2024-10-24- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Thursday, October twenty fourth.

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Speaker 3: Beautiful day at the Kaspar and Grail got some folks here from Oldham County in the house. Rady Rock and everybody's in a good mood cause the Cats got a massive victory last night. You get to Stann Clark's Pumping Shop phone line eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto glass text machine is seven seven two seven to seven four five two five four In this stition sponsored by the t J Smith Loves called TJ. He'll make them pay. Ryan Lemon and Drew Franklin are.

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Speaker 2: Here, guys.

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Speaker 3: You know, I think a lot of today is gonna be talking about that basketball game last night. Uh seventy one point victory, third biggest victory in the history of UK of UK basketball. I know it's an exhibition game. I know it's Wesleyan no offense, Ryan, but I just have to tell you that I enjoyed watching that game as much as I've enjoyed watching the game in a long time.

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Speaker 2: Ryan.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, welcome to modern basketball or everything is predicated on trying to get an open free every set, every play or lup or layup. It was amazing to watch them play then the execute the way they did. Even though it was a seventy one point game. The crowd was stayed and was into it. It was so much fun to kind of witness what you were seeing on the floor.

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Speaker 3: It was a late arriving crowd because at first it didn't look like anybody was there, and then slowly by the favors, like everybody got their tip. It's like they timed it perfectly, because then it actually ended up being a pretty good crowd and they were into it.

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Speaker 5: Oh, they're very into it. I still thought it'd be a little more full. The upper end zone by me was completely empty. I think that might be the students upper I don't know about that. But still a great atmosphere. People were just so happy going into the game, so happy after the game, as the morning after, We're all happy. There was just so much joy in an exhibition game when that hadn't really been the case in a while.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of different ways to sort of talk about.

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Speaker 3: It, but I'll do that. I'll do my like three things that stood out to me. First, Number one, I love the fact that they are so much fun to watch. Yah, right, Like, I mean, they're They're just fun. From opening tap. I'd gotten to the point that the first six or eight minutes of most games I didn't watch because usually we would be down four. At the end of those six or eight minutes, the score would be fourteen to ten. It would have been amazingly frustrating. Last year, we still would not have played our best players, and I would just be frustrated.

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Speaker 2: This was fun from moment one.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they ran for forty straight minutes, but it's like my running, It's not Patino. You press the whole time. It's just constant energy, which will lead to up tempo. You don't have to force it, it just comes. Every single player makes shots. No one stands around. You're moving the entire time on defens or in each other's face. Yeah, maybe you get beat off the dribble. Okay, bam, we're right back down the court and we're gonna shoot. That's number one, Number two analytically efficient smart basketball. Forty two three pointers, only one two pointer beyond the free throw line, and it was a beautiful one by his un Yeah, only one, and it was your best player to shot. Three of the four shots that were free throw line were Jackson Robinson, who's the best player. That's pretty good. You don't just have random dudes throwing up shots from out there. It was it was It was modern offense. It was exactly what teams It was the way they play in the NBA, but with like college hustle and not quite as much one on one because we just don't have as many guys to do that.

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Speaker 2: So that was awesome.

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Speaker 3: And then third, it was just fun to have a happy fan base, right, a happy fan base not just because we won, I mean we it's because they There was just such an excitement. If you went back and listened that postgame show, and I'm sure the calls will.

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Speaker 2: Be like this today.

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Speaker 3: It's just exuberance, right, It's just like people are just excited. None of these dudes are superstars, but all of them can play, all of them are fun to watch, all of them seem grateful to be here. That combination of three things made me so happy. And then it culminates with Mark Pope not only doing the postgame show but adding his own little legacy. I hope they continue this. He takes questions from the audience. Great idea, How's nobody ever thought to do that before? That's a really really great idea. He comes out, a lot of people stay, and then the Kentucky Westing coach after the game said, I thought we'd give him a challenge, and we lost by seventy one.

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Speaker 5: Pretty good night, said he apologized to Mark Pope for not putting up a better Yeah, he apologize for not putting up a better fough.

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Speaker 3: We we thought we would be uh good, but we thought we would be better.

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Speaker 4: Well, it backs up everything we've heard from Jack Gibbons and Jimmy Dykey. These guys have gone to practice.

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Speaker 3: A Jack was surprised. Jack said he thought it was gonna be like a twenty point game.

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Speaker 4: Wow. But they all they all said how good. Everybody on this team shoots everybody. And you said that, you said the word the execution where everything they're designed try to get somebody and open three. And they knocked him down and the fan drew and I were there. The fan base usually had at a blow out like that, they kind of lose interest, maybe leave early. They didn't. They were into that game till the very end.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And then eight guys in double figures. I then eight guys in double figures.

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Speaker 3: I know it's look, I know it's an exhibition game, but I went over some numbers on the postgame show last night. All you gotta do. I know that we should win these games, But let me just tell you quickly about Wesleyan. Last year, Wesleyan beat Louisville. They did beat him, didn't just play him. Club beat them. Now, Louisville stunk. They only won six games, but you know what, that was two more than they won the year before. And Louisville. They beat Louisville. They played Saint Louis and lost by three. Last year, they lost by twenty five to Western. I don't know how Western was so good, but they last year played well. We played them three years ago and we beat him by twenty. We didn't meet him by seventy one, seventy one, we beat him by twenty. So I went back and somebody sent me and I looked at the biggest exhibition wins in history. Okay, okay, I talked about this last night. I won't go into detail, but the years where we had our biggest exhibition wins in history, Let's go over the seasons. Twenty seventeen Fox Monk Bam probably the second best.

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Speaker 2: Team in the country.

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Speaker 3: They year right, yes, twenty twelve national title, then this year twenty fifteen, thirty eight and one twenty eleven.

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Speaker 2: Final four, twenty ten, John Wall.

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Speaker 3: I mean, those are the six best exhibition scores in history.

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Speaker 2: And you saw what those other five teams did.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm not saying this team's as good as them, but that's a pretty good sign. And then I went and went and looked at cal teams that either missed the tournament or lost in the first round. You know what they all had in common.

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Speaker 4: Struggled in there.

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Speaker 2: They had an exhibition game.

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Speaker 3: Every exhibition game was within twenty and in one case I didn't remember this. We only beat Mills College by nine.

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Speaker 5: Missouri Western State coach by Will Martin. Shout out Will Martin. Kentucky had like twenty eight points at half time. It was two years ago.

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Speaker 3: Twenty six to eighteen at halftime. Two years ago twenty six to eighteen against Southwest Missouri, Central Eastern Illinois State.

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Speaker 4: They had twenty six points at the first TV timeout last night. It seemed like it was amazing.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know how you can't be anything but exciting.

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Speaker 4: You have to be excited to see what what you saw last night. Now, they're not gonna maybe shoot that well every single game.

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Speaker 2: They won't shoot fifty three year, no, but they are.

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Speaker 4: They're not gonna be shy about jack and the shots up there. Some guys are a lot better than I thought. Man Otaga Away is much better than I think most people thought. Anthley Alvandora, I think is much better than most people thought.

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Speaker 2: He was my surprise.

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Speaker 3: Mario was taunting me the whole time because we went to Pro Day, and I'll admit.

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Speaker 2: I was like I don't know about this alvanor guy.

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Speaker 3: I was like, cause he's kind of I mean, he's kind of built like me a little bit, although I think he's gotten himself in more shape in the last two weeks, but he's kind of built a little bit like me.

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Speaker 2: And he just I just was like, I just looked at Mario and I was like, I don't know about that guy.

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Speaker 3: And then what he hit four threes last night, five five, and after every three Mario was like, look at your guy, look at you guys. So I know I'm getting that all and I hope so I want I want him to give me, you know, not the fairly Dickens and the full Dickens, and I want him to.

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Speaker 2: Actually uh oh okay, just like it was a joke.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying to you, very excited about.

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Speaker 2: How well they well he puts.

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Speaker 5: I will join you in that. I didn't have high expectations for him either. I'll throw myself under that bus. He was my favorite to watch last night. I don't know if that will translate.

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Speaker 2: I don't know you long.

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Speaker 3: I just tell you, if you'd watched Pro Day, maybe some of you did, you would not have thought that dude was gonna hit those shots. But when it somebody made the point of the post game show, there's like nine guys that when they go to shoot a three, I think it's gonna go that's crazy.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to be betting every Ansley alman or three prop bet the DraftKings.

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Speaker 6: I shoot it. It's a good shot.

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Speaker 5: Now, he's not gonna hit five and he's not gonna play that many minutes. But if he's in and he's gonna take a shot, I'm gonna believe in it.

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Speaker 6: It's a good looking shot.

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Speaker 3: I look, okay, just just think about if they take a three.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's take it. Last year, if they took a three, did you think it was going in? Reeves read rob going in right?

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Speaker 3: Everyone else screwed up a little bit, No, screwed up a lot of bit at the end of the year. DJ Wagner a little bit. But in general that was my view. Okay, this year, Lamart Butler confident, Brea confident, uh oh way, confident. I'm told I'll be confident about Kirk Crees. I haven't seen him yet, but confident. Travis Perry confident, Noah confident, Robinson confident, Car confident. That's pretty good confident. So the only guy's left are I known't Garrison took two. That's enough, that's enough. The announce it, you know. The announcer said, well, he's got the green light, all right, let's put on yellow.

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Speaker 2: But otherwise, I love I love it with everybody else.

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Speaker 5: And Jackson Robinson, we knew about him. He's not gonna sneak up on anybody. That's kind of the guy when it would be the star. I was still impressed with his shot. I mean he was pulled up right in your face.

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Speaker 4: He did that.

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Speaker 6: Soir, what do you go? Five for seven?

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Speaker 2: I think from three?

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Speaker 6: Doing several other things.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you had a guy in your post game show last night was dead on. He's gonna be that Antoni o' reeves guy where he's sneaky quietly fox when he's got twenty points.

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Speaker 3: Jackson Robinson had nineteen points last night, and not one caller to the postgame show except that when even mentioned his name, he was our leading scorer. He's gonna be Antonio Reeves, He's gonna be the leading scorer.

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Speaker 2: And then every people were like, oh.

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Speaker 3: What about that Almanor kid, Toby Brea and then you're like, well, Jackson Robinson did have twenty three, and then it's just like that's gonna be what he is.

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Speaker 5: Exactly one of the threes he missed. He was back pedaling and it kind of rimmed out that one should have gone into. I mean, he was shooting lights out. And just there's two stats. The thirty two assists blow my mind on how many thirty.

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Speaker 3: Two had five turnoveres Mart Pope made the made a great point.

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Speaker 2: I wonder how many times in the.

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Speaker 3: History of basketball has one player had more steals than the team had turnover. Oh wow, Lama Butler had six steals, Kentucky had five turnover.

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Speaker 4: That's amazing.

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Speaker 2: I bet that. I bet that's almost never happened.

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Speaker 3: And to pass like we passed and as much as we passed and have five turnovers.

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Speaker 5: I think it's even more n likely when you say he had more rebounds than the team had turnovers, more assist than the team had turnovers, more assist than the team had turnovers.

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Speaker 3: Well, steals though, is the crazy one, because I mean, guys get ten rebounds in a game, but you know the all time records a steels eighty, I mean, the all time record for steels in a game is eight, which, by the way, one of the people that has is case and Wallace, who I said wasn't a great defender. That wasn't my best moment of the night last night because he looking back, he was better than I remember, especially for a guy that was injured for part of the year. But uh, to get more steels than turnovers, which is you know, steals is a.

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Speaker 2: Eight's the all time leader. We had a guy get more than a whole team.

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Speaker 4: That's a senior leader, that's been to the final game, that knows how to win and how to execute good basketball. That's who Lamont Butler is gonna and he's gonna bring that every single game. He's one of those guys. I don't think they'll ever have a bad floor game.

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Speaker 3: There's gonna be a natural tendency for people to say, let's not always compare it to last year. But this is I'm just going to tell you folks that are making that point, you gotta give us a few games, all right. By the time we get in the season, we'll be talking about this team. We'll be comparing them to other teams in the country. But you got to talk about the comment like the last few years and the coach to see a well coached team play.

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Speaker 2: You know, I defended and do defend.

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Speaker 3: A lot of how Kyle coached, especially the early years, because he had the players to do it. It made it didn't make sense to share the ball to Darnell Dotson when you had John Wall, but by the end, when you didn't have those guys, that wasn't working. And it is so nice to see.

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Speaker 2: A coach look at his players say.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna design a system for these dudes. When we call time out, I'm gonna come out with a play to not waste this possession. I just think it was such a refreshing course ran to see that because it's not been like that the last few ye Oh.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, modern basketball, where we're introduced to what modern basketball is all about, and he's got guys that fit his system the way he wants to play. We got we got a couple dudes in ourt the best defenders, Well, we got some really good defenders.

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Speaker 6: Well, my Bomer is really good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a Mario Williams is a good defender.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 3: Though there's some really good there's some ones that I mean, we're gonna get beat off the dribble.

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Speaker 2: Some it just happens. But one of the things I noticed. You remember how.

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Speaker 3: Last year we would beat guys off off the dribble and then we just couldn't finish at the rim because of contest. This group might be a step behind, but they can test everything at the rim. Wesley And missed a lot of layups last night, and it kind of reminded me of watching Rob or Antonio or DJ get to the rim and then miss a layup.

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Speaker 2: I saw some of that from Wesley And last night.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and one of my favorite plays one of them challenged to Mario Williams and he swatted it. I mean, he just backed that ball. But then he runs the court and gets it back and in one touch throws three and they hit the three.

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Speaker 3: He spiked it got He's a great pass. Get ready.

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Speaker 5: He's not gonna lead the team and assists, but he's gonna be close. He is a phenomenal pass. And they run it through him at the top of the key.

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Speaker 3: And it's clear they have a theory. Which I heard on an NBA podcast a year ago, a guy talk about it's clear we're playing like this somebody ran the analytics of if you get a rebound, an offensive rebound, if nobody's on.

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Speaker 2: You, put it back up.

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Speaker 3: But actually, if the person is still on you, let's say you rebound over someone, the analytics say you're better off kicking out for an open three than shooting a contested two. The natural inclination for tall guys is get the rebound, try to put it back up.

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Speaker 2: Pope has clearly said.

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Speaker 3: If you don't have a layer or dunk, kick it out because somebody's open for three. And we did that like five times last night, and I think we made like four of them.

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Speaker 2: That's fun to watch.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the big guys that you've been taught your whole life, when you get the rebound, just go right back up.

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Speaker 3: But if somebody's challenging you, it might be better to kick it out to a wide open you know.

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Speaker 2: Lama Butler.

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Speaker 5: In the Summer Interviews, I talked to Mario Williams about this. He said, I love when I get a rebound, I can turn around and look in any direction.

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Speaker 2: Somebody's going to throw.

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Speaker 5: It someone that I know is very likely gonna make that three.

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Speaker 3: That's so a lot of fun, you know. I don't know how good they're gonna be, but they were good last night. If I'm nine two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven, we'll take a break.

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back. This se is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. If I'm nine two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A couple quick things here Tonight I'm hosting ESPN Radio from seven to ten with Ian Fitzimmons.

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Speaker 2: I love Ian. He has one trade I don't like. He calls me coach.

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Speaker 4: I don't like that you did a lot of coaching in your young.

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Speaker 3: He calls everybody coach. That's his thing. Everyone's coach. What are you doing coach? And I'm like, why do you call? He was like, I call everybody coach and I don't coach. But so I just have to get my mind all night.

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Speaker 2: He'll be like, what up? You know what you think? Coach? Coach? So I gotta get that in my mind.

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Speaker 3: But see what want to join us seven to ten tonight. Second, I was on with Greg McElroy and Coole Kuberlick this morning. Really like Greg McElroy and Cole Cublck. Cole I consider a friend Greg I've always liked. I don't think he knows who I am, right, So they bring me on and Cole kublic and I've been on radio with Greg mackroyd probably twenty times, but I still don't think he knows who I am, because he bring him on, and Cole's like, Matt Jones is here, Matt, nice to have you, and I'm okay, And so then Cole asked me a question. Cole goes, all right, Matt ACC this year, blah blah blah, blah blah. He starts to ask me a question about the ACC. I don't think he knew who I was, and I wasn't gonna call him Matt on it, so I tried to answer it.

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Speaker 2: But what do I know about that? I can't even tell you what teams are in the ACC right now.

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh, yeah, and you know, and that brings me to Kentucky Auburn, which is what I was supposed to be on there for. So uh, I'm not gonna say I think it hurt my ego a little bit. I don't think Cole Kubrick was one hundred percent sure drew who I was today when I was on the show. I've been there, though I've interviewed people on the ESPN. Cole knows me. I don't think Greg knows who I am. And that show's really early. I'm surprised you were even on it, don't they know? I always tell him, if you're gonna have me on, it has to be at nine thirty one. I'm sitting in this parking.

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Speaker 6: It's the only time that's an early show.

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Speaker 3: That's the only time I'm gonna be on there. All right, So any other thoughts from the best Game before we go?

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Speaker 5: I have to give you all this stat I can't wait any longer. Corey Price, he was listening. He answered our question the last player to have more steals than the other team?

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Speaker 2: Boy, look, of course, Corey Price.

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Speaker 5: Since nineteen eighty six, one person, one person or the last excuse me, the last person to Devon ask.

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Speaker 3: You no, no way, Devin, ask you had more?

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Speaker 5: January fifth versus Vanderbilt. He had three steals and the team had two total turnovers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a game with only two turnovers.

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Speaker 3: Wait, you mean that COVID team only had two turnovers in a game?

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Speaker 5: Not that I don't trust Corey. I'm going to the box score myself to confirm.

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Speaker 2: But wow, what was the score of that game?

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Speaker 6: Any one guessed? Devon ask you? Let me see. I'm still looking forward. Okay, Corey sent it in.

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Speaker 3: Well, that is unbelievable to me, Devin ask you, is not the I would have the COVID team of all teams.

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Speaker 2: To do that.

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Speaker 4: We would have guessed probably fifty other guards.

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Speaker 3: I would have guessed every player that ever played here before I would have guessed, Devin ask you. I would have guessed Nate Knight before I would have guessed.

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Speaker 2: Devin asked you, So wow, there you go questions.

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Speaker 3: Wow, I didn't know that he had a game with more steels than his turnovers, much less the team's turnovers.

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Speaker 6: Did you know when you're here?

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Speaker 3: Still he's still playing college basketball for Long Beach? Devin ask you was playing this year college basketball?

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Speaker 6: Have you seen the four pictures of him together?

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Speaker 5: He looks so different every year, like he's got a beard, he changes his hair.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, good luck to him.

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Speaker 5: I beat Vanderbilt by three in that game, seventy seven seventy four.

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Speaker 3: Wow, we scored seventy seven points and only had two turnovers turnovers Olivier Sarrow with twenty four points.

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Speaker 2: Oh that was that was with fourteen? That was that the Olivier Saar eat game. Right, Who's up first? Adam is up first? Adam, go ahead, Adam.

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Speaker 7: Hey, guys, what a breath of fresh air last night was and just hearing you all, you know, bring up some of those names and past experiences from COVID or whatnotuh Man, last night was fun. It wasn't you know, should I start three seven footers together? Should I take more seventeen eighteen you know foot jump shots? It was just it was so much fun. And then have a prediction for the year. I don't know how many minutes he's gonna get, how much he's gonna average, but Chandler is going to be on Sports in or Top ten for posterizing somebody.

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Speaker 2: He will poster somebody.

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Speaker 3: Chandler is a We have two really really athletic freaks, Chandler and Garrison. They're both uber athletes. You know, we talked about who would cal have recruited. I think he would recruited Jackson Robinson to be like Antonio Reeves. He would have recruited Garrison because he's a McDonald's all American. I don't think he would have recruited Chandler, but he might have. But those are the dudes with that kind of rhyme athleticism.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Chandler didn't have his best game last night, but he still showed a flare of what the guy's talking about. He's gonna be some top ten ESPN Top ten moments throughout this season because a guy is kind of a free athlete.

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Speaker 6: He went over four from.

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Speaker 5: Three, but late in the game he kind of got an open lane. It's like, okay, just go laid end my dunk, but he like really punched it home.

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Speaker 6: Fired up.

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Speaker 5: He's got a lot of bounce, and I agree that he might end up on some highlight reels put someone on a poster.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know he's been even going back to the Blue White game a pleasant surprise, Like.

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Speaker 6: I just forgot that stepped away from basketball.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, by the way, the new Willie College Stein was a wide receiver.

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Speaker 2: Is Colin Chandler took two years off of basketball? Like that?

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Speaker 3: That's the one this year that's the Willy College Steyn's wide receiver. She MoU means warrior. Colin Chandler took two years off basketball. Every time we get a new set of announcers, they're going to say that, like, no one's gonna.

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Speaker 2: Know what we're about to say. That's the fact this year.

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Speaker 4: Well, he's very valuable coming off the bench because he could play a couple different positions and if he can start knocking down that shot, man, that's just another weapon. Pope Scot sitting there on the bench.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, who's next? Brandon is next? Brandon? Go ahead? Brandon? All Right, No, Brandon, Who's next? Rick Jesse is next? Jesse?

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Speaker 8: Hey, what's going on?

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Speaker 2: Guys? Man?

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Speaker 8: I had a blast last night. And ultimately, I don't know, you know, what the season's gonna hold, but I know one thing for sure, and that's I'm gonna have fun watching the team this year. And it hasn't been a whole lot of fun, you know, in recent and you know, football's been kind of tough to watch the time. And I just had a blast watching it. And one logistical question I had I hadn't really heard about. I noticed that they had moved the kind of media press area up in the upper deck section two thirty five. They kind of took a section out and put the media there. Is that a permanent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they took yeah, now, because they stole the media seats to other people. So they took the media seats which had their own table and were kind of nice, and they sold them to people and then put the media in the seats that often were empty for.

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Speaker 2: A bad game.

00:22:49
Speaker 3: So I'm sure revenue wise it was a revenue up. Maybe a small capacity downgrade, but probably not much. We'll take a break A five nine twenty two eighty seven. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Okay, So Drew just showed me something that's baffling. All right, So for everybody, I'm gonna give you a chance to get on Twitter and see it. There's account called Rare Rookies that posted this. I guess they posted yesterday morning, so you may have to scroll down to find that. I'll sell you what, Drew. You go ahead and retweet it. You go ahead and retweet it. And and now I want to play this game with you.

00:23:25
Speaker 2: Ryan.

00:23:25
Speaker 4: There's a couple guys on there.

00:23:26
Speaker 3: I have no idea that Drew just posted a picture of These are all the people that have played at Kentucky under Cow who are now playing somewhere else. Ye, Okay, so let's go through here. Top left that's Air. If you're on podcast, pause it so you can see this picture. Drew is just retweeted because I want you to play along and see if you can play.

00:23:48
Speaker 2: Okay. Top left, that's Aaron Bradshaw.

00:23:51
Speaker 3: Yes, we'll see him later this year. Next is a do Yes. Next is Bryce Hopkins. I had no idea Bryce Hopkins. How's he still in college? Is he still playing in college?

00:24:04
Speaker 2: Did you know that? No? I thought Bryce Hopkins was like thirty two? Could be? Didn't he beat us? Didn't he beat us? A few years ago?

00:24:13
Speaker 6: We played him and he beat them.

00:24:15
Speaker 2: We beat them?

00:24:15
Speaker 3: Okay, I would not have recognized by face, but I know that that other person because he's in Cincinnati, Jersey is c J.

00:24:22
Speaker 2: Frederick.

00:24:23
Speaker 3: He's still playing basketball. I thought he married the girl from Middlesbrough and they like had a farm now.

00:24:31
Speaker 6: But he still plays basketball.

00:24:32
Speaker 3: He married Blair or no, he played yeah? No Blair right her? He married Blair and I thought they had a farm and he's still playing a farmer. I really thought he quit quit basketball, all right? Lsu is that again? I wouldn't recognize his face, but that's Damien.

00:24:47
Speaker 4: Colline right, only because he's got the LSU jersey.

00:24:50
Speaker 3: If that hadn't had an LSU jersey, I would not have known it was him. No, that is not Devon asked, Devon, ask you does not look like that?

00:24:58
Speaker 6: He does?

00:24:58
Speaker 3: That man looks like an actor like he he literally looks like he could be an actor on Like? When when did he start like looking like that?

00:25:09
Speaker 6: I told you every year in his team photo which has been would you have.

00:25:12
Speaker 2: Known that with him?

00:25:13
Speaker 4: I no clue who that was?

00:25:15
Speaker 3: Okay, Next is DJ Wagner? Is that Dante? First of all?

00:25:23
Speaker 2: When did Dante Allen go to Wyoming?

00:25:25
Speaker 9: Oh?

00:25:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is probably when you were in Europe. It was this summer Dante Allen went to Wyoming. Yeah, I mean just like.

00:25:33
Speaker 2: He's in Laramie.

00:25:35
Speaker 6: What's the what's the bar? We liked?

00:25:36
Speaker 2: That was the green room in Chyenne?

00:25:38
Speaker 6: Okay?

00:25:39
Speaker 2: That bottom left Georgetown, I don't know who that is?

00:25:44
Speaker 4: Those those two guys in the bottom left.

00:25:46
Speaker 2: Who is the guy?

00:25:46
Speaker 3: Okay, well, first, so let's go to the bottom right. That's Z that's a V. Sitch Kansas State. Again, I don't think I would have recognized him to face, but he went to it's Ugo. Okay, so now we have Georgetown, Ball State, and Utah State.

00:26:01
Speaker 4: That's Lance Ware, Texas Arlington?

00:26:04
Speaker 2: Lance? Where is it Texas Arlington?

00:26:06
Speaker 6: About Lance?

00:26:07
Speaker 2: Why is he at Texas Arlington.

00:26:10
Speaker 6: Just trying to finish up school?

00:26:11
Speaker 8: You know?

00:26:11
Speaker 2: Wait, amit? That didn't get that didn't get announced, did it?

00:26:16
Speaker 4: Lance?

00:26:16
Speaker 3: Where is it Texas Arlington with the portal while you're in schol when you know when I was in Crete, I didn't get that notification?

00:26:23
Speaker 2: Lance? Where is it Texas Arlington? All right?

00:26:25
Speaker 3: So now the other two are Georgetown and Ball State. I've seen the Georgetown kid. Who is at Georgetown?

00:26:34
Speaker 4: Is it Cameron Fletcher?

00:26:37
Speaker 2: It's not Cameron Fletcher. He's married to uh Angel Reese.

00:26:40
Speaker 4: Right, they dated?

00:26:42
Speaker 6: I think I don't. I don't know they're done. Yeah, they broke up.

00:26:45
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm sorry. I think I was in Europe when they broke up.

00:26:48
Speaker 3: I assume me my excuse, by the way, for everything over the next three years. Sorry, Like I'm gonna wake up and if it's like November six, I'm gonna be like Donald Trumps president, How did that happen?

00:27:00
Speaker 2: I don't know who's that guy from Georgetown.

00:27:01
Speaker 5: I don't think you're gonna get those? Did you get ball State? Do you want to bos State? Is the white kids here?

00:27:06
Speaker 2: Oh?

00:27:07
Speaker 4: Joey Hart?

00:27:07
Speaker 2: Joey Hart?

00:27:08
Speaker 3: Okay, he looks like right there, he looks like an evil person on the OC at this point with his goateeam he does.

00:27:15
Speaker 6: Look like the villain in like high school movies.

00:27:17
Speaker 2: I don't know who the kid at Georgetown is. Who is that Jordan Burkes?

00:27:22
Speaker 4: Wow?

00:27:23
Speaker 2: Okay?

00:27:24
Speaker 4: Wow? Wow?

00:27:25
Speaker 3: So there is There are fourteen people playing college basketball this year that played at Kentucky that are somewhere else.

00:27:33
Speaker 4: I'm telling you half of those. If we didn't get us either, Jersey, I don't think we could.

00:27:36
Speaker 3: Have found How good would that team be? Who would the starting lineup of that team be? It would be Bryce Hopkins, D. J. Wagner, Aaron Bradshaw, AD and Z. Is that the starting lineup?

00:27:50
Speaker 4: That's got Damian Collins coming off the bench and CJ.

00:27:53
Speaker 2: Frederick? Come on?

00:27:53
Speaker 4: How good that read?

00:27:54
Speaker 6: To start? Aaron Bradshaw. I'm going over Bradshaw.

00:27:57
Speaker 2: Is that a tournament team?

00:27:59
Speaker 6: We had these teams.

00:28:02
Speaker 4: We made the tournament but we got beat.

00:28:03
Speaker 2: Okay, so they lose. I'm going to see five of them.

00:28:07
Speaker 5: You got Collins at LSU, Ohio State Bradshaw and then all the guys that left for Arkansas.

00:28:11
Speaker 3: They lose in the first round to Saint Peter's right, he does, Wow, that's it's a good memory.

00:28:17
Speaker 2: I would not. I can't believe how Devin ask you looks.

00:28:20
Speaker 4: That's the one guy that I think no fan would know who that was.

00:28:24
Speaker 2: None, none, I can't. He's still playing me either. Who's up next? Thomas is up next? Thomas? Go ahead, Thomas.

00:28:33
Speaker 10: I sat in traffic this morning for an hour and a half on the Blue Gass Parkway. Did not dance in my enthusiasm from last night's game for one second.

00:28:41
Speaker 2: Well that's pretty good, because that could be brutal.

00:28:46
Speaker 6: Nothing.

00:28:47
Speaker 10: At the end of the game, the players walked around the entire perimeter, shaking the fans hands, thanking them for attending the game. Mark Cope follow him up doing the same thing. Yeah, next to me, he said, Coach, I've been in for twenty three years in the same seat. I've never seen a better sign of appreciation.

00:29:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up. I wanted to bring that up today, Coach. The players did a victory lap after the game and met all the fans. Some of the Blue Coats were keeping some fans from going down there. They gotta let them go. I mean, if that's gonna be a thing, now, you gotta let the fans go down there.

00:29:16
Speaker 2: See that's great, that's great, that's that is great. The players should.

00:29:20
Speaker 3: I mean, I think there needs to be a sign of respect from the fans that the players. They're not gonna be able to talk to all of you, so like if you if they come over as many as they talk to, be grateful. But I do think the Blue coats, did I see are there women blue coats?

00:29:36
Speaker 2: Is that a new thing? No?

00:29:37
Speaker 4: They they've had women for a couple of years.

00:29:39
Speaker 3: Okay, good, I didn't know that. Somebody told me that I had not. I did not know that.

00:29:44
Speaker 2: Good.

00:29:44
Speaker 3: That needed to happen. But go back to the to the thing. If let them go, let the fans. We need this, We need this program to re embrace its fans on a very.

00:29:56
Speaker 2: Like sort of visceral level.

00:29:59
Speaker 3: So obviously provide protection, but they need to let them because I'm glad the kids did that.

00:30:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, they did it after the Blue White game. Had no idea they're going to do it. Last night. I saw him do it, and the fans all got a you know, a high five, maybe a quick selfie or something, and they would just walk around the court and then go into the locker room and it was really kind of cool.

00:30:15
Speaker 3: Y' Also, do you want to increase attendance? Let people think they might get to see a player at the end. That will help? I mean it will yeah, I mean.

00:30:24
Speaker 2: The marketing people at UK you all know you can.

00:30:27
Speaker 3: Use help on this stuff. That would be the kind of thing that I think could be helpful. Who's next, David, go ahead.

00:30:36
Speaker 9: David, Hey, Matt, that was fun last night.

00:30:40
Speaker 2: It was fun.

00:30:48
Speaker 9: Yeah, I love no I just want to say this is it me? Or does Trent Noah look like he's twelve?

00:30:59
Speaker 3: David, Tredon Noah does look like he's twelve, But but he looks like a twelve year old who can make some threes though, doesn't he?

00:31:07
Speaker 6: And he scored twelve?

00:31:08
Speaker 9: Yeah he does.

00:31:09
Speaker 8: And you were talking about more else. I remember going to that game.

00:31:13
Speaker 9: I was thinking, man, that team is gonna win it all and I was ride, Yeah, the the I don't know if, I don't know if we'll have a good people the last championship.

00:31:26
Speaker 8: I don't think they will, but but I think this team will scare some teams.

00:31:30
Speaker 9: And I'm gonna make a prediction. We're gonna beat Duke.

00:31:34
Speaker 3: Listen, the Duke game is gonna be really exciting. I'm gonna go ahead and tell you, and I appreciate the call. It's a night game. Over the years we always play at nine thirty, We've tried to figure out how to get people.

00:31:44
Speaker 2: We are all gonna make it our thing.

00:31:46
Speaker 3: We're gonna have kind of a welcome back to big time basketball at this bar for Kentucky Duke on that. So just go ahead and put that on your calendars. It's nine thirty, it'll be late, you'll get home late. Your kids, they don't need to sleep anyway. What are they gonna learn? Yeah, the the Duke game, we're all gonna watch it here. We're gonna make it a thing. We're gonna kind of bring back big time basketball and that every game matters for that Duke game.

00:32:09
Speaker 5: For me, that one's personal in here. The first basketball game I ever watched a kasbar was the Zion Duke Championship.

00:32:15
Speaker 6: I remember that when we were down by a million.

00:32:18
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00:32:46
Speaker 2: This is the good life. We'll take a break and be right back. This is KSR work. I'm back.

00:32:53
Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio A five nine two twenty twenty seven.

00:32:57
Speaker 2: KS bar opens here in twelve minutes.

00:32:59
Speaker 3: You could come out and it's had a really nice pregame crowd here yesterday. I want to say, though, it's important to acknowledge your mistakes. Okay, uh we you know I spent all week talking about the game being on a computer, how you could get the game on the computer. Came in here on Tuesday and I was told we could not get sound or we could not get the game because it was on the computer. On the big screen. So we brought a guy in here from Nashville yesterday. Yes, right, he worked all day. It's a pregame show. He said, I got it. We'll have the game on the big screen. Good job, all right, find everybody the bar, say hey, if you don't have the game on the computer, you can come watch it here. One problem, the guy from Nashville accidentally hit a button that made it only play on the big screen. The other so he's already on the way back to Nashville and none of the other screens worked. Now we will have it fixed for Tuesday's game. But for the people that came, I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. But I but we looked. You know, I can look on the camera and see into the bar. Yes, people stayed. They just watched it on their phones in the bar. So I apologize. It'll be fixed by Tuesday and we'll have it.

00:34:16
Speaker 2: Uh. And we're also going to for the Duke game. We're going to stream our cameras in here and people can see the video for the.

00:34:23
Speaker 4: For the the victory celebration.

00:34:24
Speaker 3: That was all day we spent, and we got it on the big screen. We just made the mistake of putting it on every other television in here, which which would hurt us.

00:34:32
Speaker 5: We're so dolled in on getting that big screen work and we didn't get the other one.

00:34:36
Speaker 3: That happens sometimes somebody writes me here on the text machine seven seven two four five two five four, Matt.

00:34:41
Speaker 2: One of the reasons I like you.

00:34:43
Speaker 3: You can argue both sides of an argument, even the one side you don't disagree with.

00:34:47
Speaker 2: So I give you a challenge today.

00:34:49
Speaker 3: Last year the fans were split Cal defenders Cow supporters. If you were a Cow supporter, how would you argue that we're would be better off if.

00:34:59
Speaker 2: He was here?

00:35:06
Speaker 4: He would have better players better.

00:35:10
Speaker 2: Well, he probably have the roster he has at Arkansas.

00:35:13
Speaker 5: I think worse because I don't think we'd have Davis and a few others. Yet we had a lot of freshmen in this class coming in.

00:35:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true, we would have had You know what, Remember this is one of those you just go you're on her. I concede points two and three.

00:35:29
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know what the argument would be.

00:35:33
Speaker 4: Really, do you boogie flann Carter Knox?

00:35:38
Speaker 3: You would It would be Billy Richmond boogie flaning Carter Knox was leaving, so DJ would have stayed.

00:35:46
Speaker 2: Maybe you would have gotten John L.

00:35:48
Speaker 3: Davis to come here, Big Z would have stayed, Ugo was leaving. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think we I don't have an answer. I mean, maybe you argue, we get you. He gets a couple better players in the portal here than he would have at Arkansas. But the reality is the nil money that both Mark Pope used here and Cal used at Arkansas would not have been here. He wouldn't have had that money to go get Like John L. Davis probably doesn't come here because he wouldn't have had the money that he had at Arkansas. So I don't to be honest with you. You're right, I do pride myself in making the best case for the other person.

00:36:24
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't have that one. I really don't.

00:36:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know who's up next?

00:36:29
Speaker 2: Brian, go ahead, Brian.

00:36:33
Speaker 11: Hey, Matt just had a question kind of piggybacking off the point that you made last night, and I wanted to get everybody's opinion there on the show today. So you made a comparison that high scoring Kentucky teams last night tended to do well throughout the season, high scoring in the exhibition games. Do you think that has to do with the talent that we had or was it more about how they were coached and how that talent was being utilized.

00:37:00
Speaker 3: Listen, this team has talent, but this is not This is not, on paper, nearly as talented a team as if been eleven or twelve of the last fourteen years. So yes, it would be a coaching thing. I mean, if this team goes and wins twenty let's say they go twenty three and eight or twenty four and seven, that is a testament to Mark Pope's ability to both build a team but also to coach.

00:37:32
Speaker 11: All Right, I appreciate a chance to thank you.

00:37:34
Speaker 2: Do you agree with that?

00:37:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like you've point we've pointed out there's probably only two guys on this team cal would have even recruited to come to Kentucky.

00:37:41
Speaker 3: And I think to have these guys succeed, you'd have to play this style. If you were playing a style where they were trying this team is trying to beat guys off the dribble, I don't think they would be successful. I think you would have to play this style to win with this team.

00:37:53
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, and I'm loving just how hard they're going every single position. With Cow's teams, we know he had his favorites. He said he didn't, but he did. They knew they were getting thirty minutes. They could take a playoff, they could just stand out there and watch someone else dribble. This team, you know they're gonna be sharing a lot of the minutes. I don't think anybody might play thirty minute. Maybe Lamont Butler is someone. There's gonna be a lot of guys playing. And when they're in, they can go hard. And just so much of that motion last night on offense, and so how active they were on defense. We haven't seen that for a full game in a long time.

00:38:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, who's next? Jonathan is next, Jonathan? Go ahead, Jonathan.

00:38:30
Speaker 12: Hey man, I just gotta say that one of the players I would love to have on this team this year, even though I already love all the guys. If they looked great last night, this team would have been the perfect redemption team. If we had Reed Shepherd on this team.

00:38:43
Speaker 3: You talk about that, but I mean, let's be real. I mean the Reed Shepherd stuff, that's a fantasy. The kid was the number three pick in the draft, and if the draft occurred again, he'd be the number one pick.

00:38:53
Speaker 2: So like, yes, would he be perfect? But sure? But reed, Shepherd would have laughed.

00:38:59
Speaker 3: I don't care if the coach was Moses, you know, like he was gonna be a top three pick, he had to go.

00:39:07
Speaker 12: I don't disagree with that. I just wish that maybe he graduated a year later from high school.

00:39:11
Speaker 2: Okay, no, he would be good.

00:39:16
Speaker 4: He would be good.

00:39:17
Speaker 3: But I will also say this, I think, to be honest, if I'm being honest, he might have had a better college career under Pope. But Cal was the right player to get him drafted in the top three because Cal played a style where he could showcase his NBA game. Now, did that make him a better college player? Probably not. But actually I think oddly Shepherd wouldn't have been a top three pick if he was playing in this system. Does that make sense?

00:39:43
Speaker 9: Yeah.

00:39:43
Speaker 5: And a lot of the NBA stuff, it's you're drafting guys because you know Cal and how guards turn out. That's exactly very much of a track record of players that played for Cal.

00:39:52
Speaker 3: And let's be honest, there's a track record of guys I appreciate the call who played for cal underachieved here and then had great pro careers. Yes, there is you know, so, uh it worked out right for Reid. But would it be fun to have him on this team?

00:40:06
Speaker 2: Of course it would.

00:40:07
Speaker 6: See what he wore his first game last night?

00:40:09
Speaker 2: Overalls, But they weren't.

00:40:12
Speaker 3: They weren't like, you know, working on a tobacco far but they Yeah, but Carhart's.

00:40:19
Speaker 2: Kind of a fashion thing, now is it? But all right, who's next? John? Is next? John? Go ahead? John?

00:40:27
Speaker 4: Hello?

00:40:28
Speaker 2: Yes, go ahead?

00:40:30
Speaker 9: Oh it's little John's okay. Anyway, last night that was the most exciting, happiest I've been watching a Kentucky game in many years. And let me tell you real quick, I felt like that game brought true joy to my heart. The reason why is my parents moved me down here to Georgetown, Kentucky when I was six years old in nineteen eighty nine. I didn't know a thing about basketball. I grew up as a Browns fan and a Cleveland baseball fan, and I fell in love with Kentucky basketball and Rick Patino when I'm down here in nineteen eighty nine, with that, and it just reminisced me at my childhood. Last night kind of watching that game, for some reason, I just felt like it was a true team and it just made me so happy watching the game.

00:41:12
Speaker 3: I appreciate the call. I think that's I think a lot of fans ryn feel like that.

00:41:17
Speaker 4: Yes, and he's in that age bracket, like you said, thirty five and over. Man, we remember the glory days of the Patino the running, when Monk Pope was here. We feel like that's where we are again. We're back in that era of college basketball for Kentucky.

00:41:29
Speaker 5: He didn't wait long to talk on my heartstrings bringing Travis Ford out to be the wire.

00:41:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ford was why. Yeah you did the scream. Transform was why I didn't scream at anybody. It was perfect.

00:41:39
Speaker 5: Fans really like seeing him back. You know, he's been coaching him Milon do that. He got a good pop. It was never never It gets come back, by the way too.

00:41:46
Speaker 3: I don't think until last night I knew what Jason Hendrick looked like. I listened to that Derek Hendricks. Darn Darren Hendrick. I don't think I had ever seen him. He and Cameron Mills now look like the same person, very similar, don't they?

00:42:00
Speaker 2: Am I wrong?

00:42:02
Speaker 3: And there was a moment where I was watching it and they looked like the same person, and then the security guards standing from.

00:42:07
Speaker 2: Looked like them too.

00:42:09
Speaker 3: It looked like the three triplets had been put together to call that game.

00:42:15
Speaker 4: I trust your judgment. I didn't see it.

00:42:17
Speaker 3: Well, go look, it'll be back Tuesday night. We'll take a break, be right back. I renumber two is KSR