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3 Guys Before The Game - Baylor Recap - Cincinnati Preview (Episode 617) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Top of the day to you whatever time it is,
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  Speaker 1: welcome in. It is time for three Guys before the game.
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  Speaker 1: This is episode number six hundred and seventeen. It is
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  Speaker 1: our Baylor recap, our Cincinnati preview. Don't look now, but
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  Speaker 1: the end of the regular season is coming on like
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  Speaker 1: a fast train. I mean like a fast fast train.
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  Speaker 1: Before you say, no, foul call, season is going to
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  Speaker 1: be over. It's gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: That fast or foul called on West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: the numbers, Spreads on stats coming up and just a
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  Speaker 1: little bit and the Senator, you goys, some numbers that
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  Speaker 1: probably aren't going to make you feel any better than
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  Speaker 1: you already. Don't feel that fair to stay fair, hey man,
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  Speaker 1: we report you decide what it's good to have everyone
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  Speaker 1: in session here. Good to have the Dean with us
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  Speaker 1: as well. From again from Kerchievill from Kerchuville's studio. Saw
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  Speaker 1: the Dean, didn't we on? That was an all time classic.
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  Speaker 1: My man has not been to a West Virginia home
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  Speaker 1: game in over a decade, but now he has seen
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  Speaker 1: them on the road.
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  Speaker 2: building there in Waco.
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  Speaker 1: It was a fantastic hobby. You had a good time.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was a fantastic environment. That Foster Pavilion,
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  Speaker 3: That new facility there is amazing. I mean, every time
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  Speaker 3: that's an outstanding facility. And a couple of points about
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  Speaker 3: that which don't make you feel any better.
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  Speaker 4: But that.
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  Speaker 1: They have.
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  Speaker 3: There is always the most extreme level of noise in there,
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  Speaker 3: even if it's not the students or the fans. So
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  Speaker 3: it creates the impression that that it's just constantly bouncing, right,
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  Speaker 3: even if the fans aren't, because they have tremendously loud
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  Speaker 3: music and effects at any dead time.
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  Speaker 4: So it's just it's it's it's it's.
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  Speaker 1: A din of sound. It's a din of sound, non stop.
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  Speaker 3: Sound, non stop sound, which it wears on me, but
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  Speaker 3: I know it plays for others. The folks there, the
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  Speaker 3: security and the ushers, fantastic people, really nice. Couldn't have
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  Speaker 3: been nice, so I can well.
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  Speaker 2: Real quick to Hobby, got a personal welcome and a
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  Speaker 2: personal rundown of anything you made. I mean, it's like
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  Speaker 2: a concierge service. When Kurtchibll walked in, I literally went
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  Speaker 2: up into his seat and talked to him.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Rich Carlton, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So that that was very Uh, that was very nice.
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  Speaker 3: So that part was enjoyed. That part was enjoyable. Sure,
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  Speaker 3: I just think they got it going there now I'll
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  Speaker 3: get to the game if you want to get to observations,
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  Speaker 3: or I can wait whatever you want to.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're on a h o oh happy's obvious
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  Speaker 1: observations brought to us by.
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  Speaker 3: No one, yeah, no sponsor for that fantastic game to
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  Speaker 3: be there and watch and experience or listen to on
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  Speaker 3: the radio. I mean, ten lead changes, eleven ties, overtime,
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  Speaker 3: fantastic effort by both teams, first of all.
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  Speaker 4: Second of all, if.
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  Speaker 3: You said going into the game, you'll hold Baylord at
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  Speaker 3: thirty nine percent shooting and twenty three percent from three point,
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  Speaker 3: you okay, yeah, take that, which is what West Virginia did.
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  Speaker 3: But West Virginia didn't shoot grade forty percent and twenty
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  Speaker 3: six percent from three point.
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  Speaker 4: I know, Brad, you'll get into some of those things.
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  Speaker 3: Omeir was tough down in the paint, had a double
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  Speaker 3: double seventeen, and ten o'connie was good for West Virginia
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  Speaker 3: nineteen and seven. Of course, I know you guys are
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  Speaker 3: going to talk about free throws, which you should, and
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  Speaker 3: the stat that always stands out is when the other
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  Speaker 3: team makes more free throws than you attempt and in
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  Speaker 3: this case ten more free throws. They may ten more
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  Speaker 3: free throws than you attempted and shot eighty four percent
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  Speaker 3: from the free throw line. Normally they shoot seventy five percent.
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  Speaker 3: And you don't do you don't get to the line
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  Speaker 3: and don't shoot real well sixty five percent. Normally you
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  Speaker 3: shoot seventy three percent. So that was I think that
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  Speaker 3: was the biggest story of the game. Finally, my final
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  Speaker 3: obvious observation is that is that I don't know when
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  Speaker 3: I have been higher on a team that's lost six
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  Speaker 3: of eight. This team gives you supreme effort, plays hard,
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  Speaker 3: digs down, fights every possession and battles. They just come
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  Speaker 3: up a little short for variety of reasons. And we've
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  Speaker 3: talked about this almost all for the last month. There's
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  Speaker 3: just always you're just a little bit short. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you got some pieces missing. But man, they give you
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  Speaker 3: supreme effort. It's enjoyable basketball, and it's I'm very up
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  Speaker 3: on a team that's lost six of eight.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good last point.
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  Speaker 1: Way to say that, excellent point. Yeah, yeah, that's an
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  Speaker 1: excellent point.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: This late in the season, you do have an opinion
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  Speaker 1: of your team. And despite the fact that this team,
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  Speaker 1: as you said, now it's up to six out of
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  Speaker 1: their last eight. I don't know about I can't speak
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  Speaker 1: for the masses. I still really like this team. This
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  Speaker 1: is one of my more favorite teams than I've ever
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  Speaker 1: been involved with. Now that might sound like weird as heck, Like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you talking about? This is one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite teams because I love blue collar toughness. I love
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  Speaker 1: you're not supposed to be doing what you're doing, and
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  Speaker 1: they've been doing it from the opening tip of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Also impressed with demeanor, Tony. This is a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: good guys. They are easy and fun to be around.
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  Speaker 2: There's no pouting or moping after games. And listen, these
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  Speaker 2: last two have been really difficult. Those are NCAA tournament
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  Speaker 2: type games where every possession matters, high level basketball both ways. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia's needed about one play more in each of
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  Speaker 2: the two games, and we're sitting here, guys high stepping
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  Speaker 2: over the I mean, think about that. That's why, Hop,
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  Speaker 2: I think your points really well taken. And I agree
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  Speaker 2: with that, and it's why I'm not down on this team,
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  Speaker 2: because you're literally two plays away over the last two
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  Speaker 2: games from staring at eight conference wins. A win and
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  Speaker 2: an unbelievably difficult place to play at Baylor, as you
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  Speaker 2: just mentioned. So this team's still battling and what it
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  Speaker 2: needs is what it wants is still in front of
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  Speaker 2: it in terms of an nca tournament bit. I know
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  Speaker 2: we're getting down to the brass tacks here. You've got
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  Speaker 2: to get some wins. I get it. But this last week,
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  Speaker 2: this has been a tough week because you are right
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  Speaker 2: there into really difficult games one on tough spot on
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  Speaker 2: the road, and you didn't get the one play you
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  Speaker 2: needed to just get you over the hump.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and what normally this time of year, if you
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  Speaker 3: lose six of eight, you're going, Okay, they're in the tank.
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  Speaker 3: It's over. You're limping to the end. And in no
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  Speaker 3: way do you feel like that. It's the antithesis of that.
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  Speaker 3: And there's still a lot of joy left in this
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  Speaker 3: team and a lot of joy left and watching and
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  Speaker 3: listening watching this basketball team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this real quick. This isn't spreads on stats, because
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  Speaker 2: believe me, you're gonna need to buckle in for spreads
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  Speaker 2: on stats. I'm gonna give you a ton of numbers.
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  Speaker 2: But here's that, here's what what do you mean you
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  Speaker 2: got I just got a lot of stuff. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of numbers coming out of this game, so just
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  Speaker 2: settle in here. It's not coming yet, but here's one
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  Speaker 2: hopy to your point. We talk about NCA tournament. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna keep talking about this until you've exhausted all options
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  Speaker 2: to get into this. But we'll go to our friends
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  Speaker 2: at bracketmatrix dot com and West Virginia moved one tenth
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  Speaker 2: of a point down after that lost to Baylor. That
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  Speaker 2: tells you how insignificant it was in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: grand scheme of things. You're still holding in now a
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  Speaker 2: ten seed, but you're a nine point six y' eight
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  Speaker 2: average on all of these brackets. Of the eighty some
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  Speaker 2: brackets they have none of them have you out of
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  Speaker 2: the tournament field. One has you as low as a twelve,
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  Speaker 2: and a bunch have you at nine. So still in
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  Speaker 2: front of you, your margin for eric continues to get thinner.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to get going with some wins, but you're
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  Speaker 2: still alive at this point as we sit here today
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  Speaker 2: on Monday, feb seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, spreads on stats coming up in just a
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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, because what I kept hearing in my head
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  Speaker 2: more or mad than you are right now. Heard it
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  Speaker 2: like a soundtrack as I was putting all this together.
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  Speaker 2: Accurate statement by you. Here we go. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: save free throws for just a second, because that might
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  Speaker 2: be a whole separate podcast in and of itself. Let's
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  Speaker 2: just talk about something kind of where Hoppy was going here.
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  Speaker 2: When you talk about this team and what a joy
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  Speaker 2: it is to watch and how well prepared it is,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm going to give you a story on that
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  Speaker 2: really illustrates and encapsulates this whole season since June, Hopy,
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  Speaker 2: we've been talking about. Listen, this team is going to
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  Speaker 2: go in there as prepared as any in America. You
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  Speaker 2: might miss some shots, you might not get the calls,
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  Speaker 2: it might cost you some games, but there will not
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  Speaker 2: be a team as prepared as this team. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to give you one story that came out this weekend
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  Speaker 2: that illustrated that to a team. We'll get to that
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  Speaker 2: But first, let's look at what the game plan was
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  Speaker 2: and how West Virginia did in this game. First and foremost,
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  Speaker 2: and I apologize for anybody listening on one point five.
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  Speaker 2: You might want to dial back to one for just
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  Speaker 2: a second, because I'm a hard listen on one to
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  Speaker 2: five anyway, and I'm going to start rolling. So here
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  Speaker 2: we go, first and foremost, make them guard this on
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  Speaker 2: the offensive end. Hop the idea was to make them
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  Speaker 2: guard and ultimately they'd give you open shots that they
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't want to guard you for twenty five or the
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  Speaker 2: thirty seconds of the shot clock. How about this number, guys,
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  Speaker 2: fifteen unguarded catching shoots ties the most you've had in
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  Speaker 2: Big twelve play this season. You had fifteen open catching shoots.
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  Speaker 2: You scored twenty one points off of those, which is
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  Speaker 2: the most you've had in Big twelve play. But it
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  Speaker 2: was just your sixth best points per possession on unguarded
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  Speaker 2: So again, you got a lot of them, and you
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  Speaker 2: scored a lot of points on it, but you probably
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  Speaker 2: needed another one, maybe two, just a little more efficient.
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  Speaker 2: And we're high stepping with a win today, so close.
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  Speaker 2: Great game plan and you almost had the execution. You
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  Speaker 2: just needed another one or two.
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  Speaker 1: So in basketball coaching lingo, you could go with the
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  Speaker 1: two fold. You could go with got looks, or you
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  Speaker 1: could or you could go with got.
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  Speaker 2: Shots and go with gotta make shots.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, third one, right, that's an obvious but you
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  Speaker 1: got shots all right. Number fifteen on guard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, fifteen on guarded. And it felt it felt like eighty.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, West Virginia was carving up that one to
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  Speaker 2: three to one, to the point they had to get
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  Speaker 2: out of it in the second half. They did it
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  Speaker 2: almost exclusively in the first had to get out of
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  Speaker 2: it in the second half because West Virginia was wearing
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  Speaker 2: them out. It was right exactly what you wanted to
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  Speaker 2: do offensively from a make them guard. They won't want
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  Speaker 2: to guard you the whole time hobby. They did not,
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  Speaker 2: and you got the looks. That's one. Number two. You
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  Speaker 2: wanted to control the pace of the game. You had
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  Speaker 2: to slow their transition because they want to run and
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  Speaker 2: dive at the rim. And on your end, you wanted
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  Speaker 2: to make them work again, make them guard that whole
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  Speaker 2: shot clock. Season high in points in the last four
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  Speaker 2: seconds of the shot clock for West Virginia, nineteen points
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  Speaker 2: came in the final four seconds of the clock. You
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  Speaker 2: talk about just saying, you know what, here, what we're
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: going to do. We're going to hold the ball, You're
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: not going to be able to stop us, and we're
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: going to score as the clock's running out. Nineteen points
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: in the final four seconds. So you talk about how
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: do you beat Baylor. Okay, here's what we need to do.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Run clock, will get open shots, and we'll use the
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: clock to limit their possessions. My god, you did it perfectly, perfectly.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Nineteen point season high in last four seconds of the clock.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: By the way, you're three and two when you score
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: double figures in the final four seconds of the shot clock,
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: which means you controlled the pace. You really should be
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: four and one, right, that should have been a win
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: on Saturday. That's a real key. West Virginia executed it perfectly.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: How about defensively, you wanted to defend their dribble drive
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: then recover to close out on threes. That's a big ass, guys.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: This is an elite defensive team. It's top fifteen in
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: one metric, it's top twelve and another. It is an
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: elite defensive team West Virginia. But that's a big ask.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Stay in front of five guys that want to put
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: their head down and drive right at you. But when
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: they do and then kick it, you got to rotate
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: and or get out and close out. How'd you do, Hopy,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: You mentioned some of these. You held Baylor to thirty
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: nine percent field goal percentage, that's normally a win. Held
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: him to twenty two percent from three, that's a win.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: You stop dribble drive and you contested threes. You did
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: it exactly the way you wanted to do it. You
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: held a potential lot of in VJ. Edgecombe to seven points,
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: took him straight out of the game. Took a lottery pick,
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: and someone will tell you what might be in the
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: NBA next year. Good luck with the Hornets. You're gonna
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: sit over there right now and you're not going to
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: be a factor. Was a non factor. Made a couple
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: big boy plays that you went that's why the NBA
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: is looking at him. But for the most part, you
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: controlled him. Baylor had eighteen catch and shoot jumpers on
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: the game. They had eighteen?
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: How many of them were uncovered?
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Thank you for asking that two were on guarded. Two
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: open looks for a team that drove to the basket
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: on you a lot. You forced them to shoot from
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: the I mean, it was just a great defensive game
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: plan and an execution of that game plan by the guys.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: They did just a tremendous job keep them off the
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: offensive glass. That was a top twenty five offensive rebounding team.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Hoppy they always are under Scott Drew. It's one of
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: the best offensive rebounding teams in the country. They get
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: thirty five percent of their offensive rebounds on the season,
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: thirty five percent of the shots that are available for
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: offensive rebounds they get. They got twenty four percent against
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: West Virginia, but it's even better numbers than that. They
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: only had two second chance points on the day. Two
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: second chance points, so you were stopping them and forcing
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: tough shots. And then the second part of that is
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: go get the ball so they can't get a second
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: two secondhandspot. To your point, I got more mad as
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: I kept going down this. You had a perfect plan
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: and you executed it, and you couldn't walk out of
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: there with a win. Bummer, All right? Another one. West
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Virginia had an eleven zero run in the game, Pervanmia
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: dot com. If you have a ten to zero or
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: better run in a game, you win eighty one percent
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: of the time Baylor had none, you had, it should
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: have been a win. Here's the one number I didn't
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: like as West virgin Well, the free throws, but I'm
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: getting to that. Here's the other number outside of free
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: throws that I didn't like. As we moved throughout the game, Tony,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: we talked about this. Fifty one percent of West Virginia's
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: points came in the paint. We talked on Thursday Day's episode.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: This is reversal what you would think normally, that's good,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: getting close, score easy buckets. We talked on Thursday this
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: was a number to watch. When West Virginia loses, it
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: scores forty eight percent of its points in the paint.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: So right on with this number. When it wins, it
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: only gets thirty five percent of its points in the paint,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: usually driven by made three pointers. And again, West Virginia
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: was probably just one or two threes away from this.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: And one last note, probably should have been just a
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: tad more than fifty one percent of your points in
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: the paint. Except for the giant lake that opened up
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: underneath the basket on the floor, oh Man, that had
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: a Loumett Wendel boat sitting in it and prevented Tobyocannie
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: from hammering a dunk. I've been doing this a lot
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: of time. Long time you've been doing a long time.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: We're seventy five years combined in this. I can't remember
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: a more wide open shot where a guy's foot goes
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: completely out from under him as he's about ready to
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: hammer it. I was incredulous that. I don't know how
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: there can be that much moisture right in the one
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: spot he steps on. Yep, incredulous. So of the things
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: that you looked and went, oh my, are you kidding me?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: That's why at the time there was so much.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Water there underneath that basket. They brought in a lou
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Wendel pontoon to just bring the cleaning crew and to
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: get it off the floor. That's how much one of
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: those three boats was right came underneath the basket. I've
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: never seen it, but when you think about it, Oh,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Connie's gonna go out. Mean, that's how you blow a knee.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: That's exactly how you blow a knee. You start to go,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: it hyper extends and then you popped yourself. You're really
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: really lucky, but it happens. You know, that's where a
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: lot of moisture was. Timeouts happened, water bottles get used,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: water gets on the floor, and just a crushure. That
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: what's God.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Because Toby was awesome. Toby at nineteen point seven rebounds,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: three assists, two blocks three big three should have finished
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: with twenty one. All right, one last thing on the preparation, Hop,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: you'll love this story. And then I'm gonna get into
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: free throws and then we're gonna settle in because'm gonna
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna hit you with some numbers. But here here's
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: the preparation part. Hop. In the walk through in the
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: morning in the hotel ball room, they went through all
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: their stuff, went through Baylor stuff. Here's what they're gonna do,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: went through Baylor's out of bounds, Baylor's sde out of bounds.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Here's what they're gonna do. Went through West Virginia. Here's
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: what we're gonna do. Here's how they're gonna counter. Yeah,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: here's how we're gonna counter their counter. Then one of
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: the last things that go through baseline out of bounds
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: place for West Virginia, here's what we're gonna run. Here's
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: how they're gonna defend us. Then he went to Darren
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: went to a side out of bounds SLOB, side out
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: of abound SLOB as it's called sideline out of bounds
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: HOB and Darren says this. Darren says, here, guys, here's
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: what we're gonna run through. One more thing, side out
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: of bounds three seconds or less on the clock. Here's
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: what we're gonna run And I'm not gonna tell you
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: exactly what they designed up or what they did it,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: but then had some real nuance within there. You're gonna
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: go here and you've got to do this to draw this,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: and you're gonna go over here, and this is what's
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: gonna happen when you go here and you go here,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: They're gonna do this, and then we're gonna do this,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: and it's gonna be a wide open three for Javon Small.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I I about came out of my seat, didn't I.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: In the first half there like I like I think,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I I mean, I interrupt you a lot. I almost
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: just stepped right over and said, okay, stop, I got this.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Three seconds remaining in the first half, West Virginia's side
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: out of bounds they literally worked on that exact moment
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: in the morning hop and there it was not with
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: five seconds or with two seconds or with one and
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: a half. The exact scenario he said, three seconds on
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: the clock side out of bound. Here's what we're gonna run,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: and we're gonna get an open three for Javon. Guess
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: what They got an open three for Javon. And the
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: damn thing went exactly like he said it was gonna get.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Didn't drop it, It didn't get the shot to fall.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: But you talk about this group being prepared, that was
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: like a double exclamation point on you want to cover
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: every situation? We got you.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, runs good stuff.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, run runs good stuff. All right, Gotta make shots?
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, gotta make shots.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I can I take a drink? Care before we dive
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: incauseond I'm gonna get all of dry mouth on this
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: next part.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. While you do that, let me just remind our
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: folks that the uh we might have to get by
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the time Brad's done talking about the free throw disparity
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: that West Virginia has been enduring, we might have to
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: get jail. Jan Dill's attorneys at law, we might have
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: to file some kind of a Can we do that?
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is what I junction. I don't know
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: if JAN handles that, but this is what I do know.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: One of their areas of specialty is securing military veterans
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: their benefits do from the Department of Veterans Affairs, So
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: a couple of different things. If you are a military vet,
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• 23:22
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• 23:27
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• 23:31
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• 23:34
  Speaker 1: but that you deserve. And they have a crew of
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: folks that are specific to this area. As you might imagine,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: when it comes to working with the government, you need
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: to know all of the bureaucracy that goes along with it,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: and they have that experience. Their lawyers are specifically trained
• 23:56
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• 23:58
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• 24:02
  Speaker 1: don't pay a red cent. They get paid when you win.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: They get paid when you win. So a couple of things.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: If you or someone you know needs help dealing with
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• 24:25
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• 24:29
  Speaker 1: That's literally all over the nation, one of the biggest
• 24:33
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• 24:37
  Speaker 1: got you covered, all right. Make me feel sick with
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: free throws?
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, here we go. Let's talk first with free throw
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: attempt rate, which you hear me talk a lot about.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: That just kind of starts to eliminate a little bit
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: of just the raw numbers of free throw attemps, although
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I've got some of those two. So free throw attempt
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: rate your number of free throw attemps divided by your
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: field goal attempts. It tells you where you're getting most
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: of your shots within any given game. Baylor came into
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: this game hoppy bottom one hundred teams nationally in free
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: throw attempt rate. They don't get to the line very often.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Thirty percent free throw attempt rate, so they don't get
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: the line very often. Fifty nine percent free throw attempt
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: rate in that game, almost double what it normally is.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: For context, forty nine point seven leads the nation on
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: the season, so well above what the national leader in
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: that category gets, so an unusual day for Baylor at
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: the line. They had a season high in makes. They
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: had their second most free throw attempts in a game
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: and their most in Big Twelve play. They only have
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: one game in Big twelve play with more than twenty
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: four free throw attempts. Before the game against West Virginia.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: It was the second highest free throw attempt rate by
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: a do WVU opponent this season. The highest was Colorado
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: at that sixty two and a half. Baylor opponents normally,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: so you talk about Baylor on the other side of things,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Baylor's opponents normally get thirty five percent of their points
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: from the free throw line. West Virginia only got fifteen
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: percent of its points from the line, and West Virginia
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: was about right on average for its three point attempt rates.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: So you can't say that West Virginia was just bombing
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: threes away. It was right on their average. Baylor usually
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: gives up thirty five percent of its opponent's points at
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: the line. West Virginie was just fifteen percent of its points.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Let's look at some other specific numbers Baylor. You might say,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: we talked so much about Baylor wanted to drive to
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: the basket, right, So you look at that and go, okay,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: maybe there could have been a free throw disparity there
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: because a style of play. They were going to the basket.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: That's what they want to do. They want to drive
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: to the basket, and they probably got a lot of
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: shots at the rim where fouls normally occur. So that's
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: probably what you're saying right now as you listen that
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Baylor Hoppy probably went to the basket more often than
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: West Virginia, probably had more shots at the rim, therefore
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: getting more free throws.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: That's what you think.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: You would say that, that's.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: What you would think. Baylor took twenty two shots at
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: the rim or in the paint and shot thirty two
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: free throws. West Virginia took twenty seven shots at the
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: rim or in the paint and had seventeen free throws.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Baylor had eight shots at the rim, which is sixteen
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: percent below the national average for shots at the rim,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: and went to the line thirty two times. Bay here,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: if you haven't listened to anything else, this is one
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: that'll make you most crazy.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty good right now.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Baylor did not make a single field goal in overtime.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: In winning the game, they made zero field goals in overtime,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: zero of three from the floor. They scored all nine
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: of their points from the free throw line. West Virginia
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: was two of nine from the field in overtime Baylor
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: zero of three. Every point scored came at the line.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Opponents of West Virginia over the last seven games have
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: two point one one four more points at the free
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: throw line. They've doubled up West Virginia at the line
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: two point one four more times. I'll get to some
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: other numbers over the last few games, but here's one
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: that really jumps out. West Virginia is just sixty one
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: percent from the free throw line over the last seven games.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: For what has been a good free throw shooting team,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: its opponents and some of its opponents have been the
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: worst free throw shooting teams in America. Its opponents are
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: eighty one percent from the free throw line over the
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: last seven games. So not only are they getting there
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: at an exorbitant rate, they're actually making them. So credit
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: to those teams for making them. That's nothing other than
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: guys just making shots, but that's incredible. You're getting a
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: ton and then you're making a ton. Here's one that
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: really jumped to me. Langston Love for Baylor had missed
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: a bunch of games as coming back from injury, again
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: one of their very good players. Six of his eight
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: field goal attempts were threes, yet he shot twelve free
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: throws on the day. Six of his eight shots were
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: from three, and he shot twelve free throws. He had
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: only attend did nine free throws in nine games coming
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: into this game. He had zero free throw attempts in
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: five of his previous nine games and goes twelve for
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: twelve Against West Virginia, he had a one hundred and
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: fifty percent free throw attempt rate. His average on the
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: season was eighteen percent.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he accomplished. You were going.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I'm not done, Thank you very much. I'm still going.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Javon Small, who has played ninety four percent of West
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Virginia's available minutes in Big Twelve play, has the ball
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: in his hands more than any other player on the court.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Leeds West Virginia in two point field goal attempts. Has
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: only attempted double digit free throws in two Big twelve games,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: and he hasn't had one of those since January twenty
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: first versus Arizona State. Nearly a month, he has as
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: many games where he's attempted zero free throws as he
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: does double digit free throw attempts. Yeah, couple observations, Go
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: ahead while I pull up one more number.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Go ahead? Okay? Is that? I mean?
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: All that is extremely relevant and insightful about what happened.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: I was, I was bred, I was doing you.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: I was sitting next to my wife and I said,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: they can't keep making free throws. We're gonna miss they
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: can't keep making free throws. And they kept making free throws.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Number one. Number two is in fairness, there was a
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: disparity in the whistle, clearly, I mean you've documented that.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: But also you need to make a couple more free throws.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: I mean you're eleven of seventeen, so when you do
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: get to the line, you need to make it. And
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: West Virginia was not effective at the free throw line.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: That does That's part of this fair.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Fair absolutely off top of your head, do you know
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: how many front ends we missed? I didn't do that
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: at least two killers. You're right, I mean, the free
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: throw discrepancy is what it is. But you're eleven of
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: seventeen from the free throw line, and that's sixty five percent.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: And as you said, where it's sixty one percent here
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: over the last how long oh?
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Seven games? Not good enough, five losses. And here's the thing, guys,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I will give my standard disclaimer when we talk about
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: this is in one possession games like this. Yeah, there
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: are a million things you can find. I said that
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: make a couple more threes, got it, Toby doesn't slip,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: makes it? Got it, make a couple more free throws,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: got it. There's always things you can point to to yourself,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: but you can't absolve the whistle either from these things.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: It is a court. It is absolutely a factor. If
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: you get five more free throw attempts, maybe you only
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: make two of those, but maybe that's enough to get
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: you to win. So that's my point on this. And
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: I don't understand when I give you those numbers. It's
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: not just a team in West Virginia that's taking threes
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: and guarding and fouling every possession. We've had teams here
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: at West Virginia that fouled every possession because you can't
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: call everyone. And it was a great formula and it
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: worked tremendously well. That's not what this team does. The
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: styles have been too similar in too many of these
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: games with the free throw gaps to be screaming about this.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: That's why I'm screaming about it. That's why I'm bringing
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: it up. That's why I'm bringing up that this is disparity.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Here's here's one last number. I'll leave you with this.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: I gave you the two point one four more points
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: than West Virginia scored at the line for their opponents.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Here's the raw number. In the last seven games, five
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: of which are losses by West Virginia. West Virginia scored
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: forty seven points from the free throw line. It's opponents
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: in that time one hundred and one points scored. You
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: have been outscored one oh one to forty seven at
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: the free throw line in the last seven games. For again,
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: a javon small that has the ball the whole time
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: and is getting banged constantly. He is as teams handle
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: him as physically as any player in this league. And
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: he's had as many games with zero free throw attempts
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: as he has with double digits. That's just not right.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: It's not right. And here's the problem, Hoppy. It's different
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: guys every game, so it's not one crew that's coming
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: in and making this judgment. But the officiating has been
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: different in these games. It just has. It just has.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: And I don't know why, and I don't have a
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: good answer, but go back and watch that game. There
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: were some fouls on Baylor going to the basket that
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: were seemed very little contact in the grand scheme of
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: how physical that game was. And you go to the
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: other end and guys are getting clubbed to no call
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: that that's not the way it should be. And there's
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: the numbers. There's the numbers to support that, so you
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: can make the decision. There's some raw numbers, shots in
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: the paint, shots at the rim that there's all the
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: numbers for you.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and one piece to that as well as you
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: can say, hey, West Virginia needs to make more free throws.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Another thing that a lot of fouls being called against
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: you do is it affects your player rotation.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Great point, so, which it did Saturday.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Right, it did. So now you've got guys sitting on
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the bench for longer periods of time that wouldn't normally
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: be on the bench if you weren't getting these calls
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: that also plays into this thing huge, especially when you're
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: playing with seven and a half eight guys Max. So
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: it certainly, I mean to the point that Harris Elizovich
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: got in there in the first half on Saturday because
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: you were in a desperation mode with both the Andre
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: and Hansbury getting into early foul trouble. So yeah, it
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: certainly factors into it. So, like you said, I don't
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: think I have a good answer as to why it's happening.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Do I think there's this mass conspiracy against West Virginia
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: One thousand percent? Absolutely No, I don't agree.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: I agree with that.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: I think that I have seen a little bit more
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: than I want to see officials coming over to Darren
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: and saying after a play's been over, hey I missed
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: that one. I missed that one. Well, you know, I'm
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: at the point where okay, let's stop missing them. There's
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: too much on the line here to like, hey, come back,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Hey man, my bad, I miss that one. That's that's
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: going to happen. I get it. But to me, man,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: like I always say, I don't need, I don't need,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: I don't need to get more calls than I deserve.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: I just need it to be fair. That's all I
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: want it to be.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: What what you're seeing too is and when the season began,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: and what we know about Devrees is he wants to
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: have a respectful relationship with the officials, right and I.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: But you're seeing him be more animated of late with
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: the officiating. Would you all agree with that?
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, I. And we're going to get some text
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: questions about this that we'll get into later. And if
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: folks think that he's just sitting, you know, sitting by
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: and letting it all happen, he's not. He is sending
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: in constantly sending in clips and to the to the
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: supervisor of officials and saying like, explain, explain, explain this call,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Explain this kill? Why wasn't this, Why wasn't this, Why
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: wasn't this? And so you just keep your fingers crossed
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: that at some point you get enough communication there that
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the word does come down and go, hey, guys, Javon
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Small is getting freaking hammered here. If he's getting hammered,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: call the foul. You hope that kind of pushes that
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: and you start to get there. Yeah.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: And if you're not there, you're only seeing part of
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: the sideline too. He's not just walking up and down
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: the sideline in passively not screaming. I mean, so it's
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: not that, it's not that, let's tell you that right now.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: It's not that, but something that it's just got to
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: be better. It's just got to be better, guys, It's
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: got to be better. That's it here. Last thing, we
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: said this all the time about the football schedule, Hoby,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: West Virginia shouldn't be outliers when it comes to schedule strength.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: They shouldn't be the only ones playing two power fives
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: when nobody else is. I'm saying the same thing about
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: these numbers. That's why I give you those numbers. West
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Virginia shouldn't be involved in multiple games where the numbers
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: are outliers for its opponent. We shouldn't come in and
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: go that's highest free throw, temporary for Colorado, well, highes
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: for TCU, oh, highest forbid. It shouldn't be every game
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: it's an outlier for the opponent. That that's where I
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: start to go, what are you doing out here? What's happening?
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: You shouldn't be involved than outlier games more often than
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: you're not. And over the last seven there's been a
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: lot of outlier games that aren't going in West Virginia's direction.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: You're due for an outlier game or two back. You
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: are due to be the one where I come in
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: and go, hey, I tell you what. West Virginia's free
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: throw temper rates about twenty three now, one of the
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: lowest in the country. It was forty eight today.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: You know what's making the outliers more painful. They're making
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the shots like they could be getting that many more shots.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: But if they're coming in shooting like at the end
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: of the game they're at seventy, you'd go like, then't
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: hurt as bad, it wouldn't stand out as much. These
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: freaking guys are going out there eighty one percent to
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: one percent over seven games. Your opponent's making eighty which
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: is an astounding number, which would be like second in
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the nation. I would think, I think someone's out there
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: shooting eighty three, but that's probably eighty one percent would
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: get you top five.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: And they tried eighty four percent Saturday.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, you're on that. Wisconsin's eighty four percent.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Eighty one percent would be number two in the country. Ye,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: and you've had seven teams do it on average over
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: last seven games.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Well, I'd say this, since Brad has heated everything up,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: we got to cool everything down. You know how you
• 38:03
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• 38:07
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• 38:09
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• 38:12
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• 38:15
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• 38:18
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• 38:26
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• 38:35
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• 38:37
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• 38:52
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• 38:59
  Speaker 1: you you were up to your word there. You said
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: you were gonna bum us out. You bummed us out.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to give you numbers some good job there,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: good job there. Let's do a little bit of this
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: time for textual healing, my friends. Textual Healing is brought
• 39:22
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• 39:26
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• 39:28
  Speaker 1: at everything to do with three Guys before the game. Great,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: great reconnaissance on all the popcorn that went out for
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, mountaineer roasting coffee, all of our apparel stuff. Hop,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: he's wearing something today, Brad's wearing something. I got something on.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: We're all three guys out. New logo, old logo. Yeah,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: toying around with a new item as well. You got
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: a test brought to my house last yesterday. What now, Yeah,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Dave had homeless Dave had something sent over to the
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: house for us to take a look at a drink devices.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: I've heard of it.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, drink device. Well, we'll scan that and take a look.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: Don't get all up in tutors stuff, you know.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Well, you're out of focus. We bring it back a
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: little bit. It right in front of your face, Put
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: it right in front of your face. There.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: You got to keep it there, yeah, keep it there.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, see see how see how strong your shoulders are.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Let's see if you can hold it up for the
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: next twenty two minutes. How about that.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Hey, by the way, we didn't do Cincinnata preview.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Oh jeez, what am I do?
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Let's do Let's do textual healing and then we'll come
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: back to Cincinnata.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Well that's kind of neat. Yeah, mix it up. That's
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: kind of neat, all right, So let's do that.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: See, we're game planning different a lot of this.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just run through these really super quick and
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: not some of them AM not even going to use
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: because I don't think there's anything more we can say
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: about free throw shooting. But a lot of people, to
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: their you know, to their point, put a bunch of
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: stuff in there. You had a stretch of games before
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: with this poor of officiating so inconsistent. Our guys get
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: mugged one end, literally, don't touch him on the other
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: it's a whistle. How about this one Russell who's in
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Wichita Falls, Texas. My girlfriend Cassie gave me one of
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: the best Valentine's Day presents I could ask for, tickets
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: to West Virginia. Baylor went well with the Valentine's Day
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: popcorn that I got her. The first thing I told
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: her was I love you and thank you for an
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: amazing gift, followed up by the second thing I told her,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: which was you know what this means. Right, We're going
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: to make our mission to finally meet the three guys.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Game day comes mission success. Make our way to Tony
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: and Brad since it was an away game, say our hellos,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: ask if we can get our picture made. Brad taps
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: a man facing away from us on the shoulder, thinking
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: he was going to ask the fine gentleman to take
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: our picture. Low and behold that man turned out to
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: be none other than Hoppy himself. How about that?
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Well it's a good picture too, look at it.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got a picture made. There, great people. I
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: know this is a long text, but we want to
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: thank you guys for taking time to meet us. Great
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: conversation truly was the highlight of our weekend. And got
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: some popcorn too, they bought. He bought the popcorn right there,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: It is there, it is there, it is Thanks Valentine's
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: you know real quick.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Rustle and Cassie there, thank you for your service to
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: both in the Air Force. Yes, in their station to
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: winch taught falls.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh I was talking to Russell. He's from Charlestown,
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah he is, that's right, Yeah, my neck of the woods.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: So had a nice visit.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Text or asked this question. If we end up missing
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: the tournament, can we still call it a successful year?
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yeah, equivocally.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: I concur Yeah. And here's why I say that. And
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: I know it's a zero some business. It's it's a
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: win games business. I get it. Giving your injury, most
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: notably to Tucker, never mind the other ones that have followed,
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: it changed how this team would look significantly, and in
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: year one, or if you want to use Hoppies year zero,
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: to be where you are, where you're solidly in the
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: field with two weeks to go in this season is
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: remarkable from the rebuild that this team had to do.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: So I think the reason I say success is because
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: you feel like copy the future is extremely bright. You've
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: seen enough out of this group to know you are
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: trending absolutely in the right direction.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: Agreed, Agreed, agreed completely.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Steven Tennessee, paraphrasing his text, he wants Darren to go
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: absolutely crazy, maybe get kicked out of a game, Maybe
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: a fine. Let this league know and the referees, we're
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: not going to take it anymore.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: Not his style. I mean, he doesn't get he's not
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: going to get kicked out now.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: I think he's doing it more behind the scenes, saying
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: like yo, we'll see how that plays out next. Texter,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: I don't have a name, but I upset him. He
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: wrote a really lengthy text and several texts, and I
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: wrote back, I didn't mean to be mean, but I said,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: this is six hundred and thirty nine words.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: And you must have really made him man, So I.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Said six hundred thirty nine words. I said, I put
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: it into chat GPT and I asked chat gp to
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: give me five bullet points on what you've written. Yeah,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: And he came back to me and said, having a
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: bad day. I really wasn't trying to be like I
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: was just saying, like, dude, I can't read like five
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: hundred words essay in college, Like that's a big thing,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: like six hundred and thirty nine. Just like so anyway, chat
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: GPT broke his very salient points down and he's and
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: here it is man. Season three throw Discrepancy Disparity. West
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Virginia has attempted three eighty one opponents have taken four
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: sixty one. In Power five and Big twelve play, the
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: disparity even stronger. West Virginia's two seventy five and three
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: sixty for Power five teams. In Big twelve games, it's
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: one ninety one to two fifty eight. How about this
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: one seven the first seven Big twelve games, animal difference
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: was just one point four shots more per game. Last
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: seven it's balloon to eight per game. Last four games
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: is even worse. The graph the gap grew to eight
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: point six per game. Excluding Utah's second half, it goes
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: to eleven and a half more per game. Factors at play.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: Some argue officials may have an expectancy bias against West
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Virginia's physical style, but fatigue in a short, undersized bench
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: also contribute to the late game struggles. Texter says, and
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: by the to a dead person who wrote that I
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: didn't mean to be like, I'm just saying like, I
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: gotta have it shorter, Tony, pick up the phone. It's
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: time to call your people. Baseball just swept a double
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: header on Saturday in Florida. They're three and Oh what
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: a start for Steve savings. I go to the Big
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: twelve website, check the baseball schedule, and all of the
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: game times are listed in Central time. He writes. Jan
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: Dill's is an attorney. Can't they do something about this?
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: I think she might file a motion to the court.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, we're loading Jan Dill's up today.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: With She's very big in Texas. You know those veterans.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, big in Texas.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: One of the biggest areas in Texas. War shoot. Yeah,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: well I've great a lot.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: Of people in Texas, TCU, Baylor. We need some help.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, text her. I know that you can dissect every
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: game and find a player too here or there. If
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: we would have made could have game, could have won games.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: But we also have had some extraordinary statistical anomalies when
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: it comes to free throw shooting, and they give us
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: the same numbers that we just kind of Hey, can
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I throw out something we've never said, never happy.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: For consideration, and that is talk to me about j
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: about JP. He's a freshman and clearly he's got a shot.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: Clearly he needs to take shots. But Brad, you played,
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: you were a shooter, and the poor guy just does
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: not hit. I mean, one of twelve or whatever it
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: was on Saturday, and give me a and had some
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: open looks.
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: That's it, give me the breakdown on JP.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, far be it from me to
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: try and critique JP as a shooter compared to me.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: Certainly a much more talented shooter than I was, no question,
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: Except for the one game I hit when I hit
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: the school record for three pointers I was that night.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: I was probably better than about anybody simply here. It's
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: just simply confidence, right, He's just got to see a
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: few go down. He is a really talented, high end
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: shooter and struggled the other day. I mean, it's it's
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: as simple as that. He's got a great shot. Mechanically,
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: it's very good. He's going to make a bunch of
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: shots in a mountain your uniform, and he just simply
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: did not make a ton the other night. That's it.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Get some confidence back. And he's a he's a streaky
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: hot shooter. He'll he'll hit you three or four in
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: a row at some point. And Tony, that's why I thought.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: He hit that three in the end one and I thought, okay,
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: maybe maybe that unlocks you and gets you going, and
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: it just it wasn't his night.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Here's the deal man. And I learned this from John
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: Bline years and years ago. We were playing that game
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: that everyone remembers down in Charleston against Florida, and I
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: forget what cat they had. Gators had a freshman and
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: they had just played some games up in Madison Square Garden.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: And this freshman kid was it Teddy Dupey. No Dupey,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: it was a different dude, and he was going off.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: And I said to John, I went like, gosh, have
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: you seen this kid? I mean, how are you going
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: to deal with this kid? And he said, you know, man,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: freshman or freshmen, And he said, I don't care how
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: good they are, they just sometimes they freshman. And I'll
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: give you a classic example, right, you have a guy
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: on that other team Saturday who was going to be
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: a multi millionaire this time next year. His name is VJ. Edgecombe. He,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: like Jonathan poul took twelve shots on Saturday. The multi
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: millionaire went three for twelve, zero for five. He's a freshman. Right,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: And so the consistency, your standard aviation of performance improves
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: the older that you get. You can rely more on
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: your sophomores than your freshmen. Your juniors than your sophomores,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: your seniors than why because they've been around and so
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: you shouldn't be totally taken aback by it. That's, unfortunately,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: just those growing pains. That's the reality. Now. One other
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: thing about Jonathan Paul. You guys remember like one hundred
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: years ago on this show, even though we've only been
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: doing it for eight we busted down those numbers. When
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: a freshman scores on average over four points per game,
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: they go on and they have these really good careers.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: He's in that plus category. He's like eight points per game.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: So he's going to be very good. The numbers, you know,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: that's what they're indicating. And so the good news is, yeah,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: he's coming, but you are going to have some games
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: where he'll be hot, in some games where you know
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: it's not going to happen. So it doesn't totally make
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: me go, so what's going on?
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: No, it's just that's just part of the ups and
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: downs of a freshman season. I give him credit for this.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: He was your leading rebounder on Saturday. He got in
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: there and battled those days. Had nine rebounds on Saturday.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: So found a way to do some other things.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Boy, when you are as close to it as you
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: guys are. And I had great seats thanks to Tony
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: Courdi on Saturday. Wife and I is that you see
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: the physical like you? Why don't think it the rebound?
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: I mean the physicality, it's unbelievable. And rebounding, I mean
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: just guys fighting, battling. I mean, it's it's a chore.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: You get a rebound, You get a rebound in some
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: of those environments, that's a big deal.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: That's you earned.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: How about getting through screens? Is it physical at the
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: point of contact on screens?
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: It's like, well, you have to break a tackle first
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: of all.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Well, you know you for example, you know, I talk
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: about experience. Like Nord shadow Mere six seven, two hundred
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: and forty pounds, played two years at Arkansas State, played
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: two years at Miami, has scored over two thousand points.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: He's the current active Division one rebound leader in college.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Basketball, double level machine. And he just goes out there.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: He goes six of eleven, score seventeen, gets ten rebounds
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: and has four steals.
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he was good. How do you have good?
• 51:11
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• 51:12
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• 52:17
  Speaker 1: I think we already did. H Can you tell me
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: when the Golden Blue Game. Oh hi, guys, can you
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: tell me what the Golden Blue Game is like? I've
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: got a four year old nephew who I'm trying to
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: decide if it would be a fun experience for that
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: age or is it better for older kids who have
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: a little bit more of an understanding of what happens
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: in a football game.
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: Good question. Four year old is not going to get it.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, come on up to the Golden Blue Game
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: because they're not going to be playing real football. Come
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: on up.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be It'll be a lot of bunch of
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: different I would say the four year old's probably gonna
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: his favorite thing is probably going to be what he
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: gets at the concession stand. But there's gonna be enough
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: hoopla hollering and fun and music and stuff that he'll
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: probably be entertained.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: Video board, this should be visually stimulated, right with all
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: the stuff going on, bring might be a fun.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: Day maybe, or the four year old to be lining
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: up cups on the bleachers.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: You know, it could be also fun because you're probably
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: not doing that in your living room, so also fun.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Hello two or three guys, we know how tough Big
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: twelve is. But the rest of the nation took notice
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: when five Big twelve schools were projected top sixteen released
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: by the NCAA this week, and we've defeated three of
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: those five, plus we have a chance to knock off
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: another one this Saturday. We will see Tony and Brad
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: there in Lubbock. By the way, how do you rate
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: my plate at our Valentine's dinner at Double Cut in
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: Round Rock Features? Look at this thing, man, This is
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: a elie, a lobster tail, a skewer with steak, and
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: a humongous tiger shrimp in the small bowl. Was Moroccan
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: couscous outstanding. There's Joe mock Leander, Texas.
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: So look at that, dude, and dinner came with a
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: dinner came with a piece of equipment to there.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: He went over top, gave you a drone shot of
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: the meal.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: I like that, and then after he got done eating that,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: they had to bring that back to the operating room
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: at Baylor's.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: Is that the couscous right there? We're looking down on a.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Little yellow thing. Yeah, it's a tight grain, very tight.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: By the way, the credit to game didn't go like
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: we wanted, but our pregame meal at the hotel was
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: about as good. And I haven't traveled as much as
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: you in the last ten years. That's about as good
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: a pregame meal as I think you're gonna get. Oh really,
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, here's what happened.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: I was elite.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Here's what happened. So what happened. So we're staying at
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: this hotel and it has a new one and the
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: folks they have a steak restaurant in the hotel, and
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: people around Waco, including like people you know that know
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: really good stuff, they go like that place is extraordinary.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Here's what I think happened. So it's Valentine's Night. Their
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: restaurants packed out. I think we were getting the same
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: steak that they were serving in their restaurant, right, they
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: weren't gonna make it, and I think we got that.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: Some people may have over.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: Eight don't know who that would be.
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: A New York's trip would you have if it was?
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: It was just bashed potatoes were excellent.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Extraordinary, really good.
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: You guys right downtown, guys, downtown.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: We were across the interstate Hopey and on the other side. Yeah,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: we had to walk across. Okay, that turned into the
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: tire adventure. We had great coffee. We we had Dichotomy
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: in Waco, which is my favorite god. And then we
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: walked down to Magnoldia, got another cup, just wanted to
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: see if Chip and Joanna were in.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: We did not see Chip and Joanna.
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: No.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: We had a nice even though it was than we
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: thought it was going to be hot, but we had
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: a nice walk.
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: They had a Q and A and some information.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: I looked up about Chip and Joanne, Joanna, Joanna, Joanna
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: and it says we'll in the question will we see
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: Chip and Joanna And the answer was you might, but
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: please respect their privacy.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: Now they Chip's been to Morgantown.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. We had a good conversation with the dude
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: it's in charge of their marketing for Magnolia, who came
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: to Waco after serving for over a decade in charge
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: of merchandising at Nike. We had struck up a conversation
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: with him. Satura very nice, very nice Shelman.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: You see f grad.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Ken, I used to be in the district of Columbia.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and in Oregon a little bit.
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: Tony, you should have had that in your rider. We
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: see Tony you might, but please reflect his privacy.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: I'm good. Uh. This guy went to the West Liberty
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: Fairmont State game. He said that he's a Hilltopper fan.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Hilltoppers come back double digit down at halftime. A couple
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: of Fairmont fans are giving us a hard time the
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: whole night. He over there at Joe Retin Arena, says
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: it was extremely satisfying and around on the way out,
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: and I let out an emphatic thanks for having us.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: He said, the looks on their faces priceless.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Gave an mac thanks for having Yeah, yeah, sure, commissioners
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: applicable a lot of places, amos.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: All right, Cincinnati, here comes the rematch. They've won three
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: of four since West Virginia beat them.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's where I was starting, and they they won
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: three in a row after that. West Virginia lost prior
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: to losing to Iowa State on Saturday. Here's what jumped
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: to me. Averaged eighty seven points per game in those
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: three wins. I was again hoping they might lay down
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: after the West Virginia game. A lot of noise around
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: that program. They did not hop They have popped back
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: and been playing great basketball. They had eleven threes against
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: Utah ten against BYU, and two of those three games
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: right after.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: They ran BYU off of the floor one by twenty,
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: didn't they They were.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: Filling it up and league lay down right, just lay down.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: They won't And that's what in an upcoming West Virginia.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: But just get out of the way. Just give us
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: one here for God's sakes. Jizzle James Gigzl James, one
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: of the all time great names, was held to zero
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: points the first time West Virginia and Cincinnata met sincere
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: in particular, Di just a great job, totally took Gigsel
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: James out of his game. He's been absolutely on fire
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: twenty one per game during their three game winning streak,
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: and then he put up twenty five against Iowa State
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: in their last So Gigsel James will be somebody to
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: keep an eye on. When they roll in couple keys
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: against them, you're going to want to limit them in
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: transition points. West Virginia held them to a season low
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: five points in transition in the first meeting. The Bearcats
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: are three and six when they get single digit transition points,
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: but two of those wins came in the last three games,
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: as evidenced by the three point shooting, so that's how
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: they overcame that. But if West Virginia can slow them
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: down again, that would be really helpful. Here's another team, guys,
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: that comes in and doesn't get to the line very much.
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: So I would think you won't see Cincinnati get more
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: than about a free thrower two because they don't get
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: to lie. They're a bottom fifteen team nationally and a
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: bottom thirty team when it comes to free throw percentage,
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: so they don't get there and they don't make them.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: And no, I did not cut that from the TCU
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: preview or the Utah preview or anybody else's preview. It's
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: another team. They only shot twelve in the first meeting,
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: which was a good sign. But how about this? You
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: ready for this? West Virginia has been called for more
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: fouls than its opponent in every single Big twelve road
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: game this season. West Virginia has more fouls called on
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: it than its opponent in every single road game. Home games,
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: West Virginia has only been called for fouls more than
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: its opponents in four of the seven games, so one
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: hundred percent of the time on the road, only fifty
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: seven percent of the time at home. In Cincinnati's four
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: of seven Big Twelve road games, they've committed more fouls
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: than their opponent. So maybe this is a game. Maybe
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: this is a game that flips and West Virginia gets
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: a few more points at the line. And the reason
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: I'm bringing that up is not just to piggyback on
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: our previous conversation, but West Virginia's gonna have to find
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: some points. You know, you start to dig in those
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: numbers that Cincinnati game, we walked out of their giddy
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: high five and you win on the road. We got
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: home in like thirteen minutes. It was a great It
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: was a great trip, Like we were all get You
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: start to look at those numbers and it was like
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: game was a little bit closer there than you wanted
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: it to be. Sunday, Joe Yesafu was outstanding, got you
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: through that game. But that was a close game.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: You made it.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: You were really good from three right and your defense
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: was very good. Your plan was great. You took away
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: their lobs. But this is not just a gimme because
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: you won the first game. West Virginia held Cincinnati to
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: its second lowest field goal percentage of the season that day,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: just thirty one and a half percent. West Virginia fourth
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: Cincinnati and do his second most turnovers in Big twelve play.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: West Virginia had twelve steals in that game. Cincinnati's owned
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: five and Big twelve play if they have twelve or
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: more turnovers, So that's the number you're watching, which is
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: a good sign. That's what West Virginia likes to do.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: West Virginia blocked seven shots in that game, and a
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: lot of that came from what they wanted to do Hoppy.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: They had to eliminate the lob Cincinnati wants to get
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: in there, come set a screen or barely screen it,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: or go screen it and turn it head to the rim,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: and they lob it up. West Virginia was prepared for it,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: talked about it in practice and shoot around and eliminated
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: that from the game. Made Cincinnati shoot from the outside
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: and they couldn't make threes. They've shown they've been able
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: to do that the last couple of games, so we'll
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: have to see that. So we'll see. This will be
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: a challenge. This will be an important game for West
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: Virginia has to get it if it wants to be
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: in the NCAA Tournament. I think this is one of those.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: If you're going to be a tournament team, work's not
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: done if you get this one, But you can continue
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: down that path if you're around you get this one,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: they're gonna bring it.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: They're going to bring it. They're going to bring it
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: times fifty. They're going to bring it. Wes Miller, their coach.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: You just watch them coaching. He's pissed off, right, don't
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: you just see it in his face like he is.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: Well he should. There was a lot of heat. He
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: was getting a lot of heat following that West Virginia
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: and they were in a bad stretch.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: He is going to come in here. I'm just promising you,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: like a caged animal, it is going to be on
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: for those guys. He will have them into a frenzy.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: You better bring it now.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: That's the same thing we said going into their place,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: and West Virginia came out and said, oh, is that right?
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: We're pissed off to watch this. So I think the
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: key here mentality wise, hop You've had two really tough
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: losses where you went right down to one possession where
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: they could have been wins, and they both went against you.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: So it's incumbent upon this team and I think he'll
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: get this. But this West Virginia team, instead of being
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: dejected by that, has to say, okay, listen, we're playing
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: pretty well right now. I know the record doesn't indicate
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: that the last couple of games. We are playing well
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: and we are executing and we are right there.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: We get them at home, go out and bury these guys.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: So mentality is going to be important.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: Look, if this team had packed it in, they would
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: have got whacked at Bailor.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: Okay, but they didn't.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: They definitely And what deVie said after the game was
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: he was satisfied with with the effort, with how they play.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: So you know, can you can you just make a
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: few more shots, get some equality in the free throws,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: and then see if you can win. No, you got
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: two out of the next three year at home. That
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: Texas Tech road trip is going to be very, very tough.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: You guys should leave probably three days ahead of time
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: to get out there. That's gonna be tough. But can
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: you win two out of three and kind of get
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: things back on track and secure your footing for the
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: NCAA tournament.
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  Speaker 4: Ken Palm still has you at forty seven.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't move that's what I'm saying about that Baylor game.
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  Speaker 2: You barely lost in your seating projection and you did
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  Speaker 2: not move in ken palm. That tells you how well
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  Speaker 2: you played in that game. Your numbers actually got better
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  Speaker 2: and held your line right there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, before we are you getting near the end?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, go ahead, Okay, well, and that need to
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  Speaker 3: give a shout out to the West Virginia women's team
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  Speaker 3: for and by the way, they're playing right.
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  Speaker 1: Now or will be twenty one minutes from now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know so if you're listening live, got
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  Speaker 3: a Presidence Still game, but they had senior day beat
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  Speaker 3: Cincinnata JJ Quinnoley eleven of twenty two nine points moved
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  Speaker 3: into number five all time leading scores Western New women,
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  Speaker 3: So congratulations of her in the seniors. And they're having
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  Speaker 3: this incredible year ranked in the top twenty and playing
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  Speaker 3: ky State this afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Mark got a milestone win this weekend, right
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  Speaker 2: Mark kelleg was that two hundred, so.
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  Speaker 1: It was outstanding. And k State is one of three
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  Speaker 1: teams tied for first in the Big twelve. I believe
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  Speaker 1: they're playing this game today without a Yoka Lee who's
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  Speaker 1: scheduled to be back, I think later this week. So
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  Speaker 1: you got a chance here and you take your best
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  Speaker 1: swing at them. The rare two pm President's Day start
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  Speaker 1: at the coliseum, And the neat thing is there's a
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  Speaker 1: very strong chance that by the time you're listening to this,
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  Speaker 1: you already know what the result of the game is.
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  Speaker 1: So we will leave it there and again Mountaineer Baseball,
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  Speaker 1: how about that three and zero start for the second
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  Speaker 1: time in thirteen years.
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  Speaker 2: Great start for Steve Savans. That mark historic thing was
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  Speaker 2: back to back twenty win seasons, first time in WVU
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  Speaker 2: women's best history that a coach has won back to
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  Speaker 2: back twenties in his first two years. Yeah, very good.
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  Speaker 1: Really front of the program, Mark Kellogg, very good. So
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  Speaker 1: what are we doing the what are we doing the Thursday?
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  Speaker 4: No, I meant the get together for the baseball team.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're nineteen state's away. How do we know.
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  Speaker 1: We'll figure it out. We'll get there with coach Sabans.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's gonna be fine. We're gonna we're gonna get.
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  Speaker 4: The volleyball thing too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, we got yeah, yeah, we've got a
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  Speaker 1: branch out there. We're busy. Spring schedule is filling up
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  Speaker 1: We're back on Thursday to recap Cincinnati preview our one
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  Speaker 1: and only contest against the Red Raiders of Texas Tech
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  Speaker 1: and Lubbock on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be a tough one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're the real deal man, They are the
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  Speaker 1: real deal. All right, we're out, hoppy. Thank you very much.
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