KSR Postgame UK MBB vs Valparaiso 11/04/25

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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 2: This is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show. Kentucky with a big win, getting back on track, absolutely annihilating Valparaiso one oh seven fifty nine in rupp Aerna on rainy night in Lexington, Kentucky. We'll open up the phones here in just a minute. Eight five, nine to two, eight to zero, twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 1: Shout out.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I just heard the commercial of the Big Blue Deli downtown. I ate lunch there a lot sometimes that Billy goes in even we get it for lunch, right, Billy, great stuff.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, So thank you. They've joined the postgame show.

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Speaker 2: It was a feel good game for Kentucky tonight, I thought, after the poor performance against Georgetown, who by the way, won by double digital digits on the road tonight against Maryland. So maybe Georgetown's good and the poor first half against Nichols was important Kentucky come out and play well, and they did. I think they made their first five shots and were excellent. Let's just go over some numbers. All five starters, all five starters in double digits. That's huge, Malachai Moreno eighteen points gets a double double. They went they had had twenty seven assists with only six turnovers. That's a four and a half to one ratio. You're not gonna lose any game where you have that assist to turnover ratio. They shot the ball thirty nine percent from three. That's the first time they've been over twenty five percent in a game this year. So that was a great sign. And it all for me comes down to well two things. One, Valpo decided to play up tempo. I'm glad they did it because I think a lot of teams in the SEC, the good teams, so Florida Alabama they're gonna play like that, so I want us to have games like that. But also, it's a very tough style to beat Kentucky at when you're a lot less talented, and that's what ends up happening, is you get run off the floor, especially when we're hitting shots. But put that to the side. The big difference in this game is clearly having Low in Aberdeen. You know, in the first half of the last game, Aberdeen didn't play a lot of point. He comes in and plays it in the second half. You see the difference. And then tonight Aberdeen right out of the Gate Helps and then Jalen Low. He played you know, small amount of minutes, but you could tell in those minutes, you could tell exactly why he's gonna be so big for this team. He just changes everything, his penetration, his passing. He had five assists. I think he had four in the first half, and he just the way he gets the basket, the way he sees the floor and he's not even really looking for his offense yet wait until he has to do that. I just thought they were great, and that is the team offensively that I think we can have a lot of the year. You know, most teams will play a style where we're not gonna be able to run up down the court.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have to do it in the half court more often.

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Speaker 2: But you know, when you get a game where six guys are in double digits, nobody what I love about this. Six guys in double digits. But of the starters, everyone had between twelve and fifteen points, completely even scoring distribution load. You know, o Way had his now standard get he'll get thirteen to fifteen. Every single game, Garrison played well, Moreno played well.

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Speaker 1: Diabate was good.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, every single person on the floor was really excellent. You know, poor King Williams still can't make a shot, but pretty much everybody else I thought, really showed something. You saw Colin Chandler making all those threes to start. You know, if you take the second half of the Nickels game and the first half of this game, I mean, dude was on complete fire. I think he made seven of eight. If you combine those two halves, this is what you want.

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Speaker 1: Now. Is valpel good? Probably not.

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Speaker 2: They're probably mid pack of the Missouri Valley Conference. But for me, I just wanted to see. I just wanted to see Kentucky play like that, because even in the Purdue game, as good as they were offensively, it wasn't in a style like this. Half of our SEC games are going to be like this, and half of them are going to be like Georgetown in terms of the way they play. And now we've gotten a test against both of them. We won't really play a team like Perdue in the conference, but we will play teams like this, better versions of teams like this, and we'll play teams like Georgetown, and now we've gotten a test in both of them. Thought the arena was sounded great, love the ovation that Jalen Lowe got when he checked in the game. I watched it at home. Travis Ford, Billy sounds just like Jimmy Dikes. When did that start happenings? He always sounded like Jimmy Dikes.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't get to hear it, so like, what do you mean, is he doing the bits and things like that?

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Speaker 1: Or oh?

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Speaker 2: He literally his voice it's he sounds like Jimmy Dikes has a nasal cold.

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Speaker 1: That's what he sounds like.

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Speaker 2: Because for a minute was like, oh, they got Jimmy Dikes for this game, and then I realized it was Travis. I had never noticed how much they sounded alike. Overall, though, I'm thrilled with this performance. And now you get Louisville on Tuesday, and of course Louisville's player yes yet last night said blank them when talking about Kentucky. I have not read quotes yet, but I'm sure the Kentucky players were asked about it. I'll be interested to see maybe between now and the end of the show bill you can find me any Kentucky player quotes about Louisville, Okay, because I would like to see what what what we what we did, but that is a team that was out there on the court tonight that even without Jade and Quainton's, can beat anyone in the country. And I needed a game like that and we got it. And defensively, I know this team's gonna be good, but I wanted to see him shoot the ball. I wanted to see him be a fishing on offense. And they were a five nine twenty two eighty seven. North Carolina puts a beat down on Kansas. They were down in the first half, came back won by double digits. That's good for us because we play North Carolina, so if we can win that game helps the strength of schedule. It's very very early, very very early, but we're second in the Kim Palm right now.

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Speaker 1: That's good.

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Speaker 2: Georgetown beats Maryland, even though that doesn't really officially affect our strength of schedule. Kind of unofficially, people in college basketball know what happened with the Kentucky Georgetown game, and maybe Georgetown is actually good. But all of that is gonna be secondary to play in Louisville on Tuesday. And I hate that it's this early in the year. Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it, but we're gonna play it. We might as well beat them, and I now think that can happen. Whereas I'm a little bit worried, to be honest with you before tonight A five nine two twenty two eighty seven. We will open up the phones. It's a rainy Friday night. We got football tomorrow. Obviously, the Zach Calzada news today was not good. He has apologized for that. But remember, we'll be on the sideline tomorrow. Potentially is the backup quarterback another thing to watch. We'll deal with all that when we return. This is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back.

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Speaker 2: It is a Local toylet Dealers KSR postgame show. Eight F I'm nine eighty seven. We're just talking about I asked Billy during the break if you'd ever been on a date or with a woman and argued in public at a restaurant. There's a video of this couple arguing at a restaurant kind of going viral tonight, and I asked, Billy, has that ever happened to you? Have you ever been in an argument at a restaurant with someone you were you were dating?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it it it never escalated. Yeah something, what about you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard, I think when I've done it, I've always like argued, but you know, in a whisper, you know how you can sound like you're really upset, but in a whisper like how could you do?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 1: But you can tell.

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Speaker 2: I've been in a restaurant though where people well, I've been in a restaurant once where a couple stormed out from my table ooh from people I were with was with Yeah, left and the rest of us were just sitting there.

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Speaker 1: So I've been Actually, that's happened a couple of times. I've been there. I luckily I wasn't the one that did it.

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Speaker 2: Mark Pope says he has jury duty next week, Billy, the week of the Louisville game.

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Speaker 1: He has jury duty in Fayette County.

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Speaker 2: What Louisville clerk County court clerk in the Fayette County courthouse, What Louisville fan did that to us?

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Speaker 1: Exactly? How are you gonna give you know, I've lived.

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Speaker 2: In I've lived my entire life in Kentucky and have never I've never had jury duty ever. And Mark Pope's been here a year. Drew's had it like four times since we've been here. I have, and I've I've never had You've had it. I've never had it, which is crazy to me.

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Speaker 5: Too.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure you'd be really in Well.

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Speaker 2: I would get struck immediately though, like I it would actually be terrible because I know, no one knows, no one lawyers ever going to keep me on.

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Speaker 1: Probably, Yeah, the lawyers do not keep other lawyers on.

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Speaker 2: But the question you were asking me, if I thought Mark Pope was going to get dismissed get excused, he will, probably, but it's hard to get excused, you know, because everybody thinks that they have a valid reason, and the court tends to like, you know, really the only people that get excused are you know, maybe doctors. Uh but really no, like, he'll get excused probably, But it was.

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Speaker 3: So it's not like there is a world out there.

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Speaker 2: There's a world he lived, like like, okay, you know Vince Merrill lives in Lexington and coaches a little u huh.

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Speaker 1: There's definitely a world that.

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Speaker 2: If he got called to Fake County jury duty, they would make Vince Merrow sit there.

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Speaker 3: They would guess miss him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that would yeah, because because being a basketball coach is not like, you know, you can't use as an excuse I have to work, because everyone has to work, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: The excuse has to be something like I have a job. I can't remember what the wording is but that.

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Speaker 2: But it's like I have a job that cannot be replaced, and it's a serious public concern.

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Speaker 1: This basketball coach in this state. I think it fits at the week of the uk U of L game.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't any week of the year in this state. I would say so.

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Speaker 1: But I'll say this, if he was not, if it wasn't during the season, I bet he couldn't get out of it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be much tougher.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Lexington's actually hard to get out of it. Some cities are easier, but Lexington can be.

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Speaker 1: Hard, all right. Who's up first, Jeff, Jeff?

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Speaker 6: Go ahead, Jeff, Hey match Jeff and Barstown A couple of things. We obviously looked a lot better with our two point guards than Oh guess any team would look more organized, get colin or opportunities and just pass the ball a lot better. I guess I'm only concern, not even concern really, because we've won two gave it's hard to have a concern. Where do you think we find the star power on this lineup? We have a lot of players that can score fifteen points. Where do we see a guy that just really woos you offensively?

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Speaker 2: I don't think we have one, to be honest with you, and to the extent we do, I'm hoping it's Jayalen Low.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I I appreciate the call. I love Otega Away. I think Otayo Oway is.

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Speaker 2: Going to finish the season with like fifteen points, and you know he's gonna be great, But I don't think he's that guy.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 2: I know we made winning shots last year against Oklahoma and I and he can make winning shots. But I think you've got to have the dude that creates and I think that's Jayalen Low by the end of the year.

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Speaker 1: But we do not have.

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Speaker 2: The overwhelming star. And it is the case that if you kind of look back at national championship winners, they usually do and we don't necessarily. But we have I think seven or eight guys that could get an important bucket down the stretch, and I think that's most teams don't have that, So it'll be interesting to see. But this is why I've said all year, Billy, did you see today? Why I've said all year? This team will go as far as it as how good Jalen Lowe is. Yes, yeah, I mean that that's tonight was an obvious example. Now, Denzel Aberdeen is better than I thought he was. He's better than I thought he was, so I'm excited about that. But this team goes based I think on how good Jalen low ends up being Who's next?

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Speaker 3: Angus?

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Speaker 1: Angus? How are you Angus?

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Speaker 8: I'm good? How are you guys tonight?

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Speaker 1: Doing good?

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Speaker 6: Good to you guys.

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Speaker 8: The same point, I think that when Din'jel Aberdeen runs into Michael Brown and Louisvill on Tuesday, We've seen enough over our last fifteen years to know that those true freshman point guards when they into a grown man, they seen the struggle. And I think Denzel Aberdeen will be that grown man that Michael Brown runs into.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's talk this second. Are you are you Caro? Let me ask you about are you have you? Do you know a lot about Louisville's roster this year?

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Speaker 8: My family, my family is all loivelle fans. I'm the only Kentucky Pandama I look real.

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Speaker 2: Quick, because I will admit I watched them play Kansas a little bit in the exhibition.

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Speaker 1: I have not watched any of their games so far this year, so I'm sitting here looking at it.

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Speaker 8: I've watched them purely for purely to talk trast in my family is the only reason I want.

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Speaker 2: So their starting lineup is what it's. It's it gonna. It's Michael Brown, it's Conwell.

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Speaker 8: To be Michael Brown and Cason Wallace. I mean Cason pryor Mni you're talking about. I'm not sure who the other two I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: The Conwell and mcne and then what frew is that his name? Threw the guy I don't know.

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Speaker 9: Yes, that's it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: So, like you know, they don't have as physical of a team as we have. We have a true sec athletic, defensive, physical team, and they're just kind of rolling with the punches as they just find offense as they go. They don't have the physicality to match up with us in my in my opinion, I agree with that. Hopefully it's going to come back to bite me.

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Speaker 1: I agree with that. I appreciate the call.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I look at matchups for me It'll be interesting to see because the best player on the floor from a talent perspective will be Michel Brown. But he is a freshman. Against Kansas, he went what one for fourteen or whatever in that game in a preseason game. So I think it's one of those feast or famine we've seen over the years with Cal's freshman in the Louisville game. Sometimes they play great and sometimes they don't. Prior's only going to be in his second game.

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Speaker 1: Mcn neel. He's a good shooter, don't. I don't know as much about Conwell he played.

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Speaker 2: Who did Conwell play for last year? Is that the kid that came from Xavier? Yes, okay, so that's a kid that came from Xavier. He's pretty good and he you know again, I have not seen them play except for a few minutes. They were awful a few minutes I saw him. But I think we match up pretty well with him. I think I think Diabate will be a huge advantage for us, And I think watching that Aberdeen and Low versus Michael Brown, uh, you know that that might be where the game is won. To be honest with you, how those how those how those guys go against each other. Prior I think, is gonna diabate Prior that well, first of all, Prior and Garrison are gonna almost fight. Would you agree, Billy, that that's gonna happen?

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Speaker 1: Can't wait?

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Speaker 2: And Prior and Garrison are gonna they're gonna fight. As a matter of fact, I I you know, I don't mind if Garrison gets a technical in that. Sorry, if if he wants to establish himself, because Prior is gonna be doing that, it's gonna be interesting that the crowd is gonna be a big deal. I mean, this is a true road game. If you go look, honestly, every Kentucky team of the last well of always, we always struggle in our first true road game. Just go back, go back through history. I mean we over the years have lost our first true road game. Remember we lost one year at Purdue, or excuse me, at Notre Dame, not Purdue. We lost at Notre Dame one year. I don't we very rarely play a true road game this early in the year.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think the last time that's happened. Yeah, I don't know, when's the last time we've played a true road game this early in the year.

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Speaker 3: We've always had the Champions Classic so early, and that's doesn't count, right, So.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe back in the day, maybe we played Carolina this early sometimes, but I cannot remember a true road game this early and year. So that's that's the one thing that worries me the most about the Louisville game. Is your third game of the year and you're having to go into that home environment. Who's next?

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Speaker 3: Jalen Lowe was asked about Case and Pryor's comments after the game tonight, and he said, we will save our chirping for during the game and after the game after we win.

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Speaker 1: Oh really, yes, Oh that's my guy. I like that.

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Speaker 2: Remember Jalen Low's played against Louisville twice, maybe three times, so he knows. He certainly knows prior and he may he may know more of the guys as well.

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Speaker 1: I love that answer. Uh, What's who's next?

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Speaker 3: Chance?

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Speaker 1: Chance? Go ahead? Chance? Where do you see that quote?

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Speaker 3: By the way, Dylan Ballard posted it?

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Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha video? Yeah, I'm on, yes, go ahead.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm just sitting here watching John Sumrall play on a whooping on who should be a playoff?

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Speaker 1: What's the score. I'm watching the NBA. What's the score?

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Speaker 7: Oh shure, we're hit sitting here at a review. It was twenty one to fourteen. I believe that's not really a whooping. That's a one score.

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Speaker 10: Twenty eight seventy.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Well, big game from Memphis. This is there, This is there essentially there. You know they win this, they got a good chance of making the playoffs, so this is big for them.

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Speaker 7: But it could be a big wiver. John Sumraw who should be our future coach, and.

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Speaker 2: My yeah, I worry about him winning games like this though, and maybe one of these bigger schools takes him before we can.

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Speaker 1: So you got part of me wants him to lose for that reason.

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Speaker 7: Hey, blue blood is blue blood. He's here for us, all right. But I just want to come in on just the effort we had as a whole team tonight.

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Speaker 6: I mean, you just saw the.

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Speaker 7: Complete effort of everybody we played as a team, and just seeing on having a solid guard run the offense is something we haven't seen all year and we just benefited at a maximum.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it is.

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Speaker 11: Uh.

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Speaker 2: We gotta have those guys, I mean, without those guys, the offense just gets stagnant. It becomes one on one and you can have moments where it looks good, but it's not gonna be consistent because we don't have We don't without those guys. We don't have a great guy who can just take over. So you gotta have a point guards. The good thing is I kind of thought we had one, and now I think we might have two. And that's exciting. I mean because Aberdeen's bad. Definitely he was, and I think you put those two guys on the floor together with O way, you got three guys who feel good kind of controlling the offense.

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Speaker 1: And I really like that.

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Speaker 2: And that also helps. If Brandon Garrison isn't as good at that Amari Williams role, it may not matter as much if you have three guards who can initiate the offense.

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Speaker 1: Last year, if you think about it.

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Speaker 7: And yeah, and that one stepping up in his role is we don't need that Amarri Roll. If our guards are putting out what they can put out, you know we got three guard deep. We can have a Malachi Brendan Garrison that we don't need them to benefit our offense, but can just step up and play off the playoff the screen and just feed off of that and just hey go get you a bucket, get your rebound, and play off that. Where are guards benefit off our team in general?

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Speaker 1: All right, well, I appreciate the call. I I agree with you on that.

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Speaker 2: And you know, people think because last year we played with the Mary Williams in that role, that means that that's the only way Pope can play. I think there's a belief that, like, well, that's how they that's how Pope played last year, so that's how he's got to play. They really haven't played that a lot this year. They have not been running the ball through the big very often. They've been letting the guards go, and that's it's opened up a lot of corner threes. Chandler made them tonight. Diabata made a really ugly three tonight. So uh, you know, I was very encouraged by the shooting and and everything else this evening. What's next, Terry, Terry, go ahead.

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Speaker 12: Terry, hey man, this is Big Terry from Taylor County.

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Speaker 1: Hey y'all doing Hello, Big Taylor Terry from Taylor County.

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Speaker 12: Hey man, Uh, great win tonight. But I warned, I warned the f in the locker room.

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Speaker 1: Let's not dwell on this one.

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Speaker 12: I think we we saw what happened when we dwelled on the Purdue when.

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Speaker 1: Hang On, you told who this in the locker room.

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Speaker 12: No, that's what I want to tell the fellas in the locker room.

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Speaker 1: They're not gonna be dwelling on this. They got Louisville.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think they're gonna be sitting there saying there's a big differencetween beating Valpo and beating the number one team in the country, Purdue.

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Speaker 1: So I don't I'm not worried with you.

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Speaker 2: I'm not worried about them dwelling on a game against this team. Their eyes are gonna be set for Tuesday.

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Speaker 12: Now, I agree with you. I just relate this in my past life. I did semi professional MMA. Anytime I dwelled on a victory I had over opponent of lesser ability, I came out and got my butt whooped the next time. I just don't want that to happen though.

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Speaker 1: What does it mean? What does it mean you did semi professional m m A. Is that in Taylor County?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, just around Taylor County, Columbia area, even into Marion County there.

00:22:02
Speaker 1: But where around Taylor County? Where where are you doing this? Where are the where are the events?

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Speaker 12: Well, Matt, if if I'm being honest, some of them are in our my buddy's backyard.

00:22:18
Speaker 1: I think you're making this up. You're making this up, right, Matt.

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Speaker 11: I promise you, Matt, I promise you.

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Speaker 12: I'm Taylor big Terry from Taylor County.

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Speaker 1: You're saying you you do events in your buddy's yard in Taylor County.

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Speaker 12: This is this is a past life, Matt.

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Speaker 2: I remember, Billy, I think this is more interesting than the value, right, So explain to me how how backyard m a event in Taylor County?

00:22:43
Speaker 1: How does it work?

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Speaker 13: Well?

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Speaker 12: I mean, you know, the Campbellsville area down there, not a lot of stuff to do. We had to keep ourselves busy. One day, my buddy Noah, he just said, hey, you think we can start putting the gloves on and kind of going at it. And before we knew it, more people would show up. I mean we even we even got the point where we were selling tickets at one point.

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Speaker 1: See if you seld tickets in your buddy's backyard.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean not a packed house, but I mean ten fifteen people just getting together having a good time, watching people beat up on each other.

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Speaker 2: First of all, Billy would love to go to this. If do you think big Terry you could start this back up?

00:23:32
Speaker 1: You might. I don't know you might have at all, but I would. I would come and watch.

00:23:37
Speaker 12: Well, I appreciate that I have hung the gloves up. Unfortunately I'm just too old for that. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, if there is another if you hear let me put it like this, if you hear of a New Taylor County backyard MMA group, will you let me know.

00:23:55
Speaker 12: Matt Jones, you will be the first person that I caught.

00:23:58
Speaker 1: All right, I appreciate, appreciate the call. See, you never know what you're gonna get on these shows, but.

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Speaker 3: You really don't no idea.

00:24:08
Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time in Campbellsville when I was younger. There's a lot of.

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Speaker 2: People there I wouldn't want to fight, matter of fact, all of them. There's like nobody I would want to fight, especially when the fruit of the Loom factory was there.

00:24:19
Speaker 13: That was it.

00:24:20
Speaker 2: You wouldn't You wouldn't wanted to brawl with people. So I would like to have seen Big Terry go at it in Taylor County.

00:24:27
Speaker 3: Who's next, Tyler?

00:24:28
Speaker 1: Tyler? Go ahead, Tyler.

00:24:32
Speaker 10: I can't help but laugh at that Big Terry stuff.

00:24:34
Speaker 5: I need Bruce Buffer calling him when he gets into the ring.

00:24:37
Speaker 1: Big Jerry, I like, well, let's get ready to rumble. I'd have liked that. That's what I would have liked to have heard of, Taylor Keddy. But go ahead, Oh would have been even better.

00:24:47
Speaker 10: Anyway. So we got Loulville coming up, man and I and I.

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Speaker 5: Honestly god, I knew the game was was early in the year and not this early.

00:24:54
Speaker 10: I I was super.

00:24:56
Speaker 5: I was like, holy crap, it's next Tuesday and.

00:24:58
Speaker 10: This is yesterday.

00:24:59
Speaker 7: I'm like, I couldn't.

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Speaker 10: I just I want to know why are.

00:25:04
Speaker 5: We playing this game so early in the year.

00:25:07
Speaker 1: They I don't know.

00:25:08
Speaker 2: I think, I think, I think what has happened with these games? This is this is just a guess. I honestly don't know. I think what's happened with these games is December.

00:25:18
Speaker 9: Now.

00:25:19
Speaker 2: They're very hesitant to play these big time games on the weekends in December because of Bowl games, so they can't. They don't want to put the TV games against them, so now they're wanting to put them during the week, and I think when they put them during the week and it's at Louisville, we're probably gonna see it be early in the year. I think when it's in Kentucky in Lexington, it might be later the ACC schedule. So when it's in Kentucky, I remember we'll usually play between Christmas and New Year, but I think the ACC schedule is actually starting between Christmas and New Year this year, so I think I think that's why this game is so early.

00:25:56
Speaker 1: So this may be a case that when we play there, this is what it's going to be, and when.

00:26:01
Speaker 2: We play here it's later in the year. So I don't know if that's good or bad, but it may just be end up what it's been. But it sounds like neither coach really wanted this, so hopefully this is a one time thing.

00:26:13
Speaker 5: I can't wait for the postgame handshake after we win until we get in about twenty and we get to see the height difference between Pope.

00:26:20
Speaker 10: And that mention that they got on the sideline.

00:26:22
Speaker 2: Anyway, that's all let's hope we're winning. That's the big one. I mean, this is how important Billy, is this one to you? I mean, the Louisville game is always important, but is it more less than usual this year?

00:26:35
Speaker 1: Where are you on it?

00:26:36
Speaker 3: It's just so strange because it's so early. I'm not ready for this game to happen.

00:26:39
Speaker 1: I'm not either. It feels like we should be playing in the Champions Classic too.

00:26:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I would much prefer to be playing Michigan State in New York City Tuesday then playing Louisville.

00:26:52
Speaker 3: But caseon Pryor's commons definitely got me fired up. And you know, I want to win, absolutely, but it's probably about the same.

00:26:59
Speaker 1: What about you?

00:27:00
Speaker 2: I want to win obviously, I want to win. I think it's a big deal. I don't think it's more. I think this is more for like just chirping purposes between the two fan bases. I don't really know that it'll say anything about either team. There's probably more pressure on them than us because it's on their home floor, right No, JQ, I mean it's.

00:27:20
Speaker 1: On their home floor.

00:27:21
Speaker 2: We haven't got you know, we haven't gotten not out yet. You know, they're we might be older, but they've got guys back that are in key roles, and they got this talent talented.

00:27:32
Speaker 1: It's really because it's on their home floor. I think the pressure in this is just.

00:27:35
Speaker 2: Gonna be on whoever's on the home floor, and and they're having to defend home court. Steve one more and will take a break if I'm nine to eight eighty seven, Nick, Nick, go ahead, Nick, Hey, what's up?

00:27:47
Speaker 9: Mat?

00:27:47
Speaker 6: You got me?

00:27:48
Speaker 1: Gotcha?

00:27:50
Speaker 9: All right?

00:27:50
Speaker 14: I got two comments for you.

00:27:51
Speaker 6: Then I'll go off here.

00:27:53
Speaker 14: Jayl and Lowe from the Limited Mindens he played tonight. You can really see the vision, like the way he pushes the ball down in transition and gets the break started. He's definitely our most creative playmaker. Of course, he had some like first game jitters, first time being in front of that rough crowd, but he definitely changes his offense and you saw that tonight with over one hundred points scored. If he stays health this year, I love our team and I know that's your MVP of the year. But obviously he had limited minutes tonight. But what do you think about Jaylen Low's debut.

00:28:24
Speaker 2: He's great, he did exactly what I hoped. He played limited minutes. Pope says he's gonna be playing limited minutes for a while, but he did exactly what I hope. He takes it to the he takes it to basket. He could get a step on guys. First play he came in, he drove the basket, kicked out for a corner three for Chandler made it like, that's what he's gonna do, and he's gonna do it all year. And the great thing is and I appreciate the call. I only saw him take one. I didn't see him take any bad shots. He only took one shot that maybe he shouldn't have, but it wasn't even that bad. Like his weakness was taking bad shots and he's not doing that. So I can't wait SEC play. Assuming he's healthy, he's gonna be all SEC. My ern Metcalf asked me before the year, He's like, who should I have as my second UK guy on the ll SEC team? And I said, you're gonna make a mistake if you don't put jay one Lowe on it. And I believe that he is gonna be. He's gonna be, in my opinion, first or second team all SEC. I think he's that good.

00:29:20
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be our leading scorer in SEC play.

00:29:23
Speaker 2: Now I don't know what's gonna happen between now and then, Like you only had six nightsuse he didn't play a lot of minutes, So I don't know what he's gonna score in the non conference. But when we get to conference play, he's gonna be. Uh, he's gonna be, if not our best player, he's gonna be our leading scorer A five nine, two eight, twenty two eighty seven. We're gonna take a break. Apparently two fans got engaged tonight. They were waiting to meet Mark Stoops after the game and get an autograph, and when they got to the front of the line to get the autograph, the guy asked the girl to marry.

00:29:52
Speaker 3: Stoops or Pope?

00:29:53
Speaker 1: Did I say Stoops? Yeah, Pope. It would be very odd to get engaged in front of my excuse too at the game?

00:30:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mark Pope. They got engaged in front of Mark Pope. There's video, Dylan Dylan Boward has it. I'll uh, I'm gonna retweet it right now so people can see it. But it's a video. They waited until they got the frontal line and then he dropped on one knee and Mark Pope was there to be the witness.

00:30:19
Speaker 3: Oh, congratulations to couple.

00:30:21
Speaker 1: All right, we'll take a break.

00:30:22
Speaker 2: If I'm nine, two eighth, twenty two eighty seven, it's a Local Toy Dealer's KSR postgame show, Welcome back. It is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show. If I'm nine two twenty two eighty seven, I'd started filming these little reaction videos after the thing. I can't call them rapid reactions because they do that with with KSR the website. Everybody's giving me a hard time, Billy, because I have a picture on the ground and behind it.

00:30:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, how long has that picture been on the ground.

00:30:52
Speaker 2: It's been on the ground for a long time. Yeah, it's probably been on the ground for well are we talking in this exact spot?

00:31:00
Speaker 3: No, No, I mean total time had this picture.

00:31:03
Speaker 2: I've had this picture since I did the thing where I went to every county, So that was in twenty nineteen, so I've had this thing for six years.

00:31:12
Speaker 1: So it has been on the ground somewhere for the last six years.

00:31:17
Speaker 3: That point.

00:31:17
Speaker 1: The problem is this is hard to hang up because it's really heavy. It's wood. Yeah you know what I mean, not that I could hang it if.

00:31:24
Speaker 2: It wasn't wood. But that gives me an excuse that it's it's heavy. It's really nice, though. Have you've seen it?

00:31:32
Speaker 3: I like, say, yeah, I saw it.

00:31:33
Speaker 1: It's a map of Kentucky and it's made of the things each region is known for. Right, So it's coal in the coal parts. Grass. It's not made of grass, but it has grass on it, right.

00:31:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's unfortunate. I can't even view what's on the picture. I can only see that it's on the floor, so it's hard for me to actually look at it.

00:31:52
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'll take a picture of it for you sometimes. It's up next, let's go to Aerin Aaron, go ahead, Aerin Amen.

00:32:00
Speaker 5: I got two things for you. The first one is really just you know, I know it's Valpo, but it just felt good to go in there and really kick their teeth in. I know we're supposed to, but I feel like over the.

00:32:14
Speaker 15: Last few years it's you know, we kind of sweated those.

00:32:18
Speaker 10: Games, and this year it didn't feel like that, or at least.

00:32:21
Speaker 2: Well it was over from the beginning. Yeah, and we did it for moment one. I think that's probably the biggest difference. I mean, well, we don't win a lot of games about fifty. But we've won a lot of these games by decent spreads, but it's rare that we come in and like it was over at the first TV timeout, you know that that was kind of a unique cool thing.

00:32:41
Speaker 15: Yeah, and I love that and it's just felt good. And the second thing, honestly, during that game, I you know, I lived in chelbyvilt and I was like, you know what, I'm going to this Louis game because I got to be there.

00:32:52
Speaker 5: And my sister, who has never been to a Kentucky basketball game, I just texted her and I said, we're.

00:32:58
Speaker 1: Going to this game.

00:32:59
Speaker 15: I'm bringing with me, and so I said, make it happen. So I bought two tickets and we're going and we're super pumped because I'm just I'm so very provable. I won all the smacks on everything to happen. I'm just you're gonna have I know there's gonna be more, but you're gonna have at least two Gats fans there.

00:33:17
Speaker 1: And that's awesome. I think there's gonna be a lot.

00:33:18
Speaker 2: Remember they went on sale during the show when we basically our fans bought up all.

00:33:23
Speaker 1: That was left.

00:33:24
Speaker 2: So I think there's gonna be a lot. I've said this many times. It's still the case, and I hope this happens for you appreciate it. The called nothing better than getting to win in another team's house always, and if you're there, it's it's awesome sitting here looking at the scores around college basketball. Obviously, North Carolina beat Kansas a couple of interesting close games. Perdue only beat Oakland by ten. That game was tied at halftime. The Oakland that you know, different players, but that beat US a few years ago was tied with number one Purdue winning by ten.

00:33:55
Speaker 1: Missouri only beat Southeast Missouri Billy by three. Uh oh yeah, I don't know. I don't know what that means.

00:34:06
Speaker 2: For Missouri, and then most of the rest of these games the obvious team won. There are some schools though, we talked about how mid majors were having a hard time scheduling, so they have to play these schools that are like Division two, et cetera. Some of these schools that played games today. Fort Lauderdale. Did you know that was a school? I mean, I knew it was a city, it was a school.

00:34:25
Speaker 1: No, I did not.

00:34:27
Speaker 2: Harvard played MI. I t I don't think MIT is Division one. A school named Jarvis Christian played Evansville be caliumet. I'm assuming that's not the farm h Delaware lost to a school. The name of the school is Wilmington, Delaware. M heard of a schooling, But have you ever heard of a school being named the name of the city and the state. No, that would be like a school being named Louisville, Kentucky. Yeah, the school is named Wilmington, Delaware, and then they beat Delaware. So one city is better than the entire state.

00:35:08
Speaker 1: So kind of on who's next?

00:35:10
Speaker 3: Jen May?

00:35:11
Speaker 1: Jen May? How are you?

00:35:12
Speaker 9: Oh?

00:35:13
Speaker 1: I don't know, you don't know how you're doing?

00:35:16
Speaker 2: Oh?

00:35:17
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm on somebody else.

00:35:20
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead.

00:35:21
Speaker 4: Hey, I just wanted to say. Yeah, So my son was playing at a concert u L. I had to listen to most of the show on the radio. I have to say that I was really impressed with the way that like the we made so many shots. I just feel like the last game like of missed a lot of shots. And Jalen Lowe came in tonight, which I was really happy about because I call himented on one of us supposed to He liked it so I was like, he's my best friend.

00:35:50
Speaker 1: So you commented on a Jalen post, Jalen Low post, and he liked it.

00:35:54
Speaker 2: Well, that's probably why I played so well, I think, so you should take full credit for it.

00:36:02
Speaker 4: Right, and Drew Yellovic, I think that he's gonna come up. I'm a fan of the next Yelovick fan club.

00:36:10
Speaker 12: Let's go okay, all right?

00:36:11
Speaker 1: He played.

00:36:12
Speaker 2: I thought he played well tonight. He hit a couple of shots. I thought he looked comfortable on the floor. I like the way he plays. You know, he seems to be able to play in a too big thing pretty well. So I thought Yellovick was good tonight.

00:36:26
Speaker 9: Yeah.

00:36:27
Speaker 4: I wish I could have seen it. I listened to it on the radio. So how do you think they're gonna play against I haven't seen U of L play all year?

00:36:33
Speaker 13: How do you think?

00:36:34
Speaker 1: I don't know? I really don't.

00:36:36
Speaker 2: I mean, there's never been I appreciate the call. I've always felt like I had a pretty good handle on the U of L game. Like, if I look back, I feel like I went into every one of those games thinking that the team would that was gonna win, ended up winning. They are only two times I've been genuinely surprised by the result of the U of L game. When the Fox Monk team lost to them, I was surprised by that, and then I was surprised when we won with George's and that year because we beat him on their home floor and they were really good. But generally speaking, I kind of feel like going into it every year, you kind of know who's the better team.

00:37:18
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure that I like our upside long term more than theirs. But I'm not sure who's better right now.

00:37:27
Speaker 2: I don't really know because we've only I mean, today was the first game we've had our whole team, and you know, I do think we have our whole team with Quaintans. I do think he's gonna play. I do think he's gonna be a big deal. I don't think we can When we signed Quaintance, we knew he was not gonna be here at this game, So Billy, I don't think we can use him not playing as an excuse, you know what I mean, Like we knew when Mark Pope signed Quaintance, he knew he would not be playing in this game. So if jayle Low didn't play, that'd be different. But I don't think if we if we lose Tuesday, we can't go.

00:37:58
Speaker 1: Well, we didn't have jaydon Quaints. We didn't think we were gonna have.

00:38:01
Speaker 3: He's still part of this team, ceiling, right.

00:38:04
Speaker 1: That's exactly right.

00:38:05
Speaker 2: But the question is today and today he's on the team, but no one expected him to play. So you know, part of when you bring in Jagan Quaints is you're acknowledging he's not gonna play during a non conference So.

00:38:18
Speaker 3: Well, scary thought of adding that guy to this team.

00:38:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially if he gets if he's on the team before February. If he doesn't join the team on mid February. While I do think he'll play, I mean he's not gonna be. You can't base the team around him if he doesn't join until mid February, the question for me is when's he gonna play. He was doing five on zero drills apparently, which, by the way, you better be able to score it.

00:38:41
Speaker 1: A five on zero drill.

00:38:44
Speaker 3: Back down your man.

00:38:45
Speaker 1: If you get it, you can beat a truble. But but that says he's getting some game action, which is good. Who's next? Noah, Noah, go ahead, and Noah.

00:38:55
Speaker 9: Hey, Matt.

00:38:56
Speaker 6: So, I'm actually in the middle of watching the recap from the game. It was my wife's birthday to day, so we went out for a night, dinner and dance banquet. Uh, fun thing to celebrate for her. So I'm in the middle of the recap watching it.

00:39:08
Speaker 16: But for.

00:39:10
Speaker 6: If you if you're not able to get like from the the third party streamers that are probably getting knocked off now after.

00:39:19
Speaker 2: That, I think the one I think the one Shannon mentioned got knocked off tonight or else he didn't do it.

00:39:24
Speaker 6: I couldn't find him.

00:39:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, I else he didn't do it.

00:39:27
Speaker 2: Now I will say the Islamic one had twenty five thousand people at one point.

00:39:32
Speaker 1: Billy, who would have.

00:39:33
Speaker 2: Ever thought people are watching Arabic UK basketball? That to me, you know, say whatever you want. The world is small and we can all come together for for basketball.

00:39:43
Speaker 1: But go ahead.

00:39:45
Speaker 6: Yeah, so, but I want to let people know with it. So there's a different streamer, a guy that I found who he takes if I'm correct from the name if you look up just the letter oh underscore ball underscore. He basically does all as far as what I can see, all of the UK basketball. I think volleyball and football basically takes the entire streams of the games, recording them, but then takes out any commercial break, so you're actually it's not just like a highlights real like I personally, I like being able to watch and like sit and watch like like I'm actually watching the game. So he has the entire stream of the full game, just taking out the commercials so it's not just like the random highlights for it. So it feels like you get the actual experience of the game.

00:40:30
Speaker 2: So that's okay, underscore, Okay, be careful though, don't don't don't Narcy. Now, Shannon already did that to the.

00:40:36
Speaker 9: One he's been around for a while.

00:40:39
Speaker 6: I don't think he's gonna get an art, so I think.

00:40:42
Speaker 2: With how he does it all right, right, I appreciate the call, But I wonder if the guy Shannon mentioned.

00:40:48
Speaker 1: I wonder what happened.

00:40:49
Speaker 2: Was he on there at all tonight, because I went looking for him soon after the game started, didn't see it.

00:40:53
Speaker 1: I wonder if Shannon scared him from even doing.

00:40:57
Speaker 3: I don't know he brought it.

00:41:00
Speaker 1: Ryan Tip, the Arabic one.

00:41:03
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if they said his name. That was kind of what put him.

00:41:07
Speaker 1: He did tweet.

00:41:08
Speaker 2: He did tweet that somebody hadn't said his name, which makes me think he paid someone to say his name and they didn't say it.

00:41:15
Speaker 3: See, that's gonna make him upset.

00:41:16
Speaker 1: That's gonna make him sad.

00:41:18
Speaker 2: There has to be a level of trust between the illegal streamer and the stream.

00:41:21
Speaker 1: Ee, and I don't know if there was tonight.

00:41:25
Speaker 2: I think, when's our next? When's our next illegally streamed game? We still have like two more so I had to check, all right, who's next?

00:41:34
Speaker 1: Danny?

00:41:34
Speaker 2: Go ahead?

00:41:38
Speaker 6: Yeah, So Jaden Quainton's Uh do you think he's an immediate impact when he comes in?

00:41:47
Speaker 9: I mean, how good?

00:41:48
Speaker 13: I know.

00:41:49
Speaker 2: I mean, I think he's great, But I think any kid who hasn't played basketball in over a year is not gonna immediately come in in the middle of SEC play and just be excellent.

00:42:01
Speaker 1: But yes, is he an impact?

00:42:02
Speaker 2: Like the dude's a freak. I mean, go there are videos of him at Arizona State and now he can play a lot because he got hurt. But when but if you go watch him, I mean, he is a freak of nature. And he was seventeen when he played last year, so Yeah, he's gonna be and he's he's gonna be one of those athletic guys where you're like, oh my, but is he And I think he can raise our ceiling. But I think a lot of it's gonna depend on when he starts. If it if it's February, then.

00:42:32
Speaker 1: I don't know. But now if it's if it's SEC play and he gets SEC play to ramp up, then I think we're talking about something.

00:42:41
Speaker 9: Yeah.

00:42:41
Speaker 2: Man, So I appreciate the call. Uh, here's a here's a picture of Jaylen Lowe when he committed to Kentucky. He did a live stream video and uh, he threw the LS down up. See, I'm gonna love him this. He's gonna be my favorite player. Well, he is my favorite player. I you know now, in the world of college basketball, some night when you're like, don't have anything to do and you just turn a game on, you might see a guy who will be a future cat And and I got that a couple of times with Jagulin low last year, and I was like, this kid's crazy, but I love it.

00:43:16
Speaker 3: By the way, Kentucky plays Eastern Illinois next Friday.

00:43:19
Speaker 2: On next Friday is another illegal stream Yeah, that'll be the That'll be the championship of the.

00:43:25
Speaker 3: B B d N United tip Off Classic presented by Kentucky.

00:43:27
Speaker 1: Turyal Kentucky Tourism. All Right, who's next? David? Go ahead?

00:43:32
Speaker 9: David, Hey, Matt, can you hear me?

00:43:36
Speaker 1: I can go ahead.

00:43:38
Speaker 6: I've been fortunate enough to go to the first two games this season, and I got to say, malchais really impressed me.

00:43:45
Speaker 17: And tell me if I'm wrong here, but he's kind of reminded me of Nick Richards a little bit in a way, a little bit and catching a lot of lobs.

00:43:53
Speaker 2: A little bit. I mean, I think he's a better I think he's a better shooter than Nick. Nick was a better defender.

00:43:59
Speaker 1: Uh Nick.

00:44:00
Speaker 2: Nick was a really good defender his last year. But yeah, but I mean, part of is their hair looks alike when they and when they play, but they do, but they do catch the lob. Similarly, I think Moreno's upside is huge. I mean it's huge. What's gonna be great about him is unless he gets too good, he'll be back next year and he'll be like a centerpiece of the team next year. But he's great. I think he's gonna be great. I mean at eighteen tonight. And the thing is he can catch that lob and finish it. And while guys like Nick Richards could do that easily, Willie, We've had a lot of guys over the years who were tall and just they just couldn't consistently finish that, right, Just think about all the various dudes we've had like that. He can do it and I and then he can shoot threes, and long as he start making free throws, I think he made his two tonight. Will be good. Appreciate the call. Let's do Let's do one more, then we'll take a final break. Travis, Travis, go ahead, Travis.

00:45:06
Speaker 1: Hey Man.

00:45:06
Speaker 6: Really enjoying the show tonight. I know this might be a little random, but I really enjoyed the TV broadcast. I gotta give props to Andrew Kappus. He sounded like a ten year veteran on ESPN with Travis Ford, and I just really enjoyed him.

00:45:20
Speaker 2: I thought he'd did a good job as well. Actually, when listening, thought that, what how did he end up doing that game? Didn't the other guy.

00:45:27
Speaker 1: Get hired to do or whatever? What happened to him? I don't know. Well, I thought Andrew did a good job. That's I agree with you.

00:45:36
Speaker 6: I'm glad you do. And I got a question for you. I've lived here in Louisville, I work with a lot of U of L fans, and with the game coming up, should I be chesty with them or should I keep just kind of be chill until after.

00:45:50
Speaker 2: The game and optimist, Okay, cautiously optimistic. I would not talk trash because I don't know. Like I said, I have no idea what's gonna happened in this game. I don't even know what the line will be. I'm gonna assume Louisville's gonna be favored, but they might not.

00:46:06
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, it is a completely up in the air game, and you.

00:46:12
Speaker 2: Throw in first true road game, which we've not always had the most success in. It's probably if you look at their schedule, their biggest game of the year on their court.

00:46:24
Speaker 1: They might I don't I don't even know if they I don't think do they have duke this year.

00:46:26
Speaker 2: I think they had them last year, so I don't even know if they have them this year at home, So this is gonna I mean, I wouldn't be chesty because I don't know if we I don't know what's gonna happen.

00:46:37
Speaker 1: But I also wouldn't like be nervous, because I feel.

00:46:42
Speaker 6: Like it's I'm not nervous at all. It's just I know if I need to stay my ground or just kind of like what I just kind of wait.

00:46:48
Speaker 1: I do like Jalen Low, and I appreciate the call. We'll talk after the game.

00:46:53
Speaker 2: In my view, we're better than them, but I don't think that gap today is huge, and we're on their home court, and I just believe in college basketball home court means a lot, and it almost means a lot more in Kentucky games because everybody shows up when we play, whereas they don't always show up when other teams play. So I would say we're better, but the home court makes it a toss up. We'll take a break. Hey, if I'm nine two eighty seven, do the final segment.

00:47:22
Speaker 1: This is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show. Welcome Back.

00:47:26
Speaker 2: Final segment, Local Toy Dealers KSR Postgame Show. The NBA Cup is going on, which I'm sure most of you did not know, but these courts are crazy.

00:47:38
Speaker 1: Did you see the one earlier today that was like bright yellow. I think which which team?

00:47:44
Speaker 3: Right yellow? That sounds annoying for a basketball court.

00:47:47
Speaker 1: You gotta look at the picture. It was wild.

00:47:51
Speaker 2: Is there a game on that ap The Cavaliers scored fifty points in the first quarter in their game tonight, which is an insane amount of points for finished with one hundred and forty six.

00:48:02
Speaker 3: Is that on ESPN or something? I can't find it.

00:48:04
Speaker 2: I think the games tonight are on Amazon. Oh okay, you so I just turned on You said turn on USC Northwestern?

00:48:11
Speaker 1: All right? I did that.

00:48:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I got on.

00:48:15
Speaker 1: That's that's exciting.

00:48:16
Speaker 2: Because of this YouTube ESPN thing. I don't even think to turn on YouTube TV. It's actually hurt the other channels because I don't even think to turn them on. It's funny you start to learn you don't have to have it after a while. I wonder if you know you got you got the Arabic streams on YouTube, if you if you need to watch.

00:48:35
Speaker 3: Anything people are in other ways?

00:48:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we'll do six and call it tonight. Who's next?

00:48:40
Speaker 3: Before we do, it's time for the Johnny Rocker Personal Injury Attorney money Maker of the game. This is a new name, new name. Yeah, money maker called the.

00:48:48
Speaker 2: Money maker of the game. That's what Johnny Rocker. Where is Johnny Rocker? By the way, I wonder if piece okay? So that's right next to Taylor count You think he's ever been to the backyard MMA file.

00:49:00
Speaker 3: That's a great question. I'm gonna have to ask him, and you have to ask je quarterback.

00:49:04
Speaker 1: So this is the moneymaker of the game. Who you pick it? That's right?

00:49:06
Speaker 3: Injured get small town compassion with big city results when you call the Rocker at two seven zero three two one four four two nine. And the story of the night was Jalen Lowe. But how about the guy he played pick and roll with most of the night? Malachai Moreno. I thought David hit the nail on the head. Eighteen points, ten rebounds, three assists, zero turnovers in one block in twenty one minutes. Malachi Moreno, our second ever Johnny Rocker personal injury attorney, moneymaker of the game.

00:49:31
Speaker 1: Money maker of the game.

00:49:33
Speaker 2: The text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four one person rights Matt. I'm from Taylor County and Terry calling that MMA fighting semi professional is the most generous adjective anyone could use.

00:49:46
Speaker 1: I like it.

00:49:47
Speaker 2: I mean professional means you have to get paid. Do you think they got paid? I guess I should have asked that question.

00:49:51
Speaker 3: I mean paid in drinks and food for the night.

00:49:54
Speaker 1: Maybe yeah.

00:49:56
Speaker 7: Uh.

00:49:57
Speaker 1: By the way, lower lower level prices for the game. You want to guess what the lower level price for Kentucky for Louisville, Kentucky is like four hundred bucks? Looks like yeah, it.

00:50:10
Speaker 2: Looks like about four hundred and forty bucks perticular for lower level.

00:50:14
Speaker 3: Good guess, Billy, Thank you.

00:50:17
Speaker 1: You gotta compliment yourself.

00:50:19
Speaker 2: One Mercenary's first rule of Taylor County fight Club as you shouldn't be talking about Taylor Carey Dutt County fight Club.

00:50:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't.

00:50:26
Speaker 2: It doesn't exist anymore now. One person tells me that in Pike County they do that every weekend.

00:50:32
Speaker 3: That's just a normal weekend for them.

00:50:35
Speaker 2: Another person says, Matt, you know that there are backyard fights all over the state. They sometimes stream live on TikTok. Please let me know when that happens.

00:50:46
Speaker 1: All right, I.

00:50:49
Speaker 2: Would love to watch one live on on TikTok. I promise I won't knarc you like Shannon dip all right, who's up next?

00:50:59
Speaker 3: Corey?

00:51:00
Speaker 16: Already go ahead, Cory, Hey, Matt, I'm just curious, Well, first and foremost, what was then, at least at my Twitter talking quite a bit? What do you think about their big man's matching up against ours? How do you think we compare?

00:51:15
Speaker 1: So I haven't.

00:51:16
Speaker 2: I haven't watched enough of the Frew guy, so I don't know. I do like the matchup of Diabate against Prior. I think we I think we can win that matchup, but I don't know. Like Freu versus Gary, I just haven't seen him, so I can't really say uh that, I would just be guessing. Again, I watched a handful of minutes of their Kansas game. It's hard because you know they changed the roster. It's hard to know, so I can't. I do think I think the Prior, uh, Diabate, I'll take advantage Diabate.

00:51:47
Speaker 1: We were still on here, Billy, No, he's gone, No, I said, are we still on here? Yeah for sure? Okay, Yeah.

00:51:56
Speaker 2: I think the point guard matchup, I think it's likely Low and Aberdeen will play better than Brown, but Brown is more town. Brown is a super talent, so like if you do one of these things of let's say everybody is at their peak performance, Brown will be the best player on the court.

00:52:14
Speaker 1: But I don't know if he'll be at his peak performance. I mean, he wasn't against Kansas.

00:52:18
Speaker 2: He has been pretty good in these two games to start the season, but they haven't been playing anybody. So we'll see what happens when he plays. You know, he's played one game against a good team and did not play well, So we'll see what happens.

00:52:29
Speaker 1: In this one. Five more, Who's next, Jackson? Jackson?

00:52:32
Speaker 11: Go ahead, Jackson, Hey, Matt, So great games and I first things. First, I saw analytically were ranked third in the country defensively, which is it's only been two games, but we haven't had a top twenty defense since twenty nineteen, which is kind of crazy.

00:52:50
Speaker 1: It is crazy.

00:52:50
Speaker 2: And for Mark Pope, for Mark Pope to have a top twenty defense, yeah, I mean historically that's not his teams haven't done that, So I mean that's a really good sign if that keeps up.

00:53:03
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean it would be electric to have a great defense this year. So yeah, love, it's only been two games, but still, you know, scheduling for the analytics.

00:53:12
Speaker 2: I love that.

00:53:13
Speaker 11: And the second thing is it seems like the days of random guys coming into Reperena and going nuts on us seems to not be a thing under Mark Pope in two years or a year and two games, we haven't seen it so far, so any common.

00:53:27
Speaker 1: That's a great point.

00:53:28
Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's a scouting thing, to be honest with you. I mean, I think when I think Col's view, in my opinion, way too long into the season sometimes even in the tournament, is.

00:53:40
Speaker 1: We do what we do.

00:53:41
Speaker 2: We don't worry about what you do. Uh, And what that can lead sometimes is the only guy that can beat you will go off. We've seen it. We've seen it over the year, especially in Reperina. These Pope, I mean like they're breaking down these teams. They know the tendencies. I mean, listen to Pope in a you've heard this billy. Listen to Pope when he does his pregame interview with Tom Leech mm hm, Like he knows every player on the team. He rattles off the numbers, what they do. He usually doesn't say their names, he says their uniform number. He rattles it all like it's clear he knows, he knows everybody, he knows what they're gonna do, So I think it makes it less likely. I think they come into these games and go, Okay, Valpo or a team like Vappel's got one or two guys that can maybe score on us. We shut them down and we make these other guys beat us, and usually they're gonna have a hard time doing that. When you're getting to the third, four, fifth, sixth guy.

00:54:35
Speaker 1: On a team. Four more, who's next.

00:54:40
Speaker 2: Let's go to Brad, Brad, Go ahead, Brad, Brad, all right, No, Brad A five nine, two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

00:54:51
Speaker 1: Who's next?

00:54:52
Speaker 3: Caleb?

00:54:52
Speaker 1: Caleb, go ahead, Caleb, Hey, Matt, what's up?

00:54:59
Speaker 8: First time?

00:54:59
Speaker 11: Long time?

00:55:00
Speaker 1: Who?

00:55:02
Speaker 17: I just wanted to say. You know, we've talked a lot about about who's going to be pushed out when we get we get all healthy and JQ gets back, but nobody's really talked about Brendan Garrison taking that role. With Maliki really really flourishing and JQ coming back at the at the five, you know, I want to get your take on what you think about Brendan Garrison maybe getting pushed off to the side. I mean, I love him, I love how far it.

00:55:24
Speaker 2: Is, but I don't think it's impossible. I don't think it's impossible. I'd be a little surprised. I think defensively, they really like what Garrison does, and he's more physical than Malachai. So I think defensively is why it's more likely to him stay on the court. But I could see a world where you go, well, wait a minute, Malachi's offense maybe makes up for some of the Abate's offensive weakness. The Abates defense helps Malachi, and then Garrison and Yellovich.

00:55:54
Speaker 1: Yellovich had some offense, Garrison defense. I could see it. I don't think it's crazy.

00:55:58
Speaker 2: Uh, I think they'll I'll stay with Garrison until but if Malachi scores eighteen a game, he's gonna be starting. So a lot of it depends on because I don't think Brian Garrison's not gonna do that. So, but my initial reaction would be I would expect Garrison to keep it now when quaintance comes.

00:56:15
Speaker 1: If he were to start in December, then by February he'll be starting. But we'll we'll, we'll see what happens. Free more. Who's next Ryan Ryan go ahead, Ryan, Hey.

00:56:27
Speaker 6: Matt, I just wanted to call and say, you know that the first half of the game. I don't know if there's a team in the country that could be the first half Kentucky tonight for sure, you know, trying to slow the things down the second half. And then I did also want to call in just to take up for Taylor coun I'm actually driving through Leman now home back to Taylor County. We're not all in our backyards, mma fighting we are. We're trying to clean it up a little. We're getting a zaxis, you know, So it's not all.

00:56:54
Speaker 1: You're an acting like I don't. I don't think that's good.

00:56:57
Speaker 2: First of all, I've been to Campbellsville, next to Lexington, Louisville and Middlesbrough. I've been there more than anywhere else in Kentucky. All Right, you have the best, mister Gaddies. Is that still open?

00:57:08
Speaker 6: I'll give you that. I'll give you that.

00:57:10
Speaker 1: You got the best, mister Gaddies. You're getting a Zaxby's, Is that right?

00:57:15
Speaker 6: Got Zaxby's. We just got a cookout a couple of years ago, So things are looking.

00:57:19
Speaker 2: See that's good a minute, that's high class. Middlesborol does not have a cookout or a Zaxby's, so like you got. Now, that's a huge uptick in the quality of fast food restaurants.

00:57:31
Speaker 6: And that's that's what I'm trying to say. You know, come to Taylor County, eat your cookout, eat your Zaxby's, and if you want to stay for an MMA fight, you know there's options there.

00:57:38
Speaker 2: It's just not all you know, sounds like a fun night, it's not gonna lie. I appreciate the call cookout.

00:57:45
Speaker 1: I see.

00:57:45
Speaker 2: I didn't think cookout went to places like Campbellsville. I thought that was more like of a Lexington, Louisville.

00:57:50
Speaker 5: MM.

00:57:50
Speaker 3: Cookouts good. Anytime you get a corn dog as a size.

00:57:54
Speaker 1: That should be my next investment. Bring a cookout to Middlesborough.

00:57:58
Speaker 3: I could see it doing well enough people in Middlesborough.

00:58:01
Speaker 2: To well we got we got lmu over in Cumberland Gap those kids like those kids like a good hand.

00:58:06
Speaker 1: Murder two more.

00:58:07
Speaker 3: Who's next, Jason, Jason?

00:58:09
Speaker 1: Go ahead? Jason?

00:58:11
Speaker 13: Hey, uh, let me let me first start off say I'll work in Taylor Downing. We'd love to have to come back and do another live show there. I went the last time you were at a Yaddy's back and I think, yeah.

00:58:22
Speaker 2: Well, we used that usually happens in the summer, and I was gone two summers ago to Europe and then this summer we didn't do it. We're probably gonna do some summer stops this summer, so hopefully they'll bring us there.

00:58:34
Speaker 13: Awesome. So the reason I called I've got a stat You're gonna love I gotta stat. I know you're gonna love this. You know how at the beginning of the show, you were talking about true road games. Yes, okay, So go back to Kentucky's three title teams ninety six, ninety eight, last three title tall team ninety twenty twelve. Out of those three teams only had one true road lost between them out of all three.

00:59:05
Speaker 1: Interesting but the Indiana right Indiana.

00:59:08
Speaker 13: That that was it. That was the one that was on the last second shot by Watford. As we know that. The other ones ninety six they lost to UMass on New York Court, they lost at Missisispi State, and the SEC tournaments from New crak Court. In ninety eight they lost to Arizona and Mali, and then the other three were Louisville Florida and old mess at home, and then of course in twenty twelve the Indiana game that did you mentioned, and then.

00:59:37
Speaker 1: We lost. We lost three home games and didn't lose any road games. That's interesting exactly.

00:59:42
Speaker 13: Yeah, So I say, let's let's let's start it out with the win on Tuesday night. Let's I want to see Rogue Warriors this year, we do that. And at twenty twelve or twenty twenty fifteen, you know, was their other best team? Obviously they went, Yeah, you're right.

00:59:57
Speaker 2: I've always judged teams by how they do on the road, and I appreciate the call specifically how they do their mentality on the road, because you know, like in twenty ten, we lost a couple, we lost, won two games on the road, but like those guys liked being on the road.

01:00:15
Speaker 1: I think part of what I want to see is, like, you know, win or lose.

01:00:19
Speaker 2: What's what's their attitude in that, because we've had teams look scared in those games. You know, we've had teams who just couldn't win on the road. You know, I think it's Robert Goulay who said anybody can win at home, but a true team wins on the road. He said that in that song Patino and the Cats. Will you play that for me before this thing? Will you look that up?

01:00:39
Speaker 3: Patino and the Cats.

01:00:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like ESPN two. He has a song. It's called Robert Goulay. Look it up.

01:00:46
Speaker 2: It's on YouTube. It'll be like Patino and the Cats, they go riding together. It's goes something like that. Okay, if you find it, I'll be impressed. Two more, who's next?

01:00:56
Speaker 3: We only have one more?

01:00:57
Speaker 1: And it's bruh, Well somebody else is gonna cut to call because we have more? Oh okay? Or did I say one more?

01:01:03
Speaker 3: Well you said six more and this is the sixth.

01:01:07
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well then this will be the last one. Go ahead. Who's up?

01:01:10
Speaker 3: Brian?

01:01:11
Speaker 1: Brian? Go ahead? Brian.

01:01:13
Speaker 9: Hey, buddy, guys, want thank you all for your show. I love it. My question is what's your opinion on the portal? I mean, I know it allowed us to get better players than the teams would more money get the better players. So is it an epict in the cinderellas that.

01:01:30
Speaker 1: Will never see a little bit? A little bit? I mean it's well yes and no. Okay.

01:01:36
Speaker 2: So we lost to Oakland in the portal era. Right, Yale beat Auburn. Yale beat Auburn in the tournament in the portal era. Last year there was any McNee state last year one in the portal era. Now, what is happening is, I think you're seeing a lot less upsets here in the non conference. But the reason I think that's happening is less the portal than what we talked about. Did you hear what we talked about on the show earlier this week about scheduling philosophies.

01:02:07
Speaker 1: Did you hear that? The basic is this? The basic is this. They've now changed the way they do.

01:02:15
Speaker 2: They now use the net to see the tournament and the net whereas the RPI used to value the teams you played, whether or not you won or lost. So like playing a good team and losing sometimes it is better than playing a bad team and winning. The NET values winning, and it values margin of victory. Margin of victory is now part of it the end the RPI, It really wasn't so because of that schedule, Like these coaches and ads have realized it's better to beat teams by thirty than to beat a team by ten.

01:02:49
Speaker 1: So there's a story on the athletic.

01:02:51
Speaker 2: About how Belmont and schools like that they can't get anybody to play them, because now these schools are saying, rather than play Belmont, which used to be a game that helped you in the RPI, Belmont.

01:03:02
Speaker 1: Make the tournament, then you could have beaten a tournament team.

01:03:06
Speaker 2: Now beating Belmont by ten is much worse than beating Valpo by fifty, and so now these teams are all scheduling Valpol. So I think the kind of teams that used to pull off those games that you and I like to see, they're just not getting to play. These teams, so like the Belmonts of the world just aren't getting to play games.

01:03:24
Speaker 1: That they can pull the upset on.

01:03:26
Speaker 2: And I think that's really what's happening more than there's just these huge gaps in who everybody's playing. So I think they got to fix that because they need to make this non conference better. And to do that, I think they're gonna have to encourage find ways to encourage teams to play the Yales, the Belmonts, the teams like that that can actually get pulled off an upset.

01:03:46
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I agree. You think the portal hasfect on.

01:03:50
Speaker 14: I mean.

01:03:55
Speaker 9: It seems like the parody is getting center and center as the years come out.

01:03:59
Speaker 2: It is, and the portal is part of it. But I think the portal giveth and the portal taketh away. One of the good things about the portal is teams can. Teams can be good, new teams can be good. H think about how good the SEC was last year. Right, that's also because of the portal too.

01:04:15
Speaker 9: Yeah, I agree with that. I agree with that. And these teams have a lot of money, can get the best players, you know.

01:04:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it does hurt. I agree it hurts these small schools. But I also think the kind of small schools that can win these games, they're not getting a chance to play them because of the new They're going to have to fix that, I think, but appreciate it. No, it's because of the new way they're doing the tournament. It's because of the net. They got to fix the net to make it to where teams like Kentucky want to play Belmont instead of wanting to play Eastern Illinois.

01:04:44
Speaker 1: That's what they need to do.

01:04:46
Speaker 9: And I dad help recruiting for those schools.

01:04:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate, appreciate the call. Do you have that little song.

01:04:53
Speaker 3: No, I couldn't find it. I only found Patino got ran over by a Wildcat? Do you want to hear any of that?

01:04:58
Speaker 1: Patino Got ran over?

01:05:01
Speaker 3: It's a song.

01:05:02
Speaker 1: It's all right, not what you look, not what I asked you for, But go ahead.

01:05:05
Speaker 3: You want it anyway, all right?

01:05:06
Speaker 7: Sure?

01:05:07
Speaker 1: Over by a wild can leave the Freedom Haul on Christmas Eve? You could say it was a chance encounter.

01:05:19
Speaker 3: But as for me and Tubby, we believe about that.

01:05:27
Speaker 1: That's not as good as what I wanted to hear. But I did not know that song existed. Who is it? Who is it? That's singing?

01:05:35
Speaker 3: That looks like a fan made video.

01:05:39
Speaker 2: That's actually sounding well produced for a fan made video, And that's probably what two thousand so that was the Sparks. Yeah, that was here, Patrick Sparks got fouled on the free throw?

01:05:50
Speaker 1: So what was that?

01:05:51
Speaker 2: Two thousand and seven, thousand, two thousand and seven, two thousand, four years out?

01:06:00
Speaker 1: Over love can all right?

01:06:03
Speaker 3: Sorry I'm distracted by this.

01:06:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, just turn it out, UK, I can go happy. Can't just get it off, all right?

01:06:08
Speaker 2: So thank you all very much for listening, Thanks for Billy for finding that great song. We will be back at three thirty tomorrow afternoon from ks Bar for the for the football pregame show.

01:06:20
Speaker 1: The bar opens at eleven.

01:06:21
Speaker 2: Get in there, come see us have some of our new food, but also get ready for huge football game tomorrow night. At this time, the game will be ending and then we'll be coming on afterwards. We may be talking about getting a new coach, or we may be talking about having a five hundred record in the SEC and a chance to go to a bowl a swing game, if there ever was one tomorrow night. We will see you later. Kats win one, seven fifty nine. This has been the local Tony Dealers KSR post game show