Handley Asst. Coach Taralle Hayden Joins To Break Down Area Football, Handley Basketball’s Depth, And Why This Year Can Make History

The night before Thanksgiving, we sat down with community energy buzzing—clippers humming, a dog chiming in, and playoff scores rolling across our screens—and took stock of where our teams stand. We started with football: Skyline fighting through overtime, Strasburg rolling, Martinsburg and Jefferson setting up big West Virginia matchups. Then we pulled apart Handley’s playoff loss with respect for the kids and honesty about the margins: a young quarterback thrust into the spotlight, physicality that traveled well, a blocked punt that flipped field position, and the hard truth that adjustments win in November.

Then the gym lights switched on. Assistant coach and area photographer Taralle Hayden joined us to map a senior-heavy Handley squad that feels ready to make history. We dug into roles and identity: Will Braun-Duin spacing the floor as a premier shooter, Christian Dinges punishing downhill, Jaevon Brisco and Amari Brown setting the defensive tone, and Kyren Oglesbee owning the paint. The schedule is a statement—Huguenot to open, a marquee date with Oak Hill, real 4A tests with Denbigh and Varina, and a Central matchup that elevates the region. Terrell explained why non-conference choices are strategic, why in-state power games boost rankings, and how last year’s seven-man feel can expand to eight or nine when practice habits demand it.

What stood out most was culture. The staff is clear about buy-in, film, and reps that translate to college-level habits; they’re just as clear that moments belong to players who welcome pressure. We swapped stories about Spring Mills chatter, John Marshall’s ripple effects, and a youth pipeline that’s hungry for varsity minutes. Above it all: a simple, pointed goal—bring a banner back to Winchester Public Schools. If you care about local sports, role clarity, and how great teams are built across a season, this conversation will pull you in.

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Welcome Back And Thanksgiving Setup

SPEAKER_00 0:42

What's good with you, friend?

SPEAKER_04 0:43

We're back. I'm good. I'm good. Sorry everyone for the uh little delay, but yeah, I had things going on here at the house still going on. So if y'all hear clippers in the background and a dog barking, there's so much going on. Thanksgiving. Getting ready for Thanksgiving. But yeah, welcome back, everybody.

SPEAKER_03 1:02

Well, that's a special you got tonight. Tony

Local High School Football Playoffs

SPEAKER_03 1:05

and Chuck special for Thanksgiving, ladies and gentlemen. So we're gonna get right into it, man. Tony's gonna talk about the local football real quick, and then we're gonna do a lot about Thanksgiving, our favorite specials, and what we like about the holiday, you know, and um favorite foods, favorite movies, things that happen on Thanksgiving that we remember and shit like that. So get right into it, Tony, and go ahead and talk about special shout-outs to people like Strasburg and Skyline, my man Zaden down there. So teams are still moving on, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:34

Right. Yeah, so let's jump into local football scores. Uh last week we had playoffs. So, hey, what's up, Zach? Uh so told you a lot going on. But anyway, uh Haley filmed the job.

SPEAKER_03 1:50

You couldn't do it, man. Look, y'all know me, man. But Zach must be somewhere in Tony's crib, and that's where the state champions live over there. And Tony's coming all around Winchester, and Zach's the leader of them. So excited for that, man. Thank you to bring home the first state championship for basketball.

SPEAKER_04 2:07

Well, we'll we'll we'll we're gonna jump into that here probably shortly because we got somebody jumping on last minute who said they'd get on, so we'll just surprise everybody who the guest is.

SPEAKER_03 2:16

And if Zach's still around, look, Haley football's done, man. So tell him, get on over there to the court. Let's go.

SPEAKER_04 2:23

All right, real quick,

Skyline’s Run And Zayden’s Breakout

SPEAKER_04 2:24

Haley fell to Jefferson Force, 14 to 10. Uh Sharando fell to George Washington, 41 to 21. So both our Aerie teams there, you know, got knocked out the playoffs. Uh, let's see, Skyline destroyed. Or they didn't destroy it, it went into overtime. Yeah, 14 to 13 over uh Culpepper County, which over that.

SPEAKER_03 2:48

Shout out to everybody in front of Row and Skyline, man. The newest high school in the area, but shout out to them boys, man. Definitely, you know, I've been riding for Zada for three years since he started his high school career. Tony and I had him on as a guest a couple years ago, and man talked about him big, hyped him up, but my hype was real, just like it is tonight, and it is every night. But for that young man, to be better than his dad already is a junior man, no lie. You can bring Big Pat on right now. He knows it, he's proud of his son. Zavan's better than Trey Kern, he's better than Benjamin, he's better than Corey Morgan. Bo Morgan, I mean, no disrespect.

SPEAKER_04 3:24

Oh, you you went that hard. You went that hard.

SPEAKER_03 3:27

We've had a lot of greats in the area. Zalan's only a junior and led the whole state in rushing this year. He's still going, he's still got his team after they started like 0-3 and Haley whooped the water.

SPEAKER_04 3:40

See, we can do we can get it.

SPEAKER_03 3:41

Everything since then, this kid has ran for two, 300 yards every game since then. And man, with Andre Ford and the way Haley and all those kids at the offense and defensive line they have over there, they're playing great sound ball, man. And I wish that they win it all. So let's go skyline.

SPEAKER_04 3:56

Yeah, so their opponent will be kettle run because kettle run defeated Brentsville 35 to 12.

Upcoming Matchups And Class 3A vs 4A Talk

SPEAKER_04 4:02

So it'll be Skyline and Kettle Run in the next next round.

SPEAKER_03 4:05

Yeah, Haley actually beat uh Kettle Run this year, and did they know they lost? Haley doesn't just beat Kettle Run, doesn't you know?

SPEAKER_04 4:13

That was their worst game by far.

SPEAKER_03 4:16

That's what's not certain. Sometimes that 3A and 4A doesn't always mean something. You might have more kids in the school to make those divisions, but if you don't have Zaydan, Hanley, tell you I'm done living Winchester, but that's that's a whole nother discussion because I'm gonna say I'm just messing with everybody.

SPEAKER_04 4:36

But no, I was gonna say, I was like, does he go to Skyline his senior year or does he transfer?

SPEAKER_03 4:41

Well, unless him and Tristan want to be the best one-two punch in the entire country, which is not gonna happen because you know he still has a mother who has her beliefs and the way that he's been raised with those kids over there in the front row for his whole life, so I get it. But him and Tristan to me would be the best one-two punch, and we're getting all this laid it down, but y'all know me, man. If Hannah would have had Tristan, they'd still be and they would have been the number one seed over Danville. And but it is what it is, that's why I'm excited for basketball. So turn to keep going down because people like uh Martinsburg and all of them are still moving on, too, right?

SPEAKER_04 5:11

Well, I forgot, I forgot one. We forgot Stralsburg.

SPEAKER_03 5:14

Can't forget Strasburg and Skylar.

SPEAKER_04 5:17

Yeah, so Stralsburg defeated Woods uh Central because they're in Woodstock 35 to 6, and then they play Stewart's draft Stewart's draft to beat Buckingham 20 to 13.

SPEAKER_03 5:28

Stewart's draft is in the region, but that's a big game, man.

SPEAKER_04 5:33

So Strasburg, I I call it that's you know, Strasbourg's gonna win states in 2A.

SPEAKER_03 5:38

Hey, I I'm going for the Rams and the Hawks this week. I know that I get off work Friday at 6, so I'm excited, man. I know why we're talking about this Thanksgiving special. I actually work tomorrow, 8 to 8. Great Thanksgiving. You know, pick me up what you're doing, this and that da-da-da. But run for this place sucks. I'm trying to get to the to the point where I don't have to work on certain days, especially on these holidays to be with loved ones, but I gotta work eight to eight, man. But we're gonna get right into it about what we're thankful for. We're thankful for people like Strasburg and Skyline to still be alive and keeping hope alive in the area because it's not just Winchester with us, it's the entire Shenandoah Valley, but mainly the little area with Woodstock, Strasburg, Front Royal, Martinsburg, Hanley, or Winchester, you know what I mean? Like Hanley's not an area, but for some reason if Winchester doesn't want to build another high school when it calls Winchester High School, that'd be fire.

SPEAKER_04 6:30

Well, we'll we'll see, but I doubt that every if that happens, it'd probably be another high school on the way. It probably wouldn't be in our lifetime. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 6:40

Well, the first Winchester High School wasn't in our lifetime, so makes sense.

Regional Shoutouts And Community Pride

SPEAKER_03 6:45

But nah, man, shout out shout out to Strasbourg and shout out to Skyline, man. And we hope you guys both crush it in the regional championship and move on to States.

SPEAKER_04 6:54

Right, right, yep. I hope they I hope they do. You know, rooting for always rooting for these area teams, you know, and these kids.

SPEAKER_03 7:00

So, what you got was with Muscleman and Strasbourg? I mean, Muscleman and Spring Mills and Martinsburg and Jefferson and that whole panhandle.

SPEAKER_04 7:07

Oh, I got it. I got it right here.

SPEAKER_03 7:10

Because I know some of them's moving on.

SPEAKER_04 7:12

Right, right. So I got it right here. Hold on. I'm sorry, Chris, I was invited, sending the invite to our our guest. So all right, I'm back. So Spring Mills fell to Morgantown 34-33.

SPEAKER_03 7:25

Morgantown didn't win that game.

SPEAKER_04 7:27

And then uh Jefferson defeated George Washington 28-21, and university beat Huntington 35-28, and Martinsburg beat Welling Park 55 to 35. So then you have a match. Right. So you got Jefferson. So you still you have Morgantown plays Jefferson and University plays Martinsburg.

SPEAKER_03 7:49

Well, let's go Jefferson and let's go Martinsburg.

SPEAKER_04 7:52

There you go. And there's your matchups, man.

SPEAKER_03 7:55

And then you got some matchups tomorrow for Thanksgiving. Your boys always play on Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_04 8:01

Oh, we we're gonna jump right into that.

SPEAKER_03 8:03

Or we're gonna talk about we're gonna get this football out the way and then do our Thanksgiving special, man, so people can enjoy their night. You know, people's probably already drinking spiced egg, eggnog, and all that, man.

SPEAKER_04 8:13

Like, so you could you could be right. People getting turned

WV Panhandle Scores And Pairings

SPEAKER_04 8:20

up right now.

SPEAKER_03 8:20

And most people don't gotta work like I do tomorrow, so they're not worried about that.

SPEAKER_04 8:24

Right, right. Yeah, yeah. Unfortunately, you have to work tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 8:27

It is what it is, and I gotta work during the Macy's Thanksgiving parade, which happens two blocks over for my job. But this is why we're gonna be really busy. But it is what it is. I hope y'all tune into the parade and before the game, because it starts three hours before the four hours before the game. So y'all tune into that, man. It happens up the street. Any of y'all ever want to come up to New York and watch the parade? I'll make sure I don't work that day. We can go over there. But totally, let's get right into it, man. Like you're you're well, let's hey, let's let's let our y'all y'all just had a huge game against Philly, man. So y'all should be excited. If y'all keep within the teams, y'all might sneak into the playoffs.

SPEAKER_04 9:03

Well, here's our guest, everyone. Last second. What's up, Terrell?

SPEAKER_03 9:08

Yes, sir. Right in time, we we just got done shouting out the area teams that's moving on in the football playoffs. And now we're gonna get right into a couple of the NFL games tomorrow and then do our Thanksgiving special. But go ahead, go ahead and Mr. T, shout yourself out, tell them who you are and all that for the people that don't know who the best photographer in the area is. I didn't take a pause on that. Um that's a good pause, though. Right. My name is Terrell Hayden. Um, I am now an assistant coach for John Henley High School basketball. Um, I'm also known as the photographer in the area. Um, I'm a Penn State graduate and

Parade Plans And NFL On Thanksgiving

SPEAKER_03 9:50

I also graduated from Millbrook High School. Boom.

SPEAKER_04 9:54

No, I'm just Terrell, welcome up. Hey, just get on here and shoot your shit, man. Like we'll we will, of course, we're gonna jump into Hangley basketball because now you're on, so we'll get on that. But Chris.

SPEAKER_03 10:11

Because I unfortunately them 29 seniors without trust. Oh, football. I keep it real, you know that. You want you want to speak on seniors graduating from Haley, man.

SPEAKER_04 10:21

Let's let's speak. Chris, let's speak on the football game. Terrell was there. I I I feel Haley should have blown him out. It it shouldn't even have been that close. Honestly.

SPEAKER_03 10:31

I just I just think the lights were very bright for some people. I'm not gonna single anybody out. Um, I wasn't there, but I I'll keep it real, T. This ain't got nothing to do with you and Big Tony, but I I seen a few things, man, in life happened. It's hard, and those kids are all 15, 17 years old, at the you know.

SPEAKER_04 10:54

But

Surprise Guest: Coach Terrell Hayden

SPEAKER_04 10:55

right.

SPEAKER_03 10:56

We we know what happens, and I'll call it out, man. Sometimes people fall short, and it is bright lights, and I would think at that moment it may have been on that quarterback. I don't know him, I'm not hating on him, but that's just how I saw the moment.

SPEAKER_02 11:08

Right.

SPEAKER_03 11:09

Um, I just think that during the summer, because 707. Yeah, end of July. So right. He um Duncan just kind of got thrown into the fire. I just said on him, too. Yeah, they and that's a lot of that's a lot of pressure to put on a young kid, especially a junior that hasn't started at quarterback. And you already know how Haley athletics are. We owed ourselves at a higher pedigree than a lot of other programs. So and I love how you said that. We, even though ladies and gentlemen, he just told us he graduated from no lie, he's a coach at Haley now, he does a lot of stuff for the program, man. So that's good that you embody it. It's the same way when I switch companies and stuff. Like, do I embody the new company or no? Well, that's where I'm with right now. So I got you. Zach is a Milbrook guy, so right. Yeah, I can tell you one thing. I can tell you one thing. He's a Haley guy. No, no,

Hanley’s Playoff Loss: What Happened

SPEAKER_03 12:10

you know, we we Haley guys now, but I'm telling you, there's gonna be a lot of mad people when two Millbrook guys and a random guy brings Haley to the first picture. Oh, which train?

SPEAKER_04 12:20

Right. Well, people were already upset when they hired, you know, from when he got hired, and Haley's like, why didn't we hire? Which I get it. You know, I mean, because look at what he's done so far. Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:32

I bet you a lot, I bet you all those people that have said that regret saying that now. Yeah. Well, I'll still shout out Jordan Sugars and Calvin and Clayton and all them, because guess what? Out of all the greats we've had, we've never won states in basketball. Them young boys did it in a f a few years after the school existed.

SPEAKER_02 12:50

Right. Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 12:51

Shout out to Millbrook and doing that.

SPEAKER_02 12:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:53

TJ Williams, all of them, man. They won that championship.

SPEAKER_02 12:57

Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 12:58

I mean, overall, I feel like on Saturday, it just It just came down to who kind of wanted it more. You can kind of see that Jefferson Force in that second half just kind of wanted that game more. And you can tell by the physicality, like that's where I feel like we lack being on the north. We don't have that down south play style. Like, they played a lot of players, a lot of your football games. Like, I was watching the G Dow versus Random.

SPEAKER_02 13:31

Right.

SPEAKER_03 13:31

We say if Javis and Forge plays that way, they are literally gonna get flagged every time coming up here.

SPEAKER_04 13:38

Right.

SPEAKER_03 13:38

Javis and Forest probably had they had 11 penalties. Like all physicality things. And I just feel like they kind of adjusted more than we did. Like we didn't adjust to physicality as fast as they adjusted to what the referees are calling. You know what I'm saying? So that just kind of took over, also. Right. I mean, it comes down who was the better team, who's the better coach, and that day just Jefferson Force got got the upper hand on us.

SPEAKER_04 14:10

Right. Well, I think what hurt us was that you know, when the punt, you know, the punt got blocked, that and I knew you know, and they got in our in our territory and went

Quarterback Pressure And Physicality

SPEAKER_04 14:20

up. You know, I mean, hey, that to me the defense played lights out. Uh like they played well enough.

SPEAKER_03 14:27

Yeah, well, but yeah, I mean averaged like 35 a game. They only get 10 points, man, is disappointing. But look, but look, Hanley averages 35 a game. Jefferson Forest only gives up an average of eight. Yeah. Their defense brought it more, their defense was more stellar than Hanley's offense.

SPEAKER_04 14:44

Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 14:46

Hanley has the weapons. Jameer and Amari and Christian, they got, and and of course, Will Yoda, they got weapons, but it's tough, man. And like it's neither here nor there, but obviously it's seniors are graduating and Tristan's gonna play again next year. But if Tristan was there, I think they would have won last year and this year. But that's how life works. And another thing is, like, I just feel like towards the last stretch of the year, Hanley, well, we became kind of very one-dimensional. Like, people knew we won't run the ball 95% of the time. Right. We had Jameer who's getting uh 35 32 carries a game, but kids averaged 195 the last four games. He had over 100 yards on Saturday. You can't you can't knock that. Like if the kids averaging he had what 235 against Random, 195 against, or he had like 205 against James Wood. Like if a kid's doing that, give him the ball.

SPEAKER_02 15:50

It's the same thing, same thing with Zaydan. Right, right. Oh, I've coached.

SPEAKER_04 15:58

If you give him the ball three times, and I and I have no problem because I've coached football, and uh, I'll run the same damn run over until you said it's like you might know what's coming, but stop it. It's executed. So I get it. Yeah, but I I I get it, and that's in any sport, you know. Run the same thing until they stop it. You know, if they ain't stopping it, keep running. But I feel our downfall is, and you'll probably agree, is when we play these southern teams, we gotta stretch the field, right? You know, I mean, and we had the receivers to do. I keep we did. I mean, you got Yoder, Amari, Christian, who else, uh Isaiah Baxter was what, you know, to me, it what what did we have to lose, right? Right, like I mean, it's like let it all hang out. Like, you got a six-five wide receiver out there, Albert Christian, you know, and then Yoder.

SPEAKER_03 16:50

It's like I feel bad, air, air it out. I feel bad for the seniors, especially domino and shader's son Jojo, you know, because I got personal ties with him, but

One-Dimensional Offense And Adjustments

SPEAKER_03 17:00

end of the day, we fell up short. It's Thanksgiving, man. We thankful that they had a great season, they still won't finish. They still did. We're gonna move on to the basketball season soon, which the Rail's a big part of it. Congratulations to you, young man, for real. Thank you. Not everybody gets a chance to be a coach over there. That's buying right. I don't care if they from Millbrook and Sharan, though. Guess what? Y'all doing the right thing, helping them young boys from our area, man. We appreciate that.

SPEAKER_04 17:23

That's all that's that's all it's about. That's it. So the Terrell, we can jump right into it then. Since we just jump into Haley's basketball schedule, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:34

So big games, notable question games, right? With Kozak and Trey and them. How is it? You're gonna be on the sidelines with them? Like I bet. That's good. Yeah, y'all got squads on even the JV got squads because if y'all gonna keep uh jacking them down there, goodness. Our squads is loaded. It's just we we are so loaded with the thing is we're kind of like football, though. We have a lot of people. Hey, if my nephew plays, then y'all are extra loaded. And it's the same kid we've been talking about, Tristan. Because if he played ball, he's he's nice in that too. Yeah, yeah, right. Hey, Tristan, I ain't telling you what to do, and I know you got some things happening, but uh but hey, he has to talk for varsity, honestly.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

But listen, did you know he's on the swim team?

SPEAKER_04 18:23

Yeah, I do. Yeah, his grandfather told me, he texted me and told me he's going out for therapy shape.

SPEAKER_03 18:30

Because that's a hell of a workout.

SPEAKER_04 18:33

Yeah, that's that's a great move by his part to strengthen that leg and his whole body. Yeah, that's smart by him. That's immediately what I thought. That's a great move by him to do swimming.

SPEAKER_03 18:44

And no lie, we just had a great swim coach on last week in Ms. Lee, man.

SPEAKER_04 18:50

But I've always said, man, I I coached that boy, you know, when I first saw him at Daniel Morgan, and he all you can say is he's just got that it factor. You know what I mean? And not many kids have that. Uh it's just a killer instinct, and I keep it just incredible. I always said I've never seen a kid in middle school that had an all-around game, could finish at the rim, you know, mid-range game, can shoot the three, you know, play defense, do it all. And you read you don't see that much from kids, especially that young being it, you

Transitioning To Hanley Basketball

SPEAKER_04 19:20

know, to do that. It's just a physic, it is just a physical specimen.

SPEAKER_03 19:25

There's not a lot of kids in talent that have dogs in them, like they're just born.

SPEAKER_04 19:30

And that's a lot.

SPEAKER_03 19:32

You can't ask somebody to teach them how to be a dog, you just have to have that in you.

SPEAKER_04 19:38

And as coaches, yeah, it's like you gotta find out those ones. Like you just met, you know, in the football game, the lights get too big, but who are them kids that when the lights come on, they step up to the moment. You know what I mean? And that's it's like, give me the ball. You know, like there's not many like that that want it in their hands, you know, when the bright lights come on.

SPEAKER_03 20:02

You know, you had to deal with all that whole different competition, different schedule, different like traveling and everything else, man. You dealt with all that, so you can speak on that if you want to about get certain levels from being on freshman of JV football or basketball to the varsity and then getting from right, be even being you can be one of the greats in high school, but don't mean you're gonna make it in college. They think Shenandoah is a strong, but guess what? You might not make it at Shenandoah. Yeah, I mean like shout out to them. They are they did start sticking out now. Oh, they ball it, right?

SPEAKER_04 20:31

Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:32

They have a decent team.

SPEAKER_04 20:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:35

But yeah, let's go ahead. Let's go ahead and get on that schedule for it.

SPEAKER_04 20:39

Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, what you guys we open up against Huguenot, yeah, right?

SPEAKER_03 20:44

And Hanley smoked them recently too, a couple times. Huguenot. They have a lot of talent, they have a lot of speed, I would say. But Hanley's Yeah, they're athletic. Twice out of the last three years, I think. Hanley's beat them.

SPEAKER_04 20:57

Yeah, believe I believe so. I believe the first time we played him, it was competitive, but then have that like we beat them pretty bad the last couple times. Yeah. So yeah. And then, of course, the big the

Roster Depth, Tryouts, And Buy-In

SPEAKER_04 21:10

big one, Terrell, is Oak Hill. Everybody, uh, that being on the schedule.

SPEAKER_03 21:14

Even though they're not what they were when I was coming up, Tony, or even you, like I went to Oak Hill games all the time. They were amazing. They had too many NBA players, they still got talent, but Terrell, not allowed them like to go to IMT and all these academies.

SPEAKER_02 21:27

Yeah, but you got you also gotta think they do have about nine, three, four, five stars.

SPEAKER_03 21:35

Yeah, and their point guard is the biggest tristan.

SPEAKER_04 21:38

Their point guard just committed to their point guard just committed to Ohio State. Really? Okay, yeah, I didn't know that. Did not know that.

SPEAKER_03 21:53

Huh? Banley's point guard is trying to make a decision between Ohio State football or basketball. He loves basketball. That's that young Christian Dingis. Hey, look, he got that visit from Ohio State. I was like, damn, like he's doing it big. So you never know though, man. Where things take you. Virginia check.

SPEAKER_04 22:14

You don't.

SPEAKER_03 22:15

Nah, whatever, but right, right.

SPEAKER_04 22:18

So, Terrell, which which game, let me ask you, which game do you pops out? Like you got circled on the scale. It's probably, of course, okay. I probably just said it. But which one trick the area?

SPEAKER_02 22:29

I think. Well, obviously, for me personally, I I'll I'll answer both of those. Right.

SPEAKER_03 22:36

Me personally, you already know it's a milver.

SPEAKER_04 22:39

Yeah, right. Like that's like and air green's coming, he wants it bad.

SPEAKER_03 22:44

Eric I'm gonna be honest, because Millbrook's usually pretty good, but are they gonna be any good this year? Because I don't know who they have coming back. They can be good, it just depends on the kids if they buy air. Because Eric's a wonderful coach. Eric Greenwich. Right.

SPEAKER_02 23:03

Eric, right?

SPEAKER_04 23:04

And that's the thing, the kids over there at Millbrook buying in. How serious are they? You know what I mean? But yeah, I mean, you got Riley Baker, kind of you know, a senior, grew up in pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 23:15

I think their best kid over there. I think their best kid over there, that's not talked about a lot. Well, talked about when you watched the game.

SPEAKER_04 23:25

But Keon Blues, right?

SPEAKER_03 23:27

I believe he's their best player.

SPEAKER_04 23:29

Yeah, Keon Lewis.

SPEAKER_03 23:31

That kid, despite even like last year, despite us beating them so bad, he still had

Key Games: Huguenot, Oak Hill, Denbigh, Varina

SPEAKER_03 23:40

15, 18, 12.

SPEAKER_04 23:41

Yeah, he's he stood out. Yeah, he did it, he did his thing. Right.

SPEAKER_03 23:46

But the other game I would say that circled on mine because it's kind of new and it kind of gives us something new in the foray, and they're pretty good. Uh Denby. We played them January 13th at home. I feel like that's going to be a very good game for us. Just to kind of, because you know already, you already know we got Verana on our schedule. But just to give us a test, because I feel like that's something we lacked the last two years. We we didn't really test ourselves before the Spring Mills game. Yeah, yeah, no. Well, that was that was right before the playoffs. It was tough. Right. But the thing is, see, I I've seen all the comments, I've seen us, I've seen that we are ducking Spring Mills. But it's fucking Spring Mills, it's Martinsburg that I've been saying for you way before you guys came through.

SPEAKER_04 24:37

I'm like, man, why don't we ever but Martinsburg basketball team is they're mid, they're mid, you know. I mean, football, yeah, I can understand. I can see, but basketball, we but we but Hanley is scrimmaged, Martinsburg, right? Like the past, like in an invitation, whatever preseason.

SPEAKER_03 24:54

Scrimmages are still not the same. Like if people play Hanley tonight, or what did you say they had a game the other day? Christian and and Kyron, and none of them are there, so that's a whole different game when you're dealing with scrimmages and pre-season. Right. Right. Right. Yeah, but I mean, on the little Spring Mills allegation thing, it's just when we look to, well, first of all, in Full Nose, Spring Mills got added like three weeks before it was supposed to be.

SPEAKER_04 25:24

Right. Yeah, like last minute last season.

SPEAKER_03 25:26

One of the teams got like disqualified from their whole season, so they stopped playing. So we had to fill that game to fill out our schedule. So we went ahead and called Spring Mills. It was like, look, it can be a game for both of us. It'd be a very good game if we packed. So we scheduled that like probably three weeks before it happened. Right. So during the summer when we were scheduling our when we were scheduling, like for our season this year, we sat back and wondered. One, Spring Mills doesn't play the same type of ball we're gonna see down the stretch when we want to win a state championship. Two, they can't help our overall rankings.

SPEAKER_04 26:08

Because they're not in the state. Because they're out of

Spring Mills Debate And Scheduling Strategy

SPEAKER_04 26:10

state. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:11

I just think you guys should have played them again this year, just to give a one-on-one kind of feel. And because it was at Hanley this past year, maybe this season it would have been a spring mills. You know what I mean? Like a little one-on-one deal. But that's all. But I feel exactly what you're saying. We didn't schedule that game because we scheduled we were going to Oak Hill tournament, the uh the Arby's Classic in Tennessee. We're scheduled that one.

SPEAKER_04 26:36

Virginia this year.

SPEAKER_03 26:37

Yeah, Virginia High School.

SPEAKER_04 26:39

They moved, yeah, they moved it.

SPEAKER_03 26:40

We're going to that one. We have Denby, we have Rana, we have Kingsford.

SPEAKER_01 26:45

So we couldn't fit in. We only get a select amount of non-conference games. Of course. So we try to fill it up with teams that we are going to potentially see down the stretch.

SPEAKER_04 26:57

Yeah, down the stretch. Yep. Which is small.

SPEAKER_03 27:00

I I guarantee you, you guys can go 30 and 0. You're not gonna see Oak Hill in the championship. But I yeah, that's what I'm saying. So we're not gonna see O'Kill with the take candidates, but we we're definitely gonna see Denby. We're definitely going to see Verona. Verona. Yeah, we're definitely going to see those teams. We might even see Huguenot because they're right. They were in the region semis last year. Right. Um, we're definitely going to see those teams down the stretch. So just to keep trying to get a feel for them the first time, so that we're not surprised by what they can do during a time when we do you guys play central this year?

SPEAKER_04 27:38

Look, Ben, hold up, hold on. Ben Ben Bates, hey, Chris and uh Terrell, Ben Bates just chimed in and said, Brian Mitchell the PVI.

SPEAKER_03 27:46

Bro, Ben Bates is my big brother and I love Ben Bates. I was about to say about Clark County, Warren County, but I won't keep it while we don't play. Hold on. Y'all do play central? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:57

I was gonna point that out. I was like, that's an it, that's an interesting game because guess what?

SPEAKER_03 28:04

Hey, look, Owens, he's like that, and he keeps getting taller and taller. Tony, you know he played in the hoops roll for like two or three years.

SPEAKER_04 28:13

Well, they have they have uh Batese too, right?

SPEAKER_03 28:16

Is it Derek Batese? Derek is nice, too.

SPEAKER_04 28:19

He's good. Well, they have a great coach too. Central has a great coach.

SPEAKER_03 28:27

Jeff Whittle's their coach, he would definitely go down in the hall. He used to light us up when I was a kid, man. Yeah, so he was nice.

SPEAKER_01 28:34

We got asked to play in the Strawsburg little tournament they have,

Central Matchup And John Marshall Context

SPEAKER_01 28:40

and we just felt that Central was kind of the best team we could play out of that. So we kind of asked to play Central.

SPEAKER_03 28:47

But it just began to get away. Yeah, actually, I can get on that fact in a second. But um we asked to play Central just to not only help us, but only also help them because they're now that John Marshall's not there, they're potentially not going to see a team like that. Like us today.

SPEAKER_04 29:09

Right.

SPEAKER_03 29:10

Um but on the John Marshall thing, how they all transferred to Petersburg, he actually played them this summer. And just to kind of give an eye-opener to everyone. Um Zach chimed in too, man. Right. Something about he's he had it scheduled in one-on-one, but you know, it's something about the Arby's tournament and a lot of money involved and stuff, so yeah. Arby's class is donating our program $2,500 to play, $2,500, $2,500 donation, Oak Hill, and other premiere matchups. It was a new brand. So, like I would love to play Oak Hill. Ben Bates played against Oak Hill. I went to some games.

SPEAKER_04 29:51

Just to say you played Oak Hill, that's it, right?

SPEAKER_03 29:53

Yeah, but when we were kids, man, and and Ben left Park County and went over to Notre Dame, they was playing Oak Hill. I used to go to St. James. Games tournaments stuff where where your kids went to visit before right. So just like but they were a super powerhouse. I wonder how they are still now. Yeah, no, they're they're very good now. They're very good.

SPEAKER_01 30:12

So I think they got ranked like 12th in the country or something.

SPEAKER_03 30:15

But just kind of over easy for Haley to bring it for our kids. Let me look at Christian, Javon, Kyron, Amari. Haley has the ultimate senior team. Yes. But just as for a senior year, those kids have been playing together since they were what? Third grade, fourth grade? Yeah, Chris. All of them except for Will have been playing together.

SPEAKER_04 30:38

Yeah, so no, they played they played together.

SPEAKER_03 30:41

Will played when they were little, but he left for a while. That's what I'm saying. But the continuity is there. Right. So just kind of for them, they will get to graduate saying that they played Oak Hill.

SPEAKER_01 30:53

Like, not a lot of kids get to say that. And I don't know what people think or not, but we're gonna go down there and we're not just going to go.

SPEAKER_04 31:02

Oh, I I believe, hey, uh Terrell, I I don't know if you were there, but remember when we played John Marshall in Richmond?

Senior Core And Rotation Philosophy

SPEAKER_03 31:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:12

I think they was I don't I think they were up on him though for a second.

SPEAKER_02 31:16

We were up for a minute and then we were down four with five minutes to go.

SPEAKER_03 31:21

Like we're getting a two-possession game to a bunch of kids that have we we played seven of them had division one offers.

SPEAKER_04 31:28

Yeah, and and the thing is, dude, the parents like from John Marshall, like they earned their respect because they was looking like, where are y'all from? Blah blah blah, you know, like dude, they totally yeah, like I said, they just couldn't hang with the whole game because you know they're just too much, you know, so deep. But yeah, dude, if that first half, they was in that, they was in it competing with them.

SPEAKER_03 31:50

So well, that's one thing, Tony Nola. I know you're just a father of a kid that plays, but Zach was just over at your crib. You guys work together. I was just at his crib.

SPEAKER_04 32:04

Everybody was overrated, baby.

SPEAKER_03 32:06

Early in the NBA season, but the reason I'm more excited to have Mike Brown right now than Tibbs for the New York Knicks is because you've got to understand that you have a bench for reason, you have practice plays for reason, and you gotta use them and work out your entire starting five or top six or seven players, right? He's doing that, and we have injuries, of course, so that makes sense and it and it helps.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

Right.

SPEAKER_03 32:26

You guys have a lot of depth. So, yes, you have an ultimate senior team, but you guys have seniors on the bench, you have a lot of depth. You guys should try to get Jojo out there. I don't know if he's playing or not.

SPEAKER_04 32:37

He won't play. Everybody's tried.

SPEAKER_03 32:40

Look, if Tristan's healthy, Tristan can Jameer's out there now, though.

SPEAKER_04 32:44

Jameer Washington, which I think he's playing.

SPEAKER_03 32:46

Young boy Jack uh Gonzalez, he's nice. You guys have depth, man. So Snack unleashes it and saves some of the players for certain times because you guys are gonna run through some of that area competition, right? Like, you know what I mean? So, like and they and get them some playing time so they can get ready for y'all when y'all need them in the playoffs, right? So we had like in the last, I would say, I would say last year, it was kind of a stereotype going around that we only play six, seven, D. But a lot of people didn't understand what was going on on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday at practice. And they just expect those kids to play on Tuesdays and Fridays. Um, but I will say that a lot of those kids that weren't completely bought in and locked in, they're completely bought in and locked in now. So don't be surprised if we go eight, nine, eight this year. Because we have the deaf, we have the kids that are buying in, we have the kids that are playing hard, we have like we have those practice players that want to get those minutes. Like Jameer, Jameer hasn't

Roles, Defense, And Winning Moments

SPEAKER_03 34:00

played basketball since eighth grade.

SPEAKER_04 34:01

Right. Yeah, but Jameer came out to practice.

SPEAKER_02 34:05

So Jameer hasn't played basketball since eighth grade. Amari hasn't touched the basketball since June. Okay, right. In today's practice, those were our two MVPs for today's practice. Those two. Right.

SPEAKER_03 34:19

Let me ask you this, because you just said practice, but football in the Saturday, it's only Wednesday. Right. Where were tryouts? So no no no. So we had those kids make the team. So listen, so like I know Amari's already had on it, but for real, where's the where's the tryouts?

SPEAKER_02 34:38

They still have the we have to legally like that's why they couldn't play. So they lost Saturday, they came Monday, that was their first day of tryouts. Then we had the scrimmage Tuesday, and then Wednesday is this was their second day of trials, and the third day of trials is on Monday.

unknown 34:54

Right.

SPEAKER_03 34:55

So we're like kind of cutting it down, but it's just all those kids that all those kids that came from football, six of them out of the seven were already on the team because we're trying to keep the same group, and I wouldn't say keep the same group, we're not knocking anyone from sliding up in there. But if you you can't be better than those six or seven, then we we gotta do we gotta do what we gotta do for us to be the best we can be. So that's six or seven football players, right? Which doesn't include the younger guys that are aren't playing football, Jack the Jack, and all those kids. That's not including Will, Javon, and those young men who don't play, and they're starters, right? So deep.

SPEAKER_04 35:51

Yeah, I'm telling you, a kid that's being slept. I don't think he's being slept up, but a younger one.

SPEAKER_03 35:57

Shout out to C Russell Tony Big Ben.

SPEAKER_04 36:01

I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say Silas. I like Silas.

SPEAKER_02 36:04

You giving up our hidden piece. You get to I love it.

SPEAKER_04 36:08

Hey man, people already know.

SPEAKER_03 36:10

Come on, Silas Miller from the version this year, yes.

SPEAKER_04 36:14

Oh, Silas is a dog, and no proposition.

SPEAKER_03 36:16

So you got people like him and Jack coming off dropping, but the thing is, and that's like junior, those are JV versions of Will right now. So y'all have so much depth, and then the Braxton and Keon, and some of these kids get to play it, and then the Mark, man, you guys are deep. Like really deep. You guys can start your bench at James Woods, Sharando, and a lot of area

Who’s The Alpha And How To Use Depth

SPEAKER_03 36:40

teams for the city. Listen, listen. So we have we had for our two scrimmages since our football players couldn't play. Uh-oh, Will is out right now, Devon is out right now.

SPEAKER_02 36:51

Right.

SPEAKER_03 36:51

So we had Jack, Aaron, Silas, Timmy, and Asher.

SPEAKER_04 36:58

Right.

SPEAKER_03 36:59

We went to Briar Woods and won with that five and no subs. Played yesterday against now, Chris. Played uh yesterday against SpongeBob and tied with them.

SPEAKER_04 37:13

Right.

SPEAKER_03 37:13

What do you mean now? I said use the bench, you guys are super deep. Yeah. They are when Lang and all these guys came over from the football team, and Dixon's always like, Oh, don't worry, wait till the football team comes. I used to be like, I don't care if Wayne is.

SPEAKER_04 37:29

Well, I'm just saying that this this class has been groomed since seventh grade. You know, crew. We were 15 deep in Daniel Morgan. I remember stomping teams like 80 to 10. Javon, Christian, Amari, uh, Jameer, Isaiah Baxter.

SPEAKER_03 37:48

Like, oh and two minutes last year. He's nice. So at least I won't say he's nice. This class, all right. I'll I'll I'll be quite frank. I'll throw a name out there. So he was a part of that group that was not buying in. So if you can't buy in during practice, we can't trust you to play the game. You talking about Baxter. Now, yeah, all right. Now I will tell you now, Isaiah Baxter has bought into everything we're saying. Isaiah Baxter is learning all the plays. Isaiah Baxter is doing everything he can do in his possibility to get on the floor. And if he continues to do that and continue to excel what he can do, now I've seen Isaiah play for a long time.

SPEAKER_04 38:39

Right. Isaiah is more of a pickup player than a than a uh like a street ball, like yeah, yeah. I can agree, but but his his seal is so high that like that boy because he gets nervous playing in front of coaches and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 38:55

Right now, when we turn that outside civics rec center play and put it into a system, that's a great, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 39:05

I love that, yeah. That's exactly how he is, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:08

That's a great player, and right

Culture, Development, And College Pathways

SPEAKER_03 39:10

the thing is he's open to doing that now. Right now, last year he was not open to doing that, right? He just, hey, that's cool, that's why we always moving forward.

SPEAKER_04 39:19

And I and I think, and I'll just keep it real, because like you say, he didn't get a lot of minutes, which I don't know, you know, I wouldn't at every or none of the varsity practices or whatever, but you know, you talk about buying in, but it's honestly like I think a lot of them kids when they finally do get in the game, you know what I mean? And some it's like they're just they're pressing too much. Like they want to, like, oh, I gotta get mine, you know. I just think that's and you know that it's like, okay, now I'm in the game, I want to try to shine, you know.

SPEAKER_03 39:44

Right. But the thing is, I can't blame them for being that young and thinking that. Right. But at the same time, there's two sides of it. There's no great area in the middle where they just go out and play how they're supposed to play. There's one side that wants to shine and do everything, and then there's another side that's too timid because they don't want to mess up. Right. There's always two sides of that. And I just feel like as seniors, they've matured a lot and they feel that even if they mess up, they're still gonna get another chance.

SPEAKER_04 40:19

Right.

SPEAKER_03 40:20

They're still gonna get a chance after a chance, but there's gonna come a time where those chances run out, and we we it's out of our control. If we give you the chance and you don't take advantage of the chance, then we gotta go to the next guy. So go talk to Jojo, but like unfortunately, you're the player of the year. Your chances on the grid island as a high school champion is right now, but you can win investment. I'm gonna go ahead and do it. Well, I think what is Joe?

SPEAKER_04 40:47

I think I think he's wrestling, right? He's gonna wrestle, I think, is what he's gonna do, right? Yeah, I think he's gonna wrestle.

SPEAKER_03 40:54

You can wrestle and play basketball because you can go to the games and play basketball and play the practice, but you can still wrestle and just be that guy.

SPEAKER_04 41:01

But I get it. We know Joe Jojo is a football player. That's his you know, but football is he could, but he could help the bands. Like I said, he's that like Dennis Rodman type out there.

SPEAKER_03 41:10

Christian was a basketball player, he still is, right? But he went and played football. Jojo can do the same and come back and play and help him for that state championship.

SPEAKER_04 41:18

Yeah, but Christian, you know that people forget Christian has played football his whole life since he was seven. It's like he forgot how to play football.

SPEAKER_03 41:27

You know, that's the JoJo's played basketball. My point is his boy came and tried to help him win states as a senior. Now, look, it didn't happen, unfortunately. Now come help Christian and Jayvon and them try to win.

SPEAKER_04 41:42

Very true. Yeah, as Christian and I won't go back to hey, we went and played football.

SPEAKER_03 41:45

It's your senior year, as all of us know, because we've all graduated.

SPEAKER_04 41:48

I don't know, Zach. You're on here, right? Is it too late for Jojo to come out? We'll still try to get him.

SPEAKER_03 41:55

No, it's not too late. That's that's the one thing I will say.

The Window: Why This Year Matters

SPEAKER_04 42:00

No, no, like Grell said, there's six of them locked in. They made they just still give me this. Oh, they gotta try out. That's why you already know who's on the team.

SPEAKER_03 42:13

Regardless of who you are, what you were in the past, you still have to show up today, put your feet on the line of the air. Oh, well, of course. Yeah, yeah, no, no, that's why. A kid that's grown and just worked on his game so much, it might be like that. Now, of course, those kids are probably make the team, but they should still have official tryouts. I think that's right.

SPEAKER_04 42:31

Oh, the what they do, Chris. They still gotta go through the protocol.

SPEAKER_03 42:34

I know, but you're already like, nope, nope, Christian.

SPEAKER_04 42:37

But I'm just saying we know who Dev is.

SPEAKER_03 42:41

Go ahead to real. This is how like this is how season or winter season works. So if you're playing a full sport, we still have our date for the tryouts. So our date for the tryouts was November 10th. Right. Everyone that wasn't playing a fall sport tried out. Okay, so we have the select few that made the varsity team from that first phase of tryouts, and now when we get to the second phase, which is the football players, we have you've already kept those spots open for them. No, it's no our numbers are so down right now that you like, so we all start trying out together, okay? And then we pick from that tryout who can come try out for varsity the next day.

SPEAKER_02 43:31

Because if you can't make it through a JV trial, you're definitely not gonna get through a varsity trial. Right. Okay, right.

SPEAKER_03 43:37

So we picked our select few, and honestly, there is probably not another kid that you will find at Ali that's better than those six that already had their spot a lot.

SPEAKER_01 43:51

You know what I'm saying? Because it's just our numbers are down, kids don't come dry out.

SPEAKER_03 43:59

I don't know what it is, but because they know the kids have been there.

SPEAKER_04 44:03

Well, that's why you guys always come to me, because like I said, being a day, I see them come up for and and usually there's a gap. Being a day, you know, you have that like like for example, Silas Miller when he played in eighth grade, he was the one the best by far. That was it. He's the only one let I think from that team that you so you know I mean, there's always like usually a gap, yeah, you know, between classes.

SPEAKER_02 44:27

It's just like there's also those kids that

Youth Pipeline And Future Outlook

SPEAKER_02 44:30

just flat out don't want to play basketball because and I'm not I'm not knocking like what you had in Gonzague going on at Damon Morgan, but you you saw our practice, right?

SPEAKER_03 44:44

Our practice level is completely different because we have more like mature kids, we have more physically fit, we have more faster kids. So we have to ramp it up for those kids to get to the college level, like their steps. So you go building college. We what we are trying to do and the way we run practice, we're trying to get you ready for college. Right in the back of our minds, like obviously in the back of our minds, we want to win a state championship. That is our main goal, but our ultimate main goal is to build you as a man one and build you as a college player too. If you have that, if you want to play college ball, you know what I'm saying? So, like, we have the kids like Javon, we have the kids like Will, we have the kids like Kyle, we have the kids like Christian, we have the kids Mari. Mari probably gonna go play college football. I say it, probably going to play college football. Like those kids that know they're going to college, we try to build that first. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, and there's only so much we can do to build a college football player. Like, we can build your character, we can do all that. But on the basketball side, we are going to do everything in our power for you to be able to exceed at the next level. Right. Right. And that's why I feel like we I wouldn't say we differ from other programs, but I just feel like it kind of shows in advance.

SPEAKER_04 46:17

Like, obviously, we have a lot more

Final Thanks, Shoutouts, And Sign-Off

SPEAKER_04 46:20

talent than well, that's what I always say, Terrell's like, you know, because I could I'm like, I just let the product sell itself. Right. Like, bro, when I first started at Daniel Morgan, they'll tell me I'm recruiting kids. And I'm like, oh, I recruit my middle. Like, what do you think? I'm like, no, just I let the products if you if you're a great program, like hey, you know, whoever, Petersburg, whatever, you know, kids want to go there, right? I mean, I'd say like, but you get to high it's the same thing with Martinsburg.

SPEAKER_03 46:48

Why you've never been investigated for it.

SPEAKER_04 46:52

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 46:55

The freshman year.

SPEAKER_03 46:56

Two, everybody wants to go to Martinsburg because of their culture, they're pro, yeah, their brand. They built that from the floor up, and now people just think that we are quote unquote recruiting, but people don't know they started with you, Tony. Like Will started with you. Like, well, not me exactly.

SPEAKER_04 47:20

That was a not you exactly.

SPEAKER_03 47:22

No, let me keep it real with y'all.

SPEAKER_04 47:23

Y'all but yeah, I I know I know what you're saying.

SPEAKER_03 47:26

Yeah, no, he's scared, so he keeps trying to talk. He knows what I'm gonna say. Y'all knew that those six or seven kids were no matter what, they're most of the best players on the basketball team, so they're gonna make those spots. Yeah, right. Now let's get down to the nitty-gritty. Out of all those great kids, and J Bon and all of them's going to college, the best player on the Hanley's basketball team this year is who? The one that's gonna really drive that force when you okay see who's their best player? They got great players, they got shit and he put you on the spot too.

SPEAKER_04 48:00

Can't answer that or no, I can't answer that.

SPEAKER_03 48:02

I mean, I guess it's him, it's you too, Tony. I'm talking to General, I'm talking to C Russell and Ben Bates and Zach and everybody that's watching right now. So you gotta answer you gotta carry your team through a one or two individuals and then keep going. So Haney has Christian to Will. Let's keep it real. J Von Kavan and Lamar, they're all nice. That's why I say Haley is deep. Right. You got Will, who's one of the greatest shooters in the entire state, right? And you got Christian, who's one of the greatest athletes in the state, who keeps getting bigger. Run the ball through these two dumb men, and then you got other college players like Kylen and Jake Found and them filling it. Man, Haley's deep. They got college football players on their building.

SPEAKER_02 48:40

Right. So to answer your question.

SPEAKER_03 48:42

Well, you gotta run that ball through those two kids, and this year can't just be about will. I'm not even being funny. Christian is getting so big and so dominant as of just driving force. And I want them to be more dominant because I sometimes I think Christian's timid. I'm like, dude, get that ball, blow past him bang, and we might not dump them to the basketball.

SPEAKER_04 49:00

Dude, I haven't because I've coached these kids from what you've coached. I'm telling you, because I know who has the dog. What did we talk about earlier, Terrell, when the lights come on, right? Who's gonna step up? Right? I I gave two right off the bat. Will Christian. I just when the lights are bright, they're not gonna buckle under pressure. Okay, would you agree? Those those two right up. They've hit big shots before, and you know, in close games, game-winning shots, both of them.

SPEAKER_03 49:34

I would just think, I would just think, I would just think to answer your question, Tuck. We don't have a singular best player, we have the best player at doing one aspect, like our best shooter is obviously Will. Right. Our best defender are Mari and Javon. Our best driver is Christian. Our best post-up man to play in the pink is Kyron. Like we have best kids. Which is a great team. Right. Yeah. So we don't have, we can't, we can't answer.

SPEAKER_04 50:05

Yeah, they're all good at one single thing.

SPEAKER_02 50:11

See, like our thing, why do you think uh so last year during spring mills, Tony? You know this. Last year during Spring Mills, Jayvon shot two shots. Right?

SPEAKER_04 50:23

Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:24

It wasn't it was in the locker room during our KYP, during practice all week, Jayvon's one job was to stop a quasi. Guess how many points a quasi had that game?

SPEAKER_04 50:35

He didn't have many.

SPEAKER_03 50:36

Four.

SPEAKER_04 50:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:37

Aquasi hit six threes a game prior to that. He had four points.

SPEAKER_04 50:41

Hey, Jay.

SPEAKER_03 50:42

Hey, I gotta say, about us is we have kids that are great at doing their job. Sir, yes. Kids that buy in, and when we have a system like we have, we have a culture like we have, you have to buy in to what you can do to make everyone great. Right you know what I'm saying? So, like, I understand when the when the bright get when the lights get bright, everybody thinks that it's just Christian and will and the scoring part. But people don't see the part where Jayvon's locking up their best player or Martin. Oh, I agree. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to say because OKC is so damn good right now with all those young kids they have. They're your age, most of them. Right. They're so good because they have all that talent and they're so deep, like Halen. But they still have their Shays, their Chets, and their Jalen's. Let's be honest. I'm not even hating on nobody else. So you've got to use them as those driving forces and be happy and thrilled that you have so much other talent. But the thing is, the thing is, on the OKC port. Well, OKC has a hundred Christians and wheels. I'm gonna be honest. The thing is, the thing is, when we had, like I like I was saying, like when you're good at your particular role, like all right, put it like this Kasen Wallace on the I love him. Okay, he is a straight 3 and D player, and he is getting a bag just off being a 3 and D player and doing his job. You know what I'm saying? Right. All right, so like another thing, dude, Derek White. Oh, he's a beast. He might be awesome. He he built his name straight off 3 and D. I see I see the sign behind you.

SPEAKER_04 52:35

Right.

SPEAKER_03 52:35

Miles, Miles McBride built his name and gets paid off 3 and D.

SPEAKER_02 52:41

So that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03 52:42

He's getting built, and he's getting paid off doing his particular job. Now, there's there's always those all-stars on the team. Obviously, when you look at our team on paper, you're going to say Christian and Will are the best players on our team, and we run our but Jamara it might be Jayvon and on Friday, it might be Calvin Clark. Yeah, I mean, I've always said or even Silas, like who once a zero to like the pressure.

SPEAKER_04 53:10

I mean, I said this a few years, it's well, I tell these kids all the time in the best. It's like they're all gonna get their moment. You know, I mean, that you know, one game might be Will, one might be Chris. And then Amari will have a hell of a, you know what I mean? But us being coaches, we see, like I say, I do watch defense. Like, I hey, trust me, I noticed J Von shutting people down, you know, locking people up.

SPEAKER_03 53:31

I'm gonna be honest, but y'all, if Tristan played basketball this year, he might be the best player on that team over Will and Christian. But that's just how I think, and I've seen I'm not but that would be how much amaz more amazing they would be. That's why I want Jojo on him to come out and play because they do well.

SPEAKER_04 53:47

But definitely add it would definitely definitely add more depth. I'd say that.

SPEAKER_03 53:53

I think he has the talent to really win it all this year. I say that a lot because of the thing is talent, but we never do it, Terrell. I hope that finally, as you being a coach up there, you can help figure some. We have the talent, we have the talent, but as everybody says, everybody knows this talent can only take you guys so far. Look at Hanley football. Look at Hanley football, right? Talent can only take you guys so far until you run into that brick wall, and what are you gonna do when that brick wall standing there? You know what I'm saying? So how many teams do you know of when big games and NFL championships and college championships, and their star quarterback wasn't there? No, that kid that kid Hensler or whatever, that's his name, right? Hensler, yeah, he played great overall. He had a great year. The team's 10 and 2. Shout out to that young man. It's tough. But like you said, they put in a position and never even started before.

SPEAKER_04 54:48

That's tough. Yeah, he still had a great year.

SPEAKER_03 54:51

But what people are even looking at is Hanley didn't have their starting actual quarterback, and they did that great, right? Right, and the thing is gonna win it this year, and Terrell's one of the coaches is gonna help get it done. Man, I'm pumped, man. I'm excited. So we we we're working towards that. The thing is, we just trying to build a culture and build something. See, the culture's there now, Terrell. Have you been to nothing not no funny? Yeah, no, no, no, no. The culture is if Haley can't win it this year, if Haley doesn't win it this year, because it's not that you can't, because you can't. If Haley doesn't win it this year, I'm not being funny, but whatever Tony just said about there's gaps, there's gonna be a gap.

unknown 55:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 55:31

Yeah, but once they get to high school, it all you know, I mean it it all balances out.

SPEAKER_03 55:35

But what you just said, Tony, is the gap, not that the closest for whatever, but right 29 seniors in football, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 55:41

That's true. That's a lie.

SPEAKER_03 55:44

It's three of the five starters, and then like six of them play this the top eight minutes of the players on the team. It's not gonna be easy to get right back. Yeah, I'm a firm believer that Will come back as senior.

SPEAKER_04 55:57

But football has a lot more players, too.

SPEAKER_03 55:59

I don't even think Will come back, and you guys don't have to speak on it because you're someplace and you're a coach. But those kids are all graduating. That's a lot to ask, but Will's gotta do what's best for him. If I was Will, I wouldn't come back. I'm like, shit, they all out, all right. He might start. I mean, you guys think I just think Will has a character, he's very loyal to what he has started, which would be great for Hamley. You guys still have Jack and Silas and all those kids.

SPEAKER_04 56:26

Well, there's a plenty coming up, so there's a you you you know him, Tony.

SPEAKER_03 56:31

You you know, I don't know all of them. I'm trying to put me on.

SPEAKER_04 56:35

Asher, he's oh there's a few I can name that I know that are but I'm not saying that's coming up.

SPEAKER_03 56:42

That's gonna open a lot of eyes, even even when little Amari gets stronger. He's Brandon. There are gonna be two kids there. Is that Travis and Jessica?

SPEAKER_04 56:52

Oh, yeah, he's talking about my eighth graders playing fresh Brand Amari and Brandon. They're nice, but now Brandon's raw, you know. He his IQ's gotta be. Yeah, yeah, it's uh J Von's cousin, Amari Nelson.

SPEAKER_03 57:06

That those I would say those are two kids that can open a lot of eyes if they buy in this summer and really perfect their craft, right? And a lot of people just think that just because we're losing Kristen Kyron, J Bond, Mari, and all them, that we're just want to lay down Haley. Never laid down.

SPEAKER_04 57:28

No, bro. I've I've just said Terrell, you know, there's there's a lot of talent still coming up.

SPEAKER_03 57:35

Y'all want the only states, but Haley, even though we've never won it, we've never won it. Right. We I mean for the first time when I was a senior, we were the basketball state championships for the first time since the 1979 season, which I wasn't born yet, and we finally made it my senior year, right?

SPEAKER_04 57:52

Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 57:53

Haley's never won it with all the greats from LA to Marcel to JJ to Leech, the Chris's gonna get in his feelings because they've never won it. Too many people we've had, we've never won it. Millbrook did, but one thing I will say, unlike Millbrook or anybody else, Sharando, Wood, and all of them, they all got great teams, but they can go. Haley always has it. That's why it disappoints me that we lose every fucking year in states. But I'm gonna put a lot of pressure on you, young man, because y'all getting it done this year. It just, it just like even only y'all getting it done, your son's getting it done, and I hey, I hey, I hope like ever since they've been in middle school, exactly since seven.

SPEAKER_04 58:33

That was the that was the class put on the spotlight, you know, future state championship. So hey, they all they almost got it last year. Like, hey, you know, what we lose by two points to to uh ch I can't remember their damn name now. They lose two in this variety, yeah. So they almost did it. I really felt you know, hey, they won the state could have done it last year. Didn't they?

SPEAKER_03 58:57

They did.

SPEAKER_01 58:58

Oh, they lost. No, they lost, they lost to Atley, and Atley had 11 seniors.

SPEAKER_04 59:04

Yeah, Atlie was they was deep.

SPEAKER_03 59:08

Hold on, hold on, TH. What did they have?

SPEAKER_01 59:11

They had 11 seniors.

SPEAKER_03 59:13

How many does Haley have this year in the basketball team? Like seven to eight.

SPEAKER_01 59:17

So we got Christian, Kyron, Jayvon, Maury, Zaquan, Keon, Isaiah. Seven or eight.

unknown 59:28

Woo!

SPEAKER_01 59:29

Yeah, it's eight. Yeah, that's that's that's a lot.

SPEAKER_03 59:33

It's not 11. That's 11 out of 12, but seven, eight, eight, that's a lot. It's Hamley's year.

SPEAKER_05 59:40

Yeah, no, it it is. I can see that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 59:44

Well, so no, no funny stuff. I don't know all the parents and everybody else involved, but I've seen Silas Silas won MVP at the Hoops for Hope second year, man. I remember that young kid. He was in middle school, seventh grade, maybe.

SPEAKER_04 59:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 59:55

Right. That's that I was.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:00

Thinking of these kids because when I first coached Silas, he was on one of my first travel teams. He he was sick, couldn't get the ball down to court. You know what I'm saying? He turned it over, but Nat did he just totally turned it around. You know, I was so hard on him.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:13

That's good with eight seniors already on the team. Silas, that means there's only three other spots.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:18

Right.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:19

Because I'm pretty sure that's gonna be one of them, but good luck, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:22

But hey guys, hey, I love it. We can we can go on and on and on. We've been over an hour, man. For real. It's Thanksgiving. We go you gotta go watch your next and let's end it. Uh Terrell, you got any shout-outs or anything like that? Anybody?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:37

Um I mean, obviously, shout out for opening up and giving me this chance to really kind of open my college coaching career. Um obviously I've always wanted to be a coach and to be uh varsity head coach of the number one 4-A team in the state five months after finishing college basketball. Right is just kind of a blessing in his obviously kind of guys, you know, he would he all he can do to put me in this position now. I just gotta take advantage of this. Um but I mean, shout out to you guys for having me on. You know, uh I've tuned in a lot. Um but just overall, man, just a lot of people want high hope for us. And we're going to do everything in our power to really fulfill those. Right. Right. That's what we're working towards now. Um we have the most ramped up practices ever. Now that our football players are here. Um and our main goal in our mind is just try and make history and bring that first thing championship back to Winchester Public Schools. Let's say that.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:54

Right. Bring it back to Winchester Public Schools. And hey, I've been I've been out there to practice, man. And I say, hey, you're great with the kids. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're you're a great coach. Yeah, yeah. Use those I'm learning, I'm learning from you, young man. Coming after but I was asking questions. So hey, I'm I'm out there learning from you. But hey, hey guys, happy Thanksgiving. You know, have a blessed Thanksgiving. Yeah, big light with your family. Oh, yeah, Mike. Yeah. So hey guys, hey Terrell, thanks for coming on. Enjoyed it. You can come on anytime, man. Talk bad, whatever you want to talk about. You can jump on anytime. But they thanks for getting on last minute. You look sharp with that haircut.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:36

Hold on, pause though.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:39

There you go. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:40

Best barber in the state.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:41

Look at that.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:42

Basement.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:43

There you go. Yeah. Christy Cups.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:48

That's what they call it. That's what it's talking about. Hey, that's a fine name, no lie.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:56

Hey, man. But have a great holiday, uh, Tarrill. All right, bro. Appreciate you.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:02

I get you.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:04

Nah, dude, he jumped off. Chris, you just be rambling, rambling, rambling.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:09

And look, you got bad hype because of your son. I'm just cut him out and like give him the ride. You're like, oh, oh no, they can all ball up.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:19

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:20

Well, Chris, hey, yo, you got an issue. You gotta call it out. Like, leave the truth. I know J Ron accounting him to ball, but in the day, you get William Christian the ball, but in the day, Christians say Christians are Giannis to the yoke. You gotta keep it real. Like, I'm not scared to call shit out.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:36

No, bro. I mean, I've we've had these discussions. We we all know. I just don't, it's my son. And of course, people go, Oh, well, Tony's gonna pump up his son.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:44

Yeah, but no, no, they can all ball, yeah. Of course they can ball, but uh, we know that every does that can Jalen Wayne and Chet Hogan ball? Oh, yeah, yeah, they're not SGA, right? And that's what I was trying to say about Christian. That's all I'm not hating on. None of them, they're nice.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:01

Oh, yeah, that none of them at all. They're all great kids.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:04

That's the best player, Pippin and Robin who are the greatest ever. They weren't like right, right.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:10

Well, Chris, hey yo, bro.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:13

Hey, yo, you didn't even talk about mac and cheese, you didn't even talk about Chevy Chase.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:17

Well, what do we mean? What you want to keep going talking about Thanksgiving dinner or something?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:21

What were you supposed to do?

SPEAKER_04 1:04:22

What what what are you gonna eat for dinner? Uh Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:25

Well, I gotta man bullshit, but end of the day, you know what I'm gonna eat tomorrow, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:31

Well, that's what shit you gotta work tomorrow, which sucks.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:34

Yeah, but I also two blocks away from the Mason's Thanksgiving Day parade. So are you is your family tradition to just wake up and watch football? Well, football doesn't start until what uh it starts at 12 30 ish or whatever at the morning, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:04:49

And well, hold on, Chris.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:50

Let's take on the Mason's Thanksgiving Day Parade already.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:54

Hey Chris, let's take a quick break. Real quick.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:07

Man, and and we've got a new project coming out as well, and it's gonna be called a podcast, and it's called Hold on, keep going, keep going, promote it.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:14

I'll be right back.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:17

It's gonna be called Coffee and Bogeys, man, and it's gonna be the wake up show. We got you guys covered, man. Whether it's politics, it's COVID, it's face mask, it's genocide, it's wars, it's all this extra shit, man. But we just love to talk about it. It's wars, it could be neighborhood shit, it could be ice, it could be ice in the cups. But yeah, man, we're gonna do something different. In the meantime, I'm gonna let Tony smoke his bogey confix this shit and edit it later, man. I'm not gonna just say and talk to the screen. Happy thanks.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:56

Oh lord. Lost Chris. Look, well, everybody, thanks for joining in. Have a blessed Thanksgiving. And remember, go watch us on uh YouTube or YouTube channel. Please subscribe and Facebook, we're out there. Also, uh Buzz Sprout, Brothers with Opinions at Bruce Spout Buzz Sprout.com. You can find all our episodes and on every streaming service. So I think Chris, he's gone off to watch the next game because he's sitting there spinning, he got a bad connection. But everybody, hey, have a great Thanksgiving and we'll see you next week.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:34

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