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3 Guys Before The Game - Deuce McBride Visits (Episode 473) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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Hey, what do you know we're not doing an emergency podcast. No,
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well, there has been a coaching change. Yeah, holy heck, we're
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doing an actual show on a Thursday, not on a Sunday. And there's
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there's not three, there's there's two guys. Welcome in everybody, it's three
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guys before the game. Poppy kirchible with us. I'm here and our summer
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series continues with one of the old time old timers, Deuce McBride is our
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guest here on three guys before the game. Does you have any eligibility off?
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And they come back? You know, it's easy. I mean,
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they got they got slots. I'm just saying this. In football, I've
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always felts I know you're I know it's a guy like it. I've always
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felt in football that you could camouflage somebody put a different person in the uniform.
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They got the helmet on, they just put the wrong person's jersey on
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them, and they'll never know, right. I think it's harder in basketball,
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Yeah, might be might be harder. Let's say, wait a second,
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wait, wait, I saw that kids score eighteen points against the Portland
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Trailblazers. Lad, I don't think that's the same dude, No, so
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to get into. Please welcome to the program. On this four hundred and
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seventy third episode of Three Guys Before the Game, my old Deuce McBride,
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who has just completed his second season in the National Basketball Association. Hello,
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sir, how are you from doing well? Doing really well? Appreciates you
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guys out of the d Yeah, it's our pleasure man. Good to hear
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your good to hear your voice again. Does that I mean when I say
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when I say getting ready or just finished his second getting ready for his third
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season in the National Basketball Association, have you kind of embraced that yet?
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That's like, whoa, this is happening quick? Yeah, definitely. I
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mean it's crazy just that finished two years, you know, playing obviously in
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the best softball league in the world, and just honored honestly to be going
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into my third year with the same team. Something that hits me when I
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watch you, and that is this that even from your first year, you
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never seemed out of place or it never seems to me that it's too big
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for you. Like I see you on the floor, and it's just like,
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yeah, he's on the floor. Why wouldn't he be on the floor?
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Like like, here you go, Um, are you hiding something or
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do you feel or do you or do you feel exactly like you look on
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the floor. I definitely feel very comfortable out there. You know, obviously
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I'm playing against you know, the world's best and stars and whatnot, but
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I feel right at home. I feel, you know, I'm just a
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few years for being at the same levels some of those guys, you know,
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the more opportunity to grow, the more out go. Yeah, And
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so here's what makes your story even more special because you are where you are
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and the Knicks have exercised their option for your third year, so you're gonna
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go back to the Knicks. But what makes your story, in my opinion,
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interesting, Deuce, is that no one had this script and for you
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when you got here where you know, in certain places, um, and
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certain kids when they go to college, Oh, here comes this five star
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McDonald's All Americas LA. He's going to be in the league. It's gonna
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be in the league. Is going to be in the league. And sometimes
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they do and sometimes they don't. But like, no one had this script
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that this kid's gonna come from Mohler and he's gonna go to the NBA.
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So where did we miss? Where did we miss on what we're seeing?
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You know, honestly, the belief in myself rom I think the day I
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picked up a basketball, I know I was going to play in the NBA.
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I didn't have a doubt in my mind, whether you know what,
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I was playing football in college as well as backball college or or whatever.
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But I think definitely the injury hindered my my national my national image. Where
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I was coming in as I saw more a little more highly powered, a
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little more raid. And then when I got injured on so many schools that
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backed off, and you know you're not playing, obviously you can't go up
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in the rankings. I think a lot of people just kind of forgot about
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me when I was still the same meet. So, Okay, you got
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all this confidence, and I get that that's a big part of your success,
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along with working extremely, extremely hard, and we'll get to that in
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just a minute. And also we want to talk about your your camp certainly,
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but still when you get to that level and you're out there, I
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mean, these aren't the guys you played against in college. I mean,
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this is so I mean, when did that hit you that? Oh?
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I mean in college. I'm sure there were guys you thought, Okay,
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I can take this guy off the drib war, I can guard this guy.
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Different, different deal on the show, right, absolutely. I mean,
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the game's pays and just you can you can watch it on TV,
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you can even be courtside. But the feeling of being in an NBA game,
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the haste, the possessions, it's really insane because even when it looks
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like, you know, we're walking the ball up, there's something happening on
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the backside that you're not going to see in the length of people being able
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to cover so much ground because I don't think people understand how wise the paint
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is. And for there not to be a three second rule, and for
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guys to still come over from the week's side to the strong side to get
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a block or get a steal, it's just insane. So for me knowing
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that that's why I'm walking into my preparation went to a whole different level.
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The mental side went to a whole different level. So well, that's super
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interesting because you just said a bunch there that I want to kind of dig
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into because I think mentally, I've always loved your game mentally because you were
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you were the silent assassin. I mean, you're not one of those guys
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that was out there banging your chest before the game or doing anything, you
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know, slappy because, quite honestly, and I think you would agree,
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the guys that have to do that stuff normally are the guys that they need
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to do that because they don't have what it really takes. But that's a
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whole different story. So you've always, in my opinion, been that silent
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type of yeah, let's go, I'm gonna play, and that perhaps was
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best typified when I think back to the Oklahoma State game at the Big Twelve
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Conference tournament when you stole the ball and here's Kate Cunningham, the number one
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pick, and you swipe it from him and then you absolutely tomahawked at like,
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to me, that's like that's worth ten thousand. I'm gonna bang my
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chest until and show you how big of a how bad of a guy I
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am. Like, let's come on, let's go get it. I'm gonna
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dunk it on your head. Yeah No, I mean you just you just
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kind of have to be fearless. I think if you're you're thinking about you
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know, all I'm playing against Lebrons to night. All I'm playing against Kevin
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Durian tonight. I think you're going in like that, then you know you're
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already at a dis advances versus thinking obviously I'm I'm gonna be there though.
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That's the playing That's the reason I'm I'm playing the game is because I love
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it. I love the competition, right, I love the mental attitude that
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you have to continue to be on attack mode or you can really either be
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eating out there. I go back as a competitive Yeah, and that's what
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separates the great See, the great ones want the competition. Some people run
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away from the ball and some people want the ball. And that's what in
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the NBA, that's what they all are. They're all alpha dogs, they
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are. But you know, at the same time, dude, I have
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to I have to wonder that early on and again you're going to hear three.
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You look up and all of a sudden, like because of the switch
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I got, I'm got I'm guarding Lebron James. It's a great point,
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is like, yeah, I saw a highlight dude, I was just gonna
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bring the same exact thing up. I was either dreaming or I was watching
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highlights. There was a I think I was watching highlights. You're playing the
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Lakers. The ball goes far so my corner, and there's a switch and
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your garden Lebron, and I'm going like, I go like this, this
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is this is awesome. But the first time that had happened, the first
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time that the switch happened, and you're like, okay, I'm reaching okay,
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and here he is. Did you have that holy blank moment or what
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was it? Like, let's go honestly, I think this is a kind
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of the truth. Like, honestly, I don't remember honestly what you're what
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part you're talking about, just because I got said. It was just another
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point in the game. He's just another player out there. To me.
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I'm not looking at him like he's Lebron James. Obviously, I'm going to
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give him the most utmost respect off the corn, but on the court,
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he's just an opponent, you know. He he's on the same what was
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me? Um, Yeah, I'm not remembering too much of I remember switching
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onto him a little bit. I remember I think when we played him at
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home, he drove and I stood in and almost took a charge and ended
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up getting my hand on the ball and out of steal from him. But
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other than that, I don't remember. That's that's funny. You'd see that
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because he talks about it all the time. I remember that time, dude,
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switch down me in the corner. I didn't know what the heck to
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do. Go right, go left, you have me all, you have
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me all boxed up. I didn't know what I didn't know what to do.
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Well, think about this, dude, Not only are you playing in
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the NBA, as you well know, as every game starts inside the garden,
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they say good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Madison Square
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Garden, the world's most famous arena. That has got to be the thrill
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of a lifetime to be into that environment. Yeah, no, I don't
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take it for granted at all, because I mean, obviously playing for any
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NBA teams and on there, but playing in the Mecca, playing for those
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fans, I mean, I can't put I can't put at West Virginia over
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Nick. I can't play makes over West Virginia. Right now, we're about
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even, but I mean just playing in the magage. It's a whole different
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level of basketball. Yeah. I think because you have fans from all over
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the world that it's the dreams to go watch a game is so bac DOMI
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will step on the court every home game. It's amazing. After practice when
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you do you ever go one on one with Jalen Brunson, And where's my
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money on that? When you go one on one with him? We're not
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practicing too much. I think it's we're going to walk up. We kind
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of save that for the summer. So he's going off the sea, but
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I'm going to be waiting for him when he gets back. All right,
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that's fantastic. I should. As I said to you, we're gonna jump
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all over the place during this. You are coming back to West Virginia.
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We record here on the twentieth of July. You have two camps here in
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the state coming up next week. So we're gonna go Friday the twenty eighth,
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Sunday the thirtieth. You're going to go Northern Panhandle. So we're gonna
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call a Wheeling or actually Triadelphia sure for those to be specifically, And you're
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going to be at the Highlands on Friday the twenty eighth at the Highland Sports
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Complex. And you've got two groups that you're going to do that day,
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six to twelve years old, nine until noon, and then from one until
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four pm you're gonna do thirteen through eighteen year olds. And then after a
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daybreak you need to make the long journey from Wheeling to Morgantown. Then you
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got a great facility at Miland Park. You're going to be in there on
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Sunday the thirtieth, six to twelve year olds nine until noon, thirteen to
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eighteens from one until four And so your credit, if I'm reading this right,
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this is pretty good. You're only charging ninety nine dollars. Is that
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correct? Yeah, that's great. Okay, So that's that's very that's very
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fairly priced to get. Basically, we're talking thirty three dollars an hour to
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get an NBA dude working with you. So, um, for those that
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would like to jump in, I think the easiest way might be just go
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to the website event bright dot com. So it's event and brightest spelled b
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r it event bright dot com and just put in Miles Deuce McBride Basketball Camp
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Miles Deuce McBride basketball camp and you'll get the information, you can sign up
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and boom you will be in What are you going to try to teach?
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What can you teach somebody to help them in the three hours? Honestly a
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lot. I mean when it comes to the younger kids, I just want
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to hammer in the fundamentals, the repetition, the chiefing kids. Just to
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kind of love the game and seeing it from different aspects at that age is
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great, especially coming from you know, my level um and that played for
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my whole life, so I do remember what it was like first touching the
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ball and you know, looking up to older kids, and then you know,
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when it comes to the older kids, trying to show things that you
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know, high school coaches are looking for, college coaches are looking for and
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and kind of tell them, you know, playing the right ways is overall
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going to get you much farther than you know, being an individual talent um.
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You know you got all that as well as you know you're gonna get
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a T shirt, You're gonna get some some time to talk to me,
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ask any type of questions. You know, I'm gonna be actually doing that
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kind of like a space in where be able to find autographs, take a
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picture, and really get some close one on one time with the Kings.
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You get that, and then I'm gonna be able to feed them, thinks
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to Charlie, hurds and hurts, bets barbecue. You know, they're getting
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the free mail out to the camp Storry nice. I think I think that's
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all worth it, you know, I mean I might have. I mean
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sometimes sometimes my lunch bills ninety nine dollars. I think I think that's a
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heck of a deal. Your dad played collegiately at Xavier. How much of
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you mentioned fundamentals a second ago? How much of what he told you to
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do and instructed you to do to make you the player that you are helped
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you in comparison to perhaps someone that really didn't have a good hand al on
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what the most important thing to learn is to learn how to play this game.
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Oh. I mean, it was a great advantage for me just having
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a father that played ten years professionally colleague and then was coaching high school as
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I was as I was growing up. And it's funny because there's still so
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many things that he talked about when I was younger. My brother and I
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did out in the backyard and certain drills that I'm still doing today, just
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because there's when it comes to the fundamentals, you have to be great at
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them and until you master them, which I mean you could say maybe few
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or none have truly mastered the fundamentals, there's no reason not to be doing
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them. So just having him as a father and a coach, it meant
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the world to me and it still does. Jude, how much does it
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matter in your opinion for maybe not at the pro level, maybe not even
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at the college level, but at that middle school or youth basketball or high
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school level where a kid has attitude, had positive attitude. You know,
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when they say line up, he's the first to line up. When they
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say drills, he's the first in the drills. Sprints, he's the first
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in the sprints. But he doesn't have the skills everybody else does. Does
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that stuff still matter? Honestly? I mean yeah, I would get through
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with a lot of athletic ability on the mental side, and my dad,
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I said that, my dad was coaching me from a young age. So
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but when you compare it to you know, a six nine also very smart
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guy like Lebron or you have Ken Durant Jannis. I mean you have all
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these others insane builds and in same moles. I mean you have to work.
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I work, guys, and especially being you know, six one six
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two guards playing against nothing but sixty six six seven. I think the kids
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that don't have those that that build that they obviously would like that the motor
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is going to carry them much farther. You said it earlier. There are
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a lot of kids that are five stars that don't make it, and it's
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because of the motor. I'm a big believer you put in the work,
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it will pay off as long as you're confident in your work. You know,
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with the point of working out two times a day, if you're going
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to get on the court and not be confident in that work. So I'm
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a big believer in the motor into having a confidence to back it up,
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you know, not copy this, but confidence. Yeah. And I can
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certainly attest to that because when you were here so many times, you were
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the only guy on the floor at the practice facility, and guys you know
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you were working out either by yourself or managers were there working You're out because
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you just you had your plan and you go like, this is what I'm
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gonna do. I'm just gonna keep pounding this and working at this to get
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to get the role. And you had two obviously wonderful years here and lord
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knows if you would have stayed for four, um you would have you would
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have put up some stupid numbers. But you know you did, okay,
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Yeah, yeah you did, Yeah you did. Okay. When you when
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you think back to your West Virginia experience, what what's the lasting or what
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are what are thoughts that pop in your mind about having been here for a
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couple of years and playing man so some of the best basketball UM teammates obviously
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playing for Jose Huggins, just just learning so much from him on and off
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the court. UM, the whole staff as well, and um, obviously
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we had our ups and downs, but through and through it was family there.
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And I think, you know, it's always funny when when you talk
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about basketball and you talk about old teams you've been on, you know,
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you remember a lot of the stuff on the court, but it's more of
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the stuff on off the court that you remembered. The bus rides over the
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any film sessions, UM, you know, after practice, talk and I
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you know, I miss it a lot. And you know, I'm still
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in touch with a lot of the team. Um about the coach hugs a
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decent amount. His phone is always on for me and I'm sure for other
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other players as well. So it's it's back stuff that really, uh,
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I really miss And and remember the fact that the fact that you miss it
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so at the at the professional level, is it just different. Is the
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camaraderie different because everybody's a pro, maybe they have their lives or families,
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they're going in different directions or is there still a level of camaraderie at the
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pro level. Uh? Yeah, there still is. Um I think,
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you know, the better of the camaraderie, the better of the team.
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I think, Uh, you know, you necessarily don't have to like somebody,
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but if you're willing to work with obviously it's still going to help the
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team. But yeah, I mean I was the youngest I think on the
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team or the second youngest on the team this year at twenty two years old,
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and you know the oldest team Derek Brows at thirty four. We're just
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in total, Eric different areas of our life and you know, everything in
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the middle, whether you got kids on the team or wife you have to
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get home to. I mean, it's just a whole different level. And
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living in New York, guys don't live close, so it's just harder to
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commute different places. So but I think, you know, our team leaders
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really did a good job of making sure that, you know, everybody was
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involved and everybody felt like they were part of the team. Yeah, and
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I think folks might be surprised, But like, the garden is only where
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you play, right you guys, Are you guys still at you guys still
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at Soony Purchase? Is that where you guys still are? As far as
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works out practice and things like the wetter Westchester Terrytown? Okay, so where
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do you live? You live close to practice facility, and then like what's
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game day? Like, how do you get into the city, how do
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you do all that craziness of potential traffic and all that. Well, I
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actually so Terrytown, where our facility is outs north and then the garden is
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obviously south in the city and I'm like smagdab in the middle of right now.
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Um so going to the facilities about twenty minute drive, but going to
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the garden on a game day man, I can take anywhere between thirty five
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minutes to an hour and a half. No way around that. Man,
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it's the second quarter where deuce Yeah. Hey, now that you've seen so
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many of these guys, either played with them or have seen opponents, define
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a professional basketball player? Who does it right? What do they do that
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people might be surprised by a true pro? Man um The biggest thing I
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think I'm learning, Um, I think people I've seen it or watch a
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little bit with Michael Jordan and Kobe. But I mean the biggest thing I'm
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learning really is lifting. How much guys actually spending the weight room. Um.
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I mean I was againning we did. We did a really great job.
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And even coming from high school and having a father that obviously played was
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looking was always big for me. But true professionals spend even more time.
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They're lifting before the game, they're looking after the game, they're waking up,
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and I mean they're doing the recovery and making sure everything is ready to
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go. Step Curry, he's one of the strongest players guards I've I've definitely
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played a hus I mean, I'm I was trying to knock him off balance,
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do anything I could and he's a rock. He's not news. And
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then I had a chance to talk to Lebron's story at the coach and he
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was like, he won't miss the list, Like whatever, He's not missing
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the list. He's he's making sure he's taking his ProTeam, he's making sure
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he's take invite him in anything he can do to make their his body's ready
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to go. And seeing that as well as my teammates like Julie Randall's huge
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and the weight room huges on recovery and sleep and do any little advantage matters,
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that's that's really good, super good insight. And and you always were
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strong, so you're I'm assuming you're stronger now than you were. Oh?
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Absolutely, yeah. Yeah. Um here's another question for you. The misperception
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out there, it's a laughable misperception. But the misperception from the people who
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either don't love, don't like, or don't follow the NBA is they don't
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play defense in the NBA. You can go, okay, so go ahead
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dispel that. Dispel that statement. Um man, I mean you try guarding
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Kevin Durant saying we don't play defense. Uh No, that's a it's fun,
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I think obviously, with the best talent in the world. At the
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end of the day, you can you can play the best defense in the
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world and somebody still has a great ability to make a shot or make a
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pass. I think people don't understand that. It's it's it's a bigger sample
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size. You know, in college that are going to be possessions where it
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doesn't look too good. But when you have eighty two games and so many
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possessions, a couple more of those possessions are going to stand out just because
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of the sample size. It's so much larger. But I mean, you
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can ask any coach, any player, I guarantee they will say, we
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are trying to our absolute artists. It's very hard. The game's made for
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us to score more points. So yeah, I mean, trust me,
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we're out there and moving. Yeah, well, twenty four second shot clock
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means more possessions. And as you just said, you're talking about the most
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elite offensive players in the world, and so you're going to have offensive success.
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You know. The other thing is that and you do so you were
25:59
talking about this, is that when you're watching again, if you go out
26:02
today, if Tony and I go out today and we're gonna jog from one
26:04
end of the court to the other. It takes a little while to get
26:07
to the from one end to the other. And in the pros, I
26:10
mean it's like instantly, like three steps, the ball is in the is
26:15
in the front court. Absolutely, you know, it's just amazing. I'm
26:18
gonna go back to your campus second. Um. I think this, Tony,
26:22
this is a great opportunity for kids who who are playing basketball to hear
26:26
from a guy who has who has really sound advice, not just war stories,
26:30
but like sound advice as to what do this, don't do this,
26:33
Yeah, don't do it. I mean what you could get from that.
26:37
The advice you can get from a guy who just who grounded out and got
26:41
to the pros would be invaluable. I think, right, hey, dude,
26:45
dude, you sit here now and shake your head at this transfer portal
26:48
or give me what you give me what you're thinking here? You know,
26:53
I think obviously has his pros and cons then and somebody obviously needs to regularly
27:00
some things within the portal. Um. I think it's coming from an outside
27:06
view. Obviously I didn't really deal too much with it, um, but
27:11
I think you know, if coaches at the end of they are able to
27:15
jump around. It's hard to say players can and I know, obviously it's
27:21
a different level. But now that players are making money, you know,
27:25
you don't want to have to understand that it's just gonna be. It's gonna
27:27
be fueled by money. Whoever has the most money is going to get the
27:32
best players. And you know, at the end of the day, I
27:36
would like to see some some regulation and hopefully some colleges are bringing in financial
27:41
advice for these for these guys. But you know, not everybody's able to
27:45
make the same money. But that's how the world is. That's how the
27:48
world works. So I think that college basketball has been a business. So
27:53
I'm glad to see that technically now that our employees are able to get paid.
27:59
But I still think it could be done better. But you know,
28:02
I'm no, I'm no expert on it. I'm still like everybody else,
28:07
just walking and kind of being what happens. You know, dudes, you
28:10
you're making pretty good money. You can come back to college and make real
28:12
money now yeah right, yeah, yeah, you're doing all right, but
28:17
you come back get a little bit of nil holy yeah, yeah, just
28:21
just bank there. No, there's no salary cap, no none whatsoever,
28:25
none whatsoever. Hey, um, before before I let you go here,
28:29
So the Knicks have exercised their option for you for your third season and your
28:33
long term goal. And I haven't asked you this, but I know your
28:37
long term goal is you'd love to last in this league as long as possible,
28:41
like just keep let's just keep layering on years. What is going to
28:45
be the key for you going forward to continue to play in the NBA?
28:52
Yeah, I think you know, for me, it's about just consistency,
28:56
consistency and and what I do off the court, getting my body ready,
29:02
consistency on the court. Um. And you know, obviously I'm a player
29:07
that needs a little more rhythm, needs a little more time opportunity. That's
29:11
the way I operate. But you know you're not always fortunate to get that.
29:15
So I think as I've become more consistent, I think that's just gonna
29:18
continue to allow me to play longer. But over I think my defense is
29:23
obviously just going to continue to allow me to play in the league for a
29:26
long time because I think I do it better than anybody else. I think
29:33
if you put me on any NBA team, I'm instantly a top two,
29:36
top three defender on that team. So I think that's just gonna carry me
29:40
over for a long time. Yeah, and if I saw this stat too,
29:44
TIBs needs to play it more because the next or twelve and four when
29:48
you've played more than fifteen minutes in the game. So I mean, just
29:51
like you want you want to win, play douce. Let's get that down.
29:55
If I see them, I'll let them know. Hey, I was
29:56
just doing that. I was just doing a little math here, dude.
30:00
So you're in Wheeling next Friday for the camp and it's not just next week,
30:06
yeah, next week, next week, and TBT is happening and Wheeling
30:10
at the same time next week, so all those knucklehead buddies of yours they're
30:15
gonna be playing. So there, Yeah, they're gonna be there. So
30:18
if everything goes well, the championship for the region is Sunday there, but
30:25
even before that, during the middle of the week, the TBTS going on
30:27
and Wheeling, so you'll have some of your guys m that you know,
30:32
well it'll be up there also at that same time. Yeah. Yeah,
30:37
so you can put that together, right, So here's the deal. Once
30:38
again, the website to attend and register for Deuce's camp is good. Just
30:45
go. The easiest way is event bright dot com, E V E n
30:48
tb rite dot com. Put in Miles Deuce McBride and it'll come up.
30:53
Basketball camp. It's ninety nine American dollars three hours for six to twelve and
31:00
then another three for thirteen to eighteens. Next Friday, the twenty eighth in
31:04
Wheeling, the thirtieth a Sunday at Mylon Park in Morgantown, same deal.
31:08
Check it out and would I would strongly guarantee that when you walk out of
31:14
there, either the kid or the family member will say that was a great
31:18
experience for my kids. So Deuce, hopefully we'll run into each other next
31:22
week and I'll be up there as well, and maybe we are paths will
31:26
cross. But I really appreciate your time. Congratulations on what you're doing.
31:29
We're watching, as you probably know, and we wish you the best.
31:33
Yeah, absolutely, I really appreciate it. Thank you so much. All
31:36
right, buddy, you take care. There is Miles Deuce McBride, one
31:40
of the good dudes. And again that'll be a great experience. That was
31:45
That's so much fun. I mean, it's just so much fun to see
31:48
somebody that mountaineer fans love, that gave mountain mountaineer nation so much joy to
31:55
see him have this kind of success. And Tony you alluded to it.
31:57
I mean, he just worked hard. I mean he's talented, but he
32:00
just worked hard. Who wasn't We had on the show and he said,
32:02
whenever he got to the Jim, Deuce was already there. Whenever you left,
32:05
Deuce was already there. I mean, he just is a just a
32:07
grinder, yes, and along with being talented. Yeah, so that's what
32:13
I've always said. I said, like there's a there's ways to be successful.
32:16
You can be not the most athletic, but have an obsessive, compulsive
32:22
ability to do work, and you you'll have a chance to be productive.
32:27
And then you have this really rare occurrence when you're unbelievably athletic and talented,
32:35
and then you put the other piece to it of like OCD work efficic.
32:38
That's Joe Alexander, that's Javon Carter, that's Deuce McBride, among others.
32:45
That's what those guys have. So that's why he is where he is.
32:47
Yeah, it's just this the rarefied air and having the confidence without being cocky
32:52
to be at that level. It did not be freaked out by it.
32:55
I mean, he's just that's fair. It's just I still can't believe,
32:59
like you, it can't believe you're watching the game, like there's Deuce.
33:01
What's funny is he doesn't. I mean I vividly remember going like he switched
33:05
on to the lebron and he's gonna like I actually I don't actually don't even
33:07
remember that, but I just like, it's just in the cool you found
33:09
fast that it's gotta go buy. Hey, you know what I misspoke what
33:14
I said to Deuce. Hey, I hope to see you there next week.
33:15
If it was like Friday, I'm not going to be there Friday,
33:21
Hoppy, and Hoppy's not going to be there Friday. This thing happened,
33:24
and this senator is not going to be there on Friday. Now we are
33:30
going up middle of the week. But next Friday and Saturday we're doing it.
33:36
We're gonna be in Greenbrier County for Friday and Saturday. Let me tell
33:39
you what we got. Friday Night has developed into a private fundraising event for
33:49
community schools. The communities in schools of Greenboro County. So we're gonna do
33:52
a fundraiser for Lewisburg communities in schools. Currently, no tickets are available for
33:59
that locked out, but if by chance a few become available, they will
34:02
post it on social media. Now here's the other part of that deal.
34:07
But wait, don't you worry about a thing. I've got something better than
34:09
that. Potentially the following morning at early afternoon, Saturday, July the twenty
34:19
ninth, Free event Free. That'd be f r E. That's a good
34:24
four letter word. Free twenty ninth and Ron Sifford, We're gonna close down
34:30
the road in front of the Sportsman's Tavern, closing it down, Gonna come
34:36
in, gonna close the road. We're going to close the road. And
34:38
they've done a fantastic job of bringing this. This is a small little town
34:44
back to life. So officially it starts at ten in the morning on Saturday
34:49
the twenty ninth. We will be there with our partners that we're gonna be
34:52
talking about. And here's where the food and the fund comes in. We're
34:57
gonna have Mountain table there. There are the people that make the coffee that
35:00
we're selling. On episode sixpence pizza, okay, which I'm just telling you
35:07
what, when you have this pizza, you're gonna go like okay, um
35:09
Flavor Mutt. Flavor Mutt purportedly makes the best sour dough bread in the state
35:17
of West Virginia. Flavor Mutt follow on Instagram. We're gonna have Rolling Stove
35:24
Burgers there and the Greenbrier Dairy to make sure you could top this all off
35:30
with ice cream. And oh yeah, we got Kirchivel because you can't.
35:36
I couldn't, I can't get it. Just got finished, literally just finished
35:39
this. Like someone texted me yesterday and said, the new batches out headed
35:45
at Jeans, Oh did you? But we're gonna have Kirchivel there at Sportsman's
35:51
Tavern. So basically, this is the deal. You just walk around,
35:53
have fun and we're gonna be there and we'll run India, we'll talk,
35:57
we'll chat, we'll conversate, and we'll have call fee from Mountain Table pastry,
36:01
sourdough bread, the pizza, the burghers. I'm having one of everything
36:06
twice twice twice. So that's it. And we're also going to talk with
36:10
some of the business folks down there, because what we're trying to do is
36:14
literally trying to highlight businesses in West Virginia, and so our focus here is
36:17
Greenboro County, the Briar Garden, which is a really nice place. Also,
36:23
great guy down there, Clay Elkins from Big Draft. They got a
36:28
right across the start from the Schoolyard Hotel. Fantastic. Also a little rumor
36:31
that Mark Bow of Barnwood Builders. Oh really gonna show there. Oh yeah,
36:36
I know him. I'm gonna hit you in the head with a two
36:37
by four. And so that's what we're doing. So that is ten am
36:43
until two pm next Saturday. We're just walking down the closed street in front
36:47
of the Sportsman's Tavern and Ron Sifford later today. If you'd like to avoid
36:54
any line, you can pre buy Mountaineer Morning Coffee, which is getting blown
37:02
up. It's really really good. I told you last couple of episodes ago.
37:07
The coffee. It's a it's a three. It's a three bean blend
37:10
Colombian. I think it's Colombian, Sumatra and Honduras if I'm not mistaken.
37:16
But you can pre order that and just pick it up on the day of
37:20
the event. We can have you. We can get your picture made,
37:23
get your picture made with you, but you can check out all of our
37:25
stuff at episode eight hundred. So it's a free event. Saturday the twenty
37:30
ninth, downtown Ronsford front of Sportsman's Tavern. A good time will be had
37:35
by all. Its the first time in our history that we're leaving Monengelia County,
37:42
our first event outside, and we're gonna go to beautiful Greenborough County,
37:46
so we'd love to have you there. You sure they got Kircherville because I
37:51
was off last week and before I left, I had I went to see
37:53
family and they all wanted Kircheville. Thanks to you, I end up with
37:57
eight cans and that was hard to get. I have was That was it?
38:00
That literally was the last two Chestnup Brewer. Chestnup Brewer went in there,
38:06
and in fact Bill wasn't there. Amber no, Amber. I don't
38:09
know who the guy. I'm sorry, I didn't know his name, but
38:14
um I didn't know if I supposed to get four eight, But he showed
38:15
me in the cooler and I saw two four picks. I just grabbed him.
38:19
So that was it. That was the last I know. I do
38:21
know this. We're bringing sixteen sixtels down to the green Bor Greenbor County.
38:25
What are sixts? That's kind of like a quarter ish of a keg?
38:30
Oh really yeah, it's okay. It's an easy transport. Okay, it's
38:32
an easy transport. Are we bringing that? No, we're we're our guy
38:37
is okay? I didn't know. We have to stop and call no,
38:40
no, no, no, no, our guy, Our guy is our
38:43
guy. Dave. Uh, you're ready to do you ready? Yeah?
38:46
Yeah, you're ready to do a little bit of this, a little bit
38:49
of that, and a little bit of this. Do it yeah. Textual
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there he goes, I was laughing about is this dog gone? What?
42:14
Hey? Jack? So we have a new producer by the way, jumping
42:19
Jack Carlson. Who he's replaced Taylor Tyler, County Kennedy. Who I guess
42:29
is he doing something? Is he writing for something? Now? Is that
42:31
what he's doing? He's writing for the gazette. I guess he called like
42:35
every time he gets a story published now he texts people and say, hey,
42:39
look at my story. I'm in the Charleston Gazette. So I guess
42:44
that's I thought he was working for Lou Windell. Well, I mean he
42:49
might be picking I mean he might be picking some of that up. Hey
42:52
Jack, I'm sending you a picture to your email account right now. See
42:58
if you can get that up there, and if it is, text me
43:00
when you have that ready. Wow, this is uh, text me when
43:04
you have that. Well, it's not live, it is being recorded,
43:07
but it is you You're a working progress. Just get that picture ready.
43:09
All right, here we go. Text line Texter says, here is my
43:15
new rule for sport. You wear the uniform and that's all no arm sleeves
43:25
or have black tape or any of the other garbage. Sick of it spelled
43:30
sick all caps, yeah, yelling, yelling. I think everyone would find
43:35
a way to still play and do the same exact things they do without wearing
43:38
all the garbage. The worst is that everyone sees this stuff on TV,
43:44
so they go play in a wreck league and they have to buy all the
43:47
stuff because they want to feel like they're one of the pros. Get off
43:53
my yard. The look, I understand, I understand that. But at
43:58
the same time, I mean, think by Tony when we were kids and
44:00
you went out in the backyard to play, what did you do? You
44:02
imitated? You imitated what the pros were doing, and the pros they're gonna
44:07
do it, and some of the stuff they do is it for a legitimate
44:09
protection when they're up there. So yeah, you know, I get it.
44:13
I get it. So I'm not going to mention who it was.
44:17
But there was a sponsor of the Mountaineers, okay, and as part of
44:23
their sponsorship, WUVU let them go out on the Mountaineer field on a summer
44:30
day like this time of the year, and they were gonna play a touch
44:36
football game. So the workers from this company, we're gonna play touch foot.
44:39
So they say, hey, could you guys come out in video tape
44:43
for this for us. So we're out there and this one dude he was
44:47
all, oh it all stuff. It was un believable. He had like
44:55
like turf shoes, high sid like I'm I'm thinking maybe I black, like
45:06
the whole deal, and like everyone else is like looking at my boy going
45:08
like yeah. So he was gonna get the full effect. He wanted the
45:13
full effect, and so there you go, right, Texter, poor el
45:19
Senator, between all of his shifts of Daniels emergency podcast sports line efforting eight
45:27
in the box contracts, he will never have time to sell or sail on
45:30
his lou Wendell pontoon. That's true. His pontooning has been significantly decreased.
45:37
Texter, Hey guys, I know you're still claiming you will not make it
45:40
to an eight hundredth episode, but with the twists and the turns of the
45:45
basketball saga, you might make it there by tip off against Missouri State November
45:50
six. Thank you for your diligence. Signed by Evan and Iowa. Texter,
45:57
I saw local and loyal friend JJ weather Hole playing in the USA Baseball
46:00
Collegiate Series against Japan and Charleston, South Carolina. They certainly they lost,
46:06
but it certainly wasn't because of JJ. He hit a long homeward to the
46:09
left in Game one, scored the only two runs for the US and the
46:13
other. There were enough Mountaineer fans to start Let's go chant one time.
46:17
Good showing Joe and Charleston. That's awesome. Texter asked this question, Hey,
46:22
guys, better career at West Virginia Jose Perez or Tavita Finale. It's
46:32
a great question. I'm gonna go with finale because there was much more talk
46:38
about him prior to getting here, whereas Perez more like there wasn't any talk
46:43
until he until he committed here. But because so the Perez chat, the
46:47
press chatter was a year, I think finale was about three years. Yeah,
46:54
something stunned me this week. Someone told me that as it's not one
47:01
hundred percent done, that he's not going to be here. Now that may
47:07
add to the ministry, but I thought he I thought he was absolutely gone
47:10
gone. But like someone said, so, I don't know like whether he
47:16
does or whether he doesn't. Someone did tell me this. The only thing
47:20
he's done since he's been here is a donut. So, hey, Jose,
47:24
you want to come back and play? Okay, that would actually,
47:29
that would be a great exercise. It's too bad that Tyler Taylor's not here
47:35
anymore. The greatest players never told it. Oh yeah, we got Farren
47:39
Horns, we got all these guys. We got a lot of guys.
47:44
We got tons of guys. And how much was said, how much airtime,
47:47
how much was said about these guys. But there's no question to Benji
47:53
Kiamatu, who Greg Hunter told me has passed away in a construction accident.
47:58
But he was one of those guys. But there was a running back that
48:00
ended up at Louisville. I mean, yeah, we could build a team.
48:05
Yeah, we forgot. I've forgotten the final story exactly what was zy
48:09
He's supposed to come, not gonna come, is gonna come? And ends
48:13
up at Utah Stunner Texter, Hey, y'all, I placed an order from
48:21
episode eight hundred dot com. I was very excited to get my goodies.
48:24
I ran into a slight logistical snag with the United States Postal Service, and
48:30
I just wanted to give an a plus customer service rating to your team.
48:35
Thank you, Dave. You deserve a shout out. I will say I
48:38
did get my coffee, and I'm super excited to try it. I've been
48:43
stuck drinking burnt supermarket coffee and burnt fast food coffee for a few weeks.
48:47
I'm very excited to bust out some of my fancier coffee brewing gadgets and my
48:52
burg grinder. I plan on trying six different brewing methods and I will report
48:58
back to give a review of the ruined my preferred method. I love that.
49:00
That's a really good to do. That. Signed by a self proclaimed
49:02
coffee snob Josh and Morgantown. How many cups do you have a day?
49:08
Me? Yeah? Currently on nothing stupid Like for some reason I was drinking.
49:14
I was drinking it like by the gallon during the last football season.
49:17
Again then like, so, to be honest with you, I've like cut
49:22
back. Like this week I was just doing like one really Yeah. The
49:25
wife was out of town this week and I normally started for her and she
49:29
just has a little but so i'd just make a bunch and I just drink
49:31
it. But this week I didn't make it. At my house once.
49:34
Really yeah, just going out. I was going over, I go over
49:37
to Stone Tower, to the Stone Tower. I go to Stone Tower and
49:40
I get they got a latte, but I do. I've been doing a
49:43
latte with an extra shot really good twelve ounce, twelve ounce. I had
49:47
been getting to twenty ounce, and like one day I'm drinking this twenty ounce
49:51
and I said to myself, what the hell are you doing? You got
49:52
twenty do you really need twenty ounces? Because like like Europeans, like they
49:59
would look at us and go like what are you doing? Like Europeans would
50:01
look at Americans when we walk around. Some people walk around with either a
50:07
twenty ounce coffee or like we go to a convenience store and you come out
50:12
of there with like a small barrel with a piece of garden hose that you
50:15
drank, like, hey, I need a ninety six ounce slurpy. Like
50:20
Europeans, as you, well, now they would look at that and go
50:22
like this is a very strange behavior, like why why why would you do
50:25
that? Like in some places, stay true to form, They'll give you
50:30
like a six ounce cappuccino and like that's it. Yeah, But like Starbuck,
50:34
Starbuck they'll get you whatever size you want. They just want. I
50:37
was in um the DC area for a couple of days last week and it
50:39
was ninety five, right, and still people are walking around at three in
50:44
the afternoon. They got a big that's a caffeine. Yeah, that's caffeine.
50:52
Okay. So here's here's what I told Jack to see if we have
50:54
ready, So don't put it up yet, Jack. So for those this
51:00
is for those of you watching on YouTube's um I'm at Big I'm at Big
51:06
twelve Media Day. Oh geez, I'm at Big twelve Media Day. And
51:10
you know, like everyone is there because tis the season for these guys to
51:15
bounce all over the place to go to these various ones. And there are
51:16
a certain National guys, right they're gonna bounce around. So I saw,
51:20
you know a lot of these guys that we read and follow that are National
51:23
College and you know, you know, I've been around long enough to I
51:27
know these guys with Pat forty, you know, I said, hey,
51:29
Pat, what's going on? And these other guys and then I saw and
51:32
then and then I saw him. I looked across the field and I saw
51:38
him and you know him, Oh he's Syracuse guy. Oh he is.
51:43
Yeah, you didn't know that. I did not know that. Oh yeah,
51:45
he's Syracuse guy. And so there he was. And he's different now
51:49
because when he was working for he's worked for the New York Times Sports illustrated
51:54
Yahoo Sports, so he'd be more he'd be more casually dressed when he was
52:00
working for Yahoo Sports. And I saw him and he had a very nice
52:07
suit on, and I said, my guy, my guy. So I
52:12
walked I saw him. I saw him at lunch, he was getting his
52:15
food and I said, Hi, Pete, what's up boy? He goes,
52:21
hey, man, what's going on? How you doing? Everything's good?
52:23
I said, I don't know if you know this or not, but
52:25
you have an arch nemesis. And this is exactly what I said, an
52:31
arch rival in Morgantown, Hoppy Kirchville. And he goes, He goes,
52:37
I know of Hoppy, and I said, he said, he offered this.
52:44
He said, Hoppy's very good, and I said, yeah, he
52:47
got a little pissed off here. Recently. I forget even what the story
52:52
was. I don't know was it the higher No, was the hire of
52:55
Renn Bake. No, it might have been the highre of Frind Baker.
53:00
You got, that was what it was. You got all bummed out when
53:01
Pete Thamil broke that West Virginia was going to hire Ren Bacon or something like
53:06
that. And I told you at the time, I said, Hoppy,
53:08
that's what he does, that's what he he lives, that's what his job
53:14
is twenty four to seven. That's not that's You're not gonna get that.
53:16
You're not gonna get it. And so you kind of put your towel between
53:21
your legs. And so we talked about Thamil. You know he owned you.
53:28
Yeah, yeah, exactly, but living living rent free in my free
53:32
But then you recently, not that we want the stories that we had to
53:39
do, but you recently beat Thammil to the punch on a couple of stories
53:45
involving Bob Huggins. So I told him, I say this, and you
53:51
had this, but I said, then he's being And that's when he said,
53:52
you know, Hoppy's very good, So go ahead, Jack, show
53:57
the picture. So that didn't good, that didn't crop well, or maybe
54:00
that's just our monitor, but that's me and Thamil and he was sending love
54:05
to you, well send her I'll send it right back. So there's it's
54:09
mutual respect. Yeah, so there you go. Well, I mean two
54:13
things. Yeah, you sent me that picture to made me laugh. Made
54:16
me laugh. But I mean there's it's interesting because there's there's no joy in
54:23
what is what has happened with the WV basketball program and with the coaching controversy.
54:28
But so you take no joy in that, uh as I don't.
54:34
As an alum and also as as a reporter on the story. At the
54:37
same time, it's a story and you are compelled to cover the story and
54:42
report on it. And we do opinion shows, so we have opinions about
54:45
it as well, so it's just part of the job. And look,
54:47
Tony, I'm very I would not be in this I'm very competitive, yes,
54:53
and um, you know, not not to the point of but I
54:58
just am. I mean that's the name. I don't think you can be
55:00
in this business and not be competitive. So that's part of it. That's
55:05
part absolutely. And then I mean you're elevated age for you for you to
55:12
still be competitive, to me is what makes you the difference maker. Let's
55:16
face it, man, people get older, they lose their eye, they
55:21
lose their desire, they lose their competitiveness. And when that happens, and
55:25
I see it a ton, it just you and you just become and the
55:30
younger people come up and they whip your ass. So my thought, and
55:35
I think your thought is too, you have to work harder, Yes,
55:38
as you get older in order to stay where you are, Harder than you
55:43
used to. Yeah. Absolutely, And at some point, probably in the
55:45
not too distant future, it's going to be well, I just I don't
55:50
have it anymore. I can't, and then it's over. Then somebody else
55:52
goes in. But you know part of it too, Sony. And this
55:54
is this is very very parochial, and as a West Virginian, I'm very
55:58
parochial. And that is that there are these stories. This has nothing to
56:01
do with Bob Huggins or or any of that. It has to do with
56:06
when there are West Virginia stories, West Virginia stories that are also national stories,
56:12
right, But I feel like that what preston West Virginia, whether it's
56:16
me or anybody else in West Virginia, that we should be getting those stories
56:20
first. And that's just you know, that's what that's that's how I approach
56:25
that. It wasn't that the whole storyline of the mansion whisper thing on CBS
56:30
that he comes to you, you break the stories. People in the White
56:31
House, people in Washington are listening to you. Yeah, that's that's kind
56:36
of what status right now. It's mere curial. It has comes up and
56:44
down a little bit, but ending depending on what gets said by certain people
56:46
at certain times. Anyway, the pieces out there, pieces out there,
56:52
the Tamils, I mean, it's what amazes me is that Tamil is is.
56:58
And I don't know him, he's a friend of yours, but I
57:00
mean that he is so well sourced. I mean that that he knows and
57:04
can not only knows, but can reach people. See that's the thing.
57:07
Who can you reach? Who can you get in touch with? Who will
57:09
take your calls and who will shed information? And by the way, a
57:13
lot of it is just is today is and you break a story today,
57:21
it lasts about five minutes, okay, and then everybody else's on. So
57:24
breaking it is. The fall up is probably more important in breaking. But
57:29
Thammel and people do what he do. They know everybody. They have an
57:31
unbelievable rolodex old man term unbelievable Rolodex. People take their calls and then they
57:37
just piece things together. Yep. They don't always have stories that say,
57:40
you know, head coach Tony Creedy said, but they call people and they
57:45
piece things together and they push it out and break stories correct. And if
57:47
you go to a media day, you will see those guys working those contacts.
57:53
So you know, when I saw Pete across the way and he was
57:57
talking to something, so he was long a conversation with Jokes stig Leone,
58:01
the athletic director at Oklahoma. So you build those relationships and then when that
58:07
time comes like okay, and you have that relation. That's how That's how
58:10
the whole thing works. Who was there from CBS? Do anybody CBS?
58:17
So some of the networks have their own room. Oh okay, it was
58:22
like serious X Time had its own room, ESPN had its own room.
58:27
Five you know, so they had just so you don't see him because they're
58:29
in Hey. Can I make a point about the Big twelve real quick?
58:31
The media days? Is that, um, when Neil Brown was asked about
58:36
that fourteenth position the preseason media, I thought that one of the things that
58:39
Neil Brown continues to do and I think his admirable is he speaks pretty honestly
58:47
for a coach. He's pretty candid. He will answer questions. And when
58:51
the question came up about the fourteenth and he didn't say I don't pay attention
58:54
to that, he said, I saw that it ruined my vacation. Here's
58:59
why that's wrong. I thought that was a I thought that was a candid,
59:02
direct answer to that instead of blowing it off. And I really liked
59:07
the answer that he gave. Yeah, I agree with you. I think
59:08
he does really well at that. Speaking of that today, as we record
59:14
the Big twelve, and I've been waiting for this, kind of like a
59:17
kid at Christmas. Yea, so fourteen schools. We're not going to play
59:22
everyone in basketball anymore, home and away. Okay, okay, so but
59:27
they did the one way everybody once at least once, right, well yes,
59:30
so, well, yeah, I guess so let me. I didn't
59:31
even do this, but West Virginia this is the new world. They released
59:37
the schedule and they say, here are the teams that you're playing home in
59:39
a way, Baylor, Central Florida, Cincinnati, Iowa State, and TCU.
59:46
Here's the schools you're playing home only Houston, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas
59:51
Tech. Here's the schools. You're only playing on the road BYU So West
59:57
Virginia women will fly to Provo to play at b YU. They'll fly and
1:00:02
only play on the road. At Oaks State. You don't mind the women's
1:00:06
schedule. This is women. This is women, okay, at Oaks State,
1:00:08
at Kansas and at Kansas State. So there's your new world. Um,
1:00:13
I didn't do Yeah, So well here's I guess you answer. I
1:00:17
had just answered your question without knowing answer. You're only playing five schools twice.
1:00:22
Well, that's interesting, play five schools twice. They're gonna play Baylor.
1:00:27
I like it when you played school twice. Absolutely, but you can't
1:00:30
do it anymore. Just too many numbers. And even when the other two
1:00:34
leave. So when the other two leave, we're gonna have twelve, twelve,
1:00:39
twenty four. You still you can still can't twenty three. I mean,
1:00:43
so you can't have eleven. You'd have when you have twelve, you
1:00:46
have eleven play so you'd have twenty two league games. You're not gonna play
1:00:50
twenty two league games. You could conceivably do it, but you're not going
1:00:53
What are you normally playing like eighteen eighteen. Yeah, so I thought that
1:00:58
was pretty wild. So you'll see what they're doing so away only. So
1:01:02
West Virginia will probably package the Kansas Kansas State games, and maybe they package
1:01:08
BYU in Oklahoma State. Maybe you go to Provo and still Water on one
1:01:13
trip. It's probably what you're gonna do. That's that hurts you a little
1:01:15
bit because you will you have seen when you in the second half of the
1:01:19
season, for the most part, you've seen everybody. Yeah, I mean
1:01:22
it's going to be February sixteenth to go, oh, I'm seeing BYU for
1:01:27
the first time. Well, yeah, think about this. You're only so
1:01:29
just on the women's side. You'll only see ten teams once. Interesting,
1:01:36
you'll only see ten teams once. Yeah, it is what it is,
1:01:39
man, It's just like, is it perfect? No? We had perfect?
1:01:43
Yeah, perfect two times eighteen league games that was. But it's just
1:01:47
gone like everything else, nothing nice lasts. Can't we have nice things?
1:01:52
Thanks? You can't have anything? Text or LEVI from Hamlin should I just
1:01:58
turned twenty one. I've been listening to about every episode last couple of years.
1:02:02
I was listening to you guys last two I'm away back from vacation,
1:02:06
probably Myrtle Beach. Probably, I totally agree. I now am optimistic,
1:02:12
but I just don't see West Virginia finishing last in the Big Twelve. With
1:02:15
the addition of these new teams. They are not used to competing every game
1:02:20
for a win. Even with a great team led by Gino Steadman Tavin,
1:02:23
we still had growing pains coming from the biggist. So he's saying that new
1:02:27
teams, it's not going to be a completely easy transition. By the way,
1:02:31
Neil Brown has to believe, has to believe that they will not finish
1:02:36
fourteenth to because if they do, he won't have a job. That's true.
1:02:38
He would be the first to say that I leave. I continues.
1:02:45
Also come out of the hot Gate, Hot beat penn State b pit,
1:02:49
and we are on the State of Pennsylvania. Love the show. I'll be
1:02:51
listening, Greg and Catlitzburg. Good day, gentlemen. In regards to the
1:02:55
media poll, I say, prove it we're not the Rutgers of the Big
1:03:00
Twelve. Prove it. Six six is not good enough. Don't get me
1:03:04
wrong. Like most fans, I generally like Coach Brown, would love for
1:03:07
him to be the man, but first they've got to prove it. And
1:03:12
he ends by asking this, who has more wins the football team overall or
1:03:15
the men's basketball team in league play? Well, that's swept away, that
1:03:22
is I think Greg has often offered these hypotheticals, and he's it's a so
1:03:27
men's basketball. You got to wait and see who's on said team. Who's
1:03:31
who's there. But that's a that there's that'll be a good question to have
1:03:36
um going forward. But Brad had Brad had it nailed when he looked at
1:03:40
the Las Vegas oddes. There is not gonna be a big win difference.
1:03:45
I mean, somebody might finish at the bottom of the league with two league
1:03:47
wins or somebody, but there's not there's not gonna be a big difference between
1:03:52
five and thirteen in terms of win totals four and four wins to six wins.
1:03:59
Right, four win it's the seven wins for somewhere in there. Super
1:04:01
small margin. Yeah, is what it's gonna It's gonna be like golf exactly.
1:04:05
It's gonna be a swing here there last one here person identifying as bo
1:04:13
from Summersville scope spreads in the occasional subs. Just wanted to give a suggestion
1:04:20
as the summer Interview series draws to a close. I think I can speak
1:04:25
for all Three Guys listeners when I say that you should do an interview with
1:04:29
Taylor Tyler consolidated. I think we would all enjoy hearing about his time behind
1:04:32
the scenes and new clowns. Keep up the good work during these dark times.
1:04:36
As a Mountaineer fan, thanks for all you guys do so. Our
1:04:40
new producer, Jumping Jack Carlson said that Bow from Summersville is probably actually Taylor
1:04:47
Oh could be like under an anonymous trying to get himself back onto the show.
1:04:53
Well. Also, just normally we don't talk about these employee situations,
1:04:57
but he did sign a non disclosure agreement when he left that he would not
1:05:01
reveal anything for this is standard standard operating procedure. Just you know. He
1:05:06
also signed on on his exit out. He doesn't know this, but he
1:05:12
did give us the ability to trash him at any time we want, so
1:05:16
as though we needed permission. Yeah, we'll just we have the green card
1:05:20
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1:05:27
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That's it actually had double producers jumping Jack's press and buttons, plus m
1:07:28
Benjamin Loeman. I saw Loman out there. He was out there too,
1:07:30
right, Yeah, he's helped tallest producer in the history of three guys before
1:07:35
maybe the youngest. Yeah. Yeah, he's like fourteen or fifteen years old
1:07:39
or driver's license. Yeah, but don't tell anybody, but I think he's
1:07:42
fourteen, fourteen or fifteen, he's become our thumbnail graphic guy in an area
1:07:46
of specialty, like what did you do this summer? As he gets back
1:07:49
to high school next year, I learned how to make thumbnails thumbnail graphics of
1:07:54
hoppy Tony And in this case, producers are getting younger. Have you noticed
1:07:59
that might be telling us something. We're getting here, we're getting older,
1:08:02
might be telling us something here. All right, we're out, Thanks for
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being with us. Back again at some point in time. Three guys before
1:08:10
the game over and out