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3 Guys Before The Game - Bounce Back Time (Episode 611) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's happening everybody? It is time for three Guys
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  Speaker 1: before the game, and it is bounce back time, Episode
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  Speaker 1: number six hundred and eleven. The Mountaineers dropping a road
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  Speaker 1: decision in Manhattan against the Wildcats of Kansas State back
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  Speaker 1: here we go, let's uh break it down boys. West
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  Speaker 1: Virginia's I said, suffer a loss at Kansas State and
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  Speaker 1: got a little bit of a got a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a bothersome trend here, a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: hitch in your gidea. Yeah. Yeah, So the thing that
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  Speaker 1: WVU has been using to be successful to get itself
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  Speaker 1: ranked this season was its defense. Well, suddenly the defense
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  Speaker 1: has left the Mountaineers. K State shoots forty seven percent
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  Speaker 1: from the field and rolled to the thirteen point victory.
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  Speaker 1: Super strong start. They're up forty two to eighteen at halftime.
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  Speaker 1: It's not where you want to be, all right, you're
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  Speaker 1: down twenty four at halftime. How about this though, here's
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  Speaker 1: a little number for you. I don't think you'll get
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  Speaker 1: this on spreads on stats. What's it? So last year,
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia went in there and was down twenty two
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  Speaker 1: at halftime, came back and took the game in the overtime. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So in the last two first halfs at Kansas State,
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  Speaker 1: you've been down forty six points, so non conducive going forward,
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  Speaker 1: Do not play the first half? Ask him if you
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  Speaker 1: could start in second, start and second Yeah, then do
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  Speaker 1: the first half afterward? Yeah, later probably do it. Senator Man,
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  Speaker 1: you're up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm good doing stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So it always busy show prop the uh.
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  Speaker 2: I know Darren's first point was defense, and it will
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  Speaker 2: always be defense. I think you could win ninety to
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  Speaker 2: forty and he'd still find something wrong with the defense.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly not wrong that that start to the game was
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  Speaker 2: troublesome right away. The case State goes on a seventeen
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  Speaker 2: to nothing run in there, and you knew you're in
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  Speaker 2: trouble when that happens. But to me, it's also got
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  Speaker 2: to be about the finding some three point shots that'll fall.
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  Speaker 2: This is a team that's so heavily reliant on the three,
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  Speaker 2: nearly fifty percent of its shots taken come from three.
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  Speaker 2: In West Virginia went back to back season low performances
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  Speaker 2: from behind the arc. So that's a problem too. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: she needed to guard better in the first half, especially early.
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  Speaker 2: But West Virginia just for the second straight game, really
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  Speaker 2: struggling from three. That puts them at eight of fifty
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  Speaker 2: over the last two games, eight of fifty, and that's
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  Speaker 2: not where this team needs to be if it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: win games.
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  Speaker 1: Eight of fifty is sixteen percent correct from three in
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  Speaker 1: the last Oh, was that one of your obvious observations?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just stepped on my Obviously I got one
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  Speaker 3: stat I got one obvious observation.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, obviously you have more of those. I do have
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  Speaker 1: a couple, But all right, go ahead, what obviously Well,
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  Speaker 1: that just.
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  Speaker 3: Like what Brad said. But I think that is where
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  Speaker 3: you have to start. You have to start with not
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  Speaker 3: making shots overall, and particularly not making three point shots.
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  Speaker 3: So West Virginia in the last two games averaging just
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  Speaker 3: sixteen percent from three point range, and West Virginia scored
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  Speaker 3: sixty points or fewer in the last two games they
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  Speaker 3: were averaging they were averaging seventy two points. I'll look
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  Speaker 3: to some other games, to some top twenty five games,
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  Speaker 3: and Auburn beat Tennessee and Tennessee was four of twenty
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  Speaker 3: two from three point range. Duke beat wake Forest and
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  Speaker 3: wake Forest was three of eighteen from three point range.
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  Speaker 3: Alabama beat LSU. LSU with three of twenty three from
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  Speaker 3: three point range. Well, you rely on that, you rely
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  Speaker 3: on that three point shot. When it's not there, boy,
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  Speaker 3: it really really hurts. And not to pick on a
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  Speaker 3: couple of guys, Brad, but Jonathan Powell Kansas State, he
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  Speaker 3: was four shooting, oh of two from three point range.
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  Speaker 3: Against Arizona State, he was four of eleven shooting and
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  Speaker 3: three of nine from three point range, so four of
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  Speaker 3: fifteen overall. Almani Hansbury two of eleven overall against Kansas State,
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  Speaker 3: one of six from three point range and against Arizona
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  Speaker 3: State three of twelve overall and one of five from
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  Speaker 3: against Arizona State from three point range. So that's overall
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  Speaker 3: with those two, so that means Powell was four fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: Hansbury five of twenty three. Just you know, guys that
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  Speaker 3: you rely on four points and three point shots just
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  Speaker 3: aren't falling.
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  Speaker 2: Getting deeper into thee. And now there's more film available,
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  Speaker 2: your tendencies are more clear too. And I thought Kansas
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  Speaker 2: State did a really good job defensively of first and foremost,
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  Speaker 2: taking Javan out of the mix, and hop I described
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  Speaker 2: it almost as the two guys were out top as usual.
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  Speaker 2: That that's how you defend Javon and you hard hedge
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  Speaker 2: against him and try and get the ball out of
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  Speaker 2: his hands. And normally that's where the pick and pop
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  Speaker 2: comes in, when you pop a moni out there and
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  Speaker 2: you get him open for three. He now is two
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  Speaker 2: of eleven against Arizona State and Kansas State from three
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  Speaker 2: is a moni. So that's a concern right there, because
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  Speaker 2: now your offense is in trouble. That's your second best
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  Speaker 2: scoring option. If those shots aren't falling, you've got an issue. Conversely,
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  Speaker 2: Amani was seven of thirteen from three in the second
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  Speaker 2: half against Houston and in the win against Iowa State,
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  Speaker 2: So you don't have to go deep. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: go deeper on some numbers, but you really don't have
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  Speaker 2: to with this offense. Javan's got to drive it. Amani's
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  Speaker 2: got to be able to hit some threes, and if
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  Speaker 2: he hits a couple of threes, that starts to change things.
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  Speaker 2: Kansas State did a second thing that was really good.
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  Speaker 2: Hope I described it almost like a buy in football
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  Speaker 2: with a running quarterback. They had a third guy that
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  Speaker 2: was in the lane keeping an eye on Javon. If
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  Speaker 2: he happened to turn the corner on the two, there
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  Speaker 2: was another guy right. So someone's got to be able
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  Speaker 2: to make them pay for that. And I'll get into
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  Speaker 2: some things. Darren had a really incredible game plan and
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  Speaker 2: they did some things differently in this game that produced
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  Speaker 2: some results that I think will be beneficial moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: It puts some things on tape that if you're an
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  Speaker 2: opponent coming up, you've got to be concerned about, which
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  Speaker 2: again I'll dive into those, but at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, offensively, this team just simply has to make
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  Speaker 2: it shots. It's only the third game all year where
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  Speaker 2: JP didn't have a three point attempt. Again, they did
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  Speaker 2: a nice job guarding him and taking away the three,
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  Speaker 2: but you've got to find a way to get him
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  Speaker 2: open and some shots, and we just couldn't against Kansas State.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the other part of JP's he'd made twenty eight
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  Speaker 2: threes in the previous ten games, so almost three per
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  Speaker 2: game over the previous ten. Wester Rodin he had won
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  Speaker 2: seven of those, so again this could fall under the
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  Speaker 2: obvious observation category.
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  Speaker 1: That's his department.
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  Speaker 2: Javon's got a score, and Amani and JP are next
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  Speaker 2: two and three from the scores, and those come from
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  Speaker 2: the three point line. If those shots aren't falling, everything
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  Speaker 2: else struggles from there.
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  Speaker 3: Here's here's my question you guys, since you're there, you're
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  Speaker 3: just feet away, and I'm watching it on TV and
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  Speaker 3: listening to you guys, it looked and Brad you referenced this,
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  Speaker 3: but I'd be interested in your stet. It looked to
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  Speaker 3: me like they had some open looks that also didn't fall.
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  Speaker 3: That not every shot was contested, but there were open
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  Speaker 3: shots that didn't fall.
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  Speaker 1: Correct. Sure, Yeah, there was a.
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia missed all seven of its unguarded catching shoots
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  Speaker 2: against Kansas State.
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  Speaker 1: There there were opportunities there. We had a couple in
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  Speaker 1: and out of the hole. And as to your point,
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  Speaker 1: it's amazing what shots going in due to a team
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  Speaker 1: on the defense eve end, it booies you, and when
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  Speaker 1: they don't, it just tightened you. And that's what they're
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  Speaker 1: experiencing here over the last couple of games. What's scary
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  Speaker 1: is guess who's coming to town. Houston? Yeah, Houston, number
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  Speaker 1: one team in the country that just gobbles you up,
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  Speaker 1: suffocate you. Yeah, which is fit might be a good situation.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get it. We'll get it West spot Yeah, I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get into that. But here, here's the other thing
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  Speaker 2: for West Virginia against that Kansas State team. You also,
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  Speaker 2: so Western needs to make threes. If it's not making threes,
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  Speaker 2: it absolutely has to have points off turnovers. It had
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  Speaker 2: zero in the first half. So that's Darren's point about
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  Speaker 2: the defense needed to be better. It wasn't creating turnovers.
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  Speaker 2: Just three for Kansas State in the first half led
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  Speaker 2: to zero points in the second half. When you started
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  Speaker 2: making your comeback, West Virginia put that in play, had
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  Speaker 2: some steals, got some outlet and fast break opportunities, and
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  Speaker 2: finished at the rim and did a good job there,
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  Speaker 2: but it was just too much to overcome.
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  Speaker 1: And didn't get to the line non existent. West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: went to the line, took eight shots, made six. Case
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  Speaker 1: State went to the line, took twenty two shots, made fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Not that they were blowing it up from the file line,
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  Speaker 1: but when you make almost quite well, you make twice
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  Speaker 1: as many as the other team attempts. Yeah, good day
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  Speaker 1: for you, Good day for you.
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  Speaker 3: And it's you know, that's a team too, the Kansas State.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you you wondered what you were going to
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  Speaker 3: get because you felt like they were on the brink,
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  Speaker 3: like what's going to happen with a team like that?
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  Speaker 3: They didn't lost six in a row or whatever, and
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  Speaker 3: they were kept making different mistakes and couldn't get it together.
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  Speaker 3: And then they come out and they're they make some
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  Speaker 3: shots early and they forget all that right home crowd,
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  Speaker 3: they forget all that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh hey, they're a talented team, they're a disjointed team.
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  Speaker 1: They will have a day or two for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the season like that, and then they will have
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  Speaker 1: some where they're dis jointed and they'll get blown up.
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  Speaker 1: So they're not going to have a good year. But
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  Speaker 1: the pieces are there and you just became the victim
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  Speaker 1: of it. The bad news is, as you know, this
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  Speaker 1: league is absolutely merciless, right and so now you go
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  Speaker 1: Houston at Cincinnati at TCU. So this is not a
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  Speaker 1: league where you can say woe is me, because it'll
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  Speaker 1: eat you up. You have got to find a way
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  Speaker 1: to rebalance and go get something here, go because you
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  Speaker 1: know there's this this West Virginia team will win some
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  Speaker 1: more games. The question is how long will it take
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  Speaker 1: to get back to the form that it has displayed
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  Speaker 1: to win what it has to this point.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and and pertaining to that, how do you and
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  Speaker 3: Brad you talked about it. How do you do it
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  Speaker 3: when now teams have a formula and granted DeVries as
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  Speaker 3: a very good coach, figures out things for each opponent.
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  Speaker 3: But but now they know, okay, shut down Javon, you know,
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  Speaker 3: make sure he's he's he's.
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  Speaker 1: One, one, A, one B. And then you know the
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  Speaker 1: other guys, so focus on them. So then what do
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  Speaker 1: you do?
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's what you do. I mean, you got to
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  Speaker 2: you got to just get some shots to go down
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  Speaker 2: that This wasn't a game plan issue. Against Kansas State.
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  Speaker 2: Javon got twenty two. How well they do shutting him down?
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  Speaker 2: They did not? Right, he got twenty That wasn't the issue.
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  Speaker 2: What I just say about seven open jumpers on catch
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  Speaker 2: and shoots from three, what if you make three of
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  Speaker 2: those your season average, that's a different ballgame. Then add
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  Speaker 2: in these new wrinkles that were put in in this place,
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  Speaker 2: and it changed and got some guys some buckets. Go
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  Speaker 2: look at Cincers Harris game the other night. How he changed.
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  Speaker 2: They took and turned him into an offensive weapon. They
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  Speaker 2: took Toby o'connie got him thirteen points, changing some things
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  Speaker 2: you did with him. So it's there. The changes are coming.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Darren's not just sitting back going WEP now,
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  Speaker 2: Houston seen us. I guess we'll just do the same
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  Speaker 2: thing and hope we get better results. There's new things
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  Speaker 2: being put in every single game, but at some points
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  Speaker 2: you've got to execute as well. And West Virginia just
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  Speaker 2: had two games, unfortunately, where the shots did not fall.
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  Speaker 2: And again I know we all giggle and laugh. I
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  Speaker 2: you gotta make shots coming. This is a make shots
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  Speaker 2: sport more than anything else, right, And you mentioned those
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  Speaker 2: other scores. As college basketball has become more dependent on
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  Speaker 2: three point shots, the variance between results has gotten bigger.
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  Speaker 2: That happens. That's why you see teams like a West
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  Speaker 2: Virginia that depends on fifty percent of its shots being threes.
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  Speaker 2: When it's making shots, it changes the way you look
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  Speaker 2: when they're not going in. It can become a real struggle.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't mean to oversimplify it, but on the
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  Speaker 2: offensive end, it can be as simple as that. For
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  Speaker 2: this West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: Team, here's three things. One, they are getting superb coaching
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  Speaker 1: from an X and O standpoint that will be continuous
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the season long as Darren's here.
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  Speaker 1: They're getting superb x's and o's coaching. Two, and I've
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  Speaker 1: said this a bunch of times from the start of
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  Speaker 1: the season, this team has zero margin for air. When
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  Speaker 1: this team is off, they will not be successful. That's
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  Speaker 1: just what it is. From a talent perspective. They can
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  Speaker 1: win games, and they've shown they can win games in
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  Speaker 1: this league, they have zero margin for air. There is
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  Speaker 1: not great depth on the bench. We oftentimes talk about
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  Speaker 1: how to be really successful at a high level and
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  Speaker 1: a power for a league, you need to have what
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  Speaker 1: NBA players, and right now you've got one, perhaps in
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  Speaker 1: Javon Small and one's on the bench, and that is
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  Speaker 1: hard to win in this league. And the third point
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  Speaker 1: is that they will battle and they will continue to
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  Speaker 1: get better. So that's in encouraging. You're going to get
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  Speaker 1: a bump, it's how quickly, it's how quickly you can
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  Speaker 1: respond well.
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  Speaker 3: And the encouraging part is, as you said, Tony, is
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  Speaker 3: that in the second half, they came out and they battled.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think they got it down to twelve
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  Speaker 3: to twelve, and that's just I mean, you're down twenty four.
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  Speaker 3: That's just you're not going to come back from that.
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  Speaker 3: But they did battle. You saw effort, So more of
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  Speaker 3: an effort in the second half than the first half,
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  Speaker 3: but you saw effort. So if you want to pick
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  Speaker 3: out one encouraging thing sincere Harris's defense, maybe in the
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  Speaker 3: second half.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, my guy almost double doubled.
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  Speaker 2: But let's get it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get into this little bit because I just counted
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  Speaker 1: spreads on stage.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead and hit the music. Really, yeah, hit it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see that coming so fast. Well, you're ready
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  Speaker 1: for that.
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  Speaker 2: We'll do this North Houston. But I got a couple
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  Speaker 2: things here that I think people.
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  Speaker 1: You got some stuff right now. That's just it's nown
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  Speaker 1: at you that you got to get out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been thinking about it, because again that's why
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  Speaker 2: this isn't you just beat the number two team in
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  Speaker 2: the country a week ago. Right, this isn't an Oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, panic, what's what's not right? You made a
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  Speaker 2: season low and three point shots two.
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  Speaker 1: Weeks in a row. Yeah, two games, Yeah, two games
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  Speaker 1: in a row. Games in a row. Right, Well, if
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  Speaker 1: that's if that's the case, then why don't we just
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  Speaker 1: do this?
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  Speaker 2: Then he said, so I checked the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: He jumped right into it, didn't we hoppy right there? Y,
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  Speaker 1: He just said, let's go. Let's go into the analytics
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  Speaker 2: So there were two things that West Virginia tweaked this game.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: In response, I'll hope you asked back there. So okay,
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: So what do you do when they've figured out your offense?
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Ye?
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: You change what you do right to create some more
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: opportunities for your guys while still leaving available what you
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: do well, which is the pick and roll with javon,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: the pick and pop with Amani swinging it to JP
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: to get some shots. That's your bread and butter offensively,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: and then you have to add in on top of that.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: And one of the things they added in and they've
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: been tweaking consistently, is how to utilize Sincere Harris, who
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: brings a unique skill set to this on the certainly
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: on the defensive side, but on the offensive side. How
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: do you best utilize him? And some of that's in transition.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: You get him out in transition, and he's been very successful.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: When you get into the half court, what do you
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: do and what they've started to do with him, if
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: you notice, move him more inside, use him as more
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: of a screener, so his defender while Sincere struggling from
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: three point land. If you put him inside, you've got
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: to account for him. You can't leave a guy open
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: in the lane, right, Or if you put him outside
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: and that defender wants to sag off into the lane
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: and help, how do you get what's the response to that? Well,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: you cut sincere to the basket and get him the
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: ball and give him a chance with his size and
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: strength to finish at the rim. Well, how about on
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: against Kansas State, West Virginia had a season high on
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: points on cuts to the basket by its offensive players.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: So as the defense start to say, oh, you guys
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: like to shoot a lot of threes, you know what
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: we're not going to let you do. We're going to
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: take away the three pointer and we're going to press
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: out on you. When they look at JP's numbers and
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: see that he takes seventy five percent of his shots
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: from around the three point arc, what's the first thing
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: you'd want to do defensively? You're not going to shoot
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: a three. If you want to put it on the
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: floor and go buy me, so be it. But I'm
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: gonna press up on you. Well, now you've got the
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: defense extended out. What does that do? That opens up
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: the inside part of the floor. So Darren in this
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: and the assistance and staff said, all right, here's how
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: we're going to counteract that. We're going to dive and
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: cut to the basket, and if you want to come
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: out in pressure, then we're just going to beat you
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: down into the lane. A bunch that worked against Kansas State. Now,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: you didn't have the companion piece of making some threes
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: that would have made that offense really difficult to guard on.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Against Kansas State, you had the one piece coming. You
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: couldn't get the threes to drop. You got Sincere between
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: layups and dunks. Six of them. Six made baskets off
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: layups and dunks for Sincere. Now a couple of those
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: came in steals in transition at the other end. But
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: he finishes with twelve points on six of twelve, shooting
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: six of ten, shooting on non threes, sixty percent from
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: the floor from Sincere, Harris, You'll take that every game. Now,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: you just made people account for another offensive player. Now,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: when I'm Houston and I turn on the tape or
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Cincinnata or TCU, I've got to go, oh, well, Sincere's
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: not just out at the three point line where he's struggling. Now,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: he's in here. Now we've got to change our defensive
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: game plan to account for him. I thought it was
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: a great tweak and it was used to perfection. Sincere
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: goes out gets you those twelve points, nine rebounds, two assists,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: and two steals, that's a heck of a game out
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: of him given what he does on the defensive end.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Toby attacking the lane as well, so they got Toby
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: in a position where he dives to the basket and
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: he can use some of that length and that stretchiness
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: to get up and finish at the rim. He had
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: four layups, two dunks in this game, thirteen total points.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Eleven of those came at the rim. So the companion
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: piece to the offense that was changed and tweaked was
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: there and it worked extremely well. The other part that
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: they tweaked. Darren said, Okay, you know what, we struggled
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: from the field the other night. We only made four threes.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: You know what we're gonna do this game, just in
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: case we struggle again. We're going to send four guys
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: to the offensive, glasses to the two. We're going to
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: try and make it conc effort to get some more
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: offensive rebounds. If you start to go down the numbers
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: from the other night, West Virginia won the offensive rebounding
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: battle fourteen to twelve over a team with incredible length.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: That's a good tall team in Kansas State. West Virginia
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: has more offensive rebounds second chance points West Virginia with
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: nineteen plus seven over Kansas State. So, again, you make
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: a few more threes in that game, and I know
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: that it got out of hand early, but if you
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: make a few more threes, you were really close to
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: having what was a really balanced offensive attack that looked
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: different than some other games. So as you move into
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: this second half of the season, to answer your question
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: of what do you do when they think you have
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: you figured out, you tweak and you adjust and you
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: put some guys in some other positions.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Now, what did they have? Points in the paint? It
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: was probably almost a season high.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I think points in the paint was forty two for
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the Mountaineers thirty six for the Case Staters.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Here's what's interesting, seventy one percent of West Virginia's points
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: came in the paint. Seventy one percent season high. Yeah,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: it was if you average that for the season, you're
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: in the ninety ninth percentile nationally of teams that score
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: in the paint. That's without a really big lineup.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: It's pretty good forty two out of their sixty So
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: seventy one percent of their points. Is that what you're saying?
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Seventy one percent points? Yeah, yeah, seventy percent, sorry, seventy Conversely,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Kansas State forty nine percent of its points.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, like you guys just said, I mean, there's well,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, there's several guys on the
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: team that are struggling with their shot. Everyone except Jovon
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Small is struggling with their shot right now, plain and simple.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: So you just got to get through it. They've shown
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: they can make some shots, and you just got to
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: make shots and then you will.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Then you will, and mod Hansburgy is a really good shooter.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: JP is an elite shooter. Those will fall Joe, YESAFU
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: can shoot the ball. They'll make shots. You hope that
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: starts when they return home.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: And then defensively, what happened when you have a shot
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: block that they have to look at for five minutes
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: to see if it was.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: A don't don't try to bait us don't try to
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: bait us. You found great joy I did in us.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I listened to you guys losing our minds on that.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: You guys got you synk it up to the TV again?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it works pretty good? Done, it does? Yeah? Yeah.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: The the officials decided to give the two teams a
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: second halftime during the During the disc, hey, why don't
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: we go? Hey, why don't you guys head back to
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the locker room, get get off your feet, get some
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: juices and drink.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: I should help West Virginia to get there.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably the worst thing in the world, right,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: give a little chance to rest.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: That was adding review though that was similar to the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Gonzaga West Virginia NCAA tournament review where they went seven minutes.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: What in the heck did it take so long for
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: it figure out if that was goaltending or not? I mean,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: my gosh, it took Brad and I eight seconds to
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: see that the ball got hit before it made contact
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: with the backboard. Play on these freaking guys. Sometimes you
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: just want to scream. You just want to scream, say
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: what are you doing?
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, it wasn't it was. It was close, but
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: it wasn't that close. Okay, you could look at it
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: once and see that the ball was tipped before it
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: hit the bank board.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Think about the insanity of what what what happens there?
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: And what happened there? Basketball is a game of movement
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: and fluidity. It's a fast moving game, and you just
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: slam on the breaks on a goaltending call. It just
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: absolutely is not supposed to be working that way.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: But I get it how you could make that call
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: and then want to look at it because it was
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: a bang bang.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: And how long should it take? Fine, sixty seconds, we
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: said on the radio, that's not a goaltend. Let's move
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: saw one review, move go, move on.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: They made move on. Don't even get me started about.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Don't get me started, don't bring up but they don't
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: what they could.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: They could have called a fel though, because somebody grabbed.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Him player push him in a chest, But hey, they missed.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: They didn't call that one on the floor, and I
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: can't call now, can't call now what a game? You know,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: as scientific as these sports get, it's still a matter
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: of like, we're not using this to the best of
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: our bility. Go back to that game between the Bills
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and the Chiefs. Yesterday on the fourth on the fourth
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: down spot, Like, can we not get a better system
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: than two guys running in like sideways to figure out
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: how far the ball went? They probably should get that
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: down a little bit where in tennis you can see
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: exactly where the ball hits exactly on the line, Like,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: we can't get that to a billion dollar operation in football.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: You know it was that was so illustrative of the
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: issue because with the camera shot, you saw both guys
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: running in and they were about two yards apart. One
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: guy's running in on one side of the line, the other
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: guy on the other side of the line. Okay, they
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: weren't two yards, but there was a significant difference as
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: to where they were running, Like.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Two drunk guys taking a sobriety test. One guy waddled
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: this way or the other guy waddled that way.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Might have cost the Bills the game.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: But anyway, sometimes I overcome everybody always tweets at me
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: when I start complaining about officials. You got a Bills
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: fan over here winding about the Chiefs getting a break.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Let's go win the game.
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  Speaker 1: ready to do a little Houston though, Let's go. Did
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: they did? Did they have a bit of a comeback
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: win on Saturday.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Brad against Kansas. Listen to this stat.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: This is a folks, always a West Virginia is always
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: a West Virginia connection stat. Brad's going to give them
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: to you. Houston Kansas on Saturday, and there's a West
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Virginia connection.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: The tweet came from Jared Berson, who did a look
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: on Ken palm Our Guy Ken palm Houston had a
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: zero point four percent chance to win when Kansas had
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: the ball and a six point lead with twenty seconds
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: remaining in the first overtime on Saturday. A zero point
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: four four tenths of one percent win. That makes Houston's
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: eventual win because they went on to beat Kansas, Hobby.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: That makes that win the most unlikely in any of
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: the one thousand, four hundred and eighty seven games between
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: AP Top twenty five teams over the last fifteen seasons.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: So what an unbelievably snatching victory from the jaws of
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: defeat by Houston. What's the West Virginia connection, you asked,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: what is it?
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Brad?
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: The previous record for Top twenty five matchups in that
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: span was the team had a point five percent, five
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: tenths of one percent, half a percent chance to win.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: That's when Kansas was trailing by fourteen and it's in
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: fifty eight seconds to play at Allen Fieldhouse against the
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: then number nine West Virginia Mountaineers on February thirteenth, twenty seventeen.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Incredible. Jeez. You know when you said that before we
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: started recording, I thought to myself, Man, I've been involved
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: with some really bad losses. I mean I've suffered. I've
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: suffered through like all Mountaineer fence, I've suffered through some
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: really bad I've announced some really bad losses. See. I
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: absolutely repressed that Kansas game. Give me that one. You
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: don't remember, right? No? No, I remember it, but I did.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I didn't have the exact numbers.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: It was fourteen up for West Virginia up fourteen, two
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: fifty eight to play feb thirteen of twenty seventeen. Lost. Yeah,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: I've repressed that Kansas had a half a percent chance
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: of winning that game.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I think that was the game? Does that the game?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: They stepped out of bounds when we we were inbounding,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: they were pressing, and they're in their defensive inbound their
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: defense over the ball. I was out of bounds it's
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: feet Rover and they don't call it.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: So Houston beat that record by having just a four
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: tenths of one percent chance of winning back on Saturday
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: against Kansas, Yet they did. They walked out of Allen
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Field House with a victory. So I don't know that
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: there's any good situational spots when you play Houston. I
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: don't know that that exists. But if you're looking for
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: a bright spot, maybe this is one. Maybe they're off
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: a historic an historic victory on the road, they go
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: back on the road for another game. You get a
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: West Virginia team that's lost to in a row, that's
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: dude to bounce back, that's had it's two worst shooting
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: nights of an entire season. It's a good shooting team,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: so there should be some positive regression, right, You can
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: build a case there this this is a good situational spot. Again,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: you're talking about one of the elite teams, Final four contender,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: National title contender.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Little Colisseum Magic.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'd prefer it be a weekend rather than a
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: week night, but maybe you get a crowd back in
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: there and and help buoy you a little bit.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Weather should be good, should be a letter should be good.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: You're getting a team coming in with the nation's second
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: longest winning streak currently at twelve matches what Iowa State
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: had when it came in here and took the l
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: So you have that. But Houston's won seventeen straight big
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: twelve games. That's hard to do, man, in this league. Oh,
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: they're up a notchs hard to do up a notch.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: This week's ap top twenty five, they're up one spot.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: They'll come in at number six. Iowa State stays flat
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: this week at number three. The Kansas Jayhawks, despite their loss,
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: went up as spot. Yeah, why wouldn't they. They just
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: handed to lose. They Liz go.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Lose, and they go up one to number eleven.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Might be number one in the net now Kansas might
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: have gone ahead and gone to number one.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech back into the top twenty five at twenty two.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: West Virginia is out. Mountaineers go from twenty three last
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: week all the way down to just three votes and
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the others receiving category Kansas.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Kansas doesn't mind losing because it improves their postseason seating
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Probably just loses. We like that.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: We'll move up, move them up.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: We'll move them up. Make a probably computers like you
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: played a very tough game against the Houston young men,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: will move them up. West Virginia loses one. You're now
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: nine hundredth in the net rating. What did you drop
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: to in Kim palm forty seven forty eight something like that. Here,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: here's something interesting though, when you talk about situational spots.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: If you want to just go on that theme for
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: a minute, Sure, Houston comes in really really elite three
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: point shooting team, one of the best in the country.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: And we saw that at Houston when they when they
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: got space man, they punished you and made you pay
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: forty three percent shooters from behind the arc at home.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: On the road drops to thirty one percent down twelve
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: twelve percent drop humm points off turnovers twenty two per
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: game at home sixteen on the road, drops by six
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: points in the paint at home thirty six percent, away
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: fifty three percent. It's because the three point shots go down.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: They've got to work more inside. They's steal percentage. They
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: get to steal on seventeen percent of possessions at home,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: away just nine seventeen percent.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, they're smother yet they're boa constriction.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: I know they and also at home it's expected like
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: you can just assault people.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: This number, I'm sure will stun you guys. Just stunning
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: personal fouls committed at home? Oh jeez, they commit just
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: fourteen fouls per game on the road, that jumps to nineteen.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: That's a thirty six percent jump in personal fouls on
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: the road. Now, why that would happen.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: In that one?
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Because would they get more fouls on the road because
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: the young men don't foul as much.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: The same guys, they're just slaying the same way.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Oh no, it's very different at home. Huh, isn't that one?
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I mean in the all kidding aside?
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Thirty six percent show?
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Now we know, I mean, yeah, we get it, we
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: get it. But I mean, isn't that something that needs
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: to go to the officiating crew, to this supervisor and go, yo,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: here's seventy five their last seventy five games, they get
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: called for fourteen on their home floor and nineteen on
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: the road. What do you think? What do you think happens? Stance?
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: I think that they better be called for at least
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: nineteen at the coliseum.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you want some more numbers? Is that what you
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: just asked, Well, this is spreads on stats, I would hope, So.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: I'll give you some more. Their free throw attempt rate,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: it's a whopping thirty eight percent at home, on the
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: road thirteen percent. Their free throw attempt rate drops by
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: twenty five percent on the road. Let's hope those numbers hold.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: LJ.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Cryer, who has absolutely just dismantled West Virginia. What did
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: I tell you last time? Twenty three threes in five
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: games the last five games against.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I've everagen over twenty against him in the last four
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: times he's played them.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Is his effective field goal percentage, which takes into account
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: three pointers and the fact that those are worth more
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: than twos, so it kind of combines all those. At home,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: He's sixty two percent is an effective field goal percentage,
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: which is which is tremendous.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Obviously on the.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Road, that dips to thirty five percent. Crier's three point
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: percentage fifty percent at home, down to thirty one percent
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: on the road. Emmanual sharp fifty three percent three point
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: shooter at home? How about that fifty three percent at home?
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: On the road he drops to twenty nine percent. So again,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: the last seventeen opponents could have done these same numbers
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: for you and it wouldn't have mattered. Houston found a
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: way to go on the road and win in Big
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: twelve play. But those are some numbers if you're trying
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: to build a situational advantage for West Virginia. This is
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: a team that does not shoot it as well on
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: the road as it does at home. So start there.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: It fouls more on the road than it does at home.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Can you take advantage of that in some way?
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: No, A, it really doesn't file less at home. It
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: really doesn't called for less at home.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, some numbers on West Virginia's side of things. West
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Virginia at home gets nineteen points per game off points
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: off turnovers. On the road just.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Pretty good. Yeah.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: West Virginia's defensive rating at home improves by twenty seven
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: points per one hundred possessions, which is pretty significant.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: You're doing a good job building a situational case.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: There's a situational case that you still got to do
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: a lot of things right, but there is a situational case.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: The biggest thing for this game, guys, and it just
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: goes back to how we wrapped this game up last time.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Houston's ability to not just turn West Virginia over last game,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: but convert those into points. Twenty five points off turnovers
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: off the twelve West Virginia turnovers. That's really what did
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: West Virginia wes Virginia shot it well from three, It
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: ran its offense, It did a pretty good job. There
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: were two things that jumped out. One was by design.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Juwan Roberts was really really good. He was unstoppable in
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: the first half. Some of that was intentional. They left
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: single coverage on him in an effort to get him
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: to shoot it rather than kick it out to those
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: two fifty percent plus three point shooters, figuring, Okay, you're
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: going to score somehow, go ahead and try and score inside.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Reason they did that. Roberts had been thirty eight percent
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: and forty six percent from the floor in the previous
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: two games to West Virginia. Against WVU, he was seventy
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: seven percent from the floor in the first half.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Did you watch him against Kansas. Yeah, he absolutely won
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: that game for him. He just took Dickinson inside and
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: just said get away from me. He handled it was
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: a nerf ball.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: So he played well against West Virginia. That was one
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: of the differences, and then it was the turnovers, So
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: can you handle that trap and that pressure that's coming,
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: And then, as we said, make them pay, which West
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Virginia did at times. Imani Hansbury in that second half
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: had an unbelievable half knocking those picking pop threes down.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: You've got to do it for an entire game, and
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: if you're going to turn it over, you've got to
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: have you've got to cut down the number. But if
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: you're going to find a way to get a stop
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: before they can get down to the other end, here's
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: the number to watch. So those turnovers, those points off
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: turnovers resulted in Houston getting thirty six percent of its
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: points off turnovers in the first meeting, so more than
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: a third of its points came via the those toos.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Nearly forty percent of their shots off live ball turnovers
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: are threes. So when they turn you over and they're
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: going the other way, they are looking to get a three.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: So it's like a double dagger. It's not just a bucket.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: They hit a couple of those threes, those add up quickly.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: They're making forty one percent of those shots over the
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: last five games. So they're doing that to other teams.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: You've got to find a way to not turn it
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: over again. Easy to sit here and say that, hard
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: to do that when they're coming at you with that defense.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: That they have.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Gotta get a whistle, man, get out of the trap
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: and then break it and make it and score on
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: them and punish them.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: You gotta get a whistle. You can't have You can't
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: have milk toast refs in a game like this. You
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: got to have very seasoned, hard crusted dudes that the
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: game doesn't get too big for them, that they don't
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: get intimidated by Kelvin Samson losing his mind when you
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: call files against him. You got to have a guy
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: if it's just like it's foul.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: If they're allowed to clutch and grab and bang and
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: rake with no calls, you're in some deep, deep trouble
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: against them.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: And we did it for years with Press Virginia. We
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: did it same thing. It's the same exact thing. Just
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: beat you up so you will you won't call every
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: single one of these. It's like like a defensive holding, pass, interference, bumps, pushes,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: stopping guys, freedom of movement, just every little thing, every
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: little nut. I can't call it if I keep calling that,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I keep calling that, keep calling that.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: Although they did in the the Bill's Chiefs game, how
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: many times did they call that? Defensive off sides and encroachment?
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: And that I had never seen that before.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: You're talking about the Eagles game when they all at
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: the goal line. Oh the Eagles game. Yeah, the goal line,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah they could have been the official.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Said, if they keep doing it, we're going to award
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: them a touchdown.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Pretty smart because there's no penalty. I mean, they were
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: gaining a millimeter on each penalty because it's half the
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: distance of the goal, so they should have kept But
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: you never I've.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Never heard an official make that announcement.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I read about that. It's a very rare rule that
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: they could involve and say, Okay, you're intentionally doing it,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: we're going to give them the touchdown. You imagine how
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: that would have went over? Well, it was Eagles were
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: dominating anyway.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: So there's your there's your formula. Now, whether you can
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: get it done or not, what it remains to be seen.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: You need their shooters to regress like they do on
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: the road, like against Kansas, Crier and Sharp three of
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: fifteen from three. They just shot thirty two percent from
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: the floor. Now they got out of there with a win.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: That's a credit to how good they are in other areas.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: But they didn't shoot it well on the road. So
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: that's gonna be the key. Protect it. Don't give up
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: a ton of points off turnovers, make them pay.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Make some threes make sense. Here's a deal, dude, Juwan Roberts,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: who I just mentioned, who just ate it up against King,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: he is going to shoot the ball a ton here
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: on Wednesday night because he's feeling it. He goes ten
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: of twenty one. He took twenty one shots. He took
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: twenty one shots against Kansas out of their seventy three,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: scored twenty four points, nine boards, five assists in forty
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: six minutes.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Well, Bill self might have had the same strategy. Is
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: that don't let these threes beat you. And you don't
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: think this guy is going to beat you. But like
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: he did against West Virginia, made shots.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: But here's the thing, guys, what you always have to
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: remember about sports. For ninety eight percent of the teams,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: you can't do everything. You're not going to be elite
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: at everything. So you always have to figure out in
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: a game, what are you willing to live with. You've
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: got to live with something. You can't just shut everything down.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: So you've got to look at this, what are you
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: willing to live with? With Houston? And if you're West
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Virginia coming in Wednesday, I think you'll see a couple
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: of things. West Virginia's going to be more aggressive on
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: ball pressure. It's going to get back to doing what
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: it does. It did that in the second half at Houston,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: and it worked more effectively than in the first half
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: when it was trying to pack it in and control
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: some space. So I think you're going to see West
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Virginia get more aggressive. Number one. Number two, I think
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: you're going to get a Jawan Roberts that says not
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: only did he play well Saturday, he remembers that he
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: had a career game against West Virginia the first time.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: But here's what you've got to hope for. Get more aggressive.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: When you fly double teams at him as you did
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: to start the second half. He then immediately turned it
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: over three times. I think that's one of those situations.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: If you if Juwan Roberts scores twenty on you again, okay,
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: so be it. You might have to tip your cap.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: What she can't have is crier and sharp, standing out
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: reigning threes on you. So you got to live with something.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: So if Roberts is like the second half of the
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: West Virginia Houston game, when Roberts is feeling it, when
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: he gets the ball, he's not going to look for
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: the kickout. He wants to score. So you get him
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: to turn the ball over.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Now what you're saying, Yes, that's what he's saying. Plus plus,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: he not only was able to score, he was letting
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: everyone know that he was able to score on him
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: taunting that yapping at the.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Bench, nicle foul at the coliseum.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they won't give it to him on at home,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: but they'll give him a tawny one. So he likes
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: to talk to so this'll be good flavor to it.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Here's the other thing. West Virginia is not the only
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: team employing that strategy. In roberts first ten games, he
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: had one game where he had ten or more shot attempts. Okay,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: in the Latin bear with me, I'm doing math on
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: the fly here, last one, six, seven, eight. In the
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: last eight games, he's had one, two, three, four, five
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Five of the last eight where he's had thirteen plus
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: shot attempts, including a whopping twenty one against Kansas. So
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: other teams are saying the same thing, like go, he
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: was ten of twenty one from the floor. He shot
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: forty seven percent from the floor. For a guy that's
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: getting all his shots inside the lane, you'll live with that.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: If you're Kansas, you're living with that.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: You lost, but you've got to give him something.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Well, you lost, but you were up six with the ball. Yeah, yeah,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: you should have.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: It was a historic loss. So the theory makes some sense.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: So I understand why teams are doing that.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: So it's West Virginia then going to going to not
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: start They're going to start up by not doubling him.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Well, you'll have to see. I maybe you mix it
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: up on him. Like I said, he has some trouble
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: when you double him and get after him, especially if
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: he's trying to force the offensive action as he did
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: in the second half in Houston. That's why West Virginia
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: got some turnovers and started that little run against them.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: So just kind of see what's happening if they're three
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: point shooters are struggling from the road like you, like
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: they have and that stays consistent, you might not have
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: to you may be able to double there. Let them
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: kick and guys are missing shots. Guts to see how
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: the game's playing out. Each game's its own little individual microcosm.
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  Speaker 1: then you go back out in the portal in the
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: spring and you'll go get more guys. To think that
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: you're going to be able to come in in one
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: offseason and completely retool the whole thing is probably unrealistic.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: You got a chance. I think they're really happy with
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: what they're getting, but there is so much melding that
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: has to go on. You just don't know.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: You've heard me say this for many years, hop right,
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: when it comes to football, there's a lot of questions
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: about different position groups or guys. In particular, the fewer
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: ifs you have, the better you're going to be. Right,
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: So you have right now. You have questions about quarterback.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: Who's your quarterback? And how good is the quarterback going
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: to be? Who's your star receiver? Who are your best
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: offensive lineman? Who are your best defensive lineman? How about
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: your defensive backs? There are questions all over the board
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: because the ross or is completely new. So, no, you
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: don't have enough information yet. I think this staff feels
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: like they got some guys that fit the brand of
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: football they want to play. But I also think the
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: staff last year had that too, and you had guys that,
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: quite frankly, just didn't play. Right. There were a bunch
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: of players last year that you thought were really good,
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: really good portal additions that simply didn't perform. So don't
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: have enough information yet.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Right, agreed?
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: Agreed, Yeah, you just you don't know. I mean I
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: would imagine that if you if you talk to them
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: and they gave you the coaches, they gave you an
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: honest analysis, they would say, hey, here's the what are
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: you chorten thing about?
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you when you're finished. Nothing that you said,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: but something that's popped in my head, go ahead ahead,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: popped and talking and talking to those associated with the
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: program over the last week, over the last figure, over
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: the last week or so. I would just say this
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: because off season conditionings going on. I think I was
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: trying to figure a term in my head. That's why
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: I left. I think the best way to describe what's
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: going on right now is shock and awe. I think
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys that have either been here
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: or a lot of guys that are coming in and
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: going like what is this? They're in shock and awe.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: It'll we That's why I say there's gonna be attrition.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: It'll be for some, it won't be for others.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Listen, there might be some attrition from some guys that
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: just came in. Yeah, this will just be attrician from
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: guys that are holdovers. This will be some guys that
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: come in that are gonna be like, well, I don't.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Know, you're Jack Steak. Guys, you're Jack Steak. Guys know
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: they know they won't leave.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: Right, but you got six out of your eighty five.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but your other guys are gonna go like, there's
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna happen. We saw it when Rich k
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: the first time. Oh sure, yeah, after.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: That first spring, and that was when that was when
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: it was hard to leave and guys left.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's when they had the gates over Shawshank Prison. Right,
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: you couldn't get out. You have to sit out of here,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: you know. And Andy Dufray had to climb through the wall. Now,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: I mean Andy does not have to dig through anymore
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: and go through the sewer pipe. Andy could just walk
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: straight out the front door of the Pushcar Center. So yeah,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: you can get that.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: You're gonna have to have some dudes come out play though, man.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: I mean you're gonna have to find some linemen that
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: are ready to play. You've got to find a quarterback
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: that can go out and actually win you games. I mean,
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: you've got to find some dudes here. There's a lot
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: of dudes you gotta go find.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: It's it's for real, it's for real.
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: I mean I think that when spring drills come. Although
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: we went out there for spring drills and then you
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: heard guys talk about boy, you were like this guy
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: and then nothing.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: Right, So.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Bobby Jones had no action about November. Bobby Jones had
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: no idea what he was in store for when he
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: went into that weight room. What he says from that
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: day on it changed his life. Uh, fellas, I appreciate
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: that Uncle Tony and Brad have not fallen into the
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: post COVID informal clothing for basketball. You two show up
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: to the coliseum looking just as sharp as Jay Wright
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: and Rick Pattino during a big Monday Biggie showdown. Thanks
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: for all that you do, Dom from Smithers, you guys
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: do stand out.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Well, it's easy. Our guy Phil, Phil, Philip Daniels just
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: takes care of it. I'm what shall we wear here?
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: I popped it in there. I popped in there Friday
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: to Phil and he had a gentleman that was a
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Three Guys listener. And I told the guy and his
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: wife were picking up some stuff and Phil was taking
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: care of him and Lacy. He was looking so nice.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: I said, well, listen, Phil's a guy, I said, I'm
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: basically adult ger animals, like, hey, Phil, does this jacket
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: match with these pants? And Phil basically put this one
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: and this one and this one and this one and
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: then are all right. But I think I've gotten better
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: at it putting stuff together. He don't think I have.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: When you got to Phil to let you know what
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: to put on, you got to hand.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll just Phil be a cloth there for it.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you buy stuff from Phil, like you
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: can take pictures of it at home and say hey,
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: does this and this go, and he'll just send you
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: right text right back and say yeah that works.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: See That's how I was going to say. That's not
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: just a service he provides us. If you walk in there,
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: you don't have to walk in and pick your own
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: stuff out. No, you walk in say I need a
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: jacket and pattie and pants for this event. He says, okay,
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: five starts laying stuff out, putting stuff together.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: You just have to say yes, no, yes, no. I
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: think you guys always look good. The only exception I
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: have is the gold jacket. I know, I know that
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: you can get away with it because Mountaineers play by
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: play guy home game.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: I know you can get away with it. But oh,
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: he does more than get away with it. That's a
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: great look, you think, Oh, absolutely, who wears it on
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: a gold rush or as strip at the stadium. That's
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: exactly what you're supposed to do.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: That's the time I wear it looks great gold rush
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: gold rushes. Oh that's the only time looks great.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Don't get bullied by him. No, in fashion.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: When I go bowling, I'll do respect to you. Well,
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: how come I saw you at the funeral wearing jacket?
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Texas says, I'm driving back to Fairmont from the Charleston
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: d MV. I was getting my has maad endorsement, dude,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: and talking about uh jj Quinnerley. Has she passed up
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: the Bulger Girls in all time scoring truck or bill
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: from Fairmont? So she get both Megan and k Not
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: yet she passed Meg. She is one point away from
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: passing Kate, which she should be able to do on
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Saturday when they entertained the Lady Cowgirls of Oklahoma State.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: That's a heck of a career. You pass both Meg
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: and Kate, You've had a good.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Career, Jersey Jeff writes in double blood is rare, I
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: would assume there has to be a triple blood or
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: even more at some point, thoughts we had a double
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: blood situation in the Mountaineer game.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: Mentioned that on the game broadcast read they rarely seen
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: two guys over getting the squirt there because the jersey
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: had Yeah, it's all the substance on it rare.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: The main the minister of equipment, Kyle Keysler, he went
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: in there like they like, when was the last time
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: they had to bring that spray bottle up? Brad?
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: I mean he immediately while he immediately attacked, attacked.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: There was absolutely like there's some guys that are proactive
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: and some guys that are reactive. Like Kyle's out there,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: He's got a shammy out there, he's doing drying techniques
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: and then immediately hour comes hover looked like he was
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: involved in a bad Halloween movie. He's got blood on
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: the front, blood on the back. Kyle was totally unphased
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: by him.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: Any fowls being called during that time, but there's a
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: lot of blood on the floor.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: What was that one play where Javon goes up and
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: they wanted to see if Javon had committed a foul
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: I hit somebody in the face with it.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: He was just making a shot.
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: He was making a shot too. We're gonna look at
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: that and see if that was Like, do.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: You think this guy's actually from New Jersey calling himself
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: Jersey Jeff, or because he's referring to blood on the
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Jersey he went with Jersey Jeff.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: I think that's the guy I met at the food court.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: I think he's from Jersey. I think he's a counselor,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: like a psychologist. I think that's him. Might be wrong, Yo,
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: three guys. I finally listened and decided to sync up
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: a broadcast with Junior during the second half of the
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: women's game. Best thing I could have done. Wouldn't it
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: be nice if ESPN Plus Games offered a feature to
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: pick your broadcast audio for the game? I love the show.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: Sign Fatso in Fairmont, first time, first time we've had
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: one in there from Fatso. Sinking's easy, Sinking's good. Way again,
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: I had it perfect.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: It's pretty easy.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, pauls boom, chuck o'lock hears. Hey, three guys, It's
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: Jake originally from Preston County. I'm currently in West Virginia somewhere.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: After the two losses this week, it's obvious short bench
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: becoming an issue. Is there an injury update you're all
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: able to give on jaden Stone? I believe he could
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: be a valuable contributor and saw some of the depth
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: issues we've had. When he becomes available, Nope, don't have anything.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: No word on that.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Chiao, Amici. Next morning text it's going to be a
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: long season. After I slightly got my hopes up. Oh well,
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: baseball season starts in a couple of weeks. Nothing like
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: sitting in the stands with thermals and a ski jacket. Ps.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: I love your game day grind coffee from Mountaineer Roasting,
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: but I needed some more potent today, Dino in Morgantown.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Hang in there, Dana, who was just one week a
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: couple more games to play.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Tell you what I don't necessarily know. If I want
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: Dino in the army with me, I mean, take a
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: couple of bullets and you got to keep on moving.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: Come on, Dino, you're tougher than that. By the way,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: you can use the game day grind as you as
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: an espresso shot. Just do a double espresso shop buddy,
• 57:23
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• 58:01
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• 58:06
  Speaker 2: Out a couple more days for it to be Beer
• 58:08
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• 58:10
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• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Just the beer of the month now it's ye, it's
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: a Beer of the month. Tough week for the basketball program.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: Right's been from Ohia, but the roster limitations were eventually
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: going to catch up. Watch them beat Houston this week
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: and then lose at Cincinnati just because nothing this team
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: does makes any sense. But I love the direction the
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: program is going. In programming question, will Rich Rod be
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: making his three guys return in the near future now
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: that the winter portal window is basically done. We have
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: a request to the head football coach to join us,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: and we have been told there is a long list
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: of folks that are on that list of interview requests.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: But we're certainly we're efforting. We're efforting, we're making the request.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: We're reminding those that you request for the interview. Someone
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: on this panel that wasn't Brad or I did do
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: an interview with rich Rod and perhaps it did less
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: than our chances of getting him quicker.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: Did bump us down the list, and then that show's
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: no longer on the air.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know where the guy went. Don't know where
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: he went, some kind of nursing home, Do this, do that?
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: So in his final game, he fired up about thirty
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: two shots from the field, didn't leave any shots, but
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: wouldn't pass the ball.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Well. He crossed the bridge and then he cut the
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: bridge down. It was just it was just it was
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: just a wooden bridge. He cut the bridge down, went
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: made one pass the ball back, wait a second.
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: So that's hindered our ability.
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: Right now, you're you're Tony Kreedy and brand Howe. You
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: are employed by the university Tony, You're an institution WVU
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: and you're and you're saying that I have somehow blocked.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: You guilty conscience bring it, didn't bring your name up.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: I'm just defending myself. Did a lot of damage on
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: your way out. I don't know how much you think.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: You don't know how much that I were the man
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: I was when I was at of that show Take
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: a to this place, Jimmy Johnny how been around? Thank goodness,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: West Virginia did not get a higher top twenty five ranking,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: As Brad bemoaned. If there's any word to aptly describe
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: this team, it's inconsistent.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: I don't think that's at all.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's true at all. I let me
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: let me add to that one. I would think I
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: have to go the opposite on you. I would too.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: I think this team is consistent, and you wanna go
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: wait second. Consistent? Yeah, they have consistently overachieved from what
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: they should be doing the entire season. This is one
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: of the greatest wows I have ever seen when you
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: put together what this team has done. Are you kidding me?
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: Gonzaga Arizona most top ten wins in the country, Just
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: stop there. Yes, are you kidding me? It consistently has overachieved,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: is what it's done.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: Here's the good news. Though hopefully you know you come back,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: you beat a Houston team would be great, and you
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: beat Since you get a couple wins, you get back
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: ranked again. I won't say a word because I hope,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: I hope they don't get ranked. The rest of yere
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: win out, don't get ranked because God forbid. People can't
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: handle being ranked. People can't handle it, but don't want
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: to be ranked. Don't anybody look at us, don't talk
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: about us.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: The consistency, to me, that's been one of the hallmarks
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: of the season. Now, you've hit, like a lot of
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: teams do a rough patch where you where you didn't
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: make shots, and I don't think that speaks to inconsistency.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: I think you've been pretty consistent up to that, up
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: to that point. So it's not you haven't been. This
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: hasn't been that. We haven't come in here and go,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: oh my, you don't know what you're gonna get and
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know what's gonna happen. And it hasn't been
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: that kind.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Of a year. Just the first two game losing st
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: regular season yeah, yeah, correct. So where you're coming at
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: with inconsistent They lost two games for the first time
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: and it's January twenty seventh.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: Come on now, US season left, keep playing.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: Here's a text. What does a well appointed tailgate spread
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: look like? For the AFC and NFC Championship games? How
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: about this combination? These are not pictures, but just the
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: Eagle wings with Buffalo sauce, Byson brisket with Kansas City barbecue,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: Philly steak and cheese featuring Byson steak, senate bean soup
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: and salad optional eagle breast or bison steak. Wait a minute,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: what what's the eagle? You can't have it et eagle?
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: Kens probably shouldn't have read that you shouldn't eat eagle.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: There's a T shirt you shouldn't need eagle. I mean,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 4: that's a great T shirt. Shouldn't need eagle?
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: I would just thinking, is there some Is there a
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: little known condicel that says, you know, you can't under
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: certain circumstances.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: What is happening?
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: Shouldn't need eagle? Boy? Good eagle best I've had. It's
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: our nation's bird. You can't Three guys Ashton and Morgantown.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: Longtime listener, first time text or rough week for the team.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: Can't help but feel like we really needed at least
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: one of those guys wins in the against the teams
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: in the bottom of the stands. With Houston rolling in
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: the town, small needs help. Starting to think it's not coming.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: No one knows anything about Tucker or Jade, and I
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: love Dereese, but what's with the secrecy surrounding the team health?
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Will you ever get an update or are we just
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: going to sit around guessing if we'll ever see a
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: Tucker back this season or if you will red shirt
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: us say something?
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: The coach is not going to say anything.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: So much A probably ask the coach for an update.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: Well they should ask the coach for an update. I'll
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  Speaker 3: just say this, if you were going to see Tucker
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  Speaker 3: DeVries back this season, you would have seen him back
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  Speaker 3: this season. You would have seen him back. If if
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  Speaker 3: he was going to be back, you would have seen
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  Speaker 3: him back.
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  Speaker 2: Unless he's healthy enough to play, then you wouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: seen him back.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm figuring he's not healthy enough to play and
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  Speaker 3: you will not see him back. And if he was
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  Speaker 3: getting healthy, healthy ish, would you bring him back now
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  Speaker 3: and risk not having him next year.
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  Speaker 1: Red shirts an opportunity, you know, yeah, you red shirt him.
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  Speaker 1: Just what you're getting at the when you go for
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  Speaker 1: coffee in the morning with the guys, what do you
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  Speaker 1: guys say?
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  Speaker 3: What are you guys saying over there in the morning,
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  Speaker 3: they're saying, it's team's inconsistent.
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  Speaker 2: It is pretty remarkable, though. I think we've all kind
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  Speaker 2: of moved past the you forget you lose what was
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  Speaker 2: your player on the roster? Yeah, and we're surprised that
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  Speaker 2: there's a couple losses that have come here well, which, again,
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  Speaker 2: good piece at least. I think it's been remarkable what
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  Speaker 2: this team has been able to do with the loss
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  Speaker 2: of a guy that gives you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Gives you so much, And like the Arizona State game,
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  Speaker 3: when when it's unlikely to me it's unlikely that Small
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  Speaker 3: and Tucker Deverees would both be off on the same night, right.
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  Speaker 3: They can't. They couldn't just cont they couldn't just double
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  Speaker 3: team bra. They couldn't just harass Jevon Small. And they
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  Speaker 3: don't worry about these other guys as much. They'd have
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  Speaker 3: to worry about Tucker too. And remember when they worried
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  Speaker 3: about Tucker early on what happened when they focused on Tucker?
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  Speaker 1: What happened.
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  Speaker 2: Dr Ryes and then Arizona worried about Javon what Tucker do?
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  Speaker 1: Went off?
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  Speaker 2: Twelve games left, you're sitting at four conference wins. I
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  Speaker 2: still contend. I think nine and eleven in this league
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  Speaker 2: probably gets you in the NCAA Tournament, which again should
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  Speaker 2: get Darren not only Coach of the Year of votes,
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  Speaker 2: should get him Coach of the Year. Won't win it
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  Speaker 2: with that, Darren should get Coach of the Year. If
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  Speaker 2: you get nine wins to get this team to the
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  Speaker 2: NCAA Tournament, that's still in play. That's what you're shooting for.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, guys, remember last show where the carpet issue came up.
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  Speaker 3: Roll out the carpet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, carpet that they use when they bring on the Mountaineers.
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  Speaker 3: And as you pointed out, it was Gail Catlet brought
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  Speaker 3: it back, Okay, And I think when they brought it
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  Speaker 3: back that was the original carpet probably right, correct. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: So then Michael Fragail said a few years ago.
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  Speaker 1: You need to identify people don't know Michael Forgale.
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  Speaker 3: Michael Forgale, he runs the athletic director he runs the
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  Speaker 3: athletic department ahead a few years ago went to Great
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  Speaker 3: Links to match the color and exact size and purchasing
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  Speaker 3: a new one.
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  Speaker 1: The old one was falling.
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  Speaker 3: Apart could no longer be repaired. I don't know when
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  Speaker 3: that was, but it's been replaced in the last ten years.
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  Speaker 3: They used the original as long as they could, but
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  Speaker 3: it came to a point it could no longer be
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  Speaker 3: rolled out, so they did replace it now. Also, I
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  Speaker 3: heard from J Taylor, and J Taylor is from Taylor
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  Speaker 3: a carpet for it was like Grafton High and Taylor
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  Speaker 3: Middle School, I think, and so we checked to see
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  Speaker 3: what WVU did and got some information. So they had
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  Speaker 3: carpets made. So, Jake, do you have that images I
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  Speaker 3: sent you?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, look at that there brats, that's craft and they
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  Speaker 1: roll out the carpet of Graftons. Let's roll out the
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  Speaker 3: So there's the bear Cat's carpet, and I think there
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  Speaker 3: was one Jake for the middle school.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, there it is. There we go.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone with the red there you get there. So that's Nate. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so they have a carpet. Yeah, good idea. That's a
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  Speaker 2: Good carpet research.
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  Speaker 1: You guys killed it.
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  Speaker 2: Waiter was outstanding. The names of the name Raider took
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  Speaker 2: all of his shenanigans that he tries to pull away.
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  Speaker 1: I was nice.
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  Speaker 3: Bourbon and Baker, Nico's little Italy the chef, I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: And you had a coach Snyder's sighting. Bran did have
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  Speaker 1: Coach Climan was there too.
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  Speaker 3: Coach Cleman was there.
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  Speaker 1: Coach Climont was there. Yeah. Yeah, So unfortunately they left happy.
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  Speaker 1: That's the bad part about it. I would like to
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  Speaker 2: But back at it, next man up.
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