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3 Guys Before The Game - Knights - Cyclones - Wildcats - Oh My! (Episode 533) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  coming up. We've got a lot to talk about. So we've titled the
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  show Nights, Cyclones and Wildcats. Oh my right, So West Virginia,
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  be placed in another order here. Soon we need some more gear season spring
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  season. Yeah, new color line coming coming soon. Met up with some
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  Had had a fun time. We'll talk about that coming up. Also had
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  a picture made with one of our three guys listeners and texters and texters.
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  Yeah, so we got a bunch of stuff to jump into. Three games
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  we'll look back at UCF. Well really four the women because there's gonna be
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  a double wildcats hit here. Yeah. I got an embarrassing story about that
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  one. Oh we get a lot, all right, get into it.
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  Let's go all right, So is this do we just go right into spreads
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  on stats and sister play them? Well, you probably did, right.
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  I mean, here's what we should probably do that there is there's four things,
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  there's a billion numbers. Just just hit it. Yeah, because it's
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  the whole thing. You might have to hit it a couple of times.
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  This is like the whole thing's a Conley CPA Spreads on Stats segment. I
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  thought, so I check the numbers. I'll just go right to the numbers
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  here. So you're saying that Conley's CPA group is getting its bang for its
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  buck, Well they are. This is this is like Conley CPA on April
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  twelfth, Not like in September when you have a lot of time left.
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  This is like right crunch time, when there's a lot right, multiple spreadsheets,
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  multiple calculators going yeah, I have to bring the one out that has
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  the tape on it still in runs. You gotta get all that, got
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  all all that out this morning. There's a lot Conley's CPA group sponsors are
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  provide value beyond the numbers, which means they are a CPA group. But
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  surrounding states giving you guidance and clarity as to what are the best decisions that
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  Right? You give what you have to give, but you don't have to
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  It's the conly CPA group official if either they're the official Spreads on Stat
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  sponsor. Yeah, got accosted by a CPA there right before the game on
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  I thought that handled it very well that they were. They could have accosted
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  you for your previous comments, but they did not. I know him,
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  you know him, I've known him for years. Yeah, sure, didn't
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  know he was a CPA. Well, obviously Van Slider, who's got one
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  of the old time greatest names ever Van Slider. Why were you looking there
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  on the two two fastball? Nah? Looking for the Van Slider. So
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  Van comes up to me and he informed me that, hey, by the
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  way, I'm a CPA and you're giving grief to CPA's. You say we
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  get nervous during tax season. I said, well, let me ask.
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  I used to know. I don't do it anymore. My son is a
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  CPA. Now, I said, yeah, okay, I said, did
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  you get nervous? No, I didn't get nervous. He said, I
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  he's handled it very well because I talked to Van and Wheeling previous to
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  this and said he's a CPA, and I'll let you know that he's a
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  CPA. Didn't know that. Yeah, now, so he's a CPA photographer.
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  Correct, okay, certified photographer. Thought he handled it very well.
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  Yeah, all right, so where are we going to jump nights? You
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  want to start, you c Yeah, let's start there. That was a
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  nice win when you hit it. You hit every single stat. Galley scouting
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  report was a good one on that one. But what the free throw rate
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  didn't adjust itself until late. It was late we were watching it weren't well.
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  Yeah, so let's kind of go through this. And I thought there
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  was a couple parts to this. Number One, it was one of those
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  occasions where the scouting report, what the numbers told you West Virginia needed to
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  do to win, we're exactly right on. And then the other part,
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  West Virginia executed on those things. I mean, we can sit up here
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  all we want to tell you what the scouting report is and how you go
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  about winning the games. That doesn't mean you're going to but that particular one
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  did for both sides. So let's just dive right in. We said,
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  first, what though, what was the very first part doesn't have to be
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  a spreads on stats. The first key to that game was what with West
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  Virginia. It was mental and fight. Were you're going to show up and
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  fight a team that it bullied you in Orlando, which is what UCF did
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  in the first meeting, and West Virginia did. Right from the very start,
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  you could tell West Virginia had energy. They came out, made some
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  shots, playing defense, jumped out early. I thought that was critical to
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  that game to start. Mentally, they came to the ball. You could
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  tell right from the beginning because West Virginia got displaced in the first game in
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  Orlando, thrown around like a ragdow, just displaced, moved around, and
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  then they came out with a little little bounce to their step, had a
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  little to them. Free throw rate, let's just start right with that one.
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  We've said this before, but every big twelve win for West Virginia has
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  a free throw rate that is above forty four percent. So again, free
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  throw rate is the number of free throws attempted divided by your field goal attempts,
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  shows you the rate at which you're getting to the free throw line.
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  The higher that number, the better it has been for West Virginia. Showing
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  that they're doing things other than relying on the three pointer. Shows that you're
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  getting the ball into Jesse Edwards, who absorbs a lot of fouls, shows
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  you that Raykwan Battle is taking the ball to the basket and getting fouled.
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  So that's why free throw rate matters for this West Virginia team. And you're
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  right, in the first half, it just was not there. The officials
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  were letting that game go and it was physical. It wasn't any less physical
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  There just weren't a lot of calls. You were having to play through some
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  of the contacts. So you and I kept watching that number, and we
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  watched it climb and climb and climb to the point. By the end of
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  the game, West Virginia got to the number it needed to. It landed
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  above forty four percent in that game. It was actually forty eight percent was
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  the number, and it was another truism that came to fruition. West Virginia
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  made eighteen free throws. UCF shot eighteen, So we see that a lot.
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  If you make the same number of free throws are more than the other
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  team attempts, it generally turns into a win. That was the case.
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  It mattered twofold number one because West Virginia's wins have followed that pattern. And
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  then number two. UCF was a bottom one hundred team when it came to
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  opponent free throw rate, so they put you on the line and you needed
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  to take advantage of that to score points. Part of the reason you needed
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  to score points at the line because we hypothesized you would not get a lot
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  of second chance points against their size. You did not would you end up
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  with seven second chance points there for West Virginia off just a few handful of
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  like six offensive rebounds. So that's why that you needed to find a way
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  to score. West Virginia did from the free throw line. The other part
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  that goes along with that and the sharing of the basketball and the moving the
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  basketball and don't let it get stuck in either it stuck in either ISO ball
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  or just shooting threes. Is West Virginia's assist rate. When that number is
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  right up against sixty percent, it generally turns into a win for West Virginia.
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  It was against ucf fifty eight percent. That was led by kerk Crease
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  as seven assists in one turnover. We'll talk about Kerr coming up. I
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  thought he was fantastic. Not just those raw numbers. The seven to one
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  assist rate's outstanding, but I thought he had some other passes. If you
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  you know what is it in hockey, is it a secondary assist? There
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  just called a hockey assist. I make the pass to you, you make
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  the pass to the scorer that scores. I get a secondary sist. He
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  had a lot of those two. He was very good. All right.
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  Turnovers were another thing we said West Virginia has to control the turnovers, and
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  that was twofold one, just the obvious. The less you turn it over,
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  the more possessions you're going to have at your basket, the better it
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  is for your chances to score. That's one number two. Because UCF has
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  struggled to shoot the ball in most games this season, you did not want
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  to give up those live ball turnovers. They were a top twenty team in
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  steel percentage. We saw that in Orlando, a bunch of steels led to
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  easy baskets at the rim. The game plan for West Virginia needed to be
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  limit those turnovers so they didn't get easy baskets, and then you could force
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  them to have to run offense and shoot from the outside. We'll get to
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  that coming up. West Virginia took control of that game in the first half.
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  They only had three turnovers in that half, so I thought that really
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  set the tone. Now, UCF came up with some steals late. They
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  started really cranking up their pressure in the second half, and they ended up
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  with what nine turnovers in the second half did West Virginia, But when that
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  game was decided and mattered, there were only three. I thought they did
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  a tremendous job with the turnovers. Another part we talked about that goes along
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  with that key force UCF to make shots on you do not get eaten up
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  in the paint as you did in the first meeting. Now, Jesse Edwards
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  return, we thought was going to help that. Right, you get a
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  good seven footer back in your lineup that you didn't have in the first meeting.
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  That should automatically help. But here was the second part of that.
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  We said, make UCF shoot from the outside. If they make a bunch
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  of threes, so be it. You tip your cap, but let them
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  show you if they can make threes, because generally they don't. Away from
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  home, they don't. Visiting teams in the coliseum have not been making it
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  at a high rate about thirty one percent of the time this year. Make
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  them shoot from the outside, I thought. Then West Virginia backed that up
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  with a really good game plan from Josh Eilert and staff. They not only
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  went heavy zone, but they rotated that zone between zone and man a little
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  bit, just to give UCF different looks. Tony, I didn't think UCF
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  was comfortable offensively all night, and quite frankly, in the second half,
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  I'm not sure what they were doing at all, which we'll get to in
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  just second, but that zone defense was the key. It forced Central Florida,
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  a poor three point shooting team, to take threes on fifty three percent
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  of their shot attempts, more than half. Crazy. I don't know why
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  a team that struggles so much to shoot threes would do that, and they
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  cranked it up in the second half. That number kept rising throughout the game.
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  They shoot a three on average thirty seven percent of the time. This
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  was fifty three percent. Terrible game plan by UCF, but really good execution
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  by West Virginia. And it wasn't just sitting back in his zone. I
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  thought that zone was active. I thought I mentioned this to you on sports
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  Line last night. Quinn Sleazinski playing in the back of that zone. With
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  his length and his ability to move, he was effectively shutting down the wing
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  and the baseline three. He was covering two spots, closing off one whole
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  side of the floor. UCF just kept firing it. I don't know what
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  they were doing. UCF had the most guarded catch and shoots it's had all
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  season. Wow. So West Virginia has a tendency to leave people open.
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  They didn't in this zone. This looked as good as the zone did against
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  Ohio State that night in the near winn in Cleveland. So twenty guarded catch
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  and shoots for UCF the most they had all year. So it wasn't juste
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  F missing shots. West Virginia was causing some of that, and West Virginia
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  was going into the zone on makes so the fact that West Virginia was making
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  shots when they were coming back down, they were going into the zone,
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  so it was good that they were making shots so they could play more zone.
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  Thirty four total catching shoots for UCF also a season high, So if
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  you would have drawn that up as we did. We did draw it up
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  before the game and said force them to take jump shots and see if they
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  can beat you. They took the jump shots and they couldn't beat you.
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  So excellent execution by West Virginia to go along with the plan. Yeah,
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  hats off might not be the only time you see him. Might see the
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  Knights again. You could see him in Kansas City. I would guess they
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  won't rely on the jump shots so much the next I would think Darius Johnson,
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  their point guard, he didn't want to rely on it. Towards the
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  end of the game either No, he just said, yeah, if you
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  guys keep chucking, I don't care. I'm going straight into the rim.
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  Here's the other part that was really good by West Virginia. Coming into that
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  game. UCF was in the top three percent nationally defensively points purpose against the
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  pick and roll, So that was a potential concern for Westerradian because Westnian likes
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  to run the pick and roll. But this was an elite defense against that.
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  Part of that's because they're great size. Not just one guy in the
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  middle. They rotated three bigs in there at times, putting two seven footers
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  out there at a time. In that particular game on Tuesday night, West
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  Virginia put twenty points on them out of the pick and roll set. Wow,
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  against a team that was top three percent nationally. That's the most West
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  Virginia had since back on January twenty seventh, So that was really effective.
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  It's one of those the game plan was great by forcing them to shoot,
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  but the other part was they just flat out executed him said, all,
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  is that right? You're good at pick and roll defense. Guess what we're
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  gonna still do on you. We're not gonna run away from the pick and
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  roll. We're gonna run pick and roll right at you. That's where Jesse
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  Edwards back in the lineup helped tremendously as well. Yeah, Diallo who hurt
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  West Virginia the first game had a fourteen and a twelve in Orlando, just
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  had a non factor game on Tuesday. He played sixteen minutes. He goes
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  one for two with four rebounds, so not factor. One. Other individual
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  note, let's call out Raykwon Battle was outstanding. Twenty four points for him.
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  Clearly, when he scores gets over twenty West Virginia, he's going to
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  be in the game. But it's what it's how he got to twenty four
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  that really impressed me. We've talked about him occasionally he'll settle for threes.
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  I think he's better when he puts it on the floor and either gets to
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  the rim or the mid range. He did against UCF. He only had
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  three three point attempts out of his fifteen total shots, so he did a
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  great job of forcing the action and getting too that mid range shot. Here's
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  what we probably haven't talked enough about with Rayquan's performance against UCF. The game
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  in Orlando was his absolute worst game of the year in regard to his demeanor.
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  Remember he got booted, Yeah, that was his Eric Stevenson, speaking
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  of coach Stevenson, that was his Oklahoma State game when and Eric you had
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  the heave ho and Ray Kwan that night in Orlando was unhappy with the officiating.
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  It got to him. He was talking with the officials. Eventually talked
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  too much and Gary Maxwell double teed and threw him out. Ray Kwan got
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  as banged around this second game as he did the first game, but he
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  refused any more. Yeah, maybe more, but he refused to talk,
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  and he refused to complain, and as a result, he just kept coming
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  and coming and coming. So that's a heck of a one tot eighty for
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  him from getting blown out to go on twenty plus on him. That's a
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  great game, all right. Two more individuals, let's call out here first
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  and foremost, Kobe Johnson quietly played extremely well, right, I mean,
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  he's he's done a nice job of being a guy that was playing thirty nine
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  and a half minutes a game. Early on, there was thirty nine to
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  fifty two. Then there was an influx of the nineteen new guards that were
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  added to the roster limited Kobe's playing time, and he's worked his way back
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  into that and did There's nothing on his stat line and that makes you go,
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  oh my god, but he did a bunch of stuff. Eight points,
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  five rebounds, one turnover, and those little tear drop shots in the
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  lane I thought were really effective because it showed, hey, we're gonna go
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  right at these guys and guess what. There were a lot of blocks.
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  UCF blocked a lot of shots, but there were times too when West Virginia
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  said, okay, fine, we'll still come in here. So I thought
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  Kobe Johnson played really well. And then, oh, by the way,
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  you can tell it was a win because we've we've now called out four or
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  five individual players and haven't got to the dude that had a double double in
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  Jesse Edwards. Yeah makes a difference. Yeah, just a just a huge,
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  huge difference. Pleas guy's nose bloody. I mean, it was a
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  game, it was blood had the block of the year, The block of
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  the year gonna be it'll be tough to take that one off the mantle.
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  Someone, How do you make a better block than that one? I don't
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  know how you make a better block. Probably the only way that Jesse would
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  now lose Block of the Year is if someone goes straight at you and you
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  go up and do a Knaute two hand take away the ball. Yeah,
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  just like I'll just take this from him. That's probably the only way I
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  would give it. So behind the defender swings and pins it against the rim,
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  takes it off through. However, he did that volleyball, stuffed it
• 21:08
  into the rim, started at fast break up points the other way. That
• 21:11
  was fantasm You know. He also edwards more than just that block. He
• 21:15
  had a couple of those where they went right at him and he stayed completely
• 21:21
  vertical, right in the air, vertical for contact, alter the shot,
• 21:25
  effect of the shot, no foul call. That's hard to do too,
• 21:27
  Yes, it is. He was really good and it's good to see that.
• 21:30
  They if you play by the rule and just goes straight up, that's
• 21:33
  the rule. If you don't break the plane of verticality, and do you
• 21:37
  know a weeping willow with your arms or any you know, hip movement to
• 21:41
  cause kind of But if you go pogo stick straight up into the air,
• 21:45
  they're not going to call it. More than not, they're not going to
• 21:48
  call it if you play straight, and because of his length, he can
• 21:52
  affect a lot of shots because all he has to do is go up straight.
• 21:56
  Yeah, that was pretty good. That's all my UCF stuff. We're
• 22:02
  moving to chapter number two, spreads on stats. West Virginia against the Cyclones
• 22:07
  of Iowa State. Not a great situational set up here for West Virginia.
• 22:12
  Why because Iowa State played on Monday, so they've had additional rest and their
• 22:18
  home and they lost in that game against Houston, So you better get ready.
• 22:25
  Kind of like one of them bullfights where they pull that gate up and
• 22:27
  that bull he'd been waiting a long time to go. There's gonna be fourteen
• 22:33
  thousand every butt will be in a seat in Hilton Coliseum on Saturday afternoon.
• 22:37
  Are going to pull the gate up, and instead of the run of the
• 22:41
  Bulls, it's going to be the run of the Cyclones. And West Virginia
• 22:44
  better get ready to hold onto its hat in the first eight minutes of the
• 22:48
  game because they could blitzkrieg you and you better be ready to go. Super
• 22:52
  big challenge. As you mentioned, great environment, one of the really fun
• 22:56
  places to play in college basketball. From an atmosphandpoint. Maybe not fun for
• 23:00
  the visitors, certainly not this year. Their defense is the story, and
• 23:04
  it's been elite this year, third overall in defensive efficiency nationally, So they're
• 23:10
  going to guard. So the very first part of this game, we really
• 23:14
  don't even have to go into a bunch of keys. The major over arching
• 23:18
  theme is going to be can West Virginia score enough on this Iowa State team
• 23:22
  to get the win? So a lot of these keys are going to be
• 23:23
  based on that premise. Can West Virginia get points? How does it get
• 23:27
  points? How do you score on a team that's third overall in defensive efficiency?
• 23:32
  So similar to a profile of a Houston And we know that was a
• 23:34
  tough road environment there. So second and opponent turnover percentage as well. They
• 23:40
  feast on points off turnovers. They win that category in games by an average
• 23:45
  of twenty two to eleven, so on average they're plus eleven points in points
• 23:49
  off turnovers, So start there. That's obviously a key for West Virginia every
• 23:53
  game they've had turnover problems. They didn't against UCF, it turns into a
• 23:57
  win watch out against this Iowa State team. So let's stay on the offense.
• 24:02
  The challenge is scoring points. How do you do it? I've got
• 24:04
  a plant, I'm going to do this. Then in that case, yeah,
• 24:08
  he's going to plan. I mean, would be a show. It
• 24:14
  incorporates your sayings that we say West Virginia does win. It wins games.
• 24:18
  So you've got to go to this formula. First and foremost, the passing
• 24:22
  has to be on point. You've got to move the basketball. So take
• 24:26
  some of the passing you saw the other night where I thought Crisa was just
• 24:29
  tremendous. His ability to look off defenders and have guys jumping into passing lanes
• 24:33
  that ultimately he didn't use. We're huge. He's going to have to do
• 24:37
  that again. But here's something a little more in the weeds. Iowa State
• 24:40
  loves to double the ball, so you've got to watch out. Crease is
• 24:42
  going to get some doubles thrown at him right away. He's got to unload
• 24:45
  that in a hurry, then move the ball quickly. Off of that,
• 24:49
  you can get free on them. But you've got to be an elite passing
• 24:53
  team in this particular game. So watch the passing from West Virginia. If
• 24:57
  they can move the basketball, there going to get some open threes. And
• 25:00
  then the second key is what make them get some open threes? You better
• 25:04
  make them. West Virginia or excuse me, Iowa State gives up more unguarded
• 25:08
  catch and shoots than they have guarded catching shoots because they're so aggressive on and
• 25:14
  that would surprise you a little bit for a defense that is so good,
• 25:17
  right that they would leave shooters open. It's one of those things. Now
• 25:19
  listen, don't misconstrue what I'm saying here right so that I'm going to get
• 25:23
  nineteen texts from people in Iowa listening to this. It's a fantastic defense.
• 25:30
  It's going to be very difficult for Westernia to walk in and win. They've
• 25:34
  got to be due for some regression here on some shooting. They're leaving people
• 25:37
  open too often to have these numbers. Does it come this week, we'll
• 25:41
  have to see fifty three percent of the time. West Virginia or Iowa State
• 25:47
  leaves you on guarded on catching shoots more than half the time, as I
• 25:48
  just said, right, but teams are shooting just thirty five percent against them
• 25:53
  on those open looks. You know why, because you're tired, Because when
• 25:57
  you're frantic exactly right. You're so frank. So to me, this will
• 26:03
  be very similar to like, you know, you go in you're taking a
• 26:06
  class in college, and you get ready for your first test in that class,
• 26:11
  first exam, and you absolutely fail the heck out of it. That
• 26:17
  was West Virginia at Houston, because there are great similarities defense of intensity wise
• 26:23
  between Houston and Iowa State. Yes, well you failed miserably. Why did
• 26:27
  you fail miserably because you did not pass the ball? You put your head
• 26:30
  down and just basically drove into double teams. You had no shot. Well,
• 26:36
  now guess what. We're not at the final, but we're at the
• 26:40
  like the past midterm test, that's that one test after the mid term before
• 26:45
  the final. So West Virginia, here comes your test. Can you get
• 26:48
  rid of that ball and pass that thing now it's the shot? Yeah,
• 26:52
  and not be so absolutely flabbergasted by what you've just gone through to get the
• 26:56
  shot up. But you're right, it's physically exhausting to play against defenses like
• 27:02
  this as it was Press Virginia back in the day. Correct, And we
• 27:04
  talked about the cumulative effect, and that happens against in Iowa State. The
• 27:08
  crowd is on you and going bonkers, and you're expending so much energy just
• 27:11
  getting it up the floor and out of the trap at half court that you're
• 27:15
  not quite ready to shoot the three. I get it. I get all
• 27:18
  the issues here. I'm just saying there's a path there if you can control
• 27:22
  yourself, slow it down, make shots after you've moved the ball. Here's
• 27:26
  their losses. Here's what happens in losses. It's that BYU got nineteen on
• 27:32
  guarded shots against them. Now by US an elite SHI team, that's what
• 27:36
  they do. Oklahoma got twenty one points off on guarded jump shots. That
• 27:41
  worked. Baylor was one of their other losses. They did it a different
• 27:44
  way. They made guarded shots. So that's the other part that's especially hard
• 27:48
  to do against these guys. But Baylor picked up twenty one points off guarded
• 27:51
  shots. So you're gonna have to make shots. I know. Here we
• 27:53
  go, gigg a laugh. Hi, you gotta make shots. You better
• 27:56
  make your jump shots, specifically against in Iowa state team. If you don't,
• 28:00
  you're probably in some trouble. So can you space them out? Number
• 28:03
  one? The answer should be yes. Can you get the ball to the
• 28:07
  guys once you've spaced them out, and then can you make the shot?
• 28:10
  Because if you can space and move the ball, that takes them out of
• 28:14
  what they want to do defensively, and then they have to go to Plan
• 28:15
  B. With the amazing amount of roster fluctuation that we're now experiencing in college
• 28:22
  basketball, the following numbers I'm about to give you should mean very little.
• 28:26
  However, if you want to look at something on a plus note, West
• 28:30
  Virginia's beating Iowa State eight of the last nine meetings and three of the last
• 28:34
  four in Hilton. I guess it's a surprising number. It is surprising you
• 28:40
  wouldn't get out of There can't be many teams that go in to Hilton and
• 28:42
  win three out of your last four. Yeah, three out of four.
• 28:45
  So last year West Virginia won there seventy two to sixty nine, and twenty
• 28:49
  twenty two went in there and got beat eighty four eighty one. The prior
• 28:56
  time to that, twenty twenty one beat them seventy six seventy two, and
• 29:00
  then the time prior to that beat them seventy seven to seventy one. That
• 29:03
  was in March of twenty twenty. So, yeah, you won three or
• 29:07
  four. They're eight of the last nine overall. One last stat on this,
• 29:14
  well maybe one last two. So West Virginia only gets thirty two percent
• 29:18
  of its overall shots as on guarded the catch and shoot jumpers last in the
• 29:23
  nation, I mean dead last. So what is their threecuse me? Three
• 29:26
  hundred and sixty two, three hundred and sixty four, seven hundred and twelve
• 29:30
  Division one. Now I don't know what the number. They're dead last.
• 29:32
  They're very last in percentage of unguarded jump shots last, meaning they're first in
• 29:40
  guarded jump shots. You wonder why West Virginia has struggled to shoot most of
• 29:44
  the year, It's because they're guarded on almost every shot. Some of that
• 29:48
  just goes back to the passing too, But think about that. You wonder
• 29:51
  why it can't be consistent shooting because you're getting guarded in the very best basketball
• 29:56
  league in America on most of your shots. Well that's a recipe for procaster
• 29:59
  right here. Yeah, but here's the note. Here's what I want you
• 30:02
  to watch Saturday, maybe texting you during the game. Pass the ball,
• 30:07
  get an open look, which you do more than half the time against Iowa
• 30:11
  State. Here's the number to watch. West Virginia now making forty five percent
• 30:15
  of its threes when left on guarded. That has been steadily climbing throughout the
• 30:21
  year. They're getting better at making open three point catch and shoot shots.
• 30:25
  If there was ever a time to have that stat back itself up, it
• 30:29
  would be this Saturday against Iowa State, when they theoretically should give you some
• 30:33
  You should have the opportunities now go make them. Talk to Josh Eiler this
• 30:38
  morning and Seth Wilson will be back, but not sure of availability or whether
• 30:45
  or not he'll go because if you remember, besides his grandmother just recently passing,
• 30:48
  he's got a groin injury, and exactly where that thing is you don't
• 30:53
  know, so we'll have to see. But he would be a guy,
• 30:56
  to be quite honest with you, if you take a look at his numbers
• 30:59
  and I'm played in a bit, but he was making threes. I think
• 31:03
  it. Yeah, he'd been making threes recently. This would be a nice
• 31:06
  game for him to re emerge totally fresh, like not on the scout in
• 31:10
  report, just kind of walk out there and bank four of them. We've
• 31:11
  seen him do that before, right Texas Tech was that last year when he
• 31:15
  got blistering hot helped carry you to win. So you're gonna need some threes.
• 31:18
  You gotta make them. You should get some open looks. You've been
• 31:19
  making your open looks. Go ahead and do that. That's a that's a
• 31:22
  monster key in this game. Okay, that's pretty good. You did a
• 31:26
  really nice job on that one. Can I give you one defensive key?
• 31:30
  We're still on ias. I told you I had a lot, told you
• 31:33
  I had a lot on ioys said, I got down on the weeds.
• 31:36
  I'll just I'll be quick here. On the defensive part, they're they're also
• 31:40
  they're known for their defense, and that's what's gonna win him a game,
• 31:42
  and that that matchup of West Virginia's ability to shoot against their defense probably determines
• 31:47
  this particular game. Also, side note, you better find a way to
• 31:49
  get to the free throw line against them too, Did I say that?
• 31:52
  All right? Yes, because you gotta find that that's your second prong of
• 31:56
  scoring. Move the ball, make threes. We also have to get to
• 32:00
  the line. We know you have to do that every game. Defensively,
• 32:04
  they're really solid in every offensive metric as well. They're excellent in transition.
• 32:07
  A lot of that comes off those turnovers, so limit turnovers, should limit
• 32:12
  the transition. They really struggled against Baylor's zone in a loss, so let's
• 32:16
  just kind of make a little note of that. It's really the only significant
• 32:21
  zone defense they faced in Big Twelve play. Forty of the forty five zone
• 32:25
  possessions Iowa State has faced in Big Twelve play this year came against Baylor,
• 32:30
  so they haven't seen it a whole lot. Does West Virginia look to replicate
• 32:34
  some of its success from the other day and say to Iowa State, Okay,
• 32:37
  we're not going to give up points in the painting. You go ahead
• 32:38
  and make from the outside. The difference is what though they're at home,
• 32:42
  they're in their home gym versus U seef that was on the road. Yeah,
• 32:49
  it all makes sense. There you go, I'll give you defense.
• 32:52
  It's pretty good. And obviously we don't know what K State's going to do
• 32:57
  this weekend, so we don't want those scenario or the setup there. But
• 33:00
  be a nice one to get revenge on, wouldn't it. They kind of
• 33:02
  came in here, took West Virginia's lunch money. K State tweaked their nose
• 33:07
  game. One of these like the three stooges, give him a Benny Hill
• 33:09
  tapped him on top of the head and Moe used to do the thing with
• 33:13
  the hands. Here. Picked two, pick two, pick two, right,
• 33:17
  dwanked yourighty eyes. That's what k State did. I think josh Isiltt
• 33:22
  might want to win inside of Bramwich College. I would think that's a struggling
• 33:25
  case. State team lost seven of them. There's some weird teams out there
• 33:29
  right now. There's some stuff going on. There's weird teams out there in
• 33:31
  college basketball right now that you kind of go like, huh he you want
• 33:35
  to do a k State quick preview. I mean we're jumping ahead. I
• 33:37
  know we've I know we've bounded a lot of numbers. I'll just I checked
• 33:40
  the numbers. I'll just go right to the numbers right ahead. So,
• 33:45
  losing seven of eight interesting, where's this KSE State team? Mentally, when
• 33:50
  you arrive in Manhattan, here's the here's the giant key here against this particular
• 33:54
  team, West Virginia really struggled to stop them in the paint and in particular
• 34:00
  at the basket in game one. Remember this KSE State just came in here
• 34:05
  and said, we're driving at the rim every single time we get the chance.
• 34:08
  They were nineteen of twenty one on shots at the rim, nineteen of
• 34:15
  twenty one in the first meeting. That was the most points k State has
• 34:19
  scored all year at the rim. In Big Twelve play, as you would
• 34:21
  expect, fifty four percent of their points came in the paint. That's up
• 34:23
  about nine percent from what their season average was. That led to Kansas State
• 34:28
  shooting sixty seven percent on two point attempts. That's up fifteen percent from they
• 34:34
  normally. They had such a above average offensive night because they were getting such
• 34:38
  easy shots. That's got a change points off turnovers. West Virginia lost.
• 34:44
  That's seventeen to five in the first meeting. So, no, can you
• 34:46
  start to see the keys developing, Stop the points at the paint limit turnovers
• 34:52
  right close off the paint from them. And here's the other reason why kse
• 34:55
  State struggles mightily from three. Quite frankly, they're bad from three. They
• 35:01
  do not shoot it well. They're a bottom forty team nationally and three point
• 35:07
  field goal percentage. Pack's not making them threes anymore. For him that no,
• 35:09
  he's not, he's casting checks in Miami or was Westfridge or excuse me,
• 35:15
  Kansas State was just six of nineteen from three in the first meeting.
• 35:19
  Arthur Kaluma had four of those six A. So I was basically one guy
• 35:22
  made threes against you the first time. Now they didn't need to because they
• 35:24
  were just going to the rings a big Yeah. Here's what's puzzling, much
• 35:29
  like we kept saying, what is UCF doing. Why do you keep shooting
• 35:31
  the three? You're not good at it? Case State does it too.
• 35:35
  Forty one percent of their shots are threes and they can't shoot it bottom forty
• 35:38
  teen or they haven't shot it well. So that's top seventy five in the
• 35:44
  country and three point attempt rate, but a bottom forty percent in the number
• 35:46
  of ones you make. I mean that's a recipe for disaster. So same
• 35:51
  same plan as UCF. Make them show you they can beat you from the
• 35:54
  outside. Maybe they do in their own gym, but I've got to see
• 35:57
  that pack that paint in. Don't give up turnovers, so they get runouts
• 36:01
  and see if they can go make some threes. Here's what also is interesting.
• 36:06
  I'll tell you what you're flaming hut Well, the end of the season.
• 36:08
  Got to get everything in goll lot of stuff. These numbers mature over
• 36:13
  time. They become more reliant too, as you saw against UCF KSE State's
• 36:16
  only shooting thirty percent from three at home? Wow, only thirty percent at
• 36:22
  home? Can you keep them out of the lane. If you do,
• 36:25
  I feel like you can be in this game. That's what your chance is.
• 36:30
  You just take your chance and say, okay, fine, we'll play
• 36:31
  the odds. Second part, Now, can you do that defensively? And
• 36:36
  then how do you score on them? Got to get to the line.
• 36:37
  Here we go. I know I'm a broken record, but you got to
• 36:39
  get to the line. You did in the first meeting. Was this was
• 36:44
  the only Big Twelve game where West Virginia got to forty five percent free throw
• 36:46
  rate and lost. Every other time they've won that game in the Big Twelve.
• 36:51
  They got there against k State and couldn't couldn't finish the deal. Well,
• 36:54
  this is pre Jesse, pre Jesse. K State is second to last
• 36:59
  in the Big Twelve an opponent free throw rate, They should put you on
• 37:01
  the line too. In K State losses, they've put teams at the line
• 37:07
  at a forty one percent clip free throw rate. So it's right in the
• 37:10
  number that West Virginia needs. So if they if everything stays to script,
• 37:15
  which I know is asking a lot in college sports, they should miss their
• 37:19
  threes. You should be able to score your points at the free throw line.
• 37:22
  And even though this is one of the toughest places to play in this
• 37:24
  league, there's some things that line up for you. If you'll just control
• 37:28
  turnovers and shut the paint off and particularly shut the basket off, I think
• 37:32
  you got a chance to be in this game. Go stealing on the road.
• 37:35
  Yeah, first game, they crushed West Virginia on the glass thirty five
• 37:38
  twenty two, So the Jesse Edwards factor should play in there. And then
• 37:44
  for our producer Austin right, mark that right there at thirty seven minutes in,
• 37:47
  make a mark thirty seven minutes in. That's when the Senator. So
• 37:51
  if they win this game, we'll come back here on Tuesday just tapping ourselves,
• 37:57
  tapping you on the back. Probably get you one of them. Go
• 37:59
  to Burger King and get you one of them paper crowns. So you can
• 38:01
  sit here and you can be a king king of pregame stats. Let's say
• 38:06
  listen Westterrems struggled on the road. We know that haven't won yet. Well,
• 38:09
  you're going to two of the tougher places to play. Yes, I
• 38:12
  always say it's gonna be real challenge, but the blueprint's there. I don't
• 38:15
  know if you can execute it. Try Kansas State. I think if you're
• 38:17
  West Virginia, you walk into that place, they're struggling, They've got some
• 38:21
  metrics that match up with what you can do. You go in and say,
• 38:23
  all right, let's go boys, let's play now. Maybe you get
• 38:27
  beat twenty. There's a path there to win that game. Well, the
• 38:30
  thing of it is is if things don't go well for you Saturday, you've
• 38:34
  got to be mentally ready to flush it. Sunday you're going to practice and
• 38:39
  just stay the day in Manhattan and play Monday night. You can't let Saturday's
• 38:45
  outcome win or lose impact Monday because it's there for you, are right,
• 38:50
  it's there for you, all right? Watch his zone defense too this weekend.
• 38:54
  I think this is two teams you can zone heavily. I think westernam
• 38:58
  might have found a little something there. Well, I mean you absolutely have
• 39:00
  to. Kansas State's only faced five possessions of zone in Big twelve place since
• 39:07
  January twenty fourth, they haven't seen it a whole lot. Yeah, now,
• 39:09
  I'm sure they'll expect West Virginia to play it. They'll work on it
• 39:13
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• 39:15
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  the people that own their own boats, you know what I mean. Yeah,
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  well they're boaters. Well it's not like they work there and go as
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  a I don't have a boat. No, they all have. They have
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  Hello Antonio Bradford and Harvey Hulbert. The third Dougie Fresher from Merle's Inlet,
• 44:23
  South Carolina checking in Tony mentioned the sunset now being after six pm. Well
• 44:29
  here's one from Merle's Inlet this week. I hope you fellas got to experience
• 44:34
  it. Get to experience it this summer. By the way, a proud
• 44:37
  dad moment. My daughter is following in my footsteps. She's WVU bound this
• 44:44
  fall. Thanks is always great show. So that's a big thing, Brett,
• 44:47
  I don't know if you're familiar with this. So she's there in South
• 44:52
  Carolina obviously right near merles Inlet. You could tell that that house is facing
• 44:55
  water. But anyway, great place, wonderful food there in merles Inlett.
• 44:59
  Oh, yeah, you see that sign. That's a big thing down south
• 45:04
  when kids make their college choices. Yeah, they that's not here, is
• 45:08
  it? I don't know, but that's similar to the committed graphics that the
• 45:14
  athletes put out on social media. Right, that's what you're doing there.
• 45:15
  So where my son lives down in North Carolina, I walk around his neighborhood
• 45:22
  and these people have signs throughout the neighborhoods of where their kids are going to
• 45:29
  school. U NC do this there and that there. They put their commitment
• 45:35
  signs out front, they put the commitment. Why the hell they're doing that?
• 45:38
  I got no idea, but anyway, go with it. But I
• 45:40
  didn't know West Virginia had one. So committed to West Virginia kind of neat
• 45:45
  huh? Like it like did you do that when you went to Wartburg?
• 45:47
  Did not? Didn't think so didn't do a graphic either on social media?
• 45:54
  You know why there wasn't social media? There was not. Yeah, th'sree,
• 46:00
  guys. I really hope that the SEC and the Big Ten merge.
• 46:06
  That would probably force the Big twelve and the ACC to merge even though the
• 46:10
  TV contracts don't line up. Then West Virginia could play schools from PA Virginia,
• 46:16
  North Carolina, Kentucky every year instead of going to Texas, Arizona,
• 46:20
  Colorado, Utah. Please let this happen. Well, you're giving us a
• 46:25
  little bit, little bit too much power. Trust us. If we could,
• 46:29
  we would, he says, I'm afraid this makes too much sense for
• 46:31
  college administrators to consider it. Though signed by JD Southern Coalfields. Things have
• 46:38
  been interesting this week with the college football playoff and the negotiating that's been going
• 46:44
  on, and the two major conferences trying to negotiate a deal that would be
• 46:52
  extremely favorable. Imagine that for them, Imagine that nothing changes. We've been
• 46:58
  saying that for a while case study in human nature. They're getting in there
• 47:01
  trying to kick the door down, telling you here's what we want. Yeah,
• 47:05
  they're going in trying to hold people hostage. Yes, the old Springsteen
• 47:09
  lyric comes in here, right. Poor man wants to be rich, the
• 47:14
  rich man wants to be king. And the king ain't satisfied until he rules
• 47:17
  everything. And that's what those two leagues are trying to do. So we'll
• 47:21
  see Texter, gentlemen two or three. What a nice little surprise that you
• 47:29
  gave us with Eric Stevenson. Imagine if everyone had the Stevenson mentality. He
• 47:34
  has a brand on his hands. That's the kind of player we need West
• 47:37
  Virginia to recruit the cam Thurroman, Javon Carter, the scrapper, the fighter
• 47:43
  and get it done no matter what kind of player. I guess we'll see
• 47:46
  how it goes with the Wren's next hire. Are we efforting on a new
• 47:51
  popcorn? If so, I'm definitely a buyer. Hoppy said he'd be there
• 47:54
  from Monday show. Did he make it? Loved the show, Big guy
• 47:58
  mullins, Yeah, Hoppy was here. He showed new popcorn. We'll have
• 48:06
  something at some point. Let me ask you this again. I brought this
• 48:12
  up to you though. Here we go. We're getting ready to the spring
• 48:16
  season. Right, and in West Virginia spring brings ramps. Would there ever
• 48:22
  be any contemplation to do a ramp flavored popcorn? Now that it'd be different,
• 48:30
  it'd be unique, pre Niche, wouldn't it? Oh? Yeah,
• 48:31
  extremely, I just don't know. Your palette's got to be a certain it
• 48:36
  goes away place to enjoy that. No one would ever confuse a ramp with
• 48:39
  a strawberry like we had in our vanilla vanilla strawberry popcorn. Oh that was
• 48:45
  good. You think you could do something with a ramp. I don't know.
• 48:51
  I don't know, pre Niche. So far, our stuff, our
• 48:54
  product collapse have been broad, broad based, easy to drink beer, really
• 49:00
  smooth and good coffee. Couple different popcorns, but that encompass a lot of
• 49:06
  general streams. We haven't been extreme. Ramp popcorn might be a tat extreme
• 49:10
  for us right now? All right, just throwing it up there. This
• 49:14
  one was just four words. This whole text was just four words. I
• 49:17
  don't know the context, don't know exactly what it was about, but it
• 49:21
  just says, Brad Howe is elite? All right? Was that a text
• 49:28
  I sent? You? Send that to you just said that it's okay,
• 49:32
  I'll go with it. Thank you, Craig and Craigsville. Probably not his
• 49:37
  real name, Tony. Do you ever say something during a basketball game that's
• 49:43
  meant for a player or a referee knowing that they can hear you, but
• 49:46
  if you play it off as part of the broadcast. I do not do
• 49:54
  that. Now. I did it. What do you mean now that means
• 49:59
  you've done it in the past. One night, I was losing my mind.
• 50:07
  I think you were at this game. N I t Reynolds Coliseum,
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  West Virginia, North Carolina, one of the all time greats. One of
• 50:15
  my early years here. Wanted to be at that game so bad it jumped
• 50:17
  on the cheerleader bus, came down to the Charlider bus, down and back.
• 50:22
  But that was one of the great atmospheres that I've been a part of.
• 50:23
  Loudest game I've ever been in my life, including Allen Fieldhouse. Yeah,
• 50:28
  that was fun. That was right there. Yeah, so this official,
• 50:30
  have no idea, had never seen him before, have not seen him
• 50:34
  since. He was just absolutely screwing us. I mean just freaking screwing us.
• 50:43
  And it was so intense. I mean, you can't properly describe how
• 50:49
  it was just like craziness. And this guy walked over and whatever reason,
• 50:55
  like instead of having his back to me, like I just went in to
• 51:00
  like a rant and like I'm staring right at him while I'm saying about how
• 51:04
  the officiating was horrible. Officiating here tonight, just ridiculous. Nowadays, they'll
• 51:10
  throw you. And this guy stared at me, and I was just like
• 51:15
  losing it because at that time, as you know, you lose your seasons
• 51:20
  over sure. I didn't want to intense. Yes, that was a great
• 51:23
  atmosphere, so I just so I just laid into this dude, and this
• 51:27
  guy's just like staring at me. I might have gone a little mcdone at
• 51:30
  him. Horrific officiating. A commissioner needs to see this reprehensible, disgusting and
• 51:38
  improper. But that's about the only time, like now, when those guys
• 51:42
  come over, I intentionally. Number one, I don't and I don't think
• 51:46
  I'm talking loud enough for them to hear me. Now where you were sitting
• 51:50
  the other night, they probably could have heard you. Well, they're pretty
• 51:52
  close, they're right next to them. I wasn't talking to them. I
• 51:57
  was just describing what we saw. Was that why he kept saying clearly,
• 52:01
  that's not a flagrant one. It was a flagrant one, Uh Texter.
• 52:07
  I really enjoyed listening to Tony and Brad call games together, but I feel
• 52:10
  like Hoppy is left out. Anyway you can bring Hoppy in at times,
• 52:15
  like how it's done during NFL games when retired officials are brought in. I'm
• 52:19
  sure everyone would love to hear Hoppy's observations during a controversial call, of which
• 52:22
  there have been a few. That's pretty good. Yeah, no no plan
• 52:27
  there, uh Texter. The Mountaineers must have heard Tony call them soft during
• 52:34
  the podcast earlier this week. Every time UCF drew close, WVU found the
• 52:38
  answer on offense two points on the officiating. Ray Kwan got absolutely mugged on
• 52:45
  the dunk attempt in the second half. No call. The next time the
• 52:47
  court down the court, the refs did give him a makeup on the flagrant
• 52:52
  file. The replay showed the ref on the far side of the court looking
• 52:54
  directly at the play, so no way he could have missed it. I
• 52:59
  admire ray maturity and not chirping or seeking retribution. Guaranteed if it had happened
• 53:04
  to me, I would have garnered a technical and would most likely have been
• 53:08
  ejected from the game. Then this one came up on a couple of occasions.
• 53:15
  So I'm gonna lean on you because Texas says this, how can you
• 53:20
  go back and review a goaltending call? Refs cheated West Virginia out of two
• 53:23
  points if you go back and look, West Virginia got possession after the block
• 53:28
  with what looked like an easy putback. Luckily it didn't make a difference in
• 53:30
  the outcome. So there you go with two of those. Yes, with
• 53:37
  two goaltending reviews in that game. Yeah, text are also so if I
• 53:45
  remember it, those evened out right West Virginia was I think they evened out
• 53:52
  the weirdness on that thing. There was a stretch of a minute and fifty
• 53:55
  seconds before the end of the half that they came back and looked after and
• 54:00
  there was a dead ball after We were saying that, well, why don't
• 54:04
  they come over and look at it now, but they did. They waited
• 54:06
  till when the halftime came. Yeah, it was odd. Texter boy is
• 54:14
  chucking Lumberport boy? Did we ever need a game like that? Not one
• 54:16
  for the fan, but the coaches and the players I was telling my cousin
• 54:21
  and Raleigh would love to see this team and the coaches get together one more
• 54:24
  year. Who do we have coming back red shirted and coming in? So
• 54:28
  far West Virginia needs to bring the coaching staff back. I mean, you
• 54:35
  could go through the roster. But like Ray Kwon's done, Jesse Edwards is
• 54:38
  done again when you graduate. So the guys that graduate may have eligibility,
• 54:44
  but they could leave because they could become graduate transfers. A gazillion moving pieces
• 54:49
  to all that. That was always a fun exercise in the off season.
• 54:52
  This is to talk about who could return. Now you might as well just
• 54:54
  wait, yeah, this way, because it's it could be thirteen new guys,
• 54:58
  thirteen totally different guys. Yes, just wait. This message is for
• 55:05
  the Senator Brad. I would like to bring forth to the Three Guys board
• 55:10
  emotion. Just suspend Tony's audio mixer control duties for at least the next three
• 55:17
  shows. What'd you do? The music during textual healing during the last episode
• 55:22
  clipped so bad. My airpod's busted and I needed to go to the doctor
• 55:28
  and get custom hearing aids for severe hearing loss. I bring forth the motion
• 55:32
  to the Honorable Senator of Montigelia County for consideration. Click signed by Luke and
• 55:38
  Clarksburg. Thank you Luck Miff's audio problems last show we did operator air or
• 55:46
  technical issues? Do you think technical? And I say that because if you
• 55:53
  want to really get technical, do you want to get you want to like,
• 55:57
  I mean, obviously we got compression, We got processing going on in
• 56:00
  the studio here right now, and I run that thing you look at look
• 56:02
  at the video medea right there? Yeah, okay, so that's where I
• 56:06
  keep it. Is it below the red below all below the red? Yeah,
• 56:08
  so my worry. Yeah, the audio was crap last show on the
• 56:14
  YouTube feed. So I'm worried that when the audio passes through into our video
• 56:22
  unit that it got amped up. We're efforting to make sure it doesn't happen
• 56:29
  again. If it does, uh, we'll have to create a whole new
• 56:32
  profile and just start over again. But yeah, I was with you on
• 56:36
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• 56:38
  So probably what happened on it too hot there? Yeah, maybe it didn't
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  probably did minus twenty minus thirty one two three. That's probably there. All
• 56:58
  right, thank you, we'll get that fixed. Periopolis, Phil. Hello.
• 57:05
  The goalten reversal call is dumb if you don't review it immediately after we
• 57:08
  had possession when they initially called it a goaltend. Then they reversed it five
• 57:14
  minutes later turned into a turnover. Also, if you had the over under,
• 57:17
  it cost you. Over under was one forty four and a half.
• 57:20
  The final was one forty four. Mm hmm. I think it was started
• 57:24
  at one forty three that total, if I'm not mistaken. So if you
• 57:28
  had the over there, do you miss over it? Do you miss not
• 57:30
  messing with the numbers? Oh it's fun. Those are fun. Yeah,
• 57:34
  but you don't. Yeah you miss it. Yeah, I'm not doing it,
• 57:37
  not doing it right now. You yearn for it, but you can't.
• 57:38
  Yeah. Jim and Morgantown, same thing, longtime listener, first time
• 57:45
  textor UCF gets called for goaltend. He is later reversed upon review. Problem
• 57:49
  being West Virginia got the board on the golten, so they took the points
• 57:51
  away in the possession. How's that a good way to officiate. Either way,
• 57:57
  get it, write or review it on the dead ball don't wait five
• 57:59
  minutes. Luckily it didn't cost us. Text her Hey, Tony and Brad.
• 58:07
  Fine looking Phil created quite the coordinated look for you guys on game day
• 58:14
  attire. It was so fun to meet you. I enjoyed the podcast so
• 58:17
  much and I'm so happy to have that West Virginia connection. Well there she
• 58:21
  is, folks, you are looking love at MJ from Savannah. I loved
• 58:25
  being in the coliseum for the great win over UCF officiating. It's still hard
• 58:29
  to take, but the outcome was You're sweet. Thank you for your warm
• 58:31
  reception when I introduced myself to you. Go Mountaineers, MJ and Savannah.
• 58:36
  That's great to meet her. She's texted a few times. That was great.
• 58:38
  Lived in Morgantown for thirty years now, lives in Savannah, and her
• 58:44
  heart is in West Virginia. Like a lot of our listeners, she misses
• 58:45
  it. And we can't see in that picture, but she had an always
• 58:50
  one of our always a West Virginia Connection shirts on correct. Yep, she
• 58:52
  was wearing the always of West Virginia Connection. Thank you very much. I
• 58:54
  got to meet her sister too. Yes, who was there? Yeah?
• 58:58
  That was great text. This text is for the judge, jury and the
• 59:04
  executioner of all Mountaineer fan law. I have a confession. I was finishing
• 59:12
  Monday's episode on this Wednesday morning, so that'd be yesterday, on my way
• 59:15
  to work when I heard we'll be back to recap the UCF game on Thursday.
• 59:22
  I realized I completely forgot and missed the UCF game. As I'm rewatching
• 59:29
  the game at work, I cannot understand how one could think it was live
• 59:34
  with zero commercials. But the question is what should my sentence be. Well,
• 59:43
  I'd normally crush you on that, but I got one for you.
• 59:46
  Last night. So I'm watching the wv women's game right, big matchup Kansas
• 59:58
  State in Manhattan. West Virginia is the underdog. So I'm working on my
• 1:00:05
  computer and watching the game on a computer that ESPN plus two different screens or
• 1:00:08
  same computer. Got about a fifteen inch computer to my left that I keep
• 1:00:15
  the game on, and then I got big, massive, big, massive
• 1:00:19
  screen in front of me that I do my work on. Okay, so
• 1:00:22
  I'm watching the game and I'm listening listening to the radio broadcast as well,
• 1:00:27
  sure, you said, a lot going on, had it perfectly SYNCD up.
• 1:00:30
  I got the radio on my phone, I got the video, I
• 1:00:32
  got the ESPN plus thing going on, and I'm watching and it's tight.
• 1:00:37
  It's back and forth, tight, fun game. Yeah, had some opportunities.
• 1:00:43
  So West Virginia goes down three, call the time out. There's six
• 1:00:50
  seconds to go man four four four six talking the end of regulation. Yeah.
• 1:00:54
  So anyway, it was the sequence where we're down three, we need
• 1:00:59
  the three, we inbound the ball and we throw it away. Yes,
• 1:01:04
  yeah, there's more than course. I thought you taught the very last possession.
• 1:01:07
  We throw it away. They get the ball, transition into the front
• 1:01:09
  court, and I went, pop pop, shut them both off. You
• 1:01:15
  thought it was over. You thought that was it. You're down three,
• 1:01:17
  they have possession of the ball. I said, I've seen this movie.
• 1:01:22
  I know how it ends. Bummed out may have said a word the wife.
• 1:01:25
  I had called the wife in. I said, here, come here
• 1:01:29
  look at this. Yeah, fourteen seconds that's what was. Yeah, I
• 1:01:31
  said, come here, look at this, and then I went shut them
• 1:01:37
  off. This morning, I'm going on Metro news and it says Kansas State
• 1:01:43
  out last West Virginia in overtime. You didn't. You didn't get back in
• 1:01:45
  anytime last week, never turned it back on. Oh you missed a great
• 1:01:50
  finish. Oh, I understand. I'm gonna go back and watch it this
• 1:01:53
  afternoon. Oh, first time I've ever done that. There was some great
• 1:01:59
  stratigury. They're late because in the women's game, you can call time out
• 1:02:02
  and advance. The is a heck of an advantage. I'm still not sure
• 1:02:07
  why that rule exists. That is a massive advantage for the offense. Bro
• 1:02:10
  Okay, but tell me why it exists. Because they want more offense and
• 1:02:14
  they want fantastic finishes. That's well, I'll tell you I'd be hot if
• 1:02:16
  I was defense. Well, I mean that's the program. Just gain half
• 1:02:20
  a court for No, you didn't do anything because half a court excitement.
• 1:02:22
  You're in the entertainment. I'll tell you what's exciting. What's also exciting is
• 1:02:25
  West Virginia down to four seconds to go, a perfectly executed inbound pass that
• 1:02:32
  hits Jordan Harrison on the move, right right, So this is this was
• 1:02:37
  her version of the Papa John's Final second shootout, or maybe Kroger sponsors that
• 1:02:40
  now was Papa John's for all the years I was there. Jordan takes it
• 1:02:44
  all the way to the basket. A sweet left handed hooking layup counted to
• 1:02:50
  tie the game, to send it overtime on the heels of ja. Did
• 1:02:52
  you see JJ's banked in three? Heard about it? That came in the
• 1:02:55
  final fourteen second soloware down three? Yeah, cuinnarly on a guarded catch and
• 1:03:00
  shoot. Guarded catch and shoot bank one out of rhythm banks in a three
• 1:03:05
  to tie it. Oh, that was a great last fourteen seconds. Oh,
• 1:03:09
  I heard overtime is tough. Yeah. Lee is really good. They're
• 1:03:15
  big, ioka. Lee has just wonderful hands. She can catch it.
• 1:03:22
  Oh, she can catch it and it's in and out of her hands in
• 1:03:28
  about a quarter of a second. She never brings it down either. For
• 1:03:30
  a big fact, we had a little lesson last night with youth basketball player
• 1:03:34
  in my house. Shout said, that's how you do it when you're tall.
• 1:03:37
  Keep it up. She was. She was impossible to stop. So
• 1:03:40
  I was thinking of this while I was watching her playing. I've got tremendous
• 1:03:45
  respect for her. I mean, how do you guard her? Like?
• 1:03:50
  Who do you need body wise to guard that because obviously you try to front
• 1:03:54
  her and she's so long that you can throw it up over you. I
• 1:03:59
  mean, yeah, you have to have someone that's about six' five to
• 1:04:02
  front her. Yes, that's a that's a bouncy sixty five. And they
• 1:04:06
  had Danelle leaning on her for a while. That's the other part. You
• 1:04:10
  try and lean and push her as far away from the basket as you can,
• 1:04:13
  which is really hard. Good luck. The double down coming to get
• 1:04:15
  hers tough because the double down usually is when you get the swipe. But
• 1:04:19
  because like we just said, she doesn't bring it down, the swipes aren't
• 1:04:23
  as effective. It almost has to be like a straight if you you've got
• 1:04:26
  to almost have two bigs and then double front her or drop somebody down in
• 1:04:30
  front of crypt, but then you're leaving somebody open. That's a really that's
• 1:04:32
  why she's the first team All America. It's a nearly impossible matchup. Yeah,
• 1:04:36
  and you know what you can tell about her, She likes to play.
• 1:04:41
  You know, did you get that sense from her? Yeah? She
• 1:04:43
  she balls. She balls like she and that was on a hurt ankle.
• 1:04:45
  I know. They had to keep bringing her times to rest her. Really,
• 1:04:49
  the story of the game that that turned into her inside which also turned
• 1:04:55
  into a massive free throw gap. Did you see that free throw gap?
• 1:04:59
  Night? Teen of thirty one for k State, six of eight for West
• 1:05:02
  Virginia. So ky State plus thirteen points at the line plus twenty three attempts.
• 1:05:08
  They did their work in the lane. West Virginia had to take a
• 1:05:11
  lot outside shots and didn't have one of its best three point nights first time
• 1:05:14
  the rate game. That's two really good teams. The K State coach after
• 1:05:16
  the game couldn't stop talking about Westernia team. He said, that is an
• 1:05:19
  excellent West Virginia team. Well, that's what I was going to say.
• 1:05:24
  This is the deal. So just think where West Virginia's program is going.
• 1:05:28
  I mean, I know it absolutely sucks and hurts to lose in that game,
• 1:05:32
  but long range, like, where's this thing going? They just went
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  in there, first team All American top ten team, top ten team,
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  and they take them to overtime and they're a whisker. They are a whisker
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  away right from that. So this thing is only going to get better for
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  West Virginia, and who knows, you'll see what happens in the conference tournament.
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  But to further that point. I think these last two games, beating
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  Oklahoma here and doing that on the road, that shows you this wasn't some
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  fluky wild Segual or West Virginia. This is like, okay, this is
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  legitimate Big twelve content here. Yeah, received another text. All it said
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  was four words, two exclamation points, and it said this Tony knew all
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  along, double exclamation point. So you know what did Tony know all along?
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  Then they sent a link to a New York Time story familiar with New
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  York Times heard of it all the news that's fit to print. That's New
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  York Times headline. Woman sues tomato company, saying those were not San Marzano's
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  in the can as I first reported and broke several years ago. All of
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  you out there that buy these San Marzano tomatoes are buying fake tomatoes. They're
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  not actually true San Marzano's that are grown in that specific soil in Italy because
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  because it's physically impossible to produce that number of tomatoes on about was it seven
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  hundred hectors something like that. So anyway, story, I'm not going to
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  read you the whole story, but it goes like this, a federal judge
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  said the lawsuit in which a California woman accused Simpson Imports of using highly misleading
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  packaging could proceed. The company says its labels do not call the products san
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  Marzano. Sam Marizano tomatoes are prized by chefs around the world for their intense
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  flavor are routinely recommended by recipe writers, but one woman in California said that
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  her effort to make a sauce from these rich and balanced tomatoes were upset by
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  a misleading label. Simpson Imports, a Pennsylvania tomatoes seller his for years sold
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  Roma tomatoes and cans and boxes, but the California woman, Andrea Valiente,
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  said in a lawsuit file last year, the company had used highly misleading packaging
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  the trick consumers into believing they were purchasing genuine San Marzano's at San Marizano prices.
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  So there's two parts to that. You did first report that, I'll
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  give you credit for that. There's two parts to that. Yes, San
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  Marzano tomatoes exist. You can grow San Marzano tomatoes. The point that I
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  was making when I first said that a couple of years ago, yeah,
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  was like, don't think that the San Marzano's that you're buying. Are those
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  from that fertile piece of soil that was left by the volcano so long ago,
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  Because that's just a small piece to get that you can grow Sam mars
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  I got. I mean, Stephen Tornado grows Sam Marzano tomatoes. They're nice,
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  flavorful tomato. You can get those. But I'm saying, just don't
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  think you're getting that's all. Just don't think you're getting those. Just trying
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  to help. Hello, Tony Brad and whoever the other guy is you occasionally
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  have on. I wish I'd gotten this text before Coach Stevenson came on the
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  show, but I was one of the people he mentioned seen at his stop
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  in Greensboro, North Carolina. I was sitting behind the Spurs bench and of
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  course wearing my West Virginia gear, made sure that he saw it. He
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  pointed over to me and said, I see you. Since I no longer
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  live in West Virginia. Was great there he is able to catch one of
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  our guys in action. I attached a couple of pictures of him from the
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  game. Hopefully I can catch Gabe playing one of these days as well.
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  Signed by not hoppy how or hugs and high point. There's Eric Garden,
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  Eric just gonna guard, just gonna guard. I liked that. You could
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  tell he liked that. Seeing West Virginia fans everywhere he goes. It's kind
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  of another teenage like sure, sure, that's pretty cool. Texter. Really
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  quick, fell as, I saw my doctor today, whose office is literally
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  ten blocks from Marshall's campus. In tribute to Gino, I'm wearing my thanks
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  for having us long sleeve tea, and the physician's assistant comes back from the
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  back and says, I love your shirt. Shar and her husband are huge
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  fans of three guys. I think the number of loyal Mountaineer fans has now
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  surpassed two dozen. Only game in town is women's softball for me, although
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  I will be on hand for the WV hardball in Huntington now that they can
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  play past five forty five pm. New stadium has lights. Let's go t
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  dub in Barbersville excellent. Or the Gino jersey in there just off the Marshall
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  campus. Talk to it, probably didn't you know? Real quick, I've
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  said this before, but I'll give you full disclosure, so you're not on
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  an Island by turning a game off early. There. Yeah, I've said
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  this part. You know. I left that game early, the Marshall game,
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  the Geno Comeback Marshall game. After I was on the sidelines for that
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  game. Was working in the department still and I was on the sidelines,
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  and I just had it right. Their fans were NonStop, wouldn't stop chirping
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  at everybody, including me. Stand I'm just standing out side, lights watching.
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  Looked like it was going to be a loss, said the guy I
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  was with. I said, that's enough. I'm out. I had driven
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  myself down, had some meetings before and after the game. Yeah, couldn't
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  take it. Had enough, didn't want to hear anymore yapping, yipping from
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  behind right, walked out of the stadium. Listened to you on the interstate
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  on the way back. I did it sound great? Was beside myself.
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  I wasn't there. Came clean to steal on Monday. I was just going
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  to ask you. I just said, ste listen, I gotta tell you
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  just just won't be up front here. Just received an email from upstairs,
• 1:11:29
  What excuse me from upstairs? Harry upstairs, Yeah, says there's a canister
• 1:11:35
  from Anthony Rizzo for the three guys in the refrigerator. Huh so we should
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  should we just leave it in the fridge and come back Monday or I won't
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  be here Monday Tuesday. Well it stay well at last, I'll have to
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  go look at it. But I can't go right now. Shout out tonight,
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  Anthony. He was at the tailgate, a couple of tailgates football season.
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  Anthony was sounds like a new Jersey name, Anthony Rizzo. Yeah,
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  but he's here. He's local. That cut baby Dan, he would son,
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  that's life and his wife and his baby with the games. Okay,
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  cool, that's all right. Well they brought us so well, thanks Anthony.
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  We'll got to check it out as soon as this is over. When
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  and if Hoppy returns, he'll have used his Gomart fuel card. He goes
• 1:12:25
  every time, probably multiple times, multiple times up and down the interstate.
• 1:12:28
  He's involved in all this legislation. Now they're kind of getting close to the
• 1:12:31
  end there, I guess. And reminder, if you go to a Gomart,
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  get the fuel card. Get the card. You can save money on
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  your fuel and your food, toasty coffee and so much more. Tell them
• 1:12:44
  three guys sent you Texter Professor Vinnie here. I think Charlie from Midlothian brought
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  up a good point last episode. It made me think that listeners gamify their
• 1:12:57
  text to try to get them right onto the show, meaning crafting the perfect
• 1:13:01
  message. In other words, text requires both skill and challenge to get it
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  read. The challenge is that not all texts get read, and you have
• 1:13:12
  to have a really good story or a comment in a short amount of words.
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  I'm liking where you're going here, Vinnie. The reward being getting mentioned.
• 1:13:19
  During the reward is you get mentioned, you get your text read.
• 1:13:23
  If it's good, you get your text rate. We have gamified our listenership
• 1:13:27
  without three guys having to even make it a game. No, I'm all
• 1:13:30
  for shorter texts. I've never said that before. I'm all for shorter texts,
• 1:13:35
  and if you elect me, I'm all for shorter texts. My point
• 1:13:42
  to that is this, trust me when I tell you this. If you
• 1:13:45
  write a really long text, you can absolutely say the same thing in twenty
• 1:13:50
  five percent of those words. You really can't trust me. You can't.
• 1:13:59
  Unfortunate some don't get red it was too long. They go into the uh
• 1:14:03
  great textual healing in the sky. I remember the last show People in Antarctica.
• 1:14:12
  Yeah, two corrections, Joe and Paul Oliverio. That was them.
• 1:14:17
  February nineteenth, three Guys episode. We showed them at the bottom of the
• 1:14:23
  world. That was their seventh continent. Oh my Antarctica. Last summer we
• 1:14:29
  sent you that picture from Yuganda with wild boars. This time you get penguins,
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  go mountaineers. How about that. Someone also texted me when we were
• 1:14:36
  looking at that picture from the last show, Austin, can you bring that
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  up by any chance? And if you can't, don't worry about it.
• 1:14:42
  Of the there was the one, the one photobomb penguin that was just over
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  the left on the left side of this very good and I said to you,
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  I said, look, there's even more penguins by that tree line way
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  down there. Well, someone wrote in and said and didn't it didn't say
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  dumbass, but they said, dude, there it is. They said,
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  those aren't trees, those are rocks. You can't grow trees. Didn't know
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  that. I guess there're mountains rocks whatever. I love the penguins by himself
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  there, Yeah, he's all bummed out. He couldn't get ESPN plus,
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  he wanted to watch the Mountaineer game. Walk down to the bar down there.
• 1:15:20
  He was heading back home. All the other people count up on the
• 1:15:24
  trees, couldn't get any buffering. He couldn't get any buffering. That was
• 1:15:28
  the Kansas game. They took that picture. Well, I would think the
• 1:15:30
  ones up in the trees would have better. Well, those aren't trees.
• 1:15:32
  Those are just rocks from what I was told. So that penguin's all bummed
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  out, he's had a couple and he's heading back home. The damn thing
• 1:15:39
  kept buffering and spinning and spinning. He wanted to watch the Mountaineer game at
• 1:15:41
  the Penguin bar. In that article crazy just crazy serious travel. Yeah,
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  that's that's really good man, that's awesome. I commend you for doing that
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  right, super good. Now I'm wondering what rizzos and over. I hurry
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  So because the World Champs play on Monday, we'll be back in here
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  on Tuesday. Now, I might be a little tired. I might be
• 1:16:55
  a little tired, that's one of those. But I'll be our middle of
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  the night returns. What I'll have is I'll have some game day grinding coffee.
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  Get a big one, probably have a big coffee. Might bring a
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  full Mason jar in and baby, I just might bring a whole mace,
• 1:17:08
  wide mouthed Mason jar. Just pound it. If you want some great coffee,
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  visit episode eight hundred dot com. You know I went in there and
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  bought a bag this week. You went to the storefront that went to the
• 1:17:20
  mountain, went to the bricks and mortar. Yea. And the guy says,
• 1:17:23
  you know, the guy says, we sell so much of that online
• 1:17:28
  that we can barely keep it on the shelf. And I said, well,
• 1:17:30
  maybe Rusty how to hire me as a roaster. I'm available. I
• 1:17:34
  could probably get to start going over there and help roasting bag. Well,
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  you help fill over at Daniels, I can go over and roast the coffee.
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  We're just trying to help West Virginia businesses. I saw a couple of
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  guys. Rick came in, Rick Harvey came in over at workdays the other
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  night. He said, no, you work on Tuesdays usually he knew.
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  I came over, said hello, good to see him. All right,
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  be good, everybody, thanks so much for being with us. Five hundred
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  and thirty third third, third third episode of Three Guys, Before the Game
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  Is Done.