KSR Postgame UK MBB vs Missouri 01/07/26

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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 2: It is the Local Tourney Dealers KSR postgame show. Kentucky loses an extremely bad home loss seventy three sixty eight. Missouri finishes on a fifteen to two run to beat the Cats in RUP and Kentucky starts oh and two in the SEC for the first time ever. It's what I'm reading that's hard for me to believe, but apparently it's true. First time oh and two Kentucky in the SEC. You can give a shout eight five nine two eight zho twenty two eighty seven. You know this was bad, and it was bad in a couple different ways. First, the first half, the offense was just so atrocious that it was hard to watch, and Kentucky couldn't do much of anything.

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Speaker 1: I thought.

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Speaker 2: I thought Mark Pope was fairly was honest at the end of the game when he said in the half court this team's offensive. He used the phrase pacing, but I think it also could just apply to the offense in general.

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Speaker 1: It's just brutal. It's just terrible.

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Speaker 2: They have almost nothing they can do to get good shots in the half court, really beyond low running around until something comes open and either shoots or passes beyond that, if they don't get some sort of transition game to get the defense thrown off, they just can't score. I mean, it's running in mud hoping you get fouled. In the second half, they got in transition some they were able to get some pace, get some open threes, and things were better. But I mean, this game, ultimately, the story is the last four minutes. In fifteen seconds, Kentucky's up by eight, Oway hits a three to put Kentucky up eight. And when you're at home up eight with four minutes and fifteen seconds left, I don't care who you're playing, you can be playing any team the country. You need to win that game. And Kentucky not only didn't win it, they went from up eight to losing in three minutes, and the last minute was just a comedy of heirs, the turnovers. You know, I heard Mark say in the post game that he thought the decision making was actually very good, but the execution, poor man.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I understand in theory why Garrison and Moreno were in They had actually played pretty well up until that point, but I don't really understand how when you need buckets down to stretch you want to put their hands on the ball to make the decision as to where the ball goes. Neither of them have necessarily been proven to be very capable passers, and they had back to back turnovers on back cuts. I mean, Pope said, we got exactly what we wanted.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I mean a back cut with two with four hands in between you and the guy getting the ball.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It's not crazy to think that might not work out, and it doesn't. Otega misses a wide open layup. He's actually missed a lot of layups this year, usually long, usually coming from the left.

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Speaker 1: And he did it again.

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Speaker 2: And then they don't box out on a free throw. Malachi Moreno, if you want to be really sick, go watch that box out. He touches the guy he's boxing out and then just leaves him and the ball goes over his head. Oh way almost lost it on him, and I kind of understand it was really a horrible attempt at a box out. They make the free throws and then I don't know what that shot was at the end. I mean, I you know, Jalen, I guess he hadn't take it because there wasn't but I mean what I don't understand what the play is that with nine seconds left, you call time out and you have maybe your two bettes three point shooters on the floor, Aberdeen and Williams standing next to each other.

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Speaker 1: Go look at that they're standing next.

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Speaker 2: To each other, which suggested to me that either of their defenders could double the other one. I guess the play was for Low to drive to the basket and then draw defense and kick out. But if you're Missouri, why would you even stop the drive? I mean, Pope said we wanted him to drive and then kick it out to Williams. But if you're Missouri, why do you even stop the drive? It's a three point lead with five seconds left.

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Speaker 1: You just let him have that layout Probably so, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: This has been a baffling, baffling, bafflingly terrible job by Mark Pope this year. Awful, awful, just an awful coaching job. And I say that in part because I don't think you can just say the man can't coach. He's had success. I thought what he did with last year's team was very impressive. But this is a dis I mean, this is awful. It's a disaster. I thought Mark finally sounded like himself in the post game today. He didn't say it was the first time I've heard him after one of these losses not be either rude or insanely sad. He actually sounded like himself for the first time, and I appreciate him explaining what happened. But I don't know how we got here. I mean, you go look at his quotes at the beginning of the year. He's got a ferrari. He can't wait, he can't wait to unleash it. I mean, this team is offensively is almost worse defensively. I think they've improved as the year's gone on. I actually thought they played pretty good defense tonight for most of the game. I mean, they held Missouri to seventy three. You gotta win when they do say, I mean, you got to win.

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Speaker 1: We had sixty eight points. It's a team that you.

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Speaker 2: Know, we don't have to talk about how much it costs, but it cost a lot, and you can't get more than sixty eight points at home.

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Speaker 1: Even though we led in the.

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Speaker 2: Second half, I kind of felt like we were outplayed most of the game, but we still we should have won up eight with four minutes and fifteen seconds left, you should win, And now the specter of not making the tournament is real. You know, they are nine and six. They have lots of losable games to come and not a lot of certainly win games to come. You could argue that in theory, easiest game is coming Saturday night, and I don't know how confident any of us feel about about it. So I'm pretty down about the team. It's hard for me to see. You know, last year we lost a bunch of games in the SEC, but I could see how that team could be good if things. You know, they obviously needed Butler to be healthy, and they needed to make shots and et cetera. But there was a way you could see them beating almost any team in the country except Alabama. It's kind of hard for me to see us beating anybody good right now because we cannot score, and I don't know how that gets better. And I don't know how if in the last four minutes of the game, he still doesn't know who he's playing. I mean, that's part of the thing, Billy. They have no I mean, I thought the play Colin Chandler made at the end, that was a great play but he hasn't played the whole game, and then you put him in for the decisive play. Now, he made a good play, but that was odd to me. Garrison and Moreno, I mean Jaydon Quainton's the best rebounder.

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Speaker 1: Quaintin's diabot that he didn't play great.

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Speaker 2: But when you have to rebound that free throw, how are they not in, especially after you don't get the first rebound? And then he goes offense for defense at the end, puts in Aberdeen for defense when we come down, he doesn't put Low in. I don't understand that. I just I don't understand. Here's that's where I think it really is. I don't think it's that he can't coach. I don't think that he's you know, I don't know if he's overmatched for the job yet I'm not ready to say is.

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Speaker 1: But here's what I think has happened.

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Speaker 2: This thing is spiraled out of control and they don't know what to do to stop it, and they are tense and they are panicked, and the players feel it. And the players, who many of whom are casting roles that don't showcase their strengths, are tense and panicked and they get tight, and they don't particularly like each other, and it leads to what you had tonight. Diabate, I think essentially got benched for playing for poor performance but also.

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Speaker 1: Fighting with his teammates.

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Speaker 2: I mean by arguing, not like physically fighting, but like being kind of you know, you saw the plays, you saw it happen couple times. You know he had that thing. Dame Bradshaw pointed out the two man game where he doesn't pass Moreno the ball and then he yels at Moreno even though it was his fault. And I think all of this is added up to a team that just it's just not connected and the coaching staff doesn't know what to do. And then they got some bad breaks tonight. But you know what, you earn your breaks, and they've earned the bad breaks so far so far this game this year. So it's a bad performance. And I don't know if they're gonna make the tournament.

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Speaker 1: I really don't.

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Speaker 2: I thought this game, this game for me, was the swing game of Okay, if we win this, I don't know what our seating will be, etcetera.

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Speaker 1: But we'll make the tournament. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'll just sit here and look at some of these games. We have six losses already. Okay, six losses, you're not gonna get into the tournament. We have a pretty good sh drink the schedule, but you're not going to get into the tournament with more than twelve in the regular season. And we still have left at Tennessee at Arkansas, at Auburn at a and M at undefeated, Vanderbilt at Florida, Florida at home, Vanderbilt at home, Tennessee at home. I don't know, man a lot of losses in that group. So I'm officially concerned that for only the third time since probation, we could be staring at missing the tournament, only the second time in a non COVID year. And I would even go furtherest to say the other time our best player got hurt.

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Speaker 1: This could be a pretty disastrous season if they don't turn it around.

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Speaker 2: A five, nine, two eighth twenty two eighty seven will take your call. I want to hear what you all think. I'm I'm pretty frustrated. You all can tell me if you are. I get a sense, at least online that most of you are. We'll take a break and be right back. It's the Local Toy Dealers KSR Postgame Show.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back.

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Speaker 2: It is the Local Toy Dealers KSR Postgame Show. It is eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 1: The Billy. You were just saying, you looked at the schedule, it's it's it doesn't.

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Speaker 3: Look great, doesn't It looks like it could be a long ear.

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Speaker 2: It could be if they don't if they don't improve quickly. This was one they they almost had to have and they didn't get it. And you know, you can always make that up, like you could go win in Knoxville, or you could go win you know, one of these one of these games that we don't think it will. But you look at the back half of that schedule in February, like read Billy, start with at Tennessee and just read the games coming up.

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Speaker 3: At Tennessee is January seventeenth, and then it's home versus Texas, home versus Old Miss at Vandy at Arkansas, versus Oklahoma, versus Tennessee at Florida, versus Georgia at Auburn at South Carolina, versus Vandy at a and M versus Florida.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's a that's a tough that's a tough slab and you just you just couldn't lose this one, but you did.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. Who's up first?

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Speaker 3: Mike is up, Mike, go ahead, Mike.

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Speaker 4: Well, what's up? Man? I know, you know, I know, God, this is crazy, but you know, we gave cal Perry crap down in the end, and it took me a while to get on board with him deserving it. But come on, then, this guy, I know, I know that you take a lot of heat and you took a lot a forgiving cal cramp, but this guy has got to go. He has no clue. I'll wlready watched the Alabama game before this, just kind of because you know, I'm like a film wanker, and it seemed like the game plan was to help off shooters. And that's what Alabama's trying to do is kill you with three points shots. I mean, I love Mark Pope as a player. He's great here, but man, he's not the coach. He's just not. It's it's obvious at this point.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: I I think the second part of your of your statement is perfectly valid. I don't know what that has to do with the first I mean, what does that have to do with Cow?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 4: I wasn't saying, I'm just saying like it took me a while to get on board because col kind of had, like I think he had like some forgiveness for all the things that No.

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Speaker 2: I think he certainly did. No, No, no, for sure, for sure he did. I mean I think you you know, if you look at the last four or five years of Cow, it wouldn't have been acceptable except for the years before, right, and and pope doesn't happen exactly.

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Speaker 4: That's what I was.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now I will say this and again I made this point earlier today. It's much less strong after this game that it was before.

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Speaker 1: You know, he went to Sweet sixteen last year. This season is good.

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Speaker 4: This season is not what happened.

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Speaker 5: I don't know, well, I know, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean, I think he did a good job with that team last year. I really do. I mean, I think.

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Speaker 2: I think he did a good job. I think we lost a couple of games in the NCC we shouldn't have lost. But I do think that he did a pretty good job with that team.

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Speaker 1: But I think this has been a.

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Speaker 4: Totally do you not think that he just seemed completely fricking lost this year.

00:14:34
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, this year, without question, without question, without question, He's lost.

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Speaker 1: He's lost this year. I appreciate the call.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I'm not ready to say he's lost because he can't coach. He did a good job at every job he's been at. He did a good job last year. This is a disaster. This is terrible management of the roster. That this was a.

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Speaker 1: This was a terribly instructed roster.

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Speaker 2: That the weaknesses, while they're much worse than I thought they'd be, you could see it. I mean, I said it all summer to a lot of people get mad. I never thought they had enough shooting with that set. They shouldn't be as bad as they are. And you, as a coach have to adjust. You have to adjust, and they don't adjust. I mean, I don't know what offensively. I do not know what they're running. I really don't. I don't know what the game if Jalen Low went out, Billy, just think about this, What if Jalen Low did stopped playing?

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Speaker 3: Would they score fifty?

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Speaker 2: How many games would we win in the SEC? No, I'm being I'm not even kidding. Let's say tomorrow. Jalen Lowe announced that he had to have surgery and he couldn't play. What would you're over under of SEC winsby out of eighteen games.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, like three, three, two or three?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm serious, Like that's how poorly constructed this team is that you are. And I think Jalen Love is very good, but he didn't have a great game to night. I thought his shot that he took where he got blocked when we were up six was a huge, huge.

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Speaker 1: Huge bad play.

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Speaker 2: But without him we might be like historically bad for the conference. And that's just poor roster management when you had the resources you had to get to this point.

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Speaker 3: Who's there, Yeah, Missouri's first win ever at rupp Arena.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's an interesting stat. But they've only been in the sees. I mean we only played him seven times, right, Yeah, so I mean it's not even playing fifty times. But anyway, Michael is next, Michael, go ahead.

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Speaker 6: Michael, Well, first, thanks for taking my call. I just wanted to say, within the last couple of weeks, my grandfather, who has been a long time Kentucky fan, died at the year of hundred and two years old. His name is Audie Rich, and he was a World War Two veteran, and I just want to thank the Lord for what he did, and he actually taught me to be a Kentucky fan. I'm sad for what the team's doing right now, but you know, at the same time, we're thankful.

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Speaker 1: For the What was your grandfather's name, you said, Audie.

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Speaker 6: Audie Rich, he's from audio. He was screaming, Yeah, Derek.

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Speaker 2: Compy, God bless him and World War two vet Derek County, one hundred and two years old. Well, I was taught to be a Kentucky fan by my grandfather, who was also a World War Two vet.

00:17:44
Speaker 1: So I appreciate you you saying that absolutely.

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Speaker 6: And the second thing, you know, love Mark Pope and everything so far. And what I remember from last year was just the sense of enthusiasm as that he had coming into the job. And it seems as a very quick turnaround to now where I don't feel like the enthusiasm is there any longer.

00:18:15
Speaker 1: Well, I felt like he was.

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Speaker 2: I felt like he was more normal tonight in the postgame. Honestly, I mean he I thought.

00:18:21
Speaker 1: He talked basketball. I thought he actually thought.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he got a technical during the game, so he was certainly into it.

00:18:30
Speaker 1: But but I I have.

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Speaker 2: Wondered about him this year, but I did think tonight was more at least what seemed like Mark's like. But but yeah, well, God bless you and your grandfather. I appreciate, uh appreciate the call. He did say in the postgame, Billy that they had simplified the offense about as much as they could, which you know, I'm trying to interpret what that means. I mean, these are not young.

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Speaker 3: Players, Yeah, I mean, I mean, I mean.

00:19:03
Speaker 2: These are these are juniors and seniors. So like, are are you saying your your team doesn't understand your offense? Like, these are not young guys. We have one freshman that plays Malcha Mareno, like everybody else has been around. Why can't they understand? It's either when you say that, that means you are either saying my team is not very smart or I can't communicate to and neither of those, I mean are a very good sign.

00:19:38
Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: By the way, if you want to be depressed, watch Vanderbilt Alabama. It looks like they're playing a difference. I mean, they really are. It looks like they're playing a different sport than we play, because both these teams look pretty good. I can't believe how good Vanderbilt is.

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Speaker 1: Who's next, Matt, Matt, go ahead.

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Speaker 7: Matt, Hey, Matt uh quick question. Towards the end of the March students there. You know, you guys talked about this a lot where he was kind of given word just sort of scrambles about like, head down, work hard, do this?

00:20:11
Speaker 1: Do that.

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Speaker 7: I feel like we're getting the same kind of answers from Mark Pope a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's some of that.

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Speaker 2: He did some of that tonight, but he also again to be fair to him, but I do think at the post game show with Tom he did talk about some specific things. I mean, he broke down the final plays and how he felt they went wrong. And I certainly had felt that way up until tonight. I can't I quite really fault him for tonight's at least post game performance.

00:20:42
Speaker 1: I can fault him for the game performance.

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Speaker 7: I agree with you on that. Yes, finally, for once this year, we get some answers to, you know, to Tom Leach and shut up Billy for doing a great job. He always killed the listening to pre every day, Sorry a pre show I mean, yeah, but yeah.

00:21:06
Speaker 1: Appreciate How nice is that? Yeah? He I don't know.

00:21:13
Speaker 2: It was interesting listening to Mark tonight, Billy, because it also made how he's been the last few weeks so much more bizarre, because, like he sounded like himself tonight, it would be fascinating to go back and listen to the.

00:21:27
Speaker 1: Postgame show versus in Alabama versus.

00:21:29
Speaker 2: The postgame show tonight, oh, and honestly would sound like you're listening to two completely different people.

00:21:34
Speaker 3: Night and day. But one of those things he keeps saying is you're going to be proud of this team.

00:21:38
Speaker 1: I hope. So, I mean, I hope.

00:21:40
Speaker 2: So he sure has said that a lot, and I mean he you know, after the Michigan State game he said we will not fail. He said we will not break, you know, I hope, so I don't want to. I mean, Aaron Harrison one day said this will be a great story and I kind of laughed at that, and we ended up in the championship game. So I hope. So, I hope, I hope that's what happens. I also think if you keep doubling down, people are going to start saying, Amen, what's going on?

00:22:11
Speaker 1: Who's next, Elliott, Elliott, go ahead.

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Speaker 5: Elliott, Hey, Matt.

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Speaker 8: Just crazy to think about the turnaround from a month ago after we had lost to Bandy and Louisville in football, just the depression in the football side to the excitement and the basketball side, and now it's clift after will Stein has you know, got us pretty excited for this upcoming season.

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Speaker 2: And will Stein's been in Lexington I think a grand total of three days.

00:22:45
Speaker 1: Literally, like literally, he's not been in Lexington.

00:22:48
Speaker 2: He was here like two or three days when he got hired in one day for the portal and that's it. And yet we're you know, everybody's excited about football in this basketball I mean, this is I'm not gonna say this is the most down. I don't think that's true, but it's certainly the most down we've been in the Pope era.

00:23:06
Speaker 1: And it's not good. That's right, Thanks for appreciate it. Uh.

00:23:15
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think what flips this around for the fans. I mean, these next two games, you're playing two of the worst teams in the conference.

00:23:22
Speaker 1: You better not lose. And then I guess, you know.

00:23:27
Speaker 2: I guess when you play Tennessee, maybe that's the that's the next but it's at Tennessee. That game on Saturday to seventeenth, at Tennessee at noon, that'll be that'll be a big one. But I can't say we're certainly gonna win these games leading up to it, because you could lose to anybody if you play like you did tonight.

00:23:44
Speaker 1: Let's do one more and we'll take a break. Who's next, path You? Okay? How are you gonna let somebody say their name is pathy?

00:23:50
Speaker 3: I mean, I double checked.

00:23:53
Speaker 1: I don't believe this is this person's name.

00:23:56
Speaker 9: Go ahead, path you, Matt, you see it every time I call it. It's past you as the p my guy.

00:24:01
Speaker 2: Anyway, man before Billy hang on before he called, before he has Okay, I forget sometimes I forget.

00:24:09
Speaker 1: I go ahead, path you.

00:24:11
Speaker 9: That's right. I still love you, buddy. Listen, man, I've seen eighty year old women show more emotion at Walgreens about coupons and these kids show on the court. You know, Pope came in at this offensive guru, but instead we show up more bland than Greek yogurt. Something is significantly wrong with you know, UK basketball right now, twenty some one million dollars and this is the product of a get Even hearing Goose talk to Malachi after the game, Goose tried to baby him when Malachi took responsibility. No, I want these kids to take some accountability. You know, they're making more money than I am this year, so you know it's a job. I want them to be accountable. You know, earlier today you said this was a make or break game, and right now we're broken. We're not going to make the tournament and we need to reevaluate our head coach position at the end of the year. Uh. From what I understand, Pope has a worse record than Billy Clyde through this point in this Kentucky career, and we're not the gold right over the living Stock.

00:25:03
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call.

00:25:04
Speaker 2: I think those are all reasonable points, and I'm with you on a secondary note about Greek yogurt. I've never understood Billy white people like it. I think it has no taste at all. Why do people like it?

00:25:14
Speaker 3: Uh, Well, there's protein.

00:25:16
Speaker 2: I like yogurt a lot, but I've never understood the Greek yogurt thing.

00:25:21
Speaker 1: But to your point.

00:25:21
Speaker 2: About having not a lot of emotion, I feel like they have emotion, but it's it seems more anger than it does, you know, than it does excitement. And I have to say, I mean, I don't want to put it too much on Oway because I actually think Owa played pretty well most of the night. I actually think he played really well most to night. He can't miss that layup, though, I mean, you're here to be the the guy and you get a wide open layup he has missed. I would be fascinated somebody who does advanced stats. I feel like, anecdotedly he has missed six or seven wide open layups on the left hand side this year on drives. Maybe somebody can look that up. I don't know if there is a way too, but that shot he missed. I feel like I've seen him miss it that way multiple times this year, not going on the right, but on the left.

00:26:15
Speaker 1: And he did it there again.

00:26:17
Speaker 2: A five, nine, two, eight, oh, twenty two eighty seven. Let's take a break and we'll be right back. This is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show.

00:26:24
Speaker 1: Welcome back.

00:26:25
Speaker 2: It is a Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show. Vandy leads Alabama sixty nine to sixty one. Vandy is fourteen to oh that is amazing. Now they have I mean, they haven't played the hardest schedule, but if you beat Alabama, that's impressive.

00:26:41
Speaker 1: And we have to play them twice, so I'm excited.

00:26:43
Speaker 3: There's nine minutes left in that game, surpassing Kentucky's point total from tonight already.

00:26:48
Speaker 1: That's true. Good point.

00:26:50
Speaker 2: All right, let's say five, nine, two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven one person rights, Matt, do you think that Pope is playing the right guys?

00:26:59
Speaker 1: I don't understand Acquaintance wasn't end at the end.

00:27:03
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think Quaintan's played great tonight, but I also agree with you he should have been in at the end.

00:27:09
Speaker 1: I also think he has no idea who to play.

00:27:11
Speaker 2: I mean, I think he knows he needs Low and o Way, but I think besides that, he really has no idea who he wants.

00:27:22
Speaker 1: On the court in these situations.

00:27:24
Speaker 2: And that's why you end up with the situation where against Alabama, in the key moments of the game, he was literally playing three different guys than he was in this game, right, So against Alabama and the key points of the game, he was playing Aberdeen, Quaintance and Diabatee and then in this game, it was Cam Williams, Moreno and Garrison. I don't think he knows. I don't think he has any idea who to play. Yoovich doesn't even see the floor. Noah doesn't see the floor. Jasper Johnson doesn't see the floor. So I think it would be interesting to see how much money did we spend on those three guys A billy that don't even get in.

00:28:07
Speaker 3: Well Jazzper specifically, right, I mean.

00:28:09
Speaker 2: Any of them, I mean all three of those guys. I mean that's certainly a few million dollars. You know, we we we And I say we because I did too praise the depth on this team. I have for years had the opinion that depth is overrated.

00:28:22
Speaker 1: I don't know.

00:28:23
Speaker 2: I think the injuries last year let me talk myself out of that, and it probably talked Pope out.

00:28:28
Speaker 1: Of it too.

00:28:29
Speaker 2: You do, you don't need twelve guys because we have three of them not playing. But the thing is, I think what's more important is that Pope doesn't even know what five guys he wants to play. Really, he doesn't know who he wants to play outside of two guys, and that's that's kind.

00:28:44
Speaker 1: Of a problem.

00:28:45
Speaker 3: Who's next we got another.

00:28:46
Speaker 1: Michael, Michael, go ahead, Michael, Hello, Yes.

00:28:54
Speaker 4: Hey, sorry.

00:28:55
Speaker 10: Uh So I'm gonna be on more of the hopeful side and say I don't think Hope needs to leave. I think that he learned a lot from last season got us to Sweet sixteen.

00:29:07
Speaker 11: This season, he's just he's running through some reugh edges. He'll figure it out and hopefully we'll get somewhere we need to be towards the end of the season.

00:29:18
Speaker 9: I do think.

00:29:18
Speaker 11: Something's going on with our point guard situation when Lowe's only got to assist. Aberdeen should have been sitting down a long time ago. Within the first five minutes of the game. I was there with my buddy Brock. I'm like, Aberdeen should be sitting he should not be out on the floor at all. And then also as far as like they're you know, lifting them up, pull out some remember the Titans or Coach Carter, Like, what about those movies?

00:29:45
Speaker 2: These kids, these kids weren't born when those movies came out.

00:29:50
Speaker 11: Well, I'm just saying this might be a time force to remember these movies. They got to understand you gotta have a little bit of you know, Mojo out there has got to a it's not just like a motion. I mean you got people just standing in corners, not moving. Like you said earlier, we had a few minutes of where they were screening, setting setting up plays where they're going down and passing out. But a few minutes when you're playing horrible the first half can't get us back, and then like you said again, four and a half minutes, we should have lost the game. I mean I watched it. It's it's just chilly Otaga missed that layup. And then I also ate, just for shiggles, I looked up on Chad GPT. Otaga is shooting roughly around seventy two, making his shots for the season. That's what Tad Gpt says.

00:30:43
Speaker 4: Now you know that.

00:30:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate the coming. He's not shooting seventy the field. That would be a record.

00:30:55
Speaker 3: They'd have a better record too.

00:30:58
Speaker 2: If he was shooting seventy. He all right, I'm looking right now. First of all, you don't need to do chat GPT. You can just go to ESPN or UK Athletics. He's shooting forty six percent from the field, not closed, not seventy.

00:31:12
Speaker 3: He said he was going to be optimistic, so yeah, I.

00:31:15
Speaker 2: Think when people say the sentence I looked at chat GBT, I should just chart turt like just right there.

00:31:21
Speaker 1: That's the end. That's the end for me of listening to what they say. What's next? The V go ahead v II.

00:31:29
Speaker 12: Matt, thanks for taking my call. I'm uh, I'm gonna be honest, I'm just sitting here frustrated after watching that product that was just put on television, tire. I'm just sitting here wondering how much money do we have to pay to have someone box out on the free throw or give it a little bit?

00:31:46
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, the box out, the box out there, I mean it was Moreno. I mean and I actually think Moreno played pretty well most of the game, but Moreno had Moreno had a couple of really costly errors there at the end. I mean, yeah, he had two turnovers down the stretch, and I consider the miss free throw bo box out three. I think that's three turnovers in four and a half minutes. And he played really well up until that point, but that was that was a really bad four minutes and fifteen seconds for him.

00:32:18
Speaker 12: Yeah, and we had Garrison on the floor and he was at least giving some effort compared to the rest of the team. But I thought it was at least good to see that Mark Pope at least showed some little bit of fire and you know, started yelling at the reps. Maybe we'd have Pope have a legacy game and get kicked out. Maybe that'll get the team, you know, fire it up on their well.

00:32:37
Speaker 2: I mean, it looked like that half court shot could have been the game that. I mean, that's half courts, three fourths of a court. That that shot could have been the thing that turned it around, and then it didn't. You know, it's interesting and I appreciate the call. I think about these last two nights. If you go back and look at the Kansas TCU game in the Yukon Providence game tonight, those are two legacy programs with Hall of Fame head coaches that both were dead to the water, had no chance of winning the game they were playing. I think Kansas was like, what up down eight with seventy seconds left, and then Yukon was down eleven with three minutes left on the road, and they both found a way to come back and win. And we, as a legacy program, are up eight with four minutes to go at home and lose, and it's just striking to me. You know, sometimes when I watch I feel like Kansas when they're at home, Duke, I just feel like even Billy, when they're down with a few minutes to go, I'm like, they're gonna find a way to win this game, right I just always feel that way. I don't feel that way about us right now. And maybe that's part of what we've lost here, is this idea of when Kansas is in Lawrence, they are winning. I almost don't care what the score is, They're gonna win. And I don't feel that way about us anymore at home, and that's disappointing. Who's next, Jordan, Jordan, go ahead, Jordan's.

00:34:20
Speaker 13: Hey man, you know tonight it's uh, it's been weird because I feel like, you know, the first first year of Mark Coope, we you know, everybody was totally willing to give them grace, and we actually had a good season. I feel like anybody who's reasonable thought that, you know, everybody liked that team. But now you look at look at this and it feels like a comedy of errors and nobody's really laughing anymore. And it's it's tough because it feels like we're not about to get to our biggest recruits that we're supposed to get this next season. And I don't really know what to feel anymore.

00:35:01
Speaker 1: Well, I think that is something too. I think that's something that that.

00:35:05
Speaker 2: Is part of it is uh uh you know, is that feeling you're having, which is that well, we're not even you know, we're not even gonna get the get the recruits next year too. That I think that's part of it, right.

00:35:23
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's uh, you know, it's it's it's you know, being being down already and then not feeling like it's going to get better. You know, there's yeah, you know what bad things happen, players get hurt. It's uh, you know, you have a tough season or whatever it is. And but you know there's a short least here and uh it's I don't know, it's tough. Uh yeah, and no, I agree, getting hard to watch. But you guys have a good night.

00:35:52
Speaker 1: Appreciate it.

00:35:53
Speaker 2: I'm sitting here looking billy, and I mean, it's a little thing, okay, and I I don't want to read too much into it, but I do think it's worth noting. You know, fans. It's it's eleven ten at nine. We got thousands of people listening to this Pete fans who care? I get it. Somebody just sent me one of the player's stories. I'm not even gonna say which one it was, but one of the players stories On Instagram. They're just reposting their highlights from the game, like all the good stuff they did, like three different three straight, like highlight clips.

00:36:32
Speaker 3: Of good after a bad loss, like that after.

00:36:35
Speaker 1: A bad loss.

00:36:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I you know, I don't know, man, we just lost two hours ago, and.

00:36:46
Speaker 1: You know.

00:36:48
Speaker 2: You're posting highlights of your good plays like yeah, I don't.

00:36:55
Speaker 1: You know.

00:36:56
Speaker 2: I understand, Like these dudes have lives, et cetera. But I it's just, you know, does it matter.

00:37:01
Speaker 1: To you or not?

00:37:03
Speaker 3: If it did, you wouldn't be reacting Like.

00:37:05
Speaker 2: If it did, I don't think you'd be doing that. I mean, I let's just say, like what I mean, there's not an equivalent. But you know, if I was if well, there's no equivalent in what I do. But if you lose, especially if you lose in a disappointing way, I don't think right after it's over, you talk about how good you did right, and so yeah, that's frustrating.

00:37:29
Speaker 1: One more and we'll take a break.

00:37:30
Speaker 3: Who's next will be interesting to see if this locker room holds together throughout the year. I mean that's a real question. Tim is up next?

00:37:38
Speaker 1: Tim? Go ahead, Tim?

00:37:40
Speaker 4: What's up?

00:37:41
Speaker 14: Fella's Happy New Year to you both. Happy new Year to you, mister Matt, and just straight up prayers and smiles.

00:37:46
Speaker 12: For your father.

00:37:47
Speaker 4: Dude, he got this. Thank you and Billy, Billy, you are the best in the business.

00:37:52
Speaker 14: Dude, Shamon the dude needs to watch it because you're coming.

00:37:55
Speaker 15: Let's go.

00:37:56
Speaker 14: But hey, I want to ask you a question, mister Matt. How many cruise we got signed for next year?

00:38:02
Speaker 5: Uh?

00:38:02
Speaker 1: At this moment, we have zero?

00:38:05
Speaker 14: All right, Okay, that's that's what I thought. I just want to double check, all right. So coaching, So recruiting not good. Okay, we're gonna put check mark not a right coaching. So so he puts he puts Chandler in at the end of in the in the last five minutes to play defense. And then the last play of the game, we need a three and he's on the bench, so that that's true.

00:38:24
Speaker 1: And then also you got you guys put him in for defense and not to shoot. Yeah, that is true.

00:38:29
Speaker 14: Yes, that that happens.

00:38:31
Speaker 1: That happens.

00:38:32
Speaker 14: You got that. So we're we're gonna put it. We're gonna go. He did make a great play. Shout out to my man Hey and Mormons forever. Hey, but he put a check mark. You know from the coaching. We're not doing some good over there either. All right, so let's go a management here. We gave him twenty two million dollars, said, hey, dude, here's the Lamborghini. You go find the fastest feed way you can. And he put us on a Kentucky Owensboro, Kentucky mountain top. That's where he put us. And you're like, okay, so you don't really know how to drive Lamborghini, all right, Okay, so you're not good at that. So that's all things. He's a rising star is when I'm getting at right, But this is Kentucky.

00:39:07
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, I don't know how rising.

00:39:10
Speaker 2: I mean, let's be real, he's five years, he's in his fifties, so like, I mean, there's only so much rising that you can do. You know, this is his in his career, in his like he's in prime time. This is his prime time forty When you look at college coaches forty five to sixty, that's like the prime time and he's in it. And so yeah, I think your point, I appreciate the call is completely valid. This is a failure so far, it's not over. But this is a failure of a performance. The GM part of the job. He didn't hire a gym, so he gets blamed for it. He should have one because he clearly is not doing well at it. The roster management, poor game prep, poor game execution, poor offensive execution, poor defense. Okay, that's it. I mean what else can you say? I mean there are multiple parts of this job. Motivation poor, you know, keeping the team focused, you know, he said after the game, Literally think about this billy, during the exact moments that Mark was I bet if you look at the minute, it's almost the exact minute, during the exact minutes that Mark is on with Tom Leach saying, this team will not be broken, This team is resilient, we will not break. One of the players is posting his highlights.

00:40:47
Speaker 3: Of the game to the minute, almost to the minute.

00:40:53
Speaker 1: Well, it makes me wonder, do you even have.

00:40:56
Speaker 2: That locker room? I think it's a fair it's a fair question. We'll take a break. Eight five nine, two eighty seven. It's a local toy dealer's KSR post.

00:41:06
Speaker 1: Game show.

00:41:09
Speaker 2: Welcome back. It is the Uh. I can't believe this. Okay, Well, just somebody sent me this and I didn't think it was right, and then I just looked at it. So I just said, we have one player, uh, posting highlights. We have another platform, a different player than that one on their Instagram story right now, trying to sell hats. Okay, I'm serious.

00:41:39
Speaker 3: Moved on to the next thing.

00:41:44
Speaker 1: Wow, I mean that's unbelievable.

00:41:47
Speaker 2: So we have two players, both of whom get minutes, one of whom after the game is posting his highlights, and the other one is trying to sell hats.

00:42:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I don't.

00:42:02
Speaker 3: I mean, if that doesn't tell you they checked out.

00:42:04
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know what to say about that.

00:42:08
Speaker 2: Well I do know what to say about it, but I will give myself tomorrow morning to say something besides that.

00:42:15
Speaker 1: Uh, who's up next?

00:42:16
Speaker 3: Some positivity though, Matt, We got to give out a Johnny Rocker personal injury attorney money maker of the game tonight.

00:42:22
Speaker 1: Uh, see who you pick?

00:42:23
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00:42:42
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh uh that's who I would have picked too. H all right, who's next? Tyler?

00:42:50
Speaker 3: Is up?

00:42:50
Speaker 1: Tyler? Go ahead? Tyler? What up?

00:42:54
Speaker 4: Matt? What up?

00:42:55
Speaker 16: Billy?

00:42:57
Speaker 1: What's going on?

00:43:00
Speaker 14: Man?

00:43:01
Speaker 17: I'm out in California, and I just want to speak for everybody whenever I say I'm upset. I don't like this hat sell stuff. I don't like any of that. These cats have to do what they have to do to keep the just keep the company.

00:43:20
Speaker 1: Alive, to keep the what alive, the company.

00:43:27
Speaker 17: Just keep the cat, the cademy alive, all of it.

00:43:31
Speaker 12: Everybody's upset.

00:43:32
Speaker 17: I'm out in California.

00:43:34
Speaker 1: Yeah we.

00:43:38
Speaker 15: Hate it.

00:43:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I hate it too. I appreciate the call. Uh. They do need to keep it on the tracks. I mean they could, they're they I mean this could get bad.

00:43:49
Speaker 15: Uh.

00:43:50
Speaker 2: I think if you don't want it to get bad. You do have a couple of games to get it back. I mean, you're you know, you're not playing You're playing Mississippi State at home Saturday night at night. That's a game you can easily win. But you got to go and do it. Yeah, I can't. I can't get over there. People now are sending me, I can't get over this like I you know, I'm not. I'm somebody who has completely embraced the new, the new uh uh, the new world of college basketball. I get it. It's not going to change. I think it's a lot more like it should be than it probably was before in terms of people getting their worth. With that said, like the callers said earlier, you are now a professional. You are going to be treated as a professional. And I want you to imagine if after, you know, in the NBA playoffs, a guy loses a game in the NBA, if they immediately during the postgame interview we're selling hats like they they people would criticize them that for that, right. Uh, you know, there's a level of I believe these dudes deserve what they get. At the same time, with the that comes some of the excuses I've given for people over the years. Well, they're kids, true, but now you've got to grow up quicker, right. You know, when you were kids and you were playing for free, I give you a lot more grace than when you're making You know.

00:45:17
Speaker 1: It's just it's part of it. It's it's part of responsibility.

00:45:20
Speaker 2: And I cannot get over that that was done after a home loss the way it was, let's do we'll do four more and.

00:45:29
Speaker 1: Call it a night. Who's next?

00:45:30
Speaker 3: Kwood?

00:45:31
Speaker 1: K would go ahead? K would? K would all right? Who's next?

00:45:41
Speaker 3: Jen May?

00:45:43
Speaker 1: Jen May? Hello?

00:45:45
Speaker 5: Hey, Hello, what's going on?

00:45:48
Speaker 1: Hey?

00:45:49
Speaker 18: I'm going to keep this called positive. It was a bad game. I don't know, it was a great game, but like I thought, oh he should have thought it. Probably four points and three? Is that not an out of the line when they go past the three point?

00:46:09
Speaker 1: Are you asking if there are four pointers?

00:46:12
Speaker 18: Yeah?

00:46:14
Speaker 1: No, there are no four pointers. I wouldn't.

00:46:16
Speaker 2: If there was, that would probably count. But you know, in the old MTV Rocking Jock games there would have been ten pointers, so maybe we could have used that.

00:46:25
Speaker 18: Also, I feel like Shannon the Dude sounds a lot like the commentator of the night.

00:46:34
Speaker 15: The Bradshaw, Oh, Bradshaw.

00:46:36
Speaker 1: I've had people have said that before.

00:46:38
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call people have said that that that that they that they do sound like that that they do sound like I can see it.

00:46:44
Speaker 1: Actually, who's up.

00:46:46
Speaker 3: Next, Jared?

00:46:48
Speaker 1: Jared go ahead?

00:46:48
Speaker 2: Jared Vanderbilt up nine with four minutes ago, Jared, go ahead.

00:46:53
Speaker 13: Hey man, So I'm kind of just in the same mindset of a lot of the callers that you've had to with. Just I don't see hope for Mark Pope to turn this around, you know, because the lines he keeps giving us on his radio show is well, this team will be good eventually. They just haven't yet. You know, we're gonna make you proud. We just haven't done it better.

00:47:16
Speaker 1: We will, Yeah, they better.

00:47:18
Speaker 2: I don't love that answer, but that's what he's saying. But you know what if it reminds me of cal used to say. He said a couple of years like, wait till March, and you might remember then we would lose in March and he'd say, well, we had a great regular season, And I said, you can't both tell us it will be great in March and then also tell us.

00:47:41
Speaker 1: About the regular like something's gotta matter, you know what I mean.

00:47:44
Speaker 2: So if you're gonna say we're gonna be better at the end of the year, well we better be better at the end.

00:47:48
Speaker 1: Of the year.

00:47:51
Speaker 13: And I agree. And so with that, if this does end with the disaster that it is right now, and we you know, don't have any recruits right now, how likely is it that we go for someone like Tommy Lloyd or Nato it's by the end of the season.

00:48:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we're.

00:48:07
Speaker 2: Not gonna I mean, that's not likely. I appreciate the call. I mean, look, it's not as bad as his other ones, but I think Billy, just for knowledge sake, Mark Popez like a twenty five million.

00:48:22
Speaker 1: Something three or twenty. I mean, it's a lot.

00:48:24
Speaker 2: It's not what it what some of these other ones have been, but it's it's not nothing, especially when you're still when you're gonna be playing Mark Stoops's so but yeah, you know, he said, well.

00:48:39
Speaker 1: Three more, who's next?

00:48:42
Speaker 3: Michael is up next?

00:48:43
Speaker 1: Michael? Go ahead, Michael.

00:48:46
Speaker 5: I think I'm now the third Michael. But this is the one that is in Little Rock and I just watched you know, oh miss almost come back and they're now nine and six with us, and I think we would have been beat by twenty if we played Ole Miss. I felt like I was watching my son's freshman basketball game tonight. They're intelligence. Basketball intelligence is not there. We had a very intelligent team last year. We just did have athletic you know people last year.

00:49:13
Speaker 1: Correct. I agree?

00:49:15
Speaker 5: How How does how do you think you feel in the rest of the fam base fields because we're on that same path as the nine and sixteen season. Yeah, I know we only played twenty five games that year, but we're going to be playing more than that. But a percentage wise, we're going to probably be at that or worse, like fifty six percent. We won fifty six percent, you know, and no.

00:49:38
Speaker 1: Nine when we were not sixteen. When we were nine and sixteen, we won less than fifty fifty percent.

00:49:45
Speaker 5: I'm with you, Matt, though. Here's the thing. When they weren't getting paid their kids, they're young. I get it. This is something that they want to do for the rest of their life. They want to go to the NBA, they want to make money. So here's the thing. Put the pants on, grow up and play the game like you know how you are supposed to play the game and accept criticism because your job is to play basketball and do well at it. And if you can't listen and execute, then you don't need to be playing in the NBA.

00:50:19
Speaker 2: I agree, you appreciate the call. Appreciate the call. Let me give you an amazing stat. Okay, I just thought of this while he was talking. I want you to think about this, Billy. I'm going to count the amount of players that I am one hundred percent sure are making an amount of money that's.

00:50:38
Speaker 1: Going to surprise you. Okay, Okay, I'm just.

00:50:41
Speaker 2: In my mind one, two, three, four, five, at least five, potentially seven, but I'm certain of five guys on the team, but it might be as high as seven making more money this year than Ellie Dela Cruz.

00:51:06
Speaker 3: That's crazy, really.

00:51:09
Speaker 1: I'm dead serious. In the twenty twenty five twenty six.

00:51:14
Speaker 2: Basketball season, there are five, maybe up to seven players on the Kentucky basketball team making more money than Ellie Dela Cruz. Now why do I say that? Do I say that because that means they shouldn't get the money.

00:51:28
Speaker 1: Ellie's vastly underpaid. That's the way baseball works.

00:51:32
Speaker 2: But the reason I say that is the young excuse and all that, like it kind of doesn't work when you're making that kind of money. You know, there's a guy, I think the number one pick in the draft a year or two ago. Was his name, Reesa se or something like that place for Atlanta. I was listening to Bill Simmons talking about him, and they were talking about how, yeah, he's twenty years old, but and then they just were criticizing him. We got three or four guys Billy on the five guys on the team older than Risha shek right, So you know this is part of it that, this is part of what it is.

00:52:05
Speaker 1: Now.

00:52:06
Speaker 2: You got seven guys making more than Ellie, and we got probably five guys on the team that are older than the number one draft pick two years ago. This is this is what comes with it.

00:52:18
Speaker 1: Two more. Who's Who's next?

00:52:20
Speaker 3: Is the guy selling hats the one one of them making more than Ellen?

00:52:23
Speaker 1: I'm not people got to find that on their own. I'm not getting involved. Who's next?

00:52:26
Speaker 3: You can't find it?

00:52:28
Speaker 2: Well, maybe they're not that many players. Go ahead, Yeah, maybe it got it might have gotten taken down hopefully, but go ahead.

00:52:33
Speaker 3: Thomas is up now, Thomas, go ahead, Thomas.

00:52:36
Speaker 15: So my wife says, Look, if I have to watch this crap, will you watch every sec lost with against a Hallmark movie loss?

00:52:47
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh, that's brutal. That's brutal.

00:52:51
Speaker 15: I know.

00:52:53
Speaker 1: That's brutal. But you know what she does.

00:52:55
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's a fair trade by her, because it's not like we're just so you're saying, for every time Kentucky loses, you have to watch a Hallmark movie.

00:53:05
Speaker 5: I'm not sure I would have.

00:53:07
Speaker 15: At the beginning of the year, I said yes, But now it's.

00:53:09
Speaker 1: Like, tell your wife.

00:53:10
Speaker 2: I think she has to enforce that, and that's gonna make you rude extra hard because those movies are bad. A lot of them are filmed however, in Lagrange, Kentucky, but nevertheless they are bad.

00:53:21
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, well, good luck, sir. I'm sorry. I do like that.

00:53:26
Speaker 15: I'm toast. I am toast.

00:53:28
Speaker 2: See if you can get her to watch Traders, Billy. I appreciate the call. The new season I think starts what tomorrow and people tell me that's a great show. That's my new It's like a it's like a reality show. Have you heard about it.

00:53:41
Speaker 3: I've heard about it.

00:53:41
Speaker 1: I never not watched it, but.

00:53:43
Speaker 2: People say I would love it, and I think season three starts. I'm gonna go start with season one, but I think season three like starts tomorrow or something.

00:53:49
Speaker 3: Who's next our final caller, Kevin?

00:53:51
Speaker 16: Kevin, go ahead, Kevin, Hey, Matt, everybody's bashing Pope tonight. My thought, We know Pope?

00:54:00
Speaker 13: Is that a success.

00:54:01
Speaker 16: Everywhere he's been.

00:54:03
Speaker 5: We know what he did last year.

00:54:05
Speaker 16: He's got a tremendous support staff of coaches, Mark Fox, Alvin Brooks, Cody Figure. You can't tell me those guys are not coaching him well, that they're missing things, that there's things, they've tried everything.

00:54:17
Speaker 13: I mean, what would you?

00:54:19
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't disagree with anything you said, but what would you say? Then?

00:54:23
Speaker 1: If I am to.

00:54:24
Speaker 2: Agree with you, which I generally do, that Mark's a very good coach. He does have a great staff. He had every resource in building this team. And it's Kentucky. How do you explain it?

00:54:36
Speaker 16: Then it's got to be team dynamics, attitude issues, chemistry, But.

00:54:42
Speaker 1: All that's on him. You do hang on, you don't get I do not do this with coaches.

00:54:54
Speaker 2: Like when Cow would win, people would go, well, it's the players, and then they'd lose it be his fault, and I'm like, that's not it's either the coaches of the players or it's both. He does not get the credit for last year being good if he also doesn't get the blame for this year being bad.

00:55:09
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

00:55:10
Speaker 2: Like, why can't we just say, well, last year, Jackson, Lemont, Kobe Brea, those dudes were special. Why why does he Mark get the credit for last year but not the blame this year.

00:55:22
Speaker 16: I just think there's some groups of guys that meshed last year did and this guy this well he picked obviously doesn't.

00:55:27
Speaker 1: But he picked them. Yeah, I mean they didn't grow on train well.

00:55:32
Speaker 2: I mean that's part of what you have to do. I mean, here's what I would say to you. Let's look at NATO's. Okay, Natoates has got a completely different team.

00:55:40
Speaker 1: Than he had last year.

00:55:41
Speaker 2: And last year's team went to the Final four, and even though this year they're losing right now to Vandy, he still got this team really good. Like, don't you think great coaches in the portal era have to make teams mesh.

00:55:52
Speaker 1: That's part of what they have to do.

00:55:55
Speaker 15: They do.

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Speaker 16: The great coaches also have years where teams don't mash over the years, so anyway, that's appreciation hope for this year.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes that's true, but well, let's see what happens this year. I don't want to make too many huge pronouncements until we see how it happens.

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Speaker 1: We're we are nine and six, fifteen games into the season.

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Speaker 2: We are literally at halftime of the game Saturday will be halfway through the season, and it's certainly not been the season that we had hoped so far. Hopefully it will be better. Alabama trying to come back. It's ninety one eighty five. If you could listen to this on podcasts, you'll know whether they did. Billy, thank you very much for staying up with us. Sorry to the guy who has to watch a Hallmark movie after the loss tonight. And I think I'm gonna go by hat Billy because I just I felt like this is the right time. We'll see you later. This has been the local toy dealers KSR and post game shows.