2025-12-03- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Big Blue Nation, Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Grandpa's and grandma's, aunt and uncles welcome. This is the Thursday edition of Kentucky Sports Radio and Thursday Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Wednesday.

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Speaker 4: Well we've only been up for like three hours.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Wednesday Edition December the third.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 6: Shannon?

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Speaker 7: He'll make them pay even, He'll makes day Donald Wednesday, on any day, He'll make them pay as always are Clark pumping shop phone lines eighty five nine two eight h two two eight seven The.

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Speaker 4: A vision glass text machine. I forgot the a vision glass text machine.

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Speaker 3: We're so prepared.

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Speaker 4: Listen, It's been a long night. Drew and I were up doing the postgame show till two in the morning. Drew had to do blogging till four in the morning. And to start the show, I'm going to steal in line from a great philosopher.

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Speaker 5: Who's that the Grinch?

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Speaker 4: Okay, stink stink stunk. That's how I felt about last night's game. For those who weren't up for the postgame show last night, Kentucky loses sixty seven sixty four to North Carolina. Uh So, for those who were who threw the remote control of the TV and went to bed after the game, well, rehash what we said last night. Drew, your thoughts about what you saw last night at Roparina just so disappointed.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't even know where to begin. It's so disappointing. Everything was disappointing. I could start by saying it was a great atmosphere and they wasted that, Yes, really great environment. Ropa nine thirty You kidding me? Be By on fire. There was a moment as it was tied or maybe a one point game and just a little bit left, and I just kind of looked around and they were going crazy, and I looked down at my watch and it's midnight, and I was like, this is special. We gotta finish it. But he had the will Stein pop rondo, Tayshawn volleyball, uh Scooby the little dog. Everything was perfect to just finish the job. But that scoring drought in the second half, I mean I saw it was like the longest scoring drought, like eight years. They went ten minutes for Pope, an offensive coach that you know, we're supposed to be getting ninety points a game and talked taking thirty three is a game. That was just so disappointing, watching them sit around and look at each other on offense, not able to score.

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Speaker 4: That was the killer. Ten minutes without a field goal, ten minutes without a bucket. And they finished the second half two of their last sixteen, all of thirteen I think during that stretch awful. I can't believe they didn't get blown out. They were getting remounted like crazy.

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Speaker 5: I'm shocked it's a three point loss.

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Speaker 4: I am too when you look at the numbers, how did they keep it to a three point game?

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Speaker 3: Defense? Defense kept them in the game.

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Speaker 4: That was as you hold the team shouting, you're right to sixty seven points in the especially in this day and age, you think you're gonna win the game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you would think so.

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Speaker 2: But this team seems like they have some sort of identity crisis. You know, they only take thirteen threes last night. Game before that, they're taking thirty. And I know you got three guys that are projected to be your starters or are your starters and are out and that that's a big part of this too. But last night, you can't go ten minutes without scoring.

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Speaker 3: A fetal goal. You're not going to be anybody that way. And it's concerning.

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Speaker 2: It is because now you got Gonzaga coming up this Friday night, and that's not going to be pretty either if you play it that way.

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Speaker 4: So the big question is, you know, what what happened? What's going on? And I'll give my just say what I had said last time the postgame show. I felt like they got to a point where they had the lead, yet they were playing like they were behind. They were coming down jack up shots early in the shot clock, jacking up bad shots when they had the lead. They like their the basketball smarts left their body or something, because they were playing like they were trailing the whole time.

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Speaker 5: The basketball smarts they they did leave though. It's just an effort too. I mean, twenty offensive rebounds is outrageous.

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Speaker 4: That's ridiculous, and they converted most of those into the second chance points.

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Speaker 5: Twenty two to five second chance points.

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Speaker 4: Well, there's a huge I think that's gonna win you a game when you do something like that.

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Speaker 5: And sure they're tall. I mean they got the big seven footer who was pretty unstoppable. Caleb Wilson can rebound, but u K wasn't even trying. I mean they were sitting around and just watching them grab their own missus. There was a stretch there at the end where Yellowvich made a good defensive stand yes, and they get two straight offensive rebounds and hit a go ahead three. If you just get that ball, maybe you hang on and win the game. I think they were up one at that point, but it was just offensive rebound after offensive rebound after offensive rebounds.

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Speaker 4: That's the series. I think was the difference. Malachi had just hit two free throws and giving us a one point lead.

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Speaker 5: Those were big, by the way, I'll be honest, when he stepped up, it's a little nervous. I'm not gonna say I didn't believe in him, but Wink wink might not have thought he had two in him. So that was huge that he knock those down on that kid.

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Speaker 4: From Georgetown knocks him both down and against North Carolina Rush Street, and then Yellovich makes a stop on Caleb Wilson. You get that rebound maybe game over, and they couldn't get it twice.

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Speaker 5: It's sometimes I think they don't know that they're allowed to jump. I mean it's like their feet are glued to the floor and they just watched the Vaull go. I mean, Yellovich, actually, if we can pay some compliments, played great defense, especially there. Wilson was like five of eighteen or five for nineteen. He didn't really kill you, you know, he got a double double, but it wasn't like some you know, huge performance. Yellovich defended well, but Kentucky just couldn't score. This is a Mark Mark Pope team. Once thirty three is a game spacing let it fly, and they went one for thirteen. And you're one was probably the worst shot of the thirteen.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Shannon what you're you're oh for your first eight in the first half of free point Land and the guy who hits the first one in the second half, Brandon Garrison, have.

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Speaker 2: Been one of the last guys on the flooride with even one taking that shot to begin with.

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Speaker 5: Good point.

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Speaker 3: But again, though, if that's.

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Speaker 2: Who you are, if you are the team that's going to take thirty threes even when they're not going down, I think you still have to try it. I'd rather have a miss three than I miss two. At least you're trying to get a three. So I mean, if that's what you are and that's what you do, you can't have a game where you're only attempting a thirteen threes.

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Speaker 5: They were getting open looks soon, yeah, right. There's been some games where the offense just dies and they take turns shooting over the top of somebody. This one, they were actually getting decent looks and they just couldn't shoot. I don't mean to call them out, but I've never seen someone airball threes as much as then celebrity does airballl threes this year. It is truly remarkable how many threes he's air bolt.

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Speaker 4: And he's supposed to be, you know, one of your leaders with Jalen Low out, and he just took some bad shots at some bad times and missed them badly.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you alway kind of had it going if he did another compliment. That's the first time he's played with the energy you want to see out of him. Had some tough finishes at the rim. Uh one of them late in the second half he turned and flexed. He kind of thought he should have gotten fouled. I think you should have two, but you know, he was. That was the way we've kind of been wanting to see break out, but it was just completely wasted when the offense, you know, had that scoring drought and couldn't make a three pointer or get an offensive rebound, or play with energy or really show up when the Whites turn.

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Speaker 4: On Shannon Drew's right as. We saw some shades of the old Otega Oway last night, don't you think.

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: And I think that that's probably what we're gonna see, at least I hope we aren't gonna see moving forward.

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Speaker 3: Otherwise we're gonna have a lot of problems.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it felt like he was just pressing too much, you know, trying to do things again that wasn't really the strength of his game.

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Speaker 3: Shooting too many threes, you know, his game is dribbled drive.

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Speaker 2: So hopefully we we'll get to see more of what we saw from last year from Oway, because especially with these injuries, they're gonna have to have him have a big game every night.

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Speaker 4: So the big stats we've already talked about a one of thirteen from three, it's gonna had twenty offensive rebounds. The other stat I think is very tailing for Kentucky eight assists, nine turnovers. Again, it goes back to not having your point guard out there. The offense just looks out of sync. You're turning the ball over. Is Jalen Lowell return the only way to save what's going on right now?

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Speaker 5: I mean, he would definitely help, but I can't. I'm not blaming injuries. I know it's fluky, but we've made a big deal of this roster and how it's built. You should have enough depth to be playing better than you are right now, so not get killed by Louisville Michigan State and then just let one slip away and Lexton I hope he comes back and he will definitely help, but the other guys still are far beneath what they should be even without him. Right now, Yeah, Shannon, I think maybe Quainton shows up and he's the Anthony Davis reincartcarnated and changes everything. But right now, what's been out there has not given me much faith in anything.

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Speaker 4: And Jack Gibbon said last night he still think Quayton is probably three weeks out.

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Speaker 5: And even then he's slow coming back. I mean, he's not just gonna show up and automatically be at full speed one hundred percent even when he is ready to go.

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Speaker 4: So that was a big question on the postgame show last night, Stanning, And how do you fix it? How do you try to right, you know, get the train back on the tracks a little bit?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, get healthy, And that's just a waiting game at this point. I think that's it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, because if you trot the same lineup out there Friday against Gonzaga, I think they're gonna get murdered. I think it's gonna be ugly. So I don't know that there's a fix to it. I mean, maybe shoot more threes, But do you have any guys that can knock down threes? What happened all these guys that we heard, you know before the season started, we're knocking down ninety out of one hundred and three pointers in practice. They're great at knocking down shots, I guess when they're in practice, but in a game situation, they're not.

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Speaker 4: You're right, all summer long we heard how Trent Noah hit one hundred in a row, Cam Williams hit one hundred in a row. These two guys cannot miss their knockdown shooters. And yet out of the thirteen three pointers you shot last night, your best three point shoot on the floor, Colin Channer only took two. He's he's got to take more shots.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, that finish at the end, I thought he had it. It was a good look. Yeah, tough shot is a little bit of a reverse, but it was right there and I thought it was going down. I mean, that was that was bad. I thought he had it then, not that it mattered, but with two seconds left, I mean, it's throw in the towel where they had him in bound the ball and he just right threw it to the other free throw line. I mean sure, they probably weren't going to get a three with two seconds left, down three, but maybe try.

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Speaker 2: Maybe put one of our guys. And he threw it right to a North Carolina player.

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Speaker 3: That's how they game.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know the game if he.

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Speaker 5: Threw it to all five of them just standing there in a huddle.

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Speaker 4: Got called in last night. He said, well, why was he even taking the ball out to begin with? It should have been somebody else to get the ball to him so he can shoot the last three point of the game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there wasn't like enough time to get you a Bryce Drew situation there. I didn't know why he was inbounding it and just no chance. It was unlikely anyway, but they just meiled it in on that last uh try too.

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Speaker 4: So Kentucky now falls to five and three uh their first three big non conference games. They're an er fer. You got waxed by Michigan State, you got waxed by Louisville, and you played awful last night against North Carolina at home at Rupp Arena. Dick Fatal was there for crying out loud, Tayshawn Prince Rondo, they were all there, and you stunk it up last night.

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Speaker 5: Drew one of the better rough crowds I've seen I go to. I rarely miss a home game. I've been to about every one of them for sixteen years. And that was some of Rupp's best stuff there throughout the game. I mean, they'd get disappointed at times, really disappointing the referees. I don't know if the refuse suck chance made it to TV, but that was some of their best refuse sucks chanting in a while too, but just completely blown opportunity. Kentucky led for most of the game, led for close to thirty minutes, but they just went completely cold and gave it away.

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Speaker 4: Will Steine, your new football coach, had a big pop at the first TV timeout, still didn't help. He had, well, how do you go?

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Speaker 6: Wow?

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Speaker 4: How can you play like that when you knew football coach is sitting at courtside mid court watching the game, and you stink it up like you did.

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Speaker 5: And your offensive all things feed the studs, but these are studs. That was really cool when they introduced him. That was a loud pop and then kind of like when Dirk Minifield went even higher on his dunk, when he started pumping his arms and yelling let's go Rupp went even louder. I mean it truly blew the roof off there, off the play when he came in early in the game. I almost wish they just bring him out over and over, like, hey, can you do that again here in the second half. But that was a disappointing night. But that was a cool moment him coming out and crowd clearly supports the football man.

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Speaker 4: Shannon, and I want to ask you to did you happen to catch did dick bytal cover any of Jason Williams' games when Jakeson Williams at.

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Speaker 3: Duke once or twice on there? Yeah? Yeah, I think I saw some of that.

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Speaker 4: I I kept thinking they might want to talk about that during the course of our game last night, but they didn't seem to come up.

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Speaker 3: No, No, they did, They definitely did.

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Speaker 4: I guess I missed it.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know how you missed that. Yeah, there was plenty of that last night.

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Speaker 4: So today's gonna be a gooday for calls. I know a lot of people are frustrated. We had some great calls last night. On the post game show. We had Big Don and Big Dan that called in and it was gott in tears when he's riding home on ice ready to go again. He's on he's on hold already.

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Speaker 5: He kind of became a star last night. I'm glad, glad he's back on the line.

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Speaker 4: I'm hoping he's feeling better because he was in a rough condition last night. So as we go to break eight five nine two eight h two two, we do want to mention why Matt is not here. His dad, Larry had a preceigde couple procedures this week, so Matt, doing the right thing, went there to be with his dad, with his mom, kind of be just be with him during this time. Larry's fine, he's recovering. Chance of Matt City may even get to come home today, So all good news on that front. But that's obviously why he's not here today.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it popped up on him yesterday. Went straight there down there to be with them, and glad it's gone well so far. We'll be thinking about Larry as he recovers.

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Speaker 4: Larry is one tough old dude, man. I mean that whole guy is as tough and as young as they come.

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Speaker 5: That's right. He would have wanted more from Trento last night though.

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Speaker 4: We got to talk about that something's not there's some issues with this team, and there's some issues going on with some of our guys.

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Speaker 5: But there's not enough hours on this show to talk about issues with this basketball team.

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Speaker 4: So we'll take our break. Eight five nine two eight h two two eight seven. Ryan Drew and Shannon were right back. This is Kentucky's Ports Radio. True words never spoken by the great philosopher of the Grinch about Kentucky's plate Last night, Ryan Drew and Shannon here takes Port Tradio eight five nine two eight h two two eight seven. Phone lines are full right now, and I expect they will be the whole shows. We'll try to get as many colors as we can. But before we go to the phone lines, one more thing I want to touch on. You know, the second half, he pretty much went with those five guys, Aberdeen, Otega, Chandler, Yellovich, and Marino. They pretty much played the entire second half. No Brandon Garrison, no Trent, Noah, no Cam Williams the second half. And then after the game he was talking about how he got fatigued. Well, he substitutes a lot. Why do you think he decided just to run with those guys at that point in the game.

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Speaker 5: I guess it had just gotten so bad. A lot of those guys off the bench did not look good last night. I mean, you knew the moment they were in h right, go sit back down.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I was pretty frustrated though early in the game when the first unit was working and he.

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Speaker 4: Did his big early sub yep always does.

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Speaker 5: Tucky had a big lead. Now he did shorten the bench in the second half. I think five guys played more than thirty minutes. I would know Pope's teams have ever done that. Did that happen one time last year? I don't think so. Yeah, I just I know I'm down on all things here, but I hate hearing the fatigue. I mean, played thirty minutes. Come oneh weren't you a Patino guy?

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Speaker 4: You're twenty one years old?

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Speaker 5: Did Patino even know the word fatigue back in the day? We know all know the stories like I can't get behind. Oh no, they played thirty minutes. What are we gonna do? I mean, there are guys that do that nightly across the country.

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Speaker 4: And Shannon, he made that quote something about, you know, we have to learn to play for each other. Yeah, what do you think.

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Speaker 2: That was directed at Well, it sounds like there was some selfish ball being played out there, But I mean I with them. I think at some point you got to stick with your five guys, your best five that you feel like is gonna give you the best chance to winning. I mean they did play well defensively if you're looking for a silver lining. But if you're just going out and just you know, going deep into your benge and throwing random guys out there, random lineups, I feel like we've already gone through that. So at some point you got to hone in on your top five guys, you're best available, they're gonna give you a chance to win.

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Speaker 3: And that's what he did. It just didn't work out last night.

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Speaker 5: Bigger picture, I don't think this everybody's gonna get to play a little bit is helping and recruiting. He keeps missing on these big players. No five star wants to come and play twenty four minutes when they could go play thirty five and take all the shots somewhere. That's going to catch up to him if he keeps doing this. I know that's what he likes, but this is Kentucky. We like to get stars and stars like the ball.

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Speaker 4: In minutes eight two two eighty seven, phone lines are lit up. So let's get to him, Shannon, who we got?

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Speaker 3: All right, let's go back to him and get big done.

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Speaker 4: Big yeah. The call of the night last night in the postgame show, Are you feeling any better? Big Don?

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Speaker 8: To be honest, I thought I would be feeling better after not sleep, but I'm not. Hey. I do want to say I'm praying for Matt and his family. Hope everything goes well.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 8: To top it off, last night, listen to this, I get off the phone. I sixty four. I get a dag on ticket another two hundred dollars.

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Speaker 4: Oh, Big Don, what a night you're having.

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Speaker 8: I got home about four am, id to get back up at six thirty and go to work. And I'm still aggravated over what I went and watched. Spent Like I said, I spent my money, I went and watch that crap. It's just it's aggravating. That's that's as bad as the Billy gere right there. I'm not kidding. Sixty points, Mark Pope supposed to be this offensive mine. You can't score more than seventy seventy points. I don't know. I just I don't know where he goes. I mean, I want to say we've got answers on the bench, but I don't know who. I mean, can those guys shoot?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 8: I mean low treat, but heck he can't. He ain't that good of a shooter. Mob a body that looks like my grandma's shooting. It's just it's aggravating and I don't know what to do. I mean, I want to go to more games supporting, but I'm sick of mister nice guy and the analytics stuff. That's way too much. I mean, I get it, it's it's how he coaches, but it's way too much. I mean, it's analyticist analytics that sometimes you've got to roll the basketball out there to play your best guys and quit with the minute crap. I mean, they're what twenty twenty two years old playing thirty five minutes or that. I appreciate you guys. I'm sorry to get worked back, but one of two days.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate it big time.

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Speaker 5: Anytime. Yeah, he just call me if we're not on the air, just we'll just talk.

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Speaker 4: I'm glad.

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna start calling anymore.

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Speaker 4: Come glad. He made it home glad He uh, well, I'm not glad he got a ticket, but slow down out there, yeah.

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Speaker 5: Buckle up, put your phone down. It's like we're going back at time. He's like, we just need to roll the ball out there next one be like we need somebody to just yo go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, he went, Hey, that.

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Speaker 5: Looked like a Cal team without NBA players on it last night. That playing defense, missing threes and.

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Speaker 4: So out of sync. I mean we've said it three or four times, and I think it goes back to not having Jalen Lowell out there. They just need somebody to be a strong point guard because Aberdeen's not that guy. He's not a point guard. He plays better off the ball a little bit. And he he he hurt you last night. There's no doubt he did.

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Speaker 5: I mean, Lowe's hurt. Not much you can do about it. Can Zagg has come up. You got a deep roster, you know. The injury stink. I'm sorry it happened, but that can't be an excused for being oh and three in these games. What did the analytics say about making the tournament if they go oh to four after Friday? I mean that's a legit concern because Gonzaga is tough. That's probably the hard maybe not as tough at true Louisville, true road atmosphere. But I mean, you were just an eight and a half point favorite home and lost to Carolina, and you're gonna be an underdog to Gonzaga here in a few days. I don't know if anything I saw last night is getting fixed in just a couple of practices before they go to Nashville.

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Speaker 4: See, that's the big question. How do you fix this? How do you turn it around? When I think the answers are the guy sitting on the bench hurt, they're not if they're not ready, how do you how do you fix it for Gonzagon on Friday?

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Speaker 5: There's there's enough guys that are healthy to be better than this. I'm just terrified how this is gonna look after this coming weekend. Our pregame show listeners know that me and Jack, even you Mario over here, we weren't the most excited about the game to begin with because we're kind of terrified of what this team might actually look like a couple of weeks from now.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's been a rough stretch. If you go back to the Louisville basketball game, the Vanderbilt football game, the Michigan State basketball game, the Louisville football game, now North Carolina here. All of our high profile games in the last couple weeks have been disasters.

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Speaker 5: That and then just a roller coaster promotions. Lately. We got so excited for will Stein for twenty four hours watching the flights, just the message board. There's like old school KSR tracking everything. Everyone was so happy for a day and then you just go lose to North Carolina at home with a great atmosphere. Everything should have was in place for you to get a win, and you just couldn't score.

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Speaker 4: That's a great point. Channing yesterday, at this time yesterday, this fire alarms are going off, We're laughing, We're getting we got a new coach, can't wait for him to get here, tracking his flight, calling his mom and sissy cakes. Now today we're like gloom and doom and throwing stuff.

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Speaker 3: I kind of felt like though we saw this coming, right, I mean.

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Speaker 5: Well I did. I thought they would. I dot to be close, but I ultimately thought being at home. Ye, North Carolina's got a lot of new trends. The headn't played an environment like that. The environment showed up. I thought that would put Kentucky over the top and we'll figure out the rest later.

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Speaker 4: They get another punk call who we got.

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Speaker 3: And big bro clak, I mean big picture though.

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Speaker 2: You know again talking about the schedule, you still got number twenty two Indiana coming in, you still got Saint John's, you still got Gonzaga coming up on Friday.

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Speaker 3: You gotta get at least one of those.

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Speaker 4: Right, Gotta build your resume somewhere, can't You can't.

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Speaker 2: Go into the SEC with the six losses, agree, because they were talking about the possibility of not making the tournament.

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Speaker 5: And there's one team tucked into there. And I hate how we're playing all these top three hundred teams. N C Central is ranked outside of the top three hundred and fifty.

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Speaker 3: Oh yep, and you're gonna get no credit.

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Speaker 5: They're not even the three fifty. That's not gonna do anything.

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Speaker 3: Bellerman's not probably any better.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm looking there, they're to eighty two.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you're beating up on teams that are ranked around three hundred nationally. You're not getting any credit with this election committee when it comes to Marrow.

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Speaker 4: No, you got to get one of these big, high profile game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go to Braiden.

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Speaker 4: Braiden, go ahead, Braiden.

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Speaker 9: Twenty two million, and this is what we get. This is what we get. I'll tell you what, boys, I do a little bit research the teams that we already played, and we'll be playing. They spend about eight and fifteen million, eight and fifteen millions.

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Speaker 6: They're doing great.

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Speaker 10: We're playing terrible.

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Speaker 9: But I got I said, I gotta say something to Mark Pope.

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Speaker 4: You go about thirty seconds.

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Speaker 9: Mark Pope, what are you doing? You spend about twenty two million dollars.

00:22:42
Speaker 4: I think you spent twenty two million Braidon. We appreciate it.

00:22:44
Speaker 5: Think I've still got nineteen seconds left.

00:22:47
Speaker 4: Oh, we got to play the sad and happy song to get us out of here. It's not supposed to be like this run. This is Kentucky basketball. We're supposed to be happy today. We just hired a new coach. Will Stein was there, got the crowd pumped up.

00:22:58
Speaker 5: We got volleyball.

00:23:00
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00:23:04
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00:23:07
Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones.

00:23:09
Speaker 4: Perfect song, Shannon, because they could use somebody. They could use Jalen Lowell. I think the answer is the dude sitting over there on street clothes. They need a good leader, they need a good point guard. He's the answer if we're looking for an answer, He's the guy. Ryan Leman, Drew, Franklin, Chan and the dude back on Kentucky's Ports Radio. We I know we got people on hold. We've already talked about of basketball. We do need to hit on football because today at four o'clock, our new football coach will be officially introduced Will Stein at a press conference. Drew your going He introduced him last night at a Ropperena place exploded. Obviously, the as unexcited as we are about basketball, we're overly excited I think about football.

00:23:45
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm looking forward to getting over there seeing that. You know, as I mentioned, the pop was great last night. I think the fans loved the hire. That was clear by the reception online and in person last night. And I'm just excited to hear from his first press conference. He uh, you know, for years we had and he had one way of doing it. It was a little more quiet, a little more keep your head down, pick up your lunch pedal, go to work. With the way Stein was pumping his fist and all that, we haven't really seen fire like that in a long time. I'm not like outside of a game now we see angry stoops in the game, as as far as like in a media and in that kind of setting, we haven't seen someone with that kind of juice to him. So I'm looking forward to hearing from him today and what else he has next as they get settled in here.

00:24:24
Speaker 4: And then on our basketball pre show, you broke a little news about his staff yesterday.

00:24:28
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was just telling everybody to watch out her name, and then the name happened to arrive on a.

00:24:32
Speaker 4: Plane and was that name at rubs the.

00:24:35
Speaker 5: Oregon director of recruiting, Pat Beyondo. And we'll see he's still building this staff. You know, he's got a lot going on over there. By just telling y'all to watch that one, and then you know, playing door opens and he happen to step off.

00:24:45
Speaker 4: On the plane. So what a coincidence he's gonna be on the staff. Then it came out last night that Justin Burke, former Lexington Catholic quarterback, former Louisville quarterback is expected to join will Stein's staff here at Kentucky.

00:24:57
Speaker 5: Also, we're getting a lot of Louisville influence over there.

00:25:00
Speaker 4: How about two former Louisville quarterbacks leading our football team next year.

00:25:04
Speaker 5: That's fine Matt and Ryan. As I said yesterday, we don't look backwards, we look forwards, and they're gonna be wearing blue. He's he's a big up and comer with a long history with Stein. But Stein's gonna be calling plays. I would suspect when this gets here, but you know, we'll trust whatever staff he wants to come in and help him. It's for him. I want to see what he does in recruiting. That's what the name I mentioned. I'm keeping an eye on because we know he wants to feed the studs. But let's go get some studs justin. But today's signing day. By the way, he signs signed, he has already signed. He signed, so that was uh. I didn't have to wait long for him to make his decision to stick around in the class.

00:25:37
Speaker 4: Before he will Stein was hired, Ponatowski had already said I'm not gonna sign.

00:25:42
Speaker 5: He's gonna wait till the spring.

00:25:43
Speaker 4: And wait till the spree. He's you know, he's a baseball guy. A lot of people think he may get drafted so high in the baseball draft he may never even be on campus here because he may go baseball. But at least he is signed. I think that's a for perception purposes. Now they can go sell him when they go with these other recruits. Hey, come play with this guy, you know, come be apart of what we're rebuilding here.

00:26:01
Speaker 5: Definitely, the portal is so big now that this high school recruiting doesn't matter as much, but it is very important to have him as your centerpiece for everything else. Yeah, sure the MLB could still take him away, but the fact that he just needed you know, forty eight hours to lock in. If they went through everything and made the right higher and then now Stein can go out and sell everything around him, that was huge to lock that in.

00:26:21
Speaker 4: You know, Justin Burke was a quarterback at Lexton Catholic. He was our l e X eighteen high School Sports one Player of the Year his senior years.

00:26:29
Speaker 5: I thought, you're gonna say it was like an intern and you know him or something.

00:26:31
Speaker 4: I do know him and he's dad Greg, but there was a little back and forth with him and KSR when he was at Louisville, and there's some more things we need to scrub off the internet before he gets here.

00:26:40
Speaker 5: I do know in this, I don't think it was just KSR. I mean, I don't want to call the guy. I don't think in high school he was the biggest fan of the local team here in Lexington. I think I've heard from some of his teammates. But whatever, Like I said, the windshield is bigger than the Wait, is it, the windshield's bigger than the Yeah, there we go. So whatever he thought back then, he'll be wearing the emblem and working for us now, so hopefully it all goes good going forward. It is a little weird with the Louisville influence, I'll admit.

00:27:06
Speaker 4: So how did the basketball team play so bad right in front of our new football coach who had front court mid court seats.

00:27:12
Speaker 5: I don't know. It was just so disappointing, so disappointing. Yeah, so I forgot the caller or one of you talking about leadership and low would probably be that gay guys that got. But there are other people with voices that can speak up. Maybe an SEC preseason player of the Year. Even Colin Chandler, who's back and starting Aberdeen has a ring on his finger. It doesn't just have to be Jayleen Lowe. Someone needs to step up. I mean, all good teams. We could name all the good point guards from Kentucky where you knew, you know, if something going wrong, they were gonna get up in somebody. You know you could see their leadership. I just don't know if Kentucky has anyone right now that's doing that.

00:27:45
Speaker 4: And we were just told that Brian Hartline took the job at South Florida, who was probably second choice for this job. And I do need to mention Neil brown boyle counted native UK alumnus, was just hired as the North Texas head coach and they're rank in the top twenty five right now.

00:28:01
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm glad he's getting a good start. I'll be a nice spot for him in a group of five team. He had done a little time that I think it was with with sark at Texas in one of those roles for a little bit since leaving West Virginia. So good to see he gets a reset and hopefully he has a quick climb.

00:28:14
Speaker 11: Uh.

00:28:15
Speaker 5: I mean that's a good spot itself. But I can climb the ranks get back to a big time program.

00:28:19
Speaker 4: All right, Shan, let's go back to the phone lines. Who we got next?

00:28:21
Speaker 3: Go to Isaiah?

00:28:22
Speaker 4: Isaiah, Go ahead, Isaiah.

00:28:24
Speaker 12: Hey, guys, I'm gonna go on a little bit of a positive rant here, so right, And I know the UK fans might be wrong in my eyes and everything, and I totally get it. I'm just as frustrated as everybody else, don't get me wrong. And I think with the twenty two million dollars, everybody expected to win, now, you know, but as you have said, this is a team of six men, people who have come off the bench and haven't really been asked to play that role to start and everything. So just I think with our defense, you know, we had him to sixty seven points. That's disappointing. We lost, don't get me wrong, But our defense is coming together. Okay. We approved can shoot, right, I mean, we went fifty percent against nobody. I get that, But the pieces are potentially there. So I'm just asking the UK fans just to be optimistic with this. With this team eight games in, it's only December. Third, guys, It's like I said, I'm frustrated. I am. I am frustrated. Mark is a smart guy, and all the changes he made last year, middle of the game, halftime, everything like that. He's smart. He will figure it out. I truly believe that. I think I think this rosters. But we expected thirty threes, and maybe this team isn't quite what we expected as far as that goes. But I think this team is more of a project than a final final piece, right we kind of expected.

00:29:48
Speaker 4: Okay, appreciate it. Appreciate funk Ondrew, what do you think about that?

00:29:52
Speaker 5: I don't disagree, but you do have to win some games. If you keep pushing it down the road, your resume can get so bad that. I mean, you gotta remember we have National Championship x specs to.

00:30:01
Speaker 4: Three in our big games.

00:30:03
Speaker 5: So yeah, sure, I mean when low comes back that'll help quite and hopefully and too far away. But I mean if we get to the beginning of January and you'll win some of these games, that's gonna be a huge problem, even if you are healthy.

00:30:14
Speaker 4: Drew H. Shannon, what do you think a guy says we need to preach patients right now? It is just December, the third.

00:30:18
Speaker 5: That is true.

00:30:19
Speaker 2: But as I was saying on the pre show, every time you lose one of these games, that puts even more pressure on winning the next game. So when you lost the first game to Louisville, there was a little bit of added pressure to beat Michigan State. Then you lose that game, Now there's more added pressure to.

00:30:30
Speaker 4: Beat you know.

00:30:32
Speaker 3: So it just keeps adding on and at some.

00:30:34
Speaker 2: Point you got to get the monkey off your back and win against the team that matters. So top twenty five team, you've got some opportunities to do it. But every time you lose, it just adds more pressure to the next game.

00:30:43
Speaker 4: I heard you and Billy you blamed Annabelle. You had to steal Annabelle's.

00:30:46
Speaker 2: Oh no, that wasn't me, that was that was a caller for somebody. But yeah, things haven't been right since annabel came to town.

00:30:52
Speaker 4: There's no doubt. And Matt made fun of it. Yeah, I think everything kind of kind of turns south in yep. Who's our next caller.

00:30:57
Speaker 3: To a fault? Kentucky Joe, Kentucky Joe.

00:30:59
Speaker 4: How are you, Kentucky Joe?

00:31:01
Speaker 10: Oh?

00:31:02
Speaker 13: Pretty good, I'm I'm very I'm very excited.

00:31:05
Speaker 9: About actually around four o'clock today.

00:31:09
Speaker 4: Now you know you've been requested to make a new Willie Stein song. Willie stein Man, can you redo your old classic hit and redo it?

00:31:18
Speaker 7: I might do that.

00:31:20
Speaker 6: Excuse me, I'm thinking about doing something right now.

00:31:25
Speaker 4: Roll tape, Shannon. I didn't know we were got about to get a new top.

00:31:27
Speaker 6: Ten Wait wait, wait a minute, I'm on.

00:31:29
Speaker 4: Wait wait wait, he's got getting you to beat.

00:31:32
Speaker 9: Wait wait, I'm gonna turn me up a little bit.

00:31:34
Speaker 5: Here about it.

00:31:36
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, I'm about ready to go. Ahead, Well go it's called royer roor royer roar, mister wildcare roor alright, mister.

00:31:56
Speaker 13: Hardy.

00:31:57
Speaker 7: If you go.

00:32:00
Speaker 13: For mister Walker, the things that come to elect.

00:32:06
Speaker 11: And you know whoa.

00:32:12
Speaker 13: Mister walk At packing to them matter for mister Walka. Oh yeah, roll.

00:32:27
Speaker 6: For boebe for baby.

00:32:35
Speaker 4: Here we go, all right, ducky Joe, Oh maybe we just stuck with Willie call stein Man. Worry do you.

00:32:41
Speaker 3: Even remember Willie Cauley Steinman?

00:32:45
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, you want me to do it now?

00:32:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's kind of think what we were going for the first time.

00:32:52
Speaker 6: Okay, hey, hey, hey, Willie, I do it for you again? All right, all right, WILLI call stam Man a willing, coldly dumb. I've got to see you got to love. Oh, I'm so so.

00:33:12
Speaker 13: Oh, I'm a Willie Holly. Damn man, all this, damn I've got I've got to see you got the love.

00:33:23
Speaker 4: I'm so so.

00:33:26
Speaker 13: I'm a Willie Holly.

00:33:30
Speaker 4: I heard that song ten years there we go, brought it here to my classic I like those are Those are the classic hits that Shannon plays on his Double Q show in the afternoon.

00:33:40
Speaker 6: Hey hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey hey hey listen, hey Ryan, Hey, thank you, Doug.

00:33:46
Speaker 4: Joe, Hey, all right, thank you, buddy, have a good holid, have a good have a good holiday joke? Do you Joe?

00:33:52
Speaker 8: Here?

00:33:53
Speaker 4: Uh, playing reliving one of our classic hits over the years.

00:33:56
Speaker 5: I'm worried Will Stott might be on the flight back to Eugene.

00:33:58
Speaker 4: If you're listening, Roar, Kentucky fan, Roar, I do love a good.

00:34:04
Speaker 5: Kentucky Joe phone call, I love you know. I don't know that the songs as he's singing them, he was ready. I don't know if that was pre written or if that was off the fly, a little bit of through something. They're all off the FI.

00:34:14
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:34:15
Speaker 5: I do enjoy it though, but I don't know if that was the one. Maybe we'll we'll try again tomorrow if Matt's back. Matt always likes to hear from him, so we'll get back in the lab.

00:34:21
Speaker 4: That's true. We need him to replay that. When Matt comes back tomorrow. He'd love that. All right, Well, take our break, come back, go back to the phone lines eight five nine two, eight oh two to eighty seven. It's eight five nine tweto cat. It is wings day here at Chaos Bar and Grill. We got the folks in here already. Doors will open about fifteen minutes, so come and eat your sorrows away, get some wings. I'll make you feel a lot better right here at Chaos Bar and Grill. Ryan Drew and Channing will be back. This is Kentucky's Ports Radio. Definitely had a bad day and a bad night. Well, we had a good day with the will Stein announcement, but then had a bad night as Kentucky got beat at home by North Carolina on ESPN in sixty seven sixty four. Drew, Who's This segment's sponsored by.

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00:35:36
Speaker 4: In my December at I think it's called Don Franklin tweeted the day, isn't it Shannon That who sponsors our tweet of the day. Yes, we got this from Jane Lyndon, our new cup Beat reporter today he had a big day. Yes to go into Sissy's cake, Jaane Lindon. Last night was the first time in UK history that we had more y's in a game than threes made in a game. What a fun fact too, Why won three and of all people, it was Brandon Garrison who hit the three.

00:36:06
Speaker 5: I can't remember a double why. You've been doing this a long time. We had two I mean we've had two people be the why. Yeah, but this was a first half why and a second half why.

00:36:15
Speaker 4: I've I've I don't remember it ever happening before. I'm sure they already had Tashawan scheduled and lined up to do the wide it's regular spot in the first TV timeout. Well, you got introduced Steyne early in the game. First first why the first TV time out of the second half, So you bring out why the first TV time out of the first half. Just that's the way it worked out. Got the big pop. Well, they were tired at halftime. There was no problem with with the first half. Is that second half late in the game.

00:36:42
Speaker 5: Uh yeah. That's a horrible stat that there were more wise than three pointers made, especially for a Mark Pope team. I gotta I don't remember what the record was, but we went like seventy four years without missing the three, and then it broke in the tournament a few years though, We're about to have another game without a three here.

00:36:58
Speaker 4: Thanks thanks to Sharpshooter Brandon Garrison and a knock down that three the no no, no, no yes shot. Here's another stat from Cody Couch we read last night. In their last eight ranked matchups, Kentucky is one and seven one three this year and one in four of their last five SEC games last year. That's ugly, but one in seven against ranked opponents.

00:37:19
Speaker 5: There's another stat that I think is even worse that Corey Price put out than you shared on the post game.

00:37:24
Speaker 4: And what the power four games are now? Fourteen and fifteen, A losing record, losing four teams.

00:37:30
Speaker 5: I thinks he's been here.

00:37:31
Speaker 4: Unacceptable, it really is. It's got to be turned around. But I don't know what the answer is until you get everybody healthy. All right, eight five nine two eight h two two eight seven. Who's next, Shannon, Let's go to DG. DG, Go ahead, DG.

00:37:43
Speaker 6: What's up?

00:37:44
Speaker 4: Guys?

00:37:44
Speaker 11: Two quick points? Uh, respectfully disagree with the previous caller about optimism. Uh, you know, moving forward, I don't see how you're optimistic about this team for many a reason. When you look at this team, good teams find different ways to win, and whenever we've played good teams this year, we have showed we cannot shoot, we cannot out physical a team. We don't have the heart to outheart a team. So I don't even know where we begin to find a way to win.

00:38:13
Speaker 6: Uh.

00:38:14
Speaker 11: And then my second point is what has happened to home court advantage at Reparena? How many blue butt bloods do you seek? And Kansas Duke in Gonzaga Houston like, they don't lose these games at home, and we played against a mediocre team in North Carolina. We the fans done their part. They showed up and showed out for a nine to thirty time. I mean, we've done our part. We got to win these games because our quad one wins for the rest of the season are not going to be there. They're they're bare minimum. So we got we gotta change something, all right.

00:38:46
Speaker 4: Appreciate it.

00:38:47
Speaker 6: We do.

00:38:47
Speaker 4: You need to point out Kansas lost at home last night to of course they're Yukon, a good Yukon team. They did lose at home. Uh, North Carolina not any just off the bottom of the floor type of team. They're still a really good team. But yes, the caller's right, you should win your non conference games at Rupperina. That's a w that's what was so bad when we lost him Evansville and North Carolina Wilmington at Ropperena. You just don't lose at Rupperina.

00:39:14
Speaker 5: It's really a bad night overall for the sec It was challenge right Syracuse, be Tennessee.

00:39:21
Speaker 4: That surprised me.

00:39:22
Speaker 5: That one really surprised me about that, Go Orange, Well, how do we say that? Go Syracuse. I love that South Carolina lost. I mean, I think we see did Oklahoma and we had a couple wins, but it's it was an ugly first day of the sec ACS Challenge. Not that we care about the rest of the conference, but it might show you what the competition level will be like when we get to that part of the schedule.

00:39:42
Speaker 4: Shannon, who's next, Let's go to Daniel. Daniel, go ahead, Daniel, No, Yeah, Hi.

00:39:48
Speaker 10: Guys, I just wanted to Tommins first. I don't agree with the caller, don I don't know how quick I'm going to be to spend my money to keep supporting this program right now. You know, every year and a lot of money to go see a game in Madison Square Garden, and I just I'm not sure I'm going to do it next year anyway. I don't doubt the coach that the guys can shoot three pointers well in practice. Tack anyone, any Division one basketball player can shoot the ball well in practice. I think that's squarely on the coach that he can't get these players to trance, to move from practice to game time to still be able to shoot the ball well. I think that is one hundred percent responsibility the coaches, and the coaches aren't getting the job done right now, Thank you very much, guys, have a good day.

00:40:37
Speaker 4: Appreciate, don you know. That's what we were hearing on the football front, that fans were not going to renew their season tickets, not donate the nil and that can get a coach fired faster than anything. We're hearing me that's a second call, Like, man, I'm not going to spend my money to come into town and buy a hotel room and go to dinner and go to that game to see this kind of performance on the floor.

00:40:54
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I wonder the big spenders who really help Pope starting off in nil. It's no secret what we spent and how it's the most of the country. If you know, this team doesn't have a good year and it's not fun I mean, are the are the big donors gonna be like, yeah, let me just keep piling money into this. I mean, that's why this needs to work. This was a very big investment that we're watching. I know I always play up not my money, I don't care, but I do want Kentucky to continue to have support moving forward. And if you're you know, you're trotting out a team that plays like that, fans boosters, everybody's gonna wonder how much they want to give.

00:41:26
Speaker 4: You know, I give Mario credit. Matt kind of gave him a hard time yesterday, but he said weeks ago, there's something wrong with this team. They're just out of something's not right.

00:41:34
Speaker 5: I still, I don't know. I don't have the answer. I'm just a fan wondering like everyone else. But something's off with the chemistry going. I hate to bring up, you know, the thing from weeks ago. I'm not trying to do that, but something's going on. I don't know what it is, but something's going on still, not just the basketball.

00:41:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's issues.

00:41:50
Speaker 5: There has to be.

00:41:50
Speaker 4: I don't know what it is, but there are issues. And I don't know what's going on with Diabata. Yeah, what's his injury? I mean, I thought he just kind of rolled his ankle, even walked off the court that game. They're saying he hadn't even practiced, and how long is he gonna be out? So the doors are open down here at Chaos Bar and Grill. Come on in. It's Wings Day, Dollar Wings all Day. Ryan Drew and Schen will be back our number two on Kentucky's Ports Radio