2025-01-15- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 3: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 4: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: Welcome every one, Kentucky Sports Radio. Wednesday, January fifteenth, on a bidder cold day in Lexington, Kentucky. We are at the Ksbarn Grill. It's Wings Day, Dollar Wings today. Throughout the rest of the day you can get come on out and see us. We'll open eleven. I already got some folks here. Probably most of these people went to the game last night and got up in the bitter cold this morning. You give Sean Clark's Puppy Shop online. That's eight five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four in this audition sponsored by the t J. Smith Lovus because TJ he'll make them pay. It is. I can't remember the last time how cold I felt it like it was this morning. It's really cold out there. Like they like, you wouldn't think there's a big difference between twenty five and fifteen, but there is.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's cold. There's bitter cold.

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Speaker 5: No, no, don't say we don't say bud cold. I mean like you got you don't need to say the you don't need to say body parks when you do the cold.

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Speaker 2: But it is very cold.

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Speaker 7: It's very very cold. I have a little bit of a walk to when I go to Kentucky games. So that was fun last night and that our reaction was in the cold last night, so I've.

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Speaker 2: Been no you stood outside after the game.

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Speaker 7: We did how you should watch it everyone. I won't say it was our best work. We were very snotty and very cold, but yes, it is frigid out there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah it was, uh yeah, it's it was nasty weather last last night and today. It's supposed to get better, though I think it's byt tomorrow. Like in the forties before it gets freezing cold again, so hopefully some of this ice will melt. Great game last night for Kentucky. I mean, I think I said on the postgame show, I think it was one of I mean, it's not the best team we've beaten, but it may be the game that was the most encouraging to me of any of the games because we won not really playing all that well offensively. You know, so far this year, every game we've won, we've played really well offensively, and at least in three of the games that were really good, you know, scored over ninety points. This was a game where I don't know that we ever really played great offensively. We had a little run with Jackson Robinson making shots, but in general, they had to grind it out right, I mean, it was possessions be grinded out. This was the best defense that I think Kentucky's played all year. Certainly the best rebounding they've had against a good team all year. Led total rebounds to me's a misleading stat but they only gave eleven offensive rebounds, and I think if you go back, six of those were like just random balls that just went in weird places. So if you're talking about just getting beat for rebounds only happened four or five times against the best offensive rebounding team in the country, Drew. I thought it was just an excellent performance and you know what, you win by twelve against a team that came in ranked eleventh in the country.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it was great to see them bed a team like that. We know, if somebody wants to run with Kentucky and Kobe and Jackson are making shots, it's not not We're gonna have lots of fun. Kentucky's gonna win that most scenarios. But were worried about teams like A and M. They get very physical with them. I knowed I gotta laugh last night some on Twitter said this A and M wrestling team is pretty good at basketball, but that's kind of how they were playing a little bit early on. Also a lot of trash talking, you know, we wanted. Carr said, we need to find our nasty. I think A and M might have woke them up a little bit, because that was the most jawing I've seen a Vinny games. But I just like seeing Kentucky have that fight against a team that really likes to mucking up a little.

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Speaker 5: Clear Jackson Robinson, you know. I mean we talked on the pregame show. I kind of threw out there that I'd been told Jackson Robinson had this game circled and kind of had like a little thing. And then you know, Buzz Williams was said before the game, all Jackson is a great kid. We got a great relationship. We talk all the time. I don't know, maybe that's like he sends texts and they're not returned, because it didn't look like to me that they're they have a good relationship. It was you know, you jaw at him once get a technical, and then he did it again at the end of the half, and I thought.

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Speaker 2: Man, there's got to be something there.

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Speaker 5: They clearly have something going on.

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Speaker 8: There's something going on there, some story behind the scenes that we don't know yet.

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Speaker 6: Maybe it'll come out.

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Speaker 8: I don't know, but I love seeing that kind of fight in Jackson Robinson, you know, be a little cocky.

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Speaker 6: I think we need that from him to kind of carry us the rest of the season.

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Speaker 5: I yeah, I loved I love watching him play like that. And you know, if you were to draw up a team, if you were to say, Okay, what's the makeup of a team that would give Kentucky the hardest time. Probably you're looking at Tennessee and Texas A and M like that's those are the rosters that are probably built to give us the hardest time this group. And now you've beat one of and the Tennessee team, which looked really good offensively at the end of the year, now not as much. So I feel better about those games. But this, I actually think these two wins at Missippi State and Texas A and M are two massive wins for the season and give you a room to down the road. If you drop a game like you did at Georgia, it's okay.

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Speaker 7: And if you had told me before the game, Lama Butler would have six, Kobe Bradley would have five, A I would to parlay those two together. But that aside, oh wait, didn't have double digits till the last seconds, I would have thought, well, there's no way they could win that game. And those three guys that have been such big scores barely getting into double figures with oh way, and they still pull it off just doing everything else.

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Speaker 5: They you know, well, Matt Butler got hit just about the most ways you can get in the world. I mean he got hit, you know, he hurt his ankle, he hurt his knee, he hurt his shoulder, he got hit in the head, Like I mean that dude, he got absolutely beaten down. But still I thought played great defense and kept coming.

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Speaker 8: Back, got kicked in the face that one time he was down in the around. I mean, yeah, the guy probably loaded up on some advil this morning. I'm sure he's a little sore when he woke up this morning.

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Speaker 7: I liked, well, I don't like that he had to go back and get checked out. That was concerning. But while he was in the back is when Travis Perry came in and hit a big shot and completely you know, lifted them up.

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Speaker 2: Butler was and Travis.

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Speaker 5: Perry that was a huge couple made them both thought he played good defense. Ansley on the nore they're in the first half when they really needed points, you know, I mean in the first half there was a time, I think with eight minutes to go, we only had like sixteen points or something, and nine of them were Travis Perry and Ansley on the you know, they had they kind of lifted the lifted the team up during that period. Brandon Garrison had some good moments away, played good defense, A car was clearly hobbled, but.

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Speaker 2: Did all right.

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Speaker 5: I mean that really was kind of Pope said afterwards, a gritty like piece things together win And I think that's true.

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Speaker 8: You know, Kentucky's got the oldest team we've ever had, and yet they have learned how to win these grinded out type games. You know, these games like we had against Clemson in Georgia and earlier where we kind of struggled playing this kind of way.

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Speaker 6: These guys have learned how to win a game. Now that tells you how good this team can be.

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Speaker 5: Then you had Buzz Williams. Did you like the vast Shannon, what do you think of? What do you think of the look there from.

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Speaker 3: You know, that's pretty much every game he wears that three piece suit.

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Speaker 4: I think you look good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's his thing.

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Speaker 5: Now. I don't know who that assistant coach is he has on the sideline that looks like an English professor. I mean I thought Buzz dressed a little over the top that guy. I mean, if you saw that dude on the street, of all the professions, you wouldn't guess basketball coach would.

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Speaker 7: You know you're turning a paper into that guy for the end of the semester that is a professor. I can't believe Buzz lets another three piece suit that looks better than his on the bat, so I.

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Speaker 5: Was gonna say, he keeps his jacket on so he actually looks better than Buzz And then.

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Speaker 6: The hair, all the hair magnificent.

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Speaker 5: And then you know, who knew that you could like have plays? I guess, I mean, I guess you could know, but like they run plays to rebound off free throws.

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Speaker 2: They got two of them.

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Speaker 5: They so it feels like that dude, you know, he got probably too much airtime, but it feels like he might be good at his job.

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Speaker 8: Jimmy Dykes was so ready to talk about that, and then the guy didn't do it the first couple of free throws, and they finally did it so he could Jimmy Dyke could talk about how they try to steal a possession of making a rebound on Jimmy.

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Speaker 3: Jimmy got the telestrator out just to circle the guy like.

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Speaker 5: Here he is, yeah, yeah, can we can we talk about Jimmy Dykes for just a little bit. Did he did he take a gummy before he came on the on the air like he was a little I mean, you guys were at the games. You may not hurt him, but he was. He was on one last night. Well you didn't hear him.

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Speaker 2: Either, Drew.

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Speaker 7: I can add last night's the most I've ever gotten text about a Jimmy Dyke's game.

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Speaker 2: Something.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if he was like, you know, let's just say this. I'm not like tell him. I'm not the pr police and I don't work in HR for ESPN, but Jimmy Diykes, I'd take out of my lingo, the English or whatever language he speaks for Kirk Creesa Like that was one of those lines. He was like kerk Creesa and whatever language he speaks, saying blah blah, like you know he speaks english Man, like he's not he's not over here. We doesn't have a translator. That was kind of a weird thing to say, didn't it.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, generally I really like Jimmy Dikes when he's commentating the UK game, but last night, yeah, you know he talked about from but you know what's happening here?

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Speaker 4: You just dropped off the air. That's what just happened?

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Speaker 5: Are we back?

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Speaker 4: You're back?

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Speaker 2: Well when we were? When did we go off the air.

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Speaker 4: About thirty seconds ago?

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Speaker 5: Okay, great, well then you miss you have the new equipment, right, Yeah, this place is falling apart. I mean I just got new headphones and they have already broken.

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Speaker 2: They're a week old.

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Speaker 6: If that not even a hit this our first week of using it.

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Speaker 5: Literally it's they're already broken and I just got him a week ago.

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Speaker 2: I heart I had.

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Speaker 5: The contra.

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Speaker 3: They don't say the bosses are in town. Now's a chance to air your grievances.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I need.

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Speaker 5: Anyway, So we're back now.

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Speaker 4: You're saying, well, yeah, you're talking to me, Well I was talking to you. That's because you weren't on the air, all right, shut.

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Speaker 5: Up in one of your moods. So anyway, Uh, he was. He was a little out of control throughout the game. But I'm glad we got to win. How was the crowd.

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Speaker 2: Good?

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Speaker 7: We've had some great ones this year. I'm not putting it in the great category. It had moments like well, there were a few like the Mary Williams foul. That was some of the better booing I've heard in reparena. But overall, I don't think it was the fastball.

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Speaker 2: It was. It was a good pitch, but not the fastball.

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Speaker 5: Everybody might have been cold.

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Speaker 7: You know, I sit up there at the top end zone, and here lately they've had their back to the very very top this game. There are a few rows of bleachers that I.

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Speaker 5: Don't care about, a handful of rows.

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Speaker 7: I'm just comparing it to pass game, so let you know that it wasn't all the way to the tip top as it's been a little bit.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I just meant no, I'm just talking about noise. If it sounded, actually sounded it did. It sounded better on the broadcast, which once again shows that when they have it on the SEC network, something's wrong with their sound, because it.

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Speaker 2: Was a lot louder on the TV broadcast than it normally is.

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna say that you could tell you could hear the crowd at times, like when Travis Perry hit the three, you could hear how loud he got. And I don't know how you don't do the way away away on those back to back nunks. That was the perfect time to get it going for.

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Speaker 5: Somebody texted me and said there were people doing it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Mario said he heard it last night, but.

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Speaker 5: We just but it still can't get the Scott's Toole crowd. I saw Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg was right behind the bench.

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Speaker 2: How did you get those seats? He wanted to see good.

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Speaker 5: Basketball, you know, I mean, he if I I'm surprised. He texted me and said he was coming, and I was like, I wonder what the Louisville fans will say. And then I didn't realize he was gonna be directly behind the bench.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there were several times they took a shot of coach Pope and there's Craig green.

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Speaker 5: All right, we're back here at Kentucky Sports Radio. Maybe, thank you all very much. Yeah, so technical issues occurring. There's a shock whenever, but we haven't I guess we haven't had them that much recently, but we do have technical issues. Shannon, We're got to open up the phones and if if we lose this while it's getting fixed, you just have to go and entertain the masks.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, all right, somebody else trying to fix the problem in the meantime.

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Speaker 5: All right, I'm nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven. Go ahead and call in. Let us know about the what you thought about the game. So what I was saying before we got so rudely interrupted by bad technology is that going forward d this game makes me feel better. One of the things I was thinking going as we get into March is Okay, if Kentucky draws Duke, or if they draw Tennessee or they drawburn or whoever they played these tough teams in the tournament, I feel like we can beat anybody. But then there's also gonna be a worry if we play Wisconsin in the second round, or if we play a random team Texas Tech, that we might lose by ten if we're not ready. This was a game that was kind of like that that I think is like the second round game where if you're not careful, you could drop it. This was a game like that to win.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, And you can go back to when Pope first built this roster. We knew there would be SEC games that just aren't good for their style of play. And I think Mississippi State and Texas A and M or two of the teams that a lot of people had in their mind, and they went out and won both of those games. I mean, obviously you drop Georgia, it's not perfect, but to show you can win games of physicality against teams that don't score a lot and don't want to run with you, that just shows that they can play to other styles and be versatile and still gonna win.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: I think earlier in the year Kentucky may not have been able to pull that game off at Misissippi State or win beat Texas A and M. But they've learned, like I said earlier, how to play these games, grinded out type of games that may be in the sixties or seventies.

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Speaker 6: I now feel a lot better about how our team can do it.

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Speaker 5: I did. It's the first game they've won all year with defense, first game all year that you can say, Okay, we won that by locking them down, We won that by rebounding. We hadn't won another game this year by defense. That's really the first.

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Speaker 2: One we won. And Pope pretty much said that.

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Speaker 7: He was like, I was having nightmares about ball screen defense at Christmas, wondering if we'd ever get it fixed. Going to practice, they collect the data, do whatever they gotta do it. They resolved a problem and we're moving on to it to whatever else needs to be fixed.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the overall, I thought it was good. You know, everybody loves to talk about officiating. I want to say I thought that was a pretty well officiated game. They missed the goaltending that was. I don't understand what the rules are for reviewing goaltending because that, like they didn't.

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Speaker 2: Even look at it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, like he went his hand went through the basket. They didn't even look at it. I don't get that. Why wouldn't they at least look at it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 8: This came up one other time in the last couple of years where there was an obvious goaltending, but they didn't even go to the monitors to even check it out.

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Speaker 6: So I don't know what that real is.

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Speaker 5: I maybe somebody's got to say go to it. But his hand went through the basket, so I'm really I was supprised. I didn't even look at it. I understand not seeing it in real time. I did, excuse me. I didn't think it was goaltending in real time, but then it was obvious on the replay.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and I mentioned rough, wasn't that electric moments like that when we got a replay Jackson's technical few little moments throughout the game usually booing is when it really took off the chols.

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Speaker 5: These refs have got a calm down, Okay, I mean the technical on A and M was stupid too, Like it was that was a dumb technical, and then the technical on on Jackson Robinson was stupid. And the problem with officiating is once they gave the stupid technical on A and M, they feel like they have to give the stupid technical on Kentucky to make it even. And both technicals are dumb, like let them play. I mean, when Jackson Robinson shoots a three in the corner, the bench is yelling at him.

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Speaker 2: Why when he makes it can he not yell back? Right?

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Speaker 5: So the dude on A and M, what did he get the he got it for like he took a charge or something.

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Speaker 2: Is that how he ended up getting it?

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Speaker 7: They had one when their bench went on to the court early, Yeah, who celebrating a dunk? When A and M their whole bench went kind of onto the court.

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Speaker 8: And Sermons already warned him once about it. Then they did it, so they got it.

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Speaker 5: But didn't they call one on us? I mean they call the Robinson one, so they got they called the one on the bench.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we lost the guys again.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they called the one on Jackson Robinson for talking trash to uh to Buzz Williams, which, again to Matt's point, I think, uh man, it has become soft with all these technical fouls that are being called for weeks.

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Speaker 4: I mean, come on, you can't.

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Speaker 3: He was just talking trash to a guy that clearly he has some kind of history with.

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Speaker 4: I didn't like that way, which you're back? Go ahead?

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Speaker 5: Were we gone again? Yeah? Go ahead? Yeah, Well we also don't know what what you heard there, So let's just go to the phone. I'm nine twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 2: What's up.

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Speaker 4: Let's go to DJ DJ.

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Speaker 5: What's going on? DJ?

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Speaker 9: Hey, I was just calling in to tell you guys that we stopped down there to the bar the weekend of the Florida game and we're from Henderson. Been trying to get down there for a while and it was awesome, man, like ten out of ten, what you know, definitely recommended if you get down that way and you can't get into RUP, get into KSR.

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Speaker 5: Well, thank you very much, it's very kind of you. I appreciate it. Sir and I and your check will be in the mail. Okay, we'll send you.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 9: God, it's all good, man, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of the bar, look at this painting up here we got last night. So uh Montana Prue prow.

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Speaker 2: It she uh uh she I.

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Speaker 5: Wrote me and said, look at this painting I did, and I was like, man, that is a pretty amazing painting. And then I said, you know what if I just bought it from you, could we put it in the bar? So I bought it from her, and I actually think that's really good. Like she painted all the players in the banner. She did not leave space for the next banner, which is the only complaint I would have about it.

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Speaker 2: But it now will hang above us here, Drew, I.

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Speaker 7: Came up with a great idea with this, because it is very good. I think we need to have a night where me, you Ryan, we get canvases and we sit here and we try to paint her painting because it's so good.

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Speaker 2: Look how good that is.

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Speaker 7: To taller version, and we hang ours maybe in the bathroom in the back hallway.

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Speaker 2: We think maybe a little art night at kas bar. Well, I don't think.

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Speaker 5: You understand how bad I am at art I do.

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Speaker 2: That's the point of this exercise.

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Speaker 5: I would not be able. I wouldn't be able to paint the UK logo, much less Mark Pope's face.

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Speaker 7: Hers is so picture perfect. I just think we need to bring it down a little bit with our attempts.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I do like the addition of it to the bar, but it is you know, are we on a pace where people are going to kind of remember this team to the point that they'll want to have paintings of it? Like, do you think this team this kind of group of unknowns that when the season started not one person new?

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Speaker 2: Do you think we're going to continue on that?

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Speaker 8: I think so, because you know, we as a fan base, we love the Boogie John Wall team because they kind of made brought basketball back to us again. We love the Unforgettables, those guys that kind of brought us back after the probation. So yeah, I think this team right now surpassing expectation. They continue to play this way, they may be up in that level.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, But what's weird is with the Unforgettables, there was the connection of so many of them being from the state of Kentucky and then with the Wall Cousins teams, it was this overwhelming amount of talent that we just hadn't seen a dude like John Wall here in forever. This one's a little different. I mean, these are like I mean, their role player guys in general. And I think the fact that they're all like that Drew is in part why we like it so much.

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Speaker 7: That and their coach has a ring from an all time favorite team. And then of course you got a western Kentucky representative, you got an Eastern Kentucky representative. Yeah, and there's just so much that it pulls people back in. I noticed last night, you know, in later years with cal even when they're winning, you know and I you'd leave early, up ten, you'd get out.

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Speaker 2: That game took two hours and forty mins.

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Speaker 7: At the end of Kentucky got Separation, people knew it was over when the buzzer ended. I think every boat was still in their seat and there was a go big blue chanting around the arena. And then of course we know they stay for Pope. That's just changed so much in that building, like people don't want to go home. I totally agree. And I also noticed watching Travis Perry last night. Know he's from your part of the state, he looks like he's.

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Speaker 5: From my part of this day. Travis Perry looks like he's from the mountains, and Trent No actually looks like he's from your part of this day. So the eastern Kentucky it looks like the western Kentucky because I know when I was sitting there looking at him, I was like, Okay, that may say Lion County, but he looks like Breathitt County in the way just the haircut and everything.

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Speaker 2: Oh we're not so different on each side.

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Speaker 5: So that's true. I agree. We'll take a break and very back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ.

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Speaker 2: He'll make him.

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Speaker 4: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: Welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio. Here at the KS Bar and Grill at his wings day fighting through some technical difficulties.

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Speaker 2: But Matt Ryan, Drew Shannon is in studio.

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Speaker 5: We figured out there's like some internet problems, so if we drop out, Shannon will just take you through until we come back. I like, how many people are here? And also working. I'm not gonna tell you're busyiness is that you're also working. But that's okay, No, no, you feel free to work. I'm just saying, if you feel like this is important enough to come in work, then I consider that a compliment because something's working here. That's that's a right. We have to note. Kentucky wins. Game ends right after Arkansas goes to oh and four loses at on the road to LSU, worst team in the conference, beats them. I don't know how much of the game you all saw, but just think about every road game of the last five years that he was the coach, and you saw it right. They got up big, then they didn't score forever. LSU hit shots they probably don't normally hit, and they win oh and four. They play at Missouri Saturday. Missouri just won at Florida, So you gotta think that's gonna be now that Missouri looks like they might be good. I mean, I watched the Field of sixty eight show last night where they talk about all the games. They talked about very well about us. They talked about Indiana, which we'll talk about later, but then when it got to Arkansas, Randolph children So I think it's pretty good announcement. Randolph Childress just said they stink. He just said they stink. Period.

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Speaker 2: They stink, and they stink. They really do. They really do stink.

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Speaker 7: We knew there was a chance they wouldn't be good. I didn't have this scenario in mind. I didn't think that they would miss the tournament. And it now looks like unless they turn it around and get some big wins because they have his opportunities ahead, that they will not be participating in March. And when they honestly, when they cut to the bench, and I just saw those assistant coaches that I wasn't really fond of when they were here, and I just thought, you know what, you took them there. This is exactly what we thought would happen, and it's happening just even worse it might.

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Speaker 3: All right, I guess the guy's dropped out. We'll see if we can reconnect with them in a minute. To their point, I mean, are you guys back now, I guess you're in.

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Speaker 4: You're out. I never know if you're on or not.

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Speaker 3: I think they're out again, but I mean, yeah, Arkansas, oh and four right now to start the sec.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: The next game they have up on Saturday is at Missouri, who, by the way, just went on the road.

00:23:14
Speaker 4: And beat Florida last night. So if you know you're.

00:23:17
Speaker 3: An Arkansas fan and you were laughing at Kentucky because Calipari came to Arkansas, you took all the players from the roster last year.

00:23:25
Speaker 4: Now, how do you feel.

00:23:26
Speaker 3: I'm telling you they are not happy down in Arkansas right now.

00:23:29
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're back. Okay, I don't know, we can't. I don't know what we're gonna do here.

00:23:37
Speaker 4: And you're gone again.

00:23:39
Speaker 3: But you know Tyson Tyson Food that sent send us some chicken and was trying to troll us at kas Bar and Grill. I think now would be a good time for us to maybe send a little care package down their way and uh, maybe trolled them a little bit since they had their their fun with us when the whole season started with Calipari and everybody. Let's go to the phones. Let's take some phone calls here. Let's go to Jacob. What's up, Jacob?

00:24:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got you. What's up?

00:24:03
Speaker 2: Man?

00:24:03
Speaker 10: First time caller, a long time listener. I just wanted to say I was at the game. I signed I took my buddy and Drew said it wasn't loud, and I can say that it wasn't towards the first half. But during the bad calls like the Golden and there's a couple just like Walks they didn't call. We let him know, like the booze were is outrageous, but I loved it and go cat.

00:24:28
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:24:28
Speaker 3: I mean for the crowd that I guess, you know, earlier in the year we were kind of critical of. I will say it seems like Roperena's been rocking in the last few games. May have all started with that fan that was standing up and got threatened with jail time if you didn't sit down. It seems like ever since then, though, the crowd has been loud. I think there is something to be said about what Matt talks about with the mic placement for the crowd. You know, it's just louder on different broadcast. But you know, the last few games, I have no criticism whatsoever for the crowded Roperina.

00:25:00
Speaker 4: It's uh, it's been a great atmosphere. Let's go back to the phones to talk to Kevin.

00:25:03
Speaker 6: What's up, Kevin Hey, what's up?

00:25:06
Speaker 11: Shannon Hey?

00:25:06
Speaker 2: Guys.

00:25:07
Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, they're they're dropped out right now, so we're trying to get reconnected. Uh, until then it's me and you.

00:25:13
Speaker 11: Wanted to Yeah. So a caller called into the post game show and was talking to Matt last night about how it's you know, it's nice to know that if we do get behind, you still have that confidence that they're they're able to come back and they're able to get the lead and get the win. On the other side of that, Matt just talked about this for the past three.

00:25:32
Speaker 3: Jumping jump in there. Then guys, we got uh, we got Kevin on the line, go.

00:25:36
Speaker 5: Ahead, Kevin.

00:25:37
Speaker 11: So for the past three four seasons, it's it's on the other side of the post game show, the caller the past three four seasons, when we would get down, I just hurt. We'd be up, sorry, you'd be up ten twelve points, and I have this just terrible feeling. Yeah, they're gonna come back and we're gonna lose, and it's nice. It's nice. This season, I don't have that feeling anymore. We get up confident we're going to get that win, and I'm confident that we can pull it out. Great fields.

00:26:03
Speaker 5: I totally agree with you. I appreciate the call. I mean, this team, one of the things we've seen is a ten or twelve point deficit. Drew is very fixable. I mean we were down double digits against Gonzaga, we were down double digits against Duke. We were down double digits against Florida. We were down eight or nine points against against Mississippi State. We were down eight or nine points against A and M. I mean, those deficits are fixable. Whereas in years past, off and it felt like it was the death toe. Yeah, I'm pretty tired of seeing the deficits.

00:26:34
Speaker 7: But even last night, in that first half at I really didn't have any moment where I thought Kentucky wouldn't win that game. A and M was shooting at a rate they don't normally hit. Pope even said, you know, let them shoot the numbers leaving out, so you just had a comfort like we'll be fine. And a lot of these comebacks, you think, with the way Kentucky plays and shooting threes, well, I mean, if they make three threes and the even come back against anyway, against anyone, but like Gonzaga, they did it with defense. The dude come back hit a few threes, but it wasn't just going Kobe Brady getting ht They found different ways to make their comeback.

00:27:01
Speaker 5: Well, if you listen to Pope's postgame, he said, look, we knew there were some guys on their team we wanted to take threes, and then in the first half they made some, but we still wanted him to take it. I think he felt like the numbers would average themselves out. They did, you know, I tweeted out with two minutes left in the first half. A and M's averaging five threes a game in SEC play, they have seven. They didn't make another one to rest the game. They didn't. They missed every three the rest of the game, so that you know, clearly ended up working out. Let me go back to Arkansas, though, just for a second, I was reading their schedule, Shandon, Okay, let's look at this schedule. You tell me which of these games they're gonna win.

00:27:37
Speaker 4: They're at Missouri, who been in Florida last night.

00:27:40
Speaker 5: They winning that one.

00:27:41
Speaker 2: No, Missouri's like number thirty in kN punk home.

00:27:43
Speaker 5: Against twenty three ranked Georgia, Georgia's rank this week, could win, could win, But you don't know that they will Oklahoma at home. I could.

00:27:52
Speaker 4: I think they get down. That's their they get down.

00:27:54
Speaker 5: Let's put those and they come here loss, go to Texas loss, host Alabama loss smoked host LSU. Maybe they get that one at A and M loss at Auburn loss, Missouri at.

00:28:10
Speaker 4: Home, maybe maybe probably.

00:28:13
Speaker 5: Texas at home, maybe at South Carolina loss at Vandy loss loss.

00:28:23
Speaker 4: We're talking about a four win season than the s is.

00:28:26
Speaker 5: They actually got a great draw in the SEC. I don't know if you noticed that the three teams they play twice are LSU, Missouri, and Texas. That's not a bad draw. I mean we got Alabama and Tennessee twice, right, I think I saw Auburn got Alabama, maybe Mississippi State and.

00:28:47
Speaker 2: Texas, A and M twice. That's a lot harder.

00:28:49
Speaker 5: They end up getting like the easiest draw, and they still may only win.

00:28:54
Speaker 7: Drew four games, and I wonder not to just create DRAWMA out of nowhere. But if this goes on, is gonna get pretty tired of losing games? What's Davis making like two million? He's not doing anything that he did last several years of basketball as he's down to six minutes a game.

00:29:11
Speaker 5: Okay, again, not trying to crush the guy, but if you were a kid in the transfer portal, I want you to think about something for real. If you were a kid in the transfer portal, why would you go play for CAW? Think about the transfer portal players we had at Kentucky in those last four or five years, with the exception of Antonio Reeves, who for his first year he wouldn't even play. True, they all were kind of not as good as we thought they were gonna be. Right, go back to Olivier sar Nate Sestina, Kellen Grady, Daveyon Minz like and I think all those dudes were good players, but I think they all didn't reach their potential.

00:29:52
Speaker 2: And now you take John L. Davis, who was the.

00:29:54
Speaker 5: Number one player in the portal, took a team to the Final four, and he can't make a shot he has he he has like two points a game, Drew. It's crazy to watch them. They are the worst team esthetically to watch in basketball that I can remember. It reminds me of the COVID team. That's kind of what they look like.

00:30:17
Speaker 7: I couldn't help but think last night that when he left here, it was well, I didn't have NIL support. I'm glad to be at Arkansas. They got my back, spent all his money on this roster. But now it's like, well, you know, he's new. He had a short window. We mark Pope's where I thought you said the NIL wasn't doing very well, and he had an even shorter.

00:30:34
Speaker 5: He didn't have it. I mean, if he didn't have in Il cause of him. That's why he didn't have anything. He didn't have in Ale because of him. And part of my frustration was he acted like it was us, Oh, we didn't care. People didn't want to give to him. It was him he had. That's it. The big donors at this school did not want to give to him. The collective, they tried to start it. I could go, I could go for thirty minutes on when he tried to start that collective, and what a huge cluster it was with I told them, do not start this collective right before the first game of the SEC tournament.

00:31:12
Speaker 2: What if you lose?

00:31:13
Speaker 5: They lost? I mean the the video for the collective was a summary of how this thing fell apart right. Yes, literally, the person Ron Brown, who is let me tell you, the person running the basketball collective is doing a heck of a job. Like you guys, the great thing about him is you don't know what he looks like, but like, because that's what you shouldn't know what he looks like. Right, he does an awesome job, and he came up with this idea, let's do the one Kentucky theme.

00:31:44
Speaker 2: Right.

00:31:45
Speaker 5: We'll get current players, we'll get Cal, we'll get Mitch, we'll get former players, we'll get the KSR guys. And the idea is worth putting everything behind us. It's a new era. Mitch filmed the video, former players film the video. The last step is they were gonna film something with us. Cal just decided when he heard it, don't want Mitch in it, don't want the former players in it, don't want.

00:32:13
Speaker 2: The KSR guys in it.

00:32:14
Speaker 5: It'll just be me and Ree Sheepherd. And then it got like ten thousand dollars and then he was like, we don't have nil support.

00:32:22
Speaker 2: Well, I tell you who does, Mark Pope.

00:32:24
Speaker 5: It feels like they're getting whatever they want, right, it's because we needed a breath the first year.

00:32:29
Speaker 7: That's wall last night, wh I'm here and never wone apologize saying, well, it is his first year, give him time. Well, it's Pope's first year, and I thought the nil's better there, So how did Mark Pope figure it out?

00:32:37
Speaker 2: Where the nil is so bad?

00:32:39
Speaker 7: But they're still apologizing for him, and know some people now a lot of people turn on him, but I'm still hearing in Arkansas, well, it's Cal's first year.

00:32:45
Speaker 2: Next year is when he'll really have his class.

00:32:46
Speaker 5: Can you imagine looking at your boss who films the video, Your boss does not like you, He agrees to do this video where he supports you, films it, and then you.

00:32:56
Speaker 2: Find out he kicks you out of the video. Can you imagine that?

00:33:00
Speaker 7: That was the most sympathetic I've been for Mitch because right around the time, Mitch did a video with Stoops and people online were saying, why won't he do one with Cal? But we knew that he had done one and Cal edited.

00:33:09
Speaker 5: A radio relationship was so bad Mitch did a video with Stoops. Even Mitch knew, well, Cal won't let me be in the video with him, so I'll film it separately.

00:33:21
Speaker 2: And then he didn't even get to be in it at all. On the editing room floor. Unbelievable.

00:33:25
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00:34:07
Speaker 3: Right?

00:34:07
Speaker 2: You are from Chicago? What about you here? Where?

00:34:11
Speaker 5: What Fitchville? Where's Fitchville south of Shelbyville. I'll get the rest of you on a minute. I like to know where people.

00:34:18
Speaker 6: That's the Campbellsville ladies over there?

00:34:19
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, I thought they want to love. How confidently you said that?

00:34:24
Speaker 6: Henderson?

00:34:25
Speaker 5: Henderson, Yeah, right in here. Thanks to the folks at the barrel market who made a little KSR barrel box.

00:34:34
Speaker 2: Which is awesome. I'm gonna put this in my house.

00:34:36
Speaker 6: I really like that.

00:34:37
Speaker 5: That was very nice of you. And the guy who brought it said, I brought you this because people are mean to you about your politics, and I thought, well, that's nice of you.

00:34:45
Speaker 2: You're right they are.

00:34:47
Speaker 5: But I've done a pretty good job of shutting it all off. Not totally, but pretty good. I'll get like one or two days where I get a little antsy, but pretty good. I'm gonna go into hiding Monday. Monday's inauguration, but he has the National Championship is Monday Night, so we're gonna be doing our giveaway for four thousand dollars here Monday night, be watching. We'll talk more about it Thursday and Friday, because we will not have a show Monday Day because of Martin Luther King Day and the inauguration.

00:35:17
Speaker 2: We will actually be off.

00:35:18
Speaker 5: One person writes Matt, I make a petition that Seth Greenberg cannot be the halftime host at our games anymore. I'm with you, and he he's my colleague at ESPN, but he is so like it is clear he hyper doesn't want Kentucky fans to like the team because of how much he liked Cow. I don't think he dislikes Pope. I don't even think he dislikes Kentucky. But he doesn't want us to be like. He doesn't want to be wrong. He and Jay Williams and all those guys were like, oh, you are gonna take a big hit when you lose Cow, and now they don't know how to handle it.

00:35:52
Speaker 7: On that note, can I give the tweet of the day or kind of the just shocking tweet of the day?

00:35:57
Speaker 2: What is it?

00:35:58
Speaker 7: Jeff Goodman took a shot at Seth Greenberg just twenty minutes ago. It's weird seeing like media people go at it at that level, these two college basketball guys.

00:36:05
Speaker 5: But he said they hate each other.

00:36:07
Speaker 7: Gotta wonder what the PR firm of Greenberg, Greenberg and Greenberg saying about Caliperia now and then he tagged him, Yeah, so we might have some frek between the Goodman Greenberg.

00:36:18
Speaker 5: I'm gonna watch it well, you know, listen, I I have mixed emotions because I was harsh on a lot of those guys, often at the behest of cal Now. I also agreed with a lot of Cow's criticisms of him, So I don't want to absolve myself, like I thought those dudes were jerks to Cal as well. But I also get it if I'm Jeff Goodman, cal tried to and may have actually succeeded at getting Goodman fired. So if I'm Jeff Goodman, I get it. You know, I'd be dancing too if I were him. I mean, I get it.

00:36:54
Speaker 7: It's weird turning on YouTube and he's got on a Kentucky hat talking about how fun the team is after those early days out.

00:37:00
Speaker 2: It's so different. I get it.

00:37:02
Speaker 5: I mean if you had somebody who tried to get you taken away from the biggest job, and you'd be the same way.

00:37:08
Speaker 2: I get it.

00:37:09
Speaker 8: Yeah, they limited his access to who he can talk to when he comes to a game. They set him up higher than it was.

00:37:14
Speaker 5: More than that behind the scenes he got tried to get him out, and like, I get it, you'd be I mean.

00:37:23
Speaker 2: Well, shut up for you again.

00:37:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, who's up next, Richard? Go ahead? Richard?

00:37:31
Speaker 12: Well, I just love this team.

00:37:33
Speaker 2: Uh.

00:37:34
Speaker 12: They remind me a lot of the ninety two team, got a lot of guts and uh, I'm just tickled with them and tickled with the job the women's team is doing. I just think the whole program is took a whole new look and a whole new face, and it those the faces of both teams are looking a whole lot better. And I just I'll make you a preject. If we get Criasa back and Perry can continues to improve to where we can really depend on him, this team's got a shot it.

00:38:13
Speaker 5: I mean, I appreciate the call. I want Crisa back, don't get me wrong, But if Perry keeps playing at this level, getting Creasa back is not as important. I mean, he's you know, Creasa is there for the toughness etca. But really you need Cresa to play twelve to fifteen minutes a game, backing up as a guard, and if you can get Travis Perry close to doing that, it doesn't become as big a deal.

00:38:35
Speaker 8: We're seeing Travis just get more confident every game, and we're seeing Pope have more confidence in him, letting him play extended minutes now, not just a thirty forty five seconds before TV time out.

00:38:44
Speaker 5: I said on the postgame show, A big change in the last few weeks is we don't see a huge drop off. When we put in our bitch to Almanor and they went to Parry, and even when they went to Garrison sometimes it was it was a significant It hasn't been that like that.

00:39:06
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