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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Basketball - Miles Sadler Visits (Episode 712) · 3 Guys Before The Game

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Hey, what's happening everybody? Yes, indeed, it is time for
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: three Guys before the game, and we officially are gonna
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: kick off our summer interview series.
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: And oh, can I say it?
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: I wanna say, we got a good one for you.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: We got a good one for you to lead off
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: home run.
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of like hitting a five run homer, kind
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: of like five run over something that the uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: something that everyone wants to do. Let's jump on in.
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  Speaker 1: Our special guest is Mountaineer basketball player Miles Sadler and
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  Speaker 1: for all mountaineers, including you. All Right, so let's not
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: waste any time and let's jump in and introduce you
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  Speaker 1: to our very special guest, incoming WVU basketball recruit, Miles Sadler.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: We've been talking about him over the last several months
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: and we've been seeing him as well on the national stage,
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: most recently at Bellavista Prep as his team won the
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: Miles some people call it a national championship. Here we
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: call it a World's championship. We just take it to
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: the next level. We just said good worlds and you're
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: good with that. Where if we say it's a World
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  Speaker 1: show championship, yeah, thank you, very good. So he won
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: a world championship and then literally represented the world in
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  Speaker 1: the Nike Hoops Summit in Portland just a couple of
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: weeks ago now, where Team USA got together and the
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: world team got together and practiced throughout the course of
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: the week and then played a game which was featured
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  Speaker 1: on uh NBC and Peacock and Miles had himself a night.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to get into all of that and more.
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  Speaker 2: Don't forget he won the conference championship two four wins
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  Speaker 2: in four days. So let's not short change that Miles
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: had about as good of a two week period as
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  Speaker 2: you can possibly have in high school basketball.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: I would agree, I would agree that was you guys
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: were rolling. You're right, we did watch our conference championship.
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  Speaker 1: We're on the road, we're watching those games, and the
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  Speaker 1: time difference that we were in allowed us to count
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 4: Was.
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  Speaker 1: It became our afternoon entertainment and it was entertaining.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had it on the big screen in there,
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  Speaker 2: everybody crowded around watching. That was the national championship we
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  Speaker 2: watched in Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So first off, let's do some let's
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: do some inventory here. Miles's presence on the show, Brad
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  Speaker 1: is brought to us by.
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Allen Pipeline. We thank them for helping us get
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  Speaker 2: Miles appearing today. So thank you to the Bruce Allen
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  Speaker 2: Pipeline folks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and with that, you get five hundred feet of
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  Speaker 1: pipe for appearing on our show. Miles. I'm sure you'll
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  Speaker 1: you'll totally enjoy that. I'm sure it's exactly what you
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  Speaker 1: want to give. All right, let's jump in, man, you
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  Speaker 1: are back home right now? Home is Brampton YEP. Home
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  Speaker 1: is Brampton, Ontario, which is about thirty miles outside of Toronto.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, you played so much basketball in
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: the course of those two weeks that I was getting
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: tired for you. Give us an update man, Like physically,
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: how did you feel after that run is over? And
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  Speaker 1: how much did you need to maybe like slow it
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  Speaker 1: down a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I feel like personally this is my week, Like
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  Speaker 5: this week is the week I'm not touching the basketball.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not doing anything.
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  Speaker 5: I'm still going to get in the gym, keep my
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  Speaker 5: body right and eat right and all that, but like,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not running.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not touching the basketball this week.
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  Speaker 5: So, and especially after I had to go to Jordan
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  Speaker 5: Brand Classic and then I flew straight here, Like, it's
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  Speaker 5: been a lot of basketball I've been playing, so I'm
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  Speaker 5: happy that I get a week off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good point. And to be quite honest
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  Speaker 1: with you, you just said something there that most incoming
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  Speaker 1: freshmen don't say, or at least they didn't used to say,
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  Speaker 1: and that's get my body right. It sounds to me
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  Speaker 1: as though you understand how important it is to put
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  Speaker 1: the right fuel into the engine, and how good you
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  Speaker 1: have to take care of yourself.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, most definitely.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like I mean, it's like a treating a car,
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  Speaker 5: So I treat my body like a car. So I'm
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  Speaker 5: always going to make sure that I'm feeding myself right
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  Speaker 5: and making sure I stay in shape, because especially I'm
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  Speaker 5: supposed to get to one to eighty before school starts.
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  Speaker 5: That's what the coaches told me at least, so I'm
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  Speaker 5: not I'm not too far off, but there's there's a
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  Speaker 5: lot to go.
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  Speaker 1: What do you weigh right now?
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  Speaker 6: I'm like one seventy two right now?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well I tell you what you hang around with.
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  Speaker 1: You hang around with me and Brad, I will put
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  Speaker 1: eight on you. We could do that in about four days.
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  Speaker 1: Eight pounds a bi Yeah, seriously, just hanging around with us. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, and honestly does not matter. But height wise,
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  Speaker 1: you are like if you take your ruler out and
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  Speaker 1: you measure yourself, what are you? You can do it
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  Speaker 1: with sneakers on or sneakers off, whichever way you want
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  Speaker 1: to go.
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  Speaker 6: Off. Sneak is on like six foot, sneaker is off
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  Speaker 6: like about five to eleven.
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  Speaker 7: Basically off, doesn't he matter?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's not like you play barefoot and he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna play and shoes. So just just deal with the
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  Speaker 2: shoes on six ft.
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  Speaker 1: That's really that's a really good point.
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  Speaker 7: Right, that's not run around that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why you ever talk about with shoes on,
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  Speaker 2: but anybody, why do you ever do that?
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  Speaker 1: You have shoes on? That's a solid point, solid point. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So these guys want you at one eighty when you
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  Speaker 1: roll in here. Yeah, and how are we gonna do it?
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  Speaker 6: Are you gonna do it?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 6: Breakfast?
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  Speaker 5: I feel especially like just a actual reasonable breakfast, like
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  Speaker 5: most time in the Arizona.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just I'm taking an apple or a banana. I'm
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  Speaker 6: on the road. They like today is like American breakfast.
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  Speaker 6: Four bacon wor strips of bacon, three pancakes, eggs.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I got my dog, got we got a.
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  Speaker 1: Dog's when we need to know one thing? Is the
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  Speaker 1: dog coming in the.
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  Speaker 7: Morning, dog wants out there?
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  Speaker 1: Take care of the mouth? Is the is the dog
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  Speaker 1: coming to Morgantown?
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  Speaker 6: The dog is not coming to What type of dog?
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  Speaker 1: What do we have there?
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  Speaker 6: I got a pit bull?
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, she's she's uh. I think for four years
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  Speaker 5: four years old. She's not the sharpest tool in the ship.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what is it?
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  Speaker 1: What is it? What is that? What is she? Why
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  Speaker 1: would you say that? What gives you the thought that
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  Speaker 1: she's not the sharpest tool?
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  Speaker 5: Only know, like I know a lot of dogs, Like
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  Speaker 5: when the doorbell rings, like it starts like they start
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  Speaker 5: jumping and all that.
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  Speaker 6: But like when my dogs, there's jumping like she's clocked.
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  Speaker 6: She's clawing at the door.
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  Speaker 5: We have like a window that faces like the street,
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  Speaker 5: so she runs into the window starch barking.
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  Speaker 6: So it makes everyone scared.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know, if you if you, if you're
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  Speaker 4: going to put on weight, just just hit up that poutine.
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  Speaker 2: I was just going to ask that do we have
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  Speaker 2: any poutine in the Yes.
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  Speaker 5: We do, And I feel like it is something that
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  Speaker 5: needs to go worldwide.
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  Speaker 3: Great, that's fine.
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  Speaker 5: It is so good personally, Like you know how it's
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  Speaker 5: like just fries, gravy and cheese cursed if you put
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  Speaker 5: bacon in there.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, you put bacon. Bit's in there. Like that's
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  Speaker 6: that's really what We're.
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  Speaker 2: Going to get along well with Miles on the road.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's gonna eat with Circle For those.
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  Speaker 6: You come to Toronto.
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  Speaker 5: Anytime you guys come down to Bramton anytime, I'll got
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  Speaker 5: you as the best food spots, everything you need perfect.
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  Speaker 1: So did you have any luck whatsoever in Arizona getting poutine?
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  Speaker 3: They don't know, they don't know zero.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever? Do you ever try to cook it?
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever try to make it?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: No, I'll never try to make my own poutine. I'm
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  Speaker 5: sure I'll disappoint myself. So I'm just better off buying it.
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  Speaker 3: So that's reasonable. Yeah, so that's reasonable.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go back to the last few weeks here basketball wise,
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  Speaker 2: because you obviously had a tremendous year all the way through,
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  Speaker 2: but you went to a new level here in the
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  Speaker 2: conference sermon in the National championship. Talk us through that
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. What was going on through your mind?
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  Speaker 2: You just took over those games, dude. You were the
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  Speaker 2: story of every one of those games and broadcast what
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  Speaker 2: was happening out there.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you guys know how McDonald's came out. McDonald's
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  Speaker 5: rosters came out, and I was watching live actually because
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  Speaker 5: I was like, yo, I gotta make it. I'm twenty
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  Speaker 5: one in the country right now. This twenty four spots
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  Speaker 5: in the game. I gotta make it right. I'm watching
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  Speaker 5: the West Side came out first, and I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 5: so they my name wasn't on the West side, Like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: they probably just think I'm from Canada. So Canad's on
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  Speaker 5: the East coast, So you know, I see the East
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  Speaker 5: Coast come out, I'm not on it. I'm like, what
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  Speaker 5: I think. I didn't talk to anyone for like three days.
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  Speaker 5: Like three days, I was all to myself. I was like,
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  Speaker 5: because there's no way that don't I didn't make this.
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  Speaker 5: So the next however many games we had, I wasn't losing,
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  Speaker 5: and I knew, like, I just going and to prove myself,
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  Speaker 5: prove I'm the biggest snub of all time.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think tender by the way, we agree
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  Speaker 2: with that, But as first reported on this show, one
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  Speaker 2: of the all time great snubs and basketball this show,
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  Speaker 2: we agree with you, Miles.
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  Speaker 1: Miles, we do know that it's a political thing. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've talked with people since Why do you
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  Speaker 1: think you were not on the list? What do you
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  Speaker 1: think was happening?
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  Speaker 5: If I'm gonna be honest with you, I do not
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  Speaker 5: have a I don't have a reason. I don't have
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  Speaker 5: a clue why I was not on the list because
• 9:50
  Speaker 5: Canadians have been in it before, like are you Barrett
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  Speaker 5: and all those guys. So I mean, it doesn't make
• 9:57
  Speaker 5: too much sense to me. But I feel like my
• 9:59
  Speaker 5: production and didn't lie this year. So if that's the
• 10:03
  Speaker 5: way I wanted to call it, them up to them?
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  Speaker 1: Is that something that you've used as a player throughout
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  Speaker 1: your career motivation in the sense that well he might
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  Speaker 1: be too small, or well he's from Canada, or well
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  Speaker 1: this do you normally have a little something in your
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  Speaker 1: head like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna show you. Is that
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  Speaker 1: your fuel?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's always gonna be something like I'm I'm personally
• 10:25
  Speaker 5: looking for the smallest things to take me off. So
• 10:28
  Speaker 5: as long as I get some some sort of hate
• 10:31
  Speaker 5: from somebody, I don't feel like I'm going to be
• 10:33
  Speaker 5: at my best at game.
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  Speaker 1: Very Michael Jordan likes, So you're like Jordan in the
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  Speaker 1: sense like you're just looking for something to piss you off.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, every day I'm not looking like in life,
• 10:43
  Speaker 6: I'm going to be a very happy kid. I'm going
• 10:45
  Speaker 6: to be a very joyful, exciting, fun to be around guy.
• 10:49
  Speaker 6: But like when his game time is like I have
• 10:52
  Speaker 6: a different mode that I'm just looking looking for violence,
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  Speaker 6: looking for beef flips the sweat, looking for someone to slip.
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: The swe that fits.
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, let's let's go down that road a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You are and I'm just from watching you to hearing
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: about you. You're a dog. I mean you are a dog.
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  Speaker 1: You are, Like, let's go. So when did that start?
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  Speaker 1: Like does your family say, like when you were three
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  Speaker 1: and four, like you were going wacky trying to compete,
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  Speaker 1: Like has that always? Has that seed always been in you?
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  Speaker 6: No? Well, I feel like I was always playing up.
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  Speaker 5: So six six years old, I was playing a U
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  Speaker 5: ten and I was playing with ten year olds at
• 11:33
  Speaker 5: six years old, So I feel like always being called
• 11:36
  Speaker 5: the smallest guy or like too young, like there's always
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  Speaker 5: something that I'm not doing. I felt like I was
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  Speaker 5: always hearing so like it was just about proving everybody
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  Speaker 5: wrong and proving why I belong on the court.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So if you're six and you're playing at with
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  Speaker 1: the tens, you had something right from the start. What
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: skill did you always have that made them go like, no,
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: he's got a play up? What what? What were you
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: gifted with early.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I feel like personally I was always able to dribble, Like,
• 12:07
  Speaker 5: no matter what, I was always able to dribble. Three
• 12:09
  Speaker 5: years old, I could dribble two basketballs, I could cross
• 12:11
  Speaker 5: over two basketballs.
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  Speaker 6: I could always dribble.
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  Speaker 5: And after that it was just now I could dribble
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  Speaker 5: and run fast, and I could run fast and dribble
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  Speaker 5: at the same time. So I feel like if I
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  Speaker 5: was able to do those two things, if I could
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  Speaker 5: get to the basket, I'll score it if.
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  Speaker 6: I'm right beside the basket.
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  Speaker 5: So the whole, the whole idea is to just get
• 12:29
  Speaker 5: to the basket and worry about the rest.
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  Speaker 1: Crossover at three, the crossover at three, just in your face.
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  Speaker 1: How so you're fast? I mean some guys. Some guys
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: are fast. Some guys glide. You glide when I watch
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: you play, you glide down the floor. I know it's
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: a football thing, but like you've ever been timed as
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: to how fast you are?
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  Speaker 6: I run a four to three.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, I.
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  Speaker 6: Could run twenty three. That was like about a year ago.
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  Speaker 6: I think I got that.
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  Speaker 1: And that was a real Now. That wasn't like three
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: guys with like a stop watch. Now, that was.
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  Speaker 6: Like like the sensors and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so you're smoking, then you're you're real. Four three
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  Speaker 1: That That explains it right there, because we watch you
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  Speaker 1: and you're just gonna like my guys, I'm going like, dude,
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  Speaker 1: no one can stay in front of them.
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  Speaker 6: I'll run a fourth. I run a four to three
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  Speaker 6: eight and that was my fastest time.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, so legitimate four four.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Let's talk about your passing ability, because as good
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: as you are at finishing, as good as you can
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: shoot the outside shot, I think your vision and your
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: passing is beyond elite. Has that always been in there?
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  Speaker 2: You've always been able to see the court, Your lobs
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: have great timing your vision on cross court dishes, as
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: you're in the lane where the passing skills come from.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I feel like it just came as I started
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: watching more film, learning rotations of the defense and how
• 13:51
  Speaker 5: they're going to and how most teams are gonna guarden me.
• 13:53
  Speaker 5: So after I started watching film and learning about my
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: mistakes on the court and learning about what the open
• 13:59
  Speaker 5: reds are, that's when I feel like I started like
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: seeing the game at a different level.
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: So you're two steps ahead when you take somebody off
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: the dribble and you get into the lane, you already
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  Speaker 2: have an idea of where the open offensive guy is
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  Speaker 2: going to be.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well, personally, I feel like I can always get by
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  Speaker 5: the first guy whoever's guard to me, I feel like
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  Speaker 5: I can always get by him. So it's more about
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: where the help side is and where the rest of
• 14:19
  Speaker 5: the guys are, so where rotations are end up having
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: to go right.
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  Speaker 2: Because we haven't seen anybody stay in front of him yet.
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  Speaker 2: I would agree with that coach.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, your highlight video is have you scoring, You're
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: shooting outside, driving in the basket. But Coach Hodge is
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: for him, it starts with the defense starts on the
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: defensive end. Has he talked to you about that? And uh,
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: you know, are you? Are you a dog on defense
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  Speaker 4: as well?
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: Defense?
• 14:44
  Speaker 6: He has?
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  Speaker 5: And I feel like, well, I was top five and
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: steals this year in the league.
• 14:49
  Speaker 6: So I mean I can defend like when when, when
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: it's necessary. I'll make sure that you know.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: It's funny that money that you say that, because in
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: watching some of those games, that's exactly the sense that
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: I got, like that, if need be, I can take
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: care of this. Don't worry about it. And then there
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: are other situations that you know, just like I don't
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: need to totally lock it in here right now, but
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: I can guarden. Obviously. With West Virginia, you can guard.
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, did you in West Virginia?
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: I feel like the whole entire time, it's defense is
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: going to be necessary, especially beating in the Big twelve.
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: So I'm going to be ready to defend and play
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: both sides sport.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: How much did you have a chance to watch West
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Virginia play this year?
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: Not a lot.
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: I mean I was so focused on watching my like
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: learning about myself and winning this this year. I felt
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: like when it came time to when when I got
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: to West Virginia, I'm going to take more time, of course,
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: and it's my season, but I'm always focused on myself
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: first and what my team needs me to do currently
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: and then right now.
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: But I watched the Crown. I did watch the Crown.
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: That was That was fine.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: How did you think of those games? Man?
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: I think Annor Huff is a real Yeah, he's really
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: good basketball player.
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: He can fail it. He can fill it, can he Yeah,
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: you can fill it.
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: At some of these shots.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: I I never even thought to shoot some of these
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: shots and I'm playing high school basketball.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean he may.
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: Twelve.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he made hard He not only did he make threes,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: he made hard shots like in that and at Oklahoma game,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: he was at the he was at the hash Mark
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: and the coach from Oklahoma standing right next to him,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: and like the last thing they think he's going to
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: do is pull it, and he pulls it. And and
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: my man, Porter Moser, the Oklahoma coach, we did like,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: what what are we doing? And let me ask you this.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Ross told me that he had watched you recently, not
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: all that long ago, and you say, hey, coach, what
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: do I need to do? Or he may have suggested
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: to you, hey, in the big twelve, you're going to
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: have to shoot it from a little further back from
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: the three point line and you were like, oh yeah, okay.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: And so he watched you play, or was watching you
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: go back up and down, and you just started bombing
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: from long distance and you look back at him and
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: you said, what, Yeah, that far off, coach, Hey, coach,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: that far enough for you.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: I truly did ask him, like, yo, is this is
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: this far enough? I looked him because he was that
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: he was in Arizona for a week or for a weekend,
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: I think, And we were just having some open runs
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: and one thing like he pulled me to the sign
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: and he was like, I see here making shots and
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: I already hit like three threes, but like they're all
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: at the line, so he doesn't like, yeah, you gotta
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: start showing further. So I'm like, all right, I mean,
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: I know I could choose further, so I'm just gonna
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: show up back further.
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: Well, let's talk a little more.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Let's talk a little more about this and about West
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Virginia in particular. You were here in the fall for
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: the ball and at Woodburn the outside Court event, So
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: let's let's talk first about that. What was your what
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: was your first impression you got here to West Virginia.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: You saw that event, You saw Honor out there in
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: thirty five degree weather banging shots outside. Your impressions when
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: you first got here at that event.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Well, first it was the guy with the musket, And
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: I didn't know that they sew the gun in the air.
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: Before every and someone told me they do it every game.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, absolutely, yes, Yeah, I don't know about that.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Did you did you jump when it went off the
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: first time?
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: I was on my phone. That was the thing. I
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: was on my phone.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: I was looking down because they did they did the
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: national anthem, I think, and then I was so when
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: I right after I went on my phone see this
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: guy walk out, I'm like, what is he doing.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: That's got to be a fake gun, can't do nothing.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: It goes off and I dropped my phone. Yeah, I'm
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: looking around like, no way. That happens every game.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, every every every starting introduction. You
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: should see the visiting team. They don't think it's coming.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: They there's a lot of dudes that are jumping up
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and down on the other bench because they never expected
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: to be coming.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: So the event, So the event was cool. But really,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, really, you're here a couple of reasons. You
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: have a great relationship with you, which we want to
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: talk about, but you all also have the comfort and
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: it goes along with what Ross was telling you back up,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: shoot further out, which you don't get very often from coaches.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: You feel like you've got some freedom to come in
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: here and go make plays. That was the pitch, right.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: I feel like the trust that coach is instilled in
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: me from now is like it's a no brainer.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: It's an out come here.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: And when I was on my visit, I felt like
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: this town is like really serious about Like there's no
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: professional team, right, so this town is really serious about
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: this college. And I feel like having the support of
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: an entire state behind you is like it's a no
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: brainer to go around there.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's Coach Hodge is big on culture and his
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: first year here, he had a really good culture on
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: this team. Everybody got along, there was great camaraderie, there
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: was great teamwork. Have you had that experience in your
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: past and what do you think you bring to this
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: team in terms of a culture and you know, working
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: together as a team.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well so, well my experience, I feel like I've
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: been a part of a culture, especially with this year,
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Like a lot of the teams like if one person
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: doesn't like something, then the whole team doesn't like it.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: If one person likes something and these entire team likes it.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: So I feel like this year our family moved as
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: one and well I could be a leader for this
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: For this next team, I'm trying to be a leader,
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: especially being on a team with older guys like these
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: guys are like twenty three, they have they have a
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: reason to play basketball, Like I'm out here playing for
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: fun right now, and these guys are like really trying
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: to make make a living off of this. So I
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: mean just trying to be a leader to do what
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: the team needs and just give out respect to the
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: elders of the team.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Let's jump in if we could, Miles and talk a
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: little bit about that, specifically about your role on this team.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Like last year you were the lead. You were the
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: lead on this team. So what is your mindset or
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: is it one of those conversations where Ross is going
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: to tell you, Hey, this is what I need from
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: you this year to do this? Is that what you're
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: kind of just waiting for your walking paper so to speak.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like I do better when I know
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: exactly what coaches want from me, and I feel like
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: I could execute.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: I could play any way that he asked me to.
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: If you want me to pass, I'll pass. If you
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: want me to score, I'll score.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: But like just making sure that the older guys and
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: the other chansfers that are coming in are are ready
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: to hoop and they respect me as much as I
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: respect them.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you would, And Brad mentioned Yousef Ali, who
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: you have a long relationship with and who is an
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: assistant here on the WVU staph. Your first interactions with
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: him go back years, right, You've known him for a
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: long time.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he was my coach at I think I was
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: fourteen playing fifteens.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: And he was my coach for about a sept for
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: uybl session.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a colorful dude. Man, he's a good dude.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: He's a great guy.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's always had the same personality that he
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: has right now, so he definitely doesn't change.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I see similarities between you and him. You're I mean,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: he's always got a smile. You guy, you got I mean,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: very very similar Yeah.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: I mean I feel like we should live like happy,
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: you know, be happy exactly.
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: Miles.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about a couple guys that are going to
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: be teammates. I know you weren't at Bella Vista necessarily
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: at the same time with most Ciella, but yeah, if
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I have it right, you've played some events with him.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Give us a quick scouting report on what Moe's game
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: is like and what that's going to be like playing
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: with him.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: The scouting report probably one of the most athletic human
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: beings I've ever met in my life. Like this guy,
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: I've seen him like just we we had practice at
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: six am. He's waking up, he doesn't stretch and then't
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: do none of that, and he comes on the court
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: and he's dunking everything like layups are blocked.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Nothing, nothing's being score.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: You're not making jump shots because he's blocking jump shots
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: like he's an A one defense And on offense.
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: You just get it anywhere near the rim and he'll
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: go get it.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: Right put it and Liken doesn't really even have to
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: necessarily be around the rim.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: Just get it over the just throw it up and
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: he'll get it.
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: That's good.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Tell us about the guy you did play with this
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: season at bellavist allud Dim who's coming here with you
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Very personable, like he's he has a loud personality, like
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: wherever you go, you're gonna know, like if you lose
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: a round, you're going to know lose there. Like basically
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: so on the court, he's always he's basically the same
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: as me, always looking for something to take him off,
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: but he'll go out and pick someone else off, you know,
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: like he's looking out there to just be a disturbance,
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: a nuisance out there and disrupt the team.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: So I could always appreciate a guy like that.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Very athletic too, right, he can post you, but.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Very athletic too, could shoot the three ball and surprisingly
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: has enough dribble packet has enough of a handle to
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: hold his own in the pain post.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: You know. I heard from someone that didn't have anything
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: to do with West Virginia who was watching and evaluating
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: at the Nike hoops on it because he was there, right,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: he was on one of the practice teams, and I
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: was told like he was really impressive during that week
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: he was.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: I mean I was on the other on the other team,
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: so as I was watching him and some of the
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: other guys that played for Belavius a Damn and Alu
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: been dealing with an injury too, So seeing him go
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: out there and and play really well, it was warming
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: for me.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Just talking in general here about some of his other
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: high school teammates. Keep an eye on some guys I'm
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: a Ducini tell us about him. He is a big dude.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: Seven to so, I mean that's as big as get
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: unless you're like oneby or something like that. But he's
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: seven too. I think I think to eighty. I mean,
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: it feels like he's too like he's not he's not moved.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: You're not moving him. And he gets every rebound, like
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: maybe every single rebound he's getting twenty fifteen and twenty
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: a game. It makes no sense to me. I don't
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: understand how he does it, but he can do it,
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: all right.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: So scenario you're in the Big twelve and let's say
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: you're coming off a hot game and the opposing team
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: you just get across the mid court and they're gonna
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: double team. You try to split the double team or
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: find the open guy.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: Depends if like, who's the Findley biz Jack. I think
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: that's his name.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very good.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: I watched him. I watched him play. He can shoot.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: So if he's open past half, I'm passing it to
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: him and he's gonna make a shot.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Okay, very good.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: But it depends on the two people.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Like if it's a bigger guy and I feel like
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: I can get around them, then I'm gonna I'm just
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: gonna go around them.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, let me ask you. This team USA had the
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: top seven prospects, the top seven recruits in the country
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: on that roster, what did what did you learn about
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: yourself playing against those guys that.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: I feel like I belong.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: You know, I feel like I coulmpete with if I
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: could peeple with them, I could pete in the country.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: So I have a respect for those guys. I mean,
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: I know them personally.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: So it's just good to know that, like you're on
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: the same level as some of the time guys in the.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: Country and that you could hold your own against anyone.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, go ahead, well, I was just gonna say, mouth,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: let's go. I want to go back to Ross for
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: a second. In this program, in particular, he's had a
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: ton of success with guys six foot and under. You
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: fall in that camera. I'm sure that's a conversation you
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: had with both Yusuf and Coach Hodge.
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: Why do you think that is?
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: What's the fit right there that has allowed Ross in
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: his system to have a lot of success with with
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: guards in your height range.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: I feel like he likes to play fast, and I
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: feel like all the guards that he's brought in that
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: have been six foot have been very, very fast, and
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: I feel like I'm one of those guys that can
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: just push pace, push temple and he allows his shorter
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: guards to make decisions and make plays, So I feel like,
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: coming in I could assert myself to that role.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Mat How do you feel about that? And again, you've
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: played against some of the best in the country. Now
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: you're going to take a step up there in the
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Big twelve, as you probably know, is a really really
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: physical league. You talked about Honor Huff. Honor Huff was
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: assaulted on a night on a nightly basis. He pushed
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: you know, it was really really rough and he just
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: held up. If you thought about the physicality at the
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: next level in the Big twelve, and how do you
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: think you deal with that?
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's why I'm trying to get to one
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: eighty at least that's exactly what I'm trying to get to.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: One eighty maybe push one eighty five. But you know,
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: I don't want to get too too big to the
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: point where I'm not as fast. So I feel like
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: my agility and getting being able to evade people is
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: going to help me, like preserve my body and not
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: not take as many blows. But I know they're coming,
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: so I just got to be ready to get back up.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah they're coming, Yeah, I mean, yeah, night. And but
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: that's good.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, you you have a couple of attributes that
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: fit perfectly into that number one, just your body build.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: You'll take contact well. I mean there are some people
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: that are a little bit I mean, I've never looked
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: at you and said thin. You're thick, even though they
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: want a few more pounds on. You're thick. You'll take
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the hit. And then you've got the mentality you'll won't
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: back down. You'll stick your face in the fan, and
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: that's all you need.
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: Well.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: And also, he's got the ball in his hands a lot, right,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: It's it's harder to clutch and grab and hold when
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: he's got the ball and he's bringing it up on
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: or had which that's why they moved onto the ball
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: so much, right because when he was off the ball,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: they were literally hugging it.
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: Just go right around.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned Miles that you're you're you're not going
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: to touch the ball this week, which is good. But
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: when you're in a workout mode, what does a workout
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: entail for you? What is your normal workout when you're
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: going out like it's in the forest. Do you have
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: a number of shots that you want to take? Do
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: you have certain drills that you're always doing. What's your
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: what's your recipe for success?
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: And shoot as many deep shots as you can and
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: try and make sure that you like it stays the same,
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: like the same way I want to shoot the form shots,
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: the same way I want to shoot from thirty feet out. So,
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: as Culture said, I need to make sure that I'm
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: ready to shoot these deep shots and making sure that
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: I shoot them while I'm tired, because there's five minutes
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: left in the second half.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: And I know I'm going to be exhausted.
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: So I had to make sure that I'm ready for
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: those moments and be still be as effective as I
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: was in the first half.
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: You a morning or evening workout guy.
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: I'm a very very late night workout guy.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: Oh really, at ten o'clock start WHOA is definitely what
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: I'll do, like ten to twelve midnight.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: I've done those before. That's your zone, That's that's my zone.
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: Where can after after everyone is done? It is destines me.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: That's great because when we go on the road and
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: we're playing out West, it'll be perfect. Your body will
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: be We'll be out on that West Coast time and
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: you'll be like, this is fine. This is my happy time. Okay,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: So normal sleep is from when to win.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: Well, normal sleep, I'm probably going to go, Like if
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: I'm not working out at ten, like especially through when
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: the season's on, I'm probably going to get my workouts
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: in earlier.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: But like almost sleep is like eleven to like six seven.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: So you know you're a seven eight hour guy.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, and I'm ready to go. I'm ready to go.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: What are you doing when you're not playing basketball? Favorite activity?
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: Bowling? Why what do you say bowling?
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Like be with a ball? B bowling?
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, strikes and all that.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: What do you have an average?
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: All right? Do you have an average? I'm not I'm
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: not I'm not nice. I'm not saying that nice.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: You just like it like that said, that's casual. That's casual. B.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: There's a couple of sts in there, a couple of strikes.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: I probably get like three strikes.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah one.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: I'm definitely shooting like two gutter balls.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: But you have two gutter balls? Do you hook it
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: at all?
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: I try?
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but like I need one of those towels for
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: the for the ball to get the oil off.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't like those guys like those towels.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Get seven?
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't get seven? Have you ever made a seven?
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Ever met a seven tens? Split?
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: I never made a seven tents?
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Many have not many?
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: I never?
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Uh can because so Canada. Any love of hockey?
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: No, Well, I like hockey.
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: I feel like I have friends that play hockey and
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: all that. So I don't mind hockey. But I don't
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: know how to skate.
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: I don't know how to none of that.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Well, I tell you what, with your speed, you would
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: have been an absolute demon on the ice. I mean
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: you would have been absolutely cranking. Okay?
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Uh of Raptors, Raptors Raptors fans.
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: I hope, I hope I could get drafted one day
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: to the Raptors.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I'd like to stay home. Favorite. My guess is you
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: don't have a favorite NBA team, but you have favorite
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: NBA players.
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: I have a favorite NBA team, and unfortunately it is
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: not the Raptors. It is the Lakers.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Oh really, why Lebron?
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: Oh absolutely yeah, Lebron. Wherever Lebron's at, that's gonna be
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: my favorite team.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Reason works, reason.
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: Reason because he's the greatest player of all time.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: There you excuse me, you're a you're on that side
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: of the thing with Jordan.
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: Lebron is the greatest basketball.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: So give me, give me your give me your reasoning
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: why you're going with that.
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: Why I'm going with Lebron.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: Name a person who's ever had so much expectations as
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: at eighteen years of age, get drafted into league to
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: the to the worst organization, and it takes one two
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: years until you're until you're playing West in the conference finals.
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: All right, what are you talking about? Like he's nineteen,
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: he's nineteen at this time playing in the conference finals.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, now he's forty one, that's what twenty forty one
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: still playing and playing well.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: For one, he just had thirty yesterday, like thirty eight
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: and seven to be exact. So I don't see I
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: don't see a basketball player better than if Lebron.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: If Lebron were guarding you, would you try to drive
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: on him or pull up?
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's definitely going to be a one four
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: flat call. Just everyone watch out.
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: I like that, Miles, good job. One for a flat.
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: It's definitely going to be a one for flat call.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: You try to you would try to take Lebron off
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: the bounce?
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: Oh, one on one. I'm going by him, all.
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: Right, who else? Who else?
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: NBA was like, do you model your game after anybody?
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Do you watch anybody and say that's how I'd like
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: my game to look. Is there any other point guards
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: that you follow?
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: Darius Garland is someone who I want my game to
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: look like on offense, Yeah, but like defensively, trying to
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: watch like how Marcus mort and Davion Mitchell play defense
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: and stuff like that is another at the game now
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to watch.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Ye. Well, the nice thing about that is you can
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: get a direct relationship going with Marcus Smart because of
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Phil Fortae on the WVU staff. Coach fort A, that's
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: his boy. I mean they're like, yeah, they're like that.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: So you can just pick up the phone and call
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Marcus gets a couple pointers.
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: He can't.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Just named a couple of big twelve guys to there,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: and you know, said Marcus Smart, Oklahoma State, David Mitchell, Baylor,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: good job get some big twelve in there.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: So what do you what do you want West Virginia
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: fans to know about you before you get here.
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: I want them to know that I'm nervous.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: I am nervous of going to college personally, Like living
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: a way this first time, I'm really going to be
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: living on my own, so uh, just I want to
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: be welcomed.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: You know, you're gonna find out. You're gonna find out
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: you're gonna be welcomed. This is gonna it's this. People
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: say that you got to experience it yourself, but I'll
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: just say this, You're gonna feel like.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: You're in a family here.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: Whether whether it's the people, whether it's your your fellow teammates,
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: whether it's your coaches, or whether it's the fans. You
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: don't even know. You're gonna feel like you're in a
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: big family here, right Tony.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, the day you get here,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: there's one point eight million people in the state. You'll
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: have about one point seven million new family friends and
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: they will. Seriously, I'm being serious, like, you will not
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: go anywhere. And that's just for every Mountaineer, football, basketball, whatever.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: You will not go anywhere where people don't know who
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: you are, which eyes are always on you every time
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: West Virginia plays it is a big deal to everyone
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: in the entire state. There's fifty five counties. I know
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: you guys have provinces. There's fifty five counties in the
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: state of West Virginia, and every time West Virginia plays
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: a game, it matters to people in all fifty five counties.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: And you could drive three hours and a half to
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: the south, you could drive to the east and the west,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: and you'll see that flying WV every single place you
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: go in West Virginia. So all eyes will be on you.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: People will be supportive of you, they'll be appreciative of you.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: So you don't have anything to worry about that at all.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Day one. That's day one, toy.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: It's also mountaineer fans in every other state.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. And then when we go out on the road,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: even though we're going to be far far away a
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: lot of times playing, mountaineer fans are everywhere, and so
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: when we go out on the road, you're going to
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: go like, wow, I'm hearing that, let's go mountaineers chant
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: away from home. You probably saw some of that in Arizona, right, Yeah.
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: I've heard no, none in Arizona. But I've watched The
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: Crown and I've heard it in the background. Yeah, oh yeah,
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: I know that there's mountaineer fans everywhere, especially my dms.
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: These guys been in my DM DM every single day.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they'll be there.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: So I know the support is there.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: What do you want to do academically? What are you
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: going to major in?
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: I think business. I haven't really decided yet, but I
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: think I'm going to take a business course.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good. That's good, all right, buddy. H We again,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: we really truly do appreciate your time. And I'm looking
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: at my calendar here, so you're about six weeks five
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: and a half weeks away from getting here. We look
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: forward to getting you on campus on the court, watching
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: you guys work out this entire summer, and just wish
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: you continued success. Rest up and be good man.
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: Thank you. I appreciate it, Thank you.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Thanks very much. There is Miles Sadler. There's a lot
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: of stuff there.
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, how good was that interview.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a dude.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Here's a dude.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: He's a dude. Here's obvious observation. He's a good player.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: He's a good player. We think about it, kids, and
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I say this as the old person. Right, people are
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: just more mature nowadays. Yes, yes, they're more worldly nowadays, right.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, more worldly.
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: There's there's attension on not just your game, but your
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: health and your diet and your workout, there's a lot
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: more of that much earlier, and you come to college,
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: and I think that's just not just athletes too a
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: lot to come to college. You're just you're just more worldly.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: I mean when I came to college, I was like,
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: as were like saucers.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Holy goofy. Right, you don't you don't even think of stuff.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: No.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: I look back at some of the stuff I did
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: and didn't do, and now I get scared. I applied.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: I applied to one college. Yeah, I mean I applied
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: to one college. It wasn't like, hey, if it's six five,
• 38:48
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• 38:52
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• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know what I was going to do, right,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: just like silly stuff like that, you know, like that
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: was crazy.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: I came.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: I went to Shepherd for your then came here and
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: to transferred in and I didn't know it was in
• 39:04
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• 39:05
  Speaker 3: I didn't know anybody.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: And I remember I remember being in Woodburn Circle just
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: watching thousands of people go by, and I don't know anybody.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know one person that was intimidating.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're weeping profusely. Where did I go? I need
• 39:17
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• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just sobbing. But you know, things worked out.
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  Speaker 4: Let me ask you, guys, is that I'm a notorious
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  Speaker 3: Yeah you should be okay, so but you know better
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  Speaker 3: than not do so you take it from there.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Well, just just that, I mean, Miles that we just
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: talked to guys, that's seriously. I wasn't kidding when I said,
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: that's one of the best two week stretches that you
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• 42:01
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  Speaker 2: I said he was the story of each of those broadcasts.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: If you turn that on, that was the focus. That
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: was the one guy they were talking about more than
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: any other. To the point during one of the halftime
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: interviews the opposing coach sad They asked him, a right coach,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: what do you need to do here in the second half,
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: And the answer was find a way to stop Miles Sadler.
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: That's the answer.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: So you start with him. I think you should be
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: very excited about him. And yeah, he's coming in as
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: a freshman, but we've seen freshman excel in this.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: All all the top draft picks this year.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Fresh so I think you can have some expectations that
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: he's going to come in and provide some excitement and
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: the style of play. And then you just match him
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: with a couple of the other pieces that are there
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: already and most Sila being one again, another fantastic athlete,
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: an MBA type of player, type of talent. You put
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: those two on the floor together, your talent level just
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: went up significantly. That says nothing of Finley Bizjack, who's
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: a really good shooter. So you want to double Miles, Okay, fine,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: there's Finley sitting over on the wing as a really
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: good catch and shoot guy.
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: Javon Buchanan, assuming.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: He's in this up, he's a very talented player as well,
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: and you've still got more spots. Those are just the
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: guys that are in. I think it's been a tremendous
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: start for Ross Hodge on the recruiting trail.
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: To start next.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Season, we're gonna do some spread zone stats. Yeah, yeah,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: I got some numbers.
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: I've got some.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not as deep as I normally would be, but
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: I've got some. I think that it'll just you know,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: you know, fantastic. One other note, would like to thank
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: Bruce Allen Pipeline again for getting Miles on the show
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: with us.
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: That was That was a lot of fun. That's a
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: great interview.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: That didn't sound like a high school or soon to
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: be a college freshman, did it.
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: No, that's a.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Worldly dude that has played in big time games.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Jordan McCabe asked interview.
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was right.
• 43:38
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• 43:41
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Daniel's fine looking, Phil. That's the Jerry West throwback one.
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  Speaker 1: Was that one you only said?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Thanks for everything.
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  Speaker 4: Tony was only focused on his own stuff, and that's
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  Speaker 4: surprised you would.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you attack me for being focused in doing
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  Speaker 2: I mean I did my job. And know what you
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: were wearing that day, and it was four months ago,
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: and I know what you had on. You have the
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: quartership with the.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Because because you picked him up, that's why you knew.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: It's Tony's world world just living in haze, Isn't that
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: the truth? So I'm not going as deep as I
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: normally do. But you just look down and just take
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: that stretch again. And we could go back all the
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: way through the season that Miles did it all season long.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: But in that stretch, Hoppy, when we talk about that
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Nike eyb L, that's as good as basketball league as
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: there in America. That's every every big time team is
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: in that big time players on the floor every game
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: and he takes his team to four wins in four
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: days to win that conference tournament. Paul the fourth a
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: national power. He puts up twenty six and six Dynamic
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Prep in the Semis, he goes twenty one to ten
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: and seven, and then he gets twenty four against Mount
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: verd in the championship, one of the best teams in America,
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: and just rolls through these tournaments. That was a national
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: championship tournament that I just read off there.
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: Just fantastic.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: Then he goes to that World Summit game and again, guys,
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: he was the story in that one you mentioned in
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: Top seven prospects in the US or on the other team,
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: He's the leading scorer in that game with twenty nine.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: He busted out twenty nine in that game, had an
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: unbelievable save defensive play at the end to cue the
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: comeback that got the game into overtime that you almost
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: got to win. You're talking about a guy. If you
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: do that formula where you talk about points created, so
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: if you take each assist is worth maybe two point
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: two points, because sometimes it's three, sometimes it's two. He
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: I mean that dude's putting up forty to fifty points
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: creat in a high school game where you're getting to
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: what say, seventy ish eighty ish, and he's creating half
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: of those points against other high level talent. You go
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: back and kind of project out his true shooting percentage
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: on the year, which factors in three pointers made, which
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: is worth more. He was up over the sixty percent
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: mark this season, which is unbelievable for a guard. I mean,
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: those are big guy numbers that are shooting closer to
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: the basket. This guy was doing it from all three levels,
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: driving to the basket, hitting mid range, stepping out and
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: hit three. So just a wonderful player. Can't wait to
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: get him here on campus and watch him play. I
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: do think the playmaking ability of him, the ability to
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: get by the first couple of guys. And let's maybe
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: try and compare it a little bit to Honor Huff.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: How many times did we reference playmaker Honor Huff this year?
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: And the maturation of Honors game was he went hoppy
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: from just a shooter to they had to find other
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: ways to free him up, as we talked, So you
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: put him with the ball in his hands to try
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: and create, because then it's harder to clutch and grab.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Now you've got to guard him in space is really hard.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: And when we see Honor, we still haven't seen anybody
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: stay in front of Honor Huff when he takes you
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: off the dribble. And in games when he was able
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: to kick those balls and ended up with four or
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: five assists, West Virginia was undefeated in those games. That's
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: just four or five assists. Now you've got a guy
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: in Miles that's more comfortable in the creation role. Otter
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: never been asked to do that before. He had just
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: been a shooters score. This is a guy that has
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: done that his whole career. And his ability to get
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: by that first line of defense and then start kicking
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: or throwing lobs tocila, I think you're going to see
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: a really exciting playmaker and I think you're going to
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: see it right from the jump with him.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of things. It will also change the
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: style of play. West Virginia this year used a more
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: pronounced style of play because Jasper Floyd was the point
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: guard and Jasper was much more comfortable in more of
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: a set up type of an offensive game. And I
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: think that you've got to do what your guys can do,
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: and West Virginia did this past year.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, agree, there's another component to that. Harlan's a bit
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: to anchor in the post was his strength. His strength
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: was not in a game up and down the floor.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: You were managing his six eight ten twelve minutes in
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: a stretch and wanted to conserve him because you needed
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: him on the floor defensively. Most Sila is a different
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: kind of athlete. He's a thoroughbred up and down the
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: floor run. So I do think you're going to see
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: West virgin not turn into the old Loyal and Marrymont
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: teams where you just run up and down the floor
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: and try and chuck it. But you're gonna see westfordin
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: you want to push it. You got a dude that's
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: a four to three guy you're going to push up
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: the floor and you're gonna have some wings that can
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: fill and run with him.
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: And you know, Obioha had a great defensive year. It's
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: a difference maker. Defensively, he was not a big offensive threat.
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: But with Sila you can have Bread. I mean, Tony
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: have a bigger offensive threat.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: On paper. You should have both. Yeah, you should have
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: a guy that can score. You should have a guy
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: that can defend.
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, let's do this conversation. So the level of quality
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: of competition that Miles Sadler played in this year. You
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: mentioned mont verg you mentioned Paul Forth, you mentioned all
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: the big ways, So you do a lot with the
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: out in East conference. I think the league he just
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: played in is a version of small college basketball, no question.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Do you think those teams could beat D two teams?
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: That Mountain East is pretty good, That top of that
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: Mountain East is national championship level. Each year you have
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: one or two teams, those would.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Be good games.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Those would be good games because again, you're talking about guys,
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: and we just saw this. Here's where the kind of
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: the switch. Instead of there being a guy or two
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: that steps in as an impact freshman, think of the
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: freshman in college basketball last year and just go big
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: twelve in particular. I mean that those are guys you're
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: going to see littered across the top ten of the
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: upcoming NBA draft. So I think there's an expectation for
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: a lot of those guys that Miles has just got
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: done playing with, they're going to walk right into their
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: programs and play right away. There's not a lot of
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: waiting on guys anymore, and those guys that he's been
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: competing with all year are going to step in and play.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: And that's part of why West Virginia is saying, come
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: on in here, here's the ball. You're running this team.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: Let's go. What can Tony? What can they do over
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: the summer?
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: You can do anything they want? Eight hours a week,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: what do you mean team? Yeah, go, it's full practice.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: Really, when you watch them on June fourth, it will
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: look like it will.
• 51:11
  Speaker 7: On September twelfth.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: Really, yeah, it's it's a full go.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: It's not as many hours, yeah, it's not as long,
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: but it's full on practice.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: So like three times, four times.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: A week, however you want to do it. However you
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: want to break them.
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: Up, and then you would have off days you could
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: do conditioning or whatever on off.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: The while they're in there. Yeah, that means it's up
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: to them. But yeah, they'll do that.
• 51:30
  Speaker 7: Now. What they'll do here? What they need to do here?
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: Those first few weeks are are spent on fundamentals and
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: defensive fundamentals and rotations and communication and how you talk.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: And remember that's how we talked all last year. The
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: difference of what it looked like on June first and second,
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: versus how it looked by the time he got to
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: the end of the Crown right when guys totally understood
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: what you did. You're now bringing in a whole new
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: group of guys that needs to learn this system and
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: the rotations are a little bit different than what a
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: lot of teams have done, and so that's going to
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: be the early part of June. You're trying to install
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: all that stuff.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they just weren't ready early in the season. The
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Xavier game in particular, when Xavier turned out to not
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: good and they were just they were rotating the ball
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: in West Virginia was not rotating. Xavier was really whipping
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: that ball around and you got pummeled that day because
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: you just weren't ready. And you get better and you
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: get better and you get better, and so that's why
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: they kind of peaked at the end of which you
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: hope to do. But to his point, you're exactly right.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: First thing they have to do is teach him all
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: the myriad fundamentals that they have that are different than
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of other places. This is how we close out.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: We don't close out like other schools close out. We
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: close out differently. This is where I want your feet here.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: I mean to shoulder like I'm talking about corrections made.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: If my nose is not on your inside inside shoulder,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: practice stops and your ass is on the line and
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: you're running.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: If you don't save ball when you rotate up into
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: the spot that's guarding the ball. If you don't say
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: ball stops, start the drill over. If you don't say
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: rim when you're the rim protector, start over. I mean
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: it's it goes back to basics, so you can get
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: that stuff. And when the balls over there, the rotations
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: are a little bit different than normal. Where do you
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: go when you're the weak side defender on the baseline
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: and the balls on the far wind. What are you
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: trying to accomplish there? Where do you stand? And why
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: are we standing there?
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: Not only that, guys, you think about what rich Rod said,
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: not only the what, but the why?
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: Why do you do this?
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: And they do a lot of That's what I'm saying.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Here's where you stand. Here's why I want you to
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: stand here. Here's why. That's the hardest pass to make,
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: and we want to force the offense into making those passes.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: Rad and easier, so they do that. I mean they
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: go right back to basics and start that here in June.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you would put a team together
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: if you practice started on October the fifteenth like it
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: used to with all of this transfer portal stuff, it
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: would be almost impossible to put a team together. They
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: would look really really bad for a really really long time.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if coaches would even just try
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: to teach the level that they're teaching, it would be
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: even probably more of a basic thing.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I watched I thought that same thing, Tony.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: I watched this team this year and thought, Man, if
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: you started October fifteenth, I don't know where you'd be, Yeah,
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: with all these new pieces.
• 54:09
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• 54:18
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  Speaker 4: It was it was pit that gave us a thanks
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: for having us. It happens sometimes Baseball.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Bummer too, because it was a great night on tremendous crowd.
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: We had our event at Buffalo Wild Wings. That was
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: it was packed all those That hillside was filled up
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: by five point thirty. I mean, that was a wonderful crowd.
• 55:57
  Speaker 6: Dude.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Did you see how many people were up on the
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: hospital se I did. When I left, I looked up
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  Speaker 1: at that there was easy five hundy. Yeah up there
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  Speaker 1: from the parking lot.
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: What happened just got to wait, Well we knew, I
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: mean it.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: Got blown up. It got blown up early.
• 56:12
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: They hit, they just cracked home runs early and it
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: was run Oh yeah, we did that. Coming in they
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: were eighth in the country.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: They did the two things that they do. They were
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: number eight in the country and home runs per game.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: They started off the game hitting a couple of home runs.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: They lead the nation in walks. They drew fifteen walks.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: So West Virginia's pitching was in between. It was trying
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: to manage some rotation work there because of some injuries
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: that were coming. And you just never got guys settled
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: on the mound against what was a good hitting, slash
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: patient team, and they took advantage of West Virginia. You
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: could never dig out Tony. I thought the one the
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: one moment West Virginia loads the bases, and it was
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: at that time I don't think it was three nothing,
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: but I don't know if it was five either. It
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: was right in that three to five nothing range. And
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: I thought, if West Virginia gaps one, here gets at
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: least a couple on the board. Now the crowd goes, now,
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: maybe you have some confidence in life. And Pick got
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: out of that without allowing a run. I thought that, really,
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: if it wasn't over before then, I thought that was
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: the difference where you just felt deflated.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: Now with fifteen walks.
• 57:08
  Speaker 4: Was there anyone in the crowd that maybe was questioning
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: suggesting the umpire might have missed a call.
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: May have been a little bit of a tight zone
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: we needed. We needed a bigger zone last night. I
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: have to say that's fair. Probably needed a bigger zone
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: last night.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: So here's the deal, Like one of those weird things
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: happened in baseball. That's a hugely disappointing midwek loss at
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: your first one of the year, and it's against Pitt.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: It's unfortunate that those you're going to get one of
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: those a year where you just have a game where
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: you just get absolutely drilled. Unfortunately it came against Pitt.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: That's the disappointing part of that. Now you just have
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: to flush it move on. I know it's cliche, but
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: that literally is what you have to do. You got
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: a big series left four, big twelve series. You got
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: to get back on the horse this week.
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: This thing may come down to that trip to Kansas.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, very very well. Could Cincinnati this weekend. Cincinnati
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: is hitting the ball really, really well and they've been
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: rolling along. Two out of three from UCF. Max Yale
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: not going to start this weekend. They're going to go
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: with Ian Korn in the rotation. Gavin Kelly though super
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: excited that he was back in the lineup last night
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: after injuring his wrist this past weekend. So that was
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: that's a positive. And now you know here, like Steve said,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: Steve Saban said after the game, man like adversity really
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: determines and defines how you handle it. How do you
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: handle it? So now here's the ultimate twenty three to one.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: It doesn't get worse, does not get worse. So now
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: let's see what they do starting.
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: You can't let Friday, you can't let it carry forward.
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: That's the right thing.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't be shaken by it. It's like, okay, man,
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: it was one bad game, right one bed? Yeah, move on,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: all right, we're out next week. We'll be back. Sure
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: we will win.
• 58:52
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the efforting on that we might
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: have some mune. We got interviews coming right, We still
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: have it. We're working on interviews. Effort efforting on as
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: we do. M summer series with a good start. Thanks
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: so much, my god shoe Miles Sadler and the folks
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: from Bruce Allen pipeline for Star allowing that to come
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: to reality.
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  Speaker 3: Can I come to practice when he gets here?
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: Who's that? Miles? Yeah? I think Ross would have you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I can't speak for Ross. By where do
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