2024-11-13- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 1: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: Welcome everyone in Kentucky Sports Radio. Wednesday, November the thirteenth. It is celebration day here at the KS Bar and Grill in Lexington, where the sun is shining a little bit brighter. After Kentucky beats Duke seventy seven seventy two in Atlanta and the Champions Classic in a game that has everyone pumped. We got a bunch of people here. We got Louisville, Bullet County, Evansville, Harriget, Tennessee, is in the house. Richmond. Everybody has made it to her Chas Bar. It's wingsday. You can come join us for what should be now. I didn't even bother writing down topics. I don't don't I know what we're talking about. What else is there to talk about? I mean, like there's no reason to write down topics. This is two hours of celebration. You can give us a show on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone nine eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, a vision auto glass text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. This diition sponsored by the t J. Smith Office. You call TJ. I'll make them pay. Here's the best way I can summarize last night. When I have a late night game and I have to do a postgame show and it's like one one thirty two. When we get done, I just I assume, man, you know, I'm gonna go upstairs. I'm gonna put on the most boring show I can and try to get sleep. I didn't want to sleep at two o'clock after we got done. I wanted to get on the internet and read all the stuff. It was like it was like the old days of the early calperier, where I want to hear what everybody said. I was looking up. I'm listening to like podcast. I'm listening to Jeff Goodman talk. You know why Winston. Who wants to hear Jeff Goodman talk? I did last night because I wanted to hear him talk about us. It was just one of those moments where you're like, this is special, this is fun, and I didn't want the night to end. I ended up not going to bed Toll like three because I just wanted to celebrate as much as I.

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Speaker 4: Could well from the events that happened on State Street. You weren't alone. There are a lot of people who stayed up late last night. This place in here went crazy. I mean, we're all cause we were back. You know, it's that moment that we're back, that moment that cal Perry had it, you know with John wall in that group and they beat North Carolina. We got it last night.

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Speaker 3: We did get it last night, and for the people that were there in Atlanta, that had to be like a really cool environment. Now I'm kicking myself. I didn't go. You know, I've been to so many of those roads special event games that we lose then you come back home. I kind of wish i'd been there because for a bunch of friends. One of our co owners this bar was there, a friend of mine from high school, and they're texting me. You know, I don't know about you. I had friends that don't text me about basketball all of a sudden remembering that they were UK fans last night going can you believe it drew? Just an exciting, exciting night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It just felt different going into that game too. I think we all picked Kentucky to win, and that wasn't really we.

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Speaker 3: Didn't really believe. That's what. Let me make the point.

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Speaker 2: It felt something felt different really in the last week leading into this game, and there was like a bit of fan bases around Kentucky and excitement and confidence with the players in Pope just in how they prepare and have been playing for each other. I genuinely expected Kentucky to win. Now, first half got a little attitudes changed a little bit. Yesterday just felt different all day going into that. I don't yeah, it's Kentucky. Halftime happened, but we felt back. Even before it tipped off.

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Speaker 3: At halftime, I didn't think we were winning. I mean, I have to say, even midway through the first half, I was like, well, they're better than us. I mean, I d I kind of felt that way, and I honestly, they probably are better than us if you're just looking at talent. But man, they played hard, and they and the and they out coached them in the second half. I mean that was that was a case where we made adjustments and Shire didn't make adjustments to the adjustments, and they fought for every possession. I mean that Kentucky got almost nothing easy. There were no easy baskets. There were no like we can get to the rim and we can score on this guy. As matter of fact, that was part of I wondered about this team's issue. Still wonder a little bit about it. Can you get a bucket when you need to? I mean we had there was a period of time. But Mary Williams is clearing out people from the top of the key. I'm not sure that should be a regular function of our offense. But Andrew Carr take, you know, having to take people kerk Kriesa hits a big three, Brandon Carrison hits a three, oh way gets steals. I mean basically everyone on the team except maybe our best player had to make a huge play in the second half and you get the win and I just if you were gonna draw up right how you wanted to win the game to make you the happiest, I think you would have drawn that up. You would have drawn it up to where at the end we felt like, for the first time in a long time, we won a game we had no business winning.

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Speaker 4: Right, Kentucky didn't play very well. Their best player had one point, but they, like you said, they showed a lot of grit and a lot.

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Speaker 3: Of Duke's best player. I know he turned it over twice at the end, but looked like a superstar, and we stood through it.

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Speaker 4: And it was just like you said, o Tega, those those stills at the end of the game, just to make near these little plays. But you said something earlier, when's the last time we said our coach out coached the other coach. It's been a while, and we've been able to say.

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Speaker 3: That it's been a while. Well, okay, to be fair and to cal there were games where I fought felt like they came in with a game plan that really worked a couple of years ago at Arkansas when we weren't playing well, and then Reeves made all those shots. But I don't think there's been a lot where I felt like we adjusted to win a game, Like in the middle of it, we adjusted and we did something at that point, drew to win. That was I think a very unique feeling for us in the last few years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what we got to get used to. We had so much talent. How many times we hear I'm taking talent every time. Well, last night again, for the tenth straight time in Champions Classic, the talented team full of freshmen fizzled out the second half, but for the first time, it wasn't us. I mean, that's how teams have been beating talent for a long time in college basketball. We've just been so blinded because we've been the talented one losing. We're gonna have a team that might go down in a lot of games. But I thought it was very interesting after the game and Pope said, we know early on you're just collecting data.

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Speaker 3: It's like, what he's a collecting data? They're trying well.

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Speaker 2: I mean, can you imagine John cal Perry or a lot of coaches of that style saying, oh, the first part of the game is all about collecting data to get your plan together. But that's just the way Pope we looked at that and then it works because the second half was night and day.

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Speaker 3: They reminded me of a Kansas team. It feels like every year Kansas plays about their roster. They usually have one star and then a bunch of dudes that are like Perry ellis right, who just make make shots. We lack like a Kansas team, but our star didn't play well and we still won. And I've seen Kansas do that over the years, where you have a guy like Hunter Dickinson doesn't play well or you know, pick your random dude they have, and yet they still find a way to win. That's kind of how I felt we did. I just want to talk about like the last few plays down the stretch because I think, you know how many times have we gone into these games sixty seven sixty seven and there's like a sense of dread we're up to and then they get a play which normally would be the play where we lose the game. Cooper Flag takes us one on two, makes an amazing shot at the free throw line, gets fouled, and they go from down two to up one. There's a lot of games where we come down, take a bad shot in the game's over right there, then you and then they go, look, Cooper, flag is the number one pick. Here's the play. And then we get car gets a clear out and gets an and one, which was a massive play in the game. And all of a sudden we're back up to right. That's not normally gonna happen. Then they come down score tie it, We come down chrisa if he hit that three. It would have been if he hit that three, the amount of trash talking, yeah, would have been, like forget it.

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Speaker 2: I thought that shot was a little deep at that point in the game or whatever.

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Speaker 3: But the shot clock was going down. It was like it's it's so he needed that. Somebody needed to shoot it. So then now the game's tied, they have the ball, and then the play of the night is that steal by Oh what I mean, if you watch, if you go back and watch the game, they show Pope say, at the time out at like two and a half minute, three minutes, watch flag spin and that's and that's exactly what happens. He spins, rips, the ball away, goes down. I'm sitting there screaming as he's running stop stop, stop, because I wanted to get the last shot, but he attacks, gets fouled, makes both free throws right, and then they come down and basically get Cooper to step on the in line. Yeah, I mean, great defense right there. They you know, Carr kind of couldn't guard him, so in those key moments they actually bray It wasn't a great defender on him either, but they both kind of braying away did what they could, and we ended up gutting out of win.

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Speaker 4: I didn't have Andrew Carr being our guy that we were going to go to late in the game to go get us a bucket lee in the post, though, and he did it. He made some really big shots for us down there to Layton a game.

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Speaker 3: We still don't really have a guy who can who can take someone off the dribble and get a big basket. We just it needs to be Robinson, but he wasn't him last night. We just don't really have a guy to do that. But they found a way to make up for it by having dudes step up, make plays, hit you know, hit the jumper that matters, and it worked itself out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh way, finishing the game like that. I mean, if we talked about all the players who could lead this team. And it's still very early, but he has been the biggest surprise, the most consistent, maybe just the best overall player to this point.

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Speaker 3: I think it probably has been the best overall player so far.

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Speaker 4: The steal and then he got the rebound on the Butler Myths free throw. You know it took effort to go get that, you know, yeah, effort plays.

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Speaker 3: Without And that was actually I thought to myself when he got that rebound, it was almost a free play, meaning like if they had called over the back, we're up three and we give them a one and one, right, which is what we've been yelling at Cal to do for years is when you're up three, foul. So I actually thought, I don't know if they thought this, but it's actually a good time to try to go and get that rebound because a foul wouldn't even kill you there, Drew, because you'd put him on the line with a one to one. Yeah, I agree with that.

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Speaker 2: And also are you just mention this, but going back to oh Way seeing them close out a game with free throws the Champions Classic? Was it last year? You go to the line, Yes, you have a chance to go up three. There's ten seconds on the clock. It was two years ago Michigan State and they don't make them Michigan State scores the other way. I think on a you know, an inbounds plan and got overtime. Just seeing Kentucky finish the job like that was refreshing. It gives me a lot of confidence moving ahead.

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Speaker 3: It's the first time we've beaten it. It's are we our fourth win over over Duke in sixty years?

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Speaker 4: That's crazy.

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Speaker 3: So I want to talk about a little bit though. From a fan standpoint, I think this game was like for the fans, I said that Lexington felt different yesterday. It just did like there was blue. People were wearing blue at noon wherever they were right Ye. You could just kind of feel it, you know. I knew it was going to be special when we came in to do this pregame show at six fifteen and half, the bar was already full for a nine to fifteen game. When this game started, it was packed in here and there was an energy. It wasn't just people were here. There were cats, chants. There was a lot of that kind of stuff going on. We'll talk later about Ryan ended up with his shirt off. Our numbers for the postgame show. Were like through the roof at one am. I decided I'm a text mark Pope and see if he will jump on. They agree from the team bus. It's awesome, all right. We've only once in the history of the show had a basketball coach on the postgame cal did it once when they beat Louisville, probably ten twelve years ago when they beat him. I think it was the year we beat him with the freshman you know, with the Harrison Twins and all those guys. Maybe it was one of those years, but that doesn't happen very often. Then, you know, when I hear on Pope if you didn't listen to it yet on my postgame show, said he showed the team a montage of our history with Duke over the years, starting in nineteen seventy eight. He says, he showed them the Duke win in the National Shot title, showed them what happened with Christian Latner, showed them what happened in nineteen ninety eight, and said he wanted them to see there's a string that runs through it now that you're part of. He wants them to understand what this is that is so cool, Yes, that is so cool to make you connected to the greater history. This is not just a game, a regular game. This is something that a thing that's kind of connected through time. And then the celebration after. I mean, here people losing it out on State Street. Maybe a little bit premature excitement to burn stuff on the street, but you know what, whatever you're in college, if you want just online. It was like the old days. And I just love it for the fans. I love that. You know, a guy called in said, last year at the Champions Classic, it was like seventy five twenty five Carol excuse me for the CBS Classic was seventy five twenty five Carol Line in Kentucky. This year seventy thirty Kentucky Duke. Like a lot of blue in there. Like our fans are back, yeah, and that's very cool. Back.

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Speaker 4: We can pound our chests because we know we can back it up. Now. You know, we were led to believe we had these some really great teams in recent years, didn't really back it up. These guys are gonna be able to back it.

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Speaker 3: Up this year, and they're backing it up even though we have less talent. Yeah we do have. Let we we have less talent and yet still finding a way to win. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And on the the Pope thing of explaining Kentucky to them, it's not just pope coach speak like otega Oway, it seemed genuine. In the postgame press conference, he's like, when I look down and see Kentucky, there's an expectation to me that I have to play a certain way. And he's looking at a car and they're like, there's just so much Kentucky, Kentucky, Kentucky from these guys. And they were talking about how they were able to finish the game because that was on their chest. And it's not like a corny slogan that they've been told in media training to this is the message we want to get across. You can tell they're really living and believing it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it was great And even things like like Kentucky's starting to open up. They Kirk Crisa go on Jeff Goodman's Little postgame show Live Well, Jeff Goodman and Kirk Criser friends. You ever think Cali Perry would have let him player go on a postgame show with Jeff Goodman. No, but if you watched it, it was great. You could tell those guys like each other, and he opened up. He said, I love that. He said something like there was a guy in the crowd making fun of my stash with a Duke fan, and then I went to see him afterwards and he didn't have much to say after that. I love that. I feel like it's that's going in the right direction for what these fans want. And it was very cool. I'm nine two eight zero twenty two eighty seven. We're gonna be celebrating all day. We'll take your calls. Be right back. This scizer working back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at the kas Bar and Grill Wingsday. By the way, good day to come Dollar Wings here starting at eleven o'clock. Let's talk about some other things about the game that stuck out. First of all, a guy mentioned here, and I think he's right. We I think we've warre them down, you know. I I think at the end, you know, they're not They're really talented. And by the way, I think they're gonna be really good at the end of the year. I don't want to play them in the tournament. I think they're they're their first six are really good. But I only think they have six again, kind of flipping the script. Like we said, they're kind of like cow teams in the past, you know, and have like six guys, and then you really didn't have a bench. I don't think they have a bench. So when they got tired and then the one guy kept cramping up, I think it made it to where they they were exhausted and at the end you could really tell they were kind of a step behind our guys. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think it was at the at the eight minute TV time out in the second half, they're up four, and I tweeted out said, hey, Duke looks tired. This is the time of Tucky make a run because they did. The other think they were already worn down by then.

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Speaker 2: I'm sitting next to him and called it runs over here, this ball nower right here, just talking about how tired the Blue Devils were and then just kept just kept wearing them down. Although early on it was all fun and games, at the end, for a couple of minutes it looked like a enormous talent differential. When Duke was a I think Cooper flag on the first play finished at the rim right past Andrew Carr, it looked like Andrew Carr couldn't play in that game, but his credit the second half, they don't win it with him.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean early on.

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Speaker 2: Duke looked very very very very good.

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Speaker 3: They abused him on every one of the first five minutes possessions. I thought they weren't gonna be able to play Andrew Carr because he was just getting They were switching off and getting skuys on him. And then they did that a little bit to Brea in the second half. But you know what, those guys adjusted found a way to make it work. Then the other thing is that full court pass. Yeah, I assumed that was a drawn up play. Pope said it's a read and that like if a guy's in a certain place, Brea will throw that pass. Well, might be the best pass we've seen in Lexington since the old misgate. I mean it was, and you know that's a gutsy pass. There's five point five seconds left. If he throws it too fault well, first of all, he throws it too short, dude gets it. If he throws it too far and it goes out of bounds, they get the ball back the goal. So that is a gutsy, gutsy pass to throw and he threw it perfectly.

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Speaker 4: Guy mentioned it was the ol Joe by hall Rick Rick play and to play. You see a lot of times even in high school, where the two deep guys run as past. They came to the baseline and somebody breaks the other way, and that's kind of what it was. And bread he threw a dart.

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Speaker 3: That was perfect fast, and then you know, Butler's got to make at least one of the free throws, and he does made the first one throw and the ball.

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Speaker 2: Was in the air. It felt like it was up there forr because I didn't love it. I mean, he connected. After he connected, it's like, hey, what are you doing Saturday? Can you be at crowker Field? But I mean that felt very, very very gutsy in the moment.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it really did. So let's just go through real quick, the guys, the contributions of everybody. Uh, you know, Jackson Robinson did not play well, And you can look at that a couple of different ways. Like I thought that was going to be a stage where he really showed where he was. It didn't happen. Hopefully that's not a symbol of things to come. But we won without it. We won without our best player. I mean their best player had twenty six. Our best player had won in the game and really didn't look like he wanted to shoot a lot of the game, to be quite frank with you, but still win. I thought Away was great, defensively, great, getting turnovers, let us and scoring. Bray hit a couple of big threes in the first half when we needed them. Yeah, I mean we really needed those. Those are times where we were kind of struggling. Butler, I thought Butler was excellent, you know. I mean a lot of people, I think kind of focus on his limitations, but the dude is gritty and he does the little things. Drew during the game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we saw a lot of what we've been talking about leading to it. His defense. And speaking of Defenser, I mean Robinson had no offense. He took zero shots in the first half. But he was engaged on the other end, you know, I mean he had at least two stills, couple of blocks. It's not like he was pouting and thinking he wasted an opportunity of that game. He was still doing everything he could on the other end and be an activist.

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Speaker 4: And he's the guy that put on Cooper flag in the second half. Roush a long period of time too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Kerk Crisa came in, gave us energy exactly when we needed it. We really needed his little boost right there. Hit a big three, hit a big three. Uh. He gets under people's skin. You can just tell. Like I mean, if he was on the other team, we would hate him. He is. He is a and I say this is a compliment. He's a duke player. Like if I'm you know, my top ten hated Dukies list, if he was on Duke, he would be fighting to try to be on that list. That's but I consider that a compliment. Mariy Williams played really well defensively, Like I said, maybe not so much taking guys one on one at the top of the key of Mariy. I'm not sure that's necessarily necessarily what I want him to do. But still had had good moments. Brandon Garrison was huge. He was Brandon Garrison was huge. I mean, had four straight points, a big block. Actually thought his he I mean, I couldn't believe he took that three. I was that was definitely a no, no, no, yes along too.

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Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, it didn't hit the three, didn't get it, but it went in, so you gotta like that.

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Speaker 3: And then of course Carr. Carr had been the one player in the first four games drew that we really hadn't seen have an offensive explosion. You and I both felt like it's coming, It's coming, and it came this week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, offensively, he was too good for what we saw a little bit in the exhibitions in the first games. At Rup wasn't hitting his threes. He was two for three last night, and like we said early on, he looked like he didn't need to be in the game. That to go back to a cow line, that's a I can't play you this game is how he looked in those first couple of minutes. But to his credit, they don't win it without him. He turned it on. He hit some threes. He's very efficient from the field, and he's kind of what you know defensively is what he is. But offensively we saw what he can be. What did it What did it.

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Speaker 3: Have to be like to be Mark Pope last night, like sir, to get on that bus win in your third game as the alma mater. I mean we had no players when he got here, not one, and he took I don't want to say it's a ragtag group. I don't think that this isn't the Bad News Bears, but it is like the mid Major Bears. And he took them in in a few months and had him beat a team that Jay Williams says is the most talented duke team in twenty years. And by the way, I don't think that was a crazy statement he said. I think we'll look back on there. There's talent on that, a lot of talent, and then we beat him.

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Speaker 4: You know, Mark Pope kind of recruited dude to fit his system, and that's what he went out to do. I gotta get guys that fit what I want to do offensively, and we're seeing that he's got those pieces. He put the pieces together.

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Speaker 3: You just gotta you just gotta love it. It's got It is so exciting. Let's talk to some of you all. I want to talk to fans. We got a woman who's supposed to be naked in Synthiana. We got the kid that won the tickets here, we got the family from Williamsburg. Love to talk to all of you. We'll be right BACKKSR. TJ.

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Speaker 2: Smith, personal injury attorney called tj He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 5: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio. All right, let's talk fan experience here for just a second. Here at the bar, place was full, it was exciting. I was here then. I don't know if it was nervousness, but I scratched my neck and started bleeding from my neck and I could, which is not what you want to do in a restaurant, Like people don't like to come to a restaurant and see the guy who owns it bleeding. So I was like, you know what, I'm gonna go home at halftime and fix the cut. And then of course the the mojo switched when I did that, so I was like, I can't go back, But I did see and Mario's working on a video of what it was like. What was it like after it?

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Speaker 4: Towards the end, everybody just immediately jumping up and down, hollering, screaming, got their phones out video record everything. Drew's doing his rapid reaction like right there, and everybody's gathered around him. It will was a fun, chaotic mess that I enjoyed and wanted to be a part of.

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Speaker 3: It was loud during the entire game. It was loud. Yeah, yeah, I mean we haven't had one like. I know we keep saying this, but we opened the Tyler Hero season and we have not had games like this. We haven't had regular season games to celebrate, you know what. We had it a lot for football, but we haven't had it for basketball. Ryan took his shirt off. Drew, can we can we understand why in the.

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Speaker 2: Needing this that we know, we know exactly why, and that's that's why we stuck around, hoping that Kentucky would give him that opportunity.

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Speaker 3: There's a video of you that, like, is something sexy? No, Mario took it.

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Speaker 2: It's Mario with the selfie with you doing the running man with your shirt off and the big hat on.

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Speaker 3: That had to make your girlfriend proud.

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Speaker 4: I texted her on the way home. I said, Uh, just don't look on social media for a while. You don't want to see this.

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Speaker 2: I cut the rapid reaction a couple of minutes short. I had a few things planned because he was hurtless. He had both his fingers in my ears. I don't even know what you're doing with that, and he wouldn't stop making a nipple jokes, and I just thought it's a good time to wrap up.

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Speaker 3: This. By the way, actually looked fun. I mean it looked fun like that everyone who participated, Yeah, there was a lot. You did it. From here, it looked a lot. It looked really fun. I had a friend who was at the game tell me that that was one of the better goes to the Champions Classic every year said best Champions Classic Kentucky environment. Since the twenty fifteen when we blew out Kansas with the team that went thirty eight.

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Speaker 2: One, I've been about all these except last night, and it genuinely got to dreading it because the turnout wasn't getting as good, and you just when you've lost so many in a row, it got to the point you just knew what was gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: And now I think, like, Okay, the neutral site game in New York right before Christmas, I kind of feel like that's gonna be more fun than I would have thought otherwise. You know, anyone on the West coast, now you gotta find your way to Seattle for the Gonzaga game. If you're a Kentucky fan on the West coast and then we gotta sneak into the building for the Clipson game. We can get we Blue can get in. Right, we gotta find a way that's gonna be cool in a true road environment. That's gonna be the next neat test.

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Speaker 4: That's probably gonna be the toughest environment they play in before they get into conference play.

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Speaker 3: It'll be harder than the Gonzaga environment because the Gonzag environment is in an NBA arena in tattle It's not in the kennel.

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Speaker 4: That's their home marine, their home arena. So it'll be rocking. Like we talked about yesterday, it's a big deal to Clempson fans knowing that Kentucky's gonna come and play on their court.

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Speaker 3: And Eastern, by the way, played Clympson all right last night. I mean they were I think they were down four at halftime or something, ended up losing by a little bit more. All right, who's up first ship.

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Speaker 2: We'll start with Roscoe.

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Speaker 3: Roscoe, how are you? Roscoe is a good first morning. It's a great name for the first caller after Kentucky win.

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Speaker 6: Go ahead, Roscoe, Well, thank you, and let me just say Ryan is sexy as can be slow down.

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Speaker 3: Let's not get too excited about a win.

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Speaker 4: Family show.

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Speaker 6: I love Ryan, so let me have that moment there. Hey, I think this win exposes Cali Perry's coaching ability, and I think the Arkansas fans are gonna put a lot of early pressure on Cali Perry's tenure at Arkansas, especially if he has mediocre results with a loaded team. That's all I want to say. And I want to listen to what you guys have.

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Speaker 7: Well.

00:27:24
Speaker 3: I appreciate to call it. Look, I mean, this is a huge win, and I don't think we I don't think it's good to spend the post of the win in pettiness about the pass coach. But let me be petty for just Onnesday. I watched on Saturday the end of the Arkansas Baylor game. And if you go back and watch the last four minutes of the Arkansas Baylor game, drew and then compare it to the last four minutes of this game. I'm sorry. It's just a difference in coaching and execution. It just is. They were in the same position in the Arkansas Baylor game. It was time with like four minutes to go, and they down the stretch had no offense, and they stood around and hoped somebody would make a play, and Baylor schemed up stuff to get shots and they took. They ended the game with an off balance three. And then you look at the last four minutes of our game, and you saw guys making plays, getting steals, doing the smart thing. I don't know how you can't say that, at least when it comes look, Arkansas's more talented than we are, but at least when it comes to end of game execution, how can you not say that one was better than the other.

00:28:37
Speaker 2: And I don't think it's being petty, because it's not just Kentucky fans being Kentucky fans and sticking their chest out right now. They're like national basketball media people saying Kentucky would have lost that game if John Kyl Perry was the coach, Like people that watched the sport for their careers and don't have any fantom in any direction are writing right now and have already written Kentucky doesn't win that game of Kyles's still coach, it's just the fact.

00:29:00
Speaker 3: And wait till we get the dudes, Like we don't really have the dudes right now. I mean, these guys are good in their experience, and I think you're gonna see dudes like this on the team from now on. They're always gonna have some of these. But we don't have elite talent, Ryan, Wait till we have elite talent, Like, wait till we have this kind of coaching. And then you imagine if you had a Cooper Flag to add to that team. Yeah, right, Like, imagine if you had a guy like that to add to the Let's say you had four seniors and Cooper Flag, or even four seniors and Canipple, Like, that's a whole nother thing.

00:29:41
Speaker 4: Friend texting during the show said that out of bounds play, we're talking about that bray of pass poping. Those guys probably practiced that a dozen times. The former coach probably just had Andrew Carr standing with his arm up it.

00:29:52
Speaker 3: We saw what happened. I'll act out what would have happened. The guy would have stood there to inbound the ball. Three people would have been standing at like a quarter court. They'd have run to the baseline and held the ball like this. They all would have been denied the ball and they would have set there time out. Then we would have walked back to the root thing. They'd have come back out and they'd have done the exact same thing, right, Yeah, it happened. It happened in multiple games last year. They would not they would have never even considered to throw the length of the court. It's different. It's just different. I don't care what anybody says. It's different. Well, they didn't have.

00:30:32
Speaker 2: Time to work on it, and there and then after it was over, they go, we didn't work on in bounced plays, we didn't work on zone.

00:30:38
Speaker 3: They're young, they're not machines.

00:30:41
Speaker 2: I'm the say, and you're not wrong. You're cooking there. I don't I'm afraid to speak. But on the talent coming in. Caleb Wilson's number five player in the country. He was there last night and tweeted something like I'm in the house tonight. One of those things. He seems to be leaning very heavily towards Lexington and last night only helped that.

00:30:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, who's up? The worry for top elite tut like Kay Wilson is, can Mark Pope get the best out of me? Well, games like that show that they can't.

00:31:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had fun last night.

00:31:09
Speaker 3: Who's Next? Had them? Adam go ahead at him.

00:31:13
Speaker 5: I think it was great win last night, and two year old's point about you know, Cal usually having a young team and we always want him to call time out at the end of the game. I was having flashbacks to ninety eight and your younger crowd won't know this, but the last four minutes in that ninety eight game, Duke was without a timeout and they wasn't it that exaggerated last night, but they took their last time out with two ten left, and you know when we got on.

00:31:38
Speaker 3: The timeout, okay, they didn't get to run a time out once we made the two free throws to go up to You're exactly right. They didn't have a time out and so they ended up with Cooper Flagg just having to work it in the sideline. You're that's a great analogy, sir, because in ninety eight Tubby Duke didn't have timeouts. Tubby took advantage of it. Sorry, you're right. They did the same thing here.

00:32:03
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, just awesome, awesome game plan and endgame adjustments by Pope. You know, I'll make a confession the past, you know, probably since COVID. When Kentucky gets behind by double ditches, I'm turning it off. I've got better things to do. I've seen them come back a million times, but really, since COVID, you know, I'm turning that game off. Last night I started to do the same thing. I was like, no, Pope, you know, we'll give the analytics a shot. He's gonna make adjustments. I'm gonna give it a shot and watch this thing through. Damn Glad I didn't me too.

00:32:31
Speaker 3: There were multiple times in the game. I appreciate the call Ryan, where they were. I think Duke was one shot away from putting it away. You're right, and they just kept missing them. Yeah, there were multiple times where they were up nine and had an open look and missed it. What I thought the big sequence was like with six minutes to go or whatever, we were down six, they got the ball, missed a jumper, offensive rebound missed three, offensive rebound missed three. All the shots were open. If they hit one of those, they might have won the game. But they didn't. And again, I go back to how many Kentucky games where I would think, if we had just hit that shot, it would have put them away, and we couldn't hit the shot. It was last night was the reverse of all of these games we've had over the years.

00:33:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's series you're just talking about where they kept getting the offensive rebound, kicking it out but kept missing the shot. I said, look, they're giving us a chance. We need to make a run like right now and get back in the game, because even I think one time Duke was up ten, they had a wide open three, could have put him up like thirteen and they missed a shot.

00:33:35
Speaker 3: Don't miss Club Blue. I had the guy who runs Club Blue just send me the happiest messages in the world after the win last night, Club Blues meet and greet before the UK Murray State game. Colin Chandler from the men's basketball team and Aaron Lamb from the volleyball team will be there to meet Club Blue members at Kroger Field before the game. So you could meet Colin the Chandler. November sixteenth, before the one third UK Murray State game. Go to Club Blueinile dot com. Become a member. You get to go to these meet and greets. We're hoping to have something here at the bar with a couple of the basketball players here in December who should be exciting. Go to Club Blue Inile dot com and participate in helping UK athletics. We're gonna take a break and be right back. We are here at Kosbar's Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back in is Kentucky Sports Radio here at the Ksbar and grill. Let's talk scheduling here for a second. Guess who's gonna be on the show tomorrow, Drew, I'm gonna guess who up. Doron Lamb and Marcus Tigue will be in the building tomorrow, nice at eleven o'clock. They're coming to Ksbar, gonna do an interview with us. First time we've interviewed with them in person maybe ever. And they're gonna be here. If you want to come meet them, I'm sure they'd love to say Hi. You'll be welcome here tomorrow. I'm excited about it. Jan And just have the dumb button, Rady, Okay, that's all I'm asking. Just have the dumb button. They have a new podcast and they're coming.

00:35:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, tell them the show is FCC regulated.

00:35:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if they don't know, if they're used to that, and if you've listen their podcast, they're gonna have to They're gonna have to work on that. But they will be here in the building tomorrow Friday. We are in Louisville. We don't do a lot of remotes in Louisville, but we got one Friday with the new Whiskey Thief in Louisville. Where is that?

00:35:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's down on Market Street.

00:35:21
Speaker 2: On Market Street and New lou Especially Nanny Goat Strut. That's a street. That's the name of the street, Nanny Nanny Goat Strut. He's shaking his head.

00:35:32
Speaker 3: Why I wonder why it's called Nanny Goat Strut.

00:35:35
Speaker 2: But it's a really big and nice place. I've already been for an event there. It's gonna be a fun.

00:35:39
Speaker 3: One, all right. So Nanny Goat Strut at the Whiskey Thief Tomorrow Friday. So Ron Lamb and Marcus Tea tomorrow. That's Friday. Then the UK women play Louisville Friday night in Lexington. So I would say to you, let's we should pack that house for Kenny. By the way, Kenny's get there's the women's basketball version of Trillie Donovan has made a thing tonight, like Kentucky may get a huge women's commitment today this afternoon. Well the time, like a huge player, right, be ready for.

00:36:10
Speaker 2: Maybe some good news coming to that way here. Yeah, I mean, that's like ranked high. The person is it would be a good get. A lot of other schools in the mix looking like it should be good news.

00:36:19
Speaker 3: So Kenny Brooks, that's Friday night against against Louisville. So a lot of stuff going here in these next couple days. One person writes, Matt should Mitch Barnhardt be gloating right now? Yeah? I mean how many people believed in that when it was in the moment it was announced. I want everybody to look in their heart and soul in the moment it was announced. Are you heard about it? How many of you thought it was a good idea in that moment? I didn't. I'm just being honest, and I'd say it if he was here. I didn't. Now twenty four hours later I did. But in that moment I didn't necessarily believe it was a good idea. I was wrong. This was a good idea, and Mitch believed it. You know, I can say this now. I had a conversation with Mitch kind of before the show to talk about the interview, not to like say what I was gonna say, but to just say, hey, you're doing this blah blah blah blah blah, and he was one hundred percent convinced right then. And I didn't argue with him because I wasn't gonna It's not my place. But I was like, I mean, clearly it worked, and you have to you have to admire going with your gut in that moment.

00:37:38
Speaker 4: I think he deserves a little gloating today, maybe take a little victory lap, because his interview he did with you on the show that day turned a lot of fans impressions about the hire. A lot of us were a little questioned, but after that interview, I think we all kind of got on board with it.

00:37:54
Speaker 3: There needs to be a documentary on those twenty four hours. Like I've never seen a collective mindset change quicker than the Kentucky basketball fans did in those twenty four hours.

00:38:05
Speaker 2: You're absolutely right. I tweeted that Mitch went to a steakhouse and someone else else's tab mortar chicken tenders talking about the Pope Pier. I was a little disappointed myself, but he deserves all the credit in the world.

00:38:15
Speaker 3: He knew what he was doing.

00:38:16
Speaker 2: It's worked out so far. Kenny Brooks looks like it's gonna work out. Yeah, stick with nick min'j you oone worked out last year. Mitch is on a little bit of a heater right now, even though a lot of people, including me, have been critical, among other things, the coaching hires have been great.

00:38:29
Speaker 3: Six pm Saturday for UK women's basketball. I said, Friday Saturday. Okay, so that's even better. Kentucky football game will be.

00:38:36
Speaker 4: Over, will be over?

00:38:38
Speaker 3: Oh that you should? People should make that a weekend Kentucky football want one thirty, it'll end and then go to the women's game.

00:38:44
Speaker 4: It's the Louisville game for crying out. Yeah, let's pack it rise on Saturday.

00:38:48
Speaker 3: Well, well, now they may it. Wonder if I'm just gonna throw this out there, UK y'all to think about letting me do the postgame show from the game.

00:38:58
Speaker 4: It's a good idea, you the football post game from I don't let the.

00:39:01
Speaker 3: Whole jay of my thing. No, I mean it, like I could go live right as the women's basketball game was started.

00:39:08
Speaker 2: Oh, I think it'd be a great idea. My laughing is because.

00:39:11
Speaker 3: They probably won't do it, but they should. That would really that? Okay? Do you I'm just saying that that would be. That would be a smart idea. Who's next, Mike, Mike, go ahead, Mike.

00:39:23
Speaker 7: Can you hear me?

00:39:24
Speaker 3: Yes?

00:39:27
Speaker 7: What a classic last night? I mean a heck of a basketball game. Duke is the real deal. Don't let anybody say anything about it. They're a legit basketball team. I see them going to lead eight, maybe final four. We played our butts off last night, prostum coach hope for I mean, what a game plan at the second half. I mean, what an adjustment. I mean he just took that game over in the second half.

00:39:51
Speaker 3: Uh.

00:39:52
Speaker 5: But yeah, like I.

00:39:54
Speaker 7: Bet Cal sitting over there in Arkansas thinking, Hell the heck he win that game.

00:39:58
Speaker 3: That's a good question. Ye. I appreciate the call crew did did Did cow watch the game?

00:40:05
Speaker 2: Yes, yesterday thousand? They didn't have a game tonight. I think he would have been in the building wearing a fake mustache. He was so interested in what was gonna happen. He definitely watched that game. I've said this before. As much as he said he didn't look at the clutter, I have heard so many stories that the man knows all about all the clutter that I am very.

00:40:24
Speaker 3: If he watched the game that had to be a rough one because he's probably loving the first half. Yeah, but the second half they had to be rough.

00:40:34
Speaker 2: It's pretty confused.

00:40:34
Speaker 3: What are they doing?

00:40:35
Speaker 2: What is the sorcery? They weren't doing that in the first half.

00:40:38
Speaker 3: Are they allowed to change? Are you allowed to what do you think? You think you watched the game?

00:40:43
Speaker 4: I think I can just picture cow and Brad sitting up in the in the basement in their man cave watching every second.

00:40:49
Speaker 3: Basement would be ten roof. Remember they live above the ten roof.

00:40:52
Speaker 4: Well, sure got a house by now, don't think a house by now.

00:40:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, they played Troy tonight. I mean, you know Troy. They should beat Troy. No, you know, if they were to lose that game, they'd be well.

00:41:04
Speaker 3: And let me say this about Duke. They're good. They are like don't don't act like, oh well they turned it over. They get They're good. That's a good Duke team. They're gonna be right there at the end of the year. They're good. I don't like the praise Duke. But john Shire had a good game plan. I mean we struggled to score in the first half, like we got luck we hit I will say lucky. We hit our first five threes, but we really struggled to once they put ball pressure on us. We had a hard hard time with it. And they are We focus on their offense, but they're really good defensively, Ryan and for us, that's the best duke defensive team I've seen in a long time. And to be able to beat that one is a is a feather in our cast.

00:41:51
Speaker 4: They had a great defensive plan. They had it, you know where they were given Amari Williams if he wanted to go one on one from the top of the team, say okay, we're gonna give him that. The fourth we have to take a fifteen foot jumper, we'll give him that. Yeah, their defense was really good on us.

00:42:04
Speaker 3: I thought their defense, especially on our I mean on our Stars. Their defense was good. But we still found a way to win. And that's what's exciting. If I'm nine, two eighth twenty two eighty seven, We're gonna open up the bar here at Ksbar, good crowd of folks ready to celebrate. Let me hear your happiness about that win last night. There you go, We'll be right back out. Number two. It's KSR