2025-02-28- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio here live at the Lexington Sporting Club lex Sporting dot Com.

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Speaker 4: This facility is so awesome out here.

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Speaker 3: A big shout out to all of the to the folks that that built this. I mean, I really had no idea that this was so nice. I like it's it's very modern and creative, and I do love the colors and the gear. I have the new eight five to nine hat and they gave me one of the kits, as Ryan likes.

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Speaker 4: To call it, the pitch. Any other soccer terms you know the name of.

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Speaker 3: Because you didn't do a good job with the cities. You said Birmingham was a capital of capitol of b Alabama. It's not Montgomery Montgomery, Okay, so that's not correct. I missed that one. Uh, and you didn't know where Leesburg was. It's one of the richest cities in America, so I.

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Speaker 4: Don't know it.

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Speaker 5: You're not invited to Louisville for a while.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're definitely not invited to Louisville.

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Speaker 3: And the Colorado Spring Switchbacks apparently won the title last year.

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Speaker 6: The Yeah, I know the word nil the only time you ever use it in life.

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Speaker 3: That's true, you really don't. It's only in soccer where they say nil, but yes it is. Hopefully we will beat Hartford in the opening game of the new season next Saturday.

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Speaker 4: Hope we beat them three neil.

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Speaker 6: And a big part about the stadium is they've got seven youth fields back there, all turf. You'll youth field, your turf dock there they got in their own little youth program they started. So they've got a stage out here. They're gonna have pregate pregame concerts. So they've got thunder and Lightning, the two little horses. I forgot about thunder and lightning for a little bit at your ponies.

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Speaker 4: That was the most excited he've been in a month, was about.

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Speaker 7: Thunder and like, yeah, I forgot about them.

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Speaker 3: They also signed, by the way, a new player for this year, Corey Burke. He plays on the Jamaican national team. So that's a that's a that's their newest signing. So concessions are open. You can come by and get food here. I say, definitely go by the merch shop, get some of the gear. It's it's really nice. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Let's quickly talk about the women last night. How about beating Tennessee by the biggest margin in the history of the school. Beat them by twenty four points. At one point up thirty three, drew. I mean, just absolutely annihilating Tennessee. It was just complete domination. I think it ensures a double bye for Kentucky in the SEC Tournament for the women, which means the women will get a higher seed than the men it looks like in the SEC Tournament.

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Speaker 4: But a big win for Kenny Brooks. They've had a great year.

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Speaker 3: They haven't really gotten that marquee home win, and they got it last night, and so that was awesome.

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Speaker 5: It really was.

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Speaker 8: I was watching a home I didn't get to go, and I genuinely felt good about them winning the game, but my goodness, nothing like that. And it was a blowout from the beginning. They went up big right away and just never looked back. It got so big I even turned it off, and when did something else, it was like, they're about.

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Speaker 3: Thirty you started the fourth quarter, though they also had one of the announced I don't know if he have you watched the game, the announcer made one of the dumbest comments in the history of sports.

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Speaker 4: We were up.

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Speaker 3: Twenty nine with three minutes to go, and the announcer, Shannon said, I wouldn't rule off Tennessee yet.

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Speaker 7: Point, what are you then? I would want?

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Speaker 3: I was like, I'll roll it off, and you know what, sir, I'll give you five thousand to one odds. We're up twenty nine with three minutes to go. I think we're gonna pull it out.

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Speaker 9: Well, anytime you can beat Tennessee number one, that's always fun. But to do it eighty two to fifty eight and just dominate them. Clara, how about Clara strike playing with a spring thumb, went eleven for eleven from the field, twenty three points.

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Speaker 5: Back well, fifteen rebounds too.

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Speaker 4: That's a lightener performance.

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Speaker 3: Twenty three points, fifteen rebounds, eleven for eleven from the field.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, MARII just went perfect. Then she doubled down. She went perfect. So I heard that comment. I think that was Shamika holtz Claw that said it, who was a Tennessee former Tennessee player, right mate?

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Speaker 4: It was Yeah, I still feel like you could have written them off though I don't think so. I don't. I don't care what you say. They were not coming back at that point.

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Speaker 8: No, No, we got to see how Kentucky size. I mean, it's paid off a lot this year. But it really played off last night with strat going eleven for eleven. They had nine blocks, which up the season record for blocks for you can women all right?

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Speaker 3: Saying another thing for you, I didn't know we did this, but apparently Jeff Bezos will fly you into space for forty five minutes.

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Speaker 4: Did you know this? No, Jeff Bezos.

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Speaker 3: It's called like I don't know, Amazon Flight or fly or whatever. But you can pay I'm sure an obscene amount of money. They've only done it eleven times, but they'll fly you up into space and you will be in space for forty five minutes and you can see the curvature of the Earth. You technically get into whatever the scientific definition of space is. You may remember we talked a few years ago William Shatner did it like that was?

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Speaker 4: That was kind of how he started.

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Speaker 3: Well, they just announced they're sending a crew of all women up first time that's ever happened.

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Speaker 4: And guess and there are three like astronauts. But did you see who the other three people are? No?

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Speaker 3: One is Jeff Bezos's girlfriend, Okay, which, like I'd like to know how that happened. By the way, Hey, honey, can I go to space, and he's like, oh fine, okay, I got that. Second is Gail King from CBS this out, Okay, Gail King is going, and then third is Katy Perry said, so Katy Perry, Gail King, and then Lauren Sanchez who's Jeff Bezos's girlfriend, are all going up into space. Here's my question, Like, if you're Gail King, or if you're Katy Perry, or even Lauren Sanchez, who now is worth the gonna be bajillion dollars, right, would you do it? Like you don't have to pay anything. They're letting them go up for free for the publicity. Gail King's maybe gonna do CBS This Morning from space. Yeah, which, if you remember, my ex girlfriend is her producer, so like I'm sure she'll be involved in that. But would you do it? W do you feel good enough about it to be like it's free, you don't even have to pay for it, you just have to go.

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Speaker 9: You know, I don't even like flying at ten thousand feet on delta, but you can say.

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Speaker 3: In space there've only been like only been like two hundred humans two hundred and fifty humans in history that have been in space.

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Speaker 4: I mean that's not a lot of people.

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Speaker 7: I'm okay, not going to space.

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Speaker 9: I feel like anything that I could see on that flight, I could probably just get on YouTube and type it in and see it right, probably.

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Speaker 4: Won't be the same.

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Speaker 7: You know what you need to feel?

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Speaker 3: You get to feel no gravity, like they'll be floating around like you see in the thing.

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Speaker 7: Do you get not doing it for me?

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Speaker 9: I just I would be nervous the entire time that the thing is going to explode, and I wouldn't be able.

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Speaker 7: To come back to it.

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Speaker 4: You could enjoy it, No, I would.

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Speaker 9: Be a nervous wreck. I don't think if you paid me, I would go, Okay.

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Speaker 4: What about you, Drew, You're going Oh?

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Speaker 8: I would hop on in a heartbeat. I mean yes, absolutely. You know I'll never have the money to participate. But if someone said we have an open seat, do you want to go to space? Heck yeah, I'm buckling up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then get you know Katy Perry, superstar singer gao Key, I mean like they're they're they got good lives.

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Speaker 6: Are you going I'm tackling Katy Perry and taking her spot? I'm absolutely we got another seats with you.

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Speaker 4: You're tackling Katie pet are you going answer that question?

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Speaker 6: I'm going not even thinking twice about.

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Speaker 9: It, all right, A right, mad am, I the only one that's not going. I know that you're a nervous flyer like I am.

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Speaker 3: When you going going just because you know it's the same reason I jumped out of a plane.

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Speaker 4: Life short, like you gotta.

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Speaker 7: Go to the yellowing space. It might be even shorter.

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Speaker 6: I do want to know how they land to Earth.

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Speaker 4: Okay, it's a good question. They get up there and then it's.

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Speaker 3: Like when the dude you remember the Red Bull thing where the guy parachuted. They parachute it back down, so you float back down. I don't know how exactly it works, but remember that guy went to space and parachute down. It's the same principle. It's a parent that your your craft will parachute back to Earth.

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Speaker 6: And just land in the ocean somewhere and they can come out.

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Speaker 3: And I think they probably have it to where it's not in the middle of the ocean. I think they'll figure out somewhere to put them.

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Speaker 9: But just too many things that could go wrong for me, Like what's you know, the payoff the reward versus the risk to me is not the same.

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Speaker 4: I think I would do it. I think I would do it because it would just.

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Speaker 6: Be chance of a lifetime.

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Speaker 3: You gotta do it, yeah, I mean, like you got, life is short, you gotta try something. You're right, it might be shorter, but what it'll I will have seen spoil.

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Speaker 9: Kentucky plays on the moon. You three can go and let me know how it works.

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Speaker 4: All right? Sounds good? Who's next? Richard is up next? Richard? Go ahead? Richard?

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Speaker 10: Well good, Marnin Fellas, what's up?

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Speaker 11: Of course?

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Speaker 8: Should I have?

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Speaker 9: Do you think will try to attack.

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Speaker 12: Auburn but uh away and the two bigs down in the blox to try to get boot and foul trouble and who.

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Speaker 3: But I don't think there's anything you can do to get Auburn in trouble Drew, because like they won a bunch of games without Brute, I mean, they're still good. I do think it'll be interesting to see who we defend him with. I'm gonna assume it to Maori. Would you agree with that?

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Speaker 4: You got to?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's the master.

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Speaker 5: I mean sometimes they go two bigs with card Well and you, but.

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Speaker 4: Bruce will eat car up.

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Speaker 3: I mean Car and Annsley have no chance against Broom. I think Amari can do all right. Garrison will do the best he can. But like, this is a game where Amary can't get two fouls. To me, if you're gonna play Amri thirty minutes, this is a game, you gotta do it because because we have no one else who can guard Brooke.

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Speaker 8: And if you'd asked me before Wednesday night, I wouldn't have said Brandon Garrison. But if he looks anything like he did at Oklahoma, I'm confident he can give some good minute, great defensively.

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Speaker 7: Enforcer with Garrison with that maybe not raging.

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Speaker 3: He's got the problem is that he has a raging temper, but he doesn't play like it. Like he plays, he's actually very soft with what he plays. He avoids contact, you know he does. I'm gonna give you one pet peeve. It didn't It wasn't as big a pet peeve because we won. But we got two guys on this team that boxx out facing the dude. They're trying to box out Brandon Garrison and Andrew Carr. When a shot goes up, they put their l bos out like this, and they get called for it a lot, but they also get some burned because they're like this. And then the guy spins around and gets and gets the uh and gets Brandon Garrison, he has a temper, but he used to play like he had Like Jamal Baglore had a temper.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but he also played.

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Speaker 3: Like he had a temper. He played like he was tough. Garrison needs to.

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Speaker 6: Do that, Brandon, absolutely. Despite the great game he had at Oklahoma, he still you know, gets pushed around a lot and then down the paint. And Drew said it, Man, they've got just not Joe and I brun they got that Cardwell dude, who's a big, strong guy. Also, I don't know how he match up with both of those guys.

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Speaker 3: I mean, again, we won, so you shouldn't. You shouldn't like focus on the negative. But Oklahoma's the worst rebounding team in the SEC and they out rebounded us, So I mean there is you know we do we do need to get that toughness amped up.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely, And I did a little digging last night run on the website. I found out why Garrison's temper might have been what it was. I didn't realize he lost Oklahoma twice last year. In the final seconds, one was a buzzer beat in Oklahoma was waving and taunting him in stillwater. What we saw last night, he's already been through twice. It was another very emotional game, and he was on the losing end twice and getting mocked on his way out. So I think it might have been a unique situation for he still needs to get that under control, but that had some history.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know that. Who's up next? Ben is up next? Ben? Go ahead? Ben?

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Speaker 13: Hey, good morning, first time, long time?

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Speaker 4: Who are hey?

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Speaker 13: Well, first, I wanted to say I absolutely love the show. So when I heard you guys got another fight you gilt signed, I was very happy. So thanks for doing it for at least five more years.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 13: And my wife and I are actually on our way to New York for the first time right now. And since you have such a fine refine tell it, I'm hoping that you could give us some restaurants suggestion.

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Speaker 3: Well, okay, so I mean people asked me for that A lot of time. I would say to you, like, there are five, you know, three thousand great restaurants in in in New York, So I what just give me a type of food.

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Speaker 13: We prefer more like American style burgers and stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: All right, Jacob's Pickles. Jacob's Pickles. It's up in the Upper West Side. That's a part of town you wouldn't go to otherwise. So go up there and you can thank me later. And also if you're going to appreciate call. If you're going for the weekend, Jack Dempsey's in New York will be hopping.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure true yea for the During the.

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Speaker 3: Game, it'll be packed with Kentucky fan definitely if you do that.

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Speaker 8: Hey, they have a big inflatable wildcat on the sidewalk. It's hard to miss, but they get a good group on the third floor there. I would absolutely go there at one o'clock on Saturday.

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Speaker 4: Who do you think has to have a big game for us to win tomorrow? Kobe Brea.

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Speaker 6: He's got to come out and just knock it, especially if Jackson's not at full strength. He's got to shoot will tomorrow. They've got him match because Auburtn's gonna score.

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Speaker 4: But they don't score like Alabama and Florida. Yeah, like you don't.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to score ninety five against them. You probably have to score eighty five, maybe.

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Speaker 7: Even ninety but one game in the fifties.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they don't. They're not like Alabama, where like they're gonna score.

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Speaker 3: You could probably win Drew scoring eighty five eighty four.

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Speaker 5: And I think Kobe is important.

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Speaker 8: But on the defensive end, they have Chad Baker Mazzara, who plays a little wing, plays a little point guard. At some point in the game, Kobe's gonna be matched up with him, and he's gonna have to play some of his best defense of the year and still make some threes on the other end. But he's been it's just nine and day difference when he's at RUP and on the road, and he usually shoots pretty well at home.

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Speaker 4: We'll take a break of me right. This is KOs welcome back.

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Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio eight F I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. One person writes, Matt, I love Ryan Lemon, but this may be the wrongest TVZ he's ever been on facts in a show, including getting the Capitol of Alabama wrong. He corrected you and said it was a female announcer that said they would come back. It was a male, and he also said it was Shamika hold Squad and it was Tamika Catchings. Otherwise he was one hundred percent correct.

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Speaker 6: I feel like I was really close on that one.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I said it was a male, you corrected me instead of female, and then you said the wrong female.

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Speaker 6: I can say I remember seeing her on the screen. I thought she's the one that said it, But she wasn't. That was a catch there. No, she wasn't even at the game. Wasn't even there.

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Speaker 7: Like we say, facts are optional, optional.

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Speaker 3: Facts are very option. One person writes, Matt. My mom is seventy four years old. She listens to your show occasionally, not regularly. She called me yesterday and we normally talk on Sunday, so I thought something was wrong. I answered, and she goes, did you hear what that guy Billy did.

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Speaker 4: To the woman from Pigeon? She said? He said.

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Speaker 3: That led to a twenty minute conversation with my mom talking about how people don't show respect anymore.

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Speaker 4: Tell Billy that it was nice to hear from my mom.

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Speaker 6: So there you go, Billy, I think about she was wanting to give her ninety five year old grandma a birthday shout out.

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Speaker 3: I think you're just rubbing it in right now. But that's well of the people bring. Billy's bringing people together to have counts.

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Speaker 4: There we go.

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Speaker 6: That's a good way to look at.

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Speaker 5: This fin zone, Billy.

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Speaker 8: I would lean into that one a lot about how you're saving families.

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Speaker 4: Yes, uh, did you see the hear the story?

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Speaker 3: Two NFL reporters got into a fistfight at a Starbucks?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, media fight.

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Speaker 4: I like the media fight.

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Speaker 3: So it was in Starbucks in Indianapolis for the combine Ian Rapaport and Jordan Schultz.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what they were fighting about.

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Speaker 3: But they confront each other, they end up getting in a fight, they get separated. Uh, here's the interesting side, Jordan Schultz of the fight. His dad is the dude who created Starbucks. Then Howard Schultz, he created all of Starbucks, and his son is now fighting in the Indianapolis Starbucks.

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Speaker 4: So that got me to thinking about media fights.

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Speaker 3: You know, a lot of these times, you people like you don't realize that a lot of these media people hate each other, especially back in the day.

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Speaker 4: Less so now, but back in the day.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember media fights from your days of doing it? I have one that I remember, But do you remember one in particular? I remember a couple, give me an example. One.

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Speaker 6: Well, one was Pat Forty and Susan Lax and Pat Forty just totally r after her for really no reason, so as you were just doing her job. But they didn't get a fist fight yelling. I don't remember any fist fights.

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Speaker 3: You remember one? You remember Alan Cutler and uh, the dude jawing at each other in the locker room.

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Speaker 6: I don't think they did a fist fight.

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Speaker 4: They were like screaming and like pushing each other. Right, what was his name Dan actually damn yeah, like Dana Lott.

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Speaker 6: I don't think they remember.

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Speaker 3: Anthony Davis later said mustache dude got into it, got into it.

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Speaker 4: The guys.

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Speaker 8: They don't do this anymore, but people used to get so mad about having their mic flag up, So you know it might have been that, like when they hold up it, says l e x eighteen, the other TV stations get mad, want you to take that off.

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Speaker 5: They'd yell about that a lot.

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Speaker 4: All they got into it.

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Speaker 3: And I do remember Anthony Davis going the mustache dude was fighting just a minute.

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Speaker 8: I remember that now. I didn't register it first. Color wasn't afraid to tell people how he's feeling in some of those media things.

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Speaker 9: So who do we think in media like locally, would be the person like that you would not want to mess with?

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Speaker 7: Like who is like the me.

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Speaker 5: Like oh yeah, yeah that's right, dad wheld or something.

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Speaker 3: Gabriel is a five time taekwondo judo like I would.

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Speaker 4: You wouldn't want to mess with him.

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Speaker 5: I want the big blue smoke.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I think it's a much more mellow crowd than it used to be when I there used to be a lot of testosterone in those things. Back when Ryan was doing it, there was a lot of TV anchors used to have a lot of ego and they would kind of. I bet Tom it used to be a lot more kind of.

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Speaker 6: It was crazy because we're such a small fraternity. You know, we're together every event, every day, to the same place, same time. But boy, you talk about being competitive, it was ultra competitive.

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Speaker 3: Alan Cutler and Rob Bromley, those two.

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Speaker 4: Those are names of fighting from the past.

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Speaker 8: I remember Captain Suntan. Yes, yeah, step you too up.

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Speaker 4: That's a true story.

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Speaker 3: Kentucky played Louisville in football and Captain Suntan walked up to me and said do you want to fight?

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Speaker 4: And I was like, no, I want to eat the same wood and watch the game. This is like in the press box. It was in press brocks for Kentucky.

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Speaker 3: Look later, out of no context, just walked up to me and goes, okay, I'm here, do you want to fight? And I was like no, what, I'm a grown man, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 8: Another one with us We were in Indianapolis for NCAA tournament. Two of my friends were going to Morton Steakhouse. Night's White tablecloth dinner. I pull up a chair to hang out with him, You pull up a chair. We're just all doing and Pat forty walks over and just starts staring at us while we're eating, and we're like, what, Pat, what do you want? But I didn't know if you wanted something in Morton's or what was going on.

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Speaker 4: Was a tough guy for a long time.

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Speaker 9: Now I know that he went at slacks too. He's definitely about Dan Dogitch as well. I feel like he has challenged you on Twitter to a fight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Dan Dockicch claimed that he threatened to fight me and that I ran away, but.

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Speaker 4: He didn't even talk to me like that was Dockitch is the line this dude in the world, Who's next? Hans Hans go ahead?

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Speaker 14: Yo, Hey, it's a little late, but I went to the Oklahoma game. It was too cheap to not go, and I'll be honest, I started feeling just horrible, uh, for that school and whatever they're trying to do in relation to basketball. They gave a power point presentation before the game started and it was like, how to be a good fan this game when the other team has the ball. The other team has the ball, scout defense when we have the ball cheer.

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Speaker 10: And it's like, dang, this is a low point.

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Speaker 3: I am really surprised. I am really surprised. I appreciate the call, I'm really surprised at how bad that.

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Speaker 4: Oklahoma atmosphere was.

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Speaker 3: I mean generally speaking, when Kentucky has gone on the road in the SEC, even if a team gets no one for any game, they get a pretty good.

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Speaker 4: Crawd for that one. Yes, that has to be one of the.

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Speaker 3: Worst crowds for a Kentucky road game ever. And it's their first year in the SEC. And I remember watching Oklahoma basketball sometimes and seeing crowds like the it's their program must have just.

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Speaker 4: Collapsed with you.

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Speaker 6: I think in the first time Kentucky's ever played at Oklahoma, first time they've ever played in the state of Oklahoma, and then their SEC first year, I thought there would be crazy like it usually is when we go on the road in the SEC.

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Speaker 8: When I was talking to Adam who was there for KSR, and we were kind of joking about how they had the ropes up to storm the court, he was like, if they did storm the court, I'm not sure they would have filled the paint with the people.

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Speaker 15: That would have gone down there.

00:22:23
Speaker 3: It really you know, I mean, it's interesting you When Oklahoma joined the SEC, Shannon I said Texas will be fine, And clearly they were fine.

00:22:33
Speaker 4: They went to the SEC championship game in football.

00:22:37
Speaker 3: You know, they they're not great in basketball, they'll probably make the tournament.

00:22:40
Speaker 4: But I said Oklahoma's gonna be the one that struggled.

00:22:43
Speaker 3: That they're about to go from playing Kansas State and Texas Tech to having to play real teams. And they struggled in football, and I think they're going to struggle in basketball. Like I I think that Oklahoma program you got to move to the SEC when you get asked, But I'm not sure they're as ready for as maybe.

00:23:01
Speaker 9: Other Yeah, I'm surprised our fan base didn't show up better for that Kentucky game. When you gotta have dollar beer night just to entice your fans to come just to see their team play Kentucky, that's when you know it's bad.

00:23:11
Speaker 3: There's a big difference between half your schedule being TCU, Texas Tech, Iowa State, Kansas State and then coming to the SEC and also coming in the year basketball is better than it's ever been. That's a tough goal. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

00:23:31
Speaker 4: Quarterback.

00:23:31
Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio a cub nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. All of you that are here will get free tickets to the opening night of the Lexington Sporting FC be next Saturday night against the Hartford Athletics Hartford. That'll be one week before I go to Hartford. I hope I have something to brag to them about. You can give us a shout af I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Also, remember you can click on the website Lexsporting dot com, click the button that says KSR listener and you'll get five dollars tickets for opening night. Well, so you were saying Ryan, Oh, by the way, the Anthony Davis line he said about Alan Cutler was mustache dude, don't play.

00:24:14
Speaker 4: Exact line, all right?

00:24:15
Speaker 3: So you found out what happened in that fifteenth region game that led to the flip off.

00:24:19
Speaker 6: It's Prestonsburg and Betsy Lane District championship and the games in the fourth overtime, fourth overtime, fourth overtime. A Prestonsburg player has eighteen points and ten rebounds and they call foul on him. Everybody had it as his fourth foul. The guy running the book had it as his fifth foul, so they have to go by the official book. He has five fouls. Their best one of their best players is out. Betsy Lane wins, and then they go to the prayer circle after the game. Almost a fight in the prayer circle.

00:24:50
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:24:50
Speaker 6: So if Betsy Lane and Prestersburg end up meeting in the fifteenth region, we gotta.

00:24:54
Speaker 3: Go Betsy Lane in Prestonsburg prayer fight circles.

00:24:58
Speaker 7: You've never seen that before.

00:24:59
Speaker 4: You hear we come together.

00:25:01
Speaker 3: So I guess that's why he was given the double bird. Is they were questioning Shannon his integrity as a score book keeper.

00:25:08
Speaker 9: And I guess there's probably no video to go to in a high school game where you can go back and figure it out instead of just having somebody's word that it's their fifth foul.

00:25:16
Speaker 8: I still know if you're the scorekeeper, that's how you defend your stats by going double bird, especially if we're in a prayer setting. I think those are two unwritten rules in high school guys. Let you know, just show up to the Yeah, maybe not during the prayer circle.

00:25:30
Speaker 4: All right, who's up next? Peggy is up next? Peggy? How are you Peggy?

00:25:36
Speaker 11: Good?

00:25:38
Speaker 3: Hello?

00:25:38
Speaker 11: Everybody just wanted to call and congratulate the girls on their big win last night and to say their defense last night was on point.

00:25:56
Speaker 4: It was on point. You're right, they played great.

00:26:00
Speaker 11: That's all all right?

00:26:02
Speaker 4: Well there you go. Well, thank you, Peggy on point. Appreciate the call.

00:26:05
Speaker 3: Let's do our picks for the SEC games this weekend, some big ones. Arkansas is at South Carolina. South Carolina has only won one game. Arkansas by winning last night against Texas, likely in the tournament. Unless they blow this one, then that might be different. Do they win at South Carolina?

00:26:24
Speaker 9: Yes, I think they do. I think they're gonna squeak in to the tournament.

00:26:28
Speaker 8: I'm on for four betting against Arkansas, so let me tell you they're gonna win this game by fifty. No chance South Carolina wins this what so they might win by one hundred. So I'm definitely taking Arkansas to cover.

00:26:39
Speaker 6: It's crazy. Arkansas's played better since Boogie Flann got hurt, and they really are playing better, So I'm gonna pick Arkansas.

00:26:44
Speaker 4: So you know, cal giveth cal taketh away. This is the taketh away.

00:26:50
Speaker 3: He's won a couple of games he shouldn't have. Then he'll go and lose it South Carolina. That's the calibery thing. Take the game Cocks to win their second game of the year or in the in conference. Oklahoma's an old miss oh missus winning that. Lu's use at Mississippi State. Mississippi State's winning that. So let's go to Missouri at Vanderbilt. Can your Commodores get another victory?

00:27:11
Speaker 7: I think they can.

00:27:11
Speaker 9: They play differently at home, even though they had a great road win earlier this week over Texas A and M.

00:27:16
Speaker 7: But I think they win tomorrow.

00:27:18
Speaker 8: I'll go Missouri there. I kind of want Missouri to win all the way up until we play him. I don't need them having a few losses and needed to be more motivated already.

00:27:25
Speaker 6: That It was a huge win for Vandy to win at Texas A and M last time, so they're riding the high now they're at home. I'm going Vandy.

00:27:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna go Missouri. I'm gonna take with Drew. I think Missouri gets on the road. I don't think the environment at Vandie will be strong enough to get him through a what could be a playing game for the NCAA tournament Georgia and Texas winner, maybe in loser, maybe out.

00:27:45
Speaker 4: Who you got?

00:27:47
Speaker 9: Kind of a toss up game just because it's in Austin. I'm gonna go with Texas.

00:27:51
Speaker 5: I'm going Texas because of Trey Johnson.

00:27:54
Speaker 8: But if Georgia is allowed to play football like they are at home, that'll be a different story. But I think I think Bexas wins it.

00:27:59
Speaker 6: Yeah, so this isotball matchup. You're right, I'm going Texas, though Texas.

00:28:03
Speaker 4: Texas gotta win this.

00:28:04
Speaker 3: Texas loses this, you're gonna have a year where Texas and Oklahoma both pumping the conference and neither one of them makes the tournament.

00:28:10
Speaker 4: Texas gotta win this.

00:28:11
Speaker 3: Now, the two big games in the SEC A and M is at Florida, and if A and M wins this, we don't talk about A and M, but they still will be in contention for a two seed. They did just lose at home to Vandage.

00:28:22
Speaker 9: Yeah, they've been slipping in a little bit. I think Florida at home takes care of business.

00:28:26
Speaker 8: Buzz Williams should be in prison. And A and M should have a postseason band after what they did Wednesday night. Florida, please win, taking the Gay.

00:28:33
Speaker 6: August game over Florida. Yeah, definitely.

00:28:36
Speaker 3: Hey, for those of us that are Kentucky fans, root for Florida because Texas A and M is only one game ahead of us.

00:28:41
Speaker 4: If they lose, we.

00:28:43
Speaker 3: Can still get them past them and get a better seat than the SEC tournament.

00:28:46
Speaker 4: So root for Florida.

00:28:48
Speaker 3: And then the big game of the night, Alabama at Tennessee. Tennessee has struggled to win like a Marque game. Can they get this one at home against Alabama.

00:28:58
Speaker 9: I'm gonna go with the Crimson Tide just because they can shoot the three so well.

00:29:01
Speaker 7: So I'm taking Alabama.

00:29:03
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:29:03
Speaker 8: Even on Tennessee's best day, they struggled to score. Lanier and Ziegler had a big game last week, but I still think Alabama just has too much firepower, So I'll take Alabama.

00:29:11
Speaker 6: I'm still in the belief that Alabama may be the best team in the country, even better than I know. Auburn beat him, but they're still really, really good. I'm going to Alabama.

00:29:18
Speaker 3: I just don't know how Tennessee can score enough I mean against Alabama. Alabama's gonna score eighty even on their worst day. And I just don't see how Tennessee scores eighty. Their offense is too bad. So I think you got to take Alabama. Who's up next?

00:29:31
Speaker 4: Randy is up next, Randy, go ahead, Randy.

00:29:35
Speaker 15: Good morning, gentlemen.

00:29:37
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think you want Florida to went out because that helps us Sea fight. But the other thing is the big game tomorrow, Kentucky by five a Rupperena is going to be electric and everything.

00:29:51
Speaker 3: Kentucky by five. Yes, I hope you're right. I bet the energy tomorrow. Appreciate the call, Ryan, I think the energy tomorrow has a chance to be a So far this year for early games, that place has been wild. It's surprising to me how wild it's been for early games. We need that again tomorrow.

00:30:08
Speaker 6: It's been that way all year, man, especially these big profile marquee games. It has been rocking at Rubbery and it'll be a great environment tomorrow for that game.

00:30:15
Speaker 8: Fully agree, I can't say enough good things about Ruugh this year. I have no doubt they'll show up and be excited. I even have some binoculars. I'm so excited. For to take tomorrow and I'm really gonna We're gonna try to enjoy the game up there.

00:30:25
Speaker 4: Wow.

00:30:26
Speaker 9: You know, like over the years, I feel like we have sort of been critical of the rough crowd that for whatever reason, this season has been I don't know if it's you know, the Pope, Yeah, yeah, whatever reason, it's a it's a resurgence.

00:30:36
Speaker 4: And I think what's happened is there's a group of fans.

00:30:39
Speaker 3: We've talked about this a lot, but you know, thirty five to fifty five grew up maybe forty to fifty five grew up around the Patino years, had really become disheartened at the last end of the Cow years. And it's like having Pope re energize that group. And I think they've brought that into RUP. You know, the younger people are are always into it, but I think the middle age fan is more into Kentucky basketball this year than I think they'd been into it in a long time.

00:31:07
Speaker 4: And I think that's and I.

00:31:08
Speaker 9: Love that too, because now it reminds me of how RUP used to be back in the nineties when I was a kid watching a.

00:31:13
Speaker 3: Great I mean, it is a fascinating thing. What Pope has done with the fan base. I mean, this fan base just really had not been the same since COVID, and then I think this got it going again. I think that even though we're nineteen to nine, not a particularly special Kentucky year, the fans still.

00:31:35
Speaker 4: Are just completely all in. Who's next? Tyler is up next? Tyler? Go ahead, Tyler. Ain't you keep that energy up? Tyler? What you got?

00:31:47
Speaker 15: Hey? I'm gonna see if y'all notice this, because every game this drives me crazy. Kobe Burrey, every time he has the ball and he's going into a boss screen, why is his automatic reaction every time he comes back that boss screen is to drive to the basket. If he's a best shooter, why isn't he thinking when I come off this screen, I'm just gonna shoot this three.

00:32:08
Speaker 4: Well, I think, in part appreciate the call, Drew, because.

00:32:10
Speaker 3: Guys have been slagging off or you know, excuse me, guys have been up on him, and he's gotten a lane.

00:32:17
Speaker 4: We've seen more Kobe bray.

00:32:19
Speaker 3: As successful drives to the basket in the last three games, and we probably saw in the whole rest of the year combined.

00:32:24
Speaker 8: So I actually don't mind it to be honest with you, My bigger Kobe complaint is when he hasn't opened three. It's not as quick as he was early in the year. I don't know what's changed, but he takes a second. Sometimes he'll pump fake into the defense if you have the smallest window and you just fire it. He's been hesitating a little bit lately.

00:32:41
Speaker 4: Again.

00:32:42
Speaker 3: I only took twenty three threes against Oklahoma. Like I, I, you know, we should be shooting thirty a game. I still don't understand. I'll never understand why this team is averaging like twenty five threes in SEC play when Pope himself said he wanted it to be close to thirty before the season start.

00:33:01
Speaker 6: Do you think that just the defenses? They're just doing so much to take that away of it.

00:33:05
Speaker 4: But I just see a lot of guys hesitant to shoot, like I I. It feels like to me, all these guys.

00:33:14
Speaker 3: Just are not as quick to shoot the ball as they were earlier in the year, and I don't really know why that is.

00:33:20
Speaker 8: I want to add Andrew Carr to that group too. I know he's not Kobe Brayer some of the guards, but man, when you're open, take it. He's another one that sometimes pump fakes. We don't have to pump fake it unless the defense, say.

00:33:30
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00:33:57
Speaker 4: We will be there next Friday in Little Well. We'll take a break and come back. Final segment here at Lexington Sporting Club. This is KSR warter Back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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00:34:32
Speaker 3: So Meyern Metcalf just put out on ESPN he ranked the top last twenty five NCAA Double A tournament champion. So everyone since two thousand ranks top twenty five. He says the worst one was twenty fourteen yukon which I agree. They beat us in the finals. We should have won. Where do you think he's got Kentucky top twenty twelve, Kentucky in the top NCAA champ since two thousand?

00:34:58
Speaker 4: Where would you put Kentucky?

00:35:00
Speaker 3: He actually has them where I would too, although the two teams he has ahead of us, I don't.

00:35:05
Speaker 4: I would have a different one.

00:35:06
Speaker 7: But I want to say then, oh.

00:35:15
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, that was dumb. I took away a little bit of the of the surprise.

00:35:18
Speaker 7: I guess I'm guessing maybe one Duke team in there.

00:35:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's got I agree with this, he's got number one would be two thousand and one Duke. That was the Jay Williams, Battier, dun Levy, Boozer. I think that's that's I would put them ahead of us. I would actually put number two the second Florida national team after they had already won it the first year with no and all of them. He actually has them seventh, which is kind of surprising to me. He has second two thousand and nine North Carolina. That's a team that beat Is that team that beat Villanova?

00:35:54
Speaker 4: No, wait a minute, that.

00:35:54
Speaker 3: Was Tyler Hansboro, Ed Davis ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington, Danny Green.

00:35:59
Speaker 4: That's a pretty roster, but Hansboro.

00:36:01
Speaker 8: Was the best player on Yeah, I mean it was a good team. I'm trying to remember that championship game. I'm blinking out on it. I was gonna say fifth when you were asking, So thanks for giving the answer.

00:36:08
Speaker 5: Maybe look good.

00:36:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think third is right.

00:36:11
Speaker 3: But I would put us ahead of that Carolina team, but maybe behind that Floord because that Florida team was dominant that second year. The first year they got kind of lucky, but the second year they were pretty dumb.

00:36:20
Speaker 4: You know what's crazy.

00:36:21
Speaker 6: There's been some other Kentucky teams that are better that I think to even the number one team that didn't even make the championship.

00:36:25
Speaker 3: You know, I think the twenty fifteen team, I will die on the hill, it was better than the team that won. Yeah, I mean, I to me, I love Anthony Davis is the best player of my lifetime, but that twenty fifteen team was better. We lost, but I think you could make an argument that if twenty fifteen had finished that they're the greatest team in college basketball since Indiana.

00:36:47
Speaker 6: And yeah, they're number one on my I mean they're number.

00:36:49
Speaker 4: One if they finished that game against Wiscon's just the depth.

00:36:53
Speaker 5: There's never been a team to have that kind of depth.

00:36:55
Speaker 4: And they just blew people out. They didn't just win, they just blew them off page.

00:37:00
Speaker 5: They just grew that game. We were at Chicago against UCLA.

00:37:03
Speaker 8: I don't remember the exact score, but it was something like thirty to four, and they were just blocking every shot.

00:37:08
Speaker 3: They were up twenty one to nothing and thirty to four. Those highlights, if you ever get down, go pull up the highlights. There's there's a there's a YouTube that has the highlights of the first half of that UCLA game. It's Verne Lundquist and maybe Greg Anthony and they're just laughing like they can't help. But just like you see, they can't even get a shot off. We're blocking every shot they take.

00:37:29
Speaker 8: And Will Bond went on PTI. He's Chicago guy, he's seen a lot of sports. He's like, I've never seen anything like that in basketball, Like I've never seen to be dumb.

00:37:36
Speaker 4: It was unbelievable. Who's up next? Lucky is up next? Lucky? Go ahead, Lucky?

00:37:42
Speaker 15: Hey, thanks take car.

00:37:43
Speaker 12: Guys, I need you to treat me like a dummy here. What's the best way?

00:37:49
Speaker 3: Uh?

00:37:49
Speaker 12: When does the tickets go and sail next Friday? And what's the best way to get up in line to get the best tickets?

00:37:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's Friday. According to Drew at ten am, there's a way.

00:38:00
Speaker 3: There's is the game called some things there are on Bridgeton's website or Ticketmaster.

00:38:04
Speaker 8: What do you think it'll be through to just UK You'll have a link. They'll all have links.

00:38:08
Speaker 3: If I would say Ticketmaster or go through the UK Athletics web page.

00:38:14
Speaker 4: But be ready at ten o'clock because the good ones will go quick.

00:38:16
Speaker 3: I don't think it'll sell out immediately, but the good seats will go quick.

00:38:21
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's gonna be a hot ticket.

00:38:22
Speaker 8: I mean, Gonzaga being so far away, you probably want to have as many away fans. But that's a trip they want to make too, So I think a lot of people will want to get in Nashville.

00:38:30
Speaker 4: So yeah, ten o'clock Friday, Ticketmaster.

00:38:34
Speaker 12: I appreciate it. One other thing. There's not much it does it but every time I hear Heather's voice to put a smile on my face.

00:38:42
Speaker 4: There you go, look at it.

00:38:44
Speaker 6: Well, he's given us the stink guy he is so like.

00:38:47
Speaker 3: It's good we didn't put him on the air. He might do like irreparable harm to the Billy R Sports brand.

00:38:53
Speaker 4: Who's Next? Bob, go ahead, Bob.

00:38:58
Speaker 12: Matt as a New York activity that's being investigated the Indianapolis arch.

00:39:07
Speaker 3: I appreciate the call Who's Next. I'm not I'm not ending this show with the Indianapolis Arts dice. It's Who's Next? Okay, all right, thank you very much.

00:39:18
Speaker 4: Choose.

00:39:19
Speaker 3: I'd rather choose to finish this way than to finish it with the Indianapolis arch Dice.

00:39:25
Speaker 4: It's okay.

00:39:26
Speaker 3: We open tomorrow Kspar at ten am. We're serving rake no regular food, not breakfast. But ten am, and then the pregame show starts at ten thirty, So get your spot early for Kentucky and Auburn. For those of you wanting to watch the game, I expect the big crowds. You probably want to be there by like noon. Shannon will make our predictions tomorrow, so why don't you make your prediction.

00:39:46
Speaker 4: It's gonna happen with Kentucky.

00:39:47
Speaker 9: I want to be optimistic about this, but I don't know the situation with Jackson Robinson. So without Robinson, I'm going to say Kentucky loses a close one.

00:39:57
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go seventy five to seventy.

00:39:59
Speaker 4: Okay, do you think Jackson Robinson plays I think so.

00:40:03
Speaker 8: I mean, there was a lot of ice he had on that risk, but I still think he'll give it a go. Being number one team.

00:40:07
Speaker 3: I always hate when people do this, but I'm gonna do it. As someone who's recently had a wrist injury, it really can be day to day. There are days, especially when I was like going through the first couple months of it. There are days where I was in pain, didn't feel like I could even move it, And then there are other days where I felt like if I had wanted to go play golf.

00:40:25
Speaker 4: We were at Iowa, and I couldn't even shoot a basketball. It hurt too much.

00:40:29
Speaker 3: But then there were days that it felt better. I wonder if that's how it's gonna be for him. It really will be kind of like day to day decision.

00:40:36
Speaker 6: I think so. And you know, the Oklahoma game, he missed his first couple of shots. I thought, oh, that risk probably hurting him. But then he hit a couple shots. So I think he's definitely if there's any way he can get on that court tomorrow, he's gonna do it.

00:40:46
Speaker 3: A lot of it from what I understood from mine is you know, you have a lot of nerves in your hands right here. Whether or not they get inflamed or whether or not they're swelling at the moment you're playing. May have been the case that literally the other night he just hit somebody army and it caused a nerve to just kind of move, and like that.

00:41:03
Speaker 8: May be what it is, honestly, And you know guys are gonna be swiping at that wrist. And Auburn is a good defensive team that with active hands, even if it's unintentional, I mean, anything can happen when you got a risk injury like that and guys are going for it now.

00:41:14
Speaker 4: Lama Butler, I do expect to play.

00:41:17
Speaker 3: Uh, he was in some foul trouble, but do you expect him to get I mean, to beat Auburn, He's gonna probably have to play a full game.

00:41:24
Speaker 4: Do you think he's gonna do that.

00:41:25
Speaker 6: I think he's gonna give it everything he can. You know, we saw a gutty performance from Wednesday night. Another guy we got to think about Tomorrio and Mariy was lipping off the court after the game. I mean he may not be one hundred percent either that.

00:41:35
Speaker 4: Don't talk to me about that.

00:41:37
Speaker 6: And Andrew Carr, I mean we have had and I have had the worst.

00:41:40
Speaker 4: Luck with injuries this year. I mean we really have.

00:41:43
Speaker 3: It's been This has been one of the worst injury years I can think of in a long time.

00:41:48
Speaker 5: It's not even close.

00:41:49
Speaker 8: And then the other night when Mario minutes into the game, I think people are like me, you just throw your hands in the air, like, what are we watching?

00:41:54
Speaker 5: This is insane?

00:41:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of people didn't see it.

00:41:55
Speaker 7: It's true.

00:41:56
Speaker 5: I was talking about buzzing and the rest of the monitor. I threw my arms there.

00:42:00
Speaker 3: Hey, thank you all very much here at Lexington Sporting for having us come out and support this team and come out and support this is great for the city, this facility. It's great to have a professional sports team in the facility moving up to a new level playing against Louisville FC or Louisville City, which has had a great amount of success for that city.

00:42:19
Speaker 4: Hopefully we can do the same thing here in Lexington.

00:42:23
Speaker 3: Thank you all very much, Lexport, Lexingsporting dot com and use the KSR code tomorrow morning. We will see you at ten thirty from ksbar. Let's go beat the number one team in the country. Auburn has not won in Ropparina since nineteen eighty eight. Let's wow and we were number one and let's not fix that.

00:42:39
Speaker 4: Then we'll see you later. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio.