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3 Guys Before The Game - Horns Downed (Episode 521) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Remarkable turnaround from where we were with your ridiculous comments. When you think about
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  mender. Yeah, who caused the fence to break in the first place?
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  Exactly? This is it? Right? You're still you're still at zero.
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  You know it's not I mean you're not okay. You just got it back
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  to zero, is what you did. Moving on to further action. This
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  was episode five and twenty one of Three Guys Before the Game, and the
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  title of the program is Horns Down Back On Saturday at the WBU Coliseum,
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  the last ever appearance by the Longhorns of Texas as a Big twelve member ended
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  in an upset defeat for them and an upset victory for the world champion Mountaineers.
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  Boy I told Hoppy gave me a small invite onto his coffee clatch this
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  morning. Brad, Yes, and I said this, and I mean,
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  if ever a team needed a victory, if ever a team needed a victory,
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  it was that West Virginia team on Saturday. There's so many different reasons
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  and they got it. So tremendous compliments to them, everybody on the staff.
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  It was good to see. And now you get a little at least,
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  you get a little fuel in your furnace before you head out onto the
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  road into the state of Oklahoma coming up on Wednesday night. There's, guys,
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  there's there's an egalitarian aspect to college who an egalitarian aspect, an equality
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  to college basketball that you don't see in college football. I mean college football.
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  Twelve games you prepare for a week usually Brad the better team wins.
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  I mean, there are upsets, but we've seen Saturdays where there's this very
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  very few upsets. College basketball more games, So the math tells you there's
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  going to be more upsets. And also a team can have an off night,
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  a team can have a good night, there's travel, all those things,
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  so you just end up with a And we've seen it already this year
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  in the league. You know, Houston losing a couple of games, Kansas
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  getting beat at UCF. So there is a more of an equality of competition
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  that takes place in college basketball. So that's the first factor I think in
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  that game on Saturday. The second is that, I mean, did Texas
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  come in saying we got to get be ready for Pat Sumnik? You know
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  that they weren't. Probably not on a scott airport, probably not. And
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  so West Virginia starts to get their most balanced attack of the season, right,
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  I mean, guys, different guys scoring going into double figures. They
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  are equal in terms of rebounds, They force the other team to turn over
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  the ball, like twenty two times, they get to the free throw line.
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  They don't make as many as they should, but they get to the
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  free throw line. So brand, the things that we always talk about that
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  a team needs to do to win. West Virginia did most of those things
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  and it turned out on the plus side for him and made shots. Yeah,
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  and here's the other part. It isn't confidence the great equalizer in life
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  and in sports. Yes that I mean that individually with a guy like Pat
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  Sumnik, who is playing with a great deal of it right now and should
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  and has been extremely good since we talked at the Ohio State game, he's
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  outstanding and collectively the team and I thought that gave them a nice needed boost
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  to not only win a game big in this league, not only a ranked
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  win big, but to win wen that got close late acemiss as we talked
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  about start bombing three's and that then got close at the end. That would
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  have been easy to yack that thing up, and West Virginia didn't. It
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  held its ground and was able to get through. At the win, I
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  thought it just a massive win. Who knows what comes the rest of the
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  season, but for that group to be able to celebrate that win. You
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  saw the clip that West Virginia put out of Josh coming into locker room.
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  Awesome, that was awesome. I was thrilled for them, right, And
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  so I think with this particular group of players and the situation that we're in
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  in this particular basketball season, I think all you want to do is every
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  game that you go out, you play competitively, you play hard, and
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  then you look at the scoreboard at the end of the game and you see
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  what your result's going to be. That's all you can ask from this particular
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  When you fight in battle, you fight, yeah, and you just play
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  no expectations. You just go out there and battle as well as you can,
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  and they'll they'll have some of these you hope as the season goes on.
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  I don't there's any question about that. And also I mean home battle,
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  have it win the home games or have a shot at those home games?
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  And also how many times a we're gonna have to say that the team
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  is it looks like they're beginning to come together. We're mid January, but
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  because of all the circumstances, you really look at that team that was on
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  the floor Saturday and go, oh, okay, and you still don't have
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  Jesse Edwards, but it's starting to If you look like if you can repeat
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  that performance going forward, you say, oh, it's starting to take shape
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  right coming up spreads on stats and I want to get into your Brett.
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  We do not pre uh pre dialogue this at all, believe it or not,
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  stunningly as that makes hard to tell such I'm sure you think this is
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  a well oiled scripted machine. I'm sure that's the way the show comes across.
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  But the Senator and I have not discussed, but I'm very much looking
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  forward to some analytics in regard to paint points because they made a tweak to
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  the Mountaineer defense because as everyone that's been watching them saw, I mean,
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  the rotations were non existent and as a result, Kansas State just had guys
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  just dunking uncontested layups right in front of the basket. You know, guys
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  weren't getting over it, so they chained it and they went into more of
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  a gap philosophy. Shot if everyone's everyone's got a little cover, but you
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  basically you pack everything in tight and if you're gonna lose, it's gonna because
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  be because they're making three point shots. Well they did well, one dude
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  did one dude did. Nine to twenty two is what they finished. This
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  is how about this number? Nine to twenty two is what they finished,
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  Max asmis was seven of thirteen. They only had two guys make a three.
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  Yeah, he and to Sue. Yeah, so that was really significant.
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  How about this for a West Virginia connection story. So a young guy
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  the grew where I live, in the neighborhood where I live. His name
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  is Cal Lynn, and he is now a junior in college, goes to
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  South Carolina. His family moved several years ago and they moved to Dallas.
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  So game's over the other night, people are pretty much left and here comes
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  Cal's dad, Here's Nick comes up. Hey, man, just want to
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  say hey. I said, hey, what are you guys doing here?
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  He goes, Oh, he came to watch Max. I came to watch
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  Max. Max aysmis. He said, Cal and he went to high school
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  together. He says, there best buds. Oh that's wild, and I
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  said, my gosh. He goes. I said that was a performance.
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  He goes, that's what he's done, twenty eight hundred points in his career,
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  twenty eight hundred points, fifth all time and three point shots in college
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  history. He was, yeah, he was just the three point line is
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  just imaginary to him. No, he doesn't have one. No, no,
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  he doesn't have one. So anyway, always a West Virginia connection.
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  Always to Max A. Smiths, they say. And he was telling me
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  he's a great kid biology major, wants to be a doctor. Yeah.
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  His shooting chart was pretty amazing. One, two, three, four,
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  five, six, seven, eight nine. Got about nine of his three
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  point attempts. Five of those makes came from that left corner or the left
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  wing, right across from the far side, left wing. So he just
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  kept pulling up popping hop. You want to see that. Look, I
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  say, wow, look at all those right there. He's fearless. Yeah,
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  he was good. He was good. All right, you want to
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  do some numbers now, you want to go right into it? Yeah,
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  because I got I've got. I went a little deep on Oklahoma too,
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  if that's why I was running little bit late today. I got a lot
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  of Oklahoma stuff too. I mean, dive in if you're willing. I
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  mean, if you're willing, we're able as let's go. Yeah. I
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  think that's what it is a time for spreads on Stats early to jump into
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  and gentlemen for spreads on stats. Take it away, Senator, Oh boy,
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  you went straight glasses early. Well, we got less stuff, got
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  a lot of stuff, all right, stay with us on the numbers here.
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  Let's start with the question you asked about points in the paint. That
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  was obviously a focus. We spent a lot of time on Thursday talking about
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  this. To refresh Kansas State nineteen of twenty one. From the field at
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  the rim so defined as within four and a half feet of the rim.
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  Hop Okay, nineteen of twenty one, fifty four percent of the Wildcats points
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  came at the rim. It felt like one hundred and four percent that night,
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  right, So they were constantly at the rim. We said, all
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  right, what's western do you can do to stop it? I thought they
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  might go zone a little bit more. They did not need to. The
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  new adjustments, the emphasis on rotations worked. Now. Texas was ten of
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  ten on shots at the rim. Shot one hundred percent at the rim,
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  which always scares you, but that the shot attempt numbers what's key. Just
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  ten shot attempts at the rim. So eighteen points for Texas at the rim.
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  That's the second fewest allowed all season by West Virginia. Thirty eight percent
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  of the Longhorns points came at the rim. Their season average had been forty
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  four and Kansas State had scored fifty four. So you chopped that thing down
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  significantly. That was a huge, huge part of that very much. So
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  can I ask you a couple questions? You just want to start renting in
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  real que Oh no, this is free form. I remember one thing during
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  the game you said, for whatever reason, for whatever reason, that when
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  Caden Shedrick does not play well for them, they lose. Yeah, And
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  it's not that he's averaging like eighteen and nine or something like that. He
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  has very respectable numbers. But at the same time, when he has not
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  played well, they lost. Well. He's got a bad back. He
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  tried to go out there once and then he even tried to go out there
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  twice and only played four minutes. It wrapped his back. He went back
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  out, didn't work. Did you have that, I'm sure you did in
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  your nose. Yeah. And so here's here's what we talked about on Thursday
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  about him in particular. And again, they had so many other guys you
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  could focus on, and we talked Acemus, we talked Hunter, we talked
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  to Sue, but Sedrick was one I kept coming back to this. How
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  what I said on Thursday. He didn't play against Yukon, which was one
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  of their three losses, didn't play in the game against Cincinnati, which was
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  nearly a loss. They found a way to pull that out. He only
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  had two points in the loss of Texas Tech, and he only had six
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  in the lost to Marquette. There's their three losses and a fourth game that
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  they very nearly lost. Add West Virginia to that list. As you just
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  mentioned. Yeah, so that's I don't know if that's because it needs it
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  gives to sue a break. I don't know what the reason is. Calsation
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  correlation. Yeah, we we identified that would be an issue if he didn't
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  play a whole lot or didn't play. You liked West Virginia's chances and that
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  certainly held out. So yes, that was a second part of this number
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  three. We talked a lot about Texas in the transition game. Oh boy,
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  came in averaging or in the top one percentile hoppy points per possession in
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  transition. A big key was get back. You've got to slow them in
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  transition to have a shot. Now. They ended up with a fifteen to
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  five fast break points advantage, but a lot of those came in the second
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  half. That first half when you were keeping it close, they just weren't
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  getting any of those. They were not getting out and running. So I
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  think overall that fifteen to five looks like a fairly big gap, but you
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  take it if you're West Virginia. Yeah. Agree. Can Dylan Mitchell finish
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  long long? You could see why they say he's a pro. Yeah,
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  he does things. He's got a body size, that doesn't make him.
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  He has a body size and he does things with his body that people that
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  size can't do. That's why he's going to be in the NBA. Anyway,
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  I digress. So that was one good job by West Virginia, especially
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  early in holding that down. I thought these aren't in particular order of importance,
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  but just some notes West Virginia six needed in ugly ing the game up,
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  which I thought it had to do. Hoppy, you alluded to it.
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  The force twenty two turnovers. You would have preferred more points off that,
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  West Ring. You got fifteen points off those turnovers. But remember you're
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  stalling drives is what installing drives Hoppy to miss my football and basketball there,
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  you're stalling possessions on them as well, So yes, you want more points
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  off that. But it certainly worked and helped in this game. The massive
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  one that if you wanted to lead with, why did West Virginia win the
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  game? It was protecting the paint, but then also the free throws.
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  That was just such a massive advantage. You guys mentioned this already. Plus
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  eleven points came on plus twenty attempts, so you scored eleven more points than
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  they did. You shot twenty more free throws than they did. You took
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  forty one free throws on the day. You had forty seven field goal attempts.
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  Forty one free throws forty seven field goal attempts. That works out to
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  a massive eighty seven percent free throw attempt rate. To put it in context,
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  the national average for a game is thirty three percent. So that's your
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  free throw related to how many field goal attempts you have eighty seven percent.
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  Wait a second, that's just can we stop the tape? Can we?
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  I mean, can we stop? Take way? What you're saying must not
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  be correct. Now, that can't be correct because West Virginia never gets any
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  calls. Now wait a second, but did they wait, I mean,
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  wait a second, wes we always get screwed by the officials. The officials
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  are out to get us. Wait a second, how did that waste?
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  Let me look at that must be a misprint that we took forty one and
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  they took twenty one luss twenty attempts one of the game. Well, maybe
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  they were listening to a previous three guys where I thought I think I may
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  have led a charge to say that Texas and Oklahoma should have consistent fouls called
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  against them in their final seas just just just call file. I don't think
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  it was I don't think it was that. I think the officials define job
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  neither wonderful job. I want to action on top of it, perfect position
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  on most calls. It got almost all of them right, wonderful job by
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  the officials in all seriousness. My point all that is, you know,
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  sometimes that does happen. Sometimes it does happen. And I'm sure Texas people
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  are screaming about that right now, like we're getting screwed because we're leaving the
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  league and so we're getting screwed. Okay, fine, and you know we
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  might go to Oklahoma here on Wednesday and it might be the same number,
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  only will be on the short end of it, and going like we're getting
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  screwed. Why it just happens. But it was needed to happen for West
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  Virginia to get that win. It was hustle energy getting after It generally leads
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  to those things in your favor, right when you have great energy in your
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  around in your house. So anyway, good. I thought officials were excellent,
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  absolutely excellent. Okay. One of the other areas we talked about was
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  pick and roll, and we talked about having to defend Texas's pick and roll.
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  They were very very good, if you remember, Tony very good at
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  both aspects, the ball handler and the role part of this. Well.
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  West Virginia gave up a season high twenty eight points to the pick and roll
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  ball handler. Texas put up twenty eight points using the pick and roll they
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  use it a lot, but just seven to the role man. And if
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  you remember, that was our issue with points in the paint. How are
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  you going to stop the role how are you going to head the screen?
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  What are you going to do on this pick and roll? So you you
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  have to choose something, hop right. It's really hard to defend all of
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  it. So West Virginia chose to be better against the role man. It
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  worked, rotations worked, They couldn't get it there, although the pick and
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  roll ball handler was very good, so that was important. Catch and shoot
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  jumpers, oh yeah, contested catching shot. You'll like this. Texas took
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  thirteen catch and shoot jumpers. Hop pass the ball, catch it, shoot
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  it just like it sounds okay. Thirteen of them. The Longhorns took twelve
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  of them were guarded. They talk about West Virginia playing some defense. Okay,
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  so call date of the thirteen were guarded, do you remember what the
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  number was Kansas State, basically like twenty five percent were guarded. Twenty five
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  percent, yeah, rather than whatever that percent is ninety percent or whatever.
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  So guarded it just nine points on guarded catch and shoot shots. So they
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  only produced nine points out of those twelve guarded jump shots, very good,
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  and no points on the one on guarded. Look they missed the shot.
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  Now flip it around. Texas did a good job on West Virginia as well,
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  thirteen catch and shoot jumpers, also eleven guarded, two on guarded.
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  But here's a difference. Sometimes you got to make tough shots hoppy. Yes,
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  Sometimes it's not about the play design. Sometimes you just got to make
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  a play as a player. Make a shot, just got to make a
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  shot. West Virginia got fifteen points off it's eleven guarded jumpers, more than
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  one point per shot, which is good, and they got six on the
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  unguarded. So they hit two threes when they were guarded. So West Virginia
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  made contested shots. We use this a lot in contested catches. Sometimes the
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  defensive back's all over you and you just got to be better than the defensive
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  back. Same thing here. Sometimes you're gonna get guarded, and West Virginia's
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  been guarded a lot on the offensive end. Sometimes you got to make shots
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  than the guys did the other night. So when we I know, we
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  all giggle and laugh. And it started with Bob Huggins when he'd say it,
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  but it is true. You gotta make shots. Sometimes you just got
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  to make shots. And that was one of those games where West Virginia,
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  in additioned all those other things in tough spots, stepped up and made baskets.
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  Yeah, so that was big. A couple more, let's individually.
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  Let's just you have to mention Pat Sumnick, which you guys did earlier.
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  Sixteen points, six rebounds. Five of the six rebounds were offensive rebounds.
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  Why wouldn't they be. That's a weird statlighte Why wouldn't they five of his
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  six rebounds? How about the back to back possessions of under the hoop,
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  take it up and hammer it work the first time, try it again?
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  It was crazy. But I told how so happy for him? I told
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  how the criticism against him. He's super smart, like classroom like super intelligent,
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  but on the floor he was overthinking things for a good chunk of the
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  season. They said, if he would just let it go, just play,
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  just play. He played. He played. I mean he played like
• 22:00
  he he goes. I mean, who does that reverse? I mean,
• 22:02
  have you seen that? When was the last time you saw that? I
• 22:03
  was just thinking that that you don't see that that often at that level.
• 22:07
  And also when you when you are gonna make that play, that's a even
• 22:12
  though it's a dunk, it's a higher risk play because if you make it's
• 22:17
  like, oh my gosh. But you can also look really big, oh
• 22:19
  yeah, if you don't right hit the backboard a ball because up in here
• 22:22
  you can't can't dunk the ball. I mean he did it perfectly, but
• 22:26
  twice. It's a great smart play though. That's how you protect yourself from
• 22:29
  the shot blocker. Right you're using the rate. He can't get over there.
• 22:32
  You go buy him in up and over. What's the shot blocker gonna
• 22:33
  do. You're already on the other side of the rim, proper, I
• 22:36
  understand that, but you still have to go under the basket, jump up
• 22:40
  and dunk the ball going the other way. I think Oklahoma's putting that on
• 22:42
  their scout. Yeah, probably don't give him baseline. Don't give him,
• 22:45
  but I want to cut baseline off. So that was really good. Okay,
• 22:48
  let's talk about rebounding here for a second as well, because we've said
• 22:52
  for a couple of weeks now this needs to be better and it's got to
• 22:53
  be more of a team effort. And it really kind of started in that
• 22:56
  second half against oh Ohio State where Western did a tremendous job after getting drilled
• 23:03
  in the first half bounce back, and they've been much better at the rebounding
• 23:06
  since then. But how this is the stat This is the wild stat that
• 23:08
  jumped out to me on the rebounding side of things. One was some that
• 23:11
  getting six rebounds but five of them were offensive, hoppy, how about this
• 23:15
  take your dual point guards because really, Farak Khan increase a. I don't
• 23:19
  know who you'd say is the one there there, but they're both ones when
• 23:22
  they're on the floor, right, Yes, Okay, between those two guys,
• 23:26
  you got eleven rebounds out of your point guard position, or at times
• 23:32
  two of your guards that are on the floor eleven rebounds. Fara Khon led
• 23:36
  with seven. That's how you do team rebounding there. You don't just leave
• 23:40
  it to your bigs. You get your guards back in there. And Tony,
• 23:42
  we've mentioned I brought the the rebounding of the guards up now for since
• 23:48
  Ohio State into the next couple of games and then this one. That's been
• 23:51
  the difference. Those guards are really getting in there and doing work. Well,
• 23:52
  you said, you guys said after edwards it was going to have to
• 23:56
  be a team effort. Other guys are gonna have to get re bounds.
• 24:00
  Yep, right, you just have to fight for it. Forget about a
• 24:02
  height. You got to fight for the rebounds. And West Virginia comes up
• 24:03
  even in rebounds against Texas. Yeah. And so you've seen raykwon Battle have
• 24:07
  a ten rebound game. Now you've seen Farrakon bust out of seven. So
• 24:11
  Battle you can understand little, but he's six to five athletic. Your point
• 24:15
  guards are getting seven between them with Creasa and Farakhon, I mean eleven.
• 24:18
  Excuse me, that's really good. You'll take that all day long. Josh
• 24:22
  said that constantly during pregame. All five guys have to rebound, all five
• 24:26
  guys, I'm telling you all fives. So what's the key. All five
• 24:29
  guys have to rebound. Well they did it. They out rebounded the Texas
• 24:32
  Longhorns thirty two to thirty one. And there's no reason to do that size
• 24:37
  wise. I mean, that's just about effort. That's and that's home court.
• 24:41
  Now you get you get a better bud. So here's your challenge.
• 24:44
  Part of what that which you give up when you're doing that, though your
• 24:47
  transition points are down. That's part of why West Virginia didn't have the advantage.
• 24:51
  There got what's seven of them out of transition, So that was something
• 24:53
  you give up. But if you're giving something up, you've got to give
• 24:56
  that up because if you don't have the ball, it doesn't matter right,
• 24:59
  So you'll get the ball right and then set your offense. So really good.
• 25:03
  So those are some of the some of the numbers including I thought some
• 25:06
  some amazing stats and really impressive stats. Yeah, so good deal. And
• 25:10
  they leave tomorrow which is Tuesday, to play Wednesday against an Oklahoma team which
• 25:15
  is smarting. Yes they've lost two in a row, having a great season,
• 25:19
  but they've lost too in a row. They'll be in a foul mood.
• 25:22
  I don't love the situation. No, not a good situation for West
• 25:26
  Virginia to be going into, but you know, no one's asking. And
• 25:29
  then Kansas on Saturday coming in here, big week, big walk one opportunities,
• 25:34
  right opportunities. The women's basketball squad under first year head coach Mark Kellogg.
• 25:41
  They completed their two game road trip and with a Saturday afternoon date against
• 25:48
  the Knights of UCF, and West Virginia outscored UCF by three in the first
• 25:55
  half, by six in the second half, by fourteen in the third quarter,
• 26:02
  and it was done. West Virginia glided to the victory by a final
• 26:06
  score of seventy six to fifty nine. In a game which saw JJ Quinnerley,
• 26:11
  talented prospect junior now she went over the one thousand point mark. She
• 26:18
  did fourth year in a row the Mountaineers have had a player go over one
• 26:21
  thousand career points, and interestingly enough, Mike Carey, who recruited Quinnerly to
• 26:26
  West Virginia, was on the bench Saturday four UCF as their assistant one of
• 26:33
  their assistant coaches, and Quinnerley was once again extremely effective. She finishes up
• 26:40
  the day with twenty one points, hit a couple of threes, perfect at
• 26:44
  the foul line. They had balanced scoring. They had five players with eight
• 26:47
  or more. Jordan Harrison at nineteen, Lauren Fields had thirteen and back after
• 26:52
  a couple losses. Yeah, it was they to lost to Texas and they
• 26:56
  lost to Iowa State. That one left to Mark. Uh they were able
• 27:00
  to avenge that. Now they have Houston. We got two newcomers this week.
• 27:04
  They've got Houston here Wednesday night and they go to Cincinnata on Saturday.
• 27:10
  They've already beat already beaten since they beat Cincinnati drilled them like a drum.
• 27:15
  So uh, we'll see. We'll see how that goes. A couple of
• 27:18
  notes, I would watch and pay for Jordan Harrison just to watch her handle
• 27:22
  the ball she put She had a couple of yo yo moves where she took
• 27:26
  it in in the lane, hoppy dribbling, pulled back, the defender comes
• 27:30
  with This is in the lane. This is right on the edge of the
• 27:32
  lane inside defender backing up. She pulls it back. The defender comes with
• 27:37
  her, and then she blows by yo yoda, Yo yoda. It was
• 27:40
  awesome, Old duncan yo yo's lit up yoyoda? Did you have yoyo?
• 27:42
  Do you ever do dunken Yoyo's no hoppy. Yeah yeah, back in the
• 27:47
  day, I had the butterfly that thing right there and walk the dog.
• 27:52
  Yeah, I walk the dog, and I'd also do that, Yeah,
• 27:56
  cradle. I did a little bit, not much. Two quick notes on
• 27:57
  the women's sde Then let's get to Oklaho or preview got to the rim.
• 28:02
  How many times have we talked about this women's team the way you have to
• 28:04
  try and stop hop I think you got try and shut the rim off.
• 28:07
  Let them shoot from three and if they hit threes, you their tip your
• 28:11
  cap, cutting them off to the rim. And again a lot of their
• 28:14
  rim buckets come on steals, right steals, fast breaks, get down the
• 28:18
  end of the floor. He can give you some some numbers. West Virginia
• 28:21
  had thirty five points at the rim against UCF. Took it right at him.
• 28:26
  Had just sixteen against Iowa State. Remember how we said Iowa State could
• 28:29
  shut it down a little bit, couldn't get there, cut down turners.
• 28:32
  Thirty five against UCF, ran them out by getting to the basket. Here's
• 28:34
  the other part lined up. Destroyed UCF on the pick and roll a season
• 28:41
  high in points off that set with twenty seven. They pick and rolled them
• 28:45
  for twenty seven points. Again, for reference, had just five off that
• 28:48
  set against Ia State. Too bad. West Virginia didn't force any turnovers against
• 28:53
  UCF season high twenty six. Ouch didn't I, which is why you get
• 29:00
  a lot of points at the rim off that Yeah, didn't. I was
• 29:00
  state of twenty four. Yeah, for fifty turnovers in two games. Yeah,
• 29:07
  that's what they do. Many they're fun to watch, Yeah they are.
• 29:11
  But that's not surprise. We said. Even in those two losses,
• 29:12
  you could say there was enough things there that you saw that worked against those
• 29:15
  really good teams that you said, okay this they're on the right track here.
• 29:18
  They got to going so good. Bounce back, hop as you said,
• 29:23
  are you wanna do an Oklahoma preview? Yeah, well let me do
• 29:26
  this. Your sense, it's a little bit longer than normal. We need
• 29:30
  to probably reset the table, right, Just get a little little what do
• 29:34
  you call that thing? A little uh sorbet little sorbet clean your palate?
• 29:41
  Go ahead, Okay, you're ready now, both as you often save me
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  speech to God, please jump in and ask questions as we go along.
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  here. You mentioned that you get a hungry Oklahoma team coming in having lost
• 31:03
  those two in a row. But how about this hot they're three losses this
• 31:06
  season, UNC fifth and Ken Palm Kansas seventeen, TCU twenty two. Yeah,
• 31:14
  pretty good year so far for Porter Moser and the crew there. Twenty
• 31:17
  first in defensive efficiency, so they're defensively driven, but they're good offensively as
• 31:22
  well, forty first on that side of it won't be a blistering pace here.
• 31:25
  Both teams are in that sixty six to sixty eight possessions per game.
• 31:30
  But here's what you have to watch guys transition. Again, they're good when
• 31:33
  they push. They're they're not Texas good, but their top thirty percent and
• 31:37
  that's one of their favorite things to do, get the ball and get out
• 31:38
  and push it. So they're a paradox. You're saying that they're not in
• 31:41
  a hurry possession wise, but when the opportunity comes, they'll run and they're
• 31:45
  really efficient at it. Because you start to go through some of their points
• 31:48
  per game in different categories and you look at transition and that's a big key
• 31:52
  slowing down their transition, but it is not a fast tempo, blistering pace
• 31:56
  type of team. But they're very good at it. So let's talk about
• 31:59
  D fence first, since that's where they kind of bread their butter, their
• 32:02
  bread Seventh in opponent field goal percentage, So here we go with another team
• 32:07
  that makes it difficult to shoot and score upon them. Really good from three,
• 32:10
  seventh nationally there as well in field goal percentage for the opponent in only
• 32:16
  three. Here here's the challenge. So you take that and put it aside.
• 32:21
  They're good defending the three, or teams have not shot the three well
• 32:22
  against them. But in only three of eighteen games have teams score double digit
• 32:30
  points on two point jump shots. So you're struggling to shoot three. You
• 32:36
  struggle to get to double digit points on jump shots from two. So example,
• 32:39
  that's crazy. West Virginia likes to take advantage of the mid range.
• 32:43
  Right. Raekwon Battle in particular is really good. Now a Ferra cons really
• 32:45
  good at the pull up if you need to. They you struggle to get
• 32:50
  double digit points on jump shots five to two point baskets. Yeah, and
• 32:53
  only three. Yeah, that's an amazing so be careful there. Well.
• 32:59
  So they're the absolute definition of New age basketball of rim or three right,
• 33:06
  say that again. Now, remember they're jump shots. I'm not talking about
• 33:08
  layups. I'm not talking about fast break transition parts. I'm talking catch and
• 33:13
  shoot two point jump shots inside the three point line. That's difficult to get
• 33:15
  two's on them. That's amazing, all right. So there's one stunning stat
• 33:22
  They don't condy CPA group. They don't put you on the line a lot
• 33:25
  seventh nationally and defensive free throw temper rate. So again that's one of those
• 33:29
  things. Last year, same deal. They don't foul, or before Lon
• 33:31
  Krueger's teams didn't foul. That's why. Part of why West Virginia because we've
• 33:36
  done this free throw rate thing now for a number of years, and especially
• 33:38
  under Bob Huggins. West Virginia is one of the best in the country at
• 33:40
  getting to the line, shot more free throws than most teams nationally. And
• 33:45
  you struggled against Oklahoma a lot of times. Why they just didn't fail you.
• 33:47
  That has continued. So that's tough too. You got a team playing
• 33:51
  really good defense that doesn't put you on the line, and they're pissed off
• 33:53
  and they're mad, so be ready to go. They haven't been great at
• 33:59
  defending the two. I'm sorry, defending the pick and roll. That fits
• 34:04
  what West Virginia wants to do. Be a nice day for Jesse Edwards.
• 34:07
  Huh, you know it would be a nice day of Josse Edwards. TCU
• 34:10
  got him for twenty two on the pick and roll, really and they won
• 34:14
  the game. All right, shootover offensively for a second. They shoot it
• 34:19
  pretty well twenty first nationally and field goal percentage fourteenth nationally in field goal percentage
• 34:23
  from two. So they like to get to the rim. More than a
• 34:27
  third of their shots are at the basket, so meaning under four and a
• 34:30
  half feet. That's above the national average, which means they go to the
• 34:34
  file line a lot. No, not as much as you would think.
• 34:37
  Really, yeah, not as much as you would think. They don't.
• 34:40
  Yeah, literally, my next line, you just took it. They don't
• 34:43
  get to the free throw line very much. In fact, they are one
• 34:45
  hundred and seventieth nationally. That's crazy. They're scoring it up a little bit.
• 34:50
  Yeah, they're scoring in front of the room, but they're not getting
• 34:52
  contact. Top ten percent in points per shot at the rim in that category.
• 34:57
  So they're effective. Yeah, they finish, We'll see some pick and
• 35:00
  rolls from them. They're fifth in the Big Twelve in points per possession off
• 35:05
  the pick and roll. The ball handed will shoot it more than the role
• 35:07
  guy, so watch the ball handler there. They get a ton of unguarded
• 35:14
  catch and shoots top two percent nationally. But here's what will surprise you.
• 35:19
  Not that effective. They only score on thirty five percent of the time when
• 35:22
  they get an open They're getting looks when they get an open look, and
• 35:25
  those will be almost entirely threes. I think they've had like four catch and
• 35:29
  shoot two point shots this year, So when they get one of those catch
• 35:32
  it and shoot, it's going to be from three. I thought I mentioned
• 35:36
  this earlier. I thought Texas would get some zone from West Virginia and that
• 35:39
  they didn't. They didn't need to. The rotations worked. OU's rated as
• 35:45
  excellent against man defense, but only average when they have to face zone.
• 35:50
  So is this a game where you drop into zone a little bit to try
• 35:52
  and slow down their offense. They've only faced it seven percent of their possessions,
• 35:57
  so they don't get it a ton. It's a small samp size,
• 36:00
  but a team that's really good from two, not elite from three? Do
• 36:04
  you try some zone against them at times? See if they can shoot you
• 36:07
  out of it? Make me show you last time we had a situation like
• 36:09
  that was a highest state. They don't like playing zone against zone. Maybe
• 36:14
  Josh comes out their little zone might be something to look at. Here's some
• 36:20
  keys, just a couple of keys to look at. I mentioned the limit
• 36:22
  the transition. Excuse me, only four teams out of sixteen held them to
• 36:30
  single digits in transition. So four of their sixteen teams held them to single
• 36:36
  digits. You want to know what happened in three of those? They lost?
• 36:38
  They lost, so limit transition got to make shots. This I literally
• 36:44
  wrote the note as this is a make shots game, good defense, but
• 36:47
  one that doesn't force a ton of turnovers. So you should be able to
• 36:52
  get the possessions. Can you be efficient with those possessions? You shouldn't be
• 36:57
  turning it over all night, right, it's one of the excerns you're gonna
• 36:59
  have. The You got to make some shots, which again I know is
• 37:01
  obvious, but in this particular niche I mean that because you should be able
• 37:06
  to complete the majority of your possessions. Then you've got to be effective in
• 37:08
  the pick and roll and score on offensive rebounds. Into Oklahoma's three losses,
• 37:15
  the opponent playbook for the Sooner's opponent was that eat them up in pick and
• 37:21
  roll and get those offensive rebounds. The only difference was Kansas and they were
• 37:25
  just that's a different formula. You can't take much out of that because they
• 37:28
  fed Hunter Dickinson and he was a matchup nightmare. Here's the matchup to watch
• 37:32
  when you talk pick and roll. West Virginia is tenth in the league in
• 37:36
  points per possession off the pick and roll the ball handler specifically, okay,
• 37:40
  tenth an Oklahoma defense you're getting on Wednesday, that's twelfth in pick and roll
• 37:46
  handler defense. So Ker should be able to get some get some success with
• 37:52
  ball kerr Farakhan. You might put Slezinski in that mode a couple of times.
• 37:57
  Might be able to hit him with a bunch of people, be effective
• 37:59
  in the pick and roll, get some offensive rebounds, put them back in
• 38:01
  there. You go. Tell you what, man, it's pretty good.
• 38:04
  I don't know what they're paying you on this deal. You need you need
• 38:07
  to raise hobby a right scouting for it. I mean, you do a
• 38:12
  lot of numbers. Hope you did with it there. I know that's sometimes
• 38:15
  people struggling. You delivered. I mean like if you were like a coach,
• 38:19
  like you just did your job what you're asked to do, but you
• 38:22
  did it really well, so you should probably go in and ask for a
• 38:24
  raise, because isn't that what they do? Hot like they win like all
• 38:29
  of a sudden they win ten ten or having ten or eleven win season,
• 38:31
  they go in or you got got to give me more money? Waite.
• 38:34
  Second, you just did what you were you were paid to do to begin
• 38:37
  with. They want more money. Is that how you should? You know?
• 38:39
  Is that what you want to do? Bra You're going to coleague CEPA
• 38:42
  and say hey, we're gonna crank it up a little bit here because I
• 38:44
  gave you better just trying to deliver. I'm just trying to do my job,
• 38:49
  did really well. We'll say. People come to me now and they
• 38:52
  say, you know, I listened to Brad's preview. I listened to Brads
• 38:54
  people. You know what I said, what's that? Exactly what he says
• 38:58
  happens whether we win, when we lose, He's hit And I said,
• 39:00
  yeah, yeah, Well that's what we're trying to do. I mean,
• 39:05
  don't know if you're going to win to lose, but trying to give you
• 39:07
  the things that you're looking for and what West Virginia does and what the opponent's
• 39:10
  going to do against you. So there's there's your blueprint. Now let's see
• 39:13
  if West Virginia can go execute it in what will be a very difficult environment.
• 39:16
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• 39:21
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  Well, just let me just give you a little reminder here, Hoppy
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  days there. We get a little bit bonuses as well, so check it
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  out. So how'd you do on your first trip to Charleston? Behavior body
• 40:50
  behaved itself? All right? You still? Yeah? Oh good? I
• 40:52
  know sometimes you get out and you know changes can't oh really oh no,
• 40:59
  huh. Can't sleep when you're on the road, or can't sleep then when
• 41:00
  you come home or on the road on the road. Can't sleep on the
• 41:02
  road consistently, can't sleep on the road maybe some point. Really just out
• 41:07
  of routine, out a routine, out of everything, you know, not
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  word. Your alarm is not going to go off the front desk. You
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  call the front desk and get a wake up call, or you just do
• 41:15
  it on your own phone phone. You don't set a wake up call from
• 41:19
  the front desk as a backup or anything. No, just go phone.
• 41:22
  Yeah, yeah, just but you know, I mean Tony, well you
• 41:24
  probably, I mean you can't because you if you kill yourself. You've traveled
• 41:30
  with him. He sleeps, He's on the plane. A sleep in two
• 41:32
  seconds, that's true. The only problems I have sleeping on a road is
• 41:37
  because of some some over consumption of food. It's normally go three pillow ups,
• 41:44
  get in there and just go. Here comes the three pillows. We're
• 41:45
  going to sleep. I say, take those eminems from Gon and just take
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  to open the bag and just drink them. I texted you, guys.
• 41:52
  I forget what the over under was, but I was there an hour and
• 41:57
  a half in the capitol. You gotta noted before I got a three guys
• 42:00
  and then I got back to back three guys references. Okay, but of
• 42:02
  that hour and a half, how long were you there basically by yourself?
• 42:07
  Was there some time meaning was there some time before there was anybody there to
• 42:09
  recognize? I was like, yeah, an hour twenty Yeah, So basically
• 42:15
  the net of it was ten minutes about right, yeah, I mean's just
• 42:19
  me and the maintenance guys. Yeah, they could be three guys too,
• 42:22
  but then once people started coming in to get it was immediate free guys,
• 42:23
  you know. And also the there was a big kerchive ail, a lot
• 42:28
  of Kersaveil questions too, coming out just before just before the budget briefing,
• 42:34
  said kerchivil questions. We should probably address that outlephant in the room needed more,
• 42:37
  wanted more, wanted to have it? Where is it? Can I
• 42:39
  get it exactly? Do you just have to say efforting? Yeah? I
• 42:43
  just said, well I probably. I said, we're you know, effort,
• 42:46
  working on effort. I mean, and they have a little mini fridge
• 42:50
  in the press room, and the press people were very like, hey,
• 42:52
  I had it, I enjoyed it. This was other press wags all with
• 42:55
  myself, how do we get more? And so I said, I'll try
• 42:59
  to get some, but yeah, from what we're told, and bring it
• 43:02
  down from what we're told. You're the reason you're I think, you know,
• 43:07
  we need to say this because people keep asking for us. They're not
• 43:08
  making it anymore. It's not our choice, but they've decided not to make
• 43:14
  it anymore. They're talking about the start of football season. That's the last
• 43:16
  we know. All right, fine effort, whatever demands out there, demands
• 43:23
  out. You know when you were at the Capitol, you weren't that far
• 43:27
  away from lou Wendell Marine Sales. You're located in Saint Albans. You know
• 43:30
  that, right, Lou Wendel Marine Sales. I know he's got a real
• 43:34
  job to do down there. I wouldn't mind him sitting in that I keep
• 43:38
  talking about that one particular recliner seat, like, you're not going to drive
• 43:42
  that. If you're out on that Lou Wendell pontoon, try tune you're you're
• 43:45
  not driving it. You would sit nicely in that front recliner seat, you
• 43:51
  know, if you could make that. Can you stop over and see them
• 43:52
  too. I'd like to a lot of demands coming in here. I know
• 43:58
  you got it. Don't stress him out here. Wendo Marine Sales located in
• 44:00
  St. Right Meeting. They offer the Three Guys Special, The Three guys
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  special Here it is, folks, the twenty twenty three Evlon twenty three eighty
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  Whatever you need to do, whatever you would like to do on the
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  water, it's waiting for you at a very special three guys price. It
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  includes the trailer Honda one fifty engine and that thing is Mac daddied out three
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  guys before the game special price eighty nine seven seventy four. Check it out
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  twenty twenty three Avlon Tryton Entertainer model from Lou Wendell Marine Sales. I'll try
• 44:36
  to make it. I mean, we got a couple of trips in one
• 44:39
  trip. I know we've got a I got Lou window surprise things. You're
• 44:45
  making some surprise stops as well. We appreciate that. We'll spread it out.
• 44:49
  You know, if it was us, we would have to do it.
• 44:51
  We would love to go with you just high step in there and have
• 44:53
  fun. But you just hoppy. You just take care of the family business
• 44:57
  down there in Charleston. Did you have a good time down there? I
• 45:01
  enjoyed the politics. People enjoy the legislative session. I think it's uh.
• 45:07
  I think it's important, toting invigorating. There are a lot of people that
• 45:09
  I know and I only see at the legislative session. Right, so right,
• 45:14
  this a lavender, it's all him. Oh shit, you see Chad's
• 45:16
  dad. Yeah, Chad's dead. Yeah, there's a lot of folks here.
• 45:21
  We go, time for textual healing. All right, free guys,
• 45:38
  before the game's textual healing, there's the number three oh four four O four
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  forty eighty three. Three oh four four h four forty eighty three. It's
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  brought to us by Episode eight hundred. Dot Com. Episode eight hundred dot
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  Com is our website where we sell various items, many of which support businesses
• 45:59
  here in the great state of West Virginia. One of those businesses is sitting
• 46:04
  on our front counter. And for those of you that are just listening and
• 46:08
  not watching, I have a one gallon white tin on our set, one
• 46:14
  gallon white tin filled with our special popcorn. I always get criticized for coming
• 46:21
  up with ideas, and Brad ripped me when I said we should make a
• 46:24
  Valentine's popcorn. We should after I'm glad we decided to, and I'm glad
• 46:30
  we made it. After Mountaineer munch was such a success. Look at that.
• 46:35
  There it is. It's got its own camera. Before you go into
• 46:38
  the description, what's happened. The reason I'm chuckling is because you and you
• 46:43
  don't even know you do this. You launched into and I know you did
• 46:46
  this in your old days. You launched into like old trading post radio.
• 46:51
  You said, did you hear him? He said, I've got a one
• 46:53
  gallon ten. I've gotta as if he's got like right, I'll take your
• 46:58
  calls and your text will open it. What are you gonna eat? The
• 47:01
  popcorn on the air? This was a bad move. I just put that
• 47:04
  in my mouth. This was inside that one galen from the Mountaineer popcorn people.
• 47:09
  They grow the corn in Shepherdstown. They harvest the corn in Shepherdstown,
• 47:15
  they dry the corn in Shepherd's Town. Then they pop the corn in Shepherdstown
• 47:20
  and they have created for us Valentine's Velvet Delight. It's good too. It
• 47:27
  is good. This is like there's a good piece. You got a good
• 47:30
  I got a big piece. It's I'm just telling you what. I didn't
• 47:35
  steer you wrong on the Mountaineer much. I told you. I told you
• 47:38
  that it was really really good over the top because they hit a home run.
• 47:43
  He's gonna go over the top, right, you gonna hurt himself here
• 47:46
  patting himself on the back. No, I told you this is a Mountaineer
• 47:49
  popcorn. Folks came as a foodie. They made shots as a foodie.
• 47:55
  I told you the Mountaineer munch was like extremely good. Three things of happened
• 48:00
  on this on this podcast. One, the beer was better than I ever
• 48:04
  thought it was going to be excellent. Yeah, the brisket, I told
• 48:07
  you it was world class. It's true. Yes, I told you the
• 48:13
  Mountain your munch. And this stuff here, it is off the chart.
• 48:19
  They call it Valentines. What the hell they call it Valventine's Velvet Delight.
• 48:25
  Inside of it strawberry white chocolate, little mini chocolate chips. And there was
• 48:32
  one other thing. Marshmallows. Marshmallow baby marshmallow. Isn't there? It's hoppy.
• 48:37
  You had it before the It was very good. What would you say?
• 48:39
  The flavor profile is what do you mean? Flavor profile? Taste?
• 48:44
  When it's it's light, it's fruity, light and fruity, some strawberry feel
• 48:49
  to it, but not over but not overwhelming strawberry. Now you know you're
• 48:52
  starting, you're starting to sound like Jim Justice. He said, huh,
• 48:58
  we were going to have popcorn? Did did I not tell you? Did
• 49:00
  I tell you? Did I not tell you that we were gonna have popcorn?
• 49:06
  Whatever? In his in his to take his side, we have it.
• 49:08
  There's good popcorn, visually good popcorn. Here's the deal. Go to
• 49:14
  episode eight hundred. You have to have your order in by January the twenty
• 49:16
  sixth. If you want it on Valentine's Day, they're gonna pop it like
• 49:22
  on the twenty eight, twenty nine. It's gonna be shipped on five February
• 49:27
  and you'll have it by the ninth or tenth. How much use it?
• 49:31
  You know? Hoppy prices irrelevant when you're talking about a world class product,
• 49:36
  born and grazed and raised in Shepherds Down. What the heck's the price matter?
• 49:40
  Price is always a factor. I mean right, No, I'm not
• 49:45
  saying no, And I know good things are you have to pay for quality.
• 49:50
  I understand that. I just was just asking. I mean, listen,
• 49:53
  listen, you want to go to Dollar General, get yourself a bag
• 49:57
  of corn, go down there. I didn't say, I tell you basically,
• 50:00
  yeah, basically you did. No, I didn't. It's a gourmet
• 50:05
  popcorn. I understand that that's it. I don't know. I don't file
• 50:07
  prices. I'll file price. I sell product hoppy, I sell good product.
• 50:14
  I don't if it was bad, i'd say, like, dude,
• 50:17
  I'm not doing this. I put my name on it. You'll like it,
• 50:22
  all right, Let's do these things. Put our names on it too,
• 50:27
  He says, I like it. Put my name on it. He
• 50:29
  said, you guys are not all right. I mean I see our names
• 50:32
  right on it. It's our names are literally on it. The one gal
• 50:37
  Are we signing all the one gallantines? No, only a few. We're
• 50:40
  signing a select number, all right, Although since it's yours, you could
• 50:45
  sign them all, since you've claimed credit for it. I put my name
• 50:50
  on it. I I I I put I planted the corn, well documented
• 50:57
  I popped the corn. Or it wasn't my idea then to do Valentine's it
• 51:00
  might have been yours. I didn't say that. Don't try to do that
• 51:02
  as a weak argument, like it's my idea and now I'm advocating, and
• 51:07
  I say it's very good that's all okay, But you okay, that's fine.
• 51:14
  Maybe in one of these days one of the lip bomb companies will come
• 51:15
  to you my lip bomb. That stuff is really good. What the I
• 51:21
  don't care about lip bomb? That popcorns you're carrying, you're carrying one or
• 51:27
  you're carrying one or two canisters this time of year of lip bomb. I'm
• 51:30
  rolling. I'm rolling to maybe three guys should do lip bomb. Maybe not?
• 51:40
  All right? Here we go. I was driving around this evening,
• 51:44
  says a Texter listening to the Two Guys Longhorns preview episode as I pull over
• 51:50
  into our version of Gucci Kroger here in Keller, Texas. Just a was
• 51:52
  out of Fort Worth. I'm listening to the Kroger Kroger's rebuttal between Tony and
• 51:58
  p One listener Charlie from Lothian during the textual healing segment, I had to
• 52:01
  laugh at the comedic timing of my errands matching up with my bi weekly escape
• 52:07
  from reality during your Guys show, What a game. No one saw that
• 52:10
  coming, myself included. While it was messy at times, it's nice to
• 52:15
  see them play in the entire game and win. I couldn't be happier for
• 52:19
  those boys. We're working against all odds to succeed. And while a few
• 52:22
  picky files were called near the end to put Texas on the line, the
• 52:25
  biggest blunder came from the ESPN announcers when they claimed donuts were being thrown into
• 52:30
  the crowd by our prestigious mountaineer. I know many are not familiar with West
• 52:35
  Virginia's dedication to Pepperoni roles, but surely he could tell they were not donuts.
• 52:39
  Anyway. What a great day to be a Mountaineer. Signed by Laurie
• 52:43
  from Lynn Side in Monroe. Tip the d is silent in Lynn Side.
• 52:50
  There you go, Texter anyway. Although it appears the next two months of
• 52:54
  this year's basketball season may be arduous, I appreciate you all giving folks like
• 52:59
  myself who are no longer living in West Virginian opportunity to stay connected to home.
• 53:04
  Good bad are indifferent. I hope the Mountaineers can provide me another opportunity
• 53:07
  to thank the fine folks in my current city to say thanks for having us
• 53:12
  the day following Super Bowl Sunday when they come here to visit TCU. Let's
• 53:15
  go Mountaineers. Signed by Cody and fort Worth via Ravenswood Home of the Ravenswood
• 53:21
  Running Red Devils and head coach Mick Price, Texter. Hello, three guys.
• 53:29
  With the Mountaineers defeating Texas Saturday, I propose that we have a special
• 53:32
  home court version of thanks for having us exclusive to this final meeting in Morgantown
• 53:37
  against Texas as members of the Big Twelve. I'd like to nominate the phrase
• 53:42
  don't let the door hit you on the way out. Beating Texas in any
• 53:46
  sport always reminds me of one of my favorite movies, Braveheart. The poor
• 53:52
  and belittled Scottish up against the elitist and snobbish English is Josh Isilt our version
• 53:58
  of William Wallace. However, there's something to be said about folks who have
• 54:02
  been counted out, belittled, and overlooked like this Mountaineer team. Enjoy the
• 54:06
  win, you Appalachian Highlanders basically Mountaineers. Hope not. Didn't they didn't they
• 54:10
  draw in quarter? William Wallace, Oh, I've never seen that movie.
• 54:17
  Among many of the classic movies, I've never seen. Mel Gibson, Oh,
• 54:21
  yeah, I know, I've seen seen Like snippets, Eric and Ashton
• 54:25
  writes, Hey, guys, P one listener with spring sports around the corner,
• 54:30
  when will Wren add softball? I work at Steel of West Virginia and
• 54:36
  Huntington, which is right besides Marshall's, beside Marshall's Softball and under construction new
• 54:40
  baseball field. It's time West Virginia brought back softball, right, great sport
• 54:46
  and increasing in popularity all the time. Yeah, great, and really good
• 54:50
  around the state too. There's a lot of Division one players coming out of
• 54:52
  the state in that in that particular sport. It's just it's hard in this
• 54:55
  current climate to be adding sports right now. But that's certainly one that has
• 54:59
  been under consideration, heavy consideration in the past, and I would think again
• 55:02
  if West friend is ever in a position where they're looking to add sports.
• 55:06
  It's just it's hard to do that as you see what's going on around the
• 55:09
  landscape. But that'd be an awesome one to add. When you talk to
• 55:14
  the WVU people about it, they basically say it would cost thirty plus million
• 55:19
  to get it started. If you were going to do a field, you're
• 55:22
  going to do the whole thing. I think they would do it if someone
• 55:25
  gave them so much money that they could run the thing and have it pay
• 55:30
  for itself in the sense of like some kind of a big endowment. But
• 55:36
  realistically you'd almost need a realistic Boons Pickings. I mean, somebody wants to
• 55:40
  put in, someone wants it. Really is a sport that's coming television wise
• 55:45
  too. You wonder if that when that television money kicks in, if you
• 55:46
  watch start watching earlier and earlier those games are getting on TV. College sopple.
• 55:52
  It's an it's an unbelievably fun sport games. Clip along the move,
• 55:55
  there's action, there's speed, and again it's it's a really good product in
• 56:00
  this particular state kind a long way in division. It's office. Yeah.
• 56:02
  The short version is it's about the money. Shout out Texter says last episode.
• 56:07
  Professor Vinnie on his encounter with Gordon Gee at Ohio State, I also
• 56:13
  attended Ohio State at the same time, after earning a BA from WVU,
• 56:19
  I saw Gee at Ohio State. He remarked on my West Virginia T shirt
• 56:22
  I was wearing listening and hearing this name again. I believe that Professor Vinnie
• 56:25
  was my friend at Ohio State and classmate. Our offices were next door as
• 56:30
  an extra layer in the West Virginia connection inception. We didn't know each other
• 56:36
  until while at West Virginia, but it was great to have a connection during
• 56:39
  grad school. We lost touch after our studies. It was really fun to
• 56:42
  hear the anecdote as a fellow Three Guys listener, signed by John in Jersey.
• 56:46
  Of course Jr. From Cumberland writes, Tony, I just wanted to
• 56:52
  take up for you in the Marlington pronunciation controversy. Cathy was correct when she
• 56:58
  surmised that I spelled it marlen to. In my text to you, I
• 57:00
  plead guilty to all of those that have chastised you, and I absolve you
• 57:05
  of any wrongdoing. I shall endeavor to not repeat my misdeed in the future,
• 57:09
  and sincerely apologize to all marlonton ors that I may have offended. Yeah,
• 57:15
  so basically it was a set I got set up by the G.
• 57:17
  Got set up by the G. That was nice A Jr. Yeah,
• 57:21
  it was take responsibility, sure, Texter Mike from Salem checking in last episode,
• 57:27
  you mentioned that Trey Young and Javon Carter battles. I can remember vividly
• 57:31
  after the first game someone got on the Wikipedia and put on Trey Young's page
• 57:37
  that Javon Carter was his father had stayed up there roughly for a day,
• 57:42
  which brings me to a second point. Here's an idea for another one worded
• 57:45
  shirt for episode eight hundred Unconfirmed's good. That's really good. That's really really
• 57:52
  good. Efforting on that, that's a good one. Texter, So did
• 57:57
  Hoppy mention what that dude was saying to him about three guys? I told
• 58:00
  him there was plenty of seats there for a taping of three guys from the
• 58:04
  rotunda. He quickly mentioned it was an hour and a half for him being
• 58:07
  there before someone mentioned three guys. Guilty party here? Senator J Taylor.
• 58:12
  Senator J Taylor, who I see every morning. He's an early arrived at
• 58:15
  the Capitalist. We have some three guys discussions. But he did say you
• 58:17
  should we should record a three guys at the Capitol. That was mentioned.
• 58:22
  Yeah, so I can effort efforting, well, you know, you know
• 58:27
  what the fee is. See if you can get it done, maybe we
• 58:30
  can get it in the budget. Some pork barrel, uh. Texter Kyle
• 58:37
  from Morgantown. I feel as though Pattison drive and outside people saying Patterson Drive
• 58:45
  is compatible to the Marlington and Marlington miscues. That's a good one. That's
• 58:50
  a good one. There's a lot of power. Mysh, that's a good
• 58:52
  one. People who've lived there all their lives. Yeah, give you a
• 58:54
  Patterson that's really good. Yeah, name for Governor Patterson. Yes, Oki,
• 59:00
  wasn't it Okie Patterson? Yeah? Then he put the pop bottle tax
• 59:02
  in. He built, he was behind the medical school. That's how they
• 59:07
  get pop tax too. Yea, it was the pop tax. That's what
• 59:08
  they used to make the to build a hospital. Nice pop tax reference.
• 59:13
  Well done. Won't you get up to speed on these politics? Get there?
• 59:16
  That is true, Hope or Tony, you'll be sitting I like.
• 59:20
  I like when the old timers tell the story, like, oh yeah,
• 59:22
  it came down to Charleston and Morgantown for the hospital. Or they'll give you
• 59:29
  the old you know, university was supposed to be in Greenboro County. They'll
• 59:32
  give you that one to I didn't know that, Steve not On. Wait,
• 59:39
  Brian from Ripley Scope stats, maybe hoppy. I was at the professional
• 59:45
  bull riding event at the Charleston Civic Center tonight and remember WV was playing Texas,
• 59:52
  checked the score and West Virginia was winning. I then turned my phone
• 59:55
  onto the ESPN app and I was watching the game. I began feel a
• 1:00:00
  presence at my back as everyone behind me started peeking over my shoulder and watching
• 1:00:05
  the game with me. We all sang a little bit of Country Roads when
• 1:00:07
  the game was over, as other sections looked at us like we were crazy.
• 1:00:12
  Signed by Brian from Ripley. A couple of things here. Yeah.
• 1:00:15
  One, I didn't know that the rodeo was in Charleston this weekend. That's
• 1:00:19
  neat Two, those people there at the rodeo were interested in knowing what was
• 1:00:25
  going on. Super shout out to the fans that came out for Saturday's game.
• 1:00:30
  Mountaineer fans. Here. They listed eleven thousand. That's ticket sold.
• 1:00:35
  I don't know exactly how many there. That was a really really good crowd,
• 1:00:37
  really good crowd for the situation that this program and this season is in
• 1:00:44
  right now. So that's just to me. I look up there and I
• 1:00:45
  look at all those people there Saturday, I say, this is just another
• 1:00:50
  example of how badly West Virginia fans number one love the team and want to
• 1:00:55
  win and are passionate about it, So shout out to those folks also on
• 1:01:01
  it was a cold day, I mean an effort. Yeah, it wasn't
• 1:01:05
  particularly great outside, Steve not cal Texas, you'd be safe going home.
• 1:01:13
  Made me think of something in a different context, and only those who've routinely
• 1:01:16
  attended football games in Morgantow would get it. Some of us in the band
• 1:01:21
  would say please avoid the Star City Bridge area just to announce the game had
• 1:01:27
  been decided, even before it was officially over. For example, Joe Flacco's
• 1:01:30
  second consecutive pick six was a real please avoid the Star City Bridge area moment.
• 1:01:36
  That's a good code. We had fun with good code, and I
• 1:01:38
  get that, Texter. We missed a storm the court moment. Last game
• 1:01:45
  at home against Texas Top twenty five upsite, upset in a miserable year so
• 1:01:50
  far. Big W Feels Good signed by Perreopolis film No no I no,
• 1:01:57
  no, no, that that's hum huh. You just gotta be like,
• 1:02:00
  hey, good luck to you, not even that, just like see it.
• 1:02:02
  I don't know what you say there because you don't want to. You
• 1:02:05
  don't wish them any success. Just move on. I don't want to tell
• 1:02:08
  you this West Virginia has to return that game in Austin. They'll be waiting
• 1:02:14
  on the old Golden Blue that day. No go play. They ran us
• 1:02:17
  out of the gym by thirty four a year ago. Whatever got them here?
• 1:02:22
  Yeah, maybe it may if you, Yeah, Jeremy and Cooperstown.
• 1:02:30
  Never in my life I think i'd say I like our team when we were
• 1:02:34
  six and ten, but I do. Heck, has there ever been a
• 1:02:37
  WVU team with that record since the Cat's final season? Total dumpster fire?
• 1:02:42
  Without cheating on Google, I'm going to say that's a hard no, But
• 1:02:45
  Brad check that. I thought Josh did a great job coaching down the stretch.
• 1:02:49
  He grew up, drew up some good action on offense, and if
• 1:02:52
  it weren't for Michael Jordan wearing burn orange, we would have won by fifteen
• 1:02:55
  horns down. Thanks for coming. Yeah. I looked back at the at
• 1:03:00
  the eight and twenty season. I think West Virginia was They weren't around the
• 1:03:07
  same mark six wins, seven wins at that point. What's for that team
• 1:03:12
  was seven and two and finished eight and twenty seven and two finished eight and
• 1:03:16
  twenty. Wow. Yeah, but this is not that that's a great observation
• 1:03:22
  because you have a losing record right now, but you are far from being
• 1:03:25
  a dumpster fire. I mean, you see, you see, you see
• 1:03:28
  promise there. You get some joy out of watching them play. They play
• 1:03:31
  hard, you feel like their best basketball was still ahead of them. So
• 1:03:36
  it's a weird six and ten. So what it is? Six and ten?
• 1:03:39
  Six and ten? Hey, Texter, Hey, three guys, can
• 1:03:45
  you please help me understand why Pat Somnick doesn't get more playing time. I
• 1:03:50
  feel like when he's on the court, we've got a chance of getting rebounds.
• 1:03:52
  His field goal percentage is great and the only thing I see but his
• 1:03:55
  weakness is a turnovers. Yeah, we talked about that he's going to get
• 1:04:00
  more playing time because he's producing. I think that earlier again, he was
• 1:04:05
  thinking a little bit too much, and I think he's just playing in the
• 1:04:09
  flow and he'll get more opportunities, no question about that, Texter, three
• 1:04:14
  guys. Hello. Now that Hoppy has his own segment discussing stats on the
• 1:04:18
  podcast is the next step doing color commentary for the radio broadcast. All the
• 1:04:25
  commentators have been great so far. Looking forward to hearing more perspective on the
• 1:04:28
  broadcast. Thank you, Ben I've not been asked, nor am I qualified
• 1:04:32
  here. I don't know what I'm looking at. Well, you're busy this
• 1:04:35
  time of year, running up and down the interstate, going to go Mart.
• 1:04:39
  I mean, if you want to know about house built forty six twenty,
• 1:04:42
  I can work with you, if you want to know about if you
• 1:04:43
  want to know about whether in Zone or Manda Man, I got to defer
• 1:04:45
  to Brad with you. I can't handle it. Texter writes in Crown Brad,
• 1:04:51
  ask Brad if his quarter zip from the last show was made from recycled
• 1:04:55
  Crown Royal bags by fine looking Phil. Lol, I love the show Purple.
• 1:05:00
  That was the same. I understand what he's saying. I'm purple now.
• 1:05:04
  He had on a purple quarter zipon that was the same exact PMS color
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  as the Crown Royal bag. Really, oh yeah, just didn't have the
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  logo on that said Crown Royal would be available for an nil deal. Yeah,
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  text her like purple, Hobby, what do you like purple? Yeah?
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  Like TCUs purple or Kansas State's purple. All shades mix it new,
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  Okay, what's your favorite color? Tony? I low blue and gold.
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  That's part of why I like purple because like ninety seven percent of my stuff
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  is in the blue family. Yeah, I got a lot of blue,
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  a lot of blue. I do think I've said this before. We have
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  been extremely blessed with having a school that has great colors. Oh. Absolutely,
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  I mean these are absolutely, these are prem oh colors. There are
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  some schools out there. I got some years well, like candidly Ari,
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  I don't think orange is a terrible works well, looks terrible. Never liked
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  it. That was war that was his college, Well, it was my
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  it was my junior high, my high school, and my college. I've
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  won a lot of orange uniforms in my day. Orange. I don't think
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  it's hard to mess up. I disagree with you too on that one.
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  That's fine, I mean, sure would you agree it's hard to match up
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  orange. It's much easier to match up gold or blue. What do you
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  mean hard to match up? I mean, like, let's even orange orange
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  shirt. Yeah, it is hard, hopey you're right? What to wear
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  with it? Yeah? Black? Gray, tan, blue? Next?
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  All right, My high school had really good colors too, same exact colors
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  of U. C l A powder blue with that gold. That's pretty it
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  is. Yeah, text three, guys, I hate to shower you with
• 1:06:58
  praise, but it really is a great show. Left handed compliment. I
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  hate to do this. You guys are a bunch of dorks, but I
• 1:07:05
  hate to do that. Tony, Tony, you the ambassador for WVU Sports,
• 1:07:12
  the ultimate professional Brad. Your insight in stats and delivery are simply exceptional.
• 1:07:17
  You bring it every single time. Wait till hear's this episode. But
• 1:07:20
  I do miss Hoppy when he rubbed shoulders with the legislators. Hoppy can say
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  the things which needs said, which sometimes cannot be said by others. His
• 1:07:30
  initial segment should be called keeping It Real and be sponsored by Bass Pro Shops
• 1:07:35
  or fly Rod Chronicles. And see what the love the shipping it real?
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  R E E L. I saw what he did? Oh yeah, signed
• 1:07:43
  by Woes from Mount Vernon. Probably not his real name nor his real hometown.
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  Not more No, I don't think so was Briden was thanks Texter?
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  Think right? That was a thank you. I think beggars can't be choosers.
• 1:08:00
  I didn't want to say this, but oh waity to do this A
• 1:08:04
  couple of things. So got a great fan who's in Texas and each year
• 1:08:11
  he sends US T shirts. Have I shown you this one yet? Brad?
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  Can we get this? It says this is from Hogan's Here from Hogan's
• 1:08:20
  Heroes. They got a picture of Colonel Klink and Schultz and it says Stalog
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  thirteen no escapees. And there's a picture of Bill self and his assistant coach
• 1:08:30
  Curtis Townsend, and it says Kansas no violations. And then it says the
• 1:08:38
  number oops level ones five. It was it was he sent us. Eat
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  your shirt. Here you go, Brad, you can have one. Thank
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  you very much, Brad. Do you have any items in a bat?
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  I do, thank you for very much. Happy. Yes, we have
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  a present, Hoppy, we have a presentation to make. Zoom in there,
• 1:09:04
  can we see the bag? Well, no, don't ask him to
• 1:09:06
  zoom and he's got he's got nine things going over there. Just had it.
• 1:09:10
  He was just zoomed in on me and then moved out right and over
• 1:09:12
  there. See so it says country road store, road store store in Australia,
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  right, what country store in Australia or New Zealand or New Zealand,
• 1:09:21
  Austria, same continent. It's nineteen seventy. Ford says, is there a
• 1:09:25
  card in there. You want me to read, yeah, he can to
• 1:09:27
  open it. Yeah, then you give me the card and then he can
• 1:09:29
  open the bot the thing. Is there a card? I think there was?
• 1:09:34
  I thought there were three individual cards? Yeah? Oh okay, yeah
• 1:09:38
  yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine. All right. So this is
• 1:09:41
  from Charlie and Martha. Charlie and Martha Mitchell. Great three guys, listeners.
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  These are the folks that recently were in Australia, New Zealand. Here
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  you go. They sent us these ideas are right there. Look hey,
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  yeah, there they are. They delivered love those They delivered this at the
• 1:10:00
  game, at the game to you. Yeah. Oh hold on, okay,
• 1:10:03
  all right, okay, okay, we're all opening it at once.
• 1:10:06
  Yeah. So these came from Australia and they are Willmott Harvey map hanky.
• 1:10:17
  So it's a it's a hanky. It's a hanky with the with the country
• 1:10:24
  of Australia as a map, so you can blow your nose right into Perth
• 1:10:30
  hank, my first ever hanky. Charlie and Martha think, thank you very
• 1:10:34
  much. Oh but it's nice. I don't want to blow my nose in
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  it now. It hasn't stopped in the past, they got all those animals
• 1:10:42
  there, they got like a little bears, thank you, had little bears
• 1:10:45
  and stuff like that. So this begins officially the Three Guys episode eight hundred.
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  Dot com handkerchief line. Yeah, there they are. Do you know
• 1:10:53
  how to fold a pocket square? Yeah? Maybe you could do that for
• 1:10:57
  me here, Well, you know how to do it brand I'm work at
• 1:11:00
  Daniels He works at Daniels's. Phil Yeah, thank you, there you go.
• 1:11:05
  Thank you guys, Charlie and Martha. Good to see everybody. Thank
• 1:11:09
  you all right? Is that it as far as food and start you hank
• 1:11:12
  here? You appreciate that I've started today's show with a hanky. You're ending
• 1:11:15
  with hanky than you started with an unsanitary one. Now we're giving you a
• 1:11:17
  clean one to replace that. By the way, can I give one more
• 1:11:23
  quick shout out? I meant to do it last week? Yeah, you
• 1:11:25
  know, went to Mountaine's conference basketball game here recently after all the day.
• 1:11:30
  It was awesome. By the way, can I advocate for some more of
• 1:11:32
  those Fairmont seniors playing right now right against Shady? Was that was that right
• 1:11:36
  now? That was afternoon? Yes, we record, So I went over
• 1:11:39
  there was approached by a really nice three guys listener, Jim from Shinston.
• 1:11:44
  Sure, Jim from Shinston, I want to say hello. He's specifically asked
• 1:11:46
  I give Shinston some some love and why he feels beach they're getting short change,
• 1:11:51
  so thank you Jim from Shinston. He thinks Marlington's getting all the I
• 1:11:58
  got a lot of run. Yeah, thank you all right, so that'll
• 1:12:01
  do it for us. Thanks so much for thank nice being with us.
• 1:12:04
  Thank you Charlie and Martha. We certainly not Charlie, Charlie. I got
• 1:12:11
  Charlie from Midlothian in my head. The Mitchell's, the Mitchell's. Why the
• 1:12:15
  hell I'm blanking Charlie's name. Charlie from Midlothian has totally taken my main note
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  mine over three guys before the game returns on Thursday. Will reely Charlie right,
• 1:12:27
  okay, But for some reason, Charlie from Midlothian, who's who does
• 1:12:30
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• 1:12:33
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