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3 Guys Before The Game - Honor Huff Visits (Episode 633) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: And the way we go. Hey, everybody, what's happening? It
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  Speaker 1: is time for three Guys Before the Game. It's episode
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  Speaker 1: numbers six hundred and thirty three. And can I say,
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  Speaker 1: Can I say, we got a dandy for you?
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 1: We got a dandee.
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  Speaker 2: Quote Coach Stu pick you a good one?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we picture a good one. Everybody. We're gonna kick
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  Speaker 1: off our summer series on three Guys Before the Game
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  Speaker 1: with one of the newest members of the West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: University men's basketball team. It's the Honor Huff episode. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna meet a new mountaineer who I guarantee you before
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  Speaker 1: the program's over, you're gonna like a lot fair.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you name the episode? Just We're Honored?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that would have been That would have been really good.
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  Speaker 1: The one day you didn't ask see see I know
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  Speaker 1: they actually went I went Honor Huff visits.
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  Speaker 2: It's that's creative. What did you say, We're honored?
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  Speaker 1: We're honored? Yeah, would have worked. Can you rename it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah we can. We can go through our staff. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we can take care of that. Let's do this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Let's bring them in. Please welcome to the program. One
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  Speaker 1: of the newest members of the Mountaineer basketball team, Honor Huff. Hey, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: thanks so much for spending some time with us.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, for sure, I appreciate you guys having me.
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  Speaker 1: For sure, it's our and again it's I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: you normally say it's our honor. It's I mean, we're
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  Speaker 1: you get do you get tired of the whole honor
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  Speaker 1: pun thing like does that happen on a regular basis
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  Speaker 1: or you just kind of like do you don't even
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  Speaker 1: hear it anymore? Because you don't hear it?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, it's to break the eyes. Sometimes
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  Speaker 4: people just be like, it's an honor to meet you,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying something like that, So uh
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  Speaker 4: that that breaks the eyes. Get a little laughing and
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  Speaker 4: keep the conversation going. But you know, I don't get
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  Speaker 4: tired of it. It's kind of funny.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking earlier to they say, should I
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  Speaker 1: say honor? Should I say it's a delight to have
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  Speaker 1: you with us? But okay, so let's jump right in
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  Speaker 1: the name, Like tell me, okay, how what was How
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  Speaker 1: did they come to name you honor?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, my mom and my dad through me argue
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  Speaker 4: about who actually named me, but their reasoning is the same.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know wishful who it was or if
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  Speaker 4: the one wants to give the other person credit.
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  Speaker 3: But they said the.
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  Speaker 4: Name me honored because you know, they wanted me to
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  Speaker 4: live up to something. You the name honor. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it comes with a lot of different you know, values
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  Speaker 4: and meetings, so all good things.
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  Speaker 3: And positive things. So they just wanted me to live
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  Speaker 3: up to that and you know, be an honorable person.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely. So you are from Brooklyn? Were you born
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  Speaker 1: right in Brooklyn? Grew up in Brooklyn? Get what's the
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  Speaker 1: background there?
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  Speaker 3: I was born in Syracuse. I was. I was a
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  Speaker 3: huge Syracuse fan.
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  Speaker 4: H was Jim behind fan growing up, Mellow McNamara, all
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  Speaker 4: those guys.
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  Speaker 3: I was a big Syracuse fan.
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  Speaker 4: I was born as Syracuse, lived there for about three months,
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  Speaker 4: nothing crazy, and then I moved to Brooklyn and lived
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  Speaker 4: there ever since until I moved to my dad.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you were a baby, so you don't remember Syracuse,
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  Speaker 1: but you know you were from Syracuse. So that's why
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  Speaker 1: you chaired for Syracuse.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I was always my dad. My dad played
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  Speaker 3: at Syracuse.
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  Speaker 4: He was like a practice player, you know when Donom
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  Speaker 4: McNabb was there playing both sports.
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  Speaker 3: My dad. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So so he always tells me stories. I've always to
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  Speaker 4: Syracuse fan.
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  Speaker 2: How about what a small Has your dad been to Morgantown?
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  Speaker 2: Has he been to the coliseum?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah he can't. He came to my visit last weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Actually we just got back this past weekend. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he had he had a fun time.
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  Speaker 2: But he never played here though, No, never played got.
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  Speaker 1: How about that? So anyway, I went to school there,
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  Speaker 1: so I got Syracuse. Yeah I did. I'm okay, I'm
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  Speaker 1: and I'm glad you. I'm glad you got the heck
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  Speaker 1: out of there before you could feel that snow. So
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  Speaker 1: three months he doesn't you're not scarred by that job.
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  Speaker 1: So where was your where's your dad from? Originally he's
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  Speaker 1: from Brooklyn? Okay, yeah, okay, And so yeah, back then
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  Speaker 1: Syracuse was bringing a lot of guys from the city.
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  Speaker 1: If you go all the way back to the the
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  Speaker 1: RAFAA Al Addison's the Wendell of Alexis Pearl Washington, they
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  Speaker 1: were doing Tony Tony Redbrew and they were doing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of New York stuff there. Okay, So you it's
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  Speaker 1: interesting what you just said. You committed and then you
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  Speaker 1: took your visit, so right, so that's kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 1: So let's walk through, if you could, that whole rush
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  Speaker 1: that you just went through. You put your name into
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  Speaker 1: the portal, and everyone wants a little bit of honor.
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  Speaker 1: So was that overwhelming to you?
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  Speaker 3: It was more so.
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  Speaker 4: Sad, but happy for the next opportunity because you know,
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  Speaker 4: like I told all the coaching staff. I tell people
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  Speaker 4: all the time, leaving chat was probably one of the
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  Speaker 4: hardest things I've ever done. I was leaving a great situation,
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  Speaker 4: great coaching staff, great community, grey city. So to leave,
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  Speaker 4: I just wanted to find something that embodied that at
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  Speaker 4: least a little bit of what I've able to experience
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  Speaker 4: here at Chattanooga.
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  Speaker 3: So that was probably the toughest part.
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  Speaker 4: We had just won the n T sure and two
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  Speaker 4: days later I'm in the portal. So it's like, I
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  Speaker 4: felt kind of bad, you know, to the fans who
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  Speaker 4: you know had been true and you know, been my
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  Speaker 4: biggest fans for the longest time. I kind of felt bad,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, enter my name in the portal. I
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  Speaker 4: sat in my chair in my room from eleven thirty.
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  Speaker 4: I got in at eleven oh five. From eleven like
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  Speaker 4: fifteen to seven thirty at night, I was on my
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  Speaker 4: couch on the phone like I didn't move, Like my
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  Speaker 4: roommate had to get some food for me, like I
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  Speaker 4: didn't move.
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  Speaker 3: It was a it was a hectic first day.
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  Speaker 1: So phones, the phone's blowing up on your every coach
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  Speaker 1: and every from anywhere. They're calling you.
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  Speaker 4: It was insane because you know, I mean, I went
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  Speaker 4: through this portal stuff before, but it was a little
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  Speaker 4: bit you know, I wasn't as good, so I wasn't
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  Speaker 4: as sought after. So after my freshman year, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it was a little different experience this time around.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it was hectic the first day.
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  Speaker 2: I will say, well, you lead the country in three
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  Speaker 2: point field goals major, you're gonna get some interest there
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  Speaker 2: and you and you literally heard from everybody. So what
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  Speaker 2: did you do for that first day? Were you just
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  Speaker 2: trying to respond to people? Were you just taking it
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  Speaker 2: all in? How'd you handle that first day?
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  Speaker 4: It was funny because even though I loved the nation
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  Speaker 4: in threes, I thought it would be like half like
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  Speaker 4: higher mid majors and then half like high major. And
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  Speaker 4: it was like three min majors had like texted me
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  Speaker 4: and the rest was just high school that you know
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  Speaker 4: I'll watch on television.
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  Speaker 3: Like, so they had some of the mid majors.
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  Speaker 4: My high school coach was texting him like, hey, like
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  Speaker 4: he's in the porter. Now you can text them, and
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  Speaker 4: they're like, we're not going to get him, like we
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  Speaker 4: just know it's he Just so they kind of saw
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  Speaker 4: something to me just time around that I didn't even
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  Speaker 4: see it myself, So yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm really a straightforward guy, which is kind of
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  Speaker 4: the reason I committed before visiting, Like I don't like
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  Speaker 4: to waste people's time, and I don't want to waste
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  Speaker 4: my time. So if I don't see myself, you know,
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  Speaker 4: finding my place there or really thinking I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: go there, I try not to have an extensive relationship
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  Speaker 4: or conversation with those coaches because like I said, I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to waste their time. So it was easy
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  Speaker 4: for me to kind of weed through the you know,
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  Speaker 4: the madness and see who was truly interested or who
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  Speaker 4: just wanted to call, you know, the nation's leader and
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  Speaker 4: three let me just call him real quick. But I
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  Speaker 4: can tell from that, from who was actually interested, that
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  Speaker 4: I can help their program.
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  Speaker 5: So Honor expand on that.
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  Speaker 6: So, how did West Virginia come to the surface for
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  Speaker 6: you when you were getting all those calls from eleven
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  Speaker 6: am to midnight?
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  Speaker 4: It was. It was funny because obviously they were in
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  Speaker 4: the final four of the n I T as well,
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  Speaker 4: so I had watched them play right before us, and
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  Speaker 4: I literally asked my coach, coach Gosky that night like,
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  Speaker 4: how are they recruiting? Because I knew I knew they
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  Speaker 4: were going to West Virginia, So I'm like, how are
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  Speaker 4: they recruiting for West.
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  Speaker 3: Virginia and still playing like that?
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  Speaker 4: And he was kind of just like he talked to
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  Speaker 4: coach Hobb actually, and they were talking about how they
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  Speaker 4: have two coaches doing recruiting and then two coaches doing
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  Speaker 4: the scout for the next couple of games.
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  Speaker 3: So I thought that was funny.
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  Speaker 4: And as soon as I got into port, I mean
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  Speaker 4: probably like when they lost, they had reached out to
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  Speaker 4: my agent. You know, a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 4: schools that reached out to my agent, so I kind
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  Speaker 4: of had a feel of, you know, who was there
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  Speaker 4: who wasn't. So they reached out to my agent the
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  Speaker 4: night before we played in the championship, So they were
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  Speaker 4: kind of one of the first schools to really show interest.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, they were one of my first calls
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  Speaker 4: in terms of the first day. Throughout the whole time,
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  Speaker 4: they were the most consistent. I mean they called me
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  Speaker 4: twice a day from assistant to head coach. When you're
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  Speaker 4: from the head coach as often as I did, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's a true you know, a true interest in one.
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  Speaker 6: So what as it was described to you by Coach
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  Speaker 6: Hodge and my assistance, So what do you think your
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  Speaker 6: role will be here on this team.
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  Speaker 3: When Coach Hodge has done an extremely good job of
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  Speaker 3: smaller guards.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if you look at what he'd done the
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  Speaker 4: past four years, he's had a six foot or smaller
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  Speaker 4: six to one or smaller guard be first team on conference.
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  Speaker 4: So I do I like to do a lot of research,
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  Speaker 4: you know, on teams. I was truly interested in and
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  Speaker 4: seeing that what he was able to do with a
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  Speaker 4: smaller guard on the offensive end, but also pushing them
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  Speaker 4: on a defensive end. I think that's what my main
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  Speaker 4: priority here is to be to bother the ball, focus
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  Speaker 4: on my defensive you know, assets and offense. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he put it playing and clear for me. He said,
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  Speaker 4: I'm only gonna take you out if you don't shoot
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  Speaker 4: the ball. He said, you see a good shot, shoot it.
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  Speaker 4: But he said, I really don't care about the offensive
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  Speaker 4: and I just care what you do on the defensive end.
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  Speaker 4: You can watch it if you watch the games. He'll
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  Speaker 4: literally be crouched down on offense just looking and as
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  Speaker 4: soon as that ball goes in or out and we're
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  Speaker 4: going out and he's upbeat point point like he he's
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  Speaker 4: really a defensive minded coach. So he said, he knows
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  Speaker 4: I could put the ball in the basket. I asked
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  Speaker 4: him just literally two days ago, what do you need
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  Speaker 4: me to work on so I'm ready when I stepped
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  Speaker 4: on campus. He said, deeper threes that floaters. I said, okay,
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  Speaker 4: that's all he said. And he said, and we we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna fix that defense. We're gonna work on it, and
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  Speaker 4: that's it. You'll be a force to be record in
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  Speaker 4: the Big twelve.
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  Speaker 3: So he almost comfortable. That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: You can already pull up and rain it.
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  Speaker 3: That's what he said. He said, you currdy do it,
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  Speaker 3: but just keep working at it. I want to be
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  Speaker 3: he said.
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  Speaker 4: I want you to be able to pull it from
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  Speaker 4: as soon as you get over half court and make
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  Speaker 4: yourself the threats that they have to guard you that
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  Speaker 4: far and then flow the defense.
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  Speaker 2: Honor the floaters. Interesting because last years a lot of threes.
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  Speaker 2: Eighty percent of your shots were threes, and there was
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  Speaker 2: a reason why you were making forty two percent of them.
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  Speaker 2: So is that is that the evolution of the offensive game,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in the Big twelve, You're gonna get some
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  Speaker 2: defenders that are gonna get up in you a little
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  Speaker 2: more athletic. Part of the goal here the offseason to
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  Speaker 2: get it on the deck and get in there and
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  Speaker 2: be able to hit the pull up and floaters.
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  Speaker 4: It's funny because this past season it was so interesting
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  Speaker 4: because my percentages went up, but my points in terms
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  Speaker 4: of like scoring went down. So I averaged more my
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  Speaker 4: junior my sophomore season in this season and my sophomore
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  Speaker 4: season with a lot of floaters, a lot of layers
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  Speaker 4: getting to get into the lane. This season, I think
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  Speaker 4: my user trade was the lowest of my career, lowest
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  Speaker 4: of my freshman year. So I wasn't making plays as
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  Speaker 4: much as he knows I can. That's what we talked about.
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  Speaker 4: So he just said, you know, incorporating that back into
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  Speaker 4: my game. I think I relied too heavily on my
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  Speaker 4: three this year, if you ask me, because I'm my
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  Speaker 4: biggest critic, so I think I relied on it too much.
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  Speaker 4: So just incorporating that back into my game because I
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  Speaker 4: have it, I just didn't show it as much as
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  Speaker 4: I should have or could have this season. So just
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  Speaker 4: working at it key I'm in the gym obviously every
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  Speaker 4: day working on my touch shots, touch layers. I know
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  Speaker 4: it's some bigger guy down there in the paint now,
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  Speaker 4: so I got to make sure I'm ready.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hold on, real quick, listen.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know you're gonna you're gonna say the same
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  Speaker 1: exact thing I'm gonna say. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was gonna say, he can put it on
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  Speaker 2: the deck and get there. He's a Brooklyn Guard. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he can get in the layer. You're not afraid to
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  Speaker 2: go in the lane, right, I mean you're in New
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  Speaker 2: York City, Guard, You're gonna go in the lane. You
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  Speaker 2: thought I was gonna talk about the usage, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like your first player ever. You're my guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's automatically my guy.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're blowing my mind a little bit to the
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  Speaker 1: level of understanding that you have. I mean, you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about your usage rate. You're you've got all your analytics down,
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  Speaker 1: like that's totally new ground for players. I mean, you're
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  Speaker 1: you're you're way ahead of the game on this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Have you always had an understanding at that level?
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  Speaker 3: I think growing up it was in a bad way.
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  Speaker 4: It was Okay, how many points do I have, right,
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to figure that out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think as I've gotten older, especially now, it's about
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  Speaker 4: how can how can I improve? So we watch film
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  Speaker 4: with the coaches say, okay, well you know you're picking
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  Speaker 4: your spots better. Actually you used to rate us down,
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  Speaker 4: but you're picking your spossibility percentages up and you're taking
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  Speaker 4: better shotting to glass seasons.
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  Speaker 3: So you've improved in that way.
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  Speaker 4: So this year I took a major jump while my
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  Speaker 4: numbers went down, so I was.
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  Speaker 3: Very actually happy with that.
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  Speaker 4: But again it's about incorporating all the other stuff that
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  Speaker 4: I've done the past season as well and bringing it
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  Speaker 4: all together, and I think I'll have a great year,
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  Speaker 4: even in the Big twelve.
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  Speaker 3: So I've always just had a I pick up on
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  Speaker 3: things fast.
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  Speaker 4: My dad always to tell me that, So I like to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, be aware and cognizant of things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, So let's go all the way back. Then.
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  Speaker 1: You're raised in Brooklyn, you spend your junior and your
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  Speaker 1: senior year at the Perky Oomen School, which is in Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 1: You go you go to VMI for a year, and
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  Speaker 1: you've been at Chattanooga now for two So obviously as
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  Speaker 1: we look at that you're a player that has continued
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  Speaker 1: to improve, walk us through where you think you are
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  Speaker 1: in your evolution. And when you look back as you
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  Speaker 1: at yourself as a freshman at VM, I do you
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  Speaker 1: go like, while I've gotten a lot better.
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  Speaker 3: For sure. I think the evolution is funny.
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  Speaker 4: Growing up, I was probably one of the best players
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  Speaker 4: in the state because I was so advanced. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: as you get under, the game catches up to you
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  Speaker 4: and height catches up to you. So everybody getting taller,
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  Speaker 4: I'm staying the same height, and then that kind of
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  Speaker 4: caught out to me. But I was always more skilled.
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  Speaker 4: I would say that a lot of kids my dad
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: worked on. We never put the ball between my legs,
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: behind my back. We never shot threes till I was
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: in middle school. Never shot a three. He said that
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: that messages up your your form. You just kids kind
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: of just throw it now because they want to shoot threes.
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: So he was like, we're not shooting threes. So I
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: really was fundamental. I want mister fundamental. At many camps
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: like the Lehigh University camp, I want mister fundamentally. I
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: always was simple, but behind the backs of I kind
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: of taught myself because he didn't want to teach me that.
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: He just wanted me to be fundamental kind. I taught
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: myself to spend the ball my finger, go behind my back.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: I taught myself that freshman year. It was the up
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: and down year because I started off really not playing
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: a lot at VMI, and then I just got more
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: confidence in myself and the trajections kept going up and
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: Coach got more confidence to me until I ended up
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: being the starting lineup and you know, I took off
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: from there ever since. So I think I've grown tremendously
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: from my freshman year, but there's still, you know, little bits.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: And pieces that you take and keep from each year.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: So just maximizing on everything else that I've done previously
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: is my biggest.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: You know, goal and aspirations.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: When I'm in the gym or in the summer, it's okay,
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: I did this this year. Now what can we do
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: to add on to the the positives of that to
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: make sure I'm my best self for the next year.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: So every year I've done that, and I think that's
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: helped me to this point.
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: When you came, when were you here like last week.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Or literally this past weekend, So this is what today's Thursday.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: I just I got back on Saturday Saturday night.
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: That your first time you've been to West Virginia first time?
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: Really did you have to look it up on a map?
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: Like where are we going? Where is this place?
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean we're driving because we flew into pit Yeah.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Actually yea. Then were driving. He said, well, now we're
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: in Morgantown. I was like, oh, wow, I.
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: Have you what do you what do you know if
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: anything about the environment here in the Comlisseum And it's uh,
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: it's typically one of the top places in the country
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: in terms of crowd and enthusiasm. People take it pretty seriously.
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: Have you did you were you told about that? Did
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: you learn about that?
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, like I said, I do my research on
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: every school, so I was. I mean, I really didn't
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: have to do research. Fans were in my my DM
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: my comments and it was funny because I had pit
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: in my top five too, so I had both fan
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: bases like in my ear at all times.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: But you know, we got it right, by the way.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: You got it right.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: You got it right. Well, I know I did.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good call. Yeah, but I.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Know the rich history.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: I know that you know there's not really an NBA
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: team or professional team, so you know the Mountaineers, that's
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: that's people professional teams. So they're gonna come out. They're
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: gonna rock the coliseum. They played a video for me
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: and Jasper on the jumbo tron in the arena and
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: it was they gave me chills. So I'm really excited
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: to get down there. Obviously, you know, we've had some
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: great environments at Chat, but you know, nothing like when
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: I'm my experience at West Virginia. So I'm really excited
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: for that and I'm able to learn a little bit
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: more about the history and you know how serious the
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: fans take the sports.
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: You can you can and if you drain some threes,
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: make a steal, get a stop, you can quickly become
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: a fan favored.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: Okay, that's the plan.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: When you walked into the practice facility for the first time,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: thoughts about that building.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: It's amazing.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's it's you know, you're coming from
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: a mid major program, so everything is a little bit
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: you know, wow, But you kind of just take a
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: step back and think about the journey that it's taking
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: you to get here, and you started to be appreciate
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: him and thankful of the journey and looking at it
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: is just like, wow, this is where I'm going to
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: be playing. And what's so unique about West Virginia the
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: practicability we have like chips in the balls and it
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: connects to like this thing that you put in your
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: shoe so it can count how many shots you make,
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: how much shots you shoot, like how much time he's
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: in the gym. I just thought that was crazy, and
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: I've never seen or heard anybody have that before, so
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: that was kind of insane. So just to step up
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: from the place I was just at in Tattanooga is amazing, honestly.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Now, you know, that little chip thing you have tells
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: you how hard you go to when you're running out there.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: So don't try and pull anything on the coaches. They're
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: on right. Ross is going to be on it there.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: You try and take a couple of possessions off, he's
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: on you.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: You know that he won't let me do that. Anyways,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: We got.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: To give him the background there. There's a lot of
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: New York history, a lot of New York raft. Yeah.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: West Virginia won the Big East Tournament title back in
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: twenty ten. All five starters from the New York New
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Jersey area there, So, yeah, you're coming into a place
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: that's very familiar with where you're from and the lineage
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: that comes with that, right.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they heard a little bit about.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: It when they won the Big East and then went
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: to the Final Four in twenty ten. So what year
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: were you born? Make me feel really old? What year
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: were you born?
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Two thousand and two?
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you're eight eight. They won the Final Four,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: they won, they went to the Final four, and they
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: won the Biggiest Championship. So the New York Post headlines
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: called them the Metro Ears because they were all from
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: metropolitan New York. So you had Kevin Jones from from
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: uh Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, you had day Shaun Butler
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: from Jersey. You had Wellington Smith from Jersey. You had
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Truck Truck Bryant who's from Brooklyn, and you had Devin Ebanks,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: who's another New York guy. So like all these New
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: York guys were a huge part of that of that team.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Key guys. Yeah absolutely, I.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Know about Butler. I don't know about the rest of them.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, and Joe Missoula was also you
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: saw that I'm sure when you were when you were
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: in the building.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: By the way side, note real quick, you see Day
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: the other night in the Boston the South Tis game.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: He's got himself right and he sticks his head right
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: in there.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Oh is he right in huddle?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: He's on the second row. But he gets right? Does
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: that doesn't what's Joe saying? Day sounds right there with him.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Are you a big Knicks guy.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: I'm a big Kyrie guy. So when he was on
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: the nets, it was perfect.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: When he was on the nets, yeah, Brooklyn nets, it
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: was perfect. But uh, I'm a Dallas mass fan because
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: that wherever Kyrie go, that's.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Where I go.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: You know, we got a mountaineer on the Knicks and
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Deuce McBride, who's a really really, really really good player.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: You mentioned your defense and Ross saying we're going to
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: fix your defense. I would imagine listening to you someone
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: that's in total self improvement for your game. That's an
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: area where you want to get a lot better. You
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: think Ross and his staff can make you a lot better.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Analyze yourself self, scout yourself on defense. What do you
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: need to do better?
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Obviously I'm a smaller guard, so bothering the ball is
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: going to be key for me, like as the Kaisleigler
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: kind of you know, it's not even as the Kai
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: gets a lot of steals. It's just that his presence
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: makes you like, okay, let's move the ball away from
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: whoever he's whoever he's guarding. So I just think applying
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: that pressure in the big sub will be big time
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: for not only myself but my teammates and being more physical.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: I think in the SoCon, me and coach Jason, one
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: of the systms, we talked about this the other day.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: I can guard. I mean, if you watch some games
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: where you know I'm really locked in. I don't shut
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: a lot of good players down. It's just, you know,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: with all due respect in the SoCon, there are games
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: where I look at the schedule, I'm like, okay, all right,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: then oh we're playing them, Okay, let me lock in.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: So in this in this league, it's like you can't
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: do that. Not in a not all big Monday, You're
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: playing Houston, Texas Tech Baylor like all these games, I'm
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: gonna have to be locked in at all times. I
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: think that's what we talked about. I think not necessarily
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: fixing my defense it's just fixing my mindset on the
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: defensive end where it's like I'm gonna lock in all
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: times and be a Pets on defensive end. I think,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: obviously with coach Hodges's background in mindset, he's gonna push
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: me to do that.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Let me give him. He likes the analytics. Let me
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: give you one analytic number. This is from Evanmeya on
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Evanmiya dot com. He projects you next season is one
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: of the top third guys, one third of the players
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: that were available in the portal. He's got you from
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: the defensive side, being one of those top third of
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: all the guys in the portal. That's defensively. Let's got
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: you a lot higher on the offensive side, but defensively
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: he's got so. I think that's right. I think what
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: you're saying is right. Your numbers show that the defense
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: is in there.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: You'll bring it right right.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: I think, like I said, him pushing me to do
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: it in his back, I know he already told me
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: he's gonna get on me.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: And that's what I like.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: I like a coach that, you know, because I'm gonna
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: respond well. So I love a coach that can push
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: me to be my best. So I think, like I said,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: not necessarily fixing. I think I used the wrong word,
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: but just you know, making sure I'm locked in and
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: doing it all the time.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, are you someone that holds a grudge after Well,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: obviously obviously you do, because I'm looking at your lines
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: here this year against VMI, your former school. I mean,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: my goodness, what do you have against those guys? You
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: have thirty one and twenty nine. Against him, you had
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: sixteen to three. He's in two games? Like, what was
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: that about?
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Hold on sixteen of twenty one? He didn't just have
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: sixteen three sixteen of twenty one in those two games?
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: What did they give you a parking tickets? You got
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: bumped out about before he left at what was the deal?
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: It's actually funny. My best friend, Cooper Cisco, he still
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: goes there. We were freshmen together. He still goes that.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: He unfortunately his basketball creds come to an end. He
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: had some surgeries on his calf. But he's like one
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: of their managers whatever. He's like a student coach at
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: him and before every game, I'm always talking to him.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: If we had shoot around, he comes down because you know,
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: we had the same coaching staff, so our coach him
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: the cool with him too, So we're always talking, always
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: bantering back and forth. And you know he's always talking
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: a little bit too much. So he lost the game.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Every three I hit, I'm playing right at him on
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: the base and his teammates we laughed because his teammates
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: were blaming him for what I.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Did then the first game because he was talking so much.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: The second game, I mean, I don't know if you
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: guys know, they played like a matchup dome. We thought
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: that they would adjust after the first game, but they
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: kind of just stayed in the zone. And know, if
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: you play a zone against someone like me, I mean,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: and you don't find me, it's gonna be hard.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: And you know, I got a lot of open looks.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: So I mean, you know, I really do appreciate though
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: to being my kid and coach Wilson. You know, I
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: got a chance to speak with him before I left,
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: and you know he's a great coach.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: He'd done great things there. But you know, small, old school,
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: so you always have something to prove.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Sure, No, absolutely, let's hope teams go zone against one
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: percent from three when teams go zone on you. Last year,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: do you know that you said, what, fifty one percent
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: from three against the zone last year.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: That's good news. The bad news is you won't see
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: much zone.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: They're not gonna zone you very much next year. So
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: are you?
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: Are you a player that enjoys during the game with
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: the other team, maybe some conversations back and forth with
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: the players from the other team, you know, of course,
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: some chatting back and forth.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: He's from Brooklyn, Hu.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: I was about to say where I'm from. I mean,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: it gets. It gets worse than just answering friendly conversations.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: I tell you that much right now. And I've learned
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: that growing up. You know, I was a little quiet
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: kid growing up. I didn't really talk at all, even
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: if you were talking to me. I just had to
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: let my games do the talking about At certain point,
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: it's kind of like, okay, once you bring that confidence
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: with you and then you know that chip on your shoulder,
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: it's like you just like you have to say something,
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: especially you know, when you're doing good. So you know,
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: I don't usually start it. I can tell you that much,
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: but you know, if if we get into that, I
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: love it.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: And I always at.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: The end of the game will give somebody respect no
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: matter what I had the upper hand and they had
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: the upper hand. I'm always going to give you respect
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: it if we battle, and I like battles. I love
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: that it push you to be your best.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you know honor any of the other players
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: that have already committed to West Virginia.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Through just texting right now?
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: But you didn't have any no aaus through the years
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: or anything like that.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Nah, no, no, none of them.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: No, when do you come into town? When are you
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: coming in?
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: So Tray's din is gonna be my roommate.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: So we'll probably move in the twenty six, twenty seventh
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: around there me.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: So you know it's happening for that.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: That's a good school. That's a good scoring room.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: That's a good scoring room. That's pretty good.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: He posted that he signed or whatever, and I commented.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: I was like, I'm about to be roommates with an
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: NBA prospect school Fortio On, Alabama, and it got like
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: two hundred lights comment. He commented back, he was like, wait,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: didn't you You have the most threes in the nation,
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: And that got like a lot of lights. Everybody's commented
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: under our stuff like that's a golded room. So you
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: know it's gonna be fun for sure.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: All right, So here, speaking of rooms, is that your
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: idea of putting the the those look like purple ish
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: led lights up on above your head? Like, did you design?
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Did you design your room there? What's what's the motif?
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be honest with you. I am not. This
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: is not my room. This is girlfriend she goes to Clemson.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I'm in her room right now. It is not me.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: That was funny. I mean, I thought he little designed.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: D lights in my room.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: But you're so, I see, I didn't know that. Like
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: when I went to school, they obviously at leads, these
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: didn't exist.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: They weren't invented. He went back to the light bulb,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: single light bulb from the string.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: One of those filaments.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Stepping out of that only imagine.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, another thing, you mentioned your size on a couple
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: of occasions, So like flat out with sneakers on legit five.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Ten, Legit five ten.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: I mean my roommate tray, not traded in my roommate
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: tray at chat he.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Put six foot on everything, and we're the same height.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: So I hate that he lies. I try to be
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: honest with my height.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's cool, By the way, congratulations on the n
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I T. That's a that's a trying to win those
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: that's a great one. We've West Virginia won it many
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: several years ago now, and that was fun. That's really
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: super fun. And then that was hard to win. I mean,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Irvine was really good. I watched that championship.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: It was crazy. I mean, it was a real experience.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: I mean from trying for my brother Trey for not
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: winning the conference tournaments to crying with him because we
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: just won the n I T just to change and
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: that was it was a great experience with a great moment.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: It's something that you know, I'll remember and cherish for the
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: rest of my life. Those memories, those games, those were
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: some games. No game was a blowout. No game was
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: probably more than like five seven points, Like we battled
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: every game. So we earned it, and you know that
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: it was really a storybook ending, if I'm being honest
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: with you, when the n I and then be able
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: to move on and go to my next journey, because
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: if we.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Would have lost, I don't know how it felt.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: I don't even know if I wanted to leave so
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: and I really don't want to leave, so I know
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: would have been worse. So it was really just a
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: storybook ending to my career with that same coaching staff
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: and trade my point guard.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well you look at it. I mean, you played
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: five games to win the n I, but you really
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: played six games because you had four overtimes, you had
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: a triple overtime game, you had a single overtime game,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: so your whole played a whole nother year. It was
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: almost like five and a half games.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Right right right, A lot of mileage on my body.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: He was still ready to keep going. He had thirty
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: seven threes in his last eight games to close his
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: time there in Chattanooga. Thirty seven threes in eight games. Dude,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: pretty good.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: That's crazy. I didn't even know that either.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: We're gonna, you're gonna.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: You're here to help.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: So this guy here will give you analytics. When you're here,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: he'll give you more analytics. He'll tell you, he'll tell
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: you how you slept. That's how his analytics. He'll give
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: you the whole deal.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: I need some of.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Last couple of things here for you. Favorite food, you
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: get to pick any meal you want. Go.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: You know you're gonna hate me, but Candy, excuse me.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: What I can show you my bag right now. It's
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: got like three bags of candy. And I just like,
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: I just eat candy all the time, like you know
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: how DK Metcal says that I'm serious, Like between every meal,
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: I gotta have some candy.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I have to what what what are you eating?
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Is good? Do you show me what you got here?
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you get.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, boy, yeah, he didn't.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: Go from.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: There.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: We're all like sweet sea sugar, heavy sugar.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: And someone else's no chocolate, chocolate.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: I'm not a chocolate I'm big. It's sweet guy, Okay, sweet?
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: So how about you weigh straight.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Up during the season, probably one sixty out of when
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: we're like working and you know, really behinding. During the summer,
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: I could get up to like one seventy something.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't get you when you get here, don't don't
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: trust me that candy is probably gonna go away. You're
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: probably gonna get a little something something.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: He can see. He wasn't kidding.
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: He didn't have like several pieces of candy. He had
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: bags of candy.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: You came, this is just in Clemson. This is in
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: her room.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: If you come to my room and chat, I got
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: stashes of it everywhere I got stashes the candy.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: So my coaches know that too. We joke about it
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: all the time.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, then real fit. They give us a
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: real food, real food.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: No, just can't do.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: What's your favorite candy.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: You're going to a restaurant. What are you ordering?
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: I love pasta fetch A good fan of cheating, afraid
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: though I'm a pest tarian.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Really yeah, so you know, I don't really eat.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: You need own dak eat his fish.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: I love a good salmon and you know, so maybe
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: some fetatinia alfredo.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, very good and a lot about honor.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, last last last thing. Music wise, in your ears,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: you're listening to who the most.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: I don't know if y'all know him, but her name
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: is no Cat, No cap Yep, that's his name, No Cat.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I'll have to look at I'll have to look him up.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: We'll do some research.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: I have to just looked him up.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll look him up. So that's that's that's your guy.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: That's my that's my that's my guy. To him a lot.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, now here, because I got one more thing. You said,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: last last thing. It's really not last thing.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: We're doing a bunch of last We can do this
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: all day. Honestly, we keep going. It has to be
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: the last thing you heard.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: I heard that you want to and I don't know
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: why you would want to do this, but you want
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: to head into broadcasting at some point that where you're headed.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: I mean, you keep.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Playing as long as you can, right, Can we just
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: say that, Can we give that piece of advice? You
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: just keep playing as long as you can?
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to tell you, yes.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: We'll take care of the rest will come.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: The rest will come after, and he'll be a good
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: broadcaster when he wants to. Oh yeah, whenever the time comes.
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: Absolutely, absolutely, you'll be like Richard Jefferson kind of like
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: kind of a funny you know, analyst guy that play
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: by play color commed something like any dogs.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Stick stick with the color.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: So I'm looking here. I looked it up.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: So uh.
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: Studio albums, mister Crawford and before I disappear again? Yeah,
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: is that right?
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: You got you gotta add you gotta add one more.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: You got to add one more to your list? Country
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Roads John Denver.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Me.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: I mean I've learned the lyrics a little bit as
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: we as you know, get deeper into.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: My Yeah, get those words down, you'll be singing that.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: When you get your w's, you're gonna sing that song.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: You're gonna like that song.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I should say that was my favorite song.
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: That's alright, you guys good?
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Great, I mean we could go. We'll have him
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: back again. Let's yeah, we'll do that. We won't keep
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: you all day today. We will have you back again
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: soon as you get down and get him in studio.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: When you come into town, we'll hook up and we'll
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: see you here sooner. Enjoy your off time here again.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Congratulations on the championship, Congratulations on becoming a Mountaineer, and
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: you were absolutely fantastic. Thanks so much on it. We
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: do appreciate it.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you guys for having me obviously when I
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: get down there.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: Thanks.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: There was Honor Huff new member of the Mountaineer basketball team.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: He's going to be a fan favorite starting and when
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: we post this, because that's what he's going to start,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: being a fan favorite. That was an A plus plus interview.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: He is light years ahead of the game here.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean he's got usage rate. Yeah, are you
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: kidding me? He knows his stuff. He knows his game.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: That's a wow.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: He knows his game.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: That is one of the in this new environment that
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: we talk about a lot, and you say, oh my gosh,
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: guys are gone, and they are and you miss guys.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: But then you get a chance to meet new guys
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: and you think, oh, this guy is gonna be fun.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's a great point.
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: And this is instantly a guy where you're like, Okay, God,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: I can't wait to watch this guy. Yeah right, this
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: is that's an easy guy to root for.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: You, Yes, right, exactly. It's fun. Good good, get Tony good,
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: get well.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do a let's hit the music for spreads on Stats.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to do one in honor of honor.
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  Speaker 5: Oh very good.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: We've got some additional numbers for you that will break down.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: So you want to do a Spreads on Stats, Like, Now,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: by the way, Hoppy's got numbers. He hasn't even done
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: obvious observations.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to do that first?
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: You want to go he's got to go ahead.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Well, he's got tax numbers. Go ahead, we can do
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: that first. Would you like to do that first? Fine?
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Sure, sure, happy's obvious observations. Obviously, don't have a sponsor.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: Obviously.
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: You know how I've been obsessed by the money and
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: all this.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've noticed.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: Okay, So the first question is what are the what
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: are the athletes going to be?
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: Are they going to be traditional employees and W two employees.
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: Are they going to be ten ninety nine independent contractors?
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: They're going to be independent contract big debate. Yeah, and
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: actually there's a lot suit going on now affecting that.
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: That so that that's, like everything else, unsettled. But WU
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: plans to make them contract employees. Okay, So this may
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: come as a shock to them, to some of them,
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: but there will be a tax liability associated with that
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: regardless of what they are. But so I ran this
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: is don't take this as gospel. Take this as just
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: a general idea. So let's say you're a ten ninety
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: nine employee. Let's say you're you're standout athlete at West
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: Virginia and bread You're going to be paid in revenue
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: sharing five hundred thousand.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: Dollars five hundred five hundred, okay, all right.
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: So first of all, you have your federal income tax
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: that you have to pay, and everything above two hundred
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: and forty three thousand dollars is taxed at the highest rate,
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: which is thirty five percent. All right, So it's not
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: thirty five percent on everything, but everything above two hundred
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: and forty three thousand dollars. So, in just the federal
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: income tax, if you're paid five hundred with one thousand dollars.
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: Your federal income tax comes heater is about one hundred
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: and thirty two thousand dollars.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: So my five hundred just went to uh.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: Five hundred. I'm going to give you the number.
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: Now you add in the other taxes social Security and medicare.
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: You have to pay those, the self employment taxes, right,
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: So again rough numbers, that comes out to about thirty
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: eight thousand dollars.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so how are we doing right now?
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: So now you got five hundred thousand, you take out
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: the income tax, you take out Sociecruity, Medicare, you're down
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: to three thirty.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, keep going.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: Okay. Now you also have to pay state income taxes.
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah okay.
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: And state income taxes aren't arn as onerous, arenas onerous.
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: But above sixty thousand dollars you're paying like five percent
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: at the highest level. So a rough estimate is about
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: twenty five thousand dollars. So takeout so you take three thirty,
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: you take out twenty five thousand dollars. So what is
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: that Now you're three hundred five thousand dollars. Now do
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: you have an agent? Here we go, Honor, talk about
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: an agent.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: Most agents are paid somewhere between ten and twenty percent.
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: So I took fifteen percent. Fifteen percent of five hundred
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: thousand is seventy five thousand. So now, if you take
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: out federal taxes, if you take out and that is
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: self employment taxes, income taxes, you take out state taxes.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: You take out your payment to your.
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: Agent, you're down to about two hundred and thirty thousand
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: out of five hundred now and.
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: Still get pretty good.
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: But the point is that you got a lot of
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: five hundred and eight five hundred. Okay, now, supposedly WV
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: you and I think most institutions are going to have
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: a program to help you understand this and help help
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: you get through this. But it's going to be a
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: shock to the system for anybody who hasn't made a
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: lot of money things. Okay, I got five hundred thousand dollars,
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: Well you don't, you don't you You're going to have
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: to pay your share and more. That's a big number,
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: and a big numbers. Tax higher probably gonna end up
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: with about half of that.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: It's great point, and I think looking ahead, there's gonna
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: be some seriously bad situations coming up because I think
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: some won't understand that and won't pay the taxes, and
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: down the road, it's gonna lead.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: To a lot of problems.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: That's one and two.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Like you took five hundred thousand dollars and you gnawed
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: that thing down to about what about half? Yeah?
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: About two?
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, Obviously that's not generational wealth, right, And if you
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: do not spend that judiciously, Like if you just took
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: all of that and parked it and said I'm not
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: touching it for the fifteen years, probably do you probably
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: can retire a little bit earlier than you normally would.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: But that if you pissed that away, which unfortunately we
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: see it happen all the time in the professional leagues,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be your your end. Some will be a
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: really it will be a pain.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: But do you know who else pisses money away?
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: Everybody else?
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: People in America? Everything you just outline, and there is
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: nothing that everybody's not going through. And there's a lot
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: of college graduates that aren't making the net two hundred
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: thousand for the year that you just mentioned right there.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: It's still a heck of an opportunity here for some
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: of these folks. And yeah, they have to pay taxes,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: but so is the person coming out of college two
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars in debt that's making thirty eight thousands.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm totally align with you. What I'm saying
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: is it's an unbelievable opportunity if you handle it wisely.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: That's my point. It's it can be life changing if
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: you handle it wise. Yeah, I agree, and some will
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: and some won't. Yeah, well, welcome of the world.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well it is.
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: But it's a shock to the system. I think that that,
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: Like you said, Tony, if you took that and you said, okay,
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: I'm I'm gonna put a portion of that. I'm twenty
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: three years old, twenty two years old. I'm want to
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: put a big chunk of that into the market. Don't
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: pay attention to what's happening today, but put in a market,
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: and forty years from now you're set.
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: But but if you get let's say you get two
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: hundred fifty thousand dollars net two or fifty thousand dollars net,
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: and you're a singe or to last year of eligibility,
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: that may be your biggest earning year ever. It may
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: be so whatever, So you cannot have your lifestyle based
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: on that. Okay, that's where these pro athletes get into
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: trouble where they overextend and after a couple of years
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: they're not making what they were. So it just gets
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: back to basics and being wise with the money. But
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: the point being is that we these numbers are tossed around.
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: This guy's getting five undred thousand, the guy's getting a million,
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: and yeah, that's really good money, which most people that
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: age aren't getting vast majority of on getting. But also
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: there are there are tax liabilities that come with that
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: thatdobe obligated to pay.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Be like everybody in America. There'll be some that do
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: very well and set themselves up, there'll be others that
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: are just towed the line, and there'll be others that'll
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: get themselves in debt. Won't won't be any It won't
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: be any different than the rest of the general population
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: that spends a lot of its time in debt.
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: Oh just want to make that note, Yeah, okay, just
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: for the heck of it.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you took two hundred and fifth dollars and
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: you didn't touch it, put it in a in a
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: low cost s and p five hundred three percent.
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: Would you do three percent? No, would you do five?
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: And just did what it does? I mean it's a
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: it's a ten percent annual return over the history of
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: the S and P five. Yeah, all right, So if
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: you never touched it again thirty years so let's say
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: a kid graduate twenties twenty two. Okay, when you're fifty
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: two years old, you would have three point two million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be more difficult, It'll be more difficult. It's it's a.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't want to put a number on them.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be more difficul it'll be a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: This is in honor of Honor. We mentioned the made
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: most threes in the country. That's a big deal.
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  Speaker 5: Guys.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: That's of all the players that played last year, Hopey,
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  Speaker 2: he made the most threes. I appreciate that. That's I
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  Speaker 2: think you wrap up the segment right there.
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: We'll just leave it.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: That's a heck of an addition to this roster. And
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: I think you heard him talk about his game, and
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: that's what's interesting, is talking about being self aware. I
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: mentioned that eighty percent three point at tenth rate last year.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: He mentioned his his roommate there at Chattanooga. They had
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: a dynamic backcourt right there, so they had what the
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: one his buddy was great at getting to the ram
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: and kicking, and Honor became the guy that could stay
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: out at the three point line and him down. But
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: he does have more game than just the three. He
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: was fifth overall in the Southern Conference in points per possession,
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: so really efficient too. Made all those shots. Here's here's
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: a couple numbers to watch this one. This one fascinated me.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: He was third in the Southern Conference and points per
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: possession on spot up jumpers. So when he got to
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: his spot, caught the ball, got it up. He was
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: forty four percent from three on spot up jumpers. All right,
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: hopy ready, yep. He made seventy six threes. Seventy six
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: of his made threes were on spot ups. So for
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: some context, last year, Javon had twenty made threes on
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: spot ups, Amani had twenty, Joe had twenty one, so
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: he had more than Javon, Amani and Joe combined in
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: terms of just spot up threes. JP led West Virginia
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: had thirty nine spot up threes. Honor made seventy six.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: Again adjusted for level of competition, but that's an unbelievable number.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, he was filling it forty I was wrong.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: I told him he was fifty percent from three against
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: the zone. Is forty eight percent and three against the zone,
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: so you're not going to get a lot of zone
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: when he's in the game. Forty six percent from three
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: when left on guarded on a catch and shoot, so
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: nearly fifty percent. Tremendous. Obviously, forty four percent from three
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: out of a pick and roll, So that'll be something
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: you'll see come Ross likes to do some isolation, puts
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: you in pick and roll forty four percent doing that,
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: and watch him coming out of timeouts fifty one percent
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: from three out of timeouts. West Virginia was super successful
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: in that last year with Javon. He was over fifty
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: percent from three coming out of timeouts and baseline out
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: of bounds most of the season. I mentioned to honor
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: their thirty seven threes in his final eight games of
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: the season, so he got blistering hot when it mattered.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: He had some games where he was just unbelievable. Listen
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: to these numbers against high major teams the last couple
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: of years. So hope you ask about how it translates up.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: Here's some games. Here's three games that he had against
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: high major teams. Tell me if this works. He made
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: five threes against usc last year, finished with seventeen points.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: He went six of twelve from three against Indiana last year,
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: had twenty points. He led all scores in the game
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: either side. He had more threes in that game than
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: Indiana did as a team in a game they lost,
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: but it was closed. They pushed Indiana at Indiana in
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: Bloomington against Louisville in twenty three, twenty four. Now I
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: realized that was a struggling Louisville team, but Honor went
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: in there to Louisville, dropped seven threes on them, put
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: up twenty five in an eighty one seventy one win.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: So I think his ability is going to translate up.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: He's going to have to expand the offensive game. And
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: that's why it was interesting to hear him floaders. He
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: knows that, right, he's got that. He did more of
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: that the year before. His ability to cross guys up,
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: You're gonna see, there's gonna be some moments, Tony. I
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: did this with Javon last year, just unintentionally. It just
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: happened where you just start laughing because he's going to
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: put some guys on skates, cross them over and get
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: an open look, or go buy him for a floater.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Excited to watch him.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: A little that New York little, that New York guards stuff. Yeah.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: He also in twenty three twenty four had four to
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: threes fifteen against Auburn. So there's his four games against
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: high majors double figures in each, multiple threes in each.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: He translated, right up now again, you got to do
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: it night in and night out. There's no letup, and
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: it comes every single night at you. But he's shown
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: an ability to go up against these teams.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: When you've watched tape of him, does he have the
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: New York City Truck Bryant head snap back?
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Did not do the head snap, did not do the
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: head snap. Did not do that as much as as Truck,
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: I mean perfected that art.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Wonderful, Yeah, absolutely wonderful. This is gonna be fun. So
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: they're here in a month and they'll get it cranked up.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: First couple of days of June. They'll be on the
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: floor put the pieces together. It's kind of wild process.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. A couple other notes on I mentioned that evanmia
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• 49:43
  Speaker 2: using some of the numbers. He's listed as the thirty
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: thirty first best offensive value in the portal this year
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: by Evan Maya out of whatever twenty one hundred kids
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: in the portal. So this is an elite offensive guy.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: And you heard him mention right there how many calls
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: he got coming in And this wasn't mid major.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: It was pretty wild, wasn't it. He sat on his
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: couch from eleven until seven.
• 50:03
  Speaker 6: I think that's that's significant too, because it's such a
• 50:06
  Speaker 6: scramble and he he was not a hidden guy, you know,
• 50:10
  Speaker 6: he wasn't everybody knew about him and West Virginia got him.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: It's also pretty wild, isn't it that while they were
• 50:17
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  Speaker 1: NI tea and we said, like, relax, there's things that
• 50:35
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• 50:38
  Speaker 1: and already starting the conversations to get things, to get
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: things rolling. Could he become perfect scenario. I'm not saying him,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying esque, l J. Cryer esque.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: That's a good one. Yeah, right, Yeah, that's a really
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: good one.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think so too.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: That's a good Yeah, you're right. If he gets to
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: that level, I mean, you've hit it a Grand Slam
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: home run, but that's a good comparison and a smaller
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: guard that's an elite shooter. You can't leave him open
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: for a second. You can't go onto the screen or
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: he's gonna punish you. And then you saw Cryer add
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: to his game the ability to put it on the floor.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: That's a really big comparison. Yeah, one, maybe not a
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: big difference, but a difference.
• 51:13
  Speaker 6: We talked about the difference from where he was to
• 51:14
  Speaker 6: where he is, and that is you think of javan
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: And I mean Javon just took like assault and battery
• 51:20
  Speaker 6: all year.
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: I mean just was was beaten, beaten down.
• 51:23
  Speaker 6: And this is a guy that and he talked about
• 51:27
  Speaker 6: Honor talked about. Yeah, some teams were playing on I
• 51:29
  Speaker 6: knew it was all good, not a problem. But I mean,
• 51:32
  Speaker 6: you know Tony every night, every night, it's just going
• 51:35
  Speaker 6: to be a battle.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: And if teams and if they're worried about this guy's three,
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  Speaker 6: it's gonna be all over him.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: The word that you just used. We haven't had a
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: guy in a bit right that like it touches his
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: hands and it's up and gone and you're afraid, right,
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: A lot of it's been working guys to get their
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: feet said like this is the kind of guy up gone, boom.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: Stevenson might be the closest. And there were times when
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  Speaker 2: Eric would get going that you were like, get the
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  Speaker 2: ball to get going, get going. But this I'm with you.
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  Speaker 2: This guy as soon as he steps across half court,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be a catch. He's going to catch
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  Speaker 2: it and the coliseum's going to stand up at any moment.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he can drop you seven threes in a
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  Speaker 2: game like that. This isn't a guy where you're going
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• 52:25
  Speaker 2: is a guy that there'll be some nights he'll he'll
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  Speaker 2: up against level of competition, but just for argument's sake,
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  Speaker 2: in the eighty nine point six percentile nationally. That would
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  Speaker 2: hundred and five points per one hundred possessions. Defensive grade
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  Speaker 2: came out as a B plus, allowing just ninety one
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: points per one hundred possessions. Last year's elite West Virginia
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  Speaker 2: defensive team Hoby Top twenty defensive team all year, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: allowed ninety nine points per one hundred possessions, so this
• 56:31
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• 56:34
  Speaker 2: B steals B plus, blocks B plus with that lineup,
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  Speaker 2: pretty good? Pretty good? Yeah, I might try and work
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  Speaker 1: Jen Dill's Attorneys at Law. They won't take no for
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: an answer.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: Hold on one other note before you hit it. Sure
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: congratulations to Joe YESAFU. How about that Jeff Goodman reporting
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: last night he will be named as an assistant code
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: coach for the Campbell Camels. So Joe going right into
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: coaching as he wraps up here at West Virginia. So
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: that's awesome, what a great what a great guy he was,
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: and excited for him to begin his career. I mean
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: he just took like eight steps up the ladder.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, most of the times that starts as a ga
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: and then you gotta just like bang around in order.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: To mean guys.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: Started as an assistant coach.
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  Speaker 5: Awesome, good for him, he's thirty four.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: He was a great kid. He was enjoyable, very good,
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: high quality kids. So congratulations to Joe. Time now for
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: textual healing. You give us a call three oh four,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: four oh four forty eighty three. Three oh four four
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: four forty eighty three. Unfortunately forgot the number. Excuse me,
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: textual healing number. I'm going in there to find looking
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: Phil's today and ran into a long time Three Guys listener, right,
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: Griff Cotter, and he said, hey, longtime listener, and I
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: know his dad. Now you know his dad, Hoppy Tim Cotter.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Remember Tim Cotter? Yeah, well Tim's and Bridgeport. So I
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: had my picture made out there in the Daniels parking
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: lot with Griff. We spun around because we need to
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: get the sun in their face. And when, just by chance,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: when we spun around, that Daniel's sign was right there boom,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: right behind us. He said he was going to text
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: it in but we didn't know the number. So anyway
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: you read it, I don't pay attention okay, three oh
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: four four four forty eighty three.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 5: Shocker.
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  Speaker 6: It's sort of like you weren't. You weren't sitting there,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 6: so it didn't occur to you, like you're you're not
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 6: in the right context.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 5: The number.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe for Griff next time he runs into somebody,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: that'll that's somebody that's on the show that would know
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: the number today, although I don't know that I would
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: know either. I would either number, what number? What are
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: you talk? The goodness everybody out there listening.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: First off, starting with gifts for you two clowns, Rev keV. Oh,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Rev keV wanted me to give you these now Brad
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: knows hats. These are Richardson's Richardson hats and they're really nice, Revkev.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: Look at that logo. Thank you Jake, that's nice, Revkev. Anyway,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: he had a great event here go. He had a
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: great event on Saturday. He did barbecue at the baseball game.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: And I went over there. I bought me some and
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: bunch and then vacuum sealed it and rewarmed it afterwards,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: Gold you know, goes over there too.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: Ren got some the Richardson hat. That's what our official
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: three guys hats are yeah for sale episode EPISO Yeah.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: Absolutely Texter Perth, Australia, excuse me, just wrapped up an
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: extended business trip here down Under. Final meetings are done,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: bags packed now soaking in the last bits of sunshine
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: before heading home. With all the buzz around both programs,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: I'm fired up for WV football and Hoops this season.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: A lot has changed, could be chaos, could be magic,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: but either way it won't be born. I caught an
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: Aussie rules football match while I was here. Best way
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: I can describe it picture when a punter botches the snap,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: scrambles like mad to get a squib pun off before
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: getting blowed up. That's basically every other play electric for
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: this Continent's rate my plate. Here's an AUSSI take on
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: chicken palm what they call chicken parmie. Same concept is
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: back home, but they put a slice of ham tucked
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: between the chicken and the cheese, served with chips fries
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: for US Americans an absolute unit of.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: A meal, favorite meal of speaking of punters.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: Chicken parmie. So they put a piece of ham in there,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: and that looks really good, by the way, he says. PS.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Brian Chandler Arizona. I've got a stash of Australian delights
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: for you guys, headed Tony's way at the coach's caravan,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: looking forward to handing them off in person. He'll be
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: up at the wheeling event.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: Hope none of it's that vegemite stuff.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: Then I can keep that. Don't like Texter, guys. I
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: love Hoppy, always have, always will. He is the face
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: of West Virginia Radio and he's a comfort to me
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: when he's on. I can't tell you how hard I
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: laughed when he said Alderson broad Us instead of Adidas.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: Bless the sweet old man. Love the show. Thanks for everything.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know it bothered me.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 5: I don't know where that came from.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: Don't let it bother you.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: It happens.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 6: I mean, I make these notes and then I get
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 6: I get into them, and I get deep, and then
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 6: I'm all nervous that you guys are gonna jump in
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 6: and not.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 5: Let me finish.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: Don't do that, don't try. Don't try and put it
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: on us when you have a gaff, don't try and
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: immediately get yourself out of your own gaff by trying
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: on us. Not accepted.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 5: I think it was because I was nervous because of
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 5: you guys.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah I did.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 5: I did look at it and go like, where did
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 5: that come from? Why did I even remember? Alders?
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you blurt stuff out.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 5: What's that?
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not enormal, it's not it's not unnatural.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you just blurt stuff out that's wrong. I do
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: know people in general. I'll retell you that story. One
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: time we drove, we drove down to the beach. We
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: drove down to the beach, so it's like ten hours.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: I drove the whole thing, right, and then I'm tired.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm done. And my wife says, here is
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: when the kids are little, read Harry Potter to him,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: read like two chapters of Harry Potter to him.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 5: True.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm reading Harry Potter. I basically fall asleep
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: while I'm reading. And they said, they said, I'm like,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going and then you know that is that Hermione said,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: And I like, I go down, and I just blurted out.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: College football, what you're talking about?
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: They just like put me away.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 5: I thought you would have.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 6: Said Hermione first, intend for Hermione with the football.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: Here's Hermione a gain of five yards text her, I
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: found this at a go Mart. Take a look at this.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: Have you seen these?
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 5: Oh? I haven't seen that.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: What is that?
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: Peanut butter jelly? I do that great big cup?
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: Awesome?
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 5: I don't, I don't. I don't see that.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: You don't like that?
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: I think it would be good, great the sweet works
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: pain by your jelly sandwich.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 5: Yes, like yeah, tackle tackle by Potter.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: Here's Voldemore to costa left side. He who should not
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: be named boy. They had what were those death suckers
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: than that thing?
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: Like?
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah? They where they look it up. They'd be great
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: on they'd be great on defense. At corner they'd take
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: like nothing. Yeah, come on down here, death eaters, you
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: might go down across the middle. You come back.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: This is a post from Facebook. Mark your calendar for
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: this day. Did you know this? This is tomorrow. We're
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: recording on the twenty fourth, the twenty fifth, the way
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: that the moon is going to sit and a couple
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: of stars is going to make a smiley face in
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: the sky.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: Really, that's what it says. Could be a lie, don't know.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: Now it's on Facebook. It's true.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 5: Death Theaters.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: Death Theaters put a death theater at corner. Come my
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: note here, Yeah, you want to run that out route.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: Texter.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: Is a great day to be a mountaineer. Another weekend
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: sweet by the guys at the ballpark. With the way
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: mountaineer a nation has been coming out and showing support,
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: Reren may have to look at putting some seats down
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: the red field line on the bank. Jeff and Scott depot.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: You know, that is something we talked about this a
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: little on Sportline Hoppy. Some schools like Penn State the
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: other night, all time attendance record for WV baseball over
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: six thousand, but they don't charge. So Brad was saying,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: like it's always been a fundamental question within athletic departments
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: if in Olympic sports you don't charge and should try
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: to get more people in. However, this is kind of
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: sort of like that, but not really like that. Like
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: one of the values right now that they have going
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: at Kendrick Family Ballpark is that there is quote unquote
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: some degree of scarcity for the tickets, and I think
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: there's value to that, and I would be surprised if
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: they do anything unless it was just absolutely ninety five
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: percent filled every single game, because there's value in scarcity.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: From Yeah, you're exactly right from a sales and PR perspective.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: You like the narrative out there that it's hard to
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: get tickets when West Frames playing a baseball game. That
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: has become a tough ticket, which is really good for
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: the value proposition of the program and really remarkable, guys,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: that's where that program is. Over eleven thousand people there
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: through the doors last weekend, which was a series record,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: so just record after record after record, So a lot
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: of fun out there.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: They're going to be in Charleston to play Marshall this
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: coming week and there's like very few tickets.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 5: Remaining lost at Penn State game. It was came back
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 5: here say nothing. Came back lost three too.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: Texter her I'm emailing this, so this came in by
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: an email. I'd like to share a story about my
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: best man, the Boston Marathon, and of course a West
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: Virginia connection or seven. I've talked about my best friend,
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: Adam Townshend before. He's a Buckneil Notre Dame grad whose
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: family roots run deep in West Virginia. Adam's father, originally
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: from Parkersburg, had the honor of being the Mountaineer mascot
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy, his mother's from Wheeling. She still holds land
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: and gas rights there today, of course she does. The
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: two met on the prt at WVU, a love story
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: that has blossomed into over forty years of marriage. Now
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: living in Grand Rapids, where Adam also resides with his wife, Gretchen,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: three beautiful children, Hartley, Kathleen, and Leo. Adam and I
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: met nineteen ninety six Mount Lebanon High School. Chris Herring
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: was the teacher and had football coach at the time,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: now on the Mountaineer staff. We became friends that year
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: stayed close ever since. Ironically, when Herring's nineteen eighty eight
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer team lost to Notre Dame, Adams's grandmother from Whillelan
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: shun Coach Holts forever with all due respect to coach Holtz,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: even as her grandson attended Notre Dame Law school. Fast
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: forward this past Monday, Adam participates in his seventh full marathon,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: and not just any the Boston Marathon. It was the
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: first time for him running in Boston. Conquered the legendary
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: course with an impressive time of three hours, fourteen minutes,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: earning an automatic qualification for next year's event. The Boston
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: Marathon wasn't just about the run. It was about an
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: overwhelming sense of pride and community that transcended anything I've experienced.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: It was an event that celebrated resilience, dedication, and connection,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: much like West Virginia shows every day. We're also incredibly
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: proud of Adam for his continued accomplishments. Now for the
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: connection to the race, checkout Adam's shirt choice for his
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: post race attire. He's got a three guys shirt on
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: always a West Virginia connection. Indeed awesome. Signed by Mike
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: from Oakdale.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: What was his time in the Boston Marathon fourteen fourteen?
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: An on that qualifier?
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, well done Adam. Congratulations, that's a great story.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: Appreciate me.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: Thanks Mike John from Nashville Wrights. I was very sorry
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: to hear of the passing of West Virginia native Mark
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: Mike Patrick. I know he had tremendous love for his
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: hometown of Clarksburg and WV. I'm wondering if any of
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: you had interactions or memories with Mike over the years. Yeah, absolutely,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: hop you did. I did, and it sounds kind of
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: trite when someone passes where you say, like he was
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: a great guy, right, it's just like, yeah, it's like
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: that's the throwaway line. He truly was a wonderful, just
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: a great, great guy. Underrated broadcaster. Yes, we had Kevin
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: Kyleie on Sportslane this week, and he's right. He should
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: be in the Hall of Fame. Yeah, he should be
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: in the Broadcasting Hall of Fame. He's absolutely just a wonderful,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: wonderful guy. Tony.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 6: I knew him some, I mean I ran across some
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 6: a number of times, and but he was the kind
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 6: of guy I never met a stranger and was proud
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 6: of his West Virginia connections and a really great guy.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 6: Everybody said the same thing was absolutely true.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 5: And you look at his career. He did everything everything.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: Yes he did, Yes, he did baseball, he did football.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: I mean the biggest, biggest events sure, first NFL, first
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: play by play announcer on ESPNSPN for NFL, Yes, thirty
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: ACC rearly twenty years, YEP, thirty ACC championships and a
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: heck of a booth. Paul McGuire, Joe Thaisman and Mike Patrick.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: Did the College World Series for.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: Years, Women's final four for years. Yeah, he was. He
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: was tremendous underrated because he didn't look for the limelight.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: He was a guest. If you go back and search.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: We had him on three guys. It was a number
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: of years ago. Might have been might have been COVID
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: year if you're taken. But he was a He was
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: a guest if you want to go back and get
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: a little more for from Mike, he was a super guy.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 6: By the way, that marathon time, that that means he
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 6: ran seven minutes and twenty four seconds per mile for
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 6: twenty six Wow.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 5: That's it's that's that's running. That's running. That's not jogging.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 5: That's running. Well done.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: Why am I thinking we're missing something?
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: We probably are because because we usually do.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: Was there something else we we're supposed to do anything else? Looking?
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: Uh looking?
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: Uh oh yeah, there's something about popcorn. Yeah, there's news
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: about popcorn.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: It's okay, you do that?
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 4: Do that?
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: You get that? Because I saw that. I thought that
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: came up there we got news on popcorn. Oh yeah,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: so what is this? He said, what is all this?
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: What what do you.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: Okay? So the new the new popcorn is out.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: Mark Boulger, hold on, do the Popcorn for a second
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: Orders begin shipping tomorrow as this is the new home
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: Run three oh four. Yes, we have a runner headed
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: to shepherds Down to pick up the first batch of orders,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: so those were be shipped tomorrow. There's a photo here
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: the final product. Does Jake have that?
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: Jake's not on this. No, no, we'll use that next episode.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: Okay, we'll get it next time.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: But the new home Run three or four popcorn from
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer Popcorn is available. It's on our website at episode
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: three hundred dot com.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: That's gonna be good.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, glad we worked this out before the show and.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: Then well why would we want to do that? Start now.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: Mark Boulger, Yeah, so he was on a charity golf
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: event that he ended up winning. The thing, Mark shot,
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: Mark Stunner, Mark Stunny is good at it and it
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: it picked up twenty five thousand dollars for WVU Children's Okay,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: so he donated part of that, and then his foundation,
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: his foundation's matching another twenty five with that, so he's
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: given fifty grand. That's what. Yeah, thanks Mark, and thank
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: that's awesome. Continues to do do well at.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: Popcorn looks awesome. That's really good. Last one. I got
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: a question about this one here porn does look that
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: logan from Louisbourg.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: Have a little chocolate and carmel in there.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: It's going to be dope. I told Homeless Dave to
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: bring some in here.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: It's coming. He's going to get it. He doesn't understand
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: he's going to bring it in. We'll have it for
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: the next show.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: Well, he had a situation there last time. Did he
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: hear about the situation the cabin? No, Yeah, he's got
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  Speaker 1: that cabin down there Monroe County. And he had a visitor,
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  Speaker 1: unexpected visitor overnight Saturday night.
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  Speaker 4: What was it?
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  Speaker 3: A bear?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? Really, and the bear he had a trail camp.
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  Speaker 1: The bear got up on his hind legs, took down
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  Speaker 1: his bird feeder and it looked it looked like he
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  Speaker 1: was going. It looked like a slam dunk by like
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  Speaker 1: a like a big center. My guy was up and
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  Speaker 1: he snapped. He just bent the hell out of the
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  Speaker 1: pole and took the bird feeder with him. Really, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: big bear, big old snout on him.
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  Speaker 5: Did what do they do?
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  Speaker 2: Just locked him?
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  Speaker 1: No, he wasn't there. He was just watching it. He
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  Speaker 1: was watching He was just watching it from afar, but
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  Speaker 1: he had to go up and clean up that whole mass.
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  Speaker 1: That bear was around here and knocking stuff around. That's
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  Speaker 1: what But he says, you know, Dave always is very generous.
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  Speaker 6: Why don't you come down stay at the cabin, and
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  Speaker 6: every time all cabin stories are about a bear or
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  Speaker 6: a snake or something, I mean about wildlife.
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  Speaker 1: He hates snakes. He said that he would rather see
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  Speaker 1: the bear than a snake. I think I might too, Nah, Texter,
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  Speaker 1: this is Logan. I got a situation with Logan. I
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  Speaker 1: hope you all had to go to Easter. We celebrated
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  Speaker 1: the holiday. This past Sunday was my dad's seventy first birthday.
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  Speaker 1: victory and they clapped and cheered for Steve Slayton. I
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  Speaker 1: figured I could at least show this new generation the
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 6: Mountaineer fans are known to kneel and pray.
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  Speaker 1: So mom and dad go pick up a little Sparky
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  Speaker 1: I think fantastic. He hit his first big shot as
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  Speaker 2: He stuck a three.
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