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3 Guys Before The Game - Last Longhorns Visit (Episode 520) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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Hi there, and thank you for pushing play and we welcome you into three
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guys before the game. This is our five hundred and twentieth episode, and
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it is significant because it is the last Longhorns visit. Did you think about
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that yet? This is it. We're breaking up. It's over, man,
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the relationship's over. Last time. The Texas Longhorns will be inside the
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WBU Coliseum probably in our lifetimes. I'll not just be. They're not a
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member of the Big twelve anymore. You know what's gonna happen. I mean,
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what's the chance they're gonna come in here? Why would they be here?
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I don't know. When the whole college athletic world blows up in a
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year and you've got a total reorganization and there's four conferences of fifteen sixteen teen,
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maybe you're back in the same league. Maybe you cross over and plant.
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You know what. There's not a member of the Big twelve anyone.
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I'm just telling you not make huge definitive statements here. The last Longhorns visit
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Textual Healing Boy. That popcorn has been popping off the shelf, popping
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who rolling, Yeah, we'll get into that. You know what we have
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learned off of episode eight hundred dot com for those of this is what I
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think we've determined. You all have a good appetite. Would that be a
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fair statement? Fo? Yeah, you drink coffee, you drink beer,
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you eat popcorn. And you know, I was thinking the other day,
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not everyone drinks beer beer right right now? Everyone drinks beer beer alcohol beer.
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You know, back during Christmas a couple of shows ago, that wonderful
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gentleman sent him sent me a case of that route Tommy boy, wasn't it.
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Yeah, twenty four different types of root beer in a case and they
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were fantastic. You didn't share any of this. Now you pounded through?
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Have you pounded through them? I don't know if there's any left, but
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I brought some down to uh, North Carolina, Yeah, for the kiddos
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for Christmas, and like it. It was like I drank when I went,
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like man, because I did say I liked root beer, right,
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Yes, but I didn't. Yes, but I didn't say I haven't had
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a root beer in probably twenty years. I don't drink pop but recently I
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took one of those, hadn't opened it, and went like gosh, is
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that good? It was good. So my point to all this is this,
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I think we should do a root beer. Don't you think drink thought
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about it? No, not everyone drinks beer. I think three guys people
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say that they drink Kerchievel they drink they drink Mountaineer Roasting coffee, the three
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Gate three, the grind that we do game day grind from Rusty. They
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eat popcorn like it's going out of style, Mountaineer munch, and now the
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Valentine's popcorn which I originated, and now the root beer. I've got zero
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objections that I think it's a wonderful idea. I just do you know,
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the microphones are on and we've started the episode like we could. We could
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have done this before or after we begin. The show's on. I'm aware
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of that. I might as well get into it. I'm just like a
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nice three guys root beer. We just got here's the problem. We just
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got the red popcorn going. Here's the problem. Can you give the crew
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just a little bit of stand down before you just start throwing stuff out?
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But here's the issue. Here's the issue that we record this show always like
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just around after like twelve thirty and always hungry. I'm always hungry and I
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come in. I'm always thinking about stuff. Okay, anyway, let's move
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on. Since the last time we got together, we did Monday's show,
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and we looked back at the Houston game, we looked ahead to the Kansas
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State game, and now we look ahead to Saturday's game against Texas. Yes,
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we are going to talk firstly about the Kansas State game, which,
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let's face it, playing and simple, knowing what you have in front of
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you, playing four ranked teams in your top five games in the league,
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Kansas State being the only team that wasn't ranked. You looked at that one.
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You're on your home floor, and you said, gotta get it,
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got to get it. Well, if they kept score for just a half,
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you would have got it. West Virginia was up forty two to forty
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at the break. Kansas State totally dominated WVU in the second half, and
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now you go oof. However, Texas on Saturday. You also maybe you
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look around and you go like, you know what, maybe we can be
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UCF took a bad loss last week against Kansas State. Right, got to
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run off the hardwood in Manhattan. Yes, go out Wednesday night and beat
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beat Kansas number three, Kansas, Like, I don't think Kansas had that
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on its Bengo card. They went down there, probably brought a lot of
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fans want to go see Mickey Pluto, Goofy, Sleepy droopy dummy. And
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they said, well, go or Lands, go to Disney, then we'll
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go over to the game. We'll make a big time out of it.
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Get away from the Kansas cold for a little bit. Don't think they had
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going down sixty seven to sixty Did you have that in their cart? No?
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And so the first Big twelve game for that they were jacked. It
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was in the first home, first home game. Situational spot. Again,
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couldn't have played worse than they did against Kansas State. They're bouncing back in
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their position, they're at home, they were ready to go. Kansas went
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in there, you're right, probably okay, we'll win this game. Didn't
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Can we get a situational spot for the world champion Mountaineers on Saturday? It's
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the good situation spot. Was kse State coming in here? I preferred that
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spot. Yeah, it was better seating. And you saw in the first
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half, right, made some shots, made some threes. There was and
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the thing that to me that showed up against the Kansas State. It was
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really more the defensive end than anything. The Westervirnia really struggled to defend in
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that game, especially at the rim. And I'll give you some numbers on
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that here in the first place, but first half kind of showed that forty
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two to forty at the half, you could see there were some points,
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so you were going to have to keep scoring. And eventually Kansas State's defense
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came through in the second half and locked up West Virginia there. All right,
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So let's break down the numbers and you can focus on second half or
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whatever way you want to do it before we break down the analytics. Just
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from visual I mean, that was tough. That was tough to watch at
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times. Kansas State's ability to get absolutely uncontested buckets underneath the basket nineteen of
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twenty one were the Wildcats from inside of four and a half feet. That's
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your game right there. That'll do it. That'll do it, all right.
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What the numbers say, Well, that's that's the big number to me.
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And I think the I think the toughest part if you're West Virginia for
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that number is it wasn't just that in and of itself, which which is
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a big one. So they were ninety one percent from within. They shot
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ninety one percent within four and a half feet. National average is sixty two
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percent. You don't need my numbers to tell you that that was effective for
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them. Forty percent of Kansas State shots were at the rim. I think
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the concern if you're Josh Eilert moving forward is that was a Kansas State team
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that we talked about going into this game that love to fire threes, big
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three point three point attempt rate team that even at times when they weren't making
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threes, they just kept shooting threes. So the concerning part is that's a
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Wildcat team that looked at West Virginia's defense and said, you know what I
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think we can do. We have some length and we have some guys that
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can get to the basket. We're going to attack these guys and go to
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the rim. So now is the counter punch to that? If you're Josh
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Eilert, You're you're going to have to say, what do you have to
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go more zone more often to cut down penetration? And if people hit fifteen
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threes on you in Beachy, you tip your hat. But you've got to
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shut the spicot off at the rim. I think that was the biggest thing.
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And for a team to do that to you that doesn't normally do that,
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I think that's a little bit concerning. If you're Josh, Yeah,
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I talked to him earlier today, and yes, they've got to do some
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things different defensively, some gap concepts and things like that, just to try
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to get some semblance of interior defense because you're getting absolutely abused your last two
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games. Size is a massive issue with this West Virginia team. There's no
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question about that. Will McNair weigh two hundred and sixty five pounds. He
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just stuck his butt straight into Pat Somemnick, drove him underneath the basket and
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flipped it over his shoulder, and he got two. And that's going to
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continue until Jesse Edwards, you know, comes back. There's a different presence
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there, but right now you're getting eaten a live in that area, and
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that's where an Edwards type of performer, a block shot guy, just an
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intimidation guy. So you know, Jesse Edwards bl numbers, but what's more
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important is if your guys out front get beat off the dribble a lot of
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times. What's the offensive guy do? I'm not going all the way to
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the rim on that guy, so I'll pull up. We'll just make it
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a little more difficult shots. So that's one of the big challenges here until
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Jesse becomes available for you again, is how do you stop those teams going
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downhill at you at the rim and listen, you're gonna get a couple and
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you're gonna push ahead a couple of games. What's Kansas always done? What
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do we notice about Kansas since they've joined the league? They dive at the
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basket on you. They penetrate and go at it, never mind having seven
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to one hundred Duckinson in there. So that's something West Virginia Josh Eiler are
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going to have to look at. Here's the other part, Tony, that
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continues as a trend. And as I often say, sometimes these stats and
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these numbers just back up what you've seen on the floor. This is another
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one. West Virginia is struggling to get excuse me, open catch and shoot
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jump shots. They lead the league in guarded catch and shoot jumpers, which
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is not something you want to lead the league. It means you're getting difficult
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shots. It was that same way against Kansas State. West Virginia had twenty
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opportunities where you catch and shoot the jump shot, catch and shoot jumpers right,
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twenty of them, only four were unguarded. That's really hard. If
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the predominance of your jump shots are going to be guarded, that makes for
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a difficult setup. So West he's got to find a way to get some
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more open looks. What is today's game defined by passing the ball to get
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what open looks? Step in shots? Watch high level NBA teams. What
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are they doing? They work that ball like beautiful magic all the way around
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the perimeter and eventually someone pops and steps right into an open cree And right
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now West Virginia is getting. As you said, out of twenty, they
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got four in the course of the game. And Josh Eiler continues to talk
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about the ball sticking and guys just not getting fluidity and movement in that offense,
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and that ball sticks, the shot clock starts to wind down, and
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you end up throwing up something in the rim just to get something off before
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shot clock vilation. Ball's got to move. Yeah, you don't have to
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have played very long in your basketball to career. To know, coaches always
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scream about what the extra pass? How often does extra pass make the extra
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pack? Well, what's that designed to do? That? One extra pass
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generally creates the opening, So West Freeing's got to find a way to do
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that. I do think some of that, some of that becomes as we
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talk about this every show now West Virginia trying to figure out what the roles
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are for each of these guys. So of course your offense doesn't look really
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fluid right now because you keep changing these lineup combinations with guys that weren't available.
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Then one becomes available, then two more become available. Than Jesse Edwards
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is out, Quint Sazinski has a role for the first nine games, that
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role changes, just to name one example. So all of these guys have
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had to take on different roles and they're trying to figure each other out,
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and I think at times that leads to a clunky looking offense because you're just
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here, how many games in now fifteen but you're really not fifteen games in.
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You're not your normal team that's fifteen games into its season. That's been
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one of the challenges and I think that's shown up on both ends of the
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floor, but a lot offensively to this point. Yeah, so there was
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one that you needed to get you did not get it. And now we
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turn our attention toward the Long Horns of Texas, which have not been warm
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and fuzzy to the Mountaineers. Texas has beaten WVU four straight games. They
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have won six of the last seven meetings. Last time West Virginia beat them
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was February of twenty one. Last year, West Virginia got blown out at
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Austin ninety four to sixty thirty four point loss, the same margin of defeat
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that West Virginia had last week in Houston, thirty four point loss. Last
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season in the coliseum. Last year it was January twenty one, it was
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sixty nine sixty one. Longhorns won it and then their last last visit to
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the coliseum a one point loss. You remember that one late February of twenty
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two. Long Horns are ranked twentieth and West Virginia loses eighty two to eighty
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one. So it was the buzzer beater right side of the floor. Was
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that Ramy that hit that? Believe that was Courtney Ramy farsyde Grand, Yes,
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exactly, So this in all conceivable, kidding aside, I mean probably
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the last time Texas comes in here in a long long time. And they
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come in on the heels of a last second victory over Cincinnati earlier this week,
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so they're playing two in a row on the road. They went home
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obviously because that game was same night as West Virginia's game, But now they
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come here. So you want a good situation spot. I mean, that's
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that's one of the things you want. You get two on the road too,
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straight on the right. Okay, this is a good team though that's
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coming in here. And again I'll probably open every preview by saying that thirty
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fourth in the Ken Palm ratings, they are a little bit different here in
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basically, what are we a year and a half into Rodney Terry. But
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remember on a Chris Beard it was a typical Chris Beard team, like they
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really guarded you. They were good both ways, but they really guarded.
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This team's still good defensively, it's top fifty one in a Ken Palm defensive
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efficiency rating, But offensively, I think is where this team makes its Hey,
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so far, the only losses they have they just have three losses to
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number five Connecticut, number eighteen Marquette, and number twenty five Texas Tech.
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I'm doing Ken Palm rankings there. So five, eighteen, and twenty five
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are their losses, two of them away from home. So those are pretty
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good losses, Tony. If you're starting to look at resume here offensively,
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let's get into some of the things they do offensively, because that's where I
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focus most of my time. Balanced as well. From a three point shooting
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team and a two point shooting team, top sixty and three point shooting percentage,
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top fifty in two point shooting percent percentage, and they shoot free throws
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pretty well seventy fourth, seventy four percent. Excuse me here, watch this.
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They're very good in transition, top one percent nationally in points per possession
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in transition. They score sixty percent of the time when they push it.
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So I'm going to bring up a couple of these things that they do offensively
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because it matches what West Virginia got to pay attention to defensively. So one
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of them's get back right, get back on defense may throw off your offensive
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rebounding a little bit because youve got to worry about them pushing on you.
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They've been very good. Have the Longhorns in scoring off your turnovers. Don't
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turn it over on them because that's part of the transition. They're gonna push
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go the other way and score. They've been very effective using the roleman in
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the pick and roll. So they like to do pick and roll, but
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they hit the rollman. And we don't see that a lot from teams.
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But their top twenty five percent in points per possession using the roleman. Well,
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why do I bring that up? Would we just say about West Virginia
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inside and it's bigs right without Jesse Edwards, So you're gonna have to watch
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that and guard the roleman. They ate up Cincinnati with this in the last
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game. Now Cincinnati almost pulled off the upset there, but the roleman was
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very heavily involved in their last game. Another concern. They've been very good
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on unguarded jump shots top ten percent nationally when you leave them open and don't
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guard them. And I bring that up. West Virginia's got to tighten up
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defensively. Gave you that catch and shoot on guarded number for West Virginia.
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Kansas State had eleven catch and shoot jumpers the other night. Seven of them
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were unguarded, so sixty four percent of case states catch and shoots were unguarded.
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If you do that to Texas, chances are good they're going to bury
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you, because they're very good when they are left open. They've been getting
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more on guarded catch and shoots than they face guarded shots. So they've done
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a nice job of spreading the ball around. Dive into them a little bit
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deeper. Fifty five percent of their points come from twos, forty four percent
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of their points come from the paint. Given what we just saw, that's
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a concern for West Virginia. So that's one of those if you look at
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just those numbers on the surface, what's that leads you to Probably Josh is
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probably gonna have to go zone, right given what you just struggled with inside
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trying to eliminate their role man a little bit. They aren't a team that
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just loads up on threes. Although they can shoot it and they've got a
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couple shooters that will get to in a minute. It might be one of
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those where you have to go to more zone than you normally would. In
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Texas's three losses, the opponent is handled the pick and roll well, and
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in particular, that role man. So that's a key. Can you do
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something different this week to handle the role man? Can you basically, in
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essence what you're asking, can you guard both? Can your guards do a
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good enough job without the center's guard jumping out too much and hedging too far
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out and leaving that guy to roll to the basket. I think you're gonna
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have to stay home more than you normally would. So now that pressure goes
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back on those guards to stick with your guy, because that's what you're looking
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for. Right, What are you doing to me? What are you doing
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to me? You're gonna come, both of You're gonna come to me.
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I'm gonna distribute to the role man if you stick with the rollman. Now,
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what are you going to Now you got a one on one situation with
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the guards. Can West Virginia's guards guard against Texas? That'll be something to
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watch. That's another point I would talk to Josh about earlier today, and
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I said, you know, how big of a role of what you're struggling
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with inside the lane defensively is the result of Jesse Edwards not being around?
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He said, well, the reality of it is we were using as a
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drop man on that ball screen and he's an elite guy that can drop.
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He said, that's really not what Pat Sumnick and a cook a cook do,
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right, they don't have that ability to be a great drop. So
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in other words, what we're talking about. Let's say there's a high ball
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screen and the center is covering the screen er so he can go up and
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Jesse Edwards had a great ability once that roleman began to roll to stay right
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with him hip to hip and bring him back down underneath. Right now,
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what's happening is what West Virginia's drop man who's defending that high ball screen is
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not getting back and what do you get as a result, uncontested shots at
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the basket? I e. Ninety plus percent against West Virginia from Kansas State.
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So that is one of the things that they're dealing with. Yeah,
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so a lot of times you'll see a cook a cooker Pat, they'll hedge
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out more and cut the ball handler off and the guy rolls and you're not
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getting help side coming over to close that gap. You're right, if your
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big guy's going to stay out rather than and roll with the center or whoever's
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the pick and roll man. If you're not getting rotation over, you're just
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gonna get crushed. So you may if you're going man to man in this
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game, you may have to change what you're doing there a little bit,
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or just be extra careful on the rotations and make sure someone's coming over.
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Now, what's that in what's Texas response to that? What we just said,
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West Virginia needs to do a better job of. That's where that extra
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pass comes in. Do they make the extra pass into the corner of their
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shooter that is now open because you've dropped a rotation. So just something to
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watch defensively on how West Virginia handles that when they go man. There's only
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two teams that have played primarily zone against Texas, and it's not a direct
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comparison. It's been Delaware State in Houston Christian. So that's the other thing.
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You're all due respect, all due respect to those groups, the Hornets
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and Houston Christian, But West Virginia will have to look for some zone.
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Can you buy some possessions where Texas has em face this a lot, miss
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some shots and you can steal some possessions if you go zone in this game.
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So that's something to keep an eye on to what's Ken Palm having it.
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He's got it. Texas seven, Texas by seven. Let's talk a
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couple of their individuals real quick. Are you gonna talk Asmis? Yes,
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you want to start with him? Sure, go ahead, Max Asmis,
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the Oral Roberts transfer. You know what's weird about this? If this is
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one of those guys, Max Avian Oral Roberts. He was the star of
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the NCA tournament a couple years ago. If you had told me Acemis played
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for Texas last year, I would have bought it. I would have been
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like, yeah, I tried second year there, just first year there.
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He didn't transfer. Thats shot. I don't know why that was in my
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head that you thought he was a foregone conclusion, that he was always going
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to get called up from all stuff to Roberts and end up at Texas.
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Yeah. Well, he's making it worth seventeen points per game. He's got
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sixty seven assists, so he's two to one assist to turn over. He
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has hit forty three threes. De leade them you shooting basically forty percent from
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three, and of his ninety baskets, forty three, so say fifty percent
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have been three point shots and he hit the game winner for him again since
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Innata. So here's how they're constructed. You're exactly right, good numbers there
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by you. Twenty percent of his shots are from the three at the top
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of the key. If you want to niche it down even further. So
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he's a point that's going to shoot from the top of the key the bulk
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of the time, one in five shots there, and you're right, shooting
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forty percent from three, so he can really shoot it. You've got to
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stick to him. Go to one of their other guards. Tyreese Hunter.
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He's the transfer from Iowa State. Now that he is in this second,
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he is in his sexon so maybe you got him confused with Ady Ace.
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Must been watching for a long time. I thought he was a Texas Last
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year, Tyree Hunter had a great year at Iowa State. Comes in last
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year. There were times when you could tell last year he was struggling to
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like, what's his role there? What am I supposed to do here under
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this Chris Beard system? But he's an interesting player. How about these numbers
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for you. He's going to look to get to the rim on you and
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you remember him from Iowa State in that NCA tournament game when he went bananas
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from three and last year I felt like he was a three point shooter but
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didn't have as much success as he did at Iowa State. Well, this
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year, forty one percent of his shots are at the rim, so he's
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been penetrating and driving. He can hit mid range, he can hit three,
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but he's gonna try and get to the basket. So I got me
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thinking, I thought, that is that's not what he did. Went back
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and looked at his last year's numbers. Twenty six percent of his shots were
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at the rim. So he's made a concerted effort this year to say I'm
23:12
going to the basket and getting in a little bit closer. So I just
23:15
found that interesting fifteen percent jump in shots at the basket versus where he ended
23:21
last year. Super interesting if for those of you that really follow this closely,
23:23
he's the former freshman of the Year in the Big Twelve Conference when he
23:26
has spent this one season at Iowa State. Yeah, okay, let me
23:30
give you one more that I don't know that you'd go to first, but
23:34
let's watch what his impact is. Caden Shedrick. Am I saying that,
23:38
right, have you done your pronunciations. Yet yeah, Shdrick banged up,
23:41
may or may not go right. Rodney Terry's quote after the Cincinnati game was
23:45
quote, hopefully he's ready to go Saturday, So we'll see if he's back
23:49
in. But here's here's what jumped to me. Big guy inside presence.
23:53
He's killed these other teams, the lower level teams, he's destroyed them.
23:59
But when he had not played, Texas has struggled or just flat loss.
24:03
Didn't play against Yukon, which is one of their three losses, didn't play
24:07
against Cincinnata, very nearly lost that game. What was that a one point
24:11
game? Uh? Yes, yeah? He He only had two points in
24:15
the loss to Texas Tech. He only had six points in the loss to
24:19
Marquette. So I don't know that if he's their swing guy or if it's
24:23
just worked out. But when he has not produced, they've lost games.
24:27
He's magic, So keep an eye on him. Whether he's going to be
24:30
in this game or not, we'll have to see. Now. Again,
24:33
it helps West Virginia if you take a big out of their middle guy that
24:36
could be good on their pick and roll game. A defensive presence that limits
24:40
you getting to the basket. Of me, you could see where he would
24:41
be a factor there. Now he splits time with Dessue, right, who's
24:45
who if you remember at the end of last year was unstoppable, his lights
24:48
out. Yeah, but he's splitting time with him. But Desue's a guy
24:52
that leads them when it comes to possession rate, meaning more poe Like if
24:59
you go down there and high roster, more possessions end with Dylan Dessoue than
25:03
any other player on the roster. Be not a shot or a turnover.
25:06
So when it goes into Tossoue, it's probably going up. Yeah, he's
25:08
only played six games one start, trust me. If he's the replacement,
25:11
it'd be just fine. Yeah, he's really good. Yeah, but I
25:15
think the magic has been they've got both of those guys. One can come
25:17
in for the other, but keep an eye on just whether Cedric plays or
25:19
not. Rock Cunningham is back. Yeah, he was in Rick Barnes's last
25:26
recruiting class at Texas, cunning him. Cunning him. Now it was played
25:30
for Tom Penders, cutting him into his twelfth season. You know what,
25:34
man, you talk about, just a guy that fills a role. He
25:40
gives him five points, five rebounds, and every time he turned the TV
25:44
on, he just busting his ass right, just like he knows he's never
25:48
going to be a pro. He just out there, college basketball player.
25:52
Give me anything dirty to do. We had a little situation here, he
25:55
got ejected. Yeah, I was just gonna say a little bit. He'll
25:57
mix it up. He got ejected from the cost see him here two years
26:00
ago now, I think it was. But nevertheless, man like he's still
26:03
back. New hair do this year. He went brush cut, got a
26:06
military look to him. The more serious, Yeah, more serious, has
26:08
no time to worry about the hair, just so I got to get out
26:10
and play basketball. Leads him an offensive rebounding leads them in steals to your
26:14
point, not going to score a ton, but he yeah, he's going
26:15
to get in there and mix it up. I mean, he's a classic
26:18
example of hythe does not determine rebounding ability. Not big guy. He just
26:22
sticks his face in there and goes gets the ball. Texas comes in averaging
26:26
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we miss him. I mean he's the best. All right, what do
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we got now? Are you going women's baskets? I'll talk about women's basketball.
31:14
You lead it all. I'll invite you into the spreads one stat segment.
31:17
Let's lead it off. You can't give an overview, and well discussed
31:19
here a little bit. So I watched I watched the game closely last night,
31:25
and uh, it was it was entertaining, I shouldn't say fun entertaining
31:30
game. So I listened. I was listening to the radio, and uh,
31:37
the kid doing the game on the radio, you know, he rhetorically
31:40
asked this question. You know, he said, case ero Io State's on
31:45
this run at and then all of a sudden, you lose the lead,
31:47
and he goes, wow, he goes, how did this happen? Well,
31:49
I said, you wonder how it happened? So I jumped into stat
31:52
broadcast and I said, this is why it happened. Because in the second
31:57
half, Iowa States defense forced West Virginia into shooting the ball from outside the
32:06
three point line, would not let WVU get inside the paint. West Virginia
32:09
attempted forty three to three point shots and twenty six two point shots. Sixty
32:16
two percent of West Virginia shots came from three sixty two percent, which is
32:21
great if you make them. Meanwhile, Iowa State took just thirty two percent
32:28
of its shots from three, and they hit fifty five percent of their two
32:32
point shots. They also outscored West Virginia at the foul line nineteen to four.
32:37
Right, if you're not getting into the lane, you're not drawing files
32:39
most of the time, plus fifteen point plus fifteen points at the file line,
32:45
and that those are just a couple of the numbers as to how that
32:51
got away nineteen point lead at one point third quarter, they were up nineteen.
32:58
Yeah, that's a that's okay. You know the thing that I the
33:01
thing that got me through that. I say, okay, fine, he
33:07
got us. But they come back here on the twenty ninth of January.
33:10
So twenty ninth of January, you obviously you look at what they did and
33:15
you come back here and say, okay, got it, we'll take care
33:19
of you, and you get it. You just avenge the lost It was
33:21
one you could have got one, you should have got based on that lead.
33:23
But you'll get them when they come back here. What the computers say.
33:30
You had some good ones there. That forty three to three point attempts
33:31
was a big one, and you mentioned crediting to Iowa State's defense that because
33:36
we've talked to and we talked to Mark about this. They're a big rim
33:39
and three point team. They get to the basket. A lot of that's
33:43
driven by their steals and their turnovers and or Jordan Harrison and Quinny breaking you
33:47
down and getting to the basket. They're both elite at getting by their defender,
33:51
so they like to get all the way into the rim. Or they
33:52
like to shoot the threes. Well, if you cut one of those off,
33:55
same thing we're talking about with the West Virginia men. Right, Okay,
33:59
if you hit from three and you beat us, tip your hat.
34:00
West Virginia was right there, did a great job in the first half,
34:04
struggled a little bit in the second. But let's put some more context to
34:07
those numbers. In particular, the last two games, the Texas game in
34:10
the West Virginia game, we've had this same conversation about West Virginia and the
34:15
size of both of those teams bothering them. West Virginia had some excuse me,
34:19
I always State had some size inside as well. You want to know
34:22
some some wild numbers. Let's look at West Virginia at the rim. Just
34:27
go back three games prior to the last two. So I'm going back five
34:30
games, right, Okay, West Virginia's points at the rim starting with Niagara.
34:37
So I'll give you one. I remember that game, sixty points at
34:39
the rim. Yeah, they've damn near killed them. Yeah, Now get
34:44
into big twelve. Play against Kansas in fallallen Field. I was forty seven
34:47
points at the rim. Go to the next game that was a win.
34:51
Go to Cincinnata at home, thirty points at the rim, So you get
34:55
into the right I'm going to make a trend last night. The last two
34:59
games against Iowa State and against Texas, both losses combined. No each scored
35:04
the same amount at the rim in each game, sixteen in each game.
35:07
It is so just thirty two combined, barely more than what you had in
35:12
your last game out. So that's one of the things that you looked at.
35:14
They just they needed literally another three or two in the fourth quarter there
35:19
and you win that game. Yes, that came down to that. Here's
35:23
the positives. Just like we said coming out of that Texas game, I
35:25
think if you're if you're Mark Kellogg and you look forward, are what do
35:29
we do? Went into a tough place to play at Iowa State against a
35:32
good team with an elite coach. He's been around for a long time,
35:36
Bill Finley, the Iowa State coaches won a lot of games six six.
35:39
It's a lot of wins. Yeah, it is still forced twenty turnovers.
35:43
Yes, had twenty five points off of turnovers. So what you do still
35:47
worked. It came down to same thing against Texas. Just missed a bunch
35:52
of open shots last night. The game was closer, You needed a couple
35:54
more threes and you get there. Yes, one hundred percent. So while
35:59
last night was hard, if you invested your time to watch that and you're
36:04
up nineteen and then you don't get the result. While it was a that
36:07
was tough, here's the thing that you just said. The future for this
36:12
program is extremely bright. I mean extremely bright because he's just setting his foundation
36:19
markers right now. They just forced forty four turnovers in two games against Texas
36:25
and Iowa State, two of the best coached teams that you'll face in the
36:30
country, never mind this league. Yes, absolutely, so it's there and
36:34
you know, who knows what they're gonna do for the rest of this season.
36:37
But when he gets everything in full flow, West Virginia women's basketball is
36:44
going to be a really really special program and they're gonna be one of the
36:49
premier programs in this league, no question of no if sands or butts about
36:52
it. It's coming and they're gonna still have great success this year. But
36:57
you start putting those numbers together in year one, it's only going to get
37:00
better. Yeah, and again you're right, I think there's a lot of
37:02
success still this season because there's there's things there that are really working. One
37:07
of the things you look at, though, two more things on this and
37:08
we'll move on. If you look late in this game, one of the
37:13
things I like to look at is just the different runs that teams go on.
37:15
What do they always say about basketball, It's a game of runs.
37:19
So West Virginia had one they scored, they went on an eleven point run.
37:23
Okay, after that point, Iowa State went on runs of thirteen and
37:30
two different ten point runs. So when I say you're you were one or
37:34
two shots away from you get a three in between those runs and stop that.
37:38
That changes that game a little bit. Yep. So that's all it
37:40
was. That was one of those deals. And not to make it sound
37:44
I mean to rationalize, but the final score really didn't indicate that game.
37:47
Yeah, with the margin of victory, I should say the margin of victory
37:51
really wasn't what that was. But anyway, like I said, go get
37:54
UCF on Saturday and come on back home, and then the twenty ninth you
37:59
get another chance at Iowa stake real quick. A couple of individual performances,
38:02
let's call these out real quick. Jordan Harrison's seventeen points, seven assists.
38:06
She's a ton of fun to watch. Jj Quinnerley just ten points six assists.
38:10
That backcourt with the assist is really something to watch. And how about
38:14
Kylie Blaxton last night? She was big four threes, sixteen points on the
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night, So it was big to get her. You know. That's what
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time Texter. I'm a North Carolina transplant. By the way, a hurricane
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two weeks post gi bleed don sound fun. I mailed my way to Charlotte
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okay. That's fine. Got a little controversy here, Charlie from at What
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Yeah, he's our guy, Tony. Charlie writes in we love Charlie just
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because you attacked him on the last show. I don't think it was an
44:09
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44:19
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44:23
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44:29
remarks, although that's in line with the aforementioned comic relief for at least I
44:32
hope that was your intent, Charlie. I mean, we love you like
44:37
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a big hug. You guys have been very kind to me throughout my participation.
44:44
I really appreciate it more than you'll ever know. Look forward to perhaps
44:45
interacting with three of you again imperson at some point in the future. Until
44:50
then, all the best and keep us entertained. Charlie, thank you,
44:52
my friend. We certainly do appreciate it. Yes, I was just playing
44:55
with you, Charlie. Hey, three guys, I wanted to issue a
44:58
warning to Hoppy. Huh No, I don't plan to fight him. I
45:01
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the most unique drinking session of my life so far, Unless, of course,
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you went to high school with Jack Daniels. This sort of thing is
45:24
pretty rare. Ps. If I'm casting a three Guys movie, I'm going
45:30
gold Bloom for Hoppy, Vince Vaughan for the Senator, and Tom Hanks for
45:35
Tony. The personas are more important than the exact looks. I'd be making
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played by John Favro. Just spitballing love the show T one Texter Pete and
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Pennsborough. Did I say Favor's name right? Yeah? Three guys. I
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was thinking about texting. Then Scopes made this unkind remark that folks Hoppy's age
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should be retired. I also am still working and I'm Hoppy's age, So
46:05
here you go. On episode five eighteen, Tony corrected hop Eating said it
46:09
was Kroger's. I vividly remember Tony wants stopping Hoppy to tell him he made
46:15
an old guy move by calling it Kroger's and that this should simply be Kroger.
46:20
Which is it? Tony? Since I'm his age, I'll rely on
46:22
Hoppy. Thank you for Brad. I saw these at Kroger. Since they're
46:28
pink, can I consider these fruit? Well? I haven't seen those.
46:31
There is these people. They must have access to better stuff than us.
46:36
There's stuff every show I've never seen. He said he got to Mat Kroger.
46:38
I've not said you got him Mat Kroger. Yeah, thank you,
46:43
Rick, absolutely, Rick, Thank you Rick. Be good. Well he's
46:45
in Morgantown. Sure should be able to find this, you know what?
46:50
So like these people keep finding all this recye stuff that we don't see.
46:52
There must be like a special like vault that you're going to tap it twice
46:58
and it's a fake door that opens you go in. There's all this different
47:00
receas stuff. Well, how do we not have access to that? There
47:02
can't be people that speak about rece's more than we do. I don't think
47:07
the employees of Esis speak as much about it as we do. You might
47:10
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47:31
a family lived. After hearing so many New Zealand texts recently, I felt
47:36
I should add mine. Sure, so West Basically West Virginia is New Zealand.
47:39
That's what we've learned. Very popular there, Yeah, Perreopolis, Phil
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Wrights, Texter. I saw Darnell Wright got on the All NFL Rookie team.
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Would have been nice to have him in state. I'll say it's nice
47:54
that we have a coach that tries to keep his in state talent. Now,
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Also, can we sue the NCAA and get a redo on this basketball
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year? It would have love Darnell right, he was a good one?
48:07
Is a good one? Is a good one? Texter? Hello? Ms,
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Patty just likes listening to you yell lol. Ohso he wants to hellou.
48:21
We just finished watching episode five nineteen and felt that we had to write
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in one thousand support, one thousand percent support of Hoppies and Brad's opinions.
48:31
Leave Josh Eilert alone. The problems our basketball team is having is because of
48:37
the actions of Bob Huggins period. This is the result of a series of
48:42
poor decisions he made this past summer. The well documented problems Neil Brown inherited
48:47
in year zero looked like a Sunday school picnic compared to what Josh Eilert had
48:52
dropped in his lap. Yes, he volunteered for the job, but that's
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a true sign of leadership to step up and want to lead in a christ
49:00
Josh Island and his staff deserve an entire off season to rebuild and retool the
49:05
team and coach next season. They'll let someone else pass judgment whether to keep
49:08
him or move on to a different coach. Those people who want instant gratification
49:15
from a Mountaineer team don't remember when Gail Katla disappeared during the season and left
49:21
his nephew to coach. Of course, the cat had a lot of great
49:22
Mountaineer basketball teams in the eighties and the nineties. We've just come out of
49:27
another golden era of Mountaineer basketball that lasted twenty plus years, and that has
49:31
been a lot of fun. We love hugs, We always will. We
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hope he gets his health and order and comes back someday and gets properly honored
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for all that he's done for West Virginia and the state. We're tired of
49:44
people bashing Josh Island and his staff and felt compelled to write in his support.
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Steve and Pat Wilson from Tornado, West Virginia, Texter, Hello,
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gentlemen, wanted to pass on to you that you can act purchased one of
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these bad boys. Knew out of the box. My wife teaches second grade
50:05
here in Iowa and got tired of the kids breaking several motors on electric pencil
50:09
sharp and its finally went old school industrial buying and having me install this dandy.
50:16
No word on when she might swap out the classroom cleanex boxes for tried
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and true railroad hankies, but I'll be sure to let her know that they
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have hoppy, hoppy hoppy three longs and two snorts stamp of approval. Should
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he consider Evan and Iowa. That's you can tell that's modern though. That's
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a very sleek design. That orange, like that orange tinty top to it.
50:37
Yeah, that's a real steal right there. Three guys, it's disheartening
50:43
to hear so many fans hating on the current basketball staff. They must not
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know who they're hating on Dayshaun Butler, Alex ru Off, Jordan McCabe Toamar
50:52
Johnson. These guys know basketball. Not to mention Eiler working for Hall of
50:57
Fame coach for all of his career. They have been dealta impossible hand.
51:00
It's pathetic to stop on guys you used to cheer for when they're down.
51:05
They're dealing with the consequences of bad decisions, and there's no debate on that.
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Okay, my rants over go Mountaineers Texter three Guys Nation In episode five
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thirteen ago a Texter brought up if I wrote a transfer portal letter to spreads
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and what language did I use. I did write a letter and thank the
51:24
program for all the help it gave me, and it signed it with please
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respect my decision. Interestingly, I've found a graduate assistant position in school,
51:32
and the hiring manager that interviewed me for that job is an avid three guys
51:37
listener. There is always a three guys connection ps as an avid fisherman and
51:44
skier. I do use a hanky to clean my nose all of theam ol
51:49
time that happens in the cole winter. Yeah. Oh so that's that's from
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Parker. Yeah, the elite five star lawn guy that entered the portal.
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You got a GA job sounds like it. Yeah, good good friend,
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graduations partner. Hi, gentlemen, I've not lost. I've not been this
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excited to receive an order since I ordered golf clubs three years ago. My
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Valentine's Day crunch shirts and hat will do well for Valentine's Day. Hopefully it's
52:15
enough to get a spring golf trip. Fingers crossed, ps Can Brad and
52:19
Hoppy deliver mine too, Signed by the big Guy. Moments I'm bummed out
52:23
that I couldn't go that day. You delivered that I hadn't forgot what again,
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Aaron from Myrtle Beach midgame text, Does Brad have a stat that shows
52:35
how many times West Virginia gives up a free throw rebound when the opposing team
52:38
misses? Seems to happen a lot, not just this year. It's directly
52:42
led to a few losses. Just seems hard to believe you can't get a
52:45
board when you've got four to their two plus the shooter, which should not
52:50
factor in most times. I don't know if I had that exact stat.
52:54
Efforting Joe and Barbersville in game text, Well, guys, looks like backdoor
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screens and cuts to the basket are not our strong suit On defense, this
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team is fun to watch, but fundamentally we lack offensive and defensive sets.
53:10
Very few uncontested shots on offense, and way way way too many baskets that
53:15
are easy giving up on defense. I know this team is not complete yet,
53:19
but they seem to lack some fundamentals on how the game should be played.
53:22
Look to hear your guys' thoughts on that. Joe from Barbersville, Well,
53:28
I mean certainly just no mesh at this point. I used this last
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night on sports Line. I mean, they're playing music, but they have
53:37
different sheet music. One guy's playing one horn, another guy's playing something else.
53:40
At this point, I hope they can sync it up. Texter,
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with all due respect, I'd like to join in on the Marlington Marlington conversation.
53:50
I grew up in Richwood but now live in Virginia. For all but
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the last few years of my sixty plus on this earth, I thought the
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town thirty seven miles to our east was Marleanton. Route thirty nine connects our
54:05
two towns and has always been known by the locals as Marlington Road. I
54:09
would say you'd be hard pressed to find many in the rich Wood area who
54:14
correct correctly pronounce it Marlington. Now, after all these years of mispronunciation,
54:20
I have to think before speaking and then slowly say mar Lynn Ton. It's
54:24
not easy. Well, I'm just glad, dude that I wasn't alone in
54:30
that. I'm not alone. So he's he lives down there, he's down
54:32
there. He thought it was Marlington too. That classic, But I mean,
54:36
I'm glad we fixed that. It's Marlon. Never say Marlington again.
54:39
It's always helbing Marlington. We always say we're trying to We're just here to
54:43
help. We're here to help business in West Virginia and whatever else we can
54:46
do. And your sweet tooth. Yeah. Uh, Texter Allen and Morgantown.
54:52
Hey, two guys before the game. Setting the line now for spreads
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at one hundred and three point five. As to the amount of texts asking
55:02
about how about getting Nick Saban to West Virginia, we did not get as
55:08
many last night on sports line as I thought we would. We have a
55:12
mutual friend who I won't name his name, who called me this morning.
55:15
You and I have a mutual friend. Yeah, they called you. Okay,
55:19
and he said, now just hear me out on this. Now,
55:22
just hear me out on this. Hear me out. And I said,
55:24
dude, if you're going to say something stupid, stop right now. So
55:28
he says, just listen. I said, okay, fine, what do
55:30
you got He says, some way, somehow I can see Nick Saban getting
55:37
involved with West Virginia football. I just said, shut up. I just
55:42
said shut up. I've known this kid since he was in high school.
55:45
Just stop, no, will Yeah, I said, no, No,
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he's gonna go do television. He's gonna be really good on television. Stop
55:54
it, thanks, Christian. Is that who you're thinking it was? Did
56:01
you think it was him? I had two people in mind. Yeah,
56:05
he was one. Yeah, I mean choice one. Yeah. I had
56:10
something else for him too. On that I said, So go tell your
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boys that you play poker with every week. That's what it is. Deer
56:20
two or three guys. Professor Vinnie here, I got a throwback Thursday.
56:24
There's always a West Virginia connection. It's a bit long, so stay with
56:29
me. I got my bachelor's from WVU, then I got a PhD from
56:32
a high estate. I was there six h nine. As such, I
56:36
made sure that everyone knew that I was a West Virginia fan, often wearing
56:38
my gear. So one Thursday, I'm suporting a West Virginia jersey. I'm
56:44
over at Graduate Student Offices building, actually right next to the President's office.
56:49
We're hanging out in the hallway talking about where I might want to go watch
56:51
the game. A little old guy with a brown suit, red bow tie
56:53
comes walking around the corner. First thing he does, he points at my
56:55
West Virginia jersey and he says, hey, I used to be the resident
57:00
there. Yep, it was Gordon Gee himself. Nice talk. We had,
57:05
very friendly, always a West Virginia connection, even at a high est
57:07
state Texter. Hello, three guys, Brad has spreads on stats. Now
57:14
Hoppy has hoo. It's time for Tony to have his own segment. I'm
57:20
thinking it should be called Corede's Kitchen, where Tony shares food and cooking tips.
57:25
From listening to the podcast, I have already learned about real San Marzano
57:30
tomatoes, wet breadcrumbs for meatballs, the Final Supper also known as your death
57:36
meal, and heard carentless restaurant recommendations. All that's needed is a short stinger
57:40
before and after Tony dropped some food knowledge signed by JD from the Southern coal
57:45
Fields. I'm all in for that. We in fact had a food conversation
57:52
right before we had started the recording today. We had Dave, who's the
57:55
mastermind of the program in here in studio rare appearance, and he basically said
58:00
the same thing. We're going to go more food, efforting heavier food.
58:04
Yeah, Craig and Craigsville. I hate to admit it to you guys,
58:08
but occasionally I cheat on you this time it was worth it. While listening
58:14
to the latest Joe Rogan, Charles Wesley Godwin was the guest there. He
58:19
is, I guess he cut his teeth on three guys and then moved on
58:22
to the Big Time. I'm listening right now. I certainly hope he gives
58:24
three guys a shout out Craig and Craigsville. Charles was on Joe Rogan.
58:30
Saw no idea that he was going on there. Yeah, I didn't.
58:31
I saw it after the fact. You know what he was wearing. You
58:37
see what the hatties were, jeans, jeans. I thought that was awesome.
58:42
Yeah, this other person says big fumble by three guys, No,
58:46
three guys merchandise warned by Charles Wesley Godwin on the biggest podcast in the world.
58:52
Now he did would have been nice. What if, seriously, what
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if Charles went on there was wearing an efforting to you. He owns one,
59:00
he owns an efforting team. You imagine if he was wearing an efforting
59:04
teach. I worked with him on that. Yeah, uh, Texter p
59:09
One, Jason and Mobile here. The Saban stuff always gets me thinking the
59:15
what ifs. There's a batch of people out there that think and say that
59:17
if rich Rod had taken the Bama job, that Saban very well might have
59:21
ended up taking his place at West Virginia. What I remind the people with
59:25
that theory is that there's no guarantees in this sport and that Saban's success at
59:29
Alabama has been a perfect marriage of endless resources that only a few programs have.
59:34
And Nick Saban, what do you guys say, Do you think there
59:37
would have been a chance of landing Sabin if rich Rod had left? Okay,
59:42
I'll give you my two words. Absolutely not. You agree, I
59:49
say no, I think Nick, only one of the biggest of big jobs
59:52
in West Virginia, just didn't fit the bill for him, although we did
59:54
have it rolling pretty good back then and the program had tremendous momentum. Thoughts,
59:58
No, on thousand percent, Saban was never ever, ever, ever,
1:00:00
ever, ever, fifty five evers gonna come to West Virginia. Coach
1:00:05
wasn't gonna do it real quick on Saban. If I've got this right,
1:00:09
The numbers are staggering here, but he won six titles at Alabama. Yeah,
1:00:14
right, If you add up every other active coach across college football,
1:00:20
they only own combined six Natties, and that includes Harbaugh who just got one.
1:00:27
He won seven seven total. I'm just saying at Alabama, saying at
1:00:30
one school I'm not even get I'm taking away the LSU won. Yeah,
1:00:32
you just threw that one away. Throw it away six from all others combined.
1:00:38
And if Harball's for the Washington Commanders in the next couple of days,
1:00:42
that'll take that down to five. Can I give you one more? Yeah?
1:00:45
Fifteen consecutive seasons being ranked number one at some point stupid And one of
1:00:51
the ones that he wasn't was this year and he still went to the playoffs.
1:00:54
Remarkable run. Greatest college coach ever, if not who said this earlier
1:01:01
on Hoppy's coffee Clatch he had you on today. Yeah, he's still doing
1:01:06
the show when he goes down to Charles he did. It might only been
1:01:08
like thirteen minutes long, wasn't two hours. I think one of his greatest
1:01:13
achievements is for that long, almost two decades, keeping total control of the
1:01:21
decision making process around that program. There weren't ads telling them what to do,
1:01:24
there weren't presidents, and more importantly, at a school like that,
1:01:27
there weren't donors. There was nobody in there. I'll give you this money
1:01:30
if you do this. I'm not giving you this money until you do.
1:01:32
There was not I mean it was Nick Saban making that decision. Saw some
1:01:37
status. Still luck to the next person in because I guarantee there's some donors
1:01:40
down there that have been itching for two decades to get their hands in the
1:01:43
mix. Yes, it coming. Saw some staggering numbers on what enrollment has
1:01:47
done at the Alabama since he's been there. Hopped own money, yeah,
1:01:51
out of state, just unbelievable. Textor this is Troy from Columbus. I
1:01:55
wanted to wish Brad a happy belated birthday and let him know the January tenth
1:02:00
is a great day to be born, as it's my birthday as well.
1:02:02
Happy birthday, Brad and I I hope you enjoyed a wonderful birthday. You
1:02:06
guys are the best horns down Saturday. Let's go Mountaineers, Troy and Columbus.
1:02:09
Happy birthday Troy. Two guys, This is Aj from South Park and
1:02:14
all the talk of needing to bring regionalism back to college football and interesting antidotes
1:02:19
struck me. The world champion Mountaineers are ranking he wrote, world Champion.
1:02:22
The world Champion Mountaineers are ranked as the twenty second most winning college team of
1:02:28
all time, seven one hundred and eighty one total victories. Unfortunately, we
1:02:31
share that ranking with the presidents of Washington and Jefferson. Even though we have
1:02:36
far surpassed the boys from the nineteen twenty two Rose Bowl and virtually every category,
1:02:40
we can't seem to get our longtime rival off of our backs. Others
1:02:45
may be black or Crimson, but for me, it's gold and blue.
1:02:50
Yeah, well done, Yeah Texter. Hey guys, Greg from Mont County
1:03:01
here. Back in the nineties, I worked as a contractor out of Clarksburg.
1:03:06
We went to do a job estimate at the Old Red Caboose, a
1:03:08
small restaurant just outside the city. I've eaten the Red Caboose. Yeah,
1:03:12
you ever eating there? No, but I know of it. Yeah.
1:03:14
We were escorted down to the basement to look at the area being renovated.
1:03:19
Far corner was a huge, old white stove with a pot on it that
1:03:23
had to be twenty gallons. In front of the stove was a step ladder.
1:03:29
Odd. A few minutes into our measuring, out of the dark corner
1:03:32
comes a short, older woman in a dress carrying a long wooden paddle.
1:03:37
She had on what looked like a blood splattered apron. I stepped out of
1:03:43
her way as she made her way to the stove. She climbed up the
1:03:45
ladder started to stir that pot of sauce, mumbling something in Italian that I
1:03:51
didn't understand. Probably for the best big pot of sauce. Yeah, probably
1:03:58
looked at you and noticed that you were probably not of Italian descent. Probably
1:04:02
said something like marred the Ghani or something like that. I for my Itealian
1:04:09
listeners out there, you're chuckling right now. Last one tector, three guys.
1:04:15
Technically what Hoppy said was quote, I was on a bus. I
1:04:21
think it was Ecuador. That's a better T shirt in my opinion. There's
1:04:26
a lot of words, though, Yeah, because I had shortened that too.
1:04:29
I was on a bus in Ecuador. Yeah, yeah, by the
1:04:33
way, last, last, last one Tony. On January the eleventh,
1:04:36
twenty twenty four, which is today, Rad Howe was on Hoppy Show talking
1:04:42
about Nick Saban and he said he was looking at the numbers, but he
1:04:47
did not have his spreads on stats music heresy. Heresy is what he said.
1:04:55
I can't do that. And when you give numbers, you got to
1:04:57
have your music. He was out of the studio, he didn't have access.
1:05:01
I mean, maybe he needs to start traveling with some music. Yeah,
1:05:08
all right, we've done enough damage here. Thanks so very much for
1:05:10
listening. This has been last Longhorns visit episode five and twenty. We're back
1:05:16
on Monday, which will be a review of Texas. In a preview of
1:05:20
Wednesday's game against Oklahoma in Norman, I looked at the forecast today. I
1:05:27
thought, you know, go to Norman. Sometimes you get some decent weather.
1:05:30
This time you can get a sixty degree day in Norman this time of
1:05:31
year, not this time. Overnight low the day before we get there's minus
1:05:35
two. Oh. I like that. I think it's twenty or something by
1:05:40
the time or anyway, by the way, there's still time to order that
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