We Created Press Virginia: The Origin of WVU's Defense - WVU Football, WVU Basketball, News. SAN JOSE, Calif. When their head coach offered a potential solution to their collective misery, they were all ears.“I remember that summer. It was a pretty rough summer,” Staten said from Finland, where he currently plays professional basketball. They were going to start playing 9.

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They would press and trap from the opening tipoff until the final horn sounded and it would work. Watch A Royal Night Out (2015) Movie Online more. It had to work. In order for the new system to really catch on and find success, however, Huggins relied on Browne and Staten to not only grasp it, but to teach it to the newcomers. That season, WVU welcomed eight players to the roster and many of them would be expected to play significant minutes. The only way the scheme would play out as planned was if the rotation could go at least two deep at every position.“We had young guys coming in who were fresh,” Browne said from his home in Puerto Rico. Guys who were quick, used to playing tenacious defense, so it really wasn’t about that part of it. It was about getting the guys to give their all every day in practice,” Staten said. Our open gyms were different, we brought a lot more intensity to practice, we were more vocal, just trying to get the guys to play as hard as they could the whole time they were in the game.

That was our biggest goal.”For everyone to buy in, and to give that intensity the seniors demanded, the right environment had to exist. It required that whatever cloud hung over the program the previous two seasons made way for clear skies. It started with the attitude they brought to each day’s routine, whether that meant in the classroom, in workouts or on the court.“What me and Juwan did was try to get their mind to think that this is a new year, this is a new situation,” Browne said. The proof was in how difficult it was for the returning players to break it.

Consider this: Staten, the preseason Big 1. Player of the Year who finished his junior season with a league- best 1. Gold Team dialed up the full court onslaught against his Blue Team in practice.“Being the primary ball handler in practice and having to go against it every day, it was annoying,” Staten admitted. It wasn’t really that hard to buy in.”The hope was that the issues this defense caused the Mountaineers in practice would give their opponents the same headaches when the games started in November. That is precisely what transpired and just as Staten felt annoyed facing the pressure in three- hour training sessions, the guards he lined up against left Morgantown feeling similarly maddened.“Like Huggs said, you don’t want anybody in your face 2. At one point, you’re going to be like, yo, get out of my face, I’m sick of you. So that’s what we would do,” Browne said. Hd Video Download Red Turtle (2017) there.

He believes that was partly due to the fear that if they came back to for the ball, they would become the focus of the press and then they would be the one committing the turnover. West Virginia finished the 2. Power 5 school by a long shot.

The result was a return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2. Sweet Sixteen under Huggins. Two years later, Press Virginia is back in the Sweet Sixteen for the 1.

WVU has led the NCAA in steals and in turnovers forced since the season began. It is no longer a new concept to an entire roster, but rather a system that seems poised to remain in Morgantown with veterans teaching rookies on an annual basis. Browne and Staten consider it part of their legacy that a system they embraced partly out of desperation is now the bread and butter at WVU. Staten, living in a time zone six hours ahead of his old college campus, has stayed up for 3 a. On Thursday, the third round of the NCAA Tournament will get underway at 1: 3. Gonzaga. He will be watching to see if the freshmen and sophomores from his own run to the Sweet Sixteen can advance beyond the reaches of his most successful year with the Mountaineers.“They were freshmen in that game . They should have all the confidence in the world and be ready to step into this game.”In Puerto Rico, Browne will be tuned in to see if West Virginia can move one step closer to the goal he set out to achieve when he first signed with the Mountaineers out of high school.“I love them boys.

I saw them grow, basically, from freshman year to their junior and senior years. I’m really proud of them,” Browne said. It’s very hard. That’s what people don’t see.“I want them to win a national championship just because they work so hard and the state needs it and that’ll be Huggs’ first championship and I want to see him win one.”Two years ago, they created Press Virginia. Now, Browne and Staten consider themselves two of its biggest fans.