fire drills. We had tornado drills too,
46:13
Toli's I was wondering about it. You know what you do, go underneath
46:16
your desk, No, because the desk are gonna be blown around. Got
46:19
to go out in and do an interior hallway okay, and you make sure
46:22
you take a book. Had to take one of your one of your school
46:24
books, text book. Put that over the back of your head there for
46:27
flying debris. Wow. I don't know if the social studies book would prevent
46:31
it though, if we're in an actual tornado, I don't know that that
46:34
would have Well would you go down on your knees in the hallway? Yeah,
46:37
you like sit, sit, crouch, tuck your head, tuck your
46:40
head down and put the book over the back of your head to shield your
46:44
So for the little kids, that's got to scare the living hell out of
46:45
them. Yeah, say drills sometimes you do it for real. I mean
46:52
those tornado sirens and I would go off a lot, Okay, So yeah,
46:54
I mean I was never in one, never hit one, that one,
46:57
never came close. But they're all oh, I mean they're all over
47:00
you trust me, I get it. That's coming, right, there's this
47:02
time of the year is coming. So Charlie that that is what it is.
47:06
It's the same as a tornado serven going off. Those are loud and
47:09
those are not fun when they go off. Mmmmm. I have a thought,
47:17
but I always get in trouble when I make a suggestion as to what
47:21
things should be used. Won't you just go to the next text Yeah,
47:24
save myself. Hey, two guys, Tony, travel ball equals we're not
47:34
talking travel ball now because of the potential law that is attempting to be passed
47:38
in the state legislature. This extor says travel ball equals two teams instead of
47:45
two games a week now possibly four plus practices, even less time for a
47:50
family time. One of the dumbest possible laws, right, text her three
47:58
guys, hello from Saint albans Or it says, essay, it could be
48:01
San Antonio, Santa Anita somewhere. Court storming, the biggest priority is to
48:12
get the visiting team off the court safely. What if you institute a three
48:15
minute countdown that allows them to get off the floor. Lets security help,
48:21
then let the victors enjoy the victory at their own peril. Really hard to
48:30
hold back crowds when they're ready to come just say that yeah, unfortunately,
48:38
And I find those to be enjoyable. But I just think over time they're
48:43
probably going to go away, probably see less and less of a going over.
48:45
Its just too much liability. Although I did see our boy Duke started
48:52
and played regular last night. He did. But that's that court storm in
48:55
particular, Without getting too far in the breakdown of that court storm, you
49:00
talk about a group that was on the floor fast. That was a tsunami
49:04
like sometimes they do kind of drip out and you have a minute to get
49:06
the visiting team and shepherd them into the corner. That waight crowd. I
49:10
mean that truly was like a title wave because of fenami. Wow, that's
49:15
what you did there, Moe and Morgan County Rights. What's your take on
49:20
the proposed merger between Kroger and Albertsons And if they mergeouldn't the name of the
49:25
new company be Kroger's. I had not given that a whole lot of thought,
49:34
Mo, but those are two of the big chains. P one Dad
49:37
from the Apothecary it's across the street here tavern love it. Warning all capital
49:44
letters in show text. I'm listening to your five thirty four episode. It
49:50
says five thirty four at eight hundred, nice try ain't gonna be no eight
49:53
hundred, I heard from a coach long ago. One team wins, one
49:58
team's cheated by the refs, But you all are correct. Officiating was a
50:01
factor in the K State game outcome. The late game. No calls hindered
50:07
West Virginia from climbing from the hole they dug. I've always hated the statements
50:10
you can't call that then, and you don't want the refs to decide the
50:14
game, like you all said, if it's a file the first five minutes,
50:17
it's a file in the last five and if the refs don't make the
50:20
call, they are deciding the game. That's the line that gets left out
50:23
when people say you don't want the refs decide in the game, That right
50:25
there is exactly right. If they don't make a call, that's deciding the
50:30
game. Yeah, he says, I've debated this, debated this with others.
50:32
I say, if we don't want refs deciding games, then have them
50:37
leave with two minutes to go. The answer almost says, no, we
50:39
can't do that, then what are we talking about. The best the refs
50:45
can do is call the game consistent, start to finish. Good job is
50:47
always from you. Three. Yeah, that's what you're looking for. And
50:51
again standard disclaimer that I give every time I talk about officials. Add is
50:54
a really hard job. Those are big bodies with a lot of collisions and
50:59
a lot of physicality, and I get how difficult it is. So that's
51:01
not a blanket criticism of referees. It is really hard, and I'm not
51:07
going to go do it, understand, So I understand you'd think about it
51:13
though for the four grand at night they make. I thought about it this
51:15
past season. Excuse me, I really thought about it at your age.
51:20
Yeah, that's the only problem. Yeah, I tell some pulled muscles in
51:24
the last year, so just doing minimal activity. So I don't know that
51:27
I could run up and down. No, I tell a lot of our
51:30
players when their careers are over, dude, go into officiating, no doubt,
51:36
no doubt, you to officiating. Start it right now. You're twenty
51:38
one, twenty two years old. Start doing this. Man, you could
51:45
be very good at this. You understand, you got the feel of the
51:47
game, you got the body, go go do You're young, you're just
51:51
getting out of plan. I talked to a college coach this week that has
51:53
a former player that's pursuing that path, still playing a little bit, still
51:58
doing some coaching, but also started doing some high school games. Yeah,
52:01
this coach was encouraging of that route. Here's the other thing, without being
52:05
too much of a tangent, We'll save this for the summer May, but
52:07
I'm saying it now. But I'm not the only one saying this. There
52:10
is a massive shortage coming and it is going to jeopardize some some leagues.
52:15
Now it may start down at the second third grade level that it's going to
52:19
start there, but there it's something the NCAA is concerned about. Yeah,
52:22
it's a massive issue within NCAA right now, discussions about the shortage of referees
52:27
it's coming. Now. A lot of that's fan behavior towards referees. I
52:30
don't get it. Well, that's why you need some more younger people in
52:32
the professional YEA. Oftentimes, though, like when I tell our guys that
52:38
get done playing here, as you said, yeah, people scream at you.
52:43
Those guys might be a little bit better situated, right. They're used
52:45
to that. They're used to that all college officials. No our kids.
52:50
Oh yeah, they're like, Okay, yeah, I get the world,
52:52
I get the feel I get it. It's true. The challenge with that
52:55
is though the college guys really they're getting yelled at them most, but they're
53:00
insulated a little bit. You're not gonna you're not gonna get challenged to a
53:04
fight by a college fan with an official because you're not having contact the scary
53:07
parts of the youth leagues. When the parents and the youth leagues lose their
53:09
mind and start to threaten people, that's where the thing falls apart. They
53:14
don't those guys don't get a chance to grow up and be college officials because
53:17
they're they're having such a miserableok experience at the youth level. Hey, three
53:22
guys, this is George and Mingo. Not WV you related, But what
53:27
are your thoughts on Texas's Brock Cunningham this week hip checking the Texas Tech Player.
53:35
Uh, not a surprise, he's done it before. He got ejected
53:45
from here in Morgantown, and he borders on Like I said this yesterday like,
53:55
if he was on your team, you'd like him. He's on the
53:59
other team, you don't like him because he's physical. But he's done some
54:02
things where it's borderline dirty. I'll say that it's borderline dirty. You can
54:07
play physical without being dirty. And that's the way he plays Bry the way
54:15
he has to play anyway. And today there's always a West Virginia connection story.
54:22
My best friend, Adam and I both graduated from Mount Lebanon High School
54:25
early two thousands. Former Mountaineer linebacker Chris Hering was our football coach. Adam's
54:31
father, Doug, was the Mountaineer mascot in nineteen seventy and one, and
54:37
he met his wife, Sue, while they were attending West Virginia. They
54:39
own land with the mineral rights in Brook County. Of course I do.
54:44
My wife and I also met while we were attending West Virginia, though sadly
54:47
we have no land or mineral rights outside of nine tenths of an acre in
54:51
a subdivision in Western PA. Adam now resides in Grand Rapids, where his
54:57
daughter's third grade teacher was. You guessed it, West Virginia. Grad from
55:00
Weirton Well, Adam took the easy way out and went to Bucknell in Notre
55:05
Dame Law School. Tongue click. I probably attended WVU and we still remain
55:09
the best of friends to this day. Adam and I were planning on going
55:14
to see Charles Wesley Godwin and Grand Rapids on the fourteenth of April, so
55:17
I purchased us each one of those always West Virginia Connection shirts, but I
55:22
unfortunately had to bow out with my wife and I were invited to attend the
55:27
final round of the Masters. Here's hoping that Charles Wesley Godwin spots us in
55:31
the crowd ps for spreads. My mother in law is Kim what's her name?
55:38
Rolls? Yes, Rolls. I think she was your fireworks account manager
55:45
when you were in the athletics over at the college. Keep up the great
55:50
work, Mike from Oakden. Mike did not miss a beat there in that.
55:52
So you had an account manager in the fireworks. Cuss, Mike,
55:55
thank you. Tell Kim. I said, hello, she was awesome.
55:59
A plus now is that zam Belly? No, absolutely not Pirate Technico.
56:04
Different company, ooh, A totally different company. Tremendous customer service there with
56:07
Pirate Technico. You know, Kim know Kim very well. She was a
56:10
big help over the years. Ninety eight Ohio State game launched, that was
56:15
her. That was Kim's work, all of them from so whatever that was
56:19
from any fireworks from ninety seven to twenty ten, Kim had a hand in
56:24
excellent. Mike tell her, I said, Hi, she's tremendous to work
56:30
with. Fireworks aren't easy to pull off. That's why I'm laughing about a
56:37
hundred years ago we did one of our live events. We did pig Stock
56:42
right over at Miland Park. Sure. So in order to get this thing
56:45
permitted and approved, the fire marshal I think it is, comes in and
56:52
you have to give him a plot, Yeah, a graph. Yeah,
56:54
Okay, this is where the fireworks are going to be launched from. This
56:58
is where they're going to land. Okay, fine, So you gotta get
57:00
all the paperwork in. So we did all that. So the day of
57:04
the event comes and I don't know, I don't remember who we used,
57:08
but they came in when Kim, they came in and guy goes like,
57:13
okay, what do we got here? He's looking around. I go,
57:15
yeah, so the grid is like from here to this, and then then
57:19
the guy goes like, nah, we're not gonna do that. He said,
57:24
we're going this way, all right, fine, whatever. So then
57:29
that night this is this is I mean, I mean, hold on real
57:32
quickly, let me this. So so we're the day of the event.
57:35
Now, yeah, you didn't quite have the details buttoned up. No,
57:38
we had a plan. But the guy that came in for the fireworks,
57:40
so no, I'm not going to do him there. He didn't like that.
57:43
Plane didn't like that. So I goent like, okay, you're the
57:45
fireworks guy. So that night, I think we had a concert or whatever.
57:50
It gets dark, the guy moved the fireworks. I swear to you
57:53
never in my life. The people that were there were standing inside of the
57:59
fireworks. They were like landing, they were lefting, like right next to
58:02
you. Go like, people go like, this is awesome. Man,
58:06
Like I've never seen this. It's like Flair's just coming down right right next
58:08
to you. And I like, I've told this story before. One of
58:15
the first things I did in the athletic business when I first got in at
58:17
Connecticut, we were doing fireworks before or after you dated Red Panda. Never
58:23
dated Red Panda, Oh okay, but it was before I knew about Red
58:27
Panda doing fireworks, So my station was with the fireworks people that were launching
58:32
with the with the E and you were embedded with them, embedded with a
58:37
with a walkie talkie so that I could give them the go and two points
58:42
of concern. But I was new in the business, so I didn't vocalize
58:45
my concern, just went with it. We had our little pregame meeting with
58:49
that particular group. They showed where it was laid out. It was kind
58:52
of an open field away from the football stadium, and they said, all
58:55
right, here's the deal. So we're gonna launch these. You gotta stay
58:58
back fifteen feet or whatever. He said. When we get to the grand
59:00
finale, we're gonna yell go and you need to run as fast as you
59:06
possibly can that direction. And I thought, I mean, I haven't been
59:10
doing this long, but this seems like there should be a better escape hatch.
59:14
Then run as fast as you can as those guys are stuffing those things
59:16
down there. And then, by god, when we got to that moment
59:20
at halftime on the Grand finale, his buddy started yelling, good thing I
59:27
was young, or I would have had a situation better today. Better back
59:31
then than today. It was loud. I don't know if it's an't better
59:35
right now, but I know, I mean, your ability to escape was
59:37
better. Couldn't have done it at my age. Yeah, you think that's
59:43
a good plan. Run as fast as you can. Now. I've told
59:45
this before. I don't know what episode it was, but when I was
59:47
a TV intern in Buffalo. Now, well that was not when I was
59:51
working with Kim No. This was a Connecticut you we're way bound up.
59:53
Never that kind of stress. I don't know what episode. I told this
59:57
real quick. I was an intern at a television stage in Buffalo in the
1:00:00
summer, and they had fireworks at Ron Jaworski Stadium in Lackawana, New York.
1:00:05
And they were launching them from the infield of the track and they had
1:00:08
them in a big U haul, big U haul box truck and it caught
1:00:13
on fire. Oh it blowed up with fireworks inside it. Oh yeah,
1:00:17
it blowed up by That had to be a massive it was it was,
1:00:21
Yeah, that was that was film at eleven. Yeah, yeah, somebody
1:00:23
messed that up. Yeah, Texter three guys. Tony challenges us to be
1:00:30
more concise. A high coup is only seventeen syllables. My k State high
1:00:37
coup titled a Mountaineer fan, why do I invest? My heart will just
1:00:45
be broken? When is our next game? That was really well done,
1:00:52
pretty good, Thank you. They went on to say the team showed great
1:00:57
heart and his efforting. Only on a side note, after your episode Tuesday,
1:01:01
I want to make a donation a growing hope. My wife and I
1:01:06
like to do that, so that was the organization we talked about providing food
1:01:10
for cancer victims and their families to give them healthy food. We'll have more
1:01:15
on that and ways that you can make a donation coming up in future episodes,
1:01:21
but thank you very much for being willing to do that. Logan from
1:01:25
Greenbrier County. I'm going to be a both games Saturday back inside the coliseum.
1:01:30
Nice. I'll be wearing a three quarters of the three guys quarter zip
1:01:35
and HTB shirts hang the banner. Yeah, so he's fully loaded, very
1:01:38
good. Thanks loading. And I just finished Tuesday's show, and Hopy would
1:01:44
have said at the very end, thanks for having me. I appreciate all
1:01:47
the things you guys do. Go mountaineers. You remember him from he was
1:01:50
down there at RONSA further the summer. Yeah, hey, three guys,
1:01:55
this is Joe from Dick's Sporting Goods. Just talk about him last episode.
1:02:00
And I've now had the pleasure of meeting Brad and Hoppy while at the store.
1:02:05
Tony, Now I just need the third guy. Maybe we could set
1:02:08
up with you a new Yetti thermis for some game day grind for Mountaineer Roasting.
1:02:14
Always appreciate you guys stopping to have a chat. So he's there all
1:02:17
the time. If I go over, yeah cool, just ask for him.
1:02:22
How do you How do you find him when you get Jill find you?
1:02:25
Oh he comes out and Gill find you. Scrab three of those yetties
1:02:30
while you're over there. Be good for our game day grind? Yetis man
1:02:34
got right? See yetie right there with my game day Yeah, like to
1:02:37
do the second cup during the podcast days. My Mountaineer Roasting coffee that I
1:02:42
had this morning. Obviously I use game day grind and I use spring water
1:02:47
when I make it. And I sat there this morning and I just seriously
1:02:52
I said to myself, like it wasn't because it was our coffee I'm drinking.
1:02:57
I'm going like this is really good. I'm glad this is our coffee.
1:03:00
You had a nice experience. Yeah, I'm just saying I'm glad this
1:03:02
is our coffee. We're not out there trying to get people to drink something
1:03:06
that tastes like Folgers. Max. All due respect Maxwell House. Also,
1:03:09
all due respect, right, taster's choice, All due respect to taste's
1:03:16
choice. They even around this. This is good stuff. Resty got more
1:03:22
up on the shelves. Well, Rusty. I got a little issue with
1:03:23
Rusty. I mean, Rusty better get in the game, because apparently they
1:03:30
can't make it fast enough. They can't get it out of there. I
1:03:32
mean, what the hell? Well, how come everything that we create beer
1:03:37
coffee? The only damn people that are staying up with what we need are
1:03:42
the popcorn people. Rusty's hustling, He's trying. Well, hey, I
1:03:46
go, the guy says to me. Yeah, it's hard to keep on
1:03:50
the shelves because it keeps getting bought on the online orders, and so they
1:03:53
keep packaging in the back and then they don't run it out to the side.
1:03:57
Oh to the thing. Well, like, hey, look I'm available.
1:04:00
Do I need to come over? I mean, I'll come over.
1:04:03
Here's the thing. Basketball's coming to an end. Shall we just maybe talk,
1:04:06
go have a meeting with Rusty and maybe we go over and do I
1:04:09
mean, listen, we're gonna have to work around I've gotta shift at Daniels
1:04:12
already understood, so we could probably pick up a shift over at Mountaineer Roasting
1:04:15
if they need some help. I'm totally into that. I think he can
1:04:17
teach us how to do that. Teach I was born in a retail business.
1:04:21
I understand. I could walk in there retail. Can you make the
1:04:26
coffee? I don't care if you can run the cash registry. I can't
1:04:28
roast a day with cash rest to It's not the old school one like he
1:04:30
used to have. Do you do the new one? Yeah, in the
1:04:32
iPad. I'm not gonna pretend that I can go in there and roast day
1:04:35
one. But you know what I can do. I can pick up the
1:04:39
bags, the sacks of the beans, and then once it comes off the
1:04:42
belt or the thing, I can put him in the bags. I can
1:04:44
pack. I can do that for him. Does he need help, well,
1:04:46
let's ask him. Plus he's going over there in March, bringing WVU
1:04:53
students over to South America where they make the coffee. He's bringing a group
1:04:57
of kids over there, WVU students. Yeah, so he probably needs us
1:05:00
to fill in then he might. I got no problem doing it. It's
1:05:04
on that side of town though, if we can maybe do that shift first
1:05:08
early, then right over to Daniels, run right over to Phil's. Yeah.
1:05:12
By the way, I was over at Phil's this morning. There was
1:05:15
a piece of black market three guys gear. Excuse me, Yeah, what
1:05:18
do you mean? Some old boy down southern West Virginia put an order in
1:05:25
he customized one. Who did this? Dude? He said, I want
1:05:30
this is what I want. He said, I want the three guys.
1:05:32
I want the three guys logo here. Yeah, and I want the state
1:05:34
of West Virginia over on the other side. Phil just I'll take care of
1:05:38
that. Phil said, I got it. I'll take care of it for
1:05:40
you. So you got the state outline, you got the three guys,
1:05:43
I think, I said, Philly. He goes, yeah, guy just
1:05:44
calls what he wanted. That's Phil customer service, right, he was on
1:05:47
top of that pretty good. Phil has closed there all Like I've never gone
1:05:50
into Phills and say hey, Phil, ya out of pants? Like Phil
1:05:54
never says sorry, we're out of pants trousers. Phil has stuff. I'll
1:06:02
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