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3 Guys WVU Basketball Review Cincinnati / Preview Kansas (Episode 688) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Hey, hey, everybody, it's time for your favorite, my favorite,
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  Speaker 1: everyone's favorite. It's time for three guys before the game.
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  Speaker 2: We welcome you in.
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  Speaker 1: It's episode number six hundred and eighty eight, and once
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  Speaker 1: again we're doing a review, recap and a preview to
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  Speaker 1: look back at West Virginia's victory over the Cincinnati Bearcats
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  Speaker 1: and look ahead to Saturday's noontime showdown against the visiting
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  Speaker 1: Jayhawks of Kansas. Oh my, Hoppy's in looking absolutely debonair
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  Speaker 2: All right, like a little tutors right now with my
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  Speaker 2: game day grind. It'd be nice, wouldn't I almost brought you,
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  Speaker 3: You don't need to so I shouldn't know because you're
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  Speaker 3: we owe you about one hundred of them.
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  Speaker 2: That's all right. I'm never sorry for anything I gave away.
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  Speaker 2: Very nice, hopey, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: we could use the theme. All right, So let's jump
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  Speaker 1: in here. West Virginia a victory over the Cincinnati Bearcats
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  Speaker 1: earlier this week Tuesday Night at Hope Coliseum. Interesting game
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  Speaker 1: in the sense that it had some drama, had some
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  Speaker 1: drama the Hometowners. Hometowners went up by double digits in
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  Speaker 1: the excuse me in the first half. Hope, this doesn't
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia goes up thirteen in the first half. It
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  Speaker 1: settles in closer at halftime than West Virginia again leads
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  Speaker 1: for the large chunk of the second half. But the
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  Speaker 1: visitors from the Queens City they come out there and
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  Speaker 1: they spurt. They go eleven zero and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia's lead gone and now deficit. Then the World
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  Speaker 1: champions they say, we got a situation here. And the
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  Speaker 1: two big three pointer guys. I'm using basketball terms here.
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  Speaker 2: I'd never heard that before.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the three that's what it says on the stats,
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  Speaker 1: on the scouting on the other team. Three pointer guys.
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  Speaker 1: The three pointer guys both on are Huff, Both on
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  Speaker 1: are Huff and Trey Eaglestaff.
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  Speaker 3: Let's or guys and tonight one of the keys. You've
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  Speaker 3: got to watch their three pointer guys.
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  Speaker 2: You know what was weird was hearing you in the
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  Speaker 2: play by play. I had to catch myself the situation
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  Speaker 2: when you're talking about Sincere Harris, like, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: who's got the ball? Oh wait a minute, he plays
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  Speaker 2: for the other team. Now, yeah, no, you're right. That
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  Speaker 2: was kind of weird. It was weird. Yeah, it was weird.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, the three pointer guys on our trade stef hit
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  Speaker 3: memorable three pointers each.
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  Speaker 2: I got some observations about that.
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  Speaker 1: Good, because that's what three pointer guys do, they skinny with.
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  Speaker 2: As opposed to the two pointers supposed to the more
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  Speaker 2: than two pointer guys down in the low post or
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  Speaker 2: two pointer guys.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, you can make that case. And so West
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  Speaker 1: Virginia then prevails sixty two to sixty a perfect game
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  Speaker 1: of symmetry for West Virginia's offense, scoring thirty one points
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  Speaker 1: in each of the two halves, and West Virginia wins
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  Speaker 1: it badly, badly needed victory for WVU because you obviously
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  Speaker 1: lost at Iowa State, and you're going to be an
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  Speaker 1: underdog tomorrow against Kansas. You're going to be an underdog
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  Speaker 1: next week. Against the Houstons, and then you got the
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  Speaker 1: Buffaloes a week from Saturday coming into the Hope Coliseum.
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  Speaker 2: So you got that.
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  Speaker 1: And then later on of the program, we will preview
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia and the Kansas Jayhawks. And I had a
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  Speaker 1: bizarre finding. Excuse me, bizarre finding. Not quite Indiana Jones level,
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  Speaker 1: but I started to look at last year's box score
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  Speaker 1: when West Virginia beat the Jayhawks for the very first
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  Speaker 1: time inside Allen Fieldhouse, and I said, you know, how
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  Speaker 1: much rost I know the West Virginia's roster has been
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  Speaker 1: completely flipped, but how much by Kansas?
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  Speaker 2: And I was stunned. Stunned.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, they got one player. One player who
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  Speaker 1: played in last year's game will in Saturday's game. Flory,
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  Speaker 1: But Dunga is my favorite favorite, that's one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite names.
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  Speaker 2: Good player.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but Dounga is the only cat that was on
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  Speaker 1: the floor in last year. How so what does that say?
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  Speaker 1: That's by the way, Kansas didn't change coaches. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a coaching change, didn't. I mean, no, they got
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  Speaker 1: one dude.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. Roster reconstruction each year, TBT. What now, no
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  Speaker 2: has more stability?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, TBT is more stable. We strange TBT team this
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  Speaker 3: year brought back more.
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  Speaker 2: They do bring more back. They do bring guys back.
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  Speaker 2: You've got thoughts that sound brand new, but the things
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  Speaker 2: we already knew got his bomb ready heaven No. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I have a lot. I'll try to run through this quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati game very significant for a lot of reasons. One is,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll quote the head ball coach Brad, found a
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  Speaker 2: way to win, true, found a way to win meaningful
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  Speaker 2: because this team had been a similar position in other
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  Speaker 2: games with comparable competition didn't win. Yeah, okay, so found
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  Speaker 2: a way to win. I had that thirteen point lead
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  Speaker 2: in the first half got away. I know you guys
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  Speaker 2: talked about this in broadcast. Turnovers were problem in the
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  Speaker 2: first half. And also coach I talked about this, and
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  Speaker 2: I'll let you guys get into specifics he talks because
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  Speaker 2: they focus on defense. West Virginia. Both teams defensive spacing,
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  Speaker 2: defensive spacing bed. Sometimes there were two guys standing there
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  Speaker 2: and they weren't in the right place, and that's that's
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  Speaker 2: something that is more nuanced. And it's hard to notice
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  Speaker 2: this as an observer, but as a coach you're going
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  Speaker 2: like you're pointing your heal the big shot by Eagle
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  Speaker 2: Staff And at first blush when I saw it, and
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  Speaker 2: listen you guys describe it. I thought, Wow, that was lucky.
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  Speaker 2: But then I caught myself because because yeah, there's some luck.
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  Speaker 2: But as the saying goes, the harder you work, the
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  Speaker 2: luckier you get, the more you practice. The harder you work,
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  Speaker 2: the better chance you have of a shot like that
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  Speaker 2: going in. Agree, and I don't want to interrupt your flow.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, but if you if you.
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  Speaker 3: Do, go back and watch it as you did. He
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  Speaker 3: squares up and got in great shooting for him, that one.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't just chuck that up and he elevated up
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  Speaker 3: over the shorter day day, Thomas right had had an
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  Speaker 3: eight inch.
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  Speaker 2: Height advantage or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: So it was I agree, funny, it was right up
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  Speaker 3: against it and.
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  Speaker 2: Coach Hodge was a great shot. He was right on
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  Speaker 2: the verse. He was about out of the jam, but
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  Speaker 2: then he hit it. Yeah. I also understand that after
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  Speaker 2: the Iowa State game, the coach gave the young man
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  Speaker 2: a stern talking to about their defensive effort and you
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  Speaker 2: saw players on the floor. That was the number one
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  Speaker 2: discussion point after Iowa State. Going it off to the
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  Speaker 2: ball and got on the floor late to get the
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  Speaker 2: ball at a key point in those final four minutes. Correct, right, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and Hodge talked about Coach Odge talked about significances of
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  Speaker 2: making shots down the stretch, which obviously that's big making shots,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on a huff shot and trade shot more
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  Speaker 2: chance more. But also, and again you think about defense,
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  Speaker 2: is that when you make a shot, what does that
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  Speaker 2: give you a chance to do on the other end
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  Speaker 2: to set up your defense? Right? So they really that
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  Speaker 2: was a really good four minutes by West Virginia shutting
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  Speaker 2: them down. And you'll have more on that in scoring
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  Speaker 2: the Kansas game coming up. And again i'll quote coach Hodge,
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  Speaker 2: he says, considering this league, quote, you better take care
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  Speaker 2: of home. You better take care of home. This is
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  Speaker 2: such a good league. And Brad, it's so hard to
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  Speaker 2: win anyway, and hard to win on the road that
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  Speaker 2: you got to take advantage of that home crowd and
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  Speaker 2: will be a big crowd there Saturday. That's going to
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  Speaker 2: give you a boost. So you got to take advantage.
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  Speaker 2: You got to try to win those home games. And
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  Speaker 2: Kansas coming off that incredible historic comeback win over TCU
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  Speaker 2: there were down nine with a minute eleven and came
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  Speaker 2: back and won that game. And Peterson making those three
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  Speaker 2: free throws right at the gun. Now, Tony, this is
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  Speaker 2: going to surprise you. What do you got, well, listen,
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  Speaker 2: get ready, because this is going to shock you. Is
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  Speaker 2: Kansas shot forty free throws compared to twenty four for TCU.
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  Speaker 2: So I just probably doesn't happen very often at Allen, Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure TCU was fouling the young men more often.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they probably are trying to make a conspiracy there.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure TCU committed way more fouls.
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  Speaker 2: It was obvious. Bill self said his team up until
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of minutes. He described his team as palty,
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  Speaker 2: powdy and bad body language powdy. But and this is
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  Speaker 2: worrisome if it's true. He said, the best thing was
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  Speaker 2: the Jayhawks came together as a team. Now, Tony, that's
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  Speaker 2: a problem if this talented team has come together as
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  Speaker 2: a team. So we'll again, we'll find out. Okay, So
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  Speaker 2: that's Kansas. You guys will talk more about that. WU women.
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  Speaker 2: One got away from them against seventeenth rank Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 2: Brady gotta make shots, didn't make shots down the stretch,
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  Speaker 2: didn't make shots. Yeah, had a costly turnover. LA. There's
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  Speaker 2: that in this. This stands out to me. Washington Husky
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  Speaker 2: quarterback demon Demand Demand Williams. Demand Williams says he's entering
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  Speaker 2: the transfer portal, even though four days earlier he signed
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  Speaker 2: a contract with the Huskies. Estimate to be worth four
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  Speaker 2: million dollars. He walked that back. Now he's staying. Now
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  Speaker 2: he walked he did.
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  Speaker 3: That's a that's a that's not just an afterthought point here, guys,
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  Speaker 3: that's a that's a major story in college sports.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a big There were a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: People watching what was going to happen with that based
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  Speaker 3: on contracts and where we are in that situation. So
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  Speaker 3: the fact that he's staying, I think there's some tony
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  Speaker 3: within the industry that feels that's a victory for trying
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  Speaker 3: to get some stability in this thing. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 3: that that was your team cohesion now coming back into
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  Speaker 3: the mix after you've tried to leave it. What a
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  Speaker 3: what a weird situation. But that wasn't just a throw
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  Speaker 3: in headline or a throw in story or that's a
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  Speaker 3: headliner story.
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  Speaker 2: The contract said the contract and Washington looked like they
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  Speaker 2: were in good shape on this because the contract said
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  Speaker 2: that there was a buyout that left it at the
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  Speaker 2: sole discretion of Washington, and the contract said that the
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  Speaker 2: institution is not obligated to enter the student athlete into
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  Speaker 2: the transferred portal. Otherwise his sister facilitate the student athlete
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  Speaker 2: to transfer. So it looked like, oh, yeah, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to transfer until the lawyer said, well, let's look at
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  Speaker 2: the four corners of the document as they say no.
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  Speaker 1: To Brad's point, it's precedent setting because we've got to
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  Speaker 1: have some of these challenges and it has to go
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  Speaker 1: toward the university to try to slow down this craziness.
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  Speaker 1: And it's basically it's like a scene out of the Clumps. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: I mean they said you want you really you want
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  Speaker 1: said you walk over, you're going to live back, and
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  Speaker 1: so he limped back.
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  Speaker 3: That's reportedly to a big ten template contract. So this
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  Speaker 3: was a Washington issue, but it was much larger than that.
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  Speaker 3: Other schools are using that same template, and that's a
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  Speaker 3: big moment right there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the schools in are getting smarter about how they
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  Speaker 2: deal with.
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  Speaker 3: These Well it's not just smarter and yes, but it's
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  Speaker 3: becoming more professional and more buttoned up now, which we
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  Speaker 3: knew it would. It just did anything with college sports.
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  Speaker 3: It takes a long time to get where you're going.
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  Speaker 3: But now there is some repercussions if you want to
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  Speaker 3: transfer every year. There is some buyouts in there, like
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  Speaker 3: some of these coaches contract so that's an attempt to
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  Speaker 3: try and bring this back in and get at least
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  Speaker 3: a couple of years of stability from certain players.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a benefit if you do it right. There's
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  Speaker 2: a benefit to both sides, right, Yes, because both sides,
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  Speaker 2: I mean the player and the institution both then have predictability.
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  Speaker 2: Like the player can say, oh, okay, I'm committed for
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  Speaker 2: this is what I'm supposed to get if I do
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  Speaker 2: these things, and the school can say, we know what
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  Speaker 2: our costs are and this player is going to be here.
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  Speaker 2: So contracts are beneficial to both well. And that's and
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  Speaker 2: that's where this was always headed. Right.
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  Speaker 3: It was so beneficial to schools for decades. Then it
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  Speaker 3: swung so far the other way where schools had no
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  Speaker 3: recourse and it was all players. And eventually it will
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  Speaker 3: slide back more towards the middle where it benefits both
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  Speaker 3: parties were moving in that direct, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is what it's just not there, yes, which order should
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  Speaker 2: be great. And finally, this is your last thing. Well
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  Speaker 2: you anxious for me?
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  Speaker 1: No, No, I'm enjoying it done. The really nice job. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of them, unfortunately a lot of them have been
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  Speaker 1: very obvious.
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  Speaker 2: Today.
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  Speaker 1: You had been going off into some different paths recently bringing.
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  Speaker 2: Us so it is called obvious observations. I know, but
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  Speaker 2: you took a different way.
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  Speaker 3: There was some criticism that he wasn't being so obvious right,
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  Speaker 3: that he was getting deep in the way.
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  Speaker 2: We had to get back to obvious on this day, Jane,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: it was, Oh, it's not the eighth Is it just
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: pretending it is it?
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: We were going to written, No, we were going to
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: record on the eighth side. Point still stands.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: The NCAA, in nineteen seventy two announces freshmen will be
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: eligible to play varsity football and basketball. Allowed the young
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: men to play. They allowed, but the New York Times
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: reported quote, it is not certain that all of the
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: well known football and basketball powers will use players coaches
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: may consider too inexperienced. Well, I did, I mean, but
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: as Brad said, the young men afraid the young men
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to match up with the other the
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: older men.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Why they're just way bigger. They've been in training, They've
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: been in conditioning, that's what they've been doing.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: So that was in nineteen seventy two. One of the
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: freshmen on the WVU football team that year who played
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: the upcoming because for the upcoming season. Sure Artie Owens
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: played as a freshman late is a fresh pretty good. Yeah,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: didn't run, didn't do much thirteen ten seventy two yards,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: but had a great career twenty five hundred yards. Quinn
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Buckner was one of the more Substantialner was one of
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: the more substantial freshmen when freshmen first became eligible nineteen
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: seventy two, started both football and basketball WOW for the
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Indianas as a true freshman. The following year, there was
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: a freshman eligible because of the new rule who had
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: a good who really started a great career at Pitt.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: You might have heard of him. Dorset, Tony Dorset, who
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: and night a Dorset. When he first went they Adrset,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: then he trans then he changed his name to door Set.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: He rushed for fifteen hundred yards as freshman WOW freshman year,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: so Brad. Obviously the young men were capable somewhere of
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: competing with the older or the older man. The young
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: boys were a committing somewhere. Yeah, some had physical conditioning.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: And finally, finally I spent quality time with final Loo
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: can fill this week. You want to show that picture
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: you were over at Phil's. I spent a lot of
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: time with chef. No, no, I was just in there.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: We oh yeah, oh yeah, tape measure out. He had
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: the tape on but you can't see it. But he's
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: got those and a sleeve. And Phil took care of me.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Here's my obvious observation about Daniels and Phil. Yeah, really
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: nice stuff. Gorgeous stuff. I mean nice stuff. And you
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: know I buy clothes, you know me once every five
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: years if that, yeah, maybe six. So it was like,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I go in, like I need shirts, I need ties
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: and any jacket, I need slacks, and I need the
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: coats that you've made fun of and the shirts you've
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: made fun of tightened up to get them fitted. Did
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  Speaker 2: you bring them over? Oh yeah, he brought them on
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: in the back. Just take care to Ebo, make the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing perfect.
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  Speaker 3: So just so you get just made you a whole
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: new suit coat just in the back there could So
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: you're getting all this stuff because you're going to the legislature.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I needed, I needed, I needed to do it. Okay,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Well we're went over there. We're happy. That's a great
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: had a great, great, great visit. Right yeah. Oh I
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: mean I am as you know, I am nowhere near
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: you guys don't clothes, but you get in that store
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: and you think, oh man, a lot of stuff. I
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: feel good. I'd like to have two jackets were there
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: every Tuesday morning on my shift, if you'd like to
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: ask you if we're going to be there when I
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: came over. But you know it's Tuesday morning. Is my shift? Now?
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: When come on Tuesday morning? Well, now Tony was there.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I just missed you. Just missed you. Yeah, I just
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: missed you. And you guys looked really good the other night.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: You both were just very nicely at the ball game.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: We appreciate that. Thank you, Thank you very much. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: Phil Well, that was something obvious thoughts from Hobby's point
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  Speaker 1: I think I want an album of those songs, like
• 20:39
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• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Just that, just that that sound like that. That's a
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• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I was looking at the final box score from last
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: year's game at Kansas to your point about. They shot
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of free throws the other night against tc
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you two reasons why. Okay, One is
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: that's how they play there. Our whole purpose is to
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: take the ball into the paint. That's what they do.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: They put their head down, they go into the lane.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: That's what they did. That's why they draw more for us.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: But anyway, last year they took twenty one free throws
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: May nineteen. Who West Virginia took six and made four.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: But my point to that is, had you lost that game,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: what would we be saying, we'd be losing our mind
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: going there? It is again twenty one, you know, and so.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: But that's why they do it, is they they're constantly
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: putting their head straight.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: To all those that is. That is the sole reason why.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: It's not the sole reason. The whistle.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: There's a little magic. There's a little magic with it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Coach with the sme court advantage there.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: I talked to Estridge.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Now, for those that don't know, Brian Estridge, the TCU
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: play by play anouncer. I was gonna call it bad whistle. Yeah,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: well I was gonna call him and I didn't do it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Yesterday I listened to him while watching the game on
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: TV the other night after I got home, and he
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: was in this like melancholy eight like not melancholy, but
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: he was delivering the game just like straight, not that
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: your team is up sixteen at un Field House. And
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask him, I go, dude, you knew, didn't you.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: And he's gonna go, man, I've been around long enough.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I knew what was coming. And he was not over
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the top at all when they're when you should be like,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: you know, you're just blowing around.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: But I mean, you're up nine with a minute eleven.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I understand. He didn't get excited then either.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Here, I'll give you one more. This is from David
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Warlock on Twitter. Kansas in that game became the thirteenth
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: team in Division one men's basketball history to win a
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: game in which it trailed by at least fifteen with
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: less than five minutes to play history ever.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: And they there was an inbounds tc was trying to
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: you watched it the inbounds and I think it probably
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: was out on TCU. But it's like a TCU bowl,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean Kansas ball. And then the foul
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: on Peterson and Peterson knocks down three. That freaking poor
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: buddy that followed him, like what are you doing? What
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: do you do? And it was a deperation.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Just put your arms up straight, like you're getting held up.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Just put your arms up straight. Yeah, that was That
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: was a while. Man, This thing tomorrow will be interesting
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: as all. Heck, we'll get into spreads on stats in
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: a second, because like, so, what's Peterson's deal, Like, he's
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: not on load management, He's on I'm gonna play when
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I feel like I can play. And I don't say
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: that in a derogatory sense, but he's doing He's got
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: something going on there, and he just basically, you know,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: takes himself out.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Bill self said the other night it was cramps, so
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: it'd been a hamstring issue. Reportedly from from what right
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: coach self had said till the other night it was
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: a cramp situation.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Apparently need some hydration must have been Yeah, but you
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: know this, I mean West Virginia one and eleven and
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Allen seven and five at home, Yes, that's correct. I
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: mean West Virginia plays cans Is tough at home.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they have beaten him two in a row, that's right.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Josh eilerd got him fighting Eylert's got him, and then
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Darren got him.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Last year, Javon got him on the road. Javon Small
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: got him on the road. That's something.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Nick two years ago was the MVP of that game.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Edward Andre last year was the MVP of that game.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I played Hunter Dickinson Hey speaking about comebacks, Rosshidge last
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: night on his talk show told us I think that
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I've never heard of one of these before. He said,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: you want to hear a story, I'll tell you a story.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Junior cot was this was a no. This was a
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: D two right bro D two. Johnny Stell's kid. I
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: thought it was junior college, but I think it was
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: DW go ahead had a kid's court. Seventeen points in
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: a minute and thirty five seconds like a minute. Basically
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: in a minute a half kid kids scored seventeen points.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Smallest guy on the floor, little.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Team, just hitting threes and getting filed.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Threes, threes, threes, filed to go to the following threes to.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Boom boom, to take an honor doing that tomorrow.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: And that later in the night, he sent me and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: brought a picture of the kid kids. Shorts were longer
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: than your head.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: I mean that was the baggy short era. Yeah, so
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: that was the look. So but it was it was
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: like pants.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: And he said the kid was the smallest little kid
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: on he made. He weigh one hundred and forty five pounds.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Just popping threes, just knocking it down. Ebo did not
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: tailor those shorts on that kid.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: No, he would have put a couple of pleats in
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: those things and tighten them up a little.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Bad. I'm glad those really really long shorts are gone. Bad.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: It will come back, something stupid will come back. I
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: think probably next we're gonna get some body fitting stuff.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think right, that's that'd probably that's not how
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: the women have moved a body fitting.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I believe a lot of the ladies are
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  Speaker 2: No? I like it, you know that. I like it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here we go.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Let's first look back, as we like to do our preview.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: What stuff did we think may happen that came to
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: fruition or did not? Hoppy first and foremost said the
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: three point variants would likely determine the winner in this game.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: And there were a couple reasons for that thought. And
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: boy did that come to fruition. Cincinnati came into the
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: game in the ninety third percentile in three point attempts,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: but had struggled to make them just twenty third percentile
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: in three point percentage. Cincinnati took thirty five threes. Nearly
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: sixty percent of its shots came from behind the arc.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: That'd be in the ninety six percentile nationally. So again
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: they loaded up and took a ton of threes. They
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: made more than their average percentage wise, but it was
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: close that thirty two percent, coming in thirty four percent
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: on the game. And man, they took some questionable ones.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: I thought late, you know, Bobo Miller with a fade
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: away three with the game on the line, probably isn't
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: the shot you would like. They did that coming out
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: of a timeout. That was surprising. So West Virginia benefited
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: from that. Then obviously, on West Virginia's side of things,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: they made double digit threes for the fourth time in
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: the last five games. West Virginia shot forty eight percent
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: from three, which was led by Anor Huff another blistering night,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: six of ten on the night, A lot of those
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: in the first half when you built up that big lead.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: The other reason I thought threes would determine the game
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: was because coming in the two teams Cincinnati and West
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Virginia had taken fewer shots at the rim than every
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: other Big twelve team save for one. Houston was the
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: only team that shot less attempts at the rim. That
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: played out as we thought it might hot based on
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: the averages. West Virginia only had ten field goal attempts
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: at the rim twenty one percent of its shots. National
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: average is about thirty two percent of your shots at
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: the rim. Cincinnati only had twelve attempts at the rim
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: nineteen percent of it shots. And think about that, guys,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: they'd play a six to eleven dude and a seven
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: to two dude and only got nineteen percent of their
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: shots at the rim and don't shoot the three.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: So from a game plan perspective, I thought that went
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: played right into West Virginia's hands. The Mountaineers shot a
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: higher percentage from three than it did two forty eight
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: percent from behind the arc, just forty four percent from
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: two point range. So three was really the difference in
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: that game.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you, nur huff.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: We talked about how quickly they like to get shots up,
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: meaning Cincinnati, they want to shoot it fast. They came
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: in with nearly fifty percent of its shots in the
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: first ten seconds, and they were in the first percentile
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: nationally in points per chance in the last ten seconds.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: So we said, can West Virginia slow this game down,
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: eliminate their quick shots, make them play deep into the clock,
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: and hope you would get some bad shots forced up. Well,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: game plan was perfect from a theory standpoint. West Virginia
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: cut that shot percentage in the first ten seconds in half.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: That fifty percent of their shots on the year twenty
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: five percent of their shots in the first ten seconds
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: on Tuesday. So mission accomplished number one, slow them down
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: and make them run offense. Sixty seven percent of their
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: shots were threes, and they made forty percent of those
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: when they shot it quickly. So that was that was
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: part of why they had twenty three total possessions that
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: were longer than twenty seconds. Twenty three total possession sixty five.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: That's what you want, that's what you if you're West Virginia,
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: that's what you wanted. You wanted to slow them down.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: So eighteen of those were in the final ten seconds
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: of the clock. The other ones came if the clock
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: was reset and you kept the ball longer than thirty seconds,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: but we mentioned they were first percentile. In the last
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: ten seconds, they performed well above their average. That was
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: what kept the game close. You did exactly what you
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: wanted to do, but they performed better than they had
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: all year. With that, they shot forty six percent from
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: three in the last ten seconds of the clock and
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: were in the sixty fourth percentile in points per chance,
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: not the first percentile. So if they would have shot
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: like they did all year, you would have won that
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: game going away. But they made some late clock shots.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: But again, you did what you wanted to do. Another
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: key area was coming out of timeouts. West Virginia has
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: been one of the best nationally after timeouts. Ross does
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: an extremely good job in those situations of drawing up
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: a player a set that generally gets West Virginia shot.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: This was another good game in that category. Third most
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: points in a game coming out of timeouts. Found this interesting.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: The pick and roll was really effective in this game.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: It was a season high twenty points from the pick
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: and roll ball handler, a good chunk of those from Honor.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: That was the second most points he's had on the
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: pick and roll. That's significant from this standpoint.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Hopy.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: I thought it was another really good stroke of coaching
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: by Ross Hodge, and we talked about this. You mentioned
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Sincere Harris earlier one of the best on ball defenders
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: in the country, not just in this league. We saw
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: that up close for an entire year. West virgin did
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: a nice job, if you watch that game closely, of
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: taking Jasper Floyd off the ball, because that's who Sincere
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: was matching up most of the time. So Trey brought
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: the ball up an initiated offense a lot. Honor had
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: the ball in his hands, initiating offense quite a bit,
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: which took their best defender and put him off ball
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: rather than on ball. Now, I did think, like Gisel James,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: was very good with ball pressure. I thought, Cincinnati defense,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: You're gonna think I'm crazy. I thought they did a
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: better job against West Virginia even than Iowa State did. Now,
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: West Virginia didn't hit shots against Iowa State, but they
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: got much better looks against the Cyclones than they did
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: against Cincinnati.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: For a lot of that game.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: I was impressed with Cincinnati's defense that came in as
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: a top ten team just like Iowa State did. But
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: nice coaching move to just make that little switch put
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Jasper off the ball. Now, that limited some of his
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: offensive productivity because it took him out of what he
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: normally does. But it was a smart move overall. Team wise,
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: West Virginia's shooting, to my point about the Cincinnati defense,
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: nine guarded catch and shoots only four unguarded catch and shoots.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: So West Virginia made some tough shots and couldn't just
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: rely on catching and shooting. Had to use some more,
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: some more dribble drives, dribble jump shots. Another thing that
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: jumped out to me was hoppy. You mentioned those turnovers,
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: and that was really what kept Cincinnati in the game
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: throughout was their ability to force turnovers. West Virginius had
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: too many. But then when the game switched and got tight,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: West Virginia went basically the final ten minutes of the
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: game without a turnover. I thought that was absolutely critical.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: The only turnover in the last ten minutes was on
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: that very last play when Jasper inbounded it and the
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: ball was tipped by Bobob Miller on the inbound and
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: it fell down and they had to heave one up.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: That was the only turnover for the final ten minutes,
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: So that was impressive and I thought an important part
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: of the game. A couple other numbers from the game,
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: I thought, Trey Eagle staff, So the three that he
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: made is going to live on for a long time
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: as one of the more important shots of this season
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: in terms of getting a win.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Just massive. But what was also.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Important for him he played the final six minutes of
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: that game without picking up his fifth foul, and you needed.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Him in there.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: Had he fouled out or not been back in, maybe
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: you don't get that three necessarily. So Trey with another
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: game where he did a bunch of things for you,
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: eight rebounds and just playing really good defense for six
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: minutes in a physical game without getting a foul, that
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: was huge. You mentioned the honor huff and one er
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: I mentioned it earlier, the Trey Eagle staff three, the
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: kickout three to chance more when Jasper backed him down,
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: And that's what that back end is designed to do.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: When they go to Jasper in the post, what they're
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: looking for there is they think he can either back
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: the smaller guy down and end up with a good shot,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: or he's waiting. So he's working, clock, working clock, backing in.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Can I get close and eventually Cincinnati said all right enough,
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: and they dropped down and threw the double team at him.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: He kicks it to a wide open more who knocks
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: it down from that right wing. That right wing was
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Key Tony. Here's why. That had been West Virginia's least
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: favorite spot from three, shooting its worst percentage from around
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: the arc from that right wing three on the year,
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: but against Cincinnati it was his most the most effective
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: five of six from the right wing three including chance
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: and Trey's three.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: So that was a critical spot of that good star.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: All right, yeah, I got that's probably enough for the recap.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at the plus minuses, and you can some
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: people buy into him, some people don't put a whole lot.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: But Tracey and Eaglesta have led West Virginia plus thirteen,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: and then the two freshmen Emir Jenkins and DJ Thomas
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: were plus eight and the only other player on the
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: team that had a plus was Jackson Fields, and he
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: was plus two and only played a minute forty eight seconds.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: So point is those freshmen Jenkins and DJ Thomas to
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: be plus eight plus eight, that's pretty significant.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Very I'm sorry. I did have a couple more on
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Sensea before we move on Stunner. To your point, the message,
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: as I mentioned earlier, the message after I would state
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: there were a lot of different messages, but number one
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: was about you cannot allow loose balls to just bang around.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: And they were in the first half, right, But in
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: that second half, not only is Emir Jenkins on the floor,
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: and not only did he kind of get it with
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: his legs and sit up and grab it, but Honors,
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: right there, Harlan's right there, guys were going down and
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: picking up loose balls and that was a critical moment
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: for Emir. Another really good game from Emir Jenkins. That's
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: now in his last five games, which includes two Big
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: twelve games and Ohio State, He's got an eight to
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: one assist a turnover ratio eight to one over the
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: last five games. So he continues to get better and better.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Honor.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: We mentioned the six out of ten from three, which
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: he's got to make threes. That's what drives the offense
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: on this team. It freese everybody else up and it's
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: just game changer.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Is he fun to watch shooting it? And he was great.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: But here's what jumped out to me. Guys led the
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: team in rebounds, smallest guy on the floor, led the
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: team in rebounds and on our huff, and you needed
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: him in the second half, in particular when he had
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: five and hot. That was massive because Cincinnati was getting
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: on the offensive glass in the first half on you,
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: and it was a problem. West Virginia in the second
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: totally controlled that, got the five offensive rebounds, held them
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: to just three offensive rebounds in the second half, and
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: that was part of what changed the game. One last
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: note on Honor. He hit his fifth three with eighteen
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: to oh five in the second half. He had five
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: threes at the eighteen five mark. He didn't hit the
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: next one until that and won late in the game.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: So there was a big stretch in there where West
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Virginia had to find other ways to score and was
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: able to do just enough there to get that win.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Good report.
• 38:13
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• 38:16
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  Speaker 1: in here. Now, what do we have for the Kansas Jayhawks.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you hit the number one point that I had
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: down here is what is Darren Peterson's status? Does he play,
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: if he plays, how much does he play? How long
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: does he stay in the game. This We're going to
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: save this a bunch, so just bear with us. But
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: guys of dude, yes right, clearly consensus one of the
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: top three picks of the NBA draft coming up here
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: this next year. The other night you mentioned he took
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: himself out of the game with those cramps with a
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: couple minutes ago, two three minutes ago, He did reappear
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: in the game to make the three free throws to
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: tie the game and attempt the game winning shot at
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: the end of regulation. Did not play in overtime. Head
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: thirty two. Yeah, head thirty two. Other game played like
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: twenty six minutes, twenty three minutes, had twenty three points.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: So he is a He is a matchup problem in
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: clear going to be the focus of this West Virginia
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: defense when he is in the game. It's another elite
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: defensive team. Stop me if you've heard that, Hopy, a
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: Big twelve team that guards extremely well. Kansas sits eleventh
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: in the country in defensive efficiency. And here's maybe the
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: number to watch is what can West Virginia do from
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: behind the three point line? I mentioned double digit threes
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: in four of the last five games Kansas, so currently
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: sitting third nationally in three point field goal defense. Teams
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: only shooting twenty seven percent against them from behind the arc,
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: So that's going to be a key point there. Went
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: back to ke Key from Cincinnati three point variants. Watch
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: that again. Here's the other thing that will be interesting
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: defensively for them and offensively in this cat and mouse game.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: The first Big twelve team that we've seen that switches
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: everything defensively, and they have switched how they play defense.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: They early in the season were hard hedging the ball
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: screen running two, which you'd feel more comfortable with because
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: that's what you've seen, right. You saw that with iOS Date,
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: you saw it some more Cincinnati. This is a team
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: that's gonna switch everything on you, and that sometimes becomes
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: harder because if you can switch at every position, it
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: is tougher to get those mismatches. But that's what you're
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: gonna be hunting, is those mismatch when you get a
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: big on the perimeter, but it's gonna be beadinga and
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: he's athletic enough to guard on the perimeter, but you're
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: gonna have to get some guys that can punch by defenders,
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: get in the lanes and try and spray the ball
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: out to open up them three point shots. But keep
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: an eye on them defensively, switching that's something you gotta watch. Offensively, again,
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: Peterson is elite, about as good as there is anybody
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: in the country in scoring, but overall, this isn't your
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: typical Kansas offense. Just yet, fifty first nationally in offensive efficiency,
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: they're not rebounding really well on the offensive side, two
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: hundred and thirty six nationally in offensive rebound percentage. That's
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: something that's a little bit different. And here's what's really different.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: You mentioned this their ability to drive at the basket,
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: and I've thought over the years, save for the two
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: years with Hunter Dickinson, I thought that's what made Kansas
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: so incredibly tough. They would just either stick a three
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: in your face or put their head down and just
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: go absolutely right at the rim.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: And that's all.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: You're right, while a lot of foul calls were made
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: against the opponent, but they're not getting to the line
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: much this year, just ninth percentile in free throw attempt rate,
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: So keep an eye on that. Can West Virginia play
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: that defense without fouling and keep them off the line.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: They will push the ball on you, eighty percentile nationally
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: in the last five games in terms of fast break points.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: So they're going to get up and down the floor.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: So you've got to get back on defense. Might limit
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: your offensive rebounding a little bit because you've got to
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: get back in transition, but you better stop hop you
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: better stop transition or you're going to have an issue.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: Really good from three. Again, a lot of that's Peterson,
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: but overall team wise forty percent from three. But they
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: only have four double digit or four games with double
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: digit threes made. They're three and one in those games.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: As you would expect. Peterson, again such an impact player,
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: takes forty percent of Kansas's shots.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Forty shots. What do you do with him?
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: He's got to see just a lot of guys, meaning
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: you're matched up up on him on the wing. You've
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: got to be up on him, but he's got to
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: see like overloaded on that side. So it just doesn't
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: look like he can just get right to the basket
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: because he's he's effective doing either great three point shooter,
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: but can put it on the floor and get by.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: So you've just got to crowd him. And if he
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: has to kick it and other people are making shots,
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: then so be it.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: You live with it.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: I don't think you can allow Peterson to go for
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: forty on you.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: His assist to turnovers is kind of interesting. I mean,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: he's played twenty seven minutes a game, and he's only
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: played in six of their fifteen games, but his assist
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: to turnovers thirteen assists eleven turnovers, so a couple things.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Number One, he's not passing it a whole lot one right, right,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: he's not two he will turn it over teen and eleven.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Well, but he's got the ball a lot. Yes, understood that.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: That's why I'm saying. That's why he's got to see
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: a bunch of people. And if you can get the
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: ball out of his hands and he passes it, so
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: be it. At the very least, make tough shots, right,
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: make shots.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Over multiple Tis does.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Now you can't just straight run two at him, right,
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: You're maybe occasionally you'll do that, but you don't want that.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: They have good enough other players. You run two at
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: him and he does pass the ball, then someone gets
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: a wide open shot. So he's a hand There's no
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: question he's a handful here. He's an absolute handful.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Maybe he'll cramp up, well that'd be that'd be all right.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: I'd take that badinga badinga really good. I thought last
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: year Tony when when he played and in the second half,
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: Bill self went to this because Eduardo Andre was chewing
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: up Hunter Dickinson. If you remember, they came off to
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: the sideline, Dickinson saying in the huddle, I don't know
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: what they're doing what am I supposed to do. I mean,
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: West Virginia was absolutely eating them up. Second half, Bill
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: South Hall of Fame coach adjust to that and played
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: the two bigs to take advantage of West Virginia's lack
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: of size that it had last year, and that's when
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: Kansas made its comeback and was very good. You're going
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: to have to get a body on him. He is
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: the guy that is their offensive rebounder. He's in the
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: top seven percent nationally of all players. They don't do
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: it great as a team, but he's very, very good
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: at that. Also an elite shot blocker. So just like
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: you saw the two guys in Baba Miller and Chom
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: from Cincinnati dissuade you from going to the rim a lot,
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: although Chance More was excellent going right at them, You're
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: going to have to do that with Bodinga too. Bodena said,
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: keep saying his name wrong. I have a struggle with
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: that one. Bodunga, Bodunga Badunga. He's in the top five
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: percent of all players nationally as a shot blocker, So
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: keep an eye on him. What else, oh, Melvin Council,
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: keep an eye on Council. Former teammate of Chance More
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: at Saint Bonnie.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Melvin Council. He's got an interesting game,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: doesn't Hey. His arms are incredibly long, puts the ball
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: on the floor, and he just says, I score every
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: time I go to the basket. He and Chance More
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: are in the same I take the ball to the
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: rim club they do. He scores a ton of point.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: But here's what's really interesting. He's a different player when
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: Peterson's out. His three point percentage goes up by twelve
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: percent when Peterson is on the floor, so he's so
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: that helps him. He's able to just sit and be
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: a standstill shooter with Peterson, so he struggles. He's only
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: a thirty two percent shooter when Peterson's off the floor.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: But here's where he's different. His turnover percentage goes up
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: two and a half times when Peterson is off the court.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: Makes some sense, right, becomes he becomes the guy that's
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: the go to score with the ball in his hands.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: Mostly so when Peterson is on the floor, you got
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: to watch him from three as we talk, right, because
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: you're paying so much attention to Peterson, it frees up
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: Council a little bit.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: More.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: When Peterson's out of the game, you got to get
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: up in council a little bit and see if you
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: can force some turnovers off of him.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's computer say for the game?
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: You mean, yeah, it has Kansas by three.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: That's okay.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: It's one of those games hop with young lads and me.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Co Ed's need to get up there and root, root
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: for the home to.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: Make shots the full building. It's sold out on tickets,
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: so I would assume the crowd brings it and need
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: to make that a difference. Right, This needs to be
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: one of those games where the crowd carries you through.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: Play well enough, give them something to cheer about.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: Carry the carry the day.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: They've only got one bad loss, they do. They do
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: have four losses. They've lost at North Carolina, they lost
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: to Duke, they lost to Yukon at home, and the
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: bad loss was last Saturday against UCFN Orlando. Now you
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: don't think coach self might bring that back up to
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: them before they go out on their course. The young
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: men a week ago, this is what we were. We
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: were favored to beat UCF and that now I want it.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: So we'll see.
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and here's what's interesting that bad loss. That's the
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: forty fourth ranked team in the country by the computers.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: Chefs having a hell of a year. So all of
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: their losses to number twenty seven North Carolina seven, Duke eight,
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: Connecticut forty four UCFS. So I know there's some people
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: out there. You look at this Kansas team and go, ah,
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: that's not just as good as they normally are.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: That probably not national championships.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: They're still eighteenth and Ken Palm and they right, it's
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: still there's still just a ton of talent with maybe
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: the best player in the country. You will say when
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: to Bonsa comes in, but for right now, Pearson might
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: be the best player in the country.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: And that's you look at that and you want Tony
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: like you said, Oh my gosh, Kansas lost a couple
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: of games and there's still Kansas. They're still loaded. Yeah,
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: and just again it tells you about for the umpteenth time,
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: the depth of this league and what you're up Again.
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: You're hoping, if you're West Virginia, you hope that they
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: still you said that Bill self quote that they've found
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: themselves as a team. Now, whether that's true or not,
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: we'll see you kind of hope they haven't because of
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: Peterson's in and out of this lineup, both in terms
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: of games. What'd you say? He played in six games
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: so far, so you not only have that, but then
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: you have him within games. You're not quite sure if
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: you're Kansas, how many minutes you're gonna get him for.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: When is he in, when does he come out? How
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: much is he there? So you hope that you get
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: a little bit disjointed Kansas team and that leads to
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: some misshots or some turnovers and you can take advantage
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: of that. That's the hope going into this and then
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: go play.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, make your shots. So let me let me
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: fill you in on this one as well.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they're eighteenth and ken Palm. They do have
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: four losses, but internally inside the Kansas fan base, like
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: they are very very unhappy and very very disappointed. And
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: here's why, and here's why because this is unfamiliar territory
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: to them. When they're ranked nationally, like it's almost they
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: look down their nose at being anywhere from ten or
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: below like that does to them, that doesn't even count
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: in being ranked. And they look at this new big
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: twelve and they're going, wait a second, Iowa State is
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: above us, with State is above us, b YU is
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: above us, like that's US Tech Texas Tech. That don't
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: sit well. That does not sit well with them. And
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: going into the season they were going goo goo ga
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: ga over what this team was going to be, especially
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: with Peterson. So this whole thing with Peterson like not playing, playing,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: taking himself out, putting himself back on there like they're
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: not happy. Ok this is not Camelot. This is not
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: typical how Kansas likes to operate. They don't feel good
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: about this. Now, this is not to say that they
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: won't win a bunch of games, but this no Oklahoma
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: and no techless Texas in the Big twelve and them
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: trickling down to just be one of the ranked teams
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: but not being the elite that bums them out, That
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: bums them out.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: Man, when you agree, Senator oh, no question.
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: One last number this, this is a surprising number. They're
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: in the bottom twenty teams in turnover percentage defensively, so
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: as good as a defensive numbers are, they're not forcing
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: a ton of turnovers.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: So hop you need that to play out as well.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: That needs to hold consistently because as we saw the
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: other night, West Virginia's turnovers kept Cincinnati in that game.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: If West Virginia can limit those turnovers, then what you
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: said it earlier, it allows you to get back and
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: set your defense, which is going to slow transition, which
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: I think is probably the biggest key against them going in.
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: So with that's one of those numbers that you need
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: to be consistent tomorrow.
• 52:26
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• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Texter I guess I'm having the winter doldrums already. I
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: like basketball, but I can't say that I love it.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: On the bright side, we're gaining daylight daily. It'll be
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: summertime before we know it. Thanks for always keeping me
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: us entertain Michael and Klodin. Where Michael brought that fudge? Yeah,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: don't don't send us any sugar anymore. I'm off sugar
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  Speaker 1: off completely.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: Me and the wife decided one January, no sugar. You
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: know what's challenging, as you should know. Look at look
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: at the label were I don't I'm fine, all right,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: never mind, then fine, go ahead text her Fred McPherson. No,
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not eating that stuff. I'm not eating processed stuff.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: I mean clean. I don't know, I'm not eating stuff
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: out of bags.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: All right, you're probably okay.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not eating stuff out of bags. I mean like clean.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: There's natural sugar in that. I understand that.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: I don't count natural sugar if I'm meaning like if
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, like you.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: Need a whole pineapple, I do. I mean there's a
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: lot of sugar in that.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: The hell with that. That's not processed sugar.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: It's sugar. I don't care it's not processed all.
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: Right, Well, I mean some would say the fruit nowadays
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: is it's a pineapple, heavily processed a lot of stuff.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: Great, we want to eat, drink a glass of water
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: and call it a day.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: I mean you said it, we didn't say it. Jumped.
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: Everybody else's yeah, trying to help. You're right, jump you
• 56:51
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• 56:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Gordy glucose over there, gonna give me me a monitor.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: You're the one said you're not on any sugar. We're
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: just trying to point out maybe you didn't know that.
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: I don't know what you know and what you don't know.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: I should probably trying to help exactly right.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I should probably clarify that and say not even
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: processed sugar.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: Whatever. Whatever.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: So cookies, candy, that kind of stuff. I had to
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: build a candy build a cookie guy. Last night, Brad
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: I wore I gave him the high sign said he
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: stopped him. Yeah, he gave me my plate and I
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: said him out, man can't do it.
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I hope your mood improves.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: Shut up a long way Togo, just relaxing watching the
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: latest episode. Here's what this current basketball team needs twelve
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: players like our boy Nate Adrian signed by Fred McPherson.
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: His guys were on the floor in the Cincinnati game.
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: They played hard.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: No, but they could go back and watch some Nate. Well,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: Nate will help.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: Well, well, there's no reason why Nate can't play now. Hey,
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: I think that days.
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: I think fortunately he's got ankle issues. Otherwise he would
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: be a great mid season acquisition. He would be and
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: maybe he has a few minutes. I mean, you could
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: put him in the r he got no, he never
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: played in the NBA.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: No, he didn't know he he got no minutes. He
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: got no minutes left. He done that, ankles cooked. Okay, hey,
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: three guys, I'd take him for a few minutes. I
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: was on a Major League Baseball site that had an
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: article about the twenty twenty six NL Rookie of the
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Year candidates. JJ Weatherholt leading vote getter with thirty percent.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: While I wish he played for the Reds instead of
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: the hated Cardinals, I'll still root from there. It is
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: Weatherholt favored on that particular on the Pipeline Executive's Prospect poll.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: Tell you what he should be.
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, the Cardinals are absolutely just abysmal. I don't
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: know why they wouldn't want to get one of their
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: most talented guys get him up there. I know there's
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: contract stuff, but they need some talent. Oh they're just
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: not the same Cardinals that they've been not very good,
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: So I.
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: Would let guys go. I go. Obviously we root for Weatherholt,
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: regardless of whether you know you're If you're a Cubs guy,
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: I hate the Cardinals. If your redge, I hate the Carls.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: But you're root for Weatherhole. But I hope that because
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: the expectations are through the roof for him. I mean
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: to read the Saint Louis Media's like, oh, weather Holt's
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: coming in, like he's going to be a savior. But Bred,
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: you can't be a savior if you don't have other guys.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: So oh no, they need they need a ton of help.
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: They're not they're just not very good. But weather Holt could.
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, the expectations on him are big because he
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: just produces everywhere he's been, He's flown up through that system.
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: I've been very good. They just need more talent.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: What Tony he just loves just destroying the Cardinals any
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: chance he gets. He does that for a couple of reasons.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: Number one, Number one a number two he loves taking
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: shots so that Cardinal fans that listen in get all
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: riled up. Like Christian Miller. I don't know if Wiggs
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: listens to the podcast.
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: Cardinal fans the Cardinals, they're not very good and they've
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: got a great one of baseball's best prospects.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: Get him up. We got it. Can we make a
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: road trip up when the when the Cardinals are in Yeah,
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: we could do that. That didn't that didn't sound enthusiastics.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: So we could do that. No, we could do it. Texter.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: Great night in Morgantown. Great night to be a mountaineer,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: wherever you may be. For Christmas, we got our son Archer,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: a ticket to his first official basketball game against Cincinnata.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: We brought the family and several friends. What a memorable night.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: We were excited to find seats right next to the court.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: Didn't expect Archer, his son, to be so outgoing fooled us.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Long story short, Five times he made it to the
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: jumbo tron, he got a spot on ESPN, and he
• 1:00:29
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• 1:00:31
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• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Tony and Brad. He got to meet the Mountaineer WVU
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Warren Baker, athletic director Ren Baker. There's
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: head basketball coach Ross Hodge. And that's Archer there. Archer
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: you could tell dressed for the event he was. There's
• 1:00:50
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• 1:00:54
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• 1:01:00
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• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: Kde Mountaineer. Checked a lot of boxes there and he
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: got it done there. He was done. He was just done.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: I'm out. Yeah, me didn't even tell you.
• 1:01:10
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• 1:01:14
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• 1:01:18
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• 1:01:25
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• 1:01:29
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• 1:01:32
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• 1:01:35
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• 1:01:36
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• 1:01:38
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• 1:01:40
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• 1:01:42
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• 1:01:47
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• 1:02:21
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• 1:02:25
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• 1:02:28
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• 1:02:31
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• 1:02:34
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• 1:03:08
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• 1:03:11
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: to hold the pause. Then you release it and it
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  Speaker 3: should should.
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  Speaker 2: If you're listening on this just the audio stream on
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  Speaker 2: Varsity app, Yeah, they should pause it. Okay, that's what
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  Speaker 2: I do the because I was back and forth because
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  Speaker 2: right now I wasn't doing that, so you guys were
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  Speaker 2: like two plays ahead. So I was back and forth
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  Speaker 2: between ESPN and between you guys. But the ESPN guys,
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  Speaker 2: when they were giving you love said I wouldn't blame
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia or Cincinnati fans if they turned down our
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  Speaker 2: sound and listen to you all. Rich said that, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: well that's awfully nice. That was that was a bit
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  Speaker 2: that was nicely said by because that's usually a sensitive issue.
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  Speaker 3: He was great, he that's you're right, that's a directly
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  Speaker 3: very nice I wouldn't blame either fan base. That was nice,
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  Speaker 3: just pause it, do a little quick count.
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  Speaker 2: Can you come over and we'll take care of it
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  Speaker 2: for you. We'll get it done. We'll get that done.
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  Speaker 2: I know a little bit. I get it. It is. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not taught you.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little bit of a process, but it okay.
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  Speaker 1: You can do it. You can do it. Man, you
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  Speaker 1: used to run all these buttons here. You can be
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  Speaker 1: able to take care of that pause button.
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  Speaker 2: It'll work. Will be a problem trying to get that
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  Speaker 2: worked out. Saturday. Thank you for trying.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, Texter says, last year, all I heard about was
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  Speaker 1: Devrees was running. He runs good stuff. I don't hear
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  Speaker 1: that this year, and I don't see Hodge running good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Am I wrong? Well he runs good stuff?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well we just talked about that's particularly coming out
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  Speaker 3: of timeouts. When he runs sets, it's outstanding. It's just
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: a different way to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 3: Ross's system is really mostly defensively, right, you want to
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  Speaker 3: talk about running good stuff. That defensive system, when it
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: gets up and running, is really good stuff. Offensively, he
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: is less there. There's more reacting off certain tenets of
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: the system, ball screens and where guys are supposed to be,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: and spacing is a big thing where Darren. Darren literally
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  Speaker 3: had a playbook that had a hundred and some sets
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  Speaker 3: in there, so he was constantly calling out sets. Ross
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  Speaker 3: is a little more has a few key sets and
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: you run different things off those sets based on what
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  Speaker 3: the defense is doing.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me this that makes sense because you guys are there,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: you guys go to practice, You guys talk to the coach.
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  Speaker 2: What is it that he is if he is really
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  Speaker 2: struggling with with this team, what is it that what
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: did It's a hump that he's having trouble getting over.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know that there's any struggle with it necessarily.
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  Speaker 3: I would say the challenge is when it's an entirely
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  Speaker 3: new set of guys, and it's what I just said,
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  Speaker 3: the defensive system. There's a lot of things that you're
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  Speaker 3: asked to do in this defensive system that just so
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: many guys don't do. And some of that's communication. I'll
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: go fast here, and this sounds ridiculous to say communication
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  Speaker 3: where you call when you're on the ball, you got
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: to call ball. When you're on the rim, you gotta
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: call rim. But that's important so that the rotational pieces,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: when guys are rotating, they know who's in what spot.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: And if there's a lack of communication or you don't
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: call RIM and another guy gets to RIM. You talked
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: about defensive spacing earlier, that's when guys aren't communicating, And
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: so not every system talks as much as he requires
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: you to talk. Here because you're playing, you're having to
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: get guys overloaded into certain areas. So if you end
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: up with two guys right next to each other, it
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: leaves some space. So communication is a challenge. Just the
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: effort in which it requires, where your body positioning goes
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: is different than what most people teach. So there's just
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: some different things that guys are having to get used.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: To, Tony, what do you got on that?
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  Speaker 1: I think that this defense will continue to improve as
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: the season goes on. I think this defense in years
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: to come will look significantly different and more efficient. For
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: those that have watched Ross teams in the past, they
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: say like, this is just the beginning of what his
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: defense is going to be.
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  Speaker 3: And a lot of that's because the more you're in it,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: have you heard this before? The more you do something,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: the more second nature it becomes. So as you get
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: some guys that carry over into this year and then
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: more guys carry over to the third year, it's going
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: to look different because guys innately know what they're doing.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: They don't have to think about where they're going next.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: And then you got to make shots because I mean,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: and sometimes they haven't.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah offensively, well yeah, welcome to basketball. Yeah, offensively, they've
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: They've got a ways to go. Okay, no question?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: Uh Texter, Hello, gents. I was watching the WVU Cincinnati
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: game last night and noticed coach Hodge going through lip
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: bomb like Brad and Tony go through pen and M
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: and M's. I wonder who goes through more lip bomb,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: Hoppy or Hodge. The yearly consumption has to be off
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: the charts. Ross been hitting it pretty I didn't. Yeah,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: but he's a stick guy instead of a can you're
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: a kid go stick?
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: Well right now, I got a tube, but I can
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: go can. You're versatile?
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: Texter Thoughts on the football transfer portals signing so far
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: and what you all think we still need to add. Also, Tony,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: is your New Year's resolution still to say yachtzi when
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: someone makes a three point shot? I laugh out loud.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: I saw a clip from the Pat mcifshi pat years ago.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: Wanted me to say, YACHTSI every time someone hit.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: A three, that would get old. Yeah, never made that transition.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: Portal's moving along in good shape. I'll tell you this.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: They just got three big boys. It's it's busy. I
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: was over there yesterday and it is it's Grand Central
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: Station esque. I mean they were were working people through
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: this hallway, coming back, this hallway, through this hallway. But
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: I did have the opportunity, okay, as I was in
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: the building yesterday to see Rick Trickett.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: Oh boy, how was that fan that task sick? Is
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: he happy to be back? Happy to be back? Looks good.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: Look he always looks gold. Looks good in gold and blue.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: Don't necessarily like when he was wearing that red down
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: there at jack State. With all due respect to Jacksonville State.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: He just looks better in gold and blue. So he
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: was in the room, man, he was watching tape, because
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: that's what that's what you do. On January the eighth.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: You sit there and you just watched you just watched tape.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: I had to get those O line evaluations. And you've
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: seen this has been a big offensive line week. Added
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: a bunch of guys, adding the nation's leading rusher from
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: last year in Campting Cook who was at Jack State
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: last year. We watched him, well, we had Jack State
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: in the bowl. He did not play in that bowl game.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: If you remember, UH Nation's any rustler. He let TCU
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: in rushing touchdowns two years ago. So it's a guy
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: that's uh yeah, he can play. Michael Hawkins at quarterback,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: comes in from Oklahoma, so that gives you Fox and
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: Hawkins at the quarterback position. So they said they were
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: pleased with where they thought they would end up in
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 3: the portal and it's it's moving in that direction. Got
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: a receiver from LSU here is one of the most
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 3: recent guys. So continuing to acquire talent.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: So they yeah, they feel good where they are.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: Got to get a couple more pieces. They get a
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: couple more pieces, which they think that they will when
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: they're going, they said that they will be totally comfortable with.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: What or two probably added into this. Milt.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: Like I said, it's like the players are like meatballs.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: You can never have too many. You can never have
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: too many meatballs. You can never have too many players.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: You guse meny guys you can get.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: Now it's can mesidor come back I mean, is his
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: eligibility done at Miami has concluded his eligibility. This will
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: be it. It was, well, I don't know, you don't
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: know his name? Like last night, how many time did
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: his name get mentioned? Especially in the pregame?
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he played about how about speaking of always a
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: Western connection Antonio Brown's son Malachai Tony with that big
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: touchdown runt and an unbelievable.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: What that was almost to catch all? That would have
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: been the play of the year. It's incredible. Always players
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: players matter, Players matter, players matter. Who you taking tonight, Well,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: players matter.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: Ole Miss got all the way to the semi finals
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: and almost won the almost.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: Playing for Natty. They don't have a coach. They don't
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: have a coach. Of course they cut into you know,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: I feel bad for Lane Kiffin because he lost money
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: last night. Because it wouldn't who is Indian Oregon? I
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: would ride. I am not good at these things, but
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: I would just I think brad In in gaming and gambling,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: you ride the until until you don't, So I would
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: just ride.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: See this it is a you know, it's hard to
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: beat a good team twice in football. I mean Oregon.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: Oregon might have a little something here. This This will
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: be interesting because what's the line. Indiana has been playing
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: Absolutely fantastic. It's to be a fantastic football But I
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: mean this is an organist and a little engine that
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: could in Oregon. This is a heck of a team.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: They've got two West Virginia connections. You've got the Signetti connection,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: and you've got Rob Mullins, the athletic director at Oregon
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: Morgan Towns a connection.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: Last night's sure on the sideline with Sean Dawson, Shane
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: sh Shannon das Indiana three and a half? Did yous
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: me with? And by the way, is this going to
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: be a legitimate national championship because the SEC doesn't have
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: a team and no, it won't count.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: No, you're mistaken. They have to have a team in it.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: So it's not going to be the national the best
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: it's the best league in America, so they must, well
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: they must have a test to a team. And I
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: think you've got that. You're yeah, you might have that.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: I'm mistaken. I mean for the last three years. Wait
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: a minute, they haven't for the last three years.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: Well that's I mean, there's something up with that, because
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: that's clear, you know it is real quick. Last thing
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: before we get out of here.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: It won't.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: It won't, but this should probably go ahead and just
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: tell us quit with the general sweeping generalizations here about
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: this this league, this league. There are really good teams
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 3: in all leagues, and there are some bad teams in
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: all leagues, right, which is everybody's point. When certain leagues
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 3: want automatic berths number one, number two, how about the
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: ACC Clemson and Florida State go through all that fighting
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: because they deserve more money because of their brand. The
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: ACC says, all right, fine, fine, winner gets to keep
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: all its playoff money. Clemson, go ahead, You've been in
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: the playoff a bunch, you can keep it. Oh oops,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: it's Miami that's in there that's keeping all the money.
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  Speaker 1: Monday morning. Okay, we're recapping the Kansas contest and we'll
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: chat a little bit more about recruiting, and that'll be
• 1:14:29
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• 1:14:32
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