KSR Postgame UK MBB at Texas 02/15/25

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Speaker 1: All right, let's do this. This says the local Total Dealers KSR postgame show as Kentucky loses at Texas eighty two to seventy eight. It just it's just it stinks. It's just a bad loss. And the fonnine will be open eight five nine two eight zero two two eight seven. We want to hear from you. I mean, I felt like, really it was a game that Kentucky. It felt like, just to me, they led like most of the game, it felt like they were in the lead and had control, but then just a total collapse down the stretch. I mean, bad shots, bad turnovers, can't get a rebound, just a total collapse. I think Texas the run they went on in the last three minutes of the game was fourteen to one until Tega hit that prayer right there at the end, fourteen to one. Texas closed out the game and Kentucky could do nothing. They were I think one of eleven in their last field goal attempts until take It threw that one in there at the end. It was just it was a bad way to finish after a game that I felt like they were gonna get. I felt like they're for most of the game, they're gonna sneak into Austin and come back home with a win when they're so shorthanded without Jackson Robinson, without Lamar Butler. But they had two guys that they were super tonight. Trey Johnson had thirty two points. Trey Johnson shot the ball every time he got it, it seemed like he ain't shy. And then the Mark Kid had twenty six points. So those two guys combined for fifty eight of their eighty two points. When meanwhile, our sharpshooter, Kobe Bray was oh of six and he played like thirty five minutes. He was out there almost the whole game, only got up six shots, missed them all no field goals with Kobe Brea. I'm not gonna blame it on him, but he's Keith. If Kentucky wants to be successful, he's got to do better than that. Giving up rebounds on free throws. I mean, come on, Billy, they teach you that in elementary school. You don't give up a rebound an offensive rebound on a free throw. And if you go back and look at the one that they got late in the game, Ansley Amanor did not move. He was standing at the free throw lane. He did not even move as the ball kind of got tipped around. They pick it up and put it in. Just I mean the Ryan Leman postgame, KSR curses back because this is a bad loss. He thought it. I thought it was over the last one I did. They won. But Billy, what were your thoughts on the game?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a collapse in those final three minutes. You know, you tell me you lose a game on the road in the sec. I can understand that when you don't have your first, your second, or your third point guard. But it felt like it was Kentucky's game and they just absolutely blew it at the end. You know, Kentucky had ten second half turnovers but only ten assists in the total game. Right, It's just it was a really bad collapse late and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth, doesn't it?

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Speaker 1: It does, It really does. And it's just kind of that's the way this year has been. This team plays great when they played the better teams. You know, you sweep Tennessee, you beat Florida, you beat Duke, you beat Gonzaga when they were highly ranked. You've got all these great wins. You beat a good Louisville team and yet then you play teams that you should beat that you're, you know, a better team than Georgia, Vanderbilt, now Texas, I mean Arkansas. It just it just makes you scratch your head. So Kentucky now six and six in the sec right when we think they get a big win, like, oh, they can steal in contention to that first round double by get in one of the top four seeds. Not playing on Wednesday, huh huh now or right back to the old boy, We may be playing on Wednesday again if we're not careful. So just just a horrible finish. And I think this is just my opinion that that's where they miss Lamar Butler the boats the most, Lamont Lamont Butler the most. If he was in the game, you got to feel like they would have had a better finish. That's taking nothing away from Travis Perry. I thought Travis Perry did a good job, only I think he only had two turnovers. Didn't he Billy in the game something like that, hit a shot. But if they if Lamar Lamar Lamont Butler is playing point guard, that probably doesn't happen. They probably can finish out strong. He controls the offense, gets him in better sets, makes better decisions because the oh the turnovers late in the game, and like I said, there's some bad shots.

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Speaker 2: Well, the perimeter defense would have been better with Lamont and Jackson there, and those two Texas players wouldn't have combined for fifty eight of the eighty two points. But I just I don't understand the Kobe Braya stuff. Is it simply that they have tape on him and they're just not going to allow him to catch and shoot Ryan? I just how do you have how do you go oh for six when everybody was saying they needed him in this game.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, defenses obviously are doing things to take him away, but you know what Kentucky was doing things to take Trey Johnson away. He still got up twenty six shots, still scored thirty two points. I mean, I just feel like he's too good of an offensive threat to kind of just disappear offensively like that. Like I said, he played thirty five minutes, he was oh of six. The one points he scored wrote the free throw line. That can't happen if Kentucky wants to win some games.

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Speaker 2: We're just inbound the ball correctly.

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Speaker 1: Now, how about that at the end of the game. Oh, that's just mental mistakes, right there, all three of those guys. That's a mental mistake. Because then they almost came back and did it a second time. They're lucky it didn't happen two times in a row. Mental given you know, they're head down thinking, Okay, yeah, we've blown this when you still got to fight every possession. And you heard Coach Pope say that to Tom Leach in the postgame show. You know, we got guys that kind of can learn how they got to fight for forty minutes, you know, and not you make a mistake, don't double that up and make another mistake because you're not mentally ready or not fighting or not playing strong. So I don't know that that's that's a tough one they could have. You know, if they beat Vandy on Wednesday. This is the four game win streak that I think they needed, the locker room needed, we needed as a fan base, seem kind of get back on the right track. But we're one step forward, one step back, as it seems like it's now it's been this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it has been weird. They beat the teams that you don't think they have a chance in and then they lose games like this. So it I mean, maybe you expected to be one and one at the end of this week. They just do it in a different way.

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Speaker 1: That's why it's been like almost this whole season. I know, you know, they lose to Georgia and they came back and beat Florida. I believe I would have maybe have flipped it. You know, they beat Tennis, they lose to Vanderbilt, beat Tennessee in one week. Now you know this week they beat Tennessee again and lose at Texas. So we want to take your calls eight five nine two toho two weeks before you go to the first commercial break, we have to talk about what's going on in our state. I mean, this is a bad night for our state of Kentucky. The Comwealth Kentucky is crying tonight because all the rain and the flooding is hitting like the same areas that it hit just a couple years ago in two thousand and twenty two. All these counties Laurel breath at Pike, Perry Knock Knocks Letcher as to all these counties are having these massive flooding problems that they just you know, some of them are still not getting over what happened in twenty two. I saw, you know, I was trying to keep up with some of the pictures online. I saw the Buckhorn School has been flooded again. It got flooded last time. There's a KFC and hazard I think that got flooded. A nursing home in Lecher County had to be evacuated. We've had listeners to this show post stuff that they were trapped in their home. Heather was trapped in her home. Vergie, I think has been hit really bad. So, you know, it kind of puts this game in perspective, is just a basketball game, and these folks are now life or death situations again two and a half years after they just went through it over there. So I know, the first responders and the fire departments and the police departments and everybody's gonna just be working non stop trying to help these people. It looks like, you know, the rain has maybe temporarily kind of moved through, but I think there's more coming, Billy. So it's just one wave after another for these folks that desperately need a break.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awful to hear. We're thinking about everybody affected by this terrible weather. And I think we have snow on the way too, Ryan, So.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, snow's coming. I saw where Pikeville I think has had to put down their floodgate. I always make fun of Pineville and their floodgates. Well, I don't know if it's confirmed, but I heard I saw somewhere where Pikeville was putting down their floodgates. Are trying to protect some of their city and their buildings and things. You know, powers out in the areas. Roads are closed in areas, people are trapped in their homes. So it's just it's an awful situation. We just hope and pray that it doesn't get as bad as it did in twenty two when so many people lost their lives. I know there. I think there's already been a death in Clay County that I saw has been reported from the flooding. So just say a prayer for those folks tonight before you go to sleep. All right, we'll take our break. We'll cold take your phone calls. Eight five nine two eight two two eight seven. This is the local total deaders KSR postgame show. Welcome back to the local Total Reader's KSR postgame show Cats loser tonight eighty two to seventy eight to Texas. We got full bank of calls. We'n get to everybody, but with the ongoing weather situation we do. This is live radio, so we need to kind of keep people updated. Just got some information that there's some water rescues actually going on right now in Pike County from the big Sandy River that has already reached floodstage and is creating a dangerous situation there. And Billy, I think you just sent me the radar that come in. What does it say?

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Speaker 2: I just I had somebody send me a the radar and it's just bands of red everywhere. So it's really is unbelievable, this this weather that's hitting us right now. So please everybody stay safe listening out there. And and you said water rescues are under water rescues going on right now, yeah, uh. And it's not just southeastern Kentucky, Bartstown, Frankfurt. I'm seeing the all over the place of the heavy rains that have caused some flooding situation.

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Speaker 1: So our thoughts impressed. All you folks that are out there fighting at eight five nine two way two two eighty seven. Who's our first collar billy Bluegrass? Bluegrass? Go ahead, sir, how we're doing? Phellows good? How are you Bluegrass?

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Speaker 3: I don't well, we got a lot of water up this way. I know that in Floyd Kenny looking over that. Well, let's get the game, fellers.

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Speaker 1: I know we're all right.

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Speaker 3: I know we're all disappointed. I know we're all disappointed, but yeah, you know this is this is not our regular team out here, is it right now?

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Speaker 1: Fellas, No, they're definitely shorthanded without Butler and without Robinson.

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Speaker 3: Well, I know Polpe don't horn make excuses, but uh, I am glad you mentioned the holding and pulling when we're coming off those stagger screens and those curls, they're holding on their their whole number, they're holding on I mean, they're pulling us around. That just seems like used to be you used to be able to cut and not there wasn't that much fysicality. It seems like in the SEC this year, you can't move nowhere. I don't understand it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciated Bluegrass. Thanks for the phone call. You know he's right, coach Pope said that in the post game show, you know, the SEC is so physical and the way they're led the officiating going right now where they're letting them grab and stuff like that, abillity, you gotta just learn how to play that way. A couple couple weeks ago, he said, Amari has learned how to play physical in the in the SEC because he used to be the biggest dude on the on the court. Uh, when he was at Drexel and he could anything he'd do, he'd get caught for a foul. Well, now he can learn he can get away with some of that in the SEC because he's got other seven footers he's banging against. I guess now the whole team's got to figure out if if if it's going to be this physical, if the way this is the way they're gonna let teams play, we got to figure out a way to beat it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm Ari's improved leaps and bounds. It feels like from the beginning of the year he's had that triple double game. He had this game tonight eighteen and twelve. So I've been pleasantly surprised by him. And you know, I was talking to Darren. Rick Barnes said the same exact thing today about his screeners or his cutters being held the Ziegler and the other guy being held more than anybody that in Rick Barnes' time. So wow, maybe that is a real thing going around right now.

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Speaker 1: I tell you. When Amari hit the three pointer, I thought to myself, this is our night. The dude as one of the ugliest shots ever, hits a step back three and say, okay, we're gonna win this game. So all right, who's next? Billy?

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Speaker 2: Michael is next?

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Speaker 1: Michael? Go ahead, Michael.

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Speaker 4: Hey, what's up? Ryan named Billy?

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Speaker 1: How are you? Michael?

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Speaker 4: I'll I had to write a little bit stuff down. So I was so frustrated. I got so angry tonight again. You know, I was expecting the season to be like mediocre, like a rebuilding year, like a growth year, due to us having a new coach. However, when UK has these victories against these top tier teams, I'm becoming hopeful. I grew excited and then we turn around and just like blow. I mean we kind of blew this game the last three minutes. I mean, Perry turns it over. Williams did not block out and ended up like in the wrong position under the goal and gets We'll get that, they get that dunk. Texas gets the dunk, and then we allow two players to score fifty eight points against US. I don't understand how you let two players beat you. That's the game, those two players. And then I just become frustrated. I get confused. I questioned our team's overall performance because of our amazing top tier victories, but then we lose to these lower tier teams and it just doesn't, like, make it make sense. Please, some one, please make it make sense.

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Speaker 1: Michael, I appreciate the folk call. Can't you can't make sense of it. You can't tell me how. You know, they announced the top four seeds in the the INCA Tournament, and Florida was one of them. Kentucky beat them. Duke was one of them. Kentucky beat them. I mean two of the four number one seeds right now, Kentucky's already beat them. In the next four, there's Tennessee. I guess what, Kentucky beat them twice. I mean, it's crazy that they do have these great Tier one wins and then they can't beat the teams and the you know, the bottom six, bottom third of the SEC in Georgia, Vanderbilt, Arkansas, and Texas. It is crazy, Billy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I do think they had a mental lapse at the end of this game, and their mistakes compounded. Ryan, one turned into another and and you know, just take away those final three minutes. Kentucky's leading on the road for most of this game without yeah, you know, three point guards, So I mean, we do have to give them credit there, but it's all about how you finish. I mean, it doesn't matter if you don't win the game.

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Speaker 1: You're right, man, it was a horrible, horrible finish, there's no doubt about it by Kentucky. All right, who's next, Tim? Tim? Go ahead, Tim?

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Speaker 5: Hey, what's going on?

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Speaker 6: Ryan?

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Speaker 5: Thank you to you and Billy, and also shout out atl Cats and prayers for everyone in Kentucky for the flood.

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Speaker 1: That's that's no joking, Amen.

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Speaker 7: I hope everybody.

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Speaker 5: I'm from Western Kentucky, so I know that's a big deal. And I hope everybody takes care of themselves, that's for sure. I wanted to just say, first and foremost, I just want to remind everyone that's listening, we're Kentucky. Okay, this is I graduated from the University of Kentucky, grew up watching it. This is Kentucky, and I mean some of these excuses are just okay. So every game we've lost, well, not games we've lost. Every game we won, and every game we've lost, it's been the same thing. We win and we do the same things wrong. And I am not a basketball anny, but I can see them. But we celebrate because we're you know, we're want to win. But then we lose. Before this game even happened tonight, I was talking to our friends like, we'k this is the game we've lost all season long, and we'll probably lose it again. And this one was actually I think the worst of all of them that we lost, that we should have won because you're watching it with your own eyeballs, and we're the better team. We are dominating. They're just there, and we just all of a sudden decided, you know, instead of just winning the game and dominated the game. Look, let's let's get cute and let's run seventy five different lineups. You know, let's take a Mary Williams out when he is the most dominant player in the on the court. Let's let him play ten minutes in the first half. Let's not allow ourselves to get a lead in the second half. Let's throw forty more different different scenarios of lineups up. And we've done this every game. And the other thing that we've done every game that knowing no one, no one questions because again they want to, Oh, let's blame Brea, you know, but you know, if you watch the game, Bray brings three players that help off of their guys on him on every play, which Pope is a smart offensive mind. That is how he schemes a lot of our buckets. And that is that. So first off, that's one thing, and again I'm not the bestbub Butdy, But the second thing is all year long, You're right, a lot of deals talked about athleticism, and maybe that's some degree on defense, because that's definitely a bad thing. But there's another part that I don't understand is not being questioned and not even and we're just making these excuses up. And that's fight and rebounding. And this team they do not box out.

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Speaker 1: They bob out.

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Speaker 5: Is not athleticism, it is it is muscle memory. And you know, how you get that coaching and why you just watch them every go back and watch our wins. We do not box out. We don't ever box out. And our two guys around the pren they want to get down the other side when the ball's in the air, and it's happened all season, and I don't. It just drives me insane. And and and I listen to people and they don't want to criticize that because I think they think they're gonna we don't want to be met at Pope because we're so happy we're not Arkansas and that's so we are.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we gotta go ahead, Tim, We appreciate it, man, Thank you. Uh, I mean there that's been a common theme from people about the fight in the effort, uh, the rebound. I wish Matt was here because Matt goes through his you know, finger elbow butt. You know, you got to block somebody out. But Tim's exactly right, man. There was supple glaring issues where they didn't just box out and the guys got tip in the shot or gradd an offensive rebound and get it, get the shot and get the and one. But that miss free throw, man, they showed it two or three times on slow motion, and Otaga was going for it, but they were like three Texas guys in Otaga and we had two guys not going for it. And Ansley Almoner stood there didn't even move. When you go back and watch it and take a look at it, Tim had a lot of good things to say, thought, why just let him go? Who's next?

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Speaker 2: Ye know you can hear it in their voice too, right, not just Tim, but yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. Yeah, that's why I feel like, you know, just let it, let it out, man. Just this is what this postgame show is. Forward to group therapy. So who we got next?

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Speaker 2: Brian?

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Speaker 1: Brian, go ahead, Brian, mm hm Brian, Yeah, I hear him, Brian, can you hear me? Yeah? Yeah, go ahead, Brian.

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Speaker 8: I think we got a chicken man problem.

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Speaker 5: We can't beat cal and we haven't beat the Los Polos.

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Speaker 4: Ermanos man who coaches Texas.

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Speaker 8: We got to figure this.

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Speaker 1: Out, all right, Brian, We appreciate it. What was he saying?

00:19:40
Speaker 2: It was a breaking bad reference?

00:19:42
Speaker 1: Okay, No, I've not seen one episode of it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, the the coach for Texas kind of looks like one of the main villains.

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Speaker 1: Gotcha, gotcha. Okay, Well, now now I can see where he was going. I had no idea what he was talking about. There.

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Speaker 2: He did have the glasses on. Did you see his reading glasses? He had polarized reading glasses he had on.

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Speaker 1: Yoga girl and I were watching the game, and both of us the first time they showed me look at each other like, what is what is that? Because it does kind of it didn't make him look kind of odd to see. The cameras caught him saying one time, otega Oway is a problem. He was leaned over to one of his assistant coaches at otaga Oway is a problem.

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Speaker 2: He is, man, I mean, if he's not turning over the ball, I mean, what is it twenty five straight games that he's had double.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he had twenty twenty tonight, so it's twenty five straight games. He's the only dude in the SEC that has scored in double figures every game. Not Trey Johnson, who leads the country in scoring, Not Hubbard, you know, Mississippi State, Not Johnny Broome. It is Otaga oh Way double figures in every game, yep, yeap.

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Speaker 2: And despite Brea having everybody guard him, he can still put up more than six shots a game, right, I will go to my grave having that thought.

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Speaker 1: I agree, man, I mean that's your job. That's what you that's what you do. So if you're if they're on you, okay, you know, I remember when Steve Hofford played for Indiana. They he would just run around picks, run around picks, run around picks. We finally got open. Okay, Koby, do something, man, get yourself open, create a shot, create some space. All right, just take one morning, We'll take a break. Who we got, Lauren, Lauren, go ahead, Lauren.

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Speaker 9: Bryan. I'm gonna take a different perspective and say that I think that given the circumstances with Butler and Robinson out, we did the best that we could do and we could have won that game. But I think that it's pretty good that we held our own and and looked good on the road, and you know, we came up short, but we did the best we could do.

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Speaker 1: You know that's that actually is a good take on it, Lauren, because if you told me before the game, you know, you don't have Lamtt Butler, you don't have Jackson Robinson, You're gonna lose the game by four points. I wouldn't have been shocked if somebody told me that, But then I saw how the game was playing out where I felt like Kentucky let it slip through their hands and just kind of collapse down the stretch. That's why I think I'm so frustrated.

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Speaker 9: And I mean, I agree with that, and I'm frustrated too, But I think when you look at the lineups that we've had to put out there, and just our team as a whole, and knowing we're down our two best players, I mean, I can't imagine what it would have been like the last few years as Cali Perry if we had to play these guys. And that's no I mean, I don't mean any offense to Perry and Noah and Garrison. I mean I love those guys and I'm thrilled that hopefully they're going to be back next year. But it's certainly not the NBA lottery picks we've been used to playing, and I'm just I'm thrilled that we could even be in the game on the road in the SEC tonight, starting who we had to start tonight.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the Lord, thank you.

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Speaker 9: If we can get healthy, we'll be good to go.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for bringing that perspective. That does kind of put it back to perspective. We don't have our best players during the SEC and Jackson Robinson and our leader, our point guard, our best defender. It is amazing that they you know, we have been able to win those games without those two guys. So we'll take our break. Come back, go back to the phone line eight five nine two O two to eight seven. Just saw another report that came in that there's now mud slides in Estell County. Wow. I mean that's when you know, you get to the roads collapse and roads will be closed. Like I said, powers out in different places. It's uh, it's it's it's turning into a sad night. So we'll take our break. Come back, go back to the phone lines eight five nine two O two two eight seven. This is right, I mean, this is billy religion. We'll be right back. Welcome back, Loco totally. There's KSR post game show is now after midnight, so it is Sunday morning most of our state, those in Central time zone that I that I want to talk about. It's still at eleven o'clock and we focus so much on the attention of the flooding in eastern Kentucky because that's where it seems to be the most disastrous. But I got this text message and said, hey man, Mayfield, Paducah and Murray in western Kentucky also flooded, and it's still pouring also in Eddieville, where Travis Perry's from. So I mean it's everywhere, And like when Billy said in the radar, I mean it's it's still coming down all across the state and I don't think it's gonna stop any time soon. And then we got snow coming in the next couple of days after that. But then poor Mayfield, I mean they can then hit with two tornadoes I think in the last five years, and now flooding maybe issues going on as well. So, uh, that's horrible.

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Speaker 2: It is, And I'm surprised you're getting text. I mean, I've been trying to send you a photo of the radar for twenty minutes and you haven't gotten it.

00:24:48
Speaker 1: Did you get the one I just sent you?

00:24:49
Speaker 10: Yeah?

00:24:50
Speaker 2: You saying is this green? It is because you have an Android.

00:24:54
Speaker 1: I have an Android and it's thin green text. But I don't have anything from you, so it must be your phone, not my phone.

00:24:59
Speaker 2: I mean good, I don't have anything important to show you, because if I did, then I don't know if you'd ever get it.

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Speaker 1: Here's one more text metaes I want to read you because I think this will just I want to get your opinion. Bill didn't understand why Trent Noah didn't get more looks at the end. He was sitting the first half, and especially with Pope mixing in the zone and his knack for rebounding could have used him shooting down the stretch. I don't disagree with that. You know, when they went zone, he's you could put him out there and if you need somebody that's going to shoot the three, Braya wasn't getting it done. Ansley hit one. Otega's three point shot is kind of if he at best. Travis hit one. No, Travis h want to Trent hit one. One of those two guys hit won the night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they both had one that they both want to said two and Trent had the one that was almost in Oklahoma as Yeah.

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Speaker 1: That's right. So I can agree with what the guy is saying that maybe, you know, Trent maybe could have got in more looks in the when Kentucky was collapsing down the stretch.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've complained a lot about Kobe, but I can say that his defense has improved over the as the season's gone along, and I'd say he's even a better defender than Trent at times, even though Trent can get a rebound every now and then. It's tough. It is because we see a lot of interesting rotations, don't we, Ryan. But you know, when you have three guys out like that, you kind of got to do stuff like.

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Speaker 1: That, all right? Eight five nine two Oho two two eight seven? Who we got first, Billy, Alex? Alex, go ahead, Alex.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I just wanted to talk about, you know, love Lauren and what all she had to say, but could not disagree more with talking about moral victories. This is the University of Kentucky and there are no moral victories. Coming up short to a team that has lost to Alabama by twenty three at home, Vanderbilt by a Arkansas again, who was one in eight when we lost to them, and uh, you know the whole Travis, Perry, Trent, Noah saying love the guys. You know, they're Kentucky kids, But at the end of the day, if they're in your rotation and they're the seventh and eighth guys. It's it's it's just hard to win, and it's it's something that Mark Pope that I feel like, you know, bringing in Malachi Morando next year, if he's gonna be our starting big oldf it's Brandon Garrison. I'm just worried about Mark Pope. Don't know if he's the guy.

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Speaker 1: I love your thoughts, Ryan Wow, Alex Man, I wish I knew what to say to do, you know, perk you up a little bit, because I I do think Mark Pope is the guy that is gonna is gonna win here, and I think with the wins he's gotten this year. Yeahs disappointed the night they should have beat Texas, There's no doubt about it. But I've seen even Cali Perry's really good teams lose a game on the road in the SEC they should have won. It just happens. Now, granted, yes it's happened. What four times Georgia Arkansas at home, Van Build at Vanderbilt and Texas the Taxil three times on the road they've lost game things they should have won. I totally give you that, but I still like what Mark Pope's doing. And you know, you talk about Brandon Garrison, Maleckimra, you know they'll bring in up another big also in the transfer portal. There should be probably three guys big and down the post. So I don't know, Billy, what do you think that guy call? Kind of depressed me a little bit?

00:28:22
Speaker 10: Uh?

00:28:22
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think you have to expect some growing pains if you're on your fourth string quarterback, Ran. I mean, if you were looking at this from a football perspective, I think you could you would expect that you're going to be behind the eight ball and you've got to kind of throw some things together, just like he had to throw his roster together in a matter of months. So I do think it's a little crazy to have this take right now. I mean, this is not the time for doom and gloomy. Is Mark Pope the guy because they lost on the road at Texas because they had a bad final three minutes. It sucks, losing sucks. But you're not out on Mark Pope because they lost this game.

00:28:55
Speaker 1: Agreed, Agreed, Sorry, worked up there, but well, because losing does suck, like you said, it stinks, and you know, like there's this when you collapsed the way you did. Should have won the game. Yeah, they should have won the game, There's no doubt about it. But I'm still holding out hope that this thing and then this program is back on solid ground. And uh, I look forward to making the least a second weekend of the NCAA tournament this year, something we haven't done in five years. Who's next?

00:29:23
Speaker 2: Cat heead, cat Head?

00:29:24
Speaker 1: Go ahead, cat Head?

00:29:27
Speaker 10: Hey, what's going on?

00:29:28
Speaker 11: Guys?

00:29:29
Speaker 1: How are you? Cat Head?

00:29:31
Speaker 10: Oh, we're good, sitting here at Washington rain Man. And like you said, we've all said, is lookout everybody in Kentucky. I got family in western Kentucky. I've got family in south eastern Kentucky that I talked to earlier today. And they're a race surrounded all four ways with water. They can't get out. So let's just keep all those people in their thoughts.

00:29:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, and.

00:29:57
Speaker 10: Then now we can get to the game. Uh, you know, run some coattails on on the other callers. Is you know, I just don't I don't understand how we lose to these these teams. Right, we beat the big teams and and uh lose to the other team. But you know, for the last caller, I really I hate I hate what he said. I mean, I think Mark Polk is the guy for the job. I love our team, I love our coach, I love our program. Uh, we go through injuries just like everybody else. H it is a bad loss. But you know, let's get behind our team. I mean, uh, callers calling in saying Mark Pop's not the right guy for the job. Look, if we had Arkansas team, we'd have worst record than we do right now. So come on now, I mean, I know that we could rebound better. There's there's there's some better situational things. And I will say, if Robinson and Butler is not healthy, hold them out, keep them out. Let's these young guys play's let's get to the tournament. Let's let's get healthy, and let's make the run that we know we can make.

00:31:13
Speaker 1: A right, boy, Cathead, we you know what people who optimism like you do. Thank you for the phone call, appreciate it. You know. I don't think they're gonna have Robinson and Butler back anytime soon.

00:31:23
Speaker 3: Uh.

00:31:24
Speaker 1: Probably Butler will return before robinsonays Robinson, man when Coach Pope said yesterday, Billy that we're gone and gotten a third opinion that that just tells me that there's something going on there with that with that that wrist, and if there's something that's torn that maybe they're saying maybe it maybe require surgery. It may be something where Jackson may just have to play through some pain if he wants to play and finish this season and then have surgery after the season's over, you know what I mean? Right?

00:31:51
Speaker 2: And Pope said he didn't re injure it when he went into the game, so he made two threes with that broken wrist. So you know, it also makes me think of kerk creesas get back on defense despite him breaking his foot. If you remember that play.

00:32:04
Speaker 1: Tough, That was tough and can you run down halfway down the court with a broken foot? Yeah, yeah.

00:32:10
Speaker 2: So I'm hoping they get him back because they desperately need the help on defense. There's no doubt about that. All Right, Who's next, Billy, Dwayne?

00:32:18
Speaker 1: Dwayne?

00:32:19
Speaker 8: Go ahead, Dwayne, Hey, Ryn, Billy, thanks for taking a call. I believe Coach Pope needs to have the hard conversation with Kobe Braya tomorrow or Monday that we can't play you thirty five minutes a game if you're only gonna get up six shots. You need to you need to find a way to get yourself open. You need to, you know, just do something to get yourself open. Because him having four points tonight killed us and played thirty five minutes. I mean, we can put somebody else out there that can shoot the that'll shoot the ball. I mean, you can't make them if you don't shoot them. So if he's fifty percent from threes, if he ain't shooting them, he ain't gonna make them.

00:32:58
Speaker 1: So that's right appreciated, Dwayne. You know, I kind of agree. You know, he for this team, he needs to step up, take more shots because we know he can hit those shots. And when you've got somebody up in your girl, you got to figure out a way how you can get open and help your team. It's you know, it's it's not a new strategy where teams are locked and trying to lock somebody down. You got to move off a pick, you know, set yourself up, take a step back, whatever you gotta do to create some space to get your shot.

00:33:29
Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about another older player. Andrew Carr six points fout out in this game, and he looks like another player. That injury has really taken a toll.

00:33:37
Speaker 1: On I agree, man, he was really, I think, starting to find himself. And remember he had the great finish in the Duke game and the great finish and the Gonzaga game, and I thought he's gonna be a guy we can count on down the stretch. You're right, he's just not been the same since he injuredies back and trying to play now that you know, everybody says he's close to one hundred percent, But his game is different, isn't it.

00:34:00
Speaker 6: It is?

00:34:00
Speaker 2: And Ansley's played good in spots. I mean, he had eleven tonight, but you know, I think you're missing a healthy Andrew car there at times.

00:34:10
Speaker 1: Totally agree. All right, who's next?

00:34:12
Speaker 2: Hunter?

00:34:13
Speaker 1: Hunter? Go ahead? Hunter?

00:34:15
Speaker 12: Hey, how you guys doing tonight?

00:34:16
Speaker 1: How are you? Hunter?

00:34:19
Speaker 13: No, we're hanging in there before we get to the game. Obviously, kind of piggyback off what all the other callers said. The flooding that's going on right now is insane. I'm from Utah. I'm actually the one Ryan you met on the remote that's from Prestonsburg. I had the girlfriend from Utah.

00:34:34
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I do remember talking to you. You were just in the restaurant not long ago too, right, Yeah.

00:34:40
Speaker 13: I was at the Spoken Sprier. I came to my first ever game, in the Alabama game.

00:34:45
Speaker 1: I was yeah, yeah, I remember that.

00:34:48
Speaker 13: But it's just very sad. Thoughts and prayers go out Like my ants right now, she's got water up to her foundation in Pikeville and she's having to sleep in her truck tonight. They got closing case thing. You to go, so hoping that everything turns out for the best. As far as like the game goes, you know, in all reality, it's like, what more could we have done? Like towards the end of the game, it really we really needed to point guard. That's that's that's what kind of came down to. This game was gonna come down to the final minutes. Who was going to make plays and who didn't. We didn't make plays. Texas did. That's why they won. As far as like the season goes, I actually have a theory I want your guys opinion on. I have a really strong feeling that we play to the level of who we're playing against. So the best teams we're playing our best, and our best can be anybody. But when we're playing the lower level teams. We're playing our average and below average. Meanwhile, we're getting the best from these teams, and a lot of these times their best is better than our average.

00:35:46
Speaker 1: Hunter appreciate that. And you know the crazy thing about what Hunter said there, Billy, that's what the knock on. Mark Pope's teams were at BYU. They went on the road, They beat Kansas at Kansas, they beat Baylor at Baylor. I think they beat Houston, but then they would whose games at home are in the conference, that they should have won even the first round tournament, first round game in the NCA tournament last year they played Dukine got upset by Ducaine. So that has just been a knock I think on his coaching career. Yeah.

00:36:16
Speaker 2: I don't know why that is, though, because I don't think the guys aren't ready to play. You know, they play with effort, but at times, you know, they don't look like they want to rebound the ball. So it is that is strange. I would say that is true that they play down and up to their competition, but maybe the outliers tonight right, because they should have won that game if they had a point guard.

00:36:37
Speaker 1: We're going to see how they respond, We've got Vanderbilt on Wednesday. Okay, Vanderbilt is a lower level team, but they beat you already once this year. Okay, so we'll see what kind of fight effort they get playing a team that they're better than that already beat you once. They should come out and try to bury Vanderbilt on a Wednesday night. Who's next, Billy. We'll take one more, they'll take our break.

00:36:58
Speaker 2: Vandy was up sixteen sixteen Tennessee and then lost. Jared, Jared, go ahead, Jared.

00:37:08
Speaker 6: Hey, what's up, guys? Hey, a couple of things, Ryan Man, how do you always get stuck with these postgame shows? Man?

00:37:16
Speaker 1: Preach preach it. I don't know. I don't know how that happened. Fault. It's got to be my fault. But remember I just did one Billy a couple of weeks ago. Kentucky won and they played really well. They beat somebody they weren't supposed to be. I think I don't remember who it was, but yeah, I don't know, Jared. It seems that always happened football basketball. It's been that way for I. Seriously, I did the postgame show for the Garden or Web basketball game that they lost.

00:37:44
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I remember that.

00:37:46
Speaker 11: Now.

00:37:47
Speaker 12: Listen.

00:37:47
Speaker 6: I'm still in on this team.

00:37:49
Speaker 10: Man.

00:37:49
Speaker 6: I know we've had some tough losses, but we're hurt. We've had some you know, look at the wins man. We have the best resume in the country, I think, and I think we'll be fine. By Marge, get everybody healthy. And last thing, just prayish to everybody in the in eastern Kentucky with the floods. I've got some buddies in Clay County and just perish for those guys and shout out Jordan White, shout out type farmer, go cats.

00:38:19
Speaker 1: All right, appreciate it. Yeah, I mean, we're all I always. That's the best thing about this state is that when one of our own needs a helping hand, we're the first one there. You know, we're the first one to lend a helping hand one of our brothers or sisters needed. And we saw it in twenty two when they had the floods. We saw it and the tornadoes that hit over there in western Kentucky, Mayfield and Bremen in that area. And I'm sure we'll see the same thing over the next couple of days. As daylight comes in the morning, and people started realizing the damage that's happened with all the rain that's coming. So it is sad. All right, we'll take our final break come back final segment eight five nine two eight zero two two eight seven. If you want to call it, get on board. We'll take your calls. Kentucky loses the night at Texas seventy eight. I bet the over it didn't hit, Billy. I just throw away my money on DraftKings every UK game, I just throw it away. Well, right back, This says the local totals KSR postgame show. All right, welcome back. Final segment the local totally was KSR postgame show. Kentucky loser tonight at Texas eighty two to seventy eight. By the big day for college basketball today, Billy. Of course, the number one game everybody was talking about. Number one Auburn played at number two Alabama, two football schools, the Iron Bowl of basketball, and it was Alabama fought back to tie it, but then with about five minutes left, Auburn just closed it out and ended up went by I think eight or nine points, right.

00:39:47
Speaker 2: Yep, yep. Auburn is legit. There's no doubt about it. If they can stay healthy, they could go on a historic run.

00:39:53
Speaker 1: Here.

00:39:54
Speaker 2: Kansas just lost to Utah as we're.

00:39:56
Speaker 1: Kansas loses again. Wow. You mentioned the Tennessee Vandy game. Vandy was up sixteen points in the second half and ended up losing that game in Knoxville, Detech to Tennessee. But I want to tell you. I want to tell you about another game I went to today, Philly. I went to the Transylvania basketball game. They were hosting Mount Saint Joseph over here at the Beck Center on Broadway, and it was senior day and I went because one of their seniors is a kid named Hunter Penn. Then you may say, well, who in the hell's Hunter Penn. Well, I'm gonna tell you. I coached him for like four years in baseball when he was like four, five, six and seven and two all Star teams, so I think I coached he won six different teams when he was little. Uh, he was our best player. He's our best player, and he ends up playing college basketball Transylvania. So today's his senior day. And he's a big guy, billy. He's like six five, two hundred and fifty pounds. He's a big dude. It's Mountain Saint Joseph that, by the way, had to do. It was like six seven, two hundred and eighty pounds. He was big girl. But I'm telling you this story because four years of playing college basketball Transylvania started. All four years. It's a big guy. He'd only hit one three pointer in his entire career. Today on senior day, Hunter Penn from Woodford County, Kentucky let him fly hit three three pointers in the game. Yes, he's got one his whole career, and he hit three tonight on senior night.

00:41:30
Speaker 2: Oh I love that because you know he thought about it, right. I mean, you only shoot one three in your career, you come in a senior night saying I got to take at least one or two.

00:41:39
Speaker 1: So I was sitting by his dad tolling, and he he hit the second one, and I go, does he shoot a lot of threes and tones? Like no, he doesn't. I said, how man is he hit? And he goes one his whole career one? So we were all laughing. He hit the second one, then he hits the third one, like, oh, turn it on.

00:41:57
Speaker 2: Big fella was like a proud Popham coach mon that you had tonight then.

00:42:01
Speaker 1: It was it really was. Yeah, I'm really proud of him. He played over here a Woodford County and he had a good career at Trancy. Uh if Drew was there, he was there watching the Trancy Pioneers play. So uh, they got to win at Hanover next week and I think they host a first round game in the their conference tournament. So man, we can rally the truth, but we can all go watch them play in the conference tournament. Yeah, could do it because Mattlego, Matt's a Trancy grad. For crying out.

00:42:25
Speaker 2: Loud, Yeah, he should have been there tonight.

00:42:27
Speaker 1: Well, he had other things to do in Austin, Texas, like ball game, pregame show. He's doing his NFL, not his NFL, his ESPN show down there tomorrow morning, I believe from Dallas. I think I'm not sure. All right, final segments, let's line him up. See who we got, Billy justin? Justin, go ahead, justin.

00:42:52
Speaker 7: Hey, Phil, the season, how you doing doing good? I'm hearing Clay Canny and it's a it's getting pretty rough in something spots. So just just remember everybody here and you know, all through out of eastern Kentucky this sevenon.

00:43:07
Speaker 1: Did the brother report right? Has somebody already died in Clay County from the flooding?

00:43:12
Speaker 7: Yeah, there was one older man. Uh they found this evening. So yeah, not in personally.

00:43:19
Speaker 6: Uh.

00:43:19
Speaker 7: One thing about the game, just that last end bound where Kobe Brayle missed the ball and he was just you know, complaining while the other team had the ball. That was probably the most frustrating time I had watching the game of the Seavenon.

00:43:35
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate Justin and please stay safety under in Clay County.

00:43:39
Speaker 11: Yeah.

00:43:40
Speaker 1: I think that's one thing that really frustrated Coach Pope is that, like mentally, they just checked out when they when they were starting to collapse. They they instead of answering the bell, so to speak, they hit the canvas and just didn't respond the way you would when you're in a rock fight with somebody, you know what I mean?

00:43:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely, you know. And nothing embodied that more than that inbounds pass that.

00:44:05
Speaker 1: Went yep, justin Troit. All right, who's our next caller? Michael Michael? Go ahead, Michael Michael are there there? I'm here, all right, go ahead, buddy.

00:44:18
Speaker 12: What you got How you doing good?

00:44:21
Speaker 1: How are you doing, Michael, not too bad?

00:44:24
Speaker 14: Hey, you know what you know, you know, the freshman played really well, and I know they made some mistakes, but I really think the upperclassmen kind of failed the freshman today. You know, Braya, you know, not making a shot. Just it's just it's just beyond fathomable that I that I saw that today and you know, Marii Williams, he just left everything out on the floor and it was just frustrating to know that all they had to do is just execute the small things and we would have won that game.

00:45:01
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, man, Yeah, thank you very much with the phone call. The thing about Kobe that's frustrating is that this is not the first time. You know, if he had been having a great season, everybody has an offshooting night, everybody gets covered up. Maybe he wasn't feeling well, but this has been something Billy that we've seen throughout the season. Yep.

00:45:19
Speaker 2: But you can't blame it all on him, right, I mean, ten second half turnovers when you only had ten assists for the game is unacceptable as well. And but yeah, I mean, as somebody that was called the best shooter in the portal and has had games where he has completely carried this team. You just simply can't go oh six.

00:45:37
Speaker 1: All right, this is what I was looking for. Corey Price, mister stat guy, put this out there. Kentucky is two to four in games in which it makes seven or fewer threes. Okay, okay. Brea is eight for thirty five from three in those six games, and he's eleven of thirty one in UK's eight losses. Yeah, so you know, Drew has been saying it for a month. You know, if Kobe Bray hit shots, this team's a better team. It's as simple as that. He has to hit shots.

00:46:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm with you. When Amari hit that step back three and Tom and Goose were yelling about it, I thought it may have been Kentucky's night, but I thought it was.

00:46:25
Speaker 1: I thought, there's no way they're gonna lose this game. When a Mariy Williams throws one, I mean he looked like he just kind of threw it, like he didn't have his feet set, just kind of threw it up there and it went in. Uh. Well, the caller Michael's talking about the young guys, and I do want to say only one person has had a positive plus minus in the game that I only one Kentucky player had a positive plus minus. You know who it was? Who was that? Trent Noah at plus one plus one. We had a couple of zeros. Let's see here, who was a zero and Drew Carr was a zero and Travis Perry was a zero and Trent Noah was a positive one. I don't know, you know what I'm saying all right here on that call.

00:47:10
Speaker 2: He's definitely earned his minutes, Dave.

00:47:13
Speaker 1: It's earned, not given. Go ahead, Dave.

00:47:16
Speaker 8: Hey, Ryan, it's awesome to talk to you.

00:47:18
Speaker 11: Man.

00:47:18
Speaker 8: I just really wanted to call during the day show and ask you a question. I'm a relatively new listener to KSR. Why do you guys are giving Matt a hard time about Austin, Texas. What's the story there?

00:47:32
Speaker 1: Well, we, you know, if you've listened, we're kind of a group of brothers, and you know, brothers pick on each other. He likes to pick on us about things. So when something comes up and we can pick on him about, we kind of jump on it. And a couple of years ago he was going down to Austin because he likes the city. His buddy Josh Hopkins lives down there. He likes going out in Austin. He can kind of be himself. He can take these Matt Jones' hat off and just be some dude from Kentucky, you know, who's down there visiting. So that's why we kind of give him a hard time about.

00:47:59
Speaker 8: It, all right, Cool? Well, I was I think I just wanted to say that, you know, I'm frustrated with the game tonight, but I take company knowing that we have a coach that probably agonizes over this more as much as the fan base. So I'm still gonna have the face still frustrated, but go cats appreciate Dave.

00:48:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I knew we were gonna have the callers like that Billy tonight because it is frustrating. It's just you saw a team that pretty, like I said, like I opened the show with, I felt like they were dominating that game and we're in control throughout and then just collapsed in the end. Like I don't know what the magic number of minutes they led by, but it seems like they were led for like thirty forty I mean thirty four minutes and then just didn't lead the final you know, five minutes. Well really was less than that in the final three minutes that they didn't lead. So next week, just flip what you expect to happen. Right, So, Kentucky versus Vandy at home, that's a loss. Kentucky at Alabama on Saturday, this looks like a win. They got to be Vandy Wednesday. Man, the bandy's coming in down. They have got to beat Vanderbilt Wednesday. We can't let Shannon the dude have a sweep with his Vanderbilt.

00:49:12
Speaker 2: I do have to host a show a Vandy fan that was.

00:49:15
Speaker 1: With mister number one Vandy. Yeah, I'm sure. All right. We got two more callers, So who we got?

00:49:22
Speaker 2: Todd?

00:49:23
Speaker 1: Todd?

00:49:23
Speaker 8: Go ahead, Todd, Hey, yeah, I appreciate you taking my call.

00:49:27
Speaker 3: Uh.

00:49:28
Speaker 8: First off, I'm in Electric County and it's it's it's bad here. Uh it's not in my house, but my road was flooded above me and below me, so kind of being stuck all day.

00:49:40
Speaker 1: There was a report on Electric County that they had to evacuate a nursing home or something down there. Does that have you anything about that?

00:49:47
Speaker 3: Uh?

00:49:47
Speaker 8: Yeah it Uh, Like I said, I haven't been out, but the nursing home is right below the hospital and they had to evacuate it back in twenty two, so this didn't get as high today, but I'm say it probably got in the nursing home from where it's at.

00:50:02
Speaker 1: Well, well, hang in there, brother, and be sure to help out your and your neighbors when they need they're gonna need it.

00:50:09
Speaker 8: Sure, absolutely, man, that's what we do as Kentuckian's just a couple of points. The game's completely frustrating, kind of piggybacking off the guy that said this is Kentucky.

00:50:19
Speaker 4: I mean.

00:50:21
Speaker 8: You can just watch like the first five minutes of the game and kind of get a sense of how the game's going. Like they just, you know what, had five offensive rebounds in two possessions. But for a team that doesn't have superstars, we should be the most fundamentally sound team in the country, and we are far from it. Lazy passes, defensive rotations are not there. I mean we don't even block out. I mean that's just basic, basic things that win games, win road games, win games when leaders are out, and we just have no attention to detail at all, none.

00:50:55
Speaker 1: Todd, I appreciate it. Yeah, I mean that's what I think It's frustrating for me and a lot of people, the not boxing out on the free throw and the kind of the ability. They had ten turnovers in the second half, but it seemed like they were Everyone was like a came at a bad time, like right, we needed a bucket or need to make a play. We'd shoot a bad shot or make a bad turnover.

00:51:14
Speaker 2: It seemed like right, and that would turn into another one, and you just they couldn't stop that skid. Mark Pope was calling a time out after every possession it felt like near to the end, just trying to get those guys centered and focused on the present.

00:51:27
Speaker 7: Right.

00:51:27
Speaker 2: How many times does he say be where your feet are? And you know, at times tonight it looked like the moment was too big for him. Which against a middle of the road Texas team that's lost four of the last five games, that should not be the case. And that's why I think we're hearing some of these frustrations tonight.

00:51:42
Speaker 1: You have Lamont Butler, maybe you don't have those turnovers at end of the game. Maybe he runs the offense a little more efficient, maybe he has better sets, maybe he slows down Trey Johnson. And then the Mark kid in the perimeter, you know, on the defensive end, you know, he may have made us big swing losing by four points. You add him to the game, just him alone, made him made a difference. And then you got with Jackson him not in there. So those you know, the two big big studs that didn't didn't get off the bench tonight. All right, I take our last callor who we got?

00:52:11
Speaker 2: Sam?

00:52:13
Speaker 1: Sam? Go ahead, Sam, you're a last caller, does I'll make it a good.

00:52:15
Speaker 12: One And thanks so much, guys.

00:52:20
Speaker 11: Ryan.

00:52:20
Speaker 12: I'm in Georgetown. It's been coming down for a while, and I'm honestly getting pretty nervous thinking that it's going to be kind of like twenty two here, and that makes me really nervous. It makes me really upset for the state of Kentucky as well. But I wanted to bring up a point when I look at the box score, everyone's talking about Kobe Brad didn't make a field goal. He actually played the most minutes tonight. Amario Williams played twenty six minutes with eighteen points and twelve rebounds. He's been a massive factor. I feel like in these past few games, and I don't think we would be where we are today with alt him and I wanted to get your on that.

00:53:01
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you, Sam, I appreciate it. Thanks with the phone call. He's a guy I know Pope doesn't like to play him a lot of minutes. Tries to, you know, protect him and keep him from getting being fatigued late in the game when you desperately need him, try to keep Hi from getting in foul trouble, trying to get just Brandon Garrison some minutes, just to you know, rest to Mario a little bit and keep him fresh for the end of the game. But I mean Sam's right, Amari has been a forced the last couple of games, and tonight was another game he was just stronger than the other guys. Although that their guy did have a huge play at the end of the game. They're big guy didn't score a bucket the whole game, and then he gets that offensive rebound and put back there at the end of the game, had a big defensive play on Omar. I think he had a block shot. But yeah, I hate to think what this team would be without Amari because he has definitely become becoming one of the heart and souls of the team.

00:53:51
Speaker 2: Isn't he Yeah, for sure? Or Oway, right, I mean double digits every single game at times, the motor of this team without Lamont Butler or Robinson there So, and that's a guy that I don't think you expected that from, right coming from Oklahoma.

00:54:06
Speaker 1: So no way, no way, uh, no way, oh way.

00:54:09
Speaker 2: You expect to be the five, but oh way, coming in and just stealing that starting job, I'm sure.

00:54:15
Speaker 1: And he brings it every night. Man, He's not a guy that's gonna take it out, take a night off, or he's you know, he's gonna bring it every night, play as hard as he can. You know, he's always good for a good poster dunk. But his what worries me though, is his three points shot. His shot seems to have left him a little bit, you know what I mean. So, well, that's gonna do it. Kentucky loses eighty two to seventy eight at Texas. It's a bad loss. I mean, it's a it was a horrible finish. Uh. They were up three with like just under three minutes to go and just totally collapse down the stretch fourteen and one over the last three manu they got out scored fourteen to one in the last three minutes and it just ended up being a stinker. That's why we all kind of feel this way tonight. So appreciate all more callers. Appreciate Billy running the show. Again. We've talked about it all the entire broadcast, but uh, just keep your thoughts and your prayers for your brothers and sisters that are dealing with flooding conditions tonight. It's it's it's not it's gonna get worse. Probably it gets better. And uh, you know, we saw Kentucky at its best at twenty two when people reached out and tried to help some of the flooding areas. It seems like we may need it more this time because it seems to be across the whole state. It's not just in southeastern Kentucky. We heard from people in western Kentucky. We hear from people in Barstown and Frankfurt. It seems to be everywhere. So uh, everybody just be safe and be smart and don't try to drive through a flooded street. And you know people do that all the time and it just ends up being a disaster. So uh, just be smart out there. So Billy, we appreciate it, and we hope some people have some some better news the days ahead and these areas that desperately needed.

00:55:45
Speaker 2: Absolutely thinking about everybody out there, and good work tonight, Ryan.

00:55:49
Speaker 1: You too, my friend Billy. All right, that'll do it. Kentucky loses Vanderbilt coming on Wednesday. We'll be back at we got a Best of KSR show Monday. Are you doing a live pre show?

00:55:59
Speaker 2: You got a Best Know best of the day after Mark Pope was hired for both shows.

00:56:04
Speaker 1: For both shows, yeah, oh that's cool. That'll be cool, and then we'll be back live on Tuesday. So for the local total reader's case, our postgame show for Billy, I'm Ryan. Goodnight, goodbye,